texts: Can I remove out-dated coloring from Apple Mail "Rules" settings?

texts:
After experimentation with Apple Mail, Rules settings, I'm left with a rainbow-colored inbox, and I want to remove all of that coloring which is no longer specified by my Rules settings. I've tried using the "apply rules" command after selecting all messages, but all prior messages remain colored improperly.

How can I do this?

I can't somehow "factory reset" Apple Mail, our tech guy will not be happy if the settings of the mail server, etc is messed up.
I can't delete my message history, the old messages must be kept.


texts: Is it possible to create a custom alert tone for WhatsApp on iOS?

texts: I know it's possible to use a custom ringtone as an alert tone for certain notifications (like text messages and reminders).  However, this doesn't work with WhatsApp, since the app only allows you to choose from alert tones and not ringtones.  So, is there any way to save an audio file as an alert tone so that I can use a custom notification for WhatsApp?


texts: I can't re-download a song with iTunes on my PC or iPhone

texts:
I bought an album yesterday from iTunes on my PC, downloaded it, and synced it with my iPhone.  When I later tried to play the songs on the phone, I noticed that they wouldn't play at all.  I also noticed that they wouldn't play on the PC.  So, I tried to follow the suggestion in this other question and deleted the songs, thinking I could just re-download them.  I can't seem to actually re-download these.

I locate the album in the iTunes store from iTunes on my PC.
I click "buy" for the album.
I see a pop-up box from iTunes telling me I have already purchased this item and can redownload it from my Purchases.
I click the "Purchased" button on the pop-up dialog.
iTunes takes me to "Purchased" screen, but I do not see the artist or any of the songs from that artist in my purchased music list.

Also, when I try to download it from iTunes directly from my iPhone, the album shows up with a "purchased" box next to it already and is unclickable.

I am using iTunes 11 on my PC and have iOS 6.0.1 on the iPhone.

How can I get this music?


texts: How to remove connected passwords on Wi-Fi on Mac

texts:
I want to remove the connected Wi-Fi password on my Mac so that it always ask me for my Wi-Fi password, but I am unable to do so. How can I do this?

I tried this by going towards System Preferences -> Network. I was unable to remove anything, however. See the following image of the settings.


texts: Xcode Helper does not have the accessibility permissions needed to run tests

texts:
I am getting this error when attempting to run some accessibility UTs on a project.  I was under the impression that a prompt such as this would appear:

However, I am not seeing this prompt.  I also tried to go to "Security & Privacy > Accessibility" to give the app "Xcode helper" the proper permissions, but I cannot find "Xcode helper" anywhere on my computer... only Xcode.  I added Xcode but am still hitting this error.  Ideas?  Where can I find "Xcode helper"?


texts: How do I open a new Terminal window for same directory as the current window

texts:
When I have a Terminal window open, ⌘N opens a new one.

Is there any way to get the current directory in the new window to automatically be the same as it was on the window where I pressed ⌘N?


texts: What is accountsd and why does it want to use the "login" keychain?

texts:
Periodically, I'm seeing this keychain dialog pop up:

I click 'Cancel', then it pops up again, then I click 'Cancel' again, and it goes away for a while.  (Maybe an hour or two, I haven't timed it.)  I haven't noticed anything not working right.

What's going on here?

If it matters, this is OS X 10.8.2.


texts: BootCamp partition error even though my drive is one partition

texts:
I am attempting to install Windows 8.1 on my machine (a mid 2014 MacBook Pro running El Capitan) and I keep running into a BootCamp error in the first step that says

  The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

However, the startup disk is partitioned as a single HFS+ partition as verified by the output below:

$diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS MAC HDD                 499.9 GB   disk0s1

Why does Boot Camp think my disk is not partitioned correctly?

I've read several posts about this error message, but all describe how to repartition the drive instead of why a correctly partitioned drive may cause this error.


texts: AppleTV 2 HDMI no sound at start sometimes?

texts:
I have an AppleTV2 hooked up to a Vizio LCD TV via HDMI. Nothing between the ATV and TV other than the HDMI cable. I just got the ATV2 a week ago and it was updated with the latest iOS update shortly after I got it, so I don't know if this issue is related to it or not.

Sometimes when I wake the ATV and try playing content the video is fine, but the audio is gone.

I have switched HDMI ports and reseated the cables. Still the issue persists.

I've been able to restore sound with mixed success by sleeping/waking the ATV, restarting the ATV, and turning off the TV and turning it back on. Just changing the inputs on the TV to another input and back again doesn't fix it. By mixed success I mean that I haven't found a magic sequence or method that will fix it consistently every time.

The sound does not cut out in the middle of something. It is only "in the beginning", making me think there's something with the HDMI handshake causing it. Once I can get the menu effects sounds while navigating the ATV I know that it'll be okay.

I turned the ATV's Dolby setting from auto to off, but I'm not sure if it has fixed the issue (I don't think I restarted it since doing that and I just changed the setting yesterday after Googling around to see if this will improve sound stability.)

Before I try buying new cables or anything, is there a known issue regarding the latest iOS that has these symptoms? I thought I heard rumor there was another update in the works for the ATV2 but I don't know...I'm kinda hoping I'm not the only one in this boat before I try throwing random money at the problem.


texts:
I am trying to rename my Windows / Boot Camp partition from "EFI Boot" to "Boot Camp" or "Windows". But I do not figure out where to rename.

I tried bless command on the NTFS Volume, I tried creating the folders "System/Library/CoreServices" and copied the .disklabel file into it (or also blessit) but nothing changed.

Finally I got the Volume Icon on Boot Selection to work by copying the icns File onto the EFI partition. Also tried blesson the EFI partition – but this also do not work.

So I have my Icon, but I also would like to rename it – how can I do this?

Systems are Windows 10 and macOS Mojave.


texts: Bootcamp Windows does not wake from sleep

texts:
I'm on a late-2016 MacBook Pro with Touch bar. I recently created Windows partition with Boot Camp which is running a clean install of Windows 10.

When I tell Windows to go to sleep, it will do so. However, it doesn't seem possible to wake it from sleep. While the screen backlight lights up, it remains black and blank, whatever input is given.

The only way to get a functioning environment to return is to hard restart the computer holding down the power button.

I have gone to Device Manager to check whether the keyboard, mouse, etc. are all set to wake the computer from sleep. They are.

Is there any way to resolve this?


texts: MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 does not support multiple keyboard collaboration

texts:
OS: Mojave 10.14.6

Laptop: MacPro 2017

Problem:
Looks like I can't use two keyboards to execute the same command collaboratively. E.g: For typing command + space, it perfectly works if I execute this shortcut only on one keyboard. However, if I press command at one keyboard, and space at another, the laptop can only recognize the space.

Keyboard combinations I've tried:

Apple a1314 + Mac built-in keyboard
Apple a1644 (with wire and when it's wireless) + Mac built-in keyboard
Apple a1314 + Apple a1644

None of them can work with each other.

Any solution to the problem? Thanks!


texts: Need to stream and listen to streamed audio on my Macbook Air

texts:
I'm trying to stream audio on Streamlabs OBS for Mac, and I'm having trouble listening to the audio I'm streaming.
I installed iShow Capture and Soundflower (apps). Both these apps take input and output, but the streamlabs OBS doesn't allow audio output when I connect any of the installed apps for both input and output. I've tried lots of toggling with all the midi controller input and outputs but the Streamlabs won't allow me to listen to the audio while I'm streaming directly to it's audio source.
Any suggestions on to how to connect the input to these apps, and the output to my default system audio output? Maybe a separate audio streaming software or an hardware could help me out to connect the apps input to my output audio (headphones/speakers)


texts: Is it normal that External Hard Drives continue to be listed in Disk Utility / diskutil even after Eject?

texts:
I have an USB External Hard Drive which has been behaving strangely lately. I'm concerned, amongst other things, that it doesn't seem to Eject properly1.

When I

Press the Eject button in Finder;
Eject the Volume in Disk Utility;
Or diskutil unmountDisk in Terminal;

the drive continues to be listed in Disk Utility and diskutil list. It is however not visible in Finder. Adding to my concerns is that the drive make mechanical sounds even after Eject.

My question is if it's normal that the drive continues to be listed in Disk Utility and diskutil even after Eject? To me it seems strange, but perhaps it's intentional in the sense that the Volume has been unmounted but the drive is still USB-connected?

So, even after pressing Eject in Finder and Disk Utility, and doing this:

$ diskutil unmountDisk disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

I can still see it (WD My Book 25EE Media) listed, as in the screenshot below:

1What has raised my concerns about this is because the drive exhibits I/O errors when trying to backup my NAS to it. The drive is formatted in HFS+. Previously, the drive was formatted as exFAT, and the volume could then not be mounted by macOS, but Disk Utility and diskutil could list the device. At that time, the same Eject "issue" as described above occurred. It didn't feel as if it was properly ejected since I heard it making sounds, and once macOS even complained about not ejecting properly even after pressing the Eject button and seeing it become grayed in Finder.


texts: How do I only backup data for specific apps on iOS?

texts:
I want to back up data for some apps on iOS without including several GB of pictures and operating system files. How do I do this?

The option to backup data by app is completely missing from iCloud or I was unable to find it, and it also appears to be missing in iTunes. Where is the option to do selective or partial backup?


texts: Can iOS be configured so apps do not create screenshots when the app suspends?

texts:
I notice in iOS, often times when I open an app, such as YouTube, the first thing that it shows is a screenshot of that app from one of the more recent things I was doing with the app.

When I multitask back to the app, the OS loads these images before the app is fully running and able to process input.

But it strikes me as useless, since the buttons on the app don't even function at that stage, and it even does this for apps that don't fully restore state so you see it go back to a main screen after showing you what you were doing in the app before. It's also a security concern because I could be writing in a password-protected note or something and it shows up briefly when opening the app, or an old YouTube video screenshot could show up when I'm opening the app.

How can this "featured" be turned off in iOS.


texts: Is there a way to pipe the `hdiutil create` into a raw stream without needing to store it first?

texts:
I would like to do something like
hdiutil create dest_file.dmg -srcdevice /dev/disk3 | curl -TX - PUT \
    -H "Authorization: Token" \
    --output /dev/null \
    "https://uploadlink.com"

so that I do not need to store dest_file.dmg first in order to upload (as I don't have enough diskspace for this). Is there an option to stream the file and upload using hdiutil create?


texts: Mac Sierra - Not able to start in safe mode

texts:
I am trying boot my macbook pro in safe mode with following instructions however, once it boots up and I login. I see it's still in normal mode.

Shutdown the mac
Press Shift Key
Click Power Button
Once Login Screen Appears, release Shift key

How to check
Inside System Information go to Software and check Boot Mode.

Boot Mode is alway normal.


texts: Is there a way to force focus to a new tab in safari when you cmd+click on links in google search results for example?


texts: How can I mark a podcast as "Listened to" on my iPhone?

texts: Is there a way to mark a podcast as "Listened to" on my iPhone/iPod? Occasionally I get podcasts that I've already heard, and I was hoping there was a quick way to mark them as played.


texts: Can I Airplay from one mac to another? (or from iOS to Mac)

texts:
I have a Mac connected to a large 27 inch monitor. I want to be able to remotely push audio and video to it. The source device can be an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac.

(Imagine a dorm room situation, where I want to play Netflix, or other media on the big screen, from my phone, and use that phone as a remote)

As a developer, I've come across some bugs in the past that make it appear that an OSX could act as an Airplay Target.

Is there any way I can make this happen?


texts: Can I download previous versions of single apps without re-downloading the entire OS?

texts: Is there a way of just downloading specific apps from previous versions of macOS? Specifically, I want to download the El Capitan version of Preview or revert back to it. The colors on Sierra are way too dark it makes it harder to read the text for some of them.


texts: Projector black at any resolution when connecting MacBook Pro Retina

texts:
A colleague of mine bought a brand new MacBook Pro Retina. She wants to use it in lectures in connection with a projector. I can't tell what brand the projector is of since it is a very big lecture hall. But it is definetly a good and expensive one. So I don't think the following problem occurs on that end of the connection:

Whenever she connects her MBP to the projector with a HDMI cable, the MBP seems to detect it and changes its resolution. But the display on the wall stays black no matter which resolution I choose in the system preferences.

Has anybody experienced something similar? Could it be a problem with the color profiles?


texts: How to get out a stuck cd out of my mac mini (not the actual model the one from 2010? (slot-in drive)

texts:
I tried everything on this page: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=mac/10.4/en/mh1750.html except Open Firmware (Intel macs doesn't support this).

Then I tried using the terminal but this didn't work either.

Every time I bootup my mac the drive tries to eject it but it can't. I ran the Apple Hardware Test (hold d on startup) and it sayed that all is fine. (it also tested the slot in drive).

And I put my mac upside down and booted it up (hoped that the cd could come out) but it didn't work. (same problem)

How can I get that out of my slot in drive? Mayby with a tweezer?

Any ideas?

PS: in finder there's no visible cd and in the diskutility there's nothing too


texts: How can I edit the original Myst app so that it no longer requires the CD to play?

texts:
I just discovered SheepShaver and I'm mindblowingly excited!

I got all my old Mac games out of storage and began to install all of them.

A trick that I learned awhile ago for making playing games on OS X is to simply make a disk image of the CD and then mount that when I want to play.

I read about a 'technique' for making Riven play without the Disks which is essentially to edit the riven.cfg file that comes with the install to no longer point to the CDs but instead to point to local directories. I figured something like this should be possible with Myst.

Turns the Myst app looks to be some sort of Hypercard script. I made what I felt was a logical edit to it which was removing all Myst: prefixes that I could find in the file but that makes the app inoperable. I figured someone else would know how to do this better than me.

Thoughts?


texts: How to download pre-built binaries from MacPorts without installing?

texts:
I see as of 2.0 MacPorts is hosting pre-built binaries, which it would install by default if licensing is present and compatible. I'm looking for a more current version of rsync than ships by default with Macs, and has the necessary patches (which I believe are missing in the rudix makefile) and I would then distribute it like a regular install, for example nesting in a NetBoot or pushing out over a patch management solution instead of installing locally.

Where can I download the prebuilt binary, which I'm assuming I could treat like a package install, including man pages?


texts: Losing internet over & over again and still connected to wifi

texts:
I have a strange issue with my WiFi. I am losing internet (it seems connected, but seems not responding) over & over again after a while. And if I try to change the location in network settings, it restores the internet.

The WiFi is working fine because when I lose internet on Mac, it still works on my phone.


texts:
With the whole Heartbleed mess, I figured it was about time to start using a password manager. After doing some research, here is the list of things that I want and don't want in this kind of software:

I want:

Open source, or at least with source code available, so that people can check for themselves for security holes (though Heartbleed
happened in another piece of open source code, so who knows now...).
Iphone support. My phone is the one thing I always carry with me, no matter what desktop computer I'm using.

What I DON'T need:

Dropbox syncing. I don't want my passwords to be on any cloud, thanks.
Form autocomplete. I can type my own passwords, thanks.

After searching for a bit, it looks like miniKeePass is the software that fits my needs best. Can anyone comment on its security track record, or suggest alternatives?

Thanks.


texts: How soon Apple crash report appears in iTunes Connect?

texts:
I've read a bunch of articles on Apple crash reporting tool. When users allow sharing their Usage & Diagnostics data with developers, user related logs and crash info will be sent to an Apple server and afterwards they will be available for the app developer via iTunes Connect or in Xcode Crashes Organizer window when setup correctly.

The question is how soon will this crash report be available for me as a developer. Is it done instantly? Can I get an email alert about the crash of my app?


texts:
How do I disable the message: "Android Studio is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" on my MacBook Pro?
I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.


texts: Postfix Not Accepting Commands on OSX Lion - Timeout Occurs

texts:
I am building a web application on my MacBook Pro which needs to send email. When the application attempts to send, the connection times out. I am running postfix and I I followed the directions found here.

To troubleshoot the server, I used telnet to manually connect to localhost on port 25. I was able to connect to it successfully, but I received no response as I typed commands. Here is a transcript.

Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro:LaunchDaemons bbrame$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
helo bbrame
mail from: ben@benbrame.com
rcpt to: ben@benbrame.com

I connected to working mail server and typed the same commands. The mail server gave a response to each command I typed as expected.

Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro:~ bbrame$ telnet smtp.newnorth.net 25
Trying 66.133.129.10...
Connected to relay.glb.frontiernet.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net ESMTP Postfix
helo bbrame
250 relay03.roch.ny.frontiernet.net
mail from: made_up_email@frontiernet.net
501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax. See http://postmaster.frontiernet.net

The mail log on my MacBook shows that it recognizes when I connect, but doesn't register any subsequent commands.

Dec  1 18:53:50 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/postscreen[21354]: CONNECT from [127.0.0.1]:56145
Dec  1 18:53:50 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/postscreen[21354]: WHITELISTED [127.0.0.1]:56145
Dec  1 18:54:08 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/smtpd[21359]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/submit.cred: No such file or directory
Dec  1 18:54:09 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/master[21176]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 21359 exit status 1
Dec  1 18:54:09 Benjamin-Brames-MacBook-Pro postfix/master[21176]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

Any guesses why the connection is timing out?

Thanks!


texts: Apple ID Password email address is inccorrect but store email address IS correct after restoring iPhone 4S

texts: So weird thing happened last night.  I was updating the iOS to my iPhone 4S when the cord accidentally got jerked out of the phone.  I had to reset the phone and restore from back-up.  Now when I try to update the apps the window pops up asking for my password but weird thing.....the email address that it show is NOT my email address.  When I go into my phone setting AND the Apple Store it shows my Apple ID email correct.  Any suggestions?


texts: Why does Finder interact so slowly with NAS?

texts:
I have a Synology NAS D213+.

When I want to connect the NAS to my Mac, Finder mounts a new volume which behaves like a normal partition.

But it interacts so slowly - I click on a folder, and it takes a huge number of seconds till it's open. Explorer on Windows is much faster when it comes to network interaction.

What can I do? Change the protocol? It must be AFP, so do I have to change the protocol elsewhere in the kernel?


texts: Why is Wine separately bundled with Winebottler for Mac OSX?

texts:
I am trying to make use of registax software for astrophotography image stacking on my Macbook. I first installed Wine using Homebrew which hanged on startup due to a known Homebrew Core issue. This led me to directly install Wine from provided .pkg file. Now, I have registax running excellently within the Wine environment.

Before using registax, I also need to pre-process my Astro images using PIPP software. It is installed via Winebottler. When I downloaded WineBottlerCombo_1.8.6.dmg, it also includes Wine app and asks me to drag-and-drop both Wine and WineBottler within Applications folder. But I already have Wine stable installed as explained above.

My doubts includes:

Do I also need Wine app bundled with WineBottler?
Is the bundled Wine app only used for Mac app package creation by WineBottler?
Should I just use Wine app bundled with WineBottler and uninstalled Wine stable I previously installed directly from winehq?

Thank You!!!


texts: Will apple reject app if there is trial version?

texts:
Our team is working on an app where user will download and install app. He will initially have 5 days of trial period during which all of the features will be unlocked. After 5 days, some of the features will be locked and user will have to make in-app purchase (non-consumable, one time only) to unlock those features. After reading the App Store Review Guidelines, they state :

  Demos, betas, and trial versions of your app don’t belong on the App Store – use TestFlight instead.

My question is:

Is it possible that our app will get rejected?
Did you face any similar issue. Could you please give example.
What is the alternate?


texts: OK, why is my iPhone 5 now a super electromagnet?

texts: Please don't tell me it is the speaker magnet. I assure you it is not. Have had it a couple years, and this just started a few months ago. It will pick up nuts and bolts, I can toss it up against my fridge, it will stick. Same on my gunsafe, toolbox, car, and anything else metallic. This is not normal, and not healthy. So what is the answer? Anyone?


texts: Why is Finder listed as using more RAM (24 gb) than is on my machine? Bug?

texts:
Activity monitor shows finder using ~24 gb of RAM (screenshot below), when my machine only has 16 gb installed. I figure this has to be a bug because "Memory Used" only shows 9.62 gb, and I'm not experiencing any slowdowns. However, it's a little alarming and if there's an easy fix I'd like to take care of it. I'm using the most up-to-date Apple OS software as of writing (3/22/16). Thanks for your help!

Jack


texts: Do all Airport Express generations support client mode + Airplay?

texts:
I basically want to achieve what is explained in this question/answer.
I have an existing, non-apple WiFi network and I want to use an Airport Express to be able to play music from my MacBook Pro (Mountain Lion) and iPhone (iOS 7) on the stereo.
The current WiFi router and the Airport Express can not be connected by a cable, so I need to use the existing WiFi connection.

To keep the cost down I want to buy a second hand Airport Express, but I noticed there are several versions.
Are all versions capable of achieving this? Or is one version better at this than the other?


texts: LastPass download link loops back upon itself via Safari Extensions Gallery

texts: I'm trying to install LastPass on a fresh OS install that has no browser but Safari.  Clicking the Download link at lastpass.com sends me to the Safari Extension Gallery with a link to install LastPass.  Clicking that link, sends me right back to the previous download page at lastpass.com.  At this moment I find it impossible to install LastPass with Safari.  Am I missing something?


texts: Convenient way to store sensitive information on Mac/iPad?

texts: Currently I keep an obscurely-named text file on my hard drive which contains things like bank account and credit card details, various passwords, PINs, and other bits of sensitive/confidential information. Obviously this is not too secure and I'd really like to keep this information encrypted and password-protected. I'm thinking of something like Keychain Access, but for small amounts of free form text rather than just passwords, and it would need to be quick and convenient to access (i.e. so not something like a password-protected Word document). If it could work on both a Mac and an iOS device like an iPad, and sync between the two, then that would be a bonus.


texts: Is backup of IMAP necessary when switching to a new Macbook

texts:
I am switching to a new macbook and am in that case wondering, if it is necessary to backup my e-mail. All my mailboxes are Exchange or IMAP. I mean they are already located on the server, so is it even necessary to back up my mailboxes. Can't I just add the accounts on the new computer and they will sync automatically, leaving me at the same place as I was on my old Macbook?

Thanks in advance.


texts: I'm trying to run "csrutil disable" from recovery mode on El Capitan and I'm getting the error "bash command command not found" when I do. I've tried setting my path as it says here to no luck Mac terminal -bash command not found?


texts: Is there an application to preview markdown files (.md files) on OSX (for instance on Maverick)?


texts: Device Enrollment works for desktop but fails for iOS devices

texts:
I've been doing a ton of reading, and even found this question ( Device enrollment fails, error: server certificate is invalid ) and followed the instructions.

I first installed my Godaddy certificate in my Server.app
Then I enabled Wiki and Profile Manager, configuring the certificate and all that jazz.

When the invalid certificate error came up, I did some digging, and found the above thread.

I went and installed the intermediary certificate but didn't bother replacing the gd certificate, since it was already installed.
I rebooted the server for safe measure, and tried again.

Problem is, I'm still getting the same darn error... what could be up?

FYI: Here's the article regarding installing certs from Godaddy.


texts: Can I have the same Apple ID in my iPhone and my iPad

texts: How can I have de same Apple ID in my iPhone and my iPad (so that I can use the apps on iPad that I have in iPhone and "vice versa")


texts: What websites can I use to get games in my schools IPad?

texts: I want to download games in school iPad but I don’t have the AppStore. What are some websites that I can use?


texts:
Whenever I sync any song to my iPhone, some of the songs / albums display the wrong album art despite having the correct album-art in iTunes. I have had this issue since iOS 8 and all of my devices are up to date on the software side. Check out the examples below:

For example, Ride of the Valkyries shows album-art of ‘A Sky Full of Stars’ when I first synced to the device. After I deleted it from my iPhone and synced the song again, it showed album-art from ‘Songs from The Martian’. For the record, these albums are present in my iTunes library and they display it correctly.
Be advised, this problem only with the album-art, not the song meta-data.

Hardware Info: iTunes 12.3 on Windows with iPhone 5 on iOS 9.0.2


texts: How is the "Memory" column calculated in Activity Monitor?

texts:
How is the per-process "Memory" column calculated in Activity Monitor? The name is quite vague and I haven't found anyone say anything about it aside from stuff like, e.g., "Memory used in RAM." I can't quite tell the relation between it and real memory, shared memory, private memory, dirty memory, etc.

FYI, I'm talking about this column:


texts: How to transfer the live photos to Mac via AirDrop?

texts:
Before the update to High Sierra, when I received live photos via AirDrop, the system always asked I want to save them to the downloads folder or import it into the Photos app. When I choosing the second option, the imported live photos could then be exported as files to a disc, where for each live photo there were two files — an image and a short video.

After the update to High Sierra, the system immediately, without asking, saves the photos received through AirDrop into the downloads folder, with only JPG/HEIF files, without the live component video files.

How can I fix it?


texts: Is it possible to run VMware Fusion in the background to hide the windows and icons it produces?

texts:
I have multiple virtual machines setup in VMware Fusion.

Some of them are only servers (like Ubuntu), which I want to run without seeing the VMware Fusion icons or windows, a little like VMware Server does.

Does anyone have a solution?


texts: Where does Microsoft Word store autorecovered documents in Catalina?

texts:
I can't seem to find the Autorecovery Save folder in Catalina. Previously I used a command line string to see the files, but that command doesn't work anymore.

Is this feature still implemented with Word using O365 subscription and macOS 10.15.1 Catalina?


texts: Is there any way to send notifications via the speaker when a Bluetooth audio device is connected to an iPhone?

texts:
If an iPhone has a Bluetooth device connected the notification sounds (but not the phone ringer) are played only via the Bluetooth device, not the phone speaker. This causes problems for people who are in the habit of wandering around with their BT headphones connected, but not in their ear.
This is causing havoc with a friend of mine who never hears text message or other notifications.
Is there any way to change this?


texts: I have the wireless keyboard and one of the keys is sticky.  Can I remove the keys or how can I get the sticky food from underneath the key?


texts: which graphics cards does MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) have?

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from "About This Mac" I see that model is "MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)".
From my understanding technical specifications page (https://support.apple.com/kb/SP704) for MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) lists two graphics cards for that model:
Graphics and Video support

Intel Iris Pro Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching

I can't find any evidence of GPU "NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M" in the system.

About This Mac shows only "Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB"
System Preferences -> Energy Saver doesn't have "Automatic graphics switching" option (according to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202043: "If you don't see the automatic graphics switching option, your computer has one graphics system. To confirm, choose Apple menu > About this Mac, press the System Report button, and select Graphics/Displays on the left. The graphics system or systems are listed under Video Card.")
About This Mac -> System Report button -> Graphics/Displayes on the left. Again, I see only "Intel Iris Pro Graphics"

It rather looks as my Mac has only one graphics system.

am I right that my Mac has only Intel Iris Pro graphics system?
if there is only "Intel Iris Pro" in my Mac how is that possible that official technical specifications page https://support.apple.com/kb/SP704 also lists "NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M"?


texts: Installing Windows 10 Bootcamp on 27 iMac (2015): USB 3.0 problem

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I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my iMac. I've gotten to the part where Windows setup asks for the bootcamp drivers, before Windows is installed ("Collecting information"). I've tried having the bootcamp drivers on both a usb 2.0 and a usb 3.0 external hard drive, and I still get the following error:

"No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click ok"

I've digged a bit and found that the issue is a USB 3.0 issue, according to many. All the iMac USB's are 3.0, so what is the solution here ? I don't have an SD card or a thunderbolt drive.


texts: Playing a 3 note chord on GarageBand performs an UNDO function

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I have a 1st edition iPad Pro 12.9" and I opened GarageBand. It loaded an old song automatically, and the instrument was a synth. I switched it to a Grand Piano and began to play a 3 note chord. As I played the chord a couple of times, the instrument switch back to the synth.

I tried a few more times and the same thing happened. I finally tracked it down to it performing an undo function, and I was able to select redo to change the instrument back to a Grand Piano. Every time I play a 3 note chord, it does this undo making it very hard to play what I am trying to play. It happens for any chord I play and on both sides of the screen.

I am running the beta of iPadOS as well, if that matters!

Is this normal? I've not really used GarageBand on my iPad much...


texts: Finder / spotlight / mail search not working

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For the second time in a relatively short period I am having issues with the search function on my macbook.

Whether in spotlight, Mail app, or Finder search results return nothing. If I reboot the search works fine again. Unfortunately this now seems to be a recurring problem.
It's also a recent problem that I never had before, first noted it a few weeks ago.

Macbook on macOS Sierra 10.12.3.

Any one has this experience? What could it be? How can I prevent it or fix it, without having to restart everytime?

-- edit --

Following the feedback in the comments, I ran Disk Utility. Disk utility indicates there are errors but doesn't seem to repair them. Final message in DU:
"file system check exit code is 8"
I have already tried to reindex Spotlight, that didn't solve the problem.


texts: If I bought someone's Macbook, can he spy on me?

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What if someone sold me his Macbook he doesn't need anymore?
When I remove old home profile and reinstall OS via Cmd+R (btw, would I need sudo pass for that?), after that would previous owner be able to block Macbook remotely or get any data about it?


texts: iCloud: Remove files from a device without deleting them in the cloud

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I've got iCloud for a few months. Have to say that I've already started to appreciate it. But there's one thing which isn't clear too me.

I've loaded a lot of education videos which where orginally stored upon my Mac into iCloud.
Now I download such a single video to my iPhone for watching it during my daily commutes. It's clear to me that the limited storage upon the iPhone will be full soon if I continuee that way.

Is there a way to give the files back to the cloud without deleting them (in iCloud)?

If I just delete them on the iPhone they would be deleted in the iCloud too? I currently guess so ...

What I want is basically to say: 'Remove it from the iPhone BUT keep it in iCloud!'


texts: How do I prevent 'Open with...' showing multiples of same app?

texts: Anyone know why this happens and how to make it show only one instance of each?


texts: Deleting files doesn't clear hard drive space, adds to "hidden space", "Other" taking up over 600GB of SSD. First Aid causes errors as well

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Pretty sure I'm experiencing the effects of a hard drive on its last legs or requiring a fresh install of OSX, but have some roadblocks in my way that are preventing that. Here's my situation.

Mid 2014 Retina MBP 15" on 10.13.6

Noticed a couple weeks ago that deleting files wasn't actually clearing hard drive space, used DaisyDisk, Omni Disk Sweeper, and Grand Perspective to try to figure out what was going on.

They all show some variation of 350-400GB of "Hidden Space" that I cannot access (after running every program as administrator/sudo)

When running first aid on the internal SSD (Macintosh HD) I'm getting the error

Checking the snapshot metadata tree
error: btn:1: invalid key order (23) oid 1362952 / oxid 21616861
Sanpshot metadata tree is invalid.
The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 0.

From what I understand this doesn't seem to be a great situation. I tried running /sbin/fsck -fy from single user mode (cmd+s on startup) but I was given the same error every time (ran it 4 or 5 times to make sure it was working). I've also tried the sudo tmutil listLocalSnapshots / command that I've seen around this forum, but nothing shows up when I run the command. Not sure if this is related at all, but also noticed my computer's serial number is showing up as "Unavailable" as well.

Other than that I'm sort of at a loss of what to do. I have some backups that aren't entirely recent but I'd like to be able to back my computer up before wiping it and reinstalling the OS if possible. Problem is I only have 5GB left on the hard drive and deleting data barely reclaims space. Deleting 80GB of data gave me about 0.25GB of useable space, the rest goes to "Hidden Space". Unfortunately, the low amount of space left on the hard drive is making it impossible for Time Machine to backup my computer as it requires some space on the source drive to conduct the backup.

If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Happy to answer any questions you have about the problem. Thank you!


texts: Big Sur 11.0.1 - Spoken Text, turning off autoscroll

texts: When using the Spoken Text feature, autoscroll is enabled. Is there any way to switch this off?


texts: Issues with iPhone 4 with music, apps, photos, etc.

texts: My iPhone 4 has never been synced to a computer but has music and stuff on it.  I'm scared that if I sync it to my new computer I'll lose my contacts, music, etc.  Does anyone know what happens when this is done?


texts: Command + W has stopped working for python app

texts: I'm working on a matplotlib Python application to draw graphs (MacOS Catalina 10.15.5). I was able to close the window using Command + W but recently that doesn't seem to work. The shortcut works with other applications like Firefox or Finder. Any way I can fix this?


texts: On Apple Mail I get an error message "the attachments are still being loaded" - any fix?

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I recently "upgraded" to OS X Sierra. All seemed OK, but I recently tried sending an attachment (from the desktop) with an email and got this:

No matter how long I wait (and for a 114kb attachment how long should it be? ) it never resolves.

The only thing I have done that is a bit different is turning off iCloud (I don't want to entrust my documents to third party, and need my computer to work WITHOUT an internet connection now and then, sorry Apple) but I wasn't sure if that was the reason for this. A quick online search got me a rather unhelpful tech support thread. I am hoping there is some quick-and-dirty way to fix this bug. The only reason I went to OSX Sierra was a piece of software that said I had to "upgrade" to use it. (Turbotax, as it happens, and no I am not entrusting anything of mine to their online service either).

Any ideas out there? The thought of wading through tech support will only raise my blood pressure.

ETA: Reboot seems to have solved it, but I'd still be curious if there's a cause.


texts: Is buying from the Apple website VS Apple Store any different?

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I am interested in buying the new Apple MacBook Pro 15''. I wanted a somewhat personalized version though (500 GB SSD / 16 GB ram) which is not the "basic" one.

My question is this: does the Apple Store have all kinds of combinations, hence buying from the website or from the physical store is identical, or the Apple Store has only the "basic"/default configurations and if you want more (e.g 500 GB SSD vs 128 default one) you have to buy online?


texts: A sleep button shows up on my Mac recently, how to get rid of it?

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I'm not sure what happened, but recently I found I have this button showing up.  Does anyone know how to turn it off?

OS: 10.15.3 (19D76) Catalina
MacBook Pro 13inch, 2017, 4 Thunderbolt 3 Ports
Memory: 16GB
3.5Ghz


texts: iOS5 - "“Remind me to call Mum when I get home.” - How does it know when you're home?

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One of the features of SIRI showed the instruction:
“Remind me to call Mum when I get home.”

My question is - how does it know when you'll be home? Or is there a location based trigger for tasks?


texts: My Mac has Python3 and 2.7 installed. How do I uninstall Python3 but keep 2.7?

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I installed python3 a few days ago, but I need to use version 2.7 for school. When I run in terminal, it shows like below:

RandeMacBook-Pro:~ ranshu$ which python
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
RandeMacBook-Pro:~ ranshu$ which python3
/usr/local/bin/python3

I tried to uninstall python3 in Finder but my Mac still used python3.

How do I cleanly uninstall version 3?


texts: How do I run VNC (any flavour) from the iPhone (Jailbroken/not jailbroken)

texts: How do I run VNC (any flavor) from the iPhone (Jailbroken/not jailbroken)? I would like a solution to remotely manage my PC from my iPhone, I could even use an RDP client? (I'm running a number of OSes Windows XP and Windows 7 and Hackintosh 10.5.6 but I'm interested in remotely managing the Windows XP box first!)


texts: Methods for copying Time Machine backups offsite

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I presently use an external USB drive to back up my Mac Mini with Time Machine which is a little about 1.5 TB total, however, I would really like to be able to trickle those backups onto some other cloud provider or even another location on a desktop located at a different office so I am protected from a massive catastrophe. I realize that upstream bandwidth is a major factor in successfully doing this. (I only have 10 megabit upstream.) I have tried to use ARQ which uses S3 backup, and while it works very well, the costs associated could end up being astronomical which I consider backup up my music, movies, etc..., not to mention the the loads of incidental file changes that I I don't need to capture every time. Also, there is simply no way it could ever catch up with with the amount of TM data that gets churned.

What I am looking for is a solution geared specifically for copying Time Machine backups to a cloud location, and does some things to reduce the amount of data that has to be pushed over the pipe. I would be accept having the Time Machine backups that are pushed offsite be far less frequent and I would accept some lag in getting these backups shipped, but I want to have SOMETHING in case I have a catastrophic incident, like a fire or water is spilled on my computer and Time Machine drive simultaneously.

Solutions like Mozy and Carbonite are simply not well geared for MacOS with its heavy reliance on datastores vs files. Attempting to rebuild an iTunes library from files would be a nightmare.

I am having trouble finding anything out there geared for this, but if you have some suggestions, I am all ears.


texts: I have a Mac Pro 5.2 2012 which currently has both the GeForce and Radeon, 16 GB memory and 1TB normal HDD. I want to upgrade this Mac Pro to its max without over doing something, for example I read in some articles that upgrading it to 96GB memory will give the same result if having 128GB meaning the extra memory is kinda useless. I also read that the bluetooth needs to be changed to support things. So can anyone advise me with the best configurations for Harddrive, memory, GPUs, bluetooth and USB ports?


texts: How to change the default file manager for OSX?

texts: I've downloaded muCommander and find it better than Finder. When I open folders with QuickSilver it still uses Finder, though. How do I change this behavior?


texts: How to get rid of the way Google looks in Safari with the top and left toolbars

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All of a sudden, when I do Google searches in Safari 5.1.10, it now has a black toolbar at the top, options in a left handed column, and if I choose to look at the "images" tab there are only images displayed in four columns and when I click on the image it takes me to another page.

I checked other browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Camino) and they still look like Google used to.  They don't have the extra top and left menus and the images are packed next to each other.  When I click on one it opens up a little larger so you can view it.  Then if you like it you can click it to open the website where it comes from.

HOW do I remove this annoyance?  I've removed Safari and reinstalled it to no avail. I "think" this happened when I had to install Chrome a few weeks ago.  I've looked everywhere for some indication as to why this happened and how to get rid of it.

Does anyone have any good ideas?

Thanks!
Nathan


texts: Retina MacBook Pro - External display resolution issues

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I am not sure if this is a problem with my TV or my Retina MBP. I've had an early 2011 MBP before my rMBP and this was never an issue.

It seems that when I connect up my TV, it 'detects' the screen orientation as portrait. The resolutions shown are all portrait (eg. 1140 x 2560) - but this does get shown on my TV as a landscape resolution...

While the screen orientation being weird is one issue, the other issue is that I cannot find a resolution that is supported by my TV, for example 1080p or 720p isn't even listed.

Has anyone else run into this problem? Do I have an issue with my TV or rMBP?

I am connecting via HDMI and have also tried mini display port to HDMI. I am on Yosemite.


texts: how to create a bootable Wndows 10 USB installer on my MBP 2017 without being asked to repartition my drive?

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as title.

On my MBP2010 (which is currenty 1000s miles away), I don't get the option to repartition my drive. I just get the option to create the USB installer + download bootcamp drivers.

With the 2017 MBP, it wants to repartition the internal SSD which is not something I want to do.

Thanks!

After pressing Continue, I get this


texts: How do I "say . . . using" in Javascript for Automation?

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In Applescript, I can specify the voice the system uses to speak text as follows:

say "Hello" using "Alex"

In Javascript, I can do something similar:

var ScriptEditor = Application("Script Editor");
ScriptEditor.includeStandardAdditions = true;

ScriptEditor.say("Hello!")

But I don't know how to specify the specific voice; I always have to use the system. Is there a way to specify the using parameter, or another version of say that allows the code to specify the voice?


texts: Is the Lightning 8-pin connector magnetic in attachment?

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After listening to MacBreak Weekly #316: The iPhone 5 it was mentioned, but not confirmed, that the new Lighting 8-pin adapter may be magnetic in attachment similar to the MagSafe adapters for MacBooks.

I can't really find evidence either way to determine if this is true or false, so can anyone else provide any proof either way?


texts: What ghost in the machine is changing Safari Privacy settings? Mail, too?

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Safari, Mail. What on earth?

Occasionally, Mail can't connect, so I go into Preferences .. and every time, a password has just plain disappeared.

Or I'll go thru Safari Preferences and discover, under Privacy, that "Block Cookies From Third Parties," the first checkbox, has been mysteriously checked ... but I use Cookie (cookie manager and more) so I always check "Never."

Also find the two other Privacy choices will be not as I set them. That pane seems to be the worst culprit.

Thoughts? As well as how this relates to the Mail mystery?

OS 10.8.4, Safari 6.0.5 on MBPro, maintenance and repair up to snuff.


texts: How do I link text boxes in iBooks Author?

texts: I've been trying out iBooks author, and one thing i want to be able to do is to allow text overflow from one custom text box to another. In pages this is done either by clicking the blue little symbol in the lower-right part of a text box with too much text, and link it to another, or by going to the menu format->text box->add linked text box. In iBooks Author, however, this last option is greyed out for no apparent reason, and the blue link symbol never appears. Any suggestions?


texts: Sometimes Siri immediately stops listening - how to fix this?

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I use Siri all the time. Since updating to iOS 12, I’ve noticed an occasional problem where I cannot get more than a word or 2 out before Siri stops listening entirely. The wavy line goes flat and then a second later, the line turns into the Siri circle icon and there is no response at all, as if I had manually stopped Siri. There’s no spoken reply. Nothing. I’ll even see a word or two that Siri transcribed from my command, so she starts out fine, but just simply stops after under a second and the partial transcription disappears. I have tried speaking very fast to get my command issued in under a second but the most I ever see her get is 2 words before she shuts down. If I wait a few minutes, she starts fully working again. But I usually try a dozen times (annoying my wife) trying to issue a command, e.g. “Turn off the fan”. The screen will display “Turn”, immediately followed by a flatline indicating Siri can’t hear me and then she stops entirely.

I swear that it tends to happen in my bedroom only... perhaps it has something to do with me connecting my watch to its charger? I feel like it happened once when I turned off the car while playing music over Bluetooth.

I have checked my audio connection. There’s no speaker connecting. The iPhone still has the audio. I’ve tried turning Bluetooth off. I’ve tried holding the home button down until I finish speaking. I’ve tried tapping the Siri icon. I’ve tried switching to an airport express speaker and back. I don’t know what else to try. I have noticed one thing when this happens: when I swipe up to the control center and check the audio out, the icon in the top right corner of the audio panel is a couple concentric circles with a triangle at the bottom and not the 2 quarter arcs that it usually is. It suggests that something is going on with the audio connection despite it claiming that it’s using the iPhone for audio output.

I’ve also had another occasional issue that’s possibly related, but maybe not. Sometimes, it takes 2 to 5 tries to tell Siri to turn on or off a device via HomeKit. It’s not the same behavior. Siri hears me out but immediately tells me the device is not responding. Normally if a device is truly not responding, it takes Siri a few seconds to report back. If I keep issuing the command though, it eventually works.

UPDATE 6/4/2019: It just happened again. I made a screen recording of it this time. I enabled the audio, but apparently it automatically disables recording from the mic when you activate Siri. I kept repeating “Turn on the lights” after either tapping the Siri icon or while holding down the home button (the entire time I was speaking). One time, it actually transcribes the whole phrase, but doesn’t respond. All the other times, the audio line flatlines part way through me trying to speak the phrase.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hfh7tgq2d0p1m1e/siristopslistening.MP4?dl=0

I tried again about an hour later and it was working again.  In fact, it had started working really well.  Usually there's a 5-6 second delay before Siri turns off the lights and Siri either says she turned the lights off or says that the device was not responding (even though the lights actually do turn off just before or just after she tells me it didn't work).


texts: I want to gift an OS X app, specifically OS X Mountain Lion to my mother in-law. How do I achieve this from the OS X App Store? I can't find any gifting option for both apps I own and apps I do not own.


texts: How many fans does a 2.26 GHz 15" 2009 MacBook Pro 5,5 have?

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I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz purchased in late 2009, model "MacBookPro5,5".

The FanControl PrefPane reports

Right Fan: -1 RPM

Does this model only have one fan, or does it have two?


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I recently got an old iBook G4 (as many of you might have noticed with all of my recent questions :D) and I wanted to install Ubuntu via USB (the iso doesn't fit on a CD and the iBook doesn't read DVDs, I've tried).

So I went a-searching the internet for ways to do this.

I started off trying to boot from the USB stick via holding down option after the chime, but that just listed the Macintosh HD. So I went on searching and came across this: http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html and tried it multiple times, but all failed (I believe the iBook wasn't recognizing the USB stick, as nothing came up when I ran dev usb0 and then ls.)

I then read this question: How do I make my 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 boot from a USB stick?, but that didn't work, even when I swapped out the suffix \\yaboot for \\tdxi. Sadly, nothing is working!

Does anyone know of any workarounds or something I can do to get this working?


texts: How can iOS 11’s screen recording not record the control center screen?

texts: We can start the screen recorder in the control center but this part also goes into the recording. How can we skip this part?


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I know how to disable iCloud, but I want to completely remove the possibility of using the service from my Mac for security reasons. I tried to delete the related files, but I do not have permission.

So how can I make sure that no user or application or system process is able to access iCloud?


texts: Is there any way to remotly access ios device from another ios device?

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I have Ipod touch which is connected to TV. Is there any app that allow this Ipod be controlled remotely using another IOS device like Ipad? (for sure without jail breaking)

Or more specifically, Is there any apps available that convert ipod touch into virtual apple tv?


texts: iPad out of battery and won't charge even if plugged in

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My iPad ran out of battery, was on charging whole night but still showing the “need charging icon” when I plug in.. Sometimes (I don't know whats trigger it) it displays charging icon, charges for 5 min, boot up with 2% then it shuts down and then does the same thing again. Last time I tired pressing home and lock button to keep alive the charging icon about 50 mins, boot up and the same thing happened again.
I tried DFU, recovery and many more but can't enter..
Any recent method?
Tried this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/25454333#25454333

Usual behaviour:

Need charging icon while plugged in charging.
After a while "Need charging icon" changes to "Charging icon"
It starts booing, shuts down and display "Need charging icon"

And it's going on for a long time, I don't think the iPad could handle it if it really wasn’t charging...


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I have iPhone 4 which currently has SIM lock. However, a law passed in my country requires my service provider to disable the lock free of charge. However, I have no idea how this is done in practice - Google only gives me guides to remove the SIM lock after jailbreaking and such.

Of course, I can simply ask my service provider what to do, but they are professionals when it comes to being unhelpful and misleading when it is in their best interest, so I'm trying to ask here first.

Other phone users (not iPhone) I asked said they only had to insert a code given from their service provider. I see no place in the iPhone where such a code can be entered. So, if there is such a place - where is it? If not - how can I remove the SIM lock with most ease?


texts: Macbook 2007 (A1181) Wi-Fi issues in Windows

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I have:

Macbook A1181
Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp with the latest patches
All bootcamp drivers installed
Keenetic Viva router with 2.4/5 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi, located in ~1m from the Macbook

The issue is that download/upload speed via Wi-Fi is very low in any app (~60kbps) and often interrupts. On the other hand, ethernet connection works great.
And the same Macbook works great with Wi-Fi when I boot macOS, but, unfortunately, I need Windows.
Other devices, like M1 Macbook Pro (late 2020), iPhones and lots of Android phones (even 2.4 GHz) work fine too, so it seems to be a driver issue.
Any ideas on how to fix it?


texts:
My iPhone broke the other day and the screen is broken so bad it doesn't work anymore. It has typed its own passcode on the lock screen so many times it has disabled the phone so now I can't do anything with it.

The lock screen says "Connect to iTunes," but when I try to connect it says that I have to enter the phone's passcode which I can't.

What can I do to back up my phone or connect it to iTunes? If I go to an Apple store, will they replace it or change the phone all together?


texts: Macbook Pro unable to use the internet while connected to IPSec VPN

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Short Question
Is there something I am missing when setting up a Cisco IPSec VPN connection that redirects all traffic over the VPN?

Background
When I am connected to the VPN, I can browse our company's intranet with no problems, but when I try to go out to say www.google.com it times out.  Another co-worker is having the same problem on his MBP as well.  The VPN client we use for our Windows machines is Shrew Soft talking to a pfSense router, which works like a champ.

System Information
Network
VPNing into a Pfsense based router

Hardware
MBP early 2008
4GB Ram
500GB 7200RPM HDD

Software
OS X 10.6.8
Bootcamp and Parallels 6: Windows 7 Pro


texts: How to use iPad Pro with (LG) ultrafine 5k?

texts:
Hi there I currently have an iPad Pro and a (LG) Ultrafine 5k monitor I used with my MacBook but I’d like to be able to use it with my iPad too unfortunately my iPad doesn’t support thunderbolt 3 is there a way I can get an adapter that can have one usb c to thunderbolt 3 conversion ?

Update:
Model is 27MD5KA-B


texts: Is there any way, to sort sub-folders in a folder or a whole volume (such as the root drive where macOS is installed) by size? Is it possible to do without resorting to a 3rd party app?


texts:
I'm trying to run a game through steam on wine, but I've been unsuccessful with implementing the workarounds. There's one error that keeps showing repeatedly, namely when trying to use a .reg file and when trying to register .dlls with regsvr32. It's always the same filepaths and the same output:
/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-96.60.1/Common/ChunkCompression.cpp:49: Error: unsupported compressor 8
/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-96.60.1/Libraries/CompressData/CompressData.c:353: Error: Unknown compression scheme encountered for file '/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist'

What is this error, and what can I do to fix it?


texts: Cannot select text in Safari address bar

texts:
All of a sudden, Safari on my Mac has started misbehaving. I can't select the text in the address bar, and so I can't go to any new websites. When it redraws, it goes all weird:

I've tried deleting the cache, clearing all cookies, disabling all plugins and rebooting. These things didn't help. I've had to switch to Chrome for the time being. Can anyone suggest some other possible remedies?


texts: Is it possible to enter emojis directly using a keyboard shortcut?

texts:
I would like to enter emojis directly from the keyboard. E.g. that I type ‘:D’ and it gets converted to ‘’. Is that possible?

I know about the control + command + space shortcut to open the emoji palette, but I am looking for a faster way.


texts: Camera settings (brightness, saturation) on Catalina

texts:
Been a videoconference power-user for ~10 years, and I really like to adjust brightness and saturation on the camera (whether it is laptop camera, external webcam, etc).

Is there any app or tool in current OSX (ie: Catalina) that can do this?

Background:

Until Catalina, I was a happy user of Sight Control (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sight-control/id528980445), which could adjust the settings on the camera atop my Apple Thunderbolt monitor and on the laptop camera. With Catalina, either APIs have moved, or permissions tightened and it doesn't work anymore :-/

On Catalina, Webcam Settings Control (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webcam-settings/id533696630) works for the Apple Thunderbolt display camera, but not on the camera on the laptop.


texts: How can I recover a Mac-formatted external hard drive?

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My girlfriend has an external hard drive with a bunch of photos on it from her Mac. She needed to transfer the files to her PC but we soon discovered that Macs and PCs use different formatting standards for hard drives. Initially, after plugging in the external hard drive to the PC, I ran diskmgmt.msc to make sure the computer was seeing it (since it wasn't showing up under My Computer), and indeed it did - but Windows prompted me to specify which type of file system it was. I don't remember exactly what the two options it presented were but I chose whatever the default option was. I believe it started with a G. It was only later that I learned I'd have to use third-party software to do it.

Now I'm worried that by simply telling Windows to choose one of those two file systems, it may have actually made some real changes to the disk's partition scheme, rendering it a brick. Because now when we go back to plug the drive into the Mac, this message pops up:

  The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer.

Is it possible that Window's disk manager actually changed the partitions when I told it to expect a certain type of file system? Is there any way I can get this drive working on a Mac again?


texts: How to copy Apple Calendar Server data to a new installation?

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I have recently reinstalled my Mac Mini server. It was acting up after the upgrade from SLS to Lion Server, so I reinstalled with Lion.

I can't figure out how to properly migrate calendar data from the old installation.

I have tried copying /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/ from the old installation to the new one, but that makes no difference I can see. Can anyone help me figure out how to do it?


texts: Can I boot from a USB stick containing MacOS if there is an issue with MacintoshHD?

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So my mac HD started playing up and then refused to work, would not boot.
Tried recovery mode but it wouldn't allow me to run first aid on the Macintosh HD drive.
Created a MacOS USB boot up stick by formatting a blank USB stick then using the recovery option to install MacOS on it.
Plugged it in, rebooted and held the command (cloverleaf) key.
Mac then displays the drives from which you can boot
Chose the USB stick and not MacintoshHD.
and it is taking forever.
It took me through all the usual options "set up appleID" and so on which I either skipped or chose default.
Then it just went black with the beachball.
Now it's just black with the arrow/pointer.
Doesn't appear to be doing anything..
So is it because MacintoshHD (internal HD) has issues that the USB booter is not able to finish?
EDIT: additions in italics


texts: I am using Platypus to create an app which runs bash script on opening of a file. I need the clicked/opened file name to be passed as an args to the script. Does Platypus have any option or macro to pass file name as arg to the script?


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I have a series of local accounts on a El Capitan (Need to stay on 10.11.6 due to app compatability). I want these accounts to get the "default profile" every time they log in. I mean * absolutely clean* - new desktop, downloads, settings and preferences.. I want it all gone.

I go about this by having a logout script that simply deletes the home folder, such as:

sudo rm -R /Users/myusername

This way the user and password is retained, but all rubbish that was left on the account is gone, and clean for the next login.

This works absolutely fine, except... the dock has three question marks on it when the user logs back in until the machine is rebooted. The question marks relate to three applications that are not installed on the Mac (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers). This problem happens from a clean download and install of OS X using the recovery utility.

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? Or does anyone have another method of destroying the home folder that I can try?


texts: Macbook Pro uses Wi-Fi from USB-connected iPhone

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Whenever I connect my iPhone to my Macbook Pro, it starts using the Wi-Fi from the phone, even though they're connected to the same one. When I disconnect the phone from the computer, the computer uses its own Wi-Fi connection.
This causes problems, e.g. if I'm downloading a large file to my computer with my phone connected and then I disconnect my phone, then the download fails and I'll have to resume it.
What could possibly be causing this? I use a VPN client on both my computer and my phone, but even when I disconnect from the VPN on both devices, the same behavior occurs.


texts: How can I get rid of duplicate TV shows in my iPad’s list of Home Sharing shows on my Mac?

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I’ve got a Mac mini running as a media server-type thingy. It’s running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.5. I access TV shows on it via my iPad (running iOS 5.0) using Home Sharing.

(The Mac mini is plugged into an Airport Extreme via ethernet, and the iPad accesses it over wifi.)

A little while ago, the list of shared TV shows on my iPad seemed to get a bit screwed up. Several seasons of one show were listed several times, and seasons of shows sorted after that show don’t appear.

I’ve disabled and enabled Home Sharing on the Mac and the iPad, restarted iTunes and the Mac, killed the Video app on the iPad, and restarted the iPad. Still, the list is screwed up.

However, the list of shows is fine on the Mac mini, and on my primary Mac when accessing the TV shows via iTunes. So I’m assuming it’s an iPad problem.

Has anyone else come across, and found a fix for, this problem?


texts: What does MacOS actually do when open a file?

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Background of this question:

I built an application by LabVIEW to open .tdms file, and I know it can receive arguments that pass to it because following code works just fine:

open -a /Application/My.app --args /path/to/file.tdms

Since command line works, I decided to associate .tdms to my application so that I can double click the file to open it, and I succeed by modifying My.app/Contents/info.plist.

And things get interesting, when I try to open file either by double-click or choose app in "Open With..." list, a pop-up window shows

  "My.app" is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

Some suggested xattr -cr /Application/My.app would solve the problem, but it doesn't work for me.

That's why I want to know what does macOS actually do in the background when open file? How does the arguments pass to application?

Additional info:

I use "Open Application Reference" and Property Node in LabVIEW to receive arguments that pass to my application.
I added following code into info.plist to associate filetype to my app:

    <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
            <array>
                <string>tdms</string>
            </array>
            <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
            <string>Viewer</string>
            <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
            <string>National Instruments TDMS File</string>
            <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
            <string>icon.icns</string>
        </dict>
    </array>


texts:
I'm trying to create a simpler alias to launch MIT-scheme from the Terminal so I did:

alias mit-scheme="/Applications/MIT-Scheme.app/Contents/Resources/mit-scheme"

Then I can launch MIT-scheme by simply typing mit-scheme.

However if I close this Terminal window and open a new one, when I type mit-scheme I get -bash: mit-scheme: command not found.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: How to tell if the macOS Catalina install file was deleted once installation was complete?

texts: I want to make sure it's not sitting around somewhere taking up disk space.  In the past Apple has put installer files in the Applications folder, but I'm not sure if that is still the case.


texts: Can I used the command line to disable settings in Yosemite that have made my Mac visible?

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Recent changes to my machine as the result of an upgrade to Yosemite (OS X 10.10) have made my machine visible on Bluetooth and Bonjour, where it was not visible before.

Is there a command line way to disable/enable the relevant features so that my machine can be restored to "invisibility" to these services (e.g. when I'm in a less secure environment)?


texts: Click a button on dialog window using AppleScript on Microsoft Excel

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When I open the .ods file in microsoft excel I would like to on the "Alert" dialog box click "Yes" with the apple script.

I try like this, but not work :(

    set theWorkbookFile to choose file with prompt "Please select an Excel workbook file:"
set theWorkbookName to name of (info for theWorkbookFile)
tell application "Microsoft Excel"

    open theWorkbookFile
    delay 3
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Microsoft Excel"
        click button "Tak" of dialog of application process "Microsoft Excel"
    end tell
    set theWorkbook to workbook theWorkbookName

end tell

Any help?


texts: Recovering the ability to install an iOS app from macOS

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I read about an iOS app and click in Safari (on High Sierra) on a link that takes me to

https://itunes.apple.com/app/some-app-name/id-somenumber?mt=8

I'm expecting some link to install the app, but no such luck. The page says instead:

This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

Searching further I find on the company's homepage a link that takes me to the app on iTunes. As soon as iTunes opens, the phone (iOS 11) starts to sync, but no option to install the app. Exactly the same message

This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

appears again.

I am signed in to the Mac and the iPhone with the same AppleID. How do I recover the option to install an iOS app while I'm in front of my mac?

Update (following Nimesh's answer)

I don't necessarily want to initiate the buy/install action on my mac, but reading reviews and making the decision whether to buy/install is much easier done on the desktop. Afterwards, it would be nice if I don't have to go through the circuitous route of dropping the information (especially when I can't locate a permalink) into Notes/Reminder and pulling that note under iOS.

In any case, aside from all that, can someone confirm that downgrading to 12.6.3 from 12.7.x will not reveal incompatibilities in handling one's music collection?


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I have a website which is internal to the company I work for. I am trying to streamline access to the website for our iOS users and I have ran into a problem.

The website is hosted via IIS and if a user is sitting at their desk and goes to the website, they can connect without issue.  The website employs Windows authentication, so the account they are logged into on their PC with is used as SSO authentication so they are not prompted for credentials.

I need the users to be able to view the website when out of the office (not connected directly to the company network) but this is where I am having trouble.  First, the users would use an app called Pulse Secure to log into a VPN to connect to our network from there iPhone.

The user would then open Safari and go to the website address and would then get prompted for credentials.  So I thought to streamline it I could get the users to enter the website url and their credentials into the built-in Accounts and Passwords manager within Settings but here is where I hit a problem.

As my website is not internet facing, the url is in the following format http://apps/mywebsite and as you can see from the image below, iOS does not allow this format of URL as done is greyed out:

The whole goal of this is to stop them having to enter their credentials multiple times.  Is there something I am missing or is there a different/better way to do this?

Thanks


texts: I am unable to burn a cd with the newiTunes 12.1 because there is no drop down "burn to disc" selection in Files. How can I burn a cd from my playlist?


texts: Disk Utility does not show a newly connected new/unformatted external USB3 drive

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I want to attach an external USB drive as a Time Machine target. What is the way to do this? I had thought Disk Utility would be able to help ..
This is Catalina on a  2020 Macbook pro . The external USB3 drive is connected via a USB <--> USB-C adapter to the Mac. The external drive power light is on so the electrical/physical connection is working.
But then Disk Utility only sees the original boot drive:

Update  Here is the output from diskutil list (not present):
13:45:54/~ $diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1.0 TB     disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.0 TB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            10.8 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     553.9 GB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.7 MB    disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                535.6 MB   disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s5


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I'm trying to create an alias in my .bash_profile to run an application in the terminal window (Julia programming language), the same way you would run Python from the terminal window by typing "python".

I created a .bash_profile and put

alias julia="path"

But it says 'No such file or directory', and in fact I tested it out with directories that I know exist, and no matter what I put there, when I type the command in the terminal it still says it.  Can anyone troubleshoot this for me?

Thanks.


texts: How to check what is preventing MBP from graceful shutdown/restart and fix it? [Now with log entries]

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And hopefully really final edit: After upgrading to Mountain Lion, the issue seems fixed, hopefully permanently.

Final Edit: The problem doesn't happen all the time, sometimes I have to wait several days for it to occur. So it is hard to test under different conditions (i.e. safe mode or with some software disabled) and I've decided that it is not worth spending days truing different conditions in order to on fix this. Graham Perrin's suggestions were the most helpful for finding specific information about restart/reboot issues, not found in the general-purpose logs.

Some log entries are in Edit at the bottom:

Mid-2010 15in MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.7.4. Sometimes when trying to restart or shutdown the machine, it won't work -- the screen turns gray, the spinning wheel shows, but the machine doesn't power down so after several minutes I have to shut down the machine by pressing the power button.

It doesn't happen every time, and I can't relate any software used during the session with the problem. In fact, when testing this, sometimes this would happen when I try to shutdown the machine immediately after starting it.

How to check what is preventing the graceful shutdown/restart? I assume that I have to look in some log files, but I am not sure which ones and what to look for.

Edit: Added the verbose start/shutdown setting in the nvram as suggested by Graham Perrin,  and eventually the machine got stuck on reboot. I saw some verbose entries on the screen and after rebooting found them in in /var/log/launchd-shutdown.log. It appears that WindowServer may have something to do with it. Below is the end of that log file with the first 3 columns removed (the first had some increasing integer numbers, the second had entries of "1" and the third -- "com.apple.launchd"):

234 com.apple.WindowServer   Dispatching kevent callback.
234 com.apple.WindowServer   Job has not died after being killed 2 seconds ago. Simulating exit.
234 com.apple.WindowServer   Dispatching kevent callback.
234 com.apple.WindowServer   EVFILT_PROC event for job.
1 com.apple.launchd         KEVENT[0]: udata = 0x107827a90 data = 0x0 ident = 234 filter = EVFILT_PROC flags= 0x0 fflags = NOTE_EXIT
234 com.apple.WindowServer   Reaping
234 com.apple.WindowServer   Simulated exit: <rdar://problem/9359725>
234 com.apple.WindowServer   Exited 22.016701 seconds after the first signal was sent
0 com.apple.WindowServer     Exited while shutdown in progress. Processes remaining: 0/0
0 com.apple.WindowServer   Job was last to exit during shutdown of: System.
0 com.apple.WindowServer    Total rusage: utime 0.000000 stime 0.000000 maxrss 0 ixrss 0 idrss 0 isrss 0 minflt 0 majflt 0 nswap 0 inblock 0 oublock 0 msgsnd 0 msgrcv 0 nsignals 0 nvcsw 0 nivcsw 0
0 com.apple.WindowServer  Closing receive right for com.apple.windowserver.active
0 com.apple.WindowServer  Mach service deleted: com.apple.windowserver.active
0 com.apple.WindowServer  Closing receive right for com.apple.windowserver
0 com.apple.WindowServer   Mach service deleted: com.apple.windowserver
0 com.apple.WindowServer    Removed
1 com.apple.launchd      System: No submanagers left.
1 com.apple.launchd    System: Removing.
1 com.apple.launchd   System: Removing job manager.
1 com.apple.launchd    System: Userspace shutdown finished at: Wed Aug  1 08:53:12 2012
1 com.apple.launchd   System: Userspace shutdown took approximately 22 seconds.
1 com.apple.launchd   VM statistics (now - orig): Free: 28472 Active: -21833 Inactive: -1038 Reactivations: 0 PageIns: 25 PageOuts: 0 Faults: 1654 COW-Faults: 335 Purgeable: -849 Purges: 0
1 com.apple.launchd   System: Stray process at shutdown: PID 234 PPID 1 PGID 234 WindowServer
1 com.apple.launchd       System: About to call: reboot(RB_HALT).


texts:
I know its possible in Garageband but is there a way to apply a reverb effect to video or audio clips in iMovie?

By the way I have iMovie Version 10.0.6 installed on my mac.

Any suggestions would be helpful.


texts: MacBook Air has delay when waking from sleep

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I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010).

Ever since I purchased it, I have noticed that it has quite a delay waking from sleep. It takes sometimes up to 5-10 seconds to fully wake up and allow me to do anything.

What is causing this, and is there any way to prevent it?


texts: What is this virtual memory for the applications on macOs?

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I had a look in the activity monitor and when I pulled more information about TabNine, I didn't quite understand the concept of "virtual memory". It says "390GB".
How can it have a virtual memory of 390GB when I have a base variant mac with 8GB|256GB spec ?


texts: Where are back up restore app data guidelines?

texts: I am amazed how apple smoothly handles backup & restore application data. Does apple have any guidelines for backup / restore principles? How does applications handle version compatibility of restored data in between different versions of the same app.


texts: How can Time Machine in Lion backup the volume content of a sparse bundle disk image?

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Using Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A511), attempts to backup volume content with Time Machine have failed.

With a simple non-encrypted image I tried three approaches:

the traditional workaround, which reportedly works on Snow Leopard
the removeexclusion verb of tmutil in Lion
(1) and (2) combined.

This leaves the question:

How can Time Machine backup .sparsebundle volume content?

content of the volume, not the bands of the image.

Differences between Snow Leopard and Lion

Finder preferences

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

Within this file, the FXRecentFolders key contains an array of data.

Opening the required volume in Finder, then closing the window causes volume-related data to be written as a sub-key:

file-data sub-keys in Snow Leopard
file-bookmark sub-keys in Lion.

Time Machine preferences

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

The removeexclusion verb of tmutil (manual page not yet published by Apple):

seems to add — to the IncludedVolumes array of com.apple.TimeMachine.plist — key data that differs from the data found in com.apple.finder.plist
does not add a corresponding key string to the IncludedVolumeUUIDs array.

Relevant commands

For a volume named myVolume

defaults read com.apple.finder FXRecentFolders | grep --before-context=1 myVolume

diskutil information /Volumes/myVolume | grep UUID

A similar question, asked in 2010

How can I get Time Machine to back up the contents of a File Vault while logged in?

that 2010 question focuses on FileVault 1 encrypted home directories in Snow Leopard
this 2011 question, not focused on FileVault, is more broadly about content of volumes attached from sparse bundle disk images in Lion.

Other references

How To: backup your File Vault home directory unencrypted (also works with Snow Leopard!) « Useful solutions (2009-12-12)

10.6: Let Time Machine backup File Vault while logged in — Mac OS X Hints (2010-01-27)

Test results

To follow.


texts:
I recently had tried to make some hidden desktop icons on my desktop following the instructions found here. I am on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I ended up somehow making every file a hidden file. The files are all visible but are just transparent and I cannot open some of them.

How do I make all of these files become unhidden files so they are no longer transparent and I can access them better?


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I recently bought a Corsair Force LE 240GB SSD and tried to do a net recovery on a macbook pro A1278 (MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 with i5) to the latest El Capitan, but for some reason, this is only possible if it is connected via USB (as an external drive). As soon as it is connected internally instead of the standard HDD, it does not show up in disk utility and can't be used as startup disk or location to where the OS should be installed.
I cloned the working version of my HDD to the SSD, but when it is booting internally from the SSD (which now has a working version of Mac OS X on it), it freezes as soon as the progress bar reached 100%. It sits there for over an hour (I canceled it at that point always). Booting from the same drive externally boots into a clean working version of El capitan without any problems.

Judging from what I read online, a possible issue might be that the internal SATA cable doesn't support SATA III, which is used by this SSD. Before I go and buy a replacement cable, I would like to make sure there isn't another problem that could also cause this.

I have so far only tried net recoveries, and am currently downloading the OS image to burn it to a USB and try from there again. This is to eliminate errors that might come from a broken OS file (my Internet connection sometimes stops working).
Update: Also a recovery from USB with the internal SSD brings the same problems.

The drive itself works flawlessly on Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10,  both as external and internal drive.


texts: Accessing ~/Library in Open/Save dialogs

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Sometimes, I want to save a file somewhere in ~/Library/. I can think of two ways to do this: either go to it in Finder and drag the folder to the dialog, or use a tool such as Default Folder to make the folder a favorite.

Is there any way to navigate to ~/Library/ within a Save dialog on Lion without using a third-party app?


texts: How do I sync iCloud Drive between 2 MacBooks

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I am switching to a new MacBook, and all my files are in my iCloud Desktop and Documents folders. All my files are accessible on icloud.com through a browser, but not in the finder on my new MacBook. All my other iCloud files are available, my photos have synced and all other iCloud directories show up and have the cloud with a download arrow. The Desktop and Documents folders have a dotted outline of the cloud, when hovered over says "waiting to upload".
I have made sure my settings are set to use iCloud Drive for these directories, I've tried resetting everything and signing out and back in. I have let my laptop sit for a week now, but there is no hint of even trying to sync to iCloud Drive for Desktop and Documents. Does anyone know how I can get my files to download? Or at least visible to manually download through the finder? Im running OS X 10.15.6


texts: Terminal switch tabs not working Yosemite

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I had added keyboard shortcuts and those were working pretty fine on OSX Mavericks but not working in Yosemite. On pressing shortcut for switching tab terminal just flashes. Check screen shot of my settings
I want my shortcuts working on Yosemite like those were working on Mavericks


texts: Is there a way to keep the notification open? Prevent autohide?

texts: Is there a way to keep the notification bar from auto hiding?  I'd basically like to keep it open/expanded on the right side of my screen.


texts: Deleting mails from Apple Mail Yosemite 10.10.5

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In my previous iMac which was 8 years old, I had it set up to be able to automatically connect to my usual @outlook.com account whenever I clicked on the mail icon to forward a webpage to someone.

The way it was set-up, it would only be able to do this function and would not receive all my incoming @outlook.com emails. I have followed your instructions and the new Mac is now the same.

But now I want to know if I could delete all the mail that was downloaded into Mail before I disabled the incoming feature.

I hope you are able to follow all that I've typed here. If you understand what I'm trying to do, please instruct me what steps to take to delete all those downloaded email from Mail.  Also, advise me if this is not a good action to take. I just feel that it is sufficient to have my emails in the @outlook.com inbox rather than have a copy of the incoming mails in Mail, too.


texts: Disable suggestions as you type on Numbers

texts:
It seems that Numbers give a suggestion based on what is already in the sheet. Like in the image.

How to disable this?


texts: Specifying the keyboard layout for Chinese input

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I use both Chinese (pinyin) and Japanese (romaji) input and am used to having them mapped to a standard US keyboard layout. However my regional setting is Switzerland since I'm studying here and “internet services may vary according to region”. Strangely, the Japanese input uses the US keyboard layout, but Chinese uses a European layout (not sure what, but z and y are switched). (Irrelevant to problem).

My inputs are, in this order:

English (US)
German
Japanese (Kotoeri)
Chinese

As Tom pointed out, in Kotoeri's preferences the layout can be defined. The Chinese input however uses the last layout of a Latin input, in this case German.

There also doesn't seem to be an option to customise the order of these inputs. My workaround is to cycle backwards, but this obviously is a special case. If anyone has a better solution it would be appreciated.


texts: Are my battery cycle counts increasing when MBP is on and plugged in?

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I often leave my Macbook Pro (13" - Late 2011) plugged in while working on it with the charge at 100%. This post suggests that when the battery is at 100% and the laptop is plugged in, the battery stops charging altogether.

Let's say I use my computer in this configuration for 10 hours at a time. Would this "cycle" of use actually contribute to my battery cycle count?


texts: Is it ever possible for a disk/volume to be mounted anywhere other than in /Volumes?

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It seems that under macOS that all disks of every type will always be mounted under /Volumes. (Except, of course, for the boot drive which will always be mounted at /.)
But is this just the case under "normal" circumstances for most people most of the time?
Is it ever possible that some kind of storage could be mounted elsewhere like on other *nix type OSes?


texts: How to pass a file set as a variable from AppleScript to a Bash shell script

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I've got a two part problem.

I am trying to pass a variable from AppleScript to be used as a variable inside a bash shell script. I cannot figure out how to this work. I have read about concatenating the variable and the do shell script command with & inside AppleScript. But that doesn't really work with a longer script.

Here is the short AppleScript to select a file and (hopefully) pass it along to the shell as a variable.

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    choose file
    set myFile to result as text
end tell
do shell script "/path/to/script.sh"

And then the shell script itself:

#!/bin/bash
while read lines
do
    echo ${lines##*:}
    grep "string"
done <$myFile | awk '!x[$0]++' |\
trans -b :en # this is where the second problem occurs

This is a shortened version of the actual script but I think the intent is clear. I am unsure how to pass the myFile variable FROM Applescript to the shell.

The second problem is that the trans command (which is a rather handy command line translator) uses the gawk command which of course is installed along with the trans program itself. But when run from Applescript I get the error message:

  error "/usr/local/bin/trans: line 4990: gawk: command not found" number 127

I know that AppleScript needs the fullpath in order for this to work. But how do I provide the full path for a command embedded deep within nearly 5000 lines of code? Do I alter the code of the trans program itself to provide the full path to gawk?

Also I realize that I could do the whole thing from within the shell and that a lot of this is adding complexity where none is needed. But I think it is still worthwhile to know how to do this.

Thanks for reading.


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I wanna do an animation like the one when you search for something in the upper menu in OS X. Help > Search.

It's an arrow that keeps floating and moving.
I wanna do this trick.
Is there a way to do an endless animation in Keynote?


texts: Contact names missing on calls and messages

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My contacts are on my phone and I can choose them from the contact icon. I can not choose them to make a phone call or send a message. Incoming phone calls and messages do not display the contact name, I have tuned off contacts in iCloud and then back on but it did not fix the problem.

I did something in Facebook that was sending out friend requests to everybody. On trying to stop that I lost my contacts being attached to my phone calls and messages


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I initially had my Mac partitioned for Boot Camp. I re-image my computer once every year and did so today, of course knowing that my partitions will disappear.

However this time, the maximum capacity of my hard drive seems to have shrunk (see picture), and I'm not sure what's happening.

Additional symptoms, don't know if this matters, but my computer uses 4 GB RAM running couple windows of Firefox, browsing web, but overheats really fast.
Total RAM is 8 GB and I just had it reimaged.


texts: iTunes shows my iPhone 6 has several audiobooks and music from CDs but the phone itself says no content

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This happened with the most recent update. I tried reinstalling iTunes and shutting down phone without success. My audiobooks are downloads from public library as MP3s.

Learned the convoluted and frustrating methods to make them be audiobooks rather than music and to not shuffle the chapters with "Get Info" and they are still listed in my iTunes library. Most of my music is from my own CDs.

I can get 1-2 audiobooks to download at a time if delete everything supposedly on my phone in iTunes then add to the iPhone's playlist again. If I add another book or album it deletes the previous ones.

Suggestions?


texts: Symlink TO dropbox folder in different user account

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Recently purchased a new Mac to be used as a family Mac. We share my Dropbox account and I have installed this into my user folder.

Question: Can I create a symlink into my wife's documents folder TO the Dropbox folder in my account?


texts: iOS Simulator installed app location in Xcode 6.1

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I am trying to locate the actual location of app installed on iOS Simulator. I am using OSX 10.9.4 with Xcode 6.1

Already tried looking Application Support folder but can't find the simulator location. Tried a bunch of different locations as well, but can't find anything. Any ideas where can I find it or where should I look in apple documentation regarding this? Any pointers will be appreciated.


texts: iPhone storage shows 57+GB used... where is it?

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This screenshot shows that there is 57+GB used on my iPhone.

However looking through the list and adding up the values comes to a maximum of 10GB (and that's an overestimation).

So, where is the other 40+ GB?

I have been deleting apps recently to try and clear space but every couple days it tells me the iPhone is running low on storage.

I feel like this is some sort of bug or something because I really don't know where the rest of the space is?


texts: Where is the sound file of Installer success stored?

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I've tracked Installer.app to be located at /System/Library/CoreServices/ but I can't find the sound that plays after a successful installation.

I've looked at the following paths:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework
/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app
/System/Library/Sounds

Where is that sound file located?


texts: Propagate permissions to subfolders and subfiles

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I know that using sudo chmod 777 /folder will set a particular permission to /folder, but it will not do the same with subfolders and subfiles inside the folder.

Is there a terminal command to propagate permissions inside the folder?


texts: Apache config resetting after every OS update

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This is infuriating. I have a lot of custom settings on my development Mac and every time there is an OS upgrade I have to go back and reset everything.
I read somewhere that the old config is saved in httpd.conf~previous, but that file doesn't contain my changes either. It seems to be more or less the same as the new one.
Questions
Why does this happen on every Mac update?
What can I do to avoid this? Should I install a second copy of apache with brew? and if I do that, is it reasonably possible to disable the built-in MAMP?
All solutions are greatly appreciated.


texts: How to stop long downloads/uploads to iCloud when browsing with Finder shared folder in other macs on the same LAN

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Every time I go to Finder and I select a shared folder in other macs on the same lan I notice that there is a long delay before the content of that folder is displayed.

The network monitor of Little Snitch shows me that uploads and downloads are performed to icloud.com. When these uploads and downloads stop, the content of the shared folder is finally shown in Finder.

How can I stop these downloads and uploads to icloud.com happening when I select with Finder a shared folder in other macs on my same LAN?

Please notice that I have the following Finder preferences:

And and the following iCloud system preferences:

Please notice that all my macs are on mac os x 10.12.6 Sierra.


texts: "About this Mac" and "System Information" no longer working

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I am trying to find out my OS version.

The problem I however encounter is that the usual means of finding this out no longer work.

Selecting "About this Mac" from the top left does not display anything.

CMD+Space, then "System Information" results in the System Information App being found, but it does not display anything either. It fails silently.

Are there any other things I can do?


texts: Is there a way to disable a Messages account via command line?

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I'd like to stop/start receiving SMS/iMessage via command line, to avoid having to go into system preferences.

Is there a way I can manipulate settings for Messages to enable/disable an account?


texts: How do I add cover art to an .aiff on OSX from the commandline

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How do I add cover art to an .aif file on OSX from the commandline.

With ffmpeg this seems fairly easy for mp3 and other formats but i need aiff's with cover art.


texts: I have a macOS 10.6.5 and am trying to upgrade it but don't know how to, what can I do?


texts: "Hey Siri" also works for other persons than me

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Why does the "Hey Siri" command on the iPhone 6S also works for other persons? I thought it is recognizing only my voice, but today I found out that is not true!

Is there something I can do against this?


texts: My iPhone was stolen a week ago i just noticed now and turned on find my iphone

texts: Will Icloud lock turn on even if the theif has reset the phone already?


texts: Why can't I reply emails but send new one on my iPad 2?

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I cannot reply to emails on my iPad 2, but if I compose a new one it will send it fine. This is a new problem as it was working fine before and there have been no changes.

I use a Telstra Micro SIM and an optus email address.