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My laptop (Yosemite) is now 'PPPoE' connected over wifi, what is this and what does it mean?

Previously I was just connected by wifi (there was no mention of wifi)
My AirPort base station connects to my cable-modem via PPPoE (using an ethernet cable)

Should I be worried? It seems to have happened since Yosemite.

Everything seems to be working fine, but I noticed this when I was recently tightening security on my AirPort.

Edit: given comments that only the router needs PPPoE, I'm concerned PPPoE is being used to bypass the protections of my Router (AirPort).

Some screenshots:


texts: FileVault password not working from standby

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I have several users on my MacBook but have FileVault setup with only one uses, lets say it is called 'admin'. So when the MacBook goes into standby mode (hibernate) and the FileVault password is requested, the only user who can unlock it is 'admin'.

This used to work fine, but after reinstalling the MacBook this setup has stopped working. When the system wakes from standby, the 'admin' password isn't accepted. I am sure the password is correct, since I can use is fine when I start from boot.

I have already changed the password, but that didn't help.
I am running macOS Sierra with all the updates.

What is wrong and how can I fix this?


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I assume that deleting a file via Finder also deletes any previous versions in /.DocumentRevisions-V100 that are attached to that file.

But what's happening if a file is deleted in Terminal with the rm command? Are previous versions left behind or do they actually get deleted, too?


texts: Connection drops after `MacAuthEvent` times out. How can I make it more stable?

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I am troubleshooting network connectivity issues and I found some log messages that could point to their root cause.

12/04/2015 15:38:03.000 kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: d0:2d:b3:33:a2:c6 Auth timed out
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: d0:2d:b3:33:a2:c6  MAC AUTH succeeded
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP virtIf = 0
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #2, bssid d0:2d:b3:33:a2:c6
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to d0:2d:b3:33:a2:c6
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: en1: channel changed to 1
12/04/2015 15:38:06.000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed

What could trigger the authorization time out? Looking at the logs I also see something weird. Apparently the bssid didn't change but my Mac thinks so, and it doesn't look quite right. Is there something wrong in my network setup?


texts: Any Issues Using Non-HFS+ As Data Partition?

texts: Boot Camping with a 3rd partition (I know it's non-standard) for data sharing/ease of reinstallations, and possibly to keep applications too… Options are exFAT or NTFS-3G. I went with exFAT originally because it's native and I'd rather not rely on 3rd party drivers for my critical files. However now I'm wondering if I'll run into any issues down the road with regard to permissions, since exFAT doesn't support POSIX ACL—and neither does NTFS; it has its own similar thing, but the advanced [I'm assuming unstable] NTFS-3G add-on can supposedly map between the two. Is that a better bet? If I do ls -al in Terminal on the exFAT drive I get Mac owners, groups, etc., but I don't know where any of those are coming from. What's the best way to go on this?


texts: How to update or downgrade my iPad 3 that has a jailbreak?

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I have iPad 3 (model A1416 Wi-Fi only). It was using iOS 5.1.1 and I have then jailbroken it.
Unfortunately I allowed the device to update automatically, and didn't save the SSH blobs or any other files to enable be to revert the OS back again.
After trying some restores, I now get the black screen that tells you to plug your USB cable and connect with iTunes.
iTunes says that I have the last update and no update button is available, only restore
I have download some IPSW files for iOS 5.1.1 and iPad 7.0.4, and if I try to restore with shift in windows and browse for IPSW files and extract it, I get an error that I need to check host files etc
I have downloaded many tools like iFaith and take SSH keys from Cydia for iOS 5.1.1 and trying to make an IPSW from that give me this message:

The provided apticket looks valid!
Although the apticket is valid, the set of blobs you selected are not supported in this build of iFaith.

So, I am unable to put either 5.1.1 or the latest iOS on my iPad - how can I fix this?


texts: How can be possible that my MacBook Pro is able to connect, automatically, to a protected wpa2 wifi network without asking any password?

texts: I have two MacBook Pro notebooks (15” mid 2010 and 13” mid 2012); I bought two new ssd disks and new ram modules for upgrading them; I installed on both Catalina (10.15.7) via usb key obviously from scratch since the disks were new. In my apartment, I have an access point, connected to Internet, with WPA2 password (a robust one) and without WPS service. After installing the os and without configuring any internet access nor configuring the wifi access (I did not put any password for that) nor any cloud account (just a local one), I noticed a very inexplicable fact: both notebooks were able to connect to the access point without inserting the password and both were able to navigate in Internet automatically. How it can be possible? Is there any hidden Apple feature that saves credentials in some chip on mainboard and they reside on it even after changing disk and installing the os from scratch? Can be it a potential security issue? Are other personal info saved in the same manner? If I want to sell my mac, how can I delete this info?


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I use Little Snitch on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and noticed a connection that seemed suspicious to me.

The snitch reported ntpd trying to connect to:
  "$host 94.23.243.53
  53.243.23.94.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer asgard.syari.net."

Why would NTPD try to connect to this host instead of time.apple.com? Is this something to be concerned about or is this an expected event?


texts: Why does iphoto say "Image Cannot Be Edited. This photo or container may be read only"?

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Not sure what's going on here.  I just imported some photos from my iphone that I took about an hour ago.  I have it set to automatically import via iCloud so they were of course already on my Mac anyway.

I'm now trying to edit them, and the first had no issues.  But the second gives the message listed in the title of this post, in the edit sidebar:

Image Cannot Be Edited.
This photo or container may be read only

The rest also are all fine.  It seems this is the only image that won't allow me to edit it, but I haven't a clue as to why.  Anyone have any ideas?


texts: Android Studio on El Capitan - issues in setting up the SDK

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Having issues while trying to set-up Android Studio (latest release, 2.3) on a Mac (El Capitan 10.11.3). Studio is installed, but when I launch it a window for configuring the SDK appears, and after a few passages I get this error:

"An error occurred while trying to compute required packages"

Anyone got this?


texts: MacBookPro 2011 GPU failure. Csrutil command will not work at all

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I am having the GPU failure issue and I'm trying to disable some kexts however i'm constantly told operation permitted.

I am following Lizardtrons video on Youtube where it seems atleast 2.2K people have had success however I'm stuck.

https://youtu.be/nFFPk3SeQbQ

I have installed Dosdudes software to automatically delete the kexts for me however it still says SIP is enabled.

I am running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6. I can add more info if needed.

I cannot for the life of me disable csrutil in terminal, safe mode or recovery mode. It says the command is not found. It is as if computer does not know the command.

However when I type in 'csrutil status' in terminal on the desktop it actually says SIP enabled.

So its recognising it on the desktop terminal but not on safe mode(cmd S) and Recovery mode (cmd R).

I have also tried internet recovery to newest install newest OS however it only promts me to install OX Lion.

I installed El Capitan onto an external HD to see if I could boot a new OS from that but when holding option key prior to boot, the only HD that comes up is the internal drive and not the external boot drive.

I am running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6

All i need to do is 'csrutil disable' so operations can be permitted.

I've been at it for 3 days now and I really don't want to give up as I've got a week off work and decided to dig this out of its death!

Any help is greatly appricieated. I am not 100% tech savy however I can adapt fast with instructions etc

Also sorry if the question is all over the place.


texts: Is a MacBook 12" dual monitor setup possible?

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I would like to use dual/two monitors with my macbook 12" (2016).

Is the device feasible of connecting, for example, to two LG UltraFine 4K Display monitors? What kind of cables/connectors do I need?


texts: How to set Apple TV's language back to English?

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So, our daughter thought it would be funny to change the Apple TV's language setting. She is now complaining that she can't watch TV shows. Of course she can't, because nobody can figure out how to sign in to the account again, since the menus are all in... Nepali? I'm not sure.

Anyway, I think our OS is the most recent version, so can someone else with an Apple TV in English please post images showing how to navigate to the language setting, so that I can change the language back to English?

And isn't it about time Apple established a universal indicator for language settings so that no matter what language is set, one can navigate to the settings and change them? If one must understand the current language in order to change the language, isn't that a usability problem? Sure, most of us don't screw around with the language settings for fun, but then there are those of us who have kids...

Edit:

The model, when looked up via serial number, is listed as:
Apple TV HD


texts: How do I delete email files on my mac so that it retrieves them again?

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The email on my mac is not working. I have tried several things.

Is there a way to delete the email files (files where mac stores the emails) on my mac book pro so that it downloads all my mail again. (I will leave it to download overnight).


texts: I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2014) running El Capitan. Whenever I close the lid it doesn't sleep! The Apple light dims and the screen turns off, but my battery drains at a normal rate. Sleep is also grayed out in the top-left  menu.  Please help!


texts: How to fix iMac losing Wi-Fi connection again and again?

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My iMac loses its Wifi connection from minute to minute. To make it active again, I have to run "Assist Me..."  from the Network preferences panel.

This is really, really annoying.

Does anyone know what's going on?

I'm running Mac Os 10.7.4.


texts: Strange AppleScript behaviour in relation to Reminders

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I am trying to write a small script that will move all reminders from one list to another. After some experimentation, I have come up with this, that seems to do what I want:

tell application "Reminders"
   set oldList to list "Test1"
   set newList to list "Test2"
   repeat with thisReminder in (get reminders in list "Test1" whose completed is false)
      copy thisReminder to list "Test2"
   end repeat
end tell

Two things puzzles me and which I would like to understand in order to increase my knowledge about AppelScript:

If one changes copy to move, then items will disappear from "Test1" but not appear in "Test2". With copy there are in fact moved.
If the copy statement uses newList rather than list "Test2", it stops working, then nothing happens.


texts: Can I change the auto-update behavior, when connected to my personal hotspot?

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Yesterday, I ran suddenly out of cellular data volume (I can only use 6GB per month) for this month while my MacBook was connected to the personal hotspot on my iPhone. If found out, that macOS downloaded an update automatically, because it treated the personal hotspot like any other hotspot.

Is there any option to tell macOS, not to treat my personal hotspot like a "real" WiFi-network? Since the symbols for both types of connections are different, I guess there must be an option somewhere.


texts: How to type a newline or hit enter when using scribble on iPadOS 14?

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I actually have a few pain points with scribble...

Enter key is on the scribble helper bar, but that’s about as inconvenient and slow as reaching from keyboard to mouse... If the only way to hit enter was to move my entire hand away from my keyboard, I’d probably kill myself. Is there a symbol I can draw to “hit enter” with?
I often like to type on the big keyboard using the pencil, however when scribble is enabled, once you use the pencil to select an input field, that actually types a comma or dash into the input field while hiding the keyboard, which is incredibly aggravating if I was intending to start typing. I wish there were a way to configure behaviors like this, as I’d rather not entirely turn scribble off yet.

I think a lot of these are simply growing pains associated with a new world of UX that something like scribble opens up for interaction with a tablet. It’s really hard to adjust the brain from slamming fingers on identically shaped keys into effectively coordinating sequences of positioned fingertip and stylus taps and drags...
As a fast typist (top out at around 120wpm) it’s sad to me that handwriting recognition will never catch up to my own typing speed. Oh well. Sad that this new technology is doomed from the start for me.
I think there are some problems that seemingly lack any practical answers whatsoever. For example, say you mess up slightly and end up with two consecutive commas. You’re basically completely hosed in scribble at this point because the size of a comma is so small that even the very precise pencil makes it impossible to scratch it out properly. It’s impossible to make very small edits. The only thing you can do is hope the word you need to take out alongside the mistaken punctuation isn’t too big of a word.
Also problematic is the ambiguity between selecting a position in text to place the cursor and an actual desire to enter a period. If I tap after a word somewhere in hopes of adding a period after it, well, it’s literally impossible to do, as a dot will position the cursor, rather than enter a period. You can enter periods easily if you do it quickly after writing a word, but your deity of choice help you if you don’t do it in time, no positioned period for you. A lone comma can be written by exaggerating the shape of a comma in the free space in the input field.
It seems that there is just no way to reconcile the mere fact that punctuation is physically small with the WYSIWYG functionality; I can imagine some unique new ways to write them but they wouldn’t be easy to remember. It does seem to me like if we could get dedicated symbols to hand write for new line and for period, and possibly a few others such as delete the last word, we can paper over a lot of these deficiencies.
One more thing... Speaking of the input field (e.g. in this stack exchange question text area field) is very filled up with prose. You must begin your handwriting from within the bounds of the input field. You must take care not to write over existing prose (as that would simply scribble them and delete that text). Yes you can enter several line breaks using the hard-to-reach enter button to make space for yourself to do your writing in the text area so as not to accidentally write over and scribble your text, but this strikes me as overly convoluted.
It seems that if the handwriting recognition could simply be extended to scribble recognition (which sounds far easier technically than even mediocre handwriting recognition, indeed it can figure out by itself if it’s English or Chinese), this last issue should not be a problem: only delete scribbled text if the scribble is an actual scribble...


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I bought a Late 2013 iMac with new generation PCIe Samsung XP941 M.2 based SSD 256Gb.
Really powerful SSD. But of course, I was scared about SSD rewrite cycles and wanted to check it because I want to keep this computer for 5 years. Using an app called DriveDx, which can check SSD and HDD lifetime and other SMART attributes, I generated this log:

SSD Lifetime Left Indicator : GOOD 95.0%
=== SSD HEALTH INDICATORS ===
ID  NAME    RAW VALUE    STATUS
 5 Retired Block Count     0    100% OK
173 Wear Leveling Count    0x100990005  95.0% OK
174 Unexpected Power Loss Count   0xA368E 99.0% OK
192 Unsafe Shutdown Count    6    99.0% OK

I used this Mac for 3 days. I just did clean install of OS X, installed 80 GB of software on it, and installed Windows in the second partition and 95% of wear leveling count?!

My SSD has 2 partitions: Mac OS X (133 GB) and second for Windows 8.1 (117 GB)
I know that OS X is very optimized to SSD, but I have second Windows partition and don’t know how two systems will live together. Need Windows ONLY for gaming. I have two question.

I heard that rewrite cycles depends on SSD size. Is it true that my drive turned into two 128 Gb SSD? When one of OS reach 128 Gb then it will rewrite cells again. Right? And lifetime will be a half of 256 Gb. And how about TRIM with two different systems. Is it working correctly?
I have an idea how to reduce read/write on Windows. Want to make 30Gb partition for Windows and install all games in my external HDD USB 3.0. Yeah, game loading will be slower, but less read/write gaming data. But this method is useless if external HDD use system SSD as temp storage between RAM and HDD.
Does Windows use system drive to store some temporary data between system drive and external HDD or it has direct route to RAM from HDD? If it does, using external HDD is useless, because all temp data will be passing through system SSD and make rewrite.


texts: Quick Look pops up when switching desktops

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When switching between desktops, sometimes Quick Look pops up all by himself. Even when switching for a desktop containing a terminal, Quick Look pops up for a path that might be in the terminal's output. It is very annoying.
Someone knows how to solve this?
I'm currently using Catalina v10.15.5 on a 2016 MacBook Pro 13'' Touch Bar.


texts: 32gb of RAM on a 2011 or 2012 15/17-inch MacBook Pro using Crucial's 16gb single DIMMs

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As far as I can tell, that appears to be the correct RAM for the MBP, correct?
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Single-PC3L-12800-SODIMM-CT204864BF160B/dp/B0123BRIDK

Has anyone tried this 32gb option on their 2011 or 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro?
IIRC the two higher-tier Early 2011, Late 2011, and Mid 2012 Unibody 15-inch (and 2011 17-inch) models support 32gb theoretically.

For example, the processor specs suggest 32gb over two slots is possible, but I'm not sure if the logic board would pose a limit or not...Apple says 16gb is the max, but I think much of that material was created before a single 16gb DDR3l DIMM existed.
https://ark.intel.com/products/52227/Intel-Core-i7-2820QM-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz


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The Background:

I am a web developer & graphic designer, both professionally and as a student. This means that in a typical day, I have at least 2 Adobe Creative Suite apps open (Illustrator and Photoshop, usually also with XD and/or InDesign), Brackets, Terminal with my SASS Compiler and LocalHost running, and Chrome in a couple windows, one window running whatever website I'm working on and the corresponding Stack Overflow questions, and one window with my school work (and more Stack Overflow). This is, undeniably, a heavy load.

I have a Late 2013 MacBook Pro. Here are my specs:

I also have CleanMyMac3, aka my Best Friend™.

The Problem:

This thing is constantly freezing. I mean, it's bad. The other night, I was trying to clean/organize my files, and every. time. I'd try to change the Finder window to a new folder, I'd be waiting with the spinning circle of death for a minute or two. This particular time, I also wasn't on a heavy workload. I had Chrome, Brackets, and the usual Outlook and Messages open. Checked CleanMyMac: once it loaded (a few minutes later), I had a little under 300MB of RAM. Looked on Activity Monitor, my CPU was running at 90% capacity (idle between 10% and 15%). Remember, I had a moderate to light workload on it.
To fix it, usually I can just restart. This has been happening for months now: randomly, my computer would freeze and go into this mega-slow state, but restarting and cleaning up my startup disk fixed it for a month or two. Within the past month, however, it's been getting so much worse: freezing more and more often, and living for shorter and shorter amounts of time after the restart and clean. Today, I've restarted twice because of it freezing. I'm ready to throw this laptop out of the window.

What I've tried so far:

I've looked everywhere, and here's what I've found:

Restart the laptop: this fixes it for a little while, not permanent
Clean the hard drive: also a temporary fix
Check Activity Monitor:
nothing threw a red flag at me -- Brackets Helper and Chrome were
both up there on the list, but other than that Finder and Kernal
were the only two others (and expected ones) -- I was only set off
by the low amounts of CPU and RAM I have
Reset NVRAM (command + option + p + r on boot): did nothing
Reset SMC (command + option + shift on boot): did nothing
Check hard drive with SMART Utility:
passed, but everything was listed as either "old-age" or "pre-fail"

Please keep in mind that I have to put this heavy of a workload on my laptop. It's what I do. I cannot just stop running these "heavy applications" (as many other websites have suggested). I'm of course having some other troubles, that come with age (I bought this back in mid-2014): Bluetooth barely works (a problem many MacBook users have, as I've found), the hard drive is too small, it's running a little hot, there aren't any USB-C ports, and it's overall taken quite the beating and is falling behind. Is there anything I can do to try and save my poor MacBook, or is it time to retire and find something new? I'm looking to upgrade, anyways, as I know my workload is growing too much for my poor baby. I just want to try and milk this guy out as long as he'll last.

--UPDATE--
I've also downloaded some system monitoring software, and it's telling me that my CPU Proximity sensor is running around 140 degrees.


texts: can't record app preview with qt - missing iPhone as an option

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I've upgraded to 10.10 on my iMac.  I've connected my iPhone6 running 8.1 with a lightning cable.  But when I go in to quicktime to record the iPhone screen the iPhone doesn't show as an option.

I can't think of anything else to try. It sees it as a microphone, so it is connected.  I can do other things with my phone connected like install development apps.  Any idea why it's not showing up here?


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Reading related posts it seems I have a blend of other's issues.  But the final blow was plugging in a nextbook tablet to download some pdf files, and THEN I booted the old Mac Pro 2008 with Yosemite 10.10.3 or 4, can't recall exactly now since I can't check it.  I 'assume' having the tablet plugged in on boot confused the boot up sequence?

I've tried every startup key configuration in the official Apple list, except trying the few 'over the internet' options i.e. 'Option-D: Apple Hardware Test/Apple Diagnostics over the internet,' 'Command-Option-B Start up from OS X Recovery over the internet,' because my hardwired modem is on the computer I'm using to get help.  I'll power this down and try it now, but if that doesn't work, which isn't likely, it's still in White Screen Hang.  It was also black screen crashing before this and restarting over and over, intermittently... if that may be contributing to this issue.  Thanks.


texts: Apple Watch 2/FaceTime is possibly hacked?

texts: I received what appears to be a malicious message on my Apple Watch 2.  It did not arrive via any known messaging app.  There was no banner, only the words.  The words were threatening. I had recently been using FaceTime.  I checked my iPad and iPhone but theres no message there.  Then I went on my MacBook Air and a box popped up: "Your Apple ID and phone number are now being used for FaceTime on a new Apple Watch".  My Apple Watch is not a new Apple Watch. so I'm a bit alarmed.  Any advice?


texts: How do iPads detect when a cover closes?

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Some iPad cases (particularly those that look like book covers) provide a feature that when the cover closes the iPad enters suspended mode and when the cover opens the iPad wakes up. The one provided by the link claims it provides this functionality through a magnetic strip. Does this mean iPads have the ability to sense nearby magnetic fields built in? Why and how does this work?

PS. It appears Apple's Smart Covers provide this functionality too.


texts: Macfusion - how can I auto connect on boot?

texts: I have Macfusion automatically running when I boot, but how can I have it automatically connect to a server?  Can't find this anywhere..


texts: How to reduce tooltip appearance delay in Xcode?

texts: When I hover some icon in Xcode I have to wait quite long for tooltip. How to reduce delay?


texts: How can I prevent iOS 5’s Wi-Fi sync from taking over my whole network connection?

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My Mac, iPhone, and iPad are wirelessly connected to a Time Capsule. This works fine except when lots of data is being transferred. For example, if GBs of music are syncing from the Mac to the iPhone the Internet is almost unusable on my Mac. Safari, Mail, etc. are either very slow, or the connections time out entirely. And on the iPhone, OmniFocus syncing and Siri are incredibly slow.

Is there an easy way to prevent the iOS sync from monopolizing the 802.11n connection to leave room for other traffic?

I also saw this problem when Time Machine was backing up wirelessly to the Time Capsule. It made everything so unusable that I had to stop trying to do this. CrashPlan caused similar problems, but it has a built-in bandwidth rate-limiter, which helped.


texts: I use ⌘ + D whenever I go the the Desktop folder. Is it possible to add a shortcut for the Downloads folder?


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Macbook Pro Mid 2012. The problem was there before upgrade, but recently upgraded to Mojave ( thought it might fix it )

I suspect a bad WiFi card, but the symptoms are very strange, and does not indicate the "Hardware Not Found" error.

• On Boot, WiFi works great, but will shut off anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.

•The WiFi states that it is OFF, and I cannot turn it on via restarting the wireless service via command line or System preferences. Pressing the "Turn Wi-Fi On" button does nothing. The only way to fix is a power off and power on.

•The same problem has occurred on both recovery OS, a system update, and a fresh install ( booted off a different hard drive with a fresh install of MAC), so I have confirmed not a software issue.

•The WiFi Diagnostics tool has not returned anything useful except something along the lines of "enable WiFi and connect to a WiFi network".

•Resetted SMC / PRAM, still have issue

•The well-known typical "hardware not found" message has rarely shown up, I may have seen this happen once, but it is usually the strange problem with WiFi not being able to turn on, not a hardware error message.

EDIT:
During Down times, here is what is shown under the WiFi menu on about this Mac:

When the Wi-Fi is working, here is what it shows:

The only difference is the Country code is set to "X0" whenever it is not working, but was pointed out that I need to connect to network for country code to be found.

EDIT: Output of

log show --predicate '(processImagePath contains "kernel") && (eventMessage contains "AirPort: Link Down")' --style syslog --last 1d

What are the next steps I can take to diagnose this problem?


texts: Is there any reason to buy the iWork bundle instead of the apps separately from the App Store?

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Keynote is $19, Pages is $19, Numbers is $19. iWork bundle is $79.

Why would anyone want to buy the bundle?


texts: Is there a good / acceptable blog-publishing application on Mac OS X?

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On Windows, there is the pretty good Windows Live Writer.
I have always been told that there is no equivalent on Mac.

What would be the best alternative?

Some details about pros/cons, missing features, cool tips would be appreciated.
I will make this question community wiki.


texts: How can I fix Safari iCloud Tabs failing to display in Big Sur?

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I have a 2016 MacBook Pro, an iPad Air 3rd generation and an iPhone SE 2020. The MacBook Pro doesn't display any iCloud tabs, while the iPad and iPhone both display all open tabs from both the other devices.
I've tried signing out of iCloud on all devices and on just the Mac and signing back in again, and just toggling Safari off and on in the MacBook Pro's iCloud settings. I did the latter three or four times and it did temporarily fix the problem once, but only for about 24 hours. Also, it may be relevant that to switch Safari back on, I have to click the tick the Safari box and agree to merging data twice instead of once.


texts: Problem using F12 to get specific info on the screen

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I hope I will be able to properly give my question as I am not a native English speaker and I might be running into difficulty. But I am posting an image to make my problem straight forward.

I’m new to Mac. Had my Mac Book Pro for roughly 1 month. I ran into a specific problem that I just could not solve.

I’ll start out with how I solved the problem in Windows. And my question is how I should have done it in OSX Mavericks.

I had specific instructions from someone to visit a website and prepare a print screen.
So I went up on the website with Safari and wanted to start print screening as per my instructions. In order to make my print screen more legitimate - according to my instructions - I had to press F12 and on the lower part of the monitor I should have gotten a window where I could choose from different options. I had specific instructions what to look for in the window that popped up with the F12 key.

I looked through many websites but couldn’t find a solution to my problem as my F12 key didn’t function as it should have in Mac. I tried altering the function keys in the keyboard settings but that didn’t work either. So in the end I took out my old Windows laptop and solved the problem with that. Mind you the correct window that I needed for my specific purpose did not pop up in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I needed to download Google Chrome. (The window that popped up in Firefox and Explorer with the use of F12 did not give me the options I needed).

I hope someone has the patience to read through the above. Also please take a look at the attachment I provide. I would need to reach the same result on my Mac Book Pro as I did in Windows. I do not know what the pop up window is called. But I’m sure someone who is more computer literate than I am will definitely know.

In the attachment provided I am looking to get the window which is on the lower one third of the picture that has “Elements, Network, Sources, Timeline, Profiles” etc.

Thank you for your help.
Gabi


texts: Updated to OS X Yosemite, everything has deleted

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So I've already tried to find a solution on Google, but I'm not really good at following some broad IT instructions.

If you guys could help, that's be more than awesome!

After I installed OS X Yosemite, all my stuff was gone!

It's like a whole new Mac!

Meanwhile, I have figured out that my usual stuff is still stored somehow on my Mac, but I don't know how to get it back to being my regular account.

If I go to Finder > Macintosh HD > Users, there's a folder with all my stuff in my regular account.

Any assistance would be truly appreciated!


texts: Extra explications for the iPhone activation purpose

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Can somebody help me with some extra explications about iPhone activation? I had read this article and understood that this activation allows the end-user to access the home screen of the smartphone with all its apps. But I don't understand what is happening behind the scene of an activation. What information is the smartphone sending to the Apple servers? And what is the smartphone expecting to receive back from these servers?

Also, I will write bellow all my questions to have some order in the ideas.

1) Can I bypass this activation to use the smartphone? ( Something similar to Samsung bypass. I don't know, I am trying to make some analogy )

2) If I don't activate the iPhone can I install a custom OS? ( in the Android world I can install a custom OS from Cyanogenmod )

3) Why doesn't Android devices have this activation step?

4) If I don't activate the iPhone, can I jailbreak it?

5) When would the activation fail, and not because of the bad internet connection?

6) Can I, us a developer/hacker do anything with the iPhone if I am not activating it by executing any terminal commands to change any settings in any way. And after the activation, the changes done by me to be reset to default?

7) Can I set my iCloud account if the iPhone is not activated?

To don't understand me wrong, I understand that when I am buying an Apple smartphone from the local store, my friend or whoever is selling it. I am paying for the hardware and the software, and this is one of the reasons for these devices to be expensive. But why, should I (the end-user) bother to activate this phone when I know, that the software is bound to the hardware?

Thanks in advanced


texts: What is "Other" account on OS X Yosemite login screen?

texts: I am using OS X Yosemite. I am seeing 2 accounts on my login screen. One is my account and the other has the name "Other". What account is that? When I click on it, there is no username. When I try to shut down my computer, I am now prompted to enter my username and password. Previously there is no need to do so. I have tried the suggestion here How to get rid of the "Other..."-Account on the login screen? but that only hides the "Other" account. I am still prompted for my username and password when I want to shutdown. How do I remove/disable the "Other" account, not just merely hides it? Thank you for the assistance.


texts: Is it Possible to RDP into a BootCamp Image running Windows 8.1?

texts: I have forwarded a port on my router to my Mac mini OS X server which is running OS X and Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp.  Can I remote into the BootCamp image using remote desktop or VNC?  If so, what settings must be changed to accomplish this?


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As soon as I restarted the system after installing the 10.7.3 update, my wifi stopped working. It wouldn't connect. It would get a private ip assigned to it.

So, I switched on and off the wifi, changed the network settings several times by removing the wifi and adding it again, restarted the system, and when all of these didn't help, I phoned Apple support. After asking me to fiddle with the router, computer and several other things, he accepted that the new update was having issues. And I needed to roll back to the old version. Has anyone run into the same problem? Is there anyway to fix this?


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It doesn't work when I change the country of my apple ID. I come to the page where I need to fill in my address and billing information, but when I press next I come back to settings and when I press view apple ID, the country has not changed.

What can I do?


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Instead of that person not knowing that they have been blocked, is there a wayto set up your iPhone to send an auto-response to someone that they have indeed been blocked?  Similar to email when one goes on vacation, they get an automatic response that they will be out of the office.

Does anyone know how to send an auto response to someone that has been blocked?


texts: Phone front-facing camera is better than one in MBP. Am I missing anything?

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After having to call my significant other using camera build into my MBP 15-Inch "Core i7" 2.2 Touch/2018 (profile on everymac.com), I tried calling from my phone and was blown away by how phone video quality is superior to that of my MBP.

How come?

This seems to be very counterintuitive. I'd expect my MBP's built-in camera to be far superior than my phone's. Is this not the case?

To do video calls I use Zoom, as well as Facebook Messenger from browser.


texts: External mic not working anymore on Macbook Air

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I have a Macbook Air "Early 2014" with OS 10.11.6.

A few months ago, I used a lavalier mic plugged into the headphone/mic jack of this Macbook Air.  I recorded lots of audio narrations of presentations that way. My lavalier mic uses the 3-striped TRRS type of male plug.

(In case it's relevant: over the past few months, I've updated the OS whenever prompted to, and I've also played with audio extensions such as Soundflower to allow recording of Skype calls.)

Now, my Macbook seems unable to use my lavalier mic. And it also fails to record audio from my iPhone headphones (which also use a 3-striped TRRS type of male plug and have a built-in mic).

I've tried to completely uninstall Soundflower and any other audio related programs / extensions.

I know that my lavalier and iPhones headphones mic still work because I've tested them with other devices today.

So there seems to be a problem either with the Macbook Air port (extremely unlikely) or with some sort of software or setting (very likely).

Without completely reformatting my drive and reinstalling OS X, how can I figure out why my mic no longer works and fix it?

P.S. When I do try to record, the tiny embedded microphone built into the left of the keyboard is what is recording (instead of my plugged-in mic). I know this based on my tapping on the external mic and tapping on the keyboard to determine the loudness of which sounds get picked up. Thanks.

P.P.S. I've already read these posts, and they are not helpful for my situation because I already know about TRRS and what kind of external mic to use and have one that has already worked:

External Microphone input for MacBook Air 2012
MacBook Pro (mid-2012) Microphone Input
https://superuser.com/questions/361980/recording-with-audio-input-macbook-air


texts: How can I tell if my Mac mini is asleep?

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I'm have wake issues on my late 2012 Mac mini but one thing I've realised is I don't know when it is going to sleep, to diagnose if it always fails on sleep, or only sometimes.

During the day the screen will go off and it will wake but after a night, it often won't come back.

How can I tell my Mac has gone to sleep mode in the first place? I've wondered before when seeing the light on my USB mini-hub is still on and the blue light on the external HDD, if it is not sleeping when it should be, since USB power should cease when it's asleep?


texts: Keyboard not working on login screen MacBook Pro

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I have a MacBook Pro with OSx 10.11.6 installed.

On startup, when I try to login as a user with password, each time I click on the input text box it gets deselected, and it's impossible to enter the password.

However, if I enter as Guest, the keyboard works perfectly on Safari and all applications. So I really have no idea what's going on.

For now, I set the auto-login on startup without password, so I don't have to type anything in the login screen. But that's just a workaround, since I really need to enable the password.

Hope someone knows how to solve this.

Ps: I can get to type a letter or two if I click on the input box and type really fast, but still. And this happens for ALL characters.


texts: What does Mail do when you try to quit it?

texts: For some reason, Mail takes significantly longer than most of my other apps to quit. It might become unresponsive for a period of time after I hit [command]+[q] before it actually quits. What is taking Mail so long to quit?


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In Mac OS X (I'm on 10.6.8, though I believe other versions are the same) ssh'ing into a remote machine changes the title of the current tab in Terminal. Annoyingly, when I disconnect from the remote machine, either explicitly with exit or via a timeout, the title of the tab doesn't change back to what it was.

On an almost daily basis this nearly causes me to suffer a heart attack, when I'm typing away performing some command or other, only to see out of the corner of my eye that the tab is still named user@remotehost. I'm a cautious user that always tends to pwd etc to confirm my location before doing anything, yet it still catches me in a moment of panic when I'm doing DROP DATABASE x and I see the remote host name in the tab.

Long story short, is there a way to revert this title when disconnecting from a remote host, or do I have to stick with opening a new tab every time I disconnect, to reset the title?


texts: Disadvantages of using sim card from old iPhone?

texts: I upgraded from an iPhone 5 to XS. the 5 had a mobile-carrier company sim card (non-apple). To save phonecalls, I just plugged in the old sim card into new phone and it worked. I think the new phone has a apple sim card. The sim card that came with the new phone looks newer and more shiny. Are there any disadvantages of sticking with the old sim card? Everything seems like it works. I was just wondering because many but one android user sent me an text message and it didn't go through. The 5 underwent submersion but the water damage detector didn't register water damage.


texts: How can I restore the Time Machine exclusion list from a Time Machine backup?

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I reinstalled Yosemite clean, reformatting the disk before. I want to recover the Time Machine settings, specially the exclusion list, from the time machine backup of Maverics.

Any idea how to do it?

I copied com.apple.TimeMachine.plist located in /Library/Preferences/ but it didn't work.

any other idea?

thanks


texts: What's taking up all of this "Other" space on my iPhone?

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I have a jailbroken iPhone, and it's low on space. Much of the wasted space seems to have been consumed by the "Other" part of the space display in iTunes.

How can I get a breakdown of how that space is being used? The restore process from my backup may have left some extra crap around, so I'm thinking that maybe some of it's just incidental data that I could clean up if I knew what was there.

On my mac, I'd use DaisyDisk or something like it; does something like that exist for iPhones?


texts: How can I disable automatic scanning for WiFi networks?

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The objective is to strengthen the WiFi reception (at the moment without additional hardware).

I live in an area with a 100+ radio signals.

Majority is useless (to low signal) but still scanned and displayed. The one I get connection is so low it keeps lossing it if I sneeze.

Also I observed that my WiFi keeps scanning (looking for a Network) even tho I am connected.

Can I disable the continuos looking for a network? hoping to gain some signal strength on the one I am connected.

Additional information:
I have a MacBook Air with OSX 10.8.3, so no plugs for external antena that I know off. I live in Spain, and the routers are not meine nor accessible to me. Getting my private internet (ISP) is not a option.


texts: Dock never autohides on macOS Mojave 10.14

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'Automatically hide and show the Dock' is ticked in the dock preferences pane, but the dock never autohides.

Perhaps relevant, tooltips for application names also hang about indefinitely after the mouse pointer has left the dock area - below is a screenshot of the dock with a 'Calendar' name tooltip showing. The tooltip does not go away unless the mouse pointer is hovered over the dock again and then smoothly moved out of the dock area, so as to not leave any tooltips showing.

I don't usually set the dock to autohide, it is an attempt to get around a bug (perhaps related, perhaps not) where the dock continues to always show even when playing a video in fullscreen with VLC. I've already tried killall Dock - the dock did not relaunch and I had to restart the computer. I also deleted a preference file of some sort under ~/Library/Application Support named something like com.apple.Dock or similar - unfortunately I've forgotten the exact name.


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I want to mount my (non-bootable) Filevault encrypted drive on Linux. I know the user-facing password to decrypt it, but not the recovery key. From what I've read, I assume that the recovery key is the actual XTS-AES-128 key. Linux can't decrypt the drive with a password, but it can with the AES key. There's obviously a way to obtain the recovery key given the password, since that's done every time you decrypt the drive with a password. Hence I need a way to get this recovery key.

Alternatively, a Filevault driver for Linux would also be a way to mount my encrypted drive.


texts: Startup security utility menu not properly popping up

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I am trying to configure the security utility but I get this menu instead:
What I am doing is attempting to install windows on an external drive. I am following the steps from this video.


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I'm running a zsh terminal under Yosemite and have defined a simple alias to place files in Yoink:

$ alias yoink='open -a Yoink'
$ yoink my-file-to-yoink.txt

This works great but for some unknown reason the tab completion to specify
the file does not work after yoink. It simple says -- no matches found --.

Is there a way I can use tab completing in combination with this alias?

Thanks.

ps: Not sure if it's related, but I'm using zprezto.


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I want to provide a mac to a remote worker with my project folder. Its ok if they try to take pics of the code but i dont want them to copy the whole folder. Is it possible? how?

UPDATE:

Can I just create new user account(non-admin) and disable file copying somehow?


texts: Turn off Lock Screen notifications completely, notifications keeps showing even when disabled

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How can i disable completely the notifications from appearing in the lock screen?
I unchecked these options:

But i'm STILL getting an abstract of every notification in the lockscreen so people who don't have my password can still read my chats and emails.

This is very annoying, help please.


texts: Move mail boxes data to external drive on Mac Mail on Mavericks

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I have read, and search one blog to another, one question that seamed what I wanted. I do not want to move the whole Mailbox or configuration to another drive but want to free up some disk space by moving some mail boxes/folders to another drive without losing the mails. The closest to what I want are these steps:

Close Mac Mail
Move the .mbox folders that one wants on ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes to external drive
Do a Symlink on ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes pointing to /Volumes/<drive name>/<location of .mbox folder> (doing on a Terminal Window or by right-clicking on the folders on Finder)
Open Mail and the Boxes should be using the ones on the HD

I've done this on Mail on OS X Mavericks. The Boxes are there but no mails can be read. Can someone help me if I'm missing steps or have to do it differently on Mavericks?


texts: I have multiple svg files in a single folder and only a few of them have thumbnails - all those less than 10MB have thumbnails and all those larger do not. Is there a size limit for generating thumbnails in finder?  Is there some way of increasing that limit?


texts: How to Launch Multiple Applications Together?

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I was wondering if there was an easy way to launch a specific Application whenever another Application is launched.  In other words, I want to launch multiple Applications together as a group.

To be more specific, I have  small app that downloads lyrics for the currently playing iTunes track, and another that writes the currently playing track to a file.  The problem is, I often forget to launch these apps when I start iTunes.  I would like them to open every time I open iTunes.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: Increasing video memory on an older macbook

texts: I have a 2,1 macbook with 4GB ram of which 64mb are dedicated to the video card. Can I increase this to at least 512?


texts: Can I use the normal desert background image in Mojave dark mode?

texts: I like most of dark mode in Mojave, however I much prefer the light mode 'desert' image to the blue-grey one that appears in dark mode. Is there a way I can use the light mode image when I turn on dark mode?


texts: Can the GPU issue in 2011 Macbook Pros be latent?

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How permanent is the GPU defect in 2011-2013 MacBook Pros? Suppose one tests a used Macbook Pro by running a few random programs for ten minutes. Is it possible that the seller would have experienced the problem and not have declared it, and that the buyer would see no symptom, perhaps until the machine gets really warm? The problem is supposedly a heat dissipation problem. Could it be latent—in the sense that it would appear and disappear—or does it become always visible once it manifests?

In particular, it appears that the user can switch from the AMD to the Intel GPU. If that's the case, how can I guard against a seller having activated the Intel GPU to conceal a problem with the AMD GPU?

Notes:

Apple's repair program lapsed.
A.S.E. Q&As on the issue in question: 1, 2


texts: Why does Eclipse launch so slowly on Mac OS X?

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I noticed sometime after updating to Yosemite that Eclipse now launches very slowly. It takes 30 seconds to a minute to get to the startup splash screen, and after that it spends a minute or two initializing itself before the IDE comes up.

I've seen this issue even after updating Eclipse. I went from Luna to Mars to Mars.1 and it is still a problem. I have a number of perspectives installed (Java, C/C++, Python, and JS), but these were installed and working admirably before the issue started.

Tried a few things mentioned in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/316265/how-can-you-speed-up-eclipse

Increasing the amount of memory for the launcher and application in eclipse.ini (ctrl-click application -> Show Package Contents)
Updated Eclipse and all plugins

I noticed immediately after changing eclipse.ini, Eclipse opens a lot faster. On subsequent launches it is slow again.


texts: Most stable/fastest OS X version for an old MacBook Pro

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I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz, mid/late 2007) that has had a few graphics card problems. The logic board has needed replacement a couple times, meaning we stopped using graphics-intensive apps, and it has just gotten slower, and the hard drive is becoming full (obviously that will need to be dealt with).

Are Mavericks's performance improvements (App Nap, etc.) enough to make it not slower than 10.6.8? Stability is key, and I'm not sure the graphics card can handle it.

With goto fail and the other bugs that have yet to be discovered, I'm not sure when it would be a good idea to upgrade.


texts: How can I reinstall Mac OS 10.5.8 without erasing data?

texts: macbook OS will not load finder function want to reinstall but don't want to lose data thanx for any/all help!


texts: Create an El Capitan rescue USB using a Modern M1 Mac

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I am trying to rescue my dad's 2008 iMac. It is running Snow Leopard but the most recent OS it supports is El Capitan. It won't boot past a spinning progress bar on a grey screen, and will not boot into Recovery Mode or Safe Mode.
It seems to me next step is to try a bootable USB stick. I am running into walls trying to make the stick from my own computer, which is an M1 MacBook Air running Big Sur.
An El Capitan .DMG is downloadable directly from the Apple Support page, which provides instructions on how to make a bootable volume, with a major caveat On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg
I used a utility to extract the Install OS X El Capitan.app file from the .dmg and then ran the terminal command from that support page:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyUSBVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app
But this yields /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.
When I google this error some results indicate it is due to an expired file, but changing my system date to 2016 does not fix it. I assume the real problem is a system incompatibility.
Surely there is just an ISO I can get and write without all these hoops?s


texts: How to install Mac OS X without OS X Recovery or the DVD that came with the Mac?

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I'm having an issue installing Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro, here is what I have:

MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.66 15" Mid-2010.
Mac OS X install DVD that is not for the above model I don't have the one it came with.
New 1 terabyte HD that I just bought and installed on the Mac. The original HD is broken and can't be recovered.

When I try to use the Mac OS X install DVD I get the following error:

  Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer

What I tried:

Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.  When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button.

But this didn't work for me.


texts: What can I do to stop imessage from engaging on a certain contact without an iphone?

texts: I have a friend who used to have an iphone but has since gotten another phone. When I go to text him it automatically does an imessage which fails. I've deleted him and re-added him. I've turned imessage off and it will work for a bit but eventually reverts back to imessage. What do I do to fix this?


texts: Write cron script to open and exit application

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I'm trying to write a script that opens a brand new instance of safari, displays a webpage for 10 minutes, then quits safari.
I think I can follow this Stack Exchange to do steps 1 & 2 of my goal.
For the "display 10 minutes piece," I wasn't sure how to do that except to schedule a separate cron job to quit safari that executes 10 minutes after the first script.
Any idea on how to write a cron script to quit safari? Or to make this process easier? I'm a newbie at cron and would love to learn more.
Thanks!


texts:
I trying to fix any problem I have in brew doctor, so I see:

Warning: Some directories in your path end in a slash.
Directories in your path should not end in a slash. This can break other
doctor checks. The following directories should be edited:
    /usr/local/Cellar/node/5.0.0/bin/

I look into ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, /etc/paths – and don't see this path.

There is no files in /etc/paths.d/ folder that contains this string.

So where this $PATH part from?


texts: By using digits in file name like 1.0.0.1, the file name will be truncated and displays like this 1.0

texts:
By using digits in file names like 1.0.0.1 (with an arbitrary file type like .pdf, .txt or .jpg), the file name will be truncated and displays like this 1.0 (the .0.1 part will be truncated)

I already set grid view in the view options, but it doesn't help.

I'm using OS X Yosemite.

Please suggest how I may see the full name?


texts: Can't download or update Mac App Store apps

texts: I can't seem to download or update any apps purchased in the Mac App Store.  So far I've tried most of the usual troubleshooting tips found by googling the issue (deleting caches & preferences, signing out & back in, rebooting).  Nothing's helped at this point.  I've deleted the app from the Applications folder to try to re-install it but when I click Install, the wheel on the top left just spins for a few seconds then nothing happens & the install button reappears.  I don't have any problems on a different Mac.  I do have the same issue if I create another account on this Mac, so it must be a system setting somewhere...


texts: I have a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for my 3rd gen iPad, which is a Bluetooth keyboard. Is there any way to remap the caps lock key so it acts as the control key instead?


texts: How do I stop my AirPort Express from showing up under AirPlay?

texts:
I just got an AirPort Express and it's great but I don't have the audio port hooked up to any so it is useless to select it for AirPlay. Is there a way I can keep it from showing up in the list of available AirPlay devices?
Edit:
I discovered the turn off AirPlay check box in AirPort Utility however if I turn off the AirPort Express's AirPlay then I can't select my TV or any AirPlay device for that matter (The AirPlay icon doesn't show up at all). With my old router I could select the TV when it was in standby.


texts: Macbook Air not detecting correct external display resolution

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My Macbook Air stopped detecting the resolution of my external display this morning and I'm not sure why because it was working fine last night. My display is 24" 1080p and in the past whenever I have connected my monitor to my Macbook, it's just used the 'Best for Display' resolution. Today though, this automatically defaults to 800x600 and looks like the picture on the left. Then when I change the resolution to 1920x1080 it looks like the picture on the right (click to enlarge).

Things that I've tried so far:

Rebooting the MacBook
Disconnecting and reconnecting the Mini DisplayPort
I've tried with another computer (Windows) and it displays fine.
Resetting the settings of the monitor and doing and auto adjustment.

The fact that it's limited to this computer means that it's not the monitor, I'm wondering if there is any way to reset the display/graphics controller or something? Thanks.


texts: Are there any apps which will "watch" constantly and trigger actions when I type a certain string?

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Good sirs.
Coming from Windows-land, I'm trying to figure out what it is possible to do with my new laptop.

Using autohotkey (windows), I was able to open documents, launch apps, etc, by typing any pre-set combination of numbers and letters I could think of.
The keyboard hook was system-wide. I didn't have to open anything like spotlight, alfred, quicksilver, etc.

I could just type the word, no matter what app, and the script would run what it was told to.

I imagine that creating an OS which allowed this exploit would be frowned upon by the apple engineers, but all that aside, has anyone made an app that runs like this and constantly watches all key input?

Would learning applescript take care of something like this?

Thanks

P.S. I have also been trying to map spotlight to the esc key. But something has already claimed the esc key. Any ideas what that would be?


texts: Where should a daemon started by launchd store its data?

texts:
When I develop UI application for OSX I store user's preferences and application config to ~/Library/Preferences/AppName.plist (using NSUserDefaults).

But when I create global background daemon that will be running using launchd on behalf of root - what is the better place to store daemon's config?

On Linux I would put it to the /etc/ directory, but I'm not sure I can do the same on Mac.


texts: How much space does Apple music offline songs take up?

texts: I have a Macbook Pro with 120 GB storage. As i have limited space i was wondering where the offline songs on Apple music are stored? How much space do they take?


texts: No option on App Store to update High Sierra to Mojave

texts: Well, I have MacBook Air (early 2014) with High Sierra 10.13.6 OS and there is no option in AppStore to update to Mojave. I tried downloading directly from App Store and it stoped after every 500-800 MB, although it resumed from where it was stopped. but, after 100% download nothing happened, it didn't ask me to restart neither any error. So, is there any problem or is it not compatible with my machine.?


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I have a Mac Pro (Late 2013, OS X 10.13.1) and a 4k monitor from Sharp that was back then sold as the standard display. I'm using a scaled resolution on the monitor since otherwise, the font would be too small. Since an earlier update of OSX, I'm experiencing small white lines that sometimes flicker across the screen.

This issue seems to be related to the following Apple Community questions:

Flickering Screen with macOs 10.12.4
horizontal flickering lines MBP late 2015
white flashing lines on screen macos 10.12.4
Why are there white lines running across my Macbook Pro(late 2013) screen?
Horizontal flickering line across the screen

Most of the answers there are not helpful. I'm very sure that it is not a hardware problem because the flickering stops as soon as I use the native resolution for the monitor. I tried resetting the NVRAM without success. My investigation led to the following findings:

This issue appears only when I use a scaled resolution. As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter which one
It seems to be connected to media content like web-pages or video. Although I'm not sure, I believe when browsing after a restart there is a certain time point when the flickering starts. After that, it the lines appear even when you only type or move the mouse
The monitor is connected to a Thunderbolt port. That might be related because some of the above posts mention that they have the issue with external displays.

Has someone any clue what I could try except waiting for a fix?


texts: FaceTime call from Mac to iPhone 4S over 3G doesn't connect

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I tried to FaceTime my brother (who is using an iPhone 4s) from my MacBook Pro using the FaceTime app. The iPhone is on a 3G network, the MacBook is on my own Wi-Fi network.

The FaceTime app doesn't say that the iPhone is unavailable; it just keeps trying to connect, but the iPhone doesn't ring or do anything.

What might be the problem?


texts: Could anyone tell me if this EFI should be listed like this

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Having had a mess up on a fresh install I somehow messed it up and got a blank volume that I could not get rid of.
Stabbing in the dark as I haven't got a clue really, I came across a thread on a similar thing.
Gave it ago in terminal and it went.
I now have it looking like this..
I realise the recovery partition has gone but this is what I also wanted to do as I want to do a complete fresh install.
After all that long winded text, can anyone tell me if the part that lists EFI should it list it twice as it is in the screen capture or should it just be a single EFI listed...hope anyone can follow that.
Thanks for any replies.


texts:
Tim Cook's open letter about the FBI's attempts to access a locked iPhone 5c have me wondering a fairly simple question that I haven't found an answer for:

Assumptions:

I have an encrypted iPhone
It is set to wipe after 10 failed passcode attempts
It is currently locked
I only use Apple-approved methods

Question:

Can I update iOS on the device without unlocking it and without losing/wiping  the data?

Update:

As an aside to the actual question, I see that the FBI is not trying to do what I'm asking. They are asking for a version of iOS that they would load directly into RAM and run from RAM without making any modifications to either the OS partition or the user partition.


texts: MacBook Pro HDD corrupted files and bad blocks? Find command running for 4 days; Disk Utility reports no errors

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Computer:

Late 2011 MacBook Pro 13"
Factory 500 GB serial ATA (5400 RPM) HDD

Problem:

A few days ago my computer started running extremely slow — could barely perform the most basic functions like typing.

What I've done:

I ran an Apple hardware test (both the long and short one), but eventually it always froze (and allegedly continued running for hours) at a certain time — but did not say what exactly it was testing.

I also tried to repair the disk and permissions in Disk Utility via recovery mode, but it found no disk issues (fixed numerous permissions issues though).

None of the above helped to resolve.

Therefore, I tried to copy some of the important folders I was working with (because Time Machine stopped working a few weeks ago) and it wouldn´t let me copy some video files, returning errors.

After reading StackExchange, I ran this SMART Utility and it turns out I have just over 100 bad blocks in my HDD, with 40 000 files corrupted.

Easy question:

I am assuming this means that my HDD is dead and I should get a new one?

Follow-up questions:

I followed the advice on another question, to enter this into Terminal:

find / -type f -print -exec dd if={} of=/dev/null bs=1m \;

It has been running for 4 days straight without freezing — but the post above said it should freeze when it hits a bad block. It seems it's been going through all the files in my computer and allocating new space to the bad blocks.

How long should I wait for this to finish?

Is good for this to be running so long? Should I let it finish, or should I not waste time and start setting up a new HDD?


texts: iMac/MAcOS Mojave 10.14.6 does not accept correct password and shows red dot in the upper right edge

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I cannot log on my iMac 2019 (Mojave 10.14.6) since today.
I am absolutely sure, that I use the correct password.
Everything worked properly until today, I did not change the password or install a new software.

If I type in the password, the waiting symbol pops up, stays for about 1 min and then it disappears and the regular log in page remains.
The only difference I mentioned was a red dot in the upper right edge (just next to the clock, see image below). There is no special message popping up.

I can use this iMac only with an user-account (the University's informatics desk keeps the admin account) and, unfortunately, the system admins will not not be available until next week...

What I tried

Booting in save mode (by pressing shift at the startup), which worked, however, the log in does still not work after restart
Repair by booting into single-user mode (by pressing command + S) an
typing fsck -yf which returned: The volume appears to be OK.

My questions

What is the meaning of the red dot in the upper right edge of the log in screen?
Is there anything else I could try to find the reason of this problem or to fix it?


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I'm new to iPhoto. Before importing any photos I unchecked the option "Copy items to the iPhoto library".

When I rotate and edit photos in iPhoto (e.g. Enhance, Straighten etc), the original photo is unchanged and iPhoto creates its own copy of the photo which it stores somewhere else.

Can I force iPhoto not to do this, and to modify the original photo?


texts: win7 on macbook pro: is it safe to delete osx partition?

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I've installed win7 on mbp using bootcamp by creating additional partition - so now I have 2 partitions (win and osx)
My question is: will win7 boot normally if I delete osx partition from windows (using tools like Acronis Disk Director) ?

picture of my partitions from win:


texts: How can I prevent TextEdit from saving previous versions of a text file?

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I've got a simple text file that I keep in Dropbox for holding important notes.  I've name it so it shows up at the top of the directory, so that it is quickly accessible from anywhere - on my Mac, tablet, phone, etc.

The problem is, when I edit it on my Mac, TextEdit appears to be saving previous versions using some weird file naming scheme.  For instance, my file is called 000-Inbox.txt, and I see lots of files with names like 000-Inbox.txt.sb-abc123cb-XaedKL.  Currently I am counting twenty-two (22) (!) of these "backup" files.  This really messes up my directory listing; now all the other files which are supposed to be easily accessible at the top of the listing are pushed down out of site on my mobile devices.  My directly looks unsightly as well.  I don't want or need these files: Dropbox saves previous versions anyway, now it presumably is saving previous versions of previous versions which is just silly.

I've tried deleting these files, but it is rather a chore to have to delete a file every time I save a file.  Is there some way to disable this previous version saving?

Another issue it presents is if I change the file on another device, I have to close the file and reopen it, because reverting to the previous version is going to the previous version TextEdit has saved, not the latest version on disk.


texts: Is there a way for the iPad mail show calendar links, as the iPhone's?

texts: If I receive a mail in the iPhone with the text "tomorrow morning", this text turns into a link for "tomorrow morning" in the calendar app. The same doesn't happens on the iPad. Is there a way to enable it?


texts: Assistive device for the motor-impaired: how to interface with iPad's Assistive Touch from code

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I have an assistive device for people who can't touch a screen, that decodes commands (like move left/right, click) and broadcasts them as UDP packets. On most platforms, say Windows or Android, I have a Python script running that receives these commands and controls the mouse on that platform.
I would love to achieve this on iOS, particularly an iPad.
iOS has "Assistive Touch" which can display a pointer on the screen, and be controlled by an external Bluetooth device, which is a great start. One solution I'm imagining is connecting the iPad to a Bluetooth device like a mouse or keyboard to control the Assistive Touch pointer, and controlling that Bluetooth mouse or keyboard using code.
( Stream of UDP commands ) ===> [ Bluetooth device ] ===> Assistive Touch on iPad

Is there any such Bluetooth device that can connect to an iPad and can be controlled using code, so I can control the iPad based on the stream of commands mentioned above?
Or any method of telling the iPad these commands, the way a Bluetooth mouse can?
(I've heard that writing a script to act as the Bluetooth device itself is a huge undertaking, and not the path one should go down if they're not already well-versed in that domain. But if there is in fact a way to do that, I am open to anything.)


texts: Pages won't open after unexpected shut down

texts: I have OS X Yosemite v. 10.10.5.  After an update about 6 weeks ago Pages started refusing to respond, then shutting down unexpectedly.  Today Pages will not open at all.  I get the error message that Pages has shut down, do I want to reopen or report but reopen doesn't work.  Any suggestions??


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I use the spacebar to preview some files with Quick Look and when I'm done with it I close the preview window.

Sometimes when I change desktops the preview window will pop up again (empty) and when I try to close it, it will put me back on the desktop where I previewed an item.

This keeps occurring and I have no way of getting rid of it... Any solutions?
I'm using a OS X 10.9.3


texts: What's the easiest way to copy the current URL in Fluid?

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When I'm in a fluid app, and have navigated somewhere, I sometimes want to share that URL with someone.

What's the fastest way to get it onto the clipboard? It seems like it should be simple, but I'm at a loss.

EDIT:  I just figured out that I can turn on "show toolbar", which will add a url bar, but is there a quicker way?  I don't really want it on most of the time and enabling it is a lot more annoying than a cntrl-c.


texts: Preview doesn't show postscript (P.S.) characters

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In my mac (running macOS Sierra 10.12.1) I use the default Preview to open the .ps files, including the .eps images generated by matlab or gnuplot. But my preview cannot show some characters or symbols in those kind of documents. For example, that's what I see on my screen, when I open a "ps" file:

What's the most possible reason?


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On my macOS laptop I change video dimensions easily using ffmpeg, normally something like

ffmpeg -i vid.mp4 -vf “scale=iw/2:ih/2” our.mp4

On the iPhone I can’t find out how I can resize a video that I recorded.

How do I do that (for free)?

I want to make saved videos smaller (they have already been recorded, I know I can change the recording dimensions in settings)


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I'm writing a document in Pages, but I want to create a footnote at the bottom of the page. Something like in this image:

How can I do this in Pages?

Thanks in advance


texts: Chrome putting itself in the Dock whenever it wants.

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So I have Google Chrome installed on my Mac & randomly it will put itself in my dock, where it normally doesn't reside. It is usually about every two weeks or so, but sometimes its within a few days. It is the only application to do so. It puts itself as the first application (immediately after the finder) regardless of what else is on the dock.
Of note: I rarely use Chrome as I usually prefer Safari or Firefox. I may open it once every few months.
I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this problem. Suggestions?


texts: Is it possible to use Safari on OSX with "panes" like vim splits

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I'd like to have two "tabs" open in one window, but with the content of the two displayed pages simultaneously visible like this:

==================
|  content of 1  |
|  content of 1  |
-------------------
|  content of 2  |
|  content of 2  |
===================

I don't want the toolbar and location bar atop each content area, but I could tolerate this.

The difference between this arrangement and just two Safari windows opened one atop the other is that if I resize the single containing window, the panes resize in lockstep with it.

By the way, it would be even better still if I could have these groups of panes within a tab, and tab between such groups (again, like vi(m) tabs/splits).

This doesn't seem remotely possible with basic Safari, but maybe a plugin enables it?


texts: What are these characters from the OS X keyboard?

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I've never seen these characters before and never seen them in action either.

Does anybody know what they are and what they're used for?

Maybe somebody has this drop of trivia lying around...

Option+Shift+6

  ﬂ

Option+Shift+5

  ﬁ


texts: Will older versions of iLife (like 06 or 08 or 09) run on Lion

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I'm looking and don't see any official word yet from Apple - I wondered if any web sites have reported whether these older versions work a little or at all (or perfectly well with only some little errors).

The Roaring Apps table lists only iLife 11 versions and my attempts at the top 20 results for several google searches shows a lot of content farms gaming the results.


texts: iMac display wakes up even when no one is using it

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I have my iMac set to set the display to sleep after 15 minutes. I notice at night that, even when no one is touching the computer, the display will come on for a while and then to go back to sleep after it's usually set time (10 minutes).
Is there any way to find out what's waking it up? Or even better, to force it to keep the display asleep?


texts: Buying an iPhone 6S in the US, and using in Europe?

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Should I be worried when buying an iPhone 6S in the U.S., if I want to use it in Denmark, Europe? I will be buying it SIM-free.

Worried in the sense that the network might not be working (GSM/CDMA etc.).


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I've been following the instructions here for installing John the Ripper on my Macbook Pro (El Capitan). I've skipped the Iterm and Cuda sections (I have a Redeon GPU).

All is well until I run

make clean macosx-x86-64

Which gives me the error:

gcc -c -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include     -m64 -Wno-deprecated-declarations -funroll-loops dynamic_fmt.c
In file included from dynamic_fmt.c:69:
./sha.h:4:10: fatal error: 'openssl/sha.h' file not found
#include <openssl/sha.h>
         ^
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [dynamic_fmt.o] Error 1
make: *** [macosx-x86-64] Error 2

How can I get it to compile?

I've read that it is better to use CommonCrypto API instead of OpenSSL. However, I'm not sure how to go about doing this. Is there a better solution?


texts: Unable to use internet, but settings shows Ethernet as connected

texts: I recently went through setting up a new DHCP server. It's working, except for my Mac. Renewing the DHCP lease doesn't get it an IP address and if I assign a manual IP address, settings app shows Ethernet is connected but safari and chrome don't connect to any sites, not even my router or server's configuration page. I've tried restarting and resetting the network config to no avail. I'm running macOS 10.12.6


texts: launchd is not passing arguments to my PHP script

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I'm having a weird problem. I use launchd to run a bunch of shell scripts that update content on my site. It was working fine when it was just calling scripts normally. But now I made the script a little more complicated, and the launchd plist needs to send an argument when it calls the script. No problem, launchd has ProgramArguments just for that. Problem is, it's just not working. Here is the important part of my launchd.plist:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/scripts/content.php</string>
        <string>update</string>
    </array>

I've omitted just a Label key and a StarCalendarInterval key. As you can see, the path to the script is the first element in the array. That seems to be the most common cause of this problem.

So to be clear, this DOES launch my script. But it does NOT pass any arguments. I had the script output print_r($argv) to an error log and it outputs this:

Array ( [0] => /scripts/content.php )

Most important here, is that if I run the following from the command line, my script runs perfectly and as expected:
./content.php update

It seems like I'm doing everything right, I'm not sure what's going on with this?


texts: I want a twitter feed to alert my iPhone

texts: On my iPhone, I'd like to get a push alert when there's a new tweet from a twitter account.  How can I achieve this?


texts: How does a Google iOS app save and restore active accounts across app deletion?

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On an iOS 8 device, I installed Google Hangouts and upon first launch, it pre-populated an account that was previously associated with a different, and long ago deleted, Google app.

Since I had just Reset Advertising Identifier, I assumed it must be the Vendor ID (there was another Google app installed on the device). So, I deleted both (all) Google apps on the device, which should reset the Vendor ID.

I then re-installed Google Hangouts and launched it. It STILL had the old account active. This is not only mysterious behavior, but is also a pretty serious security and privacy vulnerability. When an app is deleted, and especially when all apps from a vendor are deleted, there should be no active accounts or data left on the device.

Any ideas on how Google Hangouts knows about the old account?


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I have tried a lot of things but I keep getting failed backups when doing a first backup on High Sierra. I have not used Time Machine previously and I am trying to backup to a usb drive.

Checking the logs after a failure I get something like:

Last failure:

 (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogError] Error: (-50) SrcErr:NO Copying /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/<NAME OF MY COMPUTER>/2017-12-29-105925/Macintosh HD/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.cls to /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/<NAME OF MY COMPUTER>/2017-12-29-105925.inProgress/15E91B0A-F367-4968-A948-04FF05E7404A/Macintosh HD/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar

The errors are always Error (-50) SrcErr:NO Copying and it is always some file from /usr/local (or /usr/) that fails. Could this have to do anything with permissions? I previously had Homebrew installed (which modifies the permissions for some of the subfolders of /usr/local/) and I also have Tex-Live 2016 installed.

Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated as I am pulling my hair out on this one.


texts: iTunes says I have 8k photos but I only have 6k on my iPhone?

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I synced some photos from iPhoto to my iPhone. iTunes says that the photos were synced and there's 8000 photos in my phone.

But when I checked my photo the photos I synced weren't there.

Can someone please help me with this?


texts: What are the afconvert settings for the iTunes Plus AAC encoding setting?

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The challenge

I would like to convert a large collection of WAV files to AAC using the "iTunes Plus" setting in iTunes. iTunes describes this setting as:

  128 kbps (mono) / 256 kbps (stereo), 44.100 kHz, VBR, optimized for MMX/SSE2.

I would like to automate this import process.

Trial and error

The afconvert command line tool can convert between audio file formats. I've tried a few settings and the closest I could get is:

afconvert -v -d aac -b 256000 -f m4af -q 127 -s 2 --soundcheck-generate input.wav output.m4a

So: be verbose (-v), use the AAC data format (-d aac), encode at 256 kbps (-b 256000), store in the Apple MPEG-4 Audio file format (-f m4af), use the highest quality (-q 127), use VBR constrained (-s 2) and add SoundCheck data to the file.

I've also created an m4a file using the iTunes Plus setting.

The m4a file created by afconvert is about the same size as the iTunes file; just 65536 bytes smaller.

Results

Using the afinfo tool, I compared the file generated by iTunes to the file generated by afconvert. There are two differences in the afinfo output:

The file generated by iTunes has an audio data file offset of 131072, the one by afconvert 65536. This explains the difference in file size
Somehow the file generated by iTunes has different sound check values than the one converted by afconvert:

iTunes file:

sc ave perceived power coeff             343 407
sc max perceived power coeff             6873 8940
sc peak amplitude msec                   154389 194861
sc max perceived power msec              194025 194025
sc peak amplitude                        31129 30928

afconvert file:

sc ave perceived power coeff             341 388
sc max perceived power coeff             6087 4157
sc peak amplitude msec                   212509 152323
sc max perceived power msec              215481 185017
sc peak amplitude                        31024 29857

Especially the sc peak amplitude msec and sc max perceived power msec values differ quite a lot. These are the exact same input files, what could cause this difference?

Question

Is there a way to get results even closer to the "iTunes Plus" setting?


texts: MBP SSD Deep Formatting Problem - Will Format as FAT32 but fails as HFS+

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My MBP SSD crapped out the other day, I'm pretty sure it was user error (too full). I was able to run my emergency OS via external drive and collect my files, but had difficulty deleting them from my SSD (error code -50) and the First Aid procedures failed miserably.

Reset SMC and PRAM just in case, no dice.

At this point I just want to fix the drive, I don't need to recover anything from it. When I attempt to build a fresh HFS+ partition, the Disk Utility gets to disk0s2 and then fails ("Formatting disk0s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Macintosh HD"-->"Disk Erase failed with the error: File system formatter failed"). However, if I set it to Fat32, it will format and partition perfectly and the disk verifies. It also S.M.A.R.T. verifies just fine.

Unfortunately that doesn't help me, since I need the HFS+ to reinstall the OS. I have exhausted the options within Disk Utility and have gone command level with the problem from the terminal. I've followed walkthroughs with fdisk, downloaded TestDisk and installed gdisk as well--no success. I've tried GPT Destroy, rebuilt the MBR, and zero disk (abandoned after 1Gb) with Disk Destroy, still doesn't let me write a fresh partition and format. I left DD running for about three minutes, and my SMART utility is now reporting 13K CRC errors (apparently all Interface CRC Errors), but zero bad sectors.

Before anyone says it... no, DiskWarrior does not work.

I really am not in a position to replace this drive right now, and the fact that it works perfectly fine with Fat32 is taunting me.

I don't know how to scrub the drive any cleaner or restore it to factory defaults. I really just want to get that clean HFS+ partition up and running so I can reinstall the OS, and it's fighting me. And I'm losing.

EDIT: // Including output from sudo gpt -r show disk0

sh-3.2# sudo gpt -r show disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  489562928      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  489972568     262151
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

UPDATE 1: Moving the EFI to a Different Start Block

Entered the following commands:

>sudo gpt destroy disk0
>sudo gpt create -f disk0
>sudo gpt add -i 1 -b 800000 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B disk0
disk0s1 added
>sudo gpt add -i 2 -b 1209600 -s 488762968 -t 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0
disk0s2 added
>sudo newfs_hfs -v System -J /dev/rdisk0s2
newfs_hfs: WriteBuffer:  pwrite(3, 0x10fbdb000, 1048576, 3149824): Input/output error
newfs_hfs: write (sector 6152): Invalid argument

An I/O error has just reared it's ugly head...


texts: After a iPhone is stolen, can that device's iCloud backup be accessed?

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I had an iPhone 4 stolen from me and there is an associated iCloud backup with tons of data I want. Is there any possible way to access this without the iPhone 4?

I also got an iPhone 5 recently but don't think the restore will work (but haven't tried).


texts: I have unencrypted .iso images of both DVD and BD (don't know how to check the UDF version used). When mounting and copying files off them, BD is around four times slower. Why? How do I speed it up?


texts: Can I install a 256gb SSD from a late 2010, early 2011 MacBook air 13 inch (A1369) into my late 2010 11 inch MacBook Air (A1370)?

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The 11 inch MacBook air did not ship with or offer a 256gb SSD, only 64gb and 128gb. However the 13 inch from late 2010 did ship with a 256gb SSD.

Is the 256gb SSD from the 13 inch MacBook air (A1369 I believe) compatible with the 11 inch MacBook Air (A1370) from the same late 2010 time period?


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Was trying to run the Java update earlier. But it couldn't launch the installer after downloading. Here's the log:

21/4/15 12:35:58.498 am Java Updater[814]: Original euid:501
21/4/15 12:35:58.500 am Java Updater[814]: Host name is javadl-esd-secure.oracle.com
21/4/15 12:35:58.500 am Java Updater[814]: Feed URL: https
21/4/15 12:35:58.500 am Java Updater[814]: Hostname check passed. Valid Oracle hostname
21/4/15 12:35:59.387 am java[815]: objc[815]: Class JavaLaunchHelper is implemented in both /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java and /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/lib/jli/./libjli.dylib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
21/4/15 12:36:17.015 am SonyAutoLauncher[436]: Enum Begin!
21/4/15 12:36:17.015 am SonyAutoLauncher[436]: Enum End!
21/4/15 12:36:17.015 am SonyAutoLauncher[436]: Enum Begin!
21/4/15 12:36:17.000 am kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Oracle Java 8 Update 45 on device disk4s1
21/4/15 12:36:17.064 am mds[56]: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7f9543881000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:1 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/A6C41DEC-149E-4397-80AE-658431B73334
21/4/15 12:36:17.126 am SonyAutoLauncher[436]: Device path: /Volumes/A6C41DEC-149E-4397-80AE-658431B73334
21/4/15 12:36:17.126 am SonyAutoLauncher[436]: Enum End!
21/4/15 12:36:18.265 am Java Updater[814]: App found:/Users/roy/Library/Application Support/Java/Java 1.8.45.14/JavaAppletPlugin.pkg
21/4/15 12:36:18.282 am mdworker[797]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
21/4/15 12:36:18.282 am mdworker[783]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
21/4/15 12:36:18.000 am kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Oracle Java 8 Update 45 on device disk4s1

Does anyone knows what's going on and how to fix it?


texts: Can't use self signed certificates any more, because "Enable full trust for root certificates" is gone from settings

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As you can see, "Enable full trust for root certificates" is completely missing. What do I do?

This is on iPhone X 11.4 btw.


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I am connecting to my work's vpn via sstp-client on my mac.
Everything is working except that I cannot use short names in urls.

For example, if I type "servera" it doesn't resolve to anything. If I use "servera.work.domain" it will work fine.

When connected to the vpn, if I look at etc/resolv/conf I can see there are only the two nameservers and no domain listed. When disconnected, the search domains reappear in the file.

Here is the command used to invoke sstp from a script.

sudo sstpc --log-stderr --log-level 4 --cert-warn --user $UN --password $PW $SERVICE_URL usepeerdns require-mschap-v2 noauth noipdefault defaultroute refuse-eap noccp

I have also tried adding domain work.domain to the end of the command without luck.

Any ideas how to get this working?


texts: Has anyone tried 2x8GB (16GB) 2133 MHZ DDR3 204-pin RAM in their 2011 MBP 17-inch?

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And if so, any issues?

I was doing Geekbench benchmarks and found this profile:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/1046173

Notice the 2133 MHZ RAM installed on that unit. Clearly, he's able to boot and run his Mac and run all Geekbench 4 tests.

I'm tempted to test it out myself to see if there are any overall system performance increased (boot time, app launch, etc..) but I can't find where to buy that 2133 MHZ 204-pin RAM. Any suggestions?


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I'm trying to change the MAC on a USB wifi device. The usual way of doing it does nothing...

sudo ifconfig en4 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66

After doing the command there are no errors, but the MAC stays the same. I've tried disconnecting the device from any network before trying to change it... and nothing changes.

Any ideas?


texts: Does Apple have a distribution platform for web apps?

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I have built a web app that I want to distribute to Mac users (using Safari on OS X). What's the best way to do that?

Google, for example, has Chrome Hosted Apps and Chrome Packaged Apps (for web apps, not mobile) that can be distributed through the Google Play.

Best I can tell, (Apple) App Store only contains mobile apps for iOS. And all the OS X apps seem to be developed by Apple only? And not by any third party developers.

Chrome Hosted Apps, as an example in contrast, makes the process simple. All you have to do is create a JSON file with some meta data about the app and upload the app to Google Play. Then the download is just a simple link to the URL of your web app. Done. I'm looking for something similar from Apple. Or are they just out of the web app game?


texts: Iphone 5c will no longer play music without wifi or cellular

texts: Always played music from my music library.  Today all I get is "connect to WiFi or cellular to play music".  I haven't done anything different or added anything!  Does anyone know why??


texts: How do I restore a Time Machine backup after repartitioning the original drive?

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My goal is to backup my data by Time Machine, perform a clean install of Yosemite, partition the disk and restore some of the data.

Right now my setup is only one partition. After a new setup I want to have two partitions.

Does Time Machine deal with that smoothly though the new partitions have new UUIDs then?


texts: How do I delete Albums from Photos for synced folders that don't exist anymore?

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I previously used a Windows 7 desktop PC before and synced a folder of pictures to my iPod Touch 4G Photos using iTunes. Unfortunately, the desktop PC crashed and so I had to reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop.

In my current Windows 7 setup on my laptop, I have reorganized my folder structure which included the pictures folders.

So now, I want to sync to these picture folders with my iPod Touch. But first I want to delete a previously synced folder from my iPod Touch (as these will most likely duplicate pictures which are now on different folders). The problem is, I can't do that on the iPod. And I can't do that on iTunes as well because the synced to folder isn't there anymore.

The only thought that occurred to me is to reset the device but I don't want to do this just yet. How do I go about deleting the folder from my photos without touching the other data (e.g. Emails, Messages, etc) on my iPod Touch?


texts: Seagate 4TB, 3,5" / SATA III (ST4000DM000) and SK-3500 Super-S Combo

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I bought a 4TB 3.5", SATA III Seagate Desktop HD and put it into a SK-3500 Super-S Combo. My iMac (late 2009) did, however, not detect the HD when I connect it. Since I cannot see it, I am unable to format it. The HD is also not shown in the Terminal after df -h. When I type diskutil list, however, I get the following from Terminal:

0:                                                   *4.1 GB     disk1

After diskutil list the HD is now shown in "Disc Utilities" but featured as "non-writeable" and I cannot create a partition or format it. Not sure why but I suspect that the problem could be the SK-3500 enclosure and I should try another enclosure.

If you have any ideas what else I could try (aside from trying another enclosure), I would appreciate any input very much.


texts: MacOS High Sierra VSCode "Writing login information to the keychain failed with error 'UNIX[No such file or directory]'."

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MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 with new install of VSCode 1.50.0

Attempt to "Sign-in to Sync Settings"

web/browser-based SSO redirects to Microsoft and/or Github browser login

login fails - error message in VSCode:

Writing login information to the keychain failed with error 'UNIX[No such file or directory]'.

New install of VSCode on MacOS

And MacOS info:


texts: Why doesn't pbpaste return cursor at new line in bash?

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I run the command pbpaste in Terminal (bash) to get the result of my clipboard, but unlike other commands which leave the cursor at a new line below the previous stdout, pbpaste leaves it to the right of it, as in the example, showing the command sandwiched between two echo hellos:

hostname:~ jesse$ echo hello
hello
hostname:~ jesse$ pbpaste
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noizio/id928871589?mt=12hostname:~ jesse$ echo hello
hello
hostname:~ jesse$

Why is it like this? It seems very odd and makes it difficult to read.


texts: Brand new MacBook Pro with Retina display - Mail, Preview and App Store freezes on launch

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I can never use most Apple-made apps on my MacBook Pro with Retina display, as the UI never responds, however Mail gets new emails and Preview displays images. It's just that I cannot click.

I can't close it and I can't use the menu bar, however it responds to keyboard commands.

I have to force quit these apps every single time. I don't have the 'reopen windows' option on, so I don't understand what is going on. Activity Monitor is normal.


texts: Can you use a 65W apple charger instead of the 45w charger that comes with the Macbook Air? How will this affect the machine.


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Is anyone using an iPad in the corporate world? If you are:

Is it better than carrying around a laptop, and if so, how?
Do iPads connect to networks like notebooks do?
Can I remote into my Windows PC in a corporate environment using an iPad?


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I've recently taken the dive to Photos.app on Sierra and it does seem to finally replace iPhoto, but I am stuck in a rut with not being able to get to the original photos and videos via a right click and reveal in Finder function.  Is there a plugin or some option that facilitates this?

At the moment I'm having to drop to shell and issue an lsof to get file paths, but that's quite cumbersome...


texts: Changing my administrator user's username has removed privileges, rebooting doesn't work

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Like the title says, I was trying to change my username on my MacBook (running High Sierra Version 10.13.6), it removed my admin privileges so I do not have an Admin account.

I tried rebooting in command mode and deleting the applesetupdone file, but it says the file does not exist, and when I reboot does not allow me to set up a new admin account, following the steps below:

Boot into Single User Mode: Start/restart your Mac. As soon as you hear the startup tone, press and hold ⌘ + S until you see a black screen with white lettering. (If you end up back on the login screen after a flash of the black screen with white lettering, enter your password and it will return to the black screen.)

Mount the drive by typing /sbin/mount -uw / then ↩ enter.

Remove the Apple Setup Done file by typing rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone then ↩ enter.

Reboot by typing reboot then ↩ enter.

Complete the setup process, creating a new admin account.

What else can I try or do from here? Googling isn't giving me any options if the above doesn't work.
Thank you!


texts: How to view all iTunes backups and respective devices?

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There are a bunch of backups in the folder:

C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

However, they're all named gibberish and difficult to identify. This folder takes up 30% of the space on my 500 GB hard drive.

How do I find out what device they're for, along with their date, so I can decide which to delete?


texts: How to add app icon for iPad Pro in Xcode

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In Xcode 7.1 and 7.1.1 there is no slot for app icon for iPad Pro. I have no idea how to put in an app icon for iPad Pro.

How can it be done? Does the App Store make the scaled version of the iPad Air app icon onto iPad Pro?