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I have a 2017 MBP connected to a monitor with HDMI. On my laptop screen, when I double click the top bar of a window, it fills the whole screen up to the Dock. However, when I do that with a window that's in the monitor's screen, the window fills the screen vertically but not horizontally. Meaning I have to still manually resize the window.

Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?


texts: How do I extract the audio signal from displayport?

texts: I have a macbook pro with minidisplayport (MDP) out.  It's plugged into an external monitor.  Sometimes via MDP-to-DualDVI, and sometimes directly via MDP.  I'd like to extract the digital audio signal from the MDP connection.  I've seen cables that go from MDP to DVI+Audio.  I want a cable that goes from MDP to MDP+Audio so that I can feed the audio into something other than my Apple Cinema display (which has cruddy speakers).


texts: Delete items on the contextual menu (right click)

texts:
In this case, I only need help with the contextual menu which appears when you right click on a folder in Finder.

I would like to delete this two items:

Burn "folder" to disc... and
Labels. All the labels box with all the eight colors and the x.

I don't use any of them and they only quit me some space.

Is it possible to achieve that?


texts: Macbook gets confused by switching external USB keyboard

texts:
I have two different locations to use my MacBook pro and attach an external USB keyboard at both places. They are both 104keys and have identical layouts.

When I first plug in the keyboard it often (not always) stops working properly. The modifier keys will be completely incorrect and then most of the regular keys are also translated improperly.

What I have been doing is mess around with the laptop builtin keyboard a bit then back and forth for a while (tens of seconds to a minute or so) before the keyboard functionality usually gets back to normal.

I have not been able to settle on a pattern that reliably works any better than the above - which is messy and moderately unpredictable.

Has anyone run into this and come up with a better solution?

Answers to comments

rebooting does not have an effect: this behavior has been happening for months at least
"identical place" not sure what that means but both USB ports have been tried numerous times and do not affect the result
Modifier keys are  wacked out. It's not as simple as Option and Command are swapped : for example doing Command-Tab seems to go to Expose' .  There is no key combination that does the proper Application Switching.
Regular keys are also wacked out.  Typing asdfg does weird things including jumping to different applications.  Behavior is too unexpected and extreme to decipher


texts: Can I use 45/60/85W MagSafe era MacBook chargers interchangeably?

texts:
I have a 13" Macbook Pro that came with a 60W power adapter and a 15" Macbook Pro that came with a 85W power adapter. There seems to be disagreement in the Apple forums.
Can I use either adapter with any portable Mac?


texts:
Can the native iOS NFC reader be used for simple notes?
I can program all tags with links, actions etc. As soon I store a simple text the native reader just won't read the tag.


texts:
I plan to get an iPhone, one of the tricks I can think of is to use it to play a joke on my friends.

This is how the joke goes. I would ask my friend to pose for me in the name of testing the quality of the camera. As I snap his/her photos, instead of showing his/her real face, I want the snapshot to be replaced with a picture of a pig (say), or anything that would elicit laughter.

Is there such an app available?


texts: How does macOS detect keyboard? How to manually add a new keyboard?

texts:
I have new keyboard, Logitech MX Keys, 920-009416 = US ISO.

The keyboard works well, out of box, on Windows 10 and Linux, Manjaro. On macOS there is issue with it.
After plugin on macOS, app Keyboard Setup Assistant opens and try detect my keyboard. The main problem is with keys: tilde~ on the left side of 1 and backslash \ near to z. According to the documentation:

If you are a Windows, Linux and Android user, the special characters will be on the right side of the key:

If you are a macOS or iOS user, the special characters and keys will be on the left side of the keys:

but I want to use tilde to the left of key 1, so I want to use windows/linux layout.
After many attempts with the Assistant, I wasn't able to generate the correct configuration:
$ defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype
{
    keyboardtype =     {
        "10203-5824-0" = 41;
        "45915-1133-0" = 41;
    };
}

I had to help myself Karabiner-Elements and map the keys:
grave_accent_and_tilde(`) with non_us_backslash.
I tried to find out what the code in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist means, but I failed. At first Karabiner could see the keyboard but it was grayed out and I couldn't map keys for it.
The second problem is with adding a new keyboard, new dongle. After this, when I use Keyboard Setup Assistant, the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist is changing and I have the problem again. I don't know why.
Is it possible to use the same layout as under Windows/Linux? How to manually add a keyboard?
What does the keys layout depend on, §|` and `|\ ?
On Linux, xev returns for left-upper tilde:
KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
    root 0x139, subw 0x0, time 356984, (-111,112), root:(600,476),
    state 0x0, keycode 49 (keysym 0x60, grave), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

and
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
    root 0x139, subw 0x0, time 360368, (-107,104), root:(604,468),
    state 0x0, keycode 94 (keysym 0x3c, less), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3c) "<"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3c) "<"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

for "backslash" but I don't use this key.


texts: If a guest user installs cracked software / malware, is the original user compromised?

texts:
I created a login for my housemate on my MacBook.

I have since learned that they have installed cracked software.

How well am I insulated by macOS security architecture against this breach?


texts: how do I switch option + f to [next word] instead of ƒ

texts:
on macos high Sierra I want to switch option + f to [next word] instead of ƒ. How do I do that?

For example in the bear text editing app, I’d love this affordance.

How can I change the key mappings or make this a shortcut on macOS?

Or for example I would like to delete a word with option + d, instead it prints out the useless ∂


texts:
I am trying to add ram to my Minecraft server. To do this I have created a start.command file with the following text in it:
#!/bin/bash
cd “$(dirname “$0”)”
exec java -Xms4G -Xmx4G -jar server.jar

I have run this terminal command on the start command file:
chmod a+x /Users/hutonahill/Desktop/server\ files/start.command

But when I run the start.command (by double-clicking it in finder) I get an error:
Unable to access jarfile server.jar" Googleing has reviled that most of the time this error steems from the start.command file and the server.jar file not being in the same location, or server.jar being spelled wrong in the start.command file.
I have ruled out both of these possibilities. I have copied and pasted the name server.jar into the start.command file and I know that they are both in the same file.
Help!
PS. I am running Mac OSX 0.14.6 and java 8 update 251


texts: Can't build mod_fcgid because apxs no longer shipped by Apple?

texts:
[Mac OS 10.13.2]
I'm trying to setup the standard Apache version (2.4.28) that comes with Mac OS to run mod_fcgid but I can't find it anywhere, nor can I build it from source. I wish I had done this earlier as I wouldn't have this problem now.

mod_fcgid has gone missing from Homebrew since they've reorganised the Homebrew/homebrew-apache repository and emptied it without indicating where all its contents have gone (like they've drunk the wine and are giving away the empty bottle):

user@host:[13:15]$ brew tap Homebrew/homebrew-apache
Warning: homebrew/apache was deprecated. This tap is now empty as all its formulae were migrated.

For reasons beyond my control, I'm using Homebrew as the 'package manager' that Apple doesn't want to supply, and thus can't use Mac Ports.

I can't build mod_fcgid.so (even though I have the source) because, Apple in its 'infinite wisdom', have decided to no longer ship apxs on High Sierra (it's worth looking further into this as I'm sure you'll find some surprises you weren't aware of), which is a required component of the Apache build toolchain.

Anyone know how to get mod_fcgid.so on High Sierra?


texts: I have a MBP with an external monitor running ML. When I enter full screen mode, the other monitor isn't usable. Is it possible to have the full screen on one monitor and to use the other monitor as well?


texts: How can I use Terminal to monitor a network interfaces total traffic in Mb

texts:
I would like to use the terminal to monitor the network traffic on a given interface, with a view to providing alerts when certain cumulative totals have been exceeded.

The script needs to gain statistics from the point in which it is started, and there is no requirement to store values for future reference, or retain values over reboots etc.  I would like the output to be human readable, so values in Gb or Mb, not packets or bytes.

The intention is to be able to include this script in an Automator application that will run in the background, and open a dialogue box at set thresholds to alert me to when I nearing a download limit, allowing to choose to disconnect the modem etc.

I do not wish to download any tools or applications, and just wish to use the tools a standard installation provides for the terminal.  Getting data out of an application via applescript would be acceptable, but only if that application is also a standard tool, like activity monitor.


texts: Is there a way for me to download an app without it being automatically downloaded to other devices without turning off automatic downloads on other devices?


texts: Where does WhatsApp store its 'iCloud Drive backup'

texts:
I'm trying to recover data from my partner's phone and iCloud after her phone backup refused to load back onto her phone (one of many options we're pursuing...)

One of the main sources of data is WhatsApp, which alleges it has been backing up chat history to iCloud Drive.

I have had no luck of actually finding this file anywhere on iCloud Drive. Either WhatsApp actually keep the file on their servers, which would be naughty, or have obscured the file so well that even Apple can't find it. WhatsApp support have been unhelpful so far.

Has anyone had experience with this? I want to get the file into a physical location before I do anything else, for fear of somehow overwriting it...


texts: keyboard shortcut to rename the title of terminal?

texts:
I have switched from Ubuntu to macOS (Sierra 10.12.5) recently and I am missing few very basic keyboard shortcut in the terminal.

I used to open multiple terminal in tabs and set name of each tab  but couldn't find any keyboard shortcut so far, although I am using CMD + Shift + I which open the inspector window separately and there I can set the title name but again there is no way to close that inspector window using keyboard.

Kindly tell us if there any shortcut to do that?


texts:
just some time ago i installed the OS X Server app on my mac and since this day it always appears server as the chosen directory in my terminal.

But because i dont really like the Server application i just removed it but the server in my terminal is still left.
So i wonder now how i can get the default back like users/...

I am running mountain lion on my mac.

I am a real newby to both mac and usage of terminal but i need it know for some work and i just get errors every time i am trying to enter something.


texts:
I have an iPad which I would like to sync with my desktop Mac.  I don't know where I should go to see the icon which shows the iPad is connected.  (It used to be easy; I could look on the finder and see it, but now the iPad doesn't show up in the Finder at all.)

For my old iPod, it was visible in iTunes, but this iPad is not visible anywhere that I can see.


texts: Deeper sleep on MacBook so it will stop connecting to bluetooth and draining battery

texts:
I have the Sony MX1000 Bluetooth headphones, that can only connect to 1 Bluetooth source. So after work I put my MacBook to sleep, and would like to connect my headphones to my phone. This is not possible though, because my MacBook is still holding on to it, draining it's battery in the process.

To stop my mac from keeping its connections open, I tried this solution where I set stand-by mode as the default with sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 and then invoke it with  Command+Option+Eject (Computer sleep), but it didn't work. The bluetooth stays on.

Does anyone have any other ideas?


texts: Mac OS X: I accidentally clicked on the cross in the Installed tab in the app store application. Now my Pages doesn't work anymore

texts:
I did this with pages because I thought that it would uninstalled it (I'm brand new to mac os). It didn't uninstalled it, but it did remove it from the list of installed applications.

Now when I visit the Pages page in the app store, it shows that I must purchase it again. What did I do? How can I get Pages back? I bought it already and all I want to do is fix the installation. It doesn't work at all at the moment.


texts: Finder doesn't come back after crash or `killall`

texts:
This has been happening for quite a while (since before I upgraded to 10.8, I think), although I'm running 10.8.4 currently; I'm on an iMac from 2012. Every once in a while Finder will freeze up for no readily-identifiable reason. You can click in open windows, but if you change the folder you're looking at it won't display the files. Open File dialogs in programs don't work, either, they just display the Favorites along the left side, and maybe a directory path, but you can't select anything. More often than not, either immediately or eventually you'll get the spinning beach ball of death. I haven't found anything in the Console, but maybe I don't know what to look for.

If you Force Quit, either through the Apple menu, by click-holding on the Dock, or by entering killall Finder in Terminal, the process does not restart. Files disappear from the desktop and don't come back, and the little highlight below the Doc icon (indicating a program is running) is not there. If you click on the Finder icon the highlight appears, but the Finder windows don't, nor do the desktop items. Running open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app doesn't work, either. The only way I've found to get it running normally again is to reboot, but there are problems there, too. I'm not sure if it's related to the Finder issue, but if the computer has been running for more than, say, an hour or two, selecting Restart from the Apple menu doesn't actually reboot the computer, it just hangs for a while on the grey screen, without getting to the shutdown log, so I need to do a hard reboot by holding in the power key for a second or two. Sometimes the Finder crash will be so bad that I can't even get to the Restart option, and have to hard reboot right from the GUI.

Any help or suggestions you could give would be very much appreciated!


texts: Does google drive work with Finder integration?

texts:
I know there is an app from google, but it is to automatically upload files from macos to drive. I would like to be able to see the files that are in my drive from the finder, open then and when saved have them be uploaded directly, so pretty much the same as google drive in a browser.

Is it possible to have access to my google drive documents directly from the finder?


texts: I tried to bootcamp my Mac. Ran into some issues which left me with two partitions, my main partion and the extra one create for bootcamp installation. Tried to merge it using the bootcamp programme, but didn’t give me the option. Went to disk utility and tried to merge them through the GUI, wasn’t working. The minus button was not highlighted. Then went into terminal and tried to delete the partion as free space and then merge to one partion. This worked in part, the second partion is deleted but I can not restore the main partion back to it full volume size. I’ve lost space, where I had over 1TB free I know have only 750GB. I have no idea how to get it back. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: What is the monitor-like icon on Remote App screen?

texts: There is a monitor/display like icon at the bottom of the Now Playing screen of the Remote app on iPad. It's just to the right of the genius icon. What is it?


texts:
I've found that often when you are experiencing trouble with a peripheral, deleting the plist file can often fix the problem.
My USB mouse has been sticking/freezing for a second at a time lately.
I've looked throughout ~/Library/Preferences/, but saw no filenames that make me confident enough to delete any of them.
UPDATE
I was able to delete the com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist file that was showing in the Terminal but not in the Finder.
Pauls-iMac: soliddev$ ls ~/Library/Preferences/ | grep driver
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
Pauls-iMac: soliddev$ rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
Pauls-iMac: soliddev$ ls ~/Library/Preferences/ | grep driver
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist
Pauls-iMac: soliddev$

Unfortunately, the mouse sticking/freezing persists.
UPDATE
At the end of the day, I've bought a new mouse, the problem seems to be fixed for now. Thanks for the help.


texts: Is it ok if i frequently close lid of Macbook to use external display with heavy task in a long time?

texts:
I've just bought a new Macbook Pro 16 inch 2019. I'm a developer so I frequently open many of software such as Android studio, IntelliJ IDEA ... that leads to heat of my Macbook is always in range of 60-90°C. The hotest area is above of Touch Bar where if close the lid, the screen will be near by hot area.  So my question is if I always close the lid to use with 2 external monitors, will it hurt the screen of Macbook?
I ask this question because I had a Macbook pro 2016 (without touch bar) and I used it that way in a long time then my screen being broken, there were like horizontal lines on the screen, i'm not sure the heat caused that so please give me some advise.


texts: Can I use Time Capsule to run programs and processes in the background?

texts: I want to install homebridge onto my Time Capsule, but I was wondering if that is possible. Can I install things and run them on Time Capsule via a Terminal window on my Mac? It would be super helpful to have homebridge running on my Time Capsule instead of my Mac because sometimes I shut my Mac down and I would like to have homebridge running on a device that is always on.


texts: Solving: Unable to add server. The plugin encountered an error processing request. (10001)

texts:
How do I join an Active Directory domain when I get the 10001 error? What is the real cause of the failure?

This question is about the famous failure to join an Active Directory from OS X which seems to appeared somewhere around 10.7 or so, but which seems to still be consistent, even with 10.9 or 10.10 (beta).

Assumptions:

ABC hostname of the OS X machine
EXAMPLE.COM is the domain to be joined (not a .local domain)

Checklist (collected from various sources)

Current OS X username does is admin and does not overlap with an AD username.
OS X hostname resolves with the DNS of the domain to be joined to (ABC.EXAMPLE.COM). Test that it works from other machines too. This is a documented reason for failure to join on Linux machines, tested it myself and solving this solved the problem on Linux.
Machine is on LAN during the Join (better to disable Wireless while doing this)
AD user is allowed to add machines to the domain. In some cases this does not require the user to be an Admin (that's my case)

In progress (bring more info and a full join script with debug logging)

    8544.14278, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Authenticate to LDAP using Kerberos credential - 0
    8544.14278, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - verified connectivity to '10.80.0.150' with socket 13
    8544.14278, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Computer account either already exists or DC is already Read/Write
    8544.14278, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Adding record 'cn=nibbler,OU=MAC Machines,OU=EMEA,DC=example,DC=com' in 'example.com'
    8544.14278, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - ODNodeCustomCall failed with error 'Plugin error' (10001)

Resources:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/17793818


texts: Boot straight to an Application when Mac is turned on

texts:
I have a client who wants to use Mac OS X and a Mac Mini to sell a software solution to end users that ALWAYS boots straight to an application when the Mac is turned on. They can't access the login screen, desktop or anywhere else (in fact they should NEVER even see it.) the only thing they would see is the grey apple screen on boot up.

That being said, we'd also need someway of being able to get at the desktop and the rest of OS X for an Admin person (my client or myself).

I've looked around, and everything seems to either be focused on a kiosk web browser or booting to desktop and then launching the application... both of which are NOT what the client wants to happen!

Any ideas on how best to accomplish this action?


texts: How do I set which Apache / PHP 10.6 should run?

texts:
All my problems stemmed from trying to get mcrypt for PHP installed. Last night I gave in and followed a tutorial of how to do a totally fresh apache2 and php5.3.3 install. I did this using MacPorts.

Sadly, that didn't enable mcrypt for me last night, although I was pretty pleased that I got 5.3.3 running. :)

The problem is that I have woken up this morning to find that my php version is back down to 5.3.1 which can only mean that OS X has reverted to my original Apache and PHP.

How to I tell OS X to use the software I installed via MacPorts?

(And then I will as a new question of how to enable mcrypt)


texts: How to turn off Auto-show sidebar in fullscreen Safari 9

texts:
In the new El Capitan version of OS X, in safari 9, in fullscreen if you move your cursor to the left, it shows the sidebar.

Is there a way to disable it ?


texts: MacOS UI Freezes and Hangs after 10.14.6 (18G4032) Security Update

texts:
I have updated my MacBook Air 2017 256GB model recently, the latest security patch 10.14.6 (18G4032).

I started to have random freezes. Sometimes, it goes back to normal after a few seconds. Sometimes, the computer is stuck completely and I can only hard-shutdown it, sometimes I get graphical glitches.

From my observations, this

happened since this security update
after adding some extensions to safari which I removed after first time freezing.

Any ideas what this could be and how I could solve this?


texts: Running Applescript using cron jobs not working

texts:
I'm new to conjobs and applescript but I have the script done correctly i believe. (any critique is welcome) I don't want to bloat my calendar with events to do this because I use my calendar for appointments and I don't need the bloat.

Here's my goal: run an apple script at 9am/5pm to enable/disable a mail account (after this works I'm going to add loging in/out of an Messenger account, first things first)

here's my script:

tell application "Mail"
          set offTime to 17
          set onTime to 9

      set dayOfWeek to weekday of (current date)
      set theHour to get the (hours of (current date)) as string

      if theHour ≥ onTime then
                say "email on"
                set enabled of account "MAILBOX" to true

      else if theHour ≥ offTime or (dayOfWeek = Saturday or dayOfWeek = Sunday) then
                say "email Off"
                set enabled of account "MAILBOX" to false

      end if

end tell

accessing cron jobs via this

sudo pico /etc/crontab

and within cron jobs i've used

0 9 * * * username osacript
"/Documents/disablemail.scpt"

0 17 * * * username osacript
"/Documents/disablemail.scpt"

variations I've attempted (based on search engine results)

0 9 * * * username osacript
"~/Documents/disablemail.scpt"

0 9 * * * /Documents/disablemail.scpt

0 9 * * * ~/Documents/disablemail.scpt

0 9 * * * osacript /Documents/disablemail.scpt

0 9 * * * osacript ~/Documents/disablemail.scpt

I think that's all of them.

Any feedback/assitance appreciated, thanks!


texts: Corruptions within Calendar: duplicates. How to analyse their cause and fix?

texts:
I am using Calendar on a Mac running MacOS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5).

This Mac is manually regularly synchronized with an iPhone running iOS 7.1.2.

This Calendar is storing 15 years of events organized within 9 "calendars". Since some of this information is highly sensitive, professionnal or private, I don't synchronize them on any form of public store calendar (iCloud, Google Calendar…). On the other hand I have many Time Machine backups and full backups.

Recently I discovered quite unexpectedly that since summer 2001 I have duplicated full day events within Calendar on my Mac. I have been able to see these ones quickly since their duplicate nature is directly visible. This isn't a general case: most of my full day events aren't
duplicated. But all my 9 "calendars" are hit by this corruption.
I estimate that I have about a few hundreds of events in this case.
I see the same corruption on my iPhone.

I exported one of my calendar, and extracted one of the duplicated entries. Here is the output of a diff on the 2 .ics extracts:

••My_Mac••$ diff duplicate.[12].ics
2c2
< UID:74FC7CC1-016C-4A74-9E02-7ECDD82C8129
---
> UID:9B6BC4CD-5859-4DC2-8DEA-9158CB8F9B0D
10,11c10,11
< X-WR-ALARMUID:D0FE4A14-981C-4409-84C1-B11107F7EC31
< UID:D0FE4A14-981C-4409-84C1-B11107F7EC31
---
> X-WR-ALARMUID:48141767-C3C6-4131-9984-0DD080833D9F
> UID:48141767-C3C6-4131-9984-0DD080833D9F
••My_Mac••$

Notation: the string ••name•• means that "name" was redacted.

Here is what I found within /var/log/system.log and which might be related:

Sep 13 10:08:32 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[93677]: [0x7fbe60c0bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 13 16:09:10 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[94189]: [0x7fd25a40bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 14 03:21:15 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[94351]: [0x7f9e1ac0bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 14 08:56:41 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[94351]: [0x7f9e1ac0bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 15 14:11:39 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[94351]: [0x7f9e1ac0bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 16 00:25:17 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[95764]: [0x7faf92c0bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 16 13:36:27 ••My_Mac•• SyncServer[96213]: [0x7f9470c0bdd0] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.
Sep 16 13:51:33 ••My_Mac•• CalendarAgent[90827]: Invalid char _ for PropertyName in line 7
Sep 16 13:51:33 ••My_Mac•• CalendarAgent[90827]: Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback

How may I analyse where these duplicates events are coming from?

How may I find the date and time an event might have started such a corruption of my agendas? Without a date of the beginning of the damage, my backups are of little help. Moreover, they will imply a total rebuild of the correct events which occured after the damage.

How may I get a correct vision of this corruption of all my "calendars"?

And moreover how may I fix this huge and apparently random data corruption?


texts: Is there any way to disable the Home button on an iPad?

texts:
My professor asked me to help him out to find some information about the iPad.

We are going to buy like 10 iPads to give it out to our senior of the school board and we want only the PDF file that we are going to sync it to be appear on the screen.

I know this is almost impossible without jailbreak, but the iPad wouldn't be able to jailbreak and the people who going to get the iPad they don't really know how to use them, and if they sometime press on the home button they will mess it up and don't know how to get back to the screen that have PDF file.

So I heard of Kiosk Pro but really I don't know how it works and I don't know if they will spend that much of money to buy the license again to this task.

So I want to know some information from you guys if there is any demo app like what Apple does put the iPad 1 beside each of the products to show the specification of the product and have the case cover the home button so no one can go back to home screen?

Thanks.


texts: Safari showing website in different language than what's set in Preferences

texts:
Surfing around found a web site I needed info. from. It's in Japanese Language.  Whats w/ that? Safari is browser, an it's set with English as language, in Region Setting preferences.

Is there no changing the Web page language and shouldn't all language on this Mac be in English if Regional options have been set U.S.A.?


texts: OS X Lion Server app reinstallation on 2011 Mac Mini Server

texts:
I have had purchased for me by my employer a new Mac Mini Server. It came pre-installed with Lion Server (the Server app from the App Store that costs $49.99).

Upon opening the App Store, other preinstalled software (iPhoto, iMovie, Garage Band) was instantly added to my Purchased tab, giving me the licenses to these applications on my Apple ID. However the Server app still shows up as a $49.99 purchase rather than saying "Installed" and is it not listed under my Purchased tab.

If I were to reinstall the operating system, how will I install the Server app without paying the $50 to get it from the App Store again?


texts: How can I set Firefox to respect my custom Mac keyboard shortcuts?

texts:
In System Preferences, I have ⌘D set to Enter Full Screen and Exit Full Screen. I have been using these shortcuts for close to a decade now, and I'm really not interested in relearning them.

Unfortunately, ⌘D is also Firefox's built-in shortcut for creating a new bookmark. Unlike most Mac apps I've used, Firefox's built-in shortcut appears to take precedence over my custom one.

How can I make Firefox to respect my ⌘D shortcut for entering and exiting fullscreen?

(Small note: I happen to be on a very old version of macOS, specifically 10.9 Mavericks. I don't think this is relevant to the question.)


texts: How do I move the cursor past the end of the line in Insert mode when using vi-style line editing on bash?

texts:
In all that follows, the ^ indicates the position of the cursor.

I'm using bash on Terminal on OS X Yosemite and I'd like to use vi-style line editing:

prompt$ set -o vi
                 ^

By default it starts in vi Insert mode, so I can immediately type

prompt$ hello
             ^

Now let's say I use the left arrow key ← or H to move left:

prompt$ hello
            ^

Now I can no longer move to the right of the o in hello using either → or L:

prompt$ hello  # I can't move here anymore!
             ^

If I am to append something, I have to hit Esc then ShiftA.

This does not happen in emacs mode (set -o emacs) or on certain Linux machines (ssh'd into SLC 6.6 with bash 4.1, or natively on my friend's (I think Arch) with bash 4.3). In all of these, ← then → takes me to the end of the line where I can keep typing; on my Mac terminal I cannot unless I leave Insert mode.

This also does not happen with vim on my Mac; vim lets me move past end of lines with arrow keys in Insert mode. It's just readline vi mode.

I tried updating my bash (with Homebrew) from 3.2 to 4.3; that did not fix it.

I tried removing my .bash_profile and using an unmodified Terminal; that did not fix it. (I have some aliases and prompt modifiers in my .bash_profile.)

I have read this, this, and this. They don't have answers.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Edit:
On a Linux system where things work as I would like it to, the TERM variable gives

prompt$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color

The contents of /etc/inputrc are

# do not bell on tab-completion
#set bell-style none

set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

# Completed names which are symbolic links to
# directories have a slash appended.
set mark-symlinked-directories on

$if mode=emacs

# for linux console and RH/Debian xterm
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
# commented out keymappings for pgup/pgdown to reach begin/end of history
#"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
#"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word

# for rxvt
"\e[8~": end-of-line
"\eOc": forward-word
"\eOd": backward-word

# for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/DEbian xterm
"\eOH": beginning-of-line
"\eOF": end-of-line

# for freebsd console
"\e[H": beginning-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line


texts: I'm shopping for a used iphone to take to Brazil. Should I buy GSM or CDMA?

texts:
I'm shopping for a used iphone here in U.S. to take to Brazil. I’m not sure how to evaluate if I want to prioritize GSM or CDMA for this area.

Is there advice or references that can help me decide?


texts: Two versions of the same app in Launchpad

texts:
How can I have two versions of the same app listed in Launchpad?

For example, I have both Processing 1.5 and Processing 2.0 installed. Only one shows up at once - is it possible to have both?


texts: Is the power button on my iPhone being turned off programmatically?

texts: I would like to know if there is a code / glitch to make the sleep/wake button on the iPhone 5/5S to stop working. i am almost 100% certain it exists due to some programmers making the code but i want to know if anyone on here knows or heard about it.


texts: How can I isolate what is causing the temporary "stall" during startup?

texts:
As I see the progress bar on my MacBook Pro mid-2015 move from left to right, soon after it gets past the halfway point, it starts to slow down and eventually stops temporarily, at about the time the cursor appears. Then the spinning system cursor appears for about 3-5 seconds, and the boot sequence continues normally (and finishes).

How can I troubleshoot this? My wish would be to avoid a clean install and restore from scratch.

I previously reported the same problem under High Sierra.


texts: How to diagnose sudden and fleeting hang of computer?

texts:
Two days ago, I launched a Zoom meeting with the Zoom client. The client launched but did not show a GUI window and did not respond. I tried from the browser and both Google Chrome and Chromium had the same problem:

I restarted the computer and had the same problem with Zoom and Brave. When I launched Brave multiple times, I saw this window: You can't open the application "Brave Browser.app" because it is not responding.:

I shut it down with the power-on button and still had the same problem. Other programs that did launch, such as VLC and Emacs were very slow and took about 2 minutes, then they worked OK. I checked CPU usage with top -o cpu and no program was using a lot of it. I thought it may be a loss of a memory chip, and shut it down.
The two days after, the computer was once again working normally. The last time I updated Zoom was more than a week ago (and I had used it without issues the day before); Chromium, Chrome, and Brave was 28 days before; macOS was before that. I did not update programs after that and the issue seems to have disappeared on its own.
How can I diagnose the issue next time it happens?


texts: removing authorization access to addressbook and calendar

texts: While installing / running the first time, I authorized the app to have access to addressbook and calendar.  How do I go about to revoke that permissions?


texts: How to prevent Yosemite's Finder from seeing a folder with a .epub extension as a epub file?

texts:
This is a problem new to Yosemite. I have a folder called "com.acme.epub". The Finder sees this as an ePub file and won't let me access it as a folder. I can access it as a directory via the Terminal but if I do "open .", then it launches iBooks (which is not my default epub application). How do I get the Finder to see this folder as an actual folder/directory and not as an epub file? Note: Renaming the folder is not an option.

This same behavior occurs with folders that end with a ".key" string; it probably happens with certain other strings as well.

I am using OS X 10.10.3. This problem did not occur in 10.9 or 10.8.


texts: How to connect USB hardware to a MBP via an external monitor

texts:
I have a setup where I am using one external monitor (Dell P2414H) for two laptops - one Macbook Pro and one Dell Latitude E6430.

The dell is connected via a docking station with VGA cable, and I am able to use the USB keyboard and mouse when they are plugged in to the monitor.
The Macbook Pro is connected directly to the monitor using a DVI cable and the Mini DisplayPort / DVI adaptor.

However, my MBP doesn't seem to see the external keyboard and mouse unless I unplug them from the monitor and plug them directly into the laptop.
I need to switch between both laptops very frequently, so replugging is not a good option.

How can I make my MBP see the mouse and keyboard when they are plugged into the monitor?


texts: Is there a high-quality way to run a slide show on MacOS?

texts:
Running Mojave on an iMac. My screensaver is set to run a slide show of my favorite photos, and it looks great. Smaller images are zoomed to fit the screen, and a pretty good rescaling algorithm was used.

But if I try to run a slideshow from Preview, the small images are highly pixellated when they're zoomed — no smoothing was done at all. They look terrible.

Is there another way to display a slide show and have it look good? Do I need to install an App from the app store?

I remember when the MacOS built-in slide show mode was much nicer. It's as if they deliberately ruined it to force us all to use some other software.


texts: Keyboard shortcut for "Revert Changes" in closing dialog?

texts:
A few releases of macOS (Mac OS X) ago, many native apps (such as Preview, TextEdit, etc) changed their closing dialog options from "Don't Save", "Cancel", and Save"…

…to "Revert Changes", "Cancel", and "Save".

The former set of options is still available in most third-party apps, as shown in the first screenshot above.

"Don't Save" and "Revert Changes" do the same thing, but the former set of options can be activated from the keyboard via commandd, esc, and return, whereas the latter has no shortcut for "Revert Changes" (as far as I can tell).

Call me picky, but this renders the native apps nearly worthless.

Has anyone yet found a way to activate "Revert Changes" from the keyboard, rather than having to use the trackpad to click the button?

I've tried mashing various key-combinations into the keyboard. I've tried tabbing and option-tabbing. I've tried creating a keyboard shortcut for all apps in Syst Prefs. I wonder if there's something to enter into Terminal? And I'm not interested in changing the tab key to focus on all interactive elements. Thank you.


texts: Where are Microsoft Office for Mac My Templates stored?

texts: Where do Word for Mac and Powerpoint for Mac store user templates?


texts: After disabling Filevault 1, is it possible to enable it again in Lion?

texts:
It seems that after disabling Filevault 1 in OS X Lion, there no longer is an option to choose between Filevault 1 and Filevault 2 functionality.

I actually prefer Filevault 1 over Filevault 2, since it does not interfere with my theft protection software and allows me to use a guest account.

Is there a way to enable Filevault 1 again?


texts: Can I use my iphone charger to charge my kindle?

texts: Can I use my iphone charger to charge a kindle


texts: Different partition configuration between gpt and fdisk

texts:
After resizing my HFS partition (to solve a case sensitive/insensitive problem) I found out my BOOTCAMP partition was no longer accessible. As I navigate the web, I found out this is a common issue and there are several pages describing possible solutions.

Most of them begin by asking the user to analyse the output from the following commands:

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1063995800      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1064405440     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1065674976     1269536      4  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1066944512   398202880      5  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1465147392        1743
  1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 - 1465149167] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

diskutil list

dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            544.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot                         650.0 MB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                203.9 GB   disk0s5

My question is, how can fdisk and gpt show different partition  configurations?

Also do you think my BOOTCAMP partition is recoverable?

My laptop is an early 2011 Macbook Pro (quad i7) running El Capitan and Windows 10 64bit in bootcamp (upgraded from windows 7).

The procedure that led to this state was:

Resize Macintosh HFS+ partition to half its size
Created a new HFS+ non case sensitive partition between the original and bootcamp.
Mirrored the original partition to the new one.
Formatted the original partition case insensitive.
Mirrored the new partition to the original one.
Deleted the new partition.
Resized the original HFS partition to occupy the whole space.

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: Security warning related to frames appears when surfing the internet

texts:
I changed my computer password yesterday and now when using the internet I often get a security warning related to frames. I don't know what frame it is referring to since I'm not sure what they are or how to use them. The warning message is a pop-up and is shown below.

Does anyone know what is causing this and how to turn it off? I'm running High Sierra on my iMac using Safari to surf the internet.


texts: Three finger tap lookup no longer show Wikipedia pages since upgrading to Sierra

texts:
First, it showed nothing but I had to go to the dictionary and download it but now I can't lookup things that aren't in the dictionary, that would previously result in it showing me a Wikipedia page.

Any way to fix this?


texts: How to change language of a single Mac app on Sierra?

texts: On previously Mac OS X version is was possible to change a single application to a different language via Terminal using a freeware application (Language Switcher and App Language Chooser), but I can't seem to get it to work on Sierra anymore.


texts: How to fix broken GPT, GUID and unmountable, no type volumes?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro with retina, Yosemite and 500GB hard drive.
I tried to install Windows using Bootcamp and accidentally deleted a partition, now my Mac cannot boot anymore.
This is the output from sudo gpt -r show disk0

  gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
    start       size  index  contents
        0          1         MBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  776617328      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
777026968    1269760      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
778296728        616
778297344  198807552      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
977104896        131
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header

I only need to make the second partition at index 2 and type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF to be bootable again. This partition has FileVault 2 enabled.

But right now, I have no clue on what to do.

P/S: I Followed the instruction from @klanomath
Boot from a external hard drive with full Yosemite system
but at the last command to change the partition type

sudo gpt add -b 409640 -s 776617328 -i 2 -t 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk0

It got this error:

gpt add: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt add: /dev/disk0: error: no space available on device

This is the output from sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0

   gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
     start       size  index  contents
         0          1         MBR
         1          1         Pri GPT header
         2         32         Pri GPT table
        34          6
        40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    409640  776617328      2  MBR part 218
 777026968    1269760      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 778296728        616
 778297344  198807552      4  MBR part 175
 977104896        131
 977105027         32         Sec GPT table
 977105059          1         Sec GPT header

Progress:

I have executed command sudo gpt destroy /dev/disk0

But when I tried to add the first partition back using this command sudo gpt add -b 40 -s 409600 -i 1 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B /dev/disk0

I got this error straight away

gpt add: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt add: /dev/disk0: error: no primary GPT header; run create or recover

Now the command sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0 gives me this

   gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
     start       size  index  contents
         0          1         MBR
         1     409639
    409640  776617328      2  MBR part 218
 777026968    1269760      3  MBR part 175
 778296728        616
 778297344  198807552      4  MBR part 175
 977104896        164

Progress 2:

I executed sudo gpt create /dev/disk0
and got this error:

gpt create: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt create: /dev/disk0: error: device contains a MBR

and I executed this command sudo fdisk -i -a hfs /dev/disk0 to write new MBR
and executed sudo gpt create /dev/disk0 again but got the same error gpt create: /dev/disk0: error: device contains a MBR

Now sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0 gives me this

      start       size  index  contents
      0          1         MBR
      1         62
     63  977104997      1  MBR part 175

Progress 3 and final :D

Firstly a big thank to @klanomath, without the help, I couldn't go this far.

I executed this command sudo gpt create -fp /dev/disk0

And this command sudo gpt recover /dev/disk0 to get the secondary GPT header

After that, I executed sudo gdisk /dev/disk0 and the disk is mounted and functions properly


texts: I am having recurring "styles" folder inside my trash and when I try to delete it, it is showing "the operation cannot be completed because the item "styles" is in use! Is this a virus?


texts: Make terminal command use both CPU cores

texts:
This may be a bit of a easy question, but I couldn't find anything about it after googling a bit, sorry!

Is there any way to make a command use both of my CPU cores? I am currently processing some PDF files using GhostScript, but whenever I run the command in the terminal, it uses only around 100% of my CPU. I have to run two instances of it to get it to use 200% of my CPU and thus be twice as fast. Even then, for some reason, 40% of my CPU is "idle," according to Activity Monitor, which may imply that I can run more instances.

Is there a way to make this GhostScript command use all of my CPU to be as fast as possible, without having to manually run multiple instances of the command?


texts:
I'd like to have the same effect of command + tilde - that is, alternate between windows of the same application - but with tabs, in Safari. If possible, I'd like to use the same shortcut.

Is there a way to achieve this?

EDIT
By "alternate" I mean alternate stacked tabs, just the same behaviour of command + tild to alternate between applications, that is, I go back to the last tab instead of going to the next. I don't want to cycle through tabs, I always have a million tabs opened, so it's kind of useless to me.


texts: How to change the cover photo of an album?

texts: Looking at the album index in the Photo app, it seems that the photo used as the album cover is picked randomly. Is it possible to change the picture that is used as the album cover?


texts: iPhone 5 Lightning to USB Cable - Is it safe to use replicas?

texts:
I need to buy a Lightning to USB cable for my iPhone 5.

In eBay you can find replicas for one third of the price. Do you know if these can ruin your phone? If I use an original power adapter, a counterfeit USB cable will have any impact?


texts: How to keep Mail from encoding messages with the old charset=windows-1252?

texts:
A few of my colleagues using Mail, and myself, are unwillingly
and without any knowledge of this misbehaviour,
sending messages encoded with a charset of windows-1252:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
[...]
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\))
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874)

I see the same problem coming from many different versions of Mail.
This is a serious problem since for some anti-spam and anti-virus filters, messages encoded with
this historical coding are identified as coming from SPAM sources or viruses.

Of course, I found an easy way to choose the format used to encode one message.
But this function doesn't scale for people dealing with tenths or hundreds of messages.

How is it possible to avoid sending messages with this historical and
malware symptomatic format?
How is it possible to definetly and easily choose the format used for
all sent messages?


texts: How to recover a Word document mangled with TextEdit

texts: I opened a Word file using the TextEdit app, highlighted what I needed from the article, pressed "Save" and moved it to the desktop before I closed the file itself. And then I tried to reopen it but there was nothing highlighted and all of my work has been deleted!


texts: Can I export a list of downloaded iPhone apps from iTunes?

texts:
I have a long list of apps I've downloaded for my iPhone on a single PC. I would like to export a list of these apps to a text format.

How can I do that?


texts: How to Remove Attachments in the Mail app in 10.12 Sierra

texts:
The Mail app in earlier versions of OS X had a usable Remove Attachments menu item in the Message menu in OS X's built-in Main app.  It allowed me to remove large photos (etc.), and shrink down the valuable SSD storage used by the Mail app.

But in macOS Sierra, the Remove Attachments menu item is sometimes grayed out.

So how do I remove attachment in received email, where I want to keep the text of the email, but not the (large photos, etc.) attachments?

Is there some Mail app setting needed?  Or do I need to do some Terminal command-line kung-fu to get rid of all those unwanted attachments taking up space on my SSD?

Added: The email is being downloaded from a POP email account, if that makes any difference.

Added: New info.  Some email messages shows a paperclip in both message browser and in the opened email window.  Those allow Remove Attachments.  However some email messages only show a paperclip in the center hover toolbar in the opened email viewer, not in the message browser.  Those ones have Remove Attachments greyed-out.  Is there a way to remove attachments (as shown by the paperclip toolbar) from those emails messages?  Why is there a difference between the two types of attachments?


texts: Can't get picture from my mid '09 13" MBPro to a Vizio TV using a display port to HDMI adaptor

texts: I have a Monoprice display port to HDMI adaptor and am connecting my Mac Book Pro to a 42" Vizio LCD display. The Displays system prefs show the Vizio display, but it shows "No Signal". If I toggle the input select on the Vizio, the MBPro, and the Vizio, will flash to black intermittently, but never stabilize and show a signal. I've changed HDMI cables. Could it be an issue with the Monoprice adaptor? I also downloaded SwitchRex X, installed it on the Mac, and it shows the Vizio resolution to be 1080p, but still no signal/picture on the Vizio.


texts:
The root directory of most Mac systems has a hidden directory called .fseventsd. This holds a log file of file system events.  The log file is commonly used in digital forensics investigations, because it holds a list of files touched within particular times.

I'd like to know why the Mac is writing this information to the disk and how often the log is cleaned.

Why is this log being created?

Really, it makes no sense. It's possible for programs to register to get events having to do with changes in the file system. So why write them to a persistent log in the file system?

How often is it cleaned?

One of my Macs has been running since Dec 2018. A month ago it had events going all the way back to the day I bought it; now it has events going back to March 2 at 14:47 (I'm typing this on March 16.)

I've looked online and can find information about how to decode the file format, but I really can't find anything about why it is there.

For background on fsevents, see:

http://nicoleibrahim.com/apple-fsevents-forensics/, Article and Research by Nicole Ibrahim
https://github.com/dlcowen/FSEventsParser, Free parser
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/using-os-x-fsevents-discover-deleted-malicious-artifact/, Crowd Strike on how to use it in digital forensics.


texts: Can I get iPhoto's albums to work like folders instead of labels?

texts:
My wife has been trained for years with the desktop metaphor of a file living inside one (and only one) folder.  iPhoto uses the "label" paradigm that Gmail has where photos can live inside multiple albums.  But she hates that.

She wants to start with a folder full of all of her photos and then be able to segregrate them into different folders (or albums) so that when she is done, the original folder is empty.  And she can be sure a photo isn't duplicated anywhere.

Can I make iPhoto work like this? (besides copying photos and then deleting from the original album)


texts:
I'm looking for extensions to allow the Safari 6.x versions to manage a large number of open tabs better than the current implementation. In particular I'm looking for two features:

Vertical tabs. This is possible in Firefox by means of the extension Tree Style Tab.
App tabs. In Firefox it is possible to pin tabs as app tabs.

Up to know I've found and tried several times SafariStand but it doesn't look great and it doesn't provide the features of Tree Style Tab. I would really like to move from Firefox to Safari, but for the problem of "I have too many useful extensions in Firefox." :)

Has anyone discovered extensions that add these features to Safari for OS X?


texts: How to get rid of "Finish Setting Up Your iPhone" badge?

texts:
I upgraded to ios 11.2.

There is now a red badge under Settings on "Finish Setting Up Your iPhone.

Under Settings>Finish Setting Up Your iPhone there are two apparent options:

Back, and
Set Up Apple Pay

How do I decline Apple's invitation to manage my financial transactions and mine them for data?


texts: Regain space from failed attempt to install Windows Using Boot Camp

texts:
I'm kind of stuck with a 30GB partition on the hard drive of my MBP that I cannot regain. This is what happened:

I used boot camp to try to install Win 10 on a partition
Once it rebooted into Win10 setup, it failed to install the system on the partition
I tried to use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the partition but I'm getting this message:

  The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single
  partition.

Then, I used disk utility to try to merge my main partition with the mentioned above but it won't let me remove it (I tried from recovery mode with the same results)

I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.3 on my Late 2015 15" MBP.


texts: Can't copy framework to the iPhone filesystem on iOS 10

texts:
I am trying to copy RevealServer.framework to /System/Library/Frameworks using Filezilla (because openssh isn't compatible with ios 10).

But I get an error saying that the volume is read only.

I am trying to follow the steps given here.

Is there an easier way of using reveal on a physical iOS 10 device?


texts: Can iMac 5k be set up to change screen resolution at log in depending on user

texts: I have 2 users on iMac 5k and need each user to login at a different screen resolution (Default for one,  Looks like 2048 x 1152 for the other). Is this possible / can a script be set to run on login to set the resolution?


texts: Home directory associated with application—how can I undo this?

texts:
For some weird reason I don't understand my home directory got associated with a program (TextWrangler):

Now every time I try to open my home directory in the Finder, TextWrangler gets started. How can I get the normal behaviour back?

I use Mavericks (10.9).


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I am trying to determine how to resolve an error related to a complex key name in a property list file. The plist file contents are as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>19781A58-AAF7-4D5A-AZB2-8D82F2A3ZA97@example.com</key>
    <dict>
        <key>due</key>
        <date>2018-02-27T05:00:00Z</date>
        <key>start</key>
        <date>2018-02-26T15:08:52Z</date>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

The file was created using plutil and the key/value pair as shown above was accepted/created without an issue. However, if I attempt to remove the key/value (plutil -remove "19781A58-AAF7-4D5A-AZB2-8D82F2A3ZA97@example.com" example.plist), I receive the following error:

example.plist: Could not modify plist, error: No value to remove at key path 19781A58-AAF7-4D5A-AZB2-8D82F2A3ZA97@example.com

The reason I believe this has to do with the complex key name is that I can manually change the key name to “Test”, at which point the removal command works as expected.

I tried both quote-enclosing the key name and not, as well as escaping the period and at sign (@), but the same error was observed across all approaches.


texts: How to turn MacBook Air 2015 on if the power button is broken and I don't have tools to remove battery?

texts: The power button on my macbook air 2015 is not functional and I don't have the correct screwdriver to open the back up and take out the battery. Is it possible to turn the laptop on without having to open the back up?


texts: Preview fails to open pdf with "The file couldn't be opened because you don't have permissions to view it". but I have these permissions

texts:
I've seen this earlier but never got time to bother looking closely into the problem.
So when I open a pdf file I created (long time ago, though in 2014). I see this error message from Preview:

But it's a lie, because of two things:

First, it's Get Info dialog:

Where one can clearly see the Permissions section, where it says Read & Write for peetonn (Me).

And who am I?

$ whoami
peetonn

Second, it's ls -Al@ output:

$ ls -l@ .
total 19936
-rw-r--r--@ 1 peetonn  staff   5.0M Dec 22 15:21 window.pdf
   com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags    42B
   com.apple.quarantine   22B

Could it be that these Apple's extended file attributes did something nasty?
How do I fix that?
Btw, if I hit Space for previewing the file, I can read it...

macOS 10.12.6


texts:
I've set up a bunch of scripts that need to happen when I connect my thunderbolt dock at home (disable wifi, enable bluetooth, ...).

To detect the thunderbolt dock I make use of the following launchctl service:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>romeovs.dock.agent</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/romeovs/.bin/dock/run.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>LaunchEvents</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.notifyd.matching</key>
        <dict>
            <key>com.apple.system.config.network_change</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Notification</key>
                <string>com.apple.system.config.network_change</string>
            </dict>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

This service listens to launchd for a network change to happen (detecting the wired network that is connected to the dock). This setup seems to work but it is really slow to detect and act when the dock is connected.

It already takes a long time for the dock network to be set up, but after that it also takes another 5 seconds before the script actually gets called.

Is there a way to make the service detect the network changes any faster (without setting up a polling service)?


texts: WAN connectivity failure every 5 minutes on Technicolor router

texts:
Starting recently, my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.2 loses its Internet connection every five minutes or so.

My router, a Technicolor TC8717T (don't ask, it's the free one from my ISP) provides two wifi networks:

TC8717T88 (2.4 GHz)
TC8717T88-5G (5 GHz)

Regardless of which wifi network I'm connected to, the Internet connection will die after about five minutes. The computer will remain connected to the wifi network, at full signal strength, but I'll be unable to browse to any websites or do anything over the Internet.

When this happens, Network Diagnostics will report that the connection to my ISP is failing, and Wireless Diagnostics will report a "WAN Connectivity Failure" and advise that I restart my router.

At this point, if I do any of the following...

Switch to the other network (from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz or vice versa)
Disconnect from and reconnect to the same network
Turn my wifi off and back on
Restart my router

...the Internet connection will be restored, but only for another five minutes or so, until it fails again in the same fashion.

What could be causing this, and is there anything else I can try?

Update: two other pieces of info that I've discovered:

When the connection drops, other devices on the same wifi network remain connected. For example, my Apple TV will continue to stream a show, even though the MacBook Pro has lost the connection
...but at the same time, my MacBook Pro only exhibits this issue on my home wifi network. For example, on my office wifi, the connection is always stable

Here's a screenshot of my network settings:


texts: Windows Gaming RGB keyboard - Scroll Lock on Mac does not enable RGB lights

texts:
I'm a mac user and I just bought a new RGB windows keyboard. In order to enable the RGB light, I have to press "Scroll Lock". But every time I press, it keeps decreasing the brightness. It doesn't work because it's a windows keyboard.

Is there any way to solve this?


texts: Photo viewer for Mac that can rotate (and save) pics while browsing folders

texts:
I am coming from Win and I am so disappointed by Mac's usability so far. My current problem is with maintaining photos. I usually take lot of pictures with my DSLR and I want a very simple solution to:

browse through pictures where they are - without the need to copy them to some library like in iPhoto
ability to easily rotate one or more of them at a time - unlike in preview where you can rotate only one picture in only one direction
they should stay rotated(!!!) after I close the program - unlike x mac apps that I tried that do not save the rotation, which is totally useless
large/full screen preview, with easy way to jump to prev/next photo without any headache inducing animation
I want to know the number of pictures in a folder without going to a special menu like in Finder
I don't want to spend more than $1-$2 on this simple app.

I am sorry if this sounds like a rant but I have tried so many options so far including spending money on useless app in the app store.


texts: How does Fing detect the model and MacOS version of a device

texts: I was running Fing on my iPhone. My Macbook Pro is on the same wireless network and I noticed that Fing not only detected my laptop's name (this is understandable, it is broadcasted, I can see it on the router too), but it also detected the model generation  (say Macbook Pro 13 in, 2017-2018) and the MacOS version (MacOS 10.15 Catalina). How is it able to determine the exact model and the exact OS version and is it possible to prevent broadcasting this info?


texts: Disable Siri on lockscreen without password

texts:
Is it possible to disable Siri on the lockscreen while not requiring a code to unlock the device?

I'm using iOS 7 and I think this was possible in iOS 6.


texts: How do I get a copy of the Mavericks installer? It is no longer on the App Store

texts:
I have looked at the Q&A regarding downgrading from Yosemite to Mavericks, but the Mavericks installer is no longer available in the App Store. Is there a way to get a hold of the installer? Yosemite broke my VMWare and I can't access any of my PC files.

Any suggestions or help is appreciated.


texts:
I tried to install matplotlib on OS X Lion with the pip install command, but I get the following error:

error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

Does anyone have a solution?


texts: Let's say book A on hardcover is 800 pages. After downloading it online, the page count is a lot more. Is this normal?


texts: Quick Look support for non-native video files (.avi, .mkv) on Mavericks

texts:
In the past, we've been able to get codecs for DivX/XviD/MPEG4 and support for containers like AVI, MKV in Mac OS X's Quick Look feature using Perian (as per this question).

As noted on the Perian site, development has ceased, and future versions may or may not continue to work. It seems with the upgrade to OS X 10.9 "Mavericks", the OS or Quick Look API has changed sufficiently that Perian no longer works.

Are there any alternatives? Ideally a one-app-does-all like Perian, but even a list of individual codecs and/or plug-ins for video container files would be useful.

NB: This question isn't about video players—there are many that support more than those playable via the built-in QuickTime player. This question is about codecs/plug-ins for QuickTime on OS X to allow it and Quick Look (and apps which rely on the OS to play videos) to open/play video files/formats lacking native support.


texts: How can I recover 'iTunes Library (Damaged)'?

texts: My iTunes library has disappeared and looking in the Music/iTunes folder, I see an 'iTunes Library (Damaged)' file. All of the music appears to still be there, so I am guessing it is just the database that is damaged. Is there a way to recover the library, like from the xml file? There is also a folder with Previous iTunes Libraries that are a couple months old. Can I just copy and rename one of those files?


texts: Connecting an iPhone to the internet Only with a Stand Apple USB Cable Without Jailbreak

texts:
I have an iPhone 4S and I don't have a SIM/Data card nor can I connect to the internet using Wi-Fi as the module is broken.

I am using a Windows 7 Laptop and I'm wondering if it's possible to connect my iPhone to the internet via a standard Apple USB cable. I have confirmed my connection to the internet on my laptop. Thanks in advance.

Edit: My iPhone is not Jailbroken


texts: How to revert single iCloud calendar event edits/deletions?

texts:
I have accidentally deleted an event from a shared iCloud calendar. Is there a way to restore it?

I don't want to restore the whole calendar from an earlier backup. Some new events have been added after the deletion, which I want to keep.

More generally, is there a way to access a history of changes made to the iCloud calendar, i.e. a list of all additions, deletions and edits?

The deleted event is still visible in the notifications popup:


texts: Display as an Extended Desktop across 4 x Dell Monitors

texts:
I have purchased a 2021 13" Macbook Pro, four Dell 24" monitors, four HDMI to HDMI cables and a 1-in-8 hub. The monitors work seamlessly each mirroring the desktop but not as an extended desktop. I have also purchased two HDMI to Thunderbolt 3 connectors but again only one output works at any time.
Is it possible to use more than one external monitor in "extend desktop" mode?
Adding necessary detail From OP's comments:
APPLE MacBook Pro 13.3" (2020) - M1, 256 GB SSD, Space Grey - Curry's PC World
4 x Dell S2421Hn FUll HD 23.8 LCD Monitors - Curry's PC World – Th38ozz
2 x USD C to HDMI Adapters Syntech (Amazon) / 8 x Snowkids HDMI 8K 60Hz 2.1 Cable (Amazon)


texts:
I'm purchasing a used 2013 Macbook Air on craigslist and the seller told me he formatted it already and created a dummy account so I can go through settings, etc.. and browse around to ensure all is working.

I want to be sure that I do not get locked out of the Macbook Air. If he formatted and logged out of iCloud, what is the best way to check that I will come out of this purchase safely? Should I log myself into iCloud and turn on 'Find My Mac'?

The reason is it is an old OSX so I need to do some updating afterwards. I don't have experience buying used macbooks so any help is appreciated, thank you.


texts: Q: Backing up Notes.app content (on the iCloud / OSX / iOS) for safekeep?

texts:
I'm wondering, how do I back up Notes.app content on OSX so that I can safely either trash it all and restart, or do future upgrades?

(The reason I'm doing this is because OSX and iOS no longer sync Notes properly..)


texts:
I need to install GitExtension on MacOS, but I can't find any info about this.

I found this link

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/

after download I get compressed folder there is inside .exe file. I can't execute .exe file on macOS...

So, maybe someone uses Git Extension on his laptop, please share an experience or maybe an alternative way should be used?


texts: Is the installation of Xcode from App Store enough for having the developer tools?

texts:
today I tried to install the new version of Xcode.
Before that I removed the developer tools with the following command:

sudo /Library/Developer/Shared/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

I also had other folder in /Library/Developer such as 4.2 4.2.1 ...

After that I installed the new Xcode and I noticed that the folder /Library/Developer contains only the Shared folder, which doesn't contain the command uninstall-devtools.

Did I install the developer tools or do I have to do something more?

Another related problem is that when I try to install Flann through Homebrew it reports the following error:

  xcode-select: Error: No Xcode folder is set. Run xcode-select -switch <xcode_folder_path> to set the path to the Xcode folder.

How can I fix it?


texts: What kind of cable do I need to connect MacBook Pro to iMac for display?

texts: I would like to use the iMac for external display and would like to connect MacBook Pro as a source. What kind of cable do I need and how to I setup the display?


texts: Refresh iTunes metadata on songs purchased from the iTunes store

texts:
I have a bunch of single songs from the iTunes store (Starbucks Pick of the Week) and in a misguided attempt to get them to organize them the way I wanted, I screwed up much of the metadata for these songs.

Is there a way to get it back, like you can with songs you directly imported from a CD using  "Get Track Names"?


texts: Emails are automatically marked as read after a few seconds

texts:
I have a problem that potentially causes me to miss important email: An incoming message is automatically marked as read after a few seconds. One can watch how a new email is at first unread in the inbox and then turns to read.
This problem seems to occur only for one of several IMAP accounts.

My settings are: In the viewing tab a selection "Mark all messages as read when opening a conversation" check box is unset.

What could cause this?
How can I diagnose if the problem is on the server side or if Mail.app is malfunctioning?


texts: How to resolve the ambiguity of sending iMessages to a person with multiple addresses?

texts: My friend's iphone keeps forgetting one of its iMessage addresses. Both the phone number and her email address are configured for iMessage but often the phone doesn't receive messages if they are sent to the email address. This often happens if she sends me message from the Messages app on her mac and I reply on my mac. Then she expects a reply on her phone but doesn't get it.  Is there a way I can configure my Messages app to always send to the phone number? I guess I could just delete her email address from her Contacts card but I don't really want to do that and it might not work anyway.


texts: Mid 2015 retina MacBook Pro: Startup slow after SSD Upgrade

texts:
I've recently upgraded my Mid 2015 retina MacBook Pro's original 500 GB SSD to a 2 TB Samsung EVO 970 NVMe M.2 coupled with a recent model Sintech SSD adaptor. I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. I followed the procedure outlined here.

Ever since upgrading the SSD, startup time has significantly slowed. It's now always exactly 58 seconds from chime to login screen. It used to be around 20 seconds previously.

Black Magic speed tests show good high performance. Only startup is a drag.

Is this normal? Why would it be this slow? How can I fix/improve it?


texts: What software extends quicktime to support codecs as an alternative to Perian?

texts:
Now that Perian is closing its doors (and thus ending support), I'd like to know if there are any alternatives to Perian - specifically alternatives that add Quicktime support for more filetypes (and thus all the benefits with Apples Video editing/burning applications)

Of the alternatives that Perian themselves have suggested, none have Perians integration with Quicktime:

Niceplayer - standalone application that relies on Perian(!)

VLC - standalone application that doesn't integrate with Quicktime

MPlayer - standalone CLI program that doesn't integrate with Quicktime

So, are there any other QuickTime-integrated codec applications out there? Bonus points if like Perian it's one application that bundles many codecs.


texts: How to create an application with applescript that will be able to open a file from finder

texts:
I would like to create an application for a command line program I installed with Homebrew. The command's executable is located in /usr/local/bin/ and it accepts files as command line arguments. It's a PDF reader named zathura.

While investigating this topic I learned that an Applescript can be saved as an application. I've managed to do that and I've also managed to make Finder use it primarily as my PDF reader.

I tried writing the following script:

on run argv
    do shell script "/usr/local/bin/zathura " & (item 1 of argv)
end run

If I run this script from the applescript editor, using the play button, the program opens without any file, but that's understandable since I have no way with this interface to specify a file argument.

However, if I save it as an application, put it in the applications folder and click it, I get the error:

  Can't make item 1 into type Unicode text (-1700)

Moreover, when I select a file in Finder and try to open it with the new application I just created, nothing happens.

I don't understand why does the script act differently if saved as an application and what are the variables (as argv) that hold the information on the file that Finder would like to open.


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro late-2012 model.
And my cable started showing symptoms of fraying.
So I ordered an offbrand cable from Amazon with good reviews and it arrived today and I tried it and the Mac recognized that it was getting power but the percent won't go up it's stuck at 95% but when I click on the battery icon in the status bar it says Battery Is Charged same thing with the original MagSafe but I just noticed this behavior now.
But with the MagSafe it would reach 98% sometimes and stop other times it would go to 100.

Should I just ignore this or do something?


texts: Is there a way to access my mac remotely by using browser only?

texts: I want to be able to browse/search my files, send email... nothing fancy like watch the movie and so on?


texts: How can I customize the background of the FileVault login screen in 10.8?

texts:
I've successfully changed the background image for OS X login screen, but cannot do it for the FileVault login screen.  This makes sense as the contents of the disk are still encrypted at that point in the boot process.

Per this link: superuser.com it appears possible, but I honestly cannot understand what they are suggesting here.  Any ideas or interpretations?


texts: Excel for Mac (15.33) not remembering recently used files

texts:
For some reason, Excel for Mac (15.33) is not remembering recently used files.  How do I fix this?

I'm not using Office 365.


texts: How to tie thunderbolt and power together for Macbook retina docking in Thunderbolt display?

texts:
When docking my Macbook Pro Retina to a Thunderbolt display I need to plug in two cables (a power cable plug, and a thunderbolt cable). I read in a comment that there might be a simple way of clipping the cables together so that they can be plugged into the Macbook in one motion.

Is there a clip that can be purchased that links the power cable and thunderbolt cable together for individual entry?
Alternatively, is there some simple do-it-yourself option for keeping the cable together and in the one place?


texts: SSD drive does not boot internally 13" Late 2011 MBP

texts:
I have a late 2011 macbook pro 13" on which i used a kingston 60gb v300 ssd in my primary slot and in the secondary slot i used the 500gb toshiba hdd the macbook pro came with. i've had the ssd since january 2013 and in mid december, it failed. The computer froze all of the sudden, I tried formatting, reinstalling but no luck, the ssd boots fine as an external storage device, but internally it doesn't.

I've sent the ssd to warranty but they said there is no problem with it. right now i'm using the old 500gb 5400rpm drive and it's driving me crazy because it's so slow. I have to mention that the ssd isn't even recognized when i put it in the secondary slot and when i have it in the primary slot and try to go to recovery mode it freezes immediately.

How can I figure out why the SSD doesn't work any more internally?


texts: How can I make my Mac a DLNA server and/or client?

texts: How can I make my Mac be a DLNA server and/or client?


texts:
I looked at Camera app gone (not deactivated in restrictions), but it doesn't solve my problem.  A full shutdown/reboot did not help.  Camera app and Facetime both disappeared about the time I did the latest iOS update.  Restrictions are off.  If I turn restrictions on, Camera and Facetime are both greyed out.  I do have an Exchange account linked, but my sysadmin doesn't have Camera locked out (and other people here are still able to use it).

Is it because it's an iPad2?  Did Apple drop support for iPad2 cameras in the latest OS update?


texts: My iPod has been dead for about 8 months. I plugged the charger into a PC and its not blinking and there's actually no light at all. How long will it take for it to start again? I really need help and don't know how long it will take.


texts: Why is my message app not sorting by recent message?

texts:
Ever since I had a storage issue, my messages app no longer puts new messages at the top of the messages list.

When i get a message from someone , sms or imessage it is added to their conversation whereever that person happens to be in the list rather than moving to the top which it used to do.

Have I accidentally put on a setting? If so can I turn it off?


texts: How do I import from a mini DV camera without using the tape?

texts:
I want to set up a multicamera interview situation and direct stream the content from cameras to hard drives, without running mini DV tapes .

I am running Mavericks 10.9.3 on a Mac Pro and 10.9.4 on a MacBook Pro. My cameras are a Canon ZR800 and a ZR20.

iMovie 8.0.6 will capture from the camera  without having to engage the camera transport but the later version doesn't and neither does FCPX. Both iMovie and FCPX show the cameras in their import dialog and seem ready to roll the 'tape' in the camera but they show the 'camera not controllable' dialog and do not seem to save the footage.

Is there an app which will accept my firewire DV camera and record its output?


texts: Quitting and reopening Mail loses all accounts

texts:
Every time I quite Mail or reboot my computer, all of my mail accounts are gone and I'm prompted to reconfigure my accounts (6 of them).

This is incredibly annoying and I'm not sure where I've gone wrong.

What I have tried id deleting the plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ and recreating from scratch, but the same crap still applies. (I'm not worried about losing stuff as the accounts are all IMAP)

Also, the folder ~/Library/Mail only has two folders

Mail Lost+Found
V2

All of my mailboxes are contained within V2... is that normal?

Lastly, and a completely side topic. It's annoying to have to go through the wizard every time I have to configure an account. When I hold the Option key (as I read on MacWorld) doesn't do anything.

I'm using Lion (Mail Version 5.2 (1257))


texts:
I seem to be encountering a rare issue. Every time I launch the Music app, it crashes immediately. I found one post (with no replies) in the Apple Developer Forums that describes the same behavior. Other than that, there seems to be no documented troubleshooting attempts for this problem.

Here's the header data of the crash report in case that helps.

Process:               Music [13614]
Path:                  /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
Identifier:            com.apple.Music
Version:               1.0.4 (1.0.4)
Build Info:            MusicDesktop-1000004104000~12
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Music [13614]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2020-03-26 11:59:11.132 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.4 (19E266)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     4.4 (17P4263)
Anonymous UUID:        FF0B6266-D3B2-D56E-EFD1-847258F220E2

Sleep/Wake UUID:       DD4C4B22-0AAD-4D6C-9137-61717713A2A4

Time Awake Since Boot: 8700 seconds
Time Since Wake:       1800 seconds

System Integrity Protection: disabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Music main  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [13614]


texts: Trackpad malfunction after last macOS update (Sierra 10.12.3)

texts:
I am looking for information / help from someone who might experienced similar issue in the past or has knowledge about the problem described below.

During last week I have been experiencing issues with trackpad on MacBook Pro Retina 13' Mid 2014.

It all have started the next day after latest macOS Sierra 10.12.3 update.

Symptoms:

not registering multitouch commands, like thumb + 3 or 4 fingers, swipes
freezes on the movement just to pick up a second later
stops to respond at all
moves and send click signals by itself without touching

Some/all of this happen when I try to use trackpad. When left alone, with external usb mouse plugged in, I can use the software mouse without any issue (using external mouse).

I have tried to fix it with:

Restart
NVRAM reset
SMC reset
macOS reinstallation

sadly, none of above helped.

Valuable Info: Apple Diagnostics tool shows that I have problem with memory (PPM002 error code and potential PPM003 and PPM004). Apple code reference page says nothing more about them but to contact nearest Apple Authorized Service Provider.

I will appreciate any form of help.

And yes... My warranty expired just two weeks ago.


texts: Weird behavior when charging iPhone on MacBook

texts:
When I connect my iPhone to my MacBook to charge it, a sound is played on the iPhone, the green battery symbol appears instead of the clock, the small battery symbol the upper right corner turns green and a flash symbol appears next to it. Then it goes back to normal: the small battery turns white, the flash disappears and the the big battery symbol vanishes in favor of the clock.

And then it starts over. The charging sound is played about once per second. Charging, not charging, charging, not charging...

After a while it settles, but this can take a long time. Even when it started charging quietly, it might fall back into the pattern described. When the lid of the MacBook is closed, it isn't as bad. Connecting the MacBook to power doesn't make a difference.

This does not happen, when I charge the iPhone with a wall plug or a battery pack. Only when I connect it to my MacBook. The USB ports are fine I think, I don't have any issues with other peripherals.

Its an iPhone 6s with iOS 12.1.2 and a MacBook Air 2014 with Mojave. I also have an Android phone which charges slowly, but steadily on my MacBook.

I suspect the MacBook or MacOS to be at fault here. It seems like the charging protocol can't agree on something and they try again and again and again...

I would like my iPhone to play the charging sound once when I connect it to my MacBook and then charge quietly.

Sometimes my MacBook wants to install a software update when I connect the iPhone, but it always fails to do so.


texts: Horizontal drag motion - How to disable?

texts:
I've already disabled the Swipe between pages option, but I still have this drag jitter...
Can I turn this off?

Edit: It's turned off and not swiping between pages, but I still have this drag motion. Looks like this is a normal macos behavior. Is there any way to change it?


texts:
So  I have this problem with OS X, when I restart my system and it has the USB drive connected (I forgot to unplug it because I know what OS X causes), it corrupts the drive (i.e., on next restart it can't read/mount the USB drive), now my solutions is go to a friend computer with windows and use "repair tool"... but this time seems like it won't work again... so how apple pays for >500Gb of information? (well just kidding I know they will not), so my questions are

How I stop OS X from being badass with USB disk (i.e. not corrupting them so that I need to remember to unplug it first).
How I recover/repair my files, this time my friend Windows seems not able to recover it.

BY the way, this corruption also happened if I disconnect directly the USB (which work on windows AFAIK).


texts: How do I prevent ringing sound on my Macbook when receiving a call on my iPhone?

texts:
I know this question has been asked before, but none of the answers work for me.

When I receive a call on my iPhone, my Macbook plays a ringing sound.  Strangely, there is no notification that appears, nor does anything appear in the Notification Center.

I have opened FaceTime on my Macbook and disabled iPhone Cellular Calls.
I have signed out of my Apple ID entirely in the FaceTime app on my Macbook.
On my iPhone I've disabled "Calls on Other Devices" in Settings > Cellular.
I've turned on "Do Not Disturb" on my Macbook.

I am using MacOS Catalina (10.15.3) and my iPhone is a Pro 11 Max (iOS 13.3).

Muting my Macbook works, of course, but this happens to me all the time when I'm on a video conference call (using Zoom or Google Hangouts) so I can't mute my Macbook because I can't hear my conference call (not to mention if this happens when I'm speaking everyone gets to hear my Macbook ring because I can't figure out how to shut it up).


texts: How to import tasks from OmniFocus into 2Do?

texts: Is there a way to import tasks from OmniFocus into 2Do?


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I have an iMac running High Sierra and Safari version 12.1.2. I have saved a selection of sites to Favorites. There were about 60 sites in the group. Just now something changed and when I select 'show favorites' the window has only 12 sites showing.  Where have all my favorites gone?

I've quit safari and restarted. I've restarted my computer. Neither worked.


texts: What are specs of this MagSafe wire, and what is its purpose?

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I need to repair a MagSafe power adapter, which has a damaged cable.

As you can see in the photos, there is damage to what appears to be shielding.

  Update: This frayed wire is not “shielding.” See the accepted answer and its comments for details.

I’m leery of simply applying (more ugly, ineffective) tape as a long term option. I’m considering using some higher quality shrink-wrap or the like, but I‘d also like to account for the fraying.

The problem is, I cannot find any information online about the frayed part, such as the material and the function(s) it provides.

Can you provide detailed specifications of the frayed part of the cable, including how it works / what it does?

Presumably, I can use the answer to inform my repair decisions.

Of course, I also welcome comments you might have about how to or whether to repair this damage.


texts: Can app store update notifications be disables on iOS?

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I don't want a popup telling me when my apps can be updated.  Any ready to get rid of these without jailbreaking?

I wouldn't mind getting rid of the badge, too.  But I find it less annoying than the popup.


texts: Mavericks or El Captain for old MacBook Pro (early'11)

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In case of performance for multithreaded applications, development (Java) and virtualization (Parallels 11), what's better - upgrading to 10.9 Mavericks or El Captain? (or Yosemite) ?

Now I'm on 10.8.5, MacBook Pro 15", i7-2.0x4, on SSD with 16GB RAM

P.S. upgrading needed as Parallels 11 doesn't support 10.8


texts: Lost internet access after installing Find My iPhone

texts: I installed Find My iPhone and was unable to connect to the internet. I deleted the application and that fixed the issue. However, through iCloud it also installed on my iPad. I cannot delete it from there because there is no icon. When I go into setting and try to turn it off it won't let me because it cannot access the internet. How can I remove it from my iPad?


texts: How to silently update OS X and reboot if necesary?

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I am looking for a silent (unattended) way of updating OS X that would not require use intervention.

Is this possible, how?


texts: iPhone doesn't sync calendar to iCloud, calendar via iCloud.com still works

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I'm having a major headache inducing issue with iCloud sync. My wife and I have shared calendars for a long time and it has helped us a great deal.
The problem now is that my wife's iPhone has stopped syncing it's calendar with iCloud. If we log onto her account at iCloud.com and add somehting, it syncs to my iPhone as usual, but not to hers.
If I add something to my calendar in my iPhone or iCloud.com, it does in fact sync to her iPhone with some lag. What seems to be cut off from iCloud is her own calendar. I have tried all possible settings with iCloud and calendar app etc, nothing works. And yes, I've tried turning it off and back on again. Did a soft reset, didn't help.

Please, any ideas as to what can be causing this?

Regards,
Martin


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I was setting up my new Mac, I got to a step where there was this error

 unable to load identity provider: the identity provider is unable to be contacted. Check network settings or contact technical support

So I connected a docker stations with ethernet connected to it and restarted the computer.
This is were the wonk came into play: when the mac started up again it didnt show the setup step but instead it showed a login screen with a blank user and password.

I haven't set a user or password yet, i didn't get to that step???

how do i return the setup so i can create an account and use my mac?


texts: My iPhone storage space is never released

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I have an iPhone 5c with 8GB of storage, out of which approximately 3GB is taken by the operating system.

I've always had issues with running out of space, notwithstanding the very few things I keep stored on it, but since some days I'm having the whole memory completely taken and I'm unable to take any picture.

I keep on deleting files (e.g. I delete media from WhatsApp/Messages and I move pictures from the iPhone to iCloud), but still the memory is never released and always stated as 100% taken, and I'm talking about a significant amount of files deleted/moved (approx. 200 photos and 10 videos).

I hence try to restart the device, close the applications (trying more generally to make the OS re-initializing the memory stats), but still no luck. The only (weird) thing that makes the memory release a bit is when changing the language.

My operating system is iOS 9.0.

I'm wondering what's going on, are the deleted/moved files cached somewhere? Is there any effective way to completely release their memory cells and get back my memory?


texts: Is it possible that my MBP (running Yosemite) can remote turn on my iPhone 4S's (running iOS 8.1) personal hotspot?

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I heard somewhere (urgh! not a good start to a question) that with Yosemite + iOS 8.1, i can now turn on my iPhone personal hotspot remotely, and then try and connect to it (assuming the iPhone is near).

Is this correct? what's this feature called and how can i do this?

Currently, I always have to goto the general settings on my phone and then manually turn on the personal hotspot. This works perfectly (i'm posting this via my 3G connection, right now).

cheers for any help :)


texts: Force iMessage auto complete to ignore Land line numbers

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RE-WRITING QUESTION FOR MORE PRECISION:

my goal is to use auto complete over my thousands of contacts to reliably send an SMS message.
In order to be reliable, I need to know that the SMS is being sent to a number that is listed as a mobile number, when I send the SMS.

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Thus counting on auto sorting defaults is not reliable, since I must go to the contact to see if the top one is indeed the right one.
Counting on favorites being at the top would also not be reliable unless I added a favorite for every mobile contact number, then deleted numbers from contacts w/o mobile a number, and then ensured that as I added contacts, I had a robust way to ensure that I also added a favorite.  (Plus I have to manually favorite 2,000+ contacts)
thanks for the help so far, but I am hoping there is a solution for this!
(I would use a 3rd party app too, if Apple just blew this one completely)

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Original Request.

It is the dumbest thing.  iMessage will show all numbers for a contact (and not indicate which number is which).

If you select the wrong one by accident, your message will just be silently lost,
since you just sent an SMS to a landline.

Usually apple thinks about the common use case before implementing a feature...
in this case, someone was asleep at the wheel!

I will even be happy with a hacky work around:
   my goal (using some OSX application) is to be able to auto complete on a
   contact name, then quickly send an SMS.


texts: How can I recover the key of an encrypted hard-drive?

texts: I still have access to the disc, but I lost the piece of paper with the key. Can I somehow recover it? I already had a look into Keychain Access Utility, but I couldn’t find it.


texts: Why don't new contacts created on my iPhone sync to my desktop Mac?

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On my iPhone running iOS 13.3, I can create a new contact in the Contacts app. However, the contacts do not end up in the Contacts app on my desktop Mac (which is running 10.13.6).  I have iCloud on the Mac configured to share contacts, as can be see in the following screenshot:

Similarly, my iPhone is configured to share contacts too, based on the iCloud configuration in Settings ➜ my Apple ID, as can be seen in the following screenshot:

Both the iPhone and my Mac use the same Apple ID.  Neither device is out of disk space, nor is iCloud out of space.  The contacts that are missing from the Mac were created last week, so I think enough time has passed that it's not a time lag issue.

What can cause this problem, and how can I fix it?