texts: Set a coloured text and send it to the clipboard

texts:
This is probably very easy, but all the solutions I found were directed to specific applications.

At my work, we use an online system within the browser and I find myself every day setting the color of my messages using the mouse, which is very annoying. I just need to enter something like:

[green] The file was approved. [/green] <-- this is just for illustration purposes since this question field doesn't have colors. These tags have no effect on the system.

or

[red] The file was denied. [/red].

Since the system is online, I can't use direct commands to set the color the text like we would do using TextEdit or any other real editor. So I wonder if there is a way to set the color of the text via Applescript (Automator Service) and send it to the clipboard because I know the browser will paste the formatted text with the right color.

Any other workaround will be appreciated.


texts: Need script or app to convert filenames and folder names from day/month/year order to year/month/day

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I have recently been sent a large number of tif files where for some misguided reason the file names have all been recorded in DD/MM/YY format ie 130307 whereas I need it as YYYY MM DD. The files are also prefixed as shown here:
GC Mins 130307 004.tif (this can stay although the chance to modify it would also be welcome).

The files are sitting in folders themselves also named in similar fashion so:
07 Dec
08 Jan
13 Oct

These too need to be converted to read yyyy mm dd.

Any help appreciated on what to do to overcome this issue as brute force renaming is not really on given the number of files which number in the 000s.


texts: Can I publish a "coming soon" version of my application? (e.g. information regarding the upcoming service, ability to reserve a spot)

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I read the Apple submission guidelines and it states that trials, demos, or betas will be rejected. However, if I'm offering a service and it isn't ready yet, but I want to get people familiar with the name, can I release a "soft" version of the application which tells users about the upcoming service and the ability to reserve a spot?

To reiterate, I am building a service which will release sometime later this year, hopefully. However, I would like to gather interested users and give them information about it and the ability to join a mailing list, create an account, connect on social media through a simplistic app (under the same name). Is this allowed?

I would like some clarification, if possible.

Thank you


texts: "Differentiate without color" setting in Accessibility System Preferences

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In the Accessibility preference pane of El Capitan's System Preferences, I've noticed a "Differentiate without color" setting that I didn't notice before.

Does anyone know to what extent this setting will change the experience of Finder?

I couldn't find much in the help and the only link I found about this was very succinct (I can't believe this setting only acts on the dots of this exemple).

I would love to know exactly how toggling this setting would affect the Mac's OS display, and its apps.


texts: run AppleScript on fullscreen without focus back to the desktop

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When I run an AppleScript and I am in fullscreen, it's always bring back to the desktop.

as a work around I use "tell front window of application "Google Chrome"
        activate" but that still very annoying

is there not a way to get rid of the focus to the desktop ?

here is an exemple

set newFile to (path to desktop folder as text) & "_Note_Backup.txt"
set theFileContents to read file newFile

set myDate to date string of (current date)
set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to (current date)
set mymonthVariable to m & " " & y as text

tell front window of application "Google Chrome"
    activate

end tell

set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to myDate
set aList to the text items in the theFileContents
set theCount to (the count aList) - 1
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid

set remainingcase to theCount - 5

set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to mymonthVariable
set aList to the text items in the theFileContents
set theMonthCount to (the count aList) - 1
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid

set remainingcaseontheMOnth to theMonthCount - 10

display notification "Month left" & remainingcaseontheMOnth with title "Today : " & theCount subtitle "Remaining case" & remainingcase


texts: App to turn iPhone to an old style feature phone?

texts: Is there an iPhone app, that help me reduce usage of the smartphone , by change it into an old style feature phone? Maybe I can turn on smartphone mode for 1 hour per day, but besides that the phone can only send text message and make calls.


texts: Xserve CPU Status LED's under Mountain Lion

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I have a dual Xeon Xserve, and a nagging issue.  The Xserves have 2 small 8 LED arrays on the front, which show real-time cpu utilization (one array per CPU).  Under Lion, these LED's would not become active until after you installed the Server.app.  Currently under Mountain Lion, these LED's do not work at all, regardless if the Server.app is installed or not.

I figure that there has to be a way to see, or find out what in the Lion Server app is enabling these (a kext or something perhaps?), but I cannot figure it out.  I tried comparing the system installed Kexts (/System/Library/Extension) before and after the server.app install, but did not find any new kexts.

Does anyone happen to know, or can provide any assistance in a way to dig down deeper on this?  I know its not a show stopper, but its one of those things thats bugging me and I cant stop thinking about it.


texts: How can I use a university-linked Outlook account on Mail for iPhone?

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My university has some sort of partnership with Microsoft so that we can use their Outlook interface to check our email. The email has the domain of our university and we login with our university login in order to access the service.

I’m able to add the account on the Outlook app for iPhone, but I would like to use it on the Mail app where I have all of my other accounts.

I’ve tried choosing the Outlook service when adding a new mail account, but it says the account doesn’t exist.

Is there any way I can do this?

EDIT: apparently the service is running on Office 365


texts: Is it normal for the iMac 5K's GPU to be at 90℃ with fan on constantly?

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I have found that the GPU die on my iMac is around 90℃ and the fan is kicking in all the time. Is this normal? If not, how should I fix it?

I have iMac 27″ Retina 5K (late 2014) with AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB, and I have Dell UltraSharp U2715H 27-inch LED-Lit monitor connected to the iMac.


texts: Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the software update server - iPad

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I'm attempting to sync my iPad with my MacBook pro, but every time I plug it in I'm getting a message from iTunes, "A software update is required to connect to your iOS device." When I click "Install," I get another error message: "Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the software update server." The iPad's charging icon is also blinking off and on.

As I've been poking around the internet about this, I've gotten several answers about how this is something to do with a beta version of iOS, however currently running only the most current and stable builds of iOS and macOS (iOS 12.1.1 and macOS 10.14.2). Apparently installing xCode worked for some folks back in July/August, but I've done that to no avail...see this thread with the same problem, and a user offering the xCode solution: A software update is required to connect to your iOS device / iPhone

Any help is much appreciated!

Order of messages and subsequent error:


texts: Time Machine not associating new disk with existing backups

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I recently purchased a new Mac mini to replace my 2011 iMac running High Sierra. The Mac mini is running Big Sur. I used migration assistant to restore my latest Time Machine backup of my iMac to the Mac mini, although macOS didn't prompt me to inherit my existing backups as it should according to this article - so I'm trying to do it manually. For context my existing backups reside in a sparsebundle which is stored on my NAS.
After mounting the sparsebundle I've run the following in Terminal to inherit my existing backup and associate my new disk with my existing backups:
sudo tmutil inheritbackup /Volumes/Backups/Matt’s\ iMac.sparsebundle

for f in /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups.backupdb/Matt’s\ iMac/*;
do if [[ -d $f ]];
then sudo tmutil associatedisk /Volumes/macOS\ HD "$f"/macOS\ HD;
fi; done

Note I have using 'for do if' above because associatedisk -a is broken in Big Sur, though I've heard running associatedisk for each directory should work.
Both complete without error but when I initiate a backup Time Machine is creating a new backup directory inside the sparsebundle for my Mac mini instead of using the existing directory for my iMac, so none of my backups are being properly inherited and I can't browse/restore my older backups.
What am I doing wrong?


texts: iOS 8 iPhone Cellular Calls on iPad/Mac with 2 iPhones sharing same iCloud account

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With the iOS 8 Continuity features you can make and receive phone calls on your iPad or Mac using your iPhone, provided they're all on the same WiFi network and using the same iCloud account.

However, my wife and I both use the same iCloud account and we both have an iPhone. It's the same iCloud account that's configured on the iPad (and on my Mac). In the settings for FaceTime both on iPad and on the Mac, under the heading iPhone Cellular Calls it says These calls will use the caller ID +xxx xxx xxx xxx, and the number is my wife's cell phone number, not mine.

In the situation I'm in (2 iPhones using the same iCloud account in the same house), how can I tell FaceTime which iPhone it should use for the continuity calling feature?

Apart from the caller ID issue, I can't make calls from my iPad or Mac using my iPhone (when my wife's phone is out of the house). It says "iPhone Not Available. Your iPhone and Mac must be on the same Wi-Fi network". However, if I receive a call on my iPhone it appears fine on both iPad and Mac.


texts: Macbook screen freezes when I move my external mouse

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I recently updated to macOS Big Sur, and I wanted to use my external mouse for work and gaming. I plugged in my mouse using a USB dongle, but every time I moved the mouse, the screen would freeze. In the games that I was playing, if I didn't move my mouse, I was getting around 80 FPS but as soon as I started moving my mouse, my frames would drop significantly, to around 15 FPS,  but they would improve as soon as I stopped moving my mouse. This issue doesn't happen at all when I use the trackpad. Is there any fix for this issue?
Laptop Specs:
MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
1.1 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 5300 1536 MB


texts: How can I sum values of a specific category over a range of dates in Numbers?

texts: Hi I'm doing some bookkeeping for a business and one thing I have to do is add all the different transactions by category for January, then February, and so on. How do I do that in a Numbers sheet that has multiple months and multiple categories?


texts: Notification Center frozen in macbook pro with Yosemite 10.10.3

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My notification center is completely frozen.  It's still in the upper right hand corner of my screen, but when I click on it, nothing happens. I do not get any notifications in a popup window when I receive a message from iMessage or Facebook like I had been.  I do still get a little red 1 on my iMessage app in the dock, though.

I have seen other forums with people having this issue being able to force quit notification center from activity monitor, but my activity monitor does not show notification center anywhere.  This same problem actually happened to me before few months ago, and after searching FOREVER I found out how to kill the application from terminal.  This does not work for me now, as when I type in "killall NotificationCenter" into the terminal it comes back saying "no matching processes belonging to you were found."

I have spend a bit of time searching forums for this problem again, and have tried typing other things into terminal and they don't work either (killall -3 NotificationCenter; killall -9 Notification Center, some other commands that are supposed to restart all running programs).  I've also rebooted my computer.

I just had an update for "Remote Desktop Client Update version 3.8.4" that was automatic last night, and I first noticed this problem this morning, so that might have something to do with it. This is very frustrating so if anyone can help me that'd be awesome! I'm not super knowledgeable about computers so please give detailed directions if you can.


texts: Is there a way to install and use PowerPC applications on Intel Macs?

texts: Is there any way to install and use PowerPC applications on Intel based macs? I have older Adobe software that I would like to use, and cannot use on my new iMac.


texts: MacBook Pro 2016 USB-C to HDMI (Apple Multiport Adapter) problem

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My MacBook won't display anything connected through an USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter to HDMI display. I have tried with many (Dell, Samsung, Acer, Iyama, LG, from the local store) external displays.

Sometimes (after a restart, with SMC reset) it works for 5 seconds and suddenly stops. It does not even show the external display in the preferences.

Do you know how to fix it?

Hardware details:

USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter from Apple (MJ1K2ZM/A)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
2,4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3
Intel Iris Graphics 540 1536 MB

I have noticed one thing - when I disconnect the HDMI cable the display says "No HDMI Cable" when I connect it back it says "Entering Power Save Mode".


texts:
I have an external disk that won't mount on my Mac:

/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk6
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk6s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         2.0 TB     disk6s2

When I first got the disk (from a colleague) it would not mount. I saw that /dev/disk6s2 was set to Microsoft Basic Data so I assumed that was the problem. I ran sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk6s2 --settype "Apple_HFS" to fix that and now (as seen above) disk6s2 is set to Apple_HFS but it still won't mount.

The output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk6 is:

      start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640        2008
      411648  3906617344      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  3907028992         143
  3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
  3907029167           1         Sec GPT header

I don't see any problems there but I'm getting into areas I'm not fully familiar with. I have no reason to think nor have I noticed any physical problems with the disk itself.

Any suggested steps or diagnoses?

MacPro (late 2013) OSX 10.11.6


texts:
Prior to 10.7.2 I used to be able to do the following sequence:

Drag and hold a file using my thumb on the trackpad (button depressed)
Three finger swipe to move to another space
Drop the item in the other space

This was a handy one-handed way of moving things between spaces, but with 10.7.2 it no longer seems to work: the trackpad doesn't respond to swipe gestures while the button is depressed.

Is this a bug or was it removed? Hoping someone knows of a hidden preference to bring it back.


texts: My iPhone is locked with an "icloud backup" message and it won't go away

texts: I know you're supposed to press the home and lock button and restart it but my iPhones lock button has been broken for awhile and I can't afford to fix it or fix it myself.


texts: How to close the Terminal app using the terminal command-line("exit") in macOS Catalina

texts:
I want to close the Terminal using the terminal command-line.
But when I enter the exit command, Terminal only logs out the session but does not close the app window. Is there any way to also close the app.
I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.6.


texts: APFS: fsroot tree is invalid after Time Machine backup - how to recover and avoid in the future?

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System

MacBook Pro, late 2013, 1 TB SSD (brand new, recently replaced by Apple), APFS (no journaling, case insensitive), High Sierra 10.13.2, Time Machine to network HDD.

What Happened

Mac stopped working, no space left on device.
Reboot failed.
Tried to boot into recovery mode with Command-R and run First Aid from Disk Utility - failed, because apparently the recovery system also resides on the same disk which seems to makes fsck on APFS impossible.
Tried to manually delete some files via rm, got no space left on device
Tried to truncate some files manually via cat /dev/null > somefile, got no space left on device
Booted into recovery mode with Shift-Command-R (downloads the system from Internet) and ran First Aid again. This time with limited success:

** Checking volume.
** Checking the container superblock.
** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
** Checking the space manager.
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the APFS volume superblock.
** Checking the object map.
error: invalid dstream.size (10730881024), is greater than dstream.alloced_size (71151616)
error: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : invalid dstream
error: inode_val: object (oid 0x16309a1): invalid xfields
** Checking the fsroot tree.
   fsroot tree is invalid.
** The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely.

So apparently the fsroot tree is invalid. I've searched, but wasn't able to find any usable advice on how to fix this (except of course, reformat and restore from backup, which I'd like to avoid).

Additional Background Info

On the system is a Parallels Windows VM with a virtual 100 GB harddrive (yes, one big file), which was recently used (so a backup was needed). The last time I have used the computer, roughly 20 GB were still free on the macOS SSD. For a day or so, Time Machine backups have not completed, but no error message was shown. When the problem happened, I had left the machine turned on over night to complete an incremental Time Machine backup. The connection here is, that Time Machine is apparently using APFS snapshots. I suspect this is the root cause of why this mess happened.

Questions

Is there a way to fix this (without reformat and restore from backup)?
What's the best way to avoid this in the future (especially with regard to Time Machine)?

Thanks.

Update

When running fsck_apfs with the debug flag -d, the output contains a bit more information:

** Checking volume.
** Checking the container superblock.
** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
** Checking the space manager.
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the APFS volume superblock.
** Checking the object map.
error: invalid dstream.size (10730881024), is greater than dstream.alloced_size (71151616)
error: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : invalid dstream
error: inode_val: object (oid 0x16309a1): invalid xfields
obj-id: 23267745 type: Inode
private-id: 23267745 parent-id: 12896552 cr/mtime: 1515089959653928186/1515090145416398252
def-prot-class: 0
uid/gid/mode: 0/0/0x8180 bsd_flags: 0x0 internal_flags: 0x8280 name: NO-NAME
** Checking the fsroot tree.
   fsroot tree is invalid.
** The volume /dev/disk2 could not be verified completely.


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I just purchased an iPad 2. I was trying configure mail in my new iPad.
I followed this tutorial for configuring mail on my iPad. But after I enter the required information and click Next, I receive this message :

  Cannot connect Using SSL
  Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL?

If I click Yes I receive a message :

  The IMAP server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding.
  Check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in "Incoming Mail Server" field.

Only OK button appears this time. I have checked my network and all the text fields a number of times. Still no success.

Where did I go wrong?


texts: MacBook Pro strange white screen upon rebooting mouse and trackpad not working

texts:
My MacBook Pro 2016 keyboard and trackpad is not working but the Touch Bar is works fine.

The below images show what’s showing up when starting:

The only similar problem that I found on the net is found at the below fixit post:
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/237198/MacBook+Air+boots+to+strange+screen+-+What+should+I+do

It was working fine yesterday. but then I went to school in the morning and when I opened it the mouse and keyboard wasn’t working and it had a screen talking about connecting or setting up an external keyboard or mouse.

I rebooted it thinking that would get it working and am now stuck here at the screens seen in the images above.

How can I resolve this?


texts: Is it useful to update the OS in my old MAcBook Pro?

texts:
Knowing that I use the MacBook for programming, surf the web and write in latex do you think that the update to the new OS X version will provide me benefit in performance?

Here the specifics of my MacBook Pro Mid 2010:


texts: Running Windows through SD Card or USB thumb drive

texts:
I have a 13" Macbook Air (2013) that has USB 3.0 ports and an SD card slot. I want to run Windows to play some games that are Windows only, and I didn't want to partition my main drive because it's quite small.

I'm thinking of either using a 32 GB SD card or a USB 3.0 thumb drive. Is it possible to do either of those, and if so which way will yield in better performance? In terms of read/write speed, which one is better, and can both have the same graphics power?


texts: Is there a way to set an Application Shortcut in the Keyboard Preference Pane via Terminal?

texts: I'd like to have a bootstrap for my custom keyboard shortcuts to use on multiple machines...


texts: Western Digital external hard drive is constantly ejected

texts:
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups, and recently my iMac has started to randomly eject the hard drive, preventing backups. It tends to happen while the display goes to sleep, but I have my Energy Saver settings set to not put the hard drives to sleep, and the computer is set to never go to sleep.

To correct the issue, I pull the USB cable on the drive and then re-attach it. I'm wondering if this is just a bad drive that I need to return or if this is some kind of larger issue.


texts: How to disable Kerberos authentication attempts from my client?

texts:
Every time I try to connect to a simple file share set up on Mac client - started with Mavericks, is still an issue with Yosemite (not server version), I get a long delay. There are lots of references to this problem... like:
Why is my OSX client having so much trouble connecting to our SMB server?
and
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6764545

The issue is that it tries to authenticate using a kerberos method and fails.

Here's an example from my console (I edited the domains):

  5/15/15 10:39:38.144 AM NetAuthSysAgent[42091]:
  NAHSelectionAcquireCredential The operation couldn’t be completed.
  (com.apple.NetworkAuthenticationHelper error -1765328228 -
  acquire_kerberos failed user-name@SOME.INVALID.KERBEROS.REALM:
  -1765328228 - unable to reach any KDC in realm SOME.INVALID.KERBEROS.REALM, tried 2 KDCs)

Once it fails, it finally pops up with the user/password prompt or allows me to select the share (if the pw is stored).

Aside from blocking netAuthSysAgent as suggested in one of the linked articles, is there a way to not have it attempt to use Kerberos?


texts: I want to create a host name that points to my MacBook dynamically, so I can have a chance to take back the control if it was stolen. I opened ssh and vnc, but I have no idea how to find my machine. Maybe DynDNS is a solution?


texts: When opening my MacBook Pro, the Superdrive makes noise

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2012 and I love the easy way of putting it to sleep when closing the laptop. I have never used the SuperDrive.

The problem is that after several months of using it and getting it out of sleep correctly when I open the screen, now when I open the screen, the SuperDrive makes noise, just like at startup. It never did that before.

I hate having such a noise when coming out from sleep. Is there a way to disable the SuperDrive?


texts: USB 3 not working on Yosemite MacOS 10.10.2

texts:
I have a MacBookPro11,3, Intel Core i7, 2,5 GHz, ROM: MBP112.0138.B14 with Yosemite natively installed. I also use FileVault.

Here are my problems with external USB 3:

One of my FAT32 external hard drive is not showing up (neither under Finder, nor in Disk Utility).
And for mounted disks (either FAT32, or Mac FS), read/write rate is always thus of USB 1.

The weird thing is that when I use another user account, exchange rate with same hard drives plugged in is thus of USB 3.

Any idea, where the issue could come from? Help very much appreciated, thank you.

So far, I have run Kext Utility and rebooted leaving the external drive plugged in without success.


texts: Use external hard drive to install applications to it

texts:
I have a 120 GB SSD on my Mac and it is almost 90% full. I have another 500 GB external hard drive and I want to install some big applications to that hard drive so it does not occupy space of SSD.

I tried to move apps directly from Application to the external drive but I think some files remain on the SSD.


texts: I'm trying to purchase Keynote for Mac Os 10.7

texts: How can I buy an older version of Keynote that's compatible with 10.7?


texts: First Admin account not showing on login page

texts:
I created a second Admin account on my Macbook Pro (Yosemite) and also enabled Guest login. Now I can only access the second account and the guest login from the login screen, the primary admin account is no longer shown.

It is also not shown in the fast user switching menu, nor am I able to log into it when I select username and password as login option.

I have not activated FileVault and I have not hidden the user by adding it to the HiddenUsersList. Any other things I might check?

I am able to su to the old user and the home directory and all still exist.


texts: Where does Apple Appstore commission for inApp purchases apply?

texts:
I always knew that Apple has commission from paid apps, but I only just found out this applies to inapp purchases as well. Due to this, many apps raise the price of their inapp purchases on appstore so that they do not lose revenue when compared with other platforms where they sell these services. This obviously worries me as I do not want to spend more money than I have to and I want to know, when does the commission apply so I can try to avoid it as much as I can.
Examples of this:
YouTube premium - costs 13$/month on iPhone, but 10$/month everywhere else - 30% extra
Twitch Subs - cost 6$/month on iPhone, 5$/month everywhere else - 20% extra
Spotify premium - costs 7.3€/month on iPhone, but 6€/month everywhere else - over 21% extra

I do not know any other examples than this, but I am sure there are many, because not everyone is willing to take a 30% revenue cut.
My questions are:

Does this apply on shopping apps like Aliexpress, eBay, Wish or not?
Where else does this apply?
What should I avoid paying for through an iOS app and rather pay for through my PC?

I mean I pay monthly for many things. If I slapped an extra 20% on only half of them, I would be paying quite a bit extra! Say you pay for YouTube premium, 2 Twitch Subs and a Spotify Premium, which would total to 20$ and 6€ (about 27.5$ total) per month, but through iPhone it would cost me 25$ and 7.3€ (about 34$) per month, which is almost 7 dollars per month, I mean thats almost enough for another membership somewhere.


texts: MacBook 16 camera does not return 720p video stream in browsers

texts:
Stumbled on this accidentally. It seems surprising  Macbook 16-inch camera can't provide a 720p video stream.
I used this website https://webrtchacks.github.io/WebRTC-Camera-Resolution/ to scan what my camera can do and the best the cam does is 640x480.

That does not seem right to me since the specs list a 720p camera.

The question I have is ... what am I missing to make 720p camera work as 720p?
PS: Macbook Pro 13 inch camera actually seems to support 720p. o_O


texts: Two-way firewall (outbound/inbound protection) in macOS

texts: Does macOS have a two-way firewall (outbound/inbound protection) present?


texts: Disable confirmation dialog when changing File Extension in macOS Finder

texts:
Every time I change a file type in Finder, I'm forced to confirm that I actually want to change the file extension.

Are you sure you want to change the extension from ".old" to ".new"?
If you make this change, your document may open in a different application.
Keep .old Use .new

How can I stop going through this confirmation step?


texts: Does AppleCare warranty follow the device or the user?

texts:
I've bought a used MacBook Air and according to the serial I've noticed that the previous owner has linked an AppleCare plan to it, up to 2017.

Does the warranty follow the device or the user? Better put, as the new owner, can I take advantage of the warranty or is there a need of some sort of transfer?


texts:
On Windows/Linux, it's really easy and straightforward to customize the VLC toolbar by using the menu "Tools">"Customize Interface..." (See this help page.)

Somehow this menu doesn't seem to be available in macOS.

Is it just a missing Mac functionality, or is there a way to customize the buttons showing on the toolbar on macOS?


texts: HOWTO convert documents to Kindle / mobi format?

texts:
I have an HTML file (XHTML 1.1 strict, if you want to be technical about it) that I am trying to make into a Kindle format (.mobi) book.

I've been trying to use calibre and have found the process to be very confusing.

Are there other options besides calibre? (If so, what are they?)
For people who have made Kindle/mobi documents, what have you used as your 'source' materials? Plain text? (X)HTML? Markdown? Word/Pages/Scrivener/etc?
If you have used calibre, how did you figure out which options you needed to use and which to just leave along? There's a metric buttload of them.

ps - yes, it would be nice if Kindle would just accept ePub files, wouldn't it?


texts: Browsers Keep popping phishing websites (I think)

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I have a 2017 MBP, Recently a friend of mine installed Logic Pro X via a torrent. But recently I see a lot of pop up similar to websites I visit. e.g If I am nike website, it open a new tab and in milliseconds changes the url and land on nike, same for other websites as well.

I tried disabling kaspersky extension for safari but didn't help.

I tried stopping MacPerfomance but it didn't stop. How can I get rid of it?


texts: How do I get iTunes to play all music from a specific year?

texts: How do I select and then play all songs from release year?  e.g. Play all music from 1969.  Even better, play all rock genre music from 1969.


texts: How to view iCloud files without downloading

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I am doing a fresh install on macOS Sierra and I would like to use iCloud Drive on it.

I currently have files (some as large as 3GB) on iCloud Drive and I would not like them downloaded on my computer.

Is there a way for me to enable iCloud Drive without the files downloading automatically? I would like to be able to download them as and when I want. I would also like my files to be backed up automatically like it does by default.


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As described in many other posts, after upgrading to MacOS Sierra I modified the ssh config file like so:

Host me
HostName login.hpc.ugent.be
User vscxxxxx
Port 22

Host *
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes

Still I get the following error:

$ssh -Y vscxxxxx@login.hpc.ugent.be
/Users/manfredo/.ssh/config: line 8: Bad configuration option: usekeychain
/Users/manfredo/.ssh/config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options

What am I missing?


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I can't find out any info about if iTunes is able to play H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format.

Do you know if this is posible?

Yosemite 10.10, iTunes version 12.1.


texts: Is it possible for "Joe" to have two iphones with two different numbers and text Sally from both numbers, and when Sally receives Joe's texts they appear as one thread? In other words, Sally wouldn't know he has a second phone because it all appears as one thread. Thanks.


texts: If I delete a photo from my photo stream using my phone, then it will be automatically deleted from other devices using same Apple ID or not?


texts: In my presentation, I have a slide with six lines.  I'm trying to set it up so lines 1 and 6 will appear, then 2 and 5, and finally 3 and 4.  I know I could throw a box over them and have the boxes disappear but there must be a better way to do this.  :-)


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I'm trying to add a printer through the Terminal using lpadmin, and it absolutely refuses to work. The printer adds just fine, everything looks perfect from what I can see, but any attempt to print results in a "Printer did not respond" error.

Here's the line I'm using to add the printer:

lpadmin -p _1BIT_16x09 -D 1BIT_16x09 -L "Export" -o printer-is-shared=false -E -v lpd://10.96.99.60/1BIT_16X09 -P ~/PPDs/_1BIT_16x09.ppd

The reason the -p name has a _ in front of it is because if I add it normally, it adds this, I'm assuming because the name starts with a number. I have crafted it to create the printer to appear exactly the same way within the cups web interface and the /etc/cups/printers.conf file.

If I add the printer using the above command (which doesn't work), this is what I get in printers.conf:

<Printer _1BIT_16x09>
UUID urn:uuid:13a13ddb-3110-37b0-7aab-96bae9e30955
Info 1BIT_16x09
Location Export
MakeModel Agfa ApogeeX
DeviceURI lpd://10.96.99.60/1BIT_16X09
State Stopped
StateMessage The printer did not respond.
StateTime 1464903468
ConfigTime 1464903399
Reason paused
Type 8450124
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

If I add it normally through the GUI (which does work), this is what I get:

<Printer _1BIT_16x09>
UUID urn:uuid:c5565ce1-256d-3d66-4fb8-74fde3242cc5
Info 1BIT_16x09
Location Export
MakeModel Agfa ApogeeX
DeviceURI lpd://10.96.99.60/1BIT_16X09
State Idle
StateTime 1464904755
ConfigTime 1464904755
Type 8450124
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

As far as I can tell, aside from the UUID they are identical, but one works and the other doesn't. It's driving me bonkers. Any ideas?


texts: Restructure iTunes Library File Hierarchy

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While my iTunes library works, I have a lot of dead files and a messed up iTunes Music directory.

Right now I have a hierarchy that looks something like this

|-&I
| `-&I's Music
|   |-This Day Aria.mp3
|   `-Until the Sun.mp3
|-Archie
| `-Archie's Music
|   |-Heart Attach.mp3
|   |-Kingdom.mp3
|   `-Roll The Dice.mp3
`-iTunes Music
  |-&I
  | `-&I's Music
  |   |-This Day Aria.mp3
  |   `-Until the Sun.mp3
  `-Archie
    `-Archie's Music
      |-5upernova.mp3
      |-Heart Attack.mp3
      |-Kingdom.mp3
      |-Leto.mp3
      `-Roll the Dice.mp3

As shown above, many tracks are present in both iTunes Music/ and out, but not all. Only one is linked into the iTunes Library. Usually the one that's linked is the one outside iTunes Music/, but sometimes it's the other way around. Also not all tracks are duplicated.

I want to consolidate all the duplicated tracks into one, without unlinking tracks from iTunes, and flattening out the iTunes Music/ directory.

Anyone know how to do this.

The library is completely backed up. I also have an iPod that I can put the library on. If possible, it'd be great to pull the library off the iPod, which I'm sure is properly structured.


texts: Non-extractable private key in Keychain Access.app

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The manual page for /usr/bin/security on OS X 10.9 indicates that there is a -x option for security import to specify that private keys are non-extractable after being imported.

How is this implemented?  Are the private keys imported through such means really become completely non-extractable, or is there still a way to get a hold of them through some kind of memory dump?

How do applications still use such keys for their crypto?

I've tried using https://github.com/torsten/keychain_access, with the following patch,

-    fprintf(stderr, "Export error: %ld\n", status);
+    fprintf(stderr, "Export error: %ld: %s\n", status, CFStringGetCStringPtr(SecCopyErrorMessageString(status, NULL), kCFStringEncodingUTF8));

but I'm getting the following error when trying to export the private key,

Export error: 4294941980: The contents of this item cannot be retrieved.

Is there some other way to get a hold of the non-extractable key?


texts: How can I remove a site from the reading list in Safari on my iPhone?

texts: How do I edit the items in my "reading list" in Safari?  Unlike bookmarks, there doesn't seem to be an "edit" option.


texts: Our Canon MX340 printer/scanner is connected wirelessly to my MacBook Pro, but I can't get the scanner function to show up anywhere

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I have tried adding a printer, hoping to see the scanner as a choice.  It isn't.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled, but still see nothing about a scanner option.


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I am doing a series of text correction for a game, and recieved the pdf of corrections from the customer. I use preview as a pdf reader.

On windows, I can freely copypaste the content back and forth, but for some reason, when I try on my mac, the sentences gets jumbled around.

As you can see from this screenshot, i copy the text from the right, and paste it in the tool on the left (Smultron) and the lines have changed order.

Does anyone know what might have caused this ? Happends repeatingly, and other


texts: Do you know of a good app for iPod touch that let's me quickly take a bunch of webpages offline that contain some articles I want to read later when I don't have an internet connection? It would be cool if it could also strip out the noise like ads, navigation, header, footer and leave nothing but the actual article. Also when reading later it should give me as much real estate as possible for the actual content having absolutely no chrome visible just like the kindle app.


texts: So I recently moved from an Android phone to an iPhone 5c. One of my favorite features of Android was the ability to store apps on the SD card. It's apparent that there's no solution like this for an iPhone, as iPhones don't have an SD card slot. My question, however, is what alternatives may exist to storing extra apps on my 5c. I've come to find out that apps alone are filling my device. Using iCloud, I can sync just about everything else wirelessly, but regardless, I still could use some more breathing room just for my apps. Is there any sort of cloud based solution for this, or anything else for that matter? I've hunted around but can't seem to find any definitive answers.


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I'm on the latest version of Mojave 10.14.4 (18E226), Darwin 18.5.0 on a 2012 Mac Pro. The system has become totally unusable for any sudo commands. It gets stuck indefinitely whenever I fire a sudo. Moreover, remote screen sharing has also stopped working. It was working fine before the restart. I even turned off the firewall after restarting, but remote screen sharing still doesn't work. SSH works though.

I came across this bug on Mac OS 10.12.4 on multiple forums. Most solutions involve modifying the sudoers file but that involved firing a sudo command and "waiting it out", but I've waited hours without any success!

Not sure if this is connected, but I recently removed administrator privileges for a user (from System Preferences > Users & Groups). The system asked for a restart for changes to take effect. I restarted and this bug kicked in.

Any leads?


texts: I have downloaded file darwin_amd64 and occasionally chosen Text Edit as its default application. Now I cannot install it cause it always opens as text file.


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I'm on macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 (20B29). I have an issue with Finder - each time I click on Finder, it opens a new tab/window and I don't have any issue with the tab/window option. Steps given below:

Finder is set to open Downloads folder and other folders in new tabs
From the desktop, I click Finder and it opens up with Downloads folder, not in fullscreen
I navigate to folder XYZ to look at some files
Then I switch to any other app, Mail, Safari, etc, which are running in fullscreen mode
I click on Finder and it opens a new tab with the Downloads folder and makes it the active tab. So now there are two tabs open, folder XYZ and Downloads.

Ideally, there should've been only one open tab - folder XYZ. I don't want a new Downloads tab to open each time I click on Finder when I'm in a fullscreen app.
This does not happen when my active app is not in fullscreen mode and clicking on Finder simply shows my XYZ folder that I left open.


texts: Can't create alias for 'nano ~/.bash_profile'

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I tried to make an alias to edit my bash profile, but when I save and relaunch a new window, I get the following:

Last login: Sun Jul 22 12:00:25 on ttys001
-bash: alias: nano ~/.bash_profile: not found
Adams-MacBook-Pro:~ adam$

### manually reopen a new terminal

Adams-MacBook-Pro:~ adam$ ebp
Adams-MacBook-Pro:~ adam$

My .bash_profile looks like :

# edit bash profile
alias ebp= 'nano ~/.bash_profile'
# alias rbp= 'source .bash_profile'

Also fwiw, my other aliases work fine. Any ideas on what i'm doing wrong?


texts: Calendar opens mail.app even though I've changed the default mail client to Sparrow

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I changed the default mail client to Sparrow yet every time I try to decline a calendar invite, Mail.app launches to send the decline message.

Any ideas?


texts: What are alternatives to EyeTV for watching live TV

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I have an old Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick (800e) that I would like to use to record and watch TV using an over-the-air antenna. I know that some people love EyeTV, but it's a bit expensive and not very configurable as far as I can tell.

The ideal software would have some or all of the below features:

Inexpensive (price of software and price of program guide (EPG) subscription)
Configurable recordings ("record every new episode of this show")
Automated commercial removal from recordings
Automated and configurable export of recordings (location, video format, file name based on program data)
Live TV or recordings streamed to other devices (Roku, iOS, web browser)

I'm in the US and am looking to watch OTA HD TV stations (ATSC).

Does this unicorn exist?


texts: Wallet and Pay and Reminders disappeared after re-pairing Apple Watch with watchOS 6.1

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I have Apple Watch 2 Series and iPhone 6S. Recently I've got an update to IOS 13 on iPhone and watchOS 6.1 on Apple Watch. After upgrade Reminders stopped syncing. I tried to resolve the problem by unpairing the watch and pairing it again using backup to restore. Now strange thing has happened: Wallet & Pay option disappeared from Apps list in Watch application. So I cannot add any cards to my watch anymore. Reminders app also disappeared from the watch. I tried to uninstall the iPhone app Reminders and install it again, but it didn't have any effect on the watch. To resolve problem with the Wallet & Pay on Apple Watch I tried to change regions on both iPhone and Apple Watch - no luck. iPhone have Apple Pay app and is able to manage cards.

Any ideas what I can try else to recover function of Wallet & Pay app and Reminders?

This is different from similar question, where OP could solve his problem by setting correct region for his watch. I already have region set to the country, which participates in Apple Pay programm.

Update 1:

The Wallet & Pay menu has reappeared in Watch App after I unpaired and paired the watch as a new device (not using backup to restore). Reminders and a bunch of other very useful apps is still not available on the watch. The problem becomes more clear: iPhone cannot install any app on the watch. In the watch management app on the iPhone it is visible that iPhone tries to start the installation - rotating circle, but nothing happens for many hours.

Update 2:

Resetting network settings on iPhone and joining again to Wifi seems to restore synchronization between iPhone and the watch: apps now can be installed, calendar get updates. Reminder app is still not available on the watch. Tried re-installing app on the phone: no luck.


texts: OS X Yosemite Improperly Ejecting External Devices

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I have a WD My Passport Ultra and I had it plugged into my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2012 Model and I had just closed the lid and it went to sleep.
Then I came back hours later and when I opened it a message was stating that it had been improperly ejected even though it was still plugged in.
I wanted to know if this was normal and if anyone else is experiencing this.


texts: Can I own an existing install of Logic Pro X from a used Mac?

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I'm looking at buying a used MacBook Pro on that comes with Logic Pro X that's running Sierra.

However I need to roll it back to El Capitan so it will run my UA Apollo console software. It's not yet compatible with macOS Sierra.

My question is, since it's already on the computer, if I sign into my Apple ID before I roll back, will I then 'own' Logic Pro X so I can install it again after I reformat from the Mac App Store?


texts: Does the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S play HD videos on Youtube?

texts: I was wondering if videos are played in HD when viewed on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S .. Does anyone know ?


texts: How to buy a gift card from a German store for a Russian store?

texts: Links from here redirect me to my iTunes where I can buy gift cards but there show a note "Redeemable in German store only". The same story if searching for the answer on apple.com/ru/... .


texts: How to stop audio automatically toggling play / pause when audio device changes

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I'm not sure if it's Mac or it's particular applications.  Scenario:  with bluetooth headphones connected I paused Spotify and played a video on Youtube.  After the video stopped I turned off the bluetooth headphones.  This caused the audio device to change to the internal speakers.  The volume happened to be set very loud on the internal speakers.  Spotify also started playing the paused music (very loud) which is a problem.

Is this a behaviour of Mac or Spotify?
Is it possible to change this behaviour, if so how?  Thank you.


texts: Why do some files on iCloud suddenly force me to download again?

texts:
I found that sometimes my files which I put on my iCloud are going to disappear from my local hard drive and thus force me to download them again. These files have the "download from the cloud" icon on Finder, and I'm not sure when and why these icons are added to which files.

I don't like to download them again, but this happens quite often. The files are put under ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/my_directory. How can I avoid them and keep the files available at local?


texts: Transparent colours and images are shown in red

texts:
For a long time I have had an issue with display color—it strangely has more red color in it as I can see. As far as I understand, it is due to how transparency is displayed.

The upper menu bar is having this redness, or in Preview.app for example, when viewing PDF files, it is blinking between normal white color and red background transparent color as you keep scrolling.

I tried to calibrate system color in System Preferences, but without any positive result.

Here are examples when using viewer to read some pdf file:

Here is how all the images are displayed (this redness I tried to explain above):

While scrolling, transparent red layer blinks from normal

This is only an example, It's not an issue only with this app, it's just easy to see it using this app.


texts: Sync Wi-Fi Passwords on OS X with Android Phone?

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I have a MacBook Air, and an Android phone (errr phablet!). I go out a lot with both, and every time I go to a new venue, I need to put the Wi-Fi password into both.

Do you know of an application so that, when I add the Wi-Fi password to one of them, I can sync it to the other?


texts: Install iOS app from ipa file (since not available in app store anymore)

texts:
Some years ago I bought the app "Infuse Pro 4" for iPad. Now it has a new version 5 and for some reason the 4 version is not available on the App Store anymore.

I tried iOS 11 beta and then I switched back to the latest iOS 10 version. But since I didn't make a backup before I has to do it by installing a clean version provided by Apple. So all my data and installed apps were gone.
Then when I started installing all my iPad apps one by one from the App Store. And then I figured out Infuse Pro 4 is not there anymore.

In the internet I was able to find an ipa file from the latest 4 version. I'm able to import it in iTunes. iTunes shows as it is possible to install the app but after disconnecting the device from my MacBook the app is not shown on my iPad.

Can you tell my why the app doesn't appear on my iPad although showed properly in iTunes and is there another method to install the app from ipa?


texts: Good application for detecting state (health) of SSD disk?

texts: On my MacBook, I want to see the health status of my SSD. How can I do this? Which app to use?


texts: What are minimum specs for a MacBook to develop iOS apps?

texts: I want to buy a MacBook to develop iOS apps. What are the minimum requirements?


texts: Unable to edit .bash_profile file on mac

texts:
Unable to edit ~/.bash_profile file on my mac. I did some changes in this file and rebooted. From then nothing is working on my command line:

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Restore firmware on machine without MacOS

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My daughter's Macbook Air is broken.  She's a wild non-child and its likely to have been roughly treated and also left for years without charge, not updated (I told her!) and used on virus'y sites.

Appearance is there is no internal flash.  All attempts to recover and install El Capitan to an external USB stick fail with some kind of firmware issue. I run a Macbook with Sierra and a clone of that will boot her machine.  I've tried building an install usb for Catalina (which it should run) but that won't work - I either get errors about the fs type (note I've tried MacOS extended (journaled) and apfs or it complains about a missing firmware partition. I've not yet tried building an install stick for El Capitan (assuming I can get El Capitan from the app store) - about to try that next.

Its perfectly possibly that the internal flash is fried and I won't get anywhere.  Aside from that, is it possible that the firmware is fried and that is preventing access to the internal storage ?  I know little about boot ROMs and boot partitions and BIOS's on apple though I used to run many linuxes. Other than visiting the Apple store can someone suggest a way forwards ?

Ideally it would be great to find a way to install the firmware needed and find out that "wow, the internal storage still is there and works" and install a MacOS to it (preferably Catalina).  Failing that it would be nice to make it usable booting from a minimal external usb stick - I can't build one by cloning without buying some large storage as my systems on my Macbook are a very long way from fitting on a cheap stick (I'm just about to put a 2Tb drive in to ensure I don't go too close to full on 1Tb).

Is it Facked or is there a way forwards other than a big external drive?

Here is an image of what system report says:


texts: Updating iOS through public WiFi in hotel

texts: Is it secure to update iOS when using public WiFi? Is there a chance the update is manipulated?


texts: External usb webcam flickering (ripple effect) on MacBook Pro

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I'm new to Mac. I've bought an external usb HD webcam and I would like to use it with Mac.
Connectivity-wise, Mac recognizes the camera, I can use it from any application - so far so good.
The issue is - I'm experiencing a strong ripple effect due to ambient led lightning (50hz).
In windows, I could easily change the setting of video capture frequency to 50hz for any camera using windows settings (including the one in question) and this would resolve the ripple effect.
In Mac I just can't find the setting to do that.
After a short research - I saw a few suggestions to use an app like "Webcam settings".
I can't use it as a resolution in my case (for certain reasons).
Any ideas? Is there some config value that I can change manually?
Q: Am I positive it's the ambient lights? A: Yes it is the lights.
Q: Am I positive webcam/usb/other hw is OK? A: Yes it is OK.
Q: Does the vendor provide resolution? A: No, the vendor (Amcrest) did not provide a resolution yet.


texts: Why does Force Quit Applications freeze?

texts:
When an app freezes on my app, I will press Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Esc ⎋ to open the Force Quit window.

However, this will often take minutes, and clicking on the Force Quit button freezes the Force Quit window and makes the beach ball appear. The window confirming the force quit only shows once the application unfreezes.

Also, if I right-click the Dock icon while the app is frozen, then the Dock will freeze, but it doesn't freeze when I just pass over the icon.

It is also possible to move the application's windows.

So how is it possible for some tasks not to be frozen, while the most important task (the Force Quit window) freezes at any interaction? And what do you do when the Force Quit window itself freezes?


texts: When shutting down, how to re-open apps on their respective desktops?

texts:
I work with 4 desktops, and every time I shutdown my machine, I tell it to re-open all windows on next boot.

The problem is, with the exception of iTerm2, they all re-open on the first desktop (probably because it's the one showing by default).

I would like for every window to open in the desktop it was when I shut down the machine last time. This should be possible as iTerm2 always open on the desktop it was shutdown in.

How do I do this?

The apps I'm having this issue are

Google Chrome: I have at least 1 window (with multiple tabs) on each desktop.
PHPStorm: I have 1 window on desktop number 3


texts: Trackbar Gesture for Mission Control / Spaces: Two fingers + click

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Up until Snow Leopard I was using a simple shortcut to navigate through Spaces (Desktops). Two fingers plus click would present Spaces and allow me to select desktop and/or window effortlessly. So my question is, how can I do that and start Mission Control instead?

Thank you for all your help in advance.


texts: How best to plug in dual monitors in dual GPUs?

texts:
How would you plug in two high-res monitors into a Mac with dual radeon pro 5700X GPUs to maximize system performance, specifically for rendering/programming:

Both monitors into the same GPU, and one GPU free for rendering
One monitor in each GPU
Doesn't matter in terms of performance


texts: How do I completely uninstall an app in OS X without the use of a dedicated app eg AppZapper?

texts:
I came across this post, however all the answers recommend using Applications eg AppZapper or similar to achieve the uninstallation of the App desired.

What are the steps required where the uninstallation is carried out by "manual means" by the user to achieve complete uninstallation ?


texts: 2009 MacBook Pro 15” Replace battery now with 257 cycles?

texts: I recently picked up a 2009 MacBook Pro 15”. El Capitan is telling me to replace the battery now. Although the battery is at 100 percent and only has 257 cycles on it. Is it really a battery issue for why the MacBook is shutting down after a few seconds (sometimes minutes) without it plugged in? Or is it something else? I also gave a third party application saying that the battery has about 4 minutes left(and going up for some reason), 10.8 years old, the original max is 6500 mAH, the current max is 65035 mAH, and the current charge is 65035 mAH. This app has never done this for me, so I’m not sure what’s wrong.


texts: How to enable/disable OS X beta participation from Terminal?

texts:
Does anyone know how to enable/disable OS X beta participation from the Terminal?

Typically one could opt-out of the Beta program by choosing the following option found in the App Store preferences pane. However once you opt out, the option to opt-in disappears and one has to use a utility found online to opt in again. This is tedious for me. Since most settings in OS X are managed using defaults, I wonder if anyone has a set of commands to enable/disable this option in the preference pane?

If not then perhaps a process where I can discover the relevant defaults read/write statements to enable this feature?

Ultimately, I would like to simply be able to opt-in during certain periods and opt-out during other times.

If there is a simpler approach than using the Terminal, I am open to learning about that as well.

  Nota Bene - Please let me know in the comments if anything is unclear
  or if more information is necessary to improve this question.

System:
I am running Yosemite and El Capitan on different machines.


texts: How can I get Time Machine to mount a local sparsebundle - error 45

texts:
I'm switching from a local backup disk to a local .sparsebundle so that I can easily save the encrypted .sparsebundle to remote storage.

The following works:

Mount the sparse bundle to /Volumes/foo
tmutil setdestination /Volumes/foo
Run backup

The .sparsebundle is on an external disk like /Volumes/bar/foo.sparsebundle. If I point Time Machine at bar as the backup destination, I get the following error:

  Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "foo".
  The backup disk image /Volumes/bar/foo.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error 45).

This same machine is a backup host for other macs on my network. I have compared the format of their .sparsebundles and they seem to be very similar. The local has "Owners: Enabled" while the remotes have "Owners: Disabled" in Disk Utility. When I mount a remote .sparsebundle I am the owner of all the files. When I mount the local, they have the same ownership as the source disk.

How can I get Time Machine to automatically mount my local .sparsebundle?


texts: Download a file from a FTP server to a specific location?

texts:
I know I can get to a FTP location by accessing:

open ftp://user:pass@my_ftp_server/my_file

This will download the file in the Downloads folder.

How can I tell FTP tp download the file to a specific location I want?

I am looking for something like:

open ftp://user:pass@my_ftp_server/my_file=/tmp/fileDownloadedFromFtp


texts:
Is it possible to disable Safari autofill for just one website? I use a website often where this is a hindrance.

It seems like in High Sierra there are "website preferences," but disabling autofill is not included.


texts: Network share always mounting in Finder, but never for Time Machine (High Sierra 10.13.4)

texts:
I have two Macs (MBP 2017 and an older Mac Mini with two internal SSDs) on my local network, both running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, and I'm encountering strange problems.

One of the Mini's internal SSDs (HFS+) is partitioned. One partition is shared (using File Sharing in System preferences) in order to be used as a Time Machine drive for the MBP.

Two problems:

On the MBP, the Finder will mount the Mini's network share without asking any credentials, even if I forbid access to any user (on the Mini, while keeping the share enabled). Why? And where are the Mini credentials stored on the MBP? I'd like to erase them but I can't find them in the MBP's Keychain utility.
Even if I recreate the share from scratch on the Mini (which recreates users for remote admin access, etc.), Time Machine on the MBP fails to mount the Mini's share. Specifically: I can enable the network share as a TM drive, but TM will complain it can't start the backup because of a credentials problem, even if the share is already mounted by the Finder!…

The problem seems to have appeared with the 10.13.4 update. I had similar setups with previous macOS versions that work flawlessly.

I'm puzzled. Any help really appreciated.


texts: Where are the Terminal settings stored on OS X?

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You'd think A) I'd know this by now, and B) that it's readily available info, but apparently neither is the case.

What I'm looking for is where the config files (colors, etc.) that ship with Terminal are kept on the system. It'd be really handy to point to these in a /dotfiles/setup.sh file.

Am I being oblivious? I've checked the package contents of Terminal.app, but nothing is there of note. It is also noteworthy, that OS X (at least Mountain Lion) will include Terminal settings, sessions, and scripts as pre-defined search parameters in Finder, but I have found nothing.

I've searched online, and dug deep into /usr/ and /Library. Nothing. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.


texts: My iphone for the first time vibrate twice for one message

texts:
I was talking in face time with my husband and he sent me a message to I message, my phone vibrated but there wasn't a sms or notifications for the sms.

After 3 seconds my phone vibrate again and then show the sms.

The question is how can iphone 5 vibrate twice for same sms.


texts: Shortcut - El Capitan Dialog Box switch between option

texts:
How do we switch between options in confirm dialog boxes on El Capitan.
Older OSXs was switching by using spacebar. Not working anymore.


texts: Position of Percentage Symbol on Keynote Charts

texts: I am trying to change percentage symbol on charts in Apple Keynote. Keynote automatically put % symbol before numbers. Is there any way to change/set it as after number? Thank you!


texts: How do you mount -bind a local directory?

texts:
In linux, one of the great things you could do (for developers, in particular) was to mount a folder and locally bind it to another folder on the system.

This had the advantage over symlinks due do the fact tools like Git didn't detect it as being a different type of node, and you didn't need to remove the original contents. When you were done, you could simple unmount and you were left with the original filesystem contents.

However, mount -bind or mount.local don't seem to exist on Mac (as of OS X 10.10.2, Yosemite).

How do you go about this?


texts: How can I require a user to change their password?

texts:
I created a new account on a machine and gave it a default password but I want to ensure the user changes the password when they log into it for the first time. It's just a laptop with nothing special running client version of Mac OS X 10.6.8.

I'm sure it's possible, I remember seeing a check box where you could require the user to change their password at some point.

Could someone refresh my memory on this or tell me how to achieve this goal?


texts: Unable to mount read-write in OS Catalina 10.15.4 in Single User Mode

texts: The command /sbin/mount -uw / no longer works after I upgraded to Catalina. I've read that this is due to Apple. Is there a new solution to mount to read and write through Single User Mode?


texts: Recover particular "Folder" which is permanently deleted from desktop

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I had a folder name "FruitFest" in my desktop. It's basically an iOS App project which includes a lot of files & xcode bundle in it. Today I accidentally deleted it into my trash and later on I emptied my trash. But now I badly want to get back my FruitFest folder .

Is there any way to find out that folder by some folder recovery tool/Software? Where I can get back my folder as it is? I have tied Disk Drill & Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery software, but it only shows files, not any folder. If you have any suggestion please share with me.


texts: What is the leading alternative OS X theme solution?

texts:
Is there a leading alternate theme solution for OS X? I'm not looking for anything tacky - I'd rather just endure the grey if there aren't any good solutions out there.

However, if there is anything really nice, I'd love to know about it!


texts: How can I download macOS Catalina on a 2011 Mac mini that doesn't support it?

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Note:  I only want to download it, not install it on the 2011!
The App store doesn't let me download it, but I don't want to install it, I just want to download it and create an USB installer so I can restore my other Mac.
How can I do this?


texts: Where is the DMG saved when the hard disk is erased?

texts:
Assuming you would go into recovery and format the data carrier on which macOS is installed, where would the DMG be located from which you booted with "CMD + R", because as far as I know it is also on the hard drive and would be like that can be deleted with.
I guess this DMG is loaded into the main memory for a short time, I don't know if it's true. What next?


texts: Double entries in Launchpad (Mac OSX 10.7, Lion)

texts: I have many double entries in Launchpad. (Address Book, DVD Player, Image Capture). Any idea why and how to fix it?


texts: How can I change how often iCloud data gets synced on my iPhone 6?

texts: When I make changes to Contacts on my Macbook, they tend to take a while to get synced up with my iPhone 6. I was wondering if there was a setting on the iPhone (or perhaps even on iCloud.com) that would allow me to set a more frequent synch schedule.


texts:
I'm copying an album of non-DRM songs from iTunes (where they all play just fine) to an iPad. Three of the songs on the album were downloaded through the Bandcamp purchase interface (let's call it method A), and they transfer fine, but the rest were downloaded directly as .mp3 files (method B), and do not transfer. Rather, they ostensibly do: the song appears in iTunes and in Music.app, but does not play in either and appears greyed out in iTunes with a grey sync icon next to it.

There are several other albums also gotten by method B, which all transfer completely fine. What in the world is going on, and how can I fix it?

I am running Mac OS 10.7.3, iOS 5.0.1, iTunes 10.5.3 (3), and am using an iPad "1". I've already tried deleting them from the iPad and re-copying, but it still only copies the three "A" songs.


texts: What is your preferred way to start a (shell) script from the GUI?

texts:
I was wondering what ways there are to start a (shell) script from the GUI, e.g. double-clicking an icon in Finder or launching via Spotlight.

This is not about opening a terminal and "manually" launching the script.

I used to have .term files on the desktop, which launch a terminal session and can also be extended to execute a script upon launch. This is nice if you need interaction or want to monitor the output.

I also know about running a shell script from Applescript, and just read about the .command files.

What is your preferred way to start a (shell) script from the GUI, and why ?

And maybe you could also write if it shows output and allows interaction or is just an invisible wrapper to e.g. start a program with its own GUI.


texts: How would I make a keyboard shortcut to *maximize* the current window?

texts:
I love using the keyboard in Windows. It's an integrated part of the OS, and it feels like it; nearly every mouse action has a keyboard equivalent.

However, as I am starting to use Macs more and more, I'm missing two things primarily from Windows: the ability to maximize (not whatever the green button does (what does it do?))- windows and the ability to maximize windows from the keyboard.

Thus, without further ado: How can I maximize windows with a keyboard shortcut?


texts: Is there a way to change the output format of the screen recording using terminal?

texts:
I'm using macOS Catlalina 10.15.4 (19E287). I have some screen recording to do and I intend to use the build in screen recording with the screenshot app.
The problem is I don't want the file to be saved as a .mov I want it to be a .mp4
I know there's a way to change the screenshot format in terminal using
'''defaults write com.apple.screencapture format'''
Is there something similar to the video option
Thanks


texts: Why won't my macbook show the dashboard or fullscreen windows?

texts:
I am "stuck" on the desktop. Clicking the dashboard icon does nothing, I cannot use the 4-finger swipe gestures to move to or view the dashboard or any application windows in fullscreen (yes, I have checked system preferences, it's on), and the function key that usually allows me to see fullscreen windows+the dashboard+other desktops does nothing. I have tried shutting my computer, quitting everything and restarting. If I open another fullscreen window, I am stuck there until I close or un-maximize it. This has happened before and it went away after a minute or two, but it's sticking around now. I have a MacBook Air running on Mac OS El Capitan.

How can I solve/prevent this problem?

UPDATE: It has started working again, but was stuck for much longer this time.

This problem is continuing off and on.


texts: Where does iMovie store movies before projects are finalized

texts:
I have a current version of iMovie as well as an older version (9.0.9) installed on my MacBook.

Some while ago I have created project with the older version. I can still run the video in it, but when I select Finalize Project I receive an error message, apparently because I have deleted some of the video clips that comprise the project in the meantime.

Similarly, when I start the current project of iMovie, it load the project but then immediately warns me about missing files and is not able to play any video for that project at all.

I guess the situation is that the older version of iMovie has stored a preliminary version of the video somewhere. Could I copy it in order not to loose this content upgrading to the current version of iMovie for good, i.e. removing the old version of iMovie? If so, where could that movie be found on disk?

I would not expect to edit the legacy project any more, just retrieve the existing video.


texts: One USB-port on MacBook Pro late 2011 doesn't work.

texts: I have a problem with one of my USB-ports on my Macbook. I can plug in my charger for my Jaybird X3 headphones and charge them, but I can't charge my iPhone for example. And no data from the iPhone is getting transfered to the computer. I've dropped it with an usb-device connected, and that's when it stopped working correctly. Is there any way to bend some connector back or something like that?


texts: Why is my iPhone playing the notification sound but no notification is showing?

texts:
A few minutes ago I was listening to music on my iPhone and the music faded out and then the notification sound played but no notifcation showed. (it has done this about 10-15 times now) Does anyone know what could possibly be wrong with my iPhone? I have an iPhone 3GS running on iOS 5.0.1.

Sometimes it's an email sound but other times it's the actual notification sound. I have it set up to show the little notification at the top for new emails so it should show a notifcation even when the email sound plays. Most of the time it shows a notification but sometimes it doesn't.

Maybe this is just a bug?


texts: Can a low-wattage adapter fully recharge the battery of a turned off MacBook?

texts:
MacBooks come with power adapters that provide a certain wattage (for example 87 W) required to keep the computer running and charge the battery. If used with a lower-wattage power adapter (for example 61 W), there might not be enough power to keep the computer running. However, could such a lower-wattage power adapter be used to fully recharge the battery if the computer is kept turned off?

Could even a low-wattage iPhone charger be used for this, although it would probably take a long time?

Update: The question concerns newer MacBooks with USB-C chargers.


texts:
I like the idea of mac bundles where a group of awesome apps are offered in a very good price. I did bought some bundles before and I would like to know, which is the safiest way of tracking such as bundles deals?

I bought 2 bundles, and both was article in apple/mac blogs. So is any website keeping track of mac bundles, but bundles that are not scams/fake/virus etc.

Cheers.


texts: iPhone 6 Logic Board Water Damage Clean/Repair

texts:
I'm aware of this question, however it doesn't solve my problem.

Today I bought a water damaged iPhone 6 at a good price, thinking that since I am pretty decent at repairing iPhones (and fixing water damaged ones before), that I should be able to fix it without any issues and have a working iPhone 6. However, after doing my usual "take the while thing apart and clean it with isopropyl alcohol" water damage repair routine that has worked well in the past, it still won't turn on or even be recognized by iTunes.

This iPhone 6 has been dropped in a pool, whether it's chlorinated or saltwater, I don't know. I do know that it has been around a week since then, the seller informed me.

I have tried (in order):

Cleaning with an alcohol-soaked cloth multiple times
Taking a spudger and gently scraping around the chips
Soaking the board in alcohol and when that didn't work, cleaning it with a toothbrush while submerged in alcohol
Running the logic board under warm tap water, then submerging it in alcohol and cleaning with a toothbrush again

In each case, I made sure that the board was dry before testing.

Edit: I decided to break out the soldering iron and removed all three shields from the logic board. After removing the first one (the one below the SIM slot), the iPhone came on, but was stuck in a boot loop. However, after removing the second one (on the back), the phone no longer comes on, and cleaning the behind the third one (covering the A8) didn't help either. Strangely, sometimes when I connect the iPhone to the wall charger, if I press the shield up where it should go, the Apple logo flashes once and then goes to black, though the LCD is on. Any ideas on what to do next? Can I use computer thermal paste on the A8 chip and heat sink; is it the same thing as what's already on it?

Any ideas on how to fix the board?

Also, it's almost definitely the board, as I've used multiple lightning docks and digitizer assemblies for the iPhone 6 that I had lying around and bypassed the battery by plugging the iPhone straight into the wall.


texts: Do applications preserve xattrs when saving?

texts:
Do applications on Mac OS X (specifically the MS Office applications, but interested in others as well) generally preserve xattrs (Extended Attributes) on documents when saving them?

For example, if I add an xattr to a file:

xattr -w test "test attribute" mydocument.docx

Then open this in MS Word, make a change, and save, is the attribute maintained? What does

xattr -l mydocument.docx

print after saving?


texts: Change carrier settings in iPhone post iOS7, possible?

texts:
I recently moved to a new country, and got a new SIM for use over there. The sim came with an old no-name android phone, that works fine (can use data, call, text, all).

When I insert the same sim in my iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1, it can receive calls & texts, but not make calls, send texts or use the data connection. I assume this is because it still has my old carriers settings. Pre iOS 7 there was a setting to change carrier settings, but it seems to be gone? Is it possible to go around this, with or without jailbreaking?

If it's of interest, I changed from ePlus in Germany to Softbank Prepaid in Japan.


texts: Time machine tells me UID or GID have changed but they don't seem so!

texts:
Using tmutil compare to show the changes between the latest snapshot and the current state of the disk, I am told that most of, if not all, my files had their UID or GID changed. Here is one line from the output of tmutil compare as an example:

! 85.9K   (UID, GID)            /Volumes/A/path/to/file

But ls -n does not show me that (501 is the logged user, and 20 is group staff):

-rw-r--r--@ 1 501  20  88007 Dec  4  2017 /Volumes/MyTimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/MyMachine/Latest/A/path/to/file
-rw-r--r--@ 1 501  20  88007 Dec  4  2017 /Volumes/A/path/to/file

The two files look exactly identical but Time Machine thinks they differ. Why?!?

Background: I had a system disk, let's call it A, in my MacPro, with a Time Machine backup. For speed, I created a new system disk B on SSD, I moved some files from A to B but I will keep most of the data on A because B is too small. So now I would like to continue using the same Time Machine backup. The recommended way to do that is the command-line utility tmutil for that: I did

sudo tmutil inheritbackup /Volumes/MyTimeMachine
sudo associatedisk -a /Volumes/A /Volumes/MyTimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/MyMachine/Latest/A

It worked: I can browse the snapshots of disk A back and forth in time with the Time Machine interface. However, before starting a backup, I checked with tmutil compare what Time Machine thinks has changed on disk A, and that's the discussion I started this question with.


texts: Mavericks: User no longer owner of Home folder and content

texts:
One of the Users (called: The_Problematic_User) of a Mavericks installed MacBook Pro is no longer owner of the Home folder and content. Here's what we've tried to no avail:

restart computer and log in recovery mode (Command-r) and;

repair disk permissions,
repair disk,
with resetpassword (command line),
reset Home Folder Permissions and  ACLs,
reset password,

restart computer and log in single user mode (Command-s which is root access) and;

Strip ACLs on all account items with: chmod -RN /Users/username
response: chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file ...
Try to regain ownership of files and folders with: chown -R username:staff /Users/username
response: chown: username: illegal user name (where username was the user name of the user, obviously)
Try to assign ownership of files to root with: chown -R root:staff /Users/username
response: chown: /Users/username/*: Read-only file system (where * represents all the files and folders in the directory)

Another thing: when I ls -l /Users here is what I get:

drwxrwxrwt  6  root wheel 204  Feb 24 10:53 Shared
drwxr-xr-x+ 12 501  staff 408  Mar 21 17:16 A_user (with admin privileges)
drwxr-xr-x@ 47 502  staff 1598 Mar 15 12:03 The_Problematic_User
drwxr-xr-x+ 24 505  staff 816  Jan 10 15:11 Another_user

What is the @ doing instead of the + in the permissions of The_Problematic_User?

For info: The_Problematic_User does NOT have admin privileges


texts: My iPhone won't download certain free apps

texts:
My App Store keeps saying this item is free in the store, that this item will be added to your purchases, and will be available even if your family sharing status changes. And it then says cancel or download.

I click download and it won't download and keeps popping up the same message over and over again. How do I make it stop? I can't download certain free apps.


texts: How can I split a video every X minutes using iMovie or some other Mac software, outputting the split videos to a folder, named by section (e.g. "video1of4", "video2of4")?


texts: How to change the sorting priority for special characters in file names

texts:
In Finder.app, as per the default sort order, the files and folders whose name begin with an underscore character _ appear before the hidden files, i.e. ones whose name being with a dot ..

I would like to be able to see the ones whose name begin with a . character to appear before the ones whose name begin with a _ character, as well as other special characters.

As I recall, in older versions of Mac OS X, this feature was under System Preferences → International. However I am unable to find it in macOS High Sierra. How do I change this setting.


texts:
I recently did a clean install of the MacOS Mojave and I am a little bit annoyed by the default folder I get when I press CMD+N in Finder.

How can I change the default folder when I open a new window in Finder?


texts:
Someone sent me an embarrassing picture on my iPhone, which is synced to my iPad for iMessage.

My iPad was not connected to Wi-Fi at that point.

I then deleted the embarrassing picture from my iPhone, before the iPad was connected to Wi-Fi.

So, when the iPad is finally connected to Wi-Fi, will the picture come through onto that device, despite it having been previously deleted on my iPhone?


texts:
I am trying to use

  defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

in my terminal but when I do I get the following error:

  -bash: defaults: command not found

Any ideas as to what may be causing this issue and how to resolve it?


texts: Upgrading to 32GB RAM for Mac mini Server (MD389LL/A)

texts:
I'm using a Mac mini Server (Late 2012) with 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB RAM. This type of processor (Intel® Core™ i7-3615QM) supports a max memory size of 32GB. Look at specification: Here.

Is it possible to upgrade RAM in my Mac mini to 32GB (for instance a Crucial Kit 2x16GB)?

I understand that Apple has to update Memory Reference Code in the firmware of the Mac mini but maybe exists another way to upgrade a memory.


texts:
I am studying French and to practice my pronunciation and to learn the words, I want to have my mac speak the words out loud. My mac should say the word in English, and after that, he should say the French translation of it. So, it should speak in 2 voices alternately. The problem is that I don't know how to get my mac speak 2 languages alternately. I know how to get my mac do text-to-speech and how to change the voices, but I don't know how to change the voice from English to French during the speech.

So in short, I want that my mac speaks the following words: first the English word (in an English voice like 'Daniel', and after that, the French translation of that word in a French voice, like 'Thomas') :

I use the [[slnc 1400]] in order to let my mac know he need to take a break for 1400 milliseconds before starting to say the next word. Otherwise, the voice doesn't take a break.

Does someone know how I can get this done?

Can this be done with AppleScript or Automator? Or maybe there is a program a could use to solve this?


texts: Corrupt .photoslibrary file in Photos app. Any way to get photos back?

texts:
I am using Apple's Photos app on macOS El Capitan.

When trying to copy my Photos Library.photoslibrary file (44 gigs) from old external drive to new internal drive, I get a -36 error. Apparently the file is corrupt.

Are all my photos lost? Are those photos stored externally as files somewhere else on the disk?


texts: rMBP high battery drain, doesn't seem to sleep after HS upgrade

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I have a 2015 A1502 13" Retina MBP, originally running Sierra. Since upgrading it to High Sierra, it doesn't seem to sleep properly. Before, I could leave it in sleep mode on its battery for over a week and still come back to a decent amount of charge. Now it seems to only turn the display off - after leaving it unplugged for 24 hours (wifi off), I opened it today to find the battery at 25%. Power Nap is disabled. I do have Caffeine installed but that's also switched off.

I tried pinging it after closing the lid and continue to get a response from the Thunderbolt ethernet adapter long after it should be inactive, even with Wake For Network Access switched off. Ping follows a pattern, about 25 successful with sub-millisecond responses, then drops several, then the next successful packet takes >2ms, then back to normal <1ms for 2-3 packets, then back up to 2ms. Both computers are cabled at this point. On the other hand, it doesn't respond to SSH while in Sleep mode (as expected).

I don't think it's anything to do with the ethernet adapter as I also see the battery drain when the computer is completely unplugged. Obviously with no indicator lights or moving parts on the computer I cannot tell whether it's active or not, just relying on the screen to tell me.

I have a 2014 15" Retina at home and the battery on this is astonishing, managing 2 weeks in sleep mode and still usable when I come back to it. It's running Sierra. I'm very hesitant to upgrade it to HS in case I lose this ability. Is this a known issue with HS?


texts: Mounting an external hard disk clone that shares the same partition GUIDs as the source/host hard disk

texts:
Recently my Macbook's hard disk started to get badblocks and I promptly managed to make a disk clone with ddrescue into an external drive through an Ubuntu live session. I successfully cloned everything without much issues.

When I plug this external drive using Ubuntu I can access all partitions. But unfortunately when I try to access this drive on macOS itself the Apple_CoreStorage partition doesn't mount.

Here's my diskutil list output:

paulofreitas@Paulos-MacBook-Pro:~$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +498.9 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 F0CA4975-A73D-46D6-92AB-4A4DDF3DFFF7
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS Storage                 2.0 TB     disk2s1

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk3s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine            1.5 TB     disk3s4

The external hard drive is the /dev/disk3. The first 3 partitions are an exact copy of /dev/disk0 at the time I did the clone. The last partition Time Machine was later created with the free disk space that was left.

I can't mount /dev/disk3s2 inside macOS although I can do that when using Ubuntu. Am I missing something? What should I do to mount this partition?

Update

From what I've understood the problem happens because both /dev/disk0s2 + /dev/disk3s2 and /dev/disk0s3 + /dev/disk3s3 shares the same disk label. My /Volumes/Macintosh HD lists the Macbook filesystem itself, ie. it's the /dev/disk1 (from /dev/disk0s2).

Actually this happens because both disk GPT GUID and partitions GPT GUIDs share the same UUIDs. I still haven't found a way or tool to change those partitions GUIDs safely (where I can mount them without compromising their data).


texts:
I have bought a new ipad 2 3G and at the present time I am using it without SIM card. I have managed to make it work barely. I can navigate the web, read emails and download apps, but I cannot use iMessages or Facetime. The device will not appear on Find my device either.

iCloud.com says NO DEVICE. I have followed all instructions to associate my device with my Apple ID. I have indeed registered it manually on
https://register.apple.com.... but the device is not showing associated with my AppleID even when I click to see my AppleID data.

What am I mssing? THanks.


texts: Copy menu is greyed out in Microsoft Word

texts: I'm running Word for Mac 2011 and the Copy menu is greyed out. Command-C works. This is on OS X 10.11 El Capitan. My mother-in-law has the same problem and she's on 10.9 Mavericks (I think).


texts: Approve This iPhone: Reset Protected Data

texts: What data exactly is deleted when this option is selected? I am unable to access any other iOS device to approve my new iPhone so I am in a bind at the moment. I just don't want any of my important data to be deleted.


texts:
Before I start, I'd like to be very clear: I have no intention of pirating anything. I like buying movies, I respect that the money pays for more to be made, lines pockets and generally keeps things ticking over.

With that said, I understood up until now that iTunes Movies were all DRM protected. I have read otherwise (I forget where) but wanted a definitive answer.

I would love to be able to buy all my movies, tv shows, etc from iTunes, store them DRM free in the cloud for my devices and watch them on my TV (Apple TV / XBMC). As far as I am aware, this is not currently possible. Is anyone aware of any legal alternatives that would give me a good legal argument for storing MP4 copies of my (legally purchased) movies and TV shows in the cloud?

Thanks!

Edit: I'm in the UK, but interested in UK and US options.


texts: Console reporting "Deprecated" in 10.8.x

texts:
Not that i know what it is but would like to fix it anyway!

My Console shows this...but to my knowledge my MBA 10.8.4 is working fine ?

  6/23/13 11:35:31.952 AM System Preferences[3575]:

  * WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later.

  Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:]
  instead.

Honestly, I had to Google the word deprecated first to know what it means.

  Deprecation is a status applied to a computer software feature,
  characteristic, or practice indicating it should be avoided, typically
  because of being superseded.

OK, so how do I fix that problem.


texts:
I've been having this problem for a few days.

Recently I switched my App Store country region from India to Canada. All my past app purchases and downloads were erased. I then downloaded some apps that I had already downloaded through the Indian Store. These apps were not added to my purchases. I am unable to review them therefore.

Also, a popup for software update keeps showing up but when I check for updates I cannot see any updates.

I'm using an iPhone SE.


texts: Possible to selectively choose folders to sync at set-up time of OneDrive for macOS?

texts:
Question:

Is it possible to configure through the Terminal or otherwise which folders to selectively sync in the OneDrive app for macOS?
Or, to select the folders to sync during the setup procedure of the app?

Background:

I am having trouble getting OneDrive setup on a new iMac running macOS Catalina 10.15.4. After installing the app from the Mac App Store and linking my Microsoft account, the app immediately start syncing. So far, so good. But then I have two related issues:

The app starts syncing all the content, which is about 250GB, and which is not what I want (it would drain my ISP quota). I want to exclude a certain big (Backup) folder from syncing.
However, trying to do selective syncing configured, I bump into the spinning beachball when trying to adjust the OneDrive settings. It's almost impossible to get to the correct setting; but if I get there and uncheck the relevant folders I get a popup from Onedrive telling me it can't do it because of some content that first needs to be uploaded. (don't have a screenshot right now, as it's hard to reproduce).

Unfortunately, when setting up OneDrive, there is no option to specify what folders to sync. (Dropbox, for instance has such a feature).

So, is there any way for me to reliably set the folders to sync with OneDrive, without having to download the full 250GB of my OneDrive folder?

BTW, I have the OneDrive app running successfully on an older iMac; but I think that was already setup before I started backing up to OneDrive.


texts: Can I make my iPhone vibrate louder or stronger?

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I often have to turn my iPhone ringer off. This is ok when I’m at my desk because when it vibrates it is loud enough on the desk that I never miss a call. My problem is that when I am walking and have the phone in my pocket, I almost always miss the call.

This is becoming a real issue for me and I wondered if I could make the vibration louder, but this question indicates not.

I have an iPhone 6s on iOS 10.3.3, and that question is about 4 years old now, so I'm hoping things have changed.

Is this still the case? If its still the case, is there any way I can make the vibration stronger or something?


texts: Missing iOS iMessage showing in OSX Messages

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This is the second time this has happened to me in the past couple of days so it starts to bother me: somebody sends me an iMessage, that I never get on my iPhone (4S iOS 8.2) but I do get on my Macbook's (OS 10.10.2 Yosemite) Messages application (v8.0). Even days later the messages are not appearing on my iPhone.

Do you have any idea why this is happening and how I could manually force a synchronization?


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I'm developing a plugin for Hubot (a scriptable chatbot) to take a URL, and display it on a Mac Mini connected to a TV in my office.

However I'm not actually sure how feasible this is. Hubot is able to send messages to APIs using HTTP. Is there a known method of allowing a Mac to listen for requests over HTTP, and then run a command (an applescript or shell script perhaps)?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for switching to an open full-screen preview window

texts: If I have a document open in full-screen mode in Preview, and other documents open in windowed mode, I can switch FROM the full-screen window to other applications with CMD+TAB, and I can cycle the other windows with CMD+` , but how can I, with the keyboard, switch back to the fullscreen window?


texts: Automated/Simple Deletion of Apps from iTunes Library

texts: Is there an approach to querying the local iTunes library to remove apps that aren't currently installed on any of your devices?


texts: Why is ~/.zprofile always sourced on every interactive session?

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from zsh document, ~/.zprofile should only be sourced at login shell, and should NOT be sourced at every interactive session (for example, a new tab in a terminal).

I am running MacOS Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91).

But I can confirm that my ~/.zprofile is sourced at every interactive session (a new tab). Why is that? Is this a bug? How to stop this incorrect behavior?


texts: How tough is the aluminum body of a MacBook?

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I had an older macbook with a plastic shell. I broke and replaced the screen several times  over it's lifespan.

I now have a MacBook with an aluminum body and am really nervous about cracking the screen.

Should I be that nervous? Have you seen an aluminium cased MacBook with a cracked screen?

Is getting a "MacTruck" case overkill?

Update: 20 months of use with a thin Speck case and no cracked screens.


texts: My Apple Store notifies me that i have 4 updates, but when i go to the Updates tab i cant see anything.


texts: Office for Mac Excel app doesn't show thousand separator

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I'm using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2, with Microsoft Office 14.2.4.

Problem: Ever since I installed new updates of OS X, Excel can no longer display the thousands separator.

How can I get it back?


texts: Mojave doesn't remember window position/size for a specific application?

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Normally on Mojave all applications windows settings are stored automatically.
Still I have one program which does not do this, every time I re-open this app I have to maximize (not full screen) it's window all over again.

Is there any way I can achieve this automatically?
Making that the program will remember windows size and position after closing an reopening?
Maybe a plist file, terminal command, automator, or third party application which does this automatically?

Many THANKS for all your help.


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I am not used to using OS X as I normally use Windows but in my new job I have a machine with OS X 10.9.5 so I kind of have to use it.

Anyways, I need to open port 25443 as I need it to access a website that runs there. I am not using the OS Firewall. I've been reading about it and I tried ipfw but it seems to be deprecated. I've been looking into pfctl but no luck. How could I open that port?

These are the outputted messages in different browsers:

Safari:

Chrome:

Opera:

The website is on a server in the Internet, is not accessed locally

I've tried to access other websites using HTTPS. It doesn't show any error and it show without any problem.


texts: I have already booted up my pc pressing Cmd+R and tried to erase the Macintosh HD partition, but I still can't do it


texts: auto mount HFS+ filesystem from disk image (.dmg file)

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I'd like to auto mount my dmg file which represent disk image with single HFS+ partition upon every boot. is it possible through autofs ? do I have to set the location of the dmg file in any configuration file (/etc/...)

thanks


texts: Why does the 2021 Mac have a lower Ghz processor than the 2017?

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When I look at the 2017 specs it seems the 2017 provides
3.4GHz
3.4GHz quad‑core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz)
3.5GHz
3.5GHz quad‑core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz)
Configurable to 4.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz)
3.8GHz
3.8GHz quad‑core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz)
Configurable to 4.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz)

Where as the 2021 processor starts at only 3.1Ghz and goes up to the same processing of 3.8Ghz:
3.1GHz
3.1GHz 6‑core 10th-generation Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz


texts: What causes the strange lines in Chrome on a Macbook Pro?

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From time to time I get strange colorful lines on my screen in Chrome. It only effects certain websites. I tried disabling "Hardware acceleration" in the settings but that didn't seem to help. What is the cause?
Here is a Facebook screen

And a Stackexchange screen. Note it only affects the top bar.


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I recently started getting this message "Safari cannot open page because iPhone is not connected to Internet"  whenever I leave a Wi-Fi zone.

How do I fix this?