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I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro. I’ve had the service battery warning for over a year now. The battery lasts like 5min nowadays but I’ve been using it like desktop so it’s always plugged in.
I just moved to a new location and haven’t touched my Mac for 2 days. I just logging in as usual and it immediately shuts down. I’ve tried this 10 times now and every time I click on my user icon to type in my password, the MacBook shuts down. This has never happened before.
Does anyone have any advice? I don’t think this is a battery related issue since This is occurring while the MacBook is plugged in.
I have tried resetting the SMC, and it did not work. However after about 20 attempts, I was finally able to log in, but I still want to dig into this problem in case it occurs again.


texts: Problems with SD card reader on Bootcamp (MBP 15" Late 2011)

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I've got a strange problem with the SD card reader on Bootcamp. It reads some of my cards fine (one 8GB, one 4GB, and one 512MB), but it has problems with some others (64GB SDXC, an identical 8GB). When I try to read a file from the 64GB one, it usually freezes the application trying to open it, or sometimes it says an unknown error occurred. If I try to write to the card, it takes forever and is almost always corrupted when reading on another computer.

This problem seems to be with the built-in card reader drivers for Bootcamp, because it works perfectly on the Mac side and also works perfectly when I use an external card reader in Bootcamp.

I've got Parallels installed to use Bootcamp without restarting, I don't know if this is affecting it... I've tried uninstalling the "Broadcom SD Host Controller" and removing drivers and reinstalling, but nothing's changed...

Just to be clear, I'm in Windows directly, not through Parallels...

Things I've tried

Reinstalling "Broadcom SD Host Controller"
Reinstalling WindowsSupport drivers
Reinstalling Windows entirely
Formatting cards as exFAT in Mac


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I have a MacBook Pro from 2014 running macOS Mojave. I cannot SSH into a remote server, use git over SSH or use the Mac App Store while connected to my Wi-Fi at home. Some of my mail accounts seem to have a problem, others work.

There is no problem with other devices, there is no problem if I am connected over Ethernet, there is no problem if I am connected via a different Wi-Fi, there is no problem if I use my university VPN via Wi-Fi, and there is no problem if I am running Ubuntu via USB.

The problem seems to be a specific combination from Home Wi-Fi and my macOS. I don't really want to reinstall my OS, and I don't have a single clue what I can do or try.

DNS-Servers are:

8.8.8.8

and

8.8.4.4

for IPv4, and

2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844

for IPv6.


texts: Can I view history of recently connected USB devices in OS X?

texts: Is it possible via the Terminal in OS X to show a history of recently connected USB devices. For example I want to know the specified ID of the MP3 Sony Walkman which I plugged into my MacBook Pro two weeks ago. Is that possible?


texts: How to detect network connectivy on an interface?

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I have moved to a new location, and my Mac Pro 2013 running Sierra 10.12.6 is currently using the Wi Fi. I would like to hardwire it.

Now, there is a wiring closest with a bunch of poorly labeled cables within it, ostensibly matching to the various outlets throughout the building.

Unfortunately, the Mac Pro is quite far from the wiring closet.

I'm curious if there is a simple command I could use (some kind of net status command, or whatever), perhaps combined with grep, or something of the like, that will let me know when the Mac sees one of its interfaces light up.

Much like having one person at the breaker box watching a light, while the other person across the building vainly flips breakers trying to locate the one that controls the light, my hope was that I could plug the Mac Pro in to the wall, start up this command or script, and have someone watching the screen as I started plugging candidate cables in to the switch, hoping to find the right one easily versus having to run back and forth.

I guess I could just put "ping stackoverflow.com" in to a repeating loop and have the person shout "Eureka!" when a ping gets through, but I was hoping for something a bit more base level that was detecting "net tone" for lack of better word, even before DHCP and the rest of the network plumbing got in place.

Can I simply loop ifconfig in to an awk script to show me which, if any, of the en#: items become active? Currently, I have 8 (en1-8) listed (among other things). One of which is active (en2), which I assume is the Wi Fi.

Is it crass to assume that once I get a cable plugged in that either en1 or en2 will light up depending on which port is plugged in?

These ports don't have a light on them do they? Honestly, I never checked. That would be acceptable as well.


texts: How to use new Facebook Portal to call iPhone X

texts: How do I connect my iPhone X to the new Facebook Portal so that Portal can call my iPhone and for that matter my iPad. I don’t have Facebook app per say on either is that the problem?


texts: Recover /private/etc/ssh after accidentally deleting

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I'm working with macOS Sierra and I have accidentally deleted /private/etc/ssh.

How can I recover this folder so I can use SSH?

The last solution is to reinstall the OS, but I want avoid this.


texts: iOS 10.3.1 : can't add a Google account to iPhone ! (gmail + contacts)

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I have an iPhone SE on old iOS 10.3.1 and I dont want to update it.

How do I add a Google account? This doesn't work:

There is a web popup (I can enter email + password, password is valid) but after that nothing happens.

No email account is added and I no longer have my contacts on my iPhone SE!
Is Google blocking old version of iOS ?


texts: Airport Express in bridge mode intermittently loses connection to internet

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My Apple Airport Express (A1392, 2nd gen) loses connection to the internet once or twice a day.
Rebooting it or rebooting the modem-router to which it is connected solves the issue. Strangely enough, when this happens the NAS that is connected to the modem-router via Ethernet also loses connection to the internet.
The modem-router itself does not lose connection to the internet (all lights remain on, cpanel shows no loss of connection).
My network setup is simple:

modem-router provided by my ISP with Wi-Fi turned off
Wired connections between this modem-router and the Airport Express, a NAS and a network switch.
The Airport Express is set to bridge mode.

What I have tried:

new modem-router from ISP. No change.
reset Airport Express. No change.
Set IPv6 to link-local only on the Airport Express. No change.
leaving the Airport Express turned off: no more network issues.
ISP technician saw no problems with line values etc.


texts: How to change TextEdit keyboard shortcuts?

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I would like to change TextEdit shortcuts which are visible in the menu, but are not listed in Keyboard shortcuts in System preferences. I tried adding new shortcut, assigned to TextEdit, but it doesn't work for some reason...
This is what I want to have:

Jump to Selection  ->  ⌥ Space

Select Line        ->  ⌘ J


texts: Better Way To Show Running Applications in OS X Lion

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I'm looking to either find a better method (visually) to show running applications on my Macbook Pro. The easiest method would be to increase the size (or make more prominent) of the running program indicator(s) that are present on OS X dock:

Alternatively I would be open to some other method that provides the same "at a glance" feedback as to what is running without having to manually launch a process.

I have looked at a lot of Apple related blogs and Google'd around to no avail. I could obviously increase my stock resolution of 1920 x 1200 to something larger but overall I am very happy with this resolution so I would prefer an alternate method. I also really have no desire to hook up to a larger monitor.


texts: How to perform FileVault authenticated restart when updating OSX from AppStore?

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I am aware of the authenticated restart when using FileVault 2 on OS X. Running the fdesetup authrestart command does however restart the system immediately.

Now, when running the OS X Update from the App Store (which often requires restarting the system) the update process reboots the system automatically at "its own convenience". It prompts about the restart requirement before starting the whole update process and there is no "you should reboot now"-point in time.

Is there any way to "combine" OS X Update from the App Store with authenticated restart so that a remote system with system drive would not require manual drive unlocking from the console?


texts: How to fix corrupt or missing os system fonts in high sierra

texts: I did a clean install of my mac from a usb key. Following that, everything worked perfectly in high sierra. Then, i used migration assistant to restore from my latest time machine backup. Following the restore, all of my fonts on not only the login screen, but also everything on the desktop and finder have become question marks with boxes around them. My question is, how do i restore the system fonts to get my fonts back into human readable form? See the screenshots below.


texts: How can I associate URL files with a specific browser in Snow Leopard?

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Until Snow Leopard URL files (.webloc files that you get when you drag a URL onto the desktop) opened with OmniWeb on my computer and some URLs were configured to open with Safari.

After upgrading to Snow Leopard all URL files open with "Finder" which then proceeds to open the standard browser (OmniWeb) for them. I tried changing the association, but Snow Leopard insists that these files be opened with OmniWeb via Finder.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this? I want all webloc files to open in OmniWeb except for specific ones which should open in Safari. I had it configured that way but at some point Mac OS X decided that the Safari ones should open with Finder (which then opens them with OmniWeb) and it just ignores it when I try to change that configuration per file


texts: Why are my sounds lagging on my 13" Macbook Pro?

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System information: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory, running on Yosemite 10.10.3, 2014 Macbook pro retina model

Sound on my computer keeps lagging, but not sound on videos or anything like that. If I get an iMessage to my computer, I'll get the message right away but it will make the sound for it 5 minutes or so later.

Same with emails. The sound is delayed to actually receiving them. I've tried restarting my computer and looking around the web, but I don't think it's my RAM, because I've only had the computer for less than a year.


texts: Is it possible to take multiple tabs out of Safari into a new window?

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On macOS Safari, you can create a new Safari window by dragging a tab out of the tab bar.
On Chrome across platforms, you can command (or control) click on tabs to select multiple tabs, and then when you drag out a tab it will create a new window with tabs.
I like this feature of Chrome and always try to do it in Safari. However, command clicking tabs does not select multiple tabs. Is there any way to take multiple tabs from a Safari window and convert them into a new window?


texts: How to get Mac Mail to show different Gmail addresses in the reply to field?

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I have a primary gmail account: me@gmail
My employer set up email that forwards to gmail as a different identity: me@mtk.org

Me@gmail downloads to my Mail inbox on Mac. I can reply to messages sent to thus account from my Mac.

Mail sent to @mtk.org Also downloads to the mail inbox on the Mac   BUT I CANNOT reply to these messages from the mtk email - it does not show up as an option in to select in the From drop down menu in Mail.  It would not be appropriate for me to reply to these messages from my personal Gmail address. Work email needs to be responded to from the work address

How do I get the MTK email address to show up in the drop-down menu on the Mac so that I can reply using that address?


texts: What should I consider before buying external monitor for my MBP?

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I'd like to buy an external monitor for my Retina MacBook Pro mid 2015 (2880x1800 native resolution). I have 2 Thunderbolts 2 ports.

I have the following questions that need answers to help me choose the best product :

What monitor size/resolution I should consider?
how will I Connect my mac to my monitor ? HDMI? Thunderbolt ?

Thanks,


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I am running Google Chrome 76+ on macOS Mojave 10.14.6.

I have come across an issue where highlighting text in the browser will fail randomly. I ran into it enough times that I started trying to reproduce it (by highlighting text). You can see the issue here:

(Original link was to MP4 video, that was converted to a gif, which doesn't seem to display here)

When the cursor remains an i-cursor, the trackpad is still held down but the text is not being highlighted. It looks like it might be Chrome being unresponsive for a split second and not catching the event?

I have asked a few people to try and reproduce this and they have not been able to do so. I am starting to think this is a 15" MacBook Pro problem (maybe some sort of interaction between macOS Mojave graphics drivers/Google Chrome 76+?)

It doesn't seem to happen in Safari or Firefox.


texts: Keeping photos between Lion and iOS synchronised

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I own iPhoto on both platforms. Is it possible to keep the photos synchronised between the phone and mac?

I don't mean simply transferring them from phone to mac when WIFI is available. I want when I delete a photo from the computer to have it deleted on the phone automatically. Or alternatively when photos are synched from phone to mac, they should get deleted on phone.

Is either of the above possible with iPhoto? I can't find an option for it at any obvious place.


texts: Programmatically send text message through Messages app on OS X 10.10

texts: With OSX 10.10 you can now send and receive text messages through your phone, from your mac. Is it possible to do this programatically? Either via applescript or a reverse engineered API?


texts:
Related to: iPhone 4S stereo sound

This is strange. I know people with the iPhone 4 (not the 4S as I have) who are getting audio from both "boxes". In addition, I don't get stereo with headphones either. I get stereo output but both L and R channels produce just R - meaning the R channel is outputting to both. What is this?


texts: When upgrading to Yosemite from Mavericks are there any traps with Brew and Ports

texts: Currently running Mavericks. Got a LOT of things installed through Homebrew and a handful through Ports. Are these going to survive the upgrade? What is best practice in this situation?


texts: How do I add a user to Print Administrator group but not full administrator?

texts:
He unplugged the printer and plugged it back in. OS X (10.6) asked for the print administrator password. I would like to add the user to that group but not the full administrators group. How do I do that?

This is for a stand-alone home Mac. By stand-alone I mean not part of a corporate login or administration.


texts: Deleted icons reappear on dock after reboot

texts:
Well, I've been having some issues lately. While trying to get the USB WiFi antenna working again on my wireless bridge I found the adapter's light wasn't activating, so I tried plugging it into my iMac to troubleshoot. The computer didn't acknowledge the antenna when I plugged it in. Assuming it needed a driver, I rooted around and found a 10.7 driver pkg on the adapter's driver disc.

I proceeded to install said driver, and reboot. On reboot the device was still not recognized, but now the dock's icon set had changed. My dock usually contains Finder (Obviously), Firefox, Terminal, Settings, and Mission Control. However, now Maps, iBooks, Siri, and Photos were also on the dock, dispersed randomly throughout my other icons. On top of this both my docked app's custom icon and one of my docked folder's custom icons were reset (the icons were replaced by question marks, but the apps would still launch).

I've managed to fix the disappearing folder icon, however my app's custom icon is still missing on every boot, no matter how many times I fix it, and Maps, iBooks, Siri, and Photos still reappear in my dock in the same spots every time I turn on the machine. This was at first a minor inconvenience, but it has since become a major annoyance that causes me to hesitate to reboot or switch over to Windows at all, knowing I'll have to reconfigure the dock each time.

I've tried to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.db, but unsurprisingly with no luck. This is a very oddly specific problem and I'm struggling to think of any explanation as to why this is happening or why a WiFi driver install package would even be able to cause this problem.

System in question is iMac 14,2 macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. (BTW, I have since scrapped my old antenna and uninstalled the driver in favour of simply buying a better one, so it was definitely caused by something the driver installer did rather than a file it installed.


texts: Is it possible to define the width/height of a Terminal window with this command: osascript -e \'tell application "Terminal" to do script

texts:
I am using this command to do some magic for my personal use:

osascript -e \'tell application "Terminal" to do script

Is it possible to precisely define the width and height of the popup Terminal window?

If not, is there anyway I can do it after it's opened? (Precisely adjust its size value)


texts: Why is accountsd using so much of my CPU? Conversely, why are my computer's fans overheating so quickly and often?

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I have a somewhat new MacBook Pro running Catalina, and very recently I began having a fan issue. No matter what I did, my fans seemed to be running at full power, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.
I checked my Activity Monitor, and it keeps saying accountsd is using 300+% of my CPU. Is there any way to fix this? I presume both things are going hand in hand— perhaps there is a different reason as to why my fans are so loud?

Processor: 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5


texts: Can macbook pro (2016) support two displays on single port?

texts: I am thinking to buy new macbook pro released but without touchbar version. I already have two dell u2415 monitors which I have been using with thunderbolt cables to my old macbook pro 2015. So I would rather buy two thunderbolt adapters and connect display or use one adapter if possible to use both the screens.


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I have updated my Mac OS  from Snow Leapord to Mevericks recently. I work behind proxy and I have set proxy for network and saved creadentials in Keychain too.
Still I get annoying system prompts for logging into proxy too many times.
Any solution to get rid of the Proxy login Popups ?
EDIT
I did following steps

deleted proxy credentials from keychain List item
removed the same from Proxy Settings
Added  proxy settings again ( without credentials )
tried to access google from safari it prompts for crdentials ( twice - maybe for http and https connections as I am adding proxy for both ) -- After above prompts I can see my credentials saved in kechain as well for proxy
Still can not access google from safari, can access same from Firefox / chrome ( they have seperate prompt for login ), even can access itune store from iTunes. (iTunes asked me for keychain access of proxy )
removed https proxy and kept only http, now I can not Access iTune Store so added the same again

Here are my keychain attributes for proxy

Name : 127.0.1.1 (vishal.kardode)
Kind : Internet Password
Account : vishal.kardode
Where : http:// 127.0.1.1:80 ( for https proxy its https://... )
Comments : default

Added space between "http://" and "127.0.." as it was not allowing to post
EDIT2
The Issue Persists, now I can not conect to iTunes Store either ( using iTunes )
every time I open Safari or iTunes I get the prompt, every time keychain gets updated as I login using the prompt but not able to connect to https://google.com or iTunes Store. Surprisingly I can connect to other https site
Here is screenshot of the proxy authentication prompt

I have changed the ip of proxy server in above post to 127.0... . Actual ip starts with 172...


texts: Magnification glass doesn't come up anymore when moving text cursor?

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When I type, say if I want to move the cursor to some position back to do the edit, I would hold the finger down and then it will display a magnification glass that was very handy to use to move the cursor into a new position.

But now for some reason that magnification glass doesn't come up. So to change something I have to literally erase the end of the sentence and type it again. Which is HELLUVA inconvenient!

What happened to that magnification glass? How do I get it back?


texts: Dell mouse triggering double-click on almost every single-click

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My generic Dell mouse behaves pretty strange compared to all other mice I have used with my MacBook. Almost every single-click is treated as if it were a double-click. Both the right and left button. The same mouse does not exhibit this behavior under Windows nor Ubuntu Linux.

I have searched and found hints that I should reduce the double-click speed setting in System Preferences: Mouse. But the setting is already as low as it can go.

I find this mouse very comfortable and want to continue to use it. I hope someone can offer another suggestion on how to correct this odd behaivor.


texts: Safari Speech Voice is low-quality and does not respect system setting

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I'm using this:
Safari > Edit > Speech > Start Speaking.
The voice is low-quality, even though I've installed better voices in System Preferences > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
Where does Safari get its voice from? Why is the setting not being respeted?


texts: How do I turn up the brightness on my MacBook without being able to see the screen or use shortcuts?

texts: The screen brightness keys stopped working on my MacBook. So I went to preferences to turn down the brightness. I accidentally turned down the brightness all the way and I can't see my screen.


texts: How can I use launchctl getenv over ssh?

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In a terminal session I can run launchctl getenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK and it prints the value of that variable. However if I ssh into the same user from another computer, then run the same command, there is no output. I'd like to know how to make this work.

This is important to me because:

my ssh keys have passphrases
my terminal prompt includes bash-git-prompt
this leads to the message Enter passphrase for key [~/.ssh/...]: being printed every time my prompt is written to the screen when I don't have access to the ssh agent socket.
launchd sets the ssh agent socket path so that it can use the fancy "only runs when needed" functionality of launchd, so I don't know the path ahead of time and it changes on reboot.


texts: (SOLVED) - Error: "The device does not have the necessary services" when using bluetooth to browse files on Galaxy S7 Edge

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How do I get the "necessary services" on my Galaxy S7 Edge phone using Android Marshmallow so I can use bluetooth to browse and transfer files between my Macbook Pro and my phone?

The error message "The device does not have the necessary services" shows up after I click the "Browse" button on the "Browse Device" window after selecting my phone as the Bluetooth device.


texts: Switching to Russian keyboard from Japanese still types in English

texts:
I feel like this (bug?) started happening after one of the latest OS updates applied.

I'm currently using Mac OS X High Sierra (10.13.2).

Steps to reproduce:

Start OS
Switch language to Russian
Able to type in Russian
Switch language to English

Result:

Still types in English, even though it shows Russian as selected language....


texts: Screenshot taking a very long time to appear on desktop

texts: I have just upgraded to High Sierra from Sierra, and immediately I noticed that screenshots would take a good 10-15 seconds before appearing on the desktop. How can I fix this?


texts: Upgrade to High Sierra stalls/fails at “Calculating installation time“

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I am trying to upgrade my 2015 MacBook Pro from Sierra to High Sierra.

I downloaded the installer from the Mac app store and started it. The first slightly alarming sign was during a reboot about a minute or two in the process when the screen went black and then displayed white horizontal bars in places on the screen (like a display glitch) for a few seconds before then rebooting and continuing.

It then displayed the Apple logo with a progress bar which then displayed “Calculating installation time”. This remained on the screen and nothing else seemed to progress any further. I left the installer to continue running overnight, but when I woke up this morning it was still stuck in the same place, and the progress bar had not moved.

Realising that the installation had probably failed, I rebooted to try again. Now I cannot get beyond entering my password to unlock the storage drive (SSD), some console errors appear briefly on the screen, and then I get a multilingual message on a black screen to wait or press a key to reboot.

What should I do now?

Is it:

Try to launch the recovery system (if this has not already been wiped),
Reinstall the existing OS from there (or from USB stick, failing that),
Restore my files from Time Machine,
Try again?

I saw in another post that someone else had problems upgrading, apparently due to having an NTFS driver installed. I have the Paragon NTFS driver installed to allow me to use NTFS external drives. Given that High Sierra has new rules about kernel extensions, which I imagine a file system driver must use, it sounds as though I should perhaps uninstall this before trying to upgrade again?


texts: Can I lock my notes with my OS X device?

texts: With the most recent iOS update, Apple gave users the power to lock notes on their iOS device. Is this feature also available on OS X after the 10.11.4 update, and, if so, how do I use it? Or do I need to use my iOS device to lock my Notes?


texts: Exporting DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES for libgmalloc not working on Big Sur?

texts:
I've been struggling with a very weird issue.  I'm trying to use libgmalloc (eg per man 3 libgmalloc) on Big Sur (I'm on 11.3.1) to trouble shoot a memory issue in my code.  However, I can't set the environment variable DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.  It sets as a shell variable, but not as an environment variable that can be seen by child processes:
stuarts@iMac-Pro ~ % export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES="/usr/lib/libgmalloc.dylib"
stuarts@iMac-Pro ~ % echo $DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
/usr/lib/libgmalloc.dylib
stuarts@iMac-Pro ~ % env |grep DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
stuarts@iMac-Pro ~ %

The variable doesn't show up in the env listing (and isn't detected by my program using getenv() either).  I started fooling around setting other randomly named variables, and found that I can export "DYLD" and "A_B", but not "DYLD_A" (or other things that start with "DYLD_").
This seems an extremely strange silent filter in export.
How should one use libgmalloc in Big Sur?


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I have two wifi access points at home: "downstairs" and "upstairs". They're both WPA2.

If I'm upstairs and connected to "upstairs" and my laptop goes to sleep, when I reactivate it, it connects to "downstairs" as it is higher in the list, but the signal is too low and I have to switch it manually to "upstairs". How can I prevent that?

Remark: I don't want "upstairs" or "downstairs" to have priority: it depends on where I stand in the house. I just want OSX to stick with the network I have selected, whichever it is. I don't want to re-type the lengthy password all the time neither ("forget network" is probably not the way to go).

Script or third-party program welcome...

OS X 10.10

EDIT I originally wrote I wanted to stick to current network, as opposed to switching to another weaker network. But if all APs have the same name and password, then the seamless switch is ok to me. See this answer and this advise:

  "(...) let the client devices each decide which is best to use" -
  "Make all the Wi-Fi networks in your home the same. Your life will be
  better for it."


texts: Apple Computers Not Connecting to the Internet

texts: So, it started right after Christmas when someone in our family got a brand new MacBook Air. She started having problems connecting to the internet right away, and then the rest of the macbooks (about 4 or so) had trouble connecting too. Up in the top bar at the top of the screen, the wifi icon shows that it is connected to the internet. But the wifi will turn off and on, and we figured out it had to do with the macs connecting to an ipv6 network. Every time it connects to an ipv6 network, it can't display any webpages. But anytime it connects to an ipv4 network, you can access anything that requires internet. Does anybody know about this?


texts: how to turn off rotating cube animation upon user switch?

texts:
How to turn off rotating cube animation upon user switch?

I apparently need to pad out this qwuestion, so i will add
that it makes me dizzy

thank you!


texts:
Is there a way to view ios 8 health data externally?  For example, with iCloud sync it seems feasible to be able to access the data through a website (i've checked https://www.icloud.com/ but it's not visible).  I really like the Health app dashboard but I'd like it more if I could also see it from other devices :)

If there is no official way, does Apple allow accessing iCloud data through some web API?  I can build a proof-of-concept dashboard if they have some kind of web service.

Lastly, another method I've considered is building an app that (after requesting permissions) reads the data through HealthKit and then provides that to an external storage service.  I'd like to know if something like this exists (so I don't reinvent the wheel).

I found another thread from June 2014 that indicates it's not possible to directly inspect iCloud backups, though I'm pretty sure they're only referring to viewing through iTunes or iCloud.com.


texts:
I cannot understand this:

pip install mutagen

returns no error, yet as I try to use it I get this:

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jun 22 2011, 22:27:57)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mutagen
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named mutagen

what is happening?


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I've got four external USB drives connected to a 7 port powered dlink hub.  All of them are externally powered, save for one of them.  The hub is connected to a late 2012 Mac Mini.

If I connect the drives directly to the mini, they work perfectly.  When I connect them to the hub, they randomly start to disappear and the finder shows me the "You have unsafely disconnected this drive" dialog for each of them.

I am running OS X Mavericks, but this occurred under Mountain Lion as well.

When they disappear I am unable to get them to re-mount save rebooting the machine. Launching Disk Utility actually just hangs until I force quit it, and if I try to mount them with diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk9 or similar I get One or more volume(s) failed to mount.

They are sort-of visible in the diskutil list command though.  I mean sort of since not all of them are listed there and some of them are listed twice (e.g. the drive named Hobbes is on there as /dev/disk7 as well as /dev/disk3.

Here is the output from diskutil list.

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Calvin                 *498.9 GB   disk1
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Hobbes                  999.9 GB   disk3s2
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                 Apple_RAID                         992.2 GB   disk4s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk4s3
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk6
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk6s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk6s3
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk7
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk7s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Hobbes                  999.9 GB   disk7s2
/dev/disk8
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk8
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk8s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk8s3
/dev/disk9
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk9
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk9s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Spaceman Spiff          2.0 TB     disk9s2

Any ideas? I've tried turning off the Energy Saver preference for "shut down hard drives when possible", but it keeps happening.


texts: How can Transit app vibrate my phone even with notification sounds turned off?

texts:
I've been tweaking my notification settings for various apps recently, and today I noticed something very peculiar.

I was using the Transit App in Go mode as I do on most days. As I approached my destination, I felt my phone vibrate... but I had already turned off Sounds in the notification settings for this app! (See below) I'm sure the vibrate was from Transit App because I had exactly one notification in my Notification Centre right after I got the vibration.

Is there any way to suppress vibrations from app notifications, since apparently turning off sounds doesn't do it?

Additional info about my phone settings:

Silent switch: Off
Do Not Disturb: Off
Vibrate on Ring: On
Vibrate on Silent: Off
Ringer volume: 50%
System Haptics: On


texts: My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s and I cannot locate it in the app list in iTunes when I synch. Any ideas?

texts: I accidentally deleted the Notes app and cannot find it (although when I do a spotlight search it does come up).  Any ideas how I restore it to my screen?  Thanks!


texts: Can I view hidden files and directories from the Open or Save As dialog boxes without making them visible in the Finder?

texts:
I know you can use Terminal to switch on/off hidden files in OS X and already use these commands.

What I want to know is if it’s possible to just do this from WITHIN the Open or Save As dialog boxes so I can navigate and access hidden files when I need to. I seem to find myself using Terminal to switch hidden files on/off a few times a day, but this is getting monotonous.

What I would like is to just be able to do this while saving or opening files but without affecting the Finder afterwards. That way I wouldn’t need to use Terminal all the time to switch it off/on again. I just don’t like seeing the hidden files normally when in the Finder, but do need to regularly see them when opening/saving files.

Is there an Apple Script or some way of doing this?

I mainly need to do this when using MS Office programs, so a Visual Basic macro would suffice too. But a native Apple solution would be preferable as I do sometimes need to be able to do this in Text Edit too.


texts: Recovery HD broken, cannot start recovery mode

texts:
Background:

System: macOS 10.13.3 late 2009 iMac

I was originally creating a 25 GB partition for a linux installation, but then something went wrong with it and somehow the 25 GB went to my Recovery HD. I resized it and reclaimed the disk space and tried the partition again. It worked, but now I think the Recovery HD is broken in a way. However, my main OS still works just fine. Here's what comes up in the terminal from diskutil

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                      TYPE NAME                 SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                      *500.1 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                   209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD          474.2 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot                       650.0 MB   disk0s3
4:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD           650.0 MB   disk0s4
5:           Linux Filesystem                       24.2 GB    disk0s5

I'm pretty sure Recovery HD is supposed to be on disk0s3 with Apple_Boot type, but it's not. When I look in Disk Utility and System Information, it shows that Recovery HD is mounted, when it's never shown it before

Question:

How can I solve this, if it is an issue I should worry about? I heard deleting Recovery HD then updating macOS should sort it out, but I have no idea how to do that (I haven't updated to macOS 10.13.4 yet). Otherwise, what can I do with diskutil to resolve this?

Update: Tried updating macOS without removing it, it seems to be related to my issue as it fails to update every time. It just boots back to my login screen saying "Some updates could not be installed automatically"


texts: How to login when I can't enter my password because "e" key on keyboard doesn't work

texts: My "E" key on my keyboard stopped working. The tech says I need to change the keyboard, but for now I just want to use a bluetooth apple keyboard. The problem is I can't connect it without logging in and I can't log in as my password contains an "E"? What can I do to connect the bluetooth keyboard? Everything else works. Keys and mouse plus trackpad.


texts: Managed, Mobile account on Mac not giving me the option to change password when Admin is unlocked?

texts: I'm trying to change/access mobile and managed accounts on a Mac network system. System Preferences won't give me the option to change a password of a mobile account. How can I view or change this password?


texts: Sorry for my ignorance. I want to play my iTunes library of songs on my iPhone when in the car like I do when on my PC at home. Is it possible?


texts:
I have a MacBook and I’m using the latest High Sierra with 2 displays total, my MacBook and the projector. But I only want one (or specific) desktop(s) to be mirrored to the projector an external monitor (a projector wired via HDMI). I have been looking for too long of a time not to ask here: is there any solution to only mirror a specific desktop?

I am a teacher, and I would like to have one desktop mirroring what I'm doing, while still having the liberty to navigate to other desktops and these would only be visible to me.

Basically, none of that "press option" in the Display menu in the Preferences would work, because that is effective if you work on multiple displays, not multiple desktops.

Closest thing I found was this Second screen mirror one desktop but no solution was found.
If there is a paid app, I'm willing to pay also. Can't continue breaking my neck (so far I've been extending my desktop so I could also see what the students see, without having to mirror desktops).

Thanks!


texts: Mac screen goes off and on after HDMI to VGA adapter is connected - no image

texts:
I've bought a HDMI to VGA adapter (no external power source) so I can use my mid-2015 Macbook Pro with the old projector I have in class. Thing is, as soon as I connect it to the HDMI port (even without connecting the projector to the adapter), the mouse cursor starts to lag and drag, and the screen continuously goes off and on, off and on. When I connect the projector to the VGA port of the adapter, the problem keeps happening, and no image is shown by the projector.

The adapter is an off-branded one, but I tested it on my Windows notebook and it worked fine. Back in the Mac, I tried to take a look at the System Preferences -> Displays, and the adapter/projector doesn't show there.

When I disconnect the adapter, the screens goes back to normal, as does the mouse cursor.

What could be happening?

Macbook Pro Retina 13" - Mid 2015 - El Capitain


texts: How to reinstall Viber with no connection with my previous Viber usage?

texts:
I used to use Viber on iPhone for a while with one set of Viber credentials.

Now I want to reinstall Viber on the same device "erasing its memory" completely: to use it with completely different identity (phone number, name, chat history) -- in a manner that Viber has no way of knowing that it was previously used with a different number on this device / for this Apple ID etc.

iOS 12.x throughout my Viber usage; currently 12.1.2.

Update (2019-02-07): Here what I tried so far, with no success:

Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Viber > Delete App (per 1)
Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking; followed by > Reset Advertising Identifier
AppleID > iCloud > Viber > Off
disabling backups for Viber (per 2)
AppleID > iCloud > Manage Storage > Backups > (my phone) > Delete Backup
rebooting between the above cleanup steps and installing a new copy of Viber
completely signing out of AppleID, which includes removing all AppleID account-connected data including Keychain and disabling access to any backups
starting a newly installed Viber when the phone is in Airplane mode (per 3)


texts: I am creating a slideshow for an event that individuals are adding to a shared album on iCloud. I would like to shuffle the photos. How do I do that?


texts:
I was trying to install ctags using homebrew:

>brew install ctags
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ctags/ctags-5.8.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ctags-5.8.tar.gz
==> Downloading patches

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew\ 0.9.4\ (Ruby\ 1.8.7-358;\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.8.5) https://raw.github.com/gist/4010022/8d0697dc87a40e65011e2192439609c17578c5be/ctags.patch -o 000-homebrew.diff

Any idea how I can troubleshoot this?


texts: Mysterious apps with strange names and no Icons showing up on my iPhone

texts:
I was going through Settings app → Screen Time → Always Allowed, and noticed a couple of mysterious entries. I ssed the first ones, you can see them in the pictures, but there are more all throughout the list of apps.

Anybody else got something similar and/or knows what they may be?

I am using an iPhone X running iOS 12.2.


texts:
I decided to reinstall MacOS X from scratch.

I have rebooted my mac with Cmd+R, then used Disk Utility to create a .dmg disk image on a USB drive.

I then rebooted the computer and verified that I could mount the disk image. It took some time to verify it (250 GB), but it finally mounted fine and I could see that all files were there.

I then rebooted with Cmd+R again, formatted the internal hard drive, and reinstalled MacOS 10.10.

Now when I reconnect the USB drive and remount the disk image (skipping the verification), although Cmd+I says that it's almost full (2 out of 250 GB left), it seems to only contain a handful of empty folders: Application, Library, System, Users.

Using Finder, it's just as if all my data was lost.

However when using Terminal, I can browse the entire drive: all the files are there, and I am able to copy them back to my internal drive using cp.

Why does Finder show empty directories? Is this a consequence of skipping disk verification?


texts: Shortcut for input source change on MacOS Mojave

texts:
I have been using Shift+Space for input source change. MacOS Mojave, however, doesn't allow it. The default shortcut is Ctrl+Space and optionally Capslock. I can customize the shortcut except for Shift+Space.

Am I missing something? Please advise.


texts: Does Photos make its own copy of the photos that are imported to it?

texts:
I have just migrated to OS X and have a lot of photos to import from my previous machine. The photos are already organised in a directory structure that I'm very happy with (i.e. 2016-05-04 Glasgow Trip).

Is Photos making a copy of the photos in my existing directories, or is it copying them elsewhere?

I'm thinking of disk space use (are the photos stored twice?), and depending on that answer, will the originals and the Photos versions get out of sync?


texts:
One of my least favorite things that Apple does to every Windows computer during an installation of iTunes is that it installs Bonjour. On almost every Windows machine I've installed iTunes on, Bonjour has caused an error of some sort.

As far as I can remember, I've removed Bonjour by deleting the folder it's in. Most of the time, this has not caused any major problems. However, I have a new installation of iTunes and I'm wondering if once again I should delete Bonjour.

Are there any issues caused by deleting Bonjour? Would I lose any functionality?


texts: How to get full path of MP4 file used by portal in Safari?

texts:
I am looking for the full url of this video on this portal: http://www.atv.hu/videok/video-20141102-havas-a-palyan-1-resz-2014-11-01

In source of the HTML I found this:

I have tried to load http://www.atv.hu/201411/20141101_havas_1.mp4 but this link does not exist. Any other idea?

What is a way in Safari to see URL of any opened streams?


texts: Embedded video in pdf file doesn't work in Preview

texts: I worked with LaTeX and I created a pdf document that contains some embedded videos. The videos pop up when I click on them and this functionality works just find in Adobe Reader. But when I try to do the same on Preview it doesn't work, and it gives me this sound as if there's an error or something, just that no error is shown on the screen. Can someone know how to make Preview work with embedded videos on pdf files?


texts: How can I check the battery status of all my apple devices like Airpods and iPhone on Mackbook and Airpods and Macbook on iPhone on something like battery widget. I see that currently there is no battery widget for mac and iPhone battery widget does not show Macbook's battery.


texts: macOS Sierra. Safari 10.0. App is hanging while loading site or switching tabs

texts:
I noticed yesterday this weird behavior, don't how to trace it, actually.

The thing is this: When the https://github.com loads I'm seeing spinning circle for about 5 seconds while Safari is hanging.

Additionally: when I open some other tabs, not github, it's okay totally.  When I'm switching to github tab the spinning circle appears again and Safari hanging for about that 5 seconds.

Similar behavior with bitbucket.org.

I've identified only these two sites.  Not sure what they share in common.

I've removed completely all content inside my ~/ regarding Safari data.

Opened Safari totally stock, as the Apple ships, the same issue.

Also tried with removing all website data and cookies -- the same.

Here's the image of loading content:

it kind of loads/hangs for about 5 seconds in that way.

Anyone got the clue, how I trace this maybe, or identify what might be the cause here?  Thanks.

Ivan.


texts: Is is possible to get audio notifications working for subfolders for Apple Mail on macos?

texts:
I want to receive audio notifications for email that lands in a particular subfolder of the Inbox. The filtering is done server side so I can't use a rule to generate a audio notification.
I tried accomplishing this with a smart folder/mailbox  but I'm not getting an audio notification for new email arriving in the subfolder.
Is it possible to get an audio notification on individual subfolders?
I can get audio notifications when the email lands directly in the inbox.


texts: Bootcamp Windows USB Installation Errors

texts:
I am having issues installing Windows 7 through Bootcamp on my Mac. I want to be able to natively boot into my Windows installation so Parallels or VMWare will not work for me. I am using an early 2013 MBP with retina.

Here's what happens:
I am able to partition the drive with the Bootcamp assistant, download the support software, and have the machine reboot into the Windows installer. Upon installation however, it seems like the USB controller for my MBP is not active and it's not able to find my installation media. The specific error that I'm getting is:

"A media driver your computer needs is missing. This could be a DVD, USB, or Hard disk driver. If you have a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with the driver on it, please insert it now."

I made a video reproducing what happens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMg-xXsmzo

Hopefully someone out there has run into this as well, I could really use some unblocking!


texts: WhatsApp calls on an iPhone and "data" and "minutes"

texts:
Am I right that if I use my iPhone (which I have not yet bought) to make a WhatsApp to WhatsApp call then the position is as follows?

If I am using wifi, this activity does not incur charges (because whatever is done through wifi does not count as either "data" or "minutes"?), but
if I am using the cellphone network, this activity will count under "mobile data" or "data allowance" (or perhaps "minutes"?), and therefore it will incur charges, being paid for out of either "data" or "minutes" or perhaps both?

Please assume that I have a PAYG arrangement that allows a specified amount of "data" and number of "minutes".

I have not used a smartphone before, and although I have read a few pages the exact meaning of "data" and "minutes" as these terms are currently used remains somewhat opaque to me. Thus "minutes" seems to refer only to voice calls placed to a phone number through the cellphone network.  But if the call is made from WhatsApp to WhatsApp then it is still a voice call (and also a video call) made to a phone number, even it obviously goes through the internet (and requires a continuing transfer of digital data). As for the actual connection required for a WhatsApp call, it may be made through wifi or it may be made through the cellphone network. If it goes through the cellphone network, does that make it count as "data" rather than "minutes". As I understand it, even a short video can amount to a lot of data.

Where is it documented what is considered data on iPhone for cellular carriers?


texts:
Please read my answer and bmikes comment before voting to close. Someone is going to come along and say I should just learn Mac shortcuts, but I must say I use Chromebooks, Windows, & Linux boxes and they all put the Control/Command key in the bottom left and right hand corner of the computer.  I'm sorry but Changing 1 operating system is way easier then changing the other three(especially considering Chromebooks native shortcuts can't be changed).

To alleviate the most common keyboard shortcuts I have the left control key mapped to the command key on my apple computer.  And have switched the right command and option/alt keys on the right hand side.  I then switched command and control again in iTerm a very well made application.

Now unfortunately Control+Tab no longer works to switch between browser tabs.  Well tabs in any application actually.

I would like Command+Tab=Control+Tab and Command+Tab+Shift=Control+Tab+Shift.

I am on El Captain using Karabiner Elements and would prefer to stay away from Karabiner(the older version).  There is a github issue also opened currently with this issue.


texts: Switching inputs on my monitor requires me to unplug and replug my MacBook Air USB-C Cable

texts:
My monitor has 2 inputs, an HDMI input (which is plugged into my Windows machine) and a USB-C input (which is plugged into my Macboook Air). I switch between these inputs often, but everytime I switch into to the USB-C input mode mode (which again, is plugged to my macbook) it blanks the screen. I need to unplug and replug the usb-c cable to get the screen working.

When I switch inputs to the Windows Machine, it works consistently. I can switch back and forth between HDMI and USB-C, and the HDMI mode will always show my Windows Desktop. It's just the USB-C input that's troublesome. Switching out of USB-C to HDMI, and then back again causes the screen to just blank.

Mac recognizes the two displays however, but my monitor just says there's no USB-C input. I need to manually unplug and replug the cable each time I switch inputs for it to work as expected.

Additionally, The USB-C cable from my monitor charges my macbook and provide additional USB ports, all of which work fine. It's just the video feed that drops each time


texts: Can you search for tags in OneNote for Mac 2016?

texts:
Searching for tagged content within a notebook in OneNote for Windows is straightforward. There's a Find Tags menu option.

This option does not seem to exist in OneNote for Mac 2016. There's nothing to the right of To Do Tag. Therefore, you can't search your notebook for "discuss with manager", for instance.


texts: Is there a way to manually repair a CoreStorage volume?

texts:
I was playing around with CoreStorage on a test disk and used the undocumented commands cs addDisk and cs removeDisk. The addDisk command worked just fine and was able to expand a logical volume group. When I ran removeDisk, the disk was removed from the LVG and made into a normal partition, but the reference to it in CoreStorage remained.

+-- Logical Volume Group 1B650141-2BB6-4643-93AE-BFE5CB900B2A
=========================================================
Name:         Test
Status:       Offline
Size:         80020942848 B (80.0 GB)
Free Space:   -none-
|
+-< Physical Volume E9A820CA-7C76-424E-8372-C29D944996B2
|   ----------------------------------------------------
|   Index:    0
|   Disk:     disk3s2
|   Status:   Checking
|   Size:     80020942848 B (80.0 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 4FEE6022-ED01-4928-A517-150C11D1B378
    ----------------------------------------------------
    (No properties)

The last physical volume was the one I ran removeDisk on. Attempting to run it again says it does not exist. This completely messes up the LVG and it has to be destroyed in order to work again.

My question is: is there some way of manually telling CoreStorage that the volume is no longer needed and should be removed? Is there a command somewhere like gdisk that can edit the raw Core Storage information?

All of this was done on a test disk just to see how well these commands worked.


texts: Speaker / sound icon doesn't change in menu bar in Big Sur?

texts:
This is a very minor thing, but when headphones were connected under Catalina/Mojave, the sound icon on the menu bar would change to let you know they had connected. But under Big Sur, it doesn't change. Is there any way to get it to change so that there is a visual cue that the sound device has connected?

We can still click on the sound icon to find out which device is connected, I just wonder if there's a way to avoid having to do that:


texts: How to image USB drives without having OS X mount them afterwards

texts: I am using OS X to write USB drives. I have a disk image and am using dd to the raw device to create the drive image. The problem I'm having is that OS X is automatically mounting the drives as soon as they are imaged. I'd like to prevent this behavior. Is there any way to do so?


texts:
Hi,
I would like to write an automator workflow which allows me to install node packages.

I tried with

$ npm insall

but doesn't work any idea how I could solve this?


texts: Is there a way to unlock a password protected iPad?

texts:
A friend's father died a couple of weeks ago. He usually used the same numeric password on all devices. But not on his iPad. I can't even reproduce the password via the fingerprints. The lock time is already at 60 minutes. Is there some kind of an exploit or process at Apple which can help us to retrieve the information from the iDevice or is a full reset the only way to use it?

PS
This isn't a question about morals or ethics. The friend has reasons to try to recover the data. The loss of her father left a million questions open and she thinks there might be answers in his personal data.
I appreciate any answer, but please, don't judge over a fate or a question, before you are sure what the reasons may be.


texts: How to sync multiple calendars (Exchange/Google) on a Mac?

texts:
I have 2 calendars, connected to my Mac in iCal (but I am not wedded to that app);

Work provided Exchange calendar
My Google Calendar (also work, but provided by me)

I want to have both calendars in sync.. I like Google Calendar because I can use it over the web and I am just super happy and comfortable with it, I like the Exchange one to be in sync so everyone else can see my schedule.

I have another problem which I am trying to implicitly solve with this solution, and that is that invites no longer show up properly in GMail (they are plain text and I cannot "accept" them). They do show up however in my desktop mail app..

I would like to know if anyone have any ideas of an app for Mac/OSX (or even an online service) that can keep both calendars in sync (even with some restriction) with minimal ongoing manual work? I've Googled for a few hours with no result..

Thanks a lot in advance..

Daniel


texts:
is there a way to wake the Mac out of a complete power off? I normally don't use the sleep mode,but I also want to wake the Mac sometimes for various reasons (it's a part of my entertainment system).

Any way I can do this?


texts:
I'm having some problems with my Macbook. The primary problem is that I'm unable to log into my admin account since a recent system update. I tried searching for solutions online, but haven't found any yet, I also haven't had time to go to an Apple store.

Now on my User account, a possibly related problem I have encountered is that I cannot access the logs, when I tried to run:

log show | grep 'Wake reason' | grep '2018-06'

I get:

log: Could not open local log store: The log archive format is corrupt and cannot be read

Does anybody have a clue what might be going on?


texts: Are there any other iOS apps other than Mail which can send email?

texts:
I have been trying to find an iOS app which will let me send email from various accounts without going through Mail.app.

I know about the comma trick but that is not what I am after.

I also do not want to setup multiple accounts in Mail.app (which is going to give me multiple Inboxes, even if they are empty).

The closest solution I have found is Ginbox but unfortunately it seems to be broken under recent versions of iOS, and even if it worked, it's not a great solution, since it requires loading each Gmail account separately when you want to send an email from a different account.)

(If it doesn't exist… free iOS app idea!)


texts: Can macOS operate/output video at 144 Hz screen refresh rate?

texts: I am planning to invest in an external 144 Hz display for smooth game developments, now as far as I know macOS outputs video at 60 Hz so if I buy an 144 Hz external display will my MacBook be able to output video/operate at 144 Hz screen refresh rate?


texts: OS X: Can the App Switcher be modified to be more intuitive?

texts:
In OS X Mavericks, when you press ⌘ + Tab, the App switcher shows up. I use this all the time. However, I also use 3 displays, and the App Switcher seems to be less than intuitive.

Apparently the App Switcher is closely tied to the Dock. Whichever display the Dock appears on is where the App Switcher will appear on.

I am aware you can either lock the dock to your "Main" screen, or move it around by hovering at the bottom of the screen. But why would I want to hover at the bottom to see the dock, THEN ⌘ + Tab...

What would seem intuitive to me is one of 2 things:

App Switcher appears on ALL displays at once.
App Switcher appears where your focus is. A few options here: where
your mouse is, where the "in focus" window is, or where you last
typed...

Is there a plugin or something to change this behavior?


texts: Is it safe to charge my iPhone using my lightning cable and someone else’s adapter at the Airport?

texts:
The airport has USB ports that say they are for charging and I don’t know how to tell if this situation is safe.

Is it safe to charge my iPhone by using USB connections that are behind a wall plate in public?


texts: How to store VPN credentials automatically in Keychain

texts:
I have to constantly connect to a VPN (I do this without problems) for work reasons.
The real problem comes when I open any browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) or applications like Slack, because a specific prompt for each application appears asking me again for these credentials.
I used to connect to the VPN and after entering the credentials for the first time they were automatically stored in the Keychain. But I had to update them and they are no longer stored.
I have tried storing them manually, but I am not able to give AuthBrokerAgent access to get them by itself, so I have not achieved anything.
Here you can find some technical details:

OS version: macOS Catalina 10.15.6
VPN client: FortiClient 6.0.9.162

Any suggestions why macOS no longer automatically stores these credentials on the Keychain?


texts: Second monitor on iMac not working with Lion

texts:
I have a mid-2011 Thunderbolt 21.5" iMac. A secondary monitor is connected to the iMac with a Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable (a single cable, not an adaptor and cable).

When I was running Snow Leopard, the monitor worked just fine. After upgrading to Lion, the second monitor just has a black screen, and quickly goes into power save mode.

I have already tried resetting the NVRAM (as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379) and resetting the SMC (as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964).

Has anyone seen this problem? Any other suggestions for solutions?


texts: How do I temporarily relocate my Time Machine backup files

texts:
I have a 1TB WD My Passport external hard drive that I've been using for Time Machine backups. I recently had an issue with it where I can't save to it anymore because it was corrupted. The way to fix it is to reformat the drive completely so I'm trying to copy everything on the drive over to my cloud (BitCasa or Dropbox), reformat the drive and then move everything back.

I have my Music folder on the hard drive and I've been able to move that successfully. When I try to move the Time Machine backups it says:

The volume is the wrong format for a backup.

I know that hard drives have to be 'formatted' to the Mac in order to be used for Time Machine backups but is there a way to just move the backup files around so I can get them off the hard drive. Thanks for your help!


texts:
When I woke up his morning, I had >80 GB of free space on my hard drive. Over the last four hours, in which I wasn't even around, something filled my hard drive completely. I would attach a screenshot, but there isn't even room to save one.

I'm currently looking at around 210GB of 'other' on my 250GB HD - and I have no idea where it came from. It's always been fairly stable until today.

I am, of course, deleting everything I can afford to, but unless someone knows of something huge I can nuke where 'other' is, I don't think I'll be able to get it down to a manageable size.

I have a Time Machine backup. If I restore to it, will it also contain this huge amount of 'other'? Or is there a better option?


texts: MacOS bluetooth audio drops out whenever the audio stream goes silent

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I'm using a Bluetooth speaker in Mojave, and I noticed that every time the video I watch is silent for a second there's an audible click as if the audio stream is being shut off, and when the sound starts again there's another click after which the speaker actually produces sound again. Much too late, of course, which means that when people start talking in videos they get the first syllables cut off. This also means that short and sudden system alert sounds go completely unnoticed since they've finished playing by the time the audio is capable of playing again. Needless to say, it's a big problem.

The whole thing reminds me of those threshold volume levels in video conferences, where you're put on mute until you actually speak so as to not introduce needless noise.

Some details

The problem is with my Macbook Air (2012) — The speaker works fine with the same test video when played from another device, and the problem is reproducible with two different BT speakers.
The choppiness is not random. This happens as soon as the system goes silent. If the audio is continuous, e.g. music, then there are no gaps (except initially when starting playback, of course).
It happens regardless of which app is used for playback. I have tested it in browsers and in native media players.
It is not resolved by turning off and on Bluetooth (using the menubar icon).
It is not resolved by rebooting the system.
It occurs regardless of whether the power cord is plugged in or not.
Did I mention that it's not random? That means it occurs at the same times in the test videos, which means that it's not RF interference. But I shut off wi-fi anyway just to be able to say: turning off wi-fi makes no difference.
MacOS 10.14.1

Is this a known problem? Is there any way to fix it?

Video samples have been prepared but will have to wait since I wrongly assumed they could be hosted just like images.

Video samples

The first video is of the problem. The second is of what it should sound like, using the built in Macbook speakers.

What it sounds like

What it's supposed to sound like


texts: What would cause MySql to have slow performance on a fresh install of Mojave?

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I have noticed slow MySQL performance on my Macbook Pro 2018.

Macbook 2018 System Specs:

15" MacBook Pro 2018
2,9 GHz 6‑Core Intel Core i9
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
1 TB SSD

Tested using mysql-server, mariadb and percona-server with a tested loop of 1000 x SELECT queries.

Result on mac with mojave: 17 seconds.
Result on same mac with VMware + ubuntu 18.04 on it: 6 seconds.

I did another test on other macbook pro with ubuntu installed on it.

Macbook 2017 System Specs:

15" MacBook Pro 2017
2,2 GHz 6‑Core Intel Core i7
16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
256 GB SSD

Tested using mariadb and percona-server with a tested loop of 1000 x SELECT queries.

Result on mac with ubuntu: 9 seconds.

As you can see even VMware is faster as native mysql server. What would make mysql so slow?


texts: OEM macbook pro battery is full, but it won't start

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I have a mid-2009 MBP with a new OEM battery. It only works on charger, but not on battery. The battery status is 'Replace Now' on both Coconut Battery and menu bar.
This is the second OEM battery in a row that has this problem. The sequence of events (for both batteries):

Replace battery and it works, but drains fast (100% to 0% in an hour or so).
Battery capacity starts to drop over a few days (100% - 89% - 84%)
A week or so on, after leaving it in sleep the mac won't start up on battery. But still works on charger.
Battery capacity is 84%, holding 100% charge. Condition is poor, and it's not providing power.

Does anyone have experience in this? I doubt it's 2 batteries with exactly the same problem, in the same sequence. I have heard it may be the power controller on the motherboard that's failed.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks!


texts:
I would like to merge 4 pdfs, pdf1.pdf, pdf2.pdf, pdf3.pdf pdf4.pdf together so that the pdfs are spliced, i.e. the first page will be the first page of pdf1, the second the first of pdf2, the third the first of pdf3, etc.

The pdf files are with plain images, no table of contents.

How would I accomplish this? It would be nice to do it from Terminal as well.


texts: Why does the Terminal app need access to Contacts?

texts:
In Security and Privacy, Terminal has access to Contacts.  It also has access to Calendars, Reminders, and Photos.

Why does Terminal have access to them? I do not know of any Terminal feature which requires them.


texts: When I double click a dmg file it's mounted (or so I assume) in the filesystem. I want to explore the dmg file in the terminal for hidden files (like the background for example), but I'm not sure where it's mounted - I checked /media and /mnt, but it's not there.


texts: How can I bring back my world clock widget?

texts: I love my world clock widget, but today I don't see it. How can I bring it back?


texts:
Can i track my friend's iphone with the help of any app on iphone? Is it really possible? He always tells a lie about location.

I tried many apps on App Store but they all are fake.


texts: I have jumpcut on mac and it is set up to "remember" 40 items, but only 15 items actually show in menu. How can I access the other 25 items?


texts: How to stop Music app from automatically launching when CD is inserted on MacOS Catalina

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I am presently running MacOS Catalina (10.15.1).

Within System Preferences, I have set CD's to do nothing upon being inserted:

Within the Music app preferences, there is NO option to disable the app from opening when a CD is inserted:

The only options available in the highlighted dropdown are:

Show CD
Play CD
Import CD
Import CD and eject
Ask to Import CD.

Why Apple would have one setting that informs the computer not to do something, but another that overrides that confounds me.

My issue is that I don't want the app to start when I insert a CD and I don't know how to resolve this, short of deleting the entire app because it's getting to be very annoying.


texts:
I am considering getting an iPad 2 because of the support for inputting an electric guitar in via an Apogee JAM device. However, part of my bigger picture is to take an MXL .009 USB Condensor Mic into the Garageband app. But I just read that the iPad 2 does not have a USB port on it.

Is there a way to take the audio from a MXL .009 USB mic into the iPad 2 similar to the way the Apogee jam works via the dock connection?


texts:
When I am changing the language layout (English <-> Bulgarian) most of the times I have huge lag or even buggy behavior. The language indicator says one thing, but when I type it is in the other language.
This actually happens on every OSX version I've used the last years (Mountain Lion - Sierra).
Here is a gif of the problem:

Now I'm totally pissed off and I cannot stand it anymore. Any clues of how to fix it?


texts: IOS Different Bundle and Different Country Region app but Use Same Name

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I want to create two iPhone app with different Bundle Ids, and also one App to be available for Canada only and another app to be available for all countries except Canada.

Is that possible and can I use the same name for both applications (knowing that their SKU, primary language and country/regions will be different)?


texts: Can I connect a firewire device and an HDMI display to 2015 Macbook Air with a single Thunderbolt 2 port?

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I have a Korg ZERO4 mixer which has a two firewire ports (not sure if 400 or 800).

I've been using this mixer via a firewire --> thunderbolt adaptor. Now I'm looking to add a monitor connected via HDMI to this setup.

Can I daisy-chain a monitor via the mixer by using a second firewire --> thunderbolt adapter combined with a thunderbolt --> HDMI adapter?

How would I go about figuring out the maximum supported resolution in this setup?


texts:
I added a RSS feed to my favorite paying podcast. Recently I changed the password. Everytime I update the podcast it asks for user and pass. No mater how many times I enter it and select "Remember Password" it will keep asking.

I noticed that when I right click to "Get Info" on my Itunes podcast folder it has the URL in Where with the old password (http://user:MyOLDPassword@www.myFavPodcast.com/members/podcast.xml).

I really don't want to add another RSS feed with the new password. I have already done this and seems to point to the old password.

Is it possible to change this URL?


texts:
How do I prevent my iPhone from giving me the "slide to unlock" screen every time I turn it on?

In other words, when I hit the lock or home buttons, I want to be taken straight to the homescreen, without having to "slide to unlock".


texts: Browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) routes to incorrect server for domain

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I purchased a new domain for my website at Hover.com. I pointed the name servers to my host provider. Everything works smoothly when I access the site on my iPhone, iPad, on my roommate's laptop, or any other machine.

But on my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, when I try to load my website at the new domain, I'm directed to a Hover.com landing page. The old domain (which I still have pointed to the same place) works fine, but the new one does not, and it's only on my machine that I have this problem. Changing browsers does not help. I tried clearing the DNS cache like so

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

but that does not fix the problem. Any ideas? My new domain name is andrewphilipclark.com.


texts: How to disable boot on MacBook Pro when lid is opened?

texts:
My new MacBook Pro powers on automatically when the laptop lid is opened.

Can I disable it ? If yes, then how to do it ?


texts: Is it possible to convert Blurays to my iPad?

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Following on from my previous question, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have a new iPad, so technically capable of displaying HD movies. And I own plenty of Bluray discs.

So I was wondering if it was possible to convert Blurays I own in order to watch them on it?

(Note: Let's set aside the legality discussion since a) laws vary based on jurisdiction and b) the Internet isn't a good place to get legal advice.)


texts: Will reinstall macOS delete the current OS?

texts: Will the current OS be deleted after I reinstall the new version OS by command+option+R?


texts: Is there a way to configure password auto-generation in Safari?

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Is there a way to change the auto-generated passwords Safari generates?  Sometimes, websites don't allow long passwords, and sometimes they don't accept the dash symbol as a valid symbol, and in those cases, I would have to manually input something.  In my case, I would also prefer longer passwords for some websites, e.g., my bank or brokerage account.

If it matters, I'm on the latest MacOS High Sierra.


texts: internet sharing (mojave) AND two-way connection

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I apologize for any confusion bc of the subject line. Explanation:
I am sharing a wireless connection on a Mojave MBP 2012 (ethernet/thunderbolt/USB) with a PC running Win10. The PC is able to surf, so internet sharing is nominally working. Is there a way to also go in reverse? What I mean is, I want to use the same network to connect from the MBP to the PC, for example using Remote Desktop.
My hardware is configured as follows:
wireless router <---> MBP <---> eth <--->|        |<---> eth <---> PC
                                         8-port hub

For separate reasons, I'm not using the default internet sharing settings:
icu-mojave:~ $ ifconfig bridge100
bridge100: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    ether aa:20:66:b1:68:64
    inet 192.168.22.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.22.255
    inet6 fe80::a820:66ff:feb1:6864%bridge100 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xe
    Configuration:
        id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
        maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
        root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
        ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
    member: en0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 7 priority 0 path cost 0
    Address cache:
        84:2b:2b:a5:11:63 Vlan1 en0 1199 flags=0<>
        dc:a6:32:96:3f:b8 Vlan1 en0 1192 flags=0<>
        84:2b:2b:a5:11:10 Vlan1 en0 1187 flags=0<>
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active

My ethernet interface looks like this:

As I mentioned, this "works." The PC is surfing the internet etc - it is set up to get an address conventionally (DHCP) and has the IP 192.168.22.11.
Problem: from the MBP, I can't ping 192.168.22.11. I get a request timeout (as opposed to host down for example). I figure if I can't ping it, I can't do anything else either. For starters, I'd like to connect to the PC using Remote Desktop from the MBP so I can get rid of the extra monitor and keyboard.
OK that's it – is this quest even possible perhaps with a change to bootp settings, or do I need to replace the hub with a router and create a 2nd downstream network? I've read that Apple's NAT doesn't do "true bridging," but I can't evaluate that comment or whether that's the issue even.


texts:
I keep seeing this warning every time I open an new shell on one of my machines:

 Oh My Zsh brew plugin:

  With the advent of their 1.0 release, Homebrew has decided to bundle
  the zsh completion as part of the brew installation, so we no longer
  ship it with the brew plugin; now it only has brew aliases.

  If you find that brew completion no longer works, make sure you have
  your Homebrew installation fully up to date.

  You will only see this message once.

Message keeps coming back even though it threatens that "you will only see this message once."

Thoughts on how to 'fix' this?  It appears to be triggered by mkdir being aliased?!?


texts: Can't delete keychain items with UI, but command line works fine

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When using the Keychain Access app, I am often unable to delete an Web form password item. I have tried hitting the delete key and going to Edit > Delete. In both cases, nothing happens, there is no error message.

I can delete the item if I use the command line version of the tool:

$ security find-internet-password -a "foo@example.com"
keychain: "/Users/simon/Library/Keychains/woodside-mbp.keychain"
version: 256
class: "inet"
attributes:
    0x00000007 <blob>="daw.apple.com (foo@example.com)"
    0x00000008 <blob>=<NULL>
    "acct"<blob>="foo@example.com"
    "atyp"<blob>="form"
    ...
$ security delete-internet-password -a "foo@example.com"
keychain: "/Users/simon/Library/Keychains/woodside-mbp.keychain"
version: 256
class: "inet"
attributes:
    0x00000007 <blob>="daw.apple.com (foo@example.com)"
    0x00000008 <blob>=<NULL>
    "acct"<blob>="foo@example.com"
    "atyp"<blob>="form"
    ...
password has been deleted.

If I now redo the search in Keychain Access, the item is gone.

I am running El Capitan 10.11.4 (15E65), Keychain Access Version 9.0 (55171.20.2), and


texts: How can I save a bmp (bitmap) image file at 16bpp?

texts:
I need to save an image as Windows Bitmap BMP A1R5G5B5 16bpp.
Source files are 32bpp image files (PNG and/or Windows Bitmap).

Preview saves bmp images at 32 bits per pixel (bpp).

XnConvert saves bmp images at 24bpp.

Imagemagick, Acorn, GraphicConverter do not support saving images at 16bpp.

Photoshop can do it, but I don't own it.

Any ideas?

GUI or command line is fine for me.


texts: Right-clicking PDF in Safari shows "Open with Safari.app" not "Open with Preview.app"

texts:
Obligatory system info: I have a late-2013 retina MBP 15" running OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 and Safari 7.0.3, although I've had this bug for years (I think), even on my previous Mac, whose data was migrated to the new Mac mentioned above.

There is an option in the context menu that shows up when one right-clicks a PDF open inline in Safari, which is supposed to be "Open in Preview.app". For a while this displayed "Open in Skim.app" on my Mac (which is another PDF viewing app I have installed), and more recently it has changed to "Open in Safari.app". Regardless of whether it shows Skim.app or Safari.app, clicking on it opens the PDF in Preview, which is what I wanted it to do anyway, so this is not harmful to my workflow. Still, it bothers me that it shows the name of one app (and in the case of Safari.app, one that doesn't even make sense) while opening another.

I tried logging on with the guest user on my computer to see if it is a problem with my user account. There, the context menu says "Open in Safari", without the .app suffix at the end. When clicking on that option, the PDF is opened in Preview.

Also, I still have access to my old computer, whose drive was wiped and the OS reinstalled. I just tried opening a PDF in it, and the context menu says "Open in Preview" as expected. So it's probably some kind of setting that has been changed on my installation, and survived even when I migrated my data from the old to the new computer.

Any ideas what I can do so that the context menu shows "Open in Preview"?


texts: Cannot change login wallpaper in 11.x Big Sur?

texts:
Similar to the question here, is there a way to change the login background wallpaper in Big Sur? During the beta, I was able to do it via a combination of the procedures in Catalina and the bless command described at https://eclecticlight.co/2020/06/25/big-surs-signed-system-volume-added-security-protection/
This doesn't seem to work with 11.0.1 (20B29). It keeps reverting to the com.apple.os.update-779B* snapshot. Note that I am using FileVault.
Thanks


texts: Can I restore items from a Mavericks Time Machine after upgrading to Yosemite?

texts: If I upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite, will I still be able to recover items from my Time Machine backup?


texts: Change shortcut key for "Highlight URL" function in Chrome

texts:
I recently got a Mac in addition to my Linux laptop. I've tried to change around settings so that I don't have to use new shortcuts.

The issue I am facing is that I use Control+L to highlight the URL all the time in Chrome. In Mac, the default shortcut is ⌘+L.

I've changed up some Chrome shortcuts using the App Shortcuts option in  Keyboard Preferences. This triggers menu items when you use your custom keyboard shortcuts. However, there is no menu item for highlight URL, and hence I am not able to use this option.

I've also tried the extension Shortkeys, but it has no function to highlight URL.

I'd like to use the Control+L shortcut on my Mac as well. How do I do this?


texts: WebStorm IDE: How do I put the caret/cursor at the end of every line in a selection?

texts:
In Sublime Text, there's a feature that you can select a block of text and hit Command + Shift + L and it places a cursor at the end of each of those lines.

I am looking for something similar in WebStorm. Sometimes it's just not feasible to go adding carets to every single line in a long file.


texts:
I'm just wondering how this comes:

So there are 3 units sold, but apparently just one of them was paid. Do you know why?
The screenshot was taken when having Transaction type activated.


texts: My iPhoto library takes way too much space on my Mac Air. Can I upload it to the iCloud?

texts: So, the iPhoto library (not to be confused with the "Photos library") takes almost 30 gigs on my 250 gb macbook air. I am curious, I've managed to upload the Photos library to the iCloud reducing it's size to mere 3 GB. Is there any way I can do the same trick with the iPhoto library? As far as I can understand, it's the location for my older photos, taken and uploaded before apple rolled the new photos library in?


texts: How do you change the order that users appear on the login screen?

texts: How would I change it so that one account appears to the right of another in the login screen? I am using the latest software version on a Macbook Air.


texts: Apache truncates files at 65536 bytes after Mavericks upgrade

texts:
I was using a mac-ports based LAMP stack before upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion and all was fine..

After the upgrade, apache has started truncating static files..  If I use curl to fetch a static asset, like a Javascript file, it the connection hangs at 65,536 bytes downloaded.

The file is ok (if you cat the file, the whole thing is readable)
Browser/cURL works fine with other hosts.
Tried OSX permissions check
Tried upgrading macports -> port selfupdate -> port uninstall all -> port clean all -> port install $everything and the behavior continues..
lsof reports that apache is reading all the correct library references to the mac ports versions..


texts: Magnetic timeline in Final Cut Pro X optional?

texts: Is the magnetic timeline on Final Cut Pro X optional? I see the advantages of the magnetic timeline, but nonetheless still prefer dedicated layers as it gives me a much greater sense of control of specific kinds of resources. I have been considering Final Cut Pro X but if the magnetic timeline is imposed upon its users, or if it is optional but there are no significant layer controls when magnetic timeline is disabled such as hide/mute, etc., it's a complete showstopper for me. I'm coming from Sony Vegas Platinum HD 10 to which I migrated from iMovie, and right now Final Cut Pro X looks like going back to iMovie.


texts:
I tried to install the last update of macOS but it gives me this error,
Can anyone help me with that?
Note: I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2014


texts:
I just got a new logic board installed on my Macbook Air (running OS X 10.9.4). Before the repair, I used a time capsule for backup (which has plenty of storage left). When my newly repaired MBA came home from the shop and tried to complete a time machine backup to the capsule, a message popped up that asked if I wanted to restore my previous backups. I selected that option, but it did not complete the backup and now I get an error message that says, "time machine cannot complete the backup because the disk is read only". I performed some simple troubleshooting (i.e., turned time machine off and unplugged the capsule), but no luck.

I read on the Apple support page that I should try mounting the time capsule to my desktop and ejecting it from disk utility. If "mount" means connect, I cannot do that because it usually connects wirelessly and is not showing up in disk utility. (I don't know if it is relevant, but I use the time capsule for wireless internet, and it works just fine.)

Can anyone explain to me (in the simplest, non-jargony terms possible) how I might troubleshoot this problem? I appreciate your help!


texts: Unable to launch app using "open" command in Terminal

texts:
I have recently started using Terminal.app a lot. I figured that open command will be helpful in opening files like HTML, CSS files etc.

I have tried Visual Studio Code app from Microsoft. The app itself is running fine without installation. The problem is when I use command: open -a and press tab, the app Visual Studio Code does not appear.

I wonder if there is a way to install the app correctly? I read man open command depends on LaunchServices, and I can't find a way to register the app with this service.


texts: Change default duration for Calendar events on macOS Mojave

texts: In the Calendar app on macOS Mojave, is it possible to change the default duration for an event from one hour to twenty minutes?


texts: iTunes 12: How Do I Fix a Problem with a Podcast That iTunes Quit Downloading Episodes For?

texts:
iTunes quit downloading episodes for one of my subscribed podcasts. The episodes are listed in the iTunes Store but they no longer download. I tried deleting the podcast and resubscribing but it quits at the same spot.

Is there a way for me to reset iTunes or the podcast to get this working? It's working for other subscribers but not for me. The same happens in the Podcasts app for iPhone.


texts: Renewing iOS Developer Program with Lebanese credit card

texts:
Since I emailed apple three times now and shockingly got no response at all, I am laying out my problem here.

I am trying to renew my developer program using a lebanese credit card that has a lebanese billing address. However Apple is obliging me to pay through the US store using a US credit card (US billing address!)

What am I supposed to do??


texts: Why doesn’t screen capture videos doesn’t show up in Video app or any other video players in iPad?

texts: I’m using the built in screen capture to capture videos. They only seem to show up in the “Photos” app under “Videos” section. I really don’t like the Video player (with frames and stuff at the bottom). Why doesn’t a screen capture show up in “Videos” app or any other external players like VLC? What can I do to change the default player of screen captures on iPad?


texts: May I delete cache and application support for Xcode? I'm using App cleaner

texts:
I downloaded Appcleaner from App store and want to clean up to get some more space.

I have two versions of Xcode; 7.3 and 8.0. So there's no problem with two executable files but I'm wondering what that 'Application support' files are for. The bigger one takes up almost 19 gigabytes..

May i delete that one?


texts: Is there any way to view word documents within Safari on the Mac?

texts:
The title pretty much sums up the question. I have looked, and could not find anything, neither paid, nor free. I know about the DocPreview plugin, however that does not work in Safari 5.1+. There is also the Word Browser Plugin, it was last updated in 2009, and also appears to no longer work.

Is there another method to view Word documents inline in Safari? That is, if I click on a link, I would like to see the document full window in safari, and not be downloaded, forcing me to find the file and open it separately.


texts: SSH connection using public/private key authentication fails only for port 22

texts:
I have been struggling for hours to make sense of a specific failure from connecting to an SSH server from one recent macOS system.

ssh user@machine -p 22

I have added all keys to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the target machine. The keys have been generated with default settings for ssh-keygen.

The server is a freshly provisioned Ubuntu 18.04 instance on Azure, we also tried a different cloud provider.

I can successfully connect with public/private key authentication (PKA) from an Ubuntu machine. I can't connect to port 22 with public/private key authentication (PKA) from the macOS  machine in question.

What am I missing?

Symptoms

For connecting from the macOS machine we observe the following symptoms:

Connection to the server works with password authentication
Connection to the server does not work with PKA
When I start a second SSH server using /usr/sbin/sshd -d -p 2222, connection to the server works with PKA (using ssh -p 2222 on the client)
Same for ports 23, 80
Same behavior using

the built-in SSH client
a freshly brewed one (version 8.1p1 with brew install openssh)
cyberduck

Client logs

I checked the logs of ssh -vvv for both ports. The only difference (apart from host key differences) are the following lines which are missing when using port 22 (this makes it very hard to search for the problem):

debug3: put_host_port: [machine]:2222\
...
debug3: put_host_port: [ip-address]:2222\
debug3: put_host_port: [machine]:2222\
...
debug3: receive packet: type 7\
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received\
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>\

It appears that, when connecting to port 22, the server fails to send (or the client fails to receive) a "packet of type 7" with SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO and kex_input_ext_info.

Client config

The output of ssh -G (which shows the effective configuration) is identical for port 22 and for other ports.

Server logs

When looking at the output of /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd, the following entry is missing for port 22:

debug3: send packet: type 7 [preauth]

The server doesn't send a "packet type 7"; but perhaps this is just an unrelated symptom?

I also see the following differences:

Port 22:

debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 [preauth]
debug2: host key algorithms: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa [preauth]

Port 80:

debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,ext-info-c [preauth]
debug2: host key algorithms: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa [preauth]

Extra entries (compared to port 22):

KEX algorithms: ext-c-info
host key algorithms: rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com

Different order:

ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,

Workaround

For machines that are under my control, I can change the default port of the SSH daemon.

Question

What else can I try to narrow down the problem?


texts: Is it possible to install an iPhone app in MacBook Pro?

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I use an application WeChat in my iPhone a lot, as typing on a smartphone is less convenient than typing on a keyboard, I would like to be able to use that application on my MacBook Pro.

The OS in my MacBook Pro is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63). I have also installed VMWare Fusion.

So I am thinking if it is possible to install a virtual iOS 7 on my MacBook Pro, then install WeChat inside?

Could anyone help?

PS: WeChat does provide a web version where we can chat in a web browser, but it is not as good as the iPhone application, it is unacceptably slow...


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My 13" macbook pro mid 2012 won't get through halfway the loading bar. After pressing the power button, the apple logo appear , i hear the chime, it would load halfway then just shuts off.

I have tried to login with different keyboard commands, but it doesn't even reach the login window. Please help


texts: What causes "Screen Sharing cannot be opened because of a problem"?

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When I attempt to start the Screen Sharing application (/Applications/Screen Sharing.app) on my macOS 10.13.6 MacBook Pro 2017, I get the error "Screen Sharing cannot be started because of a problem". Googling around, I can't find any discussion about this. I've used Screen Sharing in the past without trouble. I've rebooted and my system is up to date with the latest software as of today. Networking is turned on, I'm connected to a network, I'm not out of disk space, and have no other obvious problems with my system.

What can cause this problem, and how can I fix it?


texts: In bash, can test -e look for a file with a semi-variable name using *?

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I have an if then looking for a certain set of files. They all start with lib, so I could either set an if then up for each one or I was hoping there's a way I can use an asterisk.

Here's what I have and what I tried.

 d=myfolder
 if [[ -e $d/lib* ]]; then
  mv /etc/launchd.conf $d/launchd.conf
 else
  2>/dev/null; true
 fi

so as you can see, if any of those lib files are present I want to move the launchd.conf file as well. but the asterisk isn't doing it. Any ideas?


texts: How do I install MacOS Sierra DMG to Bootable USB?

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I have MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) model, and I formatted the whole hard-drive to create partitions on 500GB HDD. So now I don't have any OS installed on MacBook and for booting I use Cmd+Opt+R and It gives me "Internet Recovery" option. After that It prompts me "OS X Utilities". From there I choose "Re-install MacOS" and It gives me Yosemite installation.

The problem is, I don't want to install Yosemite, I want to install macOS Sierra but it is prompting me to download Yosemite. So I downloaded a Install macOS Sierra.dmg file from torrents and now I want to create a Bootable USB drive.

While searching for solutions on net, I found poeple are installing from "Install macOS Sierra**.app**", not from ".dmg" extension.

Quesion

Please suggest me how would I create Bootable USB from Install macOS Sierra.dmg? I don't have "*.app" folder.

I have access to my other machines with MacOS and Ubuntu to make it happen.


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Almost once a day Word opens with the following error:

  Word cannot open the existing global template: Normal.dotm

I then delete Normal.dotm from ~/Library

rm ./Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content.localized/Templates.localized/Normal.dotm

and reopen Word. The file is re-created and everything is fine. After some time (hours) it happens again.

This happens on two different machines with High Sierra (10.13.2) and Word 15.40 (171108)

Any solution? Any idea on what could corrupt Normal.dotm?

Update

When quitting word I also get (see comments) the message

  Changes have been made that affect the global template
  Do you want to save those changes?

And I have no add-ins.


texts: iMovie is not uploading videos to YouTube

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When I click File > Share > YouTube (username) a box pops up, but the "next" button is not highlighted and is not clickable. I've also tried to upload the files from the YouYube website but when I do I get this error and a 0% upload:

"We did not recognize the format of this file, but we will try to process it anyway. See this article on recommended formats for more information."

The file extension is .imovieevent.

What can I do to successfully upload to YouTube?


texts: Chrome loads very slowly while Safari very fast

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Chrome loads any web page very slowly. Even making a google search takes more than 15 seconds while the same occurs in Safari instantaneously. I cleared the cache and disabled NPAPI plugins as described here. But there was not a big change.

What might be the cause for this problem?