texts: Is the case insensitive comparison broken for mdfind?

texts:
I use mdls and mdfind within scripts to automate playing music files.  Recently I've noticed certain files missing from the expected search results and I have tracked it down to a case senstivity issue.

I'm using query syntax similar to kMDItemTitle == '*[search term]*'c.  The trailing 'c' character used to provide a case-insensitive search.

Online documentation  offers kMDItemTitle ==[c] '*[search term]* as a possibility, but that also fails to work.

Here are some exmaples from my command line:

⇒ mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentTypeTree == "public.audio" && kMDItemTitle == "*Thrill*"'
./Music/Sia/Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul) - Single/01 Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul).m4a
./Music/Michael Jackson/Thriller [Bonus Tracks]/17 Voice-Over Session from Thriller.m4a
./Music/Michael Jackson/Thriller [Bonus Tracks]/04 Thriller.m4a
./Music/J.J. Cale/The Road to Escondido/08 Hard to Thrill.m4a

⇒ mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentTypeTree == "public.audio" && kMDItemTitle == "*thrill*"c'

⇒ mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentTypeTree == "public.audio" && kMDItemTitle == "*THRILL*"c'

⇒ mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentTypeTree == "public.audio" && kMDItemTitle ==[c] "*THRILL*"'


texts: Is there a way to effectively clean a Smart Cover without causing damage?

texts: On my iPad smart cover (It's one of the polyurethane ones) there seem to be some spots of what looks like grease, it could be some sort of food grease or skin oil. What would be the best way to clean the cover without damaging it? I was thinking just a damp paper towel would be best, but I want to see what would be best before I tried.


texts: Is there a comparison between the different versions of Common Lisp for Mac OS X? Is there a clear frontrunner?


texts:
What is the easiest way to stream/listen to a specific song for free, that's not in your iTunes library from an iPhone?

On a PC, I'd go on Deezer.com, launch spotify, try Hype Machine... But on the iPhone the "no-flash" policy makes it much harder.

I know some applications do this (i.e Deezer), but there's a price tag on it. And I sometimes use YouTube, but:

It requires the screen to be turned on
It's slower due to the loading of video (which I don't need)

I miss seeqpod.com, which had a mobile version that did exactly what I describe :( The solution should work outside the U.S. as well (which rules out Pandora).


texts: How to update all the drivers to latest version(bootcamp)

texts: How to can I manually update all the drivers. I see my Nvidia card's support software always says new update available. Is it safe to update drivers from Nvidia site, some other sites(for other drivers) or Apple releases special type of drivers for there hardware and only those will be supported?


texts:
Is there any way to automate a bunch of terminals starting up at once. I find myself opening several windows and running the same sequence of commands in various tabs. I'd like to stick all this in a single shell file (so I could keep it in version control, share it, etc) rather than have to add it all to a GUI.

Ideally with iTerm, but automating with any terminal program would be interesting to hear about.


texts: Photos taking too much space on MacBook Air

texts: I was clearing up my Mac to download the latest Os X, but when I saw the "Photos" in "About this Mac" are taking 9 GB space! Any idea where I can find all these photos?


texts: Have raw pbundle data on drive, need it to be recognize as time machine

texts:
So I made a home-brewed linux / raspberry pi time machine more or less like this. I ended up with time machine data stored on an ext4 partition shared via samba that was successfully recognized and used as a time machine backup destination my my mac. The drive holds 3TB of information, so it's full of something.
But when I tried to use that drive as a source from Migration Assistant after my mac was wiped by apple repair, it won't recognize the network drive.
So I bought another 6TB drive, formatted it as HFS, and copied the .pbundle / sparsebundle file onto it. I thought of this as a "nuclear" option sure to work.
But now, the mac still doesn't see this new drive as a time machine source.
What should I do? How should I recover my data?


texts: How to stop Terminal from using special characters?

texts:
When I'm using arguments with quotes in the Terminal, the quote is first highlighted and then changes to a special character when certain characters are entered after it.

For example trying to type "u changes to ü.

How do I disable this?

I'm on OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6


texts: Moving files from Desktop to another folder and vice versa using AppleScript (and bash inside of Applescript) inside Automator

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I need to move files from my desktop to a folder ~/Documents/Desktop migration and I have tried to code a script which will do that. Unfortunately, (and the reason why I'm asking here) it doesn't work.

I am using a service (so that I can go to any application's menu bar > Services > (insert name of service here) ) and need to store the variable data, so I think automator is suited for the job, and I'm using AppleScript and Terminal to move.

What doesn't work is it only transfers files to the desktop from the Desktop Migration folder and not back from the desktop to the Desktop Migration folder, so how can I achieve this?

What I've come up with so far:

on run {input, parameters}
    set theQuery to input
    if theQuery = 1 then
        do shell script "mv ~/Desktop/* ~/Documents/Desktop\\ migration"
        set output to 0
        return output
    else if theQuery = 0 then
        do shell script "mv ~/Documents/Desktop\\ migration/* ~/Desktop"
        set output to 1
        return output
    end if
end run

Thanks!


texts: Can I enable Remote Disc on a computer that shipped with an optical drive?

texts: I replaced the optical drive in my 2009 MacBook Pro with an SSD drive. I have enabled CD & DVD Sharing on another computer (running OS X 10.7.5) on my local network and inserted a data CD, but Remote Disc doesn't show up in the Finder sidebar on the MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.8.2). I'm assuming this is because the machine originally shipped with an optical drive. Can I enable Remote Disc on the MBP?


texts: Adjust path for iTunes / Music files after files move

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I moved all my music library to a network drive. So now all my library is messed up as Music (former iTunes) can not find the files. I have to manually set the path for each file I want to play (~3500) files. I tried to grep -r '/Volumes/S_Drive/Music/Music/' to see which file I could replace the paths in my home but it came up with nothing. So guess the music library is saved somewhere else. I would like to run this in one step instead of having to adjust paths manually every time. Cheers, EL
MacOS 11.2.3
Music 1.1.3.3


texts: video getting stuck on external computer

texts:
I recently got Apple MacBook with M1 chipset and using external monitor Dell E2620HS for display (I am using HDMI to HDMI), while watching youtube or udemy videos, the video rendering freezes and until I i move finger of trackpad, it stays frozen.
Why is this happeneing? is my monitor old?


texts:
I've clicked "Erase all settings" on my iPhone 3GS and it went into a locked state where I couldn't get to the login screen in any way. I then decided to upgrade to 5.1 but forgot to save the SHSH.

Is there any way to downgrade to 4.2.1 or at least something different than 5.1?

Thanks!


texts: MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) uses h/w encryption?

texts:
I have a LaCie 2big, connected via Thunderbolt 2.

When I select as a disk-partition MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), does that uses some type of hardware encryption or is it all software?


texts: Numbers: conditonal highlight based on a date in a different column

texts:
In numbers, I would like to change the background colour of Column D based on whether the date in Column A is still in the future  (i.e. graying out).

I can get the colour formatting to work on the date column itself ('Date is after the date 0 days ago'), but how can I specify that the rule is based on a different column?
If I specify the above colour rule in 'D' (a pure numeric column), then the colour doesn't change as D doesn't contain a date...


texts: How do I remote backup while waking up my computer from sleep?

texts:
I am backing up remotely from a Macbook Pro to an external backup drive on a PowerMac G5 via Time Machine and AFP. When the G5 goes to sleep, the Macbook Pro can't back up because the drive is made unavailable. How do I get the G5 to wake up while the Macbook Pro is backing up, and to go to sleep after the Macbook Pro is done backing up?

The MacBookPro is on Snow Leopard and the G5 (Early 2005) is running Leopard so I can't just use the normal sleep proxy / Wake On Demand or have an airport do the waking up whenever Time Machine tries to connect to the AFP share.


texts: Unable to install Signal from App Store on iOS

texts:
Each time I try to install Signal Application from App Store on iOS, I get the message:

  This item is currently being modified. Please try again later.

How can I install this app on my iPhone?

This issue has been there for about 2 months. There is news that Signal is blocked in my country. I have used a VPN and also I get the same problem.


texts: I've noticed there are several ssh apps on the apple store, I am trying to access my schools unix machine from this ssh connection and use this to write code and compile c++ code on my unix drive. Is this possible to do from from ipad?


texts: Constant popups for bla-bla wants access to bla-bla keychain

texts:
e.g.  cloudd wants access to icloud keychain, local items keychain etc.

I have been going nuts with this bug (it IS a bug as it seems to be caused by unhandled corruption to the icloud keychain).  I've had it 3 times now and it keeps coming back.

I'm basically almost constantly bombarded with requests to provide a password for any one of several combinations of the above error (different things needed access to different keychains).   When I provide my password, it either gives me an 'incorrect password' response (shaking) or accepts it then asks for it again.

I have tried to turn off iCloud, but I can't, it turns itself back on.  I'm guessing this was a sync issue originally, but it's well out of hand now.

I'm using a 2015 macbook pro with 10.12.3 (Sierra).


texts:
Dragging text used to be instant. Now, especially after an application’s been open a few minutes, it takes forever from the time I press the mouse button on text until I can drag it. (If I try to drag it before the cursor changes form the text-insertion icon to an arrow, the text is deselected.) I’ve timed the delay a few times, and the longest one was about 35 seconds from mouse-down to cursor-change.

I started noticing this about six months ago. The only change to the system that I can think of that coincided even slightly was Yosemite. I’ve noticed it mostly in Scrivener, which is almost always where I drag text. But it also occurs in Calendar and Mail.

Closing the app and reopening it fixes it for a minute.

I’ve tried the Terminal command to eliminate the delay, and it seems to have no effect. (defaults write -g NSDragAndDropTextDelay -int 100)  I’ve also tried the Tinderbox adjustment.

What could this be?


texts: Is there a way to automatically check all JPG's for corrupted files?

texts:
I have a lot photos and recently I tried opening an older photo and it came up black, the next photo in the folder displayed properly except the bottom 10% of the photo was garbled green blocks, and all other photos in the folder were fine. I checked my backup drive and the files were bad on it as well, luckily I had an older backup drive and the files were ok on it. So sometime between when I did the old backup and the new backup, the files went bad on my iMac.

But now I'm wondering, was this an isolated incident out my 30,000 photos, or are there more files like this? How can I find them so I'm not backing up bad files, or overwriting good files with bad files just because the file size hasn't changed. I use carbon copy cloner for backups and it has an option for detecting corrupted files, but checksum doesn't identify that these jpg's are bad, that they don't display properly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!


texts:
Issue: I have a car that requires Win.XP Pro 32-bit OS to access and update the software.

Is it possible to install Win.XP Pro 32-bit OS on a MacBook Pro running Mojave 10.14.2?


texts: How do I transfer app data from my old iPad to my new iPad?

texts:
How does one transfer app data (e.g., Notetaker HD books, game progress, etc.) from an old iOS device to a new one?

While I'm sure this issue is relevant to iPhones, it seems that with the advent of the iPad, this issue gains particular significance.  How do I keep my Battlehearts game when I get my new shiny?

What I'm Not Asking:  Obviously, exchange data will migrate seamlessly to the new device upon provision of login credentials, and same goes (maybe without the "seamlessly") to data (music, video, etc.) associated with my iTunes account.


texts: How do I change the global stylesheet of Safari from the command line on OS X?

texts:
I am looking for a command line solution to change Safari default stylesheet.

This can be configured manually by going to Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Style sheets.

Still, I need this in order to be able to reconfigure a system or deploy the settings.


texts: Can Time Machine be used as a Drobo system

texts:
I came across some products by Drobo that let you use an array of external hard drives seamlessly. Would Time Machine be able to do something similar?

For example, suppose I have HD1 with photos and connect HD2 (empty). Will Time Machine replicate some of HD1 data into HD2? If not, what is a reasonably cheap alternative to Drobo?


texts: How can I add my iCloud email account in Windows Live Mail?

texts:
I have an iCloud account: name@me.com and I try to add it in Windows Live Mail but it gives an error message that my username or password are incorrect.

I found this http://www.apple.com/mobileme/setup/pc/windowsmail.html, but it's online for Windows Vista, my OS is Windows 7.


texts: MacBook does not go to sleep when powered with monitor via USB-C

texts:
It has been a few years now and across models. I've always wondered if there's a way to fix this.
My MBP (15-inch, 2018), when powered with external monitor (LG 5K) via USB-C, is still warm even when left overnight, with display off and sleep triggered (via Apple menu).
It does, however, sleep fine if the MBP is only powered on by a power bricks, without monitor plugged in. The MBP is cool when I come back to it a few hours later.
For the record, I have an external keyboard plugged in to the monitor.


texts: I cant view YouTube  on Apple TV I only see the loading circle any suggestion on how to fix it would be appreciated


texts: How to identify the 3 thermals sensor connectors from the mac mini motherboard?

texts:
I opened my mac mini to switch the DVD with another hard drive and I forgot to take a picture with the ways the 3 thermal sensors are connected.

THeir codes on the mainboard look like:

J5550 - left one, when you look from the front of the mini (dvd opening towards you)
J5520 - middle one
J5560 - right one - the closest to the two sata connectors
One of them is for the DVD
One of them is for primary HDD near the connect
One of them for the primary HDD on the other side (glued)

How do I pair them? It's important as I do not want to mess the logic of power management.


texts: Permission denied adding SSH key to .ssh/config

texts:
I am trying to add SSH key to ~/.ssh/config using echo "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my-ssh-key" >> ~/.ssh/config

It is showing me error -bash: /Users/gaurav/.ssh/config: Permission denied

What i am doing wrong?

Permission to folders

total 64
-rw-r--r--  1 root    staff    85 Apr 15 12:59 config
-rw-------  1 gaurav  staff  1766 Jan  4 23:11 github_rsa
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gaurav  staff   404 Mar 20 09:50 github_rsa.pub
-r--------  1 gaurav  staff  1766 Mar 20 10:05 google-sb-server
-rw-r--r--  1 gaurav  staff   388 Mar 20 10:05 google-sb-server.pub
-rw-------  1 gaurav  staff  3247 Jan  5 10:37 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--  1 gaurav  staff   726 Jan  5 10:37 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 gaurav  staff  2230 Mar 20 12:45 known_hosts


texts:
Is anyone here knowledgeable about whether QuickTime 7 (Pro) will still run on macOS Mojave?

QT7 is 32 bit and while Mojave still seems to allow 32 bit apps, I am wondering if the QT Media Framework on which the player is based is still included in Mojave (or at least still possible to install), not just for the player but also for third party apps that haven't moved on to AVFoundation yet.

Have any Mojave beta testers maybe tried?


texts:
If I type the % character in the Terminal, it breaks that shell and every new shell I open until reboot:

$ seq 10 | parallel -j50% "echo Hi {}"
-bash: printf: `"': invalid format character

Does anybody know why this is?

To expand a bit more, if I open a Terminal, and echo "100%", this happens:

Last login: Fri Nov 21 08:28:47 on ttys033
~$ echo "100%"
-bash: printf: `"': invalid format character

0; echo "100~$
-bash: printf: `"': invalid format character
7;file://mac-122667.dhcp.fnal.gov/Users/perdue~$
-bash: printf: `"': invalid format character
7;file://mac-122667.dhcp.fnal.gov/Users/perdue~$
-bash: printf: `"': invalid format character

Every time I press RET after putting a percent character in, the Terminal flashes and prints an error statement about printf. I was actually working on this more after I posted the question and one thing I did was upgrade bash:

~$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.3.30(1)-release

This helps. Previously it was Bash 2.something (if I recall - whatever Mountain Lion's default is). In that version of Bash, every open Terminal window aside from the one where I put the % was okay, but every new one I opened was also corrupted and nothing could get the Terminal back but rebooting.

Now, with Bash 4.3, I can type a command to get the prompt back to normal. And new Terminal windows are also okay.

But - I still can't use % in commands I put into the Terminal. Fortunately, I don't need to often, but things like awk just don't work for me on my Mac.

So, my $PS1 is:

~$ echo $PS1
\[\e[0;34m\]\W\[\e[0;31m\]$ \[\e[0m\]

If that looks confusing at first, these are colors I am setting in my bash_profile:

# colours for use in prompts
RED="\[\e[0;31m\]"
GREEN="\[\e[0;32m\]"
YELLOW="\[\e[0;33m\]"
BLUE="\[\e[0;34m\]"
PURPLE="\[\e[0;35m\]"
CYAN="\[\e[0;36m\]"
export PS1="${BLUE}\W${RED}\$ ${NOCOLOR}"

If I echo "100%" with another user account, it is okay! So clearly, I am shooting myself in the foot somewhere in my .bash_profile. Which is too bad, because I basically like my setup, or so I think, ha!

If anybody wants to look at my dot files they're now on GitHub. (I am a bit embarrassed to show them - there is some cruft there, haha.)


texts:
I have some ISO files here with weird volume labels. I want to rename them to something I can easily remember.

I know in Windows using either winiso or poweriso (both are non-free?) it can be done but I'm not so sure in OS X. I did search the net but nothing useful came up.

Thanks!

edit: I believe it's best explained with an example:

I have an ISO file called "myiso.iso". When I double-click on the ISO file to mount it, it appears as "myweirdname" in Finder."myweirdname" is the ISO Volume name.


texts:
Is there a universal streaming protocoll that both, Android and iOS devices can play, within HTML5 video objects?

It looks like even HTML5 could not "force" a universal solution to simplify publisher's work.


texts: Can I uninstall stock Apple applications (e.g. Stickies)

texts:
Is it safe to uninstall stock OS X applications that I do not use?  They're really just taking up space on my Applications list (and my SSD).  The applications I'm eyeing for deletion are:

Front Row
iDVD
Image Capture
iMovie
Mail
Photo Booth
Stickies
Textedit

Does OS X malfunction if these stock applications are uninstalled?


texts:
My question is: How to natively enable TRIM in Sierra for a 3rd-party SSD?

A solution I found involves installing an "out of the App Store" app that will probably ask for admin credentials etc which I generally don't like.

Is there a native way in OS Sierra to enable TRIM ? Since many paid apps like the one I mentioned are just GUIs for basic BSD tools already in Sierra.

I'm all new to SSDs and just heard about TRIM and how it can help boost the life of your SSD etc.

Thanks !


texts:
Is there some email client out there, which is well integrated into OS X, that has the ability to annotate emails? In particular, I would like to add a note, which will be linked to a specific message.

Any ideas?


texts: what is the "get" button on the apple tv 4?

texts:
According to Using Netflix on your Apple TV, "in the App Store, search for Netflix to find our app, then choose Get to start installation."

Where is the "Get" button? There is no option on the App Store screen:

It's not on the remote either: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205305

Any ideas?


texts: Mouse disappears when plugging in a HDMI monitor and enabling mirroring

texts: Only with HDMI monitor and enabled mirroring my mouse simply disappears. I have Mac OS X 10.10.5. I have to remove the HDMI cable or disable mirroring and then it appears again. Any ideas how to fix this?


texts: Are there privacy concerns with the Built-In iSight Camera and LED Indicator?

texts:
I was having a discussion with some friends about the built in camera of computer and what you can do with them, and I realized that my macbook has one of those. That got me thinking about how the camera and LED are connected; Are they connected to the same power supply or can they be turned on or off individually?

If it's not connected to the same power supply has Apple said anything to ensure my privacy against anyone looking at me without the LED turning on?


texts: How to be sure my Mac is fully disconnected?

texts:
On many occasion thinking that my Mac was disconnected from any form of network (with or without wire), I discovered that in fact it was
confortably chating at full speed with the rest of the world through
a forgotten connection. Typically:

tcpdump -i en1

displayed a high speed movie about domain, bootpc, http, netbios, https, 5223 (unassigned)… trafics.

For the wireless side, there is a nice function to be aware that a Mac
is connected or not: the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar.

But for infrared, Bluetooth, Ethernet, MacOS X seems to miss the same usefull and simple function.

Is there a trustable software or method to be sure that a Mac if fully disconnected from any form of network?

I would be mostly interested by something as small and as visual as the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar.


texts: How can we unlock an iPhone backup file if we don't know the password?

texts:
I've got a rather peculiar problem. My wife's iPhone got stolen and we bought a new one from the insurance money. When trying to restore the backup file to her new phone, iTunes asks for the password:

Enter the password to unlock your iPhone backup file.

The problem is, that she removed the password a long time ago. Hence she can not remember it. All we know is that it must be a number between 1111 and 9999.

Is there any way to brute force this? Other than by hand?


texts: How do I restrict internet access to specific hours in iOS 14?

texts:
I want to disable Safari and Chrome after 11pm at night. I should be in bed sleeping at that point, and not on the internet, so I find that restriction very helpful to break my bad sleep hygiene habits.
However since the last iOS update I can’t seem to restrict Safari or Chrome anymore. The apps are just missing from the "Always Allowed" screen.
How can you limit access to the internet on an iOS device to certain hours? It feels like a bug to only be able to limit every other app on your phone! (And strangely Firefox DOES appear in the list -- just Safari and Chrome are missing.)


texts: How can I clear the kernel extension caches while using FileVault 2?

texts:
I have the same problem as this user, Air + Lion : plug in USB, keyboard/pad stop working , where the built-in keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro stop working (and drop out of the USB devices listed) periodically when I plug in a USB hard drive.

The solution provided was to boot into safe-mode and clear the kernel extension caches, however I use FileVault 2 full-disk encryption which seems to disable booting into safe-mode.

Is there any way to clear the kernel extension caches in OS X 10.9 Mavericks without disabling FileVault 2 to get to safe-mode? I really don't want to de-encrypt and later re-encrypt the entire 750GB drive.

Alternatively, can kextcache be safely run on a system that isn't booted into safe-mode?


texts:
Recently my iCloud backup for my iPhone SE has grown and my 5GB free iCloud is almost full.

Is there a way to view what is included in the backup, to find the biggest items, and possibly remove them?

Note: I don't have a Mac computer.

About the duplicate: That question is about the next backup and it's size, this one is about the existing backup on iCloud. This are two different. My "Next Backup Size" is a mere 64 MB.


texts: How to wrap a DMG file with a wizard installer?

texts:
I have a question about installers for mac.

I have chromium.dmg which contains Chromium web browser. I would like to create a wizard installer that installs chromium then allows the user to optionally automatically install some plugins, and launch chromium with an initial start page displayed.

To do this, I need a wizard-based installer.

I found IzPack which looks like it might work? Does anyone have any ideas how to do this? I get that wizard installers "aren't really a mac thing".

For an example of a wizard-based installer for mac, see SoapUI for Mac.

UPDATE:

IzPack so far has the installer part rocking pretty great. But the file is a Java archive Jar and many of my users don't have Java installed. Not ideal. I need to find a way to bundle it as a DMG even though its actually a java executable.

UPDATE 2:

I've got something very nice by using a combination of IzPack and https://github.com/Jorl17/jar2app

The IzPack builds a java installer but then you are stuck with an executable jar file. That's where jar2app comes in - you can convert the jar to an app file with a bundled JRE. Perfect.


texts: With iLife 11, considerations of slide shows

texts:
I have to turn a big stack of images into one of those somewhat sappy slide shows with music.

Google shows various advice from various points in time. The last advice I found was iDVD. Is that the right path to launch off on?


texts: What can a Mac do that a Windows machine can't?

texts: Can I have some definitive answers? Also, what are you forced to do on a Windows machine that is not required on a Mac?


texts: Is there someway to get a list of all missing photos from the photo library?

texts:
I get the following error in Photos app on my Mac.

Missing File
Photos with unavailable original files cannot be opened.
The original photo “IMG_3076.JPG” is either offline or cannot be found. Click “Find Original” to reconnect.

I want to follow the instructions from how to avoid getting missing file error in photos, so my question now is, Is there some way to get all missing files from Photos library? It is going to be impossible to double click every photo to find out if it is missing. I need just the directories, i can place them back one by one and consolidate.


texts: How to Reset Ethernet Network Connection?

texts: I use Ethernet network connections at home to create fast home network transferring files between my macs. One of the biggest problem I found is often that one mac cannot see another. It shows "connection failed" in network and there is a "connect as" button that does nothing when I click on it. It's funny because while say my macbook pro cannot see my iMac, my iMac can freely access my macbook pro. The only way to resolve this is to restart my macbook pro - which is very inconvenient. Is there a way to quickly reset the network connection without rebooting my computer? Thanks.


texts: Restricting/Blocking iPhone access with a passcode for workers?

texts:
I would like to implement an app that is capable of doing the following when a worker doesn’t return the iPhone for 45 days:

Based on IMEI or a unique app client id the phone should be disabled with a random passcode, by bypassing the faceid or touch id.
It should not be enabled until allowed from backend admin end.
The iOS should not be overwritten while the app is enabled.

I would like to seek advice if this software exists?


texts: Why can I now open the same file on 2 iMacs without it saying "read only'

texts: My work colleague and I have an issue with file permissions since he upgraded his iMac. Basically, he stores the main files on his Mac, I then connect and can access his files. Before he got the upgraded Mac, if one of us had a file open, it would appear as "read only" to the other person - now it doesn't and it seems we can both access the file without this warning which is a disaster! I've tried messing about with all the permissions to no avail - can anybody help?


texts: Privacy: what personal data does Apple share with an app developer, when I buy an app?

texts:
What personal data is shared with an app developer when I buy an app? I am interested in Mac App Store and also iOS App Store.

Do they see my real name, or location, or something different? I found, with a search engine, only what data an app developer can collect when running the app.


texts: What can be done to troubleshoot or diagnose intermittent VPN connects, and disconnects?

texts:
Internal VPN Fails to Connect - Sometimes, but not always.

racoon[337] IPSec connecting to server aaa.bbb.cc.dd
racoon[337] Connecting.
racoon[337] IPSec Phase1 started (Initiated by me).
racoon[337] IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode message 1).
racoon[337] IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).
racoon[337] IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).
racoon[337] IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).
racoon[337] IPSec disconnecting from server aaa.bbb.cc.dd
racoon[337] IPSec disconnecting from server aaa.bbb.cc.dd

All magic codes are in place.  Pinging server is successful.  It's as if something sits waiting for a timer before allowing me to log in again.

I have a MacBook Pro running 10.8.4.

What am I missing?  Any suggestions for configuration/provisioning checks or changes?

Mike, thanks for cleaning this up.

Granted the VPN does disconnect throughout the day, sometimes often.  The big issue is the first attempt to connect in the morning.  Nearly 100% of the time it requires several (3 - 8) failed attempts, followed by an inactive period of 5 to 10 minutes, before it will connect for the first time of the day.


texts: Passing L2TP over IPSec VPN through a `pf` Firewall

texts:
I am trying to set up some custom firewall rules in the pf firewall in macOS (10.11 in this case). These are traditional network-based rules, not application-specific rules. I'm having some issues:

The syntax seems simple enough. But my rules aren't working properly.

table <VPN> { 192.16.10.1/24 } persist
table <badhosts> persist

block in quick from <badhosts> to any
block in

pass in quick from <VPN> to any flags S/SA keep state
pass in quick proto tcp from any to any port { 25 80 443 587 993 } flags S/SA keep state
pass in quick proto { esp icmp ah } from any to any keep state
pass in quick proto udp from any to any port { 500 1701 4500 } keep state

The idea here is that:

<VPN> covers connections inbound from my VPN, all VPN traffic will be allowed.
<badhosts> is my own manually added list of IPs I want to block.
The last three rules should allow public traffic to connect to my web server, mail server, and to make connections to the VPN

I was having bigger problems initially, but I have poked around, gotten a little further, and edited this post.

I was getting a syntax error on the line block in quick from <badhosts> to any when it was at the bottom. I moved it above all the pass statements, gave it a quick keyword, and no more syntax error. But why was that causing a syntax error just from being below? Seems like it should have worked fine there.

More importantly, this config does seem to block all traffic, and it does seem to allow public traffic to access the web and mail server. But suddenly one thing I cannot do with it is connect to the VPN (that is, on another machine, I cannot connect to this machine which is running the VPN server, because I get stopped by it's firewall).

I'm hoping this is the only problem, and that once I can connect to the VPN,  the rule regarding VPN traffic will work as expected.

The VPN is of type L2TP over IPSec. I must be missing some odd flag or protocol used for the VPN but I don't know what it is.


texts: Pushing an Apple ID for App Store to IPads with Apple Configurator

texts:
Is there a way to push an Apple ID to the iPads with profiles via Apple Configurator?

I have several 100 and would like to push it so we do not have to enter it manually for each.


texts: Why does my Mac have laggy/choppy Dock magnification effect?

texts:
I have a retina MacBook Pro and I noticed a laggy/choppy magnification effect when hovering the mouse over the dock. I thought Mountain Lion would fix that, but apparently its a bit more laggy now as well.

Is there a fix for this?

Also, the default settings had the magnification effect turned off, does Apple acknowledge they have a laggy dock or what?

Update

For some unknown reason, the dock is not choppy today, except on the far right (applications, downloads and Trash) .. I have no explanation to why the other parts of the dock stopped being choppy when magnified.


texts: Adjust the brightness level of touch bar

texts:
I can't find anyway to adjust brightness level of touch bar on my mbp 2017 with macOS High Sierra. Perhaps it can be changed by adjusting values in SMC?
I have a different hardware model and macOS version so I asked another question. Please tell me if this is a duplicate question with How can I adjust Touch Bar brightness?.


texts: MacBook Pro (13inch, mid 2012) iPhoto photos

texts: I'm getting my MacBook Pro wiped at the end of the year because it's the school's computer. I was wondering if my iPhoto photos on my laptop will be wiped as well? I use Time Machine, so will that help me recover them?


texts: I am on a flight that requires Adobe flashplayer if I want to watch movies. I have an Ipad 2 and wonder if there is another Apple app that will work?


texts: Changing the default iTunes download directory

texts:
Is it possible to change the download directory of iTunes on mac?

I use mac OSX (10.8.5) and iTunes 11.0.5.
I want to relocate the directory on a external hard disk storage?


texts: I have an iPod Touch 4th generation running on iOS 4. For various reasons, I don't have a copy of all my songs on my computer running Windows 7 with iTunes 11. Is there a way to export my whole library, which contains both songs purchased on iTunes and songs ripped from CDs, to iTunes or elsewhere on my computer?


texts: Calendar and Time Zones in iOS 9.2 & OSX 10.11

texts:
I am confused by the time zone settings in the Apple calendars, especially by the wording.

I book a date here in Melbourne (UTC+10 ignoring DST) for an event in the Netherlands (UTC+2). I want to enter the event as 06:00 here, but really mean 06:00 in the Netherlands local time. The calendar is in iCloud.

This happens all the time when booking flights — the times are always in local time, which is, of course, appropriate.

What is the correct setting in the iPhone and on the MacBook for this to work? I think the wording has changed, but I never thought it was clear.

Currently I add the local time in the notes just in case. I was caught out in the past when the event showed the wrong time (fortunately it meant I was too early for the flight).


texts:
I'd like to record video output from my iPad on my Mac.  I know there is a VGA output adapter for the iPad.  What hardware and software do I need on the Mac side?

Details:

I have a two-year-old iMac and year-old MacBook.  I can use either one for the recording.
I will be recording an iPad app that has support for video output (it's an app I'm developing myself)
I don't care much about what the final video format is.  Ideally, QuickTime, but really anything displayable on a Mac is fine.

Alternatively, if there is a much easier/cheaper way to record on a Windows box rather than Mac, I could do that too.


texts: I have an iPhone and 2 non apple computers with iTunes. I want 2 Apple IDs on my phone and the content off 1 computer backed up on another.

texts: I am only 11 years old and don't have the best understanding of Apple devices. I have one computer that I have downloaded iTunes on and have many apps and songs on it. Another computer I have also has iTunes on it. I currently have my iPhone 4S connected to the computer with all the stuff on it. The problem is, that this computer is is old and takes forever to load up. It has so much stuff on it on my dad's Apple ID. I want to transfer this content off the old computer and onto the other newer one. I also don't know whether I can buy songs and apps on my own Apple ID and keep my dad's Apple ID connected to my phone and have both Apple IDs content on the phone at the same time. I have a very negative view on Apple and their need to keep all music and apps exclusive to apple devices. I know this question will probably sound stupid to you and if so, I would appreciate it immensely if you politely informed me that it can't be done. Otherwise it would be great if you could tell me how to do it. Thank you for bothering to read this far and please answer if you know how to do it.


texts: External disk is hijacked by fsck when plugged in to Macbook

texts:
External disk (2 TB Seagate) is captured by fsck when plugged into a USB 3.0 port on my Macbook Pro (macOS Mojave 10.14.5). This has been discussed by @ArielAllon, and indeed, when I kill the fsck process, the disk is immediately mounted and I can see and read it. When I eject the disk and plug it in again, I always have to kill fsck. I have left fsck running for 12 hours and it never completes. When I kill it, a pop-up warns that the disk could not be repaired.

My problem now, as Ariel mentioned, is that the disk is read-only, owned by root (or wheel?). I would like to use the remaining 150 GB on the disk, (remove old backups, etc) and prevent fsck from capturing it when attached. Thanks for any help...


texts: DNS lookup painfully slow on only one network?

texts:
I've got a MacBook Air 2013 running 10.14, and loading all pages either stalls for multiple seconds on "Resolving host" and only loads after a painful delay or it completely fails and Chrome shows me a "Could not resolve DNS error." This is consistent across browsers, so I'm inclined to believe this is an OS issue.

What's throwing me for a loop is: this only happens on one network! The router has a 2.4Ghz and a 5Ghz network, and they both have this problem. The only way I can use the internet without tearing my hair out is to tether to my phone.

Any ideas? Maybe I have a forgotten DNS setup that only fails on this router/ISP combo and I need to reset my DNS settings?


texts: Applescript refer a link to a file in current finder window

texts:
Edited.

Where is my current script :

set plistfile_path to POSIX file "/users/moi/Desktop/Time/"

choose file with prompt "Please choose a file:" of type {"plist"} ¬
    default location plistfile_path

##set the plistfile_path to "~/Desktop/myTime.plist"
tell application "System Events"
    set p_list to property list file (plistfile_path)
    -- read the plist data
    set startTimeValue to value of property list item "startTime" of p_list
end tell

I don't manage to get it work using the choose file dialog.

I'm having this error :

"error "System Events got an error: Can’t make file \"Macintosh HD:Users:nadjarian:Desktop:Time:\" into type integer." number -1700 from file "Macintosh HD:Users:moi:Desktop:Time:" to integer
"

if I get script of the dialog, it's work fine with this list instead :

set the plistfile_path to "~/Desktop/myTime.plist"

any idea how to fix the error?


texts: Can I force my MacBook Pro mid 2012 to not use Digital audio?

texts:
Whenever I remove my headphone, my MacBook pro mid 2012 (macOS Mojave, 10.14.5) defaults to "Digital Out — Optical digital-out port" (and the port is usually "red" -digital out light), but sometimes it doesn't show it [usually when sound is not playing]) which is not OK since it should be "Internal Speakers — Built-in".

I've tried these terminal commands and they don't work.

sudo pkill coreaudiod
sudo killall coreaudiod

Are there similar commands to redirect the automatic "Digital Out" setting?

The only fix I found so far for that bug, is to blow air inside the jack for ~5-10 seconds and then I have access to my speakers again... weird.


texts: Photo.app does not open when clicked on in the dock or in the list of apps. Message comes up "The application "Photos.app" is not open anymore". How can I re-open it?


texts: Macbook Pro connects an external monitor only after reboot

texts:
My old 13 inch (2008 or 2009 model one of the first unibody models) macbook works fine in connecting external monitors with my VGA adapter.

My new 15 inch has issues with the same connector. I have to reboot in order for it to work. When I plug the adapter with a cable in the new macbook - nothing happens. When I unplug it, the screen goes to blue and then goes back.

What could be the problem? I think I have this issue from the time I got the laptop. It is with Mountain Lion (it had this issue with all the versions of the os). The old mac is also with Lion.

Could this connector be somewhat different and the new mac to require a new connector?

I reset the NVRAM or whatever, it didn't help


texts:
I have replaced my Mac's original hard drive and now trying to use it as an external hard disk with an enclosure. However I have ran in to the below issue and I cannot access any data on this disk anymore.

Axiom:~ migara$ sudo gpt show -l /dev/disk3
    start        size  index  contents
        0           1         PMBR
        1  1465149167

Axiom:~ migara$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk3
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Caution: invalid backup GPT header, but valid main header;
regenerating backup header from main header.

Caution! After loading partitions, the CRC doesn't check out! Warning!
Main and backup partition tables differ! Use the 'c' and 'e' options
on the recovery & transformation menu to examine the two tables.

Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk!

Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: damaged

****************************************************************************
Caution: Found protective or hybrid MBR and corrupt GPT. Using GPT,
but disk verification and recovery are STRONGLY recommended.
****************************************************************************

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk3: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): BD148DB7-177A-4219-9CA1-F7C2884DB38B
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 262157 sectors (128.0 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640       732144615   348.9 GiB   AF00  Customer
   3       732144616       733414151   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD
   4       733414152      1464886983   348.8 GiB   AF00  Macintosh HD 2
  25       183143645               6   16.0 EiB    FFFF  TEST
  57           51205        91518076   43.6 GiB    AF00
  58        91518077        91676768   77.5 MiB    AF00

Command (? for help): q
Axiom:~ migara$ diskutil list /dev/disk3
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk3
   1:                       0xEE                         93.8 GB    disk3s1

Could someone please help me? (@klanomath)


texts:
Is it possible to make Pages 7.1 display a list of Styles?

Every time I click a style in the list to apply it, it shows details of the style and requires additional clicks to get the list.

This makes editing a document tedious. (I am beginning to regret updating Pages)


texts: Is there a way to open Mail.App from QuickMailer?

texts:
Is there any way to open Mail.App from QuickMailer?

My dock auto-hides to get more screen space.


texts: Can't install any app, App Store asks for credit card

texts:
I haven't been installing anything on my iPad Mini for the past few weeks. But previously, I just had to tap on "Install", enter my Apple ID password and go.

Now, for every new application, even those free ones, I have to confirm each time, that I'm 17 or over. And then App Store asks to enter my credit card information. If I disagree and hit "Cancel", installation process is interrupted and I can't install any application, even free one.

I don't trust Apple at all and I'm not willing to share my credit card information, especially that I'm installing only free applications.

I'm pretty sure that I haven't changed anything in the configuration of my iPad Mini for ages.

Am I missing some significant change to the App Store or this is some kind of bug or virus? Is there anything I can do in this situation? How can I install a free application from the App Store, without having to share my credit card information with Apple?


texts: Finder crashes whenever I try and open certain directory

texts:
I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 and I have a strange issue whenever I try to open a particular directory in Finder, or even in Terminal (using open . while pwd).
Attempting to open the directory causes Finder to completely crash and I cannot open a window of the directory at all, although I can cd into it and see the files using ls in Terminal.
The folder is /Library/Preferenes/app_config and it's created by one of my Scientific CAD applications.
The errors I get when I try to open it are:
> Nov  6 21:26:54 Crapple Finder[2776]: assertion failed: 18G103:
> libxpc.dylib + 90677 [7DEE2300-6D8E-3C00-9C63-E3E80D56B0C4]: 0x89
>
> Nov  6 21:26:54 Crapple com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]
> (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for
> integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
>
> Nov  6 21:26:54 Crapple com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]
> (com.adobe.accmac.ACCFinderSync.A26C65A3-1B74-476F-9620-1D52DB676221[2781]):
> Caller wanted oneshot behavior for pre-existing instance: caller =
> Finder
>
> Nov  6 21:26:55 Crapple Finder[2776]: objc[2776]: Class
> FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both
> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
> (0x107f1e750) and
> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride
> (0x1091eaf50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
>
> Nov  6 21:26:59 Crapple com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]
> (com.apple.quicklook[2782]): Endpoint has been activated through
> legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in():
> com.apple.quicklook
>
> Nov  6 21:27:12 Crapple VTEncoderXPCService[761]: DEPRECATED USE in
> libdispatch client: Changing the target of a source after it has been
> activated; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug

Any hints on how to fix this annoying problem would be helpful, thank you.


texts: Error in Virtual Box: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine

texts:
I want to install Ubuntu 20.10 on Virtual Box 6.1.18, when I create the virtual machine is okay so I press start but when I want to search the ISO file this error appears to me.

I saw different solutions in the terminal for Windows, but any for Mac helped me. Downgrade Virtual Box isn't an option because my professor requires this version.


texts: I noticed a .myPassword file in my home folder root. Is this supposed to be there?

texts: I ran "$ ls -a" in Terminal from my home directory and it listed a .myPassword file which contained my user account password. Is this file where the password is stored? It seems like it should not be that accessible.


texts:
On iPhone, how can I see the list of calls (incoming and outgoing) with a certain contact?

Tapping the last call in the call history only shows the last (sometimes two or three last) call(s).

iPhone SE, iOS 13.2.2


texts: Install and print from two identical printers on iMac?

texts:
I have two Dymo label printers. I tried installing the printer using CUPS web admin as well as the Print & Scan under System Preferences. Both printers installed fine. When I print from either the print jobs are sent to only one of the two. The purpose of two printers is to avoid the constant changing of label sizes.

If it helps: my goal is to have two printers available. One prints large labels. The other prints small labels. When i go to print, I am able to choose which printer to print from.


texts:
I just got an iPad a couple of weeks ago. I had a co-worker pull out his iPad out and immediately start talking about jailbreaking it. I have no fear of doing it, but I do realize that sometimes going beyond what the manufacturer intended ends up making your device less stable.

What I'd like to get from you guys is your favorite pros and cons for jailbreaking an iPad specifically. Will I have upgrade issues when they ship iOS 4 for it? Will it crash? What are the killer features if I do go for it?


texts: Quickly view the monthly/yearly calendar

texts:
Before mac os catalina, we could press F12 and see the dashboard including the monthly calendar.

On mac os catalina, dashboard has been removed. Any tips on quickly viewing the current month's/year's calendar in catalina.

Thank you.


texts: How do I clean ununsed tags from Finder?

texts:
I seem to have accumulated a number of tags, some of which are duplicate and which do not belong to any files. I can see these tags when I open All Tags. These I assume were set for some files, which were then deleted.

How do I clean up the Finder so that only the current tags are present?


texts: On Mac OS X 10.7, Java Control Panel crashes unexpectedly

texts:
I'm wondering if this is a serious problem that I should be concerned about.

I have the latest version of Java installed (currently Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_212-b10) via command java -version).

I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. When I try to open the Java Control Panel by opening System Preferences and selecting Java, I get a spontaneous crash with the error: "Java Control Panel quit unexpectedly."

There's an error report that shows a lot of detailed information about the crash.

Is this an issue? And how can I fix this?


texts: Late 2008 MacBook Pro no longer wakes up on its own

texts:
Plain and simple here: about one week ago, my MacBook Pro stopped adhering to its wake schedule. I have had it set to wake every weekday at 6 a.m. for as long as I can remember. It has done so with 100% reliability as long as a power source is plugged in and the lid is open. Then it stopped. I finally went and checked the power savings pref pane this morning, and all is right with the world. I tweak my computer all the time, but have not done anything with this setting, nor have I installed anything that was advertised to affect power management. That being said, should I reset the SMC? This doesn't really seem to fall under what apple would normally recommend this for.

Cheers


texts: Has Catalina broken the logging into external machines?

texts:
So I've been trying to login to servers and MySQL databases recently and it seems that they all come back with either no error or no connection available errors, and I'm wondering how exactly one would go about fixing this.
I'm running MacOS v10.15.5 (19F101) [Catalina] on an iMac with a 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i3 processor (pc serial C02D80Y207F1.) I've attempted to login to countless servers and services away from the computer which have worked on other machines as well as try to use and login-to services including ftp, sftp, mysql which have failed on my mac but not the other machines not running Catalina.
I'm hoping to try to get some information on either why this is happening or if this is just a bug on my computer- perhaps a misconfiguration? I've done some googling and I haven't gotten a solid answer or solution on to what to do.
Commands Attempted - That didn't work for me only on a Catalina machine...
ssh (name)@(ip)
ssh (name)@(a record hostname)
ssh (name)@(cname record hostname)
mysql -u example -p pass -h (ip)

I've also tried attempting specified commands with the ports as well.
Edit: SSH -v
sh customer@{ip} -v
OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 47: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to {ip} [{ip}] port 22.
debug1: connect to address {ip} port 22: Operation timed out
ssh: connect to host {ip} port 22: Operation timed out

(Ip being my external server's ip)
~ N.A.


texts:
I listen to Apple Music (subscription), and when I play an album I can't find a way to play the songs in order.

If I have an album pulled up and tap the first song, it plays and when done skips to a random song on the album.

If I click the ellipses and hit ...

and then the (what appears to be) "play album" button, it still randomizes...

Is there a way to make songs on an album play in order?


texts: MacBook Pro (Mac OS X Mavericks) not displaying full resolution on external Philips QHD monitor

texts:
I know this question has been answered a few times before in relation to other monitors and Mac OS X versions, but due to my limited knowledge I am after specific help with my setup.

I have a 2012 MacBookPro running Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5. I usually use a thunderbolt display with no problems, enjoying all resolutions on offer. I have just bought a Philips QuadHD 27" monitor (272B8QJEB/75), capable of 2560x1440, but am only getting max. 1920x1200. Yes, I have tried the option-click on the 'scale' drop down and I am using a 4K compatible cable. Is it possible to get the full resolution on this external display? I have seen fixes for other monitors and osx versions posted here.

Admittedly my knowledge is limited so a walkthrough would be greatly appreciated if there is a fix. I would prefer not to update to macOS Sierra as certain software I use will no longer work.


texts: How do I remove the Finder from the Dock automatically at login?

texts:
This is related to this question here, except that, in addition to removing the Finder, I want to do it automatically. There are several solutions on the web that suggest using this AppleScript:

tell application "System Events"
    tell UI element "Finder" of list 1 of process "Dock"
        perform action "AXShowMenu"
        click menu item "Remove from Dock" of menu 1
    end tell
end tell

Unfortunately, saving this as an application and having it run at login doesn't work; interestingly, running it within Script Editor does work, but this doesn't solve the problem of removing the Finder automatically.


texts: Mavericks frequently doesn't resolve any hosts after router switch; pings fine

texts:
After a switch to a new router, I frequently experience that all sites fail to resolve under Mavericks 10.9.4 on MBA mid-2011, both with Safari, Chrome and pinging google.com. It lasts for variable time, from few seconds to several minutes. Same for wifi and Ethernet.

However, during such outages:

repeated pings to 8.8.8.8 works fine from OS X Terminal
sites open fine in Windows under Parallels if network is set as "Bridged", doesn't work when network is set to "Shared"
another Mac (MBP 2010) with OS X Mountain Lion resolves and opens sites just without a problem (checked by a script repeatedly pinging google.com) has the same problem as MBA
iPhone connected to the same wifi resolves and opens sites just fine

Switching back to my original router seems to solve the problem.

How to debug and resolve the problem?


texts: Is fine volume adjustment possible in OS X Lion?

texts:
On previous versions of Mac OS X pressing ⌥+⇧+volume+ would adjust the volume by quarter increments. This seems to have been removed in Lion.

Is there any way to do fine volume adjustment now?


texts: Dual boot (old model) MacBookPro9,2 running new macOS (APFS) without rEFInd

texts: Is it even possible to dual boot macOS without using rEFInd? In my system, I have a EFI, APFS and Ext4 partitions storing ESP, macOS (either Mojave or Sierra) and Debian. I used to be able to dual-boot, but some grub update killed my setup. I can now successfully boot directly into grub2 then Debian. But grub2 does not detect the APFS partition so cannot boot it, neither does pressing Alt while powering on brings up macOS disk/drive. Without being able to boot into macOS, I cannot "bless" anything either.


texts: I am trying to delete files off my 8GB USB Cruzer device, as I often put movies on it to watch on my PS3. When I plug it into my PC, I can delete files off it fine, but when I plus it into my Macbook Pro, it creates a .Trashes folder. When I put the files I want to delete into the trash bin, it goes into this .Trashes folder, but when I try to empty the .Trashes folder, a window comes up saying "Moving "Trash" to "Trash" and it just stays on that window, it does not delete. I waited for an hour and still nothing. I have tried restarting but it still does not work. I do not want to go upstairs to my PC everytime I need to delete files.


texts: security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: (Wi-Fi password via Terminal)

texts:
im trying to view (as root) wifi passwords in plaintext via Terminal[1] but get the following error:
sh-3.2# security find-generic-password -ga "ROUTER-NAME-HERE"
security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

sh-3.2# security find-generic-password -a lily -s "ROUTER-NAME-HERE" -g
security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

so i googled the error[2] but i didnt find the answer helpful.

[1] How to access the Wi-Fi password through Terminal?
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8303755/keychain-security-command-line-tool-works-with-find-internet-passwords-but-not-f

sh-3.2# system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 12.5.0
      Boot Volume: lily
      Boot Mode: Normal
      Computer Name: lily’s MacBook Air
      User Name: System Administrator (root)
      Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
      Time since boot: 12:37

sh-3.2# uname -a
Darwin lily-MacBook-Air.local 12.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.12~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64


texts:
I created some services to be used in Finder. Now I wanted to create some keystrokes to call these services. That would be easy in the System Settings, however, I would like to add them from the command line in order to automate this setup.

I tried the following which did allow me not trigger the services by a keystroke:

defaults write com.apple.Finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{ "label-red" = "$@1"; "label-green" = "$@2"; "label-none" = "$@0"; }'

Any ideas to make this work? Instead of com.apple.Finder I might have to use another identifier, but which?


texts: How are text messages (SMS) sent to an iPhone received in a Mac?

texts:
I want to know the working of the program. When an SMS is sent to the iPhone, does it upload after receiving it on the phone to the iCloud, which then syncs it to the mac or does is it received directly by the mac independent of the phone?
In the first case, it would mean that the phone needs internet connection for the messages to be received on the Mac, whereas, in the second case, it would mean that messages are sent to Apple's server by the service provider. Or does it have any other mechanism?


texts: How can I install an application from a .pkg without admin password?

texts: I'm trying to install the "Unity Web Player" so that I can play this game I've been waiting for for a while. The installer is a .pkg package installer which I can't use because I do not have admin access (long story). Is there a way to get the application out of the package and install it manually in my own folders?


texts: Secure delete an erased file using same file

texts: Okay, so I have a late 2013 model retina macbook pro. A couple a days ago i placed a sensitive file on the desktop, and later deleted it by emptying the trashcan. I then read that was not the way to get rid of a sensitive file. I still have a copy on the file stored, on my other computer, and I was wondering if putting the same file in the same place (the desktop) would overwrite the old file I had deleted which now is allocated as "free space". I can use disk utility because I have an SSD. Then I can do a secure delete in order to erase it completely.


texts: Debug AirDrop between MacBook Pro and iPhone 6s Plus

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I am running iOS 9.1 (13B143) on an iPhone 6s Plus and OS X 10.11.1 (15B42) on a MacBook Pro.

Both devices have Airdrop settings of "Allow me to be discovered by: Everyone"

How can this be debugged?


texts:
I bought some program for iPad and this program became crucial for my work - if the iPad will corrupt/+developer delete the program from AppStore I will be in great trouble.

So, my question is how can I save the program from iPad to MBP (from MBP to external HDD) to prevent any future corruptions of the program/store etc. Could I reinstall the program back to any new iPad from HDD only (if it will be unaccessible from Appstore).


texts: How do I use a U2F token when adding a Google account to my Macbook Pro

texts:
I'm enrolled in Google's Advanced Protection Program, which means I can only authenticate with a physical FIDO U2F token on every sign-in.

Trouble is, that when I try using my Google account, I see "You can only use your Security Keys with Google Chrome".

Is there a way around this, or a way for me to use my U2F security key here?


texts: Does Apple Mail prevent duplicates from being created in the same folder when copying/moving messages and how?

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I am migrating email from one email provider to another using Apple Mail. I want to make sure that I do not accidentally create duplicates as some emails are duplicated in various sources.
If I try to copy the same email from two different sources into the same folder, does Apple Mail prevent the duplicate from being stored?
If so, does anyone know how Apple Mail determines if the email message is a duplicate (same body, subject, from, to, etc)?


texts: How do you stop Safari from offering passwords from all subdomains of a domain?

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So I have these few websites in the same domain (i.e. example1.domain.com and example2.domain.com) that have a different subdomain and Safari offers me passwords from all of them when I enter just one of them.

Is there a way to disable Safari offering passwords if the subdomain is different?


texts: Windows 10 on Imac mid 2011 High Sierra 10.13.6

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Hi guys im trying to install windows 10 on my second internal hard drive ssd with a caddy.
I have already done the usb boot but when i try to boot form the usb to install windows i receive a blue screen and then the imac power off. I tried a lot of things but i think that i have made a little bit of mess,pls im fighting with this imac since 2 days its getting really stressfull.
im posting my screenshots so i hope u colud help me.Thanks a lot


texts: Virtual Box error "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Hadoop" on MacOS Big Sur M1 chip

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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Hadoop.
The virtual machine 'Hadoop' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}
I tried the below things.
sudo su
csrutil clear
reboot

Uninstalling and then re-installing Virtual Box multiple times.
I did not receive any permission request to enable the blocked loading extensions in System preferences-->security.
csrutil enable
reboot

I tried on a Mac intel chip 2017 and it runs perfectly fine.
Not sure what to change for the M1 chip here.


texts:
I have a macbook (2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo upgraded to 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM) running OS X version 10.6.8. I do a lot of prototyping for high performance computing on this macbook (running c++, fortran, mathematica, matlab, etc) and often work in parallel.

I have noticed that my computer gets hot so I have installed 'Temperature Monitor' and find that, when running difficult jobs, it can break into the 90 degree (C) range. I know this is not good, but is this incredibly dangerous? after seeing what values should i begin to get worried?

Secondly, I would like to clean (and maybe even replace?) the fan to make sure I am getting the best ventilation possible. Will a can of compressed air do the trick? how expensive/worthwhile would it be to open up the case and replace the fan?

Any help would be great - thanks!


texts: You know the way you smoothly zoom-in in mobile safari? How do I do that on my Mac + magic trackpad in regular safari?


texts: An undefined volume appears out of nowhere?

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Today, I noticed another mounted volume on my computer:

This volume is the size of my whole hard disk. I can only see it in the iStat widget. I cannot see it in Finder or the Terminal.

$diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            127.2 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

The name seems as if it is an encrypted volume. However, I don't have anything encrypted on this Mac.

Where is this from?

(I hope this is not a bug of iStat Pro which showed me this.)


texts: Can I fusion an external Hard Drive with the integrated hard drive on a macbook?

texts: I'm a newbie here and i'm trying to save as much space on my hard disk as possible. I purchased an external hard drive and I was wondering if I can fusion it somehow with the internal disk on my MacBook. Is there any other way to use the external hard drive even better and save space on the internal hard drive?


texts: How to remove emoji autocomplete suggestions?

texts: I would prefer to not have emoji's suggested. Is it possible to remove emoji's from the autocomplete suggestions on macOS? If so how?


texts: How to receive notification of HTTP access

texts:
I have a web server running on my Mac and I'd like to be notified (via Growl for example) when someone accesses my server.

I searched for something like that in Automator but found nothing.

Do you know if this is possible ?

Thank you.


texts:
I have ruby and homebrew running for a while and I'm starting to play with Bash. I have encountered a problem with my PATH variable as echo'd:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin??n’export

As you can see, there is both redundancy and junk at the end int he form of illegal characters (causing a host of other issues).
I can change the PATH with

export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin"

which does indeed return the desired PATH when echo'd:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

But I can't figure out for the life of me how to save the PATH so that it doesn't reset on reopening. I don't need to add paths. I just want to make this the new value of that variable. Please, how can I make this change permanent?


texts:
I have a table in numbers, and I want a cell to equal the value of a cell in a different table. Following the advice of this Apple discussion, I tried

=Units Sold::B2

, with Units Sold being the table with the value I wanted, and B2 being the value I wanted in the table "Units Sold".

To clarify, I want D2 of "Juice and Beverages" to equal the value of B2 of "Units Sold".

What am I doing wrong? Numbers for iCloud gives the error

  The formula contains an invalid reference.

Thanks!


texts:
I recently had my AirPods stolen from my bag at college. Soon after, I attempted to locate them using the Find My iPhone app but was unsuccessful in doing so. The AirPods appeared grey in the app and only showed the last location I know I opened them.

Since then, I have repeatedly checked the app, but the location has not been updated since. Unlike other Apple devices, it appears that there is no option to 'lock' the device as there is for iPhones within the app. It has been difficult to work around the problem.

After talking to other people, it has come to my attention that it may have been possible for the person to have reset the AirPods after taking them and this is why I am unable to locate them.

I would be extremely appreciative if someone could give me advice on a course of action recovering the AirPods using the Find My iPhone app. I have already talked to the staff at my college but there is very little they can do which is why I'm hoping I can locate the AirPods myself.


texts: Available RAM less than what my Macbook is supposed to have

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When I go into Photoshop and then I look at performance in the preferences, it says that I have "3240 MB Available", whereas I have a 4gb RAM MacBook Pro.
Also, it often crashes, and I frequently have to restart it. (minimum once a day)

Can I be sure it's a hardware problem ?
And if not, do I have ways to test it ?


texts: Why do Twitter notifications in Notification Center open in Safari?

texts:
Is it possible to load Twitter.app instead of opening Safari when clicking Twitter notifications in the Notification Center?

The current behaviour really annoys me because it keeps making me sign in and I don't want it to remember my credentials.


texts:
I created a new Admin account in Sierra High and needed to delete the previous admin account which is marked now as the standard user. However, after unlocking as admin and selecting the respective user that I would like to delete, I see the - sign is marked as Grey.

This is all accounts and I would like to delete the mac user account,

$ dscacheutil -q user | grep -A 3 -B 2 -e uid:\ 5'[0-9][0-9]'
name: mac
password: ********
uid: 501
gid: 20
dir: /Users/mac
shell: /bin/bash
--
--
name: chaklader
password: ********
uid: 502
gid: 20
dir: /Users/chaklader
shell: /bin/bash

How do I delete the respective account? I find a code snippet to run on the terminal, i.e, sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete "/Users/mac". Should I try that and will work out?

Update:

As an answer suggested, I'm not logged in to the the fast user switching menu.

As it was asked, I run who in the terminal and get the result,

$ who

chaklader console  Dec 28 06:01
chaklader ttys000  Dec 28 14:51

So, in brief the other user, mac was not in the terminal.


texts: assassin creed brotherhood : mac requirement

texts: I have a early 2011 Macbook pro with graphic card as Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB, will Assassin creed : brotherhood run on this Mac version.


texts: After resize in partitions, OS X won’t boot

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I apologise if I’m not providing enough information, as this is the first time I’m asking for help this way, please bear with me. :)
I resized partitions last night; windows kept complain about not having enough space, so I followed these instructions: https://youtu.be/-WRkeL1Lnq8
Now, when I want to reboot, only windows shows up. Please help?


texts: I have created a presentation in Powerpoint 2003 and have opened it in Keynote, however, when I veiw the presentation on the iPad the colors in the graphs have changed as well as the font alignment.  Is there a way to fix this so that it looks the same in Powerpoint and Keynote?  Is there a different version of Powerpoint that would work better?


texts: Root Device UUID Error while installing Mountain Lion on VirtualBox 4.3

texts: While installing Mountain Lion on VirtualBox, it starts booting, then stops at the line "root device uuid: xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx". I've allocated all the required RAM and memory, but even after looking online and fiddling with my settings I still can't get it to work. Any thoughts on how to fix it?


texts: Change the default text editor in Terminal

texts:
I just discovered that Control + X + E opens a text editor in the Terminal that allows me to edit the most recent command before executing it again (I think it is actually a bash thing).

However, the editor that gets opened is always Emacs. How can I change it to vim?


texts: Are bash commands on OSX case insensitive? I type "which TR" and it shows /usr/bin/TR, though there is no such binary there. Same thing for other binaries, when capitalized. Or is Terminal.app maybe doing this translation? How do I turn this off?


texts: How come web apps don't run as efficiently as native apps on the iPhone?

texts:
I was comparing the Twitter web app to the native app, and noticed a couple of differences in how they perform. I observed that scrolling was not as smooth in the browser as the native app, among a few other minor quirks. I believe the web app could perform just as fast if not faster in the web app version, so its hard to me to understand the difference. I believe WebKit is baked right into the core of iOS.

Apple initially wanted to keep it as web apps only, but now I wonder if their focus shifted more towards native.


texts: MBP Battery normal but won't charge, pro is now glitchy and slow

texts:
I've got a MacBook Pro (mid 2012 using Majave) which was bought reconditioned 2 years ago. It's been great, no issues. I updated a search engine app (Ecosia) while the battery was charging, once full I decided to it shut down as I don't recall the last time I did this. It wouldn't turn on after this so I plugged the Magsafe back in, turned it on and it started up....

Now it's showing battery at 0% - Magsafe light is on green and icon shows "Battery not charging"
"Power source: Power adapter". It's taking ages to boot up (though all the usual things happen) and i'm often getting the spinning wheel, which never happened before, it was always quick and responsive.

I've done the following with no change to the above issues:

Deleted the app I updated thinking it might be that
Bought a new Magsafe (light is the same)
Cleaned/checked the MagSafe connection
Updated Safari & security update (not yet Catalina though)
Scanned using Malwarebytes - 0 threats detected

I have 360GB left of 480GB & only use Safari, Mail & Word.

The battery shows 334 cycles - well below the 1000 it could take before needing replacement.

I've spent hours googling all the possibilities and now I'm here. Now we're all in Covid 19 lockdown meaning taking it to someone isn't an option so ......Can anyone help please?


texts:
I previously bought my wife a Gold iPhone 11 and for her birthday this year, I bought her a Gold Apple Watch Series 6. When it arrive, the order clearly stated 40mm Apple Watch Series 6 Aluminium in Gold with Cypress Green strap. When we opened it, it was more like a ‘pink’ colour - it is definitely not the same colour as her phone:

The picture shows (from the left to the right):

my Apple Watch Series 6 Nike Edition in Aluminium Silver
my wife’s old Apple Watch Series 2 in Aluminium Gold with Blue Strap
the new watch we received

We called Apple Store Support and had a quite strange conversation about whether this was a manufacturing fault or by-design, so were left unsure as to how we should proceed.
Please can someone with some experience in these things tell us what colour this is / is it correct?


texts:
I have been trying to install Windows for 2 months but I don't know what to do. I start by opening Bootcamp-assistant and choose (translated, not exactly what it is in the English version) "Create an installation disk for Windows 7 or later. Then click continue, and choose my ISO which is directly created from a legit CD in Disk Utility. For USB, I choose my USB.
Then is just says this (again, not exact but translated):

A bootable USB could not be created
Boot Camp only supports and installation of Windows 7 or later on this platform. Use an ISO file for the installation of Windows 7 or later.

So what's wrong? I have been trying all different formats form my CD.


texts: Conditional highlighting of booleans in Apple Numbers

texts:
Is it possible to do conditional highlighting of booleans in Apple Numbers?

I want to highlight TRUE values one way, and FALSE values another, but booleans don't seem to be supported - only numbers, text, dates, durations and blank:

I tried using "Numbers" => "equal to" but it didn't seem to accept my attempt at doing "equal to" FALSE.

I'm currently using Numbers 3.5.3.

One possible, hacky, workaround would be to change them from booleans to strings.


texts: Disable display mirroring for every possible future display

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Is there some 'defaults write' or other trick to tell OS X to never mirror displays? (Unless they're at least as good resolution as the retina display.)

I thought I had display mirroring disabled completely just from the 'displays' options. Every time I used one of the extra displays (projectors, TV) I regularly use, I got a them as additional displays, not mirrored. But today, giving a presentation, I attached another new projector, and it was mirrored. The horror! My desktop was left after that like my house would be after a robbery. I hate mirroring, because it squeezes the retina display into 640x480, and I have to rearrange all the windows back into reasonable sizes afterwards.


texts: bash output inside the terminal : command not found

texts:
Hi everyone,

I wanted to ask a question about the bash output inside the terminal

The following procedure generates a command not found :

TEST:~ SniperDMC$
TEST:~ SniperDMC$ $HOSTNAME
-bash: TEST.local: command not found

How to avoid this and beautify the output ?

Best regards

SniperDMC


texts: How to Erase External USB Drive Which Won't Mount & Isn't Recognized

texts:
Before starting, let me mention that I have ALREADY read the following thread in its entirety, and it did not help my situation:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4832305?start=0&tstart=0

I have also read four related posts here on apple.stackexchange.com, and they haven't helped either.

Now to my situation . . .

I have an external USB 2 TB eGo Drive. For several years, the drive has served as my primary backup.

Then, a few months ago, it suddenly stopped mounting on my desktop. My other external USB drive, a Western Digital, continues to mount just fine.

Unplugging the eGo Drive's power supply and plugging it back in again several times, unplugging the USB cable from both the drive and my iMac, and using a different USB port on my iMac, have not solved the problem. The eGo Drive still refuses to mount.

Furthermore, it does not show up in the left pane of Disk Utility.

Neither is it listed under About This Mac/System Report/Hardware/USB.

It likewise refuses to appear if I type "/volumes" under "Go/Go to Folder...".

It does not appear in the EtreCheck app either.

Finally, if I type "diskutil list" in the Terminal, that doesn't work either.

Another suggestion I found online said to force quit the "fsck_hfs" process if I see it in Activity Monitor. However, I do not see it there, not even under "All Processes".

When I turn on the eGo Drive, I can hear it spinning up, but that is as far as it goes.

I read online that there is an application called USB Prober -- a part of Xcode -- which may possibly recognize the eGo Drive and get it to mount. However, I do not see it anywhere in my Xcode 7.0 installation, and I haven't found a link to download it from either.

I would really like to resurrect the eGo Drive if there is still some way to do it. If not, then I face another problem: The eGo Drive is loaded with a lot of personal data, including family photos and movies, financial records, software registrations and serial numbers, and a lot more. As such, I obviously do not feel comfortable with just throwing it i the trash.

So, is there some easy way to totally erase the drive, even though I am unable to mount it on my desktop? I have read that strong magnetic fields can destroy data on a hard drive, and I imagine that they sell devices which perform just such a task, but I don't own one of them, and I probably couldn't afford one anyway.

So, if anyone can tell me how I can either get my iMac to recognize the eGo Drive so that I can at least erase it -- and maybe even reformat it if need be -- or possibly even mount it, and then reformat it, I would be very appreciative.

Thank you.


texts: Trying to update macOS to Catalina 10.15.4 asks to restart again and again

texts:
When I open Software Update, I have:

An update is available for your Mac

macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Update

When I click on "Update Now", I have a window with:

To update, you must restart your Mac.

If I click restart, I effectively restart but when I try to update it asks
to restart again.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and 12.29GB available.


texts: Re-downloading apps purchased in a different country?

texts:
I lived in Canada for several years, but now I live in Norway (again).

In Canada, I have purchased many apps on both the iOS and Mac OS X app stores. Some of these apps I have uninstalled over the years for different reasons.

I have now switched my Apple ID account country setting back to Norway, in order to get better app suggestions, etc. I have also changed my address and credit card.

The problem is that, now I can no longer see the apps that I purchased in Canada in my "Purchases" tab in the App Store, so I cannot re-download/reinstall any of them. When I go to one of these apps in the Norwegian App Store, it's as if I never purchased the app; I have to pay for it again if I want to download it. This goes for both iOS and  OS X App Stores.

Does anyone know of a way to download the apps I purchased while my Apple ID account country setting was set to Canada, after having changed the country setting to Norway?

Note that I only have one Apple ID; I simply changed the country setting once to Canada when I moved there, and then back to Norway when I moved back.

Changing my settings back to Canada while living in Norway is not an option, since I no longer have a Canadian address or credit card and, even if I did, I would not want the hassle of switching the country setting back and forth all the time.


texts: How can I replicate Account Preferences across multiple accounts?

texts:
I'm working on creating a NetRestore Golden Image that will be used on about a dozen computers across our organization.

I need EVERY account to boot up with the same baseline preferences (screensaver, desktop, dock applications, etc).

What is the easiest way to replicate account preferences across each account?


texts: How do I move my Amazon books to new iPad

texts: If I upgrade to a new iPad will all of my Amazon content be moved over?


texts: My Desktop seems to be "locked". How can I fix this?

texts:
I am having some problems with my Desktop on a relatively new Lion install.  I can't move folders around (when I try, the icon gets the slashed-O "no" symbol and they bounce back where they came from), and the "New Folder" menu item on Finder is grayed out (and, likewise, shift-cmnd-N does nothing).

I've tried the following:

Making sure the "View" "Sort by" setting is set to "None".
Checking permissions.  "Get Info" shows all access control entries with "read and write" permissions (including "everyone" listed twice), and ls -le shows:

drwxrwxrwx@  31 username username 1054 Nov 23 23:25 Desktop

0: group:everyone allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,readattr,writeattr,
readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity

I also ran "Repair File Permissions" on the main hard disk.
Deleting my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file, and having that regenerate after a restart.
Confirming that the Desktop is not locked, both through Finder "get info" (confirming that the "Locked" checkbox is not checked) and through ls -lO (no flags listed).

Further, I have noticed that although I cannot create a new folder on the Desktop using shift-cmnd-N or the Finder menu, I can "mkdir" a new Desktop folder in the terminal.

Any ideas?

Update: I may have found a clue -- the result of xattr -l Desktop shows that the com.apple.FinderInfo attribute is set, with bytes 9 and 10 set to 20 and 10 respectively.  Is this normal?  (By contrast, my older Mac has no attributes set on Desktop.)


texts: App Store iOS binary rejected: Your app includes non-iOS device images in the app

texts:
Recently our iOS app got rejected by App Store review team stating your app includes non-iOS device images in the app along with following screenshot.

Mobile phones are an important category in our app and we can not remove related data. What is the solution on this?


texts: Safe Mode red sign disappears after login

texts:
I am trying to use the Safe Mode on my MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra. I noticed the Safe Mode sign in Red color, displayed towards the top right corner on the login screen, however, after login, the sign disappeared.

I thought that once you are in Safe Mode, this will last until you restart your machine normally. I wonder why my Mac automatically exited from the Safe Mode (or not)?


texts: Should there be a problem making a Time Machine Backup with a sparse disk image containing a bootable installer on my current drive and volume?

texts:
I am trying to make a virtual machine using VirtualBox. I have been following the comment David Anderson made for me here on this post (his comment I am talking about is at the bottom): Install macOS Sierra on VirtualBox?
I have gotten to his step #3 and finished it. I am now at step 4, but I haven't started step 4.
Before I finished this process I thought it might be a good idea to make a time machine backup of my drive in case I do anything wrong, also I haven't made a backup in about 150 days.
I'm just wondering if making a Time Machine backup with a sparse disk image containing a bootable installer will be a problem for the Time machine backup?
These are my computer specs in case they are needed for reference:
Macbook Pro mid-2014,
Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (natively)


texts: How to add a timestamp in log files on launchd?

texts:
In launchd, you can change the path of the log files using StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath in .plist file, but when I used it to output a log returned by the process, the resultant log files didn't add a timestamp and hence I cannot tell when each line is written nor when the process is run to begin with.

So is it feasible to add the timestamp information to the log files? The minimum requirement is month, day, hour, minute, and second.


texts: Long press some key in ios is not working

texts: I'm using iPad with Bluetooth keyboard and I find that long press is not recognized, say, I long press "k" and iPad work the same as I just press once. That isn't ideal as I'm trying to ssh and use vim.


texts: Is it possible to swap two cells content in numbers?

texts:
I have a couple of rows and I have to move some cells from one row to another.

Right now, I have to

Copy/cut cell A1
Paste it in an auxiliary empty cell C1
then copy A2
paste it in A1
finally cut C1
and paste it in A2

I actually don't have that empty cell to use it as auxiliary, and there are several cells which need to be moved. I would like to know if there is something like this, swap cells (or even better ranges) with drag and drop, but for Numbers

https://www.addictivetips.com/microsoft-office/how-to-swap-values-between-cells-rows-or-columns-in-ms-excel/


texts: Where is the backtick on iPhone keyboard

texts: When I type on iOS keyboard, I don't find the backtick (`) character. Where is it located? If there isn't, why?


texts: How to connect to an already open Terminal session on another Mac

texts:
I am running Mac OS X 10.7 on a MBP and OS X 10.8 on a Mac Mini. I can connect to the Mini via ssh without any issues.
I am running GNS3 (Network simulation) on the Mini and have configured it so that when I connect to one of my routers via the console, a Terminal window is opened.

On Linux I can connect to a remote terminal sessions if it's using screen or by connecting to the tty.

I would like to connect to the remote Terminal already open on my Mini from my MBP.

Do I need to run the equivalent of screen to be able to do this?

When I do a ps -aux on the Mini I get:

885   0.0  0.4  2622240  18368   ??  S     2:19pm   0:16.27 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal
-psn_0_561289

Is there a way to connect to this terminal from a remote computer when I am connected via ssh?

What does -psn_0_561289 mean?

Can this identifier be used to connect to this terminal?


texts: How to delete files from a NAS drive in OSX

texts:
I am running Mavericks on a 2012 Mac Mini.  I have a WD MyBookLive NAS drive on the network which appears under SHARED in Finder.  There are lots of files on the drive I want to delete but my Mac seems unable to do it.

When choosing Move to Trash, a progress bar pops up and stays there forever.


texts: Why can't my laptop stay connected to WiFi when locked?

texts:
My laptop isn't staying connected to it's wireless connection when I lock it. I set up an alias using this post and tried to follow the instructions from this one, and those didn't work for me either. My prefs for en0 (the wireless interface) are as follows:

AirPort preferences for en0:

DisconnectOnLogout=NO
Unable to retrieve JoinMode
JoinModeFallback=DoNothing
RememberRecentNetworks=YES
RequireAdminIBSS=NO
RequireAdminNetworkChange=NO
RequireAdminPowerToggle=NO
WoWEnabled=YES

And the alias I use to lock the screen is:

alias lockscreen='/System/Library/CoreServices/"Menu Extras"/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend'

My system info is below as well:

Any recommendations or any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? I don't believe this is a duplicate of the other question since the answers in there didn't work for me, so any advice would be appreciated.

Edit: Going to my username and clicking Login Window... to lock the screen also disconnects the WiFi.


texts: iMac not turning on after power cut mid update

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I was updating my iMac 2019 27in (less than 4 months old) and we had a power cut.

I now cannot turn my iMac on.

It boots up, I can hear the fan. But nothing appears on the screen. No apple logo.

I have tried booting in safe mode but it doesn't work and I've tried resetting SMC.

Any help would be very appreciated.


texts: Cleaning up my .bash_profile: Can I delete some of this?

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I'm not a Unix guru.

I'm running OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. Today I removed Macports from my machine. I believe  macports left some cruft in my `~/.bash_profile which I would like to remove (the cruft—not the entire file contents). Currently, my $PATH looks like this:

echo $PATH /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin

I see some redundancy i.e. /opt/local/bin: appears 3 times. In my home directory I see several files relating to .bash_profile:

ls .bash*
.bash_history
.bash_profile.macports-saved_2012-08-10_at_10:09:18
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.bash_profile.macports-saved_2012-08-10_at_10:00:21

Can I remove the two .bash_profile.macports… files?
How can I remove the extra items listed in my $PATH?


texts: I want to show a file in an AppleScript bundle, but shell returns: file not found

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My Bundle File: reference.txt

My Code:

set bashFile to path to resource "reference.txt"
set the reference_data to do shell script "type " & quoted form of (POSIX path of bashFile)
display dialog reference_data

shell returns:

type: file not found (but the file exists)

How i can show this file on a dialog (or in TextEdit)?


texts: Address book not showing details with new Lion

texts: I have just downloaded Lion and iCloud and now when I open Address Book from the dock on my desktop, all the names come up but no details????


texts: How do I find and use the filename on photos in Photos.app?

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I live by my photo filenames but they are gone in now that there is the new (crappy) Photos. Thankfully on one computer I did not do the update so I still have iPhoto.

Certainly I'm missing something silly and the filenames are still there but I can't locate them in Photos. I appreciate any help.


texts: How to view progress when encrypting a disk?

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Mountain Lion allows one to encrypt any disk by right-clicking on the disk in the Finder and selecting Encrypt  from the contextual menu.

Is there anyway to check on the progress of this encryption process?


texts: How do I use the right click look up feature everywhere on my Mac including Firefox?

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I want to be able to double click on a word in my Firefox Browser and right click it and select look up to translate it. (or even better, double click and it shows the English dictionary explanation)

But somehow Firefox doesn't allow that.

Firefox version = 72.0.1 (64-bit)
macOS Catalina version = 10.15.2 (19C57)

How can I get this to happen?


texts: How to make a card from Apple Wallet show up based on location?

texts: I have my YMCA card in my Apple Wallet. My watch only suggests my YMCA card at certain locations. The YMCA I go to the most does not trigger an automatic suggestion of my membership card. Is there any way to force this suggestion to happen? My devices are a Series 3 Apple Watch and an iPhone X both on the most recent, public iOS and watchOS releases. I have Allow Notifications and Suggest on Lock Screen selected in the settings tab in Apple Wallet.


texts: Unable to install Microsoft Office 2001 on Mac OS X

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I want to install Microsoft Office 2001 on a Mac OS X whose version is 10.6.8.
There is a folder  and it has folders named Clipart, Office, Read Me, RESOURCE.FRK, Shared Applications and Templates. It also has Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage, these are Unix Executable Files.
I'd like to know how I can install Office 2001 on this machine. I don't have any prior Mac OS experience. Thanks.


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In the following, why is the third instance of basename including the file's enclosing directory?
WGroleau@MBP Music % basename Korean/kr_audio.tbz
kr_audio.tbz
WGroleau@MBP Music % basename ./Korean/kr_audio.tbz
kr_audio.tbz
WGroleau@MBP Music % time find . -type f -exec echo "$(basename "{}") ++ $(dirname "{}")" \; > /tmp/tmp
find . -type f -exec echo "$(basename "{}") ++ $(dirname "{}")" \; > /tmp/tmp  3.93s user 6.74s system 87% cpu 12.181 total
WGroleau@MBP Music % head !$
head /tmp/tmp
./Tx-01-00.mp3 ++ .
./Korean/kr_audio.tbz ++ .
./syn_HCA001-Cem.m4a ++ .
./Cetera.amad ++ .
./.DS_Store ++ .
./Japanese/JAI.tbz ++ .
./.localized ++ .
./iTunes SongKong/iTunes Library Extras.itdb ++ .
./iTunes SongKong/iTunes Music Library.xml ++ .
./iTunes SongKong/.DS_Store ++ .


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I am working on setting up a psql server and would therefore like postgres to run whenever the computer is on, regardless of whether I'm logged it. (The machine is running OS X Yosemite.) I set up a launch daemon to do this, but it doesn't work. syslog gives the following error messages:

Jul 14 17:43:01 user@server sudo[276]:     jaia : TTY=ttys000 ;
PWD=/Users/jaia ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/homeb
rew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
Jul 14 17:44:35 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (homebrew.mxcl.postgresql): T
his service is defined to be constantly running and is inherently inefficient.
Jul 14 17:44:44 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (homebrew.mxcl.postgresql): S
ervice only ran for 9 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.
Jul 14 17:44:45 localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (homebrew.mxcl.postgresql): S
ervice only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

After that, the last message repeats indefinitely.

Here's my .plist file. The reason for sudo -u _postgres is that postgres can't run as root, which launch daemons do by default.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <true/>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>homebrew.mxcl.postgresql</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>sudo</string>
    <string>-u</string>
    <string>_postgres</string>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl</string>
    <string>-D</string>
    <string>/usr/local/var/postgres</string>
    <string>start</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>UserName</key>
  <string>_postgres</string>
  <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
  <string>/usr/local/var/postgres</string>
  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
  <string>/usr/local/var/postgres/server.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

MORE INFORMATION: Loading the job manually via ssh gives the ungrammatical error message "Could not find domain for". Loading it on the machine itself gives "/Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist: File exists".

What could be going wrong here?


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Is there an easy way to display a PNG image (with transparency) as its own “window”, without any OSX window features (title bar, buttons, shadows)?

Ideally, it could also disappear when the mouse is clicked anywhere, or when Esc is pressed…