texts: How to change Google Chrome's address-bar-text font size (the 'https://...')?

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How does one change the text for Chrome's address bar font size? I need to make it larger, more readable, especially for high-resolution monitor displays.

This font size is NOT for the displayed web-page content(s).

I'm running macOS 10.12.6, Chrome Version 67.0.3396.99 (Official Build) (64-bit). I want to do it for macOS 10.13, too.


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I would be so happy if someone could assist me in creating an Applescript to send some emails. I have seen a few examples but I am not confident that I can adapt them to my own needs.

I need to send the same email (subject & body), one at a time, to a list of addresses on a .csv file. I am using Apple Mail 5.3 and OSX 10.7.5

Many thanks in advance to anyone willing to help out.

Here's what I have so far.

    tell application "Mail"

    tell (make new outgoing message)
        set theAddress to "xxxx"
        make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:theAddress}
        set subject to "xxxx"
        set content to "xxxx"
        send
    end tell
end tell

I need to set theAddress to cell A1 on my excel sheet. How do I point it there? Once the email has sent I need to point it to cell A2... and so on.


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I am running OS X Yosemite, and every time I try to open Bittorrent, it crashes. I can't think what has brought on this problem, but it was working fine before.
I have attached a log file for you to look at, I am not very experienced in this kind of thing. I have tried reinstalling it, and removing the preferences file in ~/Library/Preferences/ but that has not worked.

Sorry if I have missed anything, I am new to these forums.
Thanks

Log File: http://pastebin.com/s1zgqQdC


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I am trying to find out what starts the Autodesk service "AdSSO-v2", which starts together with AutoCAD on my Mac.

(I would like to deactivate it because it drains my battery with average CPU usage of 10% but it does not seem to be required to run the actual AutoCAD process)

I can find the process:

launchctl list |grep -i adsso
1102    0   com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x1000000e.AdSSO-v2

But I can't find any Autodesk or Adsso-v2 plist anywhere in

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

What else could I do to find what launches the process?

Any hint wold be appreciated. Maybe there is a way?

Greetings, Chris


texts: afconvert: Difference between AAC formats: 'aac ' 'aace' 'aacf' 'aach' 'aacl' 'aacp' 'alac' 'paac'

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When using afconvert for AAC output, I find little documentation on the format variants under the m4af category:

'aac', 'aace', 'aacf', 'aach', 'aacl', 'aacp', 'alac', 'paac'.

I can guess probably 'aac' is the basis, 'alac' is the lossless format, 'aach' is the HE-AAC. What about the rest? The differences?

Same for other variants under other format tags.


texts: Change application and select text with a single click

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I'm fairly certain that, prior to Yosemite, it was possible to click in a non-active app's edit pane to put the caret at that point. It now requires two clicks: one to change which application and then a second to put the caret at the desired place. Has anyone else observed this change or know why it was made?

More importantly, how can I get this behaviour back? I seem to do a lot of work where I select text in one app, copy it, and then want to insert it in a new app. The above change in behaviour is pretty infuriating :-(


texts: Does setting the Computer Sleep setting to 'Never' prevent sleep?

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I'm running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on several servers. We're about to ship them off to a colo provider, and I wanted to prevent them from sleeping.

My question is, does setting the System Preferences > Energy Saver > Computer Sleep option to 'Never' reliably prevent sleep?

I noticed yesterday that all the mac minis were off, despite the 'Never' option being set. However, I'm thinking their power strip may have just been accidentally unplugged for a second.


texts: How to copy files on Mac that fails to boot?

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I moved some kext files from /System/Library/Extensions to ~/DisabledExtensions and now my Mac doesn't boot giving me "kernel panic" error related to some ATAPI driver.

I want to copy these kext files back on their place. How do I do this?

Is there some kind of Live-CD or Live-USB which will allow me to copy files?

Note:

This is on macbook, so removing HD would be troublesome.
I don't have another mac nearby
Internet recovery doesn't work giving -2002F error
There is no Recovery Partition on this macbook
Single user mode and verbose mode doesn't work giving same panic error
There is no Mac Os X installation DVD

Macbook Pro 15 Late 2011


texts: Show date on the Apple Watch Series 2 Home screen

texts: How do I show the current date on the apple watch Series 2 home screen. I am only able to see the time, location, weather etc but not the date.


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In Apple apps with a search feature, how do I only search for one letter?

Let's say I'm reading a math paper, but forgot what the variable "s" meant. In Windows/Linux apps I could just include spaces in my search (" s ") and it found all instances of the lone letter "s". This does not work with my Apple apps and a search for " s " returns all occurrences of the letter "s", ignoring whether the "s" is part of a word or not.

Thanks!

Ps. the specific program I'm using is "Preview".


texts: Just Upgraded to Mojave and started getting the Out of Application Memory box

texts: I have just migrated to Mojave and with no applications open, except whatever runs in the background, I receive the Out of Application Memory panel.  The only app it shows as running is Finder.  I am running on a Mac Mini with 815 Gbytes available on my system drive. I did not have this error before upgrading to Mojave.


texts: What causes an automator app from a network share so that normal users can't run it?

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I have an application that I made in Automator which is literally just running a shell command. It's stored on a network share and when I copy it to another mac the root account and admin account can run it, however any other account will not allow me to run it. The message I see it "you can't open the application because it may be damaged or incomplete".
I have run a chown 777 on the file, and chown root:wheel to reset the permissions but still nothing.

The app in question is in the image below, login.app, as shown from a logged on network user which is unable to run the app. Only root and a locally created admin user can run this app.

If i recreate the app and re-save it I can use it on all users.
What technical documentation can I read on what the damaged error considers so I can adapt my Automator App to run?


texts: Applescript Calculate Run Time of a Command

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How would you calculate the time it took to run a command? Specifically, I want to know the time it takes to return a value in a Shell command. I wrote this up, would it work? (Psuedocode)

a=currentTime
[command]
b=currentTime
print b-a

If translated into Applescript would this work? Is there a better way to do this when calculating the runtime of a shell command (the command is run via do shell command)?


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The problem started after I took my late 2013 MBP to an unauthorized service shop (because official services said they do not service it) where I had the battery changed. Also they said that cleaned up my keyboard. When some keys are pressed down it prints together with another additional symbol. The pairs always the same and look like this:

4 or 6 gives: 46
r or y gives: ry
f or h gives: fh
v or n gives: vn
= or ] gives: =]

I've already tried several fixes:

Setting the different time of slow keys in universal access
Unshaky with different values of delay (maybe it doesn't work for me because of different keys)
Adding new keyboard in input sources
Pressed in the middle of the keyboard with my thumbs
Reset SMC, NVRAM, PVRAM
Boot in safe mode

Only once I have succeeded and typing well for several minutes, after set 3000 delay for key 'r' in Unshaky, and turn off slow keys. But after I switch language, this strange effect turns back again, and after I repeat same steps, they now doesn't give result.
Here is the way how keys are printing now:

Do you know some other methods to fix it, or I need to replace the keyboard?


texts: Play Song in iTunes w/o Deselecting Highlighted Songs

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I'm trimming my iTunes library, so I have multiple songs selected/highlighted which I want to review. Is there a way to play a song without accidentally deselecting the other highlighted ones?

Also, is there any way to stop iTunes automatically jumping to whatever track just started playing?


texts: iMovie built in music and audio effects missing

texts: This problem also happens to me in Final Cut. Since one week or so, the common audio effects and music clips are missing. I have removed these two applications, rebooted the computer and installed again iMovie, with the same results. Any idea?


texts: I want to open videos and pictures from Terminal. Is there any way to do this?


texts: How to fix persistent crashes in Google backup and sync?

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I have set up Google Backup and Sync to automatically synchronise certain folders on my iMac to Google Cloud both for backup and enabling sharing with other computers.
The process works well.
But one of the components, FinderSyncAPIExtension.appex, crashes regularly with a report containing the following:
Path:                  /Applications/Backup and Sync.app/Contents/PlugIns/FinderSyncAPIExtension.appex/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncAPIExtension
Identifier:            com.google.GoogleDrive.FinderSyncAPIExtension
Version:               1.0 (1)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           FinderSyncAPIExtension [58644]

...

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000007fb606d1640
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [58644]

As far as I can tell the crash is triggered every time I save a new file to a folder that is synchronised. Also, the process seems to restart as synchronisation still seems to happen but getting a crash every time I save a file is annoying.
This has persisted across multiple MacOS versions (currently on 11.1).
I doubt this is a widespread problem and might result from a clash with some other add-in or system process but I have so far found no obvious culprit.
Any suggestions as to the cause? Or how to narrow down the likely cause?


texts: I want to install iOS 5.1.1 on my iPad 2. Currently it's running on 4.3.5. iTunes just shows me a popup with the option to install iOS 6.0. How can I install 5.1.1?


texts: Is it possible to backup an iPhone to both iCloud and iTunes?

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This question is generic but for my case I have an iPhone SE with iOS 10.3.1 and a MacBook Pro running Sierra 10.12.4.

Is it possible to have my iPhone backup to both iTunes and iCloud? When I connect the phone to iTunes the backup option seems to have a radio option for one or the other.

But it seems it would be preferable to have backups in two different places, a more complete larger backup on the computer and a smaller backup to iCloud that has the settings/app list/documents.


texts: Is it possible to filter which applications can use my iPhone's Personal Hotspot?

texts: Is it possible to filter which applications (in Windows) can use my iPhone's Personal Hotspot?


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A few months ago I deleted a game that was taking up a lot of space on my Mac (all files from the game were removed).
It was a game I downloaded through the Steam application, which I have since moved to another disk, so the game should not be taking up any space on my computer any more.
However, when I manage my storage with System Information, a file from the game (I think the file was the game contents originally) still shows up as taking 13.9 GB of space on my disk.
The "Show in Finder" button doesn't do anything when I click on it and I am unable to delete the file from inside System Information.
I can't locate the file anywhere inside Finder so I'm assuming the file no longer exists on my Mac.

This is pretty annoying because it is falsely taking up disk space.
Is there a way I can delete this file once and for all?

I am running macOS Mojave 10.14 and I've had this problem since High Sierra.


texts: (How) Can a web site determine if Safari Private Browsing is turned on?

texts:
In Safari on Mavericks, I sometimes get a dialog from web sites indicating that some site functions will be blocked or degraded unless I turn off Private Browsing mode. Most users probably expect their choice of whether to use Private Browsing to be private. My impression is that other major browsers do not leak Private Browsing state to web sites.

I have noticed that while in private Browsing mode, Safari will not request favicons, so in theory a site could block caching of the favicon and make a pretty good guess that Private Browsing is on.

In contrast, on iOS, Safari doesn't request favicons at all. But it will, even in Private Browsing mode, request any "apple-touch-icon" if you access the Sharing panel (the apple-touch-icon is used as the Home Screen icon if you subsequently "Add to Home Screen" for that URL).

Other than favicon, are there other known ways that a web site could determine (or guess with reasonable accuracy) that you are using Private Browsing mode in desktop Safari?


texts: my Launchbad broken after installing cDock

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I am using MacOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta (20E5217a)
after installing cDock and putting into Apps folder and then running it, my LaunchPad turned to like the image below
it only contains 4 items on each page
i tried things below:

dragging them into grid
uninstalling with AppCleaner and reboot,
changing screen resolution
using commands below to restart launchpad

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock

non of them worked


texts: Selectively disable iCloud keychain syncing for WiFi passwords

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I have iCloud Keychain sync enabled, but I want to stop it syncing WiFi passwords.

I have a portable WiFi hotspot which I use for my laptop and iPad, but I don't want my iPhone to connect to it since it has it's own 3G

Because iCloud is syncing the settings, within about 30 seconds of connecting my laptop to the 3G hotspot, my iPhone will connect itself. If I go into wifi settings on the iPhone and manually disconnect, about 30 seconds later my laptop will disconnect too. It seems with iCloud wifi sync on, I can’t connect my laptop to WiFi without my phone also connecting.

The only way to get around it seems to be disabling Keychain sync in iCloud. I’ve tried Googling, but got no real help on how to disable it without turning off Keychain, which is what I’ve done at the moment.

I also don't want to enable 'Ask before joining networks' on my iPhone, since I'll be manually re-connecting it constantly.


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Sometimes I see a ksfetch process on my Mac. After a little googling I found out that it is Google software updater. However, there is no detailed answer i.e. what is ksfetch process used for? Is it really required? Can I get rid of it?
Sometimes it uses my internet bandwidth so it frustrates me hence the query. Thanks.


texts: iOS7 Using own tags for the purchased music

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I decided to post because I have a problem. Unfortunately iOS7 handles the tags of purchased music differently than iOS6 did.

My problem is, that I often don't like the original tags from the iTunes store because they are so inconsistent . So I change them in iTunes on my Mac. Everything seems to be okay until I don't sync my music with my iOS7 devices, my iPhone and iPad and I don't check them on my device. Somehow iOS7 reverts the tags for some of music back to their original. I check my devices' content in iTunes as well and iTunes shows my tags correctly but there is also a downloadable file in silver which has the original tags.

I've already tried different things to get rid of the original tags, deleted the content on my devices, synced automatically and manually as well, turned off the option to show all my music on my device but I'm still unable to list my tags instead of the original ones. The strange part is, that my tags are visible for some older purchases only.

Can anyone help to solve this problem?


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I have some old documents that were created with MacWrite (I think it was MacWrite Pro). Is there any software that will run on a modern system that can read these files?

Alternately, is the file format documented somewhere so that I can write my own program to translate the files?


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I'd like to know if it's possible to share my iPhone's music to play it in my computer with iTunes.

I can play my iTunes Home Shared library in my iPhone, but I'd like to do it the inverse way.
My iPhone is synced with my home's iTunes library, and have music I'd like to listen at my work's computer (want to use the computer speakers).
Both devices are on the same network.

Any clue?

Thanks.


texts: BlackMagic UlraStudio Mini Recorder - Black Screen on all Inputs - HDMI input to Mac Pro

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I am trying to get a live feed via the following setup on my MacBook Pro 2012 running Sierra 10.13.2.

HDMI Out on camera, plugged into HDMI In on BlackMagic device >> Thunderbolt out plugged into MacBook Thunderbolt port.

I have a few Camera's I have tested but none work.

I have tried BlackMagic drivers 10.9.7 and 10.9.5. When I open the BlackMagic Media Express, I just get a blank/black screen on the "Log/Capture" screen.

In the BlackMagic driver settings I have selected HDMI and under "Conversions" I have set "None".

The end goal is to use IStopMotion, which shows the device "Black Magic" as an option, but it is also a black screen.

The cameras I have tried are Sony HDR-SR10, Sony HDR-CX130 and Lumix DMC-GF1.


texts: Is there an easy way to obtain all of the Boot Camp drivers hosted by Apple by using Windows, and not relying on macOS?

texts:
Please note that although this has a similar title to my previous question (Does Apple offer a page that lists all versions of published Boot Camp drivers?), the answer that I'm looking for is much different. :)

I'm aware that Apple offer multiple versions of Boot Camp drivers for each Mac model, and that there are several different (unsupported) ways of obtaining this. Does anybody happen to have a way of obtaining all of the drivers that Apple host for each Mac model that doesn't require macOS to be used? I realise that these drivers can be downloaded in PKG form, which from my understanding then requires a Mac to extract the *.dmg file from it that can then be used to obtain the contained drivers - I'm hoping for a way to avoid macOS, and use Windows throughout the entire process. Again, just to confirm - I'm not looking to obtain any model-specific drivers, but instead would like to be able to download all drivers hosted by Apple - mainly for archival purposes and to examine the differences between each set of drivers to establish the different drivers that Apple use.


texts: I've seen the terminal command ncdu is available in various flavors of UNIX. Does anyone know if the same terminal command is available in OS X? Thanks for any help. It is greatly appreciated.


texts:
When receiving a PDF sent by AirDrop to an iOS device, after I accept the AirDrop request on the target device, I'm presented with a list of apps that can handle the file, as in the image below.

How can I customize that list?

How can I always save the file in Books?


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I want to build a simple word translator which may look like this:

COLUMN A: I have a list of words, each on a row. (1:Airplane, 2:Car, 3:Cat, 4:Dog etc..)
COLUMN B: I have a list of the same words in another language, each on a row. (1:Aereoplano, 2: Macchina, 3:Gatto, 4:Cane etc..)
Then I have two cells. In the first one, I can type any word. The second cell is the formula that I want to create. The formula should:

check if "my word"(the word that I type) is in the list of column A
if it exists, it should return its adjacent word of the second column
If no words match, the formula should not return anything.

I'm struggling with finding the correct functions to accomplish this, any pointers are welcome.

UPDATE
I finally found the solution. Best solution for me is
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B7;'Table 1-1'::B4:D53;3;FALSE);0)
REALLY thanks for your help.


texts: iOS 9.3 iBooks for iPhone starts with a blank shelf screen

texts:
I noticed that since updating to iBooks using iCloud with iOS 9.3, I'm starting to see this "blank screen" page when staring iBooks. The books are still there, searchable by name or visible when tapping the top left icon.

Toggling between list/shelf view makes books visible on the shelf view again, but this is rather annoying.

How can I make sure my iBooks works properly with iOS 9.3 and iCloud?


texts: Installation issues on unsupported MacBook 5,1 using Dosdude ´s mojave patch

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I am a newbie and this is my first post. I have been using my old MacBook successfully for a few month on dosdude ´ s 1.2.3 patch. My unibody MacBook has been upgraded  with 5 GB of ram and 256 SSD, with macOS Extended.
Everything was smooth.
Yesterday, I realized I needed to upgrade the system to get to 10.4.16 and I followed the tutorial again to install the 1.3.0 patcher skipping the clean install parts as was suggested in my case.
I think I did everything ok until I tried to do the final reboot after the patches. Then the progression bar halfway through went to a black screen with the little wheel turning then stopping then turning then stopping with the mouse icon appearing and disappearing at the same time...
I did try :

multiple reboot: no improvement

disk repair: showed no problem

safe mode: I can boot into it. I reinstalled the patch updater from the website to have the final version, reinstalled all the patches. In about a Mac, I can see I am indeed in version 10.4.16.

verbose mode shows something I do not get( please see caption)
I would like to try to avoid a clean install as it will be difficult to save my data (I am on holiday) and also I am scared that I won't be able to log in even in safe mode.

If anyone has an idea, I will be very grateful.
Many Thanks !


texts: Is there anyway to play MP4 file on my iMac from a iPad Pro wirelessly?

texts: I have an iMac and I have some mp4 videos in it. I'd like to play it from my iPad Pro remotely. Is it possible?


texts: Laptop Rarely Detects Wireless Network Login/Redirect Pages

texts:
I've been having trouble recently connecting to wireless networks with a login page - the kind you see with Gogo Inflight, many hotels, etc. where you connect to a network, launch a browser, and it redirects you to a login page.

Recently, while talking to tech support for one such network (they ended up just giving me access based on my MAC address), they suggested it was because I had fixed DNS servers, particularly 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Does this make any sense and if so, is there another way those should be set up to allow the detection of redirects?


texts: Consistent 'Quit Unexpectedly' with iFunBox

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This is really bugging me at the moment. I'm trying to find a way to SSH into my iPhone via USB without no Wi-Fi for my journey to college since it's an hour bus ride and in that time I'll code and reverse-engineer iOS Apps and what not. For the record, my iPhone is only jailbroken for those reasons.

However, I keep getting the same error over and over again. Here's the error details:

http://pastebin.com/4JcfD82M

My iTunes is fully updated (as required) and my OS X Version is 10.7.5

Any suggestions for me or an alternative to SSH into my iPhone over USB with no Wi-Fi or a solution to this problem?

Thank you.


texts: Why can I no longer reply from Messages notifications in macOS Big Sur?

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I have recently upgraded to macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 from Catalina 10.15.7.
Now, when I receive a Message, I get the notification but I no longer reply through it. This used to work in Catalina.
I found no useful options in System Preferences > Notifications nor in Messages > Preferences.
Any idea why this is happening and/or what I could do to solve this?
It's a very important feature for my everyday workflow at the Mac.


texts: Having trouble getting Target Display mode to work with Apple's Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter with new MacBook pro?

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I have a new macbook pro (2018) and want to connect it to my old iMac 2011 using target display mode. I used to be able to do this just fine with my old MacBook pro (mid 2012) that had a thunderbolt 2 port.

In the new set up, I have a thunderbolt 2 cable and an adapter to connect to the new MacBook pro that converts thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 (USB-C). When i press command + f2 on the iMac, the screen flickers and then just stays black. My MacBook pro recognizes another monitor...so not sure whats happening.

Both systems are running the same OS, High Siera, and I have tried changing the adapter to make sure that was not the problem. Any help would be appreciated because I see that some people have managed to get this to work! Are 3rd-party adapters better at getting the job done?


texts: iPhoto pictures lost, then found - how to save them to hard drive

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My iPhoto library became corrupted and no longer opened in iPhoto. (No, unfortunately I don't have a backup on Time Machine or other.) I thought the 26,000 photos were lost (since the iPhoto Library Package "shrunk" from 85 GB to 1 GB) but they have been found in a separate "lost+found" folder (it was found in the root directory next to "Applications" and "Library"). My question is about how to start over with iPhoto.

Here is what I've done so far:  I've started copying folder by folder from Finder to an external hard drive, and deleting the "corrupted" images as they are identified.  All the photos are scattered in a complicated hierarchy of folders with the parent folder names being successive years, like this:

2001
 - then under that - 01 (there are 10-15 of these types of folders)
 - then under that - 01 (also 10-15 of these)
 - then under that - 20130101-132905 (there are 50-60 of these types of folders)

This goes on and on through 2014.

Do I need to keep these folders intact?

What I want to do is save all my photos to my hard drive, then wipe my laptop clean and install OSX Mavericks, then re-install iPhoto, re-import all the images, and start over with making events, albums and face recognition.

Back to the folder structure, within the "lost+found" folder there is a duplicate set of folders with the same names, but along with the image files, there are more files with the same name but with "faces01" and such tacked on the end.  What I understand this to be has to do with the facial recognition in iPhoto.  Do I need to keep all of those image files too if I'm willing to just start over??  My reasoning is that since these appear to be just a bunch of files and no longer an iPhoto Library Package, then iPhoto would simply recognize those "face" images as new photos and I don't want that.

In addition, there are some files like iMovie Data, AlbumData, Photo Database, and a folder called Segments.  Do I need to keep those if I'm happy with just starting over?

I would just as soon keep ONLY the images and simply re-import them into iPhoto once I get my laptop running good again, but I thought I'd post on here and get any suggestions or advice before doing so.


texts: How can I distinguish a service form a process in Activity Monitor?

texts:
Is there a way to determine if an entry listed in Activity Monitor is a service (daemon) or a process (application)?

Examples:

Firefox (application)
com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper (daemon?)

Is there a good definition of what these terms (that I'm using loosely) mean in OS X?


texts: In terminal, how to get "say" to say things "right" ? ie using custom phonetics?

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I'd like to use "say" in the terminal to create audio files with a custom phonetic dictionary, or at the very least, say things how I think they should sound. From my understanding, this can't be accomplished through the "Voice Over Utility" configuration screen.

So to have say "speak" things correctly, I'm willing to:

use a custom phonetic dictionary or
change my input text to some phonetic variant

For example, I'd like to be able to have the word "colossians" said as I expect it, which is phonetically something like "kuh LOSH uhnz" without the pauses that the spaces cause in the word.


texts: Mail.app is pushing all my mails to junk mail

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Mail.app puts all of my mail into the junk mail folder. Junk mail filtering is turned off. I have also turned off junk mail filtering on the server side and turned off all sorting rules. This only happens on one user account on my computer, Mail.app behaves normally in the other user. Every day I have to select all junk mail and drag it to my inbox and then waste my time manually sorting.

How can I completely reinstall Mail.app and still retain my accounts and mailboxes? mail app version 10.3 osx 10.12.6

Difference compared to the link being mentioned:
my mails are getting that brown colour clearly telling that they have been considered as junks, without my consent.


texts: How can I set the default Reminders list on Mountain Lion?

texts:
I'm using Mountain Lion and defined a service to add a reminder. My problem: It adds it in the wrong Reminders list. I can find a preference anywhere to set the default Reminders list - Reminders (doesn't have preferences), Calendar, System Preferences. I must have set it under Lion to one list, but now I want to changed it.

The most common suggestion was that it's the list at the top of the "list list" - but that doesn't work for me.

So how do I change the default Reminders list in Mountain Lion?


texts: Set Bitcoin.app to mount image before opening itself

texts: I have all the BitCoin data encrypted on an image on Dropbox. Is it possible to have a script that mounts the data right before I open the BitCoin.app ?


texts: I am using Apple Mail 4.6 and have simple text lines for my signature.  Even though I have the "match text in email" box checked, the signature shows as much larger (obnoxiously large) to many recipients.  I've also tried it with that box unchecked, but that didn't change anything.  How can I make the signature lines match the text font and size of the message?  It looks fine on my computer but arrives huge to the recipient.  MAC OSX 10.6.8  (Yes, we do have plans to update some day)


texts: iPad apps transferring to iPhone through iCloud

texts: If I download any app on my iPad will it download itself to my iPhone? The iPhone & iPad share the same iCloud account.


texts: Cannot partition w/ Boot Camp Assistant on macOS Mojave

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Late 2016 Macbook Pro running Mojave 10.14.3, APFS-formatted (ugh).

I have run Disk Utility to verify my disk, and I've run fsck -fy from single-user mode several times. Both of these have reported absolutely no errors.

And yet, whenever I try to run Boot Camp Assistant to dual-boot with Windows 10, I get an error that says: "An error occurred while partitioning the disk."

Thinking I'd be clever, I also tried to create a partition manually through Disk Utility, but that didn't work either. I also reinstalled macOS in Recovery Mode.

I am starting to suspect that this is a problem with APFS. What other commands could I run to receive more information as to why Boot Camp Assistant won't let me create a partition to run Windows? Thanks in advance.


texts: How to get correct file permissions from Macports pip installs?

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Macports sets up the ownership of its Python site-packages directory as root.wheel with world-readable permissions.  Python packages instally via port install have the same

# ls -l -d /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
drwxr-xr-x  151 root  wheel  5134 Mar  8 10:56 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages

This of course prevents individual users from using pip install  to add packages, which is just fine since that really ought to be done as root.

However, if one uses sudo or a root shell to pip install, the packages are installed by pip as readable only by root.wheel (740).

% sudo pip install BeautifulSoup
...
% ls -l -d   /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  79567 Mar  8 11:09 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py

This precludes my user account from actually importing or using the package (*).

How can I get pip to always put reasonable permissions on installed packages?

Update (edit)

I have reworded the question to emphasize that it is about pip installs only.  I would also like to emphasize here that the problem is not about needing write permission to the modules.  The problem is that the modules are being installed without read permissions.

(*) A hack to fix it is to chmod a+rX the proper permissions (744/755) onto the newly installed package files

Update 2 (solution)

As suggested by both Mark and Ian, and confirmed in a quick test, this has to do with the umask for root.  Here is the documentation on how to change /etc/sudoers for OSX.  Note that it is not necessarily a good idea to change the umask for all sudo instances!


texts: A better usage of apropos for searching the man directory

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I will ask my question starting from a real example.
From the command line prompt, I want to search for a command line tool that will output information about my smart card.
Side Note: I already know that the command line tool that I am looking for is the system_profiler SPSmartCardsDataType but let's pretend I do not know yet.
Step #1
From the command line prompt I type the following: apropos smart card
Step #2
I receive the following result:
SmartCardServices(7)     - overview of SmartCard support
SmartCardServices-legacy(7) - overview of legacy SmartCard support
com.apple.ifdreader(8)   - SmartCard reader daemon
ctkahp(8)                - SmartCard Agent
ctkbind(8)               - SmartCard pairing tool
ctkd(8)                  - SmartCard daemon/agent
pam_smartcard(8)         - Smartcard PAM module
ssh-keychain(8), ssh-keychain.dylib(8) - smartcard/keychain support library

And of course I can use the SmartCardServices command line tool but this is not what I am looking for.
Question: How can I make a better search for a specific command line tool? I guess a search that will query the command line options too?
In my specific case if I search for the keyword smart card why the output does not show me at least the term system_profiler?
I hope I was clear, if not let me know and I can rephrase my question.  Once again, the above it is just an example, I use SmartCard because this is what I had issue in searching today, but it can be anything else.


texts: How to add person to a photo in Photos app

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I'd like to (manually?) add people "tags" to photos in the Photos app that were not recognized automatically. How would I do this?
My phone recognizes pictures of my baby from the front just fine but I'd like for photos taken of her back-side, for example, get tagged to her as well.
I have an iPhone 11 and a Windows laptop.


texts: Unable to install an update via the softwareupdate command line tool

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I am trying to install a macOS update from the  command line. Let's see what updates are available:
$/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* Label: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update-
    Title: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update, Version:  , Size: 5099042K, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,

But what is the actual label? According to this resource https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/update-macos-terminal-command/ it is the exact wording:

So the analogous value here would be macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update- . However that does not work:
 $/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i "macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update-"
Software Update Tool

macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update-: No such update
No updates are available.

I also tried some variants:
(python39) 10:25:21/~ $/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i "macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update"
Software Update Tool

macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update: No such update
No updates are available.

$/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i "macOS Catalina 10.15.7"
Software Update Tool

macOS Catalina 10.15.7: No such update
No updates are available.

So then how is the softwareupdate tool supposed to be used ?


texts: Logging of all process started since boot?

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For a few days now I've noticed that the PID keeps going up quickly, at a rate of over 200 or so an hour.

I'd like to make a log entry of every process that starts (and quits) so I can figure out what is happening.

I've looked in the logs and with Activity Monitor but I haven't seen anything obvious.

Whatever is happening doesn't appear to stop the MBP from going to sleep though.

Currently using Mountain Lion 10.8.0 on a late 2008 MacBook Pro


texts: Smart App Banner install attribution in App Store Connect App Analytics

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Reference: Smart App Banners

Are Smart Banner installs included in "Web Referrers" when looking at App Analytics > Sources > Web Referrers?

Definition of Web Referrers:

  Customers tapped a link form a website that brought them to your App Store product page

To me that doesn't sound like it includes Smart Banner installs.

  If you promote your app with Smart App Banners in Safari, you can add your campaign token and provider token when implementing a Smart App Banner on your website.
  source

This section on Smart Banners is a separate section from app analytics / referrers. This again implies to me that smart app banners are not included in web referrers and are considered their own channel.

Does anyone know have a more concrete answer? I find the App Store Analytics incredibly inconsistent and documentation lacking.


texts: Weird behavior of spotlight & program icons

texts:
My spotlight is acting a bit scatchy, it shows every program as a rar? archive.

Did a rebuild of the index file.
Did a repair permissions.

Who can Help me?


texts: Traceroute Terminal vs Network Utility different?

texts:
Why would a Terminal traceroute #.#.#.# show different results than using Network Utility.app? Here is the first 3 hops. I am connected to PIA VPN but regardless both methods should show the same results I would think.

Terminal

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1  10.199.1.1 (10.199.1.1)  42.559 ms  39.696 ms  38.293 ms
2  * * *
3  184-75-211-129.amanah.com (184.75.211.129)  49.639 ms
162.219.176.225 (162.219.176.225)  56.780 ms
dpaall.webexpressmail.net (162.219.179.65)  69.798 ms

Network Utility.app

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1  10.199.1.1 (10.199.1.1)  41.221 ms  38.355 ms  47.237 ms
2  vl685-c8-10-c6-1.pnj1.choopa.net (209.222.15.225)  41.262 ms  38.674 ms  41.912 ms
3  vl126-br1.pnj1.choopa.net (108.61.92.105)  44.092 ms  36.200 ms  40.407 ms


texts:
I'm looking for some software that would open BigTIFF files on a mac - ones that are 6GB or bigger. (I'm not opposed to writing some code to do so, but I'd prefer a prewritten solution.)

Does macOS have any built-in software to handle this sort of thing? If not, are there any commonly-used external programs or libraries that I could employ?

I just need to view the images and be able to zoom in - I don't need to edit them.

NOTE:

Just to be clear, I am not wanting to view large TIFF images. I am specifically referring to bigTIFF images. If you are not familiar with these, please refer to http://bigtiff.org/


texts: I'd like to set both vm_compression=1 plus serverperfmode=1. Can I achieve this by nvram boot-args "vm_compression=1","serverperfmode=1"


texts:
I am trying to develop an enterprise environment where the specified app in the app store gets installed in all the iOS devices connected to the company infrastructure, which has a windows based AD to verify the users. I went through various materials, and I found over the air profile delivery and few other methods like MDM to push the configuration. But it seems only the configuration can be pushed using these features.

In Apple Configurator and iPhone Configuration Utility, the devices should be connected to the computer physically. I would like to install the app in all the company-owened devices (around 1000 devices) without asking any permission from the user. Is there any way to do this?


texts:
I have a problem with Wine and Steam on my Mac. I recently updated to 10.8. When I had Lion Wine and Steam worked perfectly, but because of some problems I had to re-install Wine. The thing is, now that Wine is re-installed, I can't install Steam. First off, when I run the installer the console shows:

fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.

Then, after I start the installation and press the first next, the X11 window disappears and never re-opens (believe me, I left it for half an hour and nothing happens, not that it should take more than a few seconds, but still). X11 is still running, or rather XQuartz. What is wrong and what does fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. mean?


texts: How do I download an app to an iPad that asks for another user's password?

texts:
Probably going to sound wordy to explain but I've got an issue where my Apple ID is signed into my iPad but when I try to download an app it requests my ex girlfriends password for her Apple ID. When I'm using anything else on my iPad it requests my password and it's no problem.

Does that make sense and can anyone help?


texts: How to fix MacBook Pro (2018 13") Keyboard lag?

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I noticed that there's a small lag (~1 second) when entering text after the keyboard backlight is gone off.
I have set to turn off keyboard lights after 10 seconds of inactivity (attached screenshot).

Any help to fix the issue is appreciated.

EDIT: I also noticed that this lag is global when the blacklights  get turned off and also when it turns back on when’s typing. YouTube and many other screen items hang and resume.

EDIT2: What I have done so far:

I did boot up in Safe Mode and the issue was not there in the Safe Mode. But when I boot up back in normal mode the issue was there again.
Contacted Apple Support, reset SMC, NVRAM, reinstalled MacOS Issue was not resolved.
Factory reset (erase hard drive, reinstall MacOS). Issue is still present.

What I noticed:

When the keyboard backlight goes off and comes back in, ControlStrip process causes a CPU spike which can be seen in activity monitor.
If I set the Touch Bar to show F1, F2, etc. keys, then the issue goes away.


texts: Can Mail count unread messages (for the Dock icon) from only some of my accounts?

texts: I have 7 mail accounts configured with Apple Mail. The dock icon shows the count of new emails for all of my accounts. How can I disable notification for 2 of those 7 accounts, so it just shows me the counter for the other 5 accounts?


texts: Will SCPlugin work on Mac OS Yosemite (10.10)?

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I'm looking for a svn client for Mac Yosemite (10.10) which is similar to TortoiseSVN on Windows and RabbitSVN on Ubuntu.

I came across SCPlugin, when I could see that its latest version is dated as Feb-2010.

Would like to know if it works fine on Yosemite?
(Or)
Are there any other substitute svn clients for the same?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Can I boot my mac without pressing the power key?

texts:
Back in the day you could start a Macintosh using the power key on the keyboard (like the Apple Extended 2 has one in the top right).
These days we have many (more) input options like: Power, USB, Ethernet, HDMI, Thunderbolt, Audio in/out, SD card reader, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.
I have a MacMini (2011) which is under the desk. Is it possible to boot a mac (or my Mini) after a shutdown WITHOUT pressing the power button?
I tried the 'Start up automatically after a power failure' but after a cold shutdown, a power cord disconnect/connect did not boot my computer.


texts:
I recently bought a Macbook Pro 2020 base model but I cannot open the lid with one hand. The opening is smooth no doubt but I have to use other hand to the base.
Is this uncommon?


texts: Can't do anything with external hard drive, “.Trashes” is probably the boogyman

texts:
I bought an external Samsung hard drive today. But I'm not able to do anything with it. Here are the problems I'm having:

I can't put anything on the hard drive. Finder gets stuck at 'preparing copying files'
I can delete anything on the hard drive system files, except the
folder ".Trashes". It gives error 'Unexpected error: -50'
I tried to empty the trash can, but nothing changes.
I set the file permission on the .Trashes to read/write everyone,
doesn't change a thing
Trying to format the whole drive with Disk Utility, but quits at
start, because the drive cannot be deactivated.

I've tried a few terminal commands

sudo -s -r rf /Volumes/Untitled\ 1/.Trashes` //Directory not empty
-r rf /Volumes/Untitled\ 1/.Trashes` //No permissions

Also

cd /Volumes ls -al cd name_of_partition ls -al
rm -rf .Trashes

Again: Permission error.

Also:

I can't change drive permissions via Disk Utility, via the button 'recover drive permissions', because it is 'blank'

One thing that really bothers me: I really want to format the partition, but every time it says 'Disk cannot be deactivated', when trying to recover, wipe or format.

I really can't figure out how to delete .Trashes, format the drive or get the damn thing working.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to pass keyboard hotkeys from VMWare Windows VM back to OSX host?

texts:
I'm running VMWare 5 on a MacBook Pro, and I'd like to be able to send certain combinations of keys out to OSX while working in my Windows VM.  I've set up a couple Automator scripts that do Play/Pause/Next on my Google Music tab in Chrome when I hit Ctrl-Cmd-Z, Ctrl-Cmd-X, and so on.  They work great while I'm using any other OSX app, but VMWare traps the keys and routes them to Windows, so that they no longer function as global hotkeys.

Is there a way to fix this?  I see options to map certain keys on the Mac keyboard to others in Windows, but no way to do the reverse.


texts:
I have enabled the setting Require password 1 minute after sleep or screen saver begins. However, I sometimes noticed that my password is not asked after I open my laptop in the morning. This seems to coincide with Power Nap runs: if you open the laptop during that period, or probably in the minute after it goes back to sleep (checked using the Console: RTC: Maintenance), the password is not asked.

Is this a bug/feature, or is there another setting I'm missing? Can others confirm this? (There is a simple test to find out when your computer is in Power Nap.)


texts:
me$ ln -s ~/x/y/ ~/Desktop/
ln: /Users/me/Desktop//: File exists

Why does this attempt at creating a symbolic link to ~/x/yon the Desktop now work? The only way I can seem to get something like a symbolic link is this way:

ln -s * ~/Desktop/

I'm confused, this was really simple in Ubuntu.


texts:
I am considering purchasing an iMac. Our office situation is such that the new computer will be placed where a monitor is presently located for a Windows laptop connected via a docking station.

Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Alternatively, is the iMac capable of hooking up to a second monitor? (my monitor has multiple inputs which I could just switch between) Are there other options that I am missing?


texts: Can I continue downloading Mountain Lion In Sleep Mode?

texts: I am downloading OSX Mountain Lion via the App Store however it is taking a while, will it continue downloading in sleep mode?


texts:
Lets assume that I have apps that I have on offer on the Apple App Store. Again, lets assume that I no longer want to support an app and that I am removing the app from the app store.

If my app no longer works or functions correctly after dropping support, is there a way I can suggest deleting the app or are their penalties for having apps that behave this way?


texts: Disable Apple FaceTime Camera kernel module

texts:
One day my FaceTime Camera stopped working, so I decided to reboot my MacBook. After waiting hours, MacOS didn't complete the boot process.

In verbose mode ⌘+V, I can see initialization hangs with what I assume to be loading of a kernel module:

AppleCamIn::init
AppleCamIn::probe
AppleCamIn::start

I took my Mac to an Apple store where hardware testing didn't show any issues (although I don't think the diagnostic tests check the camera) and they reinstalled Mojave. The problem still persists. I can still boot into single user mode ⌘+S to mount volumes, perform fsck, etc. and I have been using my Mac in "Safe Boot" for over a week now.

Several questions:

Has anyone seen this type of issue before?
How do I unload this specific kernel module?
If this doesn't fix my issue, how can I further diagnose the difference between being able to boot in "Safe Mode" versus a normal boot?


texts: El Capitan Terminal command to toggle clock between Analog and Digital?

texts:
Is there a terminal command that will toggle between the Analog and Digital clock in the menu bar?

Can do it via point-and-click, but would like to incorporate it into a script that prepares my computer for recording screencasts.


texts: How to import OS X keyboard text shortcuts?

texts:
On OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, I use keyboard text shortcuts:

I have a large list of text shortcuts I would like to use.

Is it possible to import my shortcuts into the OS X/iOS list of shortcuts?
Where are my keyboard text shortcuts stored on my Mac?


texts: macOS 10.15.5 screwed up Sound Output device

texts:
I've noticed it only as soon as yesterday, so I'm going to pin it on the latest macOS release, i.e. 10.15.5.

The sound output is unreliable in the latest update. I have three output devices in my setup:

Internal Speakers;
Speakers on the secondary monitor; and
Plugged-in headphones.

Yesterday I saw that both my headphones as well as internal speakers were engaged simultaneously. Meaning, I was listening to music on the headphones and some alarm sounds (like the sound that plays when you have hit the end of current line in Terminal etc.) would come through internal speakers.

Today I noticed that the audio from a monitor is coming from the secondary monitor's speakers while message notification sound came off the internal speakers.

Is anyone else seeing something similar?

Is this something that would be / need to be fixed or has Apple had some better understanding of sounds output and decided to engage multiple outputs at the same time?


texts:
I installed terminator using these instructions:

https://jee-appy.blogspot.com/2017/10/install-terminator-mac.html

Then I started it up with the terminator command from the terminal.  Terminator comes up, but I don't see a shell prompt.  When I use it on Ubuntu I'm able to to see the shell prompt and type.


texts: Wifi hardware undetected after installing MacOS Sierra

texts:
This is a follow-up question to Mac Pro 4,1 (Early 2009) Sierra Compatibility?

I installed macOS Sierra on an early 2009 Mac Pro and now I noticed that my wifi hardware "is not detected". Here's what I did:

I used the MacPro Firmware updater to change it's version from 4,1...5,1.
I installed a 480GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD which I bought from OWC in the next available slot.
I installed Sierra Public beta. It's been updated twice, and now it's at 10.12 Beta (16A313a)
I now noticed that the wifi icon in the toolbar has a big X on it, and it says that no wifi

Is it possible that there's a new incompatibility with the wifi card with Sierra, or that somehow adding the new SSD caused a problem?

Does anyone have experience with this and/or have any hints?


texts: After migrating to iCloud Photo Library can the iLifeAssetManagement folder be deleted?

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Before iCloud Photo Library and Photos.app in OS X 10.10.3, we had iCloud PhotoStream. iCloud PhotoStream synced its photos to the ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement folder (and subfolders). Even though PhotoStream only synced 1000 photos, that folder could get rather large, but you had to live with it.

Now that iCloud Photo Library exists, and everything is stored in the cloud (and the cloud copy is "the truth"), I'm assuming that the iLifeAssetManagement folder is no longer used and can be deleted. Does any one know for sure if that's true?

In my case, the folder hasn't had changes since I upgraded to iCloud Photo Library, which would indicate it's not being used.


texts: Change Volume of apple headphones (cable) via headphone volume does not work?

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I am using the normal cable Apple headphones and the voluma control works on my iPhone 5S, but not when I plug them into my Mac (Macbook Pro Early 2013, macOS Sierra 10.12.4). If I am not mistaken, they were working some time ago?

Any suggestions how I can fix this, or am I mistaken in that they should be working?


texts: If I used tar to archive Time Machine's Backups.backupdb folder, can the resulting file be uploaded to a cloud service and later used without issues?

texts: If I were to use tar -xvf to create an archived .tar file of the Backups.backupdb folder Time Machine creates, would it sufficiently preserve hard links, etc? For example, if I uploaded to, say Google Drive, and later downloaded it in the future and extracted it to a new drive, would the extracted folder still be readable my Time Machine? Or would the safer route be imaging the entire drive?


texts: Is it possible to customize multi-touch gestures on an iPad?

texts:
The iPad has multi-touch gestures:

Is it possible to customize these gestures? If so, how?


texts: Safari on MacBookPro opens mobile YouTube

texts:
After WWDC2020 I can't open common YouTube in Safari on my MacBookPro 2020. I'm being redirected to m.youtube.com each time which looks just like on iPad or iPhone. The main problem is that I can't watch any video "because macOS doesn't recognize internet addresses starting with rtsp:" (I see this when I start any video). What to do about it?
UPD: I have macOS Catalina 10.15.5
UPD#2: I have a default user agent and changing it to any other doesn't help.


texts: How to format new internal HDD on MacBook Pro

texts:
I have just replaced the original HDD in my late 2011 MacBook Pro with an SSD.

I did the Command-Option-R startup procedure to install the OS from scratch, however when I try to use disk utility to reformat the disk it just shows up the 2GB internet restore partition disk1s1.

If I open the terminal and execute te command diskutil list I can however see the new disk disk1 at 1.1TB.

How can I reformat the new drive so I can install the (latest) OS?


texts: Iphone 4 works with radio, I phone 5 doesnt

texts: I have a Pioneer T1809 car stereo with aux adapter for Ipod/phone. It will work with my friends Iphone 4 but will only charge my Iphone 5.. No music.. It doesnt recognize it as being hooked up. Will I need to get a new cable or a new adapter for the existing cable. I had to use an adapter to hook it up to the 5 obviously, do I have the wrong one or do I need an entirely new cable.


texts: iPad initial setup join Wi-Fi by scanning QR code

texts: Is it possible to configure things such that iPad gives me an option to open the Camera app to scan a QR code to connect to a Wi-Fi access point? Do note that the iPad will be enrolled into DEP and this is required during the initial setup.


texts: Retrieving Old Mag Issues from Newstand iPad

texts:
On my ancient iPad (original, 32GB), I had a subscription to PSM3 with all the issues I "own" downloaded to my device. I'd love to do a format of this device and free up some space -- as it is getting rather slow -- but I don't want to lose these issues I've paid for. Once I format the device, or delete the issues, there's no way I can get them back because the magazine is no longer in print.

Is there a way to look through the iPad's data/root folder, retrieve the files for that specific issue I've download onto the device, and transfer it to another machine, preferably my Windows 7 PC? I've looked around but have found no answer. Any ideas?

(Note: I also have access to a Mac laptop, the model I don't know, from work if that would make things easier.)

EDIT: I've also tried browsing through the system files on my PC but could not find any indication of the files I needed. A simple browse through the device does not appear to work (unless there is a specific folder I'm not looking in).


texts: Images are "stuck" and visible all the time on the screen

texts:
Something really weird is happening. Sometimes images "freeze" and show up all the time on top of everything. This time it was an image from the finder preview, I suspect that it's always photos from finder but I can not confirm that 100%.

I recorded a video of my screen here: https://imgur.com/a/f6Lvs9l

Any idea what causes this? Only a restart resolves the issue for me for some days, then it happens seemingly randomly again.

Thanks!:)


texts: I noticed that Soundflower only records mono here. I tried multiple different sound sources with stereo output (Ableton, iTunes, milkytracker) and I tried multiple different sound recorders (AudioXplorer, Audacity). I tried both the 2ch and 64ch mode and I checked the volume and mute information in the Audio MIDI Setup Tool to be correct. This seems to suggest that the problem is Soundflower itself and not the application using it. Has anyone encountered the same problem and has found a workaround? I am using OS X 10.13.4. Thanks and best regards


texts: How do I see the number for an unknown caller who is not in my contact list?

texts: I have an iphone 4 and although I get a notification for a missed call but i cant see the number of the person calling all it shows is missed call from "unknown" i cant find anything on the internet regarding a fix or a setting? please help, if a person calls me and they're not in my contact list i can never call back cause i don't know who called? this is extremely frustrating!


texts:
We have a large number of Mac Minis that are running a piece of software that we have developed and have been distributed to various clients.

We recently updated our code signing certificate as the old one had expired. However, when we put a new version of the application which is signed with the new certificate on one of these machines, it pops up asking to 'Allow Once', 'Allow Always' etc.

Since we have to remotely update these machines, it is not practical to click 'Allow Always' and type in the password on all these machines. Is there a command line way to make the new certificate recognised so that if a machine is updated with a version containing the new certificate, it will run straight away?


texts: Changing volume at command line using script/function

texts:
I found this nifty command which sets volume to 50% (or any level desired):

osascript -e 'set volume output volume 50'

I'd love to have a script or function that lets me type v 50 or v 30, etc. to easily change the volume levels.

I tried making this bash function:

v() {
# adjust volume function
osascript -e 'set volume output volume $1'
}

However this gives:

25:26: syntax error: Expected expression but found unknown token. (-2741)

How can I make this work?


texts: How to fix dark screen after locking iphone 4 ios6?

texts:
The last week or two my iphone 4 started dimming it's screen to almost black whenever I lock it. Then when I unlock it I have to get to the brightness slider and move the slider to restore light to the screen.

Can anyone explain why this is happening and how to fix it?


texts:
When writing, I often need to use tildes like ó (but still need my keyboard to be in English), so I just hold the key down and press 4:

Usually it works fine. But several times have I ended up with this:

I don't know. It's like some sort of lag happens and the keystroke is repeated or something.

This is not software specific: it has happened to me in all sorts of applications with textfields. Even web browsers.

Is this a known problem? Is there a solution?

I am using Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.3. I have a Macbook Pro 15" Retina Display Mid 2014. I don't use other Macs so I can't say I can reproduce this issue in them. I use the builtin keyboard.


texts: Dual External Monitors on a (late) 2017 MacBook Pro

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I'm trying to set up my 2017 MBP with two external monitors. I have a Totu USB C Hub, TOTU 12-in-1 Type C Hub with dual HDMI inputs. It's supposed to allow me to use two external monitors with my MBP in clamshell mode but after exhausting SO and YouTube, I've found no good workaround. My machine only has two USB-C inputs (Thunderbolt 3). Anyone out here doing this?

The other posts similar to this were quite old and I'm looking for a solution specifically for newer MBP's with the two USB-C ports. Thanks,


texts:
Is there any Mac client to enable the "Find my iPhone" service? It would be better from the command line, but an app will also do.

None of the programs I have tried seem to work right now.


texts: Why is "Real Memory" greater than "Memory" for kernel_task process?

texts:
What exactly does Activity Monitor's Memory column mean?

How come in the example situation below (from a macOS High Sierra system) the Real Mem column is greater than the Memory column?

According to a previous question How is the "Memory" column calculated in Activity Monitor?, one might expect that Real Mem should always be less than or equal to Memory, which apparently is not always true.

Edit:
This behavior is not only applicable for the kernel task but also to other processes. For example, in the screenshot below we see a couple Google Chrome Helpers experiencing the same behavior, where Real Mem > Memory. The same can be seen with Dock, Notes, Spotlight, Facetime.


texts: How do I create a custom keyboard layout like "Dvorak - Qwerty Cmd"

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On macOS there is a special keyboard layout("Dvorak - Qwerty Cmd") which allows you to type in Dvorak while still using the more familiar Qwerty keyboard shortcuts.

Is there way with Ukulele or another keyboard creator to create a layout that works in a similar way?


texts: Is there a way to convert apps into menu bar apps hidden from the dock?

texts: I have a number of apps that I run daily in the background (e.g. midipipe for using a midi controller to control my computer, and a pomadoro productivity app).  I would like these apps to appear in my top menubar, where many other apps live that are hidden from the command+tab app switcher (screen shot included).  Is there a way to place an app up here and hide it from the app switcher?  I'm aware of the info.plist hack to hide apps from the app switcher, but I'm looking for a different kind of solution


texts: iTunes is trying to upgrade to iOS 4.3.5 instead of iOS 5

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Currently I'm running iOS 4.3.3 on my iPad.

I was expecting to ugrade to iOS 5 directly.but iTunes is trying to upgrade to iOS 4.3.5.

Do I need to first upgrade to 4.3.5 and then to iOS 5? Is there any way to upgrade to iOS 5 directly?

I can, however, download the ipsw. But anyway I would like to know.


texts: Installing a SSD, should I or should I not disconnect the battery (MacBook Pro)?

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I'm about to switch my hard drive for an SSD. I checked for instructions online and found tutorials that instruct to disconnect the battery as a first step but I also found some forum posts from people saying it fried their logic board.
A person also said a genius said disconnecting the battery could fry a logic board.

The mac I want to install the SSD into is a MacBook Pro 13" late 2011.

Should I disconnect the battery ?
Thanks !


texts:
Apparently there's a process names oscsp that takes a lot of bandwidth. I'm not sure what it's for; but I came across an article that showed how to turn it off in Keychain Access Preferences.

I'm not sure if this raises any problems. Any suggestions?


texts: How to find polynomial trendline x value when using a date?

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So I have a chart that I have created in Numbers, with a trendline using a polynomial function, and I've got it to display the formula, but I cannot for the life of me, figure out what x value I'm supposed to use to get the resulting y value!

x is a date / time, so clearly it must be something related to the date value. But I've tried using ms since the unix epoch, secs since the unix epoch, etc. each to no avail. Some "other" spreadsheet tools make it clear how they convert dates into numbers when creating polynomial trendlines, Numbers however, does not.

Does anyone know what the hell value I am supposed to use!?

For those that might not be able to read the graph easily, an x value of 01/01/2019 00:00:00 should give a y value of 1,000~.


texts: Would it be possible for a share sheet item to open a specific browser?

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I'm thinking of a way to easily switch browser or simply open pages in Chrome by using the share sheet.

Can an app to create an icon in the share sheet that opens a third-party app? Does UIActivityViewController allow this?


texts: How assign a webpage to a letter in Chrome?

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When I write an alphabet in the Chrome search bar then usually some website from the History shows up which is good if that page is what you want but bad otherwise.

I want this: I type the letter e and let's say the webpage examppllee.com/blabla shows up. It is likely that examppllee.com/blabla is from my history. Suppose I want that only examppllee.com to show up without the /blabla extension. How do I do this?


texts: Does updating of OS X operating system updates built-in software like Apache, git, PHP, Ruby ? If it is what happens with old software ?


texts: How do I download originals for a certain album in Photos when using “Optimize Device Storage” on iPad?

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I use Optimize iPad Storage in the Apple Photos app for my iPad, but sometimes I want an entire album offline to show someone. Is there a better way to do this than flicking through the photos one by one and waiting for them to download?

If this is not possible, I don't mind downloading all the photos. Selecting Download and Keep Originals doesn’t seem to download the photos until I view them.


texts: iPhoto library was deleted, had me create a new library. Went into Finder & don't have the "Masters" folder. Where are my original photos?

texts:
I did a little research, & I found numerous websites directing me to go to iPhoto on Finder, right click, & click on "Show Package Contents". When I click on it, I am directed to a folder that says "Contents".

However, when I open that folder, I was promised there would be a folder called "Masters", but I found 8 folders and 4 other items- none with the name "Masters" & none of the folders had my original pictures.

To be more specific, the names of the folders I have are: _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt, Frameworks, MacOS, Library, PlugIns, Resources, and XCPServices.

Are my photos gone forever?


texts:
My ipod has a selfie camera but not a second camera.

Can you actually build a camera into an iPod?


texts: How to install from an url with hombrew?

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I would like to install a specific version of python3 (python 3.6.8) on my macbook.

I tried to:

brew install https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.6/python-3.6.6-macosx10.9.pkg

However, it doesnt work. What other options do I have for installing that specific version of python in my mac?


texts: Change the functionality of the function and control keys on macOS Sierra

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I want switch the functionality of the function and control keys on the keyboard of the MacBook Pro.

There is a similar question to this, but unfortunately the software mentioned, now called Karabiner, doesn't seem to work with macOS Sierra.

Is there a method to make this achievable in macOS Sierra?


texts: Mail can't connect to... non-existing account

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I get alerts from mail that a password to one of the mail accounts is not valid. This may well be - however, I'm not using that account any longer. In the account list - this account is NOT present - so I couldn't remove it.

I think mail is either confused somehow because this old account has been replaced by a similar account (anne@mydomain.com is now anne.stahl@mydomain.com). Or, perhaps the old account is still on one of my other devices (iPhone or iPad) and somehow saved in the cloud (I checked the devices).


texts: Log into the desktop remotely and automatically

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I have an OSX machine I'm trying to automatically run applications on remotely via SSH.  Everything works great, as long as the user is already logged into the computer.  If I log out, or reboot the computer, my application fails until I log in again.

Is there any way to trigger a desktop login over SSH?  I'm looking to avoid needing to manually intervene via Remote Desktop and the like.  In case it matters, I'm running Mavericks presently, but will be upgrading to Yosemite soon.

I could, in theory, configure it to login automatically at boot, but I'd prefer a scripted solution I can run, assuming such a thing is possible.

I also found this article from 2005 suggesting this is possible with osascript, but it fails on Mavericks:

$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "USERNAME"'
_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
36:55: execution error: An error of type -10810 has occurred. (-10810)


texts: How can I restart from an Apple script without warnings?

texts:
I wrote this Apple Script to bless my Windows partition and boot to Windows only once:

do shell script "/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly " with administrator privileges
tell application "System Events"
    restart
end tell
tell me to quit

However, each time I use this script to get to Windows, and then come back to OS X, it gives me the dialog that says my computer restarted because of a problem.

What is the correct "clean" or "official" way to restart with an Apple Script so that I don't get these warnings?


texts: I just imported music from some CD's I had, and iTunes put each track into a single album. How do I put all the tracks into 1 album?


texts: Is there an annotation function that allows continuous text annotation without having to repeatedly click on the 'T'?

texts: Preview before yosemite had the ability to click on the Text annotation and allow you to continuous annotations without having to repeatedly press 'Text'. I want to be able to annotate anywhere on the pdf - is this possible with the upgrade?


texts: My nan's iPad volume isn't working. She asked me why and I'm not sure why it could be as the volume is turned up and she can hear her music but she goes on to Snapchat and she can't hear anything but when she uses her headset she can hear.


texts: Is it possible to disable force shutdown from the power button?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and I would like to know if is possible to disable the "force shutdown by pressing the power button for 5 seconds".


texts: I bought a new Macbook and i'm trying to install windows on this computer with bootcamp (i added windows to my other macs too without problem) but this app won't gives me the option to choose the usb drive where he downloads the drivers and boot files... why is the first 1 - 2 step gone ? This way if the windows install starts it tells me there is a problem because no boot file is there... why i can't choose the usb ? did apple updated something ? :/ can't find any solutions... any idea ? Thank you


texts: I am looking for an app that has some of the same functionality (ssh specifically) as the Terminal application on the desktop. What different apps exist for iOS that have this functionality?


texts:
We use an auto login script using ARD to avoid visiting each station in our lab. Mountain Lion no longer works so that a cursor appears at the login screen. I've tried numerous scripts to activate the cursor to no avail. Pressing 5 on they numerical pad will do it as will a generic mouse down action. To avoid having to do this at each computer, how can I script one of these actions in an osascript?
thank you in advance.


texts: Force IMAP folder to completly resync in iOS Mail

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[iPhone 6, iOS 10.0.2]

I recently added a new IMAP email account (hosted at Rackspace, FWIW) to my phone using the standard Add Email Account settings. Everything seemed to go well... except when I now access my Sent folder (located on the server), there are obvious emails missing from the list displayed in Mail. If I search for the "missing" emails, they can be found, but they still don't show up in the list for email in Sent.  There are 978 emails in the folder, but maybe 150 shown on the iPhone?  And the list goes all the way to the first date of emails in the folder, it is just that somehow, ~150 arbitrary emails of the 978 were chosen to be listed.  Trying to refresh the folder does not help.  Any suggestions on how to see all the emails in the folder?


texts: How do I upload my iPhone pictures/videos to my Windows Vista PC?

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I found a page in iTunes that appears to allow me to sync pictures from my PC to my iPhone, but I can't see any obvious way to upload pictures taken on my iPhone4. How do I do this?

What about videos I've taken on my iPhone?

Just in case any of these matter:
iPhone 4.0.1
iTunes 9.2.0.61
Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2


texts: Use MacBook Air as a monitor for Win7 Desktop PC

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Not sure if this is the right place to ask: but i have a Win7 machine and i want to save apartment space by foregoing the monitor, and use my existing MacBook Air screen as a temporary monitor when i reboot my Win7 machine.

Does that work?


texts: iTunes Keyboard Shortcut for exiting search function

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In iTunes on OS X, you can search for music in your library by using the CMD+F shortcut. However, as far as I can tell, there exists no shortcut for accessing those items once the search has completed. This isn't a huge problem, but it certainly would make searching faster if such a shortcut existed. Does anyone know if this exists? Thanks.

Edit: I should note that I use the "Songs" tab (as opposed to the Albums, Artists, Genres, etc. tabs).


texts: iCloud Photo Sharing - Not receiving invitation

texts:
I previously had an iCloud Photo Share album and then the pictures would stop appearing on my stream when the other member added new ones. We then removed me from the Stream to re-add. When we tried, I do not receive the invite. We tried my phone number and Apple ID. When I send the same person an invite to a "test" stream, they get the invitation right away.

I have other photo streams with other people and have not ran into any issues, just with this one person. They are able to send invites to other people for other albums as well. I am on iOS 9, they're on 8 but we had this issue when we were both on 8 as well.

Has anyone else experienced this?


texts: How can I create an event that recurs every other day in the iPhone calendar?

texts:
How do I create an event on my I phone calendar that would occur every other day without manually putting in the
Event on each day in the calendar?


texts: Can man pages be converted to html and/or pdf format?

texts:
The command man bash produces a lot of output. What I desire would be to either search the results or print the results to paper. So, is there a way to convert a man page to a html and/or pdf document.

I would prefer the answer work for not only man bash, but rather for any man page.

I know the output from man bash has been posted on the internet, but usually these posts are not current.


texts:
I have a VPN server set up on my MacMiniColo machine running OS X 10.9.5 server.

My iPhone (running iOS 8.0.2) can connect to the VPN server via LTE.

My MacBook Pro (also running 10.9.5) can connect to the VPN server IFF if it (the MacBook Pro) is connected directly to my U-Verse modem.

So far so good.

However (here’s where it goes wonky) if I connect my MacBook Pro to the AirPort Extreme (either by Wi-Fi or Ethernet), then I can no longer connect to my VPN, and I get this message instead:

If I connect my iPhone to the Wi-Fi network created by the AirPort Extreme, then I can no longer connect either, and I get a similar message.

Google taught me that the usual problems are:

AirPort Extreme has Back To My Mac enabled (but I have disabled BTMM on the AirPort and have restarted the AirPort)
The IP address for the VPN is the same as the local LAN (but my VPN IP range starts at 10.0.0.150 and the local LAN uses 192.168.x.x, and I confirmed that I do get a 10.0.0.15x IP when I connect.)
Port Forwarding can interfere (so I have removed all of the port forwarding settings).

I am at a loss.

I can conclude that:

The username/password is correct on my iPhone and MacBook Pro, because I can get them to work, just not through the Wi-Fi.
The VPN is setup correctly on the server side, because I can connect to it, just not through the AirPort Extreme.
The problem would seem to be something to do with the AirPort Extreme, but I am at a loss to figure out what it could be, since I have tried everything I can to eliminate known problems with the AirPort.

So… What should I try next?

Could this be related to IPv6 somehow? I have no idea what I should use when it comes to IPv6 settings.

Update: Just to be thorough, I reset the AirPort Extreme to its default settings and tried again. I still get the same errors on the iPhone and MacBook Pro.

Update 2:

I turned on “verbose” logging and these are the only messages which appear:

Thu Oct 16 12:55:12 2014 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Oct 16 12:55:12 2014 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Oct 16 12:55:12 2014 : L2TP connecting to server 'my.servername.here' (my.server.ip.here)...
Thu Oct 16 12:55:12 2014 : IPSec connection started
Thu Oct 16 12:55:12 2014 : IPSec phase 1 client started
Thu Oct 16 12:55:22 2014 : IPSec connection failed


texts:
I am almost a newbie to command prompt control in Mac.

Yesterday, when I open terminal and hit command prompt twice. I have a very neat result showing a few truly useful stuffs... But after I instal Pycharm today and maybe the path variable has been changed, I get about 1500+ results in the bin when i double hit the tab... I just want to revert to my original neat bins but I am almost an absolute newbie and don't know what to do. Could anyone help me with this?

Also as you see, do you think there is some sort of newbie guide to use Mac as a professional computational scientist? Thank you:)


texts: How to permanently change TTL on macOS Catalina?

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Before macOS Catalina it was possible to permanently change TTL by creating /etc/sysctl.conf file. It seems this is not an option anymore. After Catalina upgrade the file was moved to my desktop with the message that it is no longer compatible with macOS security settings.

What would be the best way to do it now in macOS Catalina?


texts: Permissions problems with running rsync via periodic or via launchd in Catalina

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So, I've got some scripts that use rsync to periodically backup folders on my MBP, but once I moved to catalina they stopped working when invoked by periodic or by launchd.

This is clearly a permissions thing because the scripts work fine when I run them by hand. The problem is, I can't figure out what I need to give permissions to... any ideas?

Here's a sample of the scripts:

#!/bin/bash

DESTDIR="/Volumes/GoPro Video"
DESTINATION=$DESTDIR

# Source is relative to the home directory.
SOURCEDIR=/Users/michaelheinz/Movies
SOURCE="."

OPTIONS='-rltPW --relative'

echo "cd \"$SOURCEDIR\"; rsync $OPTIONS \"$SOURCE\" \"$DESTINATION\""

(cd "$SOURCEDIR"; rsync $OPTIONS "$SOURCE" "$DESTINATION"; if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then echo SUCCESS; else echo "FAILURE"; fi) 2>&1 | tee /tmp/$$.log

LOGFILE=$(basename ${0})
mv /tmp/$$.log /var/log/mwh/${LOGFILE}.mwh

A typical error might be:

[Matilda bin]> cat /var/log/mwh/sync_gopro_videos.mwh
building file list ...
147 files to consider
./
rsync: failed to set times on "/Volumes/GoPro Video/.": Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: failed to set times on "/Volumes/GoPro Video/.": Operation not permitted (1)

sent 3703 bytes  received 26 bytes  7458.00 bytes/sec
total size is 24761084481  speedup is 6640140.65
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-54/rsync/main.c(996) [sender=2.6.9]
FAILURE
[Matilda bin]>

dmesg reports lines of messages like this:

System Policy: deny(1) file-read-data /Volumes/APFS-Photos/Libraries/2020.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/caches/graph/CLSLocationCache.sqlite-walSandbox: rsync(36610)

This is from a job that ran today, I also have had jobs fail outright because the job doesn't have permission to access an external drive. I've tried giving full disk access to periodic, to rsync, and to the scripts themselves. (I've also partially worked around the issue by moving some folders to /Users/Shared/ but that isn't practical for all cases.

I've tried running the script from a launchd plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons with UserName set to root, set to me, running from periodic, adding the rsync binary to Full Disk Access, nothing seems to help.

Any ideas?


texts: How do I know which Bluetooth chipset is being used by the iphone?

texts:
How do I know which Bluetooth chipset is being used by the iPhone 11. I would like to know if the Bluetooth chip has changed between iPhone 11 series and iPhone 12 series.
I know I can get the Bluetooth version from apple website. But I would like to get mode details including the chipset manufacturer, model number etc.


texts: Is it safe to expand this Macintosh HD partition?

texts:
A few years a go a friend of mine help me set up a partition on my MacBook air to allow me to run Windows 8.

About a year ago I decided I didn't want it anymore, and with the help of the internet, I tried but mangled the uninstallation. I thought I had uninstalled it but didn't see any improvement in space on the Mac side of things.

I thought I had issues because when I started up my laptop, I was still getting the windows start up (albeit broken beyond repair.) I now believe that this is just leftover files trying to boot what's already there.

Here is what I'm left with in Disk Utility:

Is it safe for me to try to expand the partition back to it's original size? I can move the line with no issues. Do I risk losing data?


texts: How to find a site whose name I do not remember in Chrome history?

texts:
I need to find a specific site in my Chrome history, but I don't remember the name of the site.
My Chrome history is full of Youtube and Google searches so I can't just scroll before I find the site that I need. Maybe I can somehow exclude Youtube and Google searches in my Chrome history in order to find the site that I need? Please help me solve my problem.


texts: Is there a way to download or save voice recordings from messenger?

texts: Is it possible to download or save a voice recording sent via facebook messenger?  I can't find ANY reference on Google or elsewhere as to how to do this. Seems if you record it from iPhone (Messenger app), it must be stored somewhere - I was hoping it would auto-save to Voice Memos app, but no such luck.


texts: com.apple.qtkitserver CPU usage on OS X Lion

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I'm on Lion 10.7.3 and every now and then, com.apple.qtkitserver hogs my CPU @ 100% for a little less than a minute, especially when there's something happening on Finder.
I know that QTKitServer is the Quick Look server, but it seems its generating files unexpectedly or something of the sort.

Does anyone have a fix?

Note: This started happening when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.


texts:
I would like to use my MacBook Air as a extended screen for my iMac, both are running OSX 10.9.2 and both have lightning connectors. What lead should I buy?
Kind Regards


texts: How to Access Shared Computer Through Terminal?

texts:
I have Mavericks on my Mac and wish to set up Unison between it and an old PC (vaiolaptop) running Windows XP on my network. How so I specify the path to the remote machine?

It appears like so in finder and I can navigate through it in Finder just fine.


texts: Is there a way to rename the built in speaker name? (Mac Mini M1)

texts: I am trying to rename the default or built-in speaker name on the Mac mini. Currently, it is "Mac mini Speakers". I want to be able to change or rename it.


texts:
I was try and my macbook can charger with ipad charger (i see output 5.2v-2.4a) with usb A to C convert.

But when i read on my macbook charger, it is have 2 output : 14.5v-2.0a and 5.2v-2.4a

my macbook can charge in 2 mode (both 14.5 and 5.2) or only with 5.2v?
if only need 5.2v , why need 14.5v output ?

maybe i use ipad charger on along time, it is what problem ?


texts: After System Update last night, the system will not boot with IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1504 error

texts:
I have had Lion for a 2, 3 months on the iMac 27 inch purchased last October (2011).  Last night I chose to update the system, and deselected iMoves update because it was 1GB, and chose only 4 updates, including iTunes, Safari (i think)...  But the update says error, and ask to restart the system (it won't restart itself, so I waited 30 minutes, and then pressed the Power button for 10 seconds, to let it power down, and press Power again to power it up).

However, after that, the system failed to boot up, showing a

panic(cpu 0 caller .....)" "Unable to finder driver for
    this platform: \"ACPI\". ... xnu-1699.26.8/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1504

This is not typical of the upgrade process.  So I searched the Internet for IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1504 and some people said it is a hard drive error, but then I powered down and pressed Options when booting up, and was able to boot to Windows 7 (bootcamp)... and was able to boot to the "Recovery", which let me choose

Restore from Time Machine Backup
Reinstall Mac OS X
Get Help Online
Disk Utility

what should I do now to fix it so that it can boot again?


texts:
I've just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I've realized that in my Messages app I have 4 accounts:

A @mac.com account which I remember creating and using with iChat (I haven't used it for anything else, not even for emails)
A @gmail.com account, which I use as my main Apple ID
A Bonjour account
A @me.account

My questions is about point 4: I don't remember creating a @me.com account. In fact, I cannot even recover my password using the security questions or the secondary email address. What other options do I have to recover access to this account?


texts: How to move applications between 2+ macs

texts:
I have two macs. One is a MBP, the other one is a Mac mini. The Mac mini has two displays ( all OS X Mountain Lion). I use teleport to manage the the two computers and the three displays (1 MBP, 2 Mac Mini).

I would like to be able to move one application (ie one Google Chrome window) from one Mac to the other with a keyboard shortcut.

PS: I am NOT looking for apps like sizeup, spectacle, divvy. Tested them. They are not relevant to this use case.


texts:
I used a great script from CJK with no issue , but not sure what happen, recently I noticed some invalid result :

startDate = "2019-05-31" (US Format)
Then converted to "31-05-2019"

MyDate (now) = 01-06-2019

Result 31 days

    set creationDate to "2019-05-31"
    set [YearValCreation, MonthValCreation, dayValCreation] to the words of creationDate
    tell (current date) to set startDate to dayValCreation & "-" & MonthValCreation & "-" & YearValCreation --->>> "31-05-2019"

    set MyDate to short date string of (current date) --->>> "01/06/2019"
    set [dayVal, MonthVal, YearVal] to the words of MyDate
    tell (current date) to set MyDate to dayVal & "-" & MonthVal & "-" & YearVal ---->>>> "01-06-2019"
    set DateText to ""
    on timeInterval from startDate to endDate by units : 1
        tell (current date) to set [startDate, ¬
            day, [day, its month, year]] to ¬
            [it, 1, words of startDate]

        tell (current date) to set [endDate, ¬
            day, [day, its month, year]] to ¬
            [it, 1, words of endDate]

        (endDate - startDate) / units
    end timeInterval

    set dayResult to timeInterval from startDate to MyDate by days
    set dayResult to (round (dayResult * 1)) / 1 as integer
--->>> 31

Just release  if  the date is 30-05-2019 instead of 31-05-2019 I have a correct result


texts: Where to find the Mac OS X Lion security configuration guide?

texts: Most Mac OS X releases have very nice security configuration guides, but Lion is not in the list. Is this document available somewhere else on Apple's site, or is there a roughly-equivalent document available somewhere on their site under another name?


texts: Is the iPhone magnetometer sensitive enough to detect solar storms?

texts:
Discovered this neat project to pull detailed magnetometer data from iOS: https://github.com/foundry/MagnetoMeter

I've been looking at different approaches to setting up a 24/7 magnetometer to monitor solar activity. One option was to set up an old iPhone 6 and beam the data over wifi to a server. However, I'm unfamiliar with the iPhone's hardware and sensitivity.

Is the built-in magnetometer going to be sensitive enough to detect solar storms?


texts: Iphone 3G is very slow when launch apps that use GPS

texts:
I have a iPhone 3G is very slow when launching apps that use GPS, like Google Maps or similar. The phone becomes unusable until I restart the OS.

One trick that seems to work occasionally is to deactivate the push notifications and then I can use the Google Maps without problems. Other days it also doesn't work and simply freezes.

How can I fix this?

My iPhone 3G is a 16GB article, running iOS 4.2.1, it is not jailbroken.


texts: Can I teach my iPhone to autocapitalize?

texts: My name is not an English word or common enough name to be in whatever list of proper nouns it has, and I always have to capitalize it manually. It doesn't even show up as an autocorrect option. Is there a way around this? It seems like a phone that can do so many things should at least be able to learn my name. iPhone 4 with iOS up to date.


texts: How to get iTunes to keep playlist created on iPhone

texts: I am running iTunes 10.5.2 (11) on Lion 10.7.2 and I have an iPhone 4.  Several times now I have created a playlist on my phone and the next time I sync to my mbp, itunes blows away the playlist on the phone.  I had expected that iTunes would copy the playlist to the computer.  Is there a way that I can prevent these playlists from being deleted?


texts: Optimal Mac setup for web designer/developer?

texts:
I’m ready to upgrade my hardware but in a dilemma over what to buy, since I’m not completely sure what I need. I have a feeling that I’m going to throw money at a setup which will end up being serious overkill. I’m a web/graphic designer and web developer with a view to possibly get into iOS development in the future.

Typically, I have open the following apps simultaneously:

Safari (10-20 tabs)
Chrome (5-10 tabs)
Mail
OmniFocus
Evernote
Coda 2
Fireworks and/or Photoshop CS6
MAMP Pro
Sequel Pro
Xcode (possibly and without Chrome/Coda/FW/PS/MAMP)

And these are my current choices (13” for portability purposes, since it will be used at least for commuting):

First:

iMac Retina, 4GHz Quad-core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
13" MacBook Pro Retina, 2.7GHz Dual-core i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
~£3600

Second:

iMac Retina, 3.5GHz Quad-core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
13" MacBook Pro Retina, 2.7GHz Dual-core i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
~£3350

Third:

13" MacBook Pro Retina, 3.1GHz Dual-core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
27" Thunderbolt Display
~£2630

The biggest factors for me are the relevance of the processor in my situation (quad- vs dual-core), and the actual benefit felt from the 5K display.

I’m not particularly concerned about the cost but I definitely wouldn’t say it is not a factor - hence the £1000 difference between the former and latter setups really tempts me! So, my ideal option is the third one, although I'm not this setup would be sufficient for my needs.

Many thanks in advance for any replies to this exhaustive question!


texts: What is the process for restoring iPhone from a backup that is NOT in iTunes?

texts: I would like to restore my iPhone from a backup that is not listed in iTunes. How can I do that? The backup file is saved on my computer hard drive. Thx.


texts: Issues with Bootcamp trying to boot to a bootable device other than my HD

texts: A week ago, I attempting to load Windows (with Boot Camp) on my Mac Pro. The Windows 7 install CD I used had missing files, and thus I deleted the partition I created to house windows, not wanting to waste space on my hard drive. Eventually, I decided to to use bootcamp, and now, whenever I start my computer, there is a message that states: "No bootable device, insert boot disk and press any key", or something similar. Of course, I can hold alt/option or X at startup, but I don't want to have to do that every time I start up my computer, because normally I forget. Do you have any suggestions on how to stop this phenomena from occurring every time that I start my computer? (Note that I am looking for solutions - I understand why this is occurring)


texts: Upgrading to MacOS from 10.6.8 MacBook Pro

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I have 2011 MacBook Pro that I have not used for a while. Now I am back to using it and would like to upgrade to the latest OS available. Currently, it is 10.6.8 an here are the issues

When I try to download the MacOS High Sierra from the App store, the "Get" button is grey and nothing happens when I click it. In fact, all the apps are like this and I cannot use the App store to download anything at all (I have signed it with my Apple ID).
Cmd+R at the booting is not working so I cannot even restore to factory settings.
I do not have recovery disks.

Could you please help me to sort this out as I am not familiar with Mac that much.


texts: I am noticing a slight colour shift in my iPad Mini screen lately. Is there a diagnostic test I could run to see the status of the screen? (I'm thinking something like the battery diagnostic.)


texts: iPad not streaming videos to Vizio over Airplay

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I am trying to watch study videos saved from the web on my Vizio TV. I download the video, convert to mp4 (using the Lifehacker encoding specs), import it into the TV app from my MBP then sync to my iPad. When I start the video on my iPad using the TV app and initialize Airplay I get an error message from the TV app: "This video is in a format that can't be streamed to this TV." I have tried purchased movies and those work fine over Airplay.
All videos in the TV app play without any problems. No problems with the wireless network.
I searched online for what the video specs should be and found How to Make All Your Video Airplay-Compatible, but still get the same error message.
I have tried different encoders, different settings, etc. still getting the same error. What is the correct video specification to stream via Airplay? Or is this just not possible?
Video Encoding used from the Lifehacker link:

Video Codec: H.264 (Main Profile)
Video Bitrate: 5442kbps (anywhere between 5000 and 6000 kbps should be fine)
Video Resolution 1280x720 (also known as 720p)
Frames Per Second: 30 (or less)
Audio Codec: AAC (Low Complexity)
Audio Bitrate: 160kbps
Audio Samplerate: 48 or 44.1 kHzVideo Codec: H.264 (Main Profile)
Video Bitrate: 5442kbps (anywhere between 5000 and 6000 kbps should be fine)
Video Resolution 1280x720 (also known as 720p)
Frames Per Second: 30 (or less)
Audio Codec: AAC (Low Complexity)
Audio Bitrate: 160kbps
Audio Samplerate: 48 or 44.1 kHz

iPad Air 2 (iOS 13.5.1)
MBP 13" 2020 (macOS 10.15.4)


texts: Is it safe to downgrade Lion from 10.7.1 to 10.7?

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Questions

Is it OK to downgrade 10.7.1 Client to 10.7 using the original version 1.0.4 of Install Mac OS X Lion.app?

Either type of downgrade to be followed by updates. These questions focus on:

the period during which a downgraded system runs.

(Installation to a clean volume, without downgrade may be preferable, but that's a separate discussion.)

Key points

Version 1.0.4 of the installer recognises that something more recent than 10.7 (Build 11A511) is running, but:

does not caution the user against downgrade
does not create /Previous System
reuses /System

Background

Install Mac OS X Lion.app 1.0.4 for Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A511) appeared in the Mac App Store on 20th July 2011. Following advice from Apple, some users set aside a copy of version 1.0.4.

OS X Lion Update 10.7.1 (Client) and OS X Lion Update 10.7.1 (Server) were posted on 16th August 2011.

Install Mac OS X Lion.app 1.0.8 for Mac OS X (Build 11B26) appeared in the Store on 23rd August. If a copy of 1.0.4 is found, the Store routine may update that copy to 1.0.8.

However:

between 16th and 23rd August, 1.0.8 was not an option
some users may be unaware of 1.0.8
some users are aware of 1.0.8 but prefer to retain and reuse 1.0.4 (to install 10.7 instead of 10.7.1, then update).


texts: Can't open files after upgrading to Mavericks

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After upgrading from ML to Mavericks (MB Air, 13", 256GB, 2011) I can't open any file or folder from the standard Open menu from any app (except MS Office -2011). But, I can search for a file (and open it) if it has a label. All the files/folders are greyed out so can't select them, as it can be seen in the attached screen capture (from Preview.app).

If I try to save a file, the only place I can do that is in the default folder: if I try to change the folder (navigating through the Save box) I can't save it any more.

What I've done (nothing worked!):

repairing permissions
delete and create a new user (keeping the user folder in /Users)
updated to 10.9.1

It is worth to point out that this only happens in my user account: after discovering this situation I created a second admin user and everything works fine within it!


texts: How to optimize imported photos from digital camera?

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I'm importing photos from my camera using Photos application, but how can I optimize these photos.

My camera does 5.5MB big JPEG images but I want somehow lower the resolution and also the quality does not need to be 100%.

Can I somehow set the imported photo quality in Photos application or can I somewhere found the imported photos and lower the quality using some other application?