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Why are there no small torrent trackers for Mac? I want to share some things privately with a couple of people. I've tried a webserver, which works, but there is no indication on my end that any transfer is taking place. I'd like to be able to run a server, seed a torrent with a client so I can see upload activity, and share the torrent with select people.

uTorrent for Windows has an embedded tracker feature, but it is not present for Mac.


texts: Dual boot on macbook pro 2015 (macOS Sierra and Kali Linux)

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I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with macOS Sierra.

For the installation, I have followed this guide: Installing dual boot Sierra and Kali-Linux but at the end, when I go to part 3 I see only the Mac Hardisk and no other available selection.

Someone have any solution?


texts: MacBook keeps connecting to guest network (Airport)

texts: Every time I open my MacBook Pro (restart or from sleep) it is always connected to my Guest Network. I have to manually connect to my regular network in order to access my other apple devices and use airplay. I connect via an Airport time capsule.


texts: Restore backup from iPhone SE (iOS 13.4.1) to iPhone 6 (iOS 12.4.6)

texts:
Got two iPhones:

iPhone SE on 13.4.1
iPhone 6 on 12.4.6

As far as I understand, both iOS versions are the latest ones for the respective model.

When trying to restore a backup from SE to 6, iTunes complains that the backup is not compatible and I should update the iPhone.

Kind of makes sense. To be honest, until yesterday I thought that iPhone 6 is newer than SE, but it seems that I was wrong there.

Is there a way to get "stuff" from SE to 6? In an ideal world, of course that would mean all apps and all data. But probably there is no sensible way to downgrade everything.

Would icould be able to serve as a "logical backup" for photos etc.?


texts: How do I enable AVB on Mac Catalina 10.15

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I am getting a message AVB is not enabled in my midi network device browser.
Apple Support:  Browse your network for an AVB device in Audio MIDI Setup on Mac
I am following this, however, on step 3,  that option doesn't exist.  Only automatic and manual are present, and in manual you have to enter a number.  There's nothing ABV related.


texts: Identify macOS Menu bar app - forking arrows icon

texts:
I follow some videos on macOS and notice this app icon in the Menu bar.

I am curious to learn more about the app and what purpose it serves. I may possibly be missing a great macOS app.


texts:
I was quite happy when I found out that Finder had native support, but it didn't take long until I realized it was read-only access.

What is the best free option for automatic ftp sync with finder? I am using El Capitan. I'm not interested in very much functionality, just the ability to edit files.


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I have connected an External hard disk to Mac and just issued command df -h in terminal. When I tried to eject drive it shows the error. After closing terminal, I could eject it. But is that really needed ? I didn't open any files in external disk. df -h just shows disk usage of all drives. Then how come terminal uses the drive and prevent from ejecting?

The disk “Vol” couldn’t be ejected because “Terminal” is using it


texts: MacBook Pro turns on after shutdown and lid is closed

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Last night I shutdown my macbook pro and closed its lid right away.
This morning I came to my working station and noticed that the screen it is connected to (via docking hub) is on with the login screen. What might be the problem?
The only things that caused this to happen that I can think of are:

I didn't fully wait for my mac to shutdown before closing its lid.
30 seconds before I entered my room there was a power shortage and maybe this "pinged" my mac.
I updated my mac yesterday night to the last version (11.3 (20E232)) that might have this bug.

What can be the cause of that and how to prevent this from happening?


texts: Does Apple allow buying a new phone through its website the day it's released?

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I am new to Apple and I am not sure how it does things with new phones, but I wanted to know if and when the next iPhone is released will it be made available on its website the day it's released?

I tried finding some info regarding this online but it's hard to get good information of when they updated their website and if it was made available on the same day.

If it is, I don't quite understand why people would line up and wait hours to get it or am I missing something?


texts: Requirements for App Store Review Video?

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Background:

When submitting an (iOS) application for review which has functionality depending on a specific hardware, Apple asks for a Video, demonstrating the feature(s).

  If we’re not able to access part of your app because it’s geo-locked or otherwise restricted, provide a link to a video of the functionality

(source)

The Question:

Are there any requirements or restrictions on this video?

(Examples: Can it be edited or should it be continuous? Can it be uploaded to a video sharing site or otherwise where should it be hosted? etc.).


texts: Is Cmd+F10 that mute the Mac a built-in OS X keyboard shortcut?

texts: I just discovered that the combination of Cmd+F10 (without any Fn key pressed) muted my mac. I wanted to know if it was a built-in keyboard shortcut as it does not appear in the System preferences.


texts: Modify terminal .command file to run on multiple files

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I have the arduous task of restoring an old fcp project and I hit a roadblock with a whole bunch of .mov files that were moved to a NAS which altered the resource map of the files (the resource fork apparently broke?!). I have to use FCP7 on a mac running OSX 10.10 and unfortunately this computer can't play the .mov files (VLC can play them fine.) I found online an old blog written by Florian Bogner in which he wrote a great terminal script that fixes the extended attributes of one file at a time. Can anyone suggest the best way to run this script on a folder of hundreds of .mov files?

Here is the script:

#!/bin/bash

clear
echo '   ____ _______ ______   ______            ______ _______   __'
echo '  / __ \__   __|____  | |  ____|   /\     |  ____|_   _\ \ / /'
echo ' | |  | | | |      / /  | |__     /  \    | |__    | |  \ V / '
echo ' | |  | | | |     / /   |  __|   / /\ \   |  __|   | |   > <  '
echo ' | |__| | | |    / /    | |____ / ____ \  | |     _| |_ / . \ '
echo '  \___\_\ |_|   /_/     |______/_/    \_\ |_|    |_____/_/ \_\'
echo ''
echo ''
echo 'This tool tries to fix the error message'
echo '  "Resource map is incorrect"'
echo 'as reported by Quicktime 7 based Applications.'
echo ''
echo 'Please drop the broken QT7 file into this window and press return:'

while read; do
    # trim the filename
    FILE=$(echo "$REPLY"| sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//')

    # check if the file exists
    if [ -f "$FILE" ]; then
        break
    else
        echo "Can't read this file. Please drop a valid one."
        echo "'$FILE'"
    fi
done

# check if there are EAs
echo ""
LINES=$(xattr -l "$FILE"|wc -l)

if [ "$LINES" -eq "0" ]; then
    echo "Can't fix this file"
    echo "There are no extended attributes associated."
    exit 1
fi

# now remove the EAs
echo ""
xattr -c "$FILE" &>/dev/null
echo "You can now open this file in QT7."

# create space
echo ""

Thanks to anyone that can assist me in this matter.
Cheers


texts: Is my computer infected by the Recycler virus?

texts: I installed Parallels Desktop for Mac and installed Windows 7. It seems like I loaded an infected file and now there are some $RECYCLER.bin folders around some places. Is this the Recycler virus? How can  I delete these files? Do I just delete the Parallels VM or do I have to do something else?


texts:
I have a mac mini, with two ssd, both internal. They worked fine for over a year.

The secondary (not system) ssd has just disappeared. While I was copying a folder on it, a popup appeared, saying it was not properly ejected.

Not even disk utility can see it any longer, even after a reboot. It contained many important files, I really need help.

Any advice?


texts: How to create "Drag to Applications Folder" in dmg?

texts:
I wrote a piece of software and I host it online as a downloadable dmg file. When the dmg is mounted, you can open it like a regular folder. The user then needs to drag the software from the dmg folder to their computer (their Desktop or the Applications folder)-- simply double clicking on the software executable while its inside the dmg does not work.
Many users do not read the install instructions. They tell me the software does not work, because they did not drag it onto their computer.
I have noticed that a lot of polished software comes as a downloadable dmg, but when you mount it the dmg, it specifically asks you to drag the software to your Applications folder, like in the image below.
How can I do this? I am currently using Disk Manager to create my dmgs.


texts: How can i toggle Caps Lock LED by a program

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Is there any way to toggle Caps Lock LED by a shell command or a script or a prgram on OSX 10.10?

All the solutions i goggled do not work on Yosemite.

I have mapped pressing Caps Lock to toggle keyboard layouts so i wanted to use the LED as an indicator of the present keyboard layout.


texts: What would happen if I changed my startup disk to a flash drive, then tried to turn on the computer without said flash drive plugged in?

texts: I'm experimenting with live USBs, and I'm curious what would happen. I mean setting this through System Preferences, not the Boot Manager.


texts: Is it possible to add a column in the list View in Finder, that displays the dimensions of image files ?


texts: iPhone configuation utility for Windows not working

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I am using the iPhone Configuration Utility 3.3 and I had an iPad plugged in - while trying to deploy a profile, the application just crashed.

After this, I attempted to launch it several times but it would just crash immediately.

I looked through the ipcu.log file and saw that it had problems with a cryptographic key. I used Microsoft/Sysinternals Process Monitor and tracked down the key it tried to open and deleted it.

After doing this, I reopened the utility and it recreated a key and launched fine.

From here, I can create profiles, but when I try to install them on a device, nothing happens at all on the device, but going in to the console view, I see the device reporting this:

Mon Aug  8 11:41:52 wils-iPod mc_mobile_tunnel[341] <Warning>: MC|mc_mobile_tunnel starting.
Mon Aug  8 11:41:52 wils-iPod profiled[313] <Warning>: MC|Failed to parse profile data. Error: NSError 0x116640:
Desc   : Invalid Profile
US Desc: Invalid Profile
Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
Code   : 1000
Type   : MCFatalError
Mon Aug  8 11:41:52 wils-iPod profiled[313] <Warning>: MC|Profile cannot be queued for installation. Error: NSError 0x112690:
Desc   : Invalid Profile
Sugg   : Invalid Profile
US Desc: Invalid Profile
US Sugg: Invalid Profile
Domain : MCInstallationErrorDomain
Code   : 4000
Type   : MCFatalError
...Underlying error:
NSError 0x116640:
Desc   : Invalid Profile
US Desc: Invalid Profile
Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
Code   : 1000
Type   : MCFatalError
Mon Aug  8 11:41:52 wils-iPod mc_mobile_tunnel[341] <Warning>: MC|mc_mobile_tunnel shutting down.

I have Googled for ages and seen other people suggesting deleting various folders including the iPhone Configuration Tools Cache, Device and other folders, but I have had no luck whatsoever.

I have run this tool on another machine with the same device and configuration profile and it works just fine. This is just on this one machine.

I have tried reinstalling without any luck and cannot find the file that it is trying to load. Based on the invalid profile warning, I have a hunch that it is still something related to cryptography/keys and profile signing, but, I just can't find it.


texts: Recommendations for note-taking app for Iphone that does NOT sync to the cloud

texts:
I am moderately happy with the current (iOS 8) Notes app in my Iphone, and specially with the fact that I can sync it locally to my PC using iTunes, without using iCloud. The only thing I'm really missing is the ability to organize notes by folders.

Now comes the new Notes app in iOS 9, which seems to be the opposite: you can at last have folders, but you have to use iCloud to backup the notes. I've been looking for a note-taking app that can have folders (or tags) and does NOT require you to upload your notes to some cloud in order to sync them, and after searching up and down, the only one I've found is Notebooks, which seems fine, but I'd like to see if there are any other options around.

Is there any other app I am missing? (Syncing locally to a WebDAV server instead of iTunes is fine, if I have to).


texts:
While downloading any file from safari on Macbook Air, If downloading is paused due to any reason like internet access lost..etc, I am imposed to restart the downloading process rather than resuming.
is there any solution?


texts: How do I find out what application is trying to wake my MBP?

texts:
my mac book pro is refusing to stay asleep. I noticed it will wake up roughly every thirty minutes and display the screensaver password screen and even when the lid is closed I will be able to hear it wake and then go back to sleep quite regularly. I installed please sleep but that didn't fix it either. another curious thing I noticed was that sometimes when waking the mbp from sleep it will not let me type anything into the username/password fields. only closing the lid and reopening it after a few seconds will fix this.

I'm running 10.6.7 on a 17" 2.66ghz mbp i7 with 8gb ram.

my question is this: how do I find out which app is trying to constantly wake up my system? (wake for networks access is disabled.)


texts: How do I get the URL of a right-clicked link sent to an automator action?

texts:
I'd like to create a service to open a link in Chrome. I already have this service installed: Safari Extension for right click menu: Open in Google Chrome?

This works if I right-click on selected text that is a URL. But it doesn't work if I right-click a link whose title is not a URL. For example, I'd like to right click a thread title at http://meh.com/forum and have have a command under Services to open that link in Chrome. The service referenced above doesn't show up in the Services contextual menu. Safari has a "Copy Link" menu item in the contextual menu. Is there a way to trigger that command from Automator or AppleScript?


texts:
I used to find color codes which I want to use for texts or background colors on htmls with color edit tool of MS paint which pre-installed on Windows.
But now I use Mac instead of Windows.
How can I find color codes with Mac?
Is an software like MS paint pre-installed on Mac?


texts: OSX Facebook Notifications saying "New Message" instead of the actual message

texts: Up until today, when I would get a message notification from Facebook, it would say the content of the message and the sender. I had to delete and re-add Facebook to my "Internet Accounts" preference pane because I changed my password. Now it just says that I have a "New Message" whenever I get a message. How do I change it back? Re-adding my Facebook account and restarting don't fix it.


texts: Numbers - Perform arithmetic on a section of cells

texts:
I have a column of cells and I want to do 41 - (value of cell) for each individual cell without having to go through doing it manually.

I know this seems simple but I can't think of an easy and quick way to do this. I could achieve this by coping the column and then inserting formula to the original column etc but I am only doing this as a one time action so it doesn't make sense to do that.


texts: What means SecTaskLoadEntlitlements failed error=22

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I'm trying to run a game I bought from Steam: Dread Out. It starts the main screen, options, etc. but when I'll play the first level, it does not load the level. The loading screen stays forever, with music and tips. The app seams to be running but no content is loading and no error is dispatched. I did put a flag in the console and got the messages while running the app:

06/05/16 22:44:01,529 launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:01,534 launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:01,646 appleeventsd[56]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:01,709 dreadout[31113]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.4 instead of 10.11.4. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 0   CarbonCore                          0x00007fff8f1466df ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 113
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 1   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff969bc40b _dispatch_client_callout + 8
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 2   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff969bc303 dispatch_once_f + 67
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 3   CarbonCore                          0x00007fff8f0d2fbc _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 987
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 4   CarbonCore                          0x00007fff8f0d27d0 Gestalt + 139
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 5   dreadout                            0x000000010071d70c _ZN12GraphicsCaps6InitGLEv + 5468
06/05/16 22:44:01,710 dreadout[31113]: 6   dreadout                            0x00000001007137d0 _Z17CreateGLGfxDevicev + 64
06/05/16 22:44:01,718 coreaudiod[167]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:02,957 WindowServer[10829]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "dreadout" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
06/05/16 22:44:08,511 WindowServer[10829]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "dreadout" after 6.55 seconds [0.15fps] (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds [1.00fps])
06/05/16 22:44:08,514 launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:08,514 launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:09,048 launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
06/05/16 22:44:45,793 WindowServer[10829]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x042731c0 device: 0x7fbb615119b0  isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3

There is this "SecTaskLoadEntitlements" all over, might be the source of failure. Do you know what it means?

Edit: Mac OS X 10.11.4


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Since yesterday the System Preferences pane on Mail, Contacts & Calendars refuses to connect to Google to setup e-mail, calendars and contacts. It started after Contacts.app did not want to sync with Google Contacts and asked and refused my correct password. After that Mail.app and Calendar.app did the same. I removed the account from System Preferences and attempted to start anew.

However, now it throws the following error at me:

Nowhere in any log I know can I find more information on the error. When I monitor the connection using Little Snitch it shows that the following connections are attempted:

I can ping them all through Terminal.app successfully.

I have no 2-step verification, so I'm not using application specific passwords in Google.

This is what I've tried, all without a positive outcome:

Add a Gmail account in the Guest user (same error).
Make a new Gmail account, try to add it (same error).
Enable 2-step verification, make application specific passwords (same error).
Run Keychain first aid.
Verify & Repair permissions.
Verify & Repair disk (volume bitmap needed minor repair for orphaned blocks). After repair still the same situation.
Reverted /etc/hosts file to default.
Disabled Little Snitch.
Boot from external drive into Yosemite, try to add the Google account.
Try connection through ethernet instead of airport express.
Try connection through a different network entirely.
Following the troubleshooting steps from Google.
Allowing "less secure application" (that still use OAuth 1.0) to login to Google.
Resetting the Keychain

I've really exhausted my Google-fu and little knowledge I have on Macs. I would really appreciate some pointers on where to look further.


texts:
My friend has a 2011 iMac from his Dad, we play a computer game which has had an update which now means his old OS wouldn't run it, it needs at least Mountain Lion, so after lots of research he took the plunge and bought Mountain Lion from the Mac Store for £20... however once he received the email with the download link and pressed it, it asked for a password... however the login account does not have a password and his Dad does not know what the password could be...

Is there a way to download this new OS system which we have paid for without the password?


texts: I quite like using full-screen apps on OSX Mavericks (Safari, iTunes, Mail, etc).  I'd like all apps that are capable of running full-screen to launch in full-screen mode automatically, instead of me having to press Ctrl-Cmd-F each time, is that possible?


texts:
Using Debian linux, I can switch to verbose output during shutdown and startup by pressing F2.

I already know how to startup in verbose mode using cmd + V but I would like to switch to verbose mode from non-verbose mode.

Is there some way to do this using OSX snow leopard.


texts: I'm looking for an iphone alarm app with both programmable days and gradual alarm sound

texts:
It has to have days of the week to repeat alarms, i forget to set them otherwise. the default clock app has it.
Alarms should get gradually louder, i'm sick of scrambling to silence the phone as soon as it starts screaming at me. It's not a very nice start to every day.


texts: AppleScript in OS X 10.10 to Resize Safari window and take Screen Shot of that window and repeat with multiple sizes

texts:
I would like to build an AppleScript Application that when run will do the following:

Open up Safari and navigate to a specific URL, or a line delimited file, or CSV. This is not required but would make generating multiple screenshots of different pages a lot quicker.
Resize the Safari window to one of a number of sizes
Take a screenshot of the Safari window with the filename being the url along with the screen size


texts: Adpater to connect Android headset(Audiojack) to iPhone(Lightning)

texts:
I want to use an Android headset with an 3.5mm audiojack with an iPhone. Audio and start/stop button from the remote control is working but not the vol+/vol-.
It is essential for me that also the vol+ and vol- is supported.
I need an adapter that translates the android remote control into the Apple remote control world.
Anybody knows about such an item?


texts:
Do you know if it is possible to hide/show the menu bar similar to the Dock?
I found about Menu Eclipse , but I think you can't use the menu bar space, and additionally it costs $1.99. Do you know other alternatives?


texts: Where do I learn to manage a Mac OS Server network?

texts:
I inherited a network with 2 Mac OS Servers and 20+ Macbook Pros. My background is all Windows server so I get the concept of Open Directory, Server Admin, and Workgroup Manager, but the nuts and bolts are more difficult to pick up.

Can someone recommend a starting point to learn all of this? So much of the resources I found out there are for home users and not necessarily for a work environment.


texts: Migrating from time machine backup on a Time capsule

texts:
Had an Macbook Air that would not boot and needed the drive formatted and OS X reinstalled.  I'm now trying to migrate the data from a time machine backup on a time capsule using migration assistant.

Whenever I select the backup and then select continue, migration assistant does nothing.  I can still navigate the program and quite out, but it just sits there.  The only response when I hit continue is for the button to darken for a however long I click and then nothing happens.

OS X 10.12 btw.  Any ideas on how to get the backup going?  I have WiFi off.  I can access the time capsule using air port utility.  Neither device is connected to the internet.


texts: How to prevent a folder to sync to iCloud

texts:
I have activated the synchronisation of my Desktop & Documents Folders from my iMac to iCloud so that I can share it seamlessly to my Macbook Pro and my iPhone.  This is working well.
I'd now like to prevent one of the folders inside the Documents folder to sync to iCloud.  I see, for example, that the Microsoft User Data folder is not being synchronised because it is ineligible.  That shows with a struck-through cloud icon.  And I don't see this Microsoft folder appearing on my iPhone.
Apple documentation says that ineligible folders are usually because there is not enough iCloud storage for the element.  That does not seem to be the case with my Microsoft User Data folder as it is only 40 Ko and I have nearly 1 GB available on my iCloud space. To me, it seems that behaviour is specific to the Microsoft directory.
How can I replicate that behaviour to another folder?  I don't find any option for that.

Does anybody know?


texts: How do i get back my old user account after upgrading to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2?

texts:
Recently I upgraded a Mac to OS X Yosemite. When upgrading, a new user account was unintentionally created. Now, that newly created user account is being "recognized" as the main account [note:on this new account it's as if the computer is starting from the beginning, none of the previous settings or preferences are there, BUT all of the information is still on the computer]. Even at log-in the original user account is not there to log-in to.

How do we get the original user account to once again become the main user account i.e. when the computer is restarted and the log-in window is presented, the original user account will be there to log-in to?


texts:
I'm trying to turn off SIP on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) but when I run OS X in Recovery Mode no csrutil is available—there is no such command in /usr/bin as well. So I tried to run it from /Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/bin where I have installed OS X. Good news is that csrutil is there. Bad news is it's crashing:

http://pastebin.com/qXVAdkaK

dyld: Symbol not found: ___NSDictionary0__
    Referenced from: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/bin/./csrutil
    Expected in:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
in /Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/bin/./csrutil
Trace/BPT trap: 5

Any ideas how to fix it?


texts: 8 A Letters in Boxes next to OS X Logo in Overview Panel

texts: When I opened Mac OS X overview panel to check out how much storage I have left, I saw this strange thing. It doesn't affect the performance by any means, but it is not aesthetically pleasing. How can I get rid of it?


texts: Is it safe to close laptop while "Shrinking APFS Data Structures"?

texts: I just learned that the "shrinking APFS data structures" phase of creating a partition on a mac can take many hours, often overnight and I need to go from one place to another but I started the process just an hour or so ago. Is it safe to close the laptop while I'm on the go?


texts: How to assign hotkeys to paragraph styles in Pages 5?

texts:
Pages '09 had the paragraph styles drawer with a list of all styles. Each style had the following context menu:

On the new Pages 5, this is how that context menu looks however.

Noticeably missing is the option to assign a hotkey to a paragraph style. Is anyone aware of a way to do this in the new Pages 5?


texts: FileMaker 6 and AppleScript: Deleting a Menu Item

texts:
I am trying to write an AppleScript to delete or at least disable certain menu items in FileMaker pro 6. My documentation indicates that it can be done, yet even the exact examples that they give, do not work.

Here are a few examples of some that I tried with their results:

delete menu item "Delete All Records…" of menu "Records" --this compiles, but returns the error 'Event not handled'

disable menu item "Delete All Records…" of menu "Records" --This does not even compile

I also tried similar approaches with System Events to no avail.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as I need to prevent users from deleting critical records from a database.


texts: How to upload pdf or, docs in safari or any popular browser in iOS?

texts:
I was just stunned today, when I just discovered that I cannot upload my resume either in pdf/doc while applying for a job.

All I have access to is Photos, which is my photos and videos repository.

Is there actually a way to upload documents in safari or it is just not allowed in iPhones or iOS.


texts:
I'm seeing this issue all too frequently with some albums on my Apple TV. When I try to search for an album, the tracks are not grouped within one album. Instead, the Apple TV creates duplicate list items (different tracks though) resulting in not being able to play the album all at once.

The weird thing is that they group fine into one album within iTunes itself. One of the albums displayed in my screenshots below was even bought on iTunes.

Any help on how to get it neatly grouped into one album?

P.S.: Already restarted the Apple TV and logged in and out. Using iTunes Match


texts: How to allow an AppleScript terminal push as raw code instead of executable?

texts:
Locally in the terminal after creating a file named foobar.scpt I go to cd the location of the repo locally and I run git add .

I then commit the file using git commit -m "Adding foobar.scpt"

Afterward I use git push origin http://location-of-repo

The file, foobar.scpt exists in the Github repo master branch.  When I click on the file it will not show me the raw code but indicates it as an executable and only provides a RAW link for download.

How can I push the script file in the terminal to the repo and allow anyone that has access to that repo the ability to see the raw code instead of a download?


texts: How do I transfer Boot disk from External HDD to newly inserted SSD?

texts:
I'm trying to upgrade from my MacBook Pro's original HDD to a SSD. Right now my external HDD, which I installed OSX Mountain Lion on, has to be plugged in to boot. If I unplug it, I get a white screen with a flashing folder icon upon boot up.
I open disk utility and it shows my samsung SSD, which I just repartitioned to use Mac OS Extended (journaled)
EDIT
I click finder and it shows under devices: "OSX" which is the name I gave my external HDD currently running OSX.. and "Samsung SSD." OSX has the standard folders on a mac.. Samsung SSD is blank.
How can I get OSX to boot from my SSD rather than the external HDD? Thanks!
Would doing this get it to do that?


texts: change default editor for command line tasks?

texts:
I want to create a cron job. Launching a terminal window, and entering crontab -e opens my current crontab, but opens it in the editor vi. I would prefer to use the nano editor.

How do I configure my system (Mojave) to launch nano instead of vi?


texts: Switching Keyboard Layout on Macbook on Lion

texts: Is it still possible to switch from the default (Macbook UK) keyboard to the US layout in Lion? Everything I've read says there should be an international option in System Preferences, but there isn't.


texts: Changing iCloud accounts in order to sync Photostream pictures

texts:
I have three iOS devices that I would like to have Photostream sync across. Right now, the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 sync because they are on the same iCloud account, but my wife's iPhone 4 doesn't sync - because it signed into a different iCloud account. I'm told all 3 iCloud accounts need to be signed into the same account.

I need to change my wife's iCloud Apple ID on her iPhone 4 to mine. When I go to Settings, iCloud, Account, her Apple ID is grayed-out, so I can't make changes.

How can I change the iCloud account on the iPhone 4?


texts: Mac OS X Mountain Lion - DNS resolving uses wrong order on VPN via dial-up connection

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I am using a MacBook with Mac OS X 10.8.2 and connect to my company's network via VPN. Everything works great when establishing the VPN connection via LAN or WLAN. However, when I use a dial-up connection (Huawei HSDPA USB Stick) host names are not correctly resolved in applications (e.g. Web-Browser). Command line tools like host name will correctly resolve the IP address, ping name will not resolve.

Using scutil --dns I dumped the DNS configuration when connecting via WLAN vs. dial-up. There is a notable difference in the lookup order:

connecting using WLAN:

resolver #1
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.80.10
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.80.24
  if_index : 6 (ppp0)
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection
  order    : 100000

resolver #2
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.80.10
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.80.24
  if_index : 6 (ppp0)
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection
  order    : 200000

resolver #3
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300000

resolver #4
  domain   : 254.169.in-addr.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300200

resolver #5
  domain   : 8.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300400

resolver #6
  domain   : 9.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300600

resolver #7
  domain   : a.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300800

resolver #8
  domain   : b.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 301000

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.1.1
  if_index : 4 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped
  reach    : Reachable,Directly Reachable Address

resolver #2
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.80.10
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.80.24
  if_index : 6 (ppp0)
  flags    : Scoped
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection

The ppp0 connection is the VPN connection. As you can see, two servers are connected and they answer correctly on the command line and in applications.

Connecting via UMTS:

resolver #1
  nameserver[0] : 139.7.30.126
  nameserver[1] : 139.7.30.125
  if_index : 6 (ppp0)
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection
  order    : 100000

resolver #2
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.80.10
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.80.24
  if_index : 7 (ppp1)
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection
  order    : 100000

resolver #3
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.80.10
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.80.24
  if_index : 7 (ppp1)
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection
  order    : 200000

resolver #4
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300000

resolver #5
  domain   : 254.169.in-addr.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300200

resolver #6
  domain   : 8.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300400

resolver #7
  domain   : 9.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300600

resolver #8
  domain   : a.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300800

resolver #9
  domain   : b.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 301000

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.80.10
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.80.24
  if_index : 7 (ppp1)
  flags    : Scoped
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection

resolver #2
  nameserver[0] : 139.7.30.126
  nameserver[1] : 139.7.30.125
  if_index : 6 (ppp0)
  flags    : Scoped
  reach    : Reachable,Transient Connection

This time, ppp1 is the VPN connection and ppp0 is the UMTS connection. From the response times of the commands (using the non-existing hostname foo.bar.local) I infer that ping uses the first resolver chain, where as host uses the scoped query configuration. ping takes 5 seconds to return "Unkown host", hostgets back immediately. I assume ping runs into the 5 second timeout of the mdns resolver.

In order to fix my problem with the broken DNS lookups when dialing in via VPN over modem I need to change the order of the resolvers. So far I have not found a way of doing this.

Any ideas welcome.


texts: Mavericks won't update. Crash on boot software update

texts:
I believe the update process was interrupted once. My computer works fine but the SoftwareUpdateLauncher fails to do anything on shutdown when I am logged out. I can see that it is in the application SoftwareUpdateLauncher but nothing happens, I've let it sit for over an hour before.

OS X 10.9.1

Photos:

http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UGoR
http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UGra
http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/UH6o


texts: Configure and personalise external keyboard buttons on Mac?

texts:
Ok, in fact what I am trying to customise and personalise are mouse buttons. As seen from my previous question here, I use SteerMouse to successfully configure the buttons on my Logitech M545 mouse.

However, there are two buttons, the side buttons, that cannot be detected by SteerMouse. After testing, I find that these two buttons, when pressed, actually correspond to keyboard operations. That is why SteerMouse is not able to configure them two.

Therefore, my question is equivalent to configuring two buttons of an external keyboard. How may I do this?


texts: How can I show other people my Sites folder?

texts:
I did my first website today using iWeb and I placed it inside the sites folder.  From what I understand, this should enable me to show other people my site with this address:

http://my.ip.here/~mynamehere/

But it doesn't work.  After some digging, I found out that I needed to go to the System Preferences to Sharing, and turn it on, which I did. I then even went on the internet to get my real IP address because apparently the one the computer gives me is only for people on the same network.

But it still doesn't work.  Any ideas on how to make this happen?

Thanks.


texts: Can the "drag to applications" of a mounted DMG volume be done in the terminal?

texts:
Attempting to automatically install a .DMG downloaded(of Docker), so that the host has access to docker run etc. in Terminal.

I can attach the volume with no issue with:

curl -O https://download.docker.com/mac/stable/Docker.dmg > ./Docker.dmg

And then mount it:

hdiutil attach Docker.dmg

How do I step further from here and actually mock the "drag and drop to Applications" that will then be prompted to the user?

To my knowledge there is no .pkg inside this image. So I can't use the related question's answers(that were dubded as duplicate before, this question is more precise.)


texts:
I use an external apple keyboard with a numeric pad but its number keys don't produce numbers, in fact they produce nothing. The plus, hyphen, enter buttons do work even 0x47 keypad-numlock but it does not toggle on the numeric buttons. This is my keyboard:

  Product ID:   0x0221
  Vendor ID:    0x05ac  (Apple Inc.)

Please advise.


texts:
I am looking for some free File management iPad app. It should be an offline file viewing app, with features to open common file types and also extract zip or rar files.

It should be exactly like Filer app, if u have used that, but without any file limitation..
Please suggest.


texts: Web Sharing not getting enabled in MAC OSX10.7.4

texts:
I have tried enabling Web Sharing in MAC OSX 10.7.4, but after clicking to check it uncheck it self. I know there's a similar question for it, that is, Web Sharing (Apache) won't turn on in Lion.

Here is crash log that I get in "/var/log/apache2/error_log" file:

[Wed Mar 13 17:46:52 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Mar 13 17:46:52 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Mar 13 17:46:52 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Mar 13 17:49:51 2013] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /usr/htdocs
[Wed Mar 13 17:52:20 2013] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /usr/htdocs
[Wed Mar 13 17:52:59 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Arpit.local for ServerName
[Mon Mar 18 18:23:03 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Mar 18 18:23:03 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Mar 18 18:23:03 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Mar 18 18:23:05 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Arpit.local for ServerName
No log handling enabled - using stderr logging
Created directory: /var/db/net-snmp
Created directory: /var/db/net-snmp/mib_indexes
[Wed May 01 16:36:04 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed May 01 16:36:04 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed May 01 16:36:04 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.10 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed May 01 16:43:26 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Arpit.local for ServerName
[Wed May 01 16:43:26 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed May 01 16:43:26 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed May 01 16:43:26 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.10 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed May 01 17:24:26 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

I tried looking into it but couldn't get exact reason.


texts: Can't use copied Snow Leopard installer; get error "You can’t use this version of the application “Install Mac OS X” with this version of macOS"

texts:
Trying to get my iMac 2010 running 10.13.6 High Sierra ready for resale. Want to give next user a copy of the Snow Leopard installation DVD because I borrowed it, it's not mine. Burning to 16GB USB and as aDisk Image both give me this error when I try to test install the Snow Leopard installer, "You can’t use this version of the application “Install Mac OS X” with this version of macOS. You have “Install Mac OS X” 23.1.1."
I tried to follow this guide Installing Snow Leopard on external drive with newer iMac version to create a work around but I stopped mid process because a) when clicking on the disk image I created (compressed .dmg file option) I got the error as above. And b) my USB was not able to fully partition, it got stuck and restarted.
I'm close to giving up. Anyway installing from the Snow Leopard from a test reboot wasn't actually successful either, I think.


texts: Is it possible to disable the gui controls in apple tv (former itunes) app for MacOS?

texts: I got someone to help me disable amazon prime video's gui that shows up when you move the mouse and am happy with how it went, but I understand that works through browser and appletv is an app, would it be possible to tweak it or not possible because it's apple's proprietary app?


texts: Why does macOS 10.13 suddenly asks for a PIN instead of password for login?

texts:
When facing the lock screen to enter my credentials, my Mac running macOS 10.13 High Sierra asks for a PIN instead of my password. This has happened 4 times within the last months. The only solution is to force a shutdown and restart. Then my MacBook will ask for my password again. I have never setup a PIN and it's not the screen I would get if I lock my MacBook through Find my Mac.

Unfortunately, only search results regarding Find my Mac come up when searching for PIN and MacBook. I hope someone can help me by referring to the screenshot above.
What is this PIN and why is macOS asking for it? How can I prevent macOS from asking for a PIN?


texts: OS X Server: Wiki embed youtube video on page

texts:
On OS X server using the wiki feature, I want to embed a youtube.com video onto a page. I thought the process would be to switch to HTML coding when making the Wiki Entry and cut and paste the HTML embedded like tag of youtube video into the post along with all the other content.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mylinkaddress" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

When I save the page, it doesnt show up.... which makes sense since when I go back to edit the page and view the HTML, the  tag is no longer there. It seems like OS X server is rejecting the tag as invalid when saving the page.

How can I get OS X server to support embedding video into pages?

This occurs on the blog and wiki.

Update:
 this is the Wiki Server


texts: `Do you want the application "main" to accept incoming network connections?` pop up while running Go applications

texts:
Every time I am running Go applications on MacOs with this command:

go run main.go

I get this pop up message:

Do you want the application "main" to accept incoming network connections?

I added Go and all main executable files to Firewall Exceptions but I am still getting this pop ups. I am running out of ideas. Please can anyone help me to get rid of those pop ups? At this point I have no idea if the problem is related to Golang or MacOs.


texts: Music on iPhone not showing up in iTunes on macOS

texts:
If I connect my iPhone to my Mac via USB cable, iTunes launches and shows the iPhone icon in the toolbar. But if I click that, no content whatsoever is displayed under the "On My Device" header (except one iBook I bought).

Does anyone know how to solve this? I would like to manage the music downloaded to my iPhone via macOS iTunes, as removing downloaded music on the iPhone itself is a disaster in user friendliness.

I have iTunes Match, Apple Music and running macOS Mojave 10.14.5 with iOS 12.3.1.


texts: How to bypass country restrictions on App Store?

texts: I want to download an iPhone app which is not accessible from my country (India). How can I bypass the country restrictions?


texts: How to get out of recovery mode even though iPhone doesn't appear to be in recovery?

texts: My phone doesn't show any signs of being in recovery mode but when I plug it into my PC, it says that iTunes cannot connect because it is "Recovery Mode". I tried to hold the sleep button and home button until the Apple logo shows but nothing is happening.


texts: Opening Windows From Dock in MacBook with Second Monitor

texts:
Newer to Macbook so trying to figure out all the shortcuts. I want to maximize all minimized Safari windows. I've used the Cmd + Tab and then switching to Cmd + Option and releasing just Cmd, but that only brings up one of the windows even if there are two there like shown in the image. I circled the window I want to maximize in the image. I am using the MacBook display and an external monitor. However, I still don't get all the windows to maximize when I use just the MacBook and try the previously mentioned shortcut. Is maximizing all windows of a single app possible as I'm trying to describe?
Thanks!


texts: Multiple finder preference plists in mavericks

texts:
I’ve had a very sluggish Finder recently on my Mid-2012 MBP 16GB 2.6GHz i7.

Looking online I found that deleting the Finder preferences can solve the issue, but when I went to the Preferences folder to look for com.apple.finder.plist I also found files like these: com.apple.finder.plist.DUkfEQe and com.apple.finder.plist.DUkfEQe2 and others with random strings at the end. Any idea what these are and which one is my 'actual' finder plist?


texts: Is there a clever way import my Mail.app rules to iCloud?

texts: I have a lot of rules in my Mail.app but when my computer is off my inbox fills up with junk and it's hard to read from the phone. I want to set up the rules on iCloud but don't see a way of uploading/importing them into iCloud. Am I missing something or do I need to set them up again manually?


texts: Is it possible that Lost mode for my phone was deactivated by a thief?

texts: Why my iPhone cannot detect the location? I enable the lost mode and its confirmed by email but the device did not show any location. But when I first set my lost mode they asked me a pass code, but now if I turn on my lost mode the phone never ask me a pass code. It only appears on the screen that it is done. What is the problem with that? It's possible that my lost mode and Apple ID are hacked by the thief or they deactivated it.


texts: How can I swap the primary display automatically in a dual-monitor setup?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro and two Thunderbolt displays at work. I work with the MacBook lid-closed because it's overkill and I don't have enough desk space anyway.

Every morning I show up to work and plug in a Thunderbolt cable and power cord, but my primary screen (the one in front) and secondary (one off to the side) are swapped. I have to this stupid song and dance in the Displays / Arrangement system preference and it's getting annoying:

Is there a way to do this automatically? With a setting? An AppleScript? Is there a reason that the screens are always flipped?


texts: How do I see where can a sandboxed Mac application write on my disk?

texts:
I know the app entitlements define its scope of access to resources. I already figured out how to get an app's entitlements, using the answer to this question
For example, to see Safari's entitlements, I use the following command in Terminal:
codesign -d --entitlements :- /Applications/Safari.app/

However, I cannot find there any list of directories the app can use to write files, and no list of directories where it can't. I'm especially interested to know where does Safari store temporary mid-download files.
Please advise.


texts: Is there a tool that identifies which NSControl is under the cursor?

texts: I'm looking for a tool that could help me understand the layout of a closed source Mac OS applications in term of Cocoa controls. I saw this for in Firefox with the 'inspect' feature (for HTML/CSS); I don't expect it to work for every application because of the variety of programming languages and custom classes.


texts: Can people access my iphone data by opening it up

texts:
My iphone is faceid and pin protected. My apple id is two step authentication on.
It's not working now, so I sent it to a repair man to fix. However, If he opens up the phone, and takes out the storage chip. Can he use that storage on another phone of his ?


texts: How to change "Open With" option for folder in Mavericks

texts:
My Desktop folder is set to launch terminal. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reset that.

I have deleted /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist and that did not fix it. I installed OnyX, and ran Rebuild Launch Services. I tried changing the open with option to Finder, but I couldn't locate it.

I'm about to wipe and start over. Any thoughts?

Just to be clear, this is on both the the Favorites sidebar, and the actual folder itself.


texts: Paste path from clipboard in file dialog

texts:
I have a full absolute file path on my clipboard (ie: /Users/Noit/Pictures/Screenshot - Jul 9, 2018 3.27 PM.png)

I then go to say Skype or gmail in my web borwser, and click "attach". This opens a file dialog box (screenshot below). In Windows, I am able to paste the file path into the dialog box and it finds it (screenshot below). Is there anyway to do this in mac?


texts: I installed Windows 10 with bootcamp on Imac and my imac partition is lost it file type

texts:
I am having serious trouble here, i install windows 10 in my imac 2015 model
now i am not able to boot in Mac OS, i am upgraded to New os 13.

I tried Option key on start, did not work
I tired Commond+R did not work

Nothing work for Mac OS seems like my imac become windows PC


texts: My friend's iPhone's sleep/wake button no longer works. Is there any way to turn off the screen besides setting up auto-lock and waiting a few minutes?


texts:
I tried to clean install due to issues with Sierra (wanted to revert back to old OS).

Activated erase the Macintosh HD, picked (like idiot I am) the highest erasure mode. It took 10 minutes and nothing moved... I thought I overdid, let's try again - forced shut down to begin anew. (Yes, I am an idiot...)

Opening Mac again using Cmd+R, Macintosh HD was now inaccessible. I tried to recover what I could, but it was gone. Somehow I managed to change it into Apple Disk Image I think - one of the four "disks" that appears when entering Cmd+R and going to Disk Utility. (Now I had two Apple Disk Images or whatever its exact name was)

I partitioned APPLE HDD and made new Macintosh HD, but that seemed to be empty.

Now I decided it was safest to just call a technician and had him install El Capitan back on and stop being an idiot.

Got my Mac back, it was like first time - appoint my admin user name etc. Those things Mac asks when you get it first time and make it yours.

I'd like to know: does this sound like clean install was done? If there was (doubt it, but just in case) malware or trojan installed, was it wiped out and system is now clean?


texts: WhatsApp Web in Fluid throws JavaScript exception

texts:
When I'm starting the WhatsApp web client in a Fluid app, this JavaScript exception is thrown:

[Error] TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'e.getDatabaseNames')
    U (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 63)
    c (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 62)
    n (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 6)
    (anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 6)
    t (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
    (anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
    t (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
    (anonymous function) (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
    webpackJsonp (app_59f797fae4fc761b3ee8.js, line 5)
    global code (crypto_8cbbef38a0cf6ff138dc.js, line 2)

This leads an infinite loading screen.

When I launch WhatsApp Web in Safari e is a IDBFactory, but it looks like the IndexedDB API isn't available in a Fluid app (there e is null).

You have to set either Firefox, Chrome or Safari as user agent to get to the loading screen. I tried playing around with the settings, but nothing seems to help.

I wrote a mail to the FluidApp support, but no answer so far. Does anyone have advice?


texts: Any way to completely disable iOS passcode?

texts:
I have a cart of iPads in my high school classroom. Each iPad is shared by several students in different classes throughout the day. A clever student in one class decided to lock one of them. We have already unlocked it by restoring it, etc., but I'd like to prevent this from happening in the future. I was noodling around with the new Apple Configurator this morning to force no passcode, but I couldn't find such a setting. The best I could come up with is to set my own passcode, device lock to never, and grace period the longest available (4 hours). That would mean, though, unlocking every single iPad for the students with my secret code at least once a day. Ugh.

Does anyone know of a way, official or unofficial, to prevent a user from setting a passcode on an iOS device?


texts: egrep: empty (sub)expression : Unexpected behaviour for bash Loop on Mac

texts:
I have the filling simplified script on Mac OS X 10.12 :

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "=> BASH_VERSION = $BASH_VERSION"
function testForLoopMac {
local file
for file
do
    echo File=$file
done | egrep "$file"
}

function testForLoopMacBis {
local file
for file
do
    echo File=$file
done | egrep "$file|OK"
}

testForLoopMac $@

testForLoopMacBis $@

But the result when I run is :

$ testForLoopMac.sh example.pdf
=> BASH_VERSION = 3.2.57(1)-release
File=example.pdf
egrep: empty (sub)expression

On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, the result is :

$ testForLoopMac.sh example.md
=> BASH_VERSION = 4.3.30(1)-release
File=example.md
File=example.md

Edit : With bash4 on Mac OSX 10.12 :

I changed the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env bash4 and the result is the same :

$ testForLoopMac.sh example.md
=> BASH_VERSION = 4.4.12(1)-release
File=example.md
egrep: empty (sub)expression

Edit: Thanks to you guys I understand the behavior difference on Linux or BSD egrep is because that at the time of the egrep execution the variable can be empty.

I'm going the use therefore, the following regExp :

egrep "File=|OK"

Thanks again :)


texts: What prevents the iMessage slider from working on a new iPhone 5?

texts:
I'm struggling to enable iMessage on my new iPhone 5.

iMessage works on my iPod, but I go on settings to turn on I message and the button that slides to enable/disable it always slides back to off. (as if by force on it own and I even tried tapping it just incase it was my fault.)

I got my iPhone three days ago and it's been bugging me to get this working.


texts: How to kill Apple magic trackpad/keyboard connection messages

texts: Whenever I take my laptop away from my desk (to type on the couch), OSX goes crazy letting me know that my Apple keyboard is connected, now disconnected, now connected, now disconnected...  The message appears in an obtrusive grey box right in the middle of the screen.  I never want to see that box again.  Simply disabling bluetooth is not an option.


texts: Why isn't xargs running one command per line for this use case?

texts:
My overall task is to ping each EC2 server I happen to be connected to.

I am using this command to do that:

netstat -W | grep ec2 | cut -d " " -f 18 | sort -u | cut -d "." -f 1,2,3,4 | xargs -0 -p "ping -c 10"

It outputs the right output, but is not calling xargs per line:

ping -c 10 ec2-107-20-154-211.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-107-20-169-186.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-13-58-191-91.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws
ec2-18-204-248-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-18-207-50-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-18-234-32-173.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-34-192-54-86.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-34-195-196-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-34-206-216-146.compute-1.amazonaws.com
?...^C

The written explanation of each step is:

Run netstat with the -W flag to get complete FQDNs and not short hostnames
grep for ec2
cut the output to get just the hostname column
sort unique hostnames
cut the hostname again to drop the portnumber from the end e.g. ec2-1-2-3.amazon.com.80 -> ec2-1-2-3.amazon.com
xargs the output to ping each host ten times

I think I am running into an issue with either the OS X variant of xargs because piping the same output to wc -l shows eight lines:

netstat -W | grep ec2 | cut -d " " -f 18 | sort -u | cut -d "." -f 1,2,3,4 | wc -l
       8

I am focusing on the xargs aspect here. That is the only part of this task that is not apparently working.


texts: Hotkeys don't work in zsh when $TERM is set to screen-256color

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As per various other discussions I bound opt+<- to 0x1b 0x62and opt+-> to 0x1b 0x66. This works great in zsh, but not in tmux.

In tmux opt+<- does jump backwords per word, but also seems to do some mode modification… when typing s afterwards, the character under the cursor will be deleted.

I also have issues with cmd+-> (0x05) and cmd+<- (0x01) – in zsh those keys navigate to the end and the start of the line, but this doesn't work at all in tmux.

I don't think there are any keybindings for these hex codes, so I assume something gets lost on the way from iTerm2 to tmux… Calling read in zsh directly and in tmux outputs the same codes for the opt bindings mentioned above, but it doesn't output anything for the cmd bindings in tmux.

Edit:

I experimented a little bit more and discovered that the bindings work fine when using /bin/bash in tmux and only break when using zsh in tmux. I even tested /bin/zsh without loading .zshrc to check if something is wrong with homebrews zsh, but the bindings are broken there too. It seems like this is actually an issue with zsh.

Edit:

More experiments! This seems to be connected to the $TERM environment variable that is set to "screen-256color" by my .tmux.conf – this seems to be correct to get the colors working, but as soon as zsh runs with this environment variable, the navigation stops working. Running TERM=screen-256color zsh reproduces the issue.


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I have a late 2013 Mac Pro (running Yosemite) and have had some problems with a frozen finder recently. When I select a tif/pdf/jpg file it freezes up on me and I have to force quit it. It freezes before it is able to splay the thumbnail of the file I have selected. It sometimes also freezes safari when I click on links or download something, although its a much more frequent problem for my finder.

Any help to get around this is appreciated, its a really annoying problem!!

Edit: spotlight also now freezes but my activity monitor is suggesting all is well


texts: How do I make a custom ringtone for my iPhone using iTunes 10 only?

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I'd like to use a snippet of a song I have purchased as a ringtone for my iPhone. Is this possible using only iTunes?

I have found a few guides on the web, but I can't seem to complete this task following these guides. I might be misunderstanding something, or the guides are out-of-date, or incomplete.

I am looking for a solution that will be useful for an extended period of time, for others who see this question. There are similar older questions, but I'm interested in iTunes version 10 on the Mac.


texts: What happens on the other end when you press "End call"

texts: If someone is calling you and you press "End call", does that mean that the caller is "cut" off, or does the ringing continue on the callers phone?


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Possible Duplicate:
  Do any window managers allow me to snap windows to the sides of the display?

I was wondering if there is software out there that will make OS X windows act like Windows 7. For instance, you can "bump" a window at the top of the screen and it will fill the screen. Or, "bumping" the left/right will make the window become half-screen.


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new Mac (Yosemite) and setting up a new dev environment. At the moment cannot find any error_log folder at the following paths:

/var/log/apache2/error_log
/private/var/log/apache2/error_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

Any thoughts on where that folder may be?


texts: Commercial command line utility for transcribing voice memos to text?

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I'm looking for a commercial command line utility to transcribe my MP3 voice memos into text files. My workflow is to record voice memos through out the day and upload these memos as MP3 files to Dropbox. I would like to convert these MP3 files to equivalent TXT files on a batch basis. My voice memos range from < 1 minute to a max of ~10 minutes.

I tried using Dragon Dictate 4 for Mac and found this application a nightmare to use and very unreliable. I would be happy to purchase a slimed down version of this application that only transcribed audio files but I can't find such a product on the Nuance website. Unfortunately I could not get this application to work reliably enough to look for an API or scripting interface ... and I'm a little skittish about this vendor after reading about similar experiences from other users.

I've also looked at cloud services as well, but the ones I've found seem to be rather expensive - $0.20/minute and with limitations on the max audio file size that can be uploaded.


texts: Can I disable auto-correction of a single word on OS X?

texts:
I'm running into an annoying issue with OS X's automatic spelling correction where the word nala gets automatically corrected to napa.

I've tried adding nala to my custom dictionary under ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary but it still reliably makes the correction anyway.

How do I configure OS X to not automatically correct a given word short of turning off automatic correction entirely which is not really desirable?


texts:
I upgraded my MacBook Air early 2014 to El Capitan from Yosemite.
I'm encountering random lags , especially while app switching.

Is downgrading to OS X Mavericks possible ? (My MBA came preinstalled with Mavericks)


texts: Securely deleting emails from Apple Mail

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I have an IMAP account and iCloud account set up on my local Apple Mail client.  Is the location of these ~/Library/Mail or somewhere else?  I use OS X 10.10.1.  For my IMAP account with domain mykolab.com, the relevant folder seems to be ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-@mykolab.com@imap.mykolab.com and the inbox is INBOX.mbox, but I can't see the matching location of an email in the client in this folder - there is no option to do so from Mail, and the timestamps for the message files in INBOX.mbox seem to be older than current messages.

Is there a way to pinpoint the exact file location of an email in the client?

If I delete an email and empty trash in the client then is the deletion done securely, using srm or in a non-secure way?


texts: How can I set quiet hours for OS X time announcements?

texts:
I like the built-in time announcement in OS X.  But my wife has forbidden it because it announces time at night too.  Is there any way to silence during certain hours or some other utility that will announce the time?

I am aware of Cuckoo, but it only does chimes.


texts: Internet Radio stuck in "Contacting tuning service"

texts: I have iTunes 12.8 on High Sierra. I selected Internet Radio from the Library sidebar, but the list of stations is empty. At the top it's stuck saying "Contacting tuning service... Refreshing category list".


texts: Unable to restore a deleted app from App Store Connect

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I had deleted an app for our beta bundle ID from App Store Connect a few months ago. Now I am trying to restore it. But I am getting the following error.

Can anyone help me in understanding this or let me know how to restore it back?
Because I really don't want to create a new beta bundle ID now.
I don't know if this is helpful, but here's the API response when the restore call is made:
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "id" : "35b33baf-xxxx",
    "status" : "409",
    "code" : "ENTITY_ERROR.ATTRIBUTE.INVALID.INVALID_STATE",
    "title" : "An attribute value is not acceptable for the current resource state.",
    "source" : {
      "pointer" : "removed"
    }
  } ]
}

Thanks a lot.


texts: My Macbook storage is full even after deleting all my photos

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So I only got my MacBook Air last year and I am travelling so am taking a lot o photos but I have a 1TB hard drive that I transfer the photos over to every now and then, my time machine also backs up to here. Recently I got a message pop up saying my start up disk was nearly full so I transferred all the photos over to my hard drive and deleted them all. It was still saying full even after I emptied my recycling bin and went through recently deleted photos and emptied that. Still no luck so I went through the steps to go onto my finder and computer and find the size of all the files to see where it was all being taken up and theres 49GB in my photo library and there is literally NOTHING in there! Its so frustrating because its now going slow and it gets super hot if I'm charging it whilst using it because its just too full. Please can anyone help?

Thanks


texts: Since upgrading to version 10.0.1 of iTunes, playback is bumpy

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Since I upgraded to version iTunes (10.0.1), playback is bumpy and full of hiccups. Typically, for video playback the video will freeze for a second or two at random times, and then skip to the current location in time, meaning that content will be skipped over. This happens every time I play videos now, and it is seriously starting to annoy me.

For mp3 playback, sporadic hiccups seem to be happening as well, but with nowhere near the frequency of videos.

The videos I play are all content purchased from the iTunes store, typically TV shows in 'standard definition'.

I have (obviously) tried to close other resource-hungry apps etc, but that does not help. iTunes is typically at 5-15% processor usage when playing video.

I use Mac OS X 10.6.4 on a 2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM. Hard drive has about 10 GB of free space.

Any ideas as to what is wrong here?


texts: How to make an application to be on top at startup instead of Finder in Yosemite?

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On Yosemite I would like to have an application show up as the top running application (it takes over the screen and hides the menu bar).

When you set up an application for startup in the user account under Yosemite, the application starts but finder always comes up on top of it and any applications set for startup behind it.


texts: Do my original photos move to iCloud if imported to Photos?

texts: I have a large collection of photos (80Gb) stored on my Macbook and I've imported them to Photos, these are now available through Photos on my other devices with the same iCloud account. Does Apple move the originals into the cloud and free up the 80 Gb space on my Macbook?


texts: VGA monitor doesn't work at boot time on Mac mini 2011

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I have Mac mini 2011 and Samsung Syncmaster 710v (old TFT monitor) connected through mini DisplayPort to VGA. The monitor shows something only when the login screen appears (no boot menu, no boot-loading, just black screen, BUT no info that the monitor isn't connected).

On new monitors (VGA), my Mac works great and I can see the boot menu. Is it the monitor's problem, a mini DisplayPort issue, or software?


texts: How Can I Delete Some Disk Images in My Recovery Partition?

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When I updated my mid-2011 MacBook Air from Sierra to High Sierra last year I had some installation issues... which resulted in creating at least 2, maybe 3 disk images in my recovery drive.

I have disk image files where they don't belong (like keychain)and my system compensated by putting them in other locations.

The repercussions are greater than I can list here... The two that are most troublesome are:

/dev/disk4 in /Volumes and /dev/disk12 on /Volumes/untitled.

-bash-3.2# mount

/dev/disk1s1 on / (hfs, local, read-only)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk3 on /private/var/log (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk4 on /Volumes (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk5 on /private/var/tmp (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk6 on /private/var/run (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk7 on /private/tmp (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk8 on /System/Installation (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk9 on /private/var/db (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk10 on /private/var/folders (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk11 on /private/var/root/Library (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk13 on /private/var/root/Library/Containers (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk14 on /Library/Preferences (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk15 on /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk16 on /Library/Keychains (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk17 on /private/var/tmp/RecoveryTemp (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk18 on /private/var/tmp/InstallerCookies (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk2 on /Volumes/Macintosh HD (hfs, local, journaled)
/dev/disk12 on /Volumes/untitled (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, no owners)


texts: system storage full after migrating to new iPhone, old phone has plenty of free storage

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I have an iPhone 11 128GB with around 30GB of used storage.
Most of the photos are uploaded up into 200GB iCloud which is full at the moment.
I got an iPhone 12 and transferred data & settings over from iPhone 11, device to device as described here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210216. The transfer itself took around ~30min.
What I ended up with, is an iPhone 12 with 122GB of storage is use, photo library taking around 90GB of it. My assumption is that for whatever reason a LOT of the photos from iCloud got stored locally on iPhone 12. The phones have same amount of photos in the libraries.
How can I get rid of the photos that that are currently LOCAL on iPhone 12, while they are living in the iCloud (uploaded from iPhone 11)?


texts: How can you limit your use of time-wasting apps on iOS?

texts: How can I limit my use of some time-wasting apps on my iPhone for a few days? Temporarily removing the apps so that I would have to first go through a reinstall to use them is not an option because I don't want to lose their data. There are some Mac applications to limit access to websites and other applications: Obtract and SelfControl for example. Is there anything similar for iOS?


texts: Impossible to display full screen Flash content on iMac 5k?

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It seems to be a problem that at least two other persons are facing.

When I watch a video it works fine, but if I switch to full screen, the area where Flash should be rendered is totally black.

The right click is showing me the Flash options which means that the plug-in does not crash, just it does not display anything.

Could anyone solve this issue or should we just wait for some Flash update?


texts: Easy alternation between different Java version installation

texts:
I currently have Java 6 installed on my system (please don't laugh) and we are moving to Java 8. So we have changed the main branch of our application to use Java 8, however, we need to support old versions that run on Java 6. So we need to easily alternate.

I understand that java (command) points to /usr/bin/java, which is a symlink to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java.  That directory looks as follows:

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions@16:44:32>ls -la
total 64
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel  374 Jun 16 16:39 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel  408 Jun 16 16:43 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Jun 16 16:39 1.4 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Jun 16 16:39 1.4.2 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Jun 16 16:39 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Jun 16 16:39 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Jun 16 16:39 1.6 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Jun 16 16:39 1.6.0 -> CurrentJDK
drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel  272 Jun 16 16:43 A
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    1 Jun 16 16:39 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   59 Jun 16 16:39 CurrentJDK -> /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents

I can install Java 8 without uninstalling Java 6 and would like to have a mechanism of easily repointing the related commands in /usr/bin from /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents to /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.8.0.jdk/Contents.

Is there a quick and existing way of doing it as opposed to writing my own script when I have to go to legacy branches/versions of our app for troubleshooting and PROD support? Like flip the java alternative from 6 to 8 and it does it all for you.


texts: Custom "mouse" gestures for Trackpad on Macbook Pro and Magic mouse

texts: Is it possible to create custom gestures for Macbook Pro Trackpad and Magic Mouse to custom actions? For example to close a window or launch some application.


texts:
I do not need Finder because I use Ranger in CLI and I manually quit it (I added the quit option) each time I boot (mainly not to have it in the way when I use to switch applications with cmd + tab).

If it's not possible, an alternative would be to quit it from the terminal and I would do a script that is launched on boot. But after "killall Finder", Finder relaunch automatically.


texts:
Last night my iPhone 5 (32 GB) was stolen.

How can I lock it so that the person won't be able to use it anymore?


texts: What is the Mac 256-color system palette?

texts:
I have some old Mac files, of which I want to extract and display their icons. To do this, I will decode their icl8 resources. According to Inside Macintosh, icl8 resources do not include a color table--instead, they are drawn according to the system palette. The problem is, nobody seems to have ever extracted and made the palette available online. All I can find is a basic description on Wikipedia.

What are the color values of the Macintosh 256-color system palette?


texts: How To Remove Individual Office 2016 for OS X Applications

texts:
I have Office 2016 installed - Excel, Outlook, Power Point and Word.
I want to remove Outlook 2016 and leave the rest.
I want to leave no trace behind, a complete remove of Outlook as if I installed only the other 3.

How can I do that?
What if I want to remove a different one?

Thank You.


texts: How to open an Excel workbook that ends with a specific string using Applescript

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I am new to Applescript and I am trying to open a xlsx file that ends like DK.xlsx. Tried using the following code, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here? Please help.

set sourcefilepath to "Macintosh HD:Users:nprabu:Documents:Work:Project:Q1 2018:"

set sourcefile to name of every file of sourcefilepath whose name ends with "DK.xlsx"

tell application "Microsoft Excel"

    open workbook workbook file name sourcefile

end tell


texts:
In Windows when you're in File Explorer, you can right-click anywhere and create a new item of various types (there's then a submenu option to select which type: text file, ZIP file, etc., just to name a few). In Finder there seems to be no such option. I imagine the expected workflow on Mac would be to open an Application and create a new file from within the application, then save it. But I sometimes prefer this alternative workflow of creating a blank file first, and then opening it as the entrypoint into the application.

Is there some way to configure Finder to add a right-click option to create new, empty files?


texts: Can't install enrollment profiles, logs show complaints about failed membership check for opendirectory group

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Clean install of Yosemite. Using self-signed certificates, turned on Profile Manager, downloaded Trust Profile and created an enrollment profile from the web interface. Fails in Apple Configurator.

So I go to the /mydevices/ page manually on the iPad, log in and click "Enroll", but I get a 500 internal server error. Click on Profiles and try to install the enrollment profile (trust profile went through fine with Apple Configurator), but I'm then told it can't connect to the server.

Check the logs and I see this (domain removed):

14/11/14 11:18:22,671 xscertd-helper[999]: Authentication challenge password request failed authorization for (domain removed)$ as record failed membership check for opendirectory group
14/11/14 11:18:22,672 xscertd[998]: AuthenticateChallengePasswordRequest returned error
14/11/14 11:18:22,698 xscertd[998]: Request from 127.0.0.1:49628 failed, returning Failure (ChallengePassword Authenticate) status
14/11/14 11:18:22,701 php-fpm[527]: do_dmx_get_scep_challenge_for_host: caught exception -[SCEPHelper getSCEPChallengeForHost:] (/SourceCache/RemoteDeviceManagement/RemoteDeviceManagement-883.16/Compiled/Framework-Base/Support/SCEPHelper.m:76): "'((SCEPHELPER_GetSCEPChallenge(self.connection, hostname, hostnameCnt, &challenge, &challengeCnt)))' error 1"

Anybody have any idea what might be wrong here?


texts: System event key codes not working on thunderbolt display

texts:
My AppleScript works when I am just using my MacBook Pro Retina, however if i have my Thunderbolt Display attached the script does not work.

Here is the script which works perfectly on just the laptop:

######## turn screen bright
repeat 25 times
    tell application "System Events"
        key code 113
    end tell
end repeat

Terminal will display this if i am running on the Thunderbolt Display:

^[[28~^[[28~^{{ (repeats)

Does any one know the key code to adjust brightness on the Thunderbolt Display or where I may find it?

Thanks in advance


texts: Change the location of Chrome notifications?

texts:
Chrome notifications are by default in the top right corner, and native notifications cover them.

It does not appear possible to change the location of native Notification Center alerts:
Change location of macOS Notification Center alerts?

Is there any way to change the location of Chrome notifications so that they are not covered by native notifications? I'm using MacOS Sierra.

The only workaround I've found so far is to set Chrome to use native macOS notifications, but these notifications doesn't hold all the information of the original Chrome notifications.


texts: How to extract applications as IPA files on iOS9?

texts:
As of iOS9 Apple stopped allowing iTunes or any other application to backup apps to IPA files. When it comes time to do a restore, one must download all apps. This can either be done to iTunes or on the iOS device itself. The reason is because in iOS9 apps are "thinned" so that data only necessary for an iPad does not waste storage space on an iPhone.

Tools like iTools and iMazing and CopyTrans used to offer the functionality to backup apps to IPA, but have not added support for iOS9.

To question, how to backup apps to IPA so that they can be restored without downloading them again?


texts:
It was listed on a slide in the iOS 11 keynote. What does it do and how does it work? My best guess is that I can initiate an iCloud backup by signing into iCloud online?

https://imgur.com/a/JLfwe#2TjEs9c


texts: Retina performance much worse than non-retina in Windows on Parallels and VMWare

texts:
I have been using Windows (8 then 10) in Parallels on a Mac for years. It has always been very fast.

Over 3 MacBook Air 11" with (2 then 4Gb RAM). Over many versions of MacOS and 2 versions of Windows.

I recently got a 12" MacBook (8Gb RAM) - and the VM also ran fine there. That was until I enabled retina mode in the VM. Then Parallels got slow - often locking up for 10 seconds.

So I spoke to Parallels and they couldn't fix it so I tried VMWare. It is a little better but also locks up from time to time in retina mode.

If you look at Geekbench the 12" is around 3000 - which is within 10% the Geekbench score of low-end MacBook i5 Pro 13" 2015 - and on par with Airs.

Is this a driver issue - or does retina just require a lot more speed?

Would a high-end new MacBook Pro likely fix this?

Has anyone had these issues and found a way to overcome them?


texts: Multiple Apple TV connections to one iTunes Library

texts: I have 16 AppleTVs connected to a Video Wall, we want to share the iTunes/iPhoto libraries from a Mac mini containing family photos so we can show different photo albums in each screen (up to 16, one for each AppleTV in the video wall). Does anybody know how many simultaneous connections iTunes can support? We will showing personal media, no movies or music bought from the iTunes Store.


texts: Harddrive is full of Audio and Photos, how can I find them?

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I have bought a new Macbook and when I go to About This Mac -> Storage I see: 1.11 GB Audio and 750 MB of Photos.. But I have not copied any Audio or Photos to this laptop.

How can I find where these files are? For example in Windows there was this app: WinDirStat https://windirstat.info/ Anything like this for Mac?


texts: Cannot share internet from MacBook to iPhone via usb cable; option not available

texts:
This is not a duplicate question asked here or here.

I cannot tether internet to my iPhone from my MacBook Pro using a USB cable; the option to do so is simply not available (see screenshot). The device I am using as the gateway to the internet is my MacBook, connected to the internet via ethernet. I do not want to use Bluetooth or wifi to share internet.
I can access my iPhone normally from finder (i.e. my MacBook recognizes the device). My previous MacBook had an iPhone USB option in the To computers using: list which my current MacBook lacks.

My devices:

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019), macOS Catalina, Version 10.15.4
iPhone 7 iOS 13.3.1


texts: I am curious as to whether there is an equivalent to the Alt-. command on Mac. On my computer it inserts the following character: ≥, instead of showing the preceding lines final parameter.


texts: Is it possible to make the Finder render thumbnails for images that have a custom extension?

texts:
I have several image files that were originally .png, but due to my own needs I changed their name to some custom extension .xyz.

Thankfully, I can still preview the images using the spacebar, so that's great. However, their thumbnail is blank:

Is it possible to tell Finder to render the image for files with extension .xyz? Note that the file contents are identical to that of a .png file - it's just the extension which is different for my own needs.

I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.


texts: Cannot recover space after deleting Windows partition in bootcamp

texts:
First I used Disk Utility to create a 100GB partition for sharing data between OSes, I then used Bootcamp Assistant to create a Windows partition to install Windows.
Later, when I removed the Windows partition again through Bootcamp assistant, it hasn't restored the space back to my original Hard disk.
Below is how my disks appears on Disk Utility, I'm not sure what is going on with it.
Does anyone know how I can recover the space?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to close the edit window in Calendar (and retain changes)?

texts:
In Calendar 6 (mountain lion) when I use command E to bring up an edit window after I make changes I haven't been able to find a keyboard short cut to close that window and keep whatever info I've entered or changed.

I've searched quite a bit on this question. I've seen using Esc suggested, but that cancels the info/changes. I think that may have worked for older versions of (iCal).


texts: How to list installed versions of the same program

texts:
I have a program called PyMOL installed multiple times on my machine. One was installed by MacPorts, one was installed through the developers distribution channel and so on. One is in /opt/local/bin, the other is in /i/have/no/clue.

I know I can use "which pymol" to see, where the one that is executed is located, but how can I get the location of the other ones with the same name?


texts: How do I automatically reconnect to wifi when the connection is lost?

texts:
I'm on OS X 10.6. When I'm downloading a torrent, the connection is sometimes lost.

And because of this, the download stops too, and the only solution I found to reconnect is to manually turn off the WiFi and turn it back on.

Is there a program or trick to restore the network connection automatically?


texts: iTunes match will not upload any unmatched songs

texts:
I've got a few audio tracks (hypnosis audio CD's which I imported into iTunes) which iTunes can't match and tries to upload. However it iTM gets stuck on stage 3 and never uploads these files.

I have tried converting them in iTunes to AAC format but this doesn't seem work either. It just sits there trying to upload without any error messages.

I've already tried signing out of iTM, iTunes Store and re-enabling. I've also ripped a fresh version of the files from the original CD to make sure the files weren't corrupted. I've also tried uploading other audio files that iTunes can't match and it seems to be any audio. Nothing will upload.

Any suggestions?

OSX 10.9.3
Latest version of iTunes
Macbook Pro late 2013 version


texts: How to delete all "Audio" files from my MacBook

texts:
Through the disk utility, I can see I have over 10 GB of "Audio" files.
When I search on Finder for music files (kind "Music") no more than 10 MB comes.

What exactly is considered to be "Audio" files?
How can I free up those 10GB?


texts: Keyboard and touchpad are not working when booting from live USB

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2017, 13", no Touch Bar) and I want to create Linux live USB. However, keyboard and trackpad are not working when I'm booting Linux OS from live USB. I'm able to select EFI boot, proceed to selection how I want to boot my Linux system but as soon as OS is loaded - trackpad and keyboard don't respond. I tried Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.03.

Did anyone succeeded to boot Linux OS from a machine similar to mine? How can I create workable Linux (preferably Ubuntu) live USB on my MacBook?


texts: Location of OSX Lion Mail Server sent mail

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I had to restore a mac mini server I use for web and mail hosting. Since the restore was due to a software problem, I had to do from scratch instead of recovering from a disk clone. I copied from the old mini backup all the mail accounts directories under /Library/Server/Mail/Data/..., and I've got back all received mail for every account, but NOT the sent mail. I guess sent mail is stored in a different location, but can't figure out where.

Does anyone know what I have to copy to restore also sent mail?


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I am trying to do a spring clean on my iTunes library. I have around 500 songs that are tagged incorrrectly. The Name is in the format '11 Artist - Song Name'. Is there any quick way of extracting this and retagging the files without manually editing each of them?

Cheers


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I got an external hd "clickfree hd" but when trying it with my Mac I get the following error:

  ntfs 3g could not mount, error

I have tried NTFS-3G, MacFuse and FuseOSX. I'm running Lion but this seems not to be working. So I'm missing something to mount the drive with read and write capabilities.

The second question is, is it better to format the HD, as I will only use it in my Macs and when using Linux? So if I format it, can I use it for time machine with the machine running Lion as well as backup for another Mac and a Linux machine?


texts: Workflow for dealing with incoming files to keep the file system tidy?

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The cluttered desktops of our computers at home (Macs and PCs) made me think about a better workflow to deal with new files (self created or downloaded from the internet).

My question is:

Which workflow do you use to keep your desktop uncluttered and your file system tidy?

I have a hierarchical folder structure for the data of my personal "projects" and for some general things like e. g. finance, photos, etc., but there are lots of incoming files which do not seem to fit in any of the existing categories and therefore clutter the desktop.

I tried to create an "Inbox" directory, which removed clutter from the desktop but on the other hand only moved the problem to another place.

The GTD* method (getting things done, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done) has some useful tips and habits for managing tasks and I'm trying to use it, so it would make sense to create a "next action" on my list to "review file xy", or something similar. I could add a link to the file, but the question is where to store those files.
I tried creating a "temporary storage" directory where I put those files, but it filled very quickly.

* I'm currently using iGTD for managing my tasks and personal projects, but I'm considering buying Thingsor OmniFocus, as iGTD is not developed any more and has some [for me] annoying bugs and limitations.

So I would be interested in other ways to manage the electronic "information overload", maybe using tagsor a database like DevonThink Pro or ...?


texts: Wi-Fi indicator error after bad chown command

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I mistakenly ran chown -R /.

Subsequently, I reinstalled the OS from the recovery drive (10.12.6) and ran everything I could find on the internet, including diskutil resetUserPermissions (id -u). Things are functional for the most part. However, every once in a while I hit a bizarre problem that seems to be related to permissions.

This one is the fact that my Wi-Fi indicator is totally wrong. Right now for instance, I'm on Wi-Fi in a Peet's coffee and the indicator is the exclamation point over the Wi-Fi symbol. Clicking on it says no internet connection. No networks appear in the list either, anywhere I go. I'm able to list networks and get online in Terminal but the commands are pretty unwieldy. Does anyone know why this might be the case?


texts: How to disable accidental trackpad input in Yosemite?

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The solution to this problem in previous versions of OS X was a checkbox in the trackpad preferences that said "ignore accidental trackpad input." That option is no longer there in Yosemite.

Is it still possible to enable it, and if so how?


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When I try to display web inspector just a grey background shows instead of that. I tried to restart browser but it didn't help. It happens in Safary 7 OS X Mavericks.

Anybody knows what is that could be?


texts: PDF "is damaged and can't be opened" on mounted drive

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I have a late 2013 MBP, OSX v10.10. I have a drive mounted via ssh tunnelling. The basic command looks like:

alias mountCS='ssh -f useru@host1 -L port:host2 -N ; sshfs -p port user@localhost:remoteDir /Users/User/mnt/CS'

While ssh'ed in to the same remote host I created a pdf from latex. When I try open to take a peek from mounted dir I get the error "“results.pdf” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk.". However, this happens with R pdfs too. If I simply copy it to a local directory it opens fine though. Odd right? When I first set this sshfs mount up, it didn't do this.


texts: Is there a app or software to do random photo selection on iphone?

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I am looking for an app on iphone to do this:

I can select a bunch of photos into the app
I click a button
Then the app will randomly pick a photo from what I have selected and show up in the screen.

If possible the app could quickly slide through all the photos I have selected and randomly stop at one of them.

This app is very useful in a party and when people want to do a raffle gift drawing.

Is there such an app there?


texts: No sound when cast Google Photos to Chromecast using iPhone?

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Problem: when I cast a video from Google Photos to Chromecast using my iPhone, I see that only the image of the video is cast to TV, the TV has no sound and the frame is lag, the sound remain on my iPhone, but if I press home on my iPhone, then the casting to my TV stopped.
Then I try using Google Photos on my friend's Samsung Android to cast a video, and it works perfectly.
I see that this problem exists since 2018, many has complained:

No sound when I cast videos from the Google Photos app to my TV,
audio only plays from my phone.

No sound when casting Google photos to tv. All other apps like Spotify and youtube works fine .

iOS Photos App, Cloud-Only Video to Chromecast (2&3): No Sound from TV, only iOS device

This is the end of 2020 and it's still not fixed. So I don't expect Google will fix this on iPhone.
Some user said

When a local copy exists on iOS device, the picture quality on the TV
is noticeably better than that of cloud-only videos. This suggests to
me that the app is streaming the local version of the video, when
available, directly from the iOS device to the Chromecast. When a
local copy is not available, it's clearly using a different process to
cast the cloud-only video, and that's where the issue is. While this
may make perfect sense on an Android, Photos app for iOS is billed as
a cloud service.

So beside having a local copy exists on iOS device, is there other way? Or I guess I'll just buy a Samsung Android to cast Google Photos video.


texts: What's the best match iTunes version for iPhone 2G (first generation) now?

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My iPhone 2G (first generation) can't be recognized by the current iTunes 11. (Tried both DFU mode and recovery mode but failed.)

So whats the best match iTunes version (and where can it be downloaded) for iPhone 2G so that this ancient guy be can recognized.


texts: How do I remove the previous App Store user from my computer?

texts: Someone else at the office was attempting to help me setup the laptop before I started, so now my MBP has their credentials for some apps. I can uninstall and reinstall the app, if that's all it takes, but how do I remove this user from the system so it quites prompting me?


texts: Way to keep track of successful commands on command line?

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Usually I just copy/paste successful actions I do on the command line into a text file. That's a bit of an error prone and cumbersome process and I sometimes forget to do it.
Do you know of a way to automatically log commands that return successfully (I'm thinking of things like cmake, make etc. but also basic commands like cd) to a text file in order to keep a record of how you managed to finally successfully set up your environment to compile that one stubborn piece of code? For instance...
I'm on a MacBook Pro, MacOS Catalina, using iTerm2 with zsh and oh-my-zsh extension, as well as powerlevel10k.


texts: Is there any way to get rid of the sound made when a screenshot is created?

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Obviously other than muting the computer. I just want to create a screenshot without having that "camera sound" come out.

Is there a way to disable this sound?


texts: Can't unmount the disk during Mac OS X install

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My MacBook started to get really slow recently. Now it can’t start up properly anymore. All I see is the Apple logo and then it shuts down. I've tried rebooting multiple times, but I've seen the same result over and over again.

So, I tried to reinstall my OS, but for some reason I get the error I cannot unmount my disk. And the partition seems to be locked, so I can't reinstall the OS over the internet.

Do I have a damaged disk?


texts: What can I use to enable-disable a ssh tunnel with port forwarding?

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I already found a product that does this, named Meerkat, but I'm looking for a free solution.

I need to do several port remapping with ease.


texts: What is the difference between a tap and a click?

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I can click on both my Magic Trackpad and my Magic Mouse but I can tap on neither, if my understanding is correct.

On my Magic Mouse all I can do is click. Same with Magic Trackpad.

What am I missing? I have searched web but it is hard to get relevant answers.
I am using a mid 2011 iMac with 10.11 beta but this has bothered me since Lion.
I have enabled Tap to click, but the situation is the same and my basic question is what is the difference?

Edit 2

After several reboots the trackpad now responds to tap, mouse does not.


texts: Outlook 2011 reports incorrect font size

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My copy of Outlook 2011 is behaving oddly with respect to font sizes.

When I compose an email and set the text to be, for example, 12pt, the text I get when I type within the email composition window is actually 9pt. Moreover, when I send the email to myself and read it on a Windows computer the email is, again, 9pt.

Outlook 2011 therefore seems to be inacurately reporting/setting the font size. Does anyone know why it does this or have a solution?

Edit with some more information about my specific circumstances:

Outlook is set to default at 12pt Calibri, and this is what I am trying to compose in (i.e. its set to this size before I start typing).

The same issue affects all the other fonts in Outlook, but does not affect MS Word.

Outlook and Safari are both up to date.

I am running Mountain Lion on a Retina Macbook Pro 15".


texts: How to get 4 channel audio from a MacMini?

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I would like to know if/how is possible to get 4 channel audio from a Mac Mini.

My speakers do have two jacks for from/back and currently I can use one one of them.

It seams that putting the second jack into the line in doesn't work (some Windows audio boards do let you configure the purpose of the jack socket.

Is there any solution or should I get used to stereo?


texts: How to remove annoying iCloud nagging in Catalina?

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How do I remove this very annoying thing under System preferences without signing in to iCloud? I do want to be signed in to the app store.

I do not want to use iCloud.