texts: Can MacBook Pro with Retina display (13", Late 2012) output above 1080p to 4k tv?

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I have a late 2012, 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. Apparently it has Intel HD Graphics 4000. I just bought a Seiki 50" 4k TV and would like to connect it to my laptop with as high a resolution as possible. I'm a programmer so I want the screen real-estate, don't care if the refresh rate is only 30 hz.

The Seiki TV comes with an HDMI cable, but when I plug that in, I only get 1080p (with 60hz).

This [1] person was able to get better resolution, but he has a 15 inch and a different graphics card.

I used this laptop with a different 27 inch monitor (one of the korean monitors on ebay) and was able to get 2560xforgot. If I remember correctly, I connected to the 27 using using DisplayPort, rather than HDMI.

If my laptop can't do more than 1080 output to the 4k monitor, I'm willing to upgrade my laptop. I'd like to stay at 13" rather than upgrade to a 15". Are there 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display which can output 4k to my tv? Do I have to get the latest or is there an older model which will do what I want?

[1] How can my mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina 15 run a 4K panel at 30Hz over HDMI?


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Im new with mac and tried to install gcc / g++ on an MacBook Air with El Captain. I installed Xcode and used

xcode-select --install

It completed and was successful. However, for some reason I cannot find any version of gcc / g++ in /usr/bin or anywhere else besides the symlinks (cc c++ gcc g++) that point to nothing. I tried

gcc -v

and received the error

-bash: gcc: command not found

And when I try to reinstall the command line tools again with code-select I get

xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

Is there any way I can simply start over with the install of the command line developer tools?


texts: What is the benefit of using a PM200 cable to connect an EIZO monitor ta a macbook?

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My girlfriend bought an EIZO CG223W screen and uses it for now with my apple DVI-MiniDisplay-connector, when i don't need it. She could buy her own connector, but as well could buy a PM200 cable.
Now I'm a bit confused by the info on internet regarding the benefits of the PM200 cable vs. Apples DVI-MiniDisplay-connector:

the speed and color-quality/colordepth of the PM seems to be faster, but in realworld: how much will you notice?
can you use the monitors' USB-ports only with a PM200 cable?
can you daisy-chain a 3rd monitor only when using PM200?

(I have e-mailed Eizo already regarding this question, but didn't find an  answer yet.)


texts: Problems with enhanced features in -regex of utility "find"

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For example, this doesn't find the file:

: > 12; basename $(find -E . -regex '^(.*)(\d{2})' -print 2>/dev/null)

But this does:

basename $(find -E . -regex '^(.*)([0-9]{2})' -print 2>/dev/null)

At the same time, for example:

echo -e '12\nabc\n456' | grep -E -e '^(\d{3})'

works quite well, though seemingly uses the same regcomp().

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?


texts: How do you remove a hyperlink from a cell in Numbers '08 version 1.0.3?

texts: I have an address in a cell which is hyperlinked. I've also searched other posts on the topic and the selecting text and "right-clicking" does not bring up a menu with how to remove the link. I'd really appreciate some help if anyone's worked out how to do this.


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Yup. I fell asleep on the train and missed my stop. So next time I was smart and thought that I would set an alarm. Then I went to sleep with the alarm set for 6:09 instead of 8:09. So I missed the train stop yet again. Let me reiterate: smart.

Instead of dealing with setting an alarm for a different time every time I get on the train and then either waking up early (because the train, as we know, is always late), forgetting to set it, or setting it for the wrong time.

I am looking for a location based alarm app. I know that location based reminders in the Reminder app already exist but they only show up on your screen and don't make any sound when silent is on.

I need an app that will be similar to the default Clock app alarms that will sound even if the phone is on silent. Additionally, I would like to ring until I press stop, ensuring that I am awake.


texts: How does file's More Info attribute work, and how to access it from a terminal?

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I want to understand where parameters like More Info and Comments are really stored (is it hfs filesystem specific?) and how to access this type of information from terminal.

"Who" updates this More Info parameter when I download some file from some website ?Chrome knows about it, or MacOS ?


texts: Create a text encoding conversion service in Automator

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I was trying to make a Finder service to easily convert text encoding of some files. Because the default charset for Simplified Chinese in Windows is the Chinese national standard GB18030 (not the UTF-8 used on Mac).

With some help from the answers at services - Automator Get Filename of Selected File - Ask Different, I set up Service receives selected: Files or folders in:Finder

Then, I made this Shell script in Automator:

for f in "$@"
do
    iconv -f gb18030 -t utf-8 f > f.new
done

However, when I run the service when selecting f, I don't see the newly created f.new in Finder. I guess I have set the output path wrong. But I don't know what is the right way to fix it.


texts: MacOS wont boot after partitioning my SSD

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I installed Kali Linux on my iMac as Dual Boot. After a while I needed more space for Kali so I decided to shrink my Mac Partition (APFS) using MacOS Disk Utility Tool.

I created a new 100 GB Partition (exFat).
I tried to reboot my Computer and only Kali Linux showed up as bootable.

So far I tried to boot in Recovery Mode, but instead of the normal MacOS High Sierra recovery menu the recovery menu from MacOS Lion showed up.

kali@kali:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 931,53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: CT1000MX500SSD1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E1EA0C68-DA59-406C-944A-089B812AD69D

Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1          40     409639     409600   200M EFI System
/dev/sda2      409640 1561962535 1561552896 744,6G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  1561964544 1757014015  195049472    93G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4  1757276160 1920016383  162740224  77,6G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5  1920016384 1953523711   33507328    16G Linux swap

kali@kali:~$ sudo gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Model: CT1000MX500SSD1
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E1EA0C68-DA59-406C-944A-089B812AD69D
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 265581 sectors (129.7 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640      1561962535   744.6 GiB   8300
   3      1561964544      1757014015   93.0 GiB    0700
   4      1757276160      1920016383   77.6 GiB    8300
   5      1920016384      1953523711   16.0 GiB    8200

Any ideas to on how to boot in MacOS without losing all my macOS data?


texts: HP ZR2740w does not work with MBP 2016 13"

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It works with my 2011 MBP 17" but when I plug it into my new 2016 13" MBP it does not. I'm using the DisplayPort input for both. thunderbolt 1 out on the 17" and USB C out on the 13"

The cable is good, because I tested it with another monitor and the 13". I have also tested the monitor on a late 2012 iMac and it also works.

Could it be the DP standard? I'm going to try and track down a DVI cable and see if that makes a difference.


texts: Can I choose which mail accounts go to Notification Center on iOS 5

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We have a number of email accounts set up in Mail on our family iPad1, only a couple of which are mine. I have the iPad the most (and utilize it's deeper features most), and want to start benefiting more from Notifications Center. At this point, when I open up notification center it lists all new messages for all of the accounts stored on the iPad, which is distracting for me. I just want to see my new messages at a glance.

I've set just my accounts to fetch automatically every 15 minutes, but as soon as I've opened the mail app, then all of the other unread messages populate in the notification list. Is there any way to control which accounts get sent to Notification center?

I'm imagining no, but maybe someone has an idea.


texts: Home folder has two Desktops within it - can one be deleted?

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Somehow I created a second Desktop Folder and icon within my Home Folder. One Desktop has the word original following it, the second has a different icon.

Can any suggest how this happened and can I get rid of one of them?


texts: Is there any way to make the confirmation dialog stop appearing when clearing history in Safari?

texts: Every time I clear my history I am presented with a small alert window. Is there any way to avoid/disable this?


texts: I'm trying to automate some steps I perform in Pages

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I use Pages to write my invoices and save a PDF version as well.

Currently, when I'm done, I press Command-S to save, Command-P to bring up the print dialog, select "Save as PDF…" from the PDF menu in the bottom left corner, then I navigate to the correct folder (e.g. ~/Invoices/2017/Open/) and then press Save. Then I close the Pages file and prepare an email to the client with the PDF attached.

I'd love to have a way (with a shortcut?) to perform these steps automatically.

I'm guessing I need to use Automator, but do I create a Workflow, an Application or a Service? Most examples I've found start with a Finder item, not an open document. Or should I be using AppleScript?


texts: My iPhone 5s is cracked and the screen is black, how do I get pictures from the phone?

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I dropped my iPhone 5s in water and then cracked it... Vegas what can I say?

It was working that day but, the next it just went black and didn't work anymore. When I connected to the computer, it is  recognized  but it says is locked and obviously, I can't unlock it from the phone, is there a way to unlock it from my Mac?

How do I retrieve my pictures from an iPhone I can't unlock?


texts: Automator or AppleScript Rename Workflow

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Is it possible to automate the following action:

Example

Folder name: "TEST" the name of the file inside the folder is: "Evelyn.jpg".

How do I rename the folder using the name of the file inside of it:

Result

Folder name: "EVELYN" the name of the file inside the folder is: "Evelyn.jpg".

Any ideas how to achieve this with Automator or AppleScript?


texts: How can I find iPhone apps uploading a lot of data?

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Why do the iPhones in my home periodically use up all the upload bandwidth? Happens at least once a week, likely once a day or something.

I only notice when I get annoyed by slow internet.

How do I analyse which app is causing this this?


texts: Where is X11's error log located in OSX Lion?

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I'm trying to run the Xmonad window manager in X11 on OSX lion, I load Xmonad at x11 startup, and X11 just crashes, sometimes it does not. I'm just wondering how I can view some kind of error log to ascertain why it is crashing.

Solution:

The log file I needed was system.log in /private/var/log/system.log

Thanks for the help


texts: Pink and Blue artefacts appearing in the notification centre

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Hi I just got the new MacBook and installed Mac OS sierra on it.

I keep coming across an issue whereby there are pink and blue pixelated diagonal lines appearing in the notification centre and when I try to screenshot them they go away.

Attached is an image I took with my iPhone as was not working


texts: Are there video players that display milliseconds on Mac?

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I need to view a video in "mp4" format with an accuracy of minutes, seconds and milliseconds for a specific task - analysis.
Operating system: macOS Catalina, version: 10.15.7
As I understand there are video players with milliseconds display only on windows, on Mac, alternatives and solutions could not be found. Maybe someone came across a similar question and was able to solve it. I have already tried to install the VLC player, but a certain plug-in is needed to open the ability to view in milliseconds, unfortunately I could not install such a plug-in on a Mac.macos
video
This error occurs when trying to open the file:

The document "2020-12-24T09_20_45.375Z_LR_crf_26_deidentified.h.265.mp4" could not be opened.
The file isn't compatible with QuickTime Player.


texts: Shared iCloud calendars sync when connected to Wifi but not over 3G

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I have shared an iCloud calendar to another user.  We are both using iPhones running iOS 9.3.4.  When both devices are connected to Wifi a change made to the shared calendar on one device appears immediately and reliably on the other device.  However, when both devices only have a connection to the internet over the 3G cellular network, a change made to the shared calendar on one device does not appear on the shared calendar of the other device.  Other iCloud services like iMessage, Facetime, iTunes, App Store, and Find my iPhone work over the 3G cellular network.  Only the calendar does not sync.

To make matters worse, when a change is made to a shared calendar on a device that is connected to a 3G cellular network but not Wifi that change sometimes takes days or weeks to appear in either user's iCloud.com calendar or on any other device to which that calendar is shared.

How do I make these iPhones sync their shared calendars over the 3G cellular network?
How can I make these iPhones reliably sync their shared calendars when changes are made to appointments while connected over 3G but not Wifi?

Update: One device had 'Calendar' turned off in Settings -> Cellular.  (Thanks @fbara.)  Now both devices have 'Calendar' turned on in Settings -> Cellular.  After some more testing I have determined the following:

Changes to the shared calendar reliably sync to iCloud over cellular from either device.
Change notifications are reliably sent over cellular to the second device when a change to the shared calendar is made on the first device.
The change to the appointment does not appear reliably on the second device when it is connected over cellular even after a notification about that change has been received on that device.  This failure of a change to appear seems to happen about once in four changes.  None of the failures to show the change have cured after 20 minutes of waiting despite connecting to Wifi again.

The bottom line with my current configuration seems to be that about one in four changes to a shared calendar on the first device are not reflected on the second device when the second device is connected over cellular at the time the change from the first device is synced to iCloud.


texts: Is there a hand tool for xcode's storyboard (scrolling without scrollbars, PDF style)?

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I guess the title says it all. I was looking for a way to e.g. hold down a modifier key and "grab" the storyboard so that I can stop trying to aim for the scrollbars every time I want to scroll freely with a mouse.

I found this key chart http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.se/2011/03/xcode-4-keyboard-shortcuts-now.html but it didn't help.


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I have been having this problem probably ever since I bought my iMac. The Safari browser exhibits weird behaviour when I often navigate to a certain webpage. I do a lot of website development so naturally I have to test my sites. However, Safari seems to be keeping the old copy of the website in memory and keeps loading it! The only option is clearing the browsing data but that leads also to me getting logged out of all sites on the device so it's a pain.

An example of what happened today: I had a website that had a <meta> tag redirecting to www.anotherpage.com. I removed that tag and uploaded the file on FTP. However, Safari would still keep redirecting me to that page. When I accessed the same URL from mobile Safari version, everything worked as expected, no redirect. Heck, even Mozilla or Chrome on desktop showed the new site.

Should I just disable caching or am I missing something? Has anyone experienced similar problem? Or is it only one of the reasons why Safari is becoming the new IE?


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It still works but am afraid it will unexpectedly die. I bought a new drive that's compatible but don't know how to transfer data from old to new after I install the new drive.

Can I use Time Machine, Disk Utilities or what?

The old drive is Sierra 10.13.4 and the new drive is formatted with Sierra 10.12.


texts: If I Option-Click the Bluetooth icon in macOS it shows extra options and information. What do I need to change to have these options shown with a normal click?


texts: Macbook pro (Retina 15 inch Late 2013) Horizontal gray line across screen

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I have bought this computer New at the Apple Store in 2014.

Since yesterday it's showing horizontal gray lines across the screen. I suspect a hardware defect because that's how my 2 others macs older started showing problems too.

All updates are installed and restarted the computer a few times.

Anyone would know if this is really an hardware issue? If it is probably looks at very expensive repair.


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Every website or video tutorial about adding artwork to my projects shows that the media browser has tabs/buttons for Audio, Photos, Movies.  My GarageBand has only Audio and Movies.

If I try to drag a photo in, it is just ignored.  I can drag movies or audio files in with no problem, but not photos.

How do I get a photo into my project?


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I'm new to OSX and tried to create a user from the terminal which I no longer need and which I named incorrectly.

I see I can delete the user in System Preferences > Users & Groups but do I need to delete them from the terminal instead as this is where I created them?  If I delete them from the terminal what commands should I use?

Below are the commands I used to create the user:

sudo dscl . -create /Users/www-data UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . -create /Users/www-data RealName "Lucius Q. User"
sudo dscl . -create /Users/www-data UniqueID "1010"
sudo dscl . -create /Users/www-data PrimaryGroupID 80
sudo dscl . -create /Users/www-data NFSHomeDirectory /Users/www-data


texts: Cannot see or delete photos from "Synced from iTunes Library"

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I have an iPhone 6S and Windows PCs. I do not sync photos between the iPhone and PCs. I have about 716MB of space occupied by photos "Synced from iTunes Library" that I cannot see on the iPhone, or have any way to delete them. These photos cannot be found in iCloud either. So this post did not resolve my issue: Some photos aren't displayed when iPhone connected to PC

I already deleted all of the photos in the Photos app, but I still have the 716MB occupied and have no way to get rid of it. What do I do?

Only 1 photo left in Photos app:

Still 716MB "Synced from iTunes Library":


texts:
Quite frequently I experience cases, where the ⌘+L shortcut will not work in Chrome.

This shortcut does the same in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. It jumps to the URL bar of the browser.

How can I troubleshoot this problem?


texts: Why is search keyword going across apps on a Mac?

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I just found out if a keyword is searched inside of Google Chrome on a Mac, then if I go to the Terminal app and search there, the keyword will go across there.

That is different from what I know before: each app's search is independent and they would not go across. How come it is happening and is there a way to make them independent?

(this Mac is still running Mavericks but I am wondering if High Sierra is doing the same thing)


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I'm trying to create an an AppleScript to turn dictation on or off (not just make it start listening). My goal is to be able to disable dictation when I am on battery power.

I am new to AppleScript and don't know how to do this. I need this to work on macOS Sierra.


texts: Change iPhone file permissions wihout jailbreak

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I want to delete some apps (games) but backup their save game data.
Since there's no way to save your saved game data the only way to backup this files is using something like iFunBox and copy both Documents and Library folders to your PC.

The problem is restoring them. I've an iPhone 4S 6.1.3 and Win7 and when I install the app again and send both folders to iPhone using iFunBox, their permission is not 775 so I can't run the game.

Is there any workaround? I don't want to jailbreak my iPhone.
Thanks!


texts: Mavericks Server: Unable to use 3rd party SSL Certificates with Open Directory

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We have a Mac OS X Server (Mavericks) - Mac OS X: 10.9.2,  Server: 3.1

Our Open Directory Master is set up and running but we cannot for the life of us get it to accept our 3rd Party (DigiCert) SSL certificate. The certificate is active for all other services (Mail, Calendar, WWW, Messages) but whenever I select it for Open Directory and click OK the Server app just reverts back to "None".

I've tried destroying the OD Master and rebuilding it but this didn't help; problem persists.

This seems like a show stopper; anyone know how we can fix this?


texts: How to make Page Down key move down a whole page in Pages?

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In Apple Pages, pressing "page down" makes the page move down one screen as opposed to one page.

Is it possible to only move down one page? I don't like seeing half pages on screen. I only ever want to see one full page.


texts: Can I use the same iTunes account on all my devices?

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I've heard a lot of conflicting information about how many devices/computers can share an iTunes account.  What are the actual limits, and are devices distinguished from computers?

My current configuration is (all using the same iTunes account):

One Windows computer with iTunes
One iPad
One iPhone
One Apple TV

I want to add:

Another, separate Windows account (on the same computer), that will use a separate install of iTunes
Two more iPhones
Another iPad

I'd like everything to share the same iTunes account - is this possible?


texts: iPhone not receiving notifications (and calls) for some apps

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I have recently noticed that I am missing notifications for some apps on my iPhone 8 Plus. The onset of the issue might coincide with updating to iOS 14, but I am not sure.
I don't know how many apps have been affected by the issue, but I know that Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Viber don't receive them. Not only that, but I don't even get incoming calls from these apps. Sometimes, if I have just opened the app I will receive the call/notification afterwards, and if I kill the app it would stop working again. But even that is not consistent.
Other apps like Messages, Twitter, Reddit, etc. seem to get all notifications, so the issue might be isolated to VoIP/chat apps. But again, I'm simply not sure.
I have checked and re-checked my notification and call settings and they are all fine. This isn't surprising since I have changed notning from when it used to work. I have also tried re-installing the apps with no luck.
I was hoping that iOS 14.3 would have a fix for this, but it's still not working after the update. My wife's iPhone 11 Pro Max is running the same apps, with same settings on same iOS version, and she has no issues.


texts: Internal IMAP server - Lion behind firewall

texts:
I have the following (already given) scenario:

The primary question is - how to setup IMAP and SMTP server on the Lion for the "mydomain.com". Lion suggesting to use the ".private" domain for the server not directly in the internet, but in the mail-server config i shoudl enter domain for what i need handle emails - so i'm confused a bit...

Can someone post a step-by-step instructions, or at least point me to some helpful docs? I'm pretty new in Lion-server config...


texts: Duet Display install caused reboot to hang on High Sierra

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I tried to install the app 'Duet Display' today. It was always troublesome on my Windows PC, so I was disappointed to see it wasn't working very well on my new MBP 2017 13" w/ TB as well. The installer ran fine, but upon reboot the progress bar seemed to hang. I never reached the login prompt. A macOS update was pending and was waiting for a reboot, my iPad was plugged in and the MBP was on charge.

Anyway, I proceeded to contact Duet's support email, with them telling me to boot into Safe Mode (so I can delete the file duetdisplay.kext from /Library/Extensions), but my Mac won't even boot to Safe Mode; it seems to hang again. I never reached the login prompt, again. I'm thinking that reinstalling might be my only option, or removing the file manually via the Terminal in Recovery.

What are my options?


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I had a directory called $RECYCLE.BIN which I did not create. I deleted it accidentally and as result all other directories beside it was removed too.

This is what happened in the terminal:

b@thebeast ~/Downloads]$ ls
$RECYCLE.BIN
Note.txt
Objective-C Essential Training
[ben@thebeast ~/Downloads]$ rm -r $RECYCLE.BIN
[ben@thebeast ~/Downloads]$ ls
[ben@thebeast ~/Downloads]$

Does anybody have had the same experience or know what is special about this $RECYCLE.BIN?


texts: Sync Apple notes app on MacBook to Android

texts: I recently got an Android phone, and I wanted to know how to sync Apple Notes to Google Keep. I have added my Gmail account to the Apple Notes app, but I don't see the notes showing up in Google Keep. What do I do?


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I've noticed that unlike on macOS, I can't access my Wi-Fi passwords when in iOS (only browser passwords are populated in my Settings → Safari → Passwords).

Is it possible to sync that Wi-Fi password (or all Wi-Fi passwords, doesn't matter) somehow from my iOS device to my macOS device?


texts: Change the location of an icon in the menu bar?

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Every time I start up Radium the menu bar icon for the application shows up in the same place: dead smack in the middle of all my other menu bar icons. Doesn't matter if it's the last menu bar occupying application I've started.

I'd like to have it appear as the icon furthest to left on account of it displaying song information in the menu bar area once I start streaming a station with it.

Is this possible?

I tried a few key + click combinations to see if that would let me drag it around but no luck. It seems stuck in this position.

Edit: I did try a Command+click to move it -- no luck. Same for Option and Control click combinations.

The image below show the current location of the icon. I'd like it to appear to the left of the Sparrow icon.


texts: I'm running some cron jobs on my machine and every time I fire up a terminal session I'm getting a 'You have mail.' message. Any way to turn this off?


texts: I have three Macs and one Apple ID.  If I remove a folder or individual photos from Photos on one computer, will it disappear on the others?  What's the best way to  manage this so each computer can be used independently?


texts: Install Homebrew package with all available options

texts:
Is there a way to install a package and include all --with* options instead of typing all of them individually at the CLI?

To avoid:

brew install ffmpeg --with-chromaprint --with-fdk-aac ...


texts: Network folder sync tool with intuitive subfolder selection?

texts:
I have 100GB+ of data (photos, music etc) on a network share, but due to the small disk size (128GB SSD) on my Macbook Pro, I'd like to have a local copy of a small selection of it, and easily manage what data is locally synced.
I'm struggling to find a good solution for this. I'm after the following features:

LAN sync. I want transfers between my computers on the same network to be fast, not via cloud storage - nor do I want to plug in a USB drive every time I want to sync stuff.

Affordable. Although I have 100GB+ of data, I don't need it in the cloud, so don't really want to pay the cloud storage rates. I'm willing to consider cloud-based options if they're affordable and offer LAN sync, though.

Sync any folder. I don't want sync to be limited to syncing only contents of a particular folder.

Syncs automatically or runs on an easily configurable schedule.

Intuitive Selective Sync GUI for managing subfolders to sync to the laptop. Dropbox's 'selective sync' feature is a good example, especially the "advanced view":

I've looked at a number of options that are out there, but they all seem to fall short:

Goodsync. So close! Standalone app, Under $70 one-time payment (licences for mac & the PC with the share). It just doesn't have the Intuitive GUI for selecting subfolders to sync. To include/exclude folders to sync, you have to type/paste individual folder names into a list, rather than select them from a finder-like directory browser - this is tiresome and error-prone.
Chronosync - another standalone app, similar to Goodsync - again no good selective sync GUI.
Dropbox - has LAN sync & selective sync, but only for files that it also hosts in the cloud; $100/year for 100GB is too much given that I don't need cloud storage. Only syncs ~/Dropbox.
SkyDrive - pricing reasonable ($50 for 100GB), but no LAN sync and can only syncs the ~/SkyDrive folder.
SugarSync - will sync any folder, but more expensive than Dropbox and no LAN sync.

Does anyone know any software that's a better match for my needs? Or perhaps I've missed existing useful features in these tools, or a completely alternate approach? Does anyone else have similar requirements?
I used to use unison to do this kind of thing but I got fed up with it because I didn't particularly have the patience to maintain profiles describing what I didn't want to sync etc.


texts:
I opened System Information today only to find that my graphics card name has changed from Intel 4000 (or something like that) to AMD Radion:

I don't think I'm going crazy.

EDIT: I was right! Here it is showing Intel 3000: http://icap.me/i/yEdDGcjR1B.png


texts: How to enable scrolling with the mouse wheel in Google Chrome?

texts: I am currently running OSX 10.9.3 and Google Chrome Version 35.0.1916.114. When using Mozilla Firefox, I am able to scroll using the mouse wheel just fine. But with Google Chrome, it does not work. How am I able to enable this feature?


texts: How to capture screen on iOS 10 by using AssistiveTouch?

texts:
As my iPhone Home Button was broken, I use AssistiveTouch to help me to operate the phone.

But when I upgrade to iOS 10, I try to capture screen by using AssistiveTouch Home Button + power button, I cannot get the screen correctly as the AssistiveTouch menu is still on the screen.

Any work around? Thanks.


texts: Microsoft Office 2011 no longer working with Yosemite 10.10.2?

texts:
When trying to open either Word or Excel, I get an error saying

  Microsoft Word (or Excel) cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure Microsoft Word works with this version of OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and OS X.

I believe the two applications update in the background occasionally, but they were working fine until mid-last week.


texts: How do I force Safari 5.1.7 to ask to remember my Gmail password?

texts: Safari 5.1.7 remembers my Gmail user name but will not ask me if I want it to save my password.  As I use Gmail often, this would be a real timesaver. How can I force Safari to ask?


texts: How long does it take to decrypt a hard drive with FileVault?

texts:
I'm decrypting my hard drive with sudo fdesetup disable (because system Preferences would stop responding when I clicked "Decrypt"), and it doesn't show the progress.

So I left my iMac on sleep mode overnight, and it's still not done. Is it even doing anything or does it just take a while to decrypt a 1TB hard drive?

Also, is there a way to see how long it takes until it's done?


texts: Make pixel size numbers in Preview show larger when editing photos?

texts:
I occasionally have trouble seeing the small pixel-size values that Preview.app displays while editing photos. For images that are close to 640 pixels, I like to keep them just under 640 so they display full size in Stack Exchange, like the image below does in this question.

Is there any way I can ask Preview to just make those numbers a bit larger? Permanently is fine, or a hot key. I'd like to avoid solutions that just zoom the whole screen.


texts: Is it safe to charge iPhone while it is powered off?

texts:
When I am in a rush I often plug my phone into it's charger and then turn it off (if I do it vise-versa it will turn on when I plug it in).  I have found it charges a estimated 1.5x faster then while charging turned in. I have never had a problem with this, although, since I am in a rush, I only have it plugged in for a little amount of time.

Could I damage the battery or some other component if I have it charging, turned off, for an extended period of time?


texts: Can an iMac be used as an external monitor with the 2018 iPad Pro as the source?

texts:
Apple just released the new iPad and as one can clearly see Apple showed how we can use it with an external monitor via the USB-C Port. So, my question is can the same principle/procedure be used for an iMac?

For now it supports only some Digital Cameras and External Displays. Several experimental videos show that it is unable to detect any external drive. I also looked for manuals and detailed product information on Apple's website - Alas! couldn't find anything valuable.


texts: Why do most processes run as children of launchd?

texts: When did most processes run as a child of launchd instead of the kernel pid ?


texts: Laptop turning off due to positioning relative to another one

texts:
I was working on a MacBook Pro which was placed on top of a closed MacBook Pro. There is a precise position where the screen turns black and the internet stops working. I can repeat this phenomenon again and again with always the same output.

On the .gif, you can see (if you stare a little bit) the laptop is on top of another closed laptop. At the beginning of the .gif, everything goes fine. Then I pulled the laptop just a little bit and the screen turns black when a precise position is found. When I pull the laptop a bit further everything turns back to normal.

What is going on?


texts:
I recently modified several epubs. I just turned "..." ellipses into the "…" type. Calibre has no problem with the modified epubs, and Sigil validates them. They can be imported to iTunes, only the metadata gets a bit messed up, and sychronized to my iPad.

But on the iPad, iBooks will throw these files out of its library. What is wrong? Is there some kind of hash value saved somewhere?


texts: Recommended Bluetooth Receiver for Speakers?

texts: I have normal speakers which can be connected via a 3.5mm jack. I want to use those speakers wirelessly with help of bluetooth, so is there any bluetooth receiver device for such type of speakers ?


texts: iTunes connect: I can't add new bank account or changing existing?

texts:
Ok I recently closed my bank account and opened a new one that has the same routing number but different account number. Apple tried to make a payment to my account but it was declined because it's closed and I got a notification.

I need to add the new correct number but there is no option to in the Banking/contracts section of iTunes - and I cant change the number on my existing account here:

What do I do to update the bank account number?


texts: Export only edited photos from iPhoto '11?

texts:
On my Mac, suppose I imported a 200 photos.  I edited 87 of them.  How do I quickly export just the edited 87 photos?  Imagine that I don't remember which photos I edited.

If exporting edited photos is not possible, is there some way to search for edited photos?


texts:
Every app that I use, the speakers hardly put out sound even when set to full volume full blast. I went into sound settings and made sure the volume was up all the way and it sounds like it is on a mid-low volume.

It is a 2018 15" Macbook Pro running OS Mojave.


texts: "Wi-Fi" process in OSX El Capitan uses a lot of CPU

texts: "Wi-Fi" process takes a lot of CPU almost all the time. Why is it happening, and how to fix it?


texts: Mac El Capitan Spotlight XPC Connection Invalidated

texts:
I first started using El Capitan when the public beta was released. I continued to enjoy the snapping operating system until one day my laptop's SATA cable decided to give up on me. I got the cable replaced and then ended up having to reformat everything and restart over. That's when I made the decision of moving from the public beta to the official release, because I had been facing minor bluetooth connectivity issues. Ever since then, my computer has been horrible slow, freezing every 4 - 5 minutes for 20 - 30 second durations. I believe this is also called "beach-balling". Anyhow, I started to notice that every time my computer freezes, there is a "Spotlight: XPC Connection Invalidated" error in my console. Every single time. That can't be any coincidence. I've also managed to do some google searches and many people seem to face this problem. However, no one has been able to fix the problem.

These are my final days of IB, meaning I need to be submitting my final documents soon and I really need this computer to be working. I hope somebody out here can help me, I'd be more than willing to conduct any debugging tests and providing any information that can help.

Edit:

DriveDX Log:

Advanced SMART Status                : FAILING
Overall Health Rating                : AVERAGE 53.3%
Overall Performance Rating           : AVERAGE 53.3%
Issues found                         : 3
=== PROBLEMS SUMMARY ===
Failed Indicators (life-span / pre-fail)  : 0 (0 / 0)
Failing Indicators (life-span / pre-fail) : 1 (0 / 1)
Warnings (life-span / pre-fail)           : 2 (2 / 0)
Recently failed Self-tests (Short / Full) : 0 (0 / 0)
I/O Errors Count                          : 0 (0 / 0)
Time in Under temperature                 : 0 minutes
Time in Over temperature                  : 0 minutes


texts: Can a PowerBook or MacBook be configured to automatically wake when power is connected?

texts:
I'm looking to turn an old Mac laptop into a "car-puter". However, I don't want to drain the battery on either the laptop or the car. Is there a way to configure it so that the computer automatically wakes up when plugged into power? (I know that it can be woken via ethernet, but I don't know how I can turn that to my advantage.)

My specific use case is a late-model PowerBook G4 running 10.5, but I'm also curious about whether this can be done with other models or OS versions. Thanks!


texts: How to connect two non-Thunderbolt displays to the Macbook Pro 2011 via Thunderbolt?

texts:
I have the VGA and HDMI adapters for my Macbook Pro 2011, but can only connect one display at a time - neither adapter has a female Thunderbolt connector to act as a passthrough.

My understanding is that I can use two Apple Thunderbolt displays by daisy chaining them and have three displays - the native notebook display, and two Thunderbolt displays - at once.

Is there a way to connect two non-Thunderbolt displays to the laptop, via a splitter, or some sort of Thunderbolt cable or adapter?
If I buy one Thunderbolt display, can I then use the VGA or HDMI Thunderbolt adapter daisy-chained off that display to drive a non-Thunderbolt display and have three monitors that way?


texts: What's a good place online to sell a used Mac?

texts:
Where can I buy or sell a used iMac online?

EDIT:

I have a 21.5" iMac (Core 2 Duo, late 2009) and a MacBook which is about two months old. I'd like to sell both and upgrade.


texts: We have 2 iPads, 2 iPhones and 1 Apple ID. How can I add the 2nd iPhone number? Would like to have my iPad FaceTime & messages associated with my iPhone; my husband's iPad FaceTime & messages associated with his iPad.


texts: Reconciling Chrome Shortcuts in Parallels

texts:
On OS X, a new Chrome tab can be opened by pressing Cmd+T, but on Windows you press Ctrl+T. This works fine if you map Cmd to Ctrl in Parallels, but becomes problematic when cycling between tabs.

In Windows Ctrl+Tab advances to the next tab, but in OS X Cmd+Tab switches between applications. As a result I am constantly context-switching for Chrome between OS X and Windows in Parallels. Furthermore, I have to move a finger to the Ctrl key to cycle between tabs on OS X.

Is there a recommended way to reconcile these differences so that I can preferably cycle between tabs with Cmd+Tab without ruining other key combinations?


texts: SSH private key password never removed with Keychain/ssh-agent

texts:
I have an SSH private key with password, and I'm able to add it to KeyChain/ssh-agent and have the password automatically used without having to enter it.
Now I'd like to add one more thing: I want keychain/ssh-agent to forget (or lock) the password after a certain time elapsed or the screen is locked.

What I'm experiencing (on Mac OS X 10.9.5), is that even if I set my "login" keychain to "lock after sleep", and I wake up the laptop from sleep, and the keychain is still locked, ssh (through ssh-agent?) is still
able to retrieve the password without asking me to unlock the keychain.

Note that the password is added to the keychain 'automatically' when I run ssh the first time - I'm not typing ssh-add on the command line, thus I prefer to not use ssh-add -t TIMEOUT explicitly.

Is there anyway to make it forget/lock the password?


texts: Clean up the InstallerSandboxes directory

texts: I have the usual problem, the disk of my macbook is full. I have tried what people say, like empty the bin, restart in safe mode but none of that works. So I've ran a perl script with sudo which adds up file sizes and I found that the InstallerSandboxes folder is eating up most of my space. (It can be found on multiple locations, I suppose it's hardlinked.) It has a .PKInstallSandboxManager subdirectory which contains 4 subdirectories with names in format: SOME-UUID.activeSandbox they all have huge sizes: 16.42 GB, 18.72 GB, 18.76 GB and 29.27 GB, that adds up to 83.19 GB. All of them contain a Root/Application/Xcode.app so I suppose they are all related to Xcode which is installed and I have an /Application/Xcode.app too. I don't suppose all 4 of them is in use, how can I get rid of the three that is not in use?


texts:
I'm trying to install rosetta 2 via command line, using this command:
/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Source: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/installing-rosetta-2-on-apple-silicon-macs/
The problem:
I'm receiving this error:
softwareupdate[981:12251] Package Authoring Error: 001-79711: Package reference com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto is missing installKBytes attribute

Terminal screenshot:

The question:
How can I get rid of this error and install rosetta 2 properly?


texts: Reloading Input Methods without logging out and logging back in

texts: I am developing a custom input method with InputMethodKit and playing around with the NumberInput sample that Apple has provided. However, everytime when I wanted to build and deploy the changes, I would first have to delete the existing NumberInput.app under /Library/Input Methods (which could only be done forcefully), drag the new one in, and log out and log back in so that the Input Sources tab inside System Preferences would have recognize the changes. Is there any command or trick such that it can trigger the system to reload the installed input methods without logging out and logging back in?


texts: Templates folder on mac equivalent to in Ubuntu

texts:
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Mac, but miss the templates folder. I've googled and surprisingly can't find anyone else asking about this. Is there a way to create an equivalent on Mac?

If you're not familiar with Ubuntu, this isn't the same as just creating a folder, I require being able to right-click in any finder/desktop location and have a Templates selection (like New Folder) drop-down, which offers to place any of your pre-configured templates in that location.

This is useful, for example, for creating readme.md files.


texts: MacBook Pro suddenly does not boot and acts very strange

texts:
Suddenly when booting up my MacBook Pro I got the message in the image  It restarted by itself a couple of times giving the same crash message. Then it wouldn't boot at all. It would just go black midways through the boot progress bar.

After 10 attempts of hard shutdown and reboot it went into the login screen. I logged in successfully but started giving all sorts of strange error messages, as if the hard drive was read only, and went extremely slow. It took a really long time to even launch a Finder window, a Terminal or the Activity Monitor. The hard drive is SSD by the way.

I managed to restart, then got the login screen again but wouldn't accept my password! From that point and on, whenever I try to boot, I usually reach the login screen but my account has disappeared! Only the "guest" account is present, which I haven't enabled as far as I know. So I can't login, but even typing into the password prompt has huge lags, it's going really slow. Sometimes I get the initial crash screen too (that's how I managed to take the picture attached).

I tried booting with the D option to perform the hardware test. I performed an extended hardware test but no problems were reported.

I also booted with the Alt option to run the Disk Utility to check the hard drive. It didn't report any problems.

Any idea what could be wrong?


texts: Replaced hard drive in iMac, have time machine back up but no installation discs

texts:
The hard drive in my 2008  24" iMac failed, I have a current time machine back up but I have lost my installation disks.

I do have installation disks for my 2010 27" iMac, but I suppose these would not work.

Any idea what I need to get my 24" iMac working?


texts: Safe to Delete Keynote Cache under /Library/Container/com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Library/Caches

texts:
While the question "is it safe to delete /Library/Caches" is commonly seen, OSX also has another path for storing caches (not sym link). Keynote has another cache stored at /Library/Container/com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Library/Caches. In particular, a subfolder named DocumentCaches store a some of my slides created in keynotes.

Is it safe to delete this folder?


texts: Unable to install OS X Lion on Macbook Pro's new internal HDD

texts:
The model I'm working with is a Macbook Pro A1278, Early 2011 design. This belongs to a friend, whose current drive, a 500GB SATA III which came with the laptop, was shown to be in poor health, having a lot of bad sectors.
First off, this drive still works; I have managed to reformat and do a clean install of Lion with no issues. However, problems arise when I tried to install it onto a new drive. This new drive is not an Apple drive, but to my understanding (from Googling), this should not matter.
When the new drive is installed internally, I couldn't even reformat the drive from Internet Recovery: I get an error in Disk Utility saying:

Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed

However, when I ran it as an external drive (using an enclosure via USB) and booted into Lion on the old drive (internally), I had no problem and could format the new drive. I even managed to install Lion on it, and it could boot as an external drive. But, after moving it into the laptop, it fails to boot. On the other hand, doing the exact same thing with the old, Apple-issued drive does work (i.e. install Lion on it as an external drive, and move it back inside).
I tried starting over anyway, erasing the new drive (by running it as an external drive, then moving it back into the laptop). Installing Lion again (tried twice, once via Internet Recovery, and again via the old drive's recovery partition, with no difference) gets to the end of the installation, where the log spits out these errors and keeps retrying:

Failed to move download assets into mutable product
Failed to verify InstallESD.dmg

From what I gather, that means the installer couldn't move the installation packages (in particular InstallESD.dmg) into the new drive. This happened with two drives: a 1TB and a 640GB, both also SATA III.
Finally, I also tried booting into the old drive externally, and attempted to format the new drive when it was installed as an internal drive, and got the error

Couldn't unmount disk

A (non-Apple) technician suspected a possibility it may be because the drives are too large, and therefore tried with another 500GB, but with no luck either.
I would deduce that this rules out the possibility that there is an issue with the SATA interface (and from what I understand, SATA III is backwards compatible, with either the motherboard or HDD running the older version anyway). Yet, something goes wrong when the system attempts to read the new drive as an internal drive (but is fine when reading as an external drive).
With all this in mind, the most plausible explanation I could think of is that the new drive doesn't work because it's not an Apple drive (perhaps missing some specific firmware or something), but this contradicts what I read on the internet, and also doesn't quite explain why the new disk can boot externally.
Any alternative explanation, or better yet, remedy, to this problem would be appreciated. Thanks!


texts: How can I know when new iOS updates are released?

texts: As a technician, I'd like to learn when an iOS update appears so I can prepare iTunes with all the recent restore images.  Any way to know that? or receive notifications when an new iOS update is released? (better if Apple official).


texts: Do web launch apps conform to Apple iOS App Store / Google Play App store

texts:
Does some know, if apps, which immediately after launch opens a system browser window, conform to App Store / Play Store guidelines?

Or does an app need to show a screen and wait for users to take action?


texts: Macbook Pro 2011 : After disabling the dGPU using Arch, normal boot hang halfway but working in safe boot

texts:
I have followed all the instructions provided at
MacBook Pro: How to disable discrete GPU permanently from EFI?
and I'm stuck at the following step:

  3.1 Move AMD / NVIDIA kext files to a backup directory

  Remove all the AMD (or NVIDIA, depending on your card) kext files in
  the Terminal in Recovery Console. Trying to remove them in Single User
  just gives sandbox errors, so don’t do it in Single User Mode! (the
  one that you boot with cmd+s).

  If you have FileVault, unlock it first.
  Boot into Recovery (cmd+r) directly. If it fails then repeat step 2 and retry (dGPU could get active again after
  booting into the os with AMD / NVIDIA kexts).
  Start Terminal (This commands are for AMD. If you have NVIDIA, change accordingly)

  diskutil cs list (find Logical Volume UUID: last item)
  diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume UUID (UUID: from previous command)
  cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
  mkdir AMD_Kexts
  mv System/Library/Extensions/AMD*.* AMD_Kexts/
  reboot

The Result is:

I'm using 2 hard disks, with no partition, a 120 Gb SSD for the system only and a 750 Gb drive for data. I actually don't understand the commands, I'm just following the instructions. After reboot it still hangs halfway.

Please, what should I do next?

Im using macbook pro 17" late 2011 with HD Graphics 3000/ AMD Radeon HD 6770M


texts: I can enter all my Exchange 2010 data and it looks like everything is fine, but my contacts, calendar, and mail are never loaded from the exchange server, and mail gives me errors ("The connection to the mail server failed") when trying to connect. Do I need to update iOS or change Exchange 2010 settings?


texts: Will my Office for windows license work for office on mac? I don't think it will, but I was just checking.


texts:
I have been using Time Machine to back up my school folders, on a My Passport, for 2 years now, I have never needed to restore files until now.

I opened it today to only find files from today. It says I have some 240ish GB used already, but I cant view anything older than today. I know I should have some PSD and CSW files on it.


texts: Admin authentication not working on Big Sur

texts:
Anything that I am trying to do that requires admin user access is failing. Whether it be moving an app to the trash or making a change to settings (app settings or system settings) it isn't working. The normal window pops up that has me enter my password but when I hit return or select the OK box on the auth window everything just greys out and nothing happens. If I'm deleting an app another box pops up showing progress but it just hangs. There appears to be no way to close the Enter your password to allow this. windows so I have several hanging on my desktop.
Has anyone seen this yet/know why its happening?


texts: How do I control the image display duration in the Mojave screensavers?

texts: How do I adjust the display duration of images used in the Mojave screensaver?


texts: How can I merge two Apple Mail databases?

texts:
A few years back I got a Mac Pro desktop to go alongside my MacBook Pro. I cloned the MacBook Pro user to the Mac Pro so everything would be the same. I've been using ChronoSync to make sure all the documents are the same on each machine.

However, regarding Apple Mail, cloning my account was big mistake because my Apple Mail rules were set up to "Move" certain messages to Mail folders that are "On My Mac". I did not realize that to "move" a message would involve deleting it from the IMAP server and only storing it on my local machine!

So now I have a situation where half of my mail is on the Mac Pro, and half of it is on the laptop. What I want to do is merge all the mail from the laptop into the desktop's Mail program so that any messages that were on one, but not the other, will be added in, but no duplicates will be created.

I've not been able to find any third-party software that can accomplish this nightmarish task. I also don't want to import the messages only to find out I've created duplicates of hundreds of thousands of messages, with no way to delete those duplicates.

Can anyone think of a good way to accomplish this goal? I'm open to any options. Maybe I could import the mail from both Apple Mails into a third-party mail program that has more robust tools for finding and removing duplicates, etc.? Then possibly migrate it back into Apple Mail post-merge?

I would appreciate any advice. I realize there may be multiple valid answers to this so I will try to upvote all viable answers and checkmark the most efficient solution.


texts:
The items in Firefox/Services menu disappeared after I restart my iMac, but not in every browser tab. For example, they are there and working correctly if the browser display the Help/Troubleshooting page (I'm not sure the name is the correct one, I have a localized version in Italian: "Aiuto/Risoluzione dei problemi").

If I actuate Firefox's refresh function, Services work properly until I close and reopen Firefox.

I tried to run Firefox with the option "-NSDebugServices com.apple.mail" getting the following messages:

Mail/New Email With Selection (com.apple.mail) is enabled in the services menu and disabled in the context menu, by the standard Services policy.
Mail/New Email To Address (com.apple.mail) is enabled in the services menu and disabled in the context menu, by the standard Services policy.
Mail/New Email To Address (com.apple.mail) is disqualified because its send and/or return types cannot be handled by the requestor ChildView 0x11b6e4680, gecko child 0x11ba56800, frame {{0, 0}, {1580, 1040}}.
Mail/New Email With Selection (com.apple.mail) is disqualified because its send and/or return types cannot be handled by the requestor ChildView 0x11b6e4680, gecko child 0x11ba56800, frame {{0, 0}, {1580, 1040}}.
GVA info: Successfully connected to the Intel plugin, offline Gen9
WebGL(0x12dc38000)::ForceLoseContext"

Please, do you have any idea how to fix my installation?

iMac Retina 5K Late 2015 -
OS X 10.11.6 -
Firefox 50.0.2

After the Firefox 50.1 release updated "The song remains the same"...

but:

Furthermore in other programs, where the Services menu works well, Internet related item like "Search with DuckDuckGo" opens Safari instead of my default browser Firefox (look at the icon near the menu text in the upper picture).


texts: I have an iPod Shuffle. Unfortunately, I formatted it using Windows Explorer and copied some songs to it, but it's not working now. What happened to it? Did the supporting programs get formatted? How can I recover it?


texts:
I Cannot link X11 xQuartz 2.7.1, no architecture amd64???????
I have a simple program that uses X11.  it runs fine in an old xcode on an Intel Mac.
But now I have a mac Mini M1 and xCode cannot find a xquartz amd64 architecture.
I have done a bunch of -L /usr/opt/X11   linker control lines  but still no go.
Any ideas?   The xQuartz documentation is mum about what architecture it supports!
I think it is finding the right library path as NOW it doesn't complain about not finding the entry points like XCreateWindow, instead it complains about the wrong architecture.
Thanks,
grg


texts: Macbook air taking long to boot up (Over 4 minutes)

texts:
My macbook air start up is acting weird.

I press start button,
I hear the apple sound and a blank grey screen appears
Then the apple logo shows on the grey screen with a loading circle below it.
Then a blue screen appears
and then the grey screen appears with the loading circle (the loading circle doesn't spin though.
Then the mouse appears on the grey screen
then the blue screen comes up
and then the login box with the desktop image.


texts: Why do I keep getting a request to install JDK on mid 2015 MacBook Pro

texts: After updating to  OS 10.13.1 I got messages to update JDK, I have gone to the website, downloaded then installed the update. I then have the website run a check to see if I have the latest update. The site says that I, indeed, have the latest. But every time I boot up the Mac I get the message to update.  I seem to recall this issue with an earlier update a couple of years back and don't remember how to resolve it.


texts: How can I make my Mac accept a user password of 8 characters?

texts:
I just unboxed my new MacBook Pro, running Yosemite 10.10.5. When I went through the setup procedure, it didn't ask me what password to use for my account, and just set it to that of my AppleID. (I only discovered that by trial and error.)

I now want to set my password to the same one that I use on the old Mac; but the password (eight characters, includes some digits, which BTW is also exactly true of my AppleID password) is rejected.

When I simply run passwd while logged in as myself, it fails saying:

  passwd: general failure

And when I run it as sudo passwd mike, it is more precise:

  passwd: Password change failed because password is too short.  Password change failed because password is too short.

(Yes, it says it twice.)

It also does this when I use 13-character password. It doesn't say how long a password it requires and I am not minded to determine this by trial and error.

How can I force my Mac to accept the password of my choice?


texts: Control the order of "My Media" in iMovie

texts:
When I add media to a project in iMovie, by clicking the down arrow at the top of the iMovie window, choosing a group of files, and choosing "import all", they don't add to the end of the long list of thumbnails of other media I already have added. Instead they seem to add to the list by the "created date", BUT they don't strictly even do that.
If I add three files named:
Graphic 1 (Created at 9:47 AM)
Graphic 2A (Created at 9:50 AM)
Graphic 2B (Created at 9:50 AM)
Graphic 2C (Created at 9:50 AM)
They import in the following order:
Graphic 2A
Graphic 1
Graphic 2C
Graphic 2B
MY projects have dozens of images, and when I add new items to the "my media" section they get inserted throughout the grid. I have to go hunting for each one. It doesn't appear that there is a setting to change the order, and I can't figure out how to manipulate the files to trick iMovie into keeping them in an order that makes sense. If I add a very old file, then it will show up at the very beginning of the grid, so I do believe the "created" date has something to do with it.


texts: Prevent Mission Control from rearranging open applications/windows

texts:
Mission Control is automatically putting latest focused window/app on bottom right of Mission Control screen and that operation completely mixes arrangement of other open apps. Because of this I always spend ~5 seconds to find window that I am looking for and I am unable to memorize position of each app.
Is there any way to prevent Mission Control to rearrange apps based on last focused item?
This is a screenshot of the behavior I'm speaking about:


texts: Can I find out who is currently using my Airport Express speakers, and kick them?

texts:
If I want to stream music to an AE when someone else is connected, I get a message "The speaker XXX is currently used by someone else".

Right now, both my flatmates are not connected to the AE but I still get that message - the AE seems to be stuck. It appears all I can do is unplug the unit and plug it in again.

Is there a way for me to kick the current user, or at least see who was last connected to it?


texts: Network problem isolated to this macbook air, where to look next?

texts:
Periodically, once or twice a day, I'll start to experience network issues (latency and dropped packets) on this one machine while I'm browsing:

Other machines on the same Linksys WRT54G wireless network continue to function normally
I've attempted shutting down all running programs that I can identify
I've attempted disabling and re-enabling the wireless connection and reconnecting to the network

The only thing that seems to fix it is restarting the machine. So that's what I keep doing.

My best guess is I have either have something running on the machine that I haven't identified causing this issue ... or ...?

Very open to any ideas on where to look or what types of things might cause this :)


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I bought an external drive several months ago but I haven't used it heavily until now. I discovered today that I forgot to exclude it from Time Machine, and so when I started adding tons of files to it today Time Machine complained that it didn't have enough space to back up.

I excluded the external drive, and it still won't backup. When I look in the Backup.backupdb file, I can see the folder for the external drive, but I can't remove it.

How can I recover that space so it can back up my main drive again?


texts: eMac G4 Recovery Mode with Windows Keyboard

texts: I recently acquired an eMac G4, but I did not get an Apple keyboard with it. I need to restore it to factory settings, but cannot access recovery mode with my Windows keyboard. I've tried Alt+R, Ctrl+R, and Start+R, but nothing. Is there any way to access recovery mode with a windows keyboard?


texts: Sync books from iBooks on Mac with iBooks on iPhone

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This task should be very easy to solve, but still, I can't do it.
I have downloaded a epub book, dragged it to iBooks app on Mac. Then I go to iTunes, click on iPhone and go to Books tab. I can see some books in Sync section, but they are different from those I see in iBooks app on Mac. No way to sync that single book with my iPhone.
So, my question is: what am I doing wrong? Is there any way to do that without killing virgin and summoning Devil? Because to me all this sync issues seem to be a black magic.


texts: El Capitan - Where to install application

texts: I'm developer and I'm providing my application with pkg installer. Before El Capitan, my installer was putting binaries to /usr/bin. With El Capitan I had to change it because of SIP, so now binaries go to /usr/local/bin. According to some reports /usr/local/bin is accessible only for sudoers, "regular" user can't access it. What should be the right location to install my application, so every user could access it?


texts: How can I change my Mac OS X Services to all be in english?

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I am not sure how this happened, but many of my services are now in, what I believe is spanish:

How do I change this back to English? My language in the Language & Text system pref is set to English where ever possible. I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8.


texts: Gatkeeper prevents Photos from importing Aperture Libary

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I am trying to open a 160GB Aperture Library with the Photos.app
The library can be opend with aperture w/o problems.
As soon as I start opening it with Photos, Gatekeeper starts checking the files.
This seems to take very long. I did let it running for a couple of hours and quit everything.

I tried to disable Gatekeeper with

sudo spctl --master-disable

But that didn't change a thing.
It still opens the dialog and start checking the files, with no progress:


texts: Identify why macOS prompts me for an admin password

texts:
I get this annoying dialog when I login on my mac as a standard user, and I don't know why it keeps asking for an admin password.

My question is if there is a way to find out which command/process or whatever is causing this dialog. Thanks in advance


texts: How can I mount an ext4 file system on OS X?

texts:
Is there a safe, stable application for reading from and writing to ext4 file systems on Mac OS X?

If not, what's the best way to access the contents of an ext4 file system on Mac OS X?


texts:
I  downloaded by accident the latest update by Apple, currently running 10.13.1.

I can't upgrade to 10.13.2 due to a problem with the GPU which makes it impossible to boot up.

Right now it's asking to restart in order to install it. Is there a way to stop the installer from running ?

I found the solution here

Can I delete /Library/Updates on EI Capitan


texts: What is a good world time app for Mac OS?

texts: Is there something like http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ or http://everytimezone.com/, but that could replace the default Mac OS time and sit in your menu bar?


texts: Is there a way to run a bash script everytime I print something?

texts:
I wanted to run a script that changes my background image whenever use the printer.

Is it possible? Is there a way to know when OS X is printing something?


texts:
I currently have have 692 IPA files on my Windows 7 machine, but only 598 IPA files actually in my Applications section of iTunes

I'm guessing this is a result of me pressing the wrong key when deleting apps, and not removing them from my machine (annoying how 'keep files' is always the default selection)

Is there anyway I can remove all of the files that aren't in applications, without having to manually check each one?


texts: How do I add drop shadow to text in iMovie?

texts:
I am trying to add a drop shadow effect to text in iMovie. The problem I'm encountering is that there doesn't appear to be a drop shadow setting and the effect is applied seemingly at random. All the sites I have found online refer to this as the outline effect, but it is a separate effect entirely. I have yet to find reference to how to manipulate the drop shadow on text in iMovie.

For example, here is what text looks like when using the "lower third" text template. It appears without a drop shadow, with no means of adding it. This is the type of text I want to add drop shadow to.

And here is text created using the "scrolling credits" text template. It appears with drop shadow, but if you edit the preset text it may or may not retain the drop shadow.

Where is the control for drop shadow?


texts: Change FileVault recovery key from institutional to personal recovery key

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Upon leaving my old job, I was given my old Mac which I've used for years and got attached to it, I realised it has an institutional recovery key but I'd like to change that to a personal recovery key so I can easily store somewhere safe.
Is this an easy process?


texts: How can I check if my MacBook Pro is shut down without turning it back on?

texts:
Sometimes I like to shut down my Macbook Pro (e.g. if I know I won't be using it for some time and I want to save battery).

Unfortuantely, I can't figure out any way to actually check that it's shut down when the lid is closed. There's no visible signal from the outside, and if I open up the lid, then due to (what I consider to be) a terrible design decision, it automatically turns back on. I then have to wait quite a few seconds before I can manually shut it back down again.

Is there a way I can either (a) see whether it's completely shut down without opening the lid, or (b) disable the automatic boot up upon opening the lid?


texts: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) shuts down unexpectedly

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My wife's MacBook Pro has begun shutting down unexpectedly, at seemingly random intervals. This started occurring after I (very carefully) upgraded the machine from 4 GB to 8 GB of RAM and replaced the old battery, which had reached the end of its life.

The shutdowns are instantaneous, while there is plenty of power left. It's as if the power button was held down. It has happened twice when a USB hard drive was connected, but that might have been a fluke. I haven't been able to consistently reproduce the issue.

Does anyone know how to debug this issue, like if there are any logs of unexpected shutdowns that might provide some clues as to what's going on? Any pointers greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the same machine was having a different issue with sleeping until I upped the RAM and changed the battery. This issue has since stopped happening.

Edit: The problem we're experiencing sounds very similar to this blog post.


texts: I upgraded to iOS 9 and now I am not receiving any calendar invites

texts:
I am not receiving any calendar invites after I did the iOS upgrade. In addition, when I add a calendar invite into my phone and add invitees, no one is receiving it

Can someone help please?

Thanks


texts: Macbook Pro 2014 doesn't recognize internal display

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro mid-2014 running macOS Catalina 10.15.3

A few years ago, I dropped it, and broke the screen, then bought a replacement screen and repaired it myself.  Until today, I had no problems with it (except for a minor bug, which I asked about in this question).

Today when I turned my mac on, the internal display does not turn on, but the two external monitors I use work fine.  The internal display is not shown in the display settings, nor in system information -> hardware.

What I've tried:

NVRAM reset
disconnecting the battery from the motherboard, and all cables that are connected to the internal display, then reconnecting
a full reinstall of the OS

I've also tried a plethora of other suggestions, but I don't think they are relevant.

After a bit of research, I suspect the "logic board" might be damaged, but I don't want to spend the money for replacement parts without being certain.

  What can I do to diagnose this problem? Is there anything else I can try?


texts: Checking for bad blocks without formatting

texts:
My Mac tends to pause every now then when preforming simple tasks such as right clicking, opening menus and typing (It actually just froze when I started typing this question.).

I've read in a few places that this may be due to bad disk blocks, and that the best way to fix this is to format and overwrite the whole disk with zeroes. Obviously, this takes time and will destroy any data I have on the disk. Is there a way to check for bad blocks without formatting the drive, or even remap the disk to ignore those blocks (ultimately fixing it)?

My Mac is pretty recent (Mac Mini late 2011), so I doubt it has anything to do with low memory or swappage.


texts: See all active clients with Airport Extreme/Express

texts: How can I see all (active) clients on my Airport Extreme. I can’t find such option in the current Airport Utility.


texts:
After visiting this page:
http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-getting-started-guide-for-mac-os-x/

I don't know if my MacBook Pro is suitable for CUDA developement. After About This Mac I see this:

It does not seems to be a graphic card in this list:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

But I asked several times before buying this machine if it is capable for gpu stuffs. And I can correctly runs program that uses shaders. And, more important, I have installed CUDA driver and toolkit and they doesn't seems to give any error. But If I try to compile manually something with CUDA.. it doesn't work.


texts: Video from Thunderbolt Display FaceTime camera stops working in Catalina

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I've started noticing this since the pandemic started: I'll launch FaceTime or Zoom with my MacBook Pro 2018 in closed-clamshell mode, connected to my Thunderbolt Display, and there will be no video coming from the TD's FaceTime camera. The camera is definitely recognized, and the green LED is lit. The only solution I've found is to restart my computer.
Although I'm not sure whether this problem is limited to the TD's FaceTime camera (I'll have to test), has anyone else seen this problem? Is it a bug?


texts:
This may be obvious but I have attempted to boot from a bootable USB on my MacBook Pro (2011, running Lion 10.7.5), the USB does boot but fails to finish the full boot process (it is a Ubuntu derived bootable linux USB).

In terms of what happens during boot, well it goes to the grub options and after selecting, it will start to boot, get to a certain point and then "stop" and hang with nothing on the screen.

I have used this same USB to boot into other, newer MacBooks with success.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

NOTE: The usb is formatted FAT32


texts:
I have managed to make the sudoers file on my Mac erorr.
eg.

$ sudo visudo
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 45 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 45
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

So, I went and got the standard sudoers file from here, logged in as root and copied it from Documents to /etc.....but still no joy.

If I try to run 'visudo' using root it fires up Sublime Text and I see a blank sudoers.tmp which I understand is the lock file.

If I try and copy the contents of the downloaded sudoers file into sudoers.tmp using Sublime I get the above error.

So, does anyone have a solution to this?
What should I see when I run the 'visudo' command, Sublime Text and sudoers.tmp?

many thanks,
George


texts: Apple wireless keyboard without num keypad

texts:
Does anyone know how to delete line breaks after text please?
I used to place the cursor after the last letter or symbol, take the page down to the bottom, and on the numeric keypad, hold down the delete key until the line breaks disappeared.
I've tried fn and backspace, but that doesn't take out the line breaks.


texts: Renaming/Deleting User Subfolders (Documents, Pictures...)

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I want to move my User/{Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, Pictures} folders to an external SSD. I will do this via copying the folders to the SSD, and creating symlinks on User/ to each of them. For this I need to rename the original folders and later delete them.

I have tried via Finder, terminal (sudo), Apple Support, however I see no way to either delete them nor rename them.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks


texts: Synology NAS offer both AFP and SMB2, Mavericks always choose AFP

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I have to keep AFP running for my TimeMachine backups, but would like my file shares to use SMB2 because it is much faster (better than double write speed in my tests).

Is there a way to make Mavericks use smb2 for file shares first?

UPDATE:
The NAS shows up in my shared drive list in finder, from there the shares are clicked on and auto mounted. When SMB2 only is turned on the drives auto mount as SMB2, when AFP is also turned on the drives only auto mount as AFP.


texts: Lost my APFS partition after using EaseUS partition manager on Bootcamp


texts: Recover files from one volume to another on the same Drobo?

texts:
One evening we had a momentary power outage, causing sudden shutdown for my Mac mini and the attached Drobo (4 bay). When the system came back up, only one of the two volumes mounted on the desktop. The primary 2 TB volume is of course the one that didn't come up. But the Drobo shows no errors or problems with the unit.

Disk First Aid, er... I mean Disk Utility can see that there's supposed to be a volume there (HFS+/Journaled) but cannot mount it. Using the Repair function leaves me with two error messages after 3 hours: "Incorrect Number of Thread Records" and "Invalid Node Structure". Running fsck_hfs -ypr on the drive gives the same message as Disk Utility.

Disk Warrior wouldn't touch the volumes, but Data Rescue 3 trial version can see it and has also recovered a file from it.

Can I safely recover the files from the first volume into the second volume on the same Drobo?


texts: How is "--" changed to "—" within Mail, TextEdit…?

texts:
I just incidentally discovered that within Mail, TextEdit when typing two dashes in a row, the string "--" is instantaneously changed to "—" (i.e. a long dash).

This magic is mostly loathsome when you need to type exactly "--",
you didn't notice this magic and wasted hours searching why a correct syntax isn't where you typed it. With small fonts this magic change is hard to notice.

This function doesn't exist on Lion and Mountain Lion.

This magic but as unwanted as ununderstood feature raises 3 questions.

Where is this function configured?

How may I get rid of it?

Is this magic useful?


texts: Does Mail have to be open for Notification Center to work in Mountain Lion?

texts: I upgraded to Mountain Lion and thought the Notification Center would be quite handy, however I've had a look around the web and it seems to me that emails only appear in notification center while the Mail app is open, or after it has been opened. Is this true, and is there no way around it? Surely the notification center must be able to check for new emails on its own, otherwise would the mail feature not be near enough useless?


texts: How to backup an iPhone, and restore it, with no side effects?

texts:
I need to restore my iPhone in order for my phone's carrier unlock to go through. What is the best method to do this?

At the end of the restore process, I want the phone to be exactly the same as it was before the restore process (i.e. apps, app data, pictures, etc. should all be restored), without any unintended side effects (I will get to this in a moment). It's okay if minor things are different, such as having to reenter usernames and passwords, but all the apps/data must be restored.

It's my understanding that the simplest solution is to create an iCloud backup (assuming you have enough space), erase the phone, then restore from iCloud. Although I will have to wait for all the apps to be redownloaded, this will preserve everything on my phone, and not have any unintended side effects.

The problem is that I have more data on my phone than can be backed up to iCloud using the free account (5GB), so I am looking for an alternative solution.

By unintended side effects, I am referring to something that changes and may cause me trouble in the future. For example, if I recall correctly, when I choose to sync a phone to a particular computer, it will forever be tied with that computer, and I will not be able to sync with another one unless I erase all of the data first. I don't want this. This violates my requirement that everything be the same as it was before the restore, because now my phone is locked to a computer, a side effect I clearly didn't have before I started the restore process.

In your solution, please list any shortcomings and/or side effects that might arise.


texts: photo transfer from ipad 2 to windows xp laptop

texts:
how can i transfer photos from iPad 2 to Windows XP laptop?
I tried all searches related to my problem but no use.
None of the windows office can connect to ipad 2 and the ipad 2 does not trust on windows xp


texts: How can I reduce the 70 GB of storage that is classified as system space on my MacBook?

texts: Am using Mac Book Pro 2017 model 128 GB.Am using ios development purpose. but some time memory management alert. Here my mac using system space above 70 GB. How can i reduce my system space.


texts: Why is my Mac able to write to my NTFS hard drive?

texts:
My question is one of confusion.  All over the internet I have seen people looking for the ability to use a Mac to write to NTFS, or people formatting drives to FAT32 so that their Mac can share a storage drive with a PC.

I am experiencing the opposite effect.

I recently hooked up a Western Digital (WD) My Book 3 Terabyte drive to my network.  I connected both my PC and my Macbook Pro to it.  The Mac put a bunch of hidden folders on the drive, and my PC added it's own shared files.  The drive, from the perspective of the PC says the drive file format is NTFS.  I am able to access the shared drive as a Guest, from my Mac, and I can view all the files, add files (I added a picture) and pull music off the drive, and play it.

I don't have a problem with this, but I'm wondering how this is possible?

I have made 1 attempt to back-up on the network drive using Time Machine.  It was too slow over the wi-fi so I canceled, but it didn't come up with any pop-ups that said the back-up was failing.

Because it's a network drive, is there some kind of conversion going on?  I haven't installed any programs to write to NTFS on my Mac.

I would also like to know if I am damaging the Network drive in any way by using both the MAC and PC on it.

Note:  My MacBook Pro does not see the Network drive as a Hard Drive, and I cannot use the Disc Utility to format it.  It only sees it as a shared drive in the Network.


texts: Totally bricked MacBook Pro 2011 A1286 - No recovery. What can I do?

texts:
I think my MacBook Pro is badly, badly bricked. Model is a1286

It's a really weird story.

This MacBook Pro had 2 partitions, one with Lion and the other was Windows but not accessible becouse was corrupted (if you tried to boot this partition, it would just show black screen and nothing happened).

BTW Lion was slow so I made a bootable USB and entered the recovery to do a fresh install of a new High Sierra system and I just erased the content of the Macintosh partition (the one targed Bootcamp was locked and didn't allowed me to erase).

It was ready to install a new system, but the bootable USB I made with High Sierra was not seen in the boot menu, that I entered pressing alt when powering on.

So I read in a forum that doing NVRAM reset could help, so I did, but the result was terrible.

Black screen and can't access to recovery or boot menu anymore.

I tried everything. I've also opened, and tried disconnecting the battery and the RAM and reconnecting them to see if changed something but nothing.  Or powering up without the battery only with the power supply. Also tried to replace the HDD with another one formatted in HFS+ but nothing.

Now it just shows a black screen and does not recognize the commands.

If it can matter, the sound card is faulty and I used it with a USB one.

I've tried:

Recovery pressing command + R
Recovery pressing alt +  command + R
Boot menu pressing alt
Nvram reset pressing alt + command + p + r
SMC reset pressing shift + Alt + ctrl + power for 10/12 sec

The light of the USB bootable drive is always flickering when connected, but doesn't show nothing on screen.

Did I just destroy it?


texts:
I'm running Mojave on a Macbook Pro. A while ago, my screen started randomly scrolling down by itself while I was using Safari, and the problem persisted for a few seconds. The scrolling seemed almost human, so I decided to check my system logs and found the following information:

Jul 13 20:20:19 MacbookPro1 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Jul 13 20:20:41 MacbookPro1 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preferences.sharing.remoteservice[8320]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by com.apple.preferences.sharing.re[8320]
Jul 13 20:20:52 MacbookPro1 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Jul 13 20:20:54 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

I'm not very experienced in reading system logs, but it seems that the sharing.remoteservice that was SIGKILLed might be relevant here. I found a blog post that seems to indicate that the combination of the sharing.re line and the SIGKILL line is indicative of a remote access.

I had file sharing, screen sharing, etc. all turned off, but bluetooth was on. My firewall was also off.

From these logs and the scrolling behavior I described, does it seem like someone had unauthorized accessed my computer? If so, what should my next steps be?


texts: How to use the balance on your apple account in app store?

texts:
Recently I won a $10.00 gift card which I redeemed on Apple iTunes. So now when I open iTunes, to the left of my apple id, I see a $10.00 balance. My problem is that if I try to purchase an app, it asks me to enter my credit card information.

On the form where I am supposed to fill my credit card information, there's a link which says to redeem your gift card click here. Unfortunately, if I try to enter the code of the gift (mentioned at the beginning of this post) it says that the gift card has been already redeemed.

I guess that means that the amount of the gift card has already been credited to my account (as it shows to the left of my apple id on the iTunes program). The question is: how do I spend this balance?


texts: Windows Get Stuck in Top Left corner after upgrading to Mavericks

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I upgraded to Mavericks last week. I have a secondary monitor, and I use Spaces. Since the upgrade, I have a frequent problem where windows will get stuck partially exposed in the top left corner of the screen, under the finder bar. I can drag it to the right, but it automatically snaps back into the upper left.

The close, minimize, and zoom buttons are all off-screen. If the window is on my right monitor (which is the main display), the missing corner doesn't show up on my left monitor.

If I zoom (maximize) the window using a keyboard shortcut or the Window menu in the Finder bar, the window simply disappears off of my screen, seeming to slide upward, even though I have no spaces or displays "above" the one I'm working in.

If I go to Mission Control (Ctrl + Up), then the window appears there as partially out of the space.

This has happened to three separate applications so far (Chrome, Outlook, and Remote Desktop), so I'm pretty sure it's not application-specific.

If I quit the application (sometimes I have to force quit), the problem goes away, but it keeps happening. It seems to occur when I switch to the application after working in another.


texts: No touchbar detected on Macbook Pro 15 2017 after replacing cable

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Okay so I don't have an official Apple store in my country and my keyboard and batteries were giving me trouble. During the replacement process, as I was taking out my original keyboard, I slightly cut the JC02 AMS983 flex cable that connects the logic board to the Touchbar display. I was devastated.
But I got a replacement online (the one that says A1707) and ordered 3 of them just in case one was faulty. However, where I had still been getting the Touchbar options in settings with the broken cable connected, I now have no options related to the Touchbar on my Mac. The software seems to think that this is a Macbook without the touchbar. I even tried switching to another new cable but still no luck. What could be going wrong and how can I fix this? I have three replacement cables and they look identical to the original and even have the same part number.
Could there be some sort of system integrity protection at play, blocking the new part since it wasn't installed by Apple? I have already tried resetting SMC and NVRAM etc. and starting in Safe Boot mode and running First Aid on my disk.

TLDR:
Accidentally cut my Touchbar display cable, after replacement Mac OS seems to think this is a Mac that shipped without the touchbar. Help? Going to Apple is not possible in my country.
Edit:
Just found this proof of Mac trying to communicate with the Touchbar display in the Console app. The touchbar was working flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as it worked out of the box) before I snipped the cable. Perhaps this could hint at something:


texts: How do I mark all podcast episodes as played in iOS10?

texts:
I tried looking this up but there are only examples for previous versions of iOS where there was an option in the podcast settings called "mark all as played".

This option is not there anymore. Is it gone forever?


texts:
I have an issue where a book of mine doesn't seem to want to download at all. I purchased the book from the iBooks store. At a couple points in the past the specific book in question was deleted off my iPad for some reason. However I was able to both times go to my purchases and re-download it on the iPad and iPhone and my reading position was even preserved.

However on my Mac, it appears to be in an inconsistent state. The book shows up as not being downloaded at all.

so then I try and download it and it appears to download 99.99% of the book, but then quickly shows this dialog

When I look in the downloads folder for iBooks it appears to be mostly (if not all) there, but I keep consistently getting that dialog every time I try and re-download the book.

Since this is from the iBooks store and iBooks thinks its not downloaded, it appears to disable deleting the book (for some reason.) So I can't just delete it and then re-download it. Has anybody encountered anything like this and have any suggestions for how to finally get iBooks to re-download this book in its entirety? I think I should probably also file a radar with Apple asking for the ability to delete books in this state (if it isn't a bug.) Thanks.


texts: How can I remap the left keypad keys of a Kinesis Freestyle keyboard on macOS Sierra?

texts:
I have a PC version of the USB Kinesis Freestyle keyboard. It've used these keyboards for years with my Macs and they work very well for me, but I have never used the block of keys along the left-hand side.

The back/fwd keys in particular would be ripe for use to control iTunes, but the problem is that pressing them generates ⌘-arrow key sequences, and remapping ⌘-arrow sequences would cause problems in applications that use ⌘-arrow keys for editing functions.

Is there a way to change the character sequence that the Kinesis keyboard generates?


texts: Why does my iTunes play count indicate certain tracks have been listened to hundreds of times when I've only played them a few times?

texts: My iTunes play count is indicating that I have played certain tracks hundreds of times which is incorrect as I have only played these tracks 10 or 15 times. It also seems to have done so only with one or two artists and on a couple occassions where they have recorded the same song. Why does this happen and can it be corrected?


texts: Mac keeps SMB files/session open, locking files

texts:
This is very frustrating. I open a Windows SMB share like this:

After closing the window, my Mac kept folder/files open and I had to close the SMB session from the server.

How do I just close all open SMB sessions on my Mac?


texts: Fast way to select and delete all photos on an iPhone?

texts:
One way to delete all photos from an iPhone is to go to the bottom photos in an album, tap 'Select' in the top right of screen, press the bottom right photo and without lifting your finger, move your finger to the top left of screen, where it will continue to scroll up while selecting photos.
The problem is, this selects photos at a rate of about 200 photos per 10 seconds. I have 25,000 photos, so I will need to sit there holding my finger in exactly the right place for 20 minutes.
How can I delete all photos from an iPhone album quickly and efficiently? (i.e. immediately)


texts: How do I search for screenshots of the lock and home screen on Apple Photos for Mac?

texts:
I would like to optimize my photo library by deleting screenshots of my of home screen and lock screen.
I use screenshots quite a bit for work, so looking through all of my screenshots would be quite tedious.
Is there a way to search for these screenshots on Apple Photos?


texts: Time Machine is Determined to Delete Old Backups to Make Space it Doesn't Need

texts:
Okay, so my machine suffered a power loss this morning, and when Time Machine went to back-up it seems to have decided it can't trust the usual event log that it uses:

02/10/2014 14:56:43.351 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

It then proceeds to do a deep-scan, which is understandable I suppose.

02/10/2014 14:56:43.428 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
02/10/2014 15:04:58.809 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Finished scan
02/10/2014 15:10:53.693 com.apple.backupd[63107]: Found 402101 files (1.8 TB) needing backup
02/10/2014 15:10:53.747 com.apple.backupd[63107]: 2.16 TB required (including padding), 1.04 TB available

However, the required space estimate is far too high; my back-up volume's total size is only 3tb, and the total data on Macintosh HD is around 2tb, this means that if I let Time Machine continue to run it's going to delete all of my backup history and then fail with a warning that it can't backup because there isn't enough space.

This is clearly wrong however, as the back-ups on the disk are valid, and should be matching most of the files found on Macintosh HD.

Is there a way I can get Time Machine to recognise this and adjust its estimate accordingly? If not then I'm going to have to start fresh with a new back-up, but that will take days to get up to date again!

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I've just tried using tmutil associatedisk -a and tmutil inheritbackup to no avail, after an even longer deep scan it just starts trying to discard old backups again.


texts: Is it possible for each of my iDevices to have its own iCloud backup?

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But I would still like for all the devices to share a single iTunes account, so that

I only buy an app once
I want to be able to log into Find my iPhone with my main iTunes account and still see all my other devices.


texts: iOS weather widget that displays two locations

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Is there an iOS weather widget (for the lock screen) that displays the forecast for two locations at the same time? I'd like to be able to see the weather at home and at my work or other destination at a glance.

It should show at least today's forecasted high, low, and precipitation. I happen to live in Oakland, CA, and work in San Francisco, which are close to each other but have significantly different microclimates, if that's helpful.

(I'm aware that I can download multiple apps and use a different app's widget for each location, but i'd like to use the same app for both locations)


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How do I find the route for a specific IPv6 address?

For IPv4 I can do:

$ route -n get 1.1.1.1
   route to: 1.1.1.1
destination: 1.1.1.1
  interface: utun1
      flags: <UP,HOST,DONE,WASCLONED,IFSCOPE,IFREF>
 recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire
       0         0         0         0         0         0      1420         0

But for IPv6:

$ route -n get 2606:4700:4700::1111
route: bad address: 2606:4700:4700::1111


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when I run the command airport, it tells me it is sniffing:

Sniffing on channel 1:
    airport en1 sniff 1

I have noticed that many log files are created in /private/tmp

There may be some bad actor that has done this to my mac.

How can I disable airport from sniffing?

I killed it using its PID, but it starts again.


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I have a MacBook Air (April 2013) and a new Apple TV.
Mirroring of the desktop is alright if I disable my TV's post-processing of the image.
But If I start a video (VLC or Netflix for example), the quality is not very good. The framerate is too low and the sound is out of synch.

If I use the App Beamer, the image quality is great. Running Netflix natively on Apple TV works also great. My guess is, that Beamer streams the video file directly to Apple TV and that mirroring is slower, because the MacBook has to encode the image on the fly. Hence the low frame rate and delay (the video is also much smoother if I change the resolution down to 720p, but still not watchable for a movie).

Right now the situation is ok, because I can watch Netflix natively and stream files via Beamer. But this is not what I expected from Apple TV.

I didn't expect to play the newest action games like this, but stream videos to it in decent quality (YouTube, IMDb etc.) without using some native App on Apple TV.

Can I somehow improve this? Am I right that the bottleneck is the encoding of the MacBook? Can I improve this by disabling the MacBooks monitor or something?

EDIT:
An employee at an Apple certified store told me this is definitely my router. My housemate bought a TimeCapsule. This did not help a bit. I already guessed that the employee just didn't want to admit he sold me something I didn't want. I'll probably sell AppleTV now, but I'd still be interested in answers though.


texts: How can I improve/replace View Source in Safari?

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As a new convert to Safari, I am astonished by how unbearably ugly default page source view is.
The font is miserably small and unaliased, leave alone color highlighting.

Is there a way to enhance Safari's View Source feature or seamlessly replace it?

I'm looking for:

reasonable default font, customizable is better;
basic HTML/JS syntax highlighting;
working on Lion.

Please refrain from suggesting viewing source with Web Inspector: it is nice but isn't convenient for quick source browsing.


texts: How do I reset my MacBook Pro to factory settings without the original install disc?

texts: I am selling my MacBook Pro and want to totally factory reset it so none of my things pop up. How do i do this without the disc?


texts: Clear recent locations in Calendar (macOS)

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I moved to a new address (it's almost one year). Every time I add an event at my address (by entering my name in the location) I still get the old one as primary suggestion (although my address is updated in the contacts).

How do I clear the Recent Locations?