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I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010, MacBookPro6,2) which does not switch to battery power when the power adaptor is removed. It simply goes off. However the battery is reported as 100% charged. I can only use the MacBook with the power adaptor plugged in.

When plugging in, the LED shows orange for a few seconds, then switches to green. When I remove the power adaptor for more than a few seconds, the clock resets to Jan, 1 on the next reboot.

The battery is two or three years old but it is not the original one. It is possible that it has degraded over time but even then I would expect it to deliver power for at least a few minutes, so I think the problem is something different. Also the battery worked as usual a few days before.

I tried a SMC reset (shift-ctrl-option-power) which did not fix the problem. Is there a way to find out whether the SMC reset was in fact executed?

Anything else I can do?

Here is the battery info:

Battery Information:

Model Information:
  Serial Number:    W01107AW7D3BA
  Manufacturer:     LMP
  Device Name:      A1321
  Pack Lot Code:    3230
  PCB Lot Code:     30db
  Firmware Version: ddae
  Hardware Version: dac2
  Cell Revision:    2b39
Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):     6996
  Fully Charged:              Yes
  Charging:                   No
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 7033
Health Information:
  Cycle Count: 163
  Condition:   Normal
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA):     0
Voltage (mV):      12508


texts: How to change keyboard layout via keyboard shortcut?

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I like to use both US and German keyboard layout but I find the process of switching between them via mouse tiresome. I want a keyboard-only solution.

Is there a predefined shortcut to change between multiple keyboard layouts, or if not, how could I define such a shortcut?


texts: Font of calendar in Preference pane of macOS

texts: What font is used in the calendar of macOS Date & Time preference pane?  Like the left box of this image, where it says Nov 2018 and Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa and 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 ....


texts: Where are updated Apple security guidelines for recent OS X versions?

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Pardon my paranoia; but with an 80,000-strong[#] global work force, one would think the need to cover important security guidelines for users would easily be met with each new OS X release. Yet a glance at apple's security page reveals that the last update was for 10.6 Snow Leopard, a long, long time ago for internet age.

So where are the security config guide updates for Lion, Mountain Lion & Mavericks?


texts: Charge MacBook 12" while connected with Google's USB-C to DisplayPort cable

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I have a MacBook 12" that I connect to my Dell 4K screen with a Google USB-C to DisplayPort cable (this one)

It works perfect. But now I am not able to charge the MacBook while connected because the cable takes the only USB-C port available.

So I need some kind of USB-C or a adapter that puts voltage on the cable back to the MacBook. Both I did not find yet.


texts: Can I make iconify-window binding work when minimize using window manager

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I can bind a function to run when Emacs iconifies a frame

(defun my-handle-iconify-frame()
  ;; I actually do something more useful than this...
  (message "my-handle-iconify-frame")
)
(define-key special-event-map [iconify-frame] (function my-handle-iconify-frame))

This runs my my-handle-iconify-frame function when I use M-x iconify-frame or a key binding that calls that function.

However, it does not run when I use the iconify icon (-) in the window frame.

I also tried adding before advice on iconify-frame but that also is not called when I iconify a frame via the window frame icon.

Is there some other hook or binding where I can set window manager event handlers?

I'm running GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org


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I added a subtitle to a mp4 file use ffmpeg, I can turn on/off the subtitle with quickplayer on MacOS. However, the native player on iOS Photos app no longer have subtitle control/support for mp4 video file.

I try to use VLC but found VLC even does not have access to Camera Roll on iOS device.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=148089&p=486194&hilit=ios#p486194

Then I try to use PlayerXtreme to do the same thing, although it claims to have subtitle support in a paid upgrade version, but it still cannot load the subtitle correctly. I upload the video file in case anyone want to test.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzdf10m4xqw7bmr/outfile.mp4?dl=0


texts: Macbook Pro 2015 Lid seemingly overnight stopped from closing properly

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When I plugged my Macbook Pro (Early 2015) yesterday, the lid was closing perfectly. This morning I woke up early and left without checking on the laptop. 8 hours later, I came back and realized the lid wasn't closing properly by a huge margin (look at picture).
It's like something is preventing it from closing all the way... I'm currently in vacation in a hot country and few months ago I received some warnings about changing the battery. Could it be that the battery is getting swollen and is deforming the case preventing the lid from closing properly?
If so is it dangerous? Will it stop getting swollen if I stop using the Macbook? I kind of want to repair it myself but I don't want to wait a month to replace the battery if it's dangerous...
Thank you for your help

Here the information on the system information panel:

EDIT: I Just checked on a flat surface and the bottom case is definitely deformed:


texts: I have a self extracting exe file that is password protected, does anybody know of a program that will open this? If I need to I can just run bootcamp, but it would be convenient to not have to do this.


texts:
On MacOS 10.12 Sierra (or/and OS X 10.11 EI Capitan) how can one use the passwords for ssh keys stored in the keychain headless?

If one ssh-es in and left a local session running one can see ssh-agent is available

launchctl list | grep ssh
ps ax | grep ssh-agent

and can be used by setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(ls -t1 /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd*/Listeners | head -n 1 );
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;

But as soon as the local user logs out the remote session can't use an ssh-agent backed by keychain anymore (no output for the first 2 commands). I tried;

sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openssh.ssh-agent.plist

but it fails to help, and

eval "$(ssh-agent -l)"

fails with launch_activate_socket(): No such process, and

eval "$(ssh-agent)"

fails to connect to the existing socket /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.*/Listeners instead using /var/folders/*/*/T/ssh-*/agent.*.

security login-keychain

outputs /Users/*/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db regardless.
It might be possible to trigger a local login but I want to avoid that.


texts:
I got frustrated from turning on my Retina MBP and waiting a few seconds while the systems  loads from Deep Sleep Mode.

I disabled it using sudo pmset -a standby 0

However, I would like to know what I am missing now. Will I start losing a lot of battery power while the laptop is sleeping normally (basically not in Deep Sleep Mode) ?

For example, in 1 hour (or 2-5 hours), how much percentage will battery I lose on Sleep mode, and how much would I lose when its in Deep Sleep Mode ?


texts: How Do I Override the Addition of the folder for the Server app version of PostgreSQL?

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I am currently using RVM for managing different gemsets for different versions of Ruby.  RVM has made changes where the RVM folders must be listed first or else I have to manually set the gemset each time.

I also plan to use postgres.app for my PostgreSQL database instead of using the installation from Apple.  It also requires its override to be first in PATH.  This is because when I source .bashrc it automatically places the path for the server app before anything else.  I'm using the server app for DNS setup and hosting one website (for now).

Here are my statements in .bashrc:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
PATH="$PATH:$HOME:/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/bin/ruby:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin:/usr/bin/psql"

Here is the output for echo $PATH:

/Users/username/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@gemsetname/bin:/Users/username/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@global/bin:/Users/username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin:/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin:/Users/username/.rvm/bin:/Users/username/.rvm/bin:/Users/username:/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/bin/ruby:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin:/usr/bin/psql

My bash knowledge is limited.  I'm not sure if RVM is adding these folders or if it is something with the server app.  I already have my database created using postgres.app.  I want to know if there is a way to override the server app folders or at least get my folder for postgres.app to list first in PATH.

System info: Mavericks 10.9.5, Server app 3.2.2, RVM version 1.26.10


texts: Place page number in a Pages document using AppleScript

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How do I get the page number of each page and place it on the actual page using AppleScript?

I know how to place text in a placeholder text box, but I cannot figure out how to get the page number in AppleScript.


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I have just bought a new SSD from Crucial for my iMac 9,1. I have plugged the disk in via a SATA to USB connector and I am displayed with the message

The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.

When I click on the initialise option it takes me to Disk Utility where usually I would expect the disk to appear in the side tab for it to be partitioned and then cloned for it to then be installed into my iMac however it does not display in the side menu so I do not know what to do, any advice or help will be perfect


texts: Is iphone's mail App using predicitve autocomplete based on recent interactions?

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Apple’s mail app for iPhone seems to use predictive algorithms in the “send to” field. When I type “t” it autocompletes my own email addresses instantly in a list directly below the “Send to” from which I can touch and choose without having to type the entire email address. I send documents to myself all the time.

“T” is also the first letter in my first name. But below my addresses, & sometime above them, autocomplete offers “bob bobson (SET Team)” It has two “t’s, but they occur, as you can see, much later in the “name string”.

All my contacts starting with “t” are listed as choices below “bob”.

The “bob” contact is someone who I interact with more often than any of the other “t” contacts (via phone calls, emails), so is iOS predicting “bob” first on the list because of the recent interactions, similar to the way Facebook's algorithms work? I want to stop this behavior. Recently, suddenly, autocomplete started putting "bob" as the First choice ABOVE my name & I chose it without realizing & the message was sent to "bob". By repeating the process, I found that what I conjecture above is happening.

am I correct?
If I'm correct, how do I STOP this behavior?

Anyone with good knowledge of Apple’s iOS Mail app’s behavior would be appreciated.


texts: Lion/Mountain Lion Mission Control used with CTRL+# (10.6 Spaces-like)

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Is there a way to still use Control+# (e.g. Control+1, Control+2, ...) to switch to a particular Desktop? In Spaces' parlance: to a particular Space? I have difficulties swiping the trackpad and could use the old shortcut?

Also: Could I configure a particular App to open in a particular Desktop number, like in Snow Leopard?


texts: Access to Lenovo ix2 (NAS) is extremely slow when mounted in Finder

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I'm trying to mount a NAS share (Lenovo ix2) with the Finder in MacOS Catalina 10.15.6.
If I try to connect to such a server, all runs smoothly. However, once I'm in, when I try to open up folders containing several files, the access is really slow. Looks like it takes ~15 seconds to build the file lists. I've already tried with smb://, cifs:// and afp://.
The same share works fine in Windows without any lag.
Is there a way to fix this delay in MacOS?


texts: Spotlight always asking if it should reopen already opened xls file

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I am a fan of Spotlight and always tend to use it for navigating through my opened apps and docs. However I found out, that when it comes to xls files that are already opened, I get a popup with a message asking me to confirm if I would like to reopen a file or use an existing one. It looks like: "filename.xls is already open. Reopening will cause any changes you made to be discarded...".

I wonder is there a way to skip getting the popup message and just focus to an already opened xls window?

I am using Yosemite
Microsoft Office Excel 2011 14.2 version


texts: How can I make sure that all songs sync to my iPod?

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I have a 160GB iPod and it only syncs old music to my iPod.

I buy new songs and it will not sync them. I have probably 150 songs that will not sync (purchased songs). I did run diagnostic and it says iTunes helper is not working. Not sure what that is and not sure if it has anything to do with it.

How can I fix so that all songs sync to my iPod?


texts: Can forced shut down damage OS security?

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Few times I've had to forcibly shut Mac down by holding power button.

I heard it causes file system damage.

Could any of such corruption to file system weaken Mac's overall security, damage files OS uses for security purposes?

For example Gatekeeper not functioning properly (allowing something to slip through), Mac's own anti-malware checker letting something slip, some Apple's security updates not working - overall something in system weakening so that  malicious party could gain access to Mac through Internet.

I have asked about hard drive damage here.
Can damaged hard drive weaken Mac's security?
This ask is about file system damage. I hope this isn't breaking rules, but for me they are different categories I started thinking about while learning more.


texts: How to earth a MagSafe2 adaptor for 15" MacBook Pro with retina display?

texts:
There is no earthing pin, only a socket with a metallic rim. Will it require some special socket that has a projecting earth pin?
This is for use in India @ 230W. My adaptor is 85w.


texts: Cloning macs within a context of no internet access

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I'm shipping a project which my client (the army) wants to run on new MacMinis2019, which they, being less tech saavy consider a whole (the mac with all the software and configuration installed on it is the product).

These machines are deployed in "Internet-free" zones entirely cut from the internet in order to avoid possible leakages of sensible data.

As part of the many procedures they wish to have access to, one of them is to clone one of the macs onto another one which may be presenting behavioural defects in the software, or whatever... it's no longer doing what they want and the quick and easy fix for them is or rather used to be (with old 32bit MacMinis) to clone a "working" one onto a "broken" one in order to have them all work once again.

I'm having trouble holding up this part of the bargain with the new Macs especially given the no internet constraint.

Here's what I've tried.

I plug in a thunderbolt cable between the two macs, I boot the broken one holding T so it has the thunderbolt logo on screen.

then I boot into the other normally and install and run Carbon Copy which I then use to clone.

The process is error-free and I even sometimes reboot the affected machine to a sucess... once and then on the new reboot it shows me the question mark logo.

sometimes I get this straight away.

I try rebooting holding R to access the disk utility and run First Aid. I then try to select a startup disk from the apple main menu and select the Hard Drive and click "Restart..." but I get a message saying :

  You can't change the startup disk to the selected disk.

  An internet connection is required to update this startup disk. Check
  the network connection and try again or select another startup disk.

As I explained above resorting to connecting to the internet is utterly unacceptable for my client.

Why is this happening? is there a better way to clone? is there a command line to type or some other solution to not be prompted for internet connection?


texts: How to disable iPhone notifications from Facebook Places?

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I've got this long-running annoyance about the Facebook iPhone app.

Now, I do want notifications from Facebook e.g. when someone posts on my wall/timeline or mentions me in a comment.  However, every now and again, some of my friends check in (or whatever it's technically called) somewhere with Facebook, and I get a big alert about it:

I most certainly do not want these notifications! And I don't really follow why Facebook considers someone's random check-in an event that I should be notified about.

Question is, how can I disable these—or all Facebook Places related notifications, while at it? Are there any settings on the Facebook website related to this?

I'm asking at Webapps SE, and not e.g. Apple SE, because I'm pretty sure the iPhone app doesn't have any related settings. The only FB notification setting I see is this one:

(...and as said, I wouldn't want to turn off all FB notifications.)


texts: Looking for a free/cheap backup solution on OS X for NTFS external HDD

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I'm looking for an incremental backup system on OS X that plays nice with USB NTFS-formatted external HDDs. I am currently using NTFS-3G to work with the HDD, but since Time Machine doesn't work with NTFS drives, I have just been manually copying files from my HDD to back it up (ugh).

I need to use an NTFS drive because I am going back and forth between Windows machines at my school and a Mac at home. I have no permissions at my school to install any Windows software, so I am forced to find an OS X solution.


texts: Time Machine Full, But Only One Backup (or, what are .RecoverySets and why do they take up so much space?)

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Something crazy is going on with Time Machine. I upgraded to Mavericks yesterday with no issues. After performing a final backup on Mountain Lion, I disconnected my backup drive out of an abundance of caution, just in case I wanted to use it to roll back to 10.8. I plugged it back in today and let it do its thing, and got an out of space warning. I wasn't too worried about this, since I had been getting these previously (in the past, TM didn't do the best job estimating the space required and removing old backups).

Upon investigation, I discovered that only the most recent backup (from before the upgrade) was available. I double checked this in Finder and Terminal to confirm, and it appears correct. The Time Machine preferences showed the last backup as October 6, which seemed a bit more reasonable, but I saw no evidence of those files actually existing. The only sure thing I could determine was that something was taking up a lot of my backup volume — out of a ~750 GB volume, only 50 GB was free (Time Machine is estimating 154 GB needed, although only ~140 GB are used on my boot drive).

After further digging, I discovered what was taking up all the space. The hidden .RecoverySets folder, within the Backups.backupdb folder on my Time Machine volume. In it are more than 1,200 sequentially numbered folders, each with a com.apple.recovery.boot subfolder, containing a 419 MB BaseSystem.dmg file. Based on the md5 hashes, these dmg files are all identical, and in total add up to nearly 600 GB (or, the vast majority of the space on my Time Machine volume).

tl;dr

Missing Time Machine backups after 10.9 upgrade. Don't appear in Finder or Terminal.
Lots of folders in Backups.backupdb/.RecoverySets taking up the majority of space on my TM drive.

Additional Info

2012 iMac running 10.9 (release build, no developer previews), upgraded from 10.8 via standard App Store install.
Time Machine drive is an encrypted volume, with another volume on the same drive used by SuperDuper (which appears to be unaffected).

Questions

Are my old backups completely gone? (I'm thinking yes.)
What are the folders within the .RecoverySets folder, why have they been gobbling up space, and what can I do to prevent it in the future?
What do you suggest I do now for Time Machine backups? I'm leaning towards scrapping it altogether and starting fresh, but I am concerned about running into this issue again.

I'm not terribly concerned about the data loss at the moment — I have two other separate backups — but I do want to ensure the integrity of my backups in the future. Any info you can provide would be appreciated.


texts: Will my data on the Macbook Pro be destroyed if I upgrade to macOS Sierra from OS X El Capitan?


texts: How do I stop my computer name from automatically, and incorrectly, changing?

texts:
Ever since I upgraded my 2009 iMac to Mavericks, I often get a message stating 'The name of your computer "Foo" is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to "Foo (2)".'. The number at the end will continuously increment over time as the same error keeps happening.

It is trivial enough to rename the computer back, but is there a way to prevent this from happening in future? I had an old Macbook Pro (running Mountain Lion) that had the same issue, but my early 2013 MBP running Mavericks doesn't seem to be suffering from this issue.


texts: iTunes not getting updated via App Store on OS X El Capitan

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I am running iTunes 12.2.2.25 on OS X El Capitan. App Store is showing me update to iTunes (12.3.1) but its not getting updated. Multiple times I have click "Update" button (link) near shown update but nothing happens.

Please help.


texts: How to make Mail.app to delete Gmail messages to trash when pressing the keyboard delete button?

texts:
When I accidentally pressed delete on mail in Mail it removed the incoming mail permanently!

How can I change this behaviour so that when I press delete on the keyboard, it will remove it from the inbox to a trash folder, and not delete it forever(it was deleted it from my gmail server, so I couldn't restore it!)

I'm used to such behaviour from Outlook.


texts: Does Do Not Disturb mode turn off automatically?

texts: If I turn on Do not disturb mode from control center, will it automatically turn off in the morning?


texts: Is there a way to get my wife's iPhone to go on silent automatically during the time?

texts:
My wife puts her phone on silent at around 10pm as the games notifications disturb sleeping children, she keeps forgetting to put it back in the morning.
Is there an automated way to put the phone on silent during the period between 10pm-7am?


texts:
I'm trying to install macOS Mojave beta from the app store.
I have a 2009 iMac (iMac9,1) and apple has giving me an error when trying to download it from the App Store:

  macOS Mojave cannot be on this Mac.

I am familiar with macOS High Sierra Patcher.  It successfully patched my Mac without any problems.  Since Mojave is so new, there has not been a patch released for that version.  I was wondering if there was a way to manually patch it and get the file since the App Store won't let me download it.


texts:
I just switched from OS 10.9 to OS 10.14, and the character viewer (aka "Show Emoji & Symbols") looks like this:

Where have all the other Unicode blocks (e.g. Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Georgian, Phonetic Symbols) gone? How do I get them back?
(Also, what do I tag this as? keyboard and character are the only two suggestions, they don't seem appropriate, but I'm out of ideas…)


texts: After updating to Big Sur the process "opendirectoryd" is using 70% cpu

texts:
I've just updated my Macbook Air to Big Sur.
After the update the process opendirectoryd is constantly using about 70% of cpu.
I've searched for the same problem, I haven't found any Big Sur related problems. There were recomendations to disable LDAP and/or Active Directory, but I'm not using any.

After killing the process it appears again. I've searched /var/log/*.log, but I haven't found any errors that can help fix this problem.


texts: Why do some Unicode text messages crash the iPhone OS?

texts:
Recently a new "glitch" has surfaced over the Internet over the last few weeks where if an iPhone user is sent:

  effective.
      Power
           لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
 冗

via iMessage it crashes the phone OS temporarily and force restarts the receiving phone.

Why does this work?


texts: Include a web page in the Mac Notifications Centre?

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I'd like to have my security camera web page in my notifications centre.
The only app I found claims to allow viewing web pages in the notifications centre is https://apps.apple.com/au/app/glimpse-webpage-widgets/id964371800?mt=12 but it was last updated 5 years ago (costs $2.99) and doesn't have enough reviews to display. Its website link is dead.
Does anyone know of a better alternative, or whether this one works?


texts: How do I create totally independent web browsers in different Desktops?

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Help! I just got a Mac Air that's running Mavericks, and I was playing with the different desktops. I had Safari open on each, and they both had totally different tabs open. I shut it down, and now, they're mirroring each other. When I close a tab on one desktop, it closes on the other, too.

In Mission Control, "Displays have different Spaces" IS checked

In Display, "Mirroring Options" is NOT checked.

What do I do, so that each web browser is totally independent?


texts: How to stop Mail from forwarding all emails from one Gmail to another

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I have 2 Gmail accounts. When I tried adding one of them to the Mail app, something really annoying happened. The other Gmail account keeps receiving forwarded emails from this account. All emails in this added account were being forwarded there and I did not know how to stop that. I checked the Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings in both Gmails but there's no forwarding configured. I disabled POP, too. I tried disconnecting the two Gmail accounts in Google's setting, but problem still not solved. I don't understand, by now this account should know nothing about the other, but when I add it to the Mail app, the crazy forwarding started again.

Just to be clear, I only added one of the two Gmails to the Mail app, so the Mail app should not know anything about the other account. Then the wrong must be in Google's side, but I disconnected them and checked every setting, still have no clue why they still are linked somehow. I did nothing strange before, just having this two Gmail accounts and trying to add one to the Mail app, so I guess it shouldn't be a rare problem. But there seemed to be no relevant solutions when I googled. Could someone help me with this? Does anyone have a similar problem?


texts: Recreating iTunes library from a .itdb file?

texts:
My Windows laptop (and HDD) have died, taking with it iTunes and my music. Things could have been a lot worse, but I fortunately have a back up of my mp3s. However, I have lost the iTunes library containing all my play counts, last played, ratings etc.

I am keen to recover this data and have bought software to access my iPod Touch as a hard drive which has enabled me to view the underlying files. However I don't seem to be able to find a version of the iTunes Library.itl (or iTunes Music Library.xml) file which would contain the meta data I need.

The only seemingly useful file I can find is the library.itdb file, which seems about the right file size to contain the data I'm looking for.

My question therefore is can anyone advise if there is a way of recreating the library .itl or .xml file from this .itdb (iTunes database) file?

NB. I have managed to extract the meta data I need, but the program I am using creates its own paths to the mp3 files, which would leave every track broken.


texts: Create multiple files with different extensions with one command

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I am looking for a way to create multiple files with one command and automate the process.
They should share a common name but different extensions. The extensions are always the same.
For example index.js, index.css, index.html
So instead of using
touch index.js, index.css, index.html

I would like to have an miracoules command which does something like this:
*miracle* index

and 3 files are created.


texts:
I have a Canon Pixma MX870 and I downloaded and installed drivers from Canon's site.

I've got it configured on two other macs in my house and it works fine.

When I tried to add the printer using the standard OS X on a new MBP, the preferences app doesn't automatically see the printer. I have added it via IP address and manually chosen the appropriate drivers.

So, the first question is -- why didn't the mac see it properly?

When I try to print, the job shows up in the local print queue, but then shows a message saying that "the printer is busy". I can printer from the other computers on my network without problem.

The second question is -- what can I do about the "the printer is busy" message? (I suspect if I resolve the first problem, this one will be a non-issue).

For what it's worth, I configured the printer on the other computers when they were running 10.6 (Snow Leopard), the new laptop is running 10.7 (Lion).


texts: Why does "Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly" occur often in macOS Sierra?

texts: "Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly" seems to occur very often after upgrading to macOS Sierra. Are there any solutions?


texts: Yosemite 10.10.05 - Distorted text and toolbar in application?

texts: When trying to run the bluegriffon web designer application(ver 1.7.2), on a Macbook Air running Yosemite 10.10.05, text and some menus appear distorted and almost unreadable. We've tried restoring the system fonts to default using font book and changing the display resolution and nothing seems to work. This application runs fine on a 2014 Macbook Pro 15inch running the exact same OS. Puzzled as to what is causing this.


texts: Outlook 15.27 Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E shortcuts no longer working

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I often have to use the Ctrl A and Ctrl E shortcuts to get to the start and end of lines in Outlook, and it looks like in the latest version (15.27), these no longer work.  Instead Ctrl A behaves like Windows and selects everything, and Ctrl E doesn't seem to do anything.

I can't figure out anything in settings or another way to override this behavior - has anyone encountered this or figured out a workaround?


texts: Cannot find my Miniconda Python installation after switching from bash to zsh

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Recently after upgrading to Catalina, the terminal changed from bash to zsh, and I lost my Python installation.
My Python was installed with Miniconda, but now I can't find it anymore, I can only see the system default Python.
% which -a python
/usr/bin/python
% ipython
zsh: command not found: ipython

How can I find out where my Python installation was and how can I make the zsh terminal to use my conda Python?


texts: Change in sleep behaviour on MacBook Pro and ignoring settings on Yosemite

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Recently (possibly since the 10.10.5 upgrade, but not sure) my MacBook Pro mid 2012 (non-retina) changed its sleeping behavior and I cannot seem to restore it. For years, I used a 48 hour hibernate delay (autopoweroffdelay). So when I close the lid or the sleep timer kicks in, my MBP would sleep (i.e. suspend to RAM) and pulse the Sleep Indicator Light (SIL) for 48 hours.

But recently my Mac will wake after approximately 1 hour of sleep and go into another sleep mode. I believe it is standby, because the SIL will turn off, but when I open the lid it takes only slightly longer than after the regular sleep state. In hibernate / autopoweroff it would take a while to load the RAM content back from the disk (which is not the case here). This does not happen when a USB disk is connected.

Here comes my pmset -g:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         172800
 standby              1
 womp                 0
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 gpuswitch            2
 sms                  1
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            0
 sleep                10
 autopoweroffdelay    2880
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

So my questions are:

Have you heard about any recent sleep-related changes in OS X Yosemite? How come my Mac suddenly ignores its settings?
What standby state am I dealing with? See my guess above.
And of course, how to make my settings work again?

What I tried so far (will update):

SMC & NVRAM reset
Onyx maintenance
Set all timers anew, e.g. sudo pmset -a autopoweroffdelay 2880, etc.
Change hibernatemode to 3 as suggested by @rewozz


texts: Applescript to read facebook notifications

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I am very new to applescript as well as programming. I am trying to find a way for applescript to access my facebook unread notifications and whatsapp web unread chats and read it out to me.

I can use applescript to access mail or other mac apblications am facing difficulty with accessing the notifications and chats in google chrome browser. Is it possible to do it?


texts: Is there a Remote Desktop Connection manager for mac that will connect to Windows machines?

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I am managing 4 Windows VM's on a network for running tests. I would like a Remote Desktop Connection manager that makes it easy to connect and switch between network machines.

I am due for a hardware upgrade, and would like to switch to a Mac for a variety of reasons, but being able to manage my RDP sessions easily is a must.

Free software is a plus.


texts: I can't find a setting to disable WINS in Network settings

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In my Network settings under WINS I have the NetBios name (elly) that I would like to disable (kill).

The message shows that the "elly"is currently been used ?

By whom, for what ?

There a bunch of messages in the Console with for example elly.local WindowServer ?? what server ? I do not have one ?

My search on Google and here did not help.

I tried deleting the NetBios name, but it comes back!

Also tried the without success!

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.netbiosd.plist

I have no local network, nor any workgroup set up, just a lone wifi connection to the world.

Running Hostname in Terminal shows "Elly.Local"

I would not mind using Terminal to kill it, but I'm just wondering whether there's any UI-based way to just turn off all of this stuff. I am not a big fan of running services I'm not using.

MBA 10.8.4


texts: Stuck in update boot (not enough disk space)

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I'm currently having a Macbook Air 120GB SSD where I tried to update the OSX to El Capitan. Very first it did not want to update due to lack of disk space.

After I cleared up some photos so it had around 3-4 GB available space, the installer of OSX launched and started loading, after few minutes it booted into a setup-only mode, where you only see the setup and select language and click next-next-next, but at this point it now stops me saying "not enough disk space".

That's fair enough, but now I'm stuck in this bootmode, if I turn off or reboot my Mac, it reboots into this installer again and I can't really exit and get back to my OSX to delete more files to free up some diskspace. I'm basically stuck in the updater itself when booting.

Any suggestions how I can get out of this boot and back to the original OSX, so I can free up some space? Thanks in advance.


texts: How to change a search direction in terminal

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I'm under OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. When I try to search in terminal text by cmd+F it starts to search from the beginning rather than from the end backwards as it was in terminal on Ubuntu.

So how can I change the search direction to start a search from the end in terminal?


texts: Can I use a jailbroken iPhone on Virgin Mobile?

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I am no longer on a contract with AT&T. Virgin Mobile has an awesome Beyond Talk plan for $25 (unlimited text, data, web, well I guess a max of 5.5Gb). Can I use a SIM card from a Virgin Mobile phone on my jailbroken iPhone?

Also, is it possible to buy just a SIM card from Virgin?

TIA


texts: Is there a command line utility to display a string or an image in the status bar in Mavericks?

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Basically I want to issue a command in a bash script or an Apple Script
and see some string (or icon) in the status bar aka "where the clock is".

Something similar to osascript but for the status bar:

/usr/bin/osascript -e 'display notification "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with title "Title"'


texts: Blue bar for "Google Maps is Using Your Location" missing

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Typically, if Google Maps is closed while in use, there will be a blue bar indicating that Google Maps is still in use. Recently this bar has stopped appearing for me.

Why might the location bar have stopped showing up?


texts: How to display iPhone/iOS device on Projector?

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I want to display my iPod screen in my PowerPoint slide show, or on a projector through WiFi.

How can I do that?

I mean something like what TeamViewer can do.


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I am looking for some help on correcting this error:

  error "System Events got an error: Can’t get menu item \"Clear History...\" of menu \"Safari\" of menu bar 1 of process \"Safari\"." number -1728 from menu item "Clear History..." of menu "Safari" of menu bar 1 of process "Safari"

My code is:

tell application "Safari"
    launch
    activate
    if not (exists document 1) then
        make new document at front
    end if
end tell
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "e" using {option down, command down}
    tell process "Safari"
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu "Safari"
                tell menu item "Clear History..."
                    click
                    every UI element
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
        tell window 1
            tell sheet 1
                tell button "Clear History"
                    click
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu bar item "Develop"
                tell menu 1
                    click menu item "Empty Caches"
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell


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I have a 64GB USB (3.0) drive that is "compatible" with Mac OS. I can copy files from/to the disk at will. However, I want to move a file that is about 6GB to the disk. To my surprise, an error message appears saying that the file is too large for the volume's format !!

Now I know I have 50GB left on the disk, so can someone tell me a way that can just force the file into the disk and ignore the warning message ?


texts: Where do Adobe AIR applications cache video files?

texts:
I have various players that play videos from websites, I want to know where those videos are cached.
Because it's AIR, I suppose it's caching in a particular place, but I can't find it.


texts: How do you erase pictures from the Photo Stream album on an iPhone running iOS 5?

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I have recently upgraded to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and am loving it.  One issue I've run into is that my iPhone adds my recently taken photos to an album named "Photo Stream" whenever I'm on WiFi.

The Photo Stream album seems to have the same properties that an album I had synced with iTunes would have; meaning I can't delete photos.

I have my iPhone syncing with iCloud, but I can't find any mention of synced pictures on icloud.com.

How do I erase pictures I don't want from the Photo Stream?  Do I have to delete them from my Camera Roll?


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I am running OS X 10.9.2 on a late 2011 Macbook Pro. I created a Windows 7 install usb using bootcamp successfully but the startup screen is not recognizing the usb on reboot. Please help.

Note: I had to create a 30 GB windows partition manually as the bootcamp option for the same was disabled.


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Videos shot with iOS are saved as MOV container. MOV is not supported by Android. So what is the best way to email a video to Android? I'm really surprised I couldn't find an easy answer for this with googling. It would be great if it automatically transwrapped to MP4.

I don't want to use a computer, and I would prefer not to use a third-party app if possible.


texts: How can I change the target resolution of a VNC Server

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Here is my question: How can I change the geometry of a VNC Server on MacOS? All I want is to get some benefits from the fact that I'm connecting to remote 13' MacBook using 27' iMac.

As far as I understand, neither default MacOS VNC server nor Vine VNS does not provide a possibility to set the geometry.

The closest thing related to the issue I've succeeded to find so far is this discussion. So, I guess, the question can be boiled down to how can I change the resolution of the screen (and, to be honest, I believe that such thing should be done for free in a decent OS :).

Of course, more elegant rather than hacks with switching current resolution
solutions will be favored.


texts: How to choose personal credit card instead of family credit card for app purchase?

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I have an Apple account and I'm on a share plan with my family, as we share Apple Music. I want to make app purchases, but I want to buy apps on my own, with my own credit card.

Is this possible? Or do I need 2 devices with 2 separate Apple IDs?


texts: Black screen when booting into Mac , external monitor works

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I've Macbook Pro (Reina Mid 2016) , Graphics: Iris Pro .

I tried to install windows 10 using Boot Camp , it seemed to work. I was able to boot into windows.It worked for about 30-40 minutes and suddenly black screen. I figured it's graphics driver for windows failing. I did hard reboot and was able to boot again. After a while resolution changed and got notification graphics driver failed. I got black screen rebooted couple of times and same thing happened and after a point never recovered. I thought , it's corrupted graphics driver so uninstalled Bootcamp windows altogether. Nothing , still black screen tried following to no avail.

1) Reset PRAM , NVRAM
2) Reset SMC
3) Drained battery and reset again
4) Able to see , on external monitor so not an issue with setup.
5) Can't see backlight , Apple logo at back not lighting up. Nothing on screen , not even Apple logo loading same can be seen on external monitor though.

Please , let me know if something can be done. I would greatly appreciate that !


texts: I want to back only one or some of my folder with time machine. Is it possible somehow to back them? And so I can maybe push down the datastore requirement down below 8GB, and so a flash drive will be enough to be always with me.


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Short story: I would like my Macbook to connect to my iPad so that the applications on the iPad are available to be shown on the Macbook.

Longer story: I teach an online course. I connect to the website (Blackboard if you are interested) through my Macbook and I can share my screen and applications through Blackboard (an option not available when connecting through an iPad) so that my students see my Macbook scree, the slides there etc.. I use a lot of graphs in my teaching and I would like to use an iPad to draw the graphs as I can draw them there in real time, rather than having to create them beforehand.

I have a Macbook (mid 2014) with OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (I will update the os at the end of the term) and an iPad Air 2 version 11.2.5.

I have tried Duet and Air Display but I have realized that those apps just extend the Macbook screen, using the iPad as a second screen. That is not what I want. I want to be able to show, through my Macbook, the drawing apps I am using on my iPad. I have a lightning to USB cable and so I can physically connect the iPad to my Macbook. Thanks.


texts: How to block an email thread from notifications in Yosemite

texts: Is there a way to block a specific email thread from notifications in Yosemite without turning notifications off for email? I am using mail.app.


texts: Error message, "hpPlugInInit.kext was installed improperly"

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I recently bought a MacBook Air and transferred my system information and user data via Migration Assistant. I used to get error messages on my old computer like this:

  The system extension “/System/Library/Extensions/hpPlugInInit.kext”
  was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling
  it, or contact the product’s vendor for an update

I hoped that this would go away with the new computer. (No, that's not why I bought it but it was supposed to be a good side-effect!)

But now I'm still getting this error message when installers are running. I don't have any HP printers, but I did at one time. How can I get this error message to stop? According to the HP support website there is an uninstaller I can run, but I don't have any such uninstaller.


texts: Problem running rst2html from command line

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all. Long-time lurker, etc.

I use MacPorts to manage my Python installation, and it has worked flawlessly until ... until this moment. And I am completely flummoxed.

I am trying to teach myself ReStructured Text, and so, trusting in the power of MacPorts, I did the usual:

sudo port install py27-docutils

If I use locate to make sure rst2html.py is there, it is:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/rst2html.py

I cannot, as the documentation suggests, use rst2html.py at the command line:

% rst2html.py --version
-bash: rst2html.py: command not found

I have my .bash_profile set as per MacPorts' instructions:

# MacPorts
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

# Python
export PYTHONPATH=/opt/local/bin/python2.7

And I have also used python_select, so that when you run which python you get:

/opt/local/bin/python

Here's what my path environment looks like:

% more /etc/paths
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/local/Library

All I want to be able to do is to be able to type rst2html.py, or one of the allied standalone commands (e.g., rst2pdf.py) at the command line, wherever I am and have it run. I'm having the same command with sphinx -- e.g., sphinx-quickstart is not working for me -- and I'm hopeful that the solution to this problem will be the solution to others.


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I am trying to fully remove a kernel extension which I installed by mistake, and I can't figure out how to remove it from the Disabled Software list.  It appears in System Profiler and also in System Preferences security pane.

I have grepped /L/E and /S/L/E and /Library/StagedExtensions and the only result I find is in /System/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeList.kext/Contents/Info.plist

kextutil can't find it:

# kextutil -b cn.com.bwstor.filesystems.enfs
Can't find extension with identifier cn.com.bwstor.filesystems.enfs

Apparently it's in the prelinked kernel:

$ grep -rni bwstor /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/
Binary file /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels//prelinkedkernel matches
Binary file /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels//immutablekernel matches

So I try to rebuild like this:

# kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
KernelCache ID: 589C15EF68C8CF9D1C456F8C5E809F74
#
# kextcache -prelinked-kernel
kxld[com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs]: The following symbols are unresolved for this kext:
kxld[com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs]:  AtiPowerPlayInterface::createPowerPlayServiceFor(PowerPlayCallbacks*)
Link failed (error code 5).
Prelink failed for com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs; omitting from prelinked kernel.
KernelCache ID: B8572AE0865E63FD3CE5E2A9014CEA6A

That error seems unrelated, but I get more details anyway:

# kextutil -b com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs
Disabling KextAudit: SIP is off
(kernel) kxld[com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs]: The following symbols are unresolved for this kext:
(kernel) kxld[com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs]:     __ZN21AtiPowerPlayInterface25createPowerPlayServiceForEP18PowerPlayCallbacks
(kernel) Can't load kext com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs - link failed.
(kernel) Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs.
(kernel) Kext com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs failed to load (0xdc008016).
(kernel) Failed to load kext com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs (error 0xdc008016).
Failed to load /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX6000HWServices.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs.kext - (libkern/kext) link error.
Check library declarations for your kext with kextlibs(8).
#
# kextlibs -undef-symbols /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX6000HWServices.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AMDRadeonX6000HWLibs.kext/
For all architectures:
    com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily = 2.9
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4030HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4050HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4070HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4100HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4200HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4300HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4400HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX5000HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX5100HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX5400HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX5700HWLibs = 1.0
    com.apple.kpi.iokit = 18.2
    com.apple.kpi.libkern = 18.2
    com.apple.kpi.mach = 18.2

For x86_64:
    Multiple symbols found among 1 libraries:
    com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX5000HWLibs

I'm puzzled as to why rebuilding the kernel cache doesn't fix this.  I'm running Mojave 10.14.3 on a MacPro6,1.  I have SIP disabled and I'm using @goalque's patch to use an external Radeon Vega64 GPU.


texts: How do I identify which preference panes are 32-bit and which aren't

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Recently my Sound preference pane has asked me to reopen System Preferences when I select it, or when I switch away from it.

I have added a few preference panes (e.g. Wacom, an Xbox controller pane, etc).

I'd like to know how to identify all the 32-bit vs 64-bit preference panes?

I would like to start uninstalling the ones I don't find necessary any longer and hopefully streamline this.


texts: How do I restore a Mac to its original macOS version?

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I've just followed the steps here to try to format my wife's laptop so we can sell it: https://superuser.com/questions/959422/reinstall-os-x-without-cd-dvd-or-apple-id

Unfortunately I'm still getting a message saying "to download and restore OS X, your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple" and when I proceed further in the installation, it says "signing in to App Store" and there is nothing I can do but sign in.

It's my understanding that the Apple ID needs to have the relevant OS X paid updates (so in this case, El Capitan) so if we sell it in this state, wheover logs in with their own Apple ID won't be able to use it.

Any suggestions on how to restore it back to it's original state? Many thanks


texts: Config a function key to activate the [App : Show All] command

texts:
[my first question here...]

Is there a good way to map a function key to do the [App : Show All] command? i.e. Un-hide all apps.

BTW, i currently use Spark to map function keys.


texts:
I have the problem that occasionally on startup, icons are missing from the menu bar. This includes e.g. Clock, User name, Wi-Fi, Menu Meters and Notification Center.
It does not apply to e.g. Little Snitch, lastfm, Spotlight and Watts.
So it is not an issue of OS X versus other apps.

It looks like this:

This phenomenon appeared with Yosemite.


texts: Macbook Pro with OS X 10.8.4 will not connect to WiFi

texts: I bought my mac in india recently and i'm using it in UK. It worked fine for a month but now,  whenever i try to connect to the wifi, it says "connection timeout". There is no problem with the wifi because my family doesn't face any such problems on their laptops. I tried refreshing network preferences but didn't work. What do i have to do to make it connect?


texts:
I'm working on some Raspberry Pi's and I need serial communications to the units to determine IP address.

I've installed Putty via HomeBrew and with some assistance from this link.
 I also installed MacPorts via this link.

When I run $ putty, I get the error message:  (putty:36407): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Anybody know what's going on?  Is there a better way to communicate with a remote device via USB - FTDI Serial Adapter and putty?

Note: I'm using MacOS Sierra (10.12.5)


texts: I've had Apple TV for just over a week and up until today, everything has been fine. My problem is that when I try and watch previously bought films/tv shows, they won't play. It just goes back to the play screen. Also, I cannot buy new films. I've reset it, logged off and back on again but still the same. Can anyone help?


texts: When are per-user temp files in /var/folders/ removed?

texts:
How often and under what conditions are files under var/folders/ removed?
If an application creates a file under var/folders/, is it possible for that file to be removed by the system before the application quits?

Here's a related question, but it's 10 years old and refers to /tmp and not var/folders: https://superuser.com/questions/187071/in-macos-how-often-is-tmp-deleted


texts: How do I change the login screen background in Lion?

texts: I want to change the login screen background in Lion, but I can't seem to figure out how. I've followed instructions for changing it, but even after restarting, the changes don't show up. I've also tried Loginox, but that didn't work either. Any suggestions?


texts:
I have an Automator app called convert2xlsx.app that takes file inputs and runs the Convert Format of Excel Files action to turn .xls files into .xlsx files. I can call it from the command line for one file like so:

automator -i "some file name.xls" ~/Desktop/convert2xlsx.app

and it works just fine.

I also have a command-line query like this:

mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentType == com.microsoft.excel.xls'

that finds all .xls files in the working directory and below.

I would really like to marry the two together but I can't seem to get it to work.

My first thought was this:

mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentType == com.microsoft.excel.xls' | xargs -J {} automator -i "{}" ~/Desktop/convert2xlsx.app

but that only converts the last file in the results returned by mdfind. I also tried:

mdfind -onlyin . 'kMDItemContentType == com.microsoft.excel.xls' -0 | xargs -0 -J {} automator -i "{}" ~/Desktop/convert2xlsx.app

with the same result.

I was able to piece it together in Automator, using an AppleScript action to get the directory of the front Finder window, a Shell Script action to run the mdfind in that directory and then the Convert Format of Excel Files on the result of the mdfind. So, problem solved. Yay! But...

I would really like to know where I was going wrong on the command line, as I'm making an effort to learn Bash scripting and use it more. Any advice?


texts: iPhone regularly shows "iPhone not activated..." message

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I got a new iPhone 6 which is tied to a carrier and I currently am still using an old Samsung I have because I don’t want to waste the minutes (as I cannot transfer the plan from the iPhone to the Samsung). They both have different carriers, anyway.

I have set up my iPhone a couple of weeks ago and recently it has been giving me a notification that pops up every 10 minutes saying “iPhone not activated please contact your carrier".

I’ve been using my iPhone's iMessage and FaceTime (because I have an Apple ID and as long as being connected to Wi-Fi, I can use both).
I looked up how to stop it and I’ve tried the airplane mode trick and it didn’t work, some say to take out your SIM card.

My questions

If I take out the SIM card will I still be able to iMessage and FaceTime?
Will my data be reset, what will happen to my storage?

If anyone has an answer it will be highly appreciated.


texts: Why is this custom Mac Keyboard Shortcut not working?

texts:
This is probably a very simple question by someone that has just started using custom keyboard shortcuts on Mac. I want to set up a shortcut for opening a terminal window in a given folder that's being reached by Finder. So I set up the following keyboard shortcut in the Settings app:

I have even set it up both for the Apple Terminal and for iTerm to see if anything changes. However, even after setting the commands, I cannot make them work. I believe that, after browsing to a given folder through Finder, executing the shortcut should bring the terminal window, shouldn't it? Thanks a lot in advance!


texts: share IKEv2 VPN connection via internet sharing (High Sierra)

texts: I am able to select non-IKEv2 VPN connections as network interfaces to share via "Internet Sharing", but am unable to share the IKEv2 connection.  How do I share the IKEv2 connection via internet sharing on High Sierra?


texts: How can I export a Numbers 3.x chart to PDF?

texts:
I created a chart in Numbers 3 (version 3.6.2). In earlier versions of Numbers I could copy the chart and paste it into, e.g., Adobe Illustrator as a PDF vectorgraphic.

In 3.6.2, copy and paste results in a blurry (low resolution) bit mapped image being pasted.

How can I get a PDF version of my chart?


texts:
On macOS Catalina 10.15.4

How do I change the email address used by Calendar to send invitations?

Secondarily, I'd further like to receive acceptances, which don't appear to come.

Context:

I have several email adresses.
Currently Calendar sends invitations from "My Name <noreply@email.apple.com>".
I'd like Calendar to send invitations from my work address.

I've done the following so far:

In Mail >> Preferences >> Composing, I changed the Send new messages from: field to my work email.
In Contacts >> Preferences >> Template, I have a single email field
identified as "work".
In Contacts I have moved my "work" email to the top of my emails.
In Mail >> Preferences >> Accounts, I attempted to drag my "work"
email account to the top of the list of accounts.  This does not work
in Catalina.  You can't change the order of accounts.  I understand
that one could previously do this.

Nothing works.

Short of deleting the accounts above "work" and recreating them, does any other way exist to do what I need to do?

Why does Calendar send invitations from "My Name <noreply@email.apple.com>"?

This seems weird, but I may have missed something.

Any help appreciated.


texts: How to make Powerline fonts work with iTerm2

texts:
I have a problem with using Powerline fonts in the iTerm2. I followed the tutorial for installation and I have chosen Hack font in the profile settings (Non-ASCII is set just to make sure). My .zshrc file is here if it helps.

However, the prompt still looks like this

I am running Mojave with ZSH 5.7.1 (I am not sure if any ZSH configuration applies to this issue). Thanks a lot for help


texts: Why is my Hard Drive and User folder shared when I turn on osx file sharing?

texts:
I decided to try file sharing on a mac mini, and noticed something odd.  When I go to settings > Sharing, and enable File Sharing, then add ~/Shared.  Now ~/Shared is the only item listed.

When I go to another mac, find the shared device in Finder, and "Connect As" and login with my username & password for the mac mini, then I see the Hard drive is shared, my user folder ~/ is shared, and the ~/Shared.

If I right click on ~/Shared and goto "Get Info" I see that the "Shared folder" checkbox is checked, but for the hard drive and my user folder it is not checked.  These two folders are also not listed in the Settings > Sharing area...

Is this just default behaviour? If so, why is that and how is it useful? And, is this stated by apple anywhere?


texts: How can I avoid my MacBook Pro giving me minor shocks?

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The aluminum Macbook Pro gives a mild shock when connected to a wall socket and charging. It only happens when I'm, for example, not wearing shoes or slippers and my feet are resting on the ground (i.e. by body is acting as a conductor).
I contacted apple and I was told to perform the following steps:

Shutdown

hold ⇧+ctrl+⌥+power for 10 seconds

wait 30 seconds then hold ⇧+ctrl+⌥+R+power (Let the Mac reboot three times with that apple tone, then let go. The Mac reboots again.)

This did not fix the problem and I was not told what these steps were supposed to do. They have asked me to purchase a three pin version of the adapter and see if that fixes my
problem.
My last MacBook Pro was giving pretty severe jolts towards end of life. Hence a bit concerned.
Question

Has anyone here experienced such a problem?

Is anyone aware of what the above sequence of steps supposed to do?

Also, will this damage the Macbook in some way?


texts:
So I used defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool yes thinking it would set a mandatory policy for the global (machine) level, but it turns out I was wrong and it set a recommended policy. How do I revert that recommended policy back to an unset policy so it doesn't show as set to any value by Google Chrome? I tried a complete uninstall of Chrome by deleting the app and going to ~/Library/Application Support/Google and deleting the whole Chrome folder and then reinstalling Google Chrome but the policy is still present and shows as set. Any help is appreciated and thanks for your help in advance.

I tried:

defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool no(only sets to false)

defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool 0 (still false)

defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool(syntax of command error)

defaults write com.google.Chrome AllowDeletingBrowserHistory -bool null(syntax of command error)


texts: CPU usage for User tasks consuming up to 80%; 0% Idle. What does it mean?

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I have noticed that my CPU usage is always near 100%.  0% of it is for Idle. About 20% average is for System tasks. The rest is going to User tasks (80%).  But if I look at individual tasks don't see anywhere near the 80%+ usage reported.  What is actually using this CPU?  Is it actually misreporting Idle?  I feel like this CPU consumption is at least partially real because my macbook is very sluggish.

I've tried checking top but the results are similar.

Processes: 196 total, 3 running, 5 stuck, 188 sleeping, 797 threads                                                                                12:29:46
Load Avg: 9.63, 11.46, 13.58  CPU usage: 81.27% user, 18.72% sys, 0.0% idle  SharedLibs: 15M resident, 9044K data, 0B linkedit. MemRegions: 35083 total, 1542M resident, 81M private, 686M shared.
PhysMem: 6006M used (1012M wired), 1445M unused. VM: 467G vsize, 1065M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 40509824/19G in, 43277118/14G out.
Disks: 8036430/96G read, 8249614/195G written.

PID    COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH   #WQ  #PORT #MREG MEM    RPRVT
95931  top          11.2 00:02.85 1/1   0    29    37    2572K  2344K
92843  Terminal     3.8  00:02.42 8/1   2    187   161   15M+   7856K+
0      kernel_task  2.6  07:17:27 101/4 0    2     1597  774M+  63M
66037  WindowServer 1.1  00:33.09 6     2    334   1759- 65M-   32M-
96-    TaniumClient 0.3  01:47:52 11    0    30    107   92M    92M
74135- Microsoft Ly 0.2  02:57.89 27    2    675   694   73M    58M
371    launchd      0.1  07:49.05 2     0    405   40    1444K  1384K


texts: What's the best setting of iPad for senior grandma?

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I know the question might be a bit subjective, but I'm really facing the problem and hopefully someone can help.

I'm buying an iPad for my grandma. She is 80 years old, living in a rural area in China. She has very little knowledge of computers (but she has seen us using iPad and liked the look of it immediately), and she can't read that much Chinese (she never went to school). We want to connect her with video call (e.g. FaceTime, WeChat) regularly. I've tried to change the font size as large as possible, but it's still not large enough for her. Also, I tried to find a way to enlarge the icon size, but cannot find it. I'm wondering if there is a setting or theme special designed for a senior person like my grandma (that changes the iPad to have larger icons and text).

Siri is not an option as my grandma only speaks a local dialect (not Chinese), a language Siri doesn't work in.

Wish someone with similar experience can help.


texts: How can I activate my Iphone 4 without sim and wi-fi?

texts: I have an old Iphone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 and I lost the carrier sim which it is locked,and the wi-fi  connection don't works at all, how can I activate it to use this like an Ipod?  (sorry for my bad english)


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Launching a simple ls -a from Terminal in my home directory I found out that there are a couple of hidden folders I was not aware of: .cups and .jssc.

I don't really know what those things are and I don't like them to be in my home folder. Anyone knows what are these related to (and maybe what program usually create them) and whether it is safe to remove them?

I'm using Mac OS 10.8.5 if it can be useful.


texts: Prevent Terminal from overwriting preferences on exit

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When a user loads my C++ program, I want Terminal to look a certain way. I solved this by wrapping my program in an AppleScript .app which overwrites ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist (making a backup first) before opening the program. With a subsequent killall cfprefsd, this works (if Terminal wasn't open to begin with!), but I don't want to mess up the user's own Terminal preferences. So, after calling my program I overwrite  ...Terminal.plist again with the backup of the original settings.

The problem is that when my program is done and Terminal closes, its preferences are automatically overwritten with that of the current window, meaning the user is stuck with the look I set for my program. I tried to counter this by having the AppleScript wait until Terminal was closed and then overwriting the plist with the backup once more, which works, but if my app were to be closed before Terminal then this fails of course. And the whole process seems pretty hacky to begin with.

Can I prevent Terminal from overwriting its preferences when it closes? Or even better, can I have my code run in a terminal that looks the way I want without messing with the user's settings? Preferably I wouldn't use Terminal at all to run my code (so it also doesn't fail when Terminal was already open), but I think the only alternative is writing my own...


texts: How much power can be drawn from the lightning connector by a external device?

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How much power can be drawn from the iPhone/iPad lightning connector by a external device?

Update: The use case is a audio-related device for iPhone/iPads. It would require around ~100 mA at 3,3 volts, so I'm trying to find out if we could draw this from the iPhone/iPad. (That would allow us to skip an external battery –> smaller size...)

(This question has been asked for the old 30-pin connector here, but a new connector might imply new power constraints.)


texts: WindowServer high CPU usage, spikes when moving cursor on M1 MacBook Big Sur

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The "WindowServer" process uses excessive CPU time on my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro running Big Sur 11.2.1. At idle it will sit at 15-25% CPU time. When moving the mouse cursor it jumps to 30-50% CPU time. This appears to cause some system slowdown under load and reduce battery life.
There are a few other threads and questions around the internet about high WindowServer CPU use but they're all for older MacOS versions on older Macs. I have tried some of the suggestions such as:

Looking for excessive logging from WindowServer and disabling those logs -- there don't appear to be excessive logs
Turning on reduced transparency mode -- no effect
Disabling apps that draw updates to the menu bar -- no effect
Closing all apps except top in a terminal -- no effect

So this appears to be a different issue perhaps specific to M1 Macs or to Big Sur. What might be causing this and how might it be mitigated?


texts: iTunes album cover is not the correct cover for that album

texts: My iTunes shows the wrong cover image for a handful of albums. How can I correct this?


texts: Mid 2014 Macbook Pro randomly stops responding (keyboard and trackpad won't do anything)

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My girlfriend's MacBook Pro randomly stops responding - everything on the laptop keeps working as per usual (i.e. video will continue to play as if nothing was wrong) but absolutely no keyboard inputs or trackpad movements are registered - the only thing we can do is hold down the power button to force turn off the Mac then restart it.

I've tried resetting both the SMC and PRAM to no avail. It seems quite sporadic and I believe it's some sort of software issue rather than hardware (especially since the power button does actually work, even though nothing else does)

Any ideas please? Thank you!


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A client of mine has generated all 100 promo codes for their app without considering that they are valid for only 28 days.

Do they ever regenerate? If I made version 2.0 of the App would that enable new promo codes?

It's just naivety on the part of the client.

Thanks,

Paul


texts: What are the hardware requirements for Hypervisor.framework?

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I was planning to use xhyve to virtualise FreeBSD on my early 2009 Mac Pro (eight core) which has a fresh install of El Capitan (with all updates).I installed via homebrew and I get the following error when trying to run:

vmx_init: processor not supported by Hypervisor.framework
Unable to create VM (-85377018)

I have verified that the version of xhyve (0.2.0) works on my 2011 iMac.
Having a look I can see that on my iMac hv_support is enabled:

iMac$> sysctl kern.hv_support
kern.hv_support: 1

But on my Mac Pro it is not:

Mac Pro$> sysctl kern.hv_support
kern.hv_support: 0

kern.hv_support is a read-only value so cannot be changed using sysctl.

My Mac Pro has an Intel E5520 which I believe supports Intel VT-d, VT-x, and EPT.  Apple also has a page detailing the minimum firmware version and hardware required for VT-x, I’m using a newer Mac Pro than specified and the hardware is the most up to date I can find (MP41.0081.B07).

I can find zero documentation about Hypervisor.framework other than the fact that it is new in Yosemite.  I’m unsure whether there is some switch I can toggle to enable this, or whether I am completely scuppered…

Any advice on Hypervisor.framework, or suggestions on getting this working?  While the answer “give up, it doesn’t work” might be the correct answer, it would be good to see some documentation backing this up.


texts: How can you customize the keyboard layout / shortcuts?

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I've recently migrated from Ubuntu to Mac, but one of the features that I'm lacking most is the keyboard layout for alternative languages. I don't like to switch keyboard layouts all the time, yet at the same time I like to write using accents and diacritics, as needed in each language (Romanian, French, German, etc.).

The Romanian keyboard layout provided on Linux offers a very nice "compatibility variant", specially for programmers. Basically it's identical to the English one, but holding down the right Alt (level 3) key gives you the Romanian special characters:

How can I have a similar functionality?

Can I at least customize it along these lines:

⌥ + a » ă
⌥ + s » ș
⌥ + t » ț

PS: I am aware of the Accent Menu and it's limitations.


texts: how can I turn off speech in the parental controls lockout dialog?

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Every night before 1am, when my daughter has gone to bed but stayed logged in to our iMac (Lion 10.7.5), the parental controls dialog pops up.  Unfortunately it ALSO announces itself via text-to-speech at whatever volume the computer happens to be set.  And then proceeds to do a 10-9-8-... countdown at exactly 1am.  You can probably imagine how unwelcome this is.

I can not find ANY setting that controls this.  VoiceOver is off.  Speech > "Speakable items" is off.  I've disabled every version of universal access or text-to-speech that I can find.  In fact I'm pretty sure the voice that speaks isn't even one of the default assistive voices (Bob, Alex, etc)

Are there any easily overlooked options that I might have missed, or any methods to force ALL speech off, or any other ways I could get it to shut up - other than reminding my daughter to always remember to log out?  Thanks!


texts:
Right after downloading a font, you can see it has a lot of metadata. For example, if you download the Sansation font and run mdls Sansation_Regular.ttf you will get this output:

com_apple_ats_name_family      = (
    Sansation
)
com_apple_ats_name_fond        = (
    "Sansation Regular"
)
com_apple_ats_name_full        = (
    "Sansation Regular"
)
com_apple_ats_name_postscript  = (
    "Sansation Regular"
)
com_apple_ats_name_style       = (
    Regular
)
com_apple_ats_names            = (
    "Bernd Montag",
    Regular,
    Sansation,
    "Sansation Regular",
    "Version 1.31",
    "\U00a9 2011 Bernd Montag"
)
kMDItemAuthors                 = (
    "Bernd Montag"
)
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2012-10-31 15:59:10 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2012-10-31 15:59:10 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = "public.truetype-ttf-font"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "public.truetype-ttf-font",
    "public.truetype-font",
    "public.font",
    "public.data",
    "public.item"
)
kMDItemCopyright               = "© 2011 Bernd Montag"
kMDItemDateAdded               = 2013-11-21 16:21:51 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName             = "Sansation_Regular.ttf"
kMDItemFonts                   = (
    Regular,
    Sansation,
    "Sansation Regular"
)
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2012-10-31 15:59:10 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2012-10-31 15:59:10 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery          = 0
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
kMDItemFSName                  = "Sansation_Regular.ttf"
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 78464
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 501
kMDItemFSSize                  = 78464
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = ""
kMDItemKind                    = "TrueType font"
kMDItemLogicalSize             = 78464
kMDItemPhysicalSize            = 81920
kMDItemVersion                 = "Version 1.31"

Now, if you check this file in a git repository, push it to a remote server and clone that repository, a lot of metadata is lost in the process. After being cloned, running mdls Sansation_Regular.ttf gives the following output:

kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2013-11-21 16:31:26 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = 2013-11-21 16:31:26 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = 0
kMDItemFSLabel             = 0
kMDItemFSName              = "Sansation_Regular.ttf"
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = 78464
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = 501
kMDItemFSSize              = (null)
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

I tried to run mdimport Sansation_Regular.ttf but the lost attributes did not come back.

What happened? Is there a way to ask the system to recreate all the missing metadata attributes?

I’m running OS X 10.8.5.


texts: iPhone turns itself off with lots of charge left

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My iPhone turns itself off when it has a lot of battery charge left, sometimes when it's still at 70%. Then I can't turn it on at all unless I plug it in to a charger.... After I do that, the apple logo appears and it turns on as normal with lots of charge.

Why is this happening?


texts: remindd sometimes spikes over 100-200% CPU usage

texts:
Over the past few months, I have experienced my MacBook turning on its fans because of high CPU usage. When that happens, I see that a process called remindd is using 100-300% CPU for a long time, usually more than 10 minutes. It seems this process belongs to the reminders app, which I do use, but it doesn't make any sense that the app has such a high CPU usage. This is not a one time thing, it happened at least 5 times in the last few weeks. I usually ended up killing the process or restarting my Mac. Quitting the reminders app does not stop the process.

What can I do to prevent this?

It may be related to the reminders app constantly syncing:

Although that opens only more questions than it answers.

I'm using the latest MacBook Pro 16" with MacOS 10.15.4 (19E287)


texts:
I can't play this voice memo. It won't play. I also can't share it.

iOS 10.3.1


texts: Apple Business Manager - what am I not understanding about the process?

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We recently had an issue where a company owned iPhone was handed to a member of staff, they set it up with a new icloud account and password that they then forgot, they left the company and handed back a device that was working (they knew the passcode, it would boot up) but couldn't have anything installed on it because the icloud account was not known

I've been through the process of:

setting up a Miradore MDM account,
setting up an Apple Business Account,
linking ABM to Miradore's MDM server,
installing the Miradore profile on the phone,
recovering the old employee icloud account details after plenty of calls with apple and waiting 16 days for a reset,
logging into their icloud and erasing, then removing the phone from their account (in icloud FindMyIphone),
using Apple Configurator 2 to run a prep on the device and
finally having Apple Business Manager assign the device to the Miradore MDM via its serial number

The phone is provisioned in a "stops at Hello setup screen and the user it is given to may set it up as a new iphone/restore it accordingly" way

Before giving out the phone again I thought I'd test the process of recovery, which I was hoping would have gotten easier, that happened last time. I would:

pretend to be a forgetful user,
register the phone to a new icloud account,
pretend I forgot the password,
hand it back to the IT dept saying "sorry, here;s your device, I forgot the icloud password i set it up with"

I fully expected that they could just open Apple Business Manager, or Miradore (I'm not sure which), hit "wipe" and poof; it becomes a new iphone again ready to be handed to the next user, because Apple know it's owned by the company and they would scrub the icloud details off it/release it from any association with "Forgetful Me"

Having hit the option in Miradore to wipe the iphone, it's restarted with an activation lock that is demanding the details of the test user I created..

This isn't how I was hoping it would go; I wanted it to revert to being a brand new iphone with no activation lock. As it is right now it's saying it is activation locked and can only be unlocked by test.user@mycompany.com - exactly the same situation I was in last time with the real forgetful user

What have I missed about the whole setup? How can I make things so that the company owns the phone and can wipe any employee logins, data, details, activation locks etc off at any point?


texts: Exit the "Do you want to save your changes?" dialogue as fast as possible (discard changes)

texts:
When I press cmd-q or cmd-w on an app, sometimes I get a popup like:

I just want to quit the app as fast as possible, I want to select the "Revert Changes" or "Don't Save" etc. equivalents without having to move my hand to my mouse/trackpad, move the mouse cursor to the button on the screen, and click.

I don't want to have to take my hands off of the keyboard.

cmd-backspace used to work for me

But it doesn't anymore, at least not in Preview.app.

What's the new solution in Catalina?


texts: Where does the Photos app store its files?

texts:
How do I find out programmatically where the Photos app stores all the pictures?

Before answering that it's always

~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/

, please be aware that this is only true for English installations of Mac OS. For example, in French, the folder is called

~/Pictures/Phototèque.photoslibrary/

and in German,

~/Pictures/Fotos-Mediathek.photoslibrary/


texts: Getting sound to split between computer and external monitor (TV hooked up with HDMI to thunderbolt) from iMac but NOT simulatneously

texts:
I connected my TV to the iMac last night. When I drag a program up to the TV the sound switches from my computer speakers to my TV speakers; I thought this was a great feature. However, when I wake up the computer the speakers are only working from the iMac. I know how to switch the sound back to the TV and how to play them at the same time, but I just can't get back to that smart audio feature (where the sound comes from the speakers within the display showing the program) that I appreciated so much the first time.

I have scoured the web looking for answers and even called Apple support.

How can I re-enable this feature?


texts: Would upgrading to SSD solve my performance issues?

texts:
My MacBook Pro specifications are:
Core2Duo 2.65 Ghz
4 GB RAM
320 GB HD

Performance is killing me literally. Really long response time.

Do you suggest to replace the Hard disk with SSD one ? Is it going to solve my MBP performance issues?

What is getting slow

I'm a software developer (code compiling, building, Xcode, IntelliJ, Sublime Text 2, tens of Chrome tabs, iTunes, Preview).

It could takes seconds to switch between running applications. A lot of spinning colored-balls.

It takes seconds to launch an application.


texts: What does All Mail mean in mac mail? I accidentally erased a mail and then did a search for it and it came up under All mail?


texts: My iPod touch 2nd generation turns on and charges only when my laptop is on sleep mode

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I have 2nd generation, 8 GB iPod touch. It only turns on and charges when my Lenovo T520 is on sleep mode, as soon as I disconnect it from the laptop or I switch the laptop back on, the iPod switches off.

How to resolve this issue?


texts:
I was on Windows few years back, and in that I could search any file or folder by typing out it's name inside Windows explorer. But I don't find a similar functionality in Finder on Mac. What I mean is that once I am inside a folder which has lots of files, I want to search for a specific file by typing its name. For e.g. if I want to search for a file named hello.png, I will type h, and then Finder will highlight the first file starting with h. But if I immediately type e after that, Finder then highlights the first file starting with e, and not he. So is it possible to search this way in Finder?
I know that I can simply type the file name in Spotlight and I will find it, but this does not work when selecting a file from browser. For e.g. when you want to upload some file, a Finder dialogue opens wherein you have to select one file. Here, a 'search as you type' feature will be very handy.
EDIT: Updating my OS to 11.1 somehow fixed this issue. But thanks to all those who helped to review this!


texts: Is it possible to install Tor Browser on iPad?

texts:
I recently brought an 10.5" iPad Pro that runs mainly on cellular data. I bought this device to travel with my husband over the road in his semi truck.

I have not been able to choose the right Tor browser to download. I tried the version for iOS/macOS which it did download; however I was not able to open the downloaded file no matter what I did.
Is it even possible to run Tor Browser on my iPad with Cellular Data?

What is going wrong and how do I resolve it?


texts: Can I use the macOS Terminal as a terminal emulator for a specific device?

texts:
I'm using xhyve to run Linux virtual machines on my computer. One commit implements autopty support:

  When running xhyve with autopty, before booting the guest OS, it
  outputs the slave pty device path users can plug into using screen,
  minicom or the terminal emulator or their preference.
  Ex:

screen /dev/ttys003

What if I want to use the macOS Terminal application? Can I do that?


texts: nohup or persistent process on Mac OS X ssh

texts:
I know this has been asked before but none of the answers seems to work in OS X Mountain Lion. I would like to launch a process via SSH and close the terminal without killing the process.

nohup ccl64 -e '(ql:quickload :"file")' &

Doesn't work. When the terminal is closed, the process dies.

nohup ccl64 -e '(ql:quickload :"file")'

Same here.

I think there must be a way. This is very annoying as it works as a standard in any Linux system, yet Mac OS X refuses to work with any of these combinations.


texts: How to search Google from iPhone Spotlight

texts:
When I go to search, it says, "Search iPhone" in the box.

How do I change that to search Google?


texts:
I have asked a similar question to this elsewhere on this site, but I thought I’d give this another go in simpler terms.

I am new to Dreamweaver, and I am currently trying to create a simple table of 14 columns. I want them to be the same size.

I currently have the following code. But when I type in dreamweaver, the column widths all move around. I don’t want this, I want the code to wrap. So if for example I input xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx into one of the cells, it expands and reduces the other columns, how do I overcome this?

table.teams{table-layout:fixed; overflow:auto; width:745; align:center; cellspacing:0; cellpadding:0;}

            &nbsp;


texts: How can I combine text messages from my old iPhone with my new iPhone?

texts: I just bought a new iPhone 5 and used it before restoring the backup from my old iPhone 4. Now I would like to restore the backup from my old phone without loosing the text messages already on my new phone. If I back up the new phone first and then restore the backup from the old phone, will the content from the new phone be lost?


texts: How do I get Xcode 4 to NOT clear the log between runs?

texts:
In Xcode 3, the console only cleared when you specifically asked it to. This was nice to quickly compare log output between runs.

In Xcode 4, the log clears between every run, and I'm looking for the setting (if Apple deemed it worthy of existence) that will switch this 'feature' off.


texts:
I noticed my Time Machine is trying to backup 137G of data into my Time Capsule... I thought Time Machine suppose to do increments.. How is this increment when I only have 137G worth of data on my hard drive? before TM was always trying to backup gigs of data even when there was not that much change on my computer...

What can I do to troubleshoot this?


texts: Can I get a Windows XP-like application taskbar in OS X?

texts:
Apologies for cross-posting in SE, but maybe I'll get a better response on an Apple/OS X specific forum!

I'm looking for a Windows XP-like taskbar application switcher in OS X. I'm not looking for anything icon-based like HyperDock and others, or anything that involves gestures like Expose. I want a simple bar at the bottom of the screen that I can click on buttons (not icons) to switch applications.

Also - answers like "just run Windows" are not appreciated ;)


texts: Force apps to not suspend, auto restart apps

texts:
I have at least two apps which must run all the time in background, otherwise there is no point about it:

HID Mobile Access: Opens doors via Bluetooth LE, when phone is locked/in pocket
Noke: Opens my bike lock via Bluetooth LE, even when phone is locked/in pocket

I try hard to not kill these apps; I always leave them running and they are in the apps list when I double tap the home button.

However, both apps I mainly need twice a day (morning/evening) and in about 50% of the cases it just does not work. After minutes of desperation, I take the phone out, unlock, restart the apps and it works. That's absolutely unuseable!

Background data refresh etc is on for these apps. I think iOS puts them to suspend so they do not respond via Bluetooth LE even though I haven't killed them and they are in the apps list.

I can see similar behavior with MiniKeePass which I like to keep open so I have quick access to my passwords. But sometimes I still need to re-enter my (long) password although I haven't killed it.

Also, there must be a way for apps to keep running: Whatsapp, Threema but also ParcelTrack respond even when I killed them.


texts: How to troubleshoot Network Connect issues?

texts:
I have to use Juniper's Network Connect to use my company's VPN.  I haven't changed anything on my system in the past few days, but suddenly Network Connect fails to connect to the VPN with the following error message:

The log shows the following:
2013-03-20 11:38:35.675 ncproxyd[p298.t1799] ipsec.info New tunnel being created (tunnel.cpp:52)
2013-03-20 11:38:35.681 ncproxyd[p298.t1799] routeutils.info Creating Desktop route table iterator (routeutils.cpp:289)

I have tried to uninstall Network Connect, remove all of the files that NC leaves on my system (documented here), and reinstall.  I've removed my wifi connection, rebooted, and readded it.  I've mixed these.
I'm using OS X 10.8.2 and Network Connect 7.1.  I'm at a loss.  How can I get my VPN working again?
Edited on 2013-11-07 to add:
I'm now on 10.9 and still experiencing this issue.  My company's IT reports that there are several other Mac users across various versions of OS X who are having the same issue.  They haven't been able to figure out what is going on.  My company has a backup VPN from another provider, and those of us impacted by this issue have been placed on it.


texts: sourcing .bash_profile from .bashrc breaks macvim shell

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I read Why doesn't .bashrc run automatically? about sourcing .bash_profile from .bashrc and adjusted my config to match this. I am using iTerm2 as my terminal.

Unfortunately, when I do this, my MacVim shell breaks - backspace doesn't work and I have strange characters all over the place. Note the characters?1034h before the prompt and the K that appears when hitting the backspace key.

My .bash_profile:

source ~/.bashrc

My .bashrc:

alias ll='ls -al'
# Set CLICOLOR if you want Ansi Colors in iTerm2
export CLICOLOR=1

# Set colors to match iTerm2 Terminal Colors
export TERM=xterm-256color

If copy the settings from .bashrc into .bash_profile and delete .bashrc then the shell in MacVim works fine.

Any idea why MacVim shell breaks sourcing .bash_profile from .bashrc?


texts: Best practice for installing applications for multiple users?

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I have a MBP with Lion (10.7.3) on it and there are two user accounts on it, I use them to seperate work and private stuff, but when I install apps, I generally want to use/upgrade/remove them using either account.

Applications that come as a package (.pkg/.mpkg) tend to install/upgrade easily and require admin permissions in a user friendly way, no problem here.

Other applications just come as an app bundle, which you can move to a desired location, in my case this is the /Applications folder, since I like all apps to be in a central place. But when user A moves an application there, there's no need for a password, but a application will be owned by user A, and read-only to user B. A lot of things that are supposed to be user-friendly break in this situation, for example: applications that upgrade themselves stumble over this, and instead of replacing an old bundle with a new one, I have to manually delete the old one before putting the new one in place. It's not the end of the world, but I wouldn't exactly call this user friendly.

So, how is it possible that user A can dump something in the /Applications folder without using a password, only to find it read-only to user B? It's very annoying. Also when I install something in account A, but use it the first few times using account B the "this application came from the internet, are you sure you want to use it?"-warning doesn't go away until I use it with account B.

I'd like the applications (or their folder, whatever) to be read-write for both or writable using a password or something. Is there a way to make this annoyance go away? Should I install these applications in a different way? I want to manage my apps "user account-agnostically" if that's possible.

I have experience with linux/unix/command/BSD subsystem, what have you, so answers of a technical nature will help. Of course I have tried chmod, chown creatively to tackle single instances, but I don't like fiddling around with permissions when I'm in the mac's natural habitat (system folders/app bundles). So any info on this matter will help.

EDIT:
Just to make it clear, I would like a nice workflow for managing/upgrading apps between two admins on the same computer, it shouldn't require an understanding of file permissions as it does now, it seems this situation is something the developers at Apple never thought of. Filling in a password is no problem, but sometimes deleting an app (in order replace it with an upgrade) is impossible unless I open Terminal and use sudo rm -rf /Application/SomeApplication.app. You just can't expect that from two users of a single computer that know both are able to install/delete apps but aren't technically savvy.


texts: Xcode 5.1 won't launch -- "being updated" -- but already installed

texts: trying to launch Xcode 5.1 and keep getting "Xcode is being updated". It was updated last week and shows as installed. Screen shots to illustrate. Any ideas? I went to the developer portal, but it takes you to the App Store (I was hoping there was a seperate install). Many thanks. Project is stuck at the moment.


texts: Where is the terminal application on the filesystem?

texts: I want to be able to launch a Terminal window using JiTouch, which allows me to make a gesture open a file, so I want to know the location of the Terminal app so that I can open it.


texts: Safari on iOS 11.1.2 is using the wrong email address

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If I go to a site where I am purchasing something and I click on Autofill, I’m presented with a pop up that has the following options:

Custom
Home
Work
Customize
Other Contact
Cancel

If I select home, it uses my work email.  If I use work, it uses no email.  If I click Customize and then click email, it shows several email addresses and the word “home” is next to my work email address.  I can click any of the listed email addresses to “check” it as the default.

How do I fix it so that my “home” email address is my personal email.  How do I fix it so that work uses my work email?


texts: How to automate execution locate.updatedb by using a bash script

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I am looking for a bash set of commands that will enable me to schedule the execution of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb once every day.

Please respond only with a set of command line commands, because I want to include this in a "setup" script (in order to be able to reuse it when I go to another machine).


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I have a question about kali linux on an Apple Macbook Pro running in Parallels.
 After giving the command sudo airmon-ng in terminal, it shows no interface.

Does anybody know what to do or is it not possible to successfully use kali linux in a virtual machine on a Mac?


texts: How to change the default Mail account in Mountain Lion?

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I have 2 mail accounts configured. When composing a new message, it will default to the account for the currently selected mailbox, which is fine. However, when no particular mailbox is selected (when viewing the combined Inbox for example), it will default to the first listed mail account.

How can I change the default mail account when no particular mailbox is active? IIRC, you used to be able to drag them into order, but this no longer seems to work.

I am aware that you can specify a default mail account for all new messages, but I'd like to preserve the behavior where it will default to the account of the currently active mailbox, if one is active.


texts:
I have an OpenLDAP instance running on Amazon AWS.  I've got a few users and groups set up, I'm able to use ldapsearch from my macbook to bind and search the server.  I would like was trying to add my OpenLDAP server as a node in my Directory Services, and I provided all the necessary information, but it will not connect giving the oh so informative

Connection failed to node
'/LDAPv3/XX.XXX.XXX.X'  <--IP address hidden for security purposes
(2100)

I've tried to debug this with dcsl (granted I just learned what it was today) and I can see the new node

$ dscl
Entering interactive mode... (type "help" for commands)
 > ls /LDAPv3/
XX.XXX.XXX.X

but if try to do anything with the node (cd, list, read, etc.), I get this:

Invalid Path
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14009 (eDSUnknownNodeName)

why is the nodename unknown? what am i doing wrong


texts: What is the modern way to do port-forwarding on El Capitan? (forward port 80 to 8080)

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The old utility ipfw was discouraged in recent versions of Mac OS X and is now gone from El Capitan.

What is the modern way to do port forwarding in El Capitan?

I simply want port 80 to forward to port 8080.


texts: How can I force the application switcher to stop following the dock and instead show on my main display in Mavericks (OS X 10.9)?

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I understand the App Switcher follows the Dock. Other answers here confirm as much.

However, is it possible via some hidden command-line preference to force the Application Switcher to display on the main display at all times? Whereas "main display" is the display in the System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement preference with the menu bar.

I personally have my dock hidden on my left-most display, but even switching the dock position to the bottom is a hassle since it requires first launching the dock from the desired display before switching the app switcher's location.


texts: How to follow the instruction to diagnose Mac?

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I am trying to diagnose my Mac Book Air, 10.12.5 follow link as below:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731

Regarding instruction(see on bottom), I need to hold D key.  I was trying to hold caps d or shift d and press them about 3 minutes ... but there is no a screen asking but regular desktop.

How to proceed?

thanks.

"Turn on your Mac, then immediately press and hold the D key on your keyboard. Keep holding until you see a screen asking ..."


texts: Deleting messages only once on IPad IPhone, and mail account

texts: I have an email account and get emails in my Comcast email list, and on the list on my IPhone and IPad. So, if I want to delete a message, I need to delete it on all three.  Is there a way to sync the deletion of a message so if I delete it on one device it is deleted on the others?