texts: MBP connects to WiFi but not to internet

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This happens periodically, but I still don’t know why....very frustrating.
2011 MacBook Pro, High Sierra 10.13.5. 10 other devices in the house using WiFi no problem, between Galaxy S9, 3 iPads, an HP laptop and numerous smart TVs.... this has happened at home as well as on the road and I know that it is my MBP, but usually I manage to fix it- not this time. Have reset both SMC and PRAM. Have deleted WiFi service and re-added it. Have manually entered IPv4 addresses and DNS servers. Probably did some other things that I don’t remember anymore...

Restarted numerous times. Don’t know what to do anymore... usually it comes back by now, but no such luck. What else can I try?  I have even been in Terminal running some commands to try to clear my caches etc...When I ping a DNS server in Terminal like Google’s, 8.8.8.8, I get responses, but I have to manually set my IPv4 address and subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. When everything is configured like normal, i.e. IPv4 using DHCP and IPv6 configured automatically, I do not have a self-assigned IP address, but it does show me having an IPv6 address, which is weird and don’t recall seeing that before, usually it is an IPv4 address. When I get my IP address in terminal, it is not a class C, starting in 192, but rather a class B starting with 169 and the subnet mask is then 255.255.0.0, which I never see.

I also cannot boot into Safe mode for some reason. When i get to the logo screen and the progress bar underneath, the progress bar gets halfway and then the screen goes dark and it powers off. I can boot into recovery mode and if I use the Get Help Online section and open Safari, I GET ON THE INTERNET JUST FINE.... so what the heck gives?? Doesn’t make any sense... Please help...
Thank you!


texts: How do I remove an old watch from Apple Health sources?

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Every Watch I've ever had is listed among sources in Apple Health, and I see no way to remove or even disable them.

How do I delete old Watches (including ones I no longer own and that have been unpaired) from Apple Health's list of data sources?


texts: How to use Time Machine to backup system from ssd

texts: I added an SSD to my Mac mini and installed macOS Mojave on it. (it is already installed on the HDD) I notice that Time Machine is still backing up from the HDD. How can I change the source drive for Time Machine to the SSD?


texts: Watch PBS videos while in Spain using Proxy

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First of all sorry if this was asked and answered already.

I am currently on a trip in Spain (but originally from USA), and would like to watch some PBS videos, but it tells me

  We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to
  right restrictions.

OK, I get it, so let me tell PBS I am in their region by changing my Proxy!

I tried the:
FoxyProxy add on in Firefox with no success.

My question is:

There is a setting in the System Preferances-Network-Advaced-Proxy!

I am not sure how to use it to get the PBS to play the video.
I tried with a proxy from USA CA and still the same error message!

PS: yes, I did sign in in to PBS :(


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Apparently my external HD went crazy (I've been using it without problem for a long time) and decided to change partition scheme from GUID to FDisk (look at disk1) but my data remains as HFS+ (disk1s2)...

I have important data in that HD, so my question is

Is there a way to repair this change in partition scheme without losing my data??
Which blocks do I need to delete to create the new GPT scheme?

I have found a program called textdisk that seems to be able to do it but I am afraid of erasing the data by accident.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: Tried Klanomath suggestion in: Need help deciphering TestDisk results to fix HDD and changed to GPT scheme but got error during verification.


texts: Can I use one 8GB RAM module in place of two 4GB modules?

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I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012 and one of its RAM slots appears to have been damaged (The computer restarts when moved too much). So I can only have one RAM module in it. I was reading on Apple's website for changing RAM: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201165#1.
They state that my computer is only able to have a maximum of 8GB RAM.

My question is, can I have a single RAM module with 8GB instead of 2x 4GB RAM modules as they mention on the website?


texts: Make the Keyboard on OSX and windows behave identically regarding text editing

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I work as a developer and exclusively use the keyboard for text selection and navigation.
I have to switch between windows and OSX a lot.
Is there any way to make

the OSX keyboard behave like windows
or
the windows keyboard behave like OSX

particularly when it comes to text editing?
The differences hurt my productivity, because whenever I switch platform, my muscle memory kicks in and will use the wrong combinations on the other OS, which will lead to a wrong caret position at best, or - depending on the program - switched inapp-windows and/or other very undesired behavior which takes even more time to correct at worst.
I would prefer Version 1, because - while i can train my brain to swap, i am used to it more and also the windows-behavior seems "more" standard to me, since it is used on mainstream Linux Desktops as well.
Text editing keyboard shortcuts:
move to the start / end of a line:
Windows: pos1 / end
OSX: ctrl+left / ctrl+right
move to the start / end of the document
Windows: ctrl+pos1 / ctrl+end
OSX: pos1 / end
move to the start / end of the current word
Windows: ctrl+left / ctrl+right
OSX: alt+left / alt+right
(I am happy that the added shift key behaves consistently across platforms, performing selection instead of mere caret navigation)
Bonus question: other keyboard shortcuts:
I already swapped the Command-key with control globally in osx keyboard settings,
to make behavior a bit more consistent (i.e, ctrl+s to save instead of command+s)
However when it comes to navigation between application, this breaks down, because:
Next/previous tab within an application
Windows: ctrl+tab / ctrl+shift+tab
OSX: ctrl+tab / ctrl+shift+tab
Also it does not solve
Next Application
Windows: alt+tab
OSX: command+tab
A solution that also covers this would be even better :)


texts: Mac Os 10.13.6 started to reopen all previously opened windows of various applications

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I use VSCode as my main text editor, and Sublime Text 3 also.

I don't know what happened, but today my OS decided to show me all ever opened windows of my text editors when I start them from command line.

For example, I want to create a new project in directory ts and I expect that only one window of Visual Studio Code opens after I type code ts in terminal.

But previous sessions (from other directories) are opened also.

When I opened vscode at first, ALL sessions of vscode I ever created opened (about 30-40 windows) and my old mac air freesed.

I have no idea  why it happens, but how can I turn it back?

P.S. It's not a problem of vscode, same happens with Sublime Text 3.


texts: How to change carrier on iPad 2nd generation?

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I have a 2nd generation iPad which has both WiFi and Cellular connection. It is an iPad that I was using during a few years that I was living in Japan and has a Japanese phone company cellular connection.

Even when the iPad was reset, this specific connection would show up in settings. How can I set up the iPad to use in United States, with a US cellular connection?


texts: How allow only text in iMessage but not pictures or videos? IOS 9.0.2

texts: I've got restrictions set on my son's iPod touch running iOS 9.0.2 but I want to allow him to send/receive texts only, no images nor videos, via iMessage. Is this possible?


texts: Start reading movie before file is fully copied

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Wifi speed in my flat is not that good, and I often have to copy big video files from my nas to my mac.
In these situations I'd like to be able to start playing the file after few seconds and that the transfer ends in the background while I watch the move.

Is there a video viewer app that handles such a use case?


texts: Cannot connect to Remote Management with Screen Sharing, but can with Chicken?

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I've enabled "remote management" on a machine, and I'm able to connect to this machine using Chicken with the password I set in the remote management preference pane. I am unable to connect through the "Screen Sharing" app however, which I access by pressing ⌘ Cmd-K in the finder. The Screen Sharing app requests a username and a password, so it does appear that it's at least connecting at that level, but neither my account username/password nor the password I set specifically for remote management work. Since Chicken doesn't require a username I'm not sure what username I should use!

Does anyone know how to connect to Remote Management through the Screen Sharing app?

Edit: I should add that the RealVNC viewer also works.


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I am trying to add shortcut for opening iTerm when I press F1. I added an application shortcut with this key but it does not work. I want to fire iTerm instantly irrespective of what application is currently running when I press F1. Any help would be appreciated.

I recently moved to mac from Linux.


texts:
I installed the most recent update to OS X Lion (10.7). After I did that, my terminal won't recognize normal commands. I typed ls and got:

-bash: ls: command not found

I figured I'd try to add usr/bin to my path, but I can't find .bash_profile to edit it since typing edit .bash_profile won't work. I can't set the Finder to show all files since my terminal won't recognize the commands necessary to do that.

what do I need to do?


texts: Why is "Devices" under bluetooth greyed out?

texts: I only see an option that allows me to select d8-30-62-42-10-25. Why is that? How can I connect to my other bluetooth devices?


texts: How to force OS X to give a different IP lease with DHCP?

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Is there a command line solution to get a different IP from a DHCP server? There are some solutions, like switching to BOOTP and back to DHCP, that will sometimes yield a new IP, but often the DHCP server will simply hand back the IP it just got back.

We're looking to create a log-out script that will change the IP of public computers at our school. We're using Websense filtering. Right now if a faculty member logs out of a computer, a student logging in right after wouldn't have to authenticate as they would get the elevated faculty member's access. Keeping the Websense timeout low minimizes this risk but is a pain for mobile users on the network.


texts: MacBooks randomly restarting at same time: virus or forced software update?

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At about 8:50 PDT this morning, 2 out of 3 MacBooks in our household restarted at the same time (about 1 minute apart). What happened is I left the room for about 5 minutes, and when I came back I saw the "you restarted because of a problem" message. I logged in as usual and started to try to find why. Then I heard two startup chimes from the other two computers. I checked those, but only one laptop actually restarted. These two computers were closed when the chimes occurred.

My question is if there is any force-restarts/updates by Apple. If not, why would this happen and is it due to some sort of network-propagating virus?

Note: I don't think the restarts were kernel panics, as I wasn't shown the grey screen of death.

The computers that restarted were on high Sierra. The one that didn't restart was on Sierra.


texts: NTFS external disc restore trashed items

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I guess I deleted files on my external NTFS storage. I think I can see those files in hidden folder $RECYCLE.BIN on this drive.

is it possible that the MAC NTFS writing stuff I set up before - so I can write on NTFS drives - handle trash as Windows isntead of .Trash folder as mac normaly do?
if it is, is there any way how to restore those files?


texts:
What font does the macOS Character Viewer use? By this I mean the Character Viewer which you access with control-command-space.

(This is useful to get characters which look exactly like the characters shown there.)


texts: Connecting MySQL DB to Apple iWork Numbers?

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I'd like to visualize some data from a MySQL database using a Mac, but it hasn't been easy finding a solution to this. I understand Excel has DB connectivity, but currently I only have Apple Numbers.

Is it possible to connect my data source to Numbers so I can start making some charts?

Thanks for the suggestions and information; I'm exploring using OOO Base and Calc instead


texts:
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro and an iPhone 8. I use Netflix app on my iPhone and have downloaded a movie in it for offline viewing.

Is there a way for me to stream the movie on my iPhone onto my MacBook? I can use the MacBook's larger screen for better viewing experience.

Can download Netflix on to phone but can't seem to do it on Mac?


texts: How can I use a non-qwerty keyboard on the login page?

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I have one user on my account and the language in the language and region settings is English.
I use a non-English keyboard layout, like dvorak, and I'd like for that to be default on the login page.
I have just one keyboard under input services and that is this keyboard layout.
But, when I go to login, it automatically and always uses qwerty.


texts:
I want to jailbreak my iPad 2.

How can this be done?


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I have on my desk an ASUS VT229, a multitouch monitor. I attached it via a docking station to my MBP (HDMI + USB port for touch recognition) and it works well with Windows (7 & 10, running in my VMware Fusion), but it works 50% with OS X.

Basically I can move mouse pointer (it also recognizes multitouch) but I cannot click :-P

Maybe there's something I can do to make it work better?


texts: Save Podcast on iPhone without Downloading

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I've been using the Podcasts app and I'd like to be able to mark in some way the episodes that I really like. I was saving them but I realized that they get downloaded if I do that, which causes space issues.

Is there a way to save a podcast without actually downloading it? I'm open to other apps that are a reasonable replacement and can achieve what I'm trying to do here.


texts:
Is it possible to use the Touch ID fingerprint reader to unlock my SSH key?

I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and I have a traditional text passphrase for my SSH key right now.

I have noticed that I don't get a system dialog asking for my passphrase on 10.12, so this probably isn't a thing, but if I could do it, it would be AMAZING.


texts: Where does Siri acquire it's list of recognized locations from?

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Where is Siri (on iOS5 on an iPhone 4S) get it's list of recognized locations, such as those used for location-based reminders, from?

I've seen demonstrations and have experimented a bit, but only a very few locations like "home" seem to work well. Is it necessary to set up named locations in Contacts? Does Siri use "world knowledge" from other sources (such as Maps or Yelp)? Is there a way for users to extend or configure the list of locations Siri recognizes, or for developers to create applications that do so?


texts: Copying files from APFS to Mac OS Extended too slow

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I'm using NVME SSD (APFS) as my main boot drive. I also have USB 3 External SSD (Mac OS Extended Journal).

I just tried to copy 40GB files from APFS to mac OS Extended and it took 15 mins. It's painfully slow. It's almost slower than coping files to my NAS.

Is this expected with APFS?


texts: No audio devices on Macbook Pro (Late 2011)

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I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2011) running macOS Sierra that cannot recognize any audio devices. No headphones, no speaker, no microphone. I currently use a USB audio card, which works fine but isn't convenient.

I have tried to fix this by:
Reinstalling the OS
Resetting PRAM
Blowing compressed air into audio jack (and cleaning the whole computer)
Repairing disk permissions
Removing ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.BezelServices.plist and rebooted

I also booted into my Windows partition which did not recognize any audio devices either. So, it sounds like it is hardware related. Any ideas on what can knock out all incoming and outgoing audio at once. I opened it up and didn't notice any disconnected cables or anything of the sort.


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I hooked my MacBook up to an Apple server for testing and I created a mobile account on the unit. I've since decided to go back to just having a local account on the MacBook. The process I did was to the following:

Create a new Admin account on the MacBook.
Log into the Admin account.
Backup the home folder of the network account.
Delete the network account from System Preferences -> Users.
Create a new local account with the same name as the old network account.
Restore the backed up home folder.
Reset all permissions on the restored home folder (sudo chown …).
Logged into the newly created local account.

Now everything has been working fine on my system and I'm not having any permissions issues, or weird ghosts coming out of the closet except for one thing.
I cannot seem to be able to get rid of the HomeSync icon from my toolbar. I've pressed command ⌘ while dragging the icon off of the toolbar (disappears in a cloud of smoke), but when I log out and log back in, it's back.
How can I get rid of the HomeSync icon once and for all? I am trying this in lion

update
Updating to mountain-lion did not solve the issue.


texts: iCloud files on the iPad 'undownload' after being unused for a while

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I have an iPad Pro running iOS 12.2. I manage my files through the Files manager available (mostly PDFs). After a period of non-use, the local copies get removed and a cloud sign appears. The redownload cannot be done all together and each file has to be redownloaded separately. I need my lecture slides to stay in as a local copy. I have found no setting with optimize storage that would do this to files.

Can I influence a set of files to remain available for offline / cached access if they are stored in iCloud files?


texts: How can I convert .ichat logs to text files?

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How do you convert the iChat transcript files that Messages creates into human-readable text files that can be opened without the Messages app?

For reference, these are the conversation files located in ~/Library/Messages/Archive.

Simply opening the .ichat files in a text editor includes a bunch of additional strings and hashes. Opening them in Messages and copy-pasting into a text editor works, but I'd prefer to automate the process if possible.


texts: Repurposing "menu" button on Windows keyboards used in OS X

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Windows keyboards map pretty intuitively to OS X, leaving only the "context menu" button a little purposeless. I would like the menu key to behave as another Command key.
How does one define what the "context menu" key on Windows keyboards does in OS X?

On this keyboard, the "context menu" key is directly under the "." (period/greater than) key; on the bottom row between "alt" and "ctrl" on the right side, two keys to the left of the "left arrow" key. What does it do in OS X, and what is it called?


texts: Macbook Webcam light turns on for a second when computer is waked

texts: Most of the time when I login or open the lid my macbook bro mid 2012, the webcam light turns on for about a second and then turns off. Is there anything I should be worried about like a virus using my webcam to take photos of me from my computer or something?


texts:
I need a program for editing moves, specifically, only MOV files.
Only simple editing required - cropping, splitting, trimming, etc.
One requirement is that the program does not re-render the video file,
since such changes generally do not need this.

A good example would be QuickTime X trimming facility - you can trim
a huge MOV file and it will save it in seconds, because it will not
render it again.


texts: How do I prevent iTunes from syncing down Voice Memos from my iPhone?

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I've got an iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.3.5) and iTunes (v10.4.1) on a Mac running OS X (10.6.8).

When connected to iTunes, I've got the Music -> Sync Music -> Include voice memos option unchecked, but that seems to have no effect. Each time I sync the phone, all the new voice memos are pulled down to iTunes and dropped in my library.

So, the question is: How can I prevent iTunes from pulling down the voice memos and just leave them on my iPhone?


texts: I want to install Qi Dian on my iPad 1 but I can't. I've tried to download from my Mac first but this app can't be download by Mac, only iPad device or iPhone. How can I install this on my iPad 1?


texts: How to post Apple Watch activity of a group to slack?

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Lots of people in my office are using Apple Watch. I think it would be nice if when someone finished a workout or completing activity ring, the info is posted on slack.

Is there anything I could use to accomplish this? Any App?

I could go as far as building the custom mobile app if it does not exist yet, but really need direction on where I should go first.


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I want to set a permanent reminder in iOS that will fire every time I leave the house to remind me to check that I've locked the door.  I can set a location-based reminder that triggers when I leave, but it seems to be a one-shot deal (and I don't want to have to set a reminder to remind me to set another reminder!)

It does seem that there's an ability to set a scheduled reminder that fires every day at a given time and is also location-based, but I don't think this is what I'm looking for due to requiring to have to set a time too.  I don't think this is going to fire off if I'm already outside before the reminder's time comes.

Is it possible to set up an event that fires off every time you leave a location and not just once?  If so, how?


texts: Constant "please unlock iPhone" message in Photos 2.0

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I recently upgraded my Mac Pro from Yosemite to Sierra, and whenever I plug in my iPhone 6s, both iTunes and Photos will open as they should.  However within Photos (and Image Capture), I get a "please unlock iPhone" message.  When I unlock my iPhone, everything proceeds.  While I do not get the "unlock phone" nag from iPhoto, however, my photo library has been converted to use Photos.

As per discussions at the Apple forums, I've reset my iPhone's network settings.  This prompted a fresh "trust this computer" dialog on my iPhone, for which I clicked "trust".  Unfortunately, this had no effect on Photos or Image Capture, which are still asking me to unlock the iPhone.

How can I get Photos and Image Capture to recognize this iPhone and stop asking me to unlock it?

macOS Sierra 10.12.3
Photos 2.0
iPhone 6s running iOS 10.2.1


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I am follow a tutorial guide from this link http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/30/encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-openssl/

to try to produce -sha256 hash from an input file but when i type
openssl dgst -sha256 -in filename.txt

the command will return unknown option '-in'.

Can anyone please point out what have i gone wrong ?

OS Version: 10.11 OpenSSL Version: 1.0.2.d


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I have create an application APP-py3.app stored in /Applications. The APP-py3.app contains the following files [F] and directories [D]:

Contents [D]:
Info.plist [F]
MacOS [D]:

script [F with rights -rwxr-xr-x ]

Resources [D]:

icon.icns [F]

Contents of the files:

Info.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string>icon.icns</string>
</dict>
</plist>

script:

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import os import subprocess

executable = '/usr/local/bin/XXXX.py' arguments = [executable]

os.exe

cve(executable, arguments, os.environ)

The script works fine when I start it from the Terminal but when I click on the APP-py3.app icon on the Finder I obtain the following error: Impossible d’ouvrir l’application « APP-py3.app », car elle est peut-être endommagée ou incomplète. (Unable to start the application « APP-py3.app », because it may be damaged or incomplete) and when I try to start it from the terminal using the command open APP-py3.app I obtain: The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing.. The message seems to tell me that the executable is missing but I don't understand why OSX doesn't find the script executable... But maybe I misunderstand something. Do you have any idea of this trouble?


texts: Migration Assistant forever looking for other computers

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I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer data between two macbook pros, both on OS X 10.9.2.

I have them connected via thunderbolt ethernet adapters.

When I go into migration assistant on the target, I can see and select the source and I see a code.  The source says on the "Migrate to another Mac" screen "Looking for other computers" forever.

I've ensured that the firewall is off on the source, and that the sharing settings look the same.

What else can I check/try to get this working?


texts: Geektool coding to remove image after a set time

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I'm trying to edit a 3rd party script written in AppleScript (OAS...I think) to dim the volume after showing changes. I've tried changing the opacity & switching to a transparent image using a repeat loop & current date without success.

set T1 to seconds of (current date)
set T2 to T1 + 5
repeat with T1 from T2 to T2
   set opacity to 0 (*or do shell script...)
end repeat

This should work I'm just struggling with implementation.


texts: How to revoke permission given in System Prefs > Security & Privacy > 'Allow'

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I recently installed a particular application that required me to go to System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General, and then give it permission by clicking the Allow that had shown up for it.

I would now like to revoke that permission. I do not see a list anywhere of apps that I have previously given this permission to. How do I go about doing this? Thanks!


texts: Is there a Safari Extension for adding Mail-style Data Detectors to Web Pages?

texts: I love the Data Detectors in Apple Mail. Open a message that has a date or time in the content, and creating a new Calendar event is a snap. But this feature is not in Safari, so I'm wondering if there is a way to get it in there? An extension perhaps?


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First time Mac user here.

I'm quite aware with all the posts here about repartitioning hard disk but I'm quite confused if repartitioning would erase all my data on my hard disk.

I recently bought my Mac and it was pre-installed with Lion, and my hard disk size is 750GB, and under in one partition only.  I would like to divide the disk into at least 2 partitions where I can put my music files so that it would be easier to backup with any backup/imaging software.

With my current setup, it means that I have a recovery partition on my disk that would allow me to reinstall Lion if problems would occur.

If it would erase all existing data on the disk if I repartition it, then my only choice is to do this:

1) Backup first my data using Time Machine
2) Boot from the recovery partition and erase and partition (3) the hard disk
3) Restore the image to the disk to the desire partition

What do you guys think?


texts:
When I change from one running application to another, I no longer see the topmost (or any) window from the new app. I now have to select a window from the menu bar.

This is a new and unwelcome behavior. Until semi-recently, switching to another running app would bring up whatever window was last open. I suspect this is a setting somewhere, but I don't know what or where. Can someone suggest how to change this to the previous behavior?

On MacBook OS X 10.8.2


texts: Can I use Cisco Meraki, or similar, to deploy Mac App Store Apps?

texts:
Cisco Meraki is fantastic, it blows the features of Apple's Profile Manager out of the water. One thing I would very much like to be able to do however is to push Volume Purchased Mac Apps to all our devices via Meraki, or something similar.

Is this possible? We have iOS VPP set up perfectly to the point where apps can be one click installed - can this be done with OS X?


texts: Headphones Jack not pluggable into Macbook-pro retina socket

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I tried plugging in my apple headphone's jack into the socket, but I wasn't able to. Barely 70% of it goes in and the rest doesn't. There is no red-light coming out of the socket, but in the 'Sound' settings panel, the output device is 'Digital Out' -> 'Optical Digital Out Port'.

There is no sound emitted from the speakers and the sound icon in the taskbar is grayed out.

I managed to turn on/off the Analog to Digital switch inside the socket. The other (turn the switch 90º clockwise) solution, I haven't tried yet. The weirdest thing is that there's nothing stuck inside the socket! I looked with a led flashlight, but for some reason, this jack won't go in.

Is this a hardware issue?! What are the next steps?

--Edit--

Adding the picture of the jack and socket and another for the 'Red Light of Death'.


texts: Used Bootcamp to get Windows 10 on MacBook Pro (Mid-2012, Catalina) says "no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key"

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My late 2012 MacBook Pro is running Catalina. I used the Bootcamp Assistant to format a blank flash drive, copy my Windows 10 ISO file (downloaded from the provided Bootcamp assistant link) onto the flash drive, download the latest Windows software support from Apple, and create a new Windows partition to install it on (in other words, I checked all three boxes on the bootcamp assistant menu). It took about 4 hours for the computer to finish it all, but after I confirmed my password a few times and it finally finished, my computer restarted automatically, booting to the windows partition by default. But, instead of any kind of Windows 10 install menu (even though it seems like the install should have already been completed by the bootcamp assistant), it just says "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY."
I restarted and booted back to OS X, removed the Windows partition using the bootcamp assistant, and then did it all again, even re-formatting and re-copying windows to the newly blank flash drive. Same result. Then, I tried it again using a different flash drive, with the same result. When I restart the computer and hold alt/opt, It only shows my OS X drive, as well as "Windows" and "EFI BOOT". When I boot onto "Windows", it takes me to what looks like the install menu for Windows 10 on a blank computer, but when the option comes up for which drive to install Windows on, and I try to click the 300GB partition that I created using Bootcamp, it says "Windows cannot be installed on this disk."
I'm not sure what's wrong with it. A few months ago, when I was running Mojave instead of Catalina, I installed Windows 10 in the exact same way, and it worked fine.


texts: Changing the Key Modifiers (CMDCTRL) affects VM

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I changed my ⌘CMD to behave like ⌃CTRL and ⌃CTRL to behave like a ⌘CMD, but this affects also my VirtualBox VM.

So I do ⌃CTRL+C for Copy in Mac, but I gotta do ⌘CMD+C to copy in Ubuntu...

That's pretty confusing, is there a way to go around this?


texts: Disk Utility fails with OSStatus error 22 during cloning/recovery operation

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Background:

I need to upgrade the drive in my Macbook Pro. Following are some of its specs:

MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011)
OS: High Sierra, v 10.13.6
HDD: 500 GB SSD, w/ Macintosh HD & BOOTCAMP partitions

The Problem:

I need to upgrade the SSD to 1TB. I can accomplish this by cloning the 500GB drive to the 1TB drive. I will use Disk Utility from the Recovery HD volume to do this since both source and destination volumes in the cloning process will need to be unmounted.

I did this previously when upgrading the original mechanical HDD to SSD, but it was HFS-to-HFS. I quickly reviewed this article to verify nothing had changed. Finding no warnings, cautions or surprises, I began the process:

boot with command-R to get into the Recovery HD volume
start Disk Utility
select Restore option
designate source (500GB) & destination (1TB) drives
Go!

This ran overnight (many hours). But instead of seeing a "Success" message this morning, I saw an error:

Inverting target volume...
APFS inverter failed to invert the volume - invalid argument
The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error 22.)
Operation failed...

Research on this led me here. I initially concluded Apple had simply not upgraded the Recovery volume or the apps in it, but this proved not to be the case. Here's what I've found:

  The upgrade to High Sierra converted the 'primary' volume to APFS, but left the Recovery volume as HFS.
  The version of Disk Utility (DU) in the Recovery volume of my MBP is the same version as DU in my 'primary' High Sierra volume - it was apparently upgraded concurrently with the High Sierra upgrade.
  Whatever the version of DU in the Recovery volume, the failure I experienced seems rather chronic.

The source disk is a Crucial SSD, a few years old & no known issues; the destination disk as also a Crucial SSD - about a week old. Nevertheless, I have now checked all volumes on both disks with First Aid in DU, and all are reported as "OK".

Based on all the above, I've concluded that my Recovery volume is unreliable and not fit for purpose.

I've found a 3rd party alternative solution, Carbon Copy Cloner. It has now successfully cloned the 500GB drive, and restored that to the new 1TB drive - I am "whole" again :)  My questions (at last) are:

Can the Recovery HD volume be upgraded - perhaps by installing a later version of Disk Utility from Mojave or Catalina, or a 3rd party app such as CCC?
Could the Recovery HD volume be converted from HFS to APFS and restored/installed on the internal SSD?
Can a Recovery HD volume be created on a thumb drive which could be made bootable?


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I didn't know that the Calendar doesn't display events older than 1 month. How do I get the older events displayed?

And, can I avoid this problem in the future by exporting an archive of my calendar monthly?


texts: iPhone App to limit the data usage to 10 Gt?

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Is there any application to limit the data usage to certain amount in iPhone?

P.s. I tested Onavos such as here but it is very slow with me so uninstalled. Also Data Usage app but poor ratings.


texts: Can't authenticate using SSH key when running script via launchd

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I have a Bash script that executes an rsync command to sync files with a remote server.

#!/bin/bash
rsync -auvzP  --exclude=.bundle --exclude=node_modules --exclude=tmp  '/Volumes/Norman Data/me/.bash_profile' '/Volumes/Norman Data/me/Documents' --exclude=remote me@example.com:backup/

This works when I run it from the terminal as I have ssh key authentication set up for my user at example.com. However, when launchd calls this script, I get the following error indicating that it cannot find my user's key file or it is invalid:

  Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied, please try
  again. me@example.com: Permission denied (publickey,password). rsync:
  connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
  rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
  /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-52/rsync/io.c(453)
  [sender=2.6.9] I am specifying my user name in my plist file and when
  debugging, the script says it's being run by that same user both when
  running it from the terminal and from launchd alike.

My BackupDaemon.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>HOME</key>
        <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/me</string>
    </dict>
    <key>GroupName</key>
    <string>staff</string>
    <key>InitGroups</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>BackupDaemon</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/me/backup</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/BackupDaemon.err</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/BackupDaemon.out</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>16</integer>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>6</integer>
    </dict>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>me</string>
</dict>
</plist>

I can't figure out for the life of me what the issue might be or how to even go about further debugging. Any insight anyone has to share will be greatly appreciated. Thx!


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I though this would be so obvious that the answer should be simple.

I have a photo taken somewhere. I select it in the Photos app, and select the Share icon. I would simply like the option to view the location of this photo in the Apple Map.

I have installed ViewEXIF, which does the job, but does too much, and takes an extra step to get to the Maps App.

Is there an extension which would do this job simply?

Thanks


texts: Thunderbolt 2 and USB C dock solution connecting MBP 2015 and Surface

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I have access to the following computers:

Mid-2015 MBP with Thunderbolt 2 / USB A
Microsoft Surface Laptop with USB-C capability

I am looking for a docking device to connect two monitors (not fussed on which connections as I will find monitors to suit) and other USB-A/USB-C devices (phone chargers, keyboard/mouse etc.)
My understanding is that both options should work:
Macbook -> TB2 to TB3 adapter -> [Dock] -> Peripherals
and
Surface -> [Dock] -> Peripherals
where
[Dock] = Any Thunderbolt 3 dock?


texts: How can I recover my external hard drive's free space?

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I had these partitions on an external hard drive:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Android                 63.9 GB    disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS RiptideHUP              968.0 GB   disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data RiptideF                967.8 GB   disk2s4

My aim was to delete disk2s2 and then resize disk2s3 to occupy the leftover space by deleting disk2s2.
I deleted disk2s2 using this command:

diskutil  erasevolume  "Free Space"  ""  /dev/disk2s2

Now, to resize the volume, I used:

diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk2s3  R

However, I got this error:

Started partitioning on disk2s3 RiptideHUP Error: -69743: The new size
must be different than the existing size

I did a bit of research and realised the free space was created before disk2s3 RiptideHUP so it cannot resize itself. Is there still a way I can reclaim the Free Space?

NOTE: Using diskutil list now shows:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS RiptideHUP              968.0 GB   disk2s3
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data RiptideF                967.8 GB   disk2s4


texts: Itunes won't display total number of songs when I'm in my music playlist

texts: Itunes used to display my total number of songs/hours/days when I was in the MUSIC playlist. It displays this info for all of my playlist, just not in MUSIC. I know how to use control +/ to get the info to appear, just can't figure out why it won't show the info for all of my 15,000 songs...


texts: Will barometric data from my iPhone be used for a workout created on an Apple Watch without a barometer?

texts: If I take my iPhone on a run with an Apple Watch without GPS the workout app on the watch will use my iPhone's GPS data. Is that same true for barometric data now that the workout app uses the barometer on Apple Watch Series 3 devices?


texts: Why are certain games only available on iPad?

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I recently bought a 5th generation iPod touch. I searched for "Magic 2014" but was greeted with the message:

"Magic 2014 is only available on Apple iPad".

Why are certain games iPad only?


texts: Connecting Macbook Air to HPw1907 external screen

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I have recently brought a HPw1907 external screen for my mac but having trouble connecting it. I have connected a VGA cable but as soon as I turn it on, the monitor goes straight to sleep. When I open the display setting, I don't have the 'gather windows' or 'arrangement' setting unless I choose 'apple tv' in the drop down menu but that detects our Apple TV rather than the screen.

Any tips?


texts: Siri Voice Feedback Not Functioning on iPhone 6 (iOS 9)

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I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 9 – Siri has become speechless all of a sudden. It appears to have went dumb; there is no voice feedback whatsoever.

Siri answers all of my questions correctly with an on-screen response, but there is no voice feedback at all. Can this be sorted without a restore?

PS: I have already performed a Soft Reset.


texts: How to create backups of DVD software discs?

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I'd like to make some backups of my software DVDs that I can use to install the software again in case they are lost or get damaged. What's the best way to do this? Is it creating a .cdr disk image of the DVD using Disk Utility?

Note that some are multiple install DVDs i.e. a set of 9 or so DVDs.

Thanks,

Osu


texts: Unable to unlock System Preferences in High Sierra

texts: As the title says I can't unlock System Preferences in High Sierra, however my password works for login, for authenticating app installs, and my account is an Admin when I open the Users and Groups panel. I've tried resetting my password, however it doesn't fix the issue. Every article I've seen about a similar issue the fixes don't work either as it's typically that the account isn't admin or the reset fixed it.


texts: How to get iPhone app that's no longer in the store?

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I once downloaded an app named "aFuel" from the German app store, but I don't have it anymore because over time I removed it from my phone and eventually reinstalled Windows. The app is no longer available (source).

How can I get this app back? (Or any app for that matter!)

I might have a PC backup that contains the downloaded app, but I don't know what to look for. If you can point me to a likely location on disk then I can look through my backups for any relevant files.


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What is best OS for  MacbookPro 2,2 with new Harddisk(empty),  3GB RAM and 500GB HDD ?

Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7 Retail will work ?

ps: I am not having the Restoration DVD's came with macbook.


texts: How to select iPhone audio device before placing a call?

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Question
How can I select a specific audio device before placing a call on my iPhone, without setting a new default device?
Background
During a call, I can route the audio to several different devices - my iPhone's speakerphone, various Bluetooth devices, iMac, MacBook Pro, etc. This works well when switching devices during the call. I can also easily answer a call from any of these devices.
However, I cannot figure out how to select another device before placing a new call, and just for that call.
Use Cases
My most common use case is when I'm already listening to audio on my iMac or MBP with (wired) headphones and need to place a call that requires me to continue using the headphones connected to the computer.
If I place the call first and then switch the audio to the computer, the other party often answers before the switch completes, and I've missed the first part of the conversation.
Same thing if my phone is mounted and/or charging and I want to place a speakerphone call - if I don't switch the audio before the other party answers, I'm left with an awkward hello...
Context
I'm normally using an iPhone XS with iOS 14 or an iPhone 7 with iOS 13. I don't want to switch the default device since there are many times I'd prefer to initiate the call normally, i.e. phone-to-ear.


texts: How to run a script if external IP is changed?

texts: How can I execute a bash script when the external IP is changed. I wonder if there is a hook in macOS to run such a script.


texts: MacBook Air slow after waking from sleep

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The backlight on my MacBook Air broke about a week ago and it fixed by Apple by them replacing the logic board.  Since I've got it back I've had a couple of issues.  Firstly, the machine wouldn't work unless plugged in and the battery wasn't available, I sorted this through resetting the NVRAM and PRAM and that's now working fine.

Secondly, when I wake the computer from sleep it is very slow and the fans come on very loud as well, things like moving the cursor across the screen and jittery and not fluid, likewise opening applications takes forever.  I did manage to open Activity Monitor, I got a CPU system load as 87% and a kernel_task as 310.8% CPU.

Any ideas as to what may be causing it? Or is a fresh install the best option and see if that solves the issues?

Thanks!


texts: How do I restore my iPhone from an iCloud backup?

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I just installed iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 several days ago, and I backed it up to iCloud. After performing a sync with my PC, it deleted a bunch of apps. I'd like to restore these from the iCloud backup.

I tried searching Apple's site and Google to see how to restore from a backup, but all the examples are for newly activated phones, not existing phones. I couldn't find any options relevant to this in the settings app.

I tried pressing "Restore" in iTunes, which deleted all the data on the iPhone. When it started up again, it took me through some basic configuration steps, but none of the steps asked me if I want to restore the phone from an iCloud backup. The only thing close to this was when it asked me if I want to backup to iCloud or my PC. I chose iCloud.

How can I force my iPhone to download all the data that was backed up to iCloud?

Update: according to iCloud: Backup and restore overview, it says that I need to go through the setup assistant and choose to restore from iCloud. The problem is that the setup it took me through was the standard iOS 5 setup which just asks you to enable/disable services such as location and iCloud backup. It doesn't seem to be the same setup assistant that appears on brand new phones. So the question is how to force the setup assistant to show on a non-new phone.


texts: Why does Flashlight for Spotlight does not work on El Capitan?

texts: Can anyone explain, on a deep level, why Flashlight for Spotlight does not work on El Capitan?


texts: Batch Sync iPhone photos to iMac Photos app via Bluetooth

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The goal is to eliminate the USB cable that syncs iPhone photos to Catalina (Photos app).  Is there a good example of how to replace the cable by configuring Bluetooth on the PC and phone?  I would think I am not the first to ask, however, I am not successful Googling good examples.
Note: I am not seeking to "Airdrop" photos to the PC.  I am merely seeking to change the communication medium from Lightning cable to Bluetooth.


texts: Tried installing Windows 10 on Macbook Pro; bootcamp seemed to work but I can't access windows

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Quick info:

Mid-2015 Macbook Pro 15"
Running OSX El Capitan
Tried installing Windows 10 Home

I first tried installing Windows 10 using the iso file that can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Bootcamp didn't recognize the iso, so I borrowed an external DVD drive to make an iso that way. BC managed to recognize this and seemed to go through the installation process just fine. The laptop then automatically restarted without any sort of warning and failed to boot into the setup screen I was expecting, and when I restarted the laptop to try to manually start Windows, I didn't see the BC partition that had been made as an option.

I went back into OSX and checked disk utility to see if a partition was even made, and sure enough I saw one there. The only issue is that it looked like this (note the memory capacity, available, and used).:

I thought that was pretty weird, so I clicked on the Mac partition and back to the BC partition, and it changed but still seemed weird (see memory capacity, available, and used).

I'm completely at a loss as to what happened and how I can fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Could I use an older iMac as a second monitor for a Dell Latitude E7250 w/mini display port?

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I have a 21.5" iMac from late 2009 that runs great. For work I have a Dell Latitude E7250 that has a mini display port. The mini-display port cable fits into the iMac but is this a "Thunderbolt" port and not really a mini-display port at all?? Are they the same thing?
If a had a mini display port to mini display port cable would I be able to use the iMac as the second monitor?
Is that the correct cable?
What keystrokes would I need to get this going?

Thanks in advance for your consideration of my question.


texts: Why can't I type lower case 'a' in Safari when entering text in a field?

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If I open Safari and go to www.google.com and type in a search the letter 'a' can't be typed.  I have to press shift+a in order to type a capital letter a but can't type a lower case 'a'.  I'm typing this message in Firefox so clearly the key on my keyboard is functioning correctly.

I can type lower case a in the url bar area but not in other text boxes.  I can't type it on apple.stackexchange.com or on duckduckgo.com.  No text areas on any website seem to let me type lower case a.  However, it works fine when I use Firefox.

Any thoughts?  I'm using OS X 10.10.4 and Safari 8.0.7.


texts: How to view a Mac's iPhoto library remotely on a Windows computer

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On my Mac, Running OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks, I have my iPhoto library with 10,000+ photos. I am wondering if there is a convenient way to view this library remotely on a Windows computer.

I actually can view the Mac's contents in windows by connecting to it as if it were a Windows share. Then, after I map the Mac to my Windows instance as a network share, I can navigate to the path

<user name>\Pictures\iPhoto Library\Masters\...

and I can find all of the originals. That works ...okay... but it has these challenges:

iPhoto library divvies up photos in folders on the file system according to when the photos were uploaded to the library. Therefore searching for photos between many folders is based on the date a photo was uploaded rather than the date it was taken.
The Masters folder has the full size masters of each photo, which tend to be in the 5 - 15MB range. This is a heavy network load if all I want to do is quickly flip through them all (2 - 5 sec to load each photo).
The Masters folder has a Thumbnail folder counterpart with Thumbnails of all the masters, divvied up also by date of upload. The Thumbnails are nearly identically named to their Masters counterparts. The downside is that the folder structure for all Thumbnails have an additional layer of complexity, making them nearly impossible to easily browse them.

So now when I refer to a convenient way to do this, I'd like to basically just browse through them, kinda like I do on the Mac, all at once, broken down by events. I could write a program to do this, but surely one already exists, right? Is Bonjour designed to do this (as in, installing Bonjour for Windows)? Is there another program or setting I need?


texts: Restore Windows 8.1 System Image Backup to new Boot Camp partition

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I just got a new hard drive because the old one was going bad. I made a system image backup of the old Boot Camp partition and saved it to an external drive.

Got the new drive set up, with Mavericks, ran bootcamp and got a partition set up, installed windows 8.1 on it, and then tried restoring it from the image. When I get into the system restore I can choose the backup location, but the next step where you choose/format/partition the drive looks like it needs some kind of disk driver, but I don't know where to find a MacBook disk driver.

I'm hoping to restore so I don't end up having to reinstall everything.


texts: How can I synchronize old notes with an email account on the iPhone?

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I had hundreds of notes on my iPhone before I upgraded to OS 4.0. Now there is the new feature which allows me to sync the notes with an email account. I added my email account, but rather than sync all of my existing notes, it created a new folder in the Notes application.

How can I transfer notes from my old folder "On My iPhone" to my new one that is synced to an email account.

I'm looking for a method which doesn't require syncing to the computer, if possible.


texts: Problems with Internet connection on my Mac - Gmail, calendar and Skype work but some websites will not open

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I am using OS X Yosemite version 10.10 on my iMac.

For about a week now, I've had problems with my Internet connection. I am connected via ethernet. I can use Gmail, Skype and Google Calendar without problems but when I access other websites, I often get "website doesn't respond" kind of answer. It helps when I restart the computer but the problem returns after a while.

When I do the diagnostic test in System Preferences > Network > Assist me, it tells me that all is fine with my connection. I also tried to restart my router but that did not help either. Other devices that work on wifi (iPad, Dell laptop) work fine on the same Internet network. Also, when I switch connection from Ethernet to wifi, it is the same problem again.

I followed the advice given by Martín Marconcini to this question on the forum: "I cannot connect to internet but my MacBook Pro detects the network and my HP computer works fine on the same network" (Jun 30 '12 at 9:33) but it did not solve the issue. When I go to TCP/IP I see that I am using DHCP. Following the advice by  Martín Marconcini I changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8. So that is what I see in the DNS tab now (the others I had there disappeared). Also, everything is unchecked in the Proxies tab.

My IP address is: 192.168.0.13. Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Router: 192.168.0.1.


texts: Can't move the cursor in text editor with left and right arrow

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I'm having an annoying issue and need your help. While typing in a text editor or chat, I can't move my typing cursor by left and right arrows. However, if I press (command + left/right), the cursor can move to the next word. I think I may unconsciously change a setting somewhere.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you!


texts: Create stacks on dock and rename category in `Lauchpad`

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How can I create icon stacks on dock? For example, I want stack the icons of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.

Next is can I rename an application category in Lauchpad?

When I drag & drop an application icon onto another, a new category will be created named Production(or Product? I can't remember exactly, and no Macs at hand currently). I want to rename the category to something meaningful.


texts: Is it possible to fix my iPad screen? Large areas of black after bending it

texts: Some random man sat on my iPad and bend it. Now I have these black parts in my screen. Can you tell me what is wrong with my iPad. Everything works smoothly but these black parts make it difficult to type.


texts: Keyboard Shortcuts during iChat Screen Sharing

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Switching Screens

I was just on an iChat-initiated Screen Sharing session with a friend, and had a really rough time telling him to get off the mouse so I can click back to my computer in order to look some stuff up.

Even when on my computer, as long as screen sharing is still active, the audio chat interface remains, so I can keep talking to him as I look up information he's asking for.

Doing this, while watching his screen, was an aggrivating task. How does one switch back to their computer without asking for mouse access to do so?

Ending the Sharing Session

Are there alternate keyboard shortcuts for ending a screen sharing session? The menu bar lists ^ ⎋ for achieving this (⎋ is the power button on your computer). However, I'm stuck in a really annoying middle ground.

At work, I have a MacBook Pro, plugged into a Cinema display, external keyboard (mini-style/no-numpad style), and magic mouse, and I use my laptop with the lid closed. Thus, I have no power button.

Can I end the session without asking for mouse access?


texts: Are the new iPads (iPad 3) for sale in the US unlocked for the UK?

texts: I live and work in the UK, but I am in the US for 2 weeks, and was wondering if I buy the new iPad from the Apple Store here in the States, will I be able to replace the AT&T or Verizon SIM with an O2 or T-mobile (UK mobile carriers) SIM? Or are the iPads sold by the Apple Store locked to US based carriers?


texts: Yosemite: Change keyboard layout of an input source

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My MBP has an AZERTY keyboard (a French keyboard, more precisely). I usually type English, French and Vietnamese. For the latter I use the built-in Vietnamese Telex input source. Since I'm used to type Vietnamese on QWERTY keyboards, I want to change the layout of this input source to QWERTY as well, but I didn't figure out how to do that.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.


texts: How do I have different footers for the left and right pages on Apple Pages?

texts: I need to have different footers for left and right pages in Apple Pages to make a sort of book layout in which the page number is close to the outer page. How is this achieved?


texts: Can I use my regular 3.5 mm earphones with an iPhone?

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The earphones that I have received with my iPhone have 4 metal connector jack. By the size of it, it looks 3.5 mm in diameter. Unfortunately, the white earphones are not of the in-ear type and slip out from my ears quite frequently.

I have a different set of Sony earphones with a 3.5 mm jack. It has 3 metal connectors which means that if I insert it in the iPhone, at least I am shorting out 2 metals receptors on the iPhone female. Is it fine to do such a thing? My guess is that if the short is occurring between the mic and the ground, it should be fine as usually not a lot of current is sourced to a mic. I was just looking around for more information. A connection diagram would be great.


texts: Terminal.app: changing shell behavior problem?

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I'm having problems setting Terminal.app's default shell.  It appears to work using a command line utility which sets the shell for the account, however not in Terminal.app's dialog which is for each session.  I find that if I set the shell system with with 'chsh', the $SHELL variable in Terminal.app correctly reflects the shell.  If I change the shell in Terminal.app only, $SHELL does not correctly reflect the shell, however the shell appears to be the correct shell running.  I tried this on a temp account to rule out other interactions and it has the same behavior.

Here is a use case:
When I run in Terminal.app:

$ chsh -s /bin/ksh

and invoke Terminal.app, the shell is correctly changed:

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/ksh

The problem is if try similar through Terminal.app->Preferences->General->Shells open with->Command->/bin/ksh

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Yet when I try command completions with TAB, it reflects ksh behavior.

Therefore, my suspicion is there is something overriding the SHELL environment variable where it is always SHELL=/bin/bash, despite the shell being different than that.

Does anyone know if Apple has a bug here?


texts: What's a reasonable approach for managing apps, associated with one iTunes account, on several iOS devices?

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I have an iPhone 4, an iPad, and an iPhone 3G repurposed as a "touch" for a little one. The short of it is, there are apps I have on my iPhone 4 that I don't want on my iPad, and some on the old 3G that I don't want on either. What's one to do?

I've tried managing by hand which apps sync on which device, but this information gets lost periodically, which means a huge app dump across the iPad and iPhone 4.

What would seem most effective is, while the "purchased" app pool would be common, each device would have a derived subset of this pool (so they wouldn't have to re-purchase), and so would/could never inadvertently sync apps from another device pool.

I suppose the checkboxing of each app approximates this, but it's very frustrating when this information is lost.

Any help for this? Thanks!


texts: Can I turn off the Apple Pencil auto-adjust feature for highlighting text?

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I noticed on my new iPad that I can use the Pencil to highlight text (say, for copy/pasting), just like one can do with a finger. However, using my finger, while dragging the edge of the highlight region, I can be very precise about where I want the highlighted area to end. For example, I can make it end in the middle of a word.

But with the Pencil, this is impossible. The region always slides left or right until it reaches the end of a full word. This is a bit annoying for me since I am composing in LaTeX and often need to copy/paste parts of equations that begin and end in precise places that the pencil doesn’t permit.

The easy fix is to just use my finger, but I like the pencil. Is there a setting that can change this behavior?


texts: Macbook pro late 2016 USB-C Stop working after sleep

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Almost every time that I put my macbook pro late 2016 (touch bar) to sleep while the USB-C adapters are plugged they stop responding when I wake up the laptop.

All my adapters have multiple ports (i.e usb, hdmi, ethernet). If I unplug them and plug them again in different ports only the hdmi works again, and the only way i found so far to make USB and Ethernet work again is rebooting the laptop.

PS: I have have Sierra (10.12.6 (16G29))


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App Store shows notification but no updates available.

Tried closing the App and also restarting phone but no luck.


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Whenever I use pmset sleepnow in Terminal (even with sudo) I get this error:
Unable to sleep system: error 0xe00002e2. I have no idea what's going on. Please help!


texts: How can I stop loading external images in Mail.app?

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I get a ton of spam every day and it makes me crazy that to mark it a spam or delete it I have to select the email, which opens it and loads all its images.

We all know spam emails contain distant images that are used for tracking, and opening the email is bad as it marks my email address "active" to spammers.

Many email clients have an option to prevent loading external images by default, is there a way to do that with Mail.app?


texts: I was having some issues with chrome, where it would crash all the time for no reason. Then, recently, it crashed, but in my dock it says it's still running. I deleted it from my applications but it is still in my dock, and when I try to force quit it, nothing happens. I can't drag it out of my dock or do anything to move it.


texts: iTunes: "Your account was changed while you were editing your account information."

texts:
I logged into the iTunes store via Settings on a new iPhone 5s, and it automatically went to the "confirm your payment information" page.

I confirmed my method of payment (none), and it came back with an error, letting me know that:

  Your account was changed while you were editing your account info. We were unable to save the changes. Please try again later.

I was currently logged into the Manage my Apple ID page when this error occurred (but was not actively editing anything), and once I logged out, I was able to confirm my payment method with no issue.

I was also able to log into the iTunes store on my Macbook and confirm the payment information with zero issue, but as far as I remember I was not logged in into the manage my Apple ID page.

Has anyone experienced this before? Does being logged into the manage my Apple ID page seem like a likely culprit for the error message I received?


texts: ThalysNet or other accesspoints destroy my browsing experience

texts:
I tend to travel a lot around Europe, and I don't necessarily think about removing Wifi from my MacBook Air. I also keep dozens of tabs open.

Every single time I take the Thalys, or I get into some Hotel "pay-per-use" Wifi network, my MBA stupidly loads the accesspoints' login-or-register-with-credit-card-number page. While I ignore it, I do lose the pages I had open, since the damn things rewrite the URLs.

For example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/somenumber/somequestion

is turned into:

https://portal.thalysnet.com/?hostname=stackoverflow.com

which means I don't know what the page was about, since I might have a dozen SO tabs open at the time... all called this :/ .

Is there any way I can block "URL rewriting" on the Mac, unless specifically authorized by me?


texts: Set up smart mailbox to hold all messages to AND from a particular person

texts:
I want a smart mailbox that will display all the emails sent to me by a particular person as well as all the emails I've sent them.

I assumed that setting the rules to be

Contains messages that match ANY of the following;
From Is Equal To Person
Any Recipient Is Equal To Person

but all I get is messages from Person.

This doesn't do the trick so what am I missing? Shouldn't it return any emails sent from Person and any emails wherein Person is a recipient?


texts: Default permissions for new users in OS X Server

texts:
I'm creating mobile users in MT Lion Server through Workgroup Manager 10.8. I've set it up so that when the user logs in to the client machine, the network share point auto mounts. This gives access to their home folder on the network.

The issue is that they now have read/write permissions for every other user folder in that share point. Instead of having to go through every user's folder to modify the permissions, is there an automatic way to have the right permissions when the user is created in the first place?

I basically need 'staff'=none, 'other'=none, and for some reason there's a 'Everyone'=custom which doesn't even need to be there. Is it possible to get those configurations at user creation?


texts:
I'd like to be able to get the same view into iTunes U in a web browser, instead of iTunes. Major reason - to be able to open multiple tabs, make bookmarks etc.

However when I open iTunes URL in a browser, it displays standard "One Moment Please.
Connecting to the iTunes Store." blurb (see for yourself here)

Is there a way to circumvent this 'iTunes detection', which presumably those pages do?


texts: Does an app exist for the iPhone that sends a push notification if it detects that the device has physically been moved?

texts: Does an iPhone app exist that sends a push notification if accelerometer movement is detected? A good use case for this would be in environments where a phone is left unattended - I'm sure I saw an app a while ago that does this, but can't find any references whatsoever now!


texts: App store still showing beta release of El Capitan months after withdrawal from beta programs?

texts: Months after withdrawing from the beta program, following the guides for exiting, and then installing the production release of OS X 10.11 and installing 10.11 back when it was new, then restoring from a Time Machine backup prior to installing the beta release, everything was fine except app store still offers me beta releases. How can I stop this? Right now I am on OS X 10.11.2 the app store is offering me 10.11.4 beta though 10.11.3 is the current OS X version.


texts: Best practices for mounting Linux filesystems on OS X over the Internet

texts:
Before I ask my question, an impassioned plea. Please don't let this devolve into a "use the command-line or GTFO" flamewar. Yes, I know about scp and friends.

I have a VPS running Ubuntu and I'd like to mount one of its filesystems on my Mac so I can use all my local tools and copy files via finder, etc.

I'm using Fuse/MacFusion now, and it's particularly slow.

Any better way?


texts: How do I find the current Mission Control space number from the command line?

texts: Is there any way to determine the number of the currently active Mission Control space/desktop in Mac OS X Lion from the command line?


texts: How can I restore photos from an iCloud backup to a new iPhone?

texts:
My iPhone fell into water and is now broken, completely! I desperately try to recover my photos via iCloud. I downloaded the iCloud manager for Windows since I never backed up my iPhone with my computer.

In this manager I can see that I have an online backup file of about 4.5 GB. iCloud is almost full. However, when I check the Photo Stream folder that got created, I only can see about 130 pictures. (I assume the 4.5 GB must be the rest of my pictures.)

Are my other pictures included in this online backup and how can I get to them, like backup to my new iPhone? Since this one has another ID can I restore only the pictures without messing up the data of my current iPhone?


texts: Get the process id of the app, which called the service

texts:
I have an service in automator, which is binded to the Safari ,no input option.

Now is there any way for the service in automator to get the process id of the Safari, which called it ?

New to applescript and automator. Thanks for the inputs.


texts: How to make a slideshow with audio tutorial in macbook

texts:
I joined National social service's online learning initiative program of my college. I have to make videos which uses a slideshow presentation with audio. Something like khan academy videos but instead of writing, I need to use slides.

What all softwares should I install on my macbook?


texts: OSE switch to application from mobile device

texts:
Is there a mobile app that lets you view the list applications you're currently running on a computer you're using?

For instance, my mobile device would connect as a client to my MacBook Pro, and have live info about what's running and which app I'm currently using:

Showing the currently selected app similar to OSX's alt tab functionality, and when I touch a particular app, it becomes selected and in the foreground.


texts: Photoshop CC not responding when opening a 2MB PDF file

texts:
There's a Mac on my job that recently got installed Adobe CC. I, myself, haven't used CC before, always CS6 so I don't know about the common errors, bugs, crashes or fixes. Moreover, I'm not a designer, I'm just the IT guy (I have only used CS6 for really basic stuff).

I've gone through the basic check, which included updating from Mavericks to Yosemite, and check adobe updates but the issue still persists.

The problem seems to happen by doing the following:

Open Finder and navigate to a folder with 2MB PDF files.
Drag one of those 2MB PDF files and drop it on the Photoshop icon located in the Dock
It may stop responding here, or when opening the Crop To dropdown box.

Any ideas?


texts:
I have an old iPad 3rd Generation (Retina Display). I am planning on buying the new iPad Pro 10.5. I am a little confused with backup and restore.

The old iPad has Kanini.Mom@gmail.com as the Apple ID (as it was my mom's iPad).

The new iPad is for my dad and so the Apple ID is going to be Dad@gmail.com

What I would like to do is:

Retain Photos
Retain Books from iBooks (These are PDF's not something which was purchased from iBook Store)

I do not need the games and other apps that was in the old iPad to be transferred in the new iPad.

I do want it use my new email address for everything (Apple ID, FaceTime, iMessages) etc.

How can I achieve that?


texts: Can I disable the hover menu on a window's green maximize button?

texts:
I just updated my macOS to 10.15.7.  I notice that now when I hover over the window's green maximize button for about a second it now presents me with a menu, which I have to click to dismiss.  Is there any way to change this behavior so it no longer automatically displays a menu when I happen to hover over the maximize button for too long?  I suspect it will get in my way far more often than it will be useful to me.
The menu has four options when I view it on my secondary display:

Enter Full Screen
Tile Window to Left of Screen
Tile Window to Right of Screen
Move to Built-in Retina Display


texts: Automator keeps using numbers in exponential form

texts:
I created this code that should launch whatsapp with a specific number in clipboard:

on run {input, parameters}
    set text1 to the clipboard
        set text2 to 1 - text1 as real
        do shell script "open https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=971" & 1 - text2
    return input
end run

*

  The subtractions are added to copy the correct number into the form

*

However, the phone number is stated in an exponential form which gives an error.

Example: 0501234567
Expected Output: 971501234567
Actual  Output : 9715.01234567E+8

How do I fix this?


texts: iMac retrieve old linux partition after dual boot removal

texts:
On my iMac I installed a dual boot with Linux Mint.
However, I realized that the videos were freezing some times, so I deleted the Linux partition.
Now, the Mac is working normally, but instead of having a partition of 1 TB, I just have a 800GB's total space on my Hard Disk.

How can I do to retrieve the 200GB of space that were on the Linux partition I deleted?

Below is the output from diskutil list.

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            800.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               1.0 MB     disk0s4


texts: Apple 27" Thunderbolt/Cinema Display DPI

texts:
I've recently purchased an Apple Thunderbolt 27" display and having connected my second monitor side by side, I can see the DPIs between the two displays are different.

My other monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster is 92dpi, so what DPI is the Thunderbolt display (and by inference) the Cinema Display?

Apple's site just lists the the dimensions and the panel size and you can estimate using basic math that the DPI is approximately 109.

However being the fact fascist that I am, 109dpi just sounds plain wrong; so either the assumption that the pixels are square is wrong, or the dpi is wrong (say 108 or 110) and the display is not quite 27"

Is there any empirical evidence of the display's DPI or pixel structure that will cement the DPI figures?

Is there an official statement from Apple (perhaps a slide in a Keynote somewhere) thats shows the actual DPI, or tech document I've missed that states it.


texts: Replaced iPhone 8 Battery, Now Home Button is Dead

texts:
My battery life was getting pretty poor, but my phone was fully functional otherwise. So I ordered a new one on ifixit it and replaced it.
It was not the first iPhone battery I've replaced and it was pretty easy to do. But when I reassembled it, the home button is now dead. Dead in every way. It doesn't perform any function when you push it, it doesn't read you fingerprint, and it gives no taptic feedback.
Important to note, I did not disconnect any of that stuff to do the battery. I dislodged the screen, tipped it up, and easily did the battery without taking all those parts out.
I did turn the phone on before reinstalling the display. I read afterwards that that can disable the home button on older iPhones, but I'm not sure if that applies to the 8.
I did take the phone apart again, twice. Checked all connectors, they're all great. Theres nothing obvious I can see. I did several hard resets, no affect. I also removed the battery again for a few minutes to fully reset the device.
Any other ideas what could have happened, and how I can try to fix?


texts: How do I configure Screen Recording permission on macOS Catalina?

texts: I'm using macOS Catalina and it's preventing me from sharing my screen in web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, and in other applications too. How do I properly set up permissions so that screen sharing works in all of my apps?


texts: Is Mac OS X's two finger scrolling damaging to your hand?

texts: I've noticed an unusual feeling associated with Mac OS X's two fingering scrolling.  Any chance this might indicate a repetitive stress injury in the making?  I've been trying to rotate the fingers I use for scrolling somewhat, but not terribly successfully.  Anyone else found solutions to this potential issue?  (related)


texts:
Currently I am using a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.5 and I just noticed that there is no Wi-Fi option on this machine.

To try to add Wi-Fi to the menu bar, I went to System Preferences → Network and clicked the "+" button from the left list, and in the interfaces section I found nothing named Wi-Fi!

I also tried to search for "wifi" in Spotlight, but there is nothing named like that.

I'm wondering if somehow the software is not installed in this machine. I don't know whether this software comes with the OS X installation or not.


texts: Can anybody give me the original ssh.plist file for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)?

texts:
I was trying to modify my ssh.plist file, but as a noob I overwrote my backup file with the modified one.

I am looking for the content of the original file from the install.

Can anybody give it to me?


texts:
Viewing a pdf with Preview, I do cmdF to bring up a search box and then enter a word and hit enter.

Basically nothing happens even if it's a word that's obviously present. Sometimes if I smash my hands all over the keyboard and spin around in my chair three times the search suddenly starts working again, but I haven't figured out how to do that trick reliably.


texts: I was working on my Macbook pro and suddenly we lost electricity, and while the electricity was out my charger was connected to the laptop. Now that electricity came back my adaptor stopped charging my laptop. I checked its wire and everything looks fine. Anything I can do beside buying a new one?


texts: On my Macbook Pro, iTunes keeps giving me a "sign in to the iTunes Store" popup (over 50 times).

texts:
I use iTunes just to back up my daughter's iPhone. I do not want to give it my Apple ID. When I start the program, I get a whack-a-mole series of popups. I have to click "cancel" many, many times before I can do anything with the program. The number of times seems to increase with every OS update.

How do I stop this? Clicking "cancel" once would be tolerable. Dozens of times? That's ridiculous.


texts: Problem with returning to iTunes when in full-screen mode

texts:
I've a problem with full-screen mode in Lion.

Let's say I opened iTunes and set it to full-screen mode. I start a video in iTunes and when I exit from the video it turns back to iTunes as it should but the iTunes window is in another desktop even though in the header I see iTunes as the active application.

In order to see the iTunes window I've to click to the iTunes icon in the Dock or use the application switcher.

BUT this problem doesn't appear when I don't use iTunes in full-screen mode.

In my opinion it's an issue with me upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard. I'm thinking of a fresh install but even though it's easy to do it will take some time so I would really appreciate your suggestions on the matter.


texts: Completely clear all cloud music from iPhone

texts:
I'm trying to get rid of all of the cloud music from my iPhone 6S on iOS 10.2.1.

So far I have:

Gone to Settings>iTunes & App Store> and toggled Automatic Downloads> Music
Gone to Settings>Music and:

turned off (and on and off again) "Show Apple Music"
turned off Mobile data.
gone to "Downloaded Music" and selected to delete all songs - now shows "Zero KB"
Signed out of home sharing

I have signed out from my apple ID. I have signed out under Settings>iCloud.

I have deleted all playlists.

After all of this I have rebooted the phone.

I have tried everything I can think of and when I go to Music> Library or Songs I still see a few hundred songs with the cloud download icon next to them.

Is the only way to delete them individually? This whole system is a joke. I have looked at the similar questions here and have not found an answer that works.


texts: MacBook applications say "no photos" but they are on the iPhone

texts:
I recently took photos and videos and am now unable to import photos over USB. Image Capture shows the iPhone without any photos, Photos says "No Photos". Image Capture was working fine until I went on a filming spree (48 photos and two 2-minute videos). I am also unable to move a video to the trash: the thumbnail disappears from the list, then the "Cancel" button freezes and has no effect, the video does not appear in the trash, and when I go back to "All photos" another video is selected. I can take new photos on the device but they are not saved to memory.

Unlike this thread, both devices are up to date: iOS 9.3.5 and macOS Mojave 10.14.5.

The same thing happened to a friend who had so many photos that the device complained of lack of space. My storage says 5 GB used and 7 GB available.

How can I transfer the photos and videos from the device?


texts:
I know I can trim videos at the beginning or at the end with QuickTime Player — And practically any other video-editing-app.

But is there a simple way to cut out parts within a video — say ad-breaks in a tv-recording?

I mean, sure, it might be relatively simple to do with iMovie, but than I have to import and export — and that takes some time.

Isn't there a simple solution (probably without long re-encodings during import/export) to cut out parts out of mp4-videos?

Example:

|AD|---Movie---|AD|-------Movie-------|AD|---Movie---|AD|

I want to trim the video and cut out the ads, so only the «Movie»-parts remain (as one file).

|-------------Movie-------------|


texts: If possible how do I single out a app from starting in Safe Mode. I want to use Safe Mode with out Photos involved for example. Is that possible?


texts: I came across this website: https://www.apple.com/in/apple-pencil/  by Apple about the Apple Pencil. Apple has used the screenshot of an app as the header of the website. Can anyone help me figure out which graphics design app is featured in the screenshot? (The screenshot consists of an illustration by Malika Favre)


texts: MacBook Pro keeps freezing when composing messages in Gmail

texts:
My MacBook Pro 2016 keeps freezing fairly frequently when I'm composing messages in Gmail, forcing me to power off and then power back on the computer.  Weirdly, this doesn't happen when I have the MacBook "docked" into my LG monitor, only when I'm operating the MacBook independently.

I'd love to get to the bottom of what's going on here.  Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how I can root cause this?

EDIT: In case it's helpful, my browser is the latest version of Chrome.


texts: iPod - How to display the battery remaining as a percentage?

texts: How can I display the remaining battery power as a percentage on an iPod Touch 5.


texts: How can I set output to internal speakers after I've set the 3.5mm jack as input on 13" MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a 13" MacBook pro, which has only one 3.5mm jack. I've set it as Sound Input in the System Preferences -> Sound dialog

This way I can record directly from my piano audio output. The problem is, I'm not able to hear anything anymore. The piano has only one 3.5mm jack, and if I put anything in there, it's speakers get turned off.

I'd like to make my MacBook replay the sound it's getting on the sound input in it's built in speakers, so that I can hear what I'm actually playing.

When I try to play any sound directly (like in iTunes), it uses the speakers just fine. But it doesn't play the sound that is being recorded from the 3.5mm input.

Basically this would be the equivalent of hearing yourself speak when talking on Skype.


texts:
The difference between alerts and banners is that alerts require user input to disappear, whereas banners go away on their own. Is there a way to close all notification alerts at once?

In the example below, there are 6 alerts from one application. I'd like to be able to OPTION-click "Close" or hit a keyboard shortcut to dismiss all of them. Ideally, I'd be able to dismiss all alerts on a per application basis. But I'd settle for the ability to dismiss alerts universally.


texts: XQuartz opens automatically: How can I track this?

texts: From time to time Xquartz opens without any application being called. Is this some virus that tries to exploit bugs in x11? Is it gnu emacs that was not fully ported and calls X stuff?


texts: How can I do a whole word search in less? Per this post on a unix/linux forum you can use regex 'whole word' markers \<word\> but that doesn't seem to work for me on macOS 10.13.4 (17E202) in iTerm2 on less version 487 (found by less --version).


texts:
I installed OS X to my MacBook from scratch. I mean used USB stick with installer and fully erased disk.

Then I created 5 partitions: One for OS X, one for Windows, two for Linux and one for Data:

| OS X - 1 | Windows - 2 | Linux - 3 | Linux2 - 4 | **Data - 5** |

Than I installed Linux and rEFInd to boot it.

Next I installed Windows. But it was awful without drivers, so I boot into OS X and created USB stick with drivers with BOOTCAMP. I boot into windows again, installed drives, rebooted, and saw only disk C: and D:, which are Windows and OS X partitions.

So I booted in Linux, and created hybrid MBR on my own, adding only Windows and Data partitions to it.

It worked. I was able to use Data on any system.

I had not booted windows for a week, and I installed OS X 10.11.2 update. And when I started Windows again, I could use only Windows and OS X partitions.

I think that BootCamp assistant or some other OS X program recreated Hybrid MBR. But they add only first 4 partitions, and Data is fifth!

How could I stop OS X from restoring MBR? Maybe I could make it not to be able to see Windows or remove bootcamp?

PS Sorry for my English


texts:
I would like a nice new keyboard with mechanical switches. Pretty much every high-end keyboard I see is a "Windows" keyboard, with the Windows key. And no Command key.

I imagine that I could use a combination of remapping keys through the OS, and paint "Command" on one of the keys, in order to make my new keyboard just like the one built into my Powerbook.

How to map the Command key to a "Windows" keyboard?


texts:
I just updated my Mojave machine to Security Update 2020-006 but my bridgeOS has not updated, it remains on 18P50347c which I got when I tried Big Sur DP4/PB1 on 7 August 2020?
I don't have any other Macs so "downgrading (from beta to release) bridgeOS using Apple Configurator 2" isn't an option.
How can I get the latest bridgeOS on my Mojave Mac mini?


texts: MacOS puts “.DS_Store” files in directories. How do you omit them from all “ls -a” results?


texts: How to disable recycle bin (Recently Deleted) of iOS 8 Photos app?

texts: Is it possible to delete photos without going through the "Recently Deleted" album in iOS 8?


texts: Lion's Preview regularly hangs when unhiding with open documents

texts:
In Lion, I've had an incredible amount of difficult with Preview hanging indefinitely when restoring open documents after being hidden for any extended period of time.

There is no immediate solution except to force quit Preview and relaunch it.  Console reports no error messages except for Preview being manually killed.

Any recommendations on dealing with this problem?


texts: Retrive saved wifi password from iPhone 6

texts:
Is there a way to find out the password of a saved wifi network from an iPhone 6 running 12.2?

This sending/sharing the password doesn't seem to work on this version.

I have no access to the router. (not hacking, just community difficulties in college dorm, and it's an ubee anyway. those devices have individual admin passwords printed on their bottoms)

thank you


texts: Connecting to one Mac from another shows shared drives that no longer exsist

texts: When I connect to my Mac Mini from my MacBook Pro (both 10.6.8) as a registered user, I see sharepoint that no longer physically exsist. How do I delete these entries?


texts: Can I edit content on an FTP server through Finder?

texts: Is there any way around the read-only access that Finder strictly allows so I can get write access to a FTP server through Finder?


texts: How to display standard output in Mac application converted from shell script?

texts: It's easy to convert a shell script to a Mac App as suggested here. But I am only able to see the operation result of the script(or the Mac App) after the script finished and there seem to be no easy way to see the standard output as we would do when launching the script in terminal. Currently I am directing the standard output to a text file and view the file with some editor like sublime text. But I don't like the way I am doing it and looking for some more decent way. Is there any chance I can launch a terminal to display the standard output?


texts: How to attach google drive files from iPad mail?

texts:
I'm trying to attach some files, shared with me in Google Drive, to an email by using my iPad.

It looks like I can not find that files when searching them from the dialog it is shown to select the files to attach. There is no problem if the files that I want to attach are from my Google Drive (instead of shared with me).

It looks to happen the same when I try to make that search from the ios Files app directly. Of course, if I try to make the same search from Drive app, I can find all files and open them.

Please note that all apps and iOS are up to date, and I have only one Gmail account set up on the Drive app.

I'm not sure if that problem id due to a misconfiguration or a limitation of  the Apple Files app. In that case, is there a workaround to make me able to attach multiple files shared with me through Google Drive?
Probably a workaround could be to copy that shared files to my private Drive or to store them locally on my iPad, but because they are dynamic files, I could not consider that as a solution.

With my old iPad (not using Files app to make the file selection when attaching files) that was not a problem, and I could do that with any problem.

PD. I'm using Apple's Mail.app, not Gmail.app.


texts: El Capitan + Microsoft Office 2016 + Category Shortcut

texts: I am trying to add shortcut for Microsoft Outlook categories. I have found this solution for Office 2011 but it doesn't work with Office 2016 on El Capitan. Does anyone know how to assign this shortcut?


texts: Is there a way to modify the type style and add JPEGs or PNGs to Contacts?


texts: Why does backupd cause excessive (tens of GB) swap memory usage when doing a Time Machine backup?

texts:
My MBP has only 8GB RAM, and whenever it does an hourly Time Machine backup it starts to crawl. This causes the backup to take a very long time for not much data.

At this point, Swap Memory usage is up to 12GB which is way above my usual/everyday Swap Memory usage of < 2GB.

Once the backup is over half way through, Swap Memory usage is at roughly 5GB until it is finished when it drops back to normal.

Is it usual for backupd to need so much memory?

  TheTimeMachineMechanic gave this diagnostic,
  confirming that 878MB took 35 minutes!

Analysis from 2019-01-30 12:23:58 +0000 to 2019-01-30 14:23:58 +0000 for 2 hours:
Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb
on which there were 228.35 GB available.
Started 1 auto backups, and 0 manual backups; completed 1 backups successfully,
last backup completed successfully 7.0 minutes ago,
backed up a total of 7193 files, range 1884 to 5309 in each backup,
total data for each backup was 335.4 MB, 878.3 MB.
Times taken for each auto backup were 34.9 minutes,
Created 1 new backups, and deleted 0 old backups,
Created 2 new snapshots, and deleted 0 old snapshots,
cancelled 2 backups.
No error messages found.

My system:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)
3 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
LaCie Rugged 1TB Thunderbolt drive

Edit: April 2019

Usually my Mac is at somewhere less than 2GB of swap memory, but during a Time Machine backup it balloons to ~20GB, throttled - I imagine - only by the free space on my drive (~30GB).

My computer slows to a crawl and is unusable until the backup either completes or fails. The screenshot shows a backup of only 250MB!

During all of this, there is no one process that is running away with memory.

So, what's going on? And how can I avoid this?


texts: How to really really turn off system sounds in El Capitan

texts:
On my old laptop, which ran Snow Leopard, I had it set to not play system sound effects. As far as I remember, all I did to achieve this was go to System Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects tab -> uncheck "play user interface sound effects". This worked well - my laptop never made a sound unless I explicitly told it to.

I have done the same thing on my new El Capitan laptop, and this does seem to have disabled some sound effects, but nevertheless my computer still makes a "bonk" sound in some situations. For example:

In XCode, it happens if I press Shift-CMD-Z when there is nothing left to redo.
In Finder, it happens if I try to paste a file into a folder for which I don't have write permissions, or if I press CMD-S while a Finder window has the focus.
A few times it's happened seemingly at random, probably due to me accidentally triggering a trackpad gesture.

This runs the risk of embarassing me in a meeting, giving me an unwelcome surprise if plugged into an amplifier, etc. Is there a way in El Capitan to completely disable all sound effects, except for the ones generated by games, music programmes etc. that I explicitly ask for?


texts: How to get iPhone device details when it is connected to a Windows machine?

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I want to get the details (OS,version,UDID...) of the device (iPhone) when it is connected to a Windows machine. The only thing here is either using iTunes or another way.

I want this done from command line (NO GUI Tool).


texts: I like to use touch fingerprint ID when in lieu of a password (when buying apps etc...), but I don't want to have to use it to unlock my phone, nor do I want a passcode lock. Is there a way to enable touch ID without locking the phone?


texts: Yosemite: replace desktop with Launchpad

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Is there any way to replace the desktop with launchpad?

I would like to do this thing at this point

Kind of gives me the feeling of coming full circle, but ultimately my desktop is just an additional folder full of junk! or completely pristine and free. But I'm never looking at the desktop, ever. So I don't need it.


texts: Using Time Capsule to extend a BT HomeHub

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I currently have a Time Capsule (5th generation mid-2013 tall one) and use it as my only WiFi and back up to it.

I am moving house and will be getting BT Infinity (Fibre), so I will get a BT HomeHub 5.  I will need to extend the range of the WiFi so it can reach all areas of the new house.

Can I change the config of the Time Capsule to be an extension of the HomeHub WiFi? I've read contradictory info as to whether the two are compatible.

If this is possible and I reconfigure my Time Capsule, will I have to restart my Time Machine backups from scratch again?  Currently I connect to the disk "Mark's Airport Time Capsule" which I assume will stay the same even if I reconfigure the WiFi connectivity?

EDIT: OR... would it be easier (and give better throughput) to use Powerline extenders to connect to the outlying room and then set up the Time Capsule & HomeHub in a "roaming" network (i.e. both using the same SSID & security) credentials)?


texts: Why can't my Mac Pro connect to an SMB share over the network?

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I have a really weird problem. I have a Raspberry Pi running an SMB server that shows up in the sidebar of the Finder. I usually can just click on it and connect. Just today, it stopped working and gives me the error "Connection Failed". It has worked fine in the past. I'm running OS 10.8.4 on a Mac Pro. Our MBP (also 10.8.4) connects just fine, no problems. I see log messages in Console.app as such:

9/10/13 7:14:43.869 PM com.apple.kextd[12]: Request from non-root process 'netbiosd' (euid 222) to load /System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext - not allowed.
9/10/13 7:14:43.870 PM netbiosd[84]: Loading com.apple.filesystems.smbfs status = -603947004

Thoughts?


texts: How can I disable my Caps Lock key on macOS Sierra, without it resetting after a reboot?

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For years, I’ve disabled my Mac’s caps lock key (because I only ever hit it by accident) in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys.

Recently, I did a clean install of macOS Sierra on my 2014 MacBook Pro. Since then, my disabling of the caps lock key doesn’t seem to persist after reboots.

I found an apparent report of the same issue on Apple’s forum, and there are a few similar questions about previous versions of macOS:

Caps Lock key mapped to a second Control key, reset after wake in Mountain Lion
How do I prevent my MacBook Air from forgetting my Remapped Caps Lock Key?

But I don’t see an actual identified cause anywhere, nor a workaround.

Is this a bug? If so, how can I fix it?

If not, is there any way I can get the old, persistent behaviour?


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I can ask Siri: "What's the time"?
Can I put this in a shortcut, and run it every hour between 8am to 7pm, so that my iPhone will announce time every hour?


texts: How can I force focus or fix a blurry and 'washed out' Apple Thunderbolt Display camera?

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The built-in camera of my Apply Thunderbolt Display (MC914LL/B 27") is always blurry. Items up close look better, but are still blurry. In fact, everything looks bright and washed out like a bad Instagram filter, like the beach after waking up from a sandy nap, or after walking out of the eye doctor with those dilating eye drops...

It is blurry for all apps.
It is blurry with my MacBook Pro lid open or closed.
It is blurry before and after plugging in my Thunderbolt cable.
The screen and camera lens are clean.

The built-in camera on my MacBook Pro, connected to this Thunderbolt Display, is crystal clear.

I have the latest display firmware, 1.2, and the latest MacBook Pro updates.

Any ideas on how to fix this / force it to focus on a specific distance?

Best,
Adam

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