texts: Copy directory in server to directory in local machine

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My class requires for us to make the homework in a linux server, but i want to copy those files to my local machine. I've tried so far to to use the cp command but it doesn't seem to take my arguments. It always return with either the host directory does not exist or with the target directory does not exist.

My approach so far has been:

cp -R /chapter2 ~/Documents/Projects

Keep in mind that i'm connected to a remote server on ssh.


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I wonder if an Australian iPad mini will work in the UK.

I'm thinking of getting one as a gift for a family member as they're cheaper in Australia than they are in the UK.

Will it work there app-wise?


texts: Why does OS X prevent access to a folder if it ends with the word ".service"?

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I am sharing a win 7 folder and trying to access it from Osx.

Everything works but if the folder is named something ending with the words ".service" the folder is not accessible any more, the icon is changed and if I try to access it I get the message below.

If I remove the word "service" the folder is accessible again.

The machine is hosted inside a VmWare Fusion machine but I don't think this could be a problem, maybe something related to osx-bsd naming for services.

As I am working on folders where I can't change the names is there a way to prevent this behavior?


texts: Xcode does not detect new Apple Distribution Certificate in my keychain

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I generated a new Apple Distribution Certificate for my React Native project because I got an email saying my old one was going to expire. It appears to be in my keychain:

but when I try to upload my app to the app store, it shows this error:

and when I click Manage Certificates it shows this:

What I Want To Know: How do I make sure that my new certificate is in my keychain such that Xcode detects it and doesn't show this error?


texts: can't install xcode, issue with MobileDevice.pkg

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I am trying to install xcode on my mac version : Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 But I'm having a problem,

i download xcode version 4.6.2 from Appstore after i installed the app i clicked on the icon in the launchpad and it just opened and ask me to install device support so i click install and it ask for my password so i entered the pass and it wrote:

An unknown error occurred. See the install log for more details.

so i looked for this problem and i found that i can go to xcode icon, click on the option and click on "Show Package Contents" and than on Contents->Resources->Packages than i click "MobileDevice.pkg", again i entered my password and nothing happend like really nothing, the password is right and i dont know why it is like that

thank you for your help ilan.


texts: How to print on a Yosemite managed printer from a Panther Mac?

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A couple I know have two computers I'm supporting - one is a iMac which I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Yosemite (10.10).  The printer is attached to this machine.  The other computer, unfortunately, is a 450MHz Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) running the last version of Panther (10.3.9).  Surprisingly, the 14-year-old computer still works and is actively being used (primarily for AppleWorks documents, which is another "ugh").

Before the iMac was upgraded, I had done something to it which let the Power Mac see the shared printer.  I suspect it had to do with CUPS, but I could be wrong.  Ever since the upgrade to Yosemite, the Power Mac has been unable to print, and I can't seem to recreate the old setup.

My question resumed in one sentence is:

How do I share a printer from a Mac running Yosemite to one running Panther, so that the Panther one can print?


texts: How can I switch to the Finder without switching in another "space"?

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I'm using many "spaces" to separate different tasks, and I have blocked the
"spaces" switching through this configuration of Mission Control:

Nonetheless I have a remaining problem with "Spaces" I would like to fix.
I have the same usage problem under "Mountain Lion" and "Mavericks".

Let's say I am on a "space" with a lot of work in progress. I want to stay focused on this "space".
If I want to switch to another application I just have to click on its icon within the Dock. This application become active without any unwanted switch to another "space".

But this function is failing for the Finder.

If I want to switch to the "Finder" and click on its icon within the Dock, then I'll be switched to a specific "space" where the Finder has an opened Window.

The Finder option related to this function is set as follows:.

I tried this setting on the basis of this very similar old question: How can I open a Finder window in Desktop without switching to another one?

I would like to understand on which mechanism this particular "space" associated with the Finder is choosen.

I would like to get rid of this unwanted and ununderstood switching mechanism.


texts: Time Capsule: "There was a problem connecting to the server"

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I have a dream:  The dream of using my MBP inside and outside my office, and having it backup to my 2TB Time Capsule when on its wireless network, or postpone backups when not on the Time Capsule's wireless network.

Unfortunately, if I've been on a different wireless network for a few hours worth of backup attempts, bringing the machine back onto the Time Capsule's wireless network doesn't clear up the problem.  I can select the disk as a backup drive in the Time Machine preferences, but the disk remains unavailable from the Finder, and any backup attempts yield the standard:

  There was a problem connecting to the
  server "Max Time Capsule"

  Check the server name or IP address, and then try
  again.  If you continue to have problems, contact your
  system administrator.

My WiFi connection is through the same Time Capsule that hosts the backup drive, and its name and IP address have decidedly not changed.  The only thing that seems to help is restarting the Time Capsule, but that is an inconvenient workaround at best.

The problem sounds similar to Backup Disk Not Available, but the answers to that question are either to restart or change the disk name or turn off the 5 GHz network (which didn't help).  I also looked at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeCapsule.plist, but found nothing that seemed relevant.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  My MBP is running OS X 10.7.5, and the Time Capsule firmware is 7.6.1.


texts: Can the mid-2010 Macbook be used with the Apple Remote?

texts: I know that the remote works with units that have an IR sensor. The system profile has listings for hardware that both is and is not installed but, I don't see a listing for an IR unit.


texts: OS X 10.9 crashes after Xcode 3 installation

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I've tried to install Xcode 3.2 on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9, but during the installation (when it's almost finished) OS X had a kernel panic and keeps crashing immediately after login.

Xcode 3 is required to build Android 2.3 from the source code. How to fix it?


texts: How to retrieve windows that have moved 'off-screen'

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I have this problem sometimes with my dual-screen setup, especially when I'm juggling lots of things around.

Occasionally I seem to be able to move a window entirely off-screen (I'm not quite sure how) and I can't get it back. If I do a 'hide all' in the application's menu (usually it's Mail.app, so let's stick to that one for the example), everything disappears and Mail seems to think it's got an 'inbox' window in the Windows menu, but there's nothing visible. Closing and restarting the app doesn't seem to help (as the app is helpfully remembering where my window previously was) and all I end up doing is shutting down the Mac, unplugging the second monitor and restarting it, opening the application again and this seems to persuade the Mac to rethink the main window position, and all is well. I can then restart the second monitor, etc.

Is there a better way? Is there some way of marshalling windows back to a specific monitor, or a utility for moving 'open'/running windows? Am I actually doing something wrong? :-)

I'm not using Spaces, by the way - so I'm pretty sure this isn't some weird Spaces issue. :-)


texts: Can't find any solution or product that'll add one more USB-C port to MacBook Pro13

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Macbook 13 Pro. Two USB-C ports only

one used for charging
one used to connect to a monitor
I need another one for a USB-C to ethernet adapter

Is there a USB-C hub anywhere in existence? I can't find anything on Amazon to my amazement. I need 3 USB-C ports on my MBP.


texts: Problems with saving to external USB Flash Storage

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I have an external USB Flash storage which is generally realiable.

When editing text files on the drive I often get the message:

The document “…” could not be saved. The file doesn’t exist.

However, sometimes it does save successfully.

I have formatted the flash drive first as ExFAT and later as FAT32 (it is 64Gb); FAT32 appears to be a little more reliable, but it hasn’t solved the problem. I have also tried attaching the drive first to a powered USB hub, and later directly to the back. Again, it doesn’t help.

What might be causing this problem, and how can I fix it?


texts:
How do I create a new folder in my mail.

I've have gone through every menu option I can see and don't see it.


texts: Remove specific music language from Apple Music

texts: Is there any way to remove a specific music language from Apple Music? For example, remove all Russian songs from suggestions.


texts: Do splitters for mac combined mic/headphones exist?

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I am looking for a splitter that turns my 3.5mm headphone and mic port on my Mac mini into two 3.5mm headphone and mic ports or one audio out port and one audio out/mic port.

I want to be able to leave my speakers plugged in and use my headphones/mic at the the same time. I will turn off speakers when using headphones and mic, but don't want to keep reaching around to plug and unplug.

I was unable to find anything that does what I want. Most splitters seem to only split the combined port into one audio out and one mic port.


texts: How does the iPad expose its host name over the network?

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When I connect my iPad to the wifi network at work, I can ping it by name: ping my-ipad. Clearly the router is somehow exposing it via DNS, or something like that.

But when I connect my iPad to the wifi network at my home, I don't get this. Even if I go into nslookup and explicitly set the DNS server to my router, I get an unknown host error when trying to look up the iPad.

I'm using the same Mac and same iPad in both cases.

How does the iPad broadcast its name? Perhaps my home router just doesn't support this feature, whatever it is, but I'm hopeful it's just some option I can toggle - so what settings should I be looking at (or for) on my home router?

I don't want to edit the hosts file on my Mac (I can't guarantee the IP address of my iPad will always be the same), and I don't want to jailbreak the iPad.


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I recently received a 2012 MacBook Pro running Sierra for some development work. I'm quite new to Mac OS X, but was able to figure out how to enable fast user switching in order to lock my workstation when I'm away.

I've noticed however, that when I lock my workstation, a translucent capture of my desktop appears behind the lock screen and if you look hard enough you can see what I was doing before I locked the computer.

For example, if I were to lock my screen this very moment I would be taken to the login window but if I look hard enough I can read the text that I am writing for this post.

Is this a bug or a feature? Has it occurred to anyone else?


texts: Getting spam on my Apple email from just one company

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I have an email address that I only use for official communication with the Apple Corporation. I have no phone and have only used this address when registering my iPad and the payment mechanism for buying things in the AppStore.

This email address which I have had for over 10 years is now receiving spam from a single company: "Goodman Capital" which is advertising some kind of investment services. I receive absolutely no other communications on this address except for official Apple correspondence, like password resets and things like that.

Is Apple providing customer emails to third parties or have they been hacked?

The only comparable problem I have had is that the email address I use to communicate with Adobe receives occasional spam, but this is because of a known hack where somebody got access to Adobe's customer records and began selling them on the dark web.


texts: How to change speed of podcast playback on iPad running iOS 5's Music app?

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It seems the option to enable double, normal, or half speed playback is gone from the Music app on iPads running iOS 5.

Anyone ran into this? Workarounds?


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Recently, I tried logging out of my machine (rather than just shutting it down) and I noticed that a user with the name "Other ..." was present. I don't recall adding the user. I tried checking out System Preferences >> Accounts and it just lists a disabled "Guest" account and my main account.

Why is this?


texts: Does Exist any way to change battery of MBP 2012 13" with a bigger one?

texts: The question is simple, can i make an upgrade of my battery? I mounted a OWC datadoubler, and now i'm using an SSD and HDD configuration. But my battery life dropped from 6 to 3h 30... i would like to install a bigger battery, does exist a way?


texts: Can we sync iMessages with iCloud on iOS 11 Global Stable Update. Because I can't see any option to do that on iPhone 7 (recently updated to iOS 11.0 )


texts: Is it possible to create a mac OSX dock icon that activates the page down key?


texts: How to hide an active app from Dock on MacBook

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Trying this with TeamViewer and I cant seem to make it work.
The first method I tried was by text editing.I opened package contents and tried to edit the info.plist file. It didn't allow me permission to edit the file so I duplicated it and pasted it back into package contents (which replaced the info.plst file).  This is the line that I inserted into the file:

I then tried opening the app but the icon briefly appears in the dock then disappears. I can't use the app.
I also tried to do by inserting a line on terminal but maybe im not using terminal correctly but I couldn't get this to work either. This is the line I've found on the Internet (I changed 'AppName' to Teamviewer):
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :LSUIElement bool true' /Applications/[AppName].app/Contents/Info.plist

I also tried an app called Ghostile which is similar to Dock Dodger, which doesn't exist anymore but it says it doesn't support the app. Any advice or help?


texts: How do you save an environmental variable?

texts:
Trying to save an environmental variable.

cd ~
mkdir Projects
export PROJDIR=/Users/David/Projects
cd ~
cd $PROJDIR //can execute.
cd ..
open .bash_profile //was told this was the file you add the variable to.

Then terminal tells me there is nothing with that name.
To check

ls -a

And there are two files with bash .bash_history and .bashsessions
.bash_history isn’t executable and when I open .bashsessions I’m not sure how I’d add

export PROJDIR=/Users/$USER/Projects

to the file. So that doesn't seem right either.


texts: What is Game Center friend recommendation based on?

texts: My iPad game center app shows friend recommendations. That list includes people that I do not know, people I have heard of but have never had direct contact, as well as people whom I regularly communicate with but never via Apple products. It is freaky. What information is friend recommendation based on?


texts: The checkmark is not shown is the os, I don't know what is going on with this bug? I'm on the newest public beta, but the steady version still has the problem, I updated from steady version to this one. Anyone can show me where the symbol file is?


texts: Add permanant pronunciation to text to speech dictionary

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Is there any way to add a permanent pronunciation to OSX text to speech dictionary?

For example: I would like the word 'mkdir' to be read as 'make directory' each and every time I use the "Start Speaking" service.


texts: How to remove launchpad icon of broken application

texts: I installed gimp from macports and uninstalled it (port uninstall gimp) when I found its not well maintained as gimp released its native mac build. But the gimp icon in launchpad didn't go away. How can I force remove the gimp's leftover launchpad icon? I tried moving it to trash and failed. I also tried to wiggle the launchpad icons to click on the 'x' mark but I didn't find 'x' mark on it. OSX 10.9.2 MacBook Air.


texts: iPhone wallpaper resolution when accounting for parallax effect

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If designing a wallpaper for iPhone, how can I calculate the pixel dimensions when accounting for the parallax effect that some users prefer?
For example, the iPhone 12 Pro Max display has a pixel resolution of 2778 x 1284 (Source)
But if parallax is enabled this image will drift outside the boundaries of the screen when the iPhone is tilted, requiring some extra padding outside the "frame". How can I know how many extra pixels to add?


texts: How to have different colors in each Terminal window

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Can I do this?

OMG, I looked for hours, and every article I find tells me how to colorize the output of ls. Or colorize my prompt. I really really really don't want that.

I want to colorize the text. The default text in the terminal window.

I know I can do this from Terminal Preferences. But that applies to EVERY terminal window that's open, which I don't want.

As the subject says, I'd like to have three different terminal windows with three different default colors for text in them. How can I do that?

In Windows cmd.exe, I could run a command from the prompt: color 0xA 0xG (something like that) and it would re-colorize the basic text and background. rather that pointy-clicky inspector themes menus and all that... can I do something like this from the MacOS Terminal prompt?


texts: iPhone app that shows app usage statistics?

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I'm looking for an app that can tell me how much time I spend on each installed iPhone app. This would be useful for identifying apps I really should delete, and also "lite" apps I really should purchase.

I know such programs existed for Palm devices. They simply looked at the clock whenever the device was turned on & off and whenever a program switch occurred (because the OS provided easy hooks for this), then just calculated running times from these timestamps.

PS: I realize that such an app must by nature be in Cydia, because non-jailbroken devices don't reveal such useful information. --> This fact can't be a reason to close this question!


texts: How to move/hover mouse (not click) over a button on Safari by using Applescript

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Can anybody tell me how to write an Applescript that can move or hover mouse over a Button on Safari? I've successfully made an Applescript that can click to the button but I don't know how to make the mouse just move there, not clicking. Because I need to download some images from a website that only appear when you hover your mouse over that button (that button can't be clicked).

The website I want to get information (HTML Element) when execute the script:
https://shopee.vn/Bút-line-đi-nét-chuyên-nghiệp-SAKURA-PIGMA-MICRON-12-size-(0.03-Brush)-BÁN-LẺ-i.22061868.886461468

My sucessfull click-to-the-button Applescript (This click to the second image on the left):

tell application "Safari"
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('_3ZDC1p')[2].click();" in document 1
end tell

or:

to clickClassName(theClassName, elementnum)
    tell application "Safari"
        do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('" & theClassName & "')[" & elementnum & "].click();" in document 1
    end tell
end clickClassName
clickClassName("_3ZDC1p", 2)

So can you tell me how to hover mouse over the button (but not clicking) in a similar way of script like these above? Notice the Button "1.0 Graphic" in the website above is faded, that means it can't be clicked but once you hover your mouse to it, the image on the left appear, i want to get that image so bad. The url of that image only appear when I hover the mouse cursor over that button "1.0 Graphic". I already know how to make script downloading image from URL. I just need to have a script that can do hovering mouse to that button ("1.0 Graphic") so the image can be seen to grab the url. Thanks you!


texts: security dump-trust-settings causes an error

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When I type security dump-trust-settings I get the following two errors:

Cert 1: GTE CyberTrust Global Root
SecTrustSettingsCopyTrustSettings: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.
Cert 2: Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority
SecTrustSettingsCopyTrustSettings: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

Is there a way to delete these certificates so that they don't cause an error (they seem to cause an error with Sublime Text Package Control)? They are not shown in the Keychain Access.


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I have a RAR I downloaded made up of multiple files. When trying to extract it, it tells me the data is incomplete, something bad with one of the files.
Considering I had to download multiple large files, is there a way to find out exactly which of the files I should re-download?


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I am running Yosemite on a Mac Pro Mid 2010.

When I moved to an SSD for my boot drive, I started using Symbolic Linking so some apps would store their data on a regular HD. So, for example, I go to my library folder and in Application support there's an Evernote alias. It works flawlessly, and I've done this for many apps that don't offer an easy way to store data elsewhere.

Now, my data drive is approaching its limit, and I have a larger drive coming. I'd like to be able to redirect the links to the new drive, and tried searching for "kind is alias" but that doesn't show the links. The Evernote alias doesn't get found in a search, nor do any others I know I've set up.

TL;DR - How do I perform a search to show me Alias files I've created? A normal search, even for alias files I've just created, don't show up in a search.


texts: How to make Macintosh HD size the same as SSD

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So today, I tried dual-booting my late 2013 rMBP on El Capitan with Windows 10. I got to the step within Bootcamp where it was partitioning my SSD, and I went ahead and played a game of Super Smash. After the round was over, I found that my Macbook had restarted because of an issue. I don't know what the issue was, and I don't know why the computer restarted, but I think it messed with my drive sizes. When I open Disk Utility, I see that the computer recognizes that I have a 250 GB SSD, but the Macintosh HD area seems to be "partitioned" for 204 GB. I have included pictures for clarification.

This is what the mac says about my SSD.

Here is what the Macintosh HD looks like.
If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't the Macintosh HD size be the same as my SSD? How can I fix this, as I'm unable to find any tutorials to help me. I have tried to partition the SSD to try to be able to merge them, but I get an error saying: "The provided Core Storage logical volume has an incorrect size. You should run whole-disk repair."
I have run diskutil in terminal to find no information that is useful to me, but I have included it here in case it helps someone help me.
diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +204.0 GB   disk1
                              Logical Volume on disk0s2
                             FEB0DA59-F214-4841-A491-59BFE7F9DEE4
                             Unlocked Encrypted

diskutil cs list:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group A7C277C4-D35C-48A1-AD85-135FC3FBBAAE
=========================================================
Name:         Macintosh HD
Status:       Online
Size:         250140319744 B (250.1 GB)
Free Space:   45788061696 B (45.8 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 3A4B651C-DA22-4F22-96F3-A1C3D22BCE45
|   ----------------------------------------------------
|   Index:    0
|   Disk:     disk0s2
|   Status:   Online
|   Size:     250140319744 B (250.1 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family DBA55F9D-7D02-4191-B9C2-1CC1CB429E3C
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
    Encryption Status:       Unlocked
    Conversion Status:       Complete
    High Level Queries:      Fully Secure
    |                        Passphrase Required
    |                        Accepts New Users
    |                        Has Visible Users
    |                        Has Volume Key
    |
    +-> Logical Volume FEB0DA59-F214-4841-A491-59BFE7F9DEE4
        ---------------------------------------------------
        Disk:                  disk1
        Status:                Online
        Size (Total):          203999936512 B (204.0 GB)
        Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
        LV Name:               Macintosh HD
        Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
        Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

Is there a way I can get back the usable space onto Macintosh HD? Is there a method if I were to wipe the hard drive (and how) and start from scratch? Thanks in advance for any help.


texts: Browsing the Web through unlimited SMS plan

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I recently purchased a plan for an old iPhone 5, which includes unlimited call and text, but no data. I was thinking: would there be a way to browse the Internet through text messages?

I know there used to be something like this in existence for Android, called the Cosmos web browser, but I am looking for an iPhone solution.

What I want is to be able to, for example, send a url through text message to a server (or to my home computer), and get back the html of the requested page, that I could then plug into an HTML viewer. Eventually, I could copy paste a link from that page into another message, and get back the corresponding page.

Another idea: Since I have limited space on my device (only a few gigs), could I set up some sort of service at my home computer to which I could request a movie title through text, and it would send me the corresponding binary or hex of the entire video file through text... Then, I could copy/paste that into a viewer?

I have a Windows computer at home.

Please let me know if some sort of text web browser exists for iPhone, or if this is even feasible.


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I am trying to connect video from 4 laptops to a big screen monitor and be able switch from one to another easily without having to connect and disconnect cables.

Thanks


texts: Saving and restoring the brightness setting of a display

texts:
I have a dual monitor display and I calibrate both displays. My calibrator generates a calibration profile for each monitor, however the brightness is not saved to the profile (apparently this is the same with all calibrators). This means that although I can now switch between profiles with ease, if I change the brightness of a monitor (deliberately or accidentally), I have no way of getting back to the brightness that is correct for the profile.

Is there any way I can save and restore the brightness of each monitor?

Note: When I say brightness I am talking about the Brightness slider found in System Prefs > Displays. The slider offers no clue as to the numeric value of the brightness, so there is no way to return to it.


texts: NTFS write not working any more after update

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I searched for solutions to make OS X write NTFS disks, and found this one;
How do I write to NTFS drives in OS X?
It worked like a charm, until I updated my mac recently. Now it does not want to write to the NTFS disk anymore even with the nobrowse options. But nobrowse is still applied since the disk does not appear on my Desktop.
The writing is just disabled.
Any reasons why the most recent version of OS X 10.8.5 does not allow to write to NTFS even with that uncomfortable way?


texts: How can I improve response from the iPhone 4 multi-touch display?

texts:
When I touch the surface of my iPhone 4, it doesn't always register.

How does the display work? Heat? Charge? What can I do to make the phone register my touch better?


texts: Is there any way to manually bless firmware when main disk is external?

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My iMac (mid 2010) keeps pestering me to upgrade my EFI firmware to 1.8. Sadly, no matter how many times I try to to upgrade the EFI (from the manual install, or the auto update), it does not seem to go through and asks me again at the next reboot.

The main reasons seems to be that I am running Mac OS X on a completely external disk (firewire); I am reserving the internal disk for Windows. I believe it’s the reason for my trouble since you can find many people have similar problems when they are running os x from a second internal disk (usually when they replaced a MacBook or iMac SuperDrive by an SSD drive).

Searching on the internet, I found a couple of resources that seem to indicate that manually blessing the firmware is possible. For instance this one; note their solution is for a slightly different problem, where installing Ubuntu messed up with EFI, but everything is running from the main disk.

I downloaded the firmware, extracted the relevant file (IM112_0057_01B_LOCKED.scap), and tried—unsuccessfully—to manually push the update.

I am not quite sure how bless works, nor where the efi update is supposed to live (i am surprised that it seems to live on the disk, not on the computer itself, but I could be misunderstanding the way EFI works).
I tried:

sudo bless -mount / -firmware blabla.scap
sudo bless -mount /Volumes/Main -firmware blabla.scap
etc…

No success! If anyone who better understands EFI / the bless command can help me out, I would be super grateful.

I can share the output of the --verbose command if it is helpful.


texts: Permissions for file transfer over target disk mode

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I have a 2015 iMac that no longer boots. I want to recover the ~1 TB of data on it and transfer to a brand-new iMac. (Through a comedy of errors, my Time Machine drive isn't available.)

I can connect the two machines via Target Disk mode with a Thunderbolt cable/Thunderbolt 2-to-3 adapter. I tried Migration Assistant, and it recognized the old drive and offered to transfer, but I let it run all weekend and it didn't get off the first step ("Looking for applications and documents to transfer ... "). I tried a few variants, such as only migrating one user account and only migrating Settings (as a test) and all of them hang on the first step.

I can look at the Target Disk on the network and see the user accounts with the appropriate amounts of data on them, but I don't have access to the files because it doesn't have permissions.

How can I give the Target Disk the appropriate permissions? Can I enter the password somewhere?

A possible complication is that the old iMac login was via a network user account. I know the various passwords, but I'm not clear on whether the old iMac, now no longer able to access the network, will know them.

My overall question is how to recover the data from the old iMac; if there's a simpler way than connecting via Target Disk mode, entering the appropriate permissions, and copying files to the new machine, that would be welcome too.


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My volume in OS X doesn't seem to be actually controlling my volume. Not that the displayed "output volume" in the Sound preference pane doesn't change as I press volume up and volume down keys. The overlay changes, but the actual volume (the little boops) pushed through the headphones and the displayed volume in the preference pane don't change.

Shortly after taking these images, I lost all sound control via the keys. It just shows a muted overlay. The only way I could change the volume is via the sound preference pane now.

After a few minutes, I spontaneously regained control of volume via the keys. This has been happening on and off for the past week. What is happening?


texts:
After recently recovering my Photos library on MacOS I found another backup that contained the same master files but different preview files. Everything in the other backups's Masters folder were duplicates of my recovered files, but the previews were different, including in some cases larger versions of the masters.

My question is this. Is Previews generated from Masters in some manner that would allow me to ignore it if I believe I have all of the master files?

More broadly, what directories contain files that are absolutely necessary to make sure I don't lose any original photos? I don't care if I lose album data, face info or modifications to files.

OS: 10.12.4, Photos: 2.0


texts: Is it possible to remotely switch on Find My Mac?

texts:
My MacBook was stolen over a month ago. I stupidly hadn’t enabled Find My Mac, so I was unable to track it. I’ve just had a notification saying that the stolen MacBook has logged into my iCloud account.

Surely there is some way I can trace it now? Any ideas would be amazing, it's so frustrating feeling so helpless!


texts: Does OS X Yosemite support spotlight on network drives?

texts:
I know in the past OS X did not support indexing network drives.   Has this changed?   Do more recent versions of OS X such as Yosemite support spotlight on network drives?

I am thinking of investing in a NAS storage device such as Synology and spotlight support is a requirement.  Since I have lots of data on my external drives right now.


texts: Several Google Chrome Helper orphan processes

texts: Chrome keeps leaving GCH processes behind, even after stopping the main process. How can I quickly kill all GCH processes in one go?


texts: Ecler NUO 2 mixer connected to MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have maybe a silly question here. I have "Ecler NUO 2" mixer (and obviously turntables with it as well) and would like to ask you if it is anyhow possible to connect it to my "Mac" so as I would not need turntables (I know that it is possible to do so with "Serato Scratch Live" but it is not very practical)?

  Ecler NUO 2 Features

  Compact DJ Mixer. 2+1 channels, 6 inputs, isolator switches,
  adjustable VCA crossfader, balanced XLR output.

  -3 channels, 8 inputs (2 PHONO, 2 L-LINE, 3 H-LINE, 1 MIC)
  -2 independent outs (OUT 1, OUT 2, REC)
  -VCA Crossfader (ECLER PRO Fader, 4,000,000 operations)
  -3 band EQ (LO-MID-HI)
  -ISOLATOR switches
  -Adjustable curve x-fader
  -Adjustable curve upfaders
  -PFL monitoring system
  -VU meter monitoring
  -Effects loop with PRE/POST fader functions
  -Internal oversized switching power supply ±18V

From: http://www.djbooth.net/index/dj-equipment/review/ecler-nuo-2/

Thank you in advance.


texts: Change Safari Technology Preview's interface language

texts: The interface language of Safari Technology Preview is always English even if I use other primary languages for the OS. Can I change it to my system default language?


texts: Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder?

texts:
I use a lot of aliases in my file system. Many original documents are placed in global repositories and I access them by aliases grouped in "tag" folders.

Therefore, when I need to delete such a document, I need to check multiple tag folders to remove the aliases, which pains.

Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder (or preferably, a particular folder)?


texts: Determine if file or directory is encrypted?

texts:
I have FileVault enabled, so my home directory is encrypted. However, programs and libraries often use directories outside of /home; and Disk Utility allows us to create encrypted files and directories at arbitrary locations.

How can I tell if a file or directory is encrypted? Does Finder or a command line tool offer something?


texts: "Open with" configuration gets screwed up unpredictably on El Capitan

texts:
I've been having a problem on my El Capitan installation for a few months. At unpredictable times, the system "unlearns" the programs associated with certain file types.

For example, I double click a PDF in Finder, and it tries to open it with Microsoft Word (which of course complains it is unable to open it). To fix, I have to [right-click -> "Open With" -> "Other..." ] a PDF file, go find Preview (which by the way is not even in the "Recommended Applications") and select "Always Open With", and then the problem goes away for some time.

For a while I thought this problem was limited to PDFs, and was somehow a bug caused by Microsoft Office.

However, just now I had the same problem, but the system defaulted to iTerm for opening hyperlinks! So when I clicked on a link inside an email, it caused an empty iTerm to be opened... To fix I had to create a shortcut to a webpage, then [right-click -> "Open With" -> "Other..." ] and select Firefox.

Would be glad for any help to restore sanity, or at least to understand what is going on!


texts: Can I create symbolic links in OS X which also work in Windows/Linux and vice versa?

texts:
I'm synchronizing a folder structure between my MacBook (OS X 10.6) and a PC with Windows XP (soon Linux or Windows 7).

My problem is that Windows shortcuts or OS X aliases seem to be unusable on the other system, so those symbolic links can not be synchronized with the other machine.

Is there a common format for symbolic links which works on all 3 operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux)?
Can I convert the existing aliases and Windows shortcuts to this format?


texts: Does iOS keyboard "allow full access" setting allow use of data from default keyboard?

texts:
Does the allow full access setting allow third party apps access to what's been written previously using the default keyboard?

Or can they only access data that is written using the the third party keyboard app?


texts: How can I keep certain apps from showing in the command-tab switcher?

texts: Pretty much self-explanatory... I just have a bunch of utilities (LaunchBar, DeliBar, Tags, etc...) that I never need to tab to and so are just in the way.


texts: limiting mdfind on Terminal to files changed in the last x minutes/hours?

texts:
It's relatively simple to use find to look for recent files.

find . -cmin -5 will look for all files changed in the last 5 minutes under the current directory.

But find is very much slower than mdfind, which is powered by Spotlight's index when you search the whole machine.

What is the simplest way, on the terminal, to ask mdfind to only look for files modified in the last 5 minutes?  Every time I look at the Apple doc I get totally lost as to what you actually type on the command line.


texts: Mountain Lion freezes after sleep on iMac (Mid 2007)

texts:
After upgrading to ML, my iMac freezes when going to sleep. The fan goes off but i can't not wake it up. Its that weird i need to unplug the power, and then i can start it again.

Keeping the power-on button pressed is not working.

It does wake-up from the screensaver, but then the mac isn't asleep (yet).

UPDATE: after i set the "Computer Sleep" to never, and "Display sleep" to 30 mins. I did had the "hdd to sleep" and "wake-up" LAN checked. I still got a black-screen, and complete froze, noway to wake-up the Mac. Unplugging the power for a restart.


texts: Are there any free apps that will track your iPhone app sales?  Many have now gone to paid.


texts: How to reassociate Time Machine backup with the computer

texts:
I was taking taking time machine backup on a network drive in a sparsebundle image. In order to use another usb HDD (exfat) to take backup I ran the commands explained here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140415132734925

Now the previous backup destination is deassociated with the Time Machine and when I appended this (network) destination again using follwoing command it starts backing up from the scratch (first backup)

sudo tmutil setdestination -a  '/Volumes/MacBook-Backup/'

Can anyone tell me how do I reassociate the network sparsebundle the the my Mac as it has latest backup.


texts: Configuring iPad Mail app & Gmail app with different accounts?

texts:
I prefer to use the Gmail app over the standard Mail app on my iPad for reading my personal Gmail (I delete a lot of mails, newsletters, etc., after reading and this is one tap in Gmail and several in Mail).

I have them set up so my personal Gmail uses the Gmail app and my work email is set up to use the standard Mail app. This all works fine except for one problem. If I'm in Gmail or Mail and send an email it sends from the relevant email address as expected. My problem is that when I share something via email from Safari or another app it sends from the email address configured in Settings for Mail (the work one) and I would prefer to do such sharing from my personal email address.

Does anyone know if there is a way to achieve this? I could switch the addresses to use the other app but as I never delete work email and delete personal mail at least 50% of the time, the behaviour of the apps is perfect the way I have them set up; if only I could solve that one little problem of controlling where shared items are sent from.

I am using an iPad 2 with iOS 5.1 should that be relevant.


texts: Configure iTunes 12 behavior of writing metadata back to file?

texts:
I notice that iTunes 12 automatically writes metadata changes back to the file. Unfortunately, if you are using TimeMachine to backup your music library, this is a huge waste, since it means that every time a file is played (or any other metadata change is made) a new copy of the file is included in the next backup.

I understand that the file metadata is stored in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl. Even with nearly 10k songs, this file is less than 5MB. If a file is already in the iTunes library, I believe iTunes no longer considers the metadata in the file.

I remember in previous versions of iTunes, it did not automatically write metadata changes to the file, but this had to be triggered manually. Since I am not likely to migrate the files out of my iTunes library any time soon, but am more concerned with avoiding file churn, how do I stop this?


texts: How do I boot up my laptop from an external backup drive, or how do I verify that a backup is good?

texts: I want to upgrade my Mac to at least OS 10.9. It's running 10.6.8 now and has an Intel Core i5 processor. I've been making backups to an external drive via Time Machine, and I read that one step before upgrading is making sure my backups are good. One way to check is to boot up my laptop from the backup drive. But I was recently told that my current OS doesn't support booting up from my external drive, which I confirmed (the drive doesn't show on the screen while I have Option pressed during startup). What are my options for making sure the backups are good?


texts: Apps unresponsive directly after starting them. Log says: "didn't gather any samples due to audio running"

texts:
Recently, I'm seeing the following symptom regularly on my Mac.

I'll start an application such as safari or sktich and then the app bounces in the dock and is unresponsive. I have to force quit the application. This symptom is gone once I restart the mac.

All the log tells me is:

spindump[2733]: Safari [2730] didn't gather any samples due to audio running

What could be the source of this error and how can I fix it?

I have no audio running.


texts: Simulate how a volume is mounted using diskarbitrationd

texts:
I'm attempting to emulate how a volume is normally mounted for my NTFS volume that I've added to /private/etc/fstab. Normally, when a volume is found, like an external hard drive, it is mounted and then a shortcut to that volume is put on the Desktop and in the Finder left-hand sidebar. However, since to mount a NTFS volume as read-write in fstab, the flag nobrowse must be added, this prevents it from showing up on the desktop and in Finder's sidebar.

My research has pointed me to diskarbitrationd as the program that listens for new volumes and mounts them. I'd like to emulate the automatic adding of shortcuts to the desktop and Finder and removal on volume unmounting, and I'd like to make a script that listens for information from diskarbitationd and do the processing for me.

How would I hook into diskarbitrationd and listen for new events, then add the shortcuts to the desktop and Finder after the volume is mounted?

Thanks for your help!


texts: Can you whitelist certain words from being auto-corrected?

texts:
I'm aware you can turn off autocorrect entirely. However I feel like Rick & Morty is popular enough to warrant its exclusion from being autocorrected to Marty.

Is there any way to override/prevent auto-correct for specific words?


texts: I Installed Server.app on Yosemite to enable caching, but see many server processes in Task Manager (_xcsbuild and _devicemgr and _calendar processes)

texts:
_xcsbuild and _devicemgr and _calendar processes seem to be the bulk.

None of them are using significant rescues but there are dozens.

How do I identify the launcctl jobs and turn them off?


texts: Setting arrangement of new Finder Window via AppleScript

texts:
I want to create a new Finder Window, and change the default arrangement from "None" to "arrange by name". Here is my code that does everything except the arrange by name part:

tell application "Finder"
    set theWindow to make new Finder window
    tell theWindow
        set current view to icon view
    end tell
    tell its Finder window theWindow
        set arrangement of icon view options of theWindow to arranged by name
    end tell
end tell

I have tried the code without using the "tell its Finder Window" and using just the "tell theWindow" block, but that does nothing as well.

What is weird is, in the Finder AppleScript dictionary the "Icon View Options" property says its read only. But the "Icon View Options" class says that it is read/write, and it even has an arrangement property that also says that it is read/write.

So has anyone been able to successfully change the "arrangement" property and has the change been reflected in the Finder window?


texts:
I have a problem. I noticed when writing a mail today and the PDF invoice me flashing cursor - the slow and fast movements.
I am not sure what to can - you have a problem with that and you?

The display has been claimed (burned pixel) and then made it even now - so the display is OK. Could it Software?

Mac OS X 10.7.3 LION - and made it to 10.7.2

Thanks for the advice

/They have a problem with the owners of several MBP! - You belong to them and you? Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to hide title bar of Firefox 22 in OS X 10.8.4

texts: Is there any way to hide or remove Firefox 22 title bar in OS X 10.8.4?


texts: How to mass-delete SMS messages that match a pattern?

texts:
At work, I have a job that sends me a SMS when a critical job fails.  Because of a bug, it ended up sending several hundred SMS messages over the course of a night that I wish to delete.

Is there an easy way to delete just these messages, and keep all other SMS messages?  It would be trivial if there was a way to filter via RegEx; however I do not wish to filter by sender since I want to keep other messages that were sent to me via AT&T's email->sms bridge.


texts: Macbook Pro 2016 (13,1) won't show bootable Ubuntu live USB drive on boot after upgrading to Big Sur

texts:
I've been using a dual boot Macbook Pro 2016 (13,1) running MacOS and Ubuntu for the last 4 years. Today, after updating to Big Sur, my bootable live USB drive won't show when holding down Option key on boot. I wanted to boot a live Ubuntu USB drive to change something on my Linux partition, but the USB boot option won't show up.
I've checked that the drive shows and boots in another macbook air I have at home. Also, I use rEFInd in my Macbook Pro, but the USB also won't show there. SIP is disabled. Any ideas? Does Big Sur changes the booting process?


texts: How to tell which computer is connected to AirPlay

texts: My company shares a set of audio speakers accessible via AirPlay. Is there any way for someone to tell which computer is currently connected to the AirPlay without shouting the question out to the room?


texts:
[OS 10.10.5]

I want the content background of the Dictionary app to be black. I know this can be done by editing the DefaultStyle.css file of each dictionary, but the background color is still bright white when there is no input in the Search box. How can I make the background color of Dictionary always black? Thanks.

(I know Mojave has Dark Mode, but I have no intention to upgrade my OS to Mojave for now.)


texts: How can I detect and remount my time machine sparsebundle?

texts:
I currently have my Time Machine sparse bundle residing on a network drive plugged in to my router. I have a script that runs at login that auto connects to the shared drive and mounts the sparsebundle image as a device for backups. Here's what it looks like:

try
   mount volume "smb://readyshare/MacBackup"
end try

do shell script "hdiutil attach -mountpoint /Volumes/MacBackup/ /Volumes/MacBackup/TimeMachine.sparsebundle"

However, I've noticed that from time the time the device will automatically disconnect itself. Usually this happens when I leave for lunch and the MacBook Pro goes to sleep after a while.

Often I don't notice this until I get an error message about my backup device not being able to perform the backup.

Is there a way I can modify this script (or create a new one) that can detect when my sparsebundle device has been ejected and remount it?


texts: Open PDF in full screen from the command line

texts:
I've written a simple-minded "take a break" reminder which just opens a PDF notice. This works fine, but I wish I could open the PDF file in full screen mode from the command line. Does anyone know how to do that? Perhaps some osascript magic?

#!/bin/sh
B=$HOME/Documents/break.pdf
D=3000
while true
do
        sleep $D
        open $B
done


texts:
I have a very weird situation that when I start my Macbook, Mission Control is invoked many times for a couple of seconds. Then it stops and everything goes back to normal (occasionally though it starts again the craziness but very sporadically).

In the beginning I though that my trackpad was completely broken so I went to System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures and I disabled the gesture  there. But unfortunately the problem still persists...

Is there any way to see from where Mission Control takes an invocation command? I thought of adding a keylogger to see if the keyboard is also broken and sends random events but if something else is the problem then this is not enough. I wish there was a debug mode or something that I could see who is talking to which service of my mac :/

Any ideas???


texts: Mechanical Keyboard Layout Not Recognized

texts:
So I bought this keyboard. Armaggeddon Black Hornet MKA-3 mechanical gaming keyboard. Here's the link to it.

http://armaggeddon.net/gaming-keyboards/black-hornet-black/

They provide Windows drivers so my it works nice on my PC. I use both Linux and Mac OS at my workplace, it works great with my Linux without any configuration but surprisingly not functioning well with my Mac. Although I don't use mac very, I still want to be able to use my keyboard when I have to use Mac sometimes.

Here's what happened, I plugged in the USB, reboot to Mac, can't type password at the login screen, I plugged in my apple keyboard, and logged in. The system detected my new keyboard, asked me to press the key right to the left shift key, after I pressed it for several times, it says the keyboard is not recognised and I have to choose one manually.

So I chose US standard layout, but the key mappings are all messed up. I mean you have 8 when you type 1, and you see 's' when you press space.

All my other keyboards are working fine, I want to ask is there anyway in mac you can manually 'program' the key mappings, or what should I do to make it work.

Here's some a list of wrong key mappings.

1 = 8
2 = 9
3 = 0
4 = 'Enter'
5 = 'Not Sure'
6 = 'Back space'
'Backspace' = \
' = q
, = 4
. = n
p = f
a = d
i = b

Thanks for any help.


texts:
I would like to set up Eclipse to run for all users of a Mac running OS X 10.9.4 (Mavericks).  I logged in to the administrator account (User) and did the following:

I installed the latest version of the JDK (jdk-7u67-macosx-x64.dmg).
I downloaded the tarball of the latest version of Eclipse standard Luna.
I double-clicked on the tarball (eclipse-standard-luna-R-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz) to uncompress/unzip it.
I dragged the created eclipse folder into Macintosh HD/Applications.
I double-clicked on the Eclipse Application in the eclipse folder and launched Eclipse.

The problem occurs when I log out of the administrator account and in to an ordinary user account.  When I double-click on the Eclipse Application, I get this error:

  You can't open the application "Eclipse" because it is not supported
  on this type of Mac.

I don't think this is the real reason.  I am able to run Eclipse as an ordinary user if, as that user, I uncompress that same tarball and launch its Eclipse application.

Back to the version I installed as User, if I try running Applications/eclipse from the command line as an ordinary user, I get this error:

-bash: ./eclipse: Permission denied

Digging through, looking for a permissions problem, I found:

-rwxr-x---@ 1 user  staff  34608 Jun 12 01:08 /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse

After chmod'ing this file to 755, I can get Eclipse to run for ordinary users if they double-click on the link /Applications/eclipse/eclipse in the Finder.  This seems like a hack, though, and lacks robustness.  Specifically, I'd like to get the Eclipse Application working so it can appear in the dock.  If I launch via the eclipse link /Applications/eclipse/eclipse and then right-click on the Eclipse icon in the dock and save it, I cannot launch with it later, or I get the same error as above:

  You can't open the application "Eclipse" because it is not supported
  on this type of Mac.

What is the right fix?


texts: How to download an audio file from a web site on iOS?

texts:
Is there a way to download an audio file, such as a mp3-file or a Quicktime-file from the iOS Safari browser to the device so I could listen to it later when I'm offline? Is there a way I should program the web site to make this possible?

I'm not looking for an additional app to help me achieve this.


texts: Why do I have duplicate groups in Contacts app on my iPhone?

texts:
If I open the Contacts app on my iPhone I get duplicate groups, hence duplicate contacts.
I started to delete one of a duplicate contact but they both gone away.
I thought I could solve this problem going on my Mac and delete the duplicate groups but there I don't have duplicates.

I'm using iCloud for syncing contactes between my MacBook Pro and iPhone.

How can I solve this problem?


texts: Which cooling pad to get for Macbook pro 15 Early 2011

texts:
I am playing games on my Mac. and the machine gets red hot. I'd like to get a cooling pad for it to keep it calm. After doing a lot of searching I'm thinking of getting a CoolMaster Notepal Infinite Evo

Will this cooling pad work well for my machine? I am not able to get much variety of cooling pads in my area. Also, I am attaching links to other cooling pads available:Link 1 , Link 2.


texts:
I recently got a new MacBook Pro and it only has 120 GB on it. On the system information page, I saw that garage band takes a whooping 46 GB on my Mac! I don't know how this has happened!

When I received this computer, I installed logic pro, and downloaded a ton of loops. Afterwards, I wanted to delete them for other stuff, so I deleted garageband and logic off my computer, and removed all files and audio loops from application support and elsewhere, however, it still shows that it takes 46 GB. How do I fix this?


texts: Questionable Wi-Fi problem on MBP: how to analyse it?

texts:
I can't all of the sudden turn on WiFi on my MBP. I have upgraded to Yosemite half a year ago and it was all working fine until today.

I tried some tips from this thread Can't turn on wifi on Mac OSX Mountain lion MBP 2012 like sudo ifconfig en# up(tried all numbers because I don't know which en is WiFi...

I also tried hard power off; restarted several times; removed WiFi interface, restarted and added it back. Nothing helped. After hard power off I saw it trying to connect to a network for few secs and then it stopped again...

ifconfig output for wifi device:

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 60:03:08:97:7a:56
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
    status: inactive

Console output after system startup:

31/01/15 22:46:33,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en0. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
31/01/15 22:46:33,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360_P2PInterface::init name <p2p0> role 1
31/01/15 22:46:33,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360_P2PInterface::init <p2p> role 1
31/01/15 22:46:33,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360_P2PInterface::init name <awdl0> role 4
31/01/15 22:46:33,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360_P2PInterface::attachToBpf name <awdl0> role 4 successful attach to bpf type 147
31/01/15 22:46:33,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4360_P2PInterface::init <awdl> role 4
31/01/15 22:46:33,686 airportd[30]: airportdProcessDLILEvent: en0 attached (up)
31/01/15 22:46:35,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on awdl0
31/01/15 22:46:39,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en0
31/01/15 22:46:39,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en0
31/01/15 22:46:39,653 airportd[30]: -[CWXPCConnection performScanWithChannels:ssidList:legacyScanSSID:includeHiddenNetworks:mergeScanResults:maxAge:maxMissCount:maxWakeCount:maxAutoJoinCount:interfaceName:waitForWiFi:waitForBluetooth:token:priority:reply:]: !!! SCAN request received 0.0127 seconds after previous scan request from 58 (locationd)
31/01/15 22:46:39,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en0. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
31/01/15 22:46:40,005 airportd[30]: _handleLinkEvent: WiFi is not powered. Resetting state variables.

Does anyone have any clue how to fix it?

I'd prefer a solution that doesn't include reinstalling my whole system.


texts: I'm trying to decide if I want to buy an ipad.  My question is, Will I be able to connect with family members who have iPhones on FaceTime if I have an iPad ?


texts: iOS 5 upgrade deleted calendar from iPhone and iPad

texts: I managed to go into iTunes and change some settings for the calendar and was able to recover some of my calendar for my iPhone but not all of my events are on there.  And my iPad calender has nothing on it!  My iPhone has an extra calendar which is the name of my email address and my iPad dosent give me an option for this calendar which is why I think it's blank.  So I need to know what my settings should be to find my original calendar that i had on my iPhone?


texts:
Is it possible to run XQuartz in 16-bit color mode on macOS High Sierra?  I tried the suggestions in this question but they didn't seem to work for 16-bit color.

First, I tried setting the color depth in XQuartz preferences:

When I restarted X and checked the color depth using xwininfo -root it showed Depth: 24.

Next, I tried specifying the color depth inline when starting XQuartz:

xquartz -depth 16

This caused XQuartz to crash with the error: Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died

Last, I tried setting the color depth with defaults

defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 "depth" -int 16

This also resulted in a color depth of 24.

However, setting the color mode to 8-bit using any of the above techniques worked just fine.  XQuartz started up, and xwininfo -root showed Depth: 8.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?  I'm running macOS High Sierra and XQuartz 2.7.11 (xorg-server 1.18.4).

Edit: I tried with a value of 15, but xwininfo is still reporting a color depth of 24.


texts: Mount shared drives with different users

texts:
I have a Mac (Sierra with 1 user account) and a Synology NAS (DSM 6.0 with 2 user accounts), and I'd like to mount shares for both accounts on my Mac. So I wrote that script (and set it as startup item):

try
    delay 5
    mount volume "afp://user1:pass1@nas.local/Share1"
    mount volume "afp://user2:pass2@nas.local/Share2"
end try

Problem is, the first mount command works, but not the second (whatever the order of the lines), as if there were only one AFP user allowed at the same time. The error message is (approximately translated):

  Connexion to nas.local server failed.

  Share doesn't exist on the server. Check the share name, then retry.

Looks like the first user is used for the second mount command.

I don't think it's an AFP limitation (is it?), so there may be another way to mount those shares?


texts: I use Google Chrome as my browser. I deleted Chrome cookies and there are some files that were stored in the cookies for a note taking web application I use. I want to restore the files that were stored in the cookies I deleted. How can I do that?


texts: El Capitan XQuartz fails to open. Abnormal code 126

texts:
I am running 10.11.2 on a Macbook Pro and have downloaded the Quartz 2.7.9 and installed it.  The installation GUI claims the XQuartz installation was successful.  I rebooted my machine and logged back in.  I attempted to start Quartz and there is a momentary activity on the docking bar, like the icon is going to appear, but then it does not.

In the /var/system/log/system.log I see the following entry:

Jul 26 13:03:44 WAM-RMASA-01 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.56032[3608]): Service exited with abnormal code: 126

I took a stab at installing a previous version of XQuartz 2.7.8 and that yielded the same results.

Any clues on what to look at to troubleshoot this further?  Looked for additional logs but nothing is popping out as being X11 related.

Not sure it is relevant, but I do not have Xcode installed.


texts: How to use the cmd+w shortcut without closing a Fluid app?

texts:
I am using Coder.com, an online IDE, as a Fluid app.

I want cmd+w and cmd-t to close and open new tabs inside the IDE, not the Fluid app. Is there any way I can overwrite these shortcuts?


texts: Unable to find an album in iTunes while I see it using web browser

texts:
So I'm in Australia and I bought Apple Music, I wanted to pull a particular album I really enjoy.

  Artist - Recoil, title - 1+2

While I can see it in browser by googling it.

Above screenshot is from iTunes via browser where I'm not logged in.

I'm unable to see it in my iTunes app on iPhone and Mac when I search using phrases "recoil" and / or "1+2.

The last one in search results is Hydrology, while (1+2 - the oldest LP) should appear on the very right but it does not. Is it because of some licensing issues in Australia Apple Store? What could be the issue. Could other people from different countries try to search it and check if it appears?


texts: How do I verify a certificate when installing it on iOS?

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I am installing a self-created certificate authority SSL cert onto a modern (iOS-9.3.2, iPod6) iOS device. It is self-signed and obtained over an untrusted transport. In normal, e.g. desktop, environments, I’d be able to print out the certificate’s fingerprint or view the fingerprint to verify that the certificate copied to the device is the same as the one I created. For example, on any unix system:

ohnobinki@ohnopublishing ~ $ openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -in /etc/ssl/certs/GlobalSign_Root_CA.pem
SHA1 Fingerprint=B1:BC:96:8B:D4:F4:9D:62:2A:A8:9A:81:F2:15:01:52:A4:1D:82:9C

When viewing the certificate on iOS, I end up at the “Install Profile” screen. It lets me view things like “Subject Name”, “Issuer Name”, Subject Key Identifier”, “Public Key Identifier”, “Signature”, et al. I guess I can verify that the key is the same by comparing all the octets of the Signature—but there are a ton of octets compared to the fingerprint which is already a burden to validate. Also, when I tap and hold on the “Signature”, I get no option to Copy the octets or anything useful.

What is the best strategy for validating that a certificate downloaded to an iOS device matches the one you created and intend to install rather than one crafted by an untrusted/malicious party?


texts: Does Facetime work over a cellular connection as well as Wifi

texts: Does facetime work over Wifi only, or also over a cellular connection such as 3G?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running Lion. Usually, I need to run tasks that takes hours... so I just leave the laptop working before going to bed.

When I wake up, I notice that it tried to shutdown the system. How do I notice this? Well... all apps are closed except for iTerm (which always stops shutdown process when there is more than one tab open).

I tried to search the energy saving settings but there is nothing related to this... I would like to see how to prevent this behavior.


texts: Traveling to US - Do I need to step up / down for Macbook Pro (2016)

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I live in the U.K. and I have a Macbook Pro (2016) which I purchased in Dubai. The power adapter works fine in U.K. / Dubai / India.

I am traveling to USA next week.

Do I need to buy the adapter so that it can be used in the 2-pin USA wall sockets or do I also need to buy something in addition to that - say, a step up / step power adapter (My apologies, I am not sure of what it is called exactly... to transform the voltage as well?)


texts: How to delete a word accidentally added to the Pages dictionary?

texts:
I told Pages to learn the spelling of a character name I was writing about, without noticing there was a misspelling in the name.

Is there anyway to delete or correct the spelling of the name from the Dictionary now that I added it by mistake?


texts: How can I identify the cause of this SSL error in Safari 6?

texts:
I was seeing an SSL error in Safari 6.1.6 (8537.78.2) on OSX 10.8.5 when visiting a website, and the debug information provided from the developer tools didn't indicate the source of the issue. The issue was reported by multiple users of OSX 10.8, and was resolved for those users by restoring TLSv1 in the server configuration (config change at bottom of question).

The error message in Safari developer tools was

  Failed to load resource: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.

In Safari, there was no additional information under the "Requests > Network" tab (which I saw referenced on other answers). The information there seemed to relate to loading the content of the error message rather than the original site.

What other methods, if any, could I have used to extract a "server lacks TLSv1 support" message from Safari 6 / OSX 10.8.x?

Additional background info: The change required to the nginx server configuration was this -

-ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
+ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;


texts: Was the Haptic engine included as part of the iPhone's Home Button ever made available for use by developers?

texts: When the iPhone 7 was released back in 2016, rather than the mechanical Home Button that had been included in previous generations, Apple replaced it with a Haptic version. At the time, mentions were made of using this new version of the Home Button to deliver notification alerts, as well as an API being introduced to allow developers to interact with the Haptic engine within the button (see https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/7/12828652/apple-iphone-7-home-button-removed-force-touch for more details). Just out of interest, was this API ever made available to developers - and if so, are there any examples of apps that made use of it?


texts: Is there anyway that I can view the /dev folder with its contained pseudo-files inside of Finder? I can access it just fine in the terminal with cd /dev, but in Finder it doesn't show up even with AppleShowAllFiles active.


texts:
I exported two videos from Photoshop using the standard export movie tool. The dialog is the standard Quicktime Export that we're used to seeing from the beginning of times.

For each movie I chose the WebM (QT Extension) and h.264 as a codec. Both file names come out with a .mov extension, but are encoded with their appropriate codec.

Their final destination is a website, where they will be embedded with the html5 video tag. If I manually change their extension to .webm and .mp4, will they work when I upload them to the server?


texts: Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot install python 2.7 readline

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When I try

pip install readline

or

easy_install readline

I get the following error

Running readline-6.1.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/uX/uXgzCdzXEfSGJugKNxAMx++++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-XhqAku/readline-6.1.0/egg-dist-tmp-I7rsWF
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not installed
Installed assemblers are:
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/uX/uXgzCdzXEfSGJugKNxAMx++++TI/-Tmp-//cc3nFYj0.out (No such file or directory)
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1

Altho for python 2.6.1 it finds readline-6.1.0-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg and works fine, fixing readline for ipython for 2.6.1. No joy for 2.7 however.


texts:
The following is the code I have, however, it doesn't let me choose the extension I want to save it as. How can I save the file as a ".plist" ?

do shell script "echo '{ Filter = { Bundles = ( \"'" & proj & "'\" ); }; }' >> ~/Desktop/gametocheat/" & proj & " "


texts: Writing current date to plist file using the command line

texts:
I'm trying to use this command to do so:

defaults write test.plist LatestDate date "+%y-%m-%d"

where LatestDate is the key I'm modifying. The problem is, it doesn't recognize date "+%y-%m-%d" as what I'm trying to write to the key, and when I put it in quotes it simply writes that text, not the date to the key.

How should I go about doing this?


texts: Alternative to AlwaysAppendSearchDomains on Yosemite?

texts:
Since Lion, I have used the AlwaysAppendSearchDomains trick on mDNSresponder to resolve names with dots in search domains.

In yosemite this doesn't work any more. In fact, mDNSresponder doesn't seem to be running:

$ ps ax | grep -i dns | grep -v grep
$


texts: Cannot install Hamachi on macOS Sierra 10.12

texts:
My Mac book won't let me install hamachi or use some programs. The problem I tried to install says hams.kext or hamns.kext was installed incorrectly and told me to reinstall it, I tried looking into the web but no one has the same problem. How do I reinstall hams.kext, Hamns.kext? I waited 5 days for a response on my other article I made, but no response.

macOS Sierra 10.12
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB


texts: Will maintaining lot of files in trash affect Mac OS X performance?

texts:
I maintain more than 20 million files in my trash without cleaning.

Can it slow down my Mac OS X?


texts: Workout sync from Watch to iPhone is unreliable since iOS 14 update

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Since updating to iOS 14, about 20% 50% of my workouts fail to sync from my Watch to my iPhone. I've restarted both Watch and iPhone, several times. Quit and relaunched the Activity app in iOS. All to no avail.
The information from missing workouts is also not present in Health. So basically Watch now no longer can be used for its primary function.
It's so bad, that I even get nonsense like this:

How do I restore the missing workouts and get sync working again, or is this another iOS 14 bug?


texts:
I'm having a problem re-installing homebrew. I am running Mavericks

It started with me trying to install express.js. Homebrew had been installed on my mac for quite some time, never had any trouble with it. I used sudo npm install -g express, but when I ran express --version, I got command not found. Eventually, I found a possible solution online, and just tried to reinstall npm with brew remove npm and brew install npm. Again, I ran into errors (Unfortunately, I didn't save the exact errors) I used brew doctor to try and figure it out, looked up a ton of tutorials and mucked around with homebrew, and I guess I broke something.

Now, I figure I should just try and reinstall homebrew.

I run the install command for homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

It returns this message:

It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
    rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

So, I run

rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

This returns:

-bash: brew: command not found

I try running the install command again, and this time, it doesn't tell me homebrew is already installed.

So again, I run the install command for homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

And now I get this:

==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /Library/Caches/Homebrew
Password:
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
remote: Counting objects: 136, done.
remote: Total 136 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (136/136), 10.37 MiB | 1.53 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (44/44), done.
From https://github.com/Onomanatee/portfolio_Yuri_Legiest
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
HEAD is now at c253261 Commit4
==> Installation successful!
==> Next steps
Run brew doctor before you install anything
Run brew help to get started

Running brew doctor or brew help , however, results in

-bash: brew: command not found

I really don't know how to fix this. And why is the brew installer referring to a repository I used as a test for a little web project? (right above Installation succesful!)


texts: Prevent "upgrades" (like Catalina) from appearing in software update window

texts:
I don't want to see Catalina here anymore. I'm tired of Apple's update aggression:

What can I do (short of nuking the App Store) to prevent OS "upgrades" from being listed in the Software Window (for ALL users)?
I tried this method but is no longer an effective solution. I get the message below, and Catalina remains.
Ignoring software updates is deprecated. The ability to ignore individual updates will be removed in a future release of macOS.
Well, it seems the ability has already been removed.


texts: Hard drive boots over USB but not when install internally

texts:
I am trying to upgrade from a 500GB HD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136314) to a 1TB HD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152291). The only spec difference (other than capacity) as far as I can tell between the two is that the 1TB HD is SATA 3 (6Gb/s) while the 500GB HD is SATA 2 (3Gb/s).

I installed OSX Lion to the 1TB drive while it was connected to my laptop via a USB to SATA cable. I can then boot from that drive while it is connected via the USB. However, if I install it in the HD bay in the laptop (13" Pro, late 2011) then the screen shows a blinking folder icon with a question mark on it.

Booting a GParted Live USB while the drive is internally mounted (i.e. hooked up directly to the motherboard) shows it as being marked "unallocated" as if there were no partition. However, if I boot into the GParted Live USB while it is hooked up via USB it recognizes the partitions (though it does flag them, saying it can't read them). The 500GB drive shows up whether mounted internally or via USB without any flags.

The common suggested fix is that the internal SATA cable is faulty. However, I am not experiencing any problems with booting from my current HD, so I think that is not the problem. The new HD also seems in good working condition since it boots from USB just fine. My suspicion is that the backwards compatibility from SATA 3 to SATA 2 is not working as it should, but I'm not sure how to force it to work.


texts:
I'm interested in replacing written-out colors with their actual representation. The example is shown below is on Apple's website, and I can't seem to find a way to do it within Xcode. I'm afraid that something so useful might just be a marketing gimmick.

If not, how do I do what's to the right of

c.circleColor    =
c.lineColor      =


texts: What different Stack Exchange apps are available for the iPad?

texts: I am looking for iOS apps for the Stack Exchange network that support the iPad. This is very similar to this question, but the difference is that I'm looking for apps that run on the iPad (not in 2x mode). What different apps exist for browsing the Stack Exchange network on the iPad?


texts: Can send text on iMessage to one person but not pictures?

texts:
I've been having problems with one of my contacts (zero problems with anyone else)
I can send text iMessages and they go no problem, but all picture messages fail.
I can FaceTime her fine, I can send pictures to everyone else. It's just baffling me. Any ideas?


texts: How can I change my Python 2.7 to 3.5? (I've already changed my bash_profile)

texts:
I downloaded Python 3.7, and then I deleted and changed Python 3.7 to 2.7 (using bash_profile, I changed the content in bash profile, just like the image below), and it worked.

But I found that Python 2.7 is too old. So I want to change Python 2.7 to 3.5, so that the version can match with my book. So I am trying to use the way above, but it didn't work.


texts: iPhone 6 iOS 11 Public Beta: Camera format

texts:
I've installed iOS 11 Public Beta on my iPhone 6 but it seems that I can't select the new HEIF format in Settings -> Camera.

How can I check if I'm taking picture in JPG or HEIF? Or is it an iPhone 7 and above exclusive feature?


texts: How to Limit Wifi Connection to Only One Application?

texts:
I need to connect to open Wifi network but I do not want all my applications access internet with it. Only one internet browser.

I am using at the moment VPN Service PrivateInternetAccess.com (PIA).
I need Latvian internet access. I need to one wifi connection use Latvian Open Wifi Connection, and let it use only one specific browser. Otherwise, my other Wifi will use my cell phone internet that is connected to PIA's VPN.

How can you restrict only one internet browser access internet with open wifi connection?


texts:
I'm trying to convert the following Karabiner config to the new JSON format. What would be the equivalent mapping?
<root>
  <item><name>Ignore apps</name></item>
  <item>
    <name>Disable all settings while you are using Remote Desktop.</name>
    <identifier>ignore_apps.remote_desktop</identifier>
    <only>
      REMOTEDESKTOPCONNECTION,
      TEAMVIEWER,
    </only>
    <autogen>__PassThrough__</autogen>
  </item>
</root>


texts: Home Server for an iOS developer | Xcode continuous integration

texts:
I am currently developing websites and ios applications. Recently, I decided to install a home server for cloud/back-up purposes and especially for xcode server(helping me test my builds) with version control system.

I also know its possible to install xcode server on your development Mac but im looking for a remote machine.

With mac mini, i will be able to instal OS X Server and get all the services I want.

After days of research I still cant decide whether mac mini late 2014 have all the power i need. Especially in storage wise, I have limited options like 1TB etc. Whereas with other servers available out there, I can find one with more capacity and storage, and i will be able to upgrade it later on.

But I dont really have any upgrade choices with mac mini if i want to later on. So shall I go for a any home server (and give up OS X) or does mac mini can handle my workload and be upgradable?

I am more of a software guy and I really dont understand hardware:/

All the help is appreciated.


texts: Is it possible to increase price of an App?

texts:
Is there any way to increase the price of an app being sold on the App Store? (Where one could increase the price as necessary).

Where I could read more about App selling strategies?


texts: Is there a way for locking the screen and putting it to sleep/activating the screen saver to be two different events on a MBP?

texts:
This question is very similar to what I want to accomplish, except for the fact that I also want to be able to put the display to sleep at times without triggering it to ask me for a password. I basically want to be able to do two things:

At times, lock the screen, much like I do in a PC by hitting Win+L. I'm fine with the screen going to sleep at this time, and if this step was all I wanted, hitting control+shift+power would do the trick if Require password [amount of time] after sleep or screen saver begins under System Preferences > Security was checked. However;
I also want to be able to, sometimes, just put the display to sleep or let it eventually start the screen saver without it asking for a password afterwards. I could also accomplish this one simply, if I unchecked Require password [amount of time] after sleep or screen saver begins under System Preferences > Security, but again that would make me unable to do what I wanted to do above.

I can do this all in Windows by enabling the screen saver, and not checking the box that specifies that it'd get me to the login screen when on resume. That way, I can let the screen saver get triggered and the display eventually go to sleep and it won't ask me for a password when I resume; and I can also simply lock the session when I want to by hitting Win+L, and then the display will eventually go to sleep.

Is this possible to accomplish in a Mac?


texts: Apple calendar stopped showing events on Mac

texts:
I have been using Calendar for a while and everything was working normally. However, suddenly it stopped showing some events in two of my calendars, and I dont understand why.

I can see all those events on calendar.google.com, but not on Mac calendar.

I've tried:

Refreshing calendars
Ticking on and off the calendars on the left-hand side of the Calendar app
Removing/re-adding the calendar permissions under Accounts.

I dont know how else to fix this. All help is appreciated!


texts: Why is my hostname resolution taking so long?

texts:
Several months ago I noticed that my text editor (emacs) and IDE (IntelliJ) were taking a really long time to start up. The time appeared to vary based on the DNS servers OS X was using.

I was able to isolate the issue when a project's test suite was running slowly. I found the (higher level) culprit to be a call to socket.getfqdn().

Running the following command in the terminal on OS X 10.10.2, demonstrates the problem:

$ time python -c 'import socket; socket.getfqdn()'
python -c 'import socket; socket.getfqdn()'  0.02s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 5.122 total

I traced the code that runs when socket.getfqdn() is called and the delay is caused by getaddrinfo(3). I wrote a small program that isolates the problem and gai_strerror(3) provides this message:

$ time ./hostinfo
Hostname: MacBook-Pro.local
getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
./hostinfo  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 5.101 total

It seems like the delay is waiting for the DNS query to time out. The above results were using Google's public DNS servers. If I use my ISP's DNS servers, however, the time increases to 30 seconds:

$ time python -c 'import socket; socket.getfqdn()'
python -c 'import socket; socket.getfqdn()'  0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 30.114 total

(curiously the C program hostinfo still takes just above 5 seconds)

What is causing this issue? Is my hostname invalid or causing problems?

$ hostname
MacBook-Pro.local

This problem doesn't happen on a Macbook Air on the same network.

The major difference I can see is that on the problematic machine, the following DNS confiugration is listed:

$ scutil --dns
DNS configuration

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : Home
  nameserver[0] : 8.8.8.8
  nameserver[1] : 8.8.4.4
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : Reachable

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : Home
  nameserver[0] : 8.8.8.8
  nameserver[1] : 8.8.4.4
  if_index : 4 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped, Request A records
  reach    : Reachable

On the Macbook Air, several extra entries are included that relate to mDNS. For example:

resolver #2
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  order    : 300000

This seems to be significant. Interestingly, the timeout listed above is about the same as the runtimes above.

I should note that I'm connected to the internet using WiFi and the problem only exists when trying to resolve my computer's host name.


texts: Start the process WindowServer per Terminal

texts:
I have to start the WindowServer Via the Terminal:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/WindowServer

I can not use

killall -HUP WindowServer

because the process is not running.
Can it without reboot the system?


texts: Is it a bad idea to have a folder and a notebook in a different folder with same name?

texts: I just realized that I have a folder and OneNote Notebook (that is located in a another folder) with the same name. Is this a bad idea? Could the filesystem mix them up?


texts: How do I hide the file extension in Finder?

texts:
On my mac, when I go to the folder Applications  see the format ".app"
How can I hide it?


texts:
My iMac 27" screen went black on start up after logo, but I could still see my mouse pointer. I've restarted my computer and it is still not helping at all.

I'm running Mavericks 10.9.2 with an i5 processor and 4GB RAM.

Couple things that I've done:

I did a PRAM reset with ⌘, ⌥, P & R at start up and still no luck.
Launched Disk Utilities by holding command & R keys at start up, ran disk diagnostics and got a good message. I also click all repair related buttons and still green message appeared OK.
I booted up into Safe mode and still no luck.
I ran Apple Hardware Testing and the result is good.
I've reinstalled OS X Mavericks and still the same problem.

I'm wondering what would be the possible culprit with this kind of issue?


texts: Is the iPhone SE compatible with iPhone 5 cases?

texts: Are the dimensions and the placements of the ports and buttons identical on the iPhone SE and iPhone 5 (which is physically compatible with the iPhone 5S)?


texts: Is there a way to capture part of a screen in full screen mode?

texts:
I am playing a game that's called Bookworm on the Mac, and it runs in full screen mode.

If I press ⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+4 to capture part of the screen, it won't work.  Usually, I can press space and click to capture the whole window, but that doesn't work, either.

⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+3 works to capture the whole screen, but I'd like to find out how to take a partial screenshot.


texts:
I have an iMac 27", Mid 2010 (11,3 model). Can it take 8GB RAM modules? Apple's website http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht4255 says "The maximum amount of RAM you can install in your computer is 16 GB (a 4 GB SO-DIMM in each slot)." But people say that 8 GB sticks ARE in fact supported. For instance, according to OWC, (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/2010/DDR3_21.5_27) 8.0GB PC10600 DDR3 Module (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/1333DDR3S8GB/) works.

In particular, can I use Transcend JetRAM DDR3 8GB JM1333KSH-8G http://www.flipkart.com/transcend-jetram-ddr3-8-gb-laptop-dram-jm1333ksh-8g/p/itmdfzhzd2v8mtza?pid=RAMDFZHXPYRVVGJA ?

And how about Transcend JetRAM DDR3 4GB JM1333KSN-4G http://www.flipkart.com/transcend-ddr3-4-gb-laptop-dram-jm1333ksn-4g/p/itmdv6g6gnnsnkvc?pid=RAMD2RYPNQKZ5TJV ?


texts:
I've followed the steps to make coredump enable in my machine (mainly by setting ulimit -c unlimited and allow write permissions for all a+x in /cores folder).

However, it seems like It doesn't work while SIP is enabled in my machine csrutil enable (I tried sending kill -11 to /bin/sleep running process). When SIP is disabled however, it works just fine.

Does SIP prevent coredump on all processes or only apple signed one ?


texts: How to connect MacBook Pro mid-2014 to monitor: hdmi, dp or usb-c?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2014 with a HDMI port and a Thunderbolt 2 port (that I beleive doubles up as a miniDP port).

I have just bought an Acer H2777HU 27 inch (2560 x 1440 pixel) monitor. It has a HDMI port, DP port and USB-C port.

It only came with a DP cable, which does not fit the miniDP port on my MacBook.

So my question is: what is the best way to connect the two, ensuring that I get the full 2560 x 1440 resolution, 60Hz refresh and can use the built in speakers?

Is it:

HDMI to HDMI (are there different sizes of HDMI?)

miniDP to DP (does this cable exist?)

Thunderbolt 2 to USB-C (does this cable exist?)

Thank you


texts: How can I access my GMail contact groups from my iOS 7 device?

texts: I really need to be able to access contact groups in the Contacts app on my iOS 7 device. How can I do this? In the side bar, all that is available is "All GMail", nothing else. However, under iCloud, there are several groups. Suggestions?


texts:
Coming from year on Windows, I swapped Cmd and Ctrl buttons.

On bash I used to press Ctrl+A/Ctrl+E for jumping to the beginning/end of line. But, since I swapped the buttons I need press Cmd+A/Cmd+E.

How I make bash recognize back my beloved key combination?


texts: How can I copy photos from a Sony mobile phone to iPad?

texts:
How can I copy Sony mobile phone's photos to iPad?

Note: I have the camera adaptor cable already, that is used to connect to iPad but it doesn't work for Sony XPeria Z mobile phone. When I try to connect, the iPad gives an insufficient power for that device error.


texts: Selecting app icon in app switcher (w/ alt+tab) doesn't show its window if the app is on different workspace in macos catalina

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Whenever an app icon is selected in app switcher (triggered by alt+tab) its window does not show in macOS Catalina if the app is on a different workspace. When the icon is selected, nothing happens and I have to move to click control+left to switch to it. This issue doesn't happen for all apps, just for ones which are on different workspace. The app is on a different workspace because it's in full-screen mode. If minimized or maximized, selecting it in alt+tab shows it.
How to disable:

moving to different workspace when app window is in-full screen (or better to disable workspaces and desktops at all)
configuration which doesn't show the app window when it's selected in task switcher (alt+tab)

I've gone over settings and various articles, but couldn't find relevant configurations.
Off topic: This feature or bug seem to be extremely irritating for fast developer work as these basic features of window management work in Windows and Linux in intuitive and simple way...


texts: why apple hardware test doesn't see my network?

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I would like to check if the new installed ram can have generated a kernel panic with AHT (Apple Hardware Test). Restarting by pressing the D key the dropdown appears for the selection of the network but mine is not present. If I try to find it by entering the network name and the WEP password I get an error.

If I see all the other networks why I do not see mine?

And why the form don't accept my data?

My system is a Mac Mini late 2012 with Mac Os Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Is there an app that just posts to Twitter and Facebook?

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I'm looking for a Mac (and/or iPhone) app that allows me to post to both Twitter and Facebook in one action. The trick is that I only want the app to push data. I don't want it to pull down any content from either services. The reasoning behind this is that I want to be able to make a post without moving the reference point in Twitter for the last thing I've read (a la TweetDeck).

Does such an App exist?

Note: There doesn't seem to be a good way to do this yet. The answer I accepted is as close as it looks like you can get currently.


texts: I have a iPhone 3G with iOS 4.2.1 which hit the ground too many times. The thing is that it doesn't ring when someone calls me but it play the sounds on some games or when I try to change the ringtones in Settings->Sounds menu. All the ringtones are the default ones.


texts: How do I create an Automator Application to forward new mail from Mac Mail?

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I have an old e-mail address linked to my Mac Mail account.  I have made a rule that forwards new mail from a specified address - call it johndoe@test.com - between my old e-mail and my current e-mail.  Right now, I need to manually open the Mail application for the rule to apply to new mail.

I'd like to do this automatically, without needing to manually open and close Mac Mail.  To avoid opening it manually, I created an Automator program that performs the following actions on a daily basis:

While this Automator Application opens and quits Mac Mail, it doesn't seem to work, as my current address doesn't receive any forwarded e-mails.  Is there another way to automatically forward e-mails from johndoe@test.com from my old e-mail address (linked to Mac Mail) to my new one?


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I created a Bash script that should be able to be ran on any machine. The problem I'm having it'll only run in terminal. When a user double clicks the script, some users have it open up in iTerm, and some in Xcode in read view. Any idea how to have it execute in these programs or make it only specific to terminal?

Also, I'm having an issue as the script I'm running as its being opened from an "Unidentified developer". I know how to manually resolve from system preferences, but is there anyway to automate in the script?


texts: ical change color shading day and weekend

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Is it possible to change the shading of the selected day/today/weekend in iCal?

The light blue tone which is used to mark the current Day is almost impossible to recognise. Same Problem different color on the highlighted days.


texts: How to show Hard Disk icon on Desktop via Terminal?

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Is there a command in Terminal that allows you to show the Hard Disk as an icon on your Desktop?
I know the manual process of doing it, which is, Finder > Preferences... > General and check "Hard disks" under "Show these items on the desktop:", but I want to be able to apply this configuration through the command line.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!


texts: Does anyone know what this menu bar app is?


texts: iTunes Producer unable to get password from my keychain

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When I try to open iTunes Producer, I get an error stating, "We are unable to retrieve your password from the security keychain." I recently deleted the folder in my keychain library while trying to fix another keychain problem that I was having. The previous problem was that a large number of programs (calendar, chrome, etc.) had problems with the keychain. I fixed that problem by resetting my iCloud and computer keychains.

I am currently running OS X Yosemite on my iMac and have not had any problems prior to these two keychain problems. I haven't downloaded anything that was even remotely dangerous. I've run keychain first aid and reinstalled the program. I've also deleted the library file again. At this point, I have no idea what to do. I've gone through and opened every other program on my computer with no problems at all.

Thank you for any advice. I've spent the last two days googling and I guess that I'm the only one to have ever encountered this problem :(


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Ever since my SSD upgrade, I'm having troubles with my MBP Mid-2010 shutting down "randomly". To be more precise, it seems to be caused by mds/mdworker utilizing 100% of my CPU. As a fix I have disabled Spotlight indexing on my whole disk now, and the computer has been stable since then. However, I'd really prefer to still be able to search my disk if that's possible at all.

So, is there any way to each Spotlight/mdworker not to utilize all of my CPU capacity?


texts: How to use font installed without rebooting the system?

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I have a problem with Mac OS. I copied new font file to /Library/Fonts folder. I want to use that font without rebooting or logging off the system.

Is there a way to add a font without restarting my Mac?

Thanks.


texts: How to rename formula installed via Homebrew?

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I installed gcc with homebrew:

$ brew install gcc

I can see the result:

$ brew list
ant         gcc     go          libyaml     postgresql  tmux
autoconf    gdb     isl         mpfr        python      valgrind
automake    gdbm    libevent    openssl     readline    wget
binutils    git     libmpc      ossp-uuid   ruby        xz
cloog       gmp     libtool     pkg-config  sqlite

I also see gcc-4.9 in /usr/local/bin

$ ls /usr/local/bin
...
gcc-4.9
...

The issue is that typing gcc still refers to the system gcc

$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

I wanted to rename gcc-4.9 to gcc, but I don't want to break anything in homebrew. Specifically, I'd like to rename it in such a way that homebrew is aware of the change and running brew update will know to link the newly updated version to the name gcc in /usr/local/bin.

Can this be done?

DESIRED BEHAVIOR:

$ which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
$ gcc -v
... version XXX
$ brew update
... new gcc version YYY installed in /usr/local/bin/gcc
$ which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
$ gcc -v
... version YYY


texts: Can I create a backup of a specific partition and restore it later?

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I have my beta partition on my SSD and I want to create a backup of it so I can identically restore it on a different partition, later.

My simple question is: Can I?

I've got multiple partitions and I thought I'd create a time machine backup of that partition solely, excluding all different partitions, and then on a later moment have a fresh partition and restore that time machine backup.

But, it's the first time I would use TimeMachine to actually restore a backup, so.. I want to ask you guys, beforehand.. :)