texts: Applescript to kill open applications and log out user after 30 min. of inactivity

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I'm looking for a way to automatically log off a user after 30 minutes of inactivity, as well as close all open applications. As of now, there is really only one user to deal with. I'd prefer an easy (free) way of doing this, but am open to using a program that might accomplish the same thing. Thus far, I've come up with the following Applescript to close all programs and log out:

tell application "System Events"
    key down {command, shift, option}
    keystroke "Q"
    key up {command, shift, option}
end tell

I'm not sure how to go about finding the period of inactivity. I don't have much programming experience, so any detailed step-by-step would be appreciated.


texts: Yosemite does not like emptying the trash

texts: I am on Yosemite (10.10.1) and I noticed the annoying habit of not wanting to empty the trash -- it keeps whining that The operation can’t be completed because the item “whatever” is in use.  This is starting to piss me off - I can go to .Trash and remove stuff by hand, but is going on?   Once a file is not in use and has been binned, why can't the OS recognise it's not actually linked to any application?  This problem has come up whether the app used for that kind of file is still open or not btw.


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As you know, the Apple ID Password must meet some minimum requirements, such as having at least one lower case letter, one capital letter, one number, etc.

So, how come sometimes I see a customer putting in a password just 4 characters long?

I am thinking probably if it is a very old password, never changed before, it can be still used as a valid Apple ID Password? Or what?


texts: Reminders on iOS is often out of sync with Reminders on my other devices and iCloud. How do I force it to sync?


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Say I have a list of files and I want to open and process them one by one through a third party program. Does this third party program need to support Automator, in order for me to do this?

I am asking this because I just started researching Automator today, and found in it a lot of actions not only for built-in apps, but also for third-party files like Word documents,
which made me wonder: where did those actions come from? Were they added by Office during installation? And if the developer of the program I need to use hasn't enabled Automator support, is there nothing I can do?


texts: Is it possible to keep Whatsapp from saving *outgoing* sent videos to Camera Roll?

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When I record and send an outgoing video through Whatsapp it automatically saves a copy (duplicate) to my Camera Roll. This is a pain because I do not want them saved.
Is there a way to turn off automatic saving of outgoing video to Camera Roll?
Note: This is different than Whatsapp automatically saving incoming media to Camera Roll, which can easily be turned off in the settings.


texts: MBA has occasional difficulty with campus WPA/WPA2 enterprise wifi network

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I'm at the University of Texas, where we have a WPA/WPA2 enterprise wifi network. Much of the time it works great. Other times, it's tricky to connect and stay connected.

I can actually force it to connect long enough to load a webpage or two if I go into System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi. In the bottom half of the window it's got 802.1X: Wi-Fi (restricted.utexas.edu) next to a Connect button.

If I push connect, it says:

Authenticated via TTLS
Connect Time: 00:00:00

and then starts counting up. When it hits about 5 seconds, I find that I can load webpages. The Wi-Fi indicator, however, seems to think it's not connected (won't show the solid connection indicator, just the trying-to-connect animation), and after about 52 seconds, it seems to give up and decide it's time to try again -- which actually disconnects me.

Even after about two years of this I haven't found a consistent way of handling the problem other than rebooting the Macbook altogether. I find it'll connect eventually even if I don't. Turning Wi-Fi off and on may or may not help, but that may be my imagination.

I'd love to find a solution to this problem that doesn't involve rebooting, for obvious reasons. It's just not sustainable, because sometimes the computer will idle-to-suspend and then lose the connection again, which requires another reboot.

I'm using OS X version 10.8.4.


texts: How do I get my iPhone and iPad to automatically search changes of IP addresses with WiFi extenders

texts: I have two WiFi extenders and when I move within the range of each extender or back to the router the IP addresses change but my iPhone and iPad don't apply the changes. I have to manually switch off WiFi and restart it to get the device to find the right address.


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I have a MacBook Air 13" and right from the start I kept having this weird issue:
Sometimes while I'm working on it, the screen randomly shuts off (or goes to sleep). The computer is still active and everything is still running, so If I hit a key it goes back on normally. It happens even if my power cord is plugged in.
I have turned off  put screen to sleep.
Do you have any ideas how to solve this?
Listed by owning process:
pid 448(com.apple.preferences.softwareu): [0x000000ed000182f9] 00:47:33 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate.install"
Timeout will fire in 11547 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
pid 280(softwareupdated): [0x00000a1b00018d73] 00:08:16 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.SoftwareUpdateMacController.msu.PrepareUpdate"
pid 139(WindowServer): [0x000005fc0009885b] 00:00:07 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle serviceID:10000033f name:AppleHIDKeyboardEve product:Apple Internal Keyb eventType:3"
Timeout will fire in 172 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
pid 492(SoftwareUpdateNotificationManag): [0x000000ed000182f8] 00:47:33 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager.RestartCountdownOperationIdleSleep"
Timeout will fire in 747 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
No kernel assertions.
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler


texts: How to change "Automatically reduce brightness before the display goes to sleep" in Yosemite?

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A few OS X releases ago, there was a checkbox in the Energy Saver settings for "Automatically reduce brightness before the display goes to sleep". This doesn't appear to be there any more, and hasn't been since 10.8 afaik.

Since I updated the family laptops to Yosemite, my laptop (mid-2010 MBP) still dims a few seconds before going to sleep, but my wife's (late-2009 MacBook) no longer does, and she wants to re-enable that behaviour. But I've no idea how.

Any suggestions? I've searched Secrets for a hidden preference, but I don't see one.


texts: How do I delete photos in photo albums without using iTunes?

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I have bought a used iPod which the previous owner had loaded photo albums on. I do not have iTunes and it will not let me delete the photos/photo albums without it.

How do I delete the photo albums that are on this device?


texts: Where can I download Filemerge - the app for comparing two tools and merging them?

texts: I would like to install Filemerge, but can't find where to go to download it. Where can I download it?


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I recently had to erase my 2018 Mac mini and I’m now trying to upgrade to macOS Catalina 10.15.6. However, after running the installer, I keep getting the error message “An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.”
I’m not sure why this is. I’ve ran it 4 different times, restarted, deleted and re-installed the installer for Catalina, and nothing happens. Still getting the error message. Is there any way I can fix this and get it to work? Had the same issue while trying to re-install Catalina on another machine after resetting. Not sure what to do here.


texts: Terminal app slows switching of desktops/Spaces

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I noticed some time ago that when switching from one space (workspace/desktop) to another this animation is slowed if a terminal app is running on one of them.
Funny thing I found out by experiment, the greater the terminal app window is the slower gets the switch.

Anyone can share this experience, or at best have a solution?

Bugreport is send out, and this How can I disable animation when switching desktops in Lion? approach is also tried.
It first appeared with Mavericks for me and now on el capitan it's still there.
Thank you for your time.


texts: USB external harddrive not being recognised

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My WD 2 TB hard drive has suddenly stopped being recognized by my MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.11.3, but it's working on my ThinkPad, running Windows 7 and Linux Mint. The solution I found was to reformat the drive. However, I cannot do that as I do not have a place to copy all the files on the HD to.

I've had a similar issue before in Windows 7. I went to some part of the Registry and deleted the records pertaining to the USB drive and it worked fine after that.

Is there any similar solution like that in OS X?

The output for 'diskutil list':

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +249.8 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 3D4D9C68-75DA-41A9-BCF7-54D66F542074
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:               Windows_NTFS Elements                2.0 TB     disk2s1

Screenshot of "Get Info":


texts: Using quotes in SublimeText build system command

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I'd like to execute a simple AppleScript command as part of a Sublime Text build system. I created a sublime-build file where the command is

"cmd": ["osascript", "-e", """tell application "Preview" to activate"""]

but I can't seem to escape the quotes properly. I've tried using \", \', and a few other combinations, with no luck. Does anyone know what the proper syntax is? In the shell, I simply write

osascript -e 'tell application "Preview" to activate'

Thanks!


texts: Anyone knows any application that will allow me to share my OS X Lion screen with an iPhone? I don't care to have it over the Internet, WiFi is sufficient.


texts: Is there a way to configure OSX to auto mount and SMB share without entering a user and password into the configuration file?

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I've found instructions on how to auto mount an SMB share, but they either involve adding the share to the login items (I'm using a laptop and that gives me an error when I'm not in the same network as the SMB share), or adding my login and password into the fstab or auto_master file (if I change my password, as I should, I have to go reconfiguring the system).

My user and password are stored in the keychain, and I only want the system to mount the share when I'm in the same network. I'm lazy and I want this to happen automatically. Is it possible?


texts: Mac Calendar app on 10.13.6 High Sierra editing event descriptions

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Whenever I create a new event in my calendar and start typing a description, e.g. Hairddresser, a list of previously used descriptions appears.

This is useful but after a while I just want to delete those descriptions I no longer want to appear. How do I access the list where they are stored to delete them?

Anyone have any idea?


texts: Downsides of encrypting disk with FileVault

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Is there any downside of encrypting my OS X 10.10.5 laptop via FileVault, in terms of usability?

Obviously, if I lose the password I can no longer use the laptop. (out of interest is that correct, will the laptop be completely un usable, or will the hard drive be unusable eg. if I were to swap out the HD for a new HD could i use the laptop again)

But apart from that would any other features stop working when the laptop was unlocked because it is encrypted (e.g. file sharing, printer sharing, Apple Remote Desktop, performance degradation, security issues).

I'm setting up the MacBook as new and debating turning on FileVault or not.


texts: Is anyone else having problems with using htop on High Sierra?

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Since the upgrade to High Sierra my MacBook is crashing regularly in a catastrophic way that forces me to trigger a hard reset every time.

I suspect htop being the culprit, but I can't tell for sure.

This is what happened about half a dozen times now:

I'm working in either iTerm2 or the Terminal app. Suddenly and seemingly at random iTerm2/Terminal crashes. I'm still able to Force Quit it then.

But then the whole system is left in a really messed up state where I can't start any Apps anymore. Even worse, triggering a restart won't succeed in shutting down the system. My only option left then is to hard-reset the MacBook.

First I suspected iTerm2 and used the Terminal app instead. But exactly the same thing then also happened using the latter. It does not seem to be connected to anything particular I'm doing in the Terminal.

I do have the habit though to always have an instance of htop (version 2.0.2, installed via brew install htop) running in some terminal pane to be able to conveniently monitor processes and CPU/Memory usage while I'm working.

So a running htop instance is the only common precondition for the crashes I can identify.

Because I don't know how to further encircle this problem, I resort to asking here:

Is anyone else experiencing (similar) problems with running htop on High Sierra? And does anyone maybe even have a solution for this?

Suggestions about what I could do to get to the bottom of this would also be very welcome.


texts: Multiple logitech keyboards with different keymaps?

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I have this at work -- http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-solar-keyboard-k750-mac

and this at home -- http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/k750-keyboard?crid=26&section=features

Every time I switch between the two work-zones I have to remap my keyboards via Settings > Keyboard > Modifier Keys (basically I have to switch the windows and alt keys on the windows one)

Is there a way to avoid this annoyance, or at least reduce it to a simple click switch?

It's especially difficult I think because of the fact that they use the same type of wireless USB receiver.


texts: Can't Find MacPorts (installed on OS 10.8.5

texts: How can I find MacPorts after it's been installed? I'm trying to use it to open GIMP but can't locate it. GIMP gave me the message "There is no application set to open the document fimp-2.8.14.dmg.torrent - so, that's why I downloaded MacPorts, and now I can't find THAT - Please Heeeeelp - Thank you!


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I have a silver iPhone SE, and I have been using it with a soft plastic case. I took the case off and then I noticed if I lightly brush my finger over the power button it jiggles slightly and makes a faint clicking noise as it hits into the surrounding metal enclosure.

It doesn't really bother me but I just want to make sure this is normal and isn't something caused from the case, so I can know that I didn't somehow damage the phone.


texts: Where can I find resources to learn about the internals of Mac OS X?

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I want to dive into Mac OS X, but don't know any good sources to learn from.

I found this book: Mac OS X Internals, but it's a bit old, and from the recessions it  discusses the PowerPC, and not the Intel versions of Mac OS X.

Where can I find good books or websites?

And I don't mean the Apple Developer Forum, I want to know everything about from the kernel up to the Mac OS.


texts: Sometimes video jumps while presenting it from a third party app on iOS 10

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I am trying to present a video from a third party app on my iPhone 6s (iOS 10) to an extended screen via the Lightning Digital AV Adapter. But sometimes it lags/jumps, making the video almost unwatchable.

Why does it do this? How can I stop the video from lagging and jumping?


texts: How to diagnose TP-link av600 connection issue on OS X?

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I normally connect my mid-2015 macbook pro running OS X 10.14.6 to the Internet via wifi.
However, if the wifi seems wonky, I plug a TP-Link AV600 a wall outlet, and into the macbook via USB.
Sometimes the TP-Link works.  When it doesn't, I look at the lights. The TP-Link has three green lights: power, powerline connection, Ethernet connection.
Sometimes all three lights are on, but the Internet will still not connect (i.e., I turn off wifi, and a web browser says "No Internet").  When I go to the "Network Utility" I see one wifi, and 2 thunderbolt entries in "Info" tab of network interfaces, but no interface that seems to correspond to the TP-Link.
P.S. There are 3 TP-Link adapters plugged into my power lines: 1 plugged into my router, 1 plugged into my macbook, and 1 plugged into a windows box in another room.  There is something about "pairing" TP-Link adapters that I don't fully understand.  It is possible usage of the windows box is disrupting usage of the macbook pro.
How do I debug what's happening?
I looked for TP-Link downloads for OS X, and there's sort of mention of one, but I can't find anything.
I searched for pages describing how to debug network interfaces, nothing seems appropriate.
Ideas?


texts: I want my Mac Mini power button to shut down the computer

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I’ve recently started using my Mac Mini as a media server. I really don’t want it to be powered on all the time though. I’ve removed the password prompt and have told Plex to automatically open on startup which works great, but I now need a way to shut down the computer when I’m done using it.

The box sits on a shelf in my room and isn’t connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and I’d like it to stay this way. From what I can tell the only actions the power button can take are putting the Mac to sleep, displaying the shutdown dialog, and forcing power off.

Is there any way to change my settings such that a simple press of the power button initiates a full system shutdown?


texts: Disable File System Cache for USB Devices?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message

When I have a USB Device like a SD Card, USB Drive or external hard drive, I always need to unmount it, otherwise OS X complains about the device not being ejected properly.

On Windows, the solution to this is trivial: Disable the File System Cache for USB Drives, so that they can be immediately and safely removed.

Does OS X have a way to disable the cache?


texts: What is the best way to backup photos & videos from iPhoto online?

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I'd love to use Dropbox to back up all my photos and videos, especially from iPhoto.  But I'm not exactly sure the best way to do this is, given that I know that my 2 computers with iPhoto directories will conflict with each other within dropbox.  And my video collection (with 2 little kids) is getting massive.  100 GB from Dropbox won't cut it.

I understand flickr is a good option, in that they integrate directly from iPhoto and have unlimited uploads (how is this possible for only $25/year?).  Can they also automatically synchronize photo/video folders?


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Since installing macOS Catalina Beta, Safari takes 5 minutes or more to load google.com.

I've cleared History but the issue remains.

I also have a related problem in that my FTP software fails to connect now with Catalina Beta (Transmit & FileZilla).

How do I troubleshoot this please?


texts: Different scales (or resolutions) for different apps in the same screen?

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Today my cat stepped on my keyboard and somehow changed the scale of one app. The problem is that scale of the display is globally the same what changed was the overall resolution of my app.

In the image above, there's the corner of chrome in the usual resolution, on the right is the corner for Discord, much much scaled.

I also added a photo of a widget within Chrome scaled.
Anyone knows how can I correct this?
Thank you in advance.


texts: Can I zoom in and out in macOS / Finder?

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Is it possible to Zoom around in macOS? I mean anywhere in macOS, even in Finder? And by Zoom I mean being able to Zoom in and out whenever you want!

Use Case

Many times a day I change my screen’s resolution (in System Preferences/Display Preferences), but if I could zoom in and out no matter what app I was in, even in Finder, that would be perfect. I was thinking a keyboard shortcut like using ⌘+ and ⌘- in some apps to zoom in and out.


texts: Application to notify user of active VNC connection

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I want something more visual than Apple’s very subtle binoculars in the top right status menu when there is an active incoming VNC connection to the machine.

Preferably just a floating window notifying the user that there is an active VNC connection, and maybe the IP address. The best solution I have found is running the below command in the Terminal. But that doesn’t really solve my monitoring issue as I actively have to go and find the data.

netstat -a | grep vnc | grep ESTABLISHED


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The wired network on my iMac is uncomfortably slow. Google's speed test (just for one quick and easy metric) frequently dips down to about 1 Mbps for downloads. A separate laptop on the same network at the same time, but through WiFi, will consistently show 250 Mbps.
Sometimes connecting the iMac to WiFi seems to improve speeds a bit. Sometimes they improve on their own. In any case the iMac never sees more than half the speeds a laptop does.
This is a new problem immediately after upgrading to Big Sur (i.e., no other changes to the system or network). I'm therefore assuming this is something to do with macOS. But I am at a loss to even begin to know how to troubleshoot the problem.
What in macOS can I check or tweak or investigate to get any handle on what's even happening, much less how to fix it?


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While trying to make a Genius Bar reservation, the name appearing in the reservation is different from the one appearing in my profile—I modified it at some point. Why is that and how can I update the one from the reservations page?

Also, when I’m trying to edit it from the reservations page, it redirect to the account page, where the name is correct.

Genius Bar reservations page:

My account page:


texts: How to share an iTunes library between Mac & Windows?

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i have two SSDs and one HDD in my computer. One SSD runs OS X and one SSD runs Windows. On the HDD i have my iTunes Library and Music Files. I want to use the same library on both OSs.

I used this guide to get write permissions on the NTFS HDD over Mac OS: NTFS support on El Capitan

I now have the problem that Mac OS searches music in the path:

file://localhost/D:/Music/

While it is (within Mac OS) in the path:

file:///Volumes/DATA/Music/

Which options do i have to solve this problem?

I already read about OS X Fuse but im confused if this is the tool that can help me.


texts: Twice in the last week the entire contents of a folder have disappeared when I start up my computer. The folder contains over 100 GB of files, including all my work files. It's the first folder in the root directory of my hard disc. I'm running 10.9.5 on a 27" iMac. I have been able to restore all the files using Time Machine, but it's time-consuming so it would be much better to solve the fault that's causing this in the first place


texts: macOS built-in spell checker performs badly - what can I do?

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macOS Mojave cannot detect that I made a mistake at badd and cannot guess that "approximately" was spelled incorrectly.

How can I improve the built-in spell checker? (i.e. I don't want to use a spell checker inside Microsoft Word or similar third party application that has its own spell checker)

There is a good thread here, but no solution either:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7502895

I also tried Grammarly. That company promises in tons of online ads that its app and browser extension can help you identify “errors that other spelling and grammar checkers just can’t catch.”.

“...First Do No Harm” would be a better founding principle. IMHO Grammarly is not a good product because it caches many errors that aren't. Take any error-free text and look at what Grammarly does with it. Here, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Next I tried SpellCatcherX who was 100 times better when it worked, but it doesn't really work anymore.

http://www.rainmakerinc.com/products/spellcatcherx/

What can be done to improve this?


texts: Solution/Script to automatically sync Safari's Reading List to Read-it-Later services like Pocket or Evernote?

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MacOSX contextual menus allow me use Pocket [Formerly Read it later] to archive all, and also read, some of the enormous amounts of content that I come across daily on my browser of choice - Safari.

On iOS [iPad/iPhone] however, the native 'Add to Reading List' feature for Safari is the most tightly integrated option when 'long-clicking' a URL in many different apps, like Mail [all newsletters with links]. This has caused a lot of grief for me as half on my links are saved to the Safari Reading List, and half to a Read-it-later service like Pocket.

Consolidating it in a seamless way when using iOS is a challenge if you wish to avoid opening the webpage in safari first, then clicking a bookmarklet, etc.

Web-based trigger services like 'IFTTT' are only useful when the content has already made its way to Cloud services that it supports, like Pocket, Evernote etc.

One conceptual solution to this problem could be something along the lines of having a script run on my mac that is periodically looking for new items in the 'Reading List' plist file and extracting the url when it sees a new item added [since iCloud syncs iOS and MacOSX Safari]. Perhaps Alfred or some other automator service could then get it to a spreadsheet on the cloud which can then sync with IFTTT and Pocket etc.

Maybe this particular design is not technically feasible or outright wrong, but I would be really grateful if someone with more expertise or nous could suggest an implementation or similar solution.

TL;DR

How can I sync Safari's 'reading list' URLs to Pocket/Evernote etc automagically?


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I have my OS X Mail client setup with one GMail and one Outlook account. They both use IMAP.

I have an issue that every time I reply to a message I send two identical replies (from the same hotmail address to the same recipient). This only happens when I reply with my hotmail address, writing a new message works as it is supposed to.

Mail version 8.0 (1990.1) and OS X 10.10.

I saw a previous poster had a similar issue but the problem solved itself in his/her case. Anyone got advice on how to fix this?

Regards

Edit: Here is the mail setup


texts: How can I force an application on MacOS to not use the GPU

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Being new to Mac and experienced with Windows, I'm running macOS Catalina (10.15.4) and I have an external GPU for my A.I. and data science training.  However, one of the applications I use (Azure Storage Explorer) seems to have an issue with the GPU, as I can read this in their release notes:

The Electron shell used by Storage Explorer has trouble with some GPU (graphics processing unit) hardware acceleration. If Storage Explorer is displaying a blank (empty) main window, you can try launching Storage Explorer from the command line and disabling GPU acceleration by adding the --disable-gpu switch

My questions:

Is there an option to mark an application so that it just does not use the GPU by default?
If not, is there a way to add that --disable-gpu automatically to the application, so that I don't have to add it every time ?
If none of the above work: how can I even start the application (which is installed in the Applications folder) from the terminal?

Edited:

I have found the answer to the 3rd question, but obviously still hope to get a solution by finding an answer to Q1: do shell script "open -a '/Applications/AzureStorageExplorer.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer' --args --disable-gpu"


texts: Macbook Pro 2018 Touch Bar Gone dark and not working

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I have a 15" 2018 Macbook Pro with touchbar and the touchbar has gone completely black! the only thing working is the touch id. Also, there are no touch bar related settings in the keyboard settings section.

I've seen his problems for the last couple of days, after the machine unexpectedly shut down, and then it showed "your computer restarted because of a problem"

I've tried:

pkill "Touch Bar agent";
killall "ControlStrip";

and

sudo pkill "Touch Bar agent"; sudo killall "ControlStrip";

Starting in Safe Mode
SMC reset NVRAM
reset Apple Hardware Test (booting while holding D),
    resulting in "No problems found"
re-installaing MacOS
updating to Catalina.
Pressing fn to see whether that would light the touch bar up (it didn't work)

Has anyone encountered this issue as well?


texts: Tool to Consolidate Data on Multiple Hard Drives and List Differences Between Filesets

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I have several hard drives I've used throughout the years to backup my data. Each one has a different folder structure and fileset. I now have a massive NAS that I want to consolidate all my data onto. I've created a new folder structure on the NAS and have moved over most of my data.

Does anyone know of a tool that could index my NAS and then compare any other hard drive, folder, or other media and list what folders/files are not on the NAS.

I believe I could write a script that would md5/sha1 each file on the NAS and put that data into a database. Then the script could compare using those hashes and list differences. I'm hoping for a better solution if one exists.


texts: Hi everyone my MacBook Air a1466 2015 wont chime or boot when ssd is connected but when I remove d ssd it chimes and boot up to the question mark folder as normal. I have tried four known working ssd and same thing happens. I have tried resetting smc and pram and still does not boot up.


texts: How to use the internal microphone with headphones plugged in?

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My computer (Macbook Pro Retina 2015) has 4-pole headphone connector which is designed to transmit stereo audio and receive a microphone, but the microphone portion seems to be broken. Is there any way to use the internal microphone instead in MacOS? When the headphones are plugged in, the option in Sound preferences goes away.
In Windows on the same computer, it's possible to select the internal microphone, so this is a software-level restriction, not a hardware one.


texts: How to export VPN configuration from the network configuration panel on BigSur?

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I can't export my VPN configuration from the Network Preferences because the "Export..." menu is greyish.
How can I fix this issue ?


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I'm trying to include a KEXT in an installer package (via PackageMaker 3.0.6(201) ) but I cannot get past following error:

  Could not rename "Payload"

There is pretty much NO INFO on this when Googling. Help ???


texts: Why does my iPhoto masters file taking up a lot of storage?

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I want to clear some storage from my Mac and it shows that my masters file is 94.7GB, however I only have 2500 pictures and the iPhoto software says it takes up 15.8GB.

Why is the masters folder so large? Does it have every photo I have ever uploaded onto it?

Also how would I go about clearing it? Just by deleting individual pictures?


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The scenario is as follows:

Using and paying for plenty of ICloud storage. Also paying for Office 365, therefore 1TB of storage  with Onedrive.
Takes Photos on iPhone and iPad. Receives Photos via Whatsapp, and messages. Has Photos imported from older libraries.
Wishes to separate into groups, pictures saved from Internet, pictures scanned using scanner, older Photos on hard drive.

Has one Photo library of about 75GB and 28k Photos.
I have suggested that referenced files feature be used for those that are not wanted in the main Photo stream as described here.
The directories these referenced files are then stored in are backed up using Timemachine and iCloud Drive/OneDrive.
This means that on the iPad and iPhone the Photos that annoy the user are not visible, however they will remain manageable using the iMac's Photo's app so tasks like cropping the scans can be carried out easily.
It would be great really if Apple provided more granular management of Photos. Sorting into Albums is ok but doesn't allow Photos to be hidden from the main Photo stream. As far as I know there is no custom stream option, no labelling of Photos like is possible within the Finder application. Another option is to have multiple libraries, one for the Photos they like and one for each of the groupings that they don't want to view but need to manage. These other libraries could then be located in other directories that are backed up via the Cloud and not via the Photo stream... but switching between libraries is a pain and moving Photos between them will not only take some time (potentially more than 28000 Photos to go through) but involve exporting them, see how to move photos between libraries.
What is the most effective way to manage multiple groupings of Photos without the time-consuming process of have multiple Photo libraries?


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I'm trying to click the reset button in Fifa 19 web app with automator.

codes I've tried.

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    tell current tab of window 1
        do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('btn-standard')[0].click()"
    end tell
end tell

second one

to clickClassName(theClassName, elementnum)

  tell application "Safari"
      activate

      do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('" & theClassName & "')[" & elementnum & "].click();" in current tab of first window

  end tell

end clickClassName
clickClassName("btn-standard", 0)

nothing works any idea why ? I know I can do it with watch me do, but I want to click this button with java script.

After some research it seems that they are more btn-standard tags so is there any way to first select the class="button-container and then the class  btn-standard ? Maybe I'm not selecting the button correctly


texts: Access to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/ denied

texts:
Since installing Mojave, I can no longer access ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/:

pse@Mithos:~$ ll ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/
ls: DataVaults: Operation not permitted

I've granted Full Access to Terminal in System Preferences, nevertheless the error message remains.

What makes this directory so special and how can I get access?


texts: Where on the app store can I find this "latest compatible Version thing? I have tried to download the remote app for ios6 but there is no button or anything. So I downloaded the iOS7 App but that one does not install on my iPhone (5).


texts: Photos Library: .photoslibrary file taking double of storage space in Photos app and Document Folder

texts:
As you can see in the screenshot below the Photos app is using 53,1 GB of the total Disk Storage, but also the Documents Folder has a .photoslibrary file of 50,34 GB. I tried deleting the file from the Documents folder, but then I neither had the photoslibrary in Documents nor any photos in the Photos app. Also, there was round about 100GB more of available storage (both storages of 53,1GB and 50,34GB were gone). When I copied the photoslibrary file back in the Documents Folder, the 100GB were there again (Same Phenomen as before).

What can I do to avoid having two Files using double of the needed storage?


texts: Sync with time server on iPad (date/time) via WiFi?

texts: We are deploying iPads in an enterprise environment. We have a specific use case where we will use an app for internal use only. We tried to completely lock down access, but we see it is too restrictive. For example, the iPad needs to talk with a time server to sync the date and time. Does anyone know the specifics about what servers the time sync occurs with? Is it just apple.com? Or perhaps a set of time servers?


texts: Copy paste files stuck at "Estimating time remaining..."

texts:
I'm using a Macbook Pro retina with macOS Sierra. The Macbook is just a few weeks old. Only recently, whenever I try to compress, or paste a folder, it will stuck at estimating time remaining.

Any idea on how to solve this?


texts:
Can I group Airplay2 output devices into one group?

If I want to play a song on both Sonos sets (3 speakers) and Apple Homepod, I need to select first Sonos, and then Homepod from iOS.

Can I group all devices into one group, so that I can just select it once?


texts: Dictionary on my Mac never adds words, even when I tell it to "learn" when I'm spell-checking

texts:
Adding to the dictionary is not working for any app on my computer (word, messages, mail, etc.), and it hasn't through several OS upgrades, since I don't know when (we're on El Capitan now).  This has been true for all of the Mac users in our office.

It's not a matter of needing to know how.  We know how, it's just not working.  What could be going wrong?


texts: Can you upload contacts from a car [Kia] *to* an iPhone?

texts:
Last night I accidentally deleted all my contacts from my phone. However, my contacts were synced via Bluetooth with my 2016 Kia Sportage. Is there a way to upload them back from the car and onto my phone, rather than trying to track them all down again? A cursory sweep of Google/Apple did not even answers if this is possible, let alone how to do it.

Thanks.


texts: Swp memory no longer being used Macbook Pro Mid 2015

texts:
Does anyone know why my macbook pro 15in mid 2015 is no longer using swap memory. I can tell via htop in terminal.

That is the HTOP of my machine. swp is saying 0k/0k. Not sure what to make of it or how to fix it. Just the other day Swp was being used and was around 1GB full with a few more left open.

Any ideas?


texts: Excel on Mac - View Multiple Files at Once

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I have been using MS Excel on a Mac to view csv data. I am trying to open two files at once to view them side by side. I can open any file in excel, but once I try to open another file to compare, the first one disappears.

I have tried using command + o from within an open spreadsheet. I have also opened the new file from the finder. In all cases, I can't find my previous spreadsheet once the new one is on screen.

Is it possible to view and arrange open files? Command + ` is not helping. I'm assuming my old files are open even though I can't see them. If I'm wrong, is there something I should be doing so that my previous files don't close when I open a new one?

I am mostly unfamiliar with the Mac OS UI, so this isn't the only place where I have trouble finding my application windows. As a result, please don't hold back even the most basic advice about how to use the OS as it pertains to this issue.

Edit: this issue doesn't occur when I open a new file from a non-full-screen excel window. However, I'd still like to know how this works when I am using full-screen applications.


texts:
All out of a sudden, the sidebar in "Finder" is gone. The weird thing is that the "Show Sidebar" entry of the View menu is disabled/grayed out, so the sidebar can't be enabled again. Do you have any ideas how to fix this issue?
Btw, restarting did not change anything.

Edit: Happens on OSX Yosemite/10.10.3


texts: Disable a specific app from ever bouncing in dock

texts:
I want to stop Filezilla from ever bouncing in my dock.  It just keeps bouncing and bouncing and derails from my work.

Is it possible to stop one app from bouncing?


texts: How can I solve an iPhone 4S restore failure loop?

texts:
My iPhone crashed while it was connected to the computer. I performed synchronization and left the phone so it can recharge. When I looked it after some time I saw Apple logo. I have tried multiple times to reset it (power + home) but every time it just stuck on Apple logo.

After some time I gave up and decided to restore it but even that didn't work. Each time it just stuck on the progress bar. Here are things I have tried:

different USB ports
different sync. cables
different machines (desktop and laptop)
windows and mac
DFU mode

every time same result.

Bringing iPhone to the Apple store is not an option because I am in a unsupported country without the Apple stores.


texts: Why do downloaded applications arrive as .dmg files

texts:
When downloading most applications from websites they are usually packaged into dmg files.

Is there any specific reason why people distribute apps in dmg files instead of zip files?

If so why do some apps still packaged as .zip?


texts: Ran boot camp assistant, stalled out and didn’t create a second partition. How do I reclaim the space?

texts:
Disk Utility.app displays my internal HDD "APPLE HDD" to be entirely taken up by "Macintosh HD" at 759.65 GB. Seeing as it’s a 1 TB hard drive, that’s a little disconcerting.

I also can’t reclaim the space using the partition tool, because there’s no partition to remove.

How do I fix this? Do I need to do a fresh install or reformat or something?

EDIT: Found the answer to it here


texts: How do you turn off the "Try the new Safari" notification?

texts:
In OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan, when starting Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, there is an invasive, annoying, and persistent notification, titled "Try the new Safari."

There is only two options in the notification.

Clicking on "Later" will have the same notification come back next time, and "Try now"… well, I dislike being forced to do things on my own computer.

This notification reminds me of the annoying popups coming in another famous operating system, Microsoft Windows, and this is one of the many reasons why I am not using it anymore.

Is there any way to get the notification to not show up anymore without actually trying Apple's Safari?


texts: Will initiating recovery mode on an iPhone permanently disable it until it is recovered?

texts:
I'm trying to solve an issue I'm having, and I thought that placing the phone in recovery mode temporarily might resolve the problem. I'm afraid to try this though, since the phone contains valuable information, it would be dangerous for me to complete the process and actually recover the phone.

So I want to put it in recovery mode, but not go through with it all the way.

Would a phone normally still be usable after initiating but not going through recovery mode? Or must you complete the recovery process in order to use the phone again?


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On previous versions of iOS, I knew how to get a list of sites previously visited.   I need to get URL of site i browsed about 3 weeks ago.

Anybody know if this is missing form IOS7 or if it is hidden in the user interface somewhere.   For the record I do not have "Do Not Track" enabled, but that should not make a difference as that is request to servers not internal Safari setting.


texts: How to transfer songs from iPhone to iPhone

texts:
I'm upgrading from a iPhone 6s to a iPhone 7. I have about 3000 songs on it from my library of approx. 6000.

Without going through the library unticking 3000 or so songs, is there any simpler way of transferring those songs?


texts:
I have an iPhone 5C on iOS 9.1. I previously had all of my stuff in the Google world - GMail (using Google Apps), calendar, and contacts. I recently killed the GMail application on the phone, and removed the account from Mail/Contacts/Calendars on the phone.

I exported my contacts from GMail as vCard, and imported them into the icloud.com contacts section on a desktop web browser, and they're showing up fine there. But they're not finding their way into the phone's contacts.

Under the iCloud settings, I do have Contacts selected - I've also tried unchecking and rechecking, and rebooting the phone, and it's been a couple hours, so I don't think it's a matter of being patient.

Any thoughts on what I could be missing, or ways to manually synch contacts?

(I did see this question, which also mentioned looking for a "All iCloud" group, but that group doesn't exist in my contacts - my Groups are totally empty.)


texts: MacBook brightness set to zero suddenly resets itself to one. Any ideas why?

texts:
Every night I start some music/audiobook/whatever in iTunes and then reduce the brightness of the screen to zero to listen to the audio without seeing a bright screen. For the past few weeks (I think), my MacBook (2007) automatically increases the brightness to at least level one after five or ten minutes requiring me to press the lower brightness button again to switch the screen back to dark.

Any idea why it does that?


texts: I've recently moved into an office that has standardized on Apple computers and have run into something that I have used with Linux that I know is going to drive me nuts on the Mac. I use a Logitech MarbleMouse, a trackball that does not have a mouse wheel. On Linux, there is a configuration option (EmulateWheel and EmulateWheelButton in evdev) that let's you press a button and have mouse/trackball motion act like a scroll wheel.  Is there anything equivalent on Mac?


texts: "Error: Specified stack size exceeds hard limit" occurs during install

texts:
I've been trying to install a program for electron microscopy reconstruction on OS X 10.7 and when I execute it on tcsh I got the following message:

Error: specified stack size exceeds hard limit

I've been trying to change the hard limit using limit without any success.


texts: How can I connect Linux server with Applescript using iTerm or Terminal?

texts:
I want to connect and run bash script on Linux server automatically by using Applescript and iTerm or Terminal on OS X.

How can I connect Linux server with Applescript use iTerm or Terminal?


texts: Does it make sense to still use firewire?

texts:
I have a macbook pro 2012 non-retina which has firewire and a 2007 macbook (a white plastic one) which I use as a local server and it also has firewire. In addition to that I have my desktop PC which is a hackintosh build. I know that firewire is kinda obsolete after apple killed it off but I know that firewire has good speeds and it would be great to use for copying big files (I often do). So does it make sense to invest in a PCI firewire card (for like 10-20€) for my desktop PC so I can copy things with good speeds even though firewire isn't used anymore?

Edit: Just ordered a Firewire PCI-E Card for my Desktop (11€) and a 1.8m Firewire cable (5€). I will let everybody know how it works out once I tested everything out.


texts: Mac mini 2012 (2.3 quad core) Vs late 2014 (2.8 dual core)

texts:
I'm on my way to buy my new mac mini for my IOS development and I'm a bit unfamiliar with Apple products so I just want an advice from experts about that.

my budget is not that high so I have 2 options and need to know which the best i can buy for IOS development :

1) used Mac mini 2.3 quad core 16 GB of RAM with HDD 5400 1 TB (But it almost used for a year)
2) New Mac mini 2.8 dual core 8 GB of RAM with 1TB fusion drive.

Both are the same price and I'm a bit lost to decide. Any help would be much appreciated !!


texts:
I'm in a country where Apple Music is not available (Morocco) and I have an apple ID that I use with my all of my iDevices. Will I be able to use Apple Music using a gift card (25$ one)?

Also, what about the free, 3 month trial? Will I lose the 25$ or they will just use the gift card to verify the account?


texts: System notification message in message center

texts: I think this is a virus but I'm not sure. I cannot seem to find an answer online on how to make it stop. I have checked under safari and preferences and under system preferences.


texts: My ISP's web interface is blocking OS X Server?

texts:
I have setup a domain on OS X server, pointed the domain to my public IP, and enabled port forwarding on my AirPort router.  My services are set up in OS X server, and I can access them from my computer.

My ISP has a web interface that I can log into to view my signal settings.  The problem is that the domain is pointing to that, not my server.  How can I specify where I actually want the domain to point to?

Thanks, really would appreciate any help I can get. :-)


texts: I backed up to itunes but it didn't transfer to my new iphone

texts:
I did a backup of my iPhone 4 to iTunes in anticipation of getting a new iPhone 5S.

When I did the restore to my new iPhone after I got the new phone, it didn't give me the latest data that was on the old phone.

What happened? Is that data gone forever since I no longer have that old phone?


texts: Returning to First Screen from last Screen in Mission Control

texts:
I use Mission Control (on a Mavericks running MacBook Air) a lot, and I was looking for a solution to the following scenario:

I have three (or more spaces open), and I am on the space furthest to the right (the last) in my lineup of spaces.  I want to get to my first space (the one furthest on the left).  Currently, if I try to go right from this last space, nothing happens. Is there a way that if I swipe right from the "last space", I can go directly to the "first space", and vice-versa?


texts: Do OS-X app bundles always contain Info.plist - CFBundleExecutable?

texts:
I wonder if OS-X app bundles always have a Info.plist - CFBundleExecutable configuration?

Thank you in advance for answers.


texts: Unable to post video preview for iOS app

texts: I am unable to submit the video preview of my app.  Length is ok and the upload is accepted followed by the message "Your file could not be loaded.  Try again"


texts: What is sort of standard torrent client for MacOS (2019-2020)?

texts:
I have been using uTorrent for years, both for Mac and Windows.

But uTorrent stopped working with new MacOS Catalina, it is not compatible with new MacOS.

I started to google and found out that uTorrent was never meant for MacOS.

What is sort of standard torrent client for MacOS? Preferably with similar functionality as uTorrent, I got used to it and wouldn't want to learn new software.


texts: Make a sound in zsh when a command is not found

texts:
How can I get zsh to play a sound when the command is not found?
Ex: I have the alias vpn to open my VPN from the terminal (zsh). If sometimes by mistake I type cpn instead of vpn, I get the following output:
me@iMac ~ % cpn
zsh: command not found: cpn

I know how to play a sound from terminal, in general. How do I integrate it so that there is a sound whenever the command is not found?
The specific sound I want to play is available at System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects > Funky.


texts: macOS: Unable to unlock passwords under Safari Preferences → Passwords

texts:
I am unable to unlock the Passwords tab under Safari preferences in macOS Mojave .

I can see passwords in the keychain Access App, by typing in the desktop user's password. It works there, but it does not work when I fill the same thing in Safari, Preferences, Passwords; Passwords Are Locked. In the Keychain app it does not show the username it wants a password for, it just says, ....enter the "login" keychain password. Whereas in Safari, it says "To unlock passwords, enter the password for the user "Joanna". There's only her and Guest as shown users.

Oh, and Safari also quit saving usernames and passwords, even though it's set to do that.

None of my known passwords work, not my macOS user password either. How can I unlock this or reset it? I can't get to where website password saving setting are without unlocking this.


texts: "Sharing only" account not visible in "Users & Groups" since Mavericks

texts:
Before upgrading to Mavericks, I had a "Sharing only" account called "Shared" with a password, which I used to allow other computers to connect to my Mac. However, since upgrading to Mavericks, this account no longer appears in the "Users & Groups" System Preferences pane. I believe this is because it conflicted with the built-in "Shared" folder in /Users/Shared, so Mavericks probably had trouble with this account when upgrading OS X.

However, the account itself still works, with my old password. Is there a way to delete this account, even if it doesn't appear in "Users & Groups", without deleting the /Users/Shared folder (which is separate; the folder is part of OS X, and my "Sharing only" account has no Home folder).


texts: Microphone has about one minute dictation limit on iPad Air 2

texts: My iPad microphone cuts out after about one minute of dictation. I've tried using Google and Word but the same limitations apply. Does anybody have a solution?


texts: OS X SMTP issue - Unable to send email (gmail)

texts:
I have installed OS Yosemite 10.10.1 a couple of months ago. Everything was ok especially with mail. However a couple of days ago it just stopped to sending emails with no apparent reason since none configurations changes or updates have been done.

I keep having the following error message every time I try to send an email.

The SMTP connection to server “smtp.gmail.com” failed.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be sent.

The diagnosis:

Obviously I have already checked the username and password but the problem persists.

Could someone help me to fix it please ?

Many thanks

Edit

  Following Buscar웃 hint at the comment I've gone to 'mail- pref-accounts- edit smtp -
  advanced - authentication' then selected 'none' instead of 'password'
  with was previously selected.That way it is working again.
  What are the consequences of that
  change? What exactly 'authentication' means in this context? Am I lose
  security by doing what I did ?


texts: Embedded vimeo videos can't be run in fullscreen mode in Firefox

texts:
Once when I opened a Vimeo video in a fullscreen mode, I was prompted whether I want to allow Vimeo to use fullscreen mode. I checked "do not ask again" and clicked "No" by accident. It was embedded on a website and now I can't view embedded vimeo videos fullscreen in Firefox. However, when I go directly to a vimeo.com website, fullscreen works.

How do I remove Vimeo from the Firefox's blacklist?


texts: OS X Lion Safari, Chrome and Firefox crashing while trying to access caixa.gov.br account

texts:
For months I'm having problems accessing this link https://internetbanking.caixa.gov.br/SIIBC/index.processa from caixa.gov.br
It only works when I use Opera, but it fails on Chrome, Safari and Firefox. I don't know if it's the SSL or Java. I have already removed Java, but it didn't work.
Does anyone have any clues?

[Edit]

All browsers are in their latest versions.

[Edit]
The Beginning of the crash error is:

Crashed Thread:  20  WorkerPool/-1230196736

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
objc[5305]: garbage collection is OFF


texts: How to use Internet Sharing AND File Sharing?

texts:
My setup at office is:

Internet -> AirportExtreme --(wifi)--> AirportExpress --(eth1)--> MacPro1 --(eth2)--> MacPro2

MacPro1 has Internet Sharing enabled, allowing MacPro2 to be online.

But MacPro2 does NOT see any of the shared Macs on the network.

I tried changing the IP address manually on MacPro1, so it's the same subnet, but that didn't work.

I tried changing the DHCP server on AirportExtreme from default 10.0.1.x to 192.168.2.x (to match the IP that MacPro2 was getting from MacPro1), so then MacPro1 got a 192.168.2.x address on eth1; but then MacPro2 became 192.168.3.x !

How can I get MacPro2 visible on the local network? It can't "see" OR "be seen" by any of the Macs on the 192.168.2.x network.

However, if I MANUALLY connect from Finder to a 192.168.2.x address, then I can connect to other machines.

Thanks!


texts: What does login item "System Events" do?

texts: I have an item "System Events" under "Login Items" for the admin account on a MacBook that is running macOS High Sierra (upgraded from Sierra). Is this login item part of macOS and what does it do?


texts: I can't see all the events for one day on the El Capitan calendar

texts: In the Month view, the El Capitan calendar now includes the first week of the next month.  So the blocks for each day are smaller, and not all events can be shown.  Instead it says "3 more" or whatever.  But there is no way to see the additional events.  Clicking on the day opens a Create New Event default that can't be closed or deleted.  I need to see all my events/appointments when I open the calendar in the Month view. It also doesn't help that national holidays are listed twice.


texts:
When I use the direction in maps the direction is almost always ~90° off, occasionally it will be 135-180° wrong but mostly it looks like I'm travelling sideways. The phone is flat.
Is there something wrong with the hardware? Or can I manually calibrate it (like tell it to offset by 90°)? Or tell it to ignore the compass and just use the direction of travel.

Also the compass app gives the wrong direction but it doesn't even match the incorrect direction in maps.

For example I was travelling along this road, away from the motorway.


texts: Migrating Mail.app rules from 10.6 to 10.8

texts: I want to move my Mail.app filtering rules from my old 10.6 machine to a fresh 10.8 install. I've seen people talking about moving these by copying over  MessageRules.plist, but I haven't seen anyone address whether these are compatible between 10.6 and 10.8. Thanks!


texts: How do I change mouse settings instantaneously from Terminal?

texts:
My school has a bunch of Macs that are always logged in as Guest and have very annoying default settings (natural scrolling, no secondary mouse button, etc), so I am trying to write a terminal script that will change all the settings to my liking. One thing I would like the script to do is set right-clicking on the mouse to the Secondary Button; for some dumb reason, both the left and right buttons are set to Primary Button by default. Is there any way for me to do this from Terminal?

I would also like the script to disable natural scrolling; however, the only terminal command I have found ("defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false" and some variants of the same thing) require the user to log out and back in to take effect. Given that I can manually disable natural scrolling in System Preferences without needing to log out, surely there must be a way to make the change instantaneously from Terminal, right?

Any help on either of these problems would be much appreciated!


texts: numbers: Copy/paste of cells messes up my formular

texts:
When I copy a cell (see picture 1) and paste it (see picture 2) the pasted version of the formular is messed up.

As you can see there are some parts of the pasted formular which are not colored anymore. It seems as the text there got truncated.

Any idea what the cause of this is?

Peace!


texts: How to preserve the HEIC format when downloading Google Photos to desktop

texts:
For reasons that escape me, I deleted about 15 jpegs from my iPhone XS (I only enabled iCloud Photo Library recently). I do maintain a copy of all photos taken on my iPhone to Google Photos, and so I thought I could simply download those photos to my desktop and then import them into Photos to replace those I've lost. But when I do so, Google Photos inexplicably converts some of the HEIC files to JPEGs! (i.e. one sees the jpegs in the downloaded zipped file, so the conversion isn't happening on my Mac). This occurs with any browser (Safari, Firefox, Brave) that I use.
Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to prevent it, or else recommend a workaround?


texts: How can I work around Subversion's port being blocked when installing something with brew?

texts:
I'm running into an issue where I'm trying to follow the advice of a comment on this SO Q&A titled: Use PPK file in Mac Terminal to connect to remote connection over SSH that suggested you could install putty via an Subversion repository like so:

$ brew install putty --HEAD

When attempted I get this error:

$ brew install putty --HEAD
==> Cloning svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty
svn: E000060: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty'
svn: E000060: Can't connect to host 'svn.tartarus.org': Operation timed out
Error: Failed to download resource "putty"
Failure while executing: svn checkout -q --force svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty /Library/Caches/Homebrew/putty--svn-HEAD

NOTE #1: I believe the port used by Subversion is blocked by a corporate firewall.

NOTE #2: I'm ultimately trying to work around an issue with the version of putty that's included in Brew.

$ brew install putty
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/putty-0.63.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/putty-0.63.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring putty-0.63.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
  /usr/local/Cellar/putty/0.63: 11 files, 1.4M

$ puttygen privatekey.ppk -O private-openssh -o privatekey.pem
Enter passphrase to load key:
Assertion failed: (random_active), function random_byte, file ./unix/../sshrand.c, line 313.
Abort trap: 6


texts: Remote Erase through Find my iPhone — Changed Password

texts:
My iPhone was stolen (with the SIM card ejected, on my seat). When I logged in to iCloud it made me reset the password, which meant my Apple ID password was now different from the one on my iPhone when it was stolen.

I figured there was no way I could find my iPhone, so I hit Erase. 3 days later I got a message saying my phone was erased. Is that a lie, because my phone had a different iCloud password on it than when it was stolen? It was running iOS 8.

When I first checked Find my iPhone it was offline and pending erase. Then I got an email at 1 am saying it was erased.


texts: Any way to turn on the reduced power mode a macbook uses under battery power, but while plugged into a power adapter?

texts:
I have an external battery rigged up for my MBP.  It goes through the magsafe adapter.   The battery is about twice the capacity of the internal battery.

The problem is, the macbook thinks it is plugged into AC, so undoubtedly the CPU is in full power mode.   It will gobble this big battery in under an hour.

I do have graphics set to integrated mode.


texts: How to disable the scroll position saving in Finder?

texts:
By default, the Finder always saves the last scroll position in folders and restores it when these folders are opened again later.

How can I disable this feature? I want all folders to always open in the Finder scrolled from the beginning. High Sierra is installed.


texts: Is Siri able to recognise a contact nickname and action on it?

texts:
I want to call my girlfriend using Siri. The problem is that her name is Hungarian and I am not able to pronounce it in a way that Siri recognise it and call her. So I thought that I give her a nickname "girlfriend" and ask Siri to "call my girlfriend". This does not work. Siri asks me who my girlfriend is even though her nickname is defined as "girlfriend"

So what is the easiest way for me to call her using Siri? I have 2,000 names in my contact list with many first names that are the same like her.


texts: Mic works fine on windows but not on mac?

texts: I have a cheap amazon microphone since my headphones don't have one. It works perfectly fine, on any windows device. No matter what, I have issues with it on my macbook air laptop. Specifically, I plug it in to my computer, and it starts working just fine. Soon enough (after a few seconds), it begins to become (what I can only describe as) very robotic and glitchy. After leaving it on for a while, it works fine but has a delay of about 1.5 seconds, which makes videos and calls extremely awkward. Does anybody have a fix to this?


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Possible Duplicate:
  Where did the ~/Library folder go in Lion?

I upgraded to Lion but now under ~/User there is no library folder. What happened to it? Is there a way to get it back?


texts: Simultaneously send to beamer via HDMI or VGA and share screen in videoconference

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My aim is to deliver a conference to people present in the lecture room and also to those attending from home; all this at the same time. I am on Ipad 6th generation - iOS 14.2
Using the Apple Lightning to Digital AV Adapter and HDMI, it is apparently not possible to simultaneously project through a beamer and share the screen for people at home. I deduce that the direct connection with an HDMI cable already uses  AirPlay and this thus hinders the possibility for screen sharing.
The use of third party apps, such as SmartMirror TV & Device app, is not an option for me since I can't share the same network.
I was just wondering whether:

using HDMI is definetely not doable
using a VGA connection (through an Apple Lightning to VGA Adapter) could solve the problem, allowing simultaneous projection in lecture room and broadcast for students at home.


texts: How do I restore a Deja Dup backup (done in Ubuntu) in Mountain Lion?

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I have pretty much started from scratch on my new installation because I couldn't figure out how to restore the files I backed up on my Linux installation with Deja Dup. I have GPG Keychain access installed, so what do I need to do to restore the files I had and look at them and see what I want to keep?

I really appreciate any answer you can give :)


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I am moving, and I have an AirPort Time Capsule (3TB), which has a magnetic disk drive. Is there anything special I need to do to park the disk so it won't be damaged during shipping?

It will be in a box, along with other items, that's being shipped via air. I will make sure that it's physically protected (bubble wrap, etc.) to minimize the bumps.

But as far as I can tell, there's not even any way to turn it off, other than by pulling the plug.


texts: Running Time Mechine Backup from Recovery HD

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My MacBook seems to be getting kernel panics when booting up. I've decided to create a backup, reinstall OS X, and restore from the backup. But I can't create a Time Machine backup because I unable to boot into the main partition.

My question is: how do I run Time Machine from the Recovery HD, you can only restore. I've also tried tmutil, but the terminal does not want to run anything from the other partition.


texts: How can I find an exact string in file contents across many folders from the command line on macOS?

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I tried all the recipes (double quotes, escaped double quotes etc.) in vain. I'm not interested in files containing any or all of these words, only the exact string. (EasyFind does the job.) I'm using macOS Catalina with zsh.
Is there a way to have mdfind detect an exact string, say "what I look for", in the content of files?


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I originally created an Apple ID for use on the App Store in iTunes. When Apple introduced iCloud my Apple ID ended up being used.

I recently creating a new iCloud ID for my personal use, retaining the original for Family Purchases.

I just realised that I have lost all my Notes, although these are still on the web in the original iCloud account.

Is there any way I can transfer these to my new iCloud ID? I would prefer a direct transfer if possible, or export data. At the worst I could copy one by one, but this would be tedious.


texts: In Terminal, where it displays XXX@YYY , what is XXX and what is YYY?

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I transferred a backup to a new mac.  However the names got changed, and one has a -2 added to it. Now my terminal reads name@name-2 -$.   In Finder it appears like so:

`name (2)`
  `HardDriveName`
    `Users`
       `name`

Trying to identify what name (2) is and how I can change it if possible.   Was never prompted in the migration and not sure why the -2 is appended in the terminal now.


texts: Automatically use USB sound card when plugged in?

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I have an external sound card that I plug into my computer through USB.

Is there any way I can tell OS X to always default to it as output when it's available? Even if I plug it in while the computer is already on?

I use OS X 10.10.1.


texts: Issues compiling GnuPG: ./configure: command not found

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I wanted to install GnuPG by compiling the binaries but I'm stuck on the second dependancy, libgpg-error. I'll check the obvious tomorrow and shasum the tarball, re-download it (etc) but I'm hoping I can find a little insight into what's going on here. I'm on macOS Catalina.

Here's what I'm trying to do in Terminal (as is documented in the README). Briefly, configure, make, install:

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo make clean

However, the first command sudo ./configure produces an error:

sudo: ./configure: command not found

So,

I'm wondering if anybody has experienced the same issue and why? Is this common?
Should I expect more issues compiling GnuPG from the binaries?
Any suggestions on alternative PGP command line tools?

I am not interested in the GPGTools/PGP Suite for macOS. I don't want all the bels and whistles. I'm just looking for a command line PGP utility.

Edit: Revised question with Terminal input and output.


texts: How do I "unhide" or "show" a hidden login item on Mountain Lion?

texts: I accidentally hid a bunch of login items, some of which I meant to delete. How do I unhide these items once they're hidden?


texts: Time Machine backups to a Veracrypt volume?

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I've got an external USB drive with a few VeraCrypt volumes. I want to use one of them for my Time Machine backups. The partition can be deleted entirely, I just wish to keep it encrypted with VeraCrypt.

Is this possible? When trying to set things up like this, I cannot select this partition as a backup volume in Time Machine settings.

I know I can also create and format a regular partition and use that in Time Machine, and use macOS' or Time Machine's own encryption. But I prefer VeraCrypt.

Note that I'm not using a VeraCrypt container, but an actual partition. Which is then mounted and formatted with regular HPFS+, so I would say after mounting it's virtually the same as without VeraCrypt. But somehow Time Machine won't allow me to select this volume...?


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I am using MacOS High Sierra (10.13.4) in 2016 MacBook Pro 15". Safari (Ver. 11.1 - Latest as at 21st April 2018) is not compatible with One Drive.
Note: This issue was not specific to this version. Previous versions had the same issue. JavaScript is enabled by default.

Incompatibilities:

I could not share a specific folder/file because secondary click (right click) on the folder/file does nothing.
Clicking The right side info icon (!) does nothing.
Clicking on share/delete/download buttons at top of the file container does nothing.

Because of the above mentioned issues, One Drive makes no sense to use in Safari. However, in FireFox, it works perfect. Why Safari cannot handle One Drive? All the browsers seems to compatible with One Drive. But why Safari Does not? Or is this happening only to me?


texts: How to remove a partition with terminal?

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So basically I partitioned my HDD on my MacBook Pro so that I could install Linux and dual boot. But I realized I don't really need Linux anymore but it doesn't appear on my regular disk utilities, only my one MacBook HDD does.

I type diskutil list in my terminal and this shows up

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            91.0 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                        EFI                         29.3 GB    disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +90.6 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 B0DF20B2-B674-46B3-B337-57F6A89A500F
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *248.4 GB   disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS 256 GB                  248.3 GB   disk2s3

I'm basically trying to remove 4 under disk0.
Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Does a developer have to write a whole iOS app to make a Siri Shortcut?

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I have some things I'd like to be able to get Siri to do, just on my own iPhone. I could write those things in plain python (possibly in some other language). Can Siri Shortcuts run these (python/other scripts), or would I have to write a whole iOS app?

i.e. the end result would be saying 'Hey Siri, check <some very specific, highly personalised thing> for me', and Siri runs some python that grabs some data from an API, parses/interprets it, and reads out the result. It could be as simple as that (a bit like a AWS lambda but essentially with voice and done from mobile)

Note: I am in no way an iOS developer nor macOS developer, just a generalist, so I don't know how something like is is built (or even if it can be built)


texts: Lost space after removing bootcamp partition via bootcamp assistant

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please help
i lost 150gb space after deleting the partition via boot camp assistant and the disk utility won't recover it or partition it as one disk
i tried to recover by timemachine but the disk looked the same size and iam afraid the restore wont get the space back


texts: RSS app for iPad, that support https? (ssl-over-http)

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I'm trying to find an RSS-app for iPad, that supports https-protocol.

Tried The Feed and News Reader for iPad, but they don't want to accept links with https proto-supplied(rss generated from Pivotal Tracker, and includes latest tasks for project).

Any suggestions guys?


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So I was partitioning my macbook's hard disk so as to install addition operating system.

But as disk utility was in the process of partitioning, I closed the disk partition (for a reason) thinking it wont save the changes and I will start again.

Big mistake.

All the free space (a lot) I had before is now showing as "other" and the disk isn't partitioned. How do I fix this? Thanks!


texts: How to add managed GSuite account with mail disabled to iOS 12.0?

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I'm at a university with a centrally-managed GSuite account. They've disabled Mail there (we're using Office365 for that) but the Calendar function does work. I'm trying to add my calendar account to iOS. What I do:

Go Settings -> Passwords & Accounts -> Add Account -> Google
Enter my university email address
It shows a custom logon screen; I enter credentials
I get "Login successful, redirecting..."
I see the screen with switches for Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Notes, and a spinner at the top of the screen
I get redirected back to the "Add Account" screen, with iCloud, Exchange, and so on listed

I don't get an error message or anything, it just bumps me back.

Anyone know how I might make this work, or if there's even some sort of logging I could see?

For what it's worth, this works fine on MacOS.


texts: iMessage Clear History Without Rebooting

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If I remove all chat.db files in ~/Library/Messages on my Mac, I have to restart the whole system, otherwise iMessage says "updating database..." without doing anything.

I think this is because not all message caches are cleared. Does anyone know how I can clear those caches manually without rebooting the whole system?


texts: Why does Office for Mac need Safari and Chrome closed for installation?

texts:
In an update for MS Office for Mac, the installer asks to close Chrome and Safari — why?

What do those programs have to do with Microsoft Office?

I only have Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.


texts: Restoring selected files from time machine backup of a different mac

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Here's the situation so far:

20" Alum iMac 2007 HDD has died (3 days after I got a new Macbook Pro - coincidence, or suicide?)
It had a time machine backup on a regular external drive
I have connected that external drive to my new macbook
I tried Migration Utility but it wants to copy all files

Q1: Is there any way to make that thing break down to the individual folder or file level?

Giving up on Migration, I want to use Time Machine to restore

I read somewhere that I need to use the Browse Other Time Machine option ...
But I can't even run Time Machine without setting it up, so I do - I turn it on and point it at my external drive with the old time machine
Q2: Uh oh - wait a minute, is it going to wipe my old backup and replace it with backup of the new machine?

I turn off Time Machine quickly
I add a new external drive to another usb port and set up That one as a Time Machine backup for the new machine - turning TM back on.
More research and I find out that I can get at the Browse feature from the Time Machine icon in the dock. (Why not from the system bar!) Anyway, I put TM in the dock, right-click and sure enough - there it is.
Now I select my old external TM disk and start to browse
The Today backup shows only stuff on my new macbook

I guess I created that when I selected it
But I'm hoping it didn't overwrite my old backups of the old machine
I see on the timeline on the right various dates going back but I can't select them

Q3: How do I get access to those previous backups - I can see them there in the timeline but can't browse to them (back arrow doesn't work, nor does clicking in the time line - they're all faint purple)
Now in desperation I look at the old TM drive in Finder - I can browse to the backupdb and see backups for the dates

But these dates seem to only include files which I worked with on those dates
That kind of makes sense for a backup - but ...

Q4: ... is there a way to merge all the date folders in Finder to get the latest version of the folder? Or is that only possible through the TM UI (which doesn't let me access - per Q3)

Really finding TM to be very frustrating when moving to a new computer.

[Update] I found something. It turns out that the reason the backups are there but not selectable in the timeline is to do with the (frustrating) TM UI: It requires that you navigate to the right directory to see it's history.
I found this out from the tan coloured box on this page: http://pondini.org/TM/E2.html

The problem is that the directory structure is not the same on my new machine. I want to explore and retrieve things from the root directory on the old machine. What's more, the user directories like Documents and Pictures are not the same - even though i am using the same user name on both machines, so the path is the same /Users/me - so I can't see the history, of say, Documents.

However, if I click on the All Files link in Finder I can see old files from my back up and can go back through the timeline. But how I do I get at the folder structure.
To sum up:
 - I have my TM disk from my broken iMac attached to my new macbook pro
 - I have TM running on the new machine with a different disk and the icon in the doc
 - I right-click and Browse Other Time Machine disk and can select the old one
 - I see a bunch of backups in the timeline but they are greyed out (actually, light purple, if we're being precise - non selectable anyway)
 - If I click on All Files in Finder now, I can see the backups of the files
But I really need to be able to explore the file system, not just from the unorganized All Files.
Note that I tried making local directories with the names of dirs I know to be in the TM backup, but that doesn't work - it recognizes, I think, that these are not the same dirs.


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I was beta-testing an Operating System and set up a separate 50 GB partition on my single 500 GB SSD. Now I cannot remove the beta partition. It shows up as another disk entirely. What can I do?

As you can see, I can't make any modifications to the partition structure (no + or - available, nor can I rename a partition). I should also add that the primary 450 GB partition is encrypted with FileVault 2, but the beta partition was not encrypted.

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         447.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         51.1 GB    disk0s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s5
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS β                     *50.5 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s4
                                 27FE73A1-740C-4600-B2C1-7252F1279293
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *447.3 GB   disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 4E37E178-D9FC-4D18-8157-E57A65AB283B
                                 Unlocked Encrypted


texts: Can I keep Indoor walk on all day as I am a housewife and have do lot of walking up and down at home


texts: Suddenly some folders are unreachable from my external hard drive

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I have a MacBook Pro and I partitioned the internal SSD into two parts (150GB and 50GB). One of them (the 50 GB part) contains a bootcamp with Windows 8.1. I also have an external hard drive, which is 1 TB with both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connections. I partitioned this into to two parts also (500GB and 500GB). One of them is formated for Windows and the other is for Mac.

Since I don't have too much space on the bootcamp internal hard drive (50 GB) I installed MSVC2013 on the external hard drive's Windows part. After the installation I learned that I didn't save too much space, but it worked and I had no problems with it. Since I didn't need it anymore I uninstalled it, but then for some reason I had to install it again. For some reason when MSVC2013 was uninstalled I changed the external hard drives Windows partitioned part's driver letter to a different one. When I tried to install MSVC2013 again it didn't let me, since it wanted to install it to the same place where it was before and I couldn't change the installation path, because it was grayed out. I read it in some forums that this is a "normal" behavior from MSVC2013 and to change the installation path you need to format the whole OS. Formating at that time was not an option for me, so I thought I create a small partition from the external hard drives Windows partition with the driver letter what MSVC2013 wants. I created the partition with Disk Managment in Windows and the installation was able to finish. MSVC2013 worked again.

After all this I went back to the Mac part of my internal hard drive and I realized that now on the Mac side it doesn't recognize the Mac part of my external hard drive. In the Mac's Disk Utility it shows the part, but it is grayed out. So I went back to Windows to see if the Mac part of my external hard drive is recognized there and I learned that it is. So I thought I make a fast copy of all my data of the Mac part of the external hard drive and then the strange thing happened.

Some of my files were able to be copied and some were not. The folders which were not copied were unreachable. This is the error message what I get when I try to access them.

Anybody has any suggestion how could I reach these folders? All help would be much appreciated!


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I don't know why my camera is not working, I am sure it is a software problem, it just shows a black page.

All features are working but it doesn't show anything. It is not working on other apps, like Instagram, as well.
The front camera is not working.
I have tried the "Reset All Settings" option but there is no change and camera is not working yet.

I upload a photo that is a screenshot when I run camera.

How can I solve this problem?


texts: When I reply-all on iPhone, how can I ensure it keeps folks on the To and cc lines?

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I’m using the latest iPhone OS (I believe 8.1.2). When using an Exchange account, sometimes I get mail with multiple people on the “To:” line, and others on the “CC:” line. When I reply all in the mail app, it moves everyone by the sender to the “CC:” line.

For me, this is really annoying as I want to maintain the “To:” line and “CC:” line addresses. Is there an iPhone setting that will cause “Reply All” to respect a mail’s “To:” and “CC:” lines?


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I'm curious how the group visibility works with iMessage.

I have a hunch that when sending with iMessage to a group of people, all these people will see each other in the group. Is my assumption correct?

However, if one of these people is not using iMessage then the message will be sent as a regular text message and the group members will not see each other in the group. Correct assumption?


texts: Can Mac OS X Messages support more than one apple id?

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I have two Apple IDs, one for work and one personal. My iPhone's Messages settings are bound to my work id. When it receives messages, they pop up on my work computer pretty as you please.

I would like that to happen on my home computer too. If I open Messages > Preferences > Accounts on my home computer, I see my home Apple ID listed (along with AIM and Bonjour). I would like to add my work Apple ID as well.

When I click on +, I'm offered Google, Yahoo, Aol, and "other" as my choices. And under "other", the choices are "AIM", "Jabber", and "Yahoo"

I was able to add my work account under Settings > Accounts, but there doesn't seem to be a way to connect that to Messages.


texts: How to remove/delete geo-location meta data from photos?

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Occasionally someone emails me a photograph with their geo data included. I don't record this on my photos, so it's weird to have just one image randomly include location.

In previous versions of macOS Photos app, I believe it was in the menubar under Image / Location / Remove Location. Now (macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra, Photos 3.0) I only see Image / Location / Hide Location.

Is there another way to do this, in Photos app or perhaps Finder or Terminal?


texts: I have a MacBook and the other day i spilled a little bit of water on to it, nothing big or anything i soaked it up with the towel. The next day it would not turn on but eventually i managed to turn it on. However, the wifi started displaying stating that it had no hardware installed. I tried the shift+ctrl+option+power button restart and it started working again. However, after 20/30 mins it stopped working and it continuesly said wifi off and it would not let me turn it on. I spoke to an apple worker and they said it is a hardware problem, they did a diagnostic on it. Everything else works perfectly, i just wanted to know if this could be due to the water spillage (so i can prepare myself for a big bill) or is it just a general hardware problem (also have looked into the settings and it says Thunderbolt 1 inactive). If anyone could help i would appreciate it so much. Thanks


texts: Why doesn't Siri call a contact that it clearly understands?

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I have a contact entry with no first name and a last name of "Charles Schwab Customer Service". When I tell Siri "Call Charles Schwab Customer Service", it shows the words on the screen exactly as I've spoken them, so it clearly understands what I've said. But instead of calling the contact, it asks, "Call Jones Communication Customer Service on 336 Post Office Rd...?" Obviously, Siri doesn't connect what it knows I'm saying to the contact entry I want it to call.

What do I need to do to get Siri to make the call I want it to make?


texts: MacBook Air running Yosemite won't shut down when external HDD connected

texts: My MacBook Air won't shut down when an external hard drive is connected. The screen goes black, and the mouse pointer is still there. I think this started happening when I upgrade to Yosemite. Any suggestions as to how I might fix this?


texts: Print HTML to PDF while retaining hyperlinks

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I'm trying to create a PDF document from an HTML document.

Of course it's easy to do this using the built-in PDF Printer, however, this does not retain hyperlinks.

I've tried wkhtmltopdf which looked very promising, but it crashes on every attempt.

Is anyone aware of any other options for generating a PDF document from an HTML document while retaining URL links?


texts: Media area in Finder's file selection dialog is always empty

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I try to select and upload files in Safari, but the Media section in the file selection dialog is empty; no photos, music or movies are ever shown in this area. The same problem happens anywhere that can open Media Browser to select files, like Mail, Twitter etc.

I checked the com.apple.iApps.plist in the ~/Library/Preferences folder, everything is normal. All databases(iTunes, Aperture, Photo Booth) are well configured.


texts: Is it on MacOS possible to get notified by eMail if the space on a disk gets low.


texts: How to stop the Anydesk application from opening at startup?

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I utilize this application called Anydesk for remote desktop very frequently, and while I was recently removing programs from starting up at login (because I wanted a faster start up speed) I noticed that Anydesk wasn't in the list of login items, even though it shows up whenever I login after I restart/shut down the computer.

How does one rectify this issue?

I am running OSX El Capitan on a 13" MacBook Pro.


texts: Occasional system hangups after upgrade to Lion: is it a disk or software problem?

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I have an 13 inch MacBook unibody Alu (early 2009, before they started to be called MacBook Pro) that I use every day for many hours (it's my work and life computer). Few weeks ago within few days I upgraded the RAM to 8Gb and the harddrive to Samsung 1TB HN-M101MBB (I cloned my old drive to the new one with SuperDuper). These were the first changes to the hardware (apart from new battery) I did from the original configuration. After using computer for few more days with Snow Leopard, I upgraded to Lion.

Since then, every week or so my computer freezes completely without apparent reason and no good explanation. I get notifications either that my harddrive was corrupted, or very cryptic message that (some application name, ie Mailplane or Papers) database was corrupted and it cannot write to disk "T" (I have no such drive). When I hard-reboot the computer, it can't find the home disk. When I reboot it again with option key and select recovery drive and run disk utility, it always reports that my home disk 'appears to be OK'. After another restart everything is back to normal again.

I have never had such problems before the Lion upgrade, but I am not sure if it's the software or the new harddrive. Any hint on what can be wrong and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Yot


texts: Trash folder not a directory, files only delete immediately

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Trash is not storing files any more. When I drag something to the trash it only presents the option to delete the item immediately and that I can't undo the change. I had a look at the folder in terminal:

$ ls -ld ~/.Trash
----------  1 Nic  staff  0 13 Aug 08:35 /User/Nic/.Trash

When I remove the Trash with:

$ rm -rf ~/.Trash

and restart the computer, it works for a few days, then it stops working again.


texts: Can Dell P2421DC charge 16" MacBook Pro?

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The Dell P2421DC product manual says it can deliver 65W via USB-C.

Can it charge the 16" MacBook Pro?


texts: I am unable to see my contacts since few days. It has been working fine since I changed from iphone 6s to iphone 7. However since last two days I do not see any contacts. Can someone please help me to get this back? I have tried to sync my Gmail and icloud but it does not help.


texts: Xcode displaying false code error messages ('Expected expression' and others)

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This is not a code-level question, per se, but a question about false code error messages.  I would have posted on Apple's developer forums, but the registration page is currently broken.

I'm using Xcode 9.3 on macOS 10.13.4 on a Mac Mini with 16 GB of RAM.  I frequently get false code error messages even when my code is fine.  The false errors are usually Expected expression, Expected ']' and similar. Please see the examples below:

An example of a false error:

Now I retype the same line exactly, and the false error goes away:

Another example:

As you can see, as soon as I retype the same exact code below the 'offending' line, that new line of code doesn't show an error.  As seen in the examples, I have enabled the display of 'invisible' characters to see if maybe some unprintable character was causing a problem, but I don't see anything like that.

Something fishy is going on here.  Am I missing something or is this a bug I need to report?


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I am trying to connect iMac to 2 other monitors as well as my TV. That is a total of 4 displays.
HERE IS MY PLAN!!!-(I'm not rich)
I have a 21.5 inch iMac that has one thunderbolt port but can also be used as a mini-dvi port. I want to connect that to a Cirago HDX3DP01 HydraDisplay X3 DP to 3 DP Multimonitor Adapter
This in theory will allow me to connect to 2 monitors with an open slot for my TV.  I do question the resolution output. The HydraDisplay supports up to 3840 x 1024 (3x 1280x1024). I'm not sure what that means. Which resolution is it? I know that the 21.5-inch iMac has a native resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, while the 27-inch iMacs are 2560 by 1440 pixels. This means at top resolution of the HydraDisplay is cannot support the native resolution of the IMac 21.5 nor the 27-inch. Will this matter when mirroring or sharing the screens as one? (disregarding the TV)
So, I have several questions:
1. Will this work?
2. Is resolution a big deal when sharing screens?
3. Has anyone ever tried this or have a better way of doing it besides expensive thunderbolt?


texts: How to enlarge the status bar font size?

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Can the status bar font be enlarged? Is this size hard-wired and unique? Is there any other (configurable) font size anywhere which could correspond to this one on user space?

Some time ago, I asked how to configure the status bar (How to configure the status bar?). The answer was that it couldn't be done. I sent that as a feature request to Apple. They didn't answer (of course) so I thought that, maybe, that font could be linked to some other one (for instance, though this is not the case to the one on View Optionson the Finder.


texts: How to do Apple Diagnostics on Macbook pro with a dead screen?

texts: I have a 2016 MacBook Pro running Sierra and the screen has gone black.  I'm using my HDTV now for an external monitor.  I want to do a diagnostics test to find out what to fix.  But the external monitor doesn't work when I try to run the diagnostics, so I can't see the results.  Also screen sharing works but not when I try to run diagnostics.  I have tried holding D key at startup and also Option-D.  I have tried SNC reset, PRAM reset, booting from an external drive, all the usual.  Does anyone have a workaround?  Thanks!


texts: How to use data connection on Apple Watch

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I just paired up  my Apple Watch with my iPhone 7.  I noticed that only phone calls work while my iPhone is turned off and data/messages do not work at all. Only way to use data on my watch is while my iPhone is turned on.

Reading the apple web site suggests that both (watch and phone) need to be connected to cellular network in order to use all features of my watch. For example if I leave my phone at home and go to the park with my watch, only way I will be able to send emails and messages from my watch is if my phone that I  left at home is turned on.

Can somebody explain me how this works and which preconditions need to be fulfilled for me to use data connections on my watch?


texts: Can't boot on OS X partition after resizing Windows partition

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I initially had three bootable partitions:

OS X
Recovery for OS X
Bootcamp (Windows 8)

Now, on Windows, I decided to make my Windows partition smaller, reducing its size using the native Disk Manager. I did, leaving some unallocated space at the end of the disk. Then I restarted my macbook while holding 'alt' and I was surprised to find only one bootable partition:

Bootcamp (Windows 8)

Confused, I decided to revert my changes by re-expanding my Windows partition to its original size. The disk mapping looks just the same as before, except I still can't boot on OS X or Recovery for OS X, because they aren't displayed at all on Startup Manager of my macbook.

How to fix EFI (or whatever is causing the problem) and boot again on OS X?

[edit: small note, this issue was long time ago... I have reinstalled the whole computer since then]


texts: I am having a 1Tb external harddisk. Its working perfectly fine on ubuntu and windows. But On mac its read-only. How can I change this.