texts: Updating to Mojave & enabling FileVault at the same time

texts:
Recently I decided to update to Mojave. Additionally, FileVault encyption was mandated remotely. Upon the reboot all hell broke loose.

The output of "diskutil apfs list" tells me Macintosh HD is "Not Mounted" while its Encryption Progress is stuck at 0.0% (Paused) (Locked).

Nothing seems to happen when I try to mount the drive using Disk Utility. Well, it does manage to unlock the drive after asking for the password (for some reason it doesn't accept the password the first time and I have to enter it twice).

After a recovery reboot (at this stage the disk is locked):

# diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk2s1
Passphrase: (...)
Unlocking any cryptographic user on APFS Volume disk2s1
Error unlocking APFS Volume: Couldn't mount disk (-69842)

The disk is now unlocked.

# diskutil mount /dev/disk2s1
Volume on disk2s1 failed to mount; it appears to be an APFS Volume which might be locked
Try "diskutil apfs unlockVolume"

# diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk2s1
Passphrase: (entering the password here)
Unlocking any cryptographic user on APFS Volume disk2s1
Error unlocking APFS Volume: The given APFS Volume is not locked (-69589)

# diskutil mount /dev/disk2s1
Volume on disk2s1 failed to mount; it appears to be an APFS Volume which might be locked
Try "diskutil apfs unlockVolume"

# fsck_apfs /dev/disk2s1
** Checking volume.
** Checking the container superblock.
** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
** Checking the space manager.
** Checking the object map.
** Checking APFS volume superblock.
** Checking the object map.
warning: omap (oid 0x9a64f): invalid om_flags (0x2)
mount_apfs: mount: Input/output error
error: mount_apfs exit status 73
** The volume /dev/disk2s1 could not be verified completely.

Now, after another fresh recovery boot I've done the following:

Unlocked the drive (unlockVolume) with the -nomount option.
Disk Utility > First Aid gave me the following

Repairing file system.
Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_apfs -y -x /dev/rdisk2s1
Checking volume.
Checking the container superblock.
Checking the space manager.
Checking the object map.
Checking the APFS volume superblock.
Checking the object map.
warning: omap (oid 0x9a64f): invalid om_flags (0x2)
error: er_state->esrb_version is 2, should be 1
Encryption Rolling data structures are invalid.
The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 0.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
Operation successful.

The "error: er_state->esrb_version is 2, should be 1" and the "Encryption Rolling data structures are invalid" parts are new.

Thank you for your time.


texts: Is there a shortcut for opening a second buffer with a vertical split in Aquamacs?

texts:
I'd like to have two buffers open side by side in Aquamacs. Is there a shortcut for doing this?

I know that C-x 2 opens them in a vertical stack, I'd like to have them arranged horizontally though.


texts: how to force OSX to refresh the Text Replace -list after losing it? (still on iOS safe&sound)

texts:
I use a lot of text replace on iOS + OSX, but today I woke up and my OSX El Capitan has lost it's text replace list. I have about 40 different text replaces there (long urls, bankaccount numbers, addresses etc), and they're on my iPhone but I'm wondering how to force-slam them back onto OSX, without having to copypaste one at a time from my iPhone to iCloud Notes and then to the Settings -> Keyboard -> Text replace?

Also, does anyone know if these are actually on the iCloud at all?


texts: Airpod pros active noise cancellation seems to activate with loud noises normal?

texts: Whenever there's a high-pitched screeching noise the active noise cancelation on my airpods pros activates itself for a few seconds. Is this a feature or a bug on my model? Has anyone else ever experienced this and should I return these for an exchange?


texts: I am a developer working on an in house application.  I have gotten several complaints about getting the Spinning pinwheel in the iOS application I maintain.  Can anyone tell me if this is actually something that can happen on iOS (not OS X.  I know this is common on the desktop OS when an application becomes unresponsive to input.) I have done a great deal of searching on Google and am coming up empty handed.  I'm beginning to wonder about the accuracy of this bug report.


texts: How to prevent iOS from styling an emoji?

texts:
Look at these characters:

Depending on your device, they'll look like this (a Windows screenshot of a Facebook comment):

Notice how the 2nd and 4th emojis are flat rather than stylized*. It's because I inserted an invisible U+FE0E character after each to tell devices not to change the appearance of the character.

However, on the Facebook iOS app, they look like this:

It seems that iOS isn't honoring the Variation Selector-15 (U+FE0E) character and stylizes all of the emoji characters.

How can I force emojis to appear as the basic flat text version?

* P.S. As a side note, when I inspected the HTML on Windows, this is what I saw, which I guess is how Facebook's website replaces the emojis with their own images whenever U+FE0E isn't present:


texts: I bought a new iMac and migrated stuff over from my old mac. I now have 3 user accounts, 2 with different variations on my name! None of them access the same applications and information. I have no idea how I accomplished this: computers are not my strong suit. How do I blend them all together? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: I took a video with my iPhone 5s. I would like to print one frame of this video as a still picture. I tried taking a screen shot of it, but ended up with the menu on the top and bottom of the picture. Is there an easier way of keeping one frame of a video as a still picture?


texts: Binding Escape Sequences to Terminal Keys Produces Characters, Not Actions

texts:
I was using an iMac from 2009.  I had upgraded it regularly, going up to (and including) Mavericks.  When I first got that iMac, I fixed the keys in Terminal so Home and End would move the cursor to the start and end of the current line.  I also fixed Delete (the forward delete, to the left of the main keyboard on the USB keyboards) so it would work "properly" and delete the character to the right of the cursor.

This worked without problems through all the upgrades.

This past week I upgraded to a new 27" iMac.  Migration Assistant did not work and AppleCare wasn't clear why (but we suspect the drive in the old computer is failing - so it could have encountered bad files).  So I started fresh with the new iMac and installed the programs I need and, when necessary, I copied over the files in ~/Library/Application Support/ for each application.  (I mention all this to point out what I've done and that the keybindings didn't transfer.)

I also did this for terminal, including copying over my old .bash_profile file, too.  Unfortunately, the keybindings did not transfer.  I've been trying to recreate them.

I found universal solutions (in other words, the same solution on many websites) for the Home and End keys and a few solutions for the Delete key.  Basically, all these solutions include opening Preferences, going to the Keyboard tab and changing the action for all three keys as follows:

Home: \033[1~
End: \033[4~
Delete: \033[3~

And this is where I run into problems.  While these are the actions on my old iMac, the new iMac can't handle them.  For all three, I get the same output: Nothing happens (as in no cursor movement) and then a "~" prints to the terminal.  (I have the Terminal declared as VT102 and have tried VT100.  Either worked on my old system and I'd like to use one of those, if at all possible, since I sometimes have to use minicom and log into a system that uses VT100 codes and I need that emulation.)

I'd love to find one of two solutions:

1) What am I doing wrong or what do I need to change so my terminal will process the escape sequences correctly?
2) What could I copy over, besides ~/Library/Application Support that will include the data for the old keybindings on the old computer so they work properly?


texts: In Bash, can I output text from cut into a new command?

texts:
This might be a vague title, but it's hard to explain what I'm doing in a short title.

I have a tool that removes adware and it mainly runs in bash. Some of the programs I want to kill may have multiple PIDs or output files. Here's what I have and what I want to do:

lsof +D /Applications/appIDontWant.app/ | cut -d " " -f 2 1>

So I have this which gets the PIDs for the application and I can then output using 1> to a text or something, but what if I want to output the PIDs to a

sudo kill

? Would this be another time to use | ? (I'm vaguely familiar with pipe, but not great.)

Now, I do know that I can simply put

sudo kill appIDontWant.app

but that's just not any fun.


texts: To control default opening software for PDF centrally?

texts:
I want PDF documents open with Preview, not Adobe Reader.
I select Open With > Other > Click the Box Always Open With.
However, this does affect all pdf-files in my system.

How can you set the default program for PDF?


texts: A way to open a new Finder window when double-clicking anywhere on the Desktop?

texts: Is there an existing utility app or pref pane to accomplish this?


texts:
So we have an old 6 running 12.4.1 we want to get a backup for so we can restore to a new phone. I’ve tried on a couple machines but I can’t get a clean backup. I get a nondescript “iTunes is unable to backup your phone” error.

What are my options here?  We really just need pics and iMessage restored. Can something like imaging do that?  But the new phone will have 13 on it - can something like imaging work across versions?


texts: My MacBook Pro doesn’t wake up after sleep mode

texts: I have a MacBook Pro 13" (2013). After it goes into sleep it does not wake up. I see the tabulator key light goes on if I press it, but the monitor stays black. I can only restart the Mac by pushing the on/off key.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to regain features from Safari 5 that are not found in Safari 6?

My question is about the removal of the Activity Window in Safari 6.
Is there anyway to accomplish the same results in Safari 6?
Is Apple working on a fix for this?

I'm using Mountain Lion


texts: dd on Catalina gives "Permission denied" error even after grant it Full Disk Access in Security and Privacy

texts:
date; sudo dd bs=1M if=2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-full.img of=/dev/rdisk3; date
    Thu Apr 23 20:22:45 PDT 2020
    Password:
    dd: failed to open '/dev/rdisk3': Permission denied
    Thu Apr 23 20:22:54 PDT 2020

I've tried giving Full Disk Access to all of these, but to no avail:

/usr/local/bin/gdd
/usr/local/bin/dd
/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin/gdd
/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin/dd

The device exists:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1.0 TB     disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.0 TB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume d - Data                638.3 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                526.9 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume d                       11.1 GB    disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS time-machine2           2.0 TB     disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS data2                   6.0 TB     disk2s3

/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *31.9 GB    disk3
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 31.9 GB    disk3s1

I'm not sure what the problem is?


texts:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

In recent days the mouse pointer will be inoperable after waking from sleep. If I cmd tab I can find the pointer, but it will not respond to trackpad movement or clicks. It does not recover if I close applications, open the force quit window or resleep. Only a reboot will bring it back.

Just now it froze as I was typing. Additionally, the character I was typing repeated, as if I was holding my finger on the key combination (it was the '$' character). Again, only a reboot would stop it.

SMC reset did not fix it.

How can I resolve this so that it does not happen again?


texts: Is it possible to echo what your mic records to the speakers?

texts:
When I talk on my Blackberry with a headset, it echos what I'm recording back into the headphones. This helps me hear my own voice when I'm talking, so I can regulate my volume.

I'm wondering if it's possible in Mac OS to echo what the mic records back into the speakers and even adjust that volume.

If not, should this be handled at the application layer instead of the OS level?


texts:
What's the default Notes account setting used for on the iPhone?

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Default Account (in the "Notes" section).

What does it do?

I couldn't find any documentation in the user's guide for this setting.


texts: MBP Retina 16" 2019: Screen flickering with colors

texts:
Every few weeks the screen on my Macbook Pro 16" starts doing this:

It happens only with some windows and sometimes the only thing that helps is restart. I went to the Apple store and they just told me to reinstall macOS which I don't really want to do as 1/ I don't have time for that, and 2/ I don't believe it will help.
Could this be a graphic card issue? Is this known issue?


texts: How can I have iOS Safari remember credentials for websites with HTTP(S) Basic Authentication?

texts: I have a HTTPS website which is protected by basic authentication. When I use Safari on macOS to access this website, it will store my credentials (in the Keychain). However, Safari on iOS (11.2.6) refuses to do so. I can click on the key icon on the top right of the keyboard, but it will show only credentials from  form-based websites (the same list as in macOS Safari -> Preferences -> Passwords). Is there any way I can force Safari on iOS to remember these basic authentication credentials?


texts: Is using the rm -P command safe on Macs with an SSD

texts:
I read that secure deleting a file on any kind of SSD was dangerous because it could hurt the reliability and longevity of the SSD. Therefore, if I removed files using the -P flag, would hurt my SSD because according to https://ss64.com/, the -P flag instructs the command to do the following:

-P  Overwrite regular files before deleting them.  Files are
overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff,
then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.

Therefore, is using this command safe on Macs with an SSD, or can this cause damage since it is technically overwriting data on the SSD which causes wear leveling?


texts: I have an iMac 27inch from 2009 running El Capitain at work. It was used by other people before I came in working for this company. It seems a bit on the slow side comparing to my home PC. Would formatting it help? (it has a bunch of applications)


texts: How to code an AppleScript to do a mouse click on a menu bar item?

texts:
I have an awesome Pomodoro application, but there are no keyboard shortcuts to start and pause it. I've been trying to code an AppleScript for the past hour, reading the AppleScript reference and searching online, but I'm getting nowhere.

What I want to do is have an AppleScript (it will be launched from an app called BetterTouchTool) click on coordinates on the menu bar, (the Pomodoro app runs in the background and I have all the coordinates needed), a cursor-back needed for the second cursor back (to get back to the initial cursor position), click a second time on the 'Start/Pause' dropdown item (from coordinates), and then do a second cursor-back to have the cursor back to its original position.

EDIT: the application is a timer application (in the menu bar) with a dropdown menu that has as the first item either 'Start', 'Pause' or 'Resume'—which is what I want to be able to click via a keyboard-assigned AppleScript.

EDIT2: got this far:

tell application "System Events"
    click (click at {1447, 10})
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pomodoro Timer"
    click (click at {1456, 37})
end tell

But don't know how to code the cursor back, and I get this error:

  System Events got an error: Can’t get menu bar item "00:58" of menu
  bar 2 of application process "Pomodoro Timer".

Could someone please help me out?


texts: Strange colors in the application switcher (cmd+tab)

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Weird display issue on OS X Lion when switching external monitor

Recently my application switcher has broken. The colors looks very odd and it doesn't help to kill finder or reboot the computer (or it works for a while after reboot..)

Image: https://img.skitch.com/20120103-pge8m1hh6eqakyy9qyjpd54x69.jpg

Is this a known issue? Where should I look to debug this issue. Is it hardware or software failure? I get this on my MBP '10


texts: How to bring iPad's 5 finger pinch functionality to iPhone

texts: On the iPad, a 5 finger pinch will bring you to the home screen. How can we replicate that function on iPhone?


texts: I am using Celtx for script-writing/movie production. Just earlier today, I used it with no problems at all. Now, when I open it, it bounces 2-3 times, then quits. If I open a Celtx file, the file will open and load, then quit. I can't do anything with Celtx at all. Please help me!


texts: Jailbreak Detection in Apple Profile Manager

texts: Am I able to detect if a phone has been jailbroken if it is managed/supervised by Apple Profile Manager?


texts:
Safari would disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 next year. I would like to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 before that, so I got the benefit right now. I did it to my Firefox, but I use Safari more. Is it possible to do it to Safari?

I care more about macOS but it would be helpful to see fix for iOS as well.


texts: iPhone App for Weather Push Notifications

texts: Is there an app that sends weather alerts push notification to the iPhone? I have seen similar apps on Andriod but haven't seen one for the iPhone.


texts: Text box not appearing in a Messages conversation

texts:
I have a recurring problem in Messages on my Mac where, in one group conversation in particular, the text box occasionally disappears. Instead of having a text box at the bottom of the screen I can type into, the conversation simply goes all the way down. When this happens, the text box still appears in every other conversation; I can also still send messages in that conversation from my iPhone. It disappears only on my Mac, and only on that one conversation. The problem persists when I shut down Messages and start it back up. Sometimes the text box comes back, and then later disappears again, on a pattern that I have not been able to discern.

Any thoughts?

Messages 8.0
Mac OS 10.10.2


texts: Prevent automatically appending file extension when renaming file

texts:
I originally have a file called config.yml. When I go into Finder and change its name to config.yml.old, it appears to have changed the extension. However, opening the file in TextWrangler reveals that Mac has just appended a "hidden" .yml at the end, causing the filename to be config.yml.old.yml.

Right now, the only way I can append an extension is by going to Terminal and running mv path/to/config.yml path/to/config.yml.old. Is there actually a way to use the GUI to do this?


texts: macports/dylib failure with libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception Abort trap: 6

texts:
I installed Macports vowpal_wabbit v6.1 on MacOS 10.8.4 and it dies with:

libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception
Abort trap: 6

I read around a lot and it seems this is a known compatibility issue between libc++ compiled with gcc vs llvm.
I did read the caveats about mixing compilers.
Symptoms seem to be similar to this.
I vaguely recollect there was a compatibility reason with some port I installed which forced me to use mp-gcc instead of llvm, it might have been some crufty old dependency of numpy or suchlike.

MacPorts version is 2.2.0. XCode version is 5.0 and I previously also unsuccessfully tried with 4.6. I did uninstall, clean and reinstall to no success. Versions:

vowpal_wabbit-6.1_0+cluster.darwin_12.x86_64
boost @1.54.0_0+no_single+no_static+python27

Macports compiler versions are:
sudo port select --show gcc returns mp-gcc45
sudo port select --show cc returns
Error: The 'show' command failed: The specified group 'cc' does not exist.
I don't see which compiler would get used by default? Doesn't it break things if I reinstall every Macport with llvm? I have many installed ports and that would be really painful, needless to say also breaking other things.

Also:
    otool -L /opt/local/bin/vw

/opt/local/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 169.3.0)
/opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.7)
/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 56.0.0)


texts: Installing new fonts - system memory, speed, cache…

texts:
in the past year I have installed around 1500 different free fonts and uninstalled around 1400, so I’m left let’s say with 100 fonts.

My question is whether permanently adding/removing new fonts (and now having around 100 fonts non-default fonts) have any impact/s on the macOS speed - whether the macOS has to load all the new fonts with opening certain Apps (or on the start-up), whether every font store some cache which remains after the font is removed and so on…

Thanks


texts: Mac had High Sierra, had to install Lion from Internet Recovery into a new hard drive, can't install High Sierra

texts: I had Mac OS High Sierra on my laptop. I have had some errors on my laptop's hard drive. I bought an SSD and had to install Mac OS Lion from Internet Recovery. I see ads for a free Mac OS High Sierra upgrade, but it says I need Mac OS 10.8 or later (I have 10.7.x installed). How can I get back to Mac OS High Sierra?


texts: Macbook Pro with Lion: scrolling via trackpad vs. mouse

texts:
So the default scrolling behavior for the trackpad in Lion is to scroll in the direction of your finger movement similar to the iPad. This can be changed in the trackpad preferences by un-checking Scroll Direction: natural. I get that part. My problem is that un-checking or checking this box in the trackpad settings also causes the box in the mouse settings page labeled Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating to be checked or un-checked - effectively tying the mouse scroll wheel behavior to the trackpad scroll behavior. Is this a bug?

I want to be able to scroll with the trackpad in the default Lion way while still being able to scroll with a mouse wheel in a conventional way. Is there a workaround to the above issue to be able to do this?


texts: Why does applicatication context often not switch between apps using screens?

texts: Since I've been using Mavericks (currently I'm on ElCap) I have am a heavy user of screens insofar I actually use different desktops for different apps to reduce the ammount of clutter on my individual desktops and so I can use both Which, Dock, or follow hyperlinks, to switch between desktops which are used exclusively for an app. I realize for cases where I use an app on more than one desktop, when you switch to that app it will take you to the desktop that was last used for that app. What I am finding however is that doing things like following links within certain apps, it does NOT take me to my default browser (Chrome) on the last desktop I was using. In fact, I often find it does nothing and I have to manually go to the desktop I was just using. The new page loads there, but that's about it. This can bee annoying when I am running around 8 desktops. Any ideas why this would happen? Thought at first the machine was lagging and waited for it to "catch up" but it never did. Any ideas why might be causing this lack of function?


texts: Will iOS 9 reject an iOS 10 backup restoration attempt to the same model phone?

texts:
From what I've been reading, people say you can't restore a phone that is running iOS 9, from a backup of the same type of phone running iOS 10.  I'd like to know what happens if you try.  Does the phone simply not recognize the restore attempt?  If using iTunes, will you be told the device is incompatible with the chosen update?  What about OTA, what happens there?

To be clear, I'm not at all referring to restoring/downgrading the OS.  I have an iPhone SE that was unintentionally updated to iOS 10, so now I got an identical iPhone SE running iOS 9, and I'm curious to know what happens if I tell this second iOS 9 phone to restore from a backup made of the first phone after it was updated to iOS 10.


texts:
I just bought a MacBook Pro 13.
whenever I play a game that has lower resolution than 1280-800 I get two big black rectangles on both side of the screen, instead of the screen entirely filled.

Is there any solution for this problem?


texts: Windows 10 - installed on external SSD , gets stuck on Windows logo after installing bootcamp drivers

texts:
I installed windows 10 on an external SSD, on my Macbook pro. I saw this method from a 9to5 mac video. I followed each step, and it all worked flawlessly, i was even able to use windows 10, but then i installed the bootcamp drivers (The WindowsSupport folder installed from the bootcamp) After installing the drivers, i restarted, and well, the screen was stuck on the windows logo and the spinning dots were frozen.

Any help?


texts:
When you are in macOS and you want to restart in Windows, you have to launch Startup Disk Utility, unlock the edits with the system password and then select the Boot Camp partition.

Is there a way to add a quick shortcut to macOS Menu bar?

I see in the past there was BootChamp, but it has been discontinued.


texts: How can I run an application which is outside Applications folder?

texts:
Suppose that I move a.app outside /Applications to somewhere like ~/Downloads/MyApp (Note that I drop the extension). How can I run it from there using terminal?

I tried open -a but it says ... cannot be opened because its executable is missing.


texts: Service shortcut does not work in Finder?

texts:
I've added a service through Automator, which opens iTerm2 in the current folder.

It works when I click in service menu. However when I try to assign a shortcut for it, it won't trigger.

Tried plenty of combinations, none of them works

Any ideas?

Attached the script:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Finder"
        set dir_path to quoted form of (POSIX path of (input as alias))
    end tell
    CD_to(dir_path)
end run

on CD_to(theDir)
    tell application "iTerm"
        activate

        try
            set t to the last terminal
        on error
            set t to (make new terminal)
        end try

        tell t
            launch session "Default Session"
            tell the last session
                write text "cd " & theDir & ";clear;"
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end CD_to


texts: I was looking at an app from the US app store, now I can't find out how to change store back to UK?

texts:
When trying to update apps I had previously installed I get the message "Account not in this store", saying I must leave the US store.

My region is UK and I have Apple iD and valid payment for UK.

How do I change back to the UK store?

I even tried creating a new Apple iD and still have the same issue.


texts: Understanding install of mod_wsgi on apache terminal commands

texts:
I'm installing a django development environment on OSX. Apache is, of course, installed by default. From my (very limited) understanding of Macs, I don't believe there is preconfigured functionality for interfacing python with apache in this default install (?). So, my first step is to install this interface, mod_wsgi, and I am following this person's tutorial on how to do that. He includes these terminal commands:

curl -o mod_wsgi.tgz http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-2.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf mod_wsgi.tgz
cd mod_wsgi-2.5
./configure
make
sudo make install

I'm confused about these commands. I don't want to just type them and move on; I want to understand what's going on. Can someone explain to me what they mean?


texts: Which 8GB iPod touch do not support iOS 5?

texts:
I wanted to upgrade the software to iOS 5 through iTunes but I've never been able to get past iOS 4.2.1 so I waited for a year to see if Apple release another update yet.

I purchased the iPod touch 3rd Generation 8GB 2.5 years ago as I saw in Apple press release that Apple was releasing a new iPods model lineup. My local authorized store did advertised it as 3rd Generation 8GB. The part number was MC086ID/A, yet the seller assured me that it indeed was a 3rd Generation, because the 2nd Generation 8GB had MB part number. As I recalled, the 3rd Gen iPods may receive upgrade up to iOS 5.1.1.

I live 3 hours away from an Apple authorized reseller and there are no Apple Retail stores in my country. Is it possible that iOS 5.1.1 can't be received without authorized support in some countries?


texts:
I'm trying to click on a button using YX coordinate,
it's work with some app, but I have one app with two windows which give me an issue.

here is my original code

tell application "System Events"

    tell process "App"
        click at {783, 621}

    end tell
end tell

but the result is
Result:

image 1 of UI element "Email" of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window "App title" of application process "SonarX" of application "System Events"

the button I want to click have indeed an image (UI) but  click seems to happen.

PS the App title contain some variable but have some static  too

I tried this instead

tell application "System Events"

    click at {783, 621}

end tell

but same issue.

How can I manage to have this button pressed ?

if I try using automator I have the same result

"set uiScript to "click image 1 of UI Element 1 of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window \"Title 558772: XXXXX :XXXXX : XXXXX : 5583214\" of application process \"App\"""

FYI, I have other button that I manage to click normaly on the same windows e.g

set uiScript to "click pop up button 1 of group 3 of group 2 of scroll area 1 of group 3 of window 1 of application process \"App\""

--
I also tried but without success

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "App"
        click image 1 of UI element "Email" of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1

    end tell
end tell


texts: How to change nameserver in resolv.conf in Recovery Mode?

texts: How can I change the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf while the MacBook is in recovery mode?


texts: Headphones that look good on a desk next to a MacBook

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I'm looking for some headphones that will be aesthetically (and acoustically) pleasing when combined with my MacBook Pro (2011, aluminum unibody).

Requirements:

Over-the-ear style (not earbuds or ear-canal buds)
Closed design (in order to block out some outside noise and avoid leaking noise.)
Pretty (I realize this is subjective)
Great-sounding
Durable
Under $400
Wireless optional (I'm not sure if there are any great-sounding, great-looking wireless headphones)

I'm currently considering:

V-Moda Crossfade, ~$175
Sennheiser RS-160 (wireless), ~$195
Bowers & Wilkins P5, ~$300
Denon AHD2000, ~350

Notes:

The transmitter for the Sennheisers takes batteries, so there's no extra wire or wall wart, but it is kind of bulky.

I haven't seen any nice Bluetooth headphones that support A2DP (stereo audio profile for bluetooth). That would be ideal -- no wires, no transmitter required.

Bottom Line:

If you have experience with any of the headphones I'm considering, I'd love to hear it. If there are headphones I've overlooked, please let me know!


texts:
My Mid 2013 macbook pro recently will no longer boot. I was using it normally (no excessive use) and then all of a sudden it just went black and shut off immediately. I can no longer boot it (I got it to boot once but now it't having the same problem).

Basically, when I press the power button to turn it on, the fan runs really high then stops and wont boot. I have no idea what the problem is. Any help?


texts: Do a consumable iOS product REQUIRE restore functionality?

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I am developing a game, and I want to submit it to the AppStore, but I don't know if this will be a cause for rejection:

Say a player can buy 100x arrows for 0.99$. Do I have to provide the user the ability to restore the unused arrows in order to not be rejected by the AppStore?

I really don't want to use a server to store the number of arrows the player has, as that would be off the budget.


texts: Unicode font changes depending on input in text box

texts:
The letter ℂ, which is unicode U+2102 behaves strangely in Keynote. If presented by itself in a text box, one font is displayed. However, if it is prepended with the letter , which is unicode U+1D53B, a different font is used. I'd like the fonts for all double struck characters to be the same, but I'm finding it impossible to get ℂ by itself in the same font as . How can this be done?

The screenshot below shows this phenomenon in Keynote. The font has not been changed to get from the first rendering of ℂ to its rendering in ℂ. Deleting the  makes the font of ℂ revert back to the first one.


texts:
My "Other" folder in my mac taking every free MB it has. Note that I tried to find where it coming from but I just can't figure it out. It's 418GB in size and I have nothing on my machine that takes up so much room.
macOS Catalina v10.15.4
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5   466Gi   10Gi  8.3Mi   100%  487565 4881965315    0%   /
devfs          334Ki  334Ki    0Bi   100%    1156          0  100%   /dev
/dev/disk1s1   466Gi  452Gi  8.3Mi   100% 2187628 4880265252    0%   /System/Volumes/Data
/dev/disk1s4   466Gi  3.0Gi  8.3Mi   100%       3 4882452877    0%   /private/var/vm
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0          0  100%   /System/Volumes/Data/home
/dev/disk1s3   466Gi  504Mi  8.3Mi    99%      40 4882452840    0%   /Volumes/Recovery

after running: sudo du -hxd1 /System/Volumes/Data
 45G    /System/Volumes/Data/Users
 28G    /System/Volumes/Data/Applications
873M    /System/Volumes/Data/opt
  0B    /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes
  0B    /System/Volumes/Data/.TemporaryItems
  0B    /System/Volumes/Data/cores
449G    /System/Volumes/Data

running sudo du -hxd1 /System/Volumes/Data :
total 2
drwxrwxr-x+ 56 root  admin  1792 Apr 20 15:52 Applications
drwxr-xr-x  70 root  wheel  2240 Dec 16 09:07 Library
drwxr-xr-x@  3 root  wheel    96 Aug 25  2019 System
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin   224 Sep 29  2019 Users
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    96 Apr 20 23:08 Volumes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   103 Apr 18  2018 com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist -> /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   104 Apr 18  2018 com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist -> /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    64 Aug 25  2019 cores
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 Apr 20 23:13 home
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    64 Aug 25  2019 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel   192 Oct 11  2019 opt
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel   192 Jun 30  2020 private
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    64 Aug 25  2019 sw
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel   160 Sep 29  2019 usr


texts: case mismatch in Mail.app between raw and displayed from fields

texts:
I notice that Mail.app (version 6.5) sometimes displays the from field of a message in a different case from how it is written in the raw message source. This seems to account for why some digitial certificates are listed as invalid ("Unable to verify message signature") by Mail. If the certificate lists the RFC 822 Name in lowercase, and the raw source of the message lists the email address in lowercase, but Mail is displaying it with initial capitals, then the certificate is listed as invalid.

I've anonymized the particular example I'm working with -- let's say the address is foo.goo@blah.com.

For example, I have a message in which the from line of the raw source -- and all other references to this email address in the message header and body -- are in lower case (foo.goo@blah.com), and yet Mail displays the from field with initial capitals (Foo.Goo@blah.com).  Not only that, but control-clicking on the from field also yields the capitalized version (Foo.Goo@blah.com).

So my question is: what is causing Mail to capitialize the email address?

I have smart addresses turned off in Mail viewing preferences. My address book only lists the person in question's email address in all lowercase.  And I don't have a certificate from the person in my keychain that's not in lowercase.

Clearly Mail is looking somewhere else, but where?.


texts: How to fully disable auto-fill-mode in Aquamacs 3.3?

texts:
After upgrading Aquamacs to version 3.3, many modes turned on auto-fill-mode. I've followed the answers from questions such as "How can I disable auto-fill mode in emacs?" to disable it, but without complete success. Specifically, I:

set line-wrapping option to "Wrap" (Options→Line Wrapping→Wrap)
turned off "Auto-Detect Line Wrap in Text Files"
set line-wrapping options as default (Options→Line Wrapping→Adopt as Default)
saved options
added lines to .emacs to disable mode globally:

(auto-fill-mode -1)
(remove-hook 'text-mode-hook 'auto-detect-wrap)

added (auto-fill-mode nil) to hooks for specific modes (e.g. html-mode, nxhtml-mode, xhtml-mode).
set text mode hook in customizations.el to disable auto-fill-mode:

'(text-mode-hook
  '((lambda nil (auto-fill-mode nil))
    smart-spacing-mode))

Despite these changes, auto-fill-mode is enabled for some newly opened files (e.g. txt, html, svg) in Aquamacs (the system emacs also enables auto-fill-mode when entering html-mode, but not text-mode). I've grepped for auto-fill in the load path directories that exist but haven't found anything that appears to be enabling it:

~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/
~/Library/Application Support/Emacs/
~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs/
/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp
/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

Where else might auto-fill-mode be enabled? How can I fully disable auto-fill-mode?


texts: "Force Sticky Console": Safari devtools shifts away from Console to DOM inspector on reload

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When I'm working with the DevTools open, if I refresh the page, DevTools automatically switches to the DOM Inspector tab instead of staying on the console. Here's an animated GIF image to demonstrate the behaviour: http://gfycat.com/InsignificantSpiritedGrackle

How do I make sure DevTools always stays on the Console even after refresh?

There was an answer proposed here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/218126/43068 but it's not a 100% solution (as commented by the author on that answer).


texts: Open new Terminal tab in current working directory doesn't work

texts: In the Terminal preferences you can find an option to open new windows and tabs in the current working directory. Yet there's a message that says that programs notify Terminal about the current working directory using scape sequences, which I don't know what it means. But the Terminal itself is not doing this, as I would like to create a new tab when I press ⌘+T to open at the same working directory (not ~/). I found this post but it doesn't address this. Here you have a figure with the options:


texts: How to convert iOS backup from 4.0 to 3.x

texts:
Is there a way to convert an iOS 4 backup to format that was used in iOS 3.
I have an iPhone 3G and iOS 4 runs really slow on it. I have succesfuly downgraded the firmware back to 3.1.3 but now I can't restore data backup because the backup format is only for iOS 4. Any ideas?

Thanks!


texts: New hard drive, cannot reinstall OS X on a MacBook Pro 2010

texts:
Installed a new empty hard drive on a MacBook pro 2010, the old one is not usable any more, and I do not have the original DVD.

As show e.g. here, pressing Cmd+R during boot, I should get an image of earth with a dialog to choose network. In my case I only get the image of a blinking folder with a question mark.

I tried with Cmd+alt+R, with the same result.

Why is my Mac behaving differently? How can I reinstall OS-X, even the original version?

Could it be a BIOS issue?


texts: How can I get Siri to set my Nanoleaf light back to adaptive lighting?

texts:
I have a Nanoleaf lightbulb that I can control via Siri using my HomePod mini.  The Nanoleaf supports Homekit Adaptive Lighting, which I've configured as you see in this iMore article.  So far so good.
If I say, "Hey Siri, set the Nanoleaf to blue!" it will turn the lightbulb blue.
If I say, "Hey Siri, set the Nanoleaf to Adaptive Lighting!" it says, "Hmmm, that's not a supported feature."  Obviously this is not a key word for Siri.
What's the voice command to set it back to Adaptive Lighting?


texts:
On our iPhones (a lot of test devices) we switch often between a plain network connection and a connection with a proxy.
The normal flow require

Go to setting
Select wifi preference
enable proxy
type the proxy address

Is there any way to "save" the proxy setting and enable/disable with a single button?


texts: How can I prevent Music app from starting automatically randomly?

texts:
The Music app which was introduced in Catalina continuously starts automatically on my Mac. It launches suddenly while I use the mac. The system doesn’t launch the app at the time of the startup.

I tried the followings:

Shutdown and restart the system.
SMC and PRAM reset.

The Music app cannot be deleted so it is very frustrating to see the app start automatically and play the music.

Is there any way to stop it from launching automatically? This question is not about the app being launched when you plug your iPhone to your Mac either.

UPDATED

I found out that Siri is also launched from time to time.

UPDATED 2

For Siri, I disabled it from System Preferences and it stopped popping up. However, the Music app keeps popping up and there is no solution yet.


texts: Want to Make Itunes only play when I explicitly unpause or start it

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I occasionally play music using itunes, and I tend to pause the music rather than e.g. quitting from itunes.

This afternoon I received an email with an audio attachment, which I played.

As soon as the playback finished, itunes started playing, quite likely the song I had paused 2 weeks ago.

I don't ever want it to do that again.

Is there any way to control this behaviour other than explicitly quitting from itunes whenever I'm done with it, and making sure I don't select "Open at login" in options?

I'm running OS X version 10.9.4, and I'm not a power user.

"About itunes" isn't cooperating with me - it scrolls as I try to record things - so the itunes version I'm running is anyone's guess (whatever IT put on the system). It might be 11.2.1 (1) 64-bit.

[edit: 1 day later, I brought up itunes, and found that the email attachment had become one of the songs itunes was willing to play. Not only that, it had been added to the front of the list of things to play, such that when I unpaused itunes, it started playing the voicemail message(!) - not e.g. the song it had been on when I had most recently paused and then quit itunes. I had never ever told itunes to play that attachment, save it, or add it to my library. All I had ever done was doubleclicked on the attachment in Outlook.]


texts: syncing calendars across different services

texts:
Is it possible to sync calendars across services on a Mac? For example, I have an Exchange calendar and I want to automatically copy all events to an iCloud calendar. This would yield two different calendars with the same content.

It's very hard to search for an answer as most posts refer to syncing across devices, which is a different problem. Based on a few posts I found, it sounds like BusyCal may be able to do this, but I could not figure out how.

Update: I emailed BusyCal directly and got the following response:

  It is not.

  If your primary interest is in making a calendar available for others
  to subscribe to via WebDAV, you may do so through iCloud, Google,
  Fruux and Office365/Exchange.

  If the calendar is hosted on iCloud, you can share the calendar
  publicly as a WebDAV feed, as described in iCloud Help:

  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2690

  If the calendar is hosted on Google, you can make it available as a
  WebDAV feed, as described in Google Calendar Help:

  http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37103

  Or to publish it in html format for embedding in a web page:

  http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41207

  If the calendar is hosted on Fruux, here is how to make it available
  both as a WebDAV feed and embedded html:

  http://blog.fruux.com/2014/10/02/public-calendars/

  If the calendar is hosted on Office365/Exchange, here is how to make
  it available for Exchange users, html and a webdav feed:

  https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Sharing-your-calendar-in-Outlook-Web-App-7ecef8ae-139c-40d9-bae2-a23977ee58d5#__toc375064920


texts: Adding the Print Document Option To The Right-Click Contextual Menu?

texts:
In Windows it is possible to print a document on the desktop by right-clicking on it and choosing Print Document in the contextual menu that appears. By default this option is  unfortunately not given in OS X.

Is it therefore possible to create this option and therefore aid the printing of documents on a Mac ?


texts: Graphics glitch - checkered pattern in Chrome

texts:
I've had this MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) for a while now, but today it glitched out with huge green fields in all apps.
After a reboot I see this checkered black/green glitch pattern in Google Chrome on some sites, in some "sizes". Basically if I resize the browser window the glitch goes away, but if I resize it too much it comes back.
Happens both on the internal and on external display.
I am hoping this is a software glitch, but I am afraid it's my graphics card. Would be very grateful if someone knows the answer.
Here's the stackoverflow logo with the glitch:


texts:
I'm helping someone that changed their password (Thanks to corporate policy) and then forgot what they set it to. They remember the first part so I would not need to completely  brute force it. I was thinking about booting into recovery mode and trying to run some kind of script from bash to try to unlock the partition (diskutil corestorage unlockvolume UUID -passphrase PASSWORD) using different passwords until successful.

Is there a better approach?
If this is an okay approach... Does anyone know of any scripts that would do this kin of thing?


texts: problems installing homebrew on mavericks

texts:
I tried to install homebrew (OSX 10.9.5) using the recommended

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

but got

Illegal variable name.

I do have macports installed, so perhaps some commands do not what they are meant to?? But note that ruby is /usr/bin/ruby and curl is /usr/bin/curl.

How can I overcome this problem?


texts: Dealing with filename extensions - bash vs oascript

texts:
I have a script than closes open windows, but it only works when I have enabled the Finder "show all filename extensions" preference.  Is there a robust way to accomplish this regardless of the state of the filename extension preference?  I suppose I could try to close the file both with and without the extension, but that's an ugly solution

cd somedir
for file in * ; do
  echo file name is $file

osascript<<EOF
  tell application "Preview"
  close (every window whose name is "$file")
  end tell
EOF
  sleep 1
done


texts: How to add specific video to "Save Hollywood" screensaver

texts:
I'm using Save Hollywood as a screensaver which allows to show a video when the screensaver kicks in.
Unfortunately, my video is not able to be selected. I can click it in the selection box but it simply doesn't "upload" if you will. I can drag my video from Finder into the box but it simply sits there as 0:00:00 seconds long and says "No videos" on the ScreenSaver, as below, despite it being 20 seconds long. The video is 700 mb (4k) and in the .mp4 format.

How can I put the video as my screensaver?


texts:
My Group FaceTime calls don’t ring on the receiving end. However, if I call recipients one at a time, their end rings and they pick up. It doesn’t matter who I call (my parents, sister, or in-laws) or if I call from my iPhone 12, my wife’s iPhone 12, or either of our iPads Pro. All of our devices run iOS 14.x (this has been happening since January and I haven’t noticed a change across updates). The receivers all use new iPads (we bought the family iPads in January to FaceTime with our daughter), but lack the skills (and we lack the patience) to help troubleshoot.
Is there a fix for this?


texts: How do I set a location for an event in iOS Calendar?

texts:
A date and time is incomplete without a location. How do I tell the iOS Calendar app where my event occurs, especially if the event does not have a street address that is resolvable by Apple Maps?

More detail: Right now I am physically located in Amsterdam, but I want to add some Burning Man events to my calendar. There are two levels of location at play here: the "street address" of the event within Black Rock City (say, "Yurtopia, 9:30 & E") and the location (hence timezone) of Black Rock City itself (somewhere in the northern Nevada desert.)

What combination of Calendar settings, location field entry and anything else can I make while in Amsterdam that will remind me at half-past midday on Wednesday the 27th of August 2014, for the entry "Hexayurt Happy Hour, 1-4pm, Yurtopia, 9:30 & E, Black Rock City, Nevada", when I'm actually in Black Rock City?


texts: How to save contacts on iPhone with broken screen?

texts:
I dropped my iPhone and broke the screen (is just black). So I bought a new iPhone but I want to sync all my contacts and of course the screen is locked and moved to the side. It looks something like the image below.

On the lock screen I can only see numbers given below.

12
45
78
0

Now I can't unlock my phone to sync to iCloud. How can I save my contacts ?


texts:
For a while now I noticed that 'randomly', my terminal will paste in recent command/log as input.

I finally narrowed it down to the fact that I have jitouch installed with 3 finger tap as 'middle-click'. But using command + tap/click does not produce the same behavior. Does anyone know what is the actual event sent by jitouch's middle-click and what command is it triggering to paste?

I'm just curious.


texts: How do Wi-Fi networks persist between installs?

texts:
I've just done a reinstall from the recovery partition and have found that all the previously known Wi-Fi networks have persisted, even though I formatted the main partition during the reinstall.

How are they still here?


texts: How to repair damaged hybrid partition table from Windows?

texts:
I am using a 2010 27" iMac with Mac OS High Sierra and Windows 10 via Bootcamp. Recently, I have had an issue where every Mac update renders the Windows partition unbootable. This means that after every Mac OS update, I need to use Gdisk to fix the hybrid partition table so I can boot Windows again. Unfortunately, this time after I did the repair the Mac partition will no longer boot. Is there a  way of fixing the hybrid partition table from Windows so I can get the Mac Partition to boot again, it doesn't show up in the ALT menu on startup and if I try to boot using Refind, the boot process begins but doesn't complete with a crossed out circle on the screen.

When I open Fdisk and run list partition, I get the following:

DISKPART> LIST PARTITION

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary           1370 GB    512 B
  Partition 2    Primary             14 GB  1370 GB
  Partition 3    Primary            478 GB  1384 GB
  Partition 4    Primary             16 KB  1863 GB

The Mac OS is installed on Partition 1, Partition 3 is the Boot Camp one.
The Mac OS partition still doesn't show up, even if I try to reinstall High Sierra from a USB drive.

Running the commands suggested below gave the following results, sorry for including them as an image, I could not work out how to save them from the USB boot drive.

What is the procedure to try and restore the Mac Partition? I think I will need to use GDisk from the Boot Camp partition. I think I messed up the last time I used GDisk on the Mac to get Windows working again so I want to be careful this time! Windows is working so how can anyone help me use FDisk/GDisk on Windows to restore the partition table to a working state?


texts: MacBook Pro 2018 Battery not correctly working

texts:
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro from December 2018. Yesterday the battery was fully charged when I shut it down and when I started it today it had 0 percent left. What could this mean? Is this a software error or is there a problem with the battery? What do you recommend to do?

Thanks in advance!


texts: System detects digital output when headphones plugged in, audio does not work

texts:
I'm on a MacBook Pro (2013) running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. The speakers work as usual, but when I plug in headphones, the audio stops working. When I remove the headphones, the speakers work again as before.

With headphones plugged in, the only output device available is "Digital Out - Optical digital-out port", and when I try to change the volume there is a disabled symbol (and no volume bar is displayed).

I have tried rebooting, using a different set of headphones, resetting the PRAM, and cleaning the port, all to no avail. I do not see a red light in the port as many other questions have mentioned.


texts: Gluing chronologically rtf files via bash script

texts:
I like learning and creating small scripts for bash, and now I have finally the first "serious" problem I would like to solve through a script.

Here is the situation: I have a folder containing 45 rtf files. I want to prepend to each of them the name of the file (and its creation date) and then glue them all together in a unique rtf file, respecting chronological order.

How can I do that? For the moment I have created the following script: for every rtf file in the folder, it creates a new file (.txt... it is so difficult to use rtf with bash!) and writes into it the name and the creation date of the original file.

for f in *.rtf; do
touch $f"_info_file.txt"
echo "File name:" $f >> $f"_info_file.txt";
printf "Date: " >> $f"_info_file.txt";
stat -f "%SB" "$f" >>$f"_info_file.txt";
done

(I guess this is very rough...)
Now I would like to glue them together in chronological order but I am a bit lost... Any ideas? Can Automator be useful? Thanks.


texts:
I have a weird bug in the Photos.app, where the wrong picture is shown in the full view and the wrong key photo is shown in the People albums.

For instance, when I browse through a particular album in the detailed view, e.g. using the arrow keys, some pictures are replaced by others from a completely different album. Interestingly, the correct picture is first shown for a second (or so) and then it is replaced by a completely different on. Moreover, the new picture is often cropped and not shown in full size, even if the aspect ratio is the same. I noticed that this only happens if faces have been detected in the pictures, but turning "Show Face Names" off does not help.

A second version of the bug appears in the key photos for people's albums. When I select a key photo from an album, sometimes a completely different one is shown in the People overview page, typically showing a face of a different person.

It seems as if the App messed up the index of the photos, but repairing the Library didn't help. I already searched the internet, but could not find any other bug reports of this kind. Is there anything else I could try?


texts: iPhone 8 totally freezes when trying to connect to WiFi

texts:
I have an iPhone 8 Plus that completely freezes when trying to connect to the internet. In an emergency situation (I can't even power off the phone to reboot it, it totally freezes up). I was having this problem on an older iPhone as well and thought it was a hardware issue but now I am convinced that it's a software problem. How can I analyze and fix this?

I'm running iOS 13.1 (17A844).


texts:
I am trying to find a way to organize picture metadata in my iPhone. By default, it adds location and time data, so that the photos are easily searchable on the phone.

I would like to be able to add custom tags, such as for people. Ideally, I would like to have a face recognition tool that learns from existing tags and helps tagging new pictures.

The metadata should be written in the photos in EXIF, IPTC and/or XMP format, so that other tools on my computer will recognize them. It seems that this is not happening even for the location data, that I can only see on the phone.

Is there some application that can help me tag and organize pictures as above?


texts:
I am searching for a application with the following functionality, but cant find one:

I want to read PDFs. I want to highlight some text from time to time or add a note (with its timestamp). The summary of all highlights / notes should aggregated together so there is some special page(s) / section that contain only the highlighted text and notes.

Does something like this exist? I know there are dozens of apps for reading itself, but i am not sure whether there is app that allows me to list in "my highlighted content" only.


texts: How to add a subtitle file while playing a video using Quick Time Player?

texts:
I have some questions regarding Quick Time Player in macOS.

Which type of subtitle files are supported by Quick Time Player.

How to add a downloaded subtitle for a particular video in Quick Time Player ?

In VLC, there is a VLSub plugin to download subtitles automatically from Internet using VLC.
Is there any plugin or option to do the same in Quick Time Player ?


texts: Add ~/Downloads to Dock through Profile Manager

texts:
I am trying to create a minimal dock through Profile Manager (OS X 10.10.2/Server 4.0.3) but I need to include the users' Download directory. Profile Manager has an option to add the Documents folder but not Downloads. I figured I'd add it in the Dock Items, but so far it isn't working.

In Dock Items, I've tried:

~/Downloads
Downloads
/Network/Servers/<fully qualified servername>/Users/%short_name%/Downloads

The last configuration shows a proper folder on the client dock but it has a permission denied icon present and it clearly is not pointing to the right place.

I'm considering another approach which would involve allowing the dock items of the user to merge with those provided by Profile Manager as this keeps the Downloads on the dock. This approach would require me to create a dock template that is used when I create the users' accounts. This approach may be okay but I also may have to limit modifications to the dock, and so I'd like to get the first approach to work.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks.


texts: How to change tap to click using "defaults write" from command line?

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I want to change the trackpad tap-to-click property from the command line. Graphically, I can do it by clicking System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Tap to Click. How can I do it from  the command line?

I have tried:

defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad Clicking -int 0
defaults write GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 0

but these didn't work (with int as 1 and 0, with reboot). Am I missing some step? I have Macbook 5,1 Snow Leopard.


texts: Infinite scrollback in Terminal (Yosemite)

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I would like to save the scrollback history in terminal basically forever.

I don't mean bash history, I mean all the text that ever scrolled past in the terminal, not just the commands entered.

I found the files where they are stored in:

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Terminal.savedState/

But I would like the data to persist beyond current sessions, after I close the terminal, the data persists indefinitely.

Also, is there a tool that will let me read those data files?

Thanks for any info


texts: Readdle cross-app integration: Documents and PDF Expert

texts:
Documents by Readdle is a useful file manager, image viewer, cloud synchronizer, pdf reader and download manager. PDF-Reading has however only limited annotation support (notes in text and highlighting), while the ≈10€ Readdle PDF Expert should extend these abilities.

However, I am slightly reluctant to purchase PDF Expert just yet, because I couldn't find out if the App integrates well with Documents; Since iOS usually doesn't give apps direct access to each other I fear, that syncing annotations made in PDF Expert back to Dropbox would require synching my pdfs to both apps -- aside from the obvious waste of space, this also brings the risk of file version conflicts.

Documents can send a PDF to Adobe Reader for annotating (quite powerful too), but it is then saved as a copy local to Adobe Reader with no way to move it back to Readdle directly. Worse yet, after doing so I have to versions of the same file; Such file duplications are one of the most annoying issues I have found with managing data on mobile devices; iOS just makes it especially common due to the (otherwise justified) high level of app-isolation.

I fear that the same would apply to PDF Expert though PDF Expert should at least be able to use DropBox.


texts: how to force sync of calendars on iPhone?

texts:
I have various calendars from iCloud and Google and it's very often that an event will be deleted from Google calendar but the iPhone will still show it.  The same calendar is on iCal on my Mac and it shows it correctly there. If it doesn't, I can ⌘ + R or ⇧ + ⌘ + R to update it.

Maybe I'm missing the place or configuration to do the same on the iPhone calendar application.


texts: How to verify that the transfer of photos/videos from an iPhone went well?

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Tranferring photos from the iPhone to another device, like a NAS or a computer, in some cases fail, either because of a network error or a file-system error on the different devices involved in the data-transfer.

Because of this it would be benifitial to do a verification that the files on the iPhone and the destination device are equal.

How can it be done?


texts: Secure empty trash on external drive OSX

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I’ve got an internal SSD on a 2018 MBP, with these drives macOS no longer gives you the option to secure erase the trash.
I’ve connected an older HDD external drive which I wish to secure erase the trash on, how can i do this in OSX 10.13 ?


texts: MacBook Pro 17" (A1297) - Keyboard backlight dimmer than when first purchased

texts: My keyboard backlight is fairly dim. You can definitely see a bit of light through the keys, so it's functional, but it's uniformly more dim than it was when I first bought it and definitely more dim than my 13" 2011 MBP keyboard backlight. Any ideas?


texts: Where are \ { and } on an Apple Wireless Keyboard - French?

texts:
I am using an Apple Wireless Keyboard - French.

Could anyone tell me how to type \ { and }?


texts: How can I prevent Siri from using my nickname?

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I've given myself a nickname of "Me" so that I can tell Siri to "email me." Unfortunately, Siri now uses this nickname all the time, thus producing nonsense like "It's 8:25 PM. Good evening, me" when I ask what time it is.

Ideally, Siri wouldn't use my name at all, but failing that, how can I tell it to use my first name instead of my nickname when it insists on addressing me by name? I still want to be able to say things like "email me" or "text me".

I'm using iOS 11 on an iPhone 6.


texts: Can you boot a MacBook Air from a USB 3 external hard drive?

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Macs have long been able to boot from external FireWire hard drives. I don’t think they’ve been able to boot from external USB 2 drives though.

The new MacBook Air (2012) has USB 3.0. Can it boot from an external USB 3 hard drive?

(I know it also has Thunderbolt, and I assume it could boot from an external Thunderbolt hard drive, but you can get a 500 GB USB 3 external drive for £50: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-500GB-Portable/dp/B005A97A86).


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I recently accessed iCloud Website using a device that I don't personally own and generally use.

After successfully logging-in by entering my Apple ID/Password and the Two Factor Authentication code, I was asked if I would like to trust the browser, so as to skip entering Two Factor Authentication code every time I login, I complied. (It isn't a public device and there is no possibility of unauthorized access)

This gave me the of flexibility to easily login in with just my Apple ID and password when I don't have any of my trusted Apple device around to get the Two Factor Authentication code.

Now, I am done using the device and will be returning it to the original owner. How do I untrust the Web browser?, i.e. require it to ask for Two Factor Authentication code next time a login is performed using my Apple ID? Also, is there a way to see a list of all similar trusted browsers and untrust them?


texts: iCloud numbers reference date/value from another table

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I am trying to create a daily budget tracker with separate tables for each month, which I have created.  I now want a front/first table to show:

the balance as at today's date
the amount spent today (if any)
and maybe the balance tomorrow (not too bothered about this one if too difficult).

I would like to say 'if 'January 2016::A1 = TODAY(), January 2016::E1 or if January 2016::A2 = TODAY(), January 2016::E2 and so on looking at each date value across all tables in columns A and when it finds today's date to enter the value in the corresponding E column.

Hopefully this is possible?

Many thanks


texts: Fast user switching: how to prevent volumes from being unmounted?

texts:
I have a volume mounted. If I switch to another user, this volume gets dismounted. The problem is that I want this volume to be available for every user (but putting it in their login items is not the solution I'm looking for), so: how can this behavior be prevented?
(I'm on Mountain Lion)


texts: How do you clear SSL leaf certificates mappings to particular domains

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I visit my website using Chrome on macOS Mojave, for example, qa.abc.com, and the SSL leaf certificate is from customer-test.ssl.fastly.net. I recently updated the CNAME record in my DNS for qa.abc.com so that it should point b3.shared.global.fastly.net. When I visit qa.abc.com, it resolves the SSL certificate at customer-test.ssl.fastly.net instead of b3.shared.global.fastly.net.

You would think clearing the cache might do the trick, but nope, whether it's Chrome's incognito mode or clearing its cache, still the same. Then I checked on both Safari, Firefox, and even tried to run the following command in my Terminal:

echo | openssl s_client -connect qa.abc.com:443

with the result being:

---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=San Francisco/O=Fastly, Inc./CN=customer-test.ssl.fastly.net
   i:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign CloudSSL CA - SHA256 - G3
 1 s:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign CloudSSL CA - SHA256 - G3
   i:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/OU=Root CA/CN=GlobalSign Root CA

If I jump onto my brother's Windows 10 machine on the same wifi network, the website correctly pulls the SSL certificate from b3.shared.global.fastly.net. If I access the site via my iPhone 6, it's correctly pulling from b3.shared.global.fastly.net. If I browse on my MacBook via tethering on my iPhone 6, it still shows up as customer-test.ssl.fastly.net.

So, we know that:

It's not related to the browser, since all browsers are affected the
same way, including openssl at the command line
It's not related to the network, since other devices on the same network work fine.

I suspect that the mapping between a SSL certificate and a domain is cached somewhere at the operating system level.

Other things I've tried but did not work:

Rebooting the computer by shutting it off and powering it back on
Look for any expired certificates in Keychain Access (yes, already enabled viewing hidden expired certificates), but found nothing related to my website or Fastly, and did not find anything wrong with any of the Globalsign certificates.
Tried to delete CRL and OCSP Cache for GlobalSign, but it's not relevant because /var/db/crls/crlcache.db, /var/db/crls/ocspcache.db, nor ~/Library/Keychains/*/ocspcache.sqlite3 exist in macOS Mojave.


texts: Error opening a zip file: No such file or directory?

texts:
After 25 years on PCs I am delighting in learning all I can about working with my new Mac and OS X Mavericks.

I tried just now to open a zip file but was interrupted with an Archive Utility dialog:

  Unable to expand "filename.zip" into "Downloads".
  (Error 2 - No such file or directory.)

What to do? How can I access the contents of the zip file?


texts: How to make Time Machine backups over network without OS X server?

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At our institute, we have several Macs (from 10.6 to 10.8) but not one is running a server version. In the one running 10.8 there are 4.5 TB of hard-drives from which 2 x 2 TB are raided together (mirrored) with to goal to use them as a Time Machine backup for all other Macs. All the Macs are connected over the institute network.

Now, how do I set up everything such that all Macs can use Time Machine to backup to this one Mac?

I've read that this might be easier when the target Mac would run OS X Server.

How is it also possible without installing OS X server?


texts:
I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 9. I can't figure out how to change the time.

How do I change the time on it?


texts: How to uninstall "Installations" under System Report?

texts: I was wondering how I can access these five programs that I downloaded without having the proper knowledge of uninstalling them. They have been messing with my system audio output through the speaker and I am trying to locate and delete them. Any ideas?


texts: Why do symlinks sometimes vanish in Xcode?

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The source files of interest are on a network share hosted on a Win7 machine, but the symlinks are created on this Mac using ln -sf

These are .h files, and sometimes one or more of them are not found by the C++ compiler.  I get an error like foo.h is not found, when I can see it and read the (linked-to) contents using Finder.

My work-around is to copy the file instead of symlink to it.  Then I find that the other files (symlink .h files in the same directory linking to files in the same source directory; just like the "bad" one) have no problems.

Which one(s) are affected will vary, too.

Any idea what could be causing this?  It started when updating Mac OSX to Mavericks, which has different CIFS network code.  It still happens with Yosemite.

Note that the symlink does work on the Mac in general; I make it on that Mac, and even when it's having the error in Xcode I can see the file contents resolved as expected in the Columns view in Finder, or with cat on the bash prompt.  It's only Xcode's compiler's problem.

More Specifics

The files are part of a “framework” and the link (example)

cd /Volumes/There/blah/blah2/blah3/blah3/CocoaPods/Pods/BuildHeaders/Cheeseburger
ln -sf ../../Cheeseburger/Burger/head1.h
  ⋮ a bunch of files in same path, head2.h, head3.h, etc.

cd ../../Headers/Cheeseburger
ln -sf ../../Cheeseburger/Burger/head1.h
  ⋮ etc.

I'll get an error finding head5.h, and the others work fine.


texts: Why css files are opening in safari by default in MacBook?

texts:
I do not know what happened to my MacBook, but all the css files are appearing with the web browser icon as you can see in the following image. When I open it it is opening in safari instead of TextEdit/other any editor. This is not happening with other file like .php, .twig, .yml, those all are opening in Text file?

Any idea why this is happening and how to correct that? Besides, in-built TextEdit of Mac, I am also using TextMate Editor(latest version 2.0).


texts: Since 10.11.1 Mail spends most of the time unable to connect to servers

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After years of working smoothly, through many OS updates, including 10.11.0, my Apple Mail client now only succeeds in connecting to servers intermittently since updating to 10.11.1. I'd estimate that on a typical day, it manages to work about 10% of the time it is running. Mostly I just quit and leave the app closed to avoid the annoyance of constant warning dialogs interrupting me while I'm working. (Connection Doctor never shows any errors or difficulties.)

Is there something simple I might do to fix this? Is this a known problem with 10.11.1?


texts: How do I set a recognized Apache DocumentRoot under Lion?

texts:
I have a fresh Lion install, and to configure Apache, I've edited all of the references to DocumentRoot (and the Directory entry for DocumentRoot) to "/Users/jonathan/mirror" (with or without quotes as the original path was with or without quotes). Pointing my browser to localhost gives a 404:

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) DAV/2 Server at localhost Port 80

How can I up /Users/jonathan/mirror with appropriate permissions?


texts:
For some time my aging 2008 Macbook's LCD has been "flickering" a bit but since it goes away after a while I've ignored it.

But in the last few days a red tint (might be pink - I am color blind :( ) has appeared in the bottom left corner that extends to about the half way point of the LCD. Initially it is quite red but after a little while it fades away though not completely, there is still a noticeable difference between the left and right corners if you look carefully.

It this a sign of the end? Is there anything I can do? My google search reveals similar red tints but with the entire screen.


texts: File with removed tag showing up in Finder

texts: I recently learned about the tagging system on macOS and tagged the file with name DA1 with a yellow tag. Shortly after that, I removed the yellow tag but the file keeps popping up in my Finder window. What should I do to remove that file from Finder?


texts:
I have a MacBook Air and run out of space so want to remove all my photos.

I have deleted all of them by going into photo and also searching for jpg but it still says I have 32 GB of photos but I can't find them anywhere.

I have deleted my trash - any ideas?

thank you


texts: Why is this playlist copying the wrong songs to my iPhone?

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I have a rather complicated playlist in iTunes called "Headbang." It looks like this:

There are about 50 artists included in that final criteria. This works perfectly in iTunes and the playlist gives me about 1,500 songs.

When I sync my iPhone and tell iTunes to include that playlist, I get a playlist on the iPhone that is named "Headbang," but the playlist has 5,995 songs, and I have no idea how they're selected. All of the songs that in the iPhone's version seem to be 4-star, and I do have another playlist called "4 Star Music" that is copying over, but it has only 5,935 songs, so it isn't exactly the same list of songs, although "4 Star Music" might be a subset of "Headbang."

I tried duplicating the playlist, but that didn't work, and neither did renaming it. I haven't manually recreated it yet because of how many artists are included. The only way I was able to get a playlist on the iPhone with those 1,571 songs was to select all the songs in the smart playlist and manually create a new playlist from them. Obviously I'd like to use the smart playlist if I can figure out what's wrong.

Note that I don't seem to be having problems with other smart playlists. So, any suggestions on how I can get this playlist to copy the correct songs to my iPhone?

Here are the current version stats:

MacBook Pro 17" (mid 2010), macOS 10.11.5
iTunes 12.4.3.1
iPhone 6S Plus 64 GB, iOS 9.3.3


texts: Snow Leopard Server in Fusion VM: installation keeps failing

texts:
I’m trying to install Snow Leopard Server 10.6.3, which I just purchased from Apple (so it’s not tied to any hardware), into a VMWare Fusion 5.x VM, and the install keeps failing.

At first I was getting “ERROR_DOWNLOAD_FAILED” as the reason, so I disabled the network adapter for the VM to see what happened.  At that point, it failed with the even more helpful “support files could not be installed”.  That’s it; it didn’t bother to tell me which support files, just that they couldn’t be installed.  When I tried again, it went back to “ERROR_DOWNLOAD_FAILED”.  I turned the network adapter back on, and failed the same way.

I’m using the default install options, which should require a little under 12GB, and the VM’s HD has 43GB available.  The machine I’m running the VM on is a MacBook Pro (i7) running OS X 10.8.

Any insights are appreciated!

EDIT: see my answer below for the resolution, which required two steps.


texts: How to check if memory usage goes above a certain number?

texts:
I have Dashlane installed, which makes it so that all passwords in my browser get typed automatically. It's actually really useful, except for a single flaw: it leaks so much memory. Seriously. After a couple days of running it, it'll have taken over nearly 3 GB of memory and slow down the whole computer.

I'm trying to make a program where it checks Dashlane's memory usage every once in a while and force quits it once it reaches, say, 1 GB.

How can I automatically check if the memory usage of a program goes above a certain number?


texts: How do I find out how many photos, videos are stored in iCloud?

texts: I'm trying to track a problem with my wife's iPhone Photos app taking about 7GB despite "Optimize storage" being enabled. I want to compare her phone to mine since I suspect that it's storage full res versions.


texts:
I am using one Apple ID for two iPhones which seems to be fine,however when I download an app on one iPhone it gets downloaded on the other too. even if I upgrade an app it gets upgraded on the second iPhone as well.

How is that possible and can I disable it ?


texts: How can I change Contacts.app custom labels automatically using AppleScript?

texts:
Is there a way to change the current labels in Contacts.app to custom ones using AppleScript based on a specific criteria?

Here is what I mean:

I need the script to go through my contacts to change the phone numbers default labels such as mobile, home, work, etc. to specific labels based on the first 3 digits of the phone number. If the label has been changed already or the criteria does not apply, then the script should skip that phone #.

Here is an example:

If the phone # starts with 079, then change the label to "zain"
If the phone # starts with 078, then change the label to "umniah"

Is this even possible?


texts: iTerm opens instead of default web browser when links clicked in Apple Mail

texts:
Clicking on links in Apple Mail (http or https, doesn't matter), opens a new iTerm 2 terminal session instead of my default browser. I can't figure it out.

Weirdly, iTerm.app shows up as a potential email handler under Mail.app > Preferences > General > Default email reader.  It wasn't selected (Mail.app was), but I tried selecting something else (Microsoft Outlook.app, in my case), as per this question, just in case some setting there had been messed up (obviously this should be irrelevant to the problem at hand but you never know how things are cross-linked under the hood). Interestingly, that setting would not stick: upon quitting and re-opening Mail.app, Mail.app would again be selected as the default email reader. But none of that changed the behavior. It's very confusing, but I'm wondering if I've just reached the end of the useful lifetime of Apple Mail under OS X 10.11.6 (yes, yes, I know, way out of date - I haven't updated because of compatibility concerns with software I need to use to do my job.. but maybe I will bite the bullet soon). Mail.app version is 9.3 (3124).

Update: So, looking at my default browser under Apple > System Preferences > General > Default web browser shows nothing selected, and when I click on the dropdown menu, there are no items available to select, which of course is ridiculous, as I'm software developer and have four browsers installed (Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox). So I'm guessing some .plist that contains the default web browser has become corrupted.


texts:
In terminal, if I try tab completion in a directory e.g. Movies, instead of the movies beginning with S (if I type S followed by tab, I see SetFile, Splitforks and SystemStarter. I suspect I installed something which has messed with my PATH variable. How can I get correct path completion back?

OSX 10.8.2 on Early 2011 Macbook Pro


texts: Lion restoring windows throws DO NOT HAVE permission

texts:
When I restart my computer it tries to restore my open Preview PDFs. Clearly I opened them (and I've tried every which way to do that so the whole new sandbox methods will retain permission), and yet I keep getting it.

I nuked the Saved State Folder (which oddly is the only app, Apple or 3rd, with a symlink to within its Container…) and it went away for a bit. But I just got it again. Oddly though it was only for half the open files. (five PDF whitepapers open in one window, sitting in the same folder, three opened, 2 gave Permission Errors)

Any ideas? It keeps restoring because every time I close the laptop it goes into deep sleep immediately. I have no idea if this is a fluke on my machine or a Lion thing. Upon wake up it just stalls and then does an entire reboot — thus trying to restore everything that was open from before.

Despite that having its own degree of obnoxiousness at times, it's somehow worse when it does it but fails. And it makes no sense to me that it'd only fail on some files and not others, especially when they're sitting in the same folder. The sandbox permission shouldn't relate to the Saved State restore, anyway.


texts: Adding "Lookup in the dictionary" in the pop-up list in Firefox?

texts: Is it possible to add the item "Look up in Dictionary" in the right-click popup menu when you have selected a word on a web page, in Firefox (just like it is available in safari) ?


texts: Why some RAM for the iMac 27 inch is 1.5V and some are 1.35V?

texts:
I just got a new iMac 27 inch, and from

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1423#1
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=746859E0A5CA7304

if I buy those 8GB, then I can add them to the original 4GB and make it 12GB, it seems.

But I wonder why these are 1.5V and the crucial website also list these other RAM which is 1.35V for the same system:

http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=06C539BDA5CA7304

It just seems strange that either 1.5V RAM or 1.35V RAM are both ok.  Does somebody know why?

(it also seems that I can buy the 8GB set, and then the 4GB set http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=C330E0DDA5CA7304 and the computer will now have 16GB?  For an extra $26 I am tempted to do it, to have 16GB instead of 12GB, but it just seems weird to have that much RAM... can the computer use that much RAM?  Even if I run a virtual machine for Windows 7 for 4GB and one for Ubuntu for 2GB, that's only 6GB)


texts: What happens when someone sends me an iMessage/SMS during a restore?

texts:
The restore process can take some time. What happens if someone sends me a message during this time that my phone is unusable? Will I be able to see the message at the end of the whole process?

It's my understanding that when you restore your phone, your number will no longer be associated with iMessages until you reenable iMessages. What will happen if someone tries sending a text?

If I have the Messages set up with iMessages enabled on another device (e.g. MacBook), would I receive the messages there?


texts:
I have a number of iTunes users in my household, and most of us choose to share our extensive iTunes libraries over the local network. This is all well and good when I want to listen to something on a shared library when I'm at my computer, but doesn't work at all on anything iOS.

Can anyone here explain why Apple has disabled access to normal shared iTunes libraries on iOS? As far as I can tell, it is no longer possible to access a normal shared iTunes library from any iOS device using any known Apple iOS software. You can now configure "Home Sharing", but that feature seems almost completely useless to me. I can see no advantages to Home Sharing over normal local network shared iTunes libraries, which are still entirely functional over desktop iTunes.

I have also not been able to find any online discussion of this issue whatsoever; no similar complaints, no explanations of why Apple disabled normal shared library access on iOS, nothing. If anyone has any information whatsoever, or a functional workaround that does not use Home Sharing (I don't want to have to ask someone to manually type in a different Apple ID to access their shared library in my house, and we're not all going to post our Apple IDs and passwords on the wall), please let me know.


texts: Can songs be added to an iPhone library without using a computer or the iTunes store?

texts:
I wish to use my iPhone without having a computer.

However, the iTunes music store is not available in India. So, is there any way for me to directly add music to my iPhone Music app without using a computer? I do not want streaming solutions, or any 3rd party apps to store the music.

I couldn't find any way to do this, but thought I'll confirm here once.


texts: How do I add a service to Terminal's "New Remote Connection" window?

texts:
In Terminal, pressing Shift+Command+K opens the "New Remote Connection" dialog box, which includes SSH, SFTP, FTP, and Telnet in the Service list and all Back-To-My-Mac systems in the Server list.

How can I add another Service, for example Mosh, to the list?

System

OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2
Macbook Air

13-inch, Mid 2012


texts: Why do I have 2 drives with the same used space?

texts:
this is a weird one. I just bought a 2nd hand macbook retina and turns out that when I re-installed macOS, the storage dialog showed up a 2nd drive. The very first thought was that the main drive is a 500gb SSD and its partitioned in 2, so I went to disk utility and there where listed as two different drives. I didn't get a picture of it, but continued with the process and now with a couple of days of using the MBP I can see the two drives have almost identical used space, like a mirror.

All apps and OS where installed in the very first of the list, "Macintosh HD". But well Im going to leave you some screenshots so you can see better what's going on.

Thank you a lot.

EDIT:

Those are my diskutil list results. Thanks!


texts: iCal iPhone change Exchange calendar color

texts:
First of all I want ask you how I can change my Exchange Calendar colors to a non-default color.

If I click Calendars in iCal on my iPhone, I get a list of all Calendars. If I click on the blue/white arrow to change the color to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple or brown. However, this is not the color I'm looking for. I've created an own color in iCal (blue-green combined, like an old GameBoy Color)

Is there any way to set this color in iCal on my iPhone?

If you have any questions about my issue, please ask and I'll update :)


texts: Possible reasons (other than Open Firmware Password Protection) for not being able to boot into single user mode?

texts: Recently I was attempting to install some new software for a user. I followed these instructions to create a new admin-level account but when I held down cmd+S while booting it still booted into the regular login GUI, rather than into Single User Mode. The user doesn't have Open Firmware Password Protection installed -- what other reasons could there be for cmd+S not working?


texts: Does Preview.app's freehand tool allow one to select multiple shapes easily?

texts:
I am studying mathematics and I find the Preview.app's freehand tool extremely useful to help me understand the documents I am reading. As you can see in the picture below I end up having a LOT of shapes to make sense of the maths. Sometimes I just need to move a group of shapes to make some space to add new ones. At present after clicking on the first shape to select it, I have to click on each further shape very carefully while keeping the shift button pressed to add them to the selection, and if I ever misclick (which happens 1/3 of the attempts) this then leads to all the selected elements being lost, requiring me to then start from the beginning. [Update: clicking ⌘Z after such an error recovers the selection up to the error!]

Is there a way to select a number of shapes in one go? That would be tremendously helpful.

I have found that if I select one shape, and click ⌘A (Edit->Seclect All) then I can select all the shapes in the page. But that does not help, as I have too many.

I have placed my edited version of the document online, so that anyone who wants can get a feel as to why clicking on individual objects is problematic and to test any solution they come up with.


texts: Don’t recall password in iCloud on iPhone 6.

texts:
Tell me how to get another password don’t recall what I used.
Thanks


texts:
I have a large XML file (11MB) which I need to open in Excel for processing. I have MS Excel for Mac 2011 and when I try to open the XML file, it just opens it as plain text (seems that this is a feature not supported by Excel for Mac 2011).

I was expecting to see the XML item data split to rows and columns, just like Excel for windows does.

Is there another way to convert it? I have looked at online converters, but haven't found one that can process large files...


texts:
Hi I'm using some VPN software that isn't the default OSx VPN support.

When it connects it clobbers my routing table, putting all traffic through the VPN.

What I want to do is have something like this route defined (I see this auto defined when I'm not on the VPN) ...

Destination  Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
192.168.1.2  a0:21:b7:c1:91:64  UHLWI           0        3     en3

Where that Gateway Address is the Mac address of the 192.168.1.2 machine.

When I connect the VPN and new Netif is added "utune0"

So I've tried

sudo route add -host 192.168.1.2 -link a0:21:b7:c1:91:64

... And end up with

Destination  Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
192.168.1.2  a0:21.b7.c1.91.64  UGHS            0        0   utun0

... So wrong netif

The I try and add the -interface option

sudo route add -host 192.168.1.2 -interface en3  -link a0:21:b7:c1:91:64

... I End up with

Destination  Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
192.168.1.2  10:dd:b1:a0:af:43  UHLS            0        0   en3

... where that gateway address is wrong, it is the mac address of my machines en3 adaptor....

Any ideas how to get the initial route I wanted?


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texts: I loved vimari but the Mojave update made it no longer work because of the stronger permissions system.  Is there any way to install this safely, or barring that make extensions work again?


texts:
I haven't found any useful info about what to do when asked for a password whilst sharing files between Mac and Windows. My scenario: I have ONE user on my Mac (somebrit) and no one else, not even guest. I have ONE fileshare located at /Users/somebrit/share.

I'm using Mountain Lion -> System Preferences -> File Sharing -> SMB Sharing and have selected the folder to share. For all intents and purposes, I've allowed unrestricted access to it.

On the Windows side, I simply hit Start, type \\IP\ and can see the Mac. After clicking it, I'm instantly prompted for a username/password and having tried my-mac\somebrit and the password, nothing.

Can someone please help my sanity and provide some answers?


texts:
I'm running a web server on Yosemite but have run into a bit of an issue. I can access web server via localhost, 127.0.0.1 and locally on other computer server.local.

But I can't access it via IP address i.e. 192.168.0.100 or by internet IP I get the following error message

Error code 403.
Message: Not Serving Client 82.15.XX.XXX.
Error code explanation: 403 = Request forbidden -- authorization will not help.


texts:
So I have a weird problem...

This only happens when I boot into macOS (10.14.4), when I boot into Win10 via bootcamp, everything is perfect and no color issues at all.

So this rules out any hardware problems.

I am not too familiar with macOS so maybe its just a user setting somewhere but the color options under display don't do anything to solve the issue.

Suggestions?


texts: How do I make an old Airport Express be a purely Airplay device?

texts:
I have an old Airport Express (copyright information says 2008) that I have set up as purely an Airplay slave: my main router (not Apple) runs network, IP, DNS, etc, and the Airport connects via an ethernet cable to the router, allowing me to hook some speakers to the network via Airplay.

Unfortunately, I have forgotten the password to the device.  I want to reset it so I can apply system updates and the like, but I don't remember how I set up the device in the first place, and am loathe to touch it until I know I can replicate its current configuration.

What do I need to do?


texts: Asinine message preventing me from installing Xcode on 10.9.4

texts:
Every time I try to install Xcode from within the Mac App Store, I get "Download for free? This item will be added to your Purchases and will be available even if your Family Sharing Status changes".

I click Download. Then I see a spinning wheel for a second until I get the same message again until I just press 'Cancel'. It never downloads.

Does anyone know what the deal is?

I'm on a fresh install of OS X 10.9. Only thing I've done to it is sign in to the Mac App Store using my New Zealand account. I also installed and updated Office 2011. So I certainly haven't done anything unusual to this Mac!


texts: How to generate Templates with Apples Pages?

texts: I want to create a template, which is conform to the German business style DIN 676. Somehow I can't figure out how to achieve this. Is there a good Documentation for creating templates within pages?


texts: How to stream iTunes content to Apple TV 2G without a Mac or PC?

texts: I would like to upgrade my 1st-gen Apple TV and was wondering if it is possible to stream to new Apple TV from a NAS drive with iTunes server or an alternate method. I am not willing to go XBMC way since I would like to control my Apple TV though the Remote app for iOS.


texts: Apple ID no longer working on discussions.apple.com

texts:
When I try and log into  discussions.apple.com I see this message:

"Please sign in again. For added security, we need to reconfirm your Apple ID"

So I do that then I see:

"Pick a username"

It says that's available and I hit continue and then I see:

"An account utilizing this email address already exists.  Only one account per email address is allowed on Apple Support Communities".

I called Apple Care and they said they weren't sure who to contact about the matter and that I should just use another email address.  Of course I prefer to continue using this email address that's worked for years on the discussion groups.  Apparently the site upgrade messed things up. What can I do to get this working?


texts: Universal Clipboard working from MacBook to iPad, but not vice versa

texts:
It's kind of hard to troubleshoot these issues, so I'm asking here. I am using Universal Clipboard amongst my MacBook, iPad, and iPhone. It works perfectly fine between my iPhone and my MacBook without as much as a hiccup. However, I've noticed that when I copy something on my MacBook or iPhone, it shows up on my iPad's clipboard, but when I copy something on my iPad it shows up neither on my MacBook nor my iPhone.
This is quite strange because if it's working fine in one direction, I'd expect I meet all the requirements for it to work in the other direction too.

Same WiFi network on all devices
Handoff enabled on all devices
AirDrop enabled on all devices
Same Apple ID on all devices

How do I go about troubleshooting why this doesn't work?


texts: For some reason, I discovered I have an old iCloud email that is associated with my account. However, the section of the email before the domain (XXXX@icloud.com) is based on a retired AOL email that I haven't used in about 10 years. How do I either delete this email from my account (unsure what this is associated with as a side note, my Apple ID?) or change this email if I am forced to keep it?


texts: Is there a decent way to display fotos from directories?

texts: I do not want to use the "Photos" app and the "Preview" app. The "Preview" app only displays one photo at a time (unless you select all of them with CMD-A). I am missing the Windows program where you simply doubleclick on the first pictures and navigate with arrow-right and arrow-left. Is there a program like this for Mac?


texts: How can I verify my Time Machine password?

texts:
Since I've been using for Time Machine for a long time with several machines that I no longer have, I would like to do some cleanup on my password manager but I don't want to erase my current Time Machine password by mistake. How can I test my time machine password in some simple way? I'm assuming I can do it from the recovery screen but that would be pretty painful if I have to try out several passwords, most of which are pretty long. Any way I can test it from OSX running normally on my laptop?

Thanks.