texts: Cannot repair permissions on systemsetup (open error 1)

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I've been noticing some issues with my Mac lately and decided to repair permissions (with Disk Utility). However, after getting through a few files I am presented with:

Open error 1: “Operation not permitted” on usr/sbin/systemsetup

I've never encountered this before, so wanted to check if this is serious and how I might be able to rectify it.

Another issue, that may or may not be related, is that the System Information application is unable to gather any information about my machine. I am only presented with There was an error while gathering this information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am running 10.7.3.

Solution

Unfortunately, I was unable to determine the cause of either of these errors. I tried repairing permissions after booting from a secondary partition with no luck. However, System Information did report the proper information when booting from this secondary partition. Eventually, I decided to reinstall Lion on my main partition, which resolved all issues.


texts: Why does the font change after I paste an image in TextEdit?

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Here is a simple sequence of actions in TextEdit in macOS 10.13.6 that produces an unexpected side-effect. I don’t understand why, and would like to know how to prevent it.

Create a new document in TextEdit (using ⌘-n or menu item File ➜ New).
Look at the style bar at the top, and note the font & font size. The font that TextEdit uses at this point is what I set in my TextEdit preferences for "Rich Text Font". (In my case, Roboto 14pt.)

Capture an image to the clipboard, e.g., using the standard macOS facility for capturing a portion of the screen as an image to the clipboard. (Any image will do.)
Paste the image in the document (using ⌘-v or menu item Edit ➜ Paste).
Look at the style bar again: the font & font size have changed to Helvetica 12pt.

This affects text that you type in the document: if you type text before you paste in an image, the text will be in the font and font size you set in your preferences; once you paste in an image, any text that you type in the document after the location of the image will use a different font & font size. (It is not merely a glitch in the style displayed in the style bar.)

Why does the font change? What controls this behavior? And how can I make it stop changing, so that text typed after step #4 continues to be the font set in my “Rich Text & Note Font” preference instead of being switched to Helvetica 12pt?

In case it is relevant, here is an image of my TextEdit Preferences panel:


texts: OS X Maps app, seek with longitude and lattude possible?

texts: Is there some way to get the Maps app in OS X Mavericks to show a specific known latitude/longitude expressed in numbers only? If so, what's the syntax?


texts: How to share iOS Pages document that was created on Mac?

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I recently created a Pages document on my Mac (OS X 10.8.2). I then opened it in Pages on my iPhone (iOS 6.1) to email it to someone. iCloud downloaded the document as expected when I opened Pages, but when I tapped the Edit button, and selected the document, the "Share" icon was greyed out. The "Duplicate", and "Delete", icons work as expected. I also tried duplicating the document before sharing it, with no success.

Is it possible to share Pages documents that were created on a Mac and synced over iCloud from an iOS device?


texts: I dropped my iphone4s in water and when I got a new phone and brought back the GarageBand app none of my songs were there. Is there ANYWAY I can recover these files?


texts: Spotlight not working with Netgear ReadyNAS

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I am unable to search AFP shares on a netgear NAS device using spotlight. Spotlight reverts to the default local hard drive. "Shared" is not user selectable. The NAS is using the latest Netgear OS V6. The unit is new and installed 10/2016.
Can Spotlight be used to search NAS shares, or is there another application that will resolve this issue?
Thanks


texts: Mac OS X 10.4 - Thunderbird 3 to Thunderbird 13

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I'm working with an ancient PowerPC Mac running Tiger. I managed to migrate the POP email from Apple Mail 2 to Thunderbird 3, but I now need to migrate it to a newer machine with Thunderbird 13. How would I go about doing this?

Does Thunderbird 13 store email in the same format as Thunderbird 3?  Can I just copy over files? What should I do?


texts:
Merge iOS DBs for SMS Messages & Photos from 2 iPhones?

i7 iOS 11.2.6 - Unused phone

i5 iOS 10.3.3 - (Used until 2017)
i6 iOS 10.2 - (Used most of 2018)

All are Jailbroken.

Would like to Merge the DBs from i5 and i6 into one of them and eventually transfer to i7.
How would it be possible to Merge the DBs of i5 & i6?

If not directly via iMazing, any suggestions on how to Merge the DB files as some people are well aware of structure (since iMazing & similar tools can read / access the files).

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?


texts: Early 2011 Macbook Pro boots, then shuts off

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I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro that shuts off shortly after it boots up. Essentially it'll turn on, the Apple logo will show and so will the load bar. However the load bar doesn't budge and the Macbook will turn off about a minute or two later. I can't boot into Recovery but I can into Safe Mode. Internet recovery does work however there's not much for me to do. I can't reinstall my OS and I can't run any commands in Terminal.

I'm almost positive this is a graphics failure because in safe mode the screen does a lot of funky stuff (like vertical lines and screen tearing).

I should also mention that the fans run at full speed when I boot, no idea why. I believe a SMC reset should fix this.

Now the bigger deal is that my Macbook doesn't have a battery so I can't run any resets. I want to first be able to disable the graphics before I buy anything else. But if it's absolutely necessary to do so I will.


texts: How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X?


texts: Lately, I will go through periods where iTunes keeps opening itself repeatedly. It never plays anything or loads any files or URLs. But I can't figure out what is triggering it to open. Is there a log somewhere that shows why an app opened? Presumably it's due to a file association somewhere.


texts: Can I disable the data connection on my iPhone, but use the Wi-Fi as normal?


texts: Auto Reply to incoming calls by message using Shortcuts app

texts:
Is it possible to reply incoming calls by A fixed message (say: Call you later ) automatically using Shortcuts app ?

Like Do not disturb  for incoming messages in iOS 13.


texts: Outlook 2011: Re-mapping keyboard shortcuts?

texts: At work I'm using Outlook 2011 and OSX 10.10. I just sent yet another incomplete email accidentally with the shortcut CMD + right enter. Is there any way to disable this shortcut? Googling around shows adding keyboard shortcuts into OSX itself but not Outlook. Thanks!


texts: iOS app store falsely claims I have no payment method while gifting app

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I want to gift an app from the iOS app store. I verified I have enough prepaid store credit, set up the gift purchase, and clicked the Buy button.

The iOS App Store gives a false error message:

  Payment Information Required

  A method of payment is required to buy an iTunes Gift. You can add a
  payment method from your Account Information Page.

I checked my account information and it has enough prepaid store credit to buy the app as a gift.

What's causing this and how do I fix it?


texts: User defined menu shortcut doesn't work with Safari

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I want to add a shortcut to "refresh" the web page in Safari (5.0.2).
I added a shortcut definition in the System Preferences.

I disabled the usage of the Fonction keys by the System.
I have "F5" shown next to "Reload Page" menu item. But, this does not work.

What went wrong ?


texts: Skype switches to discrete graphics card and shows blank settings

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When I force Mac to use integrated graphics card, Skype displays blank page when clicking settings. Skype works fine with discrete graphics card, but I cannot use it since I have a faulty discrete graphics card which causes Mac to shutdown intermittently.
Is there a way to make Skype to properly use integrated graphics card?


texts: What is the meaning of the command lsof +L1

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lsof +L1

My understanding is that the command above shows files that have been deleted but are still open. These files have a “link count” of 0, meaning that there is no directory entry (no link, i.e. no name) that leads to them, but the file data still exists. The file data will be deleted when the file is closed. I commonly see references to this issue when people are talking about log files that the system is writing to. The file can be deleted but the process continues to write to the file and it takes up more and more memory. Other people have identified this sometimes as malicious behavior of malware that is trying to hide itself.

I am trying to understand how this can happen? When I open a file to read or write to in python, the file exists on the disk. I tried reading the relevant Xcode docs on file access but it is very dense. Are there different kinds of files - those in ram and those on disk?

These are named files so it is not memory being used by the application. For example, running this command on my mac reveals about 300 such files. the 'offending' processes are things like loginwindow, dock, systemUIS, sharingd,CalendarA, and lots of others. If this is stuff that a process is writing to RAM, can I 'attach' myself to the process with gdb and see what it's doing? Can i write these files to the disk to read them?


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Is there any remote desktop solution for Mac? I don't mean a VNC where one can only manage the computer using the logged user on the computer. I want to be able to use my Mac at home using GUI with my account while my wife accesses the computer locally using her account.

Is it possible?


texts:
Command in GNU

echo "Masi,hello" | paste -sd,

which I want in BSD paste.
I am reading this answer here.

How can you write this in BSD paste.


texts: I did a software update & now I can't open Mail

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I get the following message when I try to open mail

'You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS x
You have Mail version 4.5 (1084/1085). It can't be used on Mac OS X version 10.6.8 )build 10k549)'

I have read the help info

I have made sure Mail.app is in the application folder

Thanks for any help with this


texts: iTunes Wi-Fi Sync stopped working with iOS 11.2

texts: Syncing from the iPhone using Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync doesn't work (just get "searching for computer" which goes away after about 1 minute) and the device never shows up in iTunes.


texts: Access Windows SMB folder without account/password from Mac

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I am trying to access the folders that I have shared on my Windows machine. These folders are shared without the need for a password or account. I can access them from another Windows computer or Android phone without entering a password. However my Mac always asks me for a username and password to access these folders trough Finder. If I choose guest it doesn't work. If I enter an account from the windows computer I can access the files. But entering a password is annoying if there is no need for it. Can I fix this?

More info:
I am now on Catalina, but I had the problem on earlier versions too. e.g. 10.12. Windows is Win Server 2016 Datacenter
The url is smb://Serva, which is the name of the computer, nothing changes if I put the IP


texts: Choose display when doing a screen capture with external display

texts: I have a Macbook with an external display. I use both displays and when I do a screen capture (⌘ + ⇧ + 3) I get two files on the desktop, one for each display. Is there a way to choose which display to grab the screenshot from when doing the screen capture?


texts: iTunes synching of played podcast episodes between OS X and Windows 7

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I've got iTunes (always latest version so currently 12.2) installed on both, my Mac at home and my work PC running Windows 7.

Having both iTunes apps synched to the same account was always a great to keep track of what episodes of the many podcasts I'm subscribed to I've already listened to.

However, since a couple of versions it's completely broken.

Despite the "Sync playback information" and "Sync podcast subscriptions" being checked on both machines the information about played podcasts will not sync anymore.

Is this a known issue?  Does anybody know of a workaround?

Going through dozens of episodes each week on both machines and marking them as played is just annoying and a waste of time.. despite the fact that the list of unplayed podcasts is always a mess on either machine.


texts: Setting PHP upload_max_filesize in Mountain Lion

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I have edited /etc/php.ini and have inserted the following line of code to set the subject variable:

 upload_max_filesize = 20M

However, within a Joomla website on this host, the PHP Information screen says that this variable is set to only 2M.  I have restarted Apache, then I restarted the machine, etc.  Nothing seems to allow me to change this var.  Installing some Joomla extensions requires this limit to be higher.  Any ideas out there?


texts: Can't access apple.com webservers, App Store, nor Software Update

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I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 running Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)

I have installed an SSD instead of the optical drive, and encrypted both hard drives with FileVault2.

For some time now I noticed I can't access the apple.com servers, not even in Safari/Chrome/Firefox.

If I try to ping www.apple.com it doesn't find the host, but when I do a dig apple.com I get the informations.

It's very very strange, any ideas?

In the meantime I booted to recovery with cmd-R and reinstalled Lion but to no avail. Strangely though, in recovery there are no problems accessing the apple servers, because the Lion image was downloaded on the fly..

Later edit, results from dig apple.com any and ping www.apple.com

➜  ~  dig apple.com any
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> apple.com any
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53874
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 24, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apple.com.         IN  ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
apple.com.      3542    IN  TXT "v=spf1 ip4:17.0.0.0/8 ~all"
apple.com.      86342   IN  SOA gridmaster-ib.apple.com. hostmaster.apple.com. 2010076647 1800 900 2016000 86500
apple.com.      86342   IN  NAPTR   50 50 "se" "SIPS+D2T" "" _sips._tcp.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NAPTR   90 50 "se" "SIP+D2T" "" _sip._tcp.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NAPTR   100 50 "se" "SIP+D2U" "" _sip._udp.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  10 mail-in11.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  10 mail-in12.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  10 mail-in13.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  10 mail-in14.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  10 mail-in15.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  20 mail-in21.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  20 mail-in22.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  20 mail-in23.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  20 mail-in24.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  20 mail-in25.apple.com.
apple.com.      3542    IN  MX  100 mail-in3.apple.com.
apple.com.      1731    IN  A   17.149.160.49
apple.com.      1731    IN  A   17.172.224.47
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver.asia.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver.euro.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver3.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver2.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver4.apple.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver3.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver2.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver.asia.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver.euro.apple.com.
apple.com.      86342   IN  NS  nserver4.apple.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nserver.asia.apple.com. 85475   IN  A   17.82.254.3
nserver.euro.apple.com. 85475   IN  A   17.72.133.64
nserver.apple.com.  85475   IN  A   17.254.0.50
nserver2.apple.com. 85475   IN  A   17.254.0.59
nserver3.apple.com. 85475   IN  A   17.112.144.50
nserver4.apple.com. 85475   IN  A   17.112.144.59

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 213.154.124.221#53(213.154.124.221)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 19 08:08:40 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 918

And the ping:

➜  ~  ping -c 1 www.apple.com
ping: cannot resolve www.apple.com: Unknown host

➜  ~  ping -c 1 apple.com
ping: cannot resolve apple.com: Unknown host


texts: No Sites Folder in Mountain Lion after Upgrade

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After i upgraded Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, i haven't any Sites
  folder in my home-folder.

On my Mac Mini there is still my Sites folder with all my local sites in it.

How do i get it back?

XAMPP is installed
XCode is installed
Developer tools are installed


texts: Retrieve hard drive information from dead Macbook Pro

texts:
I have spilled a little bit of water around my Macbook Pro and some if obviously got into the computer because it won't turn on anymore -- force booting it gives me the flashing "? folder" thing.

So what I was wondering/hoping/praying is that someone knew a way that I can retrieve the info from a 2015 15' Macbook Pro's hard drive in any way. I know there have been ways in the past such as taking out the hard drive and basically buying a piece that converts it into an external hard drive. Not sure this is still an option?

I am a college student and have little money, so the cheapest option that works is what I am shooting for -- not the $300 option where I send it to Apple or the $1300 option where Apple fixes it.

Please help!!


texts: Is there any real-time text-to-speech software?

texts: I type really fast. Almost as fast as I speak. Is there any software that synthesizes text in real-time, as I type?


texts: My iPod Touch is synced to my work Mac. My iPad is synced to my home laptop. I want to move the Touch sync/backup to the laptop. If I copy the latest Touch Mobile Sync backup to the laptop will it clash/interfere with the iPad backup? I don't care about music just apps and preferences. I realize they're different numbers in the file name but is that enough to distinguish them?


texts: Confusing installation of SDK on Catalina?

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On Catalina, I see the following SDK directories. Since it is Catalina, why the first directory does not have MacOSX10.15.sdk.
What is the different use of the two SDKs directories?
$ ls -l /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 2020/11/30-06:27:36 DriverKit20.2.sdk
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 224 2021/01/03-08:10:34 MacOSX.sdk
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel  10 2021/01/03-08:05:47 MacOSX11.1.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk

$ ls -l /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel  14 2021/02/08-07:00:10 MacOSX.sdk -> MacOSX11.1.sdk
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 224 2019/11/12-16:05:26 MacOSX10.14.sdk
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 256 2021/02/08-07:00:56 MacOSX10.15.sdk
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 224 2021/02/08-07:00:36 MacOSX11.1.sdk


texts: How to move or export all Photos' library contents to a hierarchical by-date filesystem structure?

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I have rather large Photos.app library consisting of >50 years of family photos and videos. With Catalina I've been really unhappy with some bugs that have lost a couple months of recent photos and video and Apple has remained mum on the issue.  I've decided that my data will be more safely stored in a filesystem hierarchical data system that I can use with other apps and can manually manage going forward.

How can I export an entire Photos.app .photoslibrary contents to such an organization (YYYY -> MM -> DD) while retaining timestamps and any other pertinent metadata?


texts: Do all computers/devices connected to an airport extreme run at the same speed?

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My mom just bought an Airport Extreme router recently, and she said the salesperson at the Apple Store told her that all devices on a network run at the same connection speed, and that speed is determined by the slowest device on the network. So if you have a shiny new Mac that has the potentential to run at 1 Gbit/second, you'll be slowed down to a 10 Mbit/second speed, just because you have your old phone connected to the wifi, downloading some apps at the same time. This doesn't really make any sense to me.

(Please don't speculate, I can do that myself. Answer if you have experience with this topic).


texts: Server connection error message for inactive server reappears regularly

texts:
This is the message that reappears very often:

The server in question ("Knorke") is my old MBP, which I reset (clean install) and sold about two years ago. On my current MBP, I connected to the old machine sporadically via AFP because I used it for testing purposes, being a spare machine and all.

Ever since then, I have not found a way to prevent this message from appearing occasionally. I tried cleaning the "recent servers" menu (from Finder's ⌘+K) and have been googling the problem on and off, but have found no solution.

Oddly enough, the message consistently reappears when I start Slack.app, and I believe it also occurs with other Electron-based apps, but that's just a guess on my part.

I am hesitant to try out all kinds of "cache cleaners" and the likes that float around on the internet, as the general opinion seems to be that they're doing more harm than good, so I would prefer a specific solution for this.


texts: Why is Activity Monitor showing two different memory values for the same process?

texts:
In Activity Monitor, I am getting two different values for the same process, mds_stores.

The usage was around 4 GB an hour ago in the list and the window. It was high because I was reindexing my Spotlight results, because I had to disable and reenable it.

I am on a MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015) configured with a i5 5250U.


texts: Danger of damaging 13" macbook pro by charging it with 85w charger?

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We've got a range of laptops in our office all macbook pros some of which are 13" and some of which are 15".

The 15" laptops came with 85w chargers, and the 13" came with 60w chargers.

I want to buy some additiaonl chargers to leave plugged in around the office for anyone to use, but im unsure as to which type i should get.

Would charging a 13" laptop on a 85w power supply damage it ?
Would charging a 13" laptop on a 60w power supply damage it, or just make it slow at charging ?


texts: How to set an unattended Mac to automatically download files & photo originals from various iCloud accounts e.g Family Shared iCloud Storage?

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I have 2TB of iCloud storage, with Family Shared Storage turned on and several accounts in use by various family members. I would like to maintain a local copy of this 2TB, and I have a spare Mac to use for the job.

My issue is that, as far as I understand, macOS will only sync iCloud (files and Photo Library etc) for the currently logged-on user.

How do I set it up to automatically log into and sync files & photos from all of our iCloud accounts (e.g. every night)?  I don’t want to have to manually rotate through changing users every time.

FYI I am comfortable with using Terminal, but not an expert Terminal user.


texts: Various troubles playing Web videos across different browsers

texts:
YouTube/Facebook videos fast-forwarding in Safari, not playing at all in Chrome, out of sync with sound in Firefox

For the past few weeks or so I found that on both my Macs (an iMac Late 2013 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.16 and a MacBook Air 2012 running macOS Mojave 10.14.5), Safari is often unable to play YouTube videos except in fast-forward. Sometimes reloading the video a few times helps, sometimes a reboot is needed. Just relaunching Safari never helps.

To verify whether this is YouTube, Safari or macOS, I tried on the iMac to access YouTube with current version of Google Chrome and Firefox 57.0.4. Google Chrome plays the audio but shows black for the video. Firefox plays the videos with sound but out of sync (and, it seems, with frames missing).

The same issue affects Facebook videos too.

I have ClamXAV and while it did scan a few times during that time period, it never found anything.

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong and how to troubleshoot?


texts: Network scan shows several linux-related security vulnerabilities on a Mac. Do I need to wory?

texts:
One of my company computers - a Macbook Air, was shown to have security vulnerability as part of a recent external network scan.
The issues are related to Linux 4.0. Mac OS is a UNIX flavor, not Linux (FYI - I'm not an expert at all!!). I'm wondering if these vulnerabilities are perhaps related to the router connecting the computer to the internet? Maybe the router is running on Linux?
These are the issues:

CVE-2015-8830: https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2015-8830.html
CVE-2018-10938: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10938
CVE-2017-7273: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7273

Is there a way to patch/fix these issues? I upgraded to Big Sur, yet the vulnerabilities remain.


texts: Durability of HDMI versus Mini DisplayPort socket

texts:
I want to connect second display to my 13 inch MacBook pro, which will be connected and disconnected 2 times a day on average.

Is it better to use HDMI or Mini DisplayPort as far as durability of the socket is concerned?


texts:
Do you know a free (as in freedom) CCleaner equivalent which works on Mac OS X Mavericks?

I've searched but found nothing.


texts: Monitor is not recognized via a KVM switch

texts:
I'm unable to get my MacBook Pro to connect to my LG monitor via a KVM switch. A direct connection to the monitor works. The KVM does report the correct EDID information (as testing via Linux), but on OSX I can't see the display at all when connected this way.

macOS Sierra 10.12.15
DisplayPort->DVI Adapter (Apple)
LG W2443T
UNICLASS 4-Port DVI

I've used the command ioreg -lw0 -r -c "IODisplayConnect" to get information about the connected monitors. When connected directly I see both monitors. Via the KVM only one appears.

Is there some way to force the OS to find/use this external second monitor.

The KVM shows a connection to the MacBook (blinking light stops blinking). The keyboard/mouse connection work fine.


texts: How to transfer movie from android to ipad

texts:
I have a movie on my android external sd card. I would like to transfer it to play on my ipad. What is the simplest way to do this?

I have a very slow internet connection but both computers are on the same wireless LAN, if that helps.


texts:
I would like to know how to set the hostname of another mac remotely as done locally via sudo scutil --set HostName <new host name>.

I was in a cowork space in Medellin today and someone had changed my hostname to iphone-de-diana. I also would like to know how to prevent this.

PS. I have a 2017 Macbook Pro running Mojave


texts: How do I prevent my Mac from opening so many windows every time I restart?

texts: I have to restart my Mac all the time because I'm using Boot Camp and switching in between Windows 8 and OS X. Every time I restart and come back to OS X, my screen gets flooded with open windows, every thing from Firefox to text editors. Is there any way to set it up  so that there are no open windows upon restart?


texts: Can’t remove grayed out app icons on iPad 4

texts: iPad 4 operating on iOS 10.3.3 has multiple grayed out icons that have “waiting...” under them. Have waited hours, no change. Did hard reboot, with and without WiFi, no change. Looking for suggestions on how to remove them.  Also, the App Store icon is missing. How do I restore it. Thanks.


texts:
Does the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant introduced by Apple for Lion works for any later macOS?
More precisely, will this tool create a bootable copy of the existing internal Recovery Partition onto an external drive, regardless of which version the Recovery Partition contains?


texts: Is it possible to change the Finder sidebar icons

texts: I know you can change the icons of files, folders, etc, but in the sidebar folders appear the same. Is it possible to give them a custom icon for the sidebar like the Music, Photo's, Movies, etc folders have?


texts:
Is it possible to use the =today() function (or something else) to insert the current date but then not update each time the file is opened?

I want to create a numbers template for my invoices. I'd like it to auto fill invoice date and date due then, when I save the document, store the values, not the function.

I am creating templates on my mac then using the inumbers app on my iPad.


texts: How do I use Automator to add files download via Transmission to iTunes?

texts:
Here's the setup…

Computer A
- Running Transmission
- placing files in a Dropbox folder
- Uses iTunes Match to load music from Computer B's iTunes library
- Is always running

Computer B
 - Shares Dropbox folder with Computer A
 - Is "master" computer for iTunes Match account
 - Is not always running

Current process
1. Download files via transmission to dropbox folder
2. Start computer B, wait for dropbox folder to synchronize
3. COPY files to "Automatically Added to iTunes folder"

What I want is to have a folder action that when Computer B sees new files in the dropbox folder it will wait till all file transfers are complete, then copy just the new filed into "Automatically added to iTunes"

all of my current tries have caused Automator to re-add all files in the dropbox folder to iTunes, creating duplicates.

one limitation to be aware of — unaltered versions of the files must stay in the dropbox folder


texts:
The AirPort Extreme's manual says the following:

  Create a guest network with or without password protection, to provide Internet-only access to wireless devices, such as computers, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV.

But is it possible to have an ethernet port on the AE that connects to this guest network, so it can go to a guest user that is out of the wireless range? (to plug into a wap)


texts: How to get back all iMessages into newly installed OS X El Capitan?

texts:
This is not related to the broken Messages app.

After I formatted my drive, installed clean El Capitan and received a code on my iPhone I can send iMessages from my Mac. Messages are received by my contacts and I can also see them on my phone.

The problem is that I would like to see all existing (previous) messages I have on my phone, again in my Messages.app. That is, everything I wrote before formatting the drive.

I haven't made any backups. I thought that simply everything will be synchronised like Contacts etc.

Currently only newly created messages are visible. Since yesterday, I've been reading a bunch of topics. Is this normal? Or am I missing something? As I said, it doesn't look like a sync issue since the new messages are working.


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My wife’s 11” MacBook Air Mid 2012:

has been having this display issue in the last 2 years or so: the screen will segment itself into rectangles, which are small, and are wider than they are tall:

These rectangles may represent what was on screen before, or be discolored, or moved from their original position, or contain completely unknown display data. There are also occasionally extra anomalies, such as vertical or horizontal lines and bars. The computer then is unresponsive until a hard manual reboot.
I can’t pinpoint any specific thing that triggers the problem, because it seems to happen during streaming, browsing the Internet, using normal applications like Microsoft apps, Adobe Lightroom.
I took it in to a local Apple specialist store, and based off of the pictures below and my description, in less than 5 min they diagnosed it as a GPU problem. My questions are:

Are they right?
Is there a fix?
Worth it to get repaired?
Better idea to get a new computer?

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookrepair/comments/k6l0kw/macbook_air_11_mid_2012_display_problem/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


texts: Credentials popup keeps popping up after El Capitan upgrade

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Display of problem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_d1P-qX1s (10 seconds long)

I'm a developer and have all sorts of programs installed, including SourceTree and GitHub's desktop app.  Unfortunately, in the last few days, since upgrading to El Capitan this continues to happen to me.

When I'm working, or just using the computer at all, a credentials question pops up front and centre, asking me if I want to allow git-credential-sourcetree access to github.com in my keychain, full message

git-credential-sourcetree wants to use your confidential information stored in "github.com" in your keychain.

Do you want to allow access to this item?

Always Allow | Deny | Allow

My first click, and preference is Always allow, but if I click that, or Allow, nothing seems to happen.  Only when I click Deny does the prompt seem to take on board what my choice is.  After I click Deny, the popup disappears, but always pops up once more, and only stays away if I click Deny again, as shown in the clip.

It's really distracting and irritating, especially given that I really do want SourceTree to be able to access that login information (SourceTree was the original program I inputted my login information for Github).


texts: How to find out details of HDMI video format used between Apple TV and TV?

texts:
I would like to determine what video format is being used by my Apple TV when sending output to my TV over an HDMI cable.  (Why I want to do this is a long story.)  For instance, I'd like to know the video resolution (3840x2160 vs 1920x1080 vs 1280x720 vs whatever), the frame rate (120 Hz vs 60 Hz vs 50 Hz vs 24 Hz vs whatever), the pixel encoding (bits per pixel, YCbCr 4:2:0 vs YCbCr 4:4:4 vs Full RGB vs Limited RGB, whatever info the signal might contain about color gamut), etc.  Ideally, I'd like some sort of a device that sits between the Apple TV and the TV, and lets whatever negotiation they do happen without interference, and then simply reports the negotiated resolution etc.  Does such a device exist?  Is there a go-to make/model used by pro installers for this sort of thing?
My TV is an older model (Panasonic TH-50PX60U), and as far as I can tell it has no way to display this kind of information on-screen.  The Apple TV is the 4th gen (Model A1625).  I can't figure out a way to get it to tell me the negotiated HDMI video parameters either.


texts: No longer an option to upload to iCloud with iTunes Match and iTunes 12.2.2?

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I've been trying out the new Apple Music service and saw some odd behaviors, so decided I should update my iTunes to 12.2.2 (I think I was on 12.0 or 12.1 previously).  Since the update, there is no longer any way that I can see, to add a track (one that I added to the library manually, for example) to the iCloud library.

Where did this feature go?  We used to be able to just right click the track and Add to iCloud Music Library, but no longer.  Also almost all of my tracks no longer have any indication of an iCloud Status, and of those that do - many are inexplicably not present in my local library and indicate that they need to be downloaded.

What gives here?  I haven't been able to find anything on these specific issues in my searches.  Is there some known problem here or am I just not understanding how iCloud music works now?  In fact I can't even find any evidence of iTunes Match existing any longer in iTunes.  No menu items, no preferences, etc.

To be clear, this has nothing at all to do with iOS and is concerned strictly with iTunes on OS X (Mavericks in my case).

EDIT:  To add to this, I just noticed that only a few of my tracks still have the "Add to iCloud Music Library" option - specifically those tracks which are marked as duplicates.  Not a single other track in my entire library of 15,421 tracks, has that option anymore despite being an iTunes Match subscriber.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

EDIT 2:

OK, after a bit more investigation I think it may just be that the way iTunes handles iCloud music has changed with the introduction of Apple Music.  According to this apple KB article, it sounds like your entire library is now automatically uploaded and matched.  But what still confuses me is that there is absolutely no possible way Apple could have matched all of my music - because some of it is original work created by myself that exists nowhere else.  And those tracks - and many others - are also still missing the Add to iCloud Music Library option.  Are they added anyway but there is simply no longer any indication in iTunes of this fact?  If I attempt to delete one of these tracks, I'm given the option to Remove Download, so presumably they are indeed already in the cloud (and were before I upgraded iTunes, so that is in fact what I expect).  Maybe the real question here is:  Why does iTunes no longer display an indicator for tracks that have been uploaded to the cloud?


texts: Does factory reset notify me of device removal on Find My iPhone?

texts:
I have just got my iPhone stolen today. I live in fairly safe neighborhood but I got unlucky. Now, I have searched this question on internet for a fair amount of time now. Making a rookie mistake, I have not put a passcode on the device.

My question is, if the device is reset from the Settings, do I get notified that a device has been removed?

The device is running iOS 7.0.4. Lost mode was activated and the device is now offline.


texts: iPhone 4S - sudden drop in battery percentage

texts:
I have an iPhone 4S and I just ran into a really weird issue the third time now: the battery percentage would suddenly drop 30-40-50%. One minute, it's, say, 69%, the next minute it's 25%. If I put it on a charger, it jumps back to 69% after a few minutes and charges it until 100% and then it works for a while.

It happened again today, I noticed that the camera apps were getting killed even though the battery was at 54%, and then after a minute, the battery would drop to 1% saying low battery. Then it died on me.

I also do not know how to calibrate.

I'm running iOS 8, non-jailbreaked.


texts: A Western Digital MyCloud NAS is pinned on a LAN: is there any native IOS 12.X functionality that enables users to discover LAN-SAMBA resources and browse them (like OSX Finder)?


texts: echo $PATH giving different result to what .bash_profile states

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I'm trying to install Homebrew (to then install RVM, then Octopress).

Homebrew is installed but when I run brew doctor I get the message:

Consider amending your PATH so that /usr/local/bin
occurs before /usr/bin in your PATH.

I have changed my ~/.bash_profile to export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:$PATH".

~/.bashrc is empty.

etc/paths has

/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

echo $PATH states
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/deadlyhifi/.rvm/bin

I tried installing RVM previously but had all kinds of problems with the compiler not being correct since I have Xcode 4.5.1 installed - I uninstalled RVM and am now trying again. My $PATH has reference to the RVM but I can't for the life in me find the file that contains that path.

Can anyone shed any light on the subject?

Edit:

The etc/profile contains:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi


texts: Share iPhone developer account for multiple devices

texts: I have a question, is it possible to share a developer account between a couple of devices? The reason is, I want to build a certain open source software myself, and upload to mine, and mine friends devices. We do not want to sell any applications etc in store, just use open source software, modified to our needs to communicate with each other. Is it possible? Or maybe there is a some free alternative besides jailbreak?


texts: Folder name containing ".." on ExFAT: How to rename it? Invisible to ls/mv/Finder but visible to tar/bash

texts:
On an ExFAT disk, I have a folder that makes tar fail:
$ ls -a
.       ..      paysages        scenes de rue
$ tar cf /tmp/f.tar .
tar: ./fruits, legumes,..: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

As you can see, ls believes that there are only two subfolders, while tar believes that there is also a folder named fruits, legumes,.. and it chokes on it, presumably because the name contains ...
Question: How can I rename fruits, legumes,.. to something safer like fruits?
What I tried
$ mv fruits\,\ legumes\,.. fruits
mv: rename fruits, legumes,.. to fruits: No such file or directory

By the way, when typing this command I just typed mv fr then pressed TAB and bash auto-completed to mv fruits\,\ legumes\,..  so bash also sees that folder but mv does not see it.
Catalina 10.15.5


texts: USB 3 via ExpressCard/34 on a thunderbolt with parallels desktop

texts: Can I use an extenal  windows formatted USB3 harddisk on my mac connected via thunderbolt on the future Sonnet Echo-Expresscard/34-Thunderbolt-Adapter? It's clear I can use UBS3 HDs for Mac, but how is it when virtually running windows?


texts: How can I copy files from my Mac to PC via Microsoft Remote Desktop?

texts:
I installed Microsoft's Remote Desktop and connected to a PC. How can I share files between my Mac and PC?
When I use RDP on Windows, I can simply add a file to the clipboard and paste it inside the RDP window. The same thing doesn't seem to work in the mac version of RDP.
If I try to share one of my Mac's folders with the RDP computer, and then double click that drive in RDP it says:

\\tsclient\Downlo1 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
Access is denied.


texts: iPhone 7 black Current/vibrations when charging

texts: Has any one had and issue of feeling electric current through back of phone when charging. It's like vibrations. I have tried different cables, plugs and charged in different locations and the same every time.


texts:
I usually distribute inetloc files to people who need to occasionally access shared drives... they're super convenient, and, since their existence, it's been possible to include passwords (though in plain text)..
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, open TextEdit, type in the following:

smb://login:password@address/Sharepoint

then select the whole thing, drag it to the desktop and, voilà, you've got a ready-made shortcut to your shared drive!

The Problem Is: as of 10.14.2, Mojave ignores the included password and puts up a password dialog, which defeats the whole purpose of these shortcuts..
Indeed, the problem is that these shortcuts can include the password without the user having to ever re-enter it

(Additionally, inetloc files have never worked to mount NFS shares)


texts: networksetup -disconnectpppoeservice not working

texts:
I love doing stuff on terminal, a lot. Thats how I found this command to connect to my PPP service:

$ networksetup -connectpppoeservice HUAWEIMobile-

And its works successfully to connect my PPP service. But, when I'm trying to disconnect my PPP using

networksetup -disconnectpppoeservice HUAWEIMobile-

It's not working. Is there something with my command?


texts:
Contacts on macOS Sierra is not opening anymore. I get the following error:

If I try to start Contacts from the terminal, I get the following errors:

$ /Applications/Contacts.app/Contents/MacOS/Contacts
CoreData: warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'uniqueId' for entity ABCDInfo while resolving selector 'uniqueId' on class 'ABCDInfo'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?
CoreData: warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'uniqueId' for entity ABCDGroup while resolving selector 'uniqueId' on class 'ABCDGroup'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?
CoreData: warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'serialNumber' for entity ABCDAddressBookSource while resolving selector 'serialNumber' on class 'ABCDAddressBookSource'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?
CoreData: warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'uniqueId' for entity ABCDAddressBookSource while resolving selector 'uniqueId' on class 'ABCDAddressBookSource'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?
CoreData: warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'uniqueId' for entity ABCDContact while resolving selector 'uniqueId' on class 'ABCDContact'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?
CoreData: warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'imageReference' for entity ABCDContact while resolving selector 'imageReference' on class 'ABCDContact'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas how I can resolve this issue?


texts: MacBook Pro 13 (early 2015) with 4K Television: Can I get 60Hz?

texts:
The TV has only HDMI inputs. I've found cables on the Internet that will connect Mini DisplayPort to HDMI: AmazonBasics Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Cable - 3 Feet

My question is, will I get 60Hz when doing Mini DisplayPort to HDMI? Currently I'm using the HDMI port on my MBP and I'm only getting 30Hz on this TV. I've heard that using the mini DisplayPort will get you 60Hz, but I'm not sure if that still holds true when the other end of the cable is HDMI.


texts:
Example at bottom.

How does OS X apply this warning and what's the best way to disable it?

I'm a Web Developer and more than understand the risks of teh interwebs.


texts: I am currently using a 2017 Mac Pro touch bar that is still on Mojave 10.14.6. My safari is consistently shown using significant energy on my menu. In my activity monitor, I noticed there are many apps running behind my safari despite only opening 4 tabs: mailbox, youtube, google and apple stack exchange. Is there any way to remove the apps shown running as shown in the screenshot and to prevent safari from using significant energy?


texts: Can I update my review of an app without an iPhone?

texts: Is it possible to edit a review I have left from the web, without using an iPad or iPhone? I left a poorly rated review for an app that had an issue, but the developer has since fixed the issue. However, I have now switched from using an iPad to using an Android tablet. Is there any way to update or delete my old review?


texts:
I have upgraded some of my Macs to Sierra. Now, I'm wondering whether I want to enable iCloud on the Document folder or not. It seems useful if it works well. I'm syncing some of the PDF files between iPad over iCloud, and my experience was "so-so" compared with Dropbox based sync (I'm using PDF expert on iPad).

I'm particularly interested in how git repository work (or not work) well on the iCloud drive -- I have multiple Macs; I know the iCloud drive is slow in sync.

Do you have any experience or recommendation on this?


texts:
Is it possible to get 'folders on top' on the desktop (too) by any plist file hack or third-party app?

My desktop (OS X Mavericks) is a bit cluttered and I've already sorted them on kind, but all .AI, .PSD, .INDD, .PNG, .JPG, .HTML files come first. I'm already able to sort them on top in Finder, via a third-party addon for Finder, but I need it even more on my desktop.


texts:
In AppleScript Editor i can see that source_code has script content but row 2 fails for some reason.

set source_code to load script (POSIX file "/path/to/script.scpt")
word 2 of source_code

This don't work. I try to read AppleScript files to variable.

I don't try to run this loaded code but i need to get it as string.

It seems to fail because source_code is «script» not string. How this can be fixed? Thanks

set source_code to load script (POSIX file "/path/to/script.scpt")
word 2 of (source_code as string) -->error "Can’t make «script» into type string." number -1700 from «script» to string
word 2 of source_code -->error "Can’t get word 2." number -1728 from word 2


texts: Time Machine thinks the size of my backup is bigger than the source

texts:
I have a new MacBookPro 16" with a 500Gb SSD. Currently it has 332Gb of files on it.
I'm trying to run the first Time Machine backup, and it keeps failing because there's "not enough space".
By default, it estimates a full backup to be 674Gb.

Even if I exclude the entire source drive, it reckons it will take 353Gb.

Both drives show no errors when analysed with Disk Utility. Anybody know what might be going on?


texts: What is the Headset icon on apps in dock on iPad?

texts:
I use ipad occasionally but today I came across a new "icon", which I have never seen before.

I have not connected any headphones to the iPad. So, what is the little "headset" icon on top of the app icon in the dock?
iPadOS: 14


texts: Cannot edit the "Release Date" field for TV shows in iTunes

texts:
For some reason I cannot edit the "Release Date" field in iTunes. I have been able to change it in the past, but it no longer saves changes.

I can edit the field, but changes are never saved. I'm running the latest version of iTunes on Windows (12.4.1.6). I have completely rebuilt my entire iTunes library but still the problem persists.


texts: iOS Cannot SIGINT or Ctrl+C when SSH'ed into it

texts: I have a jailbroken iPhone that I often SSH into. For some reason, I am unable to Ctrl+C a foreground process or kill -INT a background process when said process is started in an SSH session, but I can when it's started from the on-board terminal (NewTerm2, installed via Cydia). Each time I want to start a process that I might want to interrupt, I've got to either physically do it on the on-board terminal, or start it from SSH, but need to SIGKILL it, as it oddly ignores SIGINT/Ctrl+C. Why might this happen?


texts: How do I set up different audio sounds over different speakers simultaneously?

texts:
so I have a MacBook Air 2013 running OS X El Capitan connected to an external monitor. I figured out how to play audio on both my macbook's and external monitor's speakers simultaneously. The bass and drum quality is much better on the external monitor than it is on the macbook.

Is there any way I can have the external monitor play mainly the bass and drum lines where the macbook plays the rest?


texts: How to transfer photos from Mac to iPhone via Airdrop?

texts:
This may sound like an easy question, but it's pretty complicated as I found.
I just want to simple, open my Photos application on my Mac, choose a couple / multiple of pictures to send via Airdrop to my phone and send them.

When I try to use the Airdrop option after selecting my photos, it automatically selects all and says "Exporting 21 of 2233 photos for sharing".

How can I do this easily and simply? Move multiple photos via Airdrop.

Thanks


texts: How many applications can I run simultaneously on a new Macbook Air?

texts:
With two user accounts running simultaneously with fast user switching, is there any issue in running say 10 apps simultaneously in each account?

I have a personal setup and one I use for when I'm at work so that I can create two full workspaces that have different accounts/preferences, etc. But I like to be able to fast user switch between the two. In each account I have Mail, iChat, Reeder, Safari, Skype, iCal, iTunes, iWork open all at the same time. I used to do that on my old Macbook, but I would only have one account logged in at a time. Now with my new Macbook Air, it seems so far that it's ok handling all of those apps running at the same time in both accounts.

Can someone explain to me exactly how it's managing all of that memory and resources and what performance (battery?) issues I might encounter. Is there a generally recommended limit to the number of simultaneous processes for a machine with 4GB of RAM, when those processes are pretty basic?


texts: Using external USB hard drives via a USB hub connected to a MacBook Air

texts:
If I want to connect 2 usb external hard drives at the same time, will I be able to use a USB hub? I read somewhere "Never connect your external HD thru an external USB hub!"

Is this really true?


texts: How do I instal OS X when boot combos don't work?

texts:
I'm trying to instal OS X on a 2013 Macbook Air. I erased the OS X partition, the computer is booting to my windows 7 bootcamp partition by default. All boot key combinations(C, Option, CMD+Option+R, etc.) are not working, probably due to water damage. I can no longer get into recovery mode, but the files to boot into it are there.

If anyone can help me get into recovery mode I can use a time machine backup to instal OS X from there. Is it possible to change the boot drive from Windows 7? Could I some how delete Windows 7 so that the boot order will move on to recovery mode? Is there a way to install OS X from inside Windows 7?


texts: What's a triple boot method(macOS, Linux, Windows 10) that is safe and (relatively) easy to do?

texts:
I originally thought it was as simple as using Bootcamp and then making a partition for Linux. But apparently installing Linux breaks the Windows installation.

I currently have High Sierra installed on my rBP 13" 2014. I wish to add Linux Mint 18.3 and Windows 10. What would be the general procedure?

Below is the output from the command diskutil list.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE        IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB    disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB    disk0s1
2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB    disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE        IDENTIFIER
0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB    disk1
                             Physical Store disk0s2
1:                APFS Volume macOS                   16.8 GB     disk1s1
2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 22.3 MB     disk1s2
3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB    disk1s3
4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB      disk1s4


texts: Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows?

texts:
Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows ?

I have several tables in my sheet and I need to swap columns with rows for each table.

e.g.

A1  A2  A3
B1  B2  B3
C1  C2  C3

should become:

A1  B1  C1
A2  B2  C2
A3  B3  C3

thanks


texts: I connect the principal account from Apple Buisness manager account in Organisation inside Apple Configurator 2. But I don't know way I have a gmail address. I looked at all the information concerning the mail in question and I didn't find this gmail in any place. Do you know where he found it? Apple's support could not answer too


texts:
I have got an iPhone 6S on October of 2015.

Sometime in 2016, I downloaded Geekbench 3, to benchmark the device.

My baseline results are: (5 runs)

Single: ~2500 (2450-2550)
Multi: ~4400

Now, I feel like my iPhone is becoming slower, so I did the benchmark again. (11 months later)

My new results are: (5 runs)

Single: ~1500 (1200-1800)
Multi: ~2100

And it seems that it is somewhat dependent on the battery percentage (low battery => low result. but even 100% battery is ~1700)

I understand these are synthetic benchmarks, and are not fully representing the device's performance, but it seems odd, and I want to know if my device is defective? Do I have a case for a phone replacement? Or, am I reading too much into it, and devices just decay over time?

Note: I'm not sure if this is relevant, but my device is part of the apple recall for battery replacement, but because the apple re-seller in my country does not supply phone replacement, I did not change it.


texts: Where is Tag and Comment information for a particular file stored?

texts: Where is the information stored what Tags I've assigned and what Comments I've added to a particular file or folder in Finder? Is the information stored on the file-level, i.e. if I uploaded a file to any external storage, what this information be retained? Or is this information stored locally and depends on my MacOS installation?


texts: How to perform the Lookup Multi-Touch gesture using Magic Mouse?

texts: I ofter use the Lookup Multi-Touch gesture while browsing the Internet using the three finger tap on my Trackpad. How to do the same using Magic Mouse?


texts: How can I show Growl notifications on both displays?

texts:
I've got a MacBook Pro connected to an external display. Right now the notifications come through on on the primary display (MacBook Pro built in display) and not the external display. I know I can change this so that it shows on the secondary display but not the primary, but I want the notifications to show on displays. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.


texts:
I have an 11,3 i7 iMac, from around 2010. I want to upgrade to Mavericks and do a clean install of both Mavericks and Windows 7 in Boot Camp - reformat the internal HD and repartition.

I need a solution for backing up my Windows user files - documents, some apps if possible - but I don't need an actual image of my old partition. I did pick up a copy of Winclone and I'm running it, but the backup process is incredibly slow. Check out these timestamps!

26-03-14 02:37:28   Winclone[6116]  53.51 percent completed
26-03-14 03:06:37   Winclone[6116]  54.52 percent completed
26-03-14 03:37:34   Winclone[6116]  55.53 percent completed
26-03-14 04:13:04   Winclone[6116]  56.54 percent completed
26-03-14 04:46:15   Winclone[6116]  57.55 percent completed

Is there any alternative to Winclone (I refuse to believe that imaging a 250GB partition requires a fifty-hour period) and is there some way I could simply back up my Windows files instead of the whole partition? I know the two filesystems are different, so it cannot be as simple as simply dragging the files from the Boot Camp partition to my external 3TB Seagate?


texts:
On Mac OSX 10.9, how do you convert a DVD into an ISO that I can use with players such as VLC.  I wish to achieve this without buying a program.

Steps I have tried:

Downloading Mac app Burn. It lets you select a source and save it as a DVD.
However, when I do this, the DVD seems to be corrupt: DVDplayer can't load it properly. VLC can load it, but I only if I select the option to bypass the menus (otherwise it can't load it).
Using the command line

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk1
dd if=/dev/disk1 of=~/myCD.iso bs=2048 conv=sync,notrunc

This makes the ISO, but it's the same problem as (1) above
Using the Command Line

hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o Image.iso /input_path

This gives the error message: makehybrid failed - No such file or directory
Using Disk Utility.

You can use Disk utility to create an image, but it only seems to be a .dmg file.

Ideally, I'd like a solution that does it in one go (i.e. so I don't have to convert the .dmg to .iso) as I have 90+ discs I want to convert.


texts:
We have an iPad 2. It is locked and can't be activated. We can't remember Apple ID and also the e-mail address which we used to create the Apple ID. We can't also find the invoice to prove to the guys at Apple support that the device is ours so they say they could remove the lock remotely.

Is there another way to unlink Apple ID from the device? Or shall I junk it?

iOS version on the device is 9.3.4.


texts:
Is there a way where I can see if GPS is working? Or what the location service is using right now and why it is not using GPS?

(Because the location service has become very inaccurate after a recent jailbreak I did and I was wondering how I can check if it is really not working anymore or if I just had bad luck.)


texts: Can I see which iPad apps I use most frequently?

texts:
I have many games on my iPad which my kids play.  I'd like to remove the games and apps that aren't used but I don't know how to find this information.

Is there a way to see the most used apps on your iOS device?  Or possibly a list of apps with a "last used" data field?


texts: How to recover unbootable Boot Camp partition

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I have been using a 2008 MacBook Air, dual booted with OSX Snow Leopard and 32 bit Windows 8.1 for the past couple of years. It has been reliably booting using Refind and I have been mainly using Windows 8.1 as it is still supported and can use the latest browsers, Office 365 etc. It is also just about usable on this low end Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM machine.

Yesterday, I had a problem with a USB stick which had lost its FAT32 and was recognised as RAW. In trying to fix it, I seem to have nuked the Boot Camp Partition too, or it could be a coincidence.

When I run diskutil listI get the following output:

> #:                              TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:            GUID_partition_scheme                        *126.7 GB   disk0
   1:                              EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                        Apple_HFS Mac OS                  63.0 GB    disk0s2
   3: 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-65656445                         262.1 MB   disk0s3
   4: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D847                         60.6 GB    disk0s4
   5:                            Linux Swap                    2.6 GB     disk0s5
/dev/disk1
   #:                             TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:           Apple_partition_scheme                        *126.0 GB   disk1
   1:              Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk1s1
   2:                        Apple_HFS                     126.0 GB   disk1s2

Output from sudo gpt -r show disk0:

  gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
    start       size  index  contents
        0          1         MBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  123046872      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
123456512       1024
123457536     512000      3  GPT part - 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649
123969536  118374400      4  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
242343936    5117952      5  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
247461888       2015
247463903         32         Sec GPT table
247463935          1         Sec GPT header

Output from sudo pdisk -lr /dev/disk1

    Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/disk1'
 #:                type name          length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple             63 @ 1
 2:           Apple_HFS disk image 246093680 @ 64        (117.3G)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=246093744 (117.3G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

It looks as if the (working) Mac partition is partition 2 while the nuked Boot Camp Partition is partition 4. It still has a Linux Swap partition from a previous experiment with using Ubuntu. One strange result is it looks like there are two disks but there is just one 128GB SSD.

Any advice would be useful here. I have installed GDisk but I normally make matters worse when I try to use it unless I follow detailed advice.
Thank you in advance for any help with this.


texts: What virtualization solution should I use if I want to use real partitions?

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I prefer to install each OS on its own partition and be able to boot it without virtualization or to boot it virtualized while I am under OS X.

The question is what virtualization solution does support this. Please answer only if it worked for you and also include some guidances.

So for, I was able to boot Ubuntu VM using Parallels, but I was not able to add a real  partition to VM under VirtualBox or VMware Fusion.


texts: Problem to change the country of my Apple Store?

texts: I am a French expatriate in Dubai and I would like to be connected to the French Apple Store instead of those of the United Arab Emirates. If I enter one address in France, the system requires a credit card number corresponding to a French bank account and I don't have an account in France anymore. What can I do to solve this problem?


texts: Macbook Air Bootcamp Assistant leads to Windows 10 install error 0xc0000001

texts: Finally managed to get my partition to work, but now when installing Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Home N, or Windows 8.1, none will work and I am prompted with the error code 0xc0000001 loop. Please help. Here is the diskutil list of my drive.


texts: WD external drive won't mount in OSX - partition map rebuild?

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I have a WD Mybook Studio 500gb that will not mount. I've tried every possible option in Disk Utility and it see the drive (unlike finder), but won't mount the partition. I also tried plugging it in to a PC and again W10 didn't see the drive, but I could perform diagnostics on it via WD's tool (but no fix in sight).

I did some digging with with testdisk and the data is intact, no errors, I can see the file structure on the data partition etc but the partition map/table has tons of errors and I believe this is the cause of the problem - the data is there but the computer can't access it due to a corrupt partition map.

Here's what I get in terminal when looking at the drive info:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Internal HD             255.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB      disk0s3

      /dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS General DATA            500.0 GB   disk2s3

And the second part for the drive in question:

$ diskutil info /dev/disk2s3
Device Identifier:        disk2s3
Device Node:              /dev/disk2s3
Part of Whole:            disk2
Device / Media Name:      Apple_HFS_Untitled_1

Volume Name:              General DATA
Escaped with Unicode:     General%FF%FE%20%00DATA

Mounted:                  No

File System Personality:  HFS+
Type (Bundle):            hfs
Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended
Journal:                  Unknown (not mounted)
Owners:                   Disabled

Partition Type:           Apple_HFS
OS Can Be Installed:      No
Media Type:               Generic
Protocol:                 FireWire
SMART Status:             Not Supported
Volume UUID:              88071423-C35F-3BAA-BEE6-E3A3B3D9948F

Total Size:               500.0 GB (499973603328 Bytes) (exactly 976510944 512-Byte-Units)
Volume Free Space:        0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

Read-Only Media:          No
Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (not mounted)
Ejectable:                Yes

Whole:                    No
Internal:                 No

Can anyone help with advice on how to rebuild the apple partition map? I think this can be done with testdisk but I can't seem to fumble my way to the correct answer? by the way, I need to access the data on the drive, not just reformat and repurpose the hardware.

Help!


texts: Is it possible to change text size & formatting of Numbers' formula input field?

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Is it possible to set the text-size and possibly other formatting of the actual values/formula input field in Apple iWork Numbers?

Comparing these two screenshots, it seems possible to set the size of the text to something larger.

Too small text-size for my taste:

Easier to read (screenshot originally posted here):


texts: Mac Mail reducing image size making it unreadable to the recipient

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As per the title, when I send an email to someone with an image attached. Mail is reducing the image size making it barely legible.

The workaround is to add the image to a pdf.

I have looked around for a solution however I am unable to figure out where and how to tell mac mail not to nanny my images!

Any help, much appreciated!


texts: iTunes constantly claims that I have purchased items on iPhone

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When I connect my iPhone 2020 SE to my PC and open up iTunes and go to "iPhone" section then I see a message about update waiting to be installed.

When I click "Update" I then see:

The weird things are that:

I haven't actually purchased anything, neither recently nor at all. The only items that appears in my purchase history are 0 USD-installed apps.

I clicked File > Devices > Transfer Purchases from "iPhone (name)" about 20 times so far and nothing happens.

I mean: Sync happens, iTunes syncs something. But it is not syncing "purchased items" certainly, because each next time I click "Update" again, the whole story also starts again.
What should I do in this situation? How to get rid of (probably false) iTunes' claim about purchase existing on my iPhone that are not added to my Library?


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I've been tasked with creating profiles and blueprints with Configurator 2 for deployment on company owned iPhones.

However, I'm hung up on one problem. I was told to remove some of the default apps, including mail. I figured out how to disable them, but not remove the app entirely using a Configurator profile.

Is there a way to do this? All I'm finding on it are articles from 2016 that do exactly what I did but with vastly different results.


texts: What is that circle that replaces the WIFI icon on my iPhone 2G sometimes?

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It's probably the phone's way of showing me there is no WIFI connection. Is that it? Probably not since that would probably be a "no icon" thing.

Anyway, couldn't find it in the user's manual so here you go... question asked.

Thx


texts: Visual Studio Code becomes unresponsive after a short time

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I'm learning python using Visual Studio Code, A few minutes after opening a file VScode becomes unresponsive and sends a warning to the screen.

When I open Activity Monitor, while VScode is sluggish, it lists up to 5 processes named rg and up to five called Code Helper. Both processes are spawned by VScode and both are using over 100% of cpu time. I have to close the window and quit VScode before it returns to normal.  It just started exhibiting this behavior about a week ago, The file I'm working on is only 44 lines long. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening? I have an old iMac with 16 gigs of memory running High Sierra 10.13.5.


texts: Can I run Spotify by pressing my F8 button instead of iTunes?

texts: Is it possible to program the F8 key to run Spotify instead of iTunes?


texts: Is there a way to see what numbers I entered after calling an automated service?

texts: On my iPhone 6 is there a way to see what numbers I entered after recently calling an automated service (like when you call the cable or power company and have to press the number that corresponds with the options you provided, like "press 2 to speak with a person, press 3 to pay your bill")? Not the actual number that I initially dialed to make the call but the numbers that I entered after the making the call that I had to press to navigate the options of the automated call service?


texts: Start program in response to system events (like ip address changes, etc.)?

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I want to start a program in response to system events, such as:

IP address changes
WIFI connectivity changes (whether I'm connected, and/or which network I'm connected to)
Volume (as in disk) changes
User logs on or off
System shuts down or restarts

Is there anything built in to do this, or is there a 3rd party tool that can do this for me?


texts: How to get iMessages in sync across an iOS 5 iPhone, iPad and Mountain Lion Mac?

texts:
One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the Messages app - and the "fact" that all your Messages threads are consistent across all your devices.

I would really like to have my the threads that I have going on my phone, automatically sync to my iPad and ML Mac. I understand SMS messages will not sync. The one caveat that I noticed is that it must be started on my Mac.

How do I get iMessages in sync across an iOS 5 (or older) iPhone, iPad and Mac?


texts: Reset custom Mail UserHeaders settings in Terminal

texts:
How do I reset the following command?

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = "reply-to@address"; }'

I had to use this workaround for a problem with the hosting provider that used the same IP address for all outgoing mail. Because of that, my mails kept ending up in Junk mailboxes. That problem is solved now. So how do I reset this command?


texts: Cannot install apps via macOS Big Sur App Store

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Since upgrading to macOS Big Sur (11.1), my system has been slow and laggy. Many applications upon first action seems to require a 2-4 second load to become responsive - once they've recovered that first time, things seem to be about as fast as they were on Catalina (no measurements, just perceptual observation).
Recently, I tried to update Xcode to the latest (12.4) via the Mac App Store (3.0). The download seemed to complete, but the install wouldn't finish. I restarted the computer after 4 hours of not completing. Upon restarting, the install did not finish, so I thought I may need to reclaim some disk space. I went to download "Cleaner One - Disk Clean" from the Mac App Store. The app seemed to download but, too, could not finish the install. I restarted the computer again and tried to install the app again.

This time, it doesn't seem to even start the download, it just hangs at what appears to be 0% - the Launchpad says "Waiting". After this I decided to try, another app that I've never downloaded before (Just a random featured free app) "MindNode - Mind Map & Outline". This time the download starts and seemingly finishes, but stops at the end of the download and fails to install (the same thing I saw with the first attempt of installing "Cleaner One").

Something is obviously pretty borked here. I'm hoping someone knows somewhere to look to clean out whatever caches are preventing these from completing. I would go back to Catalina, but I think I need the latest macOS for the latest Xcode to develop for the latest iOS.


texts: Is it possible to localize the Mac Welcome Assistant Language to be non English?

texts:
I bought new but used Macbook Pro for my mother, and she doesn’t speak English.
But „welcome assistant” screen (which shows first time you open new Mac) is in English. It leads you through region, language, account options, etc.
But when I pick my region and language the assistant itself language still appears in English.
It’s first Macbook in my mothers life. So I would like her to have nice first experience with it. So I want „Welcome assistant” guide her through each step in her native language.
So I want the first thing she will see would be big banner with word „BENVENUTO” instead „WELCOME”.
Can I somehow Pre-select. Localization and then get the new account setup to run in a non-default language?


texts: How to cut message "This computer has been scheduled to go to sleep automatically" and send it to sleep immediately?

texts:
It's about a Mac mini connected to a touchscreen running at a public school, displaying a browser in kiosk mode. I want the Mac to go to scheduled sleep after school is over.

Energy Saving PrefPane lets me set up a sleeping schedule. When the time has come that scheduled sleep should start, a prompt is displayed with that message mentioned in the subject, counting from 10min to 0 plus allowing users to abort that process.

To prevent anyone from aborting that process I'ld like to cut that message and send the Mac to sleep immediately when the time has come.

Is there any possibility to leave that message out?

Or any other alternatives?


texts: Is my CPU core/CPU proximity too high in temperature?

texts: As mentioned by the title 'is my CPU core/CPU proximity to high in temperature?'. The underneath of my macbook gets seriously hot. Not only this but if an application is being 'verified' when opened or when I open a browser such as google chrome, the fans get extremely noisy. I've had a look online but there seems to be difference of opinion. Can anyone tell me what they think with the stats below? It averages around 70s/80s.


texts: How to block adding new keyboard input sources from login display?

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I'm interesting is there any way to leave only one input source for login display and block (disable) adding new input sources?

UPD: I want to get only 1 (one, single) language (input source), for example english (ABC) and block a possibility (chance) to choose another one (any other) language (input source). To uncheck checkbox with "Show Input menu in Login window" doesn't help in my case. Does anyone (anybody) know any other method?


texts: I do not have enough free space on the C:\ drive of my Windows computer to run the updater for iOS 5 in iTunes

texts:
I am trying to update to iOS 5, but iTunes wants 10 GB in the C: drive. (I don't have that much free space in C, but I have it in another partition.)

I have already reinstalled iTunes in my secondary partition (300 GB free) and moved the Preferences > Advanced iTunes Media to my secondary.

But still when I try to update to iOS 5, iTunes tells me there is not enough free space (it still wants to use the C: drive).

Are there any other settings I should check?


texts: Select text-replacement without adding a space?

texts:
I have set up Lion text replacement to replace a three-letter short-code with my full email address. It works great, and I recommend you all do it. :-)

But - in order to confirm the auto-replacement, I need to press the space key (similar in iOS). Often for web-forms, etc. I don't want that space to be there.

Does anyone know if there is a keystroke which will select the suggested text auto-replacement without adding a space?


texts: How can I back up 2 internal drives to a single Time capsule?

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I recently reinstalled Lion on an SSD and have all my media on the original HDD on my MBP.  I was hoping Time Machine would recognize my existing backups in Time Capsule but it wants to start a new backup image. Also, it looks like Time Machine wants to only back up my SSD. So, my questions are:

Can I back up both drives to one time capsule image as if they were a single logical drive?
How can I access my old backed up data in the existing image?


texts: How to change the way to switch between apps

texts:
When I double-click on the home button it shows all the opened apps. In the latest version of IOS, the apps are overlaid onto one another. Swiping left or right is so fast that it makes it hard to really stop on the right app to close it. Maybe it's just me :)

I just loved the way it was before where instead of being overlaid, the app where side by side and it was much easier. Anybody know if there is a way to change this overlay display for side by side?


texts: How should I enable my terminal find command on the whole disk on macOS 10.13.6?

texts:
I am using macOS 10.13.6, on which, sudo find / -name always gets "Operation not permitted".

I googled it and got some "solution" which needs me enable "Full Disk Access".

However, "Security & Privacy" panel doesn't have an item called "Full Disk Access".

How should I enable my terminal find command on the whole disk?


texts: iMac can't unzip password protected PC zipped file

texts: I sent a .zip file to a friend with an iMac but he can't open it. It was created using PKZip on a Windows 7 PC, and it's Password protected. He's pretty technically inept so is there anything he needs to do to be able to access this file please?


texts: I have some strange thing going on with my Safari browser. It only happens to Safari in address bar, no other text fields elsewhere does this. When I start typing word best, after I type s whole search bar gots cleared. It's really annoying and I don't know where can I find a fix for it. Tried clearing system settings, browser's and even with using another Mac user. Nothing helped. It's really a small thing but really a pain in the ass. Hope someone had this issue before because cannot really find anyone in the internet writing about it. Thanks!


texts: How do I delete contact suggestions from Messages in OS X?

texts: In the "To:" box in the Messages app on OS X, when I start typing in a contact name, I get old "iMessage" contacts which I've long since deleted. They certainly don't exist in my contacts; the only place I think they could exist is in my iMessage History somewhere on the iCloud servers. In any case, how can I delete them? Thanks.


texts:
I've got a Mac mini (Mid 2011). It currently has 4 GB of RAM which I want to upgrade to 16 GB. I know that officially with these versions, only 8 GB is supported, but I've read from OWC Announces Industry’s First 16 GB RAM Upgrade For Latest Apple Mac Mini Models that you can actually upgrade to 16 GB.

I've found this memory, Corsair CMSX16GX3M2B1600C9 Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 1600Mhz DDR3L 9-9-9-24 204pin 1.35V Notebook Memory, which I want to upgrade to. My concern is that it's 1600 MHz and that my Mac mini comes with 1333 MHz memory.

How can I understand what Mac memory requirements are so I can select the proper parts to expand it?


texts: Macos resets screen refresh rate after disconnect

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I have 4 external monitors (non-mac) with MacBoook 16". 2 of them (C27JG5x and Optix G24C suppor 144GhZ.) I have a few issues with that.

Apple displays settings doesn't have an option to change the refresh rate.
I found an external programm Display Menu can do it.

Unfortunately each time I unplug displays (or reboot/put my Mac to sleep) the refresh rate setting resets to 60Ghz, however MacOS stills remember display arrangement and their resolutions.

Is there any way that Macbook would use the previous refresh rate settings as well?


texts: Label the different accounts on iPhone mail

texts:
I've just finished setting up a mail address for my father. He has a custom domain name, and the he's able to receive/send email with this custom address via Gmail.

On his iPhone and iPad, he's using the default mail client, and it's linked to his Gmail account.

Since he receives emails from 2-3 different accounts already, it's confusing to know which mail was sent to which address.

In Gmail, you have the option to label the incoming messages, so you can quickly scan your emails and see exactly which were received from which address.

Is this option or any alternative available on the iPhone default mail client?

The labels are working if he uses the Gmail app, but he would rather keep using the default mail client.

Thank you for the help!


texts: I just got my ipad mini 4 for christmas. It has been working perfectly fine until this morning the battery was completely dead so I wen't to charge it and realized that it wasn't coming on. When I press the power button, the apple sign appears then the screen returns to being black. What is the issue? Is my battery gone?


texts: Dual GPU switching on a MacBook in Windows dual-boot (without using Boot Camp)?

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I am experimenting with a 2013 MacBook Pro and its capabilities, and have set up a Boot Camp partition. This works quite well with the applications that I need to run on Windows natively which use some dedicated GPU.

However, I found out quickly that Windows running on Boot Camp does not allow for the GPU switching between dedicated and Integrated GPUs, producing uncomfortable heat and draining battery unnecessarily.

I was wondering if anybody had experienced running this kind of technology on Windows in dual-boot with a Mac (without Boot Camp) on a MacBook Pro. And if in that case GPU switching could be supported by the Windows drivers directly?

I have tried to Google this around for some time, but being Boot Camp very prominent, it is very difficult to find good results. I have however found a guide to achieve Windows dual boot, here:

Installing Windows 10 on a Mac without Bootcamp

I was going to try this if dual GPU switching could be possible. I would be very grateful for any knowledge any of you could share on this topic. Would it be possible to run GPU switching in such a setup?


texts: Adobe Digital Editions does not work on my Apple Mac

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I can download books from my local library to my computer but Adobe Digital Editions does not open them. I wish to transfer them to my Kobo Glo. This has worked in the past.
My Mac is Mojave 10.14.6.  I get this message when I try to open a book with ADE version 4.5: - E_AUTH_BAD_DEVICE_KEY_OR_PKCS12. Error getting licence. Licence Server Communication Problem.
I also tried ADE versions 2.1, and 3. I get this message: E_ACT_NOT_READY
I have tried removing ADE 4.5 to the Trash and emptying the Trash and then reinstalling it.
I have tried to deauthorise ADE on my computer in order to reauthorise it but am unable to do this. There is no option to deauthorise ADE 2.1 or 3.0.
Can anyone help me please?


texts: Suppressing "The default interactive shell is now zsh" message in macOS Catalina

texts:
I know Catalina uses zsh as the default login shell and interactive shell, but it is very annoying when I open iTerm.app or run command with /bin/bash, it shows verbose message like below:
$ /bin/bash
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

The support document the message links to is
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050
How can I hide the verbose logging? I do not want to be reminding that the "default interactive shell is now zsh" every time I open Terminal.


texts: Cannot open Zenmap.app (LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error)

texts:
When I try to open it in the terminal: open Zenmap.app

I get this error:

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Zenmap.app.

Before it asks me for my password and then I get this error.


texts:
I have an iPhone 6 plus 128 gb and it is running iOS 8.1.3. The phone was never broken.

I noticed after the latest firmware update that it hangs and becomes unresponsive. Whenever that happens a black tent of shade covers the screen. The home button doesn't work the lock of the screen doesn't work. I always have to restart the phone.

Has anyone else experienced the same?


texts:
I purchased a refurbished MacBook Pro (MPB) to replace a previous one of almost the same model.  (Lest anyone wonder why such a foolish thing, I bought the old one used for cheap and it had signs of being dropped.  The new one looks nicer and has a one-year warranty.)

In getting ready to migrate, I wanted to do one last backup.  It was then that I noticed Time Machine says the last backup was at the end of the previous year (two weeks ago).  I am fairly certain I had the drive connected several times during those two weeks, and even clicked "Backup Now" more than once.  There were no "unable to back up" notifications.

When I looked at TM preferences, the "Preparing to backup" progress bar gets to the end (or almost—it's hard for my eyes to tell whether the "last pixel" is still not blue).  But it stays there until I order it to cancel.  (Five minutes/sixty minutes according to my level of patience)

fsck_hfs found nothing wrong with the drive.

I found at least one web page that said this happens sometimes and a supposedly simple fix is to trash the *-in-progress backup, reboot, and try again.  Not only did that not help, SIP prevents emptying the trash.

Any explanation and/or solution?

I would like to "inherit" the backup, but if it's corrupt, I would wipe the disk instead and start over.


texts:
I would like to know if there is any way to disable Spotlight Search, even when an user goes to Settings -> Spotlight Search, and change the options there.

That's mainly because anyone could still search in Spotlight only by going to Settings -> Spotlight and enabling the search on the web. I do know that you can set it so you can apply filters, but they are not successfull at what I need. (Yes, I know also that Safari can be restricted under "Restrictions", but I am only talking about Spotlight)

I would need something like "Spotlight Search" under "Restrictions", so I can turn it off completely, so any user can't enable the Internet search again.

That's like a little bug for anyone who want to be fully protected for mature/adult content. (I want to have my own filter, not what Apple says that is good)

PS. Currently I am with iOS 10.X in an iPhone SE. There's a video from youtube here that explains how to disable Settings app. That would be great, but that workaround only work in older versions of iOS.


texts: disable failing AMD GPU on a 2011 MBP? from Linux, because of Sierra's SIP?

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My trusty MBP 17" 2011 is now hitting the failing AMD GPU issues.

This is what I understand from my research:

This has been a known problem, and Apple addressed with an extended warranty on these models's GPUs, which ended Dec 31st 2016.  My local repair shop, which is usually pretty handy, says it can't fix it.
You can revert to using just the internal Intel graphics.  Basically, boot into Single User mode and move some of AMD*.kext files from /System/Library/Extensions/ elsewhere.

This covers it pretty well:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyDu-Y_G1D8&app=desktop

Unfortunately, the System/Library/Extensions directory fall under Sierra's SIP protection so I can't carry out those instructions. crutils disable, to disable SIP, won't work in Single User mode. SIP can only be disabled in Recovery mode... which fails because it is a graphical environment and I have a failing GPU.

[EDIT re point 3 only] (as far as just the SIP issues goes:  https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/276433 is correct: Cmd + R + S, at least on Sierra, gets you recovery and single user and you can csrutil disable from there).

Question: Can I do the following:

Boot my Mac from a bootable Linux USB, mount the HD and move those AMD*.kext using Linux, thereby forcing use of the Intel graphics?

Anyone have any experience doing such a thing?  A particular challenge I have is that I'd have to prep the bootable USB from a Windows or Linux machine, as my Mac is stuck in single-user mode.

What Linux distribution/USB prep tool should I be using?  Mind you, I don't need to boot into a graphical Linux, just the command line is good enough and less likely to hit the GPU issue.


texts:
I just want to erase everything so I can sell this laptop.
My thought was to come to Disk Util and do an erase.

But when I choose these settings, the operation keeps failing. Some Apple articles were saying make sure you restart and no USB device is connected which is my case too. So I don't know what to do now.  Or if just there is another way I can erase this laptop so I can sell it, that's all I need too.
Note: This is a late 2013 MBP with Catalina installed.


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When playing games on Macbook Pro 13 inch 2012 md101 under Windows 8.1 the temperature rises to 100 degrees pretty fast and gpu starts throttling giving a huge slowdown in games. Is this a normal behaviour of this Macbook? If not what should I do to fix this?

This notebook has Core i5-3210M and Intel HD Graphics 4000

I was thinking about changing termal paste.


texts: missing windows keyboard buttons on rMBP

texts: I need the Home, delete, insert and all the other buttons found in a typical windows keyboard. I don't know how to access them on my MacBook pro. The only one I know is fn-delete for delete. Is there a comprehensive list anywhere? I've searched thru the questions here but non really answer my question. There's similar ones including how to use windows type keys on OS X. But my question is Windows, and only windows related.


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I'm attempting to create a new macOS Photos.app library on a secondary hard drive.
In the Choose Library window, when I select Create New... and select the external HDD, I get the error:

The library could not be created.
Photos does not have the necessary permissions to create a library in the folder that you selected.

Why can't I use the external hard drive for my Mac Photos Library?


texts: Macbook Pro Late 2013 with Intel Iris Pro only and BENQ BL2711U - how to connect

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I have a problem with connecting Macbook Pro 15' Retina (late 2013 with only Iris pro) with external monitor BENQ BL2711U. In specifications for MBP late 2013 with only Iris pro, HDMI supporting 3840x2160. Today I'm trying with BENQ BL2711U and nothing. No detected display on MBP , no signal on the monitor. How to connect this monitor?

Thanks in advance!


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I'm trying to install Office 2016 and it appears as though Installer will not run/install the .pkg file. When you double click on the package itself it instantly exits, leaving behind these errors:

CoreServicesUIAgent[323]: Error -60005 creating authorization

and

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000011.Installer[859]) Service exited due to signal: Broken pipe: 13

I've tried repairing disk permissions and rebooting (multiple times) as well as re-downloading the package from MSFT, no luck. Any ideas?


texts: Korean language input issue on macOS Catalina

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I have the Korean keyboard enabled on my new MacBook Pro (2020, macOS Catalina) and use CommandSpace to switch between the keyboards (English-Korean).
The problem is that, whenever I use the Shift key for a double consonant (e.g., ㅆ) in the 받침 position for Korean, the action automatically changes the input source to English and produces a capitalized English letter. Instead of getting 았, I'll be getting "아T".
Does anyone have suggestions to fix this issue? Thank you!


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I recently tried different keystrokes to regain control of my mouse/keyboard from parallels, and I pressed something that cause my Mac to start shutting down. It didn't prompt me to confirm that I wanted to shutdown my Mac, it just started closing applications for the shutdown.

Question is there a way to require that the use respond to a confirmation dialog before shutting down / restarting their Mac?

Additional info- I was multi-tasking at the time, setting up a Linux KVM host , a Raspberry Pi image , among other things. I almost lost all of my work so I would like to put in a safeguard against accidentally restarting my Mac.


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Yes this is different than other "show menubar in fullscreen"

I have a program where i make my own tests for people in class
and when opening it i have to close all my programs that's ok for me
but when in the program i can't swipe to left or right and can't see the menubar. so my question is is there anything possible with the info.plist to change it to let me show the menubar? (i have a MacBook Air 11inch early 2015 with Mac osx Sierra)


texts: I'm monitoring the connected devices in my WLAN. I would like to know if it is possible that an iPad (or another Apple device) has a Wi-Fi network chip with MAC address (OUI) not from Apple, or if it is other device on my network.


texts: Override the close button with hide instead

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One of my pet hates with OSX at the moment is that whenever I close an app (i.e. clicking the red button in the top left) then attempt to open it again using alt+tab I can't. I need to use my mouse or launch Alfred to open the app.

Ideally What I'd like todo is somehow override the close button with hide instead (hide as in cmd+h). By hiding an app, I can use alt+tab to retrieve it.

Any help would be great


texts: Every time my three-year-old bashes the keyboard randomly my hot corners stop working. What key combo is she pressing?

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Whenever I make the mistake and leave my MBP unattended and unlocked for more than a minute, my three-year-old rushes in and starts randomly mashing keys on the keyboard, pretending to type.  Every time, without fail, afterward, things seem OK but the hot corners no longer work and the Dock (which I normally have set to auto-hide) will not rise up from the bottom of the screen when hovering there; I must click the mouse at the bottom of the screen, where the Dock is hiding, in order to make it rise.  Merely hovering, like usual, does not make the Dock rise.

What key combination is she pressing to trigger this behavior?  And how can I turn it off without having to completely restart the computer?


texts: How to show a notification when the iSIght webcam turns on?

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Is it possible to get a desktop notification when my iSight turns on? It would be optimal if this could go through Growl, but I've tried HardwareGrowler and it doesn't give me a notification.

I know that the green light always turns on when the iSight turns on, but when the iSight turns on just for one second it is possible that I'm not looking at the screen and that I miss the green light, hence a notification that stays on the screen until I close it would be optimal.

I'm on a MacBook Pro 5,3 and I have Mountain Lion 10.8.3.


texts: Where is Safari Reader CSS or HTML in El Capitan?

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In OS X El Capitan, Safari Reader View file for modifying the CSS is no longer found in Safari application and in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Resources/.

Where is it located?

Is it locked by System Integration too?

If there is no way to modify, I think in downgrading to OS X Yosemite.


texts: How do I know which keyboard locale file I'm using for my keyboard layout?

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I was reading a great answer to how you can extend the list of characters Lion shows you when hold down a key for a few seconds. The in answer he says:

  choose the keyboard file relevant to your locale if you are using a different keyboard layout

In /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/ I see quite a few files. I'm not sure how to figure out which one, precisely, I need to edit to make the changes laid out in that program. I'm using an english keyboard, but I'm in Canada. To the best of my knowledge though I'm not doing anything Canada-specific with my keyboard layout. It's a plain, english, Apple keyboard -- the kind you'd buy in any Apple Store in the United States.

The plist file that applies to me could be any of:

Keyboard-default.plist
Keyboard-en_CA.plist
Keyboard-en_US.plist
Keyboard-en.plist

How do I figure out which specific keyboard plist profile is the one I'm using?