texts: Process Flow Diagams - Chemical Engineering

texts: Can anyone suggest software for making Process Flow diagrams on Mac OS alike the ones available for Windows like Ansys?


texts: Is it possible to remap MAC to treat a certain key combination as a different key. As example, I want to CTRL+P to act as ArrowUp. In Terminal and InteliJ I have it working already as that. However, it becomes surprising to not have the same behavior in other places as well. Hence, to avoid trying to figure out how to remap the key in every app that I use I was wondering whether it was possible to do the remapping at Operating System level for CTRL+P to be treated as a press of ArrowUp.


texts: How can I receive my husbands text messages without him receiving mine? Does it matter is he has the 4s and I have the 5c?


texts: What are the blue dots next to App names in iOS and macOS?

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They disappear once you open the apps and then return to the home screen, but I can't tell what they indicate.

Are they apps that haven't been opened since an app update? Or that it thinks have never been opened (not accurate in my case, but that could be a function of a "restore" confusing the phone).


texts: Unmute audio input (microphone) in OSX programatically

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OSX 10.10.3, also reproducible on 10.8, doesn't seem to happen on 10.11

Reproduction steps

Go to System preferences > Audio > Input
Set input volume to 0 (this is important)
Run this script in Terminal

sudo osascript -e "set volume input volume 100"

This script should set mic to max volume and un-mute it accordingly, but for Mac OS < 10.11, the microphone stays muted, despite of the fact that the input volume bar is now set to maximum.

Edition 2

The following AppleScript works:

tell application "System Events"
    set volume input volume 100
end tell

tell application "System Preferences"
    set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"
       set visible to false
       click radio button "input" of tab group 1 of window "Sound"
       perform action "AXIncrement" of slider 1 of group 2 of tab group 1 of window "Sound"
    end tell
end tell

tell application "System Preferences"
    quit
end tell

But unfortunately it cannot be executed without a permission from user to Accessibility (that requires relatively difficult actions from user).

Edition 3

Tried to kill coreaudiod, VDCAssistant. Kext unload/load is very dangerous and not reliable, shouldn't be considered.

Need help

Can you reproduce it in OSX < 10.11?
Is there any other way to fix this bug? Terminal commands? Triggering some apps? Killing some processes? Modifying some plists? Anything else?


texts: How to ssh in to a blowfish-based server from MacOS Sierra?

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We've got some embedded devices that we need to ssh in to sometimes in order to administer, but the devices' ssh server only supports the "blowfish" cypher.

This has been working okay, except that for MacOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple has removed support for the Blowfish algorithm, meaning that MacOS's built-in command-line ssh client will no longer connect to this device.

Given that we can't (easily) upgrade the embedded device to use a different cypher, what would be our best approach to connecting to this device from a Sierra-based Mac?  Is there some other ssh client we could use instead, or some way to re-enable blowfish support for the built-in client?


texts: Why do ICNS files need to be perfect squares?

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im able to modify .app icons only when the dimensions are perfectly even (eg. 256x256) but not rectangular shapes.

this website allows for exporting png images as icns files in any dimension but they dont seem to work with .app's?

is it possible to modify an app to use a rectangular .icns?


texts: How can I hide google search field in safari?

texts: When customizing safari toolbar I can't get rid of google's search field right next to address bar. Is there any secret preference tweak to achieve this?


texts: Remove entries from finder's context menu?

texts:
Does any one know how can I remove items that I never use from the context menu?

e.g.: Burn "yadda yadda" to Disk...


texts: is there a script to block outbound connection if vpn disconnects?

texts: My vpn service drops from time to time and It reconnects again automatically but my real ip is exposed from the time is disconnects and reconnects which usually takes a couple of minutes.


texts: How can I troubleshoot a WiFi setup that needs close proximity to function?

texts:
My Macbook does not pick up wi-fi signals that my iPhone can pickup.

I have an wi-fi setup at home and the router is in a room. Outside that room - or even in some corners, my Macbook Pro does not pickup wi-fi signal. But my iPhone can still use the wi-fi outside the apartment doors.

Once, I restarted my Macbook Pro while holding Command+P+M (or something like that). It had to do with the PRAM. That is the only hack I tried which I didn't know the full extent of its damages or capablities. Does this affect networking with Airport?

How do I fix this?

EDIT: Maximum RSSI averages -39. This is when I place my router on my keyboard.


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How do I execute commands such as typing out text, onto an unfocused application in the background?

For example, I want to have it type out text in a messaging application while I'm on my browser.

tell application "System Events"
    activate
    delay 4
    repeat y times
        keystroke x
        delay z
        keystroke return

    end repeat

This is a section of the code I'm using, with x, y and z being message typed, times repeated and delay in between respectively. It works well when the window I want it to type in is in front, but how would I change it to allow me to designate the typing to a certain application?

Thanks in advance for any help.


texts:
I have Logic Pro 9.1.8.  Can I update or upgrade this to Logic Pro X?

If so, how, and is there any cost?


texts: Smoke came out of my Macbook Pro, and now it displays a folder with a question mark

texts:
This is bizarre. So I was sitting working on my Macbook Pro (Retina, late 2013 IIRC), the laptop is on the edge of the armrest of the sofa I am sitting on. The Macbook Pro tips forward slightly but I catch it, so it doesn't fall. However that  very instant the screens goes black, but the computer is still on. By the top right I see a little puff of smoke come out. It's so faint I think I've hallucinated it, but I take a look and as I move in closer there's an undeniable burning smell. I turn the laptop off. I try to turn it back on, and it does turn back on, but all it displays is a blinking folder with a question mark. I try booting it in recovery mode (holding down option) but the only available option is Internet Recovery and the Disk Utility claims that there is only about 1.2 GB of space on the whole computer (in total).

I don't understand how my laptop fried itself when all I did was tip it forward about 15 degrees. How is that possible? Can I salvage it?


texts: How to find just deleted files in Time Machine?

texts:
I am going through many old photographs on my Mac, deleting duplicates that have occurred for one reason or another.  However, I realise that I may have deleted the wrong duplicate in some cases.  I have deleted several hundred duplicate photos, across multiple folders.

I have my whole hard drive backed up in Time Machine.  However I don't want to simply restore all the files in Time Machine for my photos folder since I have made some changes since doing the deletion that I want to keep.  There are too many files involved to hunt for them in Time Machine individually.

Is there a way I can identify the files in a folder in Time Machine that do not exist in the current filesystem?  And then a way to restore them.

I think the command line tool tmutil may be helpful but I am not experienced with this.


texts: Bootcamp High Sierra upgrade now not working

texts:
Having some confusion regarding which instructions to follow to fix an issue I'm having with my Bootcamp Installation.

I've had a copy of Windows 8 (not 8.1) installed for a quite a long time which worked fine until I upgraded to High Sierra. Is it still listed as a disk in my Startup Assistant:

However when I restart and boot into it, after a minute or so the Mac will attempt to boot but will get a "No Bootable Device" error.

I'm just wary of following any potential wrong instructions which may compromise my data on either my Mac or Windows disk so any help which would show me the best steps would be great.

Thanks

Edit: See gdisk read out below:


texts: AppleScript: How to open text file and move cursor to specific location (signaled by specific character)?

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I have a .txt file saved on my computer. I want my Automator application to open the .txt file and then move the location of the cursor to the first blank line in the file.

For example, I have a .txt file entitled My Fruit Log.txt saved on my computer. This is what the contents of the .txt file may look like:

So, in the above instance, I want the file to be opened, and then the cursor moved to the second line of the file.

Note: It is not necessarily the second line from the top where I want the cursor to be sent to. Depending on what text has already been written to the file, I might want the cursor on a lower line. For example:

In the above case, I would want the cursor to be moved to the sixth line.

The location where I want the cursor will always be at least the second line from the top, but it could be as far down as the seventh line from the top.

So, the most reliable way to articulate where I want the cursor to be placed is "on the first instance of a blank line in the file."

I already have the code to open the file in TextEdit (borrowed from the top answer of this Stack Overflow question):

set Target_Filepath to POSIX file "/Users/Me/Desktop/My Fruit Log.txt"

tell application "Finder" to open Target_Filepath

Now I need the code to move the cursor. The default location of the cursor is the first line of the file.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  iPad case that blocks buttons

I'm making an app that is supposed to sit in a public space and so I'm looking for an iPad case that can block the home button from the users. Any suggestions?

Bonus: If it has an integrated credit

Thanks,
Teja.


texts: Is it normal for a 15 inch rMBP to get extremely hot during use?

texts:
Sometimes when editing images, creating websites, using Adobe software, my Retina  Macbook Pro, seems to get very, very hot. Not just on the bottom but on the top by the screen as well.

To be more specific, I own a 2013  15" Retina Macbook Pro with a 2.4 Ghz i7.

Is this normal? Could this damage my computer in any way? If so, should I do something to prevent it from happening?


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Everyday when I come back to my system it will be shutoff no matter what I do, if I log out, it'll be shutdown, if I restart it will be shutdown. A grep through the log files shows me this:

2018-03-29 16:06:29.964161-0500 0x4a8      Default     0x0                  0      kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 3
2018-03-29 18:30:34.297536-0500 0x435      Default     0x0                  0      kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 3
2018-03-30 09:42:33.355573-0500 0x420      Default     0x0                  0      kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 3

The 3 means hard reboot (or so I've gathered) but I'm not rebooting my system. Is there a way for me to tell what is causing my reboots or if there is an application that is crashing that could be causing this?

EDIT:

I've figured out that the 3 is a dirty forced shutdown, so this leaves the question, how can I determine what is causing the issue?


texts: Slack not respecting Do Not Disturb on iPad

texts:
I am signed in to multiple workspaces on slack on my iPad, and usually I want a sound + banner notification for messages. But if I am on a call, or sharing the screen, I want them disabled. This should work by just setting the overall "Do Not Disturb" for the ipad: but it seems slack just ignores that, leading to annoying banners throughout my screen-shared presentation. Has anyone faced the same problem? Is there a work-around?
I can set DnD within slack, but then I will have to go and do that for every workspace that I am signed into - which is impractical!


texts: How to autoprocess screenshots with an optimizer such as ImageOptim and then place immediately back in pasteboard (clipboard) for paste?

texts:
I'm not entirely clear on how the screenshot + pasteboard handling on macOS works.  For example, as a user I perceive that when I press <shift-control-cmd-4> I can select a region of my screen and capture this screenshot into the pasteboard.  I then can simply <cmd-v> (paste) this into many applications.  Fore example, if I paste this into most chat applications (Messages, MatterMost, Discord, etc.) it shows up as a PNG file that is then uploaded to the hosting service.

Is there a way method to capture a pasteboard image and then send this to an optimizer (something like ImageOptim that generally get's between 15-25% additional lossless compression out of most screenshots) that can then put this back into the pasteboard for pasting it on into an app for additional seamless lossless compression?


texts: How to disable "Sync Apps" and "Open iTunes when this iDevice is connected" without forcing a sync?

texts: I don't want to lose all the stuff on my device. Any way to stop my iPad from automatically syncing with iTunes when connected to the Mac? I turned these features on when I bought it, but in the long run it's not such a great idea.


texts: For least power usage, should I turn off or put my Mac to sleep?

texts:
If I'm not going to be using my Mac for a while, am I better off shutting it down completely or just putting it to sleep?

Obviously it uses more power to "sleep" than to be off completely, but it uses much more power during the boot up and shut-down stages... Presumably, if I'm going away for a couple of minutes, I'm better of sleeping it, but if I'm leaving it for some longer period I should shut it down completely (assuming I know how long I'll be away for!).

How can I tell when to shut it down vs sleep it?

I'm interested in knowing the answer for a few different, specific models (me/friends/family):

Mac Mini (late 2010)
MacBook Pro 15" i7 (late 2010)
MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo (late 2007)
MacBook 13" Core 2 Duo (mid 2008)

But of course it'd be useful to have some more generic information for others too.


texts: How to fix Catalina install failing with "Some APFS cryptographic state information was unexpectedly unavailable. : (-69461)"?

texts:
When I tried installing Catalina on a MacBook Pro 15" from 2019, I got a screen saying

  macOS could not be installed on your computer.

  Some APFS cryptographic state information was unexpectedly unavailable. : (-69461)
  Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

Retrying didn't fix it. Any ideas?


texts: Google Contacts sync with iPhone 3G (iOS 4) without EAS

texts:
I'm setting up an old iPhone 3G (latest iOS 4.x.x) and I'd like to sync contacts with Google.

Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is no longer an option, and you can't use CardDAV on a pre-iOS 5 device ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4872 , http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2753077 ).

Any ideas?


texts: Clean up old iCloud videos without breaking iOS iMovies

texts:
My daughter takes a lot of videos with her iPad. She has maxed out her iCloud storage, so we need to clean some up (deleting from Photos, maybe archiving to an external hard drive).

Unfortunately, some of them are included in dozens of iOS iMovie videos that she would like to keep. If I just delete the original footage, the iMovie videos will break. (Exporting the iMovies would preserve the final product, but she wants the iMovies to remain editable.)

What's the best way to identify the videos that are safe to delete, or otherwise preserve the iMovie videos? Transferring the footage directly to iMovie would be ideal, but doesn't seem to be possible (videos are linked, not embedded).

My best answer at the moment is a tedious process of manually identifying the videos to keep, one clip at a time. For each clip, we have to watch it and, by trial and error, figure out which item in the Photos library matches. Being able to directly apply a "Favorite" to a clip from iMovie, or even being able see the file name, would be a huge improvement.


texts:
The HDD on my 27 imac Late 2012 has died. Is it replaceable?
At present, I switch on (soundless) and get the white screen which loads up one third and then freezes. I tried Disk utilities which told me my HDD was inaccessible and un-repairable.
If I fit a replacement HDD will I be able to restart, revive, reuse my computer?


texts: What exactly is required for Apple's Find-my-car feature to work?

texts:
My friends and I have noticed inconsistent results with Apple's feature to find your parked car. We've all seen it work sometimes, but not always.

The feature I'm talking about is described here: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/06/14/apple-maps-ios-10-parking/

As I understand it, you must have Car Play or Bluetooth in your car, you must have iOS 10.x or greater, and have Apple Maps installed. Beyond that, how does this work?

I've tried a couple of times lately to test this, making sure that Bluetooth is connected during the trip. After arriving, I can ask Siri: "Where's my car?" and I get:

Sorry, I don't see any saved parking locations.

It seemed to be working reliably for a user with Car Play.  Is that required?


texts: I have a macbook pro retina 13 inch and I am trying to use a Dell monitor as an external display. I have an HDMI cable from the laptop to an HDMI to VGA convertor to the monitor. After some playing around, I finally got the macbook to recognize the external monitor. But, the external monitor still shows nothing. The mac screen changed to a weird square shape that I guess is supposed to be the Dell screen? I'm guessing there is some kind of display setting I need to toggle, but I can't find it. Also, the mouse can go way off the screen on the right side, but nothing appears on the monitor still. It is in "Power save mode". Any help is much appreciated!


texts: Deleting folders in my Desktop using terminal in recovery mode

texts:
Unfortunately, today I wanted to update my operating system from Catalina to Big Sur. I had more than the approx. 12Gb required to installed (if I remember correctly I had around 21Gb available). Later, when only 2 minutes were left to finish the installation I had ´An error occurred preparing the software update - Big Sur´. This ended up in a loop after rebooting as described here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252038616
The problem is that apparently, the installation required way more than those 12G, so the only way I can think of getting out of this is to start in recovery mode, and use the terminal app to delete folders that I have in my desktop. Once this is done I hope the installation of Big Sur will work.
I am now in the terminal (bash 3.2) but I don´t know how to get to my desktop. After I type cd /Volumes I can see via ls that there are the files .fseventsd , Macintosh HD - Data , Macintosh HD and macOS Base System.
I assume that the files and folders in my desktop are in Macintosh HD - Data but I can´t access to it. I tried cd Macintosh HD - Data without result, the prompt out is ´cd: Macintosh: No such file or directory´.
I don´t know how to access the desktop and delete files from there.


texts: rEFInd installation won't boot due to T2 security, despite T2 security being disabled

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I've been trying to install rEFInd with --ownhfs on my Macbook Air 2019, but booting into it results in Recovery Mode starting with the message

A software update is required to use this Startup Disk.

Trying to accept installing the update either immediately fails or fails after updating for about 5 minutes, with the message

An error occurred installing the update.

Curiously, before installing rEFInd I had both SIP and Secure Boot disabled (No Security) and External Boot enabled so macOS should have no reason to complain about an unverified boot, and yet it does. I haven't been able to find solutions anywhere else (all I can find is the same issue but with reinstalling macOS and Secure Boot enabled). Does anyone know possible workarounds or solutions?
Environment:

macOS Catalina 10.15.6 on Macbook Air 2019
rEFInd 0.12.0 from bin, installed as --ownhfs on a 50MB Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) behind Macintosh HD
SIP & Secure Boot off, External Boot on

Other notes:

rEFInd was also reinstalled 2 more times after the first time this happened, but it didn't change anything. rEFInd also had no warnings or errors when installing
Directly booting from the boot device menu (via Option key on boot) into a portable Windows 10 installation on an external hard drive results in a black screen
Both rEFInd and the Windows drive displays as EFI Boot with an internal and external hard drive icon in the boot device menu, respectively
macOS boots normally without issues
EFI volume only contains the APPLE folder, even after installing rEFInd


texts: How to disable phone calls and text messages in iOS / on iPhone?

texts:
I don‘t use mobile phone call and text messaging any longer but I need to keep cellular data / internet running since FaceTime, WhatsApp replace sms and cellular calls with better quality.

To implement that strategy I currently use a secondary sim card from my father. The upside is that it’s entirely free, the downside is that I get his phone calls, too. I plan to move to an individual solution some time in the future, this setting was to test whether or not pure-internet communication mode would be feasible.

Is there any way you are aware of to entirely and cleanly switch off the phone and text-message functions of the iPhone without affecting any other functions?


texts: View the current clock Speed of a CPU in OS X?

texts:
Does anyone know of a utility to see the current speed of the processor?

To be clear, I'm not looking for the model/speed of the CPU, but rather what the CPU is currently clocked at (i.e. it will reduce speed if it overheats).


texts: What product is used in OSX to edit word or openoffice documents and also works with PDF?

texts: I want to be able to copy portions of PDF file and paste into another document like MS Word format document. The important thing is that any portion that is copied must preserver original formatting fonts etc. when it is pasted into my document. So what product is out there on the writing side and what product is out there on the PDF side?


texts: How to auto-accept cookies notifications as mandated by EU law?

texts:
EU law forces websites to notify visitors about the use of cookies. Clicking on these messages is quite a nuisance. I've found a plugin on  https://cookiesok.com but this is only available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

Does anybody know of something similar for Safari? Or other means to accomplish the same?


texts:
TextEdit is not working.  I have tried reinstalling but every time i am getting

  You can't open the application TextEdit because it may be damaged or
  incomplete.

message. i dont want to reinstall mac os x. i am using 10.6.8 os x. I also referred Apple Support Communities post.


texts: Adjust width of spacer between Mac OS dock icons

texts:
Many of you might know that it is possible to add a spacer to the Mac OS dock icons with:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'
$ killall Dock

but the problem is, I find them a bit wide by default. I do understand the size of the space is the same as an actual icon but I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to adjust the space of those spacers

An image of the spacers I'm talking about can be found here


texts: How do i upgrade my Ipad to a specific software without a computer?

texts: I have an Ipad that has ios 9.3.3 as the software version and i need your help because i want to update only to ios 11 and to update to ios 12, it says i need a computer so I need your help


texts: iOS8 how can I reduce the amount of system alert dialogs that I'm being asked?

texts:
Since upgrading to iOS8 I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the number of system dialogs that iOS randomly asks me.

location in background
set up family sharing
another email address added to another device
etc, etc, etc.

I find it really frustrating when I reach for my phone to take a picture and there's an alert dialogue sitting on top of the screen, it feels like I'm interacting with Windows 95.

Is there a way to reduce amount of popups and alert dialogues that iOS8 asks the user?


texts: Use internal speakers with others plugged into headphones jack

texts:
I have a set of surround speakers, connected to my iMac through the headphone jack. I use a switch to control what goes to the speaker set (iMac, iPod, or MacBook/aux). So that I don't have to be constantly unplugging and replugging, I leave the audio cable in the iMac's audio port. This means that when I'm listening to something from another source, I can't hear anything from the iMac unless I unplug the cable.

Is there a way to force sound to come out of the internal speakers, even if there's something in the audio out port?


texts: Where in the file system is my shared folder? (AKA: Where is /Volume, and Why Can't I Open It in Finder?)

texts:
I want to run a bash script periodically to track the size of a shared drive on my network. The command that produces the data I want is du -sh. I have created a Login item to mount the shared drive when I login using System Preferences. I mount the drive as follows:

cifs://raspberrypi3b.local/passport2tb/data_lib

I have tried numerous variations for specifying the folder location for du, but none of them work properly. I get the following error message:

  du: //raspberrypi3b.local/passport2tb/data_lib: No such file or directory

It seems there is no folder path specification that du (or bash) can find. Yet, I know the share is mounted. I can get the stats using File, Get Info in Finder  (commandI).

Where in the file system is my shared folder?


texts:
When I'm alone, I unplug my headset and let the sound output from the load speaker of my iMac, and when there are other people around, I plug in the headset in order to not bother people around me. I found myself keep plugging and unplugging my headset. What's worse is the headset jack of the iMac is on the back side of the screen.

Now I'm hoping that I could keep my headset plugged in all the time, and there would be a software switch to control the sound should be output from either load speaker or the headset. But I don't know if it is possible with a Mac. It seems to be possible with Windows, but I'm not sure. Anyone has any idea will be greatly appreciated.


texts: How can I read markdown files with QuickLook?

texts:
I would like to be able to read markdown (.md) files with Quick Look. Unfortunately, it just appears like this:

Is there any way that I can be able to see the contents of this file? I don't care whether it's in rendered or unrendered format, just that I can see it somehow.


texts: Paraview not accessible from other accounts

texts:
I'm administering some Mac Minis for our workgroup. I recently needed to install Paraview, but ran into some problems I still couldn't resolve.

When installing Paraview 5.1.2 from it's .dmg file by moving the icon onto the Application folder, it ends up in /Applications. For this installation I used the only local account stsadmin, which surprisingly is an admin account. I can start the application, so everything seems to be fine.
When I log in with another account, which in our case are network accounts, I can't open Paraview.

  You do not have permissions to open the application "paraview".

I then checked the permissions:

$ ls -adl /Applications/paraview.app/
drwx------  3 stsadmin  admin  102 Jul 27 02:30 /Applications/paraview.app/

When I look at some other apps like VLC, this app belongs to root/wheel instead of stsadmin/admin.

Questions are:

Is this problem caused by paraview? Or did I use the wrong installation process?
How to fix it? chown? chgrp? If so, what is the correct user/group?


texts: Since upgrading my iPad all the books are gone from my library yet when I go to iTunes it shows the books I purchased. Am I going to have to download them again?


texts:
Are scheduled reminders supposed to show up in Calendar.app if both are using icloud?

PS: iOS 7.0.4, OSX Mavericks


texts: Requirements difference between Yosemite and Sierra

texts:
I have a late-2009 iMac which seems to have held up pretty well, especially since upgrading the RAM to 12GB.

I only fairly recently updated the OS to Yosemite after running Lion for so many years.

The OS update my have made my Mac a little slower, but if so then not by a great deal. But I could probably do with updating again — to Sierra — as certain programs require a more recent OS than what I have.

I am a bit concerned that running Sierra will put too much of a strain on my machine... or are the requirements not a whole lot different to any other versions of OS X over the last 5 years or so?


texts: MacBook Pro Retina screenshot in higher resolution than the native?

texts:
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro Retina. The native (i.e. maximum supporter built-in display resolution) is, as far as I know, 2880x1800. So far so good. Then I went to resolution settings and slided it all the way right, to the highest offered by the system. No other resolution apps, just the standard OS X setting.

I took a screenshot (shift-command-3). Clicked on it and chose Get Info.

The resolution of the picture was 3588x2276.

The Photoshop shows the same resolution.

How can this be?


texts: How to get external Apple keyboard to accept modifier key input from Macbook's internal keyboard (and vice-versa)?

texts:
I just bought an older Apple keyboard, with the idea that I could use it in conjunction with my internal Macbook Pro keyboard as a substitute for buying a keyboard that's capable of splitting into two pieces.  The idea is that I should be able to put my right hand on the external keyboard and my left hand on the internal keyboard and type as usual.

I plug the external keyboard in and I can type just fine.  The problem comes when I try to use any sort of key combination with both keyboards at the same time.  For example, when I hit the control key on the internal keyboard and the 'e' key on the external keyboard, I would like for the cursor to move to the end of the line but, instead, a lower-case 'e' shows up onscreen.  When I hold the shift key on the external keyboard and hit the 'a' key on the internal keyboard, rather than seeing an upper-case 'A' appear, I get a lower-case 'a'.

I rely heavily on keyboard shortcuts, macros, and emacs, but besides that, it doesn't make much sense for me to type with using both keyboards if I have to move both hands to one keyboard whenever I want to use an emacs key binding or type a capital letter.

Is there a way to make one keyboard accept modifier key input from the other?  Ideally, I should be able to hold a modifier key on either keyboard and type another character from either and have OSX recognize a keystroke combination.

Keyboard:  A1048 (not a new one)
Macbook Pro:  MacBookPro8,2; 15-inch; Late 2011; Mavericks 10.9.2

(Unnecessary backstory for the curious:  I'm trying to avert the carpal tunnel I feel coming on from programming on my Macbook keyboard alone.  I'm a pretty wide-shouldered, wide-chested guy and the position I have to take to get my hands close enough together to type on the keyboard has me, essentially, contracting my hand laterally such that the outsides of my palms and my forearms form a 135-degree angle, which is horrible posture.  I need to be able to spread my arms farther apart.)


texts: Stuck at full bar, in logo screen after system restore from TM backup

texts:
My machine is a 2015 13" MB Pro.

A couple of days ago, out of the blue, while it was operating normally, suddenly it got the "Black screen with a folder icon blinking"

I got a new compatible SSD, fresh installed Catalina, and everything worked fine.

Then I proceeded to restore the system from a TM backup. The restore process went fine, and completed successfully.

The problem is that when the system boots, with the backup external drive removed, the bar in the logo screen loads really slow in the last 1/3, and then after it seemingly fully loads, it gets stuck there.

I have tried disk repair, which completed with no errors, I even tried to restore from an older backup, but the problem remains. Note, that new installations of the OS work fine.

Right now I have booted in verbose mode and the last lines are these:

ALF, old data swfs_pid_entry <ptr> updaterules_msg <ptr> updaterules_state <ptr>
DK: AppleUserUSBHostHIDDevice-0x100000382 user server timeout
DK: AppleUserUSBHostHIDDevice-0x100000385 user server timeout
IOUSBHostInterface(0x100000385): matching deferred by IOUSBHostHIDDevice


texts: How remove weather from today view in os X notification center?

texts:
In my notification center in os x, I have disabled the weather widget. But still, under 'today' there is weather information. The weather widget itself still shows as disabled though!

How to completely remove weather info from the notification center?


texts: Is mp3 transfer for Windows iTunes / iPhone 4s slow?

texts:
I'm about to buy iPhone 4S, I'm curious about how fast is mp3 transfer (since I like a lot of music). And I'm using Windows. Is it a LOT slower than common direct USB transfer like on mp3 devices or is it "ok" speed?

And I'm using my own mp3s I have on my HDD.


texts: How can I sync Reminders with Google Tasks?

texts:
I was looking for a way to sync my reminders from Google Calendar with the reminders app in iOS 5.

I have Google Sync set up, and on my "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" settings page, it says "Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders" are being synced with Google Sync, but reminders created on the gmail tasks (or google calendar tasks) do not show up on the phone, and vice versa.

What can I do to get them to sync?

--update:

Macworld says:

  You can also save your tasks to Google Calendar or Exchange servers,
  which then handle the syncing separately.

But it doesn't say how to do it...


texts:
we have on our Macs a security policy which actiavates for all users FileVault2 and also but also has a max. attempt to unlock the mac to 10.
So this is working fine until a user enters more than 10 times a wrong password to login into his Mac. As a result his Account is beeing deactivated.

So we have the Recovery-Key and are able to reset the Password of the user, but even with the new password he only gets over the first login but on the second login (disk decryption) neither his old password as his new password are not beeing accepted. So the user can't login to his account anymore.

Is this working as designed from Apple, or are we doing anything wrong? How its possible to re-active a user account if we have the Recovery-Key?

We are using the current version of Catalina(10.15.x) and on the Mac there is only 1 Admin-Account (no AD connect)

Does anyone has an idea how to fix this?


texts:
I wrote a cron job to do backups over wifi to another computer. It works perfectly when I'm using the machine, but I prefer to schedule it at night when I'm not using it. The first step is to ping the backup server once and fail the whole script if that step fails.

It consistently fails. :(

I've got Energy Saver set to never sleep (when plugged in).

Does OS X always put the wifi to sleep after a certain time or something? Does it not wake it up for cron jobs? Or maybe it does, but I just need to wait for it to connect?

Update: @bmike asked about my pmset -g log output. I use terminal-notifier to send a notification.

2015-05-13 16:05:23 -0700 Assertions            PID 56(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventDisplaySleep "com.apple.powermanagement.delayDisplayOff" 00:09:22  id:0x100000032b [System: DeclUser IntPrevDisp kDisp]
2015-05-14 00:00:01 -0700 Assertions            PID 552(NotificationCen) Created DisplayWake "com.apple.notificationcenter.sleeping-note" 00:00:00  id:0xe00000bc1 [System: DeclUser DispWake kDisp]
2015-05-14 00:00:11 -0700 Assertions            PID 552(NotificationCen) Released DisplayWake "com.apple.notificationcenter.sleeping-note" 00:00:10  id:0xe00000bc1 [System: DeclUser kDisp]


texts: Is there a way to change the default camera app launched from the iOS5 lock screen?

texts:
In iOS 5 the lock screen can access the camera app.

Is there a way to change the default app that is launched. I would rather use instagram for its social media connections and filters.


texts: Do we still need to terminate the display port with Catalina?

texts:
Thank you for the hint about getting better resolution options by holding down the Option key in the Display Prefs on the Mac Mini.
The hard drive on our network-only Mac died and it lost all of its settings and I couldn't get it back to nearly as large as it used to be.  I also went ahead and upgraded from Sierra to Catalina in the process.  We only use it for QuickBooks, which allows our CPA and Bookkeeper and my wife and I to log in remotely and we were lost when that HD failed.
My only remaining question is whether we still need to terminate the display port with Catalina, or perhaps they snuck a firmware update in there where the cursor doesn't slow down to a crawl? I bought a couple of those from OWC after failing to create my own and still have one plugged in.  Does it still need it?  I haven't had time to extensively test, but just thought I'd ask since I didn't notice a huge difference with it out.
Thanks again for the sharp minds here (Everett) who knew about this option trick. Saved me tons of eyestrain and annoyance!


texts: Apple Script - append text to note with new line

texts:
I am having a little trouble appending Text to a Apple Note.

set AppendedText to (the clipboard)

###################################

tell application "Notes"
    tell account "iCloud"
        tell folder "Clipboard"
            set OriginalText to the body of every note -- There's only one note in this folder
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

# the OriginalText variable represents the text of the note in HTML form
###################################

tell application "Notes"
    tell account "iCloud"
        tell folder "Clipboard"
            set body of every note to {"
" & OriginalText & "

" & AppendedText & "
"}
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

The only problem is that if I copy text with line breaks, indented sections, and other line formatting, such as the following text...

tell application Notes
    tell account iCloud
        tell folder Clipboard
        blah blah blah
end tell
    end tell
end tell

...and then run the script, the text is appended like this: tell application Notes tell account iCloud tell folder Clipboard blah blah blah end tell end tell end tell

How do I preserve the line formatting of the appended text? Presumably this involves the use of HTML tags

(Also, I DO want all the text to formatted as 18 points in size, as shown in the script.)


texts: I think many of us have been disappointed with the effective demise of fseventer.  What is a good dtrace shell based alternative to fseventer that will display all full paths of files being accessed for a defined application?


texts: Automating Logging Into OS X After System Restart

texts:
Background

I have a bunch of OS X Yosemite Mac Minis that are used as slaves by a Jenkins master machine to run Selenium tests using Google Chrome.

These slave machines get restarted on a daily basis.

Problem

After the restart, the machines are at a login screen asking for a username and password. Running Google Chrome remotely on the machines fails until a manual login is performed.

Is there a way to automate this login?

Things I have tried

Executing a login script remotely on the Mac Mini using ssh root@<macmini-address> "bash -s" < ./login.sh where login.sh contains the following:

#!/bin/bash
osascript <<EOF
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "<replace with user>"
keystroke tab
delay 0.5
keystroke "<replace with password>"
delay 0.5
keystroke return
keystroke return
end tell
EOF

This results in the following error:

33:49: execution error: An error of type -10810 has occurred. (-10810)

Sending the above AppleScript to the Mac Mini through Apple Remote Desktop (ARD).

This works but on some occasions, ARD is not able to send the script over to some Mac Minis showing a 'Client Software Not Active' message in the ARD status column.


texts: What is stored in the NVRAM that could cause my Macbook Pro to fail to detect sound output devices?

texts:
My Macbook Pro (2016, 4 thunderbolt 3 ports) has this very annoying problem where something breaks in the audio system, and it stops playing sounds and being able to detect any output devices. It's doesn't seem to be random, but I don't know what causes it.

More specifically, it stops playing any sound whatsoever, regardless of the volume setting and which output device is selected. Then if you try plugging in a new output device in that state, it doesn't recognise it. In this state, if you try clearing audio-related caches, or rebooting coreaudio or AppleHDA, it just loses the output devices it had registered, and still can't detect new ones.

The only action that fixes the problem is reseting the NVRAM. This suggests that it's possible for the NVRAM state to become broken in a way that audio playback stops working, and new audio output devices can't be recognised anymore.

So.. why?

What exactly is stored in the NVRAM that could have this effect? I couldn't find any comprehensive list of what is stored in the NVRAM, instead the only things that are confirmed is that volume and screen aspect ratio are stored there. I still have some hope that by knowing this I may discover the exact actions that cause the NVRAM to get to the broken state, so that I may avoid it. Having to reset the NVRAM often is awful, since it requires a reboot.


texts:
I have recently downloaded iSH from TestFlight, that I have downloaded from the App Store, and I can’t use the command ‘man’, it returns me an error.

-ash: man: not found

Is there an alias or can’t we use this command at all?

The curl command doesn’t work too.


texts: Safari not accepting website certificate

texts:
I've been using an internal website at work without any issues until today when I received the error message:

  "Safari can't open the page "https://...". The error is: "The server "..." did not accept the certificate." (NSURLErrorDomain:-1205)

I've looked in my Keychain to see if there was a certificate that I could delete and re-add, but nothing shows up there matching the URL of the website. I've fixed this problem once in the past (accidentally) by deleting my entire keychain and starting over but I didn't mean to do it the first time and I'd rather not do it again.

The website does load without an issue in other browsers without any errors/warnings. It's just Safari that's barfing.

Has anyone else seen this? Know how to fix it?


texts: Mac mini FusionDrive - “No CoreStorage Logical Volume Groups Found”

texts:
I can't figure out how to correct this at this point. I’m hoping someone here can point me in the correct direction.
I have posted my terminal outputs below for diskUtil list and diskUtil cs list.
@MacMini ~ % 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_APFS Container disk2      121.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER
   0:    GUID_partition_scheme             *1.0 TB    disk1
   1:             EFI EFI            209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_APFS Container disk2      1000.0 GB  disk1s2

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER
   0:    APFS Container Scheme -            +1.1 TB    disk2
                  Physical Stores disk0s2, disk1s2
   1:         APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data    58.4 GB   disk2s1
   2:         APFS Volume Preboot          83.2 MB   disk2s2
   3:         APFS Volume Recovery         528.8 MB   disk2s3
   4:         APFS Volume VM            3.2 GB    disk2s4
   5:         APFS Volume Macintosh HD       11.0 GB   disk2s5

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER
   0:    GUID_partition_scheme             *8.0 TB    disk3
   1:             EFI EFI            209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:          Apple_HFS Adult Entertainment    2.0 TB    disk3s2
   3:          Apple_HFS Room4Activities      6.0 TB    disk3s3

@MacMini ~ % diskUtil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
@MacMini ~ %


texts: Unable to eject disk images or drives in High Sierra

texts:
I am running a MacBook Pro Early 2015 13" on High Sierra 10.13.5, and keep getting the "X disk cannot be ejected because one or more programs might be using it" message, when apparently there is no program using that disk (not even Dropbox, Preview).

It happens sometimes when I try ejecting  an external thunderbolt Drive, and always when ejecting any .sparseimages
I only managed to "solve" this issue and be able to eject the disks by going into Terminal and "respringing" Finder:

killall Finder

However, I find this solution really inconvenient considering how often I use External Drives and disk images.

I would appreciate if anyone knows any other possible cause or solution, or if my solution is better than forcing the disk to eject.

Edit: After checking what processes were running, it seems there are  "cloudd",  "diskimage" and "QuickLookUIService" processes using a video file from the sparsedisk that are preventing me from ejecting the mounted sparseimage.

Thanks


texts: How can I use AirPlay to watch on the television, but audio through my headphones?

texts:
I have been using Netflix (for example) on my phone with headphones, but then I realized I would have a better experience watching it on the TV, but keep the audio on the phone.

Is there any way to project a video (only) onto the Apple TV, and keep the audio on my iPad/iPhone/Mac?

... I'll contrast this with OS X, where I'm able to airplay and switch between headphones and TV speakers just by plugging in headphones.

In addition there is this Midi control panel where I can configure outputs:


texts: Does battery condition have anything to do with macbook pro performance?

texts:
Hello I'm using a mid 2015 MBP.

My battery lasts 1-2 hours now, I got this text Condition: Replace Soon on the battery icon.

Other stuff are my computer sometimes heats up, gets really slow and fans start working extra hard while working on basic stuff, like running Chrome. I have to close the lid, let it rest a bit then continue where I left off.

Could this have anything to do with battery or could it be something else?

I'm a developer and I need a lot of software open at all times without my computer lagging on me. But I also do not prefer to get one of the new macbooks if a simple battery change will fix this problem.

So is battery condition the reason for poor MBP performance?


texts: What is memory pressure, and how do I relieve it?

texts:
I have had my machine for more than a year now, and I'm looking at Memory Pressure in the Activity Monitor.

What is this memory pressure and How do I "relieve" this memory pressure from my system?

I've done reboots, and it shows clear for a while, but eventually builds back up.


texts: Changing keyboard command for retrieving mouse cursor coordinates

texts:
From what I've understood, ⇧ + ⌘ + 4 is the way one currently gets Mouse Cursor Coordinates in macOS.

I use this combination for something else. Is there a way to change the keyboard command for retrieving the Mouse Cursor Coordinates? I tried looking in Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts, but didn't find anything.

Perhaps then, the keyboard command could be edited with something like Karabiner?

If the keyboard shortcut is not editable, is there a good and simple stand-alone tool for retrieving coordinates?


texts:
My first Problem: For some reason the Applescript Editor is not able to pick up events when recording from Keynote'09 (I already turned on the acessibility options). The Editor stays blank for all actions I perform. It works perfectly for things like Finder though.

The resulting problem: I still want to tell Keynote to export presentations so I made this Script:

set thisFile to "/Users/ks/Desktop/test.key"
tell application "System Events"
    tell application "Keynote"
        activate
        open thisFile
        set frontmost to true
        click menu item "Export&#8230;" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
    end tell
end tell

This script will choke on the last line (the one with "click menu item") when being saved saying: "expected end of line but found class name" and "menu item" will be highlighted. I don't know how to fix that. Any suggestions? I see code all over the web doing the exact same thing. Is this a version Issue because its Keynote '09?


texts: Tools to monitor App files write activity under OS X

texts: What tools can be used to monitor system activity under OS X? I am interested in which files are modified or created while using a specific app, Safari to be exact. I am familiar with fs_usage, but I find it cumbersome, since I do not want to monitor read actions, just write.


texts: How can I manually change default applications in OS X?

texts:
I'm facing an issue with Transmission's "Set Default Application" button - it seems to do nothing. Magnet links still don't work, so this feature is broken for me. I have been able to use Magnet links with uTorrent prior to switching to Transmission, so I know there's no issue there.

Is there an app or any manual way to set/change protocol associations without having to use the target application to set it?

I'm using Transmission 2.42 (13013) running on OS X Lion 10.7.2.


texts:
I had the unfortunate luck of getting the infamous flashing question mark folder when I booted up my 2012 macbook pro. I have never used timemachine before, so I can't call backups. So i've been following a guide I found on apple website that told me how to backup my HDD contents to an external hard drive, as detailed here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204323

I've already followed it to reinstall the Mountain Lion OS on my external HD. But when I got to the migration assistant part to copy my files on HDD to external by selecting "From another disk", it can't find my HDD and is stuck on loop for "select the source".

What should I do to get past this stage? Thanks!


texts:
I have difficulty figuring out how to upgrade a MacBook Air to Big Sur.
macOS Catalina - Version 10.15.6 - MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012) - Processor 17. GHz ... - Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 - ...

downloaded some beta-enabling package from developer.apple.com
the "Software Update" program shows that the computer is enrolleD in the "Apple Developer Seed Program."
I tried for several days in a row now, but it does not ask me for an upgrade to Big Sur
Instead, updating to 10.15.6 is advertised.

I want 11 and new to Apple, I've never used a Mac before (well, OK, once or twice in 1995...)
It's not at all obvious how to upgrade this to 11. What steps might I be missing?


texts: Can Time Machine backup two HDDs to Time Capsule?

texts: I have two physical harddrives in my Mac.  One is an SSD with the OS and apps.  The other is a 1TB HDD for media. Can I setup time machine to backup both drives to time capsule?


texts: Why does my zsh program run fine in terminal, but not as an automator app?

texts:
I got a mac last week and am trying to learn the basics by coding a few projects I came up with. I've been creating a few apps I can place on the dock that automate simple functions that I use often. So far, all my programs have worked by creating a zsh script and getting Automator to 'Run Shell Script', however this particular program isn't fully working, although, if I run my program through terminal, it works perfectly.
I'm trying to create a program that can be executed after a YouTube url has been copied into the clipboard. The program takes the url and runs it through 'youtube-dl' and downloads the audio into the Downloads folder. I tried to learn how to do this from Z shell alone, but I was very overwhelmed with it and I decided to use python which I already know.
Here's what I'm doing:
My Python3 code:
import os

url = os.popen("echo `pbpaste`").read()
os.system("youtube-dl -f 'bestaudio[ext=m4a]' '"+url+"'")

My zsh file:
#!/bin/zsh

cd /Users/admin/Downloads
python3 /Users/admin/Documents/Scripts/Automation/ytGetAudio/ytGetAudio.py

I then made it executable with "chmod +x /Users/admin/Documents/Scripts/Automation/ytGetAudio/ytGetAudio.zsh"
When I run my program from the terminal, everything works great, and the file is downloaded into Downloads, but when I use Automator to "Run Shell Script" and I get it to run the same zsh script it doesn't download anything. I tested it by creating a pop-up message box in the python script; that worked, so the script is running, but something isn't working because nothing is downloading when I run the '.app' file.
Can anyone please help me with this?


texts: Search for multiple keywords in Safari (on iOS or OS X)

texts:
I'm looking for a way to search for multiple keywords on Safari. I assume it's not really possible on iOS but I'd love to be able to do it on OS X at least.

Based on this link I've found some great examples of what I want, but those are for Firefox or Chrome, not Safari. Do you all know of any Safari-friendly alternatives?


texts: Terminal command that gives the type of computer you're on

texts:
I am running MATLAB code on two different computers, both with the same username.

I would like to distinguish between the two Macs by having the code identify that one system is a desktop, and the other a laptop.

Is there a Terminal command that will print the type of computer I am using (so I can implement the relevant function?)


texts:
Basically I want firefox to open URLs starting with "ssh://whoever@wherever" using iterm2.

Unfortunately I didn't pay attention - the first time I tried this, Mac Os suggested to use Terminal, and stupid me also clicked the checkbox to remember that setting. Now I can't figure how to undo/change that decision.

I have seen this question - but unfortunately that one is 7 years old and seems to be outdated (my preferences->profile window doesn't look at all like the one shown in the existing question).


texts: ExFAT partition on External HDD not showing up on Bootcamp Windows 7

texts:
So I partitioned one of my external HDD's for my bootcamp windows, just so I could install some Windows files without having to resize my partition by erasing it and reinstalling. Using disk utility on the Mac side, I partitioned it to be half Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the other half ExFAT.

Both drives show perfectly well on my Mac, but when I boot in windows, it only shows my read-only Mac OS Extended partition and when I open the partition display in windows, it says that there is only one partition (unknown) and it is all unallocated.

Also, it already has files on the mac side so I don't really want to reformat if possible.

--
Macbook Pro Late 2013 13" Intel i5 256GB


texts: hfs-bless / Booting into MacOS / Windows directly from Ubuntu (triple boot, MacPro 4,1 -> 5,1)

texts:
Currently I have MacOS High Sierra, Windows 10 (Legacy, not EFI), and Ubuntu 18.04 triple-booting on a 2009 MacPro 4,1 (firmware upgraded to 5,1). I installed Ubuntu after Windows using the procedure described here. All three operating systems boot normally using Apple's Startup Manager (holding ALT during bootup). My question is, how do I boot directly into Ubuntu, Windows 10, and MacOS HS from each of the other partitions?

I can use the terminal to boot directly into Windows 10 or Ubuntu from MacOS using the following commands (output of diskutil list at bottom of post for reference). For Windows 10:

sudo bless --legacy --device /dev/disk0s4 --setboot --nextonly && sudo reboot

and for Ubuntu EFI:

sudo bless --device /dev/disk0s5 --setboot --nextonly && sudo reboot

But is there an equivalent terminal command to "bless" my MacOS or windows partition from Ubuntu 18.04? I'm aware of 'hfs-bless' in mactel-utils, but this does not appear to support Ubuntu 18.04 (only previous Ubuntu versions). Is it possible to install mactel-utils in Ubuntu 18.04? If not, is there an Ubuntu equivalent of MacOs' "Startup Disk" or bless so that Ubuntu will restart into my Windows 10 or Mac partition?

Output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            1.5 TB     disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                290.3 GB   disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Ubuntu                  200.3 MB   disk0s5
   6:                 Linux Swap                         8.0 GB     disk0s6
   7:           Linux Filesystem                         201.5 GB   disk0s7


texts: Removing the automatic connection for 802.1X via terminal

texts:
So in the spirit of this question I was wondering if it is possible to disable automatic 802.1X connection via terminal as well.
Am I right to assume that this is a computer setting (meaning that if I run this script with no user logged in it still disables it for all existing and future users)?


texts: Apple tv (3rd Gen): display album covers immediately

texts:
I've recently started using an Apple TV 3rd gen. It's mainly a way to broadcast Spotify and Netflix from my phone. One thing that is starting to bug me a bit is the fact that, when I start playing a song via Airplay, it takes several minutes for the Apple TV to switch from the homescreen to full-screen album cover display.

I'd prefer for it to switch to that immediately. Alternatively, I wouldn't mind pressing some key combination on the remote, or for it to switch to an all-black screen instead. The main point is that I don't want to stare at the homescreen with all it's colourful apps and 'Top movies' for several minutes.

Is there a way to configure this behaviour?


texts: Automatic time synchronization sets the time incorrectly - 6 seconds off

texts:
Automatic time synchronization sets the time with a difference of 6 seconds from the real time.
How is this possible? I probably set it wrong somewhere. But I can't figure out where.
If I set the automatic time synchronization in the system settings, the time becomes inaccurate. I've tried two servers time.apple.com and pool.ntp.org.
I've tried running the commands:
% sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com
+6.140727 +/- 0.000153 time.apple.com 17.253.38.125
% sudo sntp -sS pool.ntp.org
+6.122656 +/- 0.045479 pool.ntp.org 193.192.36.3

Using the sntp command and the system settings window I was able to set the time more or less accurately manually.  I do not know how to set the time to an accuracy of less than one second.
I have no need to set the time accurately. But, my connection to Binance does not work. For some reason unknown to me, Binance requires sending accurate timestamp when working with site via REST API. And with time difference of 6 seconds, my requests are not executed.
Current operating system version Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91). As far as I can judge from the system settings, the connection to the Internet is via my home wifi router directly to the ISP without any additional proxy servers.


texts: Do you need an @icloud.com email to get @icloud.com email aliases?

texts: If you sign up for an Apple ID with a non-apple email account (gmail, etc.) can you still sign up for iCloud email aliases (alias@icloud.com)?


texts: How does iOS 5 decide which home screen to put new icons on?

texts:
I currently have an iPad running iOS 5. There are three home screens, which, for simplicity, I'll call A, B, and C.

A has 7 apps and one folder.
B has 9 apps.
C has 10 apps, one folder, and newsstand (whether that's an app or a folder I don't know).

Whenever I install a new app from the app store, it installs on B. If I move a bunch of apps from C to B so B is full, the new app installs on C.

It seems like apps will never install themselves on A. Is this correct?


texts: Odd (potentially DNS) network problems on my Macbook Pro (VPN / Network Connect related)

texts:
I was reluctant to ask a new question as there appears to be a million dns related questions on here and elsewhere already, but, I think mine might be a bit different.

An example, right now I am writing this on my Macbook Pro, connected via wifi to my Billion router and I cannot browse/ping/trace wikipedia.org. BUT, my iPhone, connected via wifi to the same router, can.

I have tried using the router provided DNS (Google) on my Macbook (ie, network settings gives my router IP for DNS server) and I have over ridden the DNS with Google DNS and OpenDNS but with zero help.

When I take my Macbook into the office, I connected via wifi to our Airport there and 50% of the time, will need to restart my Mac before it can browse.

This appears to be port 80 only! I have never had problems with other services, torrent, skype, app store (not sure what port that uses) - although, these could just be in the group of sites/services that I can access - note I am writing this on the problematic machine, so this site is fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm desperate to fix this.

BTW - I did read this: I cannot connect to internet but my MacBook Pro detects the network and my HP computer works fine on the same network but note that I have no proxies selected.

Thanks!

EDIT - I just noticed while looking at other questions, that people did not have their router address as a DHCP-provided DNS server in their network prefs. So, I logged into my router and disabled 'use router as DNS server' and then added Google's primary and secondary servers to the router. My machine now shows the Google servers but the problem persists.

EDIT #2 - A client has a VPN that I connect to using Juniper Network Connect. Rebooting my machine fixes all network issues, but the second I open Network Connect, it kills it. BUT, if I sign out of Network Connect and close the VPN, the network is still broken, so whatever it changes, does not revert.


texts: Create bootable Snow Leopard USB drive/stick from Ubuntu

texts: I need to create an USB drive/stick booting Snow Leopard on an Ubuntu system. Any pointers on how to accomplish this are appreciated.


texts:
I've been Googling so much my eyes hurt.

I have a 2014 rMBP.

I want to use it with a 4K display or UHD TV at 60Hz that's at least 30" big.

From my research, this means either using something with a DisplayPort input, or with HDMI 2.0.

The MBP only has HDMI 1.4 (I think) and is thus limited to 30Hz.

There are no >28" 4K monitors for less than $3,000.

But what if I used one of these DP-to-HDMI2 adapters? Would that make it possible to use a UHD TV with HDMI2 like this one?

Has anyone tried this kind of set up? Are there any decent 4K TVs/monitors for less than $1,500?


texts:
I have 3 macs (mine, my wife's and an Extra), all running 10.15.7. I use a TimeMachine Capsule to backup all three over my home network.
The other day the logicboard in my wife's died and it's not worth fixing.
I would like to use the Timemachine backup from her computer and use Migration Assistant to install it on the Extra mac. This way I can get her up and running again. When I go to use Migration Assistant it will only show me the Extra computers TimeMachine backups.
When I login to the Timemachine Capsule server via my Mac I can see all three backups.
How can I get Migration Assistant to recognize my wife's Timemachine backup and install it on the Extra computer? Or conversely can I use the Timemachine backup file in another way get to the same thing manually?


texts:
I used sudo port install yum for install the yum in my mac(version 10.9.3). But when i executed the yum, for example yum update, it gives me the errors, like:

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

 No module named _rpm

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.5.6 (r256:Unversioned directory, Nov 18 2013, 16:32:46)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79)]

I already double-checked that I have the rpm in my mac, so somebody knows which module i should install?


texts: Apple TV and sites like VideoBB/Screen mirroring/Flash?

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So lately I've been watching online videos on VideoBB and similar sites, and I'm wondering if I can do this on the Apple TV?

Also, is it possible to mirror my screen to the AppleTV and show Safari, so to play the videos right from there? So far I've looked at...

AirFlick - No audio
AirDisplay - No audio...
ClickToPlugin - Does not work on the VideoBB, "killer" doesn't work.

I'm hoping there's another solution for playing these videos on the AppleTV. If I need to, I will choose a different device, but I would rather stick with the AppleTV for the pretty flawless system that comes with it.

Also, and I'm guessing this is a no, does the AppleTV run flash videos? What about a jailbroken one? Would it be possible to go to VideoBB on a jailbroken AppleTV and just watching the videos through the browser (not sure if one if included with Boxee, Plex, or XBMC).


texts: Some apps in iOS 7 have white text in top bar

texts:
I am facing this issue with few apps, for example in this case with RedLaser. I am sure that this is not a problem with the app since the bar looks fine on other phones (i.e. text is written in black over a white background).

I have tried deleting the app and reinstalling it. I have also tried resetting the iPhone settings (iOS 7.0.3 on iPhone 5). But I am still facing this problem.

Is there some setting in the phones which forces the text to be white for some apps?


texts: How to transfer Mac Mail signatures between computers

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So, I need a way to transfer one Mac mail signature design to another computer. I don't know why this is so obtuse and hidden from users, but here's my issue. I'm using a Signature generator to produce our company's email signatures but we have users across most of the major platforms. Other mail clients seem to behave well, but pasting the signature generator's output in Mac Mail on Mojave fails, and the signature design is broken. All the mac's being targeted are running Mojave.
For my process here, I have 1) copied the generated signature, 2) opened preferences in Mail, 3) created a new signature, 4) unclicked the default font option, closed the preferences tab. When I add the signature to a message the design is changed to the point of unusability.
Alternatively, I have also tried the creating a placeholder signature method (by creating an empty signature with no default font, identifying the signature file in the library and the replacing the body tags and locking the file) as well as just copying over the signature files. Each method either produces bad results and it's unclear why (even worse changes to the design) or no results at all.
So...how do I easily copy and edit mail signatures for multiple users.


texts: Is there a way to access iCloud's Photo Stream from the Finder, similar to Windows?

texts:
On Windows, Photo Stream works in a way that all the files are automatically copied to your 'My Pictures' folder or the like.

I currently have Photo Stream working in Aperture, but every once in a while I think it would be nice to have direct access to Photo Stream in the Finder, so I could possibly script something (i.e., copy photos to Dropbox, add automatically Evernote, etc).

Is there a way that I can reach this, outside of iPhoto or Aperture on the Mac? And do one of these apps have to 'trigger' a sync from iCloud? Or is Photo Stream syncing automatically somewhere on the file system?

This could be a direct path, a smart folder, etc.


texts: wget gives error "dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libnettle.4.dylib"

texts:
When I try to use wget, I am getting this error message:

$: wget
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libnettle.4.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/wget
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

I have reinstalled wget using homebrew (brew reinstall wget), I updated and upgraded my homebrew, however this hasn't helped.

In my /opt/local/lib/ folder I cannot find libnettle.4.dylib, however I do find /opt/local/lib/libnettle.6.dylib. I tried to solve the problem by simply symlinking from /opt/local/lib/libnettle.6.dylib to /opt/local/lib/libnettle.4.dylib. This didn't help either, but got me a new error message:

$ wget
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libhogweed.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libgnutls.28.dylib
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

When I run brew info wget, I get this output:

wget: stable 1.17.1 (bottled), HEAD
Internet file retriever
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.17.1 (9 files, 1.6M) *
  Built from source with: --with-debug
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/wget.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: xz ✔, pkg-config ✔
Recommended: openssl ✔
Optional: libressl ✔, pcre ✔, libmetalink ✔, gpgme ✔
==> Options
...

How can I fix this?


texts:
So I've been looking into being able to send video wirelessly from my mbpro to my tv. One of my questions is can you actually mirror a fullscreen game to the AppleTV? I mostly only play minecraft and that uses the new os fullscreen.

And does AirPlay mirroring allow closing of the laptop like using displayport to hdmi? That would also help out the graphics card.

So what are the limitations, if any, of AirPlay mirroring?

And if this is not possible, are there any other hardware that will accomplish what I want?


texts: How can I get iCal to sync with iCloud while running Snow Leopard?

texts:
I have been looking for a few weeks for a workaround to get iCal on Snow leopard to sync with iOS 5 devices with iCloud.

Is there a work around that will allow syncing as I cannot upgrade to OSX Lion?


texts: Why do menu items blink twice when selected?

texts:
I wanted to know why while clicking on an written item (quit, hide, option...) the item in question blink twice very fast and then do the action we wanted?

Thanks


texts: Is it possible to install Ubuntu on an external SSD on the 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro?

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I'm considering buying the 16 inch 2019 MacBook Pro because I need a powerful x86 machine that can run macOS, but I would also be interested in running other operating systems on this computer. I know that the T2 chip is tied to the SSD, and I was wondering if the following configuration is possible, and how I would go along doing it:

2 partitions on the Apple SSD, one running Catalina, and one running Windows 10 through Bootcamp

1 external SSD with 2 partitions, one with Big Sur, and one with Ubuntu

If this is possible, how would I do this, and what problems would I face (WiFi, audio, etc)? If this isn't possible, what would I need to do to be able to run these 4 operating systems on this machine, or what other powerful x86 Macs would you recommend?
Edit: I don't want to run virtual machines because graphics performance is bad when the VM doesn't have access to the GPU, and graphics are one of the main reasons I would want to upgrade to the 16 inch. I also don't want to spend money on VMware and install it on my Bootcamp partition, just to find out GPU passthrough doesn't deliver the level of performance I would want.


texts: To to stop Skype on iPhone & Mac competing for AirPods' connection?

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I long for the days of 3.5mm connections and headphones that connect directly to the audio source.
Very often (~20%) on a Skype call, my AirPods fail to connect to the correct device. Which leaves me on a conference call that everyone around me can hear.
Here is specifically what happens:

Skype rings (iPhone & Mac)
I answer the call on Mac
I hear that connecting sound on the AirPods
The Mac shows "connected AirPods"
I hear another connecting sound on the AirPods
The Mac shows "moved to nearby device"
The iPhone stops ringing
I select bluetooth/AirPods and/or sound menu/AirPods
I hear another connecting sound on the AirPods
The Mac shows "connected to AirPods"
The audio from the Skype call is playing through the Mac speakers
I open Skype preferences/audio and select AirPods
50/50 the AirPods will play the audio, or I need to restart Skype and start over

Instead this is what I want:

Skype rings (iPhone & Mac)
I answer the call on Mac
I can start talking

Possibly related and more general questions that did not answer this:

How to make AirPods connect automatically to the correct device?
AirPods connect to correct device
Can you answer a call with AirPods faster than EarPods?
Airpods connect to iPhone perfectly but disconnect from MacBook after a few seconds
How do I stop my Mac from ringing when I get a phone call on my iPhone?


texts:
There seems to be a general iphone issue with mail.app not pushing correctly atm. I've tried every trick I could find online, but to no avail.

What I've done so far:

Reset network connections. Did nothing.
I've deleted and re-set up my email accounts in mail.app. Did nothing.
All of the notification settings are correct, including push, and background update is on.
Re-entered email account passwords, nothing.
Both mail.app and gmail.app refuse to actually push mail and notify me unless I manually force a refresh. Even fetch doesn't work.

I'm not sure why this happened all of the sudden. I updated to 9.1 couple weeks ago, but the issue started a couple days ago. It's terrible for work, I'll get emails 2-3 hrs later when I randomly check.

Any help is appreciated.


texts:
On Snow Leopard Quicktime allowed you to easily cut clips from videos and store them as .mov with the trim function (invoked with Command+T). On Lion Quicktime, the trim function still exists. But there is no option in the File menu to save the trimmed video as .mov. The only option is to "save for device" which actually trancodes the video (instead of just putting it in a different container) and takes an awful lot of time.

My question is twofold:

Will Snow Leopard QuickTime work on Lion? (e.g. if I restore it from backup)
Are there any free programs for cutting videos without transcoding?


texts: 27" iMac SSD + HDD Migration from old iMac 10.7.3

texts:
I've just purchased a 27" iMac and am planning on installing a SSD (256 gig) to act as my boot drive.  I was wondering if it would be possible to:
1) Install Lion on to the new iMac
2) Create my user account
3) Move the new user account to the HDD that came with the iMac
4) Use Migration Assistant to migrate my old user account into my new iMac?

The current Home folder/Music/Photos and home movies is nearly 400 gigs of information.

I've read here where users utilize migration assistant twice (once for apps, then move home folder, then data) or manually move the data


texts: Choose a default app for opening files with no extension?

texts:
Is it possible to set a default application to open files with no extension?  I'm not referring to files with hidden extensions, but those completely lacking an extension -- e.g. README, CHANGELOG, mbox, etc.

"Open With" => "Change All" on these files doesn't work, returning the error shown below:

Ideally, I would like the system to try opening all such files in TextMate.  I know I can drag files onto Dock icons to open them in specific apps, but I'm looking for a more seamless solution than that (especially since I have my Dock auto-hide, which makes it much more cumbersome).

I am familiar with the QLStephen QuickLook plugin that can enable QuickLook for some of these files, but I would prefer a solution with selecting/copying/editing capabilities.


texts: How often does Apple.com update their refurbished stock? Is there a schedule, is it based upon product availability, or a combination of the two?


texts:
I'm attempting to install a Safari extension and I'm getting a error that says:

"1Password-4.2.5.safariextz is damaged and can't be open. You should move it to the Trash."

I thought maybe the 1Password was actually corrupted so I tried Ghostery and got the same error.

“Ghostery.safariextz” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

Any ideas?

EDIT

I'm on Yosemite 10.10.1 - Safari 8.0


texts: 2016 MBP External Monitor Black Screen USB-C to DisplayPort

texts:
I have a 2016 MBP running 10.12.6 with an external Dell 24" (P2415Q) monitor in my home office. At work I have a Dell 27" (U2717D) and a Dell 24" (U2415). At work the U27 is connected DisplayPort to USB-C and the U24 uses HDMI through an Apple branded adapter. At home the Dell is connected with a DisplayPort to USB-C.

Now the issue, sometimes when I go home (more often recently) I will plug in the external Dell 24" and it will show only a black screen. I can bring up system preferences and see that the monitor is recognized but the monitor thinks it is not getting a signal. With the message, "There is no signal coming from your computer. Press any key on the keyboard or move the mouse to wake it up. If there is no display, press the monirot button now to select the correct input source on the On-Screen-Display menu." and it shows the DisplayPort symbol in the corner indicating is on the correct input.

What I have tried:

Different DisplayPort->USB-C cable
All 4 USB-C Ports, and flipping cable
Changing resolution in system preferences
Holding option to click on "Detect Displays"
Restart w/display connected
Log in as clean new user
Reset NVRAM
Reset SMC
Unplug all other inputs from Dell monitor
Unplug power from Dell monitor
Yes, the monitor is on the correct input, I know it does not autodetect

Anyone have any clue? The first time this happened a few months ago I remember I actually got it fixed but I don't remember exactly how. I think it was some NVRAM/SMC reset but I have tried that this time.

UPDATE #1:

From a suggestion in the comments I have tried booting in SafeBoot which showed the same behavior.

UPDATE #2 (Next Day):

This post previously had one of my office monitors listed as a Samsung, this used to be the case but I swapped them a few months back and this problem started around the time of switchover.

I can confirm that my MBP is getting it's proverbial wires crossed somewhere as some settings I had messed with on my home P24 were in fact changed when I plugged in my office U27. So here's my hypothesis, In some way the MBP is trying to use the same output format for the P24 as it used with the U24. However, the U24 was plugged in through an HDMI adapter so it is sending an unreadable signal to the P24. I'm going to attempt to switch the U27 to HDMI and the U24 to USB-c and see if this fixes the issue, if not it could be a more serious mismatch.

UPDATE #3:

After swapping the cables and going home this did not fix the issue. I did bring my Apple HDMI to USB-C adapter and using this with the HDMI input on the P24 works. I'll be trying the shutdown at work next but I don't have high hopes. At this point this is a very reproducible issue I think I should submit it to Apple in some capacity.


texts:
Sound is working perfectly but if I press the volume buttons on my touch-bar it won't work. Even the slider on my screen also won't work.

Only the volume slider on the touch-bar will work.


texts: Referring to iMessages, not SMS. Pasting text ~20,800 characters long gives an error that the message is too long on my Mac. What's the limit?


texts:
I use the iPhone in English, but I save the names of my contacts in Russian. The problem is that they all appear now under (#).

Is there any way to fix that?


texts: What is the easiest way to make a folder and every file inside of it read only?

texts:
Given that locking a folder in Finder only prevents copying files into it, not changing the files inside of it!

I'm asking on behalf of a friend using macOS Mojave, who can't type, he solely uses voice recognition so terminal commands are an absolute last resort! I would only walk him through dictating those if the only other option is to spend more than $10.

Additionally, the command or utility must cause the lock symbol to appear in the Finder as well!


texts: Display accents on Touch Bar when holding a letter under Mojave

texts:
After upgrade to Mojave, a long press of any letter does bring up the accented character menu but not anymore on the Touch Bar (Mac Book Pro 15-inch, 2018 with US keyboard).

Do you have an idea to to get them back on the touchbar ?


texts:
I have the LG Ultrafine 5K screen, and the volume is extremely loud if I move the slider to more than 20%. The screenshot below shows a rather normal listening volume. If I double it, it's very loud, but it's still at only 20% or less.

Anything over that, it sounds like the speakers are broken.

Is anyone else having this issue? The problem it causes is that I don't have fine control over the volume, for example when using the volume keys up or down, it moves in too big steps.

Is there a way to "rescale" the volume slider, or cap it at a maximum value somehow, so I can use the entire slider without becoming deaf?


texts: iMessage Fails to Send or Receive Photos

texts:
For the past 4-5 days, I've been unable to send or receive photos with iMessage.

If I send, it hangs for a couple of minutes and then returns a "failed to send" message.

When receiving, little "tap to download" boxes come through, but the download progress never moves beyond 0kb.

The messages are definitely going over iMessage and not MMS, as I have cellular data turned off to prevent international roaming charges, and I send from my iCloud email.

The usage page was showing 2GB of free space, so that shouldn't be an issue. Since the problem started, I've tried both following the instructions here as well as doing a factory reset and restoring from a backup. The problem still persists.

Does anyone have a similar experience or an idea as to how this can be fixed?


texts:
When I use the uptime command on OS X, this error is printed:

$ uptime
uptime: /dev/ttys003: No such file or directory
20:57  up 36 days, 22:10, 3 users, load averages: 1.77 1.37 1.75

By running the who command, I see that there is another terminal logged in -- but I don't have any other terminals or SSH sessions.

$ who
Kevin    console  Mar 10 17:49
Kevin    ttys000  Mar 14 17:45
kevin    ttys003  Mar 14 20:59

This is kind of annoying. How do I get rid of the "No such file" message?


texts: Reboot directly from MacOS to Startup Manager? (Init command)

texts:
I have a strange setup (briefly, I have Windows 10 on an external SSD and I use a MacBook Pro as my main Mac these days in a dock that connects to an external monitor which has a hub - Samsung CJ79 34" - everything, including the SSD, is plugged into the monitor).

Because of this strange setup I can only change startup disks via the Startup Manager - I can't boot directly from the Startup Disk control panel.  However, my Windows keyboard doesn't work to change desktops I need to plug in my original Apple keyboard.

Knowing that MacOS is basically a heavily modified UNIX setup I hazard to guess there is a command somewhere in the OS (like the init command) that will let me boot directly from MacOS to the Startup Manager screen.

Does anyone know what this is and if it is possible?  Thanks.


texts: Macbook Pro Late-2011, Mountain Lion, when it sleeps, devices don't wake

texts:
Made the upgrade to Mountain lion when it came out, but since the upgrade I have noticed something occurring when my laptop goes to sleep be it idling or me putting it in a sleep mode, when I go to wake the laptop almost every time anything hooked into the USB ports don't respond and remain dormant as if the laptop was still in a sleep mode.

Example one of the places I hook my Mac up has a wired USB keyboard, and a USB to VGA monitor connector which doesn't respond when I wake the laptop. Or another place where I have 2 USB Monitor connections, a USB based harddrive toaster. All of which stop responding after the laptop sleeps. I have to pull the USB's out and plug them back in to make them work again and only after I wake the laptop.

So I am wondering is there some new power settings I am missing somewhere, that don't turn the USB on after idle? Everything worked just fine prior to the Mountain Lion Upgrade so I know its nothing to do with that.


texts: How do I switch between application windows with keyboard shortcuts?

texts: Say I have two windows of a browser running, how can  I switch between those two windows? like Command + Tab?


texts: Removing right-command as "show desktop"

texts:
I just got my Mac several months ago, and set my right-command as show desktop shortcut. Now, I want to remove it, but I totally forget how to remove this silly thing. I have checked several places as shown in the images below, but both shows that show desktop shortcut is F11, and I don't know where else should I find the configuration where I set my right-command as the show desktop, so could anyone help me?

PS: I use OS X Lion 10.7.2


texts: Thunderbolt Cinema Display to nonThunderbolt Macbook Pro 2010

texts:
I've been looking everywhere online to see whether my question can be answered and I still can't seem to find an answer.

I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro with a Mini DisplayPort and I recently was given an Apple Cinema Display Thunderbolt 2 Screen at work however I believe that it's not possible to connect the screen to my laptop with the Thunderbolt 2 cable.

Is there any way to bypass this?

I don't want/need audio or anything, I just need my screen to be projected onto the screen. Is there an adapter from Thunderbolt 2 to USB so I can connect it through the USB port or to the FireWire 800 port?

Thanks!


texts: After creating folder on desktop - renaming or removing needs admin privileges?

texts:
Just now I created a folder on my desktop. It had the name "untitled folder". I wanted to change the name to something else, but got an alert that I needed admin rights. Removing the folder has the same effect.

I tried this several times, directly on the desktop and using the Finder. I checked the Info for the Desktop folder and all seemed OK. I have read and write access.

Creating a folder in the Documents folder works normally. System is macOS 10.14 Mojave.

What is this, and how do I correct it?

Update

As requested by Allan, the output of the ls-commands. I've copied the results for the Documents and Downloads folder for comparison, plus some files inside the Desktop folder, including the newly created "untitled" folder.

$ ls -la /Users/sprbrn
drwxr-x---+ 14 sprbrn  staff      448 Mar  5 13:37 Desktop
drwx------+ 47 sprbrn  staff     1504 Mar  5 13:04 Documents
drwx------+ 55 sprbrn  staff     1760 Mar  6 22:06 Downloads

$ ls -la /Users/sprbrn/Desktop
drwxr-x---+ 14 sprbrn  staff   448 Mar  5 13:37 .
drwx------+ 82 sprbrn  staff  2624 Feb 10 20:29 ..
-rw-r-----   1 sprbrn  staff  8196 Mar  5 13:39 .DS_Store
-rw-r-----   1 sprbrn  staff     0 Aug 14  2017 .localized
drwxr-xr-x   2 sprbrn  staff    64 Mar  5 13:37 untitled folder

Here I show the output for the Desktop folder from the first command and . folder from the second command next to eachother.

drwxr-x---+ 14 sprbrn  staff      448 Mar  5 13:37 Desktop
drwxr-x---+ 14 sprbrn  staff      448 Mar  5 13:37 .

I don't see any difference in the output, and I have no idea what else to look for.


texts: Remove uninstalled applications from the Notifications system preferences

texts:
I noticed that in my Notifications system preferences there two entries for Twitter (the old one with the white icon) and the new one.

The old Twitter application is long gone. How can I remove obsolete entries in the list?


texts: Fix iTunes Billing issue with iTunes code

texts:
My prepaid MasterCard didn't have enough value so a problem occurred at my last purchase and I can't download any already purchased music or free updates anymore as I have to update my credit card information. If I enter the prepaid data it says invalid because it does not have enough money on it, and due to holidays it will take another few days for my bank to transfer the money to it. Is it possible to fix this issue by redeeming an iTunes code (5€ for example?) or does it only work with a credit card?

Thanks for help! It's really important, have a new iMac 5k but can't download anythingn from the Mac app store or iTunes :/


texts: Can you stop "minimize" from bringing other windows forward in OS X?

texts:
I've seen this asked previously, but it's 3 years old, so I was really hoping that there were some other answers by now (new options? new add-on apps?).

In OS X (I'm using Mavericks), minimizing a window of an app will bring forward one of the other open windows of that app. Is there any way to stop this? I know people are going to ask what my use case is / why I want to do this, so here it is:

I'm a software developer, and I often work with multiple windows of multiple apps showing at the same time. Think a text editor for the source code, some terminals for compiling, git, etc., and browsers for reference. When working like this, I need to control exactly what windows are brought to the front or sent away on a window-by-window basis, or it messes up my context. I finally found a windows switcher to let me do this (for which I wanted to cry tears of joy), but one thing remains to fix: if I have my workspace set up, then I need to go to a browser for a moment, there is no quick way to return to my previous state. I want to get rid of the window I needed to momentarily bring forward, but if I minimize it, OS X starts popping up other browser windows and covering my work, so I have to keep minimizing until they're all gone, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I've seen cmd-h suggested, but that's no good because I don't want to hide all of the other browser windows since I'm using some for reference. Bringing forward the other windows that I was working is also not a viable solution. Standard OS X behavior on that is to bring forward all of an app's windows, but that's bad since I'm only working with a few of them, and I don't want the whole bunch covering everything up. With an add-on, I can now bring forward any individual window, but if I'm working with multiple windows, bringing forward all of them that I was viewing will be slow. Splitting up between multiple workspaces is also bad I don't want to totally switch contexts. e.g. maybe I brought up a browser window to check email while my code is compiling. I don't want to switch to another workspace because I want to keep an eye on that compiling code so I know right when it's done. Ideally, I just want the top, transient window to be minimized (not closed; I may need it again in a minute or two) without it bringing any windows forward that were not already visible before I brought up that transient window.


texts:
I don't know if many of you have had this problem: After starting Skype, you can no longer use the webcam you specified for Skype to use in other applications such as Quick Time Player.

Even completely closing Skype doesn't release it, you actually have to completely reboot your machine.

The question I have is: What the hell does Skype do with webcams and has anybody found a solution?


texts: Still shows 1GB of photos in usage after deleting all

texts: I deleted every single photo from my iPhone (after backing up on computer), including both camera roll and photostream (I disabled photostream afterwards). For some reason it's still showing 1GB of "camera roll" in settings -> general -> usage -> photos. When I connect it to iTunes, it shows something weird like "189mb" of photos. Anyone know what's causing this and how to fix it? Even if there are still photos in some apps shouldn't these be in the "documents and data" category not photos?


texts: Protocol error in Safari for some wikipedia articles' resources

texts:
Safari is displaying the "can't open" page with error

  The error is: “The operation couldn’t be completed. Protocol error” (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:100)

for URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise) And on some articles, it doesn't load all styles. Using the inspector, I see 2 errors:

  Failed to load resource: The operation couldn’t be completed. Protocol error

and one with

  Failed to set referrer policy: The value 'origin-when-crossorigin' is not one of 'no-referrer', 'no-referrer-when-downgrade', 'same-origin', 'origin', 'strict-origin', 'origin-when-cross-origin', 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin' or 'unsafe-url'.

An example of such site is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands

So far, I've tried

Safe boot
Safari's restart in Safe mode(or whatever holding shift while opening Safari does)
Empty Caches (Develop Menu), deleting all website data (preferences → privacy), not history
different networks
and opening the page in Firefox, where everything  is good.

Safari 12.1.1, macOS 10.14.5


texts:
As of a few days ago, some Safari webpages (the first and most frequently-occurring of which was Facebook's News Feed) would start loading but then freeze up. I went into Activity Monitor, and while it did say that Safari Web Content wasn't responding, it also said that Flash Player (Safari web plugin) wasn't responding. Force Quitting the Safari Web Content didn't do anything; the page just reloaded and froze up again, but when I forced Flash Player to quit, the misbehaving webpage refreshed and worked perfectly. After several more instances of the problem I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash Player, and the problem happened again.

I've currently got Flash Player uninstalled for stability's sake, but I can't live a Flashless life forever. How can I fix the problem?

UPDATE: It just happened again after I attempted a reinstall. This time, I checked my Flash version.

OS X 10.10.2, Safari 8.0.3, Flash "NPAPI Plug-in version 16.0.0.305 is installed."


texts: Is there an App for Browsing on iOS and watching on OS X?

texts: I would like to browse video website on my iPhone and start watching videos on my Mac. I don't want to use Airplay as my Wifi connection is not good. I would like to just send an URL to a video player like VLC on my Mac which streams the video itself.


texts: Cleaning iTunes Artwork Cache, Please Wait

texts:
I pressed some keys accidentally on my Mac and then this showed up. No idea what this is. It also doesn't disappear after it finished cleaning the cache.

I have macOS 10.14.6 Mojave.


texts: apple macos external keyboard right shift and up arrow not work

texts:
I have "Macbook Pro" where everything goes great

because of my body spine I have to use now big "Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad"

everything works great but not a little but very important function - keystroke Right Shift+Up Arrow NOT work to "select whole above line" - but keystroke Left Shift+Up Arrow works OK

btw that "right shift" with another combination work well

Q any idea what and where set?


texts: Obtain the "brand new" effect of a fresh installation without fresh installation on Mac

texts:
When my computer starts slow down and the common operations don't have any effect I usually make a new installation and I have a "new" Mac.

The problem is that I have to configure again every single setting and considering that I started using terminal to customize my Mac, it would be a very long work to insert all terminal commands again, so finally, my question: what's the best way to really refresh a Mac without new installation?

Please don't answer like "Use Time Machine", because it will backup all the trash I'm trying to get rid of. Sorry if my question is duplicate but I cannot find an answer online and thanks for answering.


texts: iOS 9 Public Beta: Diagnostic & Usage Data not being cleared

texts:
Normally, syncing an iPhone to iTunes should clear on-device diagnostic and usage data.

However, I'm currently running the latest iOS 9 Public Beta, and diagnostic and usage data is not being cleared (my on-device logs now date back to 07/31/2015). Now it takes a horribly long time just to sync my iPhone because most of the syncing time is wasted on "copying diagnostic information", which is really annoying.

All of the on-device logs takes one the following two forms:

awdd-yyyy-mm-dd-xxxxxx-int.consolidated.metriclog[.anon]
log-sessions-yyyy-mm-dd-xxxxxx.session

I've also tried to clear crash reports from Xcode, to no avail.

Is there any way to force a flush without resetting the phone?

P.S. As I mentioned above, my on-device logs date back to 07/31/2015, which happens to be the day I got my Apple Watch. Is this, by any chance, related to the watch? (I read the logs but can't seem to find info about the watch, so I assume not. Anyway, it's still worth pointing out.)


texts: External storage not detected on macbook air 2015

texts: So I have a MacBook Air late 2015 that I recently got from a friend, but neither of the usb ports work for usb storage nor does the sd card slot work. However whatever I connect does show up in the system information. Just not in the Disk Utilities nor in the finder. I've already reset the SMC and reinstalled the OS. I honestly don't know what to do now.


texts:
I had to basically wipe my Mac and reinstall Catalina[1] because I messed up some python package installations very badly, and I was able to erase it seemingly successfully. There's only one primary odd change: my terminal changed its display. It now prompts me: "[lastname]@[firstname]s-MBP ~ %" where [firstname] and [lastname] are my first and last name [2]. (There are some other odd changes as well, like Google seems to take longer to respond, but that may be because of higher internet traffic.) After searching, I haven't found anyone with a similar issue.

Is this a signal that I messed something up while erasing my old system, or is this normal variance across machines? If it is an issue, what might it be, and how might I fix it?

Thank you!

[1] Following the instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

[2] It used to be something more conventional, ending with $.