texts: One hookup docking station / port replicator

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They just got me (my very first ever) macbook pro at work.  I am really digging it thus far. One thing I would really like to do is "dock it" to my existing rig.. two dvi displays, keyboard, mouse, etc.

I know apple doesn't do docking stations so I was wondering what my options are?  So far it looks like I am going to have to plug and unplug up to 4 cables to accommodate my setup.  This is totally a pain.  I dock and undock my current laptop up to 5 times a day.  I don't want to have to mess will all these wires every time.  I thought apple was antiwire?

Ideally what I would like is:
One cable (thunderbolt?) that goes to a box that has two high resolution ports for displays (dvi, hdmi, displayport, etc) and a few usb ports for my keyboard, mouse, and other miscellaneous stuff.

I don't suppose that could also power my macbook?  If not, then I will just have to live with two cables I suppose.

So far I can only find these "boxes" with just one hi-res port.


texts: Windows RDP client that allows key mapping and easy use of Function Keys

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I often use RDP clients (like Microsoft Remote Desktop or CoRD) to access my work machines to use Visual Studio at work. This actually works pretty well, except for when it comes to using the Function keys (especially F10 and F11 for debugging).

As you can see, the problem is that the Mac OS now also uses these keys for mute and volume down respectively. You can hold down the 'fn' key and get access to these, and sometimes that doesn't even work directly, you have to hold down Command too. This slows me down quite a bit. I have built up some serious muscle memory for Visual Studio key commands, and would like to replicate them as close as possible through Remote Desktop.

I am looking for a workflow that will:

Allow me to RDP into a Windows machine (Windows 7 if that matters)
Customize key commands JUST for that application, so that if RDP is the current application, hitting F10 will interact with the debugger in my RDP connection, and not mute my Mac
If I can't map those exact keys, at least have a way to map two unused keys to the similar function key in the RDP session (as in, if I could map F10 and F11 to F16 and F17 respectively, that could work.

It looks like Microsoft's RDP client allows you to change key commands, but not add new ones. And wasn't sure if there was another method I could use to incorporate these commands just for when RDP was the front-most application


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I just upgraded to Lion on my work computer and it seems like Spotlight doesn't index SMB volumes. This used to work for me perfectly under Snow Leopard. I've talked with Apple and they said it was never a supported feature, and just worked by coincidence on 10.6. Now it's not working at all. When I run the mdutil command in the terminal it says "indexing and searching disabled."

Can indexing be enabled for SMB data on Lion?


texts: Dell Color Laser 1320c with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina: FX Docuprint Driver - Set Paper Tray option

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I followed the two answers from Dell Color Laser 1320c with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina: Filter failed including removing and re-adding the printer. These were very helpful - thank you! By using the FX Docuprint C525 A-AP v3.2 Driver software I can now print via the manual feed but not the paper tray.
In the print dialogue screen I did not see all the content from the previous post:

Maybe I'm missing something in this Layout step? Maybe I need to be in "Admin" mode or something?
In the printer settings I can choose from:
No matter the choice output only prints via the manual feed.
In the print job Presets from Pages I see that the Fuji Xerox is set for the alternate paper source. Maybe if this could be changed I'd be in business?
Thanks in advance for any insights and suggestions!


texts: Looking for stop watch alarm clock app similiar to one on iphone on OSX for macbookpro

texts: Can I install an app on my MacBook pro similar to the the stop-watch/alarm-clock app on iPhone?


texts: How do I stop VoiceOver on iPhone from being interrupted by notifications?

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Speak Notifications is set to OFF but it still will break mid paragraph and say "new notification from..." or "new text message from..." then I have to start the reading all over again.

This seems like a bug to me. It's especially annoying when the block of text is huge and can only be voiced in entirety.


texts: Stuck on Apple Logo while trying to install Snow Leopard on MacBook Pro

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I purchased a used MBP (without a hard drive). See model details/specs below. I am trying to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Version 10.6.3). I have successfully done this using the same process on two older MacBooks (A1151, A1181).

I searched the Ask Different postings and did not find what I was looking for. Many similar ones exist. But most folks with this issue have the original, still working HD to work with. Not me.

I also confirmed that my MBP is compatible with Snow Leopard. Compatibility list on Everymac.com

Here’s mine.

Apple MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.4 15" Mid-2010 Specs
Identifiers: Mid-2010 15" - MC371LL/A - MacBookPro6,2 - A1286 - 2353*
Model: A1286

Specs listed on everymac

I purchased a retail copy of Snow Leopard. I have it on DVD and I have imaged it to a USB stick with Disk Utility to make for easier installations. Then I installed a hard drive into the MBP, held down the Option/Alt key to boot from the USB drive. It then, as expected, shows me the only option which is to boot the Mac OS X Install DVD. As soon as I hit Enter, the screen changes to the Apple logo screen (with nothing else, no progress meter, no spinner). And there it stays.

I’ve left it untouched overnight. I’ve tried using the DVD instead of USB. I’ve reset the NVRAM/PRAM more times than I can count. I’ve tried using different hard drives. Different Memory. Swapped the sticks. Used only one slot. I tried installing Leopard (10.5 via CPU Drop-in DVD). Nothing seems to let it get past this screen. I don’t want to give up on it since it’s such a lovely machine.

Here’s a small google photos album for reference.

I’ve used the same technique to successfully install Snow Leopard on two older MacBooks (mentioned above). I’ve also booted Ubuntu Linux on USB successfully. So I know the machine is functional.

Any ideas? What else can I try?


texts: Restored from iOS 7 BETA to iOS 6.1.3 and can't activate phone

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Okay so first off, I have an iPhone 4 CDMA (Verizon), but haven't had cell service on it for two years. Not that that matters but thought I'd throw it in there, that it only works with wifi.

Now that that's out of the way, about a month ago I downloaded iOS 7 Beta 5 without a dev account (I know, but I couldn't help it). I had the same problem that I've seen other question here on, where people couldn't restore to iOS 6.1.3 in order to get the public release of iOS 7. So, I went to ipswdownloader and downloaded iOS 6.1.3 (CDMA), backed up my iPhone, and then restored it with the 6.1.3 software/firmware. My iPhone then restarted, and took me through the process of setting up a new iPhone. But, unlike anything I've seen before, it's asking to activate it as if it is brand new and under devices in iTunes, my iPhone's name is not there, it just says 'iPhone'. I figured I could just set it up and then restore backup but when I try to activate it through iTunes (because it can't find a server if I try from the phone) I get this error message:

    We could not complete your iTunes store request.

    The network connection was lost.

    There was an error in the iTunes store. Please try again later.

I thought maybe because everyone in the world (literally) is downloading iOS 7 and maybe apple's servers were overflowing but I can connect to the iTunes store from iTunes, just not with my phone. The other thing is, even though I cancelled service on this phone almost 2 years ago, it still said Verizon as my service provider, now it says 'No Service'.

Obviously my phone completely reset. Please tell me there is something I can do to activate it and get all my apps, photos, etc back on it


texts: How do I deactivate my microphone and iSight for security reasons?

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In OS X 10.8 it is possible to log in via SSH and get access to hardware input devices like microphone and iSight camera. Thus it is possible to remotely record audio and video of other users sitting in front of the machine. I consider this a severe security issue!

How to exploit this issue

Luckily, I didn't have to face a microphone exploit yet, but this question on Stack Overflow shows a little python script which enables you to capture pictures using the iSight camera from the command line. I don't think it is much harder to capture video.

Question

One can disable the microphone using

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

…unfortunately this also disables all audio output.

The same applies for the iSight camera by unloading IOUSB.kext, which most certainly might break all devices connected via USB, if not even causes a kernel panic.

How can I disable the microphone and iSight camera in an iMac (late-2012) under OS X 10.8.5 without breaking other system services?


texts: Can my son block me from finding him with my find my iphone app?

texts: Can my son block me from locating him with my find my iPhone app? Is there a way for me to know if he has turned it off at all? When I was trying to locate him, he's 15, all I was seeing was a location from 3 hours prior but it showed the real time location of our other phones. Later his phone with location showed up again.


texts: HDD converted to CoreStorage, even after Internet Recovery

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When I used Mountain Lion, I had a 3TB HDD that used the HFS+ file system, and I was able to create two partitions on my one HDD both of them storing certain stuff. I could also do this in Mavericks as well, but when I upgraded to Yosemite, I was not able to modify the partitions and can use no more than 1.5TB. I thought that this was the result of a botched BootCamp uninstallation, but I found out that it was because the drive was converted to CoreStorage. I did an IR which saw me downgrade back to ML, but unfortunately this did nothing to fix the problem, and in Disk Utility itself, everything is disabled.

As you can see, there are two sections. The top section is 699.16GB in size, while the bottom one is 801GB. I want to use all my 3TB devoted to the OS. I went into the terminal and entered diskutil cs list and this is what I came up with:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group 4E150AA1-CC1F-4962-A337-D540D3217D9D
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         1500598398976 B (1.5 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume B06E3783-7DD4-40E1-8A45-041BD78BBE88
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     699161858048 B (699.2 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 8A3D9D72-571C-48ED-9D18-710F11D4C1BE
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk0s4
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     801436540928 B (801.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 9ED51F70-CE25-416E-BDF8-A7255223913E
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 395B7D2E-2FA5-45D9-B175-84EE93307015
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:               disk1
            Status:             Online
            Size (Total):       1499994402816 B (1.5 TB)
            Size (Converted):   -none-
            Revertible:         No
            LV Name:            Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:        Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:       Apple_HFS

I tried several solutions but to no avail, probably because it said "Revertible: No". So maybe I have no choice but to delete it instead then attempt to resize?


texts: If I get a second iPad will I have access to all my apps?

texts: Do I need to purchase them separately for every iPad I have?


texts: Stolen iPhone 4 not synced with my PC: are my videos backed up?

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Last week my iPhone was stolen when on holiday in New York. I have precious photos and more importantly videos of my son on there.  I went to an Apple store in NYC and they advised that my photos would probably have been backed up on iCloud but he wasn't sure about videos as I hadn't synced my phone with my PC apart from when I first purchased it.

Is there any possible way I still have access to these videos?


texts: How can I resize a window that doesn't have the grabbing part on the bottom right?

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I have Hulu desktop running and I want to make the window smaller, there are no lines which are usually present on windows for resizing on the bottom right corner, though. On windows I could right-click the title bar and choose size for these kind of windows, is there any way to do something similar on a Mac?

I tried pressing the green button on the top left, but that doesn't do anything.


texts: Does iOS report usage in megabytes or mebibytes?

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When looking at usage stats in iOS (data sent/received), are the megabytes/gigabytes in base-10 or base-2?

The docs are not entirely conclusive (since it doesn't address usage specifically) but suggests base-2 is used for iOS device capacities.

So which is it?


texts: Dragging a window to a space doesn't work the first time

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In Mountain Lion (at least, maybe elsewhere too):

Enter Mission Control to see all windows, and all spaces.
Drag a window or a stack of windows to a space

For me, the first attempt at this fails reliably; the space doesn't get darkened focus appearance, window springs back to original location on mouseup:

The second attempt succeeds reliably; space darkens, window moves on mouseup:

Happens with all applications, on a very fresh install of Mountain Lion, with no UI hack utilities installed, etc. Very annoying at start of workday when trying to place apps in spaces. Is this a bug or some sort of feature I am not aware of?

Update: After upgrade to 10.8.2, this problem is resolved.


texts: Vim in Iterm2 closes after compiling Latex file

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When I run
!pdflatex %

in Macvim, the latex file compiles and I am not exited from Macvim. In iterm2, the compilation occurs and them I am taken out of Vim back into the terminal prompt. Any ideas why the behavior is different? I have looked around and to my surprise haven't seen anything about it.


texts: Does laptop in clamshell mode go to sleep when unplugged?

texts: If I am using a laptop in clamshell mode, and then I unplug the screen and disconnect the power without opening up the laptop, will it automatically go to sleep or will it stay turned on?


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What's inside the xip file ?
Why don't download from app store?


texts: On iPhone/iPad, where are the screenshots of terminated apps stored?

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Are the screenshots of apps in the app switcher stored in RAM, or are they instead stored in flash, and streamed directly to the GPU via some kind of DMA (direct memory access) connection?

RAM is precious, and after a few days I end up with a lot of apps in my app switcher. Are all those snapshots constantly using up RAM?


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I'm very new to Mac and right now my operating system is 10.10 Yosemite.
I installed XCode and Xcode CLT, gcc came along with it as well.
I was asked to change the default compiler to gcc.
I went online to this question here to find out how to do it -
How to set gcc 4.8 as default gcc compiler

and these were the instructions I chose to follow (They seemed pretty straightforward) -

cd /usr/bin

rm cc gcc c++ g++

ln -s gcc-4.8 cc

ln -s gcc-4.8 gcc

ln -s c++-4.8 c++

ln -s g++-4.8 g++

But the problem is that now when I type gcc it says Command not found. Why is that?
When I cd /usr/bin/ and ls I can see gcc, cc, g++, clang etc.
It basically says the same message 'command not found' for these commands - cc gcc c++ and g++
(I was wondering why the instructions above mentioned to rm those 4 but this answer has been provided in multiple places so it must be correct.)

clang still works thankfully, although I still require gcc.

I also used sudo port install gcc49 to get gcc4.9 and I assumed it would have installed it perfectly, but I still get the same gcc error.
Can anyone give me a step wise procedure on what I should do to get gcc, cc, g++ and c++ working again?

Again - Mac newbie here. Please be kind :(


texts: How does Photos know which photos to remove from the device when space is low?

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When using iCloud-hosted Photos, how does the Photos software decide which photos to remove from the device?  Is it just chronological, or based on size, or what?

Also, is there a way to explicitly tell it (like you can with Apple Music) to remove the photo locally but leave the cloud-hosted version in case you want it back on your device later?


texts: How to find picture in Photos that shows up as wallpaper (after Systems Preferences work) in Mojave

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I have a large Photos library with approximately 100+ folders in My Album. I have set System Preferences Desktop to use my complete Photos library as source for wallpaper.
Occasionally I have a desktop wallpaper I would like to find the original Photos picture and folder in My Albums where it is located.

Earlier, in this forum,  I found this command:

osascript -e 'tell app "finder" to get posix path of (get desktop picture as alias)'
/Users/snaguru/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters/2013/09/29/20130929-164330/P1010004.JPG

When I search in Photos for P1010004.JPG I get displayed 16 pictures, none of which is the specific pictures used as wallpaper I am interested in. I have tried to use some parts of this path name to search in Photos but come up with a Not Found response.

Is there a way to find out the exact location in Photos (My Albums and sub-folder/sub-directory) of the original picture used as the wallpaper?


texts: Sometimes my headphone jack stops working and I need to restart my computer. I can also put the computer to sleep and it will wake in the proper mode (headphone vs. speakers). Is there a way to reset whatever is causing this problem without restarting?


texts: Photos not being added to Photostream when added to folder on disk

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Before I updated to the latest version of iCloud panel on my PC, I could add photos to the location on disk where my icloud stream was saved to and those photos were synced to the stream on any connected devices.

This doesn't seem to happen anymore, I can only add photos therough the control panel.

Is there a way to simply add files to the folder on disk and have them sync, or is there an api for the cloudpanel?


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I'm using Macbook Pro 15" Retina Late 2013. OS is Yosemite Public beta. Once in month I usually do diagnostics (Apple's boot time diagnostics, the when you press "D" ). The last the when I did it, I got PPP003 error code which was something like that: "Battery may not be charged. Try to disconnect MagSafe 2 power adapter ..."

Thing is, it charges well my laptop but both adapter and it's ending are heating. Adapter heating really bad but ending a bit less.

My question is if I use it like that, can it damage my laptop? Is it important to change adapter immediately or not to change at all?


texts: Menu item screen capture results in monochrome image

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If I use the sequence Command-Shift-4 Spacebar to capture a menu selection, the resulting images are monochrome. I'm on Yosemite and the result is the same on two devices. Any idea what's going on? All other screen captures are in color. Skitch app Menu Snapshot option gives the same result.

BTW I've used to use the Comm-sh-4 crosshair capture but just at the very moment you lift the cursor to complete the drag, something causes the cursor to select the next menu item, so you capture the menu item without it being highlighted.


texts: How to select "Don't save" with keyboard in this dialog?

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Whenever I close a file with unsaved changes, Sublime Text displays this dialog:

(Note that Save is selected by default)

In Windows, I would press "N" for "no" to close without saving changes, but in macOS it doesn't look like there's such a shortcut. I've also tried with the arrow keys and tab but the active button doesn't change.

How is this normally done in macOS?


texts: How does the Apple Watch get the temperature?

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The Apple Watch shows the temperature on the clock face.

When my Apple Watch is disconnected from my iPhone, the temperature display becomes disabled, but the time is still displayed. That leads me to think the watch doesn't have a temperature sensor, but it getting it from the Internet.

My question is: How does the Watch get the temperature?


texts: What options are there for dealing with MacBook Pro palm rejection problem?

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The trackpad in relation to the keyboard on all recent MacBook Pros (at least 2019 on) is either misplaced or too large (or both), creating a lot of palm-rejection problems.

Background: When placing your hands over the keyboard in the standard finger position (fingers on the "a","s","d" and "f" keys on the left hand and "j", "k", "l", ";" on the right hand) the palm covers the right 1/3 of the trackpad. For those who rest their palms of their hands on the laptop while they type, palm-rejection on the trackpad is necessary because the pad below the right thumb will hit the trackpad. palm-rejection will necessarily mis-identify some touches as finger strokes, creating a lot of trackpad noise while typing. (yes, the palm rejection is very good, but there are always going to be plenty of touches that misidentify because everyone is a little different).  The trackpad looks nice, but its placement is impractical (see Seagram Building)

What options are available in software or hardware for altering the palm rejection or blocking the right 1/3 of the trackpad other than a piece of tape?


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My graphics memory (4gb) is getting eaten up by my 3 or 4 apps that are open.

Is there any way to allow the graphics card to use free RAM instead of swap memory? The second the graphics card dips into swap my system gets really slow even though my memory pressure is only 10%.

Thanks!


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I have an app which is written in Swift 2.1. Is it possible to build it in Xcode 9?

If not, how do I build it?


texts: What does the @ sign and the number next to it mean in ls -l display?

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I got the following output when I apply ls -l command in my Mac OS X Mavericks for an image file:

I understand what does -rw-r--r-- mean. But what does the @ sign and the number next to it mean? Is similar feature available in Linux?


texts: MacBook Air 2013 screen issues after sleep

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I'm having some issues with my MacBook Air (2013). Whenever the system enters hibernation, as it does after a couple of hours of sleep, the screen gets distorted when it comes back from sleep.
When resuming from sleep the screen gets distorted like this:

A reboot fixes that but the menu bar icons as well as some toolbar icons disappear, like in the following screen shots:
Menu bar:

Finder:

Mail:

These issues go away with a reboot into safe mode and then reboot (a tip which I found in a different thread here), however it all comes back after the next hibernation.
It seems to be power related, as it only happens if the power cord is plugged in when the computer first goes into deep sleep and then gets plugged out while in sleep. I've tested this thoroughly using the DeepSleep widget and found how to reproduce it.
I've tried resetting the PRAM but no luck there. Also, the return from pmset -g | grep hibernatemode is 0 - is that normal on the Air? It used to be 7 on my previous MacBook.
Another thing that might be worth noting is that this started happening after I ran out of battery while the computer was on, however it happens every time it sleeps without power cord since then, even though it doesn't run out of power.
Update:
I thought that changing the hibernatemode to 7 worked, since my test to reproduce the issue didn't cause it anymore. However after having had the computer sleep over night it wouldn't wake up, it just showed a blank screen. This is the console output I got: http://pastebin.com/EB4SAtfe
The logs at 01:52 is when I put the computer to sleep and went to bed. It then wakes up 3 hours later and is then supposed to sleep again I guess. Not quite sure why it does this, it also says:
2013-09-16 04:52:53,008 com.apple.time[13]: Next maintenance wake [Backup Interval]: <date: 0x7fb250608870> Mon Sep 16 02:03:30 2013 CEST (approx)

Although that time has already past (It's 04:52 CEST when it schedules that). Also, there is no console output from when I wake the computer, even though I waited a good couple of minutes at the black screen before forcing a reboot as well as closed and reopened the lid.


texts: Displayport to USB-C or GPU card for eGPU with Thunderbolt Output

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Background: I purchased an LG Ultrafine 5k monitor per Tim Cook's recommendation. This only has a Thunderbolt-3 input. Awesome monitor, but very limited when it comes to what you can drive it with.

Goal: I'd like to use it with a non usb-c video out source. I.e., I'd like to get an eGPU and use a video card that has Displayport output (or HDMI) with that LG Ultrafine. I do understand that the Blackmagic eGPU has Thunderbolt output, but I want a better price to performance ratio than that offers.

Question: Is there a displayport (or HDMI) to USB-C adapter on the market? Searching for this is not easy because everything points to the opposite (USB-C to Displayport, etc.). Alternatively, is there a MacOS compatible video card with Thunderbolt 3 or USB-C out?

I'm ok with not getting full 5k video.

My apologies in advance if this has already been asked. I did search for this question but everything that comes up is about usb-c to displayport (or hdmi, etc.).


texts: Other ID's appearing in my Mac Store account

texts: Just bought a refurbished Mac Mini, with new SSD and fresh instal of Yosemite. After setup, using my existing IOS Apple account details I updated to El Capitan, added Little Snitch and Firefox. All seemed well, until I started to get notifications that updates were available for software I didn't recognise. Being new to Mac I thought this might be OS based and clicked to upgrade, only to be informed that such upgrades were not authorised for this user. I also saw two unknown e-mail addresses. How do I fix this? Also, if as I suspect, ID's are still associated with the machine, why did the updates (to apps not installed) only show up now? HELP!


texts: Is there a bluetooth phone that can remain paired with iPhone?

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What I would like to do is find a bluetooth capable phone that I can pair with my iPhone and will remain paired even if my iPhone is paired with a bluetooth headset at the same time.

I had purchased the AT&T phone model TL92278, but, if I forgot to turn off my headset just before I returned home, the phone would no longer be paired with my iPhone. It was easy, but annoying to have to pair it again constantly.

Basically, I am wondering if there is a phone out there that can remain paired with my iPhone while my iPhone is paired with a headset.


texts: I have a document that was imported from Word into Pages a while back, it auto imported page numbers that are somehow magically not selectable.  They are not in the main body and not in the footer.  I have found an article on how to remove them in Pages 4 here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5513360?start=0&tstart=0 how do I do the same thing in Pages 5?


texts: Preview 10 in Mojave: selected text does not get highlighted

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Ever since I upgraded my macOS to Mojave, I've been stuck with Preview 10 (an old trick to downgrade Preview to 9 is no longer working). I wouldn't mind, except text selection has now become invisible:

In the screenshot above, the word mechanisms is selected, and I can copy the text and paste it elsewhere, but it doesn't look selected. This is really annoying when I'm trying to select a large amount of text to copy and paste elsewhere.
Changing the text selection colour from Graphite (my current setting) to something else fixes the issue. Changing the accent colour in the Mojave dark mode to something other than grey automatically changes the text selection colour to the corresponding one, which again fixes the issue, but going back to Graphite (without changing the accent colour back to grey) reinstates the issue. If possible, I'd like to keep Graphite, as I like the way it looks.

Edit: Switching to light mode doesn't make a difference (Graphite is still invisible on Preview):

Is there a fix for this short of reinstalling the OS or switching to a different PDF-viewing app (I know Preview is abysmal, but it's convenient for several reasons)? Also, does anyone know why it happens?
Edit: I just tested it in Catalina (10.15.6, only tested dark mode), and Graphite works. The selection is rather light, but that's okay; at least it's visible. Seems to be a Mojave-only issue.


texts: Gray exclamation mark in Photos (Sierra) after importing raw pictures from my camera

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Yesterday I had my first photo session with my new Fujifilm X-T2. Today, I inserted the SD card on my mac, opened Photos (Sierra) and saw all the pictures I took (raw). I proceeded with the import, and all seemed ok.

But even If I can see the thumbnails for all the pictures imported, when I open some of the photos I just get an exclamation mark.

I've tried importing/deleting multiple times, I've tried rotating,unrotating. Nothing. Apparently Photos doesn't like some of the pictures I took :(

Any suggestion?


texts: "File Sharing" without Shared Folders still shares folders

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I have been experimenting with the "File Sharing" settings between two MacBooks. For some reason, unexpectedly when on the Host laptop I remove all "Shared Folders" I can still use "Connect to server" and connect to the user home directory as well as the root of the drive.

Here are screenshots from both macs. Dark mode shots are from the client.

I am simply trying to add some sort of password-protected file sharing, is this possible?


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I would like to enable Force Touch Lookup in Chrome (like on Safari, when you force touch a link it loads a preview). I've read somewhere that Chromium was working on it but when I checked the project's page, it was written that it's available, so I guess it's something to turn on.

My question is, how do you enable it?


texts: How do I run Boot Camp Assistant on a partition on an external drive?

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I've partitioned my external HD and I want to install Windows 10 on it using Boot Camp Assistant. When I open Boot Camp Assistant, it shows my whole Hard Drive, not my partition.

I've got the Windows 10 ISO file and I've formatted the partition to MS-DOS (FAT32).


texts: Aggravating IPhone problem, apps when downloaded on one phone go to all phones

texts: When I download an app on my iPhone, it is automatically downloaded to my parents iPhones. It is extremely aggravating when my little sister shows me her iPod with all my games. How do I stop this? Everything with iCloud is off.


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I am looking to solve an issue with iPhone reordering words in the "From" field when I view an email. Currently, it looks fine when I see it in the "Inbox", but when I click the email itself, it reorders the words based on commas.

For example:

University Example College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts

…becomes…

and the Arts, University Example

Is there a fix to this or is it just settings people have to change on their phones?


texts: Mobile safari won't login to websites on iPad

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My wife's iPad 1 will no longer log into website accounts e.g. Amazon when using mobile safari, it just refreshes back to the log in page. She can get into these sites through the google app though and I can get into her accounts on mobile safari my iPad 2.

It sounds like some sort of safari file corruption so all I can think of, and have tried without success, is to do a complete restore from iTunes.

Anyone have any ideas ?


texts: How to enable AirPlay mirroring on an iPad mini?

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On my iPad mini I cannot seem to enable the mirroring feature. AirPlay in the photos app or any video app works fine:

However the AirPlay icon is missing in the taskbar, where it should be according to Apple's documentation:

How can I get back the AirPlay icon? I've already tried rebooting all devices.

Edit: This is what I am looking for (source: Apple Support)


texts: Will SIM-free iPhone from Apple lock to first carrier activated?

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Suppose I buy an iPhone 7 directly from Apple, and I select the SIM-free version.  Will this lock to the first carrier it is activated with?  Or is it unlocked for life so I'll be able to switch carriers freely without restrictions?

Searching online, I found some reports that claim past SIM-free iPhones might lock to the first carrier they're activated with (even if bought via Apple), but the sources don't seem fully credible to me.  Going through the purchase process on apple.com, Apple describes the phone as SIM-free but never calls it unlocked and doesn't seem to have any definition of what SIM-free means. That makes me wonder.


texts: Apps and games automatically in wrong language

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I have an iPhone 5 bought in Norway. The language setting on the phone is Norwegian, which means menus and such are all shown in Norwegian. The same goes for some "inherent" apps such as the iPhone weather app, which is also in Norwegian. I'm Norwegian, so that's all good.

However, I've been living in Kazakhstan for the past year, and gradually (and weirdly) my phone seems to have picked up on the fact that I live in a Russian-speaking environment and maybe that I sometimes write in Russian.

Now my Spotify app, all sorts of games and other apps automatically that I want to be in English have morphed into Russian, and there is no way to change the language to English.

My time zone is currently set to New York (I'm in the US at the moment), there is nothing in my settings saying I want stuff to be in Russian, but just now when I downloaded the game "The Island" the whole damn thing is in Russian, and there is no option to change language for it anywhere.

What to do to?


texts: Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt Display

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I just bought this Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter  for my new MacBook Pro (2016) to connect it to my old Thunderbolt Display, but realized that none of my USB ports or Thunderbolt port work (so no daisy-chaining).

Is it something wrong with my setup or is this connectivity not supported by Apple's official Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 solution?

This does not sound like "to Thunderbolt 2" adapter to me, since it only supports multimedia.


texts: If my iPhone model doesn't support certain bands, can I still use it with this carrier?

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I have an iPhone SE (1st generation) in which Sprint was the previous carrier.  I'm trying to figure out what other carriers may be compatible with this phone.  I found this web site -- https://www.whistleout.com/CellPhones/Guides/Will-my-iPhone-SE-work-on-another-carrier, that says there is T-Mobile 4G compatibility but "Missing bands: 66, 71".
What does this mean?  Does this mean if someone uses this phone with a T-Mobile 4G network that there may be intermittent call drops or network outages because of the missing bands?


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Running find command on root folder :

find / -type d -wholename "prog" -print

Keep seeing errors like

find: ./Users/auser/Library/Preferences: Permission denied

How can I supress these? If no option in find can you help with a script that greps out the permission messages? Guess need to ignore output that has ": Permission denied" in the end.


texts: Time Machine in the "Cleaning Up..." state forever

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My Time Machine is in the cleanup state for a long time (several days). The backup is to an external drive and the disk on the mac laptop is less than 500 GB. It usaually takes much less time to clean up.
Is there a way to inspect what the Time Machine actually is doing during the cleanup?
The following log is not helpful.
$ log show --debug --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 4h
Filtering the log data using "subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine""
Timestamp                       Thread     Type        Activity             PID    TTL
2020-02-21 13:36:41.329729-0600 0xb4acfa   Info        0x0                  98     0    backupd-helper: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogInfo] Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
2020-02-21 14:36:55.424274-0600 0xb60241   Info        0x0                  98     0    backupd-helper: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogInfo] Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
2020-02-21 15:42:20.848345-0600 0xb64cb9   Info        0x0                  98     0    backupd-helper: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogInfo] Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
2020-02-21 16:36:27.614466-0600 0xb8060d   Info        0x0                  98     0    backupd-helper: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogInfo] Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup: Backup already running
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Log      - Default:          0, Info:                4, Debug:             0, Error:          0, Fault:          0
Activity - Create:           0, Transition:          0, Actions:           0


texts: High Sierra security policy breaking quicklook?

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Quicklook was not working (i.e. the visual icon preview for application files in the finder).

First I read man qlmanage and tried what is suggested there.

Following that, output from qlmanage -t ~/Documents/SKETCH/960.sketch is below.

High Sierra security feature breaking quicklook?

Testing Quick Look thumbnails with files:
    /Users/m/Documents/SKETCH/960.sketch
2018-01-12 12:02:03.084 qlmanage[681:10248] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x8f3b, name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../Frameworks in /Applications/Sketch.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/SketchQuicklook.qlgenerator/Contents/MacOS/../../../../../Frameworks/BCFoundation.framework/Versions/A/BCFoundation being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/Frameworks in /Applications/Sketch.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/SketchQuicklook.qlgenerator/Contents/MacOS/../../../../../Frameworks/BCFoundation.framework/Versions/A/BCFoundation being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path
* /Users/m/Documents/SKETCH/960.sketch produced one thumbnail
Done producing thumbnails
2018-01-12 12:02:03.252 qlmanage[681:10248] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x14f2f, name = 'com.apple.coredrag'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.


texts:
I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I leave my machine for an hour. When I return the machine is asleep and all the applications have been shut down. It is almost as if it has spontaneously restarted.

Any ideas what could be causing this?


texts: iTunes keeps syncing my unchecked songs to my iPhone

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I'm trying to free up space on my iPhone, so I've cut back on a HUGE amount of music (~1000 songs). I went through iTunes and unchecked all of the music I wanted removed and then made sure that I had selected the option to only sync checked music.

However, when I sync my iPhone nothing changes - all the songs are still there. I've tried everything - I have all the music I want gone unchecked in my iTunes library on my computer as well as in the "On My Device" section of iTunes when I plug my phone in. I can't find any solutions to this problem online, you guys are my last hope.

My computer is a MacBook Pro 2011 currently running OSX Yosemite, my phone is an iPhone 5s, and my current version of iTunes is 12.4.0.119.


texts: How to stop Google Photos from launching at system startup?

texts: Google Photos starts every time I turn on my Macbook Pro. It is annoying and I believe it slows down the OS' startup speed. Is there a way to turn the launch at startup option off? I do not see it in Google Photos' preferences. It seems the only option is to uninstall it:


texts: My dashboard widgets are “inactive” since Lion upgrade

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Since my upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, my dashboard widgets are inactive. I can enter the dashboard, move widgets around, add and remove them, but their content is not updated and I cannot interact with them (they do not respond to mouse clicks in their normal fashion).

I have looked through the Console, but there are no warnings there about the dashboard. How can I troubleshoot this?


texts: What can I do besides taking in Macbook to remove firmware password?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro w/ Retina (2012 I believe) which has a firmware password which I don't know. Since it is a retina I can't use the remove RAM trick. If I go to reformat and reinstall the MBP will the firmware password be removed?


texts: For each press of spacebar, pass keystroke to app and increment input counter

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I would like for each time user press spacebar, for the script to pass keystroke space to a browser (Firefox) to play a game while counting the number of times spacebar was hit.

How do you do that with AppleScript?


texts: PDF only readable with Acrobat on macOS and iOS

texts:
I'm frequently given PDFs with images where the images are not (or not properly) rendered on macOS (or iOS), but which others say that they can read on other OSs. These files are always readable in Acrobat, but the Images do not show in any other app or browser (neither Preview nor Skim or PDF Expert).

From asking around it's clear that I'm not the only person with this issue.

What's going on here and how can I, or the creators of the PDFs, fix it?


texts: what is the name and password for transfer server?

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I want to transfer files between my Windows 7 unlimited computer and my Mac VirtualBox machine.
I followed this tutorial.

I did not set a password for my Windows computer
While connecting, it asks this:

What exactly is my name and password? Where is it?
I entered all of the things needed but it won't work.


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On a Mac mini end 2009, with a drive updated to a SSD, and RAM updated to 8GB running OS X 10.11.6, I sometimes get a "" on boot. It then boots in Recovery mode by itself, so i shut it down and power it up again, and it boots normally, without any problems after.

Maybe it's not the right place to ask this, I'm a StackExchange noob.

But how does this happen ?


texts: Is there any way to view the names of files from before iTunes renamed them?

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So here's my sad story guys. I'm a songwriter and I have a ton of audio files on my computer. I spent the last week or so going through them all (some were in iTunes, some were scattered across the HD), renaming them and putting dates in the filenames so that they were organized in folders by "unfinished", "finished", "arrangements", etc. I had this pretty much finished when I decided (stupidly) that I would create a new iTunes library to put them in, so that I could preview them more effectively than you can in the Finder. But I didn't know at the time that the "Keep files organized" option was checked in the preferences, or that it even existed. So after I put them in iTunes, all the files were renamed to their original filenames, and for the most part had any characters in brackets removed.

But here comes the really dumb part: I saw this, and though - ah, never mind, it's not worth it. And deleted the files from iTunes, clicking move to trash - thinking, that iTunes would simply move the newly created folders to the trash. But no - it moved the files into the trash from my old folders! The ones that were located on the Desktop, not my music folders! And it left the files in the Media folder in the iTunes folder alone. What the hell...

So now I'm trying to see if there's some way to look at a system log, or some other kind of data file which might show the renaming process to get back the original names. I'm also hoping that none of the original files were deleted from the computer, but it's hard to tell, since they were all renamed!

Can anyone help me salvage a week of (albeit probably unnecessary) work?


texts: Why don't changes in the bashrc file work on a new terminal window?

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I'm trying to add an alias to the bashrc file. Since I'm not good at this, Im' going to write all the steps I took

nano ~/.bashrc

The file had this in it

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin" # Add RVM to PATH for scripting

On top of that I added my alias

dropUpload(){
~/drop.sh upload $1 $2
}
alias dropU=dropUpload

Saved the file and then sourced it with . ~/.bashrc

In the same window I tried using the code dropU first/url second/url and it worked. I closed the terminal window and opened a new one, the code no longer works. The error I get is

  -bash: dropU: command not found

If I nano back to the file my new code is there. If I re-source the file, the code works. How can I get this to persist?


texts: How can I shut down an unlisted php-fpm?

texts:
I have two installations of php on my machine.
One came with apache and is a 5.3 version, and I'm trying to use a 5.4 version with nginx.
I'd like to work on project using nginx, but I can't figure out how to turn off apache's pfp-fpm service: it doesn't show up when I use the sudo launchctl list command. However, I can see it in the process list, and it claims its parent process is launchd.

When I open the nginx project main page, and call phpinfo() on it, the php version displayed is 5.3, this is why I think I failed to launch the correct service. What can I try?


texts: Why does iPhone Safari not save login credentials for a certain Wi-Fi hotspot?

texts: My Academy's wi-fi requires me to log in via a web-browser portal page before I have access to the internet. Safari on my iPhone doesn't save my username and password for it. Is there a way to manually force it to save them?


texts: Notes iCloud sync fail Yosemite and IOS8

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Notes appear not to be syncing reliably. There are other questions but appear to be about older versions.

No two of iCloud, IOS and Mac seem to be fully in sync. (iCloud and IoS do appear to be in sync now) Setup is in ssytem preferences all except Back to My Mac and keychain are ticked on in the iCloud pane Mail, Calendars and Safari all sync.

Later on a retry iCloud web notes page just hangs this was after iPhones and web seemed to sync better (i.e. a iPhone test note got to the web) - get does not respond message and hit button to report to Apple. Only the notes pane is affected all others seem OK. Note this freeze happened after I wrote this - when I wrote this it seemed to react but just did not have up to date from iPhone or Mac

All my old notes seem to be OK. Probably sync by wire under iTunes before iOS8

My email seems to sync correctly

iCloud shows all notes over a year old in its list (but then shows ion screen the one I just typed in on my IPhone)

iPhone and Mac seems to be in sync for up to last Monday (Note as Monday 22nd now it looks odd for iPhone to show  Monday for notes update on 15th Dec)

How do I force a sync

How do I debug this - what logs etc


texts: Restore From Time Machine Backup With Incomplete Backup as the Last one

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I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.6.  I had performed a complete backup on 6th Dec.  My machine was then formatted and the OS re-installed.  Subsequently, a backup took place before I could restore my files.  It also stopped midway. It is
2020-12-09-073227.inProgress
But the latest backup as indicated by the Latest folder is also taken on Dec. 6th. Will the Migration Assistant ignore 2020-12-09-073227.inProgress and restore from the latest backup?


texts: key combo to toggle showing hidden items

texts: Is there a key combination I can use to show/hide hidden items in Finder?


texts: Old iPad 2 with cracked screen - what trade-up/repair is available and is it worth using?

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I have an unused, approximately 1.5-year-old, iPad 2 (32Gig with 3G). It has a slight crack in one corner of the screen - it's noticeable but not a complete hindrance to anyone using it.

I've just obtained an iPad 3 and am trying to figure out what I can do with the old iPad 2. I was thinking of selling it (Ebay, Craigslist etc.) - but I was wondering what services Apple might provide to repair the screen beforehand, or provide a trade-up to a newer one at a low cost? What are folks' experiences? Is it worth attempting to do this before I sell it?

In case it's relevant, I'm in the UK.


texts: Can Windows Vista be installed on Mac OS X 10.6.6?

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I heard that as of Mac OS X 10.6.6, Apple removed wording about installing Vista via Boot Camp, suggesting that they are no longer supporting it.

If I have Mac OS X 10.6.6 installed, can I still install a full version of Vista on it?


texts: Podcast speed - Can't find adjust button

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I have (probably accidentally) changed the speed on my podcasts, so that they are now playing at (I believe) double or 1.5 speed.

I want to change back to normal speed.  I have searched Google for some time, but every 'answer' references a speed button that it meant to be near the 'time bar'.  I can't find any speed (1x or similiar) button anywhere on the podcast screen or in podcast settings.

Help!


texts: Brand new MacBook Pro touch bar F4 trouble

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Just a couple of days into owning a new MacBook Pro (14,3) It seems the f4 key doesn't work if iTunes is open - I searched a bit and people were having this issue in January - Is there a fix / workaround (other than quitting iTunes) ?

It disables f4 on external keyboards too, and takes approx. 30 seconds after iTunes has quit to function correctly again.

100 % reproducible - can't imagine that this has been left unsolved for this many months.
any ideas ?
thanks !


texts: ZIP files created with GUI have more bytes than ZIP files created in a shell

texts:
I created two ZIP files of the same directory. One with the GUI, the other with:

$ zip -r alpha_cmd.zip Alpha

The Alpha directory is 33.640 MB with 164 items.

The ZIP file created by the GUI is 2,100 bytes larger than the ZIP file created on the command line.

Why is the ZIP file created with the GUI larger?

Note: Even though the ZIP files have different sizes, when unzipped, each's directory has the exact same number of bytes. Basically, I'm very wary of possible inconsistencies introduced by managing my file system with the GUI and with shell commands.


texts: start.command permission denied even after chmod

texts:
I have been trying to run my server.command file forever. I have tried changing access privileges with chmod x+u pressing enter then dragging the file into Terminal and pressing enter, but when I do, it says:

  -bash: /Users/Alec/Desktop/Tekkit_Server_v1.2.9g/start.command: Permission denied


texts: Does setting sharing & permissions on "Ignore ownership on this volume" disk do anything?

texts:
I have a Mac Mini being used as a file server with an external hard drive used to store the shared folders.  If the "Ignore ownership on this volume" is not checked, I can control access for specific users using the System Preferences -> Sharing pane.

However, if I check the "Ignore ownership on this volume", all user accounts on the system (including network user accounts created with "Sharing only" option) can read/write to the shared folders over the network.  It appears that any sharing & permissions rules are completely ignored on this volume (which I suppose makes sense).

However, why does the system then allow me to add custom access rules to this volume?  Do these rules do anything on a volume with "Ignore ownership on this volume" enabled?


texts: How to compile apps with g77 on OS X Lion?

texts:
I am running Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion)

I have a problem in using the fortran compiler g77: any program I try to compile, it gives me this message: "g77: installation problem, cannot exec `as"

I've downloaded and installed the latest release of Xcode, but nothing changed...

Thanks in advance for any help,

Marco


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I currently have a MacBook Pro that I'm using at work, but it has now become so slow that I wish to do a reinstall of the OS. It has a recovery partition that offers such a reinstall. I do not want all the content back onto my computer after the reinstall, but I want to keep my time machine backup in case I forgot some important files.

Is there an option so that I some time in the future could be able to get files from an old TM backup?


texts: Why do iPhone App Store ratings and reviews seem to get processed so slowly?

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I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Apple's ratings/reviews system on the App Store. I've had issues with my own app (ratings/reviews not showing) now I see a major app with similar issues...

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 free app was released just 2 days ago (Feb 14). It now has 29 ratings and 9 reviews (one review is mine posted from night of 2/15). But this has got to be a well downloaded app right? I'm talking 1000's probably just in the first day, so where are the other reviews/ratings?

Does anyone know if:

1) Apple has humans approve all ratings/reviews before letting them show?

2) Apple has an algorithm for passing/rejecting ratings/reviews?

3) What is the exact time delay between posting a review/rating and it appearing on the App Store?

Also-> Have you had any experience with a review or rating not showing in the App Store ever or only after a long delay?


texts: Copy BPM & Star rating to Comments in itunes using Applescript

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I want an applescript to grab the BPM & Star Rating of a selected group of MP3's and paste the info into the comments section.

I found this code that will copy the star rating one track at a time but I do not know applescript well enough to modify it to do a group of selected tracks and also grab the BPM.

tell application "iTunes"
    set theTrack to (item 1 of (get selection))
    set theRating to rating of theTrack
    if theRating = 100 then
        set comment of theTrack to "5 Star"
    else if theRating ≥ 80 then
        set comment of theTrack to "4 Star"
    else if theRating ≥ 60 then
        set comment of theTrack to "3 Star"
    else if theRating ≥ 40 then
        set comment of theTrack to "2 Star"
    else if theRating ≥ 20 then
        set comment of theTrack to "1 Star"
    else if theRating = 0 then
        set comment of theTrack to "0 Star"
    end if
end tell


texts: Connected to internet and can browsing but can't play some games

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I have an iPhone 5s. Just like the title said, whenever my iPhone or iPad is connected to Wi-Fi I can't connect to some games like Puzzle and Dragon even though I can browse using Safari, use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram just fine. I keep getting connection error (in the game of course) whenever I open that game (not only that game actually).

I've tried changing the DNS from the default 192.168.1.1 to Google's and resetting the cache (airplane mode -> on -> off). But to no avail.

Have tried to open the game on my father's iPhone and iPad, and my sister's iPhone too. I suspect the problem is that my Wi-Fi configuration isn't compatible with iOS(?).

While my iPhone can't, my friend's Android can play the game just fine using my home's Wi-Fi network.

Please help me fix this.


texts: How to disable updates notification on iPhone XR (iOS 12.4), such as for an update of Numbers?

texts: I'm using iOS 12.4 on an iPhone XR. Toggling to "off" at Settings | iTunes & App Stores | Automatic Downloads | Updates does not prevent me from getting notifications that updates are available for the Numbers program that I never use and do not even want on my device. How can I ensure that annoying red badges with this kind of notification never appear?


texts: Safari won't play Amazon Prime Video on my iMac?

texts:
If I try to play videos on my iMac using Safari it won't play, but it plays fine using Chrome. I'm using macOS High Sierra and I'm running Safari version 12.1.

When I try using Safari I get a black screen with a message as shown below.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get Safari to play videos?

I don't think I had Silverlight installed but I don't know how to tell. I went ahead and installed version 5.1 of Silverlight but again I can't tell if its installed. When I go to Safari preferences and click on security I get the pane shown below.


texts: Is there a way to control USB audio device settings from the iPad?

texts:
It's possible to use the iPad as a USB host and connect up class-compliant USB audio interfaces through the Camera Connection Kit.

But is there a way to adjust their settings in iOS?  There is in OS X through the Audio/MIDI Setup:

The device's output level, for instance, is affected by the regular iPad volume controls, but the playthrough feature and input gain don't seem to have any controls, at least not in Garageband.   Is there a hidden setting somewhere or an app that can control such things?


texts: How can I get my own phone number from an iPhone running iOS 8?

texts: I am trying to get my own phone number but I can not find it. This is available in jailbroken phones and iOS 7 and lower versions. Please any help?


texts:
Due to incompatibility of root account and sandbox, I need to manually disable sandboxing of MS Office applications (so that it can be activated) by changing the value of com.apple.security.app-sandbox within the application binary (/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word) from <true/> to <false/>.

However, this change would lead the addition of a byte, and I can't find any documentation on how to insert a byte. I'm using hexedit, installed with brew (brew install hexedit).

Also, if someone can provide a script to automatically detect and edit that flag, that will be great. Here is an excerpt:


texts: Move focus between buttons in confirm dialogs OS X Yosemite 10.10.3

texts:
When I try to export a file with the same name (in InDesign CS6) I get a popup asking if I want to replace the file.

How can I move focus between the Cancel and Replace buttons using only the keyboard?

I have found that if I press this sequence Tab > Tab > Space the replace button is pressed instead of cancel, but I get no visual indication this will happen. Is this a bug?


texts:
Is there any way on typing out nuclear equations/symbol equations (With the two numbers at the top and bottom in front of the element)?

One of my friends have used an app that does this for him automatically, but he refused to tell me the name of the app.

An example of the result would be:


texts: Prevent photoanalysisd from spinning up fans

texts:
At times I hear my MacBook (Mid-2015, 15" retina) get loud, fans whirring. It becomes pretty hot to touch.
I check Activity Monitor: photoanalysisd is using near 100% CPU.
What is "photoanalysisd" and why is it using 77% of my CPU? says that it's due to changes in Photos.app... I have never used Photos.app. None of the answers on that question help me.
I just Force Quit photoanalysisd now whenever this happens, and haven't noticed any problems.
But it's frustrating when this happens.
How do I stop photoanalysisd from hogging CPU?
I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.4


texts: XQuartz crashing in infinite loop -- El Capitan edition

texts:
I have a MacBook Air running OSX El Capitan, version 10.11.6. I downloaded XQuartz 2.7.11, but when the program that uses it launches it (or I double-click it in the Utilities folder), XQuartz begins an infinite loop in which the logo appears briefly in the dock, then an "Xquartz quit unexpectedly" window pops up. There's also a crash report, but I can't make heads or tails of it and it's too long to fit within the character limits here.

What seems to be a bit more helpful is what appears in the logs recommended here, which records the following over and over:

Nov  8 22:17:19 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18311]: syntax error
Nov  8 22:17:08 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18150]: expr: syntax error
Nov  8 22:17:08 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18150]: xauth:  file /Users/XXXXX/.serverauth.18151 does not exist
Nov  8 22:17:08 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[18295]: Xquartz: Unable to locate waiting server: org.macosforge.xquartz.X11
Nov  8 22:17:08 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[18296]: Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
Nov  8 22:17:08 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[18295]: Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died
Nov  8 22:17:10 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18150]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: giving up
Nov  8 22:17:10 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18150]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
Nov  8 22:17:10 XXXXX-MacBook-Air org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18150]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: server error
Nov  8 22:17:10 XXXXX-MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[18150]): FairPlay decryption failed on binary.
Nov  8 22:17:10 XXXXX-MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.

I get that there's apparently a syntax error, but why would there be, and what am I expected to do about it?

I found this post, but it's from four years ago and is about Mountain Lion. Nevertheless, I attempted to do what solved the problem then -- moving ~/.xinitrc.d out of the way -- but I cannot find an .xinitrc.d on my system. Same with the other suggestion about /sw/bin/init.sh. I also moved every rc/profile file into a different folder, to no effect.

I also completely uninstalled and reinstalled XQuartz, but it only resulted in the same problem.

I'm tearing my hair out. Any suggestions?


texts: If on Wifi only, how does Mail work when not connected?

texts: If I have an iPod touch, which will only connect to the internet via Wifi, how will it work with email?  If I write an email on the bus, will it send when I get home?  If I check an email with an attachment, will it download the attachment when it's connected, so that I can read it offline?


texts:
Coming out of the dark ages....moving my stuff from my old G4 PowerPC 10.5.8 to my recently-inherited MBP with 10.6.8 (intel).

How can I move files from the old G4 to the newer MBP?  I can't use TimeMachine & my new Seagate backup plus because it requires 10.6 or higher.

Can't use MobileMe because it requires 10.6 or higher.

Thumb drive file transfer is slow and painful.


texts: Will Mountain Lion make an older computer run faster or slower?

texts:
Performance/responsiveness is a common concern with new software, especially on older machines. In general, upgrading from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7) wasn't too bad, but now Mountain Lion (10.8) is adding even more features such as Notification Center.

What will be the performance impact of Mountain Lion on Macs which are nearing the lowest end of the system requirements?


texts: How do i remove the jailbreak on my stolen iPhone 5c?

texts:
I had my iPhone stolen earlier today. I went through the steps of trying to find it using Find My Phone, etc.

I ended up getting my phone back miraculously through a system of Find My Phone and just my own personal investigation, but when I got it back it seems to be different. All my apps are gone, and I'm not sure if this was part of the Wipe My Phone I did but there is also Cydia and Pingu installed on my iPhone. I'm pretty sure those involve jailbroken iPhones.

My question: is my iPhone jailbroken, and what steps do I go through to reverse that? I don't want a jailbroken iPhone.


texts: How to create a bootable disk for an older Mac?

texts:
The file system on an older Mac mini (early 2009, latest supported OS 10.11) got corrupt, and disk utilities ended up in an infinity verify-can't-repair loop. Thanks to a insightful tip I could mount it on a different machine and restore my files. (I physically removed the disk and mounted it with a USB-to-SATA cable).

I proceeded to reformat the disk, and now want to install a bootable macOS on this disk.

The best action seems to follow the Apple guide "How to create a bootable installer for macOS", which requires me to download macOS 10.11 (El Capitan). It's normally hidden in the App Store, but I found the direct link. Unfortunately, I can't seem to download it on my new Mac: It gives me a warning "OS X can't be installed on "MyNewMac" because the version of macOS is too new.". I know, but don't want to run it, just install on the disk for the older Mac, so I can run it on the early 2009 Mac mini.

How to proceed?


texts:
My MacBook Pro is throwing me a message "Service Battery" and coconutBattery tells me I have 4007 mAh instead of 5450 mAh.

Is there a way to pump it back up or is that impossible?

I was looking around on the Internet but the Apple Store does not display a built-in MacBook Pro 13 inch battery.

Should I replace mine? And if so, where is the best place to look for since Apple does not have them theirselves?


texts:
I have a 2014 MBP, running very well but for one issue: the fan doesn't seem to move any air around, even though I can hear it running. As a result, the laptop gets quite warm, and further, it seems that the Mac throttles the CPUs to keep it from overheating (performance is one reason I got it in the first place).

I can hear the fan running (well, a fan-like noise anyway!) and the noise builds up when the load increases. I installed smcFanControl, and it shows the temperature and fan speed changing as expected. But no air movement. Running something like htop from the terminal shows CPU usage topping out at 60-70%. The CPU tends to sit around 60-70 deg C, which seems quite high for a permanent state. Letting in January cold air through the window only makes minimal difference.

What I tried:

I restarted the SMC
I opened the cover and looked for any lint. What very little there was, I removed, but there was no significant build-up in the vents or around the components
I installed smcFanControl to see if I can tune the fan speed, the noise does respond to the settings but again, no air flow

None of it made any difference.

Any idea what the problem is, and how I can fix it? The laptop is working very well, so I'd rather keep it than replace it, even though it is getting old. Would Apple help at all - I never had anything fixed with them, but ofc the Mac is out of warranty.

I think the problem may have started around High Sierra upgrade, but it didn't bother me much at the time.

EDIT

It was suggested that this question is relevant. But I don't think so. I did clean the inside, and found no obvious sources of lint. Perhaps applying thermal paste would help, but I cannot see how, if the air is not pushed around by the fan.


texts: Excel: how to change Default file option to UTF-8 away from Macintosh file option?

texts:
When I double-click and open a csv file in Excel, the OSX Excel always opens it in Macintosh format destroying the visualisation of UTF-8 files with malformatted umlaut characters such as ö and ä. I want to avoid opening files in OSX Excel in UTF-8 format by manually typing the UTF-8 format with options such as Import.
How can I change the default file option to UTF-8 in OSX so files can be opened in UTF-8, instead of Macintosh format, automatically even in the GUI and Finder?
Microsoft Excel for Mac: Version 15.30.
OSX: macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.1
Related questions in Superuser but not focus on OSX

Change default encoding of Excel to UTF-8

How to set character encoding when opening Excel


texts: Stop Apple Notes in iPad auto creating unnecessary hyperlink on handwritten text

texts: This is happening sometimes when I start drawing on ipad notes


texts: Can I keep my iTunes library on an external drive?

texts:
My main computer is a MacBook Pro that's running out of space, mostly due to my iTunes library, especially the TV shows.

I have a few questions all related to solving this problem.

First the most basic: where is the iTunes library directory? What is its filesystem location?

If I move my library from the laptop and to an external USB-connected drive, will my music and TV shows still play?

And here's the tricky part: I'd like to keep some of my music on the local drive so I can actually listen to it when I'm out and don't have the external drive with me. Is there a way to do that?

I don't need to preserve ratings or play counts.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


texts:
Recently the tap to click on my trackpad will disable itself after a restart and I have to go into System Preferences to enable it. Has anyone experienced this and know of a solution?

I'm running Snow Leopard on a white MacBook (Mid 2010).


texts: Can one MacBook charge another over USB-C?

texts:
When two 2016 MacBook Pros are connected over USB-C, can they transmit power?  Could an adapter look like a phone from one side but like a charger from the other, so that it would convince one MacBook to power another?

How does the 2016 MacBook Pro know to draw power when connected to a charger, but to provide power when connected to a phone?  I see that wattage is negotiated when they are first connected, but is who-charges-who also negotiated??


texts:
Spotlight seems to always suggest the wrong thing and doesn't learn when I don't choose the Top Hit.

Is it possible to change the priorities of Spotlight? The internet suggests that there has been a way to edit keywords (or Spotlight comments) under "right click/Get Info". But there is no such thing here in Yosemite anymore.


texts: I installed latest version of git into /usr/local/bin and change $PATH so that new version is picked up when using shell. Can I remove old version that is in /usr/bin directory ? I am afraid to do it because something could break in the system maybe. I am just curious about this.


texts: Trying to reinstall OS X on a linux drive

texts:
I have decided I don't want to deal with the bugs of linux and would like to go back to OS X. Sadly no matter what I do I cannot seem to get OS X to read the file system that linux uses. I tried formatting it but could not get it to work. After loads of googling I ave up and decided I would ask here.

Any ideas?


texts: How to delete softwareupdate cache to download Catalina GM

texts:
I tried multiple times to reboot, unenroll from beta, download new profile installer and tried to delete preferences. However, I still download Instalation where the Info.plist for DTSDKBuild key is 19A578c which is beta 10.

Anyone knows other cache to delete or direct download url?

defaults remove com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate
defaults read com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate

Domain com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate does not exist

defaults read com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate
{
    LatestMajorOSSeenByUserBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.InstallAssistant.Seed.macOS1015Seed1";
    ProductKeysLastSeenByUser =     (
        "041-88937",
        "061-18973",
        "061-01542"
    );
}

  .SeedEnrollment.plist

sudo more /Users/Shared/.SeedEnrollment.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>SeedProgram</key>
        <string>DeveloperSeed</string>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: Accessing files in a Mac/network share on iOS?

texts:
While on my home local network, I some times want to access images and plain-text files stored on an AFP network share.

But I have not found an app for iOS that allow me to do this. Can someone recommend a solution?

I do not want to use a service like Dropbox.


texts: How does iBooks determine the category of an EPUB?

texts:
I've been using the Perl module EBook::EPUB to create ebooks to read in iBooks.  But I can't figure out how to set a category for the books I create.
When I sort by categories in iBooks, it doesn't seem to do anything.  As I understand it, that should show each category as a heading with those books listed underneath it.  But it seems my books don't have categories.

How do I set a category when creating an EPUB book?


texts: "on my mac" calendar option missing from New Calendar menu

texts:
I recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion (upgrading from Lion). Exported my calendars to a "Calendar Archive" on Lion and then imported them on Mountain Lion.

Maybe I broke something, but I don't see a way to add new calendars "on my mac". The only option i have in File | New Calendar is "iCloud" (which is not what i want). Is there a preference I'm missing somewhere?

A possibly related problem: syncing with iCloud seems to be broken. I get a triangle alert icon to show there has been a problem (but there is no clue what the problem is). I spent and hour on Google hunting but couldn't find a place to look for logged error messages.


texts: How to bind workspace to shortcut, and also bind return to previous workspace to the same key

texts:
Basically I imagine it like this:
I am on workspace 5, I press "shortcut" and it moves me to set workspace number 8 (or something). When I am done, I press the same shortcut and it moves me to workspace 5 again.


texts:
It seems that you can only search for a name or a company name in iOS's Contacts app. You can't search for an address, a zip, a note or any text outside of those fields. The same holds true for searching in iOS/Spotlight.

Besides the third party app for finding contacts via phone numbers mentioned before on this site, is there any way to search for an address, a city, a zip code, or a note in the Contacts list in iOS?


texts: Messages app: I can't delete individual texts from conversation as the Trash icon disappears

texts:
On an iPhone, when I want to delete parts of a conversation from the Messages app, I tap and hold an individual message.

This displays Copy | More…. I tap More… and tick the relevant text messages to delete. The trash bin appears in bottom left corner and I can delete.

However, it only works the first time after the phone was switched on. If I want to do this a second time, pressing More… and ticking the relevant text messages to delete, the trash bin in the bottom left is missing, whereas the camera button is still displayed.

I can still delete the entire conversation (which I don't want to do), or switch the phone off and back on again - then it works just once and vanishes again.

Anyone else encountered the same problem?

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.3


texts: Delete photos JUST from iPhone and not Mac?

texts:
How can I delete photos just from my iPhone and not in my photo library from the Mac?

Every time I delete photos from my iPhone it'll be deleted on my Mac and vice versa...

Thank you


texts: Can I configure Swype to use two different languages for keyboard layout and spell checking?

texts: With my built-in iPhone keyboard that is easily possible, but I can't seem to find the setting on Swype.


texts: OS X PHP — dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib

texts: What is the problem with my Mac's default PHP? Whenever I do php -version, it shows the following file missing information. How can I fix this problem?


texts: How can I transfer all my songs to iPhone instead of just purchased songs?

texts: When I connect and sync my iPhone to iTunes it only transfers over purchased songs and not songs I ripped from a music cd.  How do I get all of them to sync?


texts: Is there a "findmnt" equivalent for OS X?

texts:
I find findmnt's output much easier for a quick scan of the filesystem status than the traditional mount command.

Is there an equivalent for it on Mac? It's part of util-linux package.
HomeBrew doesn't have a package for it.

EDIT: Here is a sample output, as suggested in a comment:

$ findmnt
TARGET                       SOURCE                       FSTYPE     OPTIONS
/                            /dev/disk/by-uuid/b70...92ec ext4       rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered
|-/sys                       sysfs                        sysfs      rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
| |-/sys/fs/fuse/connections                              fusectl    rw,relatime
| |-/sys/kernel/debug                                     debugfs    rw,relatime
| `-/sys/kernel/security                                  securityfs rw,relatime
|-/proc                      proc                         proc       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
|-/dev                       udev                         devtmpfs   rw,relatime,size=2015976k,nr_inodes=503994,mode=755
| `-/dev/pts                 devpts                       devpts     rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
`-/run                       tmpfs                        tmpfs      rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=404956k,mode=755
  |-/run/lock                                             tmpfs      rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k
  `-/run/shm                                              tmpfs      rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime


texts: Activate an AT&T iPhone 3GS outside of USA after iOS upgrade

texts:
I'd like to know if it's possible to activate an AT&T iPhone 3GS outside of USA.

I live in Brazil and I've bought this iPhone from eBay. As it came with iOS 4.x (I don't remember the exact version), the first time I connected it to my computer (Mac), iTunes offered to upgrade it to iOS 6.1.3.

This is the problem: it was jailbroken before the upgrade and it was working fine with my carrier (TIM). But after the upgrade, I'm not able to activate it.

Even if I try to "hacktivate" and install ultrasn0w, it still doesn't recognise my SIM card.

I've read somewhere that I should use an AT&T SIM card to activate it and then I should jailbreak and install ultrasn0w.

And this is my question: Will this process work if I do it in Brazil? I mean: I'm planning to ask a friend to bring me an AT&T SIM card from USA. Would this work as expected? Or does the iPhone must be in USA for the activation?


texts: How to display the full path of files found by the Finder "Find" function?

texts:
I'm trying to use the Finder to search my code base. For example I would like to find every files that ends with ".m" and contains "keyDown".

Finder does this, but in the Finder window showing the results, the full path can not be displayed individually on each line, but only if you click on the file. In this case it's displayed on a status bar on the bottom.

Is there a way with Finder, or possibly another tool, to display the full path for each file next to the filename ?


texts:
One draft window flashes continually on and off the screen even though I have deleted the draft from my menu on the left.

Any ideas on what's causing this and how could I fix it?


texts: Will Lion updates be included in the App Store download?

texts: I would want to download Lion before I start clearing my system for a fresh install, but would the fixes released in the next few weeks be included in the download?


texts: I'm looking for a hardware solution for a work trip I'm taking soon. The options at the moment seem to be a new Chromebook, or an iPad (which I already have) with bluetooth keyboard. I need a full-sized keyboard (I'll be doing a lot of writing, and Google Drive is an acceptable editor), and a web browser. However, I am not confident that wireless internet in the venue will be as reliable as the wired (ethernet) connection. I would need a USB dongle for the Chromebook; is there a solution to provide a comparable ethernet connection to the iPad? (Comments on this answer suggest no, but I'm curious if anything has changed, or if there's a more general solution than that question asked for.)


texts: Can I Delete Specific Apps Through Terminal while booted to recovery or an os installer?

texts:
I think I have a failed installation issue from trying to install Catalina. Apparently there wasn’t enough space, and when it restarted I wasn’t able to log into my MacBook. Every time I do, the progress bar goes halfway, and then the MacBook shuts down.

I’ve tried to use command + S boot up, but it just shows the login screen as usual. It doesn’t show the terminal, except when I shut it back down or restart (for a brief second).

This means I have to use recovery mode’s terminal. I need to use the terminal in recovery mode to delete my Adobe apps so I can free up space to reinstall Catalina from recovery mode.
The problem is, when I navigate to cd /Applications, there’s nothing but Safari.app and Utilities. How do I find my Adobe apps?!

I ran ls in cd /Volumes, and it says:

Macintosh HD
Macintosh HD - Data
macOS Base System


texts: How can I know whether MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc. are installed on Mac OS X 10.7?

texts:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.
How can I know whether MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc. are installed on the system?


texts: Unable to mount SMB share using Snow Leopard

texts:
I have a Linux box (Raspberry Pi) with Samba set up, and when I try to mount the shares on a MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8) it just stalls. I have an Applescript that runs at login, which I use to mount them, and the mount volume action never terminates.

Similarly, when I run mount_smbfs or mount -vt smbfs, the command provides no output whatsoever, and continues to run (C-c gives me a prompt, but doesn't terminate).

Using ⌘+K in Finder or smb/cifs URI schemes just provides the "Connecting To Server" dialog, which disappears instantly, or never closes at all.

The only log message that shows up is the typical firewall message (this has always happened) in appfirewall.log.

  Deny nmblookup data in from 10.0.1.42:137 to port 56874 proto=17

smbutil -v lookup -w 10.0.1.42 <hostname> gives the expected output.

A reboot fixes the issue, but I still don't know what is causing it.


texts: AirPods abruptly go silent while listening to music from iPhone

texts:
UPDATE 2018-09-24: Running iOS 12 for a week now. I haven't experienced this problem so far. While it seems the issue might be gone, I haven't had much use of the AirPods this last week.

There are many discussions about problems with AirPods disconnecting all over the net, but I'm not sure I've seen my case anywhere.

Basically I listen to music from iPhone with my Airpods. It could be Apple Music or SoundCloud or whatever.

Sometimes the sound just stops - but when I look at my iPhone I notice that the airpods appear to be connected, and the iPod music player or whatever player I was currently using, is still ticking on ie the time progresses; play is not paused.
Each time when this happens I have to do one of these methods:

Temporary fix method 1

pause the music (obviously this is optional, but if I don't I miss some parts)
disconnect the airpods
connect the airpods
(play the music)

Temporary fix method 2

I've found another way which fixes the problem after it happened:

Pause for at least ~10 seconds
Unpause

Notes

Using iPhone 6s Plus, currently iOS 11.4.1
It is very inconvenient. There is no problem with batteries, this could happen on a full charge.
after a discussion in the answer below I decided to see what happens if I wait a longer time after the sound goes silent. Turns out the connection is still very much alive because I realized I can still use double taps on the left/right AirPods in order to pause/skip to next song according to my setup. Even pausing/unpairing/skipping this way will not make the sound come back. The iPhone seems to believe that it's sending music to perfectly sounding AirPods.
It kind of often happens after I look at the phone doing something, then put it down on a desk (likely locks it, or it autolocks after some minute) and after the screen goes black and then some more seconds (not sure how long, but it's very short) the music stops.
I get the feeling this happens a lot more when I'm at the office or other places with busy WiFi signals etc all around, but I'm not sure, it could happen almost anytime, it's hard to say.
It's not exactly reproducible - I can't cause it to happen, but it normally happens like one or a few times a day.
I don't use the phone much at all so I have no idea if this issue affects phone calls. Just no info here. I just had a call today and was using the AirPods and after 7-8 minutes the other guy started to sound like a monster (people describe this as "underwater" and I can also agree with that). I quickly switched off the AirPods and talked using the iPhone itself.
It seems to happen regardless of if I am connected to a Wi-Fi network, or have Wi-Fi turned off and am only listening to music with cellular connection.

Anyone have this issue? When googling most pages suggest to unpair the airpods from the iPhone and re-pair them again. I've tried that, I believe, but I don't think it made anything better.

Kind of similar issues

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8344649 very similar
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7887055


texts: Create a pdf with just certain pages from a pdf

texts: I have a pdf, and I would like to select some pages from that pdf and build another pdf. Is it possible? If yes, how? I am on a El Captain.


texts: File name autocompletion stopped working in Terminal

texts:
I just noticed this.  Previously, when I typed cd Doc<tab> I would get cd Documents.  Now I get cd Doc.  If I hit tab again it just appends more tabs.  I only have one Doc* directory:

$ ls -d Doc*
Documents/

Is there a way I can get this working again?  I believe it was working until recently.  I recently updated the command-line tools.  Could this have affected this?

I am on Yosemite on a Retina MacBook.


texts: External Storage Options for MBP non-retina

texts:
My system specs:

late 2011 13 non-retina
thunderbolt (1?)
optical drive
usb 2
sdxc @ 2.5 gt/s
firewire 800
128gb ssd

I am wrestling with a few options since I don't have USB3.0:

USB 3 drive running at usb 2 speed
Firewire 800 drive
A few SDXC cards

I am also considering for the long term:

Thunderbolt to USB3 adapter to usb 3 drive (not ideal since I can't
use my TB to dvi anymore)
Thunderbolt dock (would consider this heavily if it allows me to run
2 external monitors, but I am still not sure if this is possible)
Thunderbolt drive (expensive)
Replace optical drive with SSD or HDD (expensive)

I am looking for a solution with less wires and as quick as possible. I am not sure how the transfer rate of the SDXC stacks up to firewire800 and usb 2, but I appreciate the lack of wires. I can get a firewire drive or usb 3 drive pretty cheap locally (obv the usb3 drive would run at usb2 speed but would be more compatible in the future). I am planning to use this for movies, music, dev project backups.

The Thunderbolt dock is interesting to me since it claims you can run an external TB display from it, 3 usb3 slots, AND an external hdmi monitor but it states "Yes, the Thunderbolt Station can support two monitors if one of them is an Apple Thunderbolt Display". If it can support a non-apple thunderbolt display then I would be more interested since were talking about a lot of cash for this setup, still waiting for them to get back to me.

The TB drive isn't really an option if it can't support the daisy chain either, so also looking at a very pricey setup that way.

It seems like replacing the optical drive with a non-ssd is also bad practice since it will increase battery load? And it doesn't really seem worth it to spend so much to add another low capacity ssd?

I am thinking the best options are either the firewire drive (the one I'm considering requires external power), or just picking up some SDXC cards.

Anyways, I apologize for the novel, would really like hear any opinions or experiences with this. Thankee-sai!


texts: Disable Spotlight Index on 10.8 on Specific Volumes

texts:
To switch off indexing in Terminal I use:

sudo mdutil -a -i off

This disables it with the -a switch across all volumes and the -i off part turns "off" the indexing.

If connected to my iMac is the following volumes:

/Volumes
  /MacintoshHD
  /BOOTCAMP
  /NAS6TB

How do I specifically turn off the indexing service only for /BOOTCAMP and /NAS6TB? I tried following the instructions in the man page, but they weren't very clear.


texts: Macbook: How to enable switching applications with command+tab after switching control and command?

texts:
I'm trying to have the same keys as my windows (I use both windows & mac).
The only thing I'm not able to achieve is switching applications with command & tab.

I've switched command & control in the modifier keys
I've tried downloading HyperSwitch which is an application for just that, but the Macbook's application switcher has more application that the HyperSwitch (It doesn't catch everything)
I've tried to add custom shortcut at: System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts, but I don't know what is the exact name of this action. I've tried "Switch application", "Application switcher", and more.

I'm sure that some solution exists. What am I missing? Thanks


texts: What is this right-arrow line symbol in the iOS simulator?

texts:
The iOS simulator sometimes shows me a keyboard shortcut helper when I spam Command-Shift-H in an attempt to close an app, and one of the shortcuts (the one I need) includes this symbol, but I don't know what key it refers to.

What key is this?


texts: How to get to previous calandar entry's after the date has passed

texts: When entering calandar events on my calandar I sometime need to go back and see what date I made a call or went to an event. All entry's prior to today date have disappeared. How can I get back to previous events so I can see what day they happened?


texts: What is changing the default keyboard layout from "U.S." to symbols after hitting + in 10.15.7 on a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro?

texts:
The event:
After updating to 10.15.7 on a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro and hitting first time the + key - "é", the keyboard layout changed to symbols (instead of asdfg I get åß∂ƒ©).  I have only the "U.S." keyboard layout installed.  A few years ago I had the Greek because it was easier to type greek letters, but removed it about 4 years ago.
Symptoms:

Of course I am unable to log in. /Sometimes I can, but I was unable to determine what sequence of trials /+, , , , +, +++, etc.../ sets it back to "U.S".

The "About This Mac" menu item under the Apple menu disappear.  A new menu item "System Information" appears.

When I am in an Application - let's say Safari -, the "Quit Safari" menu item changes to "Quit Safari but keep the Windows"

Remedies tried:

All the key combinations and more listed above.  Did not work
Chat with Apple Support twice.  They had no clue but recommended to reformat and reinstall.
Reformated all volumes that Apple allows to reformat and reinstalled from the Base Mac OS. Did not work.
Reformated again and installed 10.14.6.  Did not work.  After the first hit of + or +, the keyboard layout changed to symbols.  Upgraded it to 10.15.7, hoping it will wipe the Base Mac OS clean and updates the EPROM... Did not work
Tried to boot from an USB drive that is bootable and contains 10.15.7 but after the Installer rebooted the machine the install did not continued from the USB drive, but rather of the Base Mac OS stored on the internal drive. So, ultimately did not work.

Any good suggestion that will work to keep the "U.S" keyboard layout?


texts: Random 100% Finder CPU Usage On One Account

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Ok guys, here's the deal. Randomly, I wasn't doing anything specific -- my system starts getting sluggish. I checked the activity viewer -- wow, finder is at 150% CPU!

I have scoured the internet for fixes, and franky, I have tried them all (except one -- which I may need help with -- more on that later).

SYSTEM: Snow Leopard with a Mac Pro (Twelve Core 2.66 Westmere)

This is what I have tried and the results:

Trashing com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, com.apple.loginwindow.plist. -- NO FIX
Trashing ALL apple.* namespaced .plist files -- NO FIX
Turning off "calculate all sizes" in finder -- NO FIX
Turning off "show view options" in finder -- NO FIX
Disabling all startup items -- NO FIX
Unplugging external hard drives -- NO FIX
Getting rid of all data on desktop. -- NO FIX

However, if I create a new account or use my wife's account -- the FINDER CPU USAGE IS NORMAL.

I analyzed the finders cpu pattern, it goes like this. If active, its always between 70 and 150% cpu usage. If i kill it, and stay 100% idle -- it goes from 0-ish% to 100+% slowly, and the Real Memory column in activity viewer goes from 0mb to ~2gb+ slowly, and when it gets around there, it dies and cycles all over again.

Here's where I need help from people smarter than me in this area. What are some methods I can use to trace what's happening in Finder?

I am pretty new to Mac and this has been a big blow to me -- I am loving the rest of it after being on Windows for over 17 years.

Would appreciate any help I can get!

I am getting the following when I issue the fs-usage -f filesys

18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000401 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000404 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000340 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000339 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000535 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000192 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000326 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000462 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000194 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000127 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000410 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000198 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000600 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000188 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.001019 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000416 W Path Finder

Any ideas? I disabled path finder after and it still happens, but with just Finder.


texts: Windows 10 on external SSD - touchbar and track pad issues

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2018 MBP 15". 512/16/Vega 20.

(I should have ordered a larger internal SSD, but it wasn't really up to me.)

I have the internal SSD split into two 256GB partitions for MacOS and Windows 10. These work fine.

I have a Windows-to-Go Win10 install on a Sandisk Extreme 1TB USB-C SSD. This works fine - with an external mouse and keyboard.

Without the external input devices, I'm forced to use the touch bar for function keys, etc. The touch bar doesn't change context - swapping feature keys for F1...F12, etc. - when holding the Fn key. It displays all of the feature buttons (apologies as I don't know the term for these), but all of the buttons behave as Fx keys. So, I can't change the display brightness, volume (other than via the speaker icon on the task bar), etc.

I could live with that, but it's annoying.

The touch pad is the big issue. I can point and click. It does not however recognize two finger clicks, so I can't scroll or access a context menu.

To clarify: All of this works on the Win10 install on the internal SSD. It does not work when booting form the external drive. The internal SSD is hosting a Windows Insider version that I need for work. The external SSD has the latest public Win10 release.

Everything works fine under MacOS.

I've run the Bootcamp WindowsSupport install (obtained on this machine via Bootcamp Assistant) to get all of the drivers in place, and it claims to have succeeded. I have network, keyboard, AMD drivers and almost everything except for this odd behavior from the touch bar and the touch pad.

Help?

I suspect this is a driver issue, but I've not been able to install anything beyond what the Bootcamp installer provided.


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Java is consistently listed as using 700MB of real memory. That is a nice chunk of change on my 4GB iMac. I don't even know that I am running a Java Application, ever.

Any ideas?


texts: Safari (5) or Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard): Is past HTTP Post data stored?

texts: In either Safari 5 (history intact) or Snow Leopard, is there a way to view a sent HTTP Post request? A session expired and I am looking for the data that was posted (and lost).


texts: Can't type backslash with external windows european keyboard

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I have a Macboock Pro with Spanish keyboard. I am using an external windows (typical Logitech's black one) keyboard and everything works fine except the backslash. In this layout (in both keyboards) the backslash is next to the 1 (and its left) and below the tab key. However, if I press it in my external keyboard (no matter if I press shift,ctrl, windows, alt, altgr+shift, altgr) I get <>≤≥. In my mac it works fine with alt + the key.
How could I solve it? Thanks


texts: Recording with two USB microphones with different input numbers?

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I'm trying to record a podcast using two different microphones (after already realising you can't record using 2x the same mic) on my Mac High Sierra. I've tried this with multiple microphones but I always have the same issue. One mic only has "1 input", the other has "2 input" and it affects the way they record sound.

Microphone 1 (Blue Snowball) appears as having "1 in"
Microphone 2 (USB Microphone 2) appears as having "2 ins"

When I create an aggregate device using these mics, microphone 1 records audio only on the left side of the speaker. Microphone 2 records in stereo, coming out equally on both. Instead of having 4 inputs, the aggregate device has 3. All I want is to record myself and my partner on two microphones simultaneously and output in stereo so you can hear both of us in both earphones.

In video tutorials, my exact same Snowball microphone appears on their computers as having 2 inputs. Any ideas?

Stumpy x


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What are some good resources about running a small office (25 or so computers) with Mac computers only (though perhaps with a Windows or Linux/Unix file server)?

In other words, what information and options are available that would help understand how to standardize and maintain a number of Mac clients in an office?