texts: Line thickness when sketching in Notes on iPad

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I recently got an iPad Pro with Apple pencil and smart keyboard. I like it a lot! I often need to create a quick sketch, and the Notes app seems perfect...

EXCEPT

I can't figure out how to change the line thickness for any of the tools (felt tip, marker, pencil) when I "added a sketch" to a note. This in contrast to "just drawing" in Notes - where the pen has pressure sensitivity, and tapping twice on the tool gives me a dialog with options to change color, thickness, .... It seems that inside the sketch app-in-app, "it is what it is". Also - it seems that the eraser behaves differently. In Notes, it deletes the entire pen stroke when you touch just part of it; in the app-in-app, it deletes only that part of the stroke that you touch. But the size of that eraser I can't fix.

QUESTION:
Is there a way to change the size / behavior of these tools when I "add a sketch", or is this just the basic way it is. It's very strange to me that these two ways of drawing inside the same app give different results.

Screen shots of the two situations attached.

In the sketch tool, I cannot edit the pens:

and in the notes app itself, I can:

This seems unusually un-Apple. Am I missing a trick, or is this an inconsistence in Apple's implementation?


texts: Searching for emails containing specified text string in body of email messages in MacOS mail

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Does anyone know how to search within Apple Mail (on MacOS, or iOS) for emails containing a specific text string (e.g. MacBook).
It used to do this by default, but it seems that more recently it is only possible to search headers, sender, etc. ;but not the body of the text. Unless I'm missing something?
This is extremely inconvenient as I used to use the emails as a sort of filing system and now this doesn't seem to be possible. the result is that now I can't find important emails. For example, and most frustratingly, I'd search for invoices from apple when I purchased hardware (like a MacBook).  However the name of the item purchased in not in the header, but in the body text. Now I can't find invoices without a huge amount of work.
I can't be the only one who used emails like this, yet I can find no mention of this issue anywhere. Does anyone know of a workaround? Or is there another mail client, app or software that can search my email body text and identify the requisite emails?
As an aside; does anyone know when this change occurred. I suspect it was with the introduction of Catalina, but I can find no reference to this change being made.
Any help much appreciated.


texts: How can I send a set of photos from iPhoto using my gmail address?

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I can email photos from iPhoto as follows:

Click on an event to open the folder.
Select photos (with shift and command).
Choose Email... from the Share menu.

This will send an email from my @me.com address.

How do I send photos from another email address (such as gmail)?

Of course I understand that I can Reveal in Finder... each photo individually and attach it to an email message. I can also run ImageMagick mogrify on the images and then send the result. I am looking instead for a quick method that lets me just click to select the photos and also gives me the option of sending down-sampled versions of the photos.


texts: How do I disable double-click to launch iTunes and play song in OS X Mavericks

texts: In Maverick, whenever I double-click a track to rename it, iTunes launches and the track plays in iTunes. Very annoying. How do I disable (or re-assign) the double-click to launch/play in iTunes command? Thanks in advance.


texts: Unable to make or receive calls on iPhone 5s.

texts: Can't place or receive calls on my iPhone5s. Call failed comes up. Tried the *#31# option - not working. Tried turning phone off and then back on after several hours - doesn't work. Tried a few other options too. Please help!


texts: Cannot get any macOS or Linux OS to install on iMac

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I am having a strange issue with my Mid 2010 27 inch iMac - I get the chime, I can get into recovery partitions and into installer USBs no problem...but I can't seem to get a single install working. It'll just reboot a minute or two into installation. I can get into the desktop of an old Lion drive - but I get the "your computer needs to restart" error. It also failed halfway through internet recovery CommandR

I've already tried SMC and NVRAM resets of course.

Here is a picture of the kernel error I am getting. Any help with this would be appreciated.

Original image: https://imgur.com/maSoJIE

Edit: attempt to make the original more legible [not hugely successful]


texts: How can I prevent my iOS app appstore page description from being indexed by search engines?

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I cannot consider a business account / DBA as being an option for the contact information for my iTunes connect identity selling apps.

Is there any way to opt-out of search engine indexation of my app itunes appstore page (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/app_name/app_id) which contain my full name?


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I have a problem with the menu bar clock showing the wrong time after resuming from sleep. This doesn't happen a lot but when it does, I have to restart to fix it.

I have checked that my timezone is still correct (Eastern), the time shown in the Date & Time app is right and time syncs with apple servers - shown in the screenshot below.

Why is this happening? How can I fix the menu bar clock without restarting?

MacOS Mojave v10.14.5 (18F132)

Thanks.


texts: Automatically connect Bluetooth device to Mac

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I have a MacBook Pro (running Mavericks) and a Bluetooth Speaker (JBL Flip). I want the two to connect automatically whenever they are nearby and powered on. Is that possible?

Currently I have to click the Bluetooth icon in the menubar of the Mac, select the device, and click connect each time.


texts: Reboot loop after the "effective power" message

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If you are not known about this phemomenon, sending this message to someone with iOS will cause the phone to reboot once.

However, this time the phone doesn't stop rebooting. After the reboot is finished, it starts with a new reboot. Basically I'm stuck.

Is there anything I can do to make this loop stop?

Thanks a lot in advance


texts: Is it possible to upgrade the SSD in a 2011 model Macbook Pro?

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I have a 2011 model MacbookPro (MacBookPro8,2) which came with a 128GB SSD.  I would like to upgrade the SSD to a larger size without voiding my AppleCare.

Is it possible to upgrade the SSD at all?  I have heard rumours that they are soldered in after 2010, and are not replaceable.
My city and country (Tallinn, Estonia) has no official Apple stores that I know of, but does have Apple-authorised resellers.  Are they the appropriate place to get this done?  I've replaced a hard disk on an older model MBP myself, but my current laptop is still within the warranty period.

This seems like a fairly common question on SO, but all questions I found are for older models or for iMacs, not MBPs.  Perhaps this should be migrated to a community wiki where the question can be updated for all models of Mac?


texts: Booting into Windows partition prompts for firmware password

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I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp couple of months ago and it worked normally. Today I tried to boot into Windows, but a password form pops up (firmware protection form). Booting into macOS without holding option key works OK.

I have tried entering the passwords for an admin account, my Apple ID, and iCloud, as well as booting into local and network recovery modes. Nothing worked.

I don't have "Find My Mac" installed or a recovery partition.

Where I can find this password or bypass it?


texts: Proxy settings for iPhone, 3G connection

texts: I've seen that it is possible to configure a proxy with the WLAN settings in the iPhone. But I'm wondering whether it is also possible to configure a proxy for the mobile data connection.


texts: Is it possible to change the PATH variable for a specific user in a single place and have it available on console and GUI applications too?

texts: I am looking for a solution that would allow me to modify PATH for single OS X user but have the PATH available not only to console applications but also to GUI applications.


texts: Can I add 16 gigs to the 13 inch non-Retina MacBook Pro?

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The latest updates to MBPs non-retina say they can support upto 8 gigs of RAM. I had a mid-2011 13 inch MBP which I upgraded to 16 gigs.

The 13 inch MBP has 2 RAM slots. Has anyone successfully added 16 gigs to this version MBP? Is it possible?

Thanks in Advance


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I have an iPad 3 iOS5.1.1 jailbroken.
Now that iOS 7 (exactly 7.0.3) is on the Apple update servers, I want to know if I am able to update my iOS to 6.1.2 or not.

I downloaded the firmware of 6.1.2 and want to update to this except iOS 7.0.3.
Anytime I want to update it via iTunes, it wants to check it with Apple servers and obviously they say you should upgrade to 7.0.3.

Is there any way I can upgrade my iOS to 6.1.2?


texts: Is there a way to automatically update a folder in external hard drive without deleting missing files?

texts: I have a 250GB macbook air. I do a lot of photography, so my SSD gets filled up with photos really quickly. I've been using a 2TB external hard drive to archive the older photos that I no longer need to store in my SSD, moving the folders with the photos manually to the external hard drive, and then deleting them in my SSD. I was wondering if there is a way to do this automatically? The process should backup all the sub-folders in my Pictures folder to the hard drive, but without deleting the sub-folders that I have already deleted in my SSD.


texts: What does the secure keyboard entry menu item in Terminal app do?

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What does this option in Terminal do?

It seems to have no effect on anything.


texts: How to fix curl: (60) SSL certificate: Invalid certificate chain when using sudo

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So since the Mavericks upgrade curl has more issues with certificates.

When trying to curl a file from my web server with it's self-signed certificate it was getting the error "SSL Certificate: Invalid certificate chain".

This was corrected by adding the certificate to my system keychain and setting it to always allow SSL, information I found here and here.

This works fine and when I curl a file it downloads properly.

However if I run curl with sudo before (e.g I have a script which needs to be run with sudo and does a curl in it) then I'm back to the same error message.

I'm guessing that root doesn't read from the system keychain perhaps?

Does anyone know a way to fix this?


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I have a MacBook Air in my office that prompts to pair to a BlueTooth keyboard every 5-10 seconds.

I turned BlueTooth off/on. Made sure it is not discoverable. Restarted. Run updates. Reset PRAM. Reset SMC. Deleted com.apple.bluetooth.plist (~/Library/Preferenes/ and /Library/Preferences/). Removed the offending  and  from the above plists. With no luck.

I have also taken another computer up next to the MacBook Air running iStumblr as well as the Set Up Bluetooth keyboard and the keyboard cannot be found by either the MacBook Air or the other Mac. But the prompts still persist on the Air.

I have not been able to find any other suggestions re: how to stop the prompts.

Finding the keyboard is going to prove tricky as it is in a large office environment.

Any other suggestions?

EDIT: Console

11/03/14 3:11:28.000 PM kernel[0]: ### ERROR: opCode = 0x0406 (Disconnect) -- send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))
11/03/14 3:11:28.000 PM kernel[0]: [0xffffff8016117200][free]()
11/03/14 3:11:31.000 PM kernel[0]: ### ERROR: opCode = 0x0406 (Disconnect) -- send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))
11/03/14 3:11:31.000 PM kernel[0]: [0xffffff8013f74700][free]()
11/03/14 3:11:40.000 PM kernel[0]: [0xffffff8014ae4200][free]()
11/03/14 3:11:40.000 PM kernel[0]: ### ERROR: opCode = 0x0406 (Disconnect) -- send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))
11/03/14 3:11:44.000 PM kernel[0]: ### ERROR: opCode = 0x0406 (Disconnect) -- send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))
11/03/14 3:11:44.000 PM kernel[0]: [0xffffff801409d800][free]()
11/03/14 3:11:52.457 PM coreaudiod[149]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
11/03/14 3:11:52.631 PM coreaudiod[149]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
11/03/14 3:11:54.718 PM librariand[657]: MMe quota status changed: under quota
11/03/14 3:11:54.862 PM com.apple.security.pboxd[661]: Bug: 12F45: liblaunch.dylib + 23849 [2F71CAF8-6524-329E-AC56-C506658B4C0C]: 0x25


texts: Typing too fast, strange hidden characters

texts: I have this annoying problem since long. I use to type quite fast, and it happens to me that after inserting a special character using the "alt" key I probably do not wait enough to press the space bar. I don't see the difference then, but then when the command is interpreted in the terminal, or the script I just wrote is executed, lots of errors come up because there are hidden strange characters (gremlins). Is there any way I can avoid this?


texts: Why won't my MacBook Pro automatically sleep?

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I have my MacBook set to go to sleep after 2 minutes while on battery (via the Energy Saver preference pane.) However, when I leave it idle, it only turns off the screen—it does not actually sleep. This means that if I leave it and forget to close the lid, it always ends up with a dead battery.

The system sleeps correctly if it is triggered manually ( – Sleep) or by closing the lid. I have tested it with no USB devices connected and on a fresh user account, on the chance a background program was preventing sleep. There is no relevant information printed to the Console at the time when the system should sleep.

I've performed a PRAM and SMC reset to no avail, as well as the usual superstitious Verify Disk Permissions.

Is there anything else I should try before I reinstall OS X?

This is a MacBookPro5,5 running OS 10.6.6.

It's worth noting that I suffered from this issue some time ago due to a bug in a helper daemon for the product Things, but that this issue was slightly different and involved display sleep. Also, I have verified that the helper daemon was not running during my tests.

Additional information:

I started working through the Apple document titled "Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode." I discovered that this issue does not appear when I Safe Boot my computer. I diff'd the process lists and discovered that the following programs are only running when in normal boot, and are thus possible culprits:

Quick Look Helper
cvmsComp_x86_64
kextcache
launchd
mdworker
mdworker
nmblookup
vmnet-bridge
vmnet-dhcpd
vmnet-dhcpd
vmnet-natd
vmnet-netifup
vmnet-netifup


texts: Can I use an encrypted disk image for my home folder?

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At work, several people use my machine.

Can I set my home folder to be inside an ecrypted disk image?

How would it work as far as mounting/unmounting whenever I log in/out?


texts: iOS app submission - access to username/password

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Caveat - I am not the iOS developer but have been asked to research
  this

We submit our native iOS financial app to the Apple store for review and the person who previously managed the submission process insisted we had to provide Apple with a username and password to be able to login to our app to review the pages

The process to create and provide Apple with a username/password is very time consuming and alerts our security teams as our app holds sensitive data about people

Is it the case that Apple requires to be able to login to review? If so, how do people with financial/banking apps manage this? We cannot really create dummy users as this will skew our stats and as mentioned before, our security team do not like it

Many thanks


texts: Wrong app is focused when quitting another one?

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I have Firefox and the Finder open (neither are hidden), with PDF files in the current Finder window. If I open one of the PDF files, it opens in Preview. When I quit Preview, rather than Finder being focused, Firefox is focused instead.

This did NOT used to be the case in previous versions of OS X. There is an order in which apps are focused, and that is whatever was last focused. So, when quitting the PDF file, the Finder should have been focused. This has occurred since I upgraded to Mavericks.

Anyone know how to fix this, or if it is indeed a bug? This happens with Firefox and the Finder, most frequently.


texts: Safari 12 - Favicon in Gmail tab shows incorrect e-mail count

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I have enabled the Show website icons in tabs feature made available in Safari 12.

Gmail has a feature to show count of unread emails in the browser tab favicon. The count shown in the Gmail tab in Safari 12 is incorrect.

For these tabs, on the first I have a total of 4 e-mails in the inbox, while in the second I have 7. None of them are unread. These counts never change. Does anyone have a fix for this?

I'm running Safari 12.0 under macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.


texts: How do I get a refund on an iOS app I just bought?

texts: I just bought an iPhone app knowing that it may or may not provide the feature which was the entire reason for me buying it.  I figured I could always get a refund if it doesn't do what I want.  It doesn't.  But now I've realized I don't know how to get a refund.  Is it possible?


texts: How do I uninstall Bitdefender Endpoint Security for Mac?

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This application is not listed in my apps, nor does it ship with an uninstaller I can locate. The support site says to contact their support team, but the product is not listed in the drop down for support requests.

Here's what I tried so far in order to get it to stop running, so I could safely delete the program from disk, but it didn't help:

sudo ps aux | grep -i endpoint
sudo launchctl list | grep -i bitdefender
for each bitdefender product listed: sudo launchctl remove
reboot

The application ran again after reboot.


texts: Emulating associative arrays in AppleScript

texts:
A problem that would be trivial to solve with key=>value pairs.
For each item in list_a, find the matching item in list_b and compare a single attribute (calculate scale ratio for two sets of images).

The AppleScript lists look something like this:

listA = {{filename:"filename X.tif",width:"500"},{filename:"filename Z.tif",width:"200"}, ...}
listB = {{filename:"filename Z.tif",width:"400"},{filename:"filename v.tif",width:"222"}, ...}

Both lists may contain a different number of items/order, making it impossible to relay on nth item of list for selecting pairs

While it would be possible to iterate over every object in listA and compare its filename property with every object of listB, this is horribly inefficient, even with just a few hundred items.

Is it possible to solve this using AppleScript or must I serialize the objects and pass the evaluation task to an external script that support assoc. arrays?


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At the moment I'm working on a solution to prevent all admins users (except one particular) from running sudo. I can add a specific user to sudoers by running:

sudo -i
echo '$username  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

Then I'd like to remove %admin     ALL = (ALL) ALL within sudoers file which would just leave the above admin as the only sudo admin. However I cannot seem to find a way on how to remove/replace a particular string within sudoers.

I'd like to make this into a script hence using visudo and manually adjusting won't work for me. If there a way to run visudo from script and adjust a particular line within sudoers that would be ideal, but I couldn't find anything when researching on the Web.

I've seen a solution here:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/brian/entry/edit_sudoers_file_from_a_script4?lang=en

which works in Linux. Is it possible to make it work in macOS?


texts: macbook - low power from the command line

texts: I often (for example on the train) want to put my macbook into a state that will maximise the amount of time I have before the battery runs out - so far example I'll switch off the bluetooth, then switch off the wifi, then alter the brightness - my question is, can I do all of this from the command line? Then I run some nice little script...


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my MacBook screen is completely covered with these vertical lines and I can’t see anything on screen. About a week back 75% screen was covered in horizontal lines and I could only work in small horizontal space on the upper side of the screen. It got okay on its own and now I opened the laptop today and found entire screen covered.
Have tried option+cmnd+r+p.


texts: how to resend a imessage containing URLs on IOS 12.4?

texts:
I can only execute the links but not copy the message.
I'm also able to copy a single link (but not the entire message).


texts: Unable to boot from the Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 16.04 operating systems

texts: My early 2008 MacBook runs on a dual boot of Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 16.04. I deleted some partitions, so I am unable to boot either OS X or on Ubuntu. I tried a repair by using installation DVD Disk Utility and Time Machine, but both are unable to find the target volume.


texts: Hardware requirement for IOS compilation

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My company is moving to IOS Apps development and we are looking for a MAC's pc to compile the apps.  Basically we will develop at Window workstation, then compile at MAC.

Is the Mac Book Pro i5 or Mac Mini i5 power enough the the apps compilation(will only run as workstation to compile the IOS apps)?

How about Running OSX at window 10 HyperV, is it support?

Thanks
Louis


texts: How to transfer preferences from one machine to another?

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Is there a way to transfer my various preferences configured on Machine A to a new Machine B?

For example, I would like to transfer many of the preferences configured within System Preferences and native applications, such as Finder.


texts: How to check the battery level of devices connected via Bluetooth in OS X

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I have a set of Bluetooth headphones that I use with my iPhone and Macbook (OS X Yosemite).

On my iPhone, a little battery meter pops up next to the Bluetooth logo each time I'm connect the headphones.  I have found no such option on my Macbook (OS X ) and am wondering if anyone else has experienced the same issue.

The only potential solution I came across was the Battery Tracker on the Mac App Store. It is not clear whether it supports all Bluetooth devices (and not just standard peripherals), and I would rather not pay the $1.99 to find out.

I know that my headphones have the A2DP Bluetooth profile, so my gut is telling me that information about my battery level has to be accessible somewhere on my computer.

Here is a screenshot of the device profile from my mac's System Information. RSSI seems like the only thing that could have been a battery meter (everything else is booleans or id's), but from what I've read it seems to be a metric for signal strength.

I'm interested in finding a solution from a practical standpoint, but am equally as interested in understanding how it would be/is achieved from a technical standpoint.  Think I just need to figure out what the battery metric/param/variable is called, and where I can get it.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts/insights ! Thanks


texts: How to make Terminal open every new tab in the "Homebew" profile?

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I really like Terminal's "Homebrew" profile (black background with green front, instead of the default white background with black font), so I set it as my default profile. This makes it so that when I initially open Terminal, the first tab that opens will use the "Homebrew" profile.

But I came across an issue where once I close the open Terminal window then try to open a new one by clicking on the terminal icon in my dock, the new Terminal window opens in the system default "Basic" profile.

Can I make Terminal open every new window with the "Homebrew" profile?


texts: How can I access a web server running locally when I don't have network access?

texts: I want to host a website on my MacBook for debugging. But often I don't have any possibilities to connect to a network, so how am I able to access it when I'm not connected to a network?


texts: Weird characters appear when pressing command-A,C,V

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I'm not using Mac keyboard however it did work properly before. I changed the Command key to Ctrl. Until today, using this Ctrl key yield extremely odd characters. When pressing

Ctrl-A yields å
Ctrl-V yields √
Ctrl-C yields ç

And I have no idea where these characters come from? So how could I fix this issue? Can anyone please help? Thanks.

EDIT
Here is my screenshot


texts: Will Photo Stream go away when iCloud Photos leaves beta?

texts:
iOS 8.1 is out and there is a public beta for iCloud Photos.

There are many differences between the new iCloud Photo service and the old Photo Stream, but for the scope of this question I am only concerned about my iCloud storage space. One of the major drawbacks of iCloud Photos is that it counts against your iCloud storage quota. The current Photo Stream feature, however, does not. It is effectively "free".

My question is this:

Does anyone know if Photo Stream will go away when iCloud Photos is finished and released in iOS 8.2 (or whatever)?


texts: Messages beta hangs. How to remove it or at least its accounts?

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I've received a huge iMessage and now the App hangs. I can't remove the App, because it's only possible via the menu item which is not responding. Removing ~/Documents/iChat/* and ~/Library/Messages/* didn't help either.

Any ideas of how to remove it or at least its accounts?


texts: How do i correct an incorrect email address?

texts: My wife's email address is [name]@icloud.com  However when I am sending  an email to her I start typing her email address I get this: [name]@icloud.com(DirectTV). I do not want Direct TV appended to her email address. What can I do?


texts: Why so many homebrew package name with underscore

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Just want to know why so many homebrew packages with underscore, are they beta release?

Usually I don't install any packages with underscores, just want to know the reason behind it.

Few example

luajit (2.0.3 < 2.0.3_1)
macvim (7.4-73 < 7.4-73_1)
mysql (5.6.10-boxen3, 5.6.13 < 5.6.21)
node (0.10.32 < 0.10.33_1)
ossp-uuid (1.6.2 < 1.6.2_1)
osxfuse (2.7.1 < 2.7.2)

Thanks


texts: Microsoft keyboard requiring double capslock press after Sierra update

texts:
I installed Sierra last night and my Microsoft Wireless Comfort keyboard suddenly started requiring me to press CapsLock two times in order for it to activate caps lock.

I plugged in an Apple keyboard to test, and that still works as intended.

Is there a setting that I'm missing?


texts: 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 vs 2.6GHz 6‑core 9th‑gen Intel Core i7

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I have a 15" 2016 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro. It has 16GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 and a 1TB SSD. I'm considering upgrading to the latest MacBook Pro, which has:

2.6GHz 6‑core 9th‑gen Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz.
16GB 2400MHz DDR4 memory.
1TB SSD storage.

What will be the difference in speed between the two MacBook Pros? They have almost identical clock frequency and both have Intel Core i7 processor.

I don't do any graphics processing, so I don't see that all of those Cores will be used. Is that wasted CPU resources?

My main activities are Web surfing (using Safari), periodic screen recording, and running a bunch of apps at once (I don't close app windows since it is quicker to flip between them). Some of the apps (with multiple windows opened) that I use and constantly have open include:

Pages
Numbers
Mail
Safari (two windows with 10 tabs each)
Calendar
Google Chrome (one window with 8-10 tabs)
Preview (about 5 windows)
Day One Classic
1 Password
Messages
Harvest app
Dictionary
Dropbox
Monosnap
Wrike for Mac (project management)
TextEdit
Terminal

My consideration for upgrading is that webpages can be fairly slow to load (no, it isn't the Internet connection), and I have about a 3-5 second delay sometimes when scrolling in Safari and Mail.


texts: How can I tell if True Tone is on/off in a script?

texts: I want to be able to print out if True Tone is on or off in a script. Is there a command to determine this?


texts: What iOS apps read health records from Apple Health?

texts: Apple's website says that "third-party apps can request access to your health records" but I can't find any apps in the app store that read them. Are there any apps that read health records (e.g., allergies, medications, or immunizations, lab results, etc.)?


texts: No spoken Siri feedback with Shortcuts actions

texts:
I created some simple Shortcuts in the new iOS Shortcuts app (iOS 12) to be invoked by Siri.

Like: "Goodmorning Siri, start my morning routine" and then some actions.

Now I also would like to let Siri say some things to me, as simple as: "Hello Jeroen, I hope you have a good morning".

I am supposed to use the "Show result" actions for this, this action should result in spoken feedback if the shortcut is executed via Siri.

The problem is: "Show result" text is not spoken (Siri feedback) by Siri when the shortcut is invoked via Siri.
Actions that come after the Show Result action are executed.

Here is an example Shortcut:

I tried already:

turning Siri on and off
Soft reset
Reset network
Change Siri and iOS language

Update: I have a iPhone SE


texts: My iPad is sending out spam emails, what could be the cause?

texts:
My iPad is sending out emails through gMail titled for example CCE29032016_00050. All emails begin with CCE followed by a number. They are sent from myself to myself.

I noticed that it is my iPad because it was sending e-mails from my home IP address (based on Google's activity details), and only my two iPads were connected to the home network at that time (I was not at home).

Has anyone seen these emails before, and how can one stop them from being sent?


texts: iTunes and iPod Touch "Payment was declined"

texts:
I recently bought a new iPod Touch 5 and made 3 purchases. The last app I purchased downloaded successfully onto my iPod but I never got an email receipt from the store. So I checked my purchase history and it says

  "We were unable to authorize your credit card for this purchase.
  Please update your billing info."

So I went to the "Billing Info" page and validated my PayPal account. Now it says

  "Your PayPal transaction was declined."

I tried adding a credit card as my payment option and I get:

  "Your credit card was declined. Please enter valid credit card information."

What should I do?

Thanks


texts: Can I backup a Time Capsule to a HDD drive connected to its USB port?

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I have a 2TB Time Capsule and multiple external HDDs.

I recently bought a 4TB external drive, now I'd like all my files, in all my HDDs to go to the 4TB drive that is connected through USB to the Time Capsule, including its internal drive!
How can I make this happen?

So, is there a solution to backup to a new Time Machine on the 4TB drive that includes the Time Capsule's internal drive, my computers, and two external HDDs?


texts: Python Imaging Library (PIL) Decoder jpeg not available — how to fix?

texts:
I've got error which is generated by PIL when I trying to process jpg-images: Python Imaging Library (PIL) Decoder jpeg not available.

How to fix this problem?


texts: Touch ID not working after replacement of display unit of iPhone

texts: My screen was broken and Apple repair is pretty expensive (in Germany) so I chose to replace the display with one of the display units sold in the internet (GIGA Fixoo). After replacement the Touch ID including the touch functionality (double tap to bring down screen contents) button does not work anymore. The button I use is still the old one. What to do?


texts: Show menu bar on multiple screens without separate spaces

texts:
I have two screens. I want:

Windows to be able to span multiple screens
A menu bar on both screens

Is that too much to ask? There is an option that affects both of these: "Displays have separate Spaces". With it on you get two menu bars but windows cannot span multiple screens. With it off you they can but you only get one menu bar. Is there a solution to this madness?


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BACKGROUND

I upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8 on  7/28/12
I upgraded Xcode from 4.4 to 4.4.1 on 8/8/12

PROBLEM

On 8/9/12, on my MacBook Air, Mail.app refuses to connect to the SMTP service on a server that I frequently use.  Mail.app reliably connects to the IMAP and WWW services running on the exact same server.  Mail.app also reliably connects to 4 or 5 other SMTP servers.

SETTINGS

Incoming Mail is set to use IMAP on 993 with SSL.  No problems with incoming mail.
Outgoing Mail is set to use the default ports, with SSL and Password authentication.

EFFORTS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM

I can telnet to the server on port 587 with no issue.  The server responds as it should.
I can ping the server and connect to it via SSH or WWW.
My iPhone and iPad with the exact same SMTP settings are able to, from the same WiFi network, send mail without issue.
The same problem happens if I use the server's public IP or its domain.
I experience this on my network at work and when connected through a VPN to another network.
I have deleted and recreated the SMTP server in Mail.app with no success.
I have deleted and reinstalled the certificates associated with the server with no success.
I tried to create a new IMAP and SMTP account for the same server using another name and password.  Upon setup, IMAP was found and connected immediately, but the SMTP server was never found.
Using Sparrow, I tried to add an account on the server and also did not get past the SMTP portion.
Connection doctor shows NOTHING as far as attempts to reach the server for SMTP.  All IMAP attempts are logged and attempts to reach the other SMTP servers appear as they should.  But, there is nothing showing for attempts to reach the SMTP service on the server in question.
In my SMTP server settings, I tried manually adding 587 both with SSL and without without any success.  My mail server only accepts on 587.
Restarted Mail, restarted MacBook Air, flushed DNS entries.
Dragged the Mail and Mail Downloads Folders out of ~/Library and tried recreating the account.  Again, it connected to IMAP fine, but stalled when trying to connect to the SMTP server.


texts:
I am looking at an ipad app which can be used to store files locally as well as supports multiple types for viewing. E.g. Doc, xls, ppt, etc

I heard Goodreader is one such app, but was looking for something free..


texts: Does the recovery partition get updates?

texts: I clean-installed Mountain Lion 10.8.0. Now I am at 10.8.2 and I want to do a clean install again. If I boot to the recovery partition and do a restore, will I have 10.8.0 or 10.8.2? Does the recovery partition get updated when OS X gets updated?


texts: Is iCloud Document Sync "delta sync" or "full file sync"?

texts:
I don't mean iWork docs but for example personal docs in GoodReader iCloud folder and perhaps Mac OS ~/Library/Mobile Documents.

Is there any official documentation about it?


texts:
While I do make in a program I want to install, which installs fine in Opensuse, I get the error

warning: include path for stdlibc++ headers not found; pass '-stdlib=libc++' on the command line to use the libc++
      standard library instead [-Wstdlibcxx-not-found]
/Users/xyz/rivet/YODA-1.7.7/pyext/yoda/util.cpp:446:10: fatal error: 'utility' file not found
#include <utility>
         ^~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.
error: command 'g++' failed with exit status 1
make[2]: *** [all-local] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

What I understand that it complains about not finding the utility library in c++ but for MacOS, the compiler is clang and it shows it has the file

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/include/c++/v1/utility

MacOS version is 10.14.6, and Xcode version is Version 11.0 (11A420a). How to solve this case then?


texts: Why does WhatsApp require so much space for iCloud backup?

texts:
When backing up Whatsapp History to iCloud, Whatsapp required nearly the same amount of free space as the total backup. i.e If Whatsapp need to back up 1.8 GB of data to iCloud it will need 1.8GB of free space on the iPhone.

Is there anyway to get around that? I simply dont constantly have 1.8GB of free space.


texts: iTunes sync mysteriously failing in various ways

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I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.0.4, and my MacBook (10.6.8) has iTunes 11.1.4.

I have a few small mp3 files that I want to copy from my MacBook to my iPhone.

When I connect the phone to the MacBook and initiate a sync, it always fails in 1 of 2 ways:

iTunes would push Flashlight and Facebook to my phone and then would say "Canceling sync" and stop.  I do not want Facebook, and I do not want Flashlight either since one is already built into iOS.  But I'd be willing to have them if it's required for my mp3s to sync.
or iTunes hangs on the last step of the sync, "Waiting for changes to apply."

My iTunes says that it's the latest version, and so does my iOS.  And I've restarted my phone and MacBook several times.

How can I fix this problem?  It's not specific to which mp3 files.


texts: Messages app is popping up an emoji options when I try to copy the message

texts:
I have tried a number of times to highlight a Messages App message on Macos to be able to copy it into the clipboard. Instead it continually pops up an emoji box:

Can that popup be disabled so I can copy the message contents into the clipboard?


texts: Pages Quit Unexpectedly- using Yosemite 10.10.5

texts: I rely PAGES as my go to graphic software and I'm dead in the water without it. It crashed with the Pages quit unexpectedly. I've rebooted many time, ditched the old iWork's folder and can't get anything to work. The font warnings message box pops but but I get the same crash log page. Anyone have any suggestions that could help?


texts: Macbook Pro going into sleep at 132.8F (56C)?

texts:
When looking into behavior for overheating I am seeing other posts that say anything up to at least 158F (70C) should be just fine.  Why might I see this behavior?

Note that I did clean out with compressed air six months ago: before that time the laptop had been getting into the mid sixties. But 56C ??

I am using smc Fan Control to a ) keep the CPU cooled and b ) monitor the temperature.


texts: How to link /usr/local to user specific directory?

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Is it possible to map the /usr/local/ path on MacOS to a directory that is unique for each user, for example ~/local/? Or is there another way to solve the following:

I trying to give each user on my MacOS server a personal homebrew installation. However the disadvantage of installing homebrew in a non-standard user directory is that all packages will need to be rebuilt from source. Homebrew only uses the binary bottles for the default /usr/local dir.

Preferably I would like each user to have a copy of homebrew in their home dir, and somehow map the /usr/local path to that directory so that the binaries still work.


texts: Is there an official list for iTunes / iOS version compatibility?

texts:
I've found answers on this site stating that iOS 10 is not compatible with iTunes 12.2 (the latest iTunes version available for macOS 10.7). This helped with a problem I have.

Is there an official document from Apple that shows which iOS versions are compatible with which iTunes versions?


texts:
Recently my Macbook Pro's screen started looking dimmer than usual, and has a slight flicker. When I press the Brightness up and down keys, I see the visual feedback on the screen that would suggest it is getting brighter or darker, but the brightness no longer changes (even on the lowest brightness setting, it should turn the screen off but there is no change).

I have a dual boot with Windows, and recently installed new nVidia drivers on the windows side for gaming (I'm not sure if this is related, the screen is dim in both Windows and OS X). I am also running the most up-to-date version of OS 10.9 Mavericks.

I've played with the Display settings, the Power settings (tried switching between video cards), and I even tried doing an Apple Hardware Check but it wasn't able to find any issues.

Here is my Hardware overview:

Model Name:     MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:    2.8 GHz
Number of Processors:   1
Total Number of Cores:  2
L2 Cache:       6 MB
Memory:         8 GB
Bus Speed:      1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:   MBP51.007E.B06
SMC Version (system):   1.33f8


texts: Option for Second Alert on Calendar Events Disappeared After Mojave 10.14.6 Update

texts: I just updated my Macbook Pro to Mojave 10.14.6 and noticed that I can no longer set a second alert on events I add to my Calendar. I'm not using any external calendars or accounts, just my iCloud. I can still set second alerts on my iPhone, just not my computer.


texts: How does Keynote decide which display to appear on?

texts:
The scenario: I go into class, hook up my laptop to the projector using mini-display port adapter, and fire up Keynote.  Keynote opens with it's window on the projected display, showing off the hidden slides or completed builds or slide #42.  I'd rather have it open on the laptop display so the only thing my audience sees is the title slide.  I then spend two minutes trying to get a mouse over the titlebar so I can pull the window back to my laptop display.

I'm not sure this is a Keynote specific question.  I just don't end up using other apps in the classroom.

So, how can I control which display an application will open on when started?


texts: How do I have Safari 6 ask before quitting (to avoid accidental quits)?

texts:
Safari used to have a preference option to confirm before quitting, now that has disappeared.  It's so easy to quit accidentally and lose all your tabs.  I know you can resume or re-open the previous session, but those are not solutions to the problem.

How do I make Safari ask me before quitting?


texts: Cannot restrict apps from accessing data in iOS 8

texts: I cannot restrict apps from accessing cellular data on iOS 8, as these settings are disabled. How can I enable them?


texts:
When I use VMware Fusion with an Ubuntu guest (it worked long ago, but this problem has existed over several generations of ubuntu, at least including natty, oneiric and precise) and shared folders using vmhgfs, no matter what I do, many of my symlinks are broken.

The ones that are broken are symlinks that point to files in subdirectories, such as foo -> bar/blah.  They're broken because they're presented to linux as foo->bar.

Anyone have any idea what's going wrong?  This has, in the past worked for me, but it just doesn't now.  It seems like a bug in vmhgfs.

Please don't suggest using NFS, SMB, etc.  I'm specifically interested in getting HGFS working.


texts: GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen, can't perform Command + R

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MBP early 2011, running El Capitan with GPU problem, boot hangs on grey screen.

I found @LangLangC’s solution (link:GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen), but I can only performed the procedure up until Part 1, 8; then came error message: ‘Operation not permitted’.

Here is the The initial procedure from @LangLangC that I followed:

Part 1: Disable SIP, disable dGPU, move one kernel extension

1  To start from a clean slate: reset SMC and NVRAM:
    shutdown, unplug everything except power, now hold

leftShift+Ctrl+Opt+Power
and release all at the same time;

2   Now power on again and hold

Cmd+Opt+p+r
at the same time until you hear the startup chime two times.

3   Boot into Single User Recovery by holding

Cmd+r+s

4   Disable SIP: enter:

csrutil disable

5   disable dGPU on boot with setting the following variable:

nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00

6   enable verbose boot mode:

nvram boot-args="-v"

7   reboot into Single User-mode by holding

Cmd+s
on boot

8   mount root partition writeable

/sbin/mount -uw /

9   make a kext-backup directory

mkdir -p /System/Library/Extensions-off

10   only move ONE offending kext out of the way:

mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext  /System/Library/Extensions-off/

11   inform the system to update its kextcache:

touch /System/Library/Extensions/

12    reboot normally:

Note: I only can follow until step 8. On step 9 came error message: ‘Operation not permitted’

A suggestion from @Snacking_IT (on the same link) to perform Command + R only gave me a grey screen again.

Here is the suggestion from @Snacking_IT: If the problem is that you're unable to move those files it's probably the System Integrity Protection that's stopping you. I'm assuming you're on El Capitan or Sierra.

Shutdown your laptop.
Press Command + R and then the power button to boot into recovery mode.
Click the Utilities menu and select Terminal.
Type csrutil disable and press return.
Close the Terminal app and restart out of recovery mode.
Now try booting back into Single-User mode and try to mv command.

Note: I can't go to recovery mode as the suggestion, rebooting with press cmd +R only gave me the grey screen again.

Please help kindly anyone.
Regards.


texts: Copying Subscribed Calendar from iPhone to Mac

texts:
I have a subscribed calendar on my iPhone. If I look in the Settings under Mail, Contacts, Calendars, under Subscribed Calendars, I see the subscribed calendar.

If I go into the subscribed calendar on my iPhone I see:

Account (On)
Server: mobile.server.com/ical.php?uniq_uuid
User Name:
Password:
Use SSL (On)
Remove Alarms (Off)

On my Mac, I go to the Calendar application, and select Calendar->Add Account, and then select "Add CalDAV Account...". There are three modes, Automatic, Manual, and Advanced. In the Manual mode, I see:

Account Type: Manual
User Name:
Password:
Server:

If I go into "Advanced", I see:

Account Type: Advanced
User Name:
Password:
Server Address:
Server Path:
Port:         Use SSL (checkbox)
Use Kerberos v5 for authentication (checkbox)

I have the information I need to enter from my iPhone, but I can't save it on my Mac unless there's a User Name, but there isn't one in the iPhone account information.

How can I enter this information from my iPhone to my Mac? My Mac is running Mavericks and the iPhone is running iOS 7.0.


texts: I ran into iTunes error message 54 when I was attempting to backup my phone. I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2.1 that I'm trying to update to iOS 7.1.2.  I am currently on Windows 10 operating system with the latest iTunes. I need step by step instructions please.


texts: How can I diagnose or fix the CalendarAgent occupying a whole CPU on Mountain Lion?

texts:
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Lion I see the CalendarAgent process occupying a large amount of 1 CPU on my late-2008 MacBook Pro. To fix this (as suggested by a Google result) I tried removing all online calendar accounts then re-adding them. This seemed to work for a while, but now the problem has returned (perhaps due to me either deleting some iCloud calendars or adding an additional Google calendar delegate). I don't really want to have to remove all my calendar accounts each time I add or remove a single calendar, so can anyone point me to the root cause of the problem?

In case it's useful, the call graph from the process is pasted here.

UPDATE: I removed one of the delegates from one of my Google calendar accounts, and that prevented this problem occurring. This isn't really a solution though, as I now can't access that calendar.


texts: Does FileVault 2 interfere with TRIM when using an SSD?

texts: Let's assume I have an SSD that supports TRIM-supported drive, and I create a single encrypted partition that fills the entire disk (minus the obligatory GUID and recovery partitions). Is FileVault 2 smart enough to TRIM deleted bits, or does the full disk encryption prevent this from happening? Even if it does TRIM deleted bits, will the encryption of the full partition (presumably marking every bit in that partition as used) slow down the drive because there's nowhere clean left for it to write to, resulting in write amplification?


texts: Sending SMS through iPad Air's iMessages

texts: How do I send text messages to non apple devices with my iPad Air with cellular? I have the iMessage worked out but can't figure out SMS.


texts: My late 2015 macbook pro 13" keeps freezing when installing fresh

texts:
I've been having issues with my late 2015 13" macbook pro for a few months now, it kept freezing (the screen would stay on but nothing would respond, not even the force track touchpad) after 5-10 minutes of working with light usage (chrome and sublime text editor). I tought this was a software issue so I pressed Command + R to start the laptop in recovery mode, deleted the start-up partition in the disk utility software and tried reinstalling macOS.

While downloading nothing went wrong however, after the macbook reboots and actually starts installing it freezes after about 1-2 minutes. Does anyone have suggestions on what I can do? I'm trying a completly fresh install.

While the laptop is in recovery mode, there are no problems and it never crashes or freezes up.


texts: Create Automator Service With a Python Script?

texts:
I'm trying to create an Automator Service that will act on selected text, converting dashes to spaces, and also making word caps for all the text.

A friend gave me this python script (I know nothing about python or shell scripting):

#! /usr/bin/python

cliptext = "%clipboard"
print cliptext.replace('-', ' ').replace('%', ' ').replace('&', ' and ').replace('#', ' ').title()

It works great as a TextExpander snippet, but I'd like to have it available in the Services menu as well. I don't need it to use any specific scripting language, it just needs to run within Automator. My coding buddy had no experience with Automator so he couldn't help out. His script requires copying the text to the clipboard, and then runs the formatting and pastes the result. I'd like to be able to just run this on the selected text and not have to deal with the Clipboard (at least manually).

The particular use for this is to rename photo uploads on Flickr, since Flickr uses the filename to generate the photo name. When exporting artwork via Photoshop or Illustrator using Save For Web, the lowercase and dashes are my default settings. I want to be able to highlight the Flickr title, and then run the Service to reformat the file name to a properly formatted title.


texts: Can I hIde "Documents" from "Apple>Recent Items" menu?

texts: I often use >Recent Items to select recent applications and servers, but I never user it for recent documents. Is there a way to remove Documents from this menu while retaining Applications and Servers.


texts: where is previous Terminal sessions info stored?

texts:
When My computer crashes while using Terminal, I see this kind of screen when I reopen Terminal, showing me what was previously on the Terminal screen.

Where on my hard drive is that information (the one above the grey line which reads "Restored Jan 27, 2018 at 7:07:50 PM") stored for Terminal to show after the crash?


texts: MacBook Pro won't find network boot disk

texts:
My optical drive doesn't work on my MacBook Pro, and my Internet connection is too slow to use the recovery partition to download Lion. I have a disk and a Windows PC I can use on the same network.

I installed the disk sharing software from Apple on the PC, and used the remote install program that comes on the disc.

I hold down Option ⌥ when booting up my MacBook. It is plugged in via Ethernet to the same network, but the network disk never appears. If I press N then the network icon appears, pulsing, but it never finds the Windows shared disk.

What am I doing wrong? Will this work better if plug the Ethernet cable directly from the PC to the Mac, skipping over the network?


texts:
I have a problem with making bootable USB.

I'm getting this error:

Macintosh:~ **$ sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app
Ready to start.
To continue we need to erase the volume at /Volumes/Untitled.
If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return: y
APFS disks may not be used as bootable install media.

On the same usb drive I had Yosemite, but for some reason I can't make it work with High Sierra. Also tried to erase it in Disk Utility(no errors).

Can somebody help?


texts: Can I set a specific Time zone for an app in macOS?

texts:
In macOS, I can use the code below to set specific language for Word.app, can I use some similar code to set a specific Time zone for an app?

defaults write com.microsoft.Word AppleLanguages '("de")'


texts:
I'm tweaking the look of my Terminal. Is there a way to add an outline to the text in Terminal? I have turned the blur and opacity off because I want to be able to partially overlay the terminal over man pages/ other information and it would be really helpful to have an outline around the text to make it more readable but I can't seem to find an option to do that.
Currently using the standard Andale Mono 12 pt font. Is there a better font to use? Am I missing a simple setting somewhere? I am very comfortable using command line so if you've got a down and dirty solution that requires some "fancy" footwork please don't hesitate to share.
Also, I tried a search here for something but either it's not there or I didn't do a great job of searching.


texts: Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices (virtualbox fix please)

texts:
I'm on a MacBookPro8,1, Late 2011 and I'm running latest version of El Capitan with SIP disabled (if that matters at all)

@DavidAnderson I've been following the tutorial steps from @DavidAnderson posted here Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices but I can't get the damn thing to work and as a new user here I'm not allowed to post in that thread :(

The only difference I have compared to the tutorial above is that my Disk Number is 2 instead of 1 in tutorial step 9.

After inputting the code from tutorial step 12 which is:

INPUT=$(printf  "f  $PARTITION\nw\ny\nq")
sudo  fdisk  -e  $DISK0  <<<"$INPUT"

I get an error:

Artists-MacBook-Pro:~ Artist$ INPUT=$(printf  "f  $PARTITION\nw\ny\nq")
Artists-MacBook-Pro:~ Artist$ sudo  fdisk  -e  $DISK0  <<<"$INPUT"
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> Partition 4 marked active.
fdisk:*1> Device could not be accessed exclusively.
A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] Writing MBR at offset 0.

I'm assuming that's not supposed to happen? How do I proceed from here? I have kept going with the tutorial despite this error several times without success. The next error I get is at step 18.

The full error is as follows:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine BootCamp.

VD: error VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED opening image file '/Users/Artist/Documents/VirtualBox/bootcamp.vmdk' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

VD: error VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED opening image file '/Users/Artist/Documents/VirtualBox/bootcamp.vmdk' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Failed to open image '/Users/Artist/Documents/VirtualBox/bootcamp.vmdk' in read-write mode (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Failed to attach driver below us! Not supported. (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

AHCI: Failed to attach drive to Port0 (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

Can anyone please help me? I've spent the last 3 days trying to install windows on this mac as I desperately need them and I've spent the last 5 hours on this tutorial alone without luck :( what am I doing wrong? I followed tutorial to the T but I must have missed something somewhere.


texts: Why is Photo Stream content different on each of my devices?

texts:
I work on a 13" MacBook Pro and also have an iPad and iPhone 4s. I edited my Photo Stream photos down to a tight collection of 220 pictures and fully expected that to reflect on my iPhone and iPad, however, it simply is not the same. The iPad has more than 400 pictures in Photo Stream. I want to set the standard collection my MacBook Pro and have that reflect across all devices. Any suggestions on how to make that happen?

Running 10.8.2 on MacBook Pro and 6.0.1 on iOS devices.


texts: Mac OS Mojave -Persistent Latency >1 sec with core audio Overrun Message

texts:
For the last few days, I have suffered really strange behaviour (CoreAudio) on a late 2013 iMac running Mojave. Regardless of the Digital Audio Workstation software I am using, (including Reaper, Akai MPC 2.8 DAW) ALL audio sources/channels play back with an unacceptable delay of 1 second or more, which renders it completely unusable for music and video production and editing, which is my bread and butter.
I have attempted several "solutions" including (1) a full reinstallation of the Mac OS Mojave, (2) disabling "Spotlight" on the main drive, (3) uninstalling all unnecessary software, and even (4) running Techtool Pro to try and pin down the problems, with little success.
In terms of trying to locate the problem thought Mac OS' Console utility, I get the following recurring errors which I am unable to interpret due to my limited knowledge in programming -
1...  [CoreAudio : HALS_IOA1Engine.cpp:365:EndWriting:  HALS_IOA1Engine::EndWriting: got an error from the kernel trap, Error: 0xE00002EE]

2...  [com.apple.WebKit.Networking Task <23F45298-4D92-4932-A556-C481F2724AFE>.<3523> finished with error - code: -999

3...  [com.apple.WebKit.Networking. nw_proxy_resolver_create_parsed_array PAC evaluation error: NSURLErrorDomain: -1003]...

The above errors occur at least 1,000 times per hour. In addition, and perhaps more closely related to the issue the systemlog (in the Console utility) consistently generates the following messages, literally every second or less! -
...2257808376700: UNDERRUN serving 256 frames, the system needs 732824 frames pos 75276168 writePos 2024233184 rtsFramePosOut 2024966252 cycle 293955 (293955)

Jun 26 23:17:33 iMac coreaudiod[216]: DoIO Out 42257813734615: UNDERRUN serving 256 frames, the system needs 732760 frames pos 75276424 writePos 2024233440 rtsFramePosOut 2024966444 cycle 293956 (293956)

Jun 26 23:17:33 iMac coreaudiod[216]: DoIO Out 42257819125849: UNDERRUN serving 256 frames, the system needs 732792 frames pos 75276680 writePos 2024233696 rtsFramePosOut 2024966732 cycle 293957 (293957)

Based on the above, I fear that there is something strange going on with the audio's internal routing, and possibly that my audio is being "hijacked" or routed to an external server before it returns to my audio output devices.. But this is just my speculation..
Does anyone out there have a similar problem - and, more important, a solution ?


texts: iPhone Music Playing App That Uses Album Artist?

texts:
I have a lot of compilation albums where each track is by a different artist, but I have the Album Artist tag set to "Various Artists" (or in the case of some soundtracks, the main artist's name).

However, when viewing my music by artist in the iPhone's iPod app, it lists all the track artists, creating a miasma of artist listings with only one or two songs under them.

Is there an iPhone app out there that lists by Album Artist instead, which would be a lot more manageable and frankly, makes a lot more sense?


texts: My MacBook 2012 has sleep/wake problems with SSDs as internal drive

texts:
Whenever I have an SSD (crucial mx100 or samsung 850) as my internal hard drive, my macbook has problems with sleep/wake. If I unplug my macbook and let it sleep, the hard drive does not wake up. It will work for about a second then it'll freeze for a few seconds and quickly flash a white screen and reboot. This also happens when I close the laptop while it's plugged in and I try to reopen it. Sometimes it will happen randomly after a few hours of using the computer (and possibly letting it sleep in-between).

Some solutions I tried:

Reseting SMC
Installing OS X via USB and installing it as internal hard drive
Reinstalling OS X
Repairing the drive in Disk Utility

Solutions that worked at first (for a few days), but eventually failed:

Replacing the hard drive cable. (No problems for about a month)
Preventing the drive from going to sleep in settings

I can boot the SSD from a USB enclosure perfectly fine. When I have the SSD as my internal drive, I sometimes get the prohibitory sign and the file system will appear corrupted. But the minute I put the SSD in a USB enclosure, everything works perfectly again.

What is going on? Anyone know?

Also, I have high data error counts in DriveDx with the SSDs, however the stock hard drive works perfectly fine as my internal drive.


texts: What's the equivalent terminal command for removing users/groups from a folder recursively?

texts:
When I remove a user or a group permission from a folder and all its children files and folders, this is what I do:

Right click the folder
Click "Get info"
Unlock the padlock (typing my admin password)
Remove users and or groups
Press "Apply to all enclosed items" and confirm

How can I do this from the terminal?


texts: New iOS9 Spotlight search not finding contacts

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I've just upgraded to iOS 9, and the new Spotlight search isn't finding contacts for me - it sometimes finds contacts, but not the one I'm searching for.

I've turned off every app in Spotlight search, except Contacts, so as not to muddy the waters.

Example: I have a contact named "Fred Jones".  He's the only contact with the surname Jones.  I swipe down or right to get the spotlight search, and start typing jones one character at a time.  When I type "j" I get

TOP HITS
Jane Airy
CONTACTS
Abbadab Fabrics
Dan Anderson

When I type the "o" I get

(nothing)

I.e. no search results.

Both Abbadab Fabrics and Dan Anderson do have a "j" somewhere in some field - but so do lots of other contacts.

I've tried typing "Jo" but same results.  Obviously, this used to work in ios8.

Further details in response to questions: I'm on the released iOS 9 build (13A344), not any developer or other pre-release. I only have one account syncing Contacts - Google Sync. There's plenty of storage available: 11.0GB out of 15.2GB.


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Lately I started experiencing that - 'issue' / 'bug' / 'feature' on my MacBook Air with OS X Yosemite.

Whenever I open a new window (of any app) something gets focused immediately (getting that selection frame around it, usually blue).
That happens in notification center as well. That's really annoying.

Anyone knows how to get rid of it?

Here's an example, look at the segment control:


texts: Is there a way to have clipboard buffering in OS X?

texts: Does OS X have this built in?  It is tedious with only one buffer.


texts: How do I replace the hard drive in my circa 2008 iMac?

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My circa 2008 iMac hung up today and wouldn't reboot -- it just hung on boot with the Apple logo and the spinner. I booted the Snow Leopard DVD and ran Disk Utility on the drive. It told me the drive needed repairing but during the repair cycle stopped, and said the drive couldn't be repaired. That I should format it and restore from a backup.

So I did. Or, am doing. The restore from my TimeMachine drive is about 75% done now.

Even if this is successful, I'm nervous. I'm not sure if that drive failure was some sort of uncorrectable filesystem corruption that occured because when the iMac was hung up I hard stopped it with the power button, or if the drive is starting to fail.

I'd like to replace the drive in it just to be on the safe side. Is this hard to do? I couldn't find anything about this procedure on Apple's support web site. If I replace it is there a brand of drive that I should buy or is the OS accepting of anything I put in there? Is it a 2.5" or a 3.5" SATA drive in there?


texts: iOS Simulator - Safari forcing WWW on URLs

texts: When trying to use Safari on iOS Simulator (I'm running on the latest Yosemite build with about a 2011-ish iMac), WWW is automatically prepended to my urls. I'm trying to debug a site I'm working on through the ngrok tunnel service and I can only access the url without www...any ideas on how I can fix this?


texts: How to shuffle all songs in iOS 8.4 music app

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In the old version of the music app you could shuffle all songs when songs were selected:

This feature seems to be absent in iOS 8.4 and the new music app:

What are the options for shuffling all my songs in the new version of the music app under iOS 8.4?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (late 2011) and I'd like to install Windows 10 on it.

The best way to do it, is to use Boot Camp Assistant but not on my MacBook because it's not supported.

In order to change my MBR from Hybrid into Protective to be able to install Windows, I have to "disable csrutil" which is just available through recovery mode.

So here's the problem:
I can't access my Recovery mode.
I spent 5 hours waiting but it didn't come up

What should I do to access Recovery Mode easily?


texts: Can I make the same app for iPad which is already lives on AppStore for iPhone?

texts:
I had created an app which is live on AppStore for iPhone only. Now I want to make that app for iPad. So can I make the same app for iPad or do I need to create the separate app on AppStore Connect for that?

As I remember 4 years ago, I got this problem in one of my application due to which I was not able to make my app for iPad. And I had to create the separate iPad app at that time.


texts: Printer connected to Mac only works if other Mac is turned on

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I have an old iMac G5 with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and a Canon PIXMA MG5350 printer. It prints without a problem on the old G5. I think the printer is connected via bluetooth.

And now I also have an iMac G6 with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).

I can print on the printer, but only if the old G5 is turned on. Why?

How can I change this, so that I can print on the G6 when the G5 is turned off?


texts: how to make Terminal (unix) use Microsoft Outlook instead of Apple Mail

texts: We use Microsoft Outlook at work so I need to be able to use Microsoft Outlook instead of Apple's Mail program when I invoke it in Bash. Can anyone help me associate programs inside of Bash?


texts:
Using a Macbook Air, I have 60Gb free space on my hard drive, yet I can't crop an image (W x H, Resolution setting) because "the scratch disks are full".

What does the error mean? How do I fix it? I can't imagine Photoshop's doing an operation that requires more than 60Gb of spare disk space...


texts: Recovery Mode is not available for MacBook Pro

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I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 with El Capitan running on it.

I wanted to enter Recovery Mode and pressed cmd+R until the Apple logo appeared with a progress bar. After about 3 hours waiting the progress bar was complete but nothing happened. I waited another two hours but still nothing changed.

When booting in normal mode everything is fine and within a minute I can start working. Do you have any advice for me?

The diskutil output as requested by @LexS user87973:

macs-MBP:~ Fab$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            319.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3


texts: Mount a network (netatalk) AFP volume using a public key instead of an SSH login password?

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My Linux server does not allow SSH login with password because I have /etc/ssh/sshd_config with "PasswordAuthentication no".  I'm not going to be allowed to change that.  It's fine and convenient for SSH access as it forces me to set up authorized_keys, which are so convenient once you set them up. So they're set up and my Mac can SSH to my Linux server with no password, np.

However I just set up netatalk to have an AFP volume. The login for the AFP volume via netatalk is the SSH username:password. So theoretically you'd think it would support the same public key login that SSH supports as well. But Mac Finder always asks for a password. My mount_afp command doesn't seem to work.  "open afp ..." just opens Finder anyway. None of these in this MacWork Link seem to work without a password.

This differs from Automatically mount AFP for Time Machine (without saving a password in plaintext) in that that answer has the server using a password, but then the Mac side pulls that password directly from the keychain.

Any ideas?


texts: why file attachment in oneNote(Mac) is locked and how to bypass it?

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I want to edit file attachment like pdf and txt file in oneNote directly and save all the changes, but all the file attached in the oneNote when opened is automatically locked, I uncheck the lock option but the change not save into the file

How can I solve this irritating issue


texts:
The TouchBar in my new MacBookPro 2017 keeps freezing every time I use it to adjust the brightness of the screen. In order to circumvent this, I need to use the "Force Quit" command,  but is becoming really annoying.

Has this happened to anyone before? How should I fix the problem?


texts: Enable URL rewriting (mod_rewrite) using .htaccess files in ~/Sites on Lion

texts:
I cannot get mod_rewrite to work on Lion. I am developing a number of websites locally, in ~/Sites, using .htaccess files. I am on 10.7.3 and I have not touched any configuration files except for enabling PHP in httpd.conf (which works).

I know there are at least 2 questions about this here, but the solutions detailed there don't work. Nor do the other solutions that I have found on the web. I must be doing something stupid or overlooking something, or else I am probably going crazy, but it's not working.

I've tried all the usual stuff:

In /private/etc/apache2/users/<myusername>.conf, change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All and restart the web server
Additionally, in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf, change any/all occurrence(s) of AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All -- I've tried it in all the various places where these directives are found
Try basically all possible combinations of values for the Options line above/below the AllowOverride line, including the values: Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks All

Always restarting the web server after such a change, of course. None of this works. All my clean urls simply do not work; I get a 404 - not found. Apache's error log just gives me "File does not exist:" errors. So it seems that the mod_rewrite module is not even working at all.

I made sure that mod_rewrite is loaded in the httpd.conf, which it is; it is so by default on a Lion install.

The crazy thing is that everything had been working perfectly -- until I migrated to a new machine running Lion. That is, I am ruling out an error in my .htaccess files because I know it worked before. Also, if it was an error in the .htaccess, I would get some kind of error message from the mod_rewrite module in Apache's error_log, at least telling me that the module itself is being called. But this is not happening.

Am I overlooking something? Do I have to change config settings someplace else? Do I have to change PHP's config? Why are the instructions (like How to activate mod_rewrite on MacOSX Lion and getting mod_rewrite to work on Mac OS X) working for other people but not for me? :)

I've wasted hours on this already. Any help would be VERY appreciated.


texts: Where do you get games for the click wheel iPods?

texts:
I've got an iPod classic, and I can't for the life of me find any of the games that work with it on the iTunes Store.

I know they are there, because I've seen them recently I just can't find them.


texts: How do I move a window whose title bar is off-screen?

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I encountered a strange problem today. I downloaded FileZilla and on first launch the title bar was above my mouse pointer's reach. Making the window unmovable.

Here is a screenshot of my situation.

Is there a way to fix this? I've tried reopening the application and rebooting.


texts: Display scaling on macOS with external 1440p monitor using SwitchResX

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So I'm having the same issue as everyone with 1440p monitor not scaling properly when connected to MacBook. I don't have native scaling options as with apple supported monitors, so I'm trying to do a workaround using SwitchResX.
Did everything as explained in This thread. But after adding a custom resolution and rebooting, the resolution doesn't appear in current resolutions tab and it says Not activated - invalid? What could be the issue?
I have 1440p monitor and the custom resolution that I tried was 3840x2160(Scaled option). Would be thankful for any help.
I have MacBook Pro 13" M1, Lenovo 1440p external monitor connected through HDMI port. (Also ordered DisplayPort to Thunderbolt cable, maybe that could help)


texts: How to read and understand kernel reports?

texts:
When trying to troubleshoot kernel panics and I look at a log, I see these:

0xffffff821bd9b510 : 0xffffff802fd2bda1

I would like to know if there is any possible way of reading these, or interpreting anything from them. And also what their names are.


texts: How to create your own wifi network in mac without internet cable

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I want to create a network in my room with my mac. I have low wifi signal in my room and my ipad cannot detect it but my mac can. However, I am using a retina mac and thus cannot connect the ethernet cable. Is there any way that I could partition my air port to create a network while connected to my home wifi?
FYI I am using a late 2013 retina macbook pro with the OS X mavericks


texts: Apple Configurator V1.4 was working this morning, now quits immediately upon start

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I have a new Mac Mini, OS X 10.8.5 (12F45), just set up this morning.  Downloaded Apple Configurator 1.4 (351).  It worked fine up until about an hour ago, when it started quitting as soon as I start it.  The error message reads, "Apple Configurator quit unexpectedly".

I have rebooted the Mac, deleted and reinstalled the AC, but neither action made any difference.  Seems to be quitting due to an uncaught exception.  Any ideas how to work around this?  Or do I just wait a few days and see if this is magically fixed?  (I.e., a new version is released.)


texts:
I've tried to install Ubuntu (and gave up), but now there's a stuck partition, of 24.22 gigabytes.

The pink shows the partition.

I want to unpartition it, but when I try to delete it, an error shows.

Now, I have 24 unusable gigabytes. I've tried running First Aid on the master disk, but I still cannot reset the partition.

Is there a way to fix this?

Edit: If I try it in recovery mode, it says "The target Core Volume is locked."

The results of diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            96.1 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data UBUNTU                  24.2 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +95.8 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 32D2E33F-8D67-4B7F-8CF5-ADFCB1C01C74
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Seagate Backup Plus ... 999.9 GB   disk2s2


texts: How to set "date added" metadata in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

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The Finder in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion shows a new piece of file metadata, "Date Added," which tracks the date an item was added to a folder.  After upgrading to 10.7, none of the items in my ~/Downloads folder have "Date Added" values.  I'd like to set all the empty "Date Added" values to match the "Date Modified" values, but I can't figure out how to set the "Date Added" attribute to a specific value.

My first guess was this:

xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDateAdded "2012-02-19 16:34:47 +0000" myfile

But that doesn't seem to work (though it doesn't report an error either).


texts: Repair Permissions messed up network preferences

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I ran repair permissions a few days ago, because other accounts on my computer couldn't open system preferences (this problem persists, but I don't care about it very much). What does bother me, however, is that it seems to have messed up numerous network permissions.

Specifically,

My home network is no longer recognized as a "preferred network." When I wake from sleep, my home network is in the list directing me to select a different network. When I direct the computer to join my network, it says "a connection timeout occurred" and then joins anyways. This does not happen on the campus wireless network.
I can no longer connect to my campus VPN. I get an error that the "shared secret" is not available. When I enter the shared secret and apply in network preferences, the shared secret is cleared.

I have already deleted and recreated my login keychain. And as repairing permissions got me into this place, I don't feel it is my way out.


texts:
I use emacs/org-mode which uses color for hiding some of the headlines as is shown here.

This works well with Aquamcas, but when I run emacs in text mode, I still see the stars in the headline as I didn't make the background color exactly the same as the color of the font.

How can I match the text color and background color in Terminal?


texts: How To Fix “Application Is Damaged, Can’t Be Used To Install MacOS” Failure on older Macs

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I hope this post will solve the issue if you run into it.

If you trying to install macOS High Sierra / El Capitan on an older like 2010 / 2011 or older.
You get the Failure-message mentioned above and if you try to create an macOS-USB-Stick and run the installation from it the message is like “MacOS could not be installed on your computer”.


texts: How to migrate email database from Outlook for Mac 2015 to Windows Outlook?

texts:
Recently I found out that there is no option available in order to move your Outlook for mac email database to windows outlook. It a permanent flaw that windows have never worked on. And users like me are deeply suffering from such ignorance. I am here to present my problem of migration and find a suitable and quick solution for this migration issue.

Looking forward for some valuable solutions. Thanks


texts: How can I run a command which will not survive terminal close?

texts:
I want to send a notification in X seconds to future me, but I don't want to send the notification if I closed the terminal.

So let's say I want to send myself a notification in 10 seconds:

yourscript.sh:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 10
terminal-notifier -message "timeout" -ignoreDnD
exit;

If I run:

./yourscript.sh &

I will get what I want, but if I close my terminal (command+w) I'll still get the notification.

I know that if I'll exit the iterm application entirely (command+q) I won't get the notification, but that isn't really what I want.

Anything I can do?

I'm using Catalina (10.15.2)


texts: System freezing during time machine backup in higher performance graphics mode

texts:
Starting in 10.8.x and continuing in 10.9.2, I notice my system freezing when running a time machine backup while "higher performance graphics" are enabled.

When I say "freeze", I mean that the mouse pointer doesn't move anymore, sound stops, no more updates to the screen, no ping anymore, cannot log in via ssh anymore. Only pressing the power button for several seconds turns off the system.

I am still running a 17-inch, Mid 2009 model with two graphics chips, a nVidia 9400M and a 9600M GT. Contrary to newer models, switching between the chips is a manual process that requires logging out and back in. For playing games, I switch to the 9600M GT chip.

I started noticing the system freezing while playing games and running a time machine backup in the background some time last year. At first, I suspected the game I was playing had a bug. With time machine enabled, the system would start freezing shortly after the backup had started. With time machine turned off, no further freezing could be noticed.

One suspicion was that the system may overheat. Just in case, I got a cooling stand. However, today, I had forgotten to switch back to the 9400M and manually triggered a backup. It went fine for hours and suddenly froze when I started using Safari. The system was definitely nowhere near a high temperature or even under significant load at that moment.

There are no freezes with time machine whatsoever when using the 9400M graphics.

The time machine backups are run via WiFi to an external hard drive connected to an AirPort extreme.

So to summarize:

time machine freezes system reproducibly with 9600M GT
temperature does not appear to be an issue
problem started with 10.8.x and continues on a freshly installed 10.9.x (although the 10.8.x data was migrated onto the 10.9.x)
problem does not seem to be related to a particular application

Did anyone make similar experiences?


texts:
I would like to configure Safari to block cookies from specific domains, but looking at the settings I couldn't find any option. Then I searched for extensions that could implement this feature, having no success with that either.

Is there any way to block specific cookies?


texts: Good Linux distribution for Macbook Air and VirtualBox

texts:
I have seen many Linux distributions tried to be used in Macbook Air, for instance.
One custom made of Redhat Linux is one successful port in VirtualBox but it is not public.
However, I would like to know how well other public Linux distributions work with Macbook Air in VirtualBox.

I am thinking these distros

Fedora Linux (Torvalds may use but dislike Gnome3)
Debian Linux (used by many of my Science friends)
OpenSUSE (rejected by Torvalds)
...

Which Linux distributions have adequate support for Macbook Air and VirtualBox?


texts: Increase attachment size limitation with Outlook 365

texts:
I'm having issues with sending large amounts of attachments via Outlook 365 (Home Edition) On OSX. I Can find a ton of information and fixes online for this issue in a Windows environment, or an Exchange environment, But can't turn up any information regarding this issue in OSX.

The issue i'm running into is the same one outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2222370 - But as you can see, there's only information on resolving this issue on Windows. Can anyone shed any light on how i could resolve this under OSX?

Cheers!


texts: Making audio calls on iPhone via Automator in macOS Sierra

texts:
I was using this script by Evan Carmi to make audio calls via my Mac:

on run {input, parameters}
  open location "tel://" & input & "?audio=yes"
  return input
end run

This worked great until I recently updated my Mac to macOS Sierra 10.12.5. Now it returns an error (popup window that says "the action run applescript encountered an error"). The script allows any number to be called from any application (see this).

Does anyone know how to update this script so that it works on macOS Sierra 10.12.5?


texts:
Is it possible to run Adobe Illustrator CS6 with the current Oracle Java 8 rather than the legacy insecure Java 6 provided by Apple?

I know this is related to this question where the generic answer was that it may be incompatible, but I'd like to know if there is some shady hack that makes it run anyway.


texts: Swift is not available for OS X Application?

texts:
I just had a clean install of Yosemite Version 10.10 (14A389), and my Xcode is Version 6.0.1 (6A317). When I create a new iOS project, I can choose languages from Swift and Objective-C. However, when I create a new OS X project, the only option of languages is Object-C. Swift seems to be missing from the OS X Applications. So does Swift only work on iOS, not OS X, or am I missing something and I have to do something to enable it?

Thanks,
Elgs


texts: Is it possible to use a Mac's USB ports remotely through VNC/Remote Desktop?

texts:
A little background: my organization, a hospital, is in the process of rolling out more iOS devices throughout the enterprise and we are provisioning them through Apple Configurator (w/ Cisco Meraki MDM) which has been working well so far.

However, this is mostly a PC shop and there's only one Mac computer for the device provisioning as of right now, so the question was brought to me if there was a way that we could host a Mac server in our data center and have the USB ports "redirect" so to speak from the local machine to the Mac server in order to provision these iOS devices without having to p-card multiple Mac computers?


texts: Unable to access SimpleHTTPServer with ip

texts:
I created a python http server with

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5555

I can access it using http://localhost:5555 but not using http://my-macbook-ip:5555 from a different machine.

I'm on Mavericks and firewall is turned off.

What might be blocking incoming connections to this port? Is there any way to tell my mac to accept http connections on this port?


texts: iPhone Camera app doesn't work but some other apps can still use it

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I have the iPhone X with latest iOS installed.
Original Camera App: Front Camera and Back Camera: Non of them work. Black screen.
Third Party Camera Apps: Same issue.
SnapChat and Instagram: Front Facing camera works!! but not back camera.
I check the "Voice Over" feature some websites were suggesting but I don't have it enabled anyways.
I have also done a “full restore factory settings” and backup/restore too.
So is it still a software issue or is it time to give up on this iPhone's camera?


texts: I currently have a iMac (27-inch, Late 2009, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) which I would like to use as display for a new Mac Pro.  How do I do that?


texts: My iPhone will not turn on. Please give me advice

texts: I bought and iphone 6 in December 2014. Recently it's stopped working. I put it on charge every night before bed, well last night I put it on charge and woke up and my iPhone will not turn on. I have pressed the lock and home button for atleast 30+ seconds and nothing is happening. I've tried leaving it on charge Abit more, and still nothing. It's just a black screen. I've only had my phone for nearly 8 months and I was wondering would Apple fix or replace it? I have a 12 month warranty. I am very curious and I would like some further advice.


texts:
Turning to here after many futile attempts to resolve.

I have an OSX server (10.10.5) which has been hosting a Netrestore image over HTTP without issue for some time now. We replaced our firewall in our network with one from another vendor, which has the exact same network configuration (sans VLANs, though that is a moot point. Read below) and yet since the swap, the Macbooks in our organization cannot see the hosted images. Here is what I am facing:

Systems on same VLAN as the servers (normally not, but doesn't work either way.)
Firewall not enabled on OSX server
All required ports (both UDP and TCP) are reachable on the server
Images are NOT limited to model, and existing machines with known working configurations against the images cannot see them either
Netinstall service has been restarted, images have not changed, services show online
Tried delivering images both over HTTP and NFS
Server is pingable by all machines
TCP dump for bootpd does not show anything hitting the server
Server switched from manual IP config to DHCP but retains same IP, Sub and Gateway

The systems which are trying to reach the server exhibit behavior as if the server is not delivering the image. I'm not sure where to go for the next step at this point, or where to look next. Any thoughts?


texts: How do I ssh to MacBook Pro thru Fios then Time Capsule configured as a Bridge?

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The title explains my configuration. I've done port forwarding on the FiOS router to my MacBook Pro but attempts to SSH from outside produce "network unreachable" (inside my home network SSH works fine).

Is the only way to get this to work by setting the Time Capsule configuration to DHCP & NAT then port forward from FiOS to the Time Capsule then port forward using the NAT configuration on the Time Capsule to the MacBook?

I really want to leave the Time Capsule in Bridge mode because traffic between my TiVo boxes and Macs/iPhone/iPad only work in that configuration.


texts: Time Machine drive takes long time (~5 minutes) to mount on boot

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My time machine backup drive (a Samsung T5, 1TB) is giving me trouble: I noticed that it takes a long time for the drive to show up on my desktop (5 minutes or so) after start or restart. The drive indicator light flashes a lot, showing some kind of activity, but I don’t know what. I checked that it is not doing a fsck. Even stranger is the fact that the drive shows up right away when I plug it in after the boot has completed and I see a normal desktop. Other USB sticks mount and unmount just fine. The troublesome drive shows up right away on a different, much older Mac. The lsof command returns nothing when I try
sudo lsof +D /Volumes/Samsung_T5
The Samsung SSD app, called SamsungPortableSSD.app, shows the drive as disconnected during the slow mount from boot.
Disk Utility shows no errors (sudo time diskutil verifyVolume disk2s2). The drive already has about 750GB of backups on it.
Is there some logging facility I can turn on or browse to see what’s going on during the 5 minutes the drive is flashing without mounting? Is it worth it to try USB logging? What are the risks?
In the meantime, I can browse through the backup files on the Time Machine external drive through the Finder just fine. I would like to be able to preserve all these backups and fix the problem. Is this possible? Or do I really have to erase it all, format, and start over? Or is there an intermediate path where I can preserve maybe five total checkpoints over two years' worth and the rest gets erased? In the end I’d like to get back to normal behavior where the drive shows up right away on start and goes away quickly on shutdown.
Machine: I’m running Big Sur 11.2 on a 12-inch, Early 2015 Retina MacBook.
History:
Initially the drive worked fine for two years even though I didn’t install the driver. The trouble started about two months ago or so during Catalina and got worse with the Big Sur versions. The problem first became visible when the drive didn’t show up right away after boot. Later on, the actual shutdown would take a long time, again maybe five minutes or so. It really got my attention when I got a black screen of death after a long shutdown with an accompanying kernel panic report. Things are much better since I’ve installed the driver: now the drive will always eventually mount after boot (as opposed to almost never) and there are so far no more black screens of death. I can accept slow mount and unmount times, but I'm really concerned about the kernel panics. What risk is there now of kernel panics with an updated driver?


texts: Add colours to output of existing CLI commands

texts:
I would like to create a function / alias that colorizes the output of another command. Is there a best-practice way to do so?

For instance, let's take the alias command, whose output looks something like this:

In the standard bash/zsh, this is all in the same colour. However, I'd like to adjust the output so that the part before the alias itself (the part before the =) is green, and the aliased command (the part after =) is red, for instance.

Obviously, alias is just an example, as I would like to add colours to other commands.

My current solution uses awk:

alias | awk -F"=" '{print "\033[1;32m" $1 "\033[0m=\033[1;31m"$2"\033[0m "}'

I don't find it particularly appealing (especially the colour codes). It also appears that this approach will become much more complicated for more complex commands (e.g. add colour output to top or ps) and also does not seem very maintainable in the long run.

Any ideas on how to make this better / easier ?

PS: I guess this is a Unix/Linux terminal question in general, but since I work primarily on OS X, I decided to start asking here...

EDIT: I now found this answer, that proposes using functions to make awk output look prettier. I'm not sure though if I want to have lots of formatting functions ghosting around my terminal. Still hoping for something cleaner...

Here's their example:

function red(s) {
    printf "\033[1;31m" s "\033[0m "
}

function green(s) {
    printf "\033[1;32m" s "\033[0m "
}

{
    print red($1), green($2), blue($3)
}


texts: Bind each keyboard layout to keys combination

texts:
There is a nice possibility to bind each keyboard layout to separate keys combination and switch between them.

So you can assign, for instance, shortcut Alt-Shift-0 to "Select English", Alt-Shift-1 to "Select German", Alt-Shift-2 to "Select Arabic".

How to make this on MacOS 10.7.4?


texts:
After I updated my iPhone SE to iOS 10.2.1, the battery become really hot without changing it's life.

Are there some new functions that stress the battery? What should I disable to keep the battery from getting hot?


texts:
I would like to add permanent subtitles to a videoclip. I don't want to use .srt files or similar formats, I'd like to attach the text I want to the movie.

Is there a program that can do this easily on the mac?


texts: Is it possible to time adjust push mail on iOS 5?

texts: Is it possible to time adjust push mail on my iPhone? What I want is that the phone automatically adjust the push setting for some time slots a day. E.g. that it should push mail between 9-17, but after 17 it should not push mail for an account. Is there an app for that?


texts: Take webcam picture and screenshot at the same time

texts:
I'm trying to combine these two commands:
while :;do screencapture -x ~/Desktop/$(date +%y%m%d%H%M%S).png;sleep 300;done

and
imagesnap -t 300

I want to make a screenshot and a webcam photo at the same time every 5 minutes. It's my first time using the terminal, so I'm very new to this. It's probably very simple but I just can't figure it out.
Thank you for helping!


texts: Why does my keyboard switch language in most input fields on the web?

texts:
I'm basically using US keyboard as my default, but I also have enabled Czech (QWERTY), which has quite different layout for when I need those special characters.

The problem is, that in the past few days whenever I put focus in a password field in Google Chrome, it automatically switches from the US to Czech and I can't switch back, as it is grayed out.

But once I click out of the password field, I can change it back without any problems. What could possibly cause this? I'm using OS X 10.6.6 on Macbook Pro if that's of any relevance.


texts: With two external displays in Mountain Lion how do I specify where the content of the Desktop is shown?

texts:
I have connected two external displays to a Macbook and have deselected 'Mirror Displays'. The lid of the Macbook is closed, therefore I am using just the larger screens. The contents of my desktop are currently only shown on screen 2.

However, I would like to tell the OS to not show the contents of the Desktop on screen 2, but on screen 1. How can I achieve that?

Sorry, if this is a duplicate, I couldn't find any question about the desktop contents.


texts: Search folder, copy to new folder and change names of the files!

texts:
So I'm trying to recursively search folder, and as you might imagine it will be the "Photos"-folder in MacOS.

And in the process, I would like to change the file name, why you might ask? Because Nextcloud is for some reason changing the image name to year-month-day hour-minute-second $(increment number). So I need to be able to define this starting increment number.

This is what I have so far:

# Lets say that starting increment number should be I=7398
# name="$(stat -f '%Sm' -t '%y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S' "$file").$(ls "$file"|cut -d . -f2)"
# echo $name
find . -type f -iname '*.jpg' -size +500k -exec sh -c '
    for file in "$@"; do
        folder="/path/to/backup/folder/$(stat -f '%Sm' -t '%Y/%m' "$file")"
        echo mkdir -p "$folder"
        echo cp "$file" "$folder"
    done
' sh {} +

This works perfect! But I would like to in the process change the name from the files EXIF data, to be '%y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S {increment number}'.ext, 18-08-15 18-32-29 3453.JPG or whatever it is. Is this possible?

This above script reads a JPG, creates directory of the year the file image was created, created another folder corresponding to the month, copies the file to that year folder.

Expected result: also change name '%y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S {increment number}'.ext


texts: macOS Reminders: every reminder appears twice

texts:
Since I updated my Mac to macOS 10.15 Catalina every reminder which are synchronised via my own WebDAV Server, appears twice in the Notification Center.

Like this:

Before I updated the OS everything was fine; It seems like the competence for showing the reminders moved from the calendar app which shows the first notification to the official reminders app. Is there any way to avoid these double shown reminders without disabling all notifications for the calendar app?


texts: Would a late 2008 MacBook run with 8 GB or RAM if correctly purchased?

texts:
We've got a late 2008 MacBook (already upgraded to 4GB RAM), it's fine -speed wise, but when checking the activity monitor were very close to running out of space -RAM wise.

What I would like to do is upgrade the RAM to 8GB, but checking the Crucial website, it looks like the most RAM I can get in is 4GB. Is this correct or is there a way I can upgrade to 8GB? What would be preventing you using 8GB RAM?