texts: Why does my phone say I can't backup to iCloud even after deleting lots of video?

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I have an iphone 4s and I got an error message saying it can't do a backup because I have more than 5 GB to backup (more details listed on my question here).   When i go into the detail i see that the Camera role was taking up 5.1 GB itself so thats why it can't do any more backups.

I got suggestions on this answer to download files onto computer and then delete them off my phone.

The issue is that i just went and deleted all of my videos (which must have been over 1 GB) but when i go to the iCloud settings page it still shows the Camera Roll as having 5.1 GB.

Is there anything that i need to do to have it realize that i just freed up a lot of space?


texts: cannot boot. volume disappeared from boot option after Disk Utility (GUI) repair

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I have a 13-inch MBP with the latest OS X version.

Problem

Yesterday, I went to the Recovery Mode and performed Repair on my boot volume. I was not having a problem, but I just wanted to verify and repair as a regular maintenance. The Disk Utility said some kind of error (I cannot remember, but something about EFI?), and I cannot start my computer since then (question mark folder icon when I try to boot).

I have tried the following

I tried to recover the drive by going into the Recovery Mode, but when I press Option key for boot options, I just have an empty grey screen have no option(not even the recovery volume). I have also tried to enter into the Single User Mode, but it goes straight back to the question mark folder icon. Just in case, I performed PRAM and SMC reset, but still no dice.

Next, I tried to boot with Command+R pressed, and the computer went into Internet Recovery Mode, which works fine. Then, I went to the Disk Utility, and my SSD is on the list with the volume that has OS X(only volume on the entire disk except recovery volume, etc). I use FileVault2, and I can unlock the volume and mount it without any problem. When I do Verify Disk, it says that the volume appears to be OK. Also, performed fsck using Recovery Mode's Terminal, and it still says that "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK," the exact same message that I got from GUI disk utility. I also tried to unlock and set the volume as a start-up disk, but I still get the question mark folder icon.

If you need further details, please let me know!
Please save me!


texts: Ideal iMac For programming (and some photoshop)

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I am going to get a 21.5" iMac. It will primarily be used for Android, iOS, and web development, but may occasionally be used for some photoshop. Any other uses I have for it will be insignificant (such as web browsing or email)

Between the two 21.5" models on http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/imac, considering my primary uses for it

Would I likely notice any performance differences?
Should I expect the higher model to last me much longer than the lower model?
Will the lower graphics affect my ability to use Photoshop efficiently?


texts:
So last week (shortly after upgrading to the OS 10.15.7) I started having kernel panics after a few minutes away from booting up.
After looking all over I noticed in the Activity Monitor that Appstoreagent was using 2.4GB of memory.
To be able to use my Mac mini I have to keep an eye on the Activity Monitor and kill the Appstoreagent as soon as it pops up.
Has anyone seen this before?


texts: Proxy Authentication Error in pip install Mac

texts:
I have tried to set the proxy in the bash_profile:

export http_proxy=http://UserID:PWD@202.141.80.24:3128

export https_proxy=http://UserID:PWD@202.141.80.24:3128

export ftp_proxy=http://UserID:PWD@202.141.80.24:3128

Also since my password contains an '@' symbol I escaped it with \ and also tried to replace it with %40.

And I am saving the changes and updating the profile using source ~/.bash_profile

Despite all this, when I run the command:

sudo pip install kmeans-smote

I get Proxy Authentication Error:

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!


texts:
Please give me advice with iOS apps for data sync via sftp. I've tried using google... But there is no result.
I need to sync iOS 8.1 with debian via sftp in live mode.


texts: Windows 10 install on mid 2010 Mac Pro - "EFI boot" is not in startup manager

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I have been working towards installing Windows 10 on my mid-2010 Mac Pro and have been using the following thread as a guide: said thread. I've formatted both my BOOTCAMP volume (where I plan on installing Windows), and the USB drive being used to boot from, to ExFat. As of now, the Windows 10 ISO and the Windows support software has been mounted and copied onto my BOOTCAMP volume, and I've modified the .xml filename as well as disabled the ability to EFI boot from the BOOTCAMP volume. I've also copied the same content (Windows 10 ISO, Windows support software), except here I didn't disable the ability to EFI boot. I've basically made it to step 10 in the thread I was following.

The problem occurs when I reboot my computer. I do so by holding down the option key during startup to access the Startup Manager. I expect to see EFI boot as an option to select and boot from, but my USB (EFI boot) is not there. The only options I have are my internal drives and the Recovery drive, but no USB or EFI boot option. I've gone back to the guide in order to ensure I've done everything right, but can't find a reason for why I can't boot from my USB drive - maybe the ExFat partitioning scheme is wrong for this process?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated as I've been working on this for a few days now and would love to find a solution.

Thank you so much in advance.


texts:
I'm a novice at network things. I enabled remote-login on my home mac (OS 10.12.5) so I could git between home and office. To make it work, I had to tell the wifi to fix my Mac's IP and to redirect Port 22 to it. Works fine. My log file, however, has thousands of messages (one every few seconds) of the form:

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd._hex_[_int_]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255

Nothing in the log explicitly mentions a refused authentication, and I don't seem to have an auth.log or secure.log file (other posts suggested to look in there).

Any idea what's going on here?


texts:
Home and End do nothing in iTerm2, nor do ⌘← and ⌘→.

However, Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E do work.

Can Home and End do this?

Preferences->Keys_Key Bindings in iTerm2 do not offer a "Start of Line" or  "End of Line option.

Related: 1, 2


texts:
Is there an small app to always show language status?

The ideal app changes the color/shape of cursor depending on current language.

Or it can be a float icon on top with current language.

Update: Mostly I'm working in full screen mode, usual scenario for me is type something to understand what is my current language. Always show menu bar is not so comfortable for me.


texts: No Jailbreak Firewall for iOS (iPhone) for iOS 7

texts: Is there a non jailbreak firewall for the iPhone or is there some way to set one up, somehow?


texts: iPhone 6 volume too loud on Bluetooth headphones

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I have insomnia and use the sound therapy app Digipill to help me fall asleep. I've started to use its sounds through Bluetooth headphones, but I've come across an issue. A low setting on the iPhone's volume slider (~20%) is still insanely loud (hurts my ears) and if I slide the volume down to what should be the lowest setting then there is no sound whatsoever.

So how can I get sound through my BT headphones at a not-deafening volume?

Things I've tried, not necessarily in this order:

about 30 different brands/models of bluetooth headphones. From Best Buy legit high dollar brand name as well as Amazon/eBay cheap imports. All do the same thing.
Music settings: EQ trying each type of setting option, Volume Limit specifying a Max volume that's as low as possible, Sound Check on/of. I've done every possible combination with no effect on the volume.
Returned my new iPhone and got a replacement NEW iPhone, not refurbished. So this is not isolated to just my iPhone or another refurbed iPhone.
Also have tried on an iPad 2nd generation, iPad Air, iPad Pro, iPad Mini 4... pretty much if you know me & have an Apple product I was trying it to see if it had the same issues.
Downloaded/purchased the app on craigslist's iPod Touch & synched quite a few of these bluetooth headphones. Same issues, no change.
In Settings used the "disability section" Accessibility's Hearing options: Mono Audio, Noise Cancellation, Hearing Devices and doing Hearing Aid Mode "on".
ONLY THING THAT HAS HELPED is in the Accessibility shifting the audio balance to 75% in one ear & NOT using that side of the headphones, NOT A VIABLE SOLUTION since I am using the hypnotherapy app to cover up noise & aide me in falling back asleep.


texts:
I want to get rid of all the services, background processes, and apps that would have been installed when I got CC.

The software has a heavy footprint from licensing daemons, always running update processes that use side channel loading and sync processes like these:

How can I uninstall everything related to Adobe CC from my computer?


texts: How to execute a PKG file using a custom universal keyboard shortcut?

texts:
It may sound strange but I need to run a specific PKG installer whenever I trigger a specific custom keyboard shortcut. On Sierra 12.6 I've assigned a custom keyboard shortcut to sleep/lock-screen the Mac using shellScript/appleScript.

I have no idea how the shell script would look like.

I'd be grateful for any help and participation.


texts:
When I text another iPhone user I see the balloon with the three dots but sometimes no message appears after the three dots.

Is it possible they are typing a text to a different user?


texts: How can I block email signup overlays or javascript popups in Safari?

texts:
Is there a Safari extension or something that will block the Javascript modal popups that are now ubiquitous (soliciting mailing list signups)?

Failing that, are there extensions that will simply block sites that utilize these modal popups? I'm ok with any of these options:

Block the modal popup
Close the tab immediately if a popup happens
Block/remove the site from search results

There are so many sites these days that I have no reason to spend time on a site that utilizes popups. I'd rather not know they even exist so if an extension can remove them from DuckDuckGo results that would be outstanding.


texts: Is there any way to change the dictionary used in iBooks? When reading books written in a non-English language I would like to have access to the dictionary function in the book's language (not translation, just dictionary lookup).  Currently I'm reading Don Quijote in Spanish, and it would be really helpful to be able to lookup unfamiliar words.


texts:
I just got an Antlion Modmic microphone, along with a Rockit headphone/mic to TRRS splitter. I've got everything set up, but my late 2011 mbp 15" just won't recognize the microphone as an input. I should have under my audio inputs box in system preferences a thing saying "external microphone," but I don't. I also don't think this is a hardware problem, either, it works fine on an iPhone.

Things I have tried:

-Plug the microphone in the Audio in Jack
----is not a powered mic input that my mic needs

-Tried plugging it in to the splitter first then in to the computer- still nothing

Is there something I'm missing?


texts: El Capitan - Login problems with SIP enabled

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I just upgraded from Mavericks to El-Capitan. Upon attempting to log in to my profile, the login process gets stuck at the spinning load graphic, until I am forced to shut down. It appears that disabling SIP has fixed the issue, and the login took less than 5 seconds.

Why is this?

I suspect some kernel extension doing this, so I searched with sudo kextstat | grep -v com.apple to see the non-apple kexts. Here is a list:

Index Refs Address            Size       Wired      Name (Version) UUID <Linked Against>
  142    3 0xffffff7f83017000 0x5f000    0x5f000    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (5.0.6) FB8B8CAC-638F-3853-9CF3-5A0229B47B68 <7 5 4 3 1>
  143    0 0xffffff7f83076000 0x14000    0x14000    com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (6.0.1) 8FF2C637-0A5E-367E-B007-5B08655B1E8A <7 5 4 3 1>
  144    0 0xffffff7f8308a000 0x9000     0x9000     net.telestream.driver.TelestreamAudio (1.1.0) EEF9313A-72D9-F5C7-7408-F1F8F3E37A2C <104 5 4 3 1>
  150    0 0xffffff7f82467000 0x6000     0x6000     com.logmein.hamachi (1.0) 57549AD3-8860-C370-448E-68D7E6EBC0DA <7 5 4 1>
  152    0 0xffffff7f83093000 0x8000     0x8000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (5.0.6) 0585ED0B-8D0D-3F96-8BF9-EA50FB281D2A <151 142 41 7 5 4 3 1>
  153    0 0xffffff7f8309b000 0x5000     0x5000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (5.0.6) C5D7E667-CAFE-3B85-AE60-441006FB2BC0 <142 7 5 4 3 1>
  154    0 0xffffff7f830a0000 0x6000     0x6000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (5.0.6) 1A232B48-34B8-3B06-8963-662FD1DE7542 <142 5 4 1>


texts: Finder shows the wrong file size compared to Terminal or e.g. Gmail (not the base-10 vs base-2 problem)

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Finder shows different sizes for my files as compared to Terminal

-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuku  staff   4576265 Aug  6  2014 af-afr.yet
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuku  staff   1804227 Aug 11  2014 alp-alune5.yet
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuku  staff   8348051 Jul 24  2015 ar-nav.yet
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuku  wheel   4683564 May  8  2015 ar-vandyke.yet
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuku  staff   1169397 Aug  6  2014 arc-pst.yet
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuku  staff   2545947 Aug  6  2014 awa-awbtc.yet

You can see the difference is very significant (e.g. 6 MB vs 4576265 bytes). The one at Terminal is the correct one, since if I open the files with Sublime Text and count the bytes, or attach the files in Gmail, they will show the same sizes as the Terminal ones.

If I open the file Info window, it shows the wrong size as well.

This has been months, even after rebooting. I am using macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Do you know what is the source of this error and how to fix it?


texts: Using command line to create bootable OS X USB drive

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I am trying to create a bootable USB flash drive. I need help understanding this command in details.

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction

The "Install OS X Yosemite.app" (5.73 GB) is currently on an external HDD and I don't have enough space on my Mac because I ignorantly installed OS Yosemite on only 15 GB of partitioned system drive. This is the current state now.

Now, I think I need to make changes to the command line to change the directory since I cannot copy the "Install OS X Yosemite.app" back into the Flash storage "OS Yosemite" and run the command. But I don't know how and help will be much appreciated.

sudo /Volumes/MacBook/OS\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Volumes/MacBook/OS\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction

Will this do?


texts: iPhoto files compressed in Time Capsule. Where is the original size?

texts: My 8 year old iMac died some days ago. Fortunately, I have everything backed up on my Time Capsule. I just tried to get my photos from iPhoto off it, but realized that all my shots have been compressed down to something between 30 to 80 kB instead of the couple of MBs they should be. Is there any way I can retrieve my photos at their full quality? All my SLR shots just look horrible now.


texts: I've downloaded the "Pro Video Formats 2.0.1" update at least twice, but it keeps showing up in the Mac App Store. How do I fix this?


texts:
Is there a way to force macOS to reinstall a set of USB drivers for a device?

I have a pair of headphones from Sennheiser that are no longer recognised, i.e. not shown as an output device in the Sound Preferences.


texts: Trackpad unable to press click after Security Update

texts:
Apple issued a Security Update 3 days ago which was silently installed on my computer. I woke up and realized the trackpad doesn't give the press click feel again.

Before the update, I was able to just press the trackpad and would hear the click feedback, but after the update, the click is now silent.

My current Trackpad preferences - Mojave 10.4, MacBook Pro mid-2015:

Is there a way to fix this issue or remove the new trackpad drivers and reinstall the new one.


texts: Startup disks are disabled after upgrading to OS X El Capitan

texts:
Recently I upgraded my Mac mini to OS X El Capitan. After the upgrade completed, I can't select a startup disk in System Preferences -> Startup Disk.

BOOTCAMP/Windows is disabled here. Searching for a solution I came across the following: press and hold the Option key while booting to get all available systems, but that trick didn't work for me. Any solution will be highly appreciable.


texts:
I can automatically login to webdav server but have forgotten user/password.
Where on OS X High Sierra are these credentials stored so I can access and store them elsewhere?


texts: Os X El Capitan: will System Integrity Protection patch .AppleSetupDone exploit/hack?

texts:
I'm unsure whether this was possible in OS X Yosemite, however OS X Mavericks has a security flaw in which : Should a individual have physical access to a computer, he need only launch in Single User Mode, mount the hard drive and remove the file ".AppleSetupDone" in the Directory "/var/db/". In doing so, tricking the computer into thinking it is its first ever launch and allowing the individual to setup a new Admin account.

OS X El Capitan apparently has this new security feature known as System Integrity Protection, which limits root access to an array of Directories including: /system, /bin, /sbin, /usr, /etc, /tmp and /var.

My Question is:

Will System Integrity Protection protect the executable .AppleSetupDone from deletion, and the subsequent exploit?


texts: How to change number of threads used in Homebrew builds?

texts: I'm trying to install Inkscape using Homebrew but the build process takes too long, and it's CPU intensive. So I'd like to pass the number of threads that would be used for the build command. Than way, at least I can use the computer for other tasks while the build process take place.


texts: How to force the items of a window to be well-formed, like in Windows?

texts: When I create a folder it will be placed in an irrelevant position to the existing items in that directory, making a mess, killing all aesthetics, whatsoever. How to make the elements to be listed in a grid or something, like for example in Windows? I want this option to be the default.


texts: What's a good key binding for tmux on OS X?

texts:
The default tmux binding is ctrl+b, which is pretty awkward to hit on a Mac keyboard, because there's no right control.  C-a was the default in screen, but that's the default in OS X for going to the beginning of a line (my shell uses vim mode, but it's inconvenient when ssh'd to other machines).  You can't use alt as a meta key, and cmd+a is already used to select all text.

So - what are others using that doesn't override default OS X behavior that works well?


texts: So I have the iTunes app on my iPhone 4 and I used it to purchase songs onto my phone. I went to my music app a while back a deleted some songs I didn't want anymore ( i just went to the song swiped my finger across the screen and the delete button apeared) but now I want them again and I don't know how get them back on my phone with out debuting them?


texts: How to change allocation size for external ssd on mac?

texts:
I recently purchased a Sandisk Extreme SSD to work with Mac and Android.

Is it possible to create 2 exFAT partitions of the drive? (Currently, I managed to do a combination of exFAT and HFS/Mac OS Extended (Journaled))
Is it possible to change the allocation size using Disk Utility on Mac?

Running the command:
diskutil info /Volumes/PartitionName/ | grep "Block Size"

gives the default sector size as:
# For exFAT partition
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
Allocation Block Size:    131072 Bytes

# For Mac OS Extended partition
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

However, I didn't get the option to decide the allocation block size while partitioning/erasing the disk on Mac. Am I missing something?
Also, what should be the appropriate allocation size considering I am planning to store photos, documents and backup data? For eg. this review suggests formatting the hard disk before using with appropriate allocation size on Windows (like 128kb).
If we follow the answer provided here, could you please explain how to change allocation size (instead of device block size) with newfs_exfat
Platform: macOS High Sierra
Version 10.13.6


texts: Right shift key on Lion suddenly doing very strange things

texts:
I am running OS X Lion 10.7.2 and have a bluetooth keyboard, magic mouse, and magic trackpad.  Over the weekend the behaviour of the right shift key changed in such a way that if I use it to capitalize a letter or shift a number to get '*' or '(', etc. it will randomly lose focus on the window, or jump to another part of the screen (often highlighting part of it so I end up over-typing what was highlighted (say in a text entry form such as this).

I can really reproduce this in Terminal, just by typing ********* (and have reproduced it just now in Chrome by doing so).  This is frustrating beyond words, and I've gone through and disabled Mission Control keyboard shortcuts, I've stopped almost every program to see if something like that was reproducing it (new things installed/updated shortly before this started happening was MenuPop and iTerm2).  Initially I suspected LaunchBar (having read about oddness with the clip merge feature, which I've disabled) and MenuPop, but with both of those not running, I still get the same behaviour.  In Terminal it's the worst, but does happen randomly with other apps where I'm entering text.

Has anyone seen this before?  Google isn't giving me much help.

This is a screenshot:


texts: Is an app on Mac able to know my serial number

texts:
Two days ago I installed and compared 3 iPhone cache-cleaning apps on my Mac. Yes these are apps on Mac, so they have the ability to manage and control your iPhone.

Here comes my first concern: since iOS is using the sandbox structure, we can't see folders when iPhone is connected to a computer, how could these apps find cache folders and delete files? Did they  jailbreak the phone? I'm running iOS 10.0.2.

Moreover, I realised these apps could be malware, as I found a log file that showed my Mac serial number. What consequences I might have if the SN is disclosed?


texts: Can a foreigner make a purchase in App Store China?

texts:
I want to make an IAP on my Chinese App Store account. I live in China so all the other information including mobile phone and valid address is not a problem.

So I can create an account and download apps. But when I try to make a purchase, I hit the wall as there seems no way to finish the payment.

Both WeChat and Alipay don’t accept the foreigners account. The credit card is acceptable but only cards issued in China are acceptable, which I can’t have. Also the bank transfer is not acceptable as it requires to type in a valid Chinese citizen number, which I cannot fill in using my passport number.

So I wonder there is a way to make a purchase in Chinese App Store as a foreigner.


texts: Only sync photos to icloud when plugged in?

texts:
I noticed that on icloud.com, when i add a reminder, it automatically gets sync on my phone when i turn on my wifi. Which is great and i really love that feature.

But that got me thinking, are my photos being synced too? Wouldnt that consume lots of data uploading it and also the battery?

Also, since im already here, why cant i access photos on the icloud.com website? Only on the windows explorer


texts: Just recently, an iBook I've been reading for a long time made iBooks not respond when I double clicked it to open. I've tried navigating to it several different ways, but it doesn't work. For some reason, however, the iBook still works perfectly on my phone, and secondary computer. Any ideas?


texts: Can I run a torrent client + Plex Media Server as "services"?

texts:
I'm using an old iMac as a torrent client & Plex Media Server.

But I would like those to run as "services", i.e., not as part of a User account, and without having to log in.


texts: How to speed up Apple Photos Faces Scan?

texts:
I am in the process of converting from Google Photos to Apple Photos. This is what I have done :

Downloaded all Google Photos with gdrive
Imported all photos on my macbookpro to Apple Photos
20k Photos and 500 videos are imported and uploaded to iCloud
Optimise storage is deselected

Now, for all that time people scanning is running but it is ultra slow. It scanned 2500 photos during 4 days. I tried everything, computer is always on power, left running over night, photos running and not running, restarted computer and everything, but the process is still slow. Sometimes I see process "photoanalysisid" taking up to 80% CPU but usually it is 0%. How can I speed this thing up?


texts: How can I display my ipad screen on my PC?

texts: My company has several ipads standing in public places around town running our app. Sometimes the app crash and I have to go out to reboot it. Is there a way where I can sit in my office and log on to the ipads to check that the app is running?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to select all text in a cell in Excel

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut key to select all the text in the current cell in Excel, if you are in the process of editing the cell?


texts: How do I prevent sharing contacts between two iPhones without opening a new account?

texts:
I have two iPhones, one is a 4s and the other is a 5s. One is for work and the other is personal.

How can I prevent sharing contacts between each without opening a new iCloud account for each?


texts:
I'm scanning my mail and end up with two versions: front & back.

Files are named: scanf 01.pdf & scanb 01.pdf

I'm scanning about 40 pages a day, so it ends up to quite some lists.

Now, with automator, I've done the following:

Get Selected Finder Items # "scanf 01.pdf" & "scanb 01.pdf"
Combine PDF Pages
Move Finder Items # to Desktop
Name Single Item # so that its not a random name, but "Scan.pdf"
Add Date or Time # "Scan 2013-01-07.pdf"
Make Sequential # "Scan 2013-01-07 01.pdf" (is at least the idea)
Label Finder Items # Adds a red label, so I didnt see it yet

Step 6 is not working, as the sequence starts over every time I select two new files. So it says 'name already exists', after that it stops.

Questions:

How can I make step 6 work?
Is there something that automatically merges files, so that Scanf 01.pdf is merged with Scanb 01.pdf and that Scanf 02.pdf is merged with Scanb 02.pdf, and so on. As my current automator setup requires me to select the two files.


texts: My Mac is beeping 3 times every couple of seconds when it starts

texts:
Here is what happens, I have 5-10 seconds to do stuff on my computer, then it turns off, turns back on again and attempts to load or something, then turns off. then eventually after enough on and offs, it goes to a white screen and beeps 3 times every couple of seconds, I searched it up, and it definitely doesn’t beep every 5 seconds but a little less than that. This only stops when I press the power button.

Note that I don’t know much of my computer, and I haven’t tampered with anything on the inside or inserted anything into the disc slot or anything. But from what I remember it is osX


texts: Audio problems with videos converted for viewing on iOS using VLC

texts: VideoLan VLC Media Player. I recently tried to watch a .avi movie over 1GB, and the video was perfect, but I could only hear audio from the background. Movies below 1GB play just fine. So is there a limit of how big the movies can be? I have an iPod touch 3rd generation running iOS 5.0


texts: How do I force the Trash to empty on El Captan?

texts:
Prior to El Capitan, it was possible to force emptying of the Trash when stubborn or "in use" items prevented it with "Secure Empty Trash". This option has however been removed in El Capitan.

How do I force the Trash to empty on El Capitan?


texts: How do you create an OS X ISO if you already have access to an iMac?

texts: I am using Ubuntu 14.04, and I want to create a virtual machine running OS X. I have a friend who owns an iMac with OS X Yosemite. Is there any way to create an ISO without downloading an installer? Or is there any way to download a legit ISO from my computer?


texts: how much traffic iOS Maps using while in turn-by-turn navigation mode?

texts:
I'm trying to estimate necessary data plan for a Euro trip, and my main concern is: I'm going to use an iPad mini native Maps app for turn-by-turn navigation being there. Was unsuccessfully trying to find out how much traffic driving let's say from Prague to Berlin (it is a 3-4 hours trip) might use.

I understand I can pre-load/cache some maps for the route while I'm still on wifi at the starting point. But I feel that is very unreliable approach, and it's better to be able to have cellular data plan activated for the entire trip. AT&T (my device is used with AT&T in the U.S.) sells 300MB of international data plan for $60. If let's say I'm considering not buying local SIM with local data plan in Europe, is there a way to predict/estimate how much data plan traffic a 3-4 hours trip through Europe might consume? And how much driving time those 300MB will buy me.


texts: Can’t connect my iPad to cPanel WebDisk (iOS)

texts:
I am trying to connect my iPad to my webdisk, but I can’t.
I have:

my address: example.com
my username: exemple@exemple.com
my password: example

I figured out to connect my Windows 10 laptop, but I don’t know how (and I found nothing on Google) to connect my iPad (maybe using files app?) to the WebDisk...


texts: I am trying to add an apple symbol to an iPhone app I am writing. It there a way to export an item in the font to an image?


texts:
I want to be able to move photos and videos from my iPhone onto my Windows PC, but the iPhone doesn't present itself like a compact camera. Because my existing import process works so well with normal compact cameras (they have drive letters!), I don't want to have to mess around with extra programs.

When I connect my iPhone, I don't get a new drive letter for it. Instead of e.g. K:\DCIM\800AAAAA I just get the very cryptic address Computer\Torbens iPhone 4\Internal Storage\DCIM\800AAAAA. Windows Explorer can navigate this path, but no programs can access the path.

How do I get Windows to assign a drive letter to my iPhone?

I am not interested in programs that can look into my iPhone and allow me to manually copy files from it to my harddisk. (iFunBox, DiskAid, Wifi photo transfer app, WinAmp - as mentioned in this recent question)
I want a drive letter! When I have that, I can continue to use my existing photo-importing applications that do everything with a single click! (Moving rather than copying, file renaming based on timestamp, etc.)

Is there some hack app that will make the iPhone present itself with a drive letter? This would probably not be a Windows application but rather an iPhone jailbreak app, but any solution is welcome.

I'm running Win7 and a jailbroken iOS 4.1.


texts: Is there any way to turn an iPad screen off? (and not put it to sleep)

texts:
I specifically I want to turn the screen off but have it continue to run whatever app is running, in my case Duet, so that I don't have to restart the app every time I wake the iPad, which I what I currently need to do with the sleep button.

Any ideas would be great. Thanks


texts: Why does my Google Maps app not send location?

texts:
I have Google Maps installed in my iPhone 6, and I have enabled location history in Google location settings page, but my Google location history page doesn't have records.

How can I turn it on?


texts: USB C, HDMI Switch for MacBook Pro/Mac Mini

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I know nothing about KVM switches, but they seem to be what I need to easily swap between my home computer and my work laptop on my HDMI Monitor, Keyboard, and Mouse.

I bought https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M66SD79/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 but when I swapped to the MacBook Pro which is USB-C only nothing worked. I'm currently using it for the Mac Mini, but I need a solution that actually lets me switch between both.

I'm not really interested in having it act as a power supply for either because those are seem wildly expensive and I already have power supplies for them.

If I have to: https://www.aten.com/global/en/products/usb-&-thunderbolt/docking-switches/us3310/ seems as though it would work, but they seem focused on having a latop and smartphone plugged in. Not a laptop and mac mini. Power supply seems concerning here.


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Is there a way of arranging Mission Control's workspaces in a two dimensional layout (like 5x5)?
So far I've only been able to arrange them in a one dimensional straight line (like 1x9) across the top.  I'm finding that even though there are fewer workspaces, I get "lost" more often with 1x9 than 5x5.
Thanks.


texts: How can I set a consistent font for sent messages in Apple Mail Mojave?

texts:
macOS Mojave Mail still ignores a body font for outgoing emails. Rich Text emails show up with Times New Roman font on Windows Outlook clients. Mail does not set a font type, Thus, Windows Outlook uses its default paragraph formatting which falls back to Times New Roman. It's so unprofessional and embarrassing

Using plain text seems to be the only solution. Big downside: No bolding, no highlighting. This has been an ongoing issue since years. There used to be a great plugin called Universal Mailer which is no longer developed.

Any workaround for Apple Mail Mojave and Catalina? I highly appreciate any solution.


texts: JetDrive installation with missing Recovery partition: Clone internal SSD to external SSD

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I have accidentally deleted my recovery partition (Yosemite) - no problem so far.

Now I have bought the JetDrive 725 and want to install it. I have to boot into the recovery mode and clone the internal SDD. Now this obviously won't work as I don't have any recovery partition anymore...

I have seen How can I Create a Recovery Partition on a Newly Installed SSD? and the tip to do an internet recovery and install Yosemite over the existing installation. I am just a bit worried that this will change customizations / settings / installed programs / data.

I obviously have TimeMachine backups, although not all files due to space limitations.

What are the experiences with the internet recovery and to install Yosemite over an existing installation? How safe is it?

Alternatively, are there other options to clone my internal SSD to the new JetDrive SSD?


texts:
I accidentally navigated to one of those sites that pops up a dialog telling me that my computer is infected. Upon clicking the OK button, that dialog reappears, ad infinitum.

I cannot close the tab or otherwise interact with Safari while the dialog is up. No matter how many times I Quit or Force Quit (and no matter how many times I tell Safari "Do Not Re-open Windows") the previously-open set of tabs always reopens and this dialog pops to the fore.

How can I delete the state of things while Safari is closed?


texts: My MBP (13 inch, MID 2010) will not start up

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I have used the internet for the past 2 weeks in search of something that will help me troubleshoot/repair my MBP. It wont boot in Safe Mode using the SHIFT key. Following is everything I have tried and the results:

Safe Mode Boot - Failed

Command R - Failed

AHT - No Errors Found

Reset the Power Manager SHIFT+LEFTOPTION+LEFTCONTROL+POWER - PRAM Reset

Terminal Commands: fsck_hsf, fsck -y, fsck -yf, fsck -f, /sbin/fsck -f, fsck -yf, and many more.

  RESULTS: SINGLEUSER BOOT FSCK NOT DONE, ROOT DEVICE IS MOUNTED READ
  ONLY, FSCK_HFS: VOLUME IS JOURNALED. NO CHECKING PERFORMED, FSCK_HFS:
  USE THE -F OPTION TO FORCE CHECKING. THE VOLUME MACINTOSH HD APPEARS
  TO BE OKAY.

cd /Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot - cd: /VOLUMES/RECOVERY: No such file or directory.

Using the OPTION key only brings up one HD and it's not the one that should say RECOVERY DISK.

Help me please. I am not sure what needs to be done at this point. I can't perform some commands because I am in single user mode and it does not allow that. I'm not sure how to actually use the terminal to allow me to use SUDO.

I was able to get the following information from the Terminal. Hopefully this will be enough for someone to help me. I don't want to give out some information if it is a security feature.

IOAPIA: VERSION Ox11
PCI CONFIGURATION

EBEA116D-....-....-8035-............
APPLEINTELCPUPOWERMGMTCLIENT: READY
BTCOEXIST; OFF
5.--.---.42
FIREWIRE LUCENT ID ....
BUILTIN NOW ACTIVE
GUID 603..........D5C
ROOT DEVICE IS MOUNTED READ ONLY

I hope someone can provide some insight.


texts: iPod Nano (7th gen) Bluetooth connection keeps dropping

texts: When I use my iPod Nano (7th generation) with SwageU Bluetooth headphones, the connection keeps dropping with a double beep.  Both devices are charged.  I haven't had a problem using these headphones with an iPad.  Which should I blame, the iPod or the headphones?


texts: Wi-Fi connection timeouts on a specific MacBook

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Running OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and keep running into connection timeouts. Initially suspecting the home router or infrastructure issue, however all the other laptops in the house don't get any timeouts - so this must be something related to my own machine. I have no idea what that may be and how to diagnose and find the root cause. Perhaps it is a hardware issue with the Wi-Fi adapter?
All the computers are using DHCP.

Will appreciate any suggestions.

Info:

Pinging the gateway results in timeouts of sometimes minutes.

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2385 ttl=64 time=2.558 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2386 ttl=64 time=3.423 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2387
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2388
...
...

Pinging from another Mac at the same time shows no timeouts.


texts: Volume on Mac increases automatically when earphones plugged in

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I have a MacBook Pro running El-Capitan v10.11.5. Whenever I plug in my earphones, the volume gradually increases (one bar every couple of minutes), automatically. This problem has been going on for at least some months, fairly sure this happened also in earlier OS versions.

I didn't find anything about that online, is that a familiar issue? How can I solve it?


texts: Mac Laptop WiFi Issues with Avaya AP's in a business

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I've been having a definite repeatable problem with MacBook Air's and Pro's using Wifi throughout our building. The WiFi AP's are Avaya Extreme devices attaching to an Avaya switch which then connects to a Cisco switch.
The Mac laptops will come into the office or wake up from sleep and not connect to the internet. If they connect to a different wifi and then back to the main wifi. Then they can connect to the internet okay. This just appears to be an issue with the Mac laptops. Windows laptops are not having that problem ever.
The other issue is the speed in the back of the building is way down sometimes. Maybe 5 or 10 Down and 50 or 60 Up. If we reboot the Avaya switch, then all goes back to normal speeds. I think something is wrong if we constantly have to reboot the Avaya switch every week or two. Our building is offices in front and warehouse type in back.
Does anyone have any clues?


texts: App and hardware to use phone as a one way ‘walkie talkie’

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I am looking for an app and a battery power device so I can use my phone as a audio transmitter to the device. The device will be plugged into some noise cancelling headphones for my child.
My child has audio processing difficulty and I am experimenting with different options to support her at home. I am hoping I can use my phone as a transmitter to send audio messages directly to the receiver plugged into her headphones so she can hear messages loud and clear around the house when required.
Has anyone seen anything like this or similar? Thanks in advance


texts: Latency spikes on wifi - power saving measure?

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I'm seeing intermittent latency spikes when on wifi, but only when pinging my MBP from another machine and not when pinging from the MBP to another machine. It seems to be causing stuttering with Steam In-Home Streaming. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

I feel strongly that this is the Mac and not the networking hardware. I've seen it on multiple access points across different vendors and channels. 2.4G and 5G are both affected.

With wifi logging enabled, nothing is logged in /var/log/wifi.log during the ping test. Location services are disabled, and I'm not clicking on the wifi icon during the test. I have tried resetting the SMC.

Update: Shown below is the minimal example. I have run this test many times and for long durations. I have been constantly ingesting ping data into InfluxDB using Telegraf. Here is the last 7 days, where the orange is my MacBook. There are a couple other anomalies present, but it's clear the high latency has been occurring for a while.

Update 2: Wireshark on the MBP shows ICMP "Response Time" as consistently < 0.1ms during the test. I believe it's looking at the time between when it sees the request come in from the reply go out.

Here's the test. 192.168.1.242 is my MBP. After quitting (nearly) every application:

craig@pluto ~> ping 192.168.1.242 -i 2
...
22 packets transmitted, 22 received, 0% packet loss, time 78ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.037/*22.550*/*89.237*/28.546 ms

But outgoing pings are fine:

craig@Craigs-MBP ~> ping 192.168.1.3 -i 2
...
266 packets transmitted, 266 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.909/1.526/8.716/0.686 ms

Now here's something curious. If I rapidly send pings out, the inbound variance disappears!

craig@Craigs-MBP ~> ping 192.168.1.3 -i 0.2
...
417 packets transmitted, 417 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.984/1.469/3.799/0.290 ms

(while the above is running)

craig@pluto ~> ping 192.168.1.242 -i 2
...
38 packets transmitted, 38 received, 0% packet loss, time 147ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.001/*1.664*/3.758/0.767 ms

Given this, my best guess is there is some kind of power saving mechanism turning off the radio.

craig@Craigs-MBP ~> pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standbydelaylow      10800
 standby              1
 womp                 0
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             1
 gpuswitch            2
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 sleep                0
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 hibernatemode        3
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 highstandbythreshold 50
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

Update 3: Here are two simultaneous packet captures with the "same" ICMP packet highlighted. The left was captured using tcpdump on the Ubiquiti UniFi access point that my MBP is connected to, and the right was captured on the MBP. You can see the sequence number is the same. But the calculated response time from the access point's point-of-view is relatively high at 71 ms, while the MBP saw < 1 ms between the request and the response.


texts: Free space on volume rapidly disappearing!

texts:
I have a Samsung SSD 850 EVO installed in February I believe. No problems thus far.

Recently (I'd' say past few days) I noticed my free space going down more than expected. I was at 293 GB free (out of 500 GB total) a few weeks back. Somehow yesterday I was in the mid 100s (around 150, say) remaining. Several hours ago I was at 95.63 GB remaining. Right now, I am at 65.93 GB remaining! Worried I would be able to operate soon.

Does anyone know anything about why or how this is happening and/or how I can stop and subsequently reverse the trend?


texts: Compressor Plugin for Audio Output of Mac

texts: When I am watching movies (mostly on Amazon Prime) on my MacBook Pro (early 2011) I sometimes would wish a more even sound level throughout the movie, i.e. less difference in volumes (e.g. gunfire and whispering dialogue). Is there any way to compress the output audio (preferably on OS level) of my MacBook? Any Apps, Plug-ins etc.?


texts: How to Enable QuickPath (Swipe) keyboard on iPad

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iOS 13 delivered a a new “swipe to type” keyboard called QuickPath.  New features available with iOS 13.  This is similar to the Word Flow on Windows Phones and the Swipe Keyboard for Android.

It’s enabled by default on the iPhone, but not on the iPad. How can I enable this useful feature?


texts:
Why do I see stale files on my MacBook Air 13 when I use 'Android File Transfer'?

I have a LG Volt (LGLS740) running Android 4.4.2.  The MacBook Air 13 is running OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) & has app 'Android File Transfer' installed (Version 1.0.50.2266).  When I connect the Android phone to the MacBook Air 13 via the USB cable I see stale files in 'Internal storage/Android/data/com.StyleTap.StyleTap/import' that I don't see when I use app 'File Manager' on the Android phone.  I am using the Palm emulator from 'www.styletap.com', but I don't believe that the stale files are specific to this usage.


texts: Experience surviving a change of file ownership on time machine

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After upgrading to Lion, the owner of my files on the time machine disk is no longer myself but some user '501'. This makes all the backups that preceded Lion inaccessible.

I would like to run a recursive chown directly on the time machine disk to fix the ownership of everything under ~/., but I'd like to check first.

Have you run a recursive chown on your time machine disk under Lion and survived it?


texts: why does OSX add extra '._' when I tar a directory?

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I'd just like to know why if I "tar -czf" a file/directory, osx adds a:  ._  for each file? I see these when I untar in linux. Or when I work with the uncompressed project in eclipse as it doesn't like them at all.
I use 10.7.5.


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I am developing iOS apps and I hate, that always when I connect my iPhone to my Mac to install and test an app, the iPhone gets charged. Is there any possibility to connect my iPhone to my Mac without charging the phone?

My Environment:
-  iPhone 4S (No Jailbreak)
-  MacBook Air3,2 (Late 2010)


texts: Can the files being transferred affect/slow the data throughput?

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I'm currently trying to carry out the initial backup of an iMac using Time Machine, backing up to a Time Capsule (3TB, the older 'flat' type). The TC is connected via Ethernet and for reasons to do with our home network I've given it a static IP address as per this article: https://www.macworld.com/article/3170186/network-storage/how-to-configure-a-time-capsule-as-an-ethernet-only-storage-device.html

Wifi on the iMac is turned off, so the connection is definitely via Ethernet. Nothing else is connected to either the iMac or the TC (wireless is off on the TC too) other than a printer connected via USB to the TC.

The data on the iMac totals about 500GB ad for the first 300GB of the backup everything proceeded as expected with data-sent rates (observed via Activity Monitor's Network tab) of 20-35 MB/sec — about what I expect to see from Ethernet. Around the 300BG mark, however, data rates fell through the floor to about 5KB/sec, about one 5000th of what I should be getting.

I left it to continue overnight but in the morning the data rates were the same and in 6 hours it had transferred only a fraction of 1GB to the backup, so I quit the TM backup and started it again. The backup process seems to have picked up where it left off, but the data rates are still crummy — typically giving me 1.3MB/sec with occasion spikes up to 20MB/sec and frequent drops back down into the KB range.

Since I know that this ethernet setup can and has supported decent speeds (even earlier on in the same process), presumably there is nothing inherently wrong with the network itself. I'm puzzled as to what might be causing the slowdown. I wondered if it might be caused bu the backup processing certain types of files (very large monolithic ones, or huge numbers of small files, for example)?

Is that feasible?

[Update: the throughput has currently jumped back up to 20-30MB/sec. Nevertheless, my question still stands: can the particular files being backed up affect the data rate?]


texts: Services menu polluted by apps from another installation

texts:
Reinstalled 10.15, signed into icloud, had previous 10.13 on another partition for a while.

10.15 is a clean install. The apps that provide those services haven't even been installed.

~/Library/Services is empty. Tried grepping the whole filesystem for those. No match.

The only place they seem to exist is in defaults manager. So I tried removing
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ServicesMenu.Services.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/pbs.plist. Didn't help.

Why are those services in that menu on a clean installation and how to I get rid of them?


texts: Keyboard layout changes have no effect on macbook?

texts: I have a uk layout and want to try a us layout. Changing or selecting US in keyboard preferences layout has no effect. Does this functionality no longer work?


texts: Can Teamviewer be run without installing on a Mac for controlling another machine?

texts:
In Windows you can choose to just run the executable without installing it but I don't see this option in the Mac installer.
You can run the TV Quicksupport module on the host on Mac without installing but I am asking about the controlling side.
Before I have used TV via a web browser but this option appears to have been deprecated now.
Thank you.


texts: How can I disconnect bluetooth headphones from an Apple Watch without "forgetting device"?

texts:
How can I disconnect a bluetooth device from an apple watch without having to forget the device?

Do I really have to re-pair things like headphones every time I want to disconnect them?


texts: Can I bypass iTunes Parental Restrictions on iOS devices?

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I currently have all my DVDs ripped and stored on a Windows Media Centre box.  I am considering moving over to iTunes, and to grab an Apple TV.  This also would allow me to watch my movies on my iPhone / iPad and through these (via an HDMI adapter) on the upstairs TV.

While I can use iTunes to place parental restrictions on content, I have not yet found out how to bypass this restriction (such as through a password) for 'parental' viewing.  I want content restricted for my kids, but want easy access to higher-rated programs for myself.

Can this be achieved on the iPhone / iPad?  How about the Apple TV?


texts: Using AppleScript to convert MP3 to WAV via Finder?

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How would I use Automator/AppleScript to convert a selected bunch of MP3s to WAVs (from folder1 to folder1 - so retaining original folder), please?

I'm running High Sierra and would prefer not to attack the commandline just to get a mp3 back to wav.


texts: How do I choose a default 802.1x profile for ethernet? (eduroam)

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The problem:

I'm connected to eduroam on an iMac, but only via ethernet. After restart/sleep/lock it automatically switches my 802.1x profile to the Wifi instead of the Wired. I have to manually switch it over every time.

Is there a way to reorder the profiles so Wired is the default? Or remove the wireless profile from the wired list? There seems to be no way to do this via the GUI interface.

OS: 10.10.5 Yosemite


texts: Using a MacBook as an iOS “External Accessory"?

texts: Does Apple allow me to make an iOS app that uses a desktop/laptop computer as an external accessory? For example, using a computer to do external computation and/or send input events to the phone over the lightning connector cable. Technically I am not the manufacturer of these products but I was wondering whether Apple would allow such an app in the app store.


texts: Server.app "SSLProtocol: Illegal protocol 'TLSv1.2'"

texts:
With following versions installed:

OS X 10.11.4 Beta (15E27e)
Server.app 5.0.19(15s5065c)
Apache/2.4.16 (Unix)
OpenSSL/0.9.8zg

I get:

  AH00526: Syntax error on line 581 of /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf:
  server.app "SSLProtocol: Illegal protocol 'TLSv1.2'"

The website, wiki and so on suddenly don't work. And I upgraded Server.app to 5.0.19(15s5065c). Not working. I deleted all files related to Server.app (including /Library/Server/) and reinstalled it. Not working.

How to fit it? Does the openssl version in Server.app cause it? I installed the openssl/1.1.0-pre2, but I don't know how to make it work with Server.app (openssl/1.1.0 is already working on my Mac).


texts: What is the best way to install Node js on OS X?

texts:
I currently have installed node and npm with the installer provided from their website. Although I have homebrew installed as well, and running brew doctor seems to complain about some files installed by the node js installer at /usr/local/include/.

Is installing node through homebrew a better way (e.g. easier to manage, less errors and warnings, etc.)?


texts: Allow Java 1.7 app to run without "Install Legacy Java SE 6" message showing up and JRE not JDK

texts:
I am tasked with deploying an old Eclipse RCP (Java 1.6) application with minimal or no changes to the code on macOS Mojave 10.14 64bit. The application hasn't been deployed in a long while, the last target was Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.

The prime issue I have is that best results (full feature set) were obtained when changing the compile level of the app to Java 1.7, and circumventing this bug (where Mac complains no java is present when the JDK or JRE 1.7 or 1.8 was indeed correctly installed).

Bug report:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7131356

Thanks to this hack:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/211033/324385

which only functions if you have the JDK installed, not the JRE. However this being a corporate shipping, the client would never accept the pre-requisite being the JDK when it should be the JRE.

As you can see from my comment on the answer, I've tried a bastardised application of this solution on the JRE by modifying what I thought where the equivalent files and paths, but this did not work.

So, to sum up the situation

What I have

The app will run if I:

Install the JDK
Apply this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/211033/324385

What I would like

For the application to start when I've:

Only installed JRE 1.7 or 1.8
Applied X fix that you suggest to me


texts: What values Apple TV brings to Netflix experience?

texts: I have PS4 that I use it also for Netflix but I'm only wondering if Apple TV provides extra features to Netflix experience.


texts: Where on my Mac are my iPod Touch photos stored?

texts:
I took some photos on my iPod Touch, and I want to use them on my Mac.  I've synced the devices, but I don't know where the photos are.

I looked in iTunes (since it seems to want to manage everything about my iPod, even the things which aren't "tunes"), but I don't see a photo section there.
I looked in ~/Pictures/ but they're obviously not there.
I looked in ~/Music/iTunes/ (since my mobile apps are stored their, strangely), but no luck.

Where are they hiding?


texts: I am using a 13" MacBook Pro (mid 2012) and I have upgraded to OS X 10.11 El Capitan a while ago. Last night before going to bed I switched off the computer. Since this working the built-in Ethernet that was working fine does not seem to work anymore. I have deleted the network interfaces and rebooted the system, but still it does not show up in the network preferences. Is there a fix? What should I do?


texts:
I'm running OS X 10.10.1 on a 2007 iMac (Intel based) I have tried to boot into the recovery HD, but it just continues with the boot as if I have never pressed cmd-r. When it does finally boot; it goes to a screen with the spinning beach-ball of death and a blurred background. I have reinstalled the RAM twice, and have reset the NVRAM and PRAM.

Any help or suggestions are appreciated!


texts: How do I access icloud photo gallery to transfer photos?

texts: All of my iPhone photos are now in the Cloud, and when I hook the phone up to the computer I cannot see the photos or transfer them off. Phone storage now shows full. How can I get to the  photos to transfer them to a PC and get them out of the cloud?


texts: sharing internet/vpn with ipfw, can't access google.com over https

texts:
I am sharing my internet connection / IKEv2 VPN connection over pf via Murus static NAT.  My network architecture is as follows:

internet modem ->
wired router (serving 192.168.1.1/24) ->
Mac mini (192.168.1.2) -> ((en4) 192.168.2.1  ) ->
airport extreme (192.168.2.2) (DHCP, no NAT, serving 192.168.2.0/24)

I am sharing my internet / vpn connection via en4 to 192.168.2.0/24. Sharing internet works.  Sharing the VPN works. I am doing DNS resolution on the router and not forwarding DNS requests through pf.

However, certain sites (namely https://google.com) will not load.  Other https sites will.  ping google.com works fine on client and server. It resolves to different ip addresses on each, although both connections are behind the same VPN and use the same DNS servers.

curl google.com of course yields a 301.  curl https://google.com works fine on the server, but curl -v https://google.com on the client yields the following if you wait long enough:

 stopped the pause stream!
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to google.com:443

The browser just times out.  Both are running LibreSSL 2.2.7.

Wireshark output for the client and its preferred Google IP is pretty colorful, although unintelligible:

Strangely enough, the Safari browser seems to be using the server's Google IP and doesn't show up in this filter (this is from a curl request.)

I have had this working in the past, and am trying again with a different router and one less layer of NAT.  I can't say it's always been snarl-free, but I was definitely able to browse sites like google.com with the shared VPN connection.

It should be noted that turning off the VPN causes the shared internet connection to work just fine.

What next steps do I need to take to figure out why some https connections don't work, and to get this network fully functional?


texts:
I'm using iStats Menu to monitor the loading of my MBP.
And when my external 4k monitor LG 27UK850-W is connected via USB type C I can see that my GPU Memory is overloaded (currently 744%), though Processor seems fine.

Is it a bug or it should be this way?

And of course, Fans are almost always on. Is it ok?


texts: Execute a script with GUI Access before login

texts:
I need to execute a command-line tool to force maximum display brightness before user logs in (so login screen is shown with maximum brightness)

My problem is, if I run it from LaunchDaemons, it doesn't work. I think it is because from LaunchDaemons you can't run anything that interacts with the Window Server.

If I run it from LaunchAgents, it works. But it runs after login, so it is not an option.

Is there any alternative to LaunchDaemons to run scripts or programs that allow WindowServer access?


texts: How to find third-party photo extensions

texts:
I want to find if there is any iphoto extension can share photos on google photos.

Therefore I check
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205245

it says

  Use the Mac App Store to find and install third-party extensions for Photos.

But I have no idea how to search App Store to find extension for photos.
Any idea?


texts: How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates

texts:
I would like iTunes to always download free updates for any applications that I have on my iPhone.

Is that possible?


texts: Can I use an iMac in target display mode with an Apple TV?

texts:
Target display mode appears to require a <4K ThunderBolt or DisplayPort connection. Apple TVs exclusively use HDMI output, but Apple sells ThunderBolt to HDMI adapters. I was wondering if it would possible to use one of those to display Apple TV content on an iMac. However, these adapters always seem intended for use with ThunderBolt input and HDMI output.

I don't know if it's possible to use any adapters to produce ThunderBolt output. Even if it is, I'm not clear whether the iMac can be used with arbitrary ThunderBolt video input, or whether it requires some additional metadata or protocol that must come directly from another Mac.

Is there any iMac which may be used in target display mode be used as the display for any Apple TV, with the right configuration and adapters?


texts: How to open a new c++ file with a predefined template in Sublime Text?

texts: I am keen to know if there is a way to open not an empty new file but a new file with some predefined template. I participate in online coding contests and for every new file (which I save as a '.cpp'), I have to Cmd+C and Cmd+V all the preprocessor directives i.e. #include <..>'s and #define's from one of my earlier '.cpp' file. Is there a way by which I can have all these things written to some file and every new file that I save as a c++ file this data gets loaded onto it thus saving my copy-pasting/retyping. Eclipse IDE has this feature, I wanted to know if its possible somehow in Sublime Text too. Thanx!


texts: OS X Mavericks startup Apple logo location

texts: Where is the gray Apple logo shown on system startup stored in OS X Mavericks? I'd like to change that image. I know there's BootXChanger that works on older versions of OS X, but it doesn't work on my Mavericks computer.


texts: I'm looking for OS X software that can help me track 404 errors on my site.


texts: Are "Favorites" and edits synced with Photos for Mac/iOS?

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I'm using the latest version of Photos on both of my iMacs, my iPhone, and two iPads.

I'm also using iCloud for storage and syncing.

So far - everything seems to work - when I take a photo on my iPhone, it shows up on all my Macs and devices.

However - what happens when I edit a photo in Photos on one of my iMacs? Does the edited photo show up on my other Mac and other devices? Also - if I "favorite" a photo in Photos - should that show up on my other devices?


texts: How do I make my iPod 5 gen stop asking for my Apple ID password to update an app?

texts:
The other day I went to update Pandora so I could listen to music and once I press update it asks for Apple ID password.
This does this to all of my other apps that must be updated.


texts: How to reinstall/repair OS X without losing files?

texts:
I bought a Macbook Pro in 2012, it came with OS X Lion. (came with NO disc, etc)
1 Month ago I downloaded the update "Mountain Lion". About 2 weeks ago I removed some of the OS X Mountain Lion System files (Twitter, Facebook, etc)

After I deleted some of the system files, if I quit Notes, Contacts and other apps they freeze. I have also noticed other issues with the Mac. I have restarted, cleaned, repaired permissions, made a new account, etc but no good.

Am I able to somehow reset/repair everything, like doing a reinstall of Mountain Lion, without losing my files, apps, etc? I have no problem with the settings being set to default (I would like that).

For example, with Windows you can do a reinstall but all the files and apps are kept in a Windows.old file, and with Windows 8 you can do a config/system settings reset but all your files will be kept.

Time Machine has been disabled since I got this Mac.


texts: How to make USB optical mouse work with MacBook Air?

texts:
I just bought a MacBook Air and a cheap Leadership USB optical mouse, which I can't get to work with the MacBook. It works fine with Windows and Linux, and the Macbook Air USB ports are fine. I checked it with USB drive and a Microsoft mouse without encountering any problems.

What can I do to solve the problem?


texts:
I have an ipad 2 with iOS 7. I got a notification about iOS 9 ready to install. I don't want to install iOS 9.

The problem is before this I used to have 1GB+ storage space and now I only have 100MB+ storage space left. I'm almost 100% sure the space is taken by iOS 9 install file.

In settings general usage I can see iOS 9 update but the size is only about 40MB. I have deleted it and restarted the ipad but the space recovered is only the 40MB.

Where is the rest of the install file? Can I delete it?


texts: Can someone read messages on my locked iPhone?

texts: I left my iPhone in a taxi cab. I locked the phone to make sure nobody finds it and makes expensive calls. But does locking the phone prevent someone from seeing the texts I am sending? What if the battery dies? After the phone is recharged, will the texts I send still be readable if the phone is locked?


texts: Bash: Return the most recently edited file in a specified directory

texts: For a bash script I am currently developing I want to access the name of the most recently edited file (including folders but not subdirectories) in a specified directory. How do I do this?


texts: Quartz filters in ColorSync Utility: what is "Image Sampling" and Quality?

texts:
I have created a couple of quartz filters to reduce the size of PDFs. For this I use Image Compression - which is pretty straight forward (just use JPEG and the a suitable quality level) - but there is also a filter called Image Sampling that also offers a quality level (low, medium, high).

I have tried it but I don't notice any significant difference. On what quality of the PDF is this option supposed to apply?

The other alternatives (size, resolution, scaling) in the Image Sampling filter are straightforward but I don't understand why there is a quality option in both Image Sampling and Image Compression.


texts: I've been switching back and forth between Colloquy and Linkinus a lot recently as my IRC server has become more and more popular - since then I've been trying out the correct way to use my Tor proxy with Colloquy or Linkinus. I've read they both have support for Proxies but I can't find anything in either of the Apps nor any relevant documentation around the internet.


texts: I need to install macOS on a VM. I don't want to download a macOS from torrent or hackintosh websites. Is there a way I can verify a macOS image's signature so I know it came from apple?


texts: Can an iPhone 5S play music that's stored on a USB drive?

texts: My wife's iPhone 5S doesn't have enough storage space for all of her music.  If we were to buy a USB drive that connects to her phone, could we put her music on that and then have the phone play it from there in a reasonably hassle-free way?  What would the process be?


texts: How can I change the length of photos in iMovie '13?

texts: I'm trying to make a simple iMovie time lapse video and it's my first time trying to iMovie '13. I have photos that I would like to change the duration of, only when I click the info icon there's just an image of a clock and no option to change the duration, which is how I've been directed on every other forum, only the option just isn't there. Any other ideas on how to change the time length of multiple photos at once?


texts: Rescue data from Powerbook G4 with forgotten password

texts:
I have a Powerbook G4 whose owner forgot her password.

(This is a Powerbook 6,8. The install disk says OSX 10.4 but I don't know if it's been upgraded.)

I can't insert the install disk into the optical drive (it encounters a solid resistance - I can't tell if there's another disk in there or not, but pressing Eject does nothing, and I don't see any hole in which to poke a paperclip to try to manually eject it).

I found a recommendation to:

boot into single-user mode
run fsck -fy
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
reboot

which supposedly would take me through creating a new (admin) user account, which I could then use to reset the owner's password. It rebooted, asked me what language I wanted to use, and after that, nothing (it briefly showed the spinning gear, changed the screen color a couple of times, showed the spinning gear, changed screen color, ad infinitum).

I did manage, from single user mode, to use Unix commands to verify that the owner's home directory still existed. I also inserted a flash drive into a USB port hoping I might use Unix 'cp' to copy the home directory onto it, but it didn't appear in the /Volumes directory.

Now the machine boots up to the window asking what language to use, and goes no further. And as I mentioned, the optical drive doesn't appear to work.

Before I go out and buy a FW 400-800 cable and a FW800-Thunderbolt adapter to try and mount the PB in firewire mode to my 2012 MBP, I wondered if someone could suggest any other things to try.

UPDATE in response to Gordon Davisson:

Output of sw_vers

ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.4.11
BuildVersion: 8S165

Output of ls /dev/disk*

/dev/disk0  /dev/disk0s1  /dev/disk0s3

Output of ls /dev/disk* after plugging in flash drive

/dev/disk0  /dev/disk0s1  /dev/disk0s3  (same)

Output of diskutil list

Command never completed! (I also tried rebooting and issuing command without flash drive inserted - same result.)

I reran fsck -fy but got a clean bill of health.

[UPDATE]: There is no disk in the optical drive, but a mechanical "stop" that is apparently designed to hold the CD in has moved into place as if a CD were there. This is what is preventing my inserting a CD.

[UPDATE]: All suggestions were useful but were stymied by other unforeseen problems (optical drive problem, etc.). I finally paid about $35 for a Firewire 400-800 cable and a Firewire->Thunderbolt adaptor, booted the laptop into FW target mode, and successfully copied the home folder (about 40GB) onto my Mac. The laptop may be a brick at this point, but the data is rescued. Mission accomplished.


texts: Apple Watch auto workout detection fails to detect local walks

texts: Apple Watch has a feature that detects workouts, including walks, and offers to record them. This feature works reliably for me anywhere but near home, where it never works (not for years). Is there a setting I missed that is required to enable this feature for local walks?


texts: Paragon NTFS app version problem, how to update?

texts:
I have a little problem (not me, a friend).

He bought a 1TB HDD with some service files, including Paragon NTFS 11.3.11 (he bought this HDD with his Mac, which shipped with Mac OS X version 10.10 or 10.11). He has updated his MacBook to 10.12 and Paragon stopped working, so I think this is a version problem.

The question is, how can I update this Paragon software for macOS 10.12? Do I need to buy a new version of this app???

Samsung's services files do not have a serial number, only some Windows apps and Macintosh NTFS Paragon driver (Paragon 11.3).


texts: How to set up WebDAV (with wfsctl) on macOS High Sierra with Server 5.6.1?

texts:
After having upgraded to High Sierra with Server 5.6.1 I want to recreate the WebDAV shares I had. I've used wfsctl to create a share point. The share point has ACL for a specific user. So far so good and wfsctl lists the share, but since Server.app is configuring Apache (a web site is running too) something must be done to make it work. "The Apache http instance for WFS should be configured to run behind macOS Server's proxy." wfsctl diagnose says "Config is valid", btw.

What do I need to do to make this work?


texts: Should I upgrade Mac OS 10.6.8 to El Capitan on Macbook Air 2010?

texts: I have the Macbook Air 11' late 2010 with Core 2 Duo and 2 GB RAM. I decided to install XCode 7, but it requires Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan. So, should I upgrade OSX on my 5-yearold macbook air? I worry about work speed.


texts:
having a trouble to access few folders in my root user. For example: cannot access - Ideas Infinitas, Treehouse workshops folders. At the same time I can access test_app and some other folders.

My root user is the user I'm logged in with, find image below.

How do I have an access to these folders?


texts: What adapters are available for a connecting a secondary SSD to the Superdrive's SATA cable?

texts:
I have a 2011 iMac. I plan to replace the SuperDrive with an SSD drive. I've noticed on various images of, e.g., on ifixit, that the SATA cable that plugs into the Superdrive looks different to the female SATA connector on the SSD drive I have ordered (and Intel 510).

Does anyone know what (if any) adapters I will need to plug the SSD drive into the Superdrive's SATA/power connectors.

For clarity - I'm completely removing the Superdrive from the machine; I don't plan on sharing anything between the SSD/Superdrive. The SSD will have the sole use of whatever cable is is currently plugging into the Superdrive.


texts: Where are Time Machine local snapshots stored in High Sierra

texts: Apple says that this space is hidden and not accessible to users, but I don't think it's like that. It must be stored some where, so where could this be stored?


texts: How can I backup old hard drives intact without Finder changing the "Date Modified" attribute inside each of the folders within the drive?

texts: I currently have a lot of old hard drives I am trying to backup. I am backing them up onto a large external hard drive formatted to be HFS+. Each time I do the click and drag method of transferring the folders from the old hard drive onto a new folder I create in the large external, the "Date Modified" attribute inevitably changes each time I click into folders. How can I keep everything intact? Would I rely on dd, changing the permissions of the drives, etc? thanks


texts: Settings on keyboard shortcuts to switch input sources do not sustain

texts:
I would like to use control+space to switch input methods in MacOS Catalina. Every time in the Keyboard/Input sources settings I check both boxes but after rebooting they become unchecked. How can I fix this problem?

(Image from this question: Having problems changing shortcut keys combination for input source)


texts:
I have an Airport Extreme as my main router in my house and have recently bought an Airport Express to use as an extender.

This is all now set up and working fine, with the Express bouncing on the internet connection for me to use throughout the house. However sometimes my phone will connect to the Express instead of the Extreme, although the Extreme is closer. Is there a way to selectively choose which router to connect to? The problem is that there is a limit to the number of devices that can connect to the Express, and this limit is being reached every now and then.


texts: AppStore Promtional Artwork Approved - Not Used

texts:
8 days ago, Apple emailed me and asked me to provide promotional artwork for an iOS App which I published on March 7. They needed me to upload promotional artwork for a possible feature on the App Store. I submitted it and it was approved on March 17.

As you may know, Apple refreshes the App Store every Thursday at about 12:00 Pacific Time. Unfortunately, my app was not featured.

So I have a few questions about this:
1. Will my app ever be featured (the artwork request was approved and still shows up in iTC)?
2. When will it show up (if it does)?
3. Why wouldn't it be featured after Apple requested artwork?


texts: I know the sudo password, can I use sudo and install software without logging out and switching to the admin user?

texts:
I have two accounts on my MacBook (runs Catalina 15.1), one is admin, one is non-admin.

Both are mine, so I know the password for both.

Sometimes when I want to run some 'sudo' command or use the GUI to install some software, I would like to not have to log out and log into the admin account. Is there any way I can just do this by entering the password to the admin acccount?


texts: How to ensure that all traffic goes through VPN connection once it has been started?

texts:
I connect to the internet through a VPN provider along with other precautions in order to ensure privacy (against traffic analysis by agencies of a repressive government). I currently use Tunnelblick to configure and establish the VPN connection. Tunnelblick does not allow automatically connecting to the provider at or before login so I need to connect manually each time, and sometimes the connection is lost.

I need any and all traffic to go through the VPN connection at all times; whenever the VPN isn't connectable for whatever reason, I want the fallback to be no connection. I need to ensure

that OS X does not connect to the internet on my regular internet connection, or at all, during boot (until the login screen, for time synchronization and other possible "call home" stuff etc.). What services, if any, try to do this, and how can I practically analyze and change what's going on with networking during boot? Is there a way to connect to VPN earlier than right after login?
that if my VPN connection is temporarily lost, applications do not continue to communicate over my regular unencrypted connection.

I basically want the system to act as if the network connection is lost altogether if the VPN connection fails, but currently they just continue to work as if nothing happened. What can I do to my system so that once a VPN is established, all traffic can only flow through that connection and no traffic can flow if the connection drops?


texts:
Here's the issue I'm faced with:

Notice the "Bookmarks -2" in Inoreader's share view and the lack of that note in the Notes app.

I have only one iCloud account associated with the Notes app and I don't have local storage enabled. No backups either.

I created that note an hour before taking the screenshot, it was visible in the notes app with content in it. I had been adding content to it for about an hour when it just disappeared.

It's been a few hours so it's not like it just hasn't synced.

I checked the catch-all folders and recently deleted folder. It's not visible via the notes app.

Where is it?


texts: What sort of logs will help me debug why my mac is regularly freezing?

texts:
My 2017 iMac running macOS 10.12.6 has a problem that occurs on a roughly weekly basis where the entire system will gradually freeze. The symptoms are that an application will lock up with the spinning pinwheel of death, and as I try to force quit it or switch to other applications, they will eventually start locking up too in the same manner. This includes apps like Finder, Dock, Spotlight, SystemUIServer, and so on. Eventually the entire system is completely frozen. At this point I can't use the menu bar, open a terminal window or SSH into the system, so I have no choice but to do a hard reboot.

This same issue would happen on my previous mac, and came back even though I set up my current mac completely from scratch (rather than restoring a Time Machine backup or something similar). So that leads me to believe that a piece of software or hardware that I'm using is the culprit, and not a physical defect in the mac itself.

However, I have no idea how to debug a crash like this. Since the system never kernel panics and no app ever actually fully crashes, I have no panic or crash logs to look into.

What can I do to try and debug this problem? Is there any kind of logging that could point to why everything starts freezing?


texts: How do I download apps in ipad mini ios9.3.6

texts: I known my ipad is old version.but im  trying to download apps from app store .but the apps are incompatible to the ipad..is there any other way to still get apps in my ipad???


texts: Macbook Altering External Display Colors

texts:
I have been using an external display (Alienware 34" AW3418DW) and the monitor appears to adjust its color settings rapidly, IE: blue tones dropping or jumping, much like the screen warming and cooling feature. But I do not have that enabled and haven't figured out if it is the HDMI port on the monitor or the macbook doing this.

Connection to the monitor is through a Belkin hub that then uses thunderbolt to HDMI to provide a 60hz 4k (3440x1440 whatever close enough) connection. So i switched it to run directly from the laptop to monitor and the same color changing happened so not the cable or the dock.

The monitor itself does not do that when on DisplayPort (where my windows machine is plugged into), trying to avoid ordering a DP cable just to test with but I will if needed.

It also appears to happen when the sun is out and shining on the laptop, so I am wondering if there are anythings i need to tweak to prevent the internal display sensors from tryig to affect the external display

Hardware:

16" MBP
Belkin Hub
AW3418DW
Thunderbolt to hdmi (supports 4k @ 60hz)

Thank you


texts: Time Machine restore to new partition, different computer

texts:
I split my macpro disk into 2 partitions. I wish to continue to use partition 1 as a 10.6.8 (Mountain Lion) system. I wish restore everything (O/S, data, etc.) from a Time Machine backup, from a MacBook Pro laptop running Mavericks to my second partition on the MacPro.  So I want to end up with a machine that can run either Mountain Lion or Mavericks.

When I rebooted into 10.6.8, I saw the second partition "folder" on the desktop. Now the 2nd partition does not yet have an O/S, but the last thing I expected was to see it on the Mountain Lion desktop!

What is happening here? Why am I seeing the second partition as if it were a part of 10.6.8?  Did I fail to partition the drive correctly?

To partition my drive, I booted from the reinstall disk, got into utilities, did not select the route that would erase everything and reinstall the O/S, but selected the route that would preserve the data on the drive and split the single partition into 2 equally sized partitions.

Thanks,


texts: Do I need to keep apps on my Mac with iCloud

texts: I have a MacBook Air with limited disk space as well as an iPad and an iPhone. With iCloud, do I need to keep the apps in iTunes on the MacBook anymore? When I try to delete them all in iTunes by clicking on the Apps link on the left side of iTunes and then selecting all of the apps and right clicking delete, a message appears saying that the apps will also be deleted from my iPad and iPhone. Is this really the case with iCloud or is it safe to delete them from the MacBook and free up the disk space? I think these files are stored in a folder called Mobile Applications on the MacBook.


texts: What is the meaning of the command, function, option.alt and control keys?

texts:
I'm wondering if there is any meaning to the combination of button presses I make to use keyboard shortcuts. I'm hoping to speed up the learning process of learning keyboard shortcuts in this way. I figure if I have an idea why (for example) I might press fn+delete that it performs the same function on a mac keyboard that traditional keyboards do when just delete is pressed. More examples of keyboard shortcuts are ones that everyone knows like command+c or +v or +x for copy, paste and cut.

A helpful answer, if someone who'd like to answer doesn't have an end-game answer, would include trends they've noticed with different functions of the option, command, function, and control keys. Is one button perhaps typically used for a type of shortcut?

There must be a way they decide to make keyboard shortcuts assigned the way they do and I'd like to gain some insight into that. Questions? Please ask, I feel this question is appropriate to post here.


texts:
Pages correctly shows my iCloud documents on iPhone, but not on iPad.

The main page is enpty and I can only create new documents.

I've tried to reinstall the app, deactivate the iCloud Pages settings in the preferences, both in the iCloud menu, and specific Pages app (Use iCloud)

Also, if ai create a new document, it is not synch to iCloud, it is stuck as if there was no internet connection.


texts: Does (or when will) the Google Chrome browser support speech recognition on the iPad?

texts:
I tried testing the Google Chrome browser's speech recognition on the iPad2.
It does not show the little microphone (see the bottom of this test page)

It it simply not supported? Or only on iPad3 or certain O/S versions of the iPad?


texts: A good iPhone app for it when standing in the dock

texts:
I have an Apple dock for my iPhone 4 and find it beautiful so I like to have it in my desktop or my bed table while charging. The thing is I'd like to have a simple app that shows me the time, weather, maybe a small brief of my social network accounts, dunno just useful info so the phone isn't just standing there with the screen off.

I find difficult to find something like this with a decent graphics quality in the iTunes Store. Any suggestions?


texts:
Stuck in a bootloop with ssd
So I recently pruchased a WD Blue 500GB SSD to replace my HDD in my 13" MBP mid-2012.
At first I wanted to clone my HDD to the SSD, looked up a tutorial on ifixit and then followed the procedure. I used superduper to clone it, but whenever I began cloning it kept asking me to convert the deive to APFS, and superduper failed to do so by itself. My SSD was in an Orico disk drive enclosure.
I formatted the drive manually through disk utility to APFS.
Started the cloning process took approx 16 hours. Then I tried to boot through the ssd while it was in the enclosure however it kept bootlooping, so I figured I should try installing it first, did so and the same thing kept happening. Finally I reinstalled the OS(catalina) through recovery and, the bootloop is still persisting.
Right now I am just back to using my HDD, and it has begun to exhibit the same problem. It goes to the progress bar on startup and abruptly reboots.
Things I have tried,

PRAM and SMC
Erasing and doing a fresh install of macOS on SSD
Put the SSD in the Disk ecnlosure and try to boot from there
Putting the HDD in the enclosure and boot it from there(which works but is extremely slow and I still don't know what to do afterwards)

Any suggestions?


texts: Best option for connecting MacBook Pro with USB-C to monitor with DisplayPort and HDMI?

texts:
I have a Dell U2715H monitor connected to Thunderbolt port on my 2013 MacBook Pro using a Mini DisplayPort cable. With the new MacBook Pro with USB-C port I'm wondering what the best option would be to connect the monitor. It has both DisplayPort and HDMI ports.

If I purchased the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter could I then plug the Mini DisplayPort cable into the Thunderbolt 2 end? Would that work?

Alternatively I presume I could get the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter which contains an HDMI port and then purchase a seperate HDMI cable.

Assuming both solutions would work and ignoring cost is one solution superior?


texts: FileVault optimizing... 43 days remaining

texts:
My FileVault says that I have to wait for 43 days for it to finish optimizing something. As soon as I launch any application it stops working. So the only time that I can dedicate for the FileVault to finish optimizing is 8-12 hours of night which makes 43 days in reality 86 days. The readings are always jumping, one time you might see 3532 days remaining but never goes below 20 days.

On the other hand when working on battery it eats up my battery power of which I'm being informed by clicking on battery and looking through the list of "Apps using significant energy"

Maybe someone has stumbled upon this problem previously? How to speed things up, I can't wait for 3532 days for the optimization to complete that looks nonsense...

EDIT

Ok, I've waited for few days, here's how the picture is looking now:

I can't wait for 3526 days, that's almost 10 years by the way, so how do you speed things up?

EDIT

My disk drive capacity is 498 gigs, 68 gigs are unused, I have verified file system health with Disk Utility (did that in recovery mode)

ANOTHER EDIT

Now this is real shitty situation, I've waited for 133 days from the moment I've originally asked my question and it is not yet finished yet. I've counted pixels in the progress bar to count the value of progress that was made for these 133 days and it was 371 so this means that I have to wait for additional 86 pixels of the progress bar in order for the process to complete. Doing some elementary math I've figured out that it would take (statistically speaking) additional 30 days to complete the process. I would probably rephrase my original question: Just how stupid a software engineer should be in order to result with such piece of software?

BTW. I've free-up some space, so now I have 257.44 GB available


texts:
I use the CrashPlan software to run backups of my NAS to an offsite machine.  I'd also like to use it for backing up a Time Capsule to the remote machine.

How do I do this so I don't impede Time Machine's backups?

My Time Capsule is a disk on a Mac Mini Server that backs up an MBP.  I've tried backing up the file Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb to a remote machine with CrashPlan, but this causes Time Machine on the connected clients to stop working.

How can I backup a Time Capsule?


texts: How to export Safari history to either Firefox or Chrome?

texts: The title pretty much explains. I've tried searching and couldn't find any reliable info. Almost all posts in the internet are asked many years ago.


texts: Find my iPhone without full internet access

texts:
My company is running a fleet 200-ish iOS devices which are assigned to managers and executives.

We heavily rely on Find my iPhone/iPad to, well, find lost devices when needed.

Our network spans more than 150 offices around the country and some of them don't have (or can't have) internet access so that the device can communicate freely with the service.

Is there any way of routing the service through the company headquarters (all offices are P2P connected to HQ and HQ has unrestricted access to the service) so that we don't have to open offices to the internet?

Thanks in advance!

Edit:
I forgot to mention that the network on each of the offices is automatically routed to HQ, so there's no need for VPN in that case.

What I'm asking is how can it be possibly configured so that an internal service exchanges traffic between iCloud and the devices.


texts: iOS 11 share-sheet not including Messages option

texts:
Upgraded to iOS 11 and noticed that my share-sheet no longer includes the option to share in Messages. Has anyone experienced this and know how to get the functionality back?

I’ve confirmed it hasn’t been disabled in the “more” options

This seems to be happening in most 3rd party applications and from the home screen when using “Share App” feature via 3-D touch


texts: Installation failed when attempting to reinstall MySQL in OS X 10.6.6

texts:
I had earlier installed mysql-5.1.50-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg and then uninstalled it using the below command (found on Stack Overflow):

$ sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
$ sudo rm -rf Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
$ sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
$ rm -rf ~/Library/PreferencePanes/My*
$ sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
$ sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
$ sudo vi /etc/hostconfig
$ sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.mysql*
$ cd /Library/Receipts/

Then I have tried to reinstall from mysql-5.5.9-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg.

However I am getting the following error:

  The installation failed
  The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.


texts: How to overlay multiple graphs from Apple Health data

texts: With Apple Health in iOS 9, how can I see the interaction between multiple data categories? For example, if I enter data for menstruation and sexual activity, it would be nice to see a graph with both of those overlaid on one another.


texts: Only First Track Played on iPhone gets updated to iTunes Playlist

texts:
I've searched and found issues similar to mine, but not exact.

I've got an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.1.
I've got two Macs:

Work: Macbook Pro running 10.9.2 with iTunes 11.1.5
Home: iMac also running 10.9.2 with iTunes 11.1.5

I pay for an iTunes match subscription. Phone and work computers have a combination of downloaded locally playing songs and ones played/streamed from the iTunes Match cloud. Not sure if that is relevant or not.

When I play songs on my iPhone, only the first one played gets an updated play count. I've got a Smart Playlist called, "Recently Played" and that only reflects the first played song on the iPhone as well.

The Smart Playist is just the 4 following rules:

Last Played in the last 2 weeks
Media Kind is not Podcast
Media Kind is not Movie
Media Kind is not TV Show

Any idea how to further diagnose why my iPhone is not reflecting more than the first played song during a session and/or how to fix?

I have tried rebooting and restoring the iPhone.


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Since I installed a new access point, I have troubles with only one Mac to access the printer and NAS on my network. Every other computer (Mac or PC) or device (Android or iOS) is working perfectly.

I make a quick sketch on Visio to illustrate how it looks :

To resume the situation, we have :

One router which has a wifi network and DHCP.
One printer which is wired to the router.
One NAS which is also wired to the router.
One Access Point (new one) which is wired to the router. It has no DHCP, and the same SSID + Password as the router's wifi.
Three Macbook Air that are using the wifi (A, B and C).

The Macbook Air B and C are connected to the Access Point and are working perfectly. But the Macbook Air A, when it's connected to the AP (Conn 1), it cannot see the printer nor the NAS, but it can access internet and access to the router administration page. Other computers can be randomly seen (I believe that the devices on the AP are seen by A).

But when the Macbook Air A is connected to the router's wifi (Conn 2), everything works perfectly.

I tried to troubleshoot the problem on the Mac's side but also on the AP side. Here's what I checked and tried :

Upgrade or downgrade the AP's firmware -> Didn't change anything.
Try different configurations on the AP -> Didn't change anything.
Put a static IP -> Didn't change anything.
Clear the ARP table -> Didn't change anything.
Ping the printer or NAS IP -> No response.
Scan the entire network -> No printer nor NAS seen.
Is the Mac network configuration correct ? -> Yes, 100% sure.
Is the firewall enabled or misconfigured ? -> Nope, disabled.
Is the Mac up-to-date ? -> Yes, every updates have been done.

I believe that the problem is coming from the Mac and not the network as the other Macbook Airs are working correctly. But I'm not a Mac expert and I don't really know where else to look. Any advice, idea or solution would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Use tap to click instead of click to select user on start up

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I have Mac OS X 10.10.3. On startup of the OS you can select between different users on the machine. To select a user you have to do a full click, but instead I want to use tap to click.

Can this be changed in the settings somehow?


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I have two Mac Mini's - both provide redundant DNS and Open Directory services. I want to use Mail service so that everything is integrated with my user accounts.

Unfortunately I only have one public IP address. Is it possible to make my second Mac a backup MX server? I would basically have the public DNS of my domain MX record point to the public static IP. Could I then use internal DNS to setup a backup email server? If I add two IP's to the same mx.example.com then mail could potentially round-robin which I don't want. I need mail to always go to primary server first, then if down, go to the second.

This is for personal home use. I know its not best practice but I'm also not spending $30-50 a month for backup mx service. I just want something to prevent losing mail if I upgrade/replace the primary machine.


texts: App Store on iOS keeps asking for another user's iTunes credentials

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I recently helped a friend activate her iPhone 5. She used to have an iPhone 4S which I helped her do a backup on my Macbook. After backing up her iPhone 4S, I restored her iPhone 5 with the backup. Because her SIM card was not the correct size, I used my own SIM card to activate the phone as well.

But now there is a very weird issue where if she downloads certain apps from the App Store, it would ask for my Apple ID credentials instead of her's. I tried signing out of the App Store and having her sign in. But every time I download a certain app, it keeps asking for my credentials. Very strange.

Any one know of how to fix this?

PS: iCloud is also signed in with her credentials.


texts: Mac's dictation is a easy audio-to-text tool. however to change the language one has to go to system preferences every time. is there anyway to change between languages quickly(i.e by shortcut)? E.g if one can change dictation language by terminal, then alfred or shell script can change it with keyboard shortcut.


texts: Does Touch Bar Predictive Text Work for Languages Other Than English?

texts: I don't have a Touch Bar, but am trying to find out whether, under High Sierra, the predictive text feature works for languages other than English, like French or Spanish,  after either a) changing the keyboard layout, b) changing the system language, or c) setting system preferences/keyboard/text/spelling to the other language.


texts: Wifi interface completely gone after catalina update on 2013 MBP

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After upgrading my late 2013 MBP from mojave to catalina, the wifi interface disappeared from the system.
I don't see it anymore in the list and can't add it. Even in recovery mode, network utility doesn't show it in the drop down.
System information says
Software Versions:
CoreWLAN: 13.0 (null)
CoreWLANKit:  13.0 (null)
Menu Extra:   13.0 (null)
System Information:   12.0 (null
IO80211 Family:   12.0 (null)
Diagnostics:  1.0 (null)
AirPort Utility:
Downgrade to Mojave also did not helped


texts: Opening New Terminal Tab Moves Window Above Dock

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This is difficult to explain, so please bear with me.

When I open a new tab in Terminal, the Terminal window moves. This only happens when the window is at the bottom of the screen. The window moves up vertically just enough so that it is not below/beside the dock anymore. It does not move horizontally. It also remains the same size.

No other apps behave this way, only Terminal. I am using version 2.8.

Terminal did not behave this way in macOS 10.12 Sierra. It started behaving this way when I updated to 10.13.1 High Sierra.

Step by step, this is what happens:

Open Terminal.
Move Terminal window to bottom left or right corner of screen (flush with the edges).
Open new tab in Terminal.
Terminal window moves up so that it is higher than the dock.

How do I prevent #4 from happening? How do I prevent the Terminal window from moving by itself when I open a new tab?

Before

After