texts: Merge multiple folders and subfolders with differing names in macOS

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I have multiple folders and subfolders that I need to merge. Merging them manually would take ages (300+ folders). I can't figure out how to use ditto correctly to solve my problem. I do not know if ditto can provide me with an appropriate solution.

The parent folders are named B1, B2, B3, ... and C1, C2, C3, ... going through all the letters of the alphabet until F1, F2, F3, ...

I would need to merge all the folders with letter B into one B-parent folder, conserving the structure for the subfolders. The same should be done for all the other parent-folders.

Some subfolders exist in both parent folders and sometimes files in each subfolder and sub-subfolders  are the same.

E.g.

FOLDER B1 | FOLDER B2 |  FOLDER B3 | ... | FOLDER B38 || FOLDER C1 |  FOLDER C2 | ... |  FOLDER C22 | ...
-----------------------

SUB 1     | SUB 1     |     1      | ... |     1      ||     1     |     1      | ...

SUB 2     | SUB 2     |     2      | ... |     2      ||     2     |     2      | ...

SUB 3     | SUB 3     |    ...     | ... |    ...     ||     3     |     3      | ...

    ...   |  ...

should merge to

FOLDER B | FOLDER C |  FOLDER D | ... | FOLDER F |
-----------------------

SUB 1     | SUB 1   |     1     | ... |     1    |

SUB 2     | SUB 2   |     2     | ... |     2    |

SUB 3     | SUB 3   |    ...    | ... |    ...   |

I'm operating on Catalina 10.15.


texts: How to open the Apple URL protocol x-man-page:// in iTerm and not Terminal (default)

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Apple has some custom URLs defined and one of them is x-man-page.  If you open a particular man page with it, it displays it in a nice yellow window (a provided profile for Terminal) with black text.

$ open x-man-page://man

Side note:  You can even put this on a web-page and it will automatically open the man page in the URL.  It was "categorized" as a security issue (Stack Exchange prohibits the URL), but at most it's a nuisance. Same goes for the dictionary app:  $ open x-dictionary:apple, but I digress...

What's nice about it is that it's a separate window and it has it's own predefined profile that can be customized (but I like the default)*.  This is the same functionality if you select a command in Terminal with your mouse, right click and select "Open man page".

I would like to this to work in iTerm2

Using RCDefault App I set the application for x-man-page and when I issue the command, it does open a new iTerm tab, but it displays nothing.

Does anyone know how to get iTerm2 to respond to this?

*I liked it so much, I wrote this function in my .bash_profile so that if I type man <command> it shows up as if I typed open x-man-page://<command>

function man {
if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
  open x-man-page://$1 ;
elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then
  open x-man-page://$1/$2 ;
fi
}


texts: I recently got my computer re-imaged. Everything was working fine on Yosemite until about an hour ago when my Wi-Fi abruptly disconnected. The AirPort icon gave me the rainbow spinner, so I restarted my computer. The Wi-Fi issue disappeared upon restart, but Safari (which had been open as my default browser before the restart) now refuses to open. When I click on the app in my dock, applications folder, Launchpad, and anywhere else, it doesn't open. The icon doesn't bounce, and the app won't work even when I click on a link in an email or something. There's no crash log. Any fixes for this?


texts: fsck_hfs keeps returning "The volume was modified"

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I have a iMac (Late 2013) which has a standard 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive. Long story short, I noticed a dramatic slowdown in Windows (in Bootcamp) and on the Mac. After installing DriveDx, it reported that I had around 8,600 Reported Uncorrectable Errors. To my knowledge, that essentially means bad blocks/sectors.

After looking at this post, I followed the fsck_hfs commands. I actually checked for bad blocks first using the /sbin/fsck_hfs -S /dev/disk0s2 and then ran the /sbin/fsck_hfs -drfy /dev/disk0s2 command.

After running the check Debug, Repair, Force command five times, all it would return is "The volume was modified" which to my research says that it is not complete, and that you should run it again.

A couple of questions. Does this command actually do anything to fix bad blocks? And if not, is there another command to actually fix the problem?

Thanks.


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I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.4

Never had an issue untile three days ago.

I went to update some apps from the app store, and it just won't do it. The little circle keeps spinning without ever showing the "stop button" next to the app that also shows the download percentage.

Now I have something like 14 unupdated apps and I can't seem to do anything! I restarted the phone twice but nothing changed.

What to do now?


texts: Open homebrew version of emacs instead of Apple version

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I installed emacs 26.1 via brew install emacs, but when I try to start emacs via command line, only the outdated Apple-supplied version (22.1.1) opens.

However, emacs is apparently correctly linked:

$ which -a emacs
/usr/local/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs

$ exa -l /usr/local/bin/emacs
lrwxr-xr-x 32 $USER 26 Aug 22:42 /usr/local/bin/emacs -> ../Cellar/emacs/26.1_1/bin/emacs

$ exa -l /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/26.1_1/bin/emacs
lrwxr-xr-x 10 $USER 25 May 18:41 /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/26.1_1/bin/emacs -> emacs-26.1

PATH also has /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, so why does emacs still open /usr/bin/emacs?


texts: Is there a way for both my husband and I to have our information (apps, photos, etc) on one iPad?  He's the original owner and now I have my own iPhone, but I want to be able to do the same things he does, but on separate accounts with one iPad.


texts: How to bypass Touch ID provided access to the iCloud account?

texts: If a user has Touch ID on. Then he loses his finger, or dies. How to unlock the phone? Provided he or his family know the iCloud password.


texts: Dozens of "iTunes could not connect to iTunes Store. ..."

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When I play my playlists with iTunes on Mac OS when offline, I get a lot of messages

  iTunes could not connect to iTunes Store. The network is down or unavailable.

When I start to play music for my sleep, the next morning I see these error messages:

It is quite irritating! Why this silly app always wants some connection... I tried to search this using Google, but nothing at all about this specific problem.

How can I fix these errors?


texts: Can I disable Dashboard in Mountain Lion?

texts: I'm wondering if there's a way to disable the dashboard in Mountain Lion.  I never use it and I think it's consuming processor and memory powers.


texts: Conflicting info about installed macOS version in App store

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Machine has version 10.9.5 installed but the app store thinks that version 10.12.6 is installed.

How do I update to the latest version?


texts: How can I view a list of system and application keyboard shortcuts?

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I often find applications that use conflicting keyboard shortcuts and it is difficult and time-consuming to determine which shortcuts are conflicting.  Are there any applications or commands that can show in a human readable format all active shortcuts?

EDIT 1: This is NOT a duplicate of this question.

The suggestions to use KarabinerEventViewer simply do not display the application/command called on a given key combination.

The exact combination that I cannot determine is CMD+OPTION+/.

EDIT 2: Why is CheatSheet not suitable?

It simply displays an overlay with the keybindings for the application in focus.  It also doesn't help for applications without a window (background apps).  This doesn't help my use case as the keybinding I am debugging doesn't launch an application window.  Think about how Spotlight or Alfred renders a search component for a given key combination.


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the lsof command tells me launchd is listening on port 4444:

$ sudo lsof -i tcp:4444

COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE           DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
launchd   1 root   32u  IPv4 0xfe4e7e9bb5c1a5      0t0  TCP localhost:krb524 (LISTEN)
launchd   1 root   46u  IPv4 0xfe4e7e9bb5c1a5      0t0  TCP localhost:krb524 (LISTEN)

I'm trying to set up a Selenium (https://www.seleniumhq.org/) Server whose default port is 4444 - I realise I could change Selenium's port, but I don't recall having this clash on Macs previously (I guess prior to Tiger)

Is it possible/viable to have launchd run on a different port?

EDIT:
I found the following info by searching which plist files refer to port 4444 - it shows that it's part of the Server configuration.  The Wiki feature of Server is currently turned OFF.  Is it safe to edit this file to change the port setting?

  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.auth.plist:19:                  http://localhost:4444/auth
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.changepassword.plist:19:                  http://localhost:4444/changepassword
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.collabd.plist:24:                 http://localhost:4444/svc
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.collabd.plist:33:                 http://localhost:4444/streams/activity
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.wiki.plist:24:                    http://localhost:4444/preview
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.wiki.plist:33:                    http://localhost:4444/files
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.wiki.plist:42:                    http://localhost:4444/upload_file
  /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/apache2/webapps/com.apple.webapp.wiki.plist:51:                    http://localhost:4444/app-context/wiki


texts: Confusion with sudo and multiple local accounts

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I am having difficulties figuring out why certain things are much more complicated on a mac terminal than a standard linux shell..

Say I have two local accounts, one administrator called "adm" and a standard user "usracc" and I want to be able to update the locate database with updatedb command. I need to simply run sudo updatedb, except usracc is not in the sudoers list.

Ok, I say and su adm then sudo updatedb which tells me that updatedb command is not found. So to recap:

my regular user account is not on the sudoers list (this is actually intentional, as I dont want to compromise the system if the password for this account is compromised).
my admin account can sudo but apparently not that particular command, which cannot be found for whatever reason.
when I su to my admin account I see; shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied which gets repeated everytime I try to get content assist with the tab key..

so with the root account disabled, apple sort of forces you to give sudo privilages to user accounts to be able to do simple stuff, how exactly does that help with security? Or have I completely misunderstood something here?


texts: How do I turn iMessages off on my MacBook? I have tried to go to settings but those were in the old version! I don't know how to turn it off in the new version.


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Under OS X Mavericks and below we just could launchctl unload the dynamic_pager plist, but trying to unload this plist doesn't have any effect since OS X Yosemite.

What is the new way to disable swap files now with OS X Yosemite?


texts:
My mac thinks I'm my father. When in automator I do this:
[get value of variable: name] --> [new text file. Save as 'name.txt'. Location: desktop]

it should put my name in a text file and put it on the desktop. But instead it puts my fathers name in there.
Why?
My Apple ID, iCloud account and all info on my mac and connected social media is on my name. But it still thinks I'm my father.
Could you please help?


texts:
Every so often in Mail, new messages will show up as empty: "This message has no content". In fact they're not empty, but it seems their processing was interrupted... and I can't figure out how to get Mail to take another look.

So, the question: Is there any way to refresh such messages without quitting and restarting Mail? That seems to work, but it is a pain when I'm in the middle of a lot of stuff.

I'm on Mountain Lion, with Mail 6.6 and an IMAP server.


texts: Web browsing on Mac slows down after a few days of use

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When trying to browse any website, such as nytimes.com, yahoo.com, etc, it take sometimes anywhere from 15s-120s for the page to display. For example, in Chrome, when I browse to nytimes.com, in the status bar, I see the message "waiting for css.nytimes.com" or "waiting for www.nytimes.com" for a long period of time.

This is happening at home (on VPN to my employer's network or off) as well as when I'm connected to my employer's network directly. The problem occurs on all browsers on my Mac [Chrome, Safari, Firefox] and the curl command line tool in Terminal.

This problem seems to be isolated to my Mac. For example, when I browse on my iPhone (or my Windows laptop or another Mac laptop) on my home network, performance is great. It's terrible on my Mac. So this is definitely an issue with my Mac (OS Mountain Lion). This seems to be isolated to HTTP/HTTPS and not all TCP traffic since I can use SSH/RDP w/o any issues.

Using Activity Monitor, I can see ample free RAM and CPU utilization is minimal.  I noticed this problem a couple of weeks ago.  A reboot clears it up and then after 2-3 days, browsing starts to slow down again.  Some pages take minutes to appear (or some suddenly appear in a flash when I stop loading the page).

What can I do diagnose the cause?


texts: Mac App Store - how to check which account was used to buy app

texts: I'm trying to update Growl, however App store says "To update this application, log in with account which was used to buy this application". The thing is that i don't have any other Apple ID. Is it possible to find out what account was used to bought this app?


texts: My MacBook Pro Shocks Me When I Connect It To A Three-Prong Charger

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There are already many questions about how to solve a problem where touching a MacBook Pro while it is charging gives one an electric shock. In most of cases, connecting a three-prong extension to the charger and using it seems to solve the problem (since that allows the MacBook Pro to be properly "grounded" or something).
My case, however, is quite the opposite. I receive moderately severe electric shocks when I touch my MacBook Pro (13", late 2011) when it is connected and charging using the three-prong extension. What I can't understand is that I still receive shocks even if the switch on the wall socket that the charger is plugged into is switched OFF.
When I switch to using a two-prong connector for my charger, the electric shocks go away but I still feel a slight tingling sensation when touching the edge of my MacBook Pro. If I switch to using a two-prong, third-party MacBook Pro charger I got off Amazon, I still feel the slight tingling sensation, but I don't get shocked very badly, either.
I've tried using multiple three-prong extensions and multiple two-prong extensions, plugged my charger into multiple sockets around my house, and even plugged my faulty charger into another MacBook Pro—and I've observed the same behavior I described above every time.
I'm really confused and I can't find much help on this online. Does anybody have any idea what could be happening and how I can fix it?
(I happen to live in a country where the standard voltage is 240V, if that matters.)


texts: removing results from Google searches on Safari

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Is there any extension or whatever that I can use to remove the results I don't want form google for safari?

I would like to be able to ban certain domains from appearing in any results on my google searches.


texts: GUI written in python (with PyQT/PySide2) does not launch

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I just updated to Big Sur 11.2.1 and wanted to launch a python script that I wrote in a GUI with PySide2. When I launch the script, the terminals seems to be busy with the app:

However nothing more happens: the GUI doe not launch, there is no error message. and I have to kill manually the app. Here is the code
#!/usr/bin/python

# Import PySide classes
import sys
from PySide2.QtWidgets import *

# Create a Qt application
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
# Create a Label and show it
label = QLabel("Hello World")
label.show()
# Enter Qt application main loop
app.exec_()
sys.exit()

If a run the a script containing only print("hello") from the terminal, this works
Moreover in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk access, the app iTerm.app is selected (so iTerm.app should have permiession)


texts: Can I get rid of the Mickey Mouse glove?

texts: The cursor changes to a mickey mouse glove when hovering over links. I'm coming from the Linux world and there doesn't seem to be an option in the settings that can change it, it is driving me insane. Wondering if there is a 3rd party app or hidden setting that affects it. Thanks.


texts:
When right-clicking on a document in skim there are two very useful options:

Single Page (good for presentations)
Single Page Continuous (suitable for reading)

Is there a way to define a shortcut which will toggle between the two? I guess AppleScript and probably this can be helpful. Problem is I don't know how to work with AppleScript.


texts: MacBook not sleeping when I close the lid

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My MacBook has never slept when I close the lid. I´ve tried all the remedies listed here in the forum from resets to experimenting with pmset settings.

Should my MacBook sleep as soon as I close the lid just like pressing alt+cmd+eject or does it sleep according to the power settings? I.e. after 10 minutes if so set?

Here is the output of pmset -g

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1*
AC Power        -1
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         4200
 standby              0
 halfdim              1
 sms                  1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 disksleep            10
 sleep                10
 hibernatemode        3
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         1
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

Using syslog | grep -i "wake reason" gives no results?

I have reviewed my sharing settings and deactivated everything, checked that there is no print queue and bluetooth is off.

Can anyone help me get my MacBook to sleep when I close the lid?


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OS: Sierra

Safari: 10.0.3

It looks like the functionality to switch to the last active tab is not supported natively. Are there any extensions that can be used for this purpose? Furthermore, is there an extension that would give me a tab manager?

Note that I am unable to switch to a tab through the keyboard using the "Show all tabs" natively. The only solution that I found is through the use of Shortcat app.

I had to switch to using Opera for the time being for its awesome tab manager. With the addition of Vimium I can completely rely on the keyboard for all navigation (only partially supported with Safari through Vimari).

My only issue with Opera is that it isn't integrated with the default autocorrect/spellcheck engine, making life difficult for me.

Any suggestions for a tab manager/last active tab switch in Safari and/or a way to integrate Opera with the autocorrect engine is welcome (the latter, I think is dependent on this Chromium issue).


texts: iphone sends log files to desktop Console app via wifi

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UPDATE #2

I've narrowed this down to the WiFi logs are definitely sent via the
lockdown process - not iPhone sync.
This occurs despite the "Connect via network" box in XCode being unchecked.

UPDATE

I believe the traffic is related to tcp\62078 - iphone-sync & lockdown.  As many of us know, one way this port is used is for an iOS device to sync to iTunes over WiFi however, I have never turned this on.  In addition, when I check this setting with the iPhone connected via USB, that feature is unchecked.

Otherwise, lockdown may be getting accessed somehow but I have yet to figure out how.

Exploit perhaps???

Original Post

As many probably know, it is possible to access\download iPhone logs to a Mac desktop by using XCode and connecting the device to the desktop via USB.  However, my iPhone is now sending this same data via Wifi and I am unable to (A) figure out why and (B) control it or get it to stop.

I have sniffed the connection at least a dozen times, scoured the Net, checked the plethora of Apple Discussion pages, etc...all to no avail. In addition, I have triple-verified that the "Connect via Network" checkbox in XCode is unchecked.

Has anyone (1) seen this and then (2) figured out how to control this and\or get it to stop?

Thanks in advance for any feedback or assistance you may provide.


texts: How do I disable Do Not Disturb While Driving in iOS 11 if I'm a passenger?

texts: Do Not Disturb While Driving in iOS 11 looks like a helpful feature unless I'm a passenger. How do I disable it if I'm an passenger?


texts: Is it possible to hide dock bar permanently? I know we can make dock bar hide/appear automatically. But I don't want dock bar to appear even when the arrow moves on it.


texts:
I've installed NodeJS for all users on my Mac and when I do a whoami in the terminal it says 'cameron' and I can access node, npm, and grunt globally.

However when I try and run these from PHP e.g. exec('npm install'); I can't run them because they don't exist! Doing a whoami in the PHP reveals that I'm running the website as _www which isn't an actual user on the Mac...

So basically how can I install Node for _www? So I can run these commands from PHP.


texts: Is there an app for manage documents for OS X?

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I'm searching for an app like iTunes or iPhoto but for documents which manage documents for me.

I assume the finder itself could manage documents, but please explain how the helpful properties of finder or another app can work more like iTunes and iPhoto on OS X.


texts:
I am currently setting up a backup script on a macOS Sierra machine. In the logs some warnings related to the tool appeared, so I looked them up. Seems like this is caused by a missing Lchown Perl module, so I set out to install it (being a complete newbie to everything Perl related).

Following a guide I found, I started with running sudo cpan and following on screen configuration instructions. This seems to have done quite a lot and now I am unsure if I messed with the OS' Perl installation.

According to the install logs, a directory .cpan and perl5 have been created in my user's directory at Users/me/– this is probably okay. The log also indicates that a lot of files have been copied, like: cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version.pm, and I neither know the from nor the to location.

Did I do anything harmful to my system's Perl installation running the above command?
Can I somehow easily reverse the installation process? Should I?


texts: What are these  characters, and how can I use them?

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Not sure when this feature popped up.. but in the "Special Characters" menu, ^SPACE (aka my favorite place), there are a whole slew of "Mathematical Letters".  I can't even find them under the symbols list.. aka • Arrows, • Punctuation... but they're in there.. and they are CHIC!

  .  ©     ./

here is a snapshot of what the above text looks like on my computer... does it look the same to everyone else?

here they are in context...

How can I use these fonts... or just type these characters directly, without having to hunt and peck with the mouse in the "Special" characters palette?

EDIT:  After some recent futzing with my FontExplorer Pro setup, I realized i NO LONGER HAD these beautiful fonts.  After much messing around, I figured out THESE ARE NOT PART OF MAC OS X, unfortunately.  They are part of the "XITS Math" font collection.  This is listed as the font's "description"...

  Arie de Ruiter, who in 1995 was Head of Information Technology Development at Elsevier Science, made a proposal to the STI Pub group, an informal group of publishers consisting of representatives from the American Chemical Society (ACS), American Institute of Physics (AIP), American Mathematical Society (AMS), American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). De Ruiter encouraged the members to consider development of a series of Web fonts, which he proposed should be called the Scientific and Technical Information eXchange, or STIX, Fonts. All STI Pub member organizations enthusiastically endorsed this proposal, and the STI Pub group agreed to embark on what has become a twelve-year project. The goal of the project was to identify all alphabetic, symbolic, and other special characters used in any facet of scientific publishing and to create a set of Unicode-based fonts that would be distributed free to every scientist, student, and other interested party worldwide. The fonts would be consistent with the emerging Unicode standard, and would permit universal representation of every character. With the release of the STIX fonts, de Ruiter's vision has been realized.

What a weird.. and fabulous font.  More info can be found here.


texts:
I have an iPhone 5s with iOS 8. There are about 80,000 emails in an IMAP trash folder. How do I get rid of these emails?

Perhaps my phone was set up incorrectly but I have no reason to want to keep these.


texts: Copy folder & files with labeled files but strip the label?

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Is there an easier way to copy a folder that contains files with (colored) labels applied and strip those labels than making an Automator droplet/application?

So perfect would be having this to happen, but have it happen "by default" if I press ⌘ + D...

Automator goes like this...

Application receives files and folders as input
Duplicate Finder Items
Get Folder Contents (actually, the "Repeat for each subfolder found" should be checked)
Label Finder items (nothing selected, with is what happens when you click "x")

Seems clunky, but when I've got Smart Folders returning, eg, all yellow labeled files, I don't want copies when I back a folder up by duplicating it.  The app works fine, but wanted to know if there was an easier way.


texts: Is there a log somewhere that will show when I have done screensharing?

texts: Over the past week, I have been doing a lot of remote access using the Screen Sharing.app. Is there a place that logs when I have used it and for how long? I've looked in the Console.app but haven't found anything useful when I search for screensharing.


texts: How do I get photo albums to sync via iCloud?

texts: I seem to remember photo albums that I created/edited on my iphone syncing via icloud with iphoto and my ipad. After a full restore and update, I can no longere make this work. Please help.


texts:
I'm debating purchasing iTunes Match to sync my music between my desktop, laptop and work computer.  The only issue I have is that my laptop doesn't have enough space to download all the music I have purchased on iTunes.  Is it possible to have it download a subset of my music or does it have to download everything?

If it has to download everything it's not worth it to me.  :-)


texts: How to Switch Startup Partition without entering password

texts: For testing purposes I frequently want to restart my iMac in El Capitan, Sierra, or High Sierra which I have on separate disk partitions.  When using System Preferences/Startup Disk, I have to enter my password to do that.  Is there any way to avoid this requirement?


texts: How to avoid that music control center "forgets" music app?

texts:
Music control center works perfectly fine, except it sometimes seems to "forget" the music app I was using it with. And then just clicking wont do it anymore. Instead I have to click at the top and reopen the app first and start the song there. After doing that, I can control it from control center again.

How can this be avoided. In the ideal case, i can always start playing a song from the music control center by just clicking play (without having to reopen the app first). How it looks when I have to reopen the app first, you can see in the second pic.

Please see pictures for better understanding.


texts: Resizing or expanding a CoreStorage volume

texts:
I bought a new SSD with 750 GB and made two partitions: 600 GB and 150 GB. The smaller one was thought to be a Bootcamp partition one day, but to date it was just another unused partition. When I needed more space, I decided to merge these two partitions. The partition was created with Mavericks, the merge was done with Yosemite.

I opened Disk Utility and the "minus" button. Disk Utility told me both partitions would be merged then. However it miserably failed. My main hard disc suddenly had errors which couldn't be repaired and even two of my other external hard discs could not be mounted any longer.

I eventually restored the hard disc from Time Machine, which worked well.

My second partition is now listed as free:

Unfortunately I can't resize the 600 GB partition nor can I create a new partition using the free space.

Diskutil reveils the following:

~  diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         599.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *599.3 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
                                 Unencrypted

Also diskutil brought up this:

~  diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 9D2BA4BA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         599640592384 B (599.6 GB)
    Free Space:   6111232 B (6.1 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 29A9A02B-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     599640592384 B (599.6 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 2FA7892F-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 7BF42B7B-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          599282155520 B (599.3 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

I have tried this:

Reclaim Delete freespace Partition after Yosemite removal
fsck -fy (The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.)

but it wouldn't help. It said I couldn't recover because it wasn't created in a way it would support (sorry for missing the exact message).

I then have learned that Apple_CoreStorage might indicate my disk is encrypted, which might explain why I can't resize it. It doesn't explain why I can't create a new partition to me.

What are my options to make my hard disk available in a single partition with size 750 GB?


texts: Do iPhones use active scanning to find Wi-Fi networks when Ask to Join Networks is off?

texts: I'm looking into security holes in my daily life, and I ran across an article that says that most devices broadcast their MAC address continuously. I'm wondering if that applies to iPhones (and other iDevices) as well. I would expect them to use active scanning when Ask to Join Networks is on, or if you are actually in the Wi-Fi Settings (though I don't know that that is the case), but what about normally? Is my iPhone broadcasting its identity everywhere it goes as long as the Wi-Fi is on?


texts: Reinstalling OS X Lion after erasing the HD

texts:
A friend of mine recently bought a used Macbook (I believe it's the model before the last Macbook model from 2011). It had OSX Lion installed. I rebooted the system, held down Command + R and used Disc Utilities to to wipe it out. When I went to reinstall Lion, I get an error say that the item is not available and to try again later. Of course, trying again later has done me no good.

Any ideas? I've read elsewhere online that this is a common problem but have not found any solutions.


texts: Create a custom Quick Action to create a zip file with password

texts:
How to create a custom Quick Action to create a zip file with password.

I understand, to create a zip file with password the following command-line can be used:

zip -er archive.zip /path/to/directory/

or

zip -e archive.zip /path/to/directory/

but, how can it be made simpler in the Quick Action on folder or on any file using Automator?

I don't know how to run a script and how to make it generic for each file/folder.


texts:
I am new to Mac, Mac OS X and iCal.

In the monthly view of iCal, I found it very inconvenient to read only the first 10-12 characters of an event's title. To read the full length title, I have to do one of the following:

go to full screen
reduce font size to "unreadable"
open the event edit dialog
go to the daily view

None of the above options satisfies me.

Is there a way to have iCal display additional info (full title, comments...) when mouse stay over an event for one second or so?

Alternatively, is there a way to make a long (> 10 chars) title wrap to a new line rather than being cut with ...?


texts: How to stop bluetooth from activating every time Mac wakes up?

texts: I have a Bluetooth speaker that I use occasionally, but not often.  A few weeks ago I decided it was time to upgrade my Mid-2011 iMac from Mavericks, to Sierra (not High Sierra).  Ever since then, the BT speaker connects itself as my Mac's audio device every time the machine wakes up from sleep.  This is very annoying... if I disconnect a device, I expect it to stay disconnected unless I manually connect it.  Why does this keep happening and how can I stop it?


texts:
I recently installed Windows using Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro 16".

The WiFi is very slow on the Bootcamp but fast on my macOS
I get distorted audio when I connect my Bluetooth headsets. But if I use the inbuilt speakers or wired headphones it works fine.

Please help me resolve this issue.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Regards,
Dhruva


texts: If I restore my Iphone will my photostreams be deleted?

texts: I need to restore my phone, I backed up all my photos onto a photstream going to my Ipad. Will they be deleted?


texts: The album artwork is not appearing on my iPhone (6GB, 4G) but it appears on my computer. How do I fix this?


texts: Add feature to SelfControl software : choose network interface to block

texts:
SelfControl is an open source software to block Internet connection for a time period. However, it blocks connection from ALL network interfaces.
I'm looking for someone that would like to add a function in order to allow the user to choose the network interface to block. The goal is to block only the WiFi connection and let the ethernet working.
The source code is available at github.


texts: Macbook Pro not playing any chrome sounds, youtube videos not working, system audio is working

texts: On my MacbookPro, no sites can play audio on either chrome or safari, and youtube and vimeo do not load.  However, I can still play my itunes music with or without headphones, so I don't understand what is going on.  I have tried restarting and reseting PRAM, no effect, and turning on and off my one extension (adblock), and I have tried incognito mode.


texts: How can I install the Command Line Tools completely from the command line?

texts:
I'd like to script the installation of the the Xcode Command Line Tools.

On Mavericks,

xcode-select --install

will open a dialog prompting the user to install, but I'd like to trigger the install without the dialog, like using the softwareupdate command.

Is there a way to do this?

Edit:

Specifically, xcode-select --install launches an application that downloads and installs the tools without requiring the user to manually download them or have an Apple Developer account. It appears to use /System/Library/CoreServices/Install Command Line Developer Tools.app to do this.

I would like to use the same mechanism that Apple is, but without the GUI. I do not want to have to manually download the .dmg containing the tools as this seems fragile. Apple provides several other command-line tools, like softwareupdate and install that download or install software directly from Apple, and I'm looking to find the same for this type of distribution.


texts: Duplicate Volumes folders on each reboot

texts:
Really frustrated trying to solve this, the only thing I played with was /etc/fstab when trying to mount & write to a NTFS external drive. Since then everytime I reboot my Volumes (besides the OSX volume) get duplicated as in this picture:

I can eject the Volumes and delete the leftover folders but once I reboot they just get added & duplicated again.

Please help! Thank you very much.

EDIT: I believe it's related to fuse for OS X, I removed it, and restarted and had no duplicate mounts. Reading this thread:https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/119 people suggested using a newer (beta) version which apparently resolves this issue, however it does not resolve it for me, not sure why, I've tried v 3.0.6 and 3.2.0


texts: Ports closed on macOS Sierra Can't Use Apple Services -- Terminal Help?

texts:
OS: Sierra 10.12.2
System: Macbook11,3 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB TAM.

I cannot use Messages to sign into my iMessage account. I get:

  An error occurred during authentication.

This has been for over a month and I have gone to the Apple store and called support. Support passed it to engineering and it faded away. This is the error:

All of the ports seem to be blocked, or at least they do not show up on a port scan out of Network Utility. When I use lsof -i | grep httpall I see are Chrome windows which happen to be open.

I left off last time with my pf file being disabled. So that's not it. Any ideas?

Note: I was troubleshooting earlier and made some leeway. This is not the same question as earlier, it has advanced. I am now specifically looking for terminal commands.


texts: Stop hiding symbols on close, minimize and maximize window icons

texts:
On Mac, we have 3 circles:

red : close
yellow : minimize
green: maximize

but the symbols on them are visible only on a mouse over event.

How could I make these symbols to be always visible?


texts: Upgrade iPhone to current iOS minor release versus going to the new major release version?

texts:
When updating my iPhone from settings the only option is iOS 13.X, however I am currently on 12.4.1 and want to simply go to the still current patch version 12.4.3 which came out just a few days ago.

Is there a way to make the phone go to the minor build update instead of forcing to 13.X? I want to avoid iOS 13 until a couple of fixes come out that address the major issues plaguing that update, but don't want to have current security holes in my current version.

There was a similar question here: Upgrade iPad to newer (but not latest) iOS but it had to do with a middle jump to an already revoked older version i.e going from 6 to 7, when 8 was the current version, so my question is different in that both versions are currently signed by apple.


texts: Is there a way to disable autoboot on the M1 MacBook Pro? On recent MacBook Pro models the computer will start up automatically when opened (or then a key is pressed). With the Intel models it was possible to disable by setting a flag using the nvram command. This seems to no longer work on M1 Apple Silicon models.


texts:
Am I missing something with my hard drive space? I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 on my MacBook Pro and trying to clear some disk space to install something.

Disk info says I have 30 GB free out of 250 GB. When I analyse the disk, I'm hardly using any space at all.

Any ideas?


texts: Can I extend escape codes for Active Process Name in Title Bar that work locally to also work when I ssh to another machine?

texts:
I don’t yet understand the escape codes to set the "Active process name" in OS v10.14.6 Terminal.app's title bar.

So far, I understand how to use the following escape  codes per documentation settings for "Document" and "Working Directory" and appreciate any guidance if I'm understand this part correctly:

Settings:

Escape codes per Mac OS:

Display working directory in titlebar, clear document first.

$ echo -n -e "\033]6;\007\c" && echo -n -e "\033]7;file:/etc;\007\c"

Works as expected.

(which will display working directory, however it gets replaced quickly by some other script which I think Apple owns)

Display document in titlebar, clear working directory first.

$ echo -n -e "\033]7;\007\c" && echo -n -e "\033]6;file:/etc/passwd;\007\c"

Works as expected.

Enable "Active process name" and "Arguments" so I can see which process is invoked in the terminal session:

Active process "bash" shows as expected, however I'm unsure how to set this via escape codes.  I would like to update the active process name when I "ssh" into other systems.

Is there a guide or trick to setting this via ssh to other systems?

PARTIAL SOLUTION: I figured out a way to get the process name via Bash printed.  Although not a complete solution it is to include this in .promptrc or .bashrc.  The \033]2 is required vs \033]0:

trap 'printf "\033]2;%s\007" "${BASH_COMMAND//[^[:print:]]/}" >&2' DEBUG

$ printf "\033]7;file:/etc\007"

seems to update the working directory, but it seems like there is some other script maybe Apple Mac OSX is running that overwrites what I see only temporarily in the title bar.

UPDATE:

I also found that the Apple Terminal.app runs in a loop executing this file, which does some of the work to get the pathname in the title bar:

   /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal


texts: Installing Windows 10 to an External Hard Drive SSD

texts:
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro, with Touch Bar, running macOS Sierra (10.12.2). I am trying to install Windows 10 to a new external SSD using Boot Camp Assistant.

I have read numerous methods detailing how to complete this installation, including this great thread.

Under macOS Sierra, this seems to be different. For example, when I run Boot Camp Assistant in macOS Sierra, the first screen is the standard introduction screen, and the second screen jumps right into the partition screen. I have no ability to download any software, or even to select my target drive.

This is as far as I have gone because I do not want to modify the partition of my internal drive.

Also, here is a screenshot of Disk Utility where you can see my external SSD currently partitioned and ready. I am wanting to install Windows 10 on the 100GB W10 partition (MS-DOS). The drive is plugged in, but Boot Camp Assistant does not recognize it (or allow me to select it as an install destination).

Any ideas?

Update 1:
I tried to get around this problem by trying to ignore Boot Camp Assistant altogether and just installing WindowsToGo on my SSD.
No luck. I eventually thought the problem might be because the SSD is split in 2 partitions, and maybe Mac doesn't like that. So I wiped the whole drive and installed WindowsToGo on the single partition using this guide. Everything appeared to install fine, but the MacBook will not recognize the drive when booting.

Update 2:
I thought I might be doing something wrong, so I tried using AAOMEI Partition Assistant Standard (which automates the WindowsToGo installation). Same problem. Everything on the drive looks fine, but the Mac won't recognize it as a bootable drive.


texts: How do I increase the ulimit -n on 10.10.3

texts:
There way on lion was this.From a previous post

echo 'kern.maxfiles=20480' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
echo -e 'limit maxfiles 8192 20480\nlimit maxproc 1000 2000' | sudo tee -a /etc/launchd.conf
echo 'ulimit -n 4096' | sudo tee -a /etc/profile

but the first two files don't exist on Yosemite


texts: How to disable Notification for Terminal app?

texts:
When i am starting a new server from the Terminal app, and i have the window not active, the Dock icon "jumps" up and down, also called "notifies me".

I don't want this behaviour, i want a quiet Terminal. I know when i am starting and stopping sth.

  How can i do that?

I've already disabled the audio and visual bell, but still: Jumping.

System version: Mavericks.


texts: Whenever I try to delete a file in Finder I get "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

texts:
I can't figure out why Finder isn't letting me delete files under my home directory without providing my password. Here's a listing of some files on my desktop:

~/Desktop steve 526$ ls -l@ flower*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  43909 Jun 10 12:01 flower1.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  57568 Jun 10 12:03 flower2.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  42322 Jun 10 12:04 flower3.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  41845 Jun 10 12:04 flower4.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.quarantine       25
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  37917 Jun 10 11:58 flower5.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  73718 Jun 10 11:59 flower6.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  62222 Jun 10 11:59 flower7.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  steve  51334 Jun 10 12:00 flower8.png
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32

When I try to delete a file from Finder, I get this:

Here's a listing of my home directory. The permissions all look reasonable to me.

~ steve 534$ ls -al@
total 112
drwxr-xr-x@ 34 steve  steve   1156 Apr  7 09:16 .
    net.decimus.synk.fakeVolumeUUID    36
drwxr-xr-x   8 root   admin    272 Apr  7 09:38 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 steve  steve      3 Jul 18  2006 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@  1 steve  steve  21508 Jul  1 14:38 .DS_Store
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwxrwxrwt@  3 steve  steve    102 May 12  2008 .TemporaryItems
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwx------  34 root   steve   1156 Jul  8 08:40 .Trash
drwxr-xr-x   2 steve  steve     68 Nov 12  2008 .Xcode
-rw-------   1 steve  steve  12721 Jul  4 17:04 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--@  1 steve  steve    464 Jan 17  2008 .bash_profile
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwx------   3 steve  steve    102 Sep 25  2008 .cups
drwx------  14 steve  steve    476 Jul  8 08:19 .dropbox
-rw-------   1 steve  steve      0 Jan  2  2009 .gdb_history
-rw-------   1 steve  steve     46 Feb  1  2010 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x   6 steve  steve    204 Jan  9  2010 .lilypond-fonts.cache-2
drwx------   2 steve  steve     68 Jan 17  2008 .macports
drwx------   3 steve  steve    102 Jun 14  2010 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x   6 steve  steve    204 Dec 19  2008 .subversion
-rw-------   1 steve  steve   1661 Dec 19  2008 .viminfo
drwx------  18 steve  steve    612 Jul  8 08:50 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  18 steve  steve    612 Jul 19  2009 Development
drwx--x--x  13 steve  steve    442 May 28 11:19 Documents
drwx------  43 steve  steve   1462 Jul  6 15:10 Downloads
drwx------@ 20 steve  steve    680 Jul  8 08:19 Dropbox
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwxr-xr-x  24 steve  steve    816 Jun 10 11:12 EmagicBugReports
drwxr-xr-x   3 steve  steve    102 Feb 15 19:57 FXpansion
drwxr-xr-x@ 55 steve  steve   1870 Jun 29 20:05 Library
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
drwx------+ 14 steve  steve    476 Jul  9  2011 Movies
drwxrwxrwx  26 steve  music    884 Feb 11 14:13 Music
drwx------   7 steve  steve    238 Feb 22  2011 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  13 steve  steve    442 Jul  8 08:49 Prime95
drwxr-xr-x   8 steve  steve    272 Sep 25  2011 Public
drwxr-xr-x   7 steve  steve    238 Feb  2  2008 Sites

I can delete the files from Terminal with rm flower1.png without problem. Why is Finder being so picky?

I already tried repairing permissions in Disk Utility.

Edit
Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.4.


texts:
Starting 4 days ago (the date might be relevant if some updates came along),
Chrome on MacOS started rejecting self-signed certificates. It includes things like Vagrant boxes and the Synology NAS web interface.

While with Chrome under Windows I can still click "advanced" and chose to "accept the risk and continue", that option is missing under Mac.

Is there any Flag or Setting to reintroduce that option?


texts:
I have a 23' external monitor (through VGA) which always worked at 1440x900 and looked amazing. Today after I unplugged it, it still says it's working at 1440x900 but it's actual resolution is bigger.

I've tried unplugging, rebooting, Detect Displays, change res. and change back but no dice. Any clues on what might be happening?

Thanks!


texts: I want to add the home directory to the favorites directories, how can I do it?


texts:
Strictly for learning purposes (possibly maintenance as well) I am trying to have a Cron job empty my trash once a day.

I have opened terminal and entered the command crontab -e to access the VI editor to add the command. I've entered Insert mode and added * * * * * sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*, hit the escape key to exit and quit VI with :wq!

This particular script I have running every minute just to see if it works and it is not. I thought it might be an issue with cron not having root access, so I added the same line to the sudo crontab -e file and it doesn't seem to be saving.

Any ideas what could be wrong with this cron job?


texts: Installing SSD to non retina 2012 macbook pro via recovery menu

texts:
I have a 13" 2012 non-retina MacBook Pro that I intend on upgrading with a Samsung Evo 850 SSD. I have watched some tutorials and for the most part, I think I know what to do on the hardware side of things but I have two questions for the software side after the disk has been successfully installed.

Question 1. Can I use the recovery menu (accessed by hitting command + r on boot) to both format, and install a version of MacOS?

Question 2. If so, do I need to initialize the disk before installing it? Or can I literally unbox the SSD, install it in my MBP, and then format/install MacOS via recovery?


texts: Remove a device from 'Find My iPhone' app

texts:
I cannot remove any devices from the list of devices in the 'Find My iPhone' app.

I have also looked on iCloud.com and cannot seem to remove them there either. Is this possible outside of MobileMe?


texts:
I have an external hard drive with a case. It is an older computer’s hard drive. To use certain software, I have to boot from that hard drive but since I am running the computer from an external hard drive with a usb cable, it runs pretty slow.

Mac has 500 GB drive ??? available
USB is OS X 10.6.8 and 500 GB drive with 240 available (260 GB space filled)

I’d like to transfer it to a section of my hard drive and have the option off booting from that section/drive. Do you know of tutorials that can tell me how to do this or do you know how?


texts: How to obtain the direct link to a specific podcast episode in iOS iTunes Store?

texts:
My friend, on her iPhone, wants to email me an iTunes Music Store link directly to a specific episode of a podcast. She wants to do this without downloading any 3rd party apps.

Problem is....at least half the time, the link she sends me takes me to a page with many episodes of the given podcast. We just want to link directly to one particular episode so I can be assured I'm gonna' download the right one.

How can this be done?


texts: iPadOS 13.3 error: when updating app or reinstalling offloaded app, this error comes up: “Unable to install APP_NAME, please try again later”

texts:
My former version of this question was marked as a duplicate, despite the fact the question it was a “duplicate” of being:

About a different error. Mine only happens when redownloading any offloaded apps and updating nearly any app, the other users’ error only applied to default apps he’d deleted.
On a different operating system. iOS of unknown version, I’m on iPadOS 13.3.
With solutions I specifically mentioned I have already tried in my question, or was unable to try. I don’t have cell data, the solutions required cell data or were just restarting the device.

Seriously, the question this is a “duplicate” of only bears one line of resemblance to mine, the error message. So please, I’m at about the end of my sanity, please don’t mark it a duplicate for a second time.

I have looked at every single other time someone has asked this question on this website, Apple’s articles, etc. and tried every single solution in every single answer. None have worked.

Whenever I try to redownload an offloaded app, or update an app, this error comes up.

  Unable to install APP_NAME, please try again later

I’ve tried everything from turning my Wi-Fi on and off to signing out of my apple ID on the app store, doing a hard restart, and signing back in, just doing a hard restart without the Apple ID stuff, etc. Does anyone have any solutions they don’t think will have been in other answers?


texts: Want to switch the SIM card from my iPhone 4 to 6s plus

texts: I want to insert my existing SIM card from iPhone 4 to iPhone 6s Plus. I want to know if I remove the SIM card from my existing phone, will the data and photos and contacts and whatsApp chats will be deleted or will it remain in the phone? Please guide me on this.


texts: How do I switch opened windows within the same application using shortcuts?

texts:
As shown in the figure below, I opened three Safais windows. To switch among them, I double click the Safari ico in the dock and select the window.

Is there any shortcuts to move these opened windows?


texts: How to set up routing tables on OS X to redirect VPN traffic?

texts:
I am trying to setup route table on my OS X machine so regular internet traffic doesn't go through VPN but only specific destinations will be targeted via VPN.

When I connect to VPN it creates new 'default' route for interface 'jnc0' destination which redirects all the traffic to VPN.

netstat -nr
Routing tables

Internet:

Destination     Gateway        Flags      Refs     Use     Netif Expire
default         10.1.1.1       UGSc       36       65      jnc0
default         192.168.0.1    UGScI      20       0       en1

Is it possible to set priority so all traffic goes via default 192.168.0.1 en1 instead of default 10.1.1.1 jnc0 ?

I have script for Ubuntu which creates routing table but I am not sure how to adjust it for OS X.

Here is the script:

SET_PRIORITY=$(sudo ip rule  | grep -c $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME)

if [ $SET_PRIORITY -eq 0 ]; then
    sudo ip rule add from all lookup $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME prio 1000
fi

sudo ip route flush table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME

sudo ip route add default via $ROUTER_IP dev $LOCAL_IFACE metric 0 table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME

sudo ip route add default via $VPN_IP dev $VPN_IFACE metric 1 table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME

sudo ip route add 172.0.0.1/16 via $VPN_IP dev $VPN_IFACE table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME

When I try to execute:

sudo ip rule add from all lookup $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME prio 1000

I get sudo: ip: command not found.

Also when I try to execute:

sudo rule add from all lookup $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME prio 1000

it doesn't work either with error sudo: rule: command not found.

Here is the code:

sudo ip route flush table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME
sudo: ip: command not found

sudo route add default via $ROUTER_IP dev $LOCAL_IFACE metric 0 table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME
route: bad address: via

sudo route add 172.0.0.1/16 via $VPN_IP dev $VPN_IFACE table $ROUTE_TABLE_NAME
route: bad address: via

I would appreciate any help and guidance.


texts: dyld monitors DYLD_ variables behind the scenes

texts:
If I invoke

DYLD_X=foo /bin/bash -c 'echo "<$DYLD_X>"'

the output is

<>

while

MY_VAR=bar /bin/bash -c 'echo "<$MY_VAR>"'

outputs

<bar>

Switching to Bash 5:

DYLD_X=foo /usr/local/bin/bash -c 'echo "<$DYLD_X>"'

the output is

dyld: warning, unknown environment variable: DYLD_X
<foo>

I would think that dyld should only monitor variables that it knows about. Is there anything that can be done to control this behavior?

MacOS Mojave 10.14.4


texts: How can I stop Finder from converting and loading videos to display in movie icons?

texts:
I want movies to be displayed simply as movie icons.

But currently, and for the past few years, Finder loads (and if it is a strange format converts) the video and then displays an icon showing a still from the movie. That is very very annoying. How can I switch that off?


texts:
iTunes Connect was closed for a week last year around the christmas holidays.

Does anyone know if there will be a similar period of time where iTunes Connect is closed this year?


texts: Lost my .bash_profile. Is it possible to recover it from Time Machine backups?

texts:
I recently completely reinstalled macOS on my MacBook but I forgot to save my personalised .bash_profile. I was stupid enough not to dump it on Gist for future use, and now I'm looking into restoring it. I have several Time Machine backups on an external SSD-drive, would it be possible to restore this file somehow, and if so, where can I find this file so I can copy it over to my current macOS installation?

Searching through the entire backup folder didn't show me any useful results. I have gone through several threads to try to locate where this file might be saved, but as of now I couldn't come across a good answer which covers my problem. Thanks!


texts: "This certificate was signed by an untrusted issuer": what's causing such an error?

texts:
I am having trouble with a specific financial services provider;  every time I try to visit myvisaaccount.com to check my card balance etc, I get the dreaded Chrome red strikethrough https and x-ed out padlock, with dire warnings about an insecure connection.  If I try Safari or Firefox I get different visuals but the same message:  invalid security certificate.

However, tech support for VISA does not see this problem from their own home or office computers.

So I am trying to find out why my OSX Lion laptop hates this web site so much.  I have got into the Keychain Access tool and I have no personal certificates:  empty list.  System (and Root) Certificates are all up to date, with no anomalous descriptive text.  And yes, my system date/time is correct and I am in the right time zone, and I am getting my date/time from Apple N America timeserver.

[]

I am thoroughly out of ideas and very frustrated with this problem.  What more can I do to diagnose or fix it?


texts: Can I get older (recent) versions of Keynote?

texts:
I have just updated Keynote to 10.0, and have noticed some loss of features.

In particular, it seems the "typewriter" animation has been replaced with "keyboard".

I recall having the option with typewriter (perhaps other animations too, I forget) to animate text by letter, so that they appeared at random. That is now gone.

Can I either retrieve that feature, or else download the 9. Keynote from before this latest update?

Any questions I have seen similar to this so far are trying to get really old versions. I just want to go back one version.


texts:
In VMware's RAM setting, if allocated memory goes higher than the recommended maximum, it warns "if higher, memory swapping may occur".

What is "memory swapping" in this context? And what will I see?


texts:
I am sure I have got some virus(s) in my Mac book & I have no idea what to do about it. I download torrents on a regular basis. When I am in Safari, every time I click a link of any kind a new, extra tab opens that has nothing to do with what I have clicked. Usually it opens to mackepper or similar type "junk sale" web site.

Help!


texts: There is a way from App store to send an email containing the information about an app. However there is no way of just copying the app URL in case I want to send that URL on other services like Line or whatever. Or is there?


texts:
In previous versions of OS X the Console.app had buttons to allow you to see earlier or later in the logs.

In Sierra it seems to only show entries from when you start Console.app.

How do you get Console.app to show earlier entries?

e.g. I want to see the logs before my last reboot to see why it hung.


texts:
I've had Xquartz working multiple times on different machines over the years but I just did a new install and have some strange behavior with no windows popping up.
My issue is, when I run an app like xclock, it just hangs acting like it's running but no window pops up.  And when I try to quit Xquartz it goes away initially but then comes back after a few seconds.  Even force quit doesn't kill it, it comes back after a few seconds.  Then trying to quite the terminal session, it says Xquartz is still running though killall X11 says:

"No matching processes belonging to you were found"

I installed Xquartz via homebrew and manually with the .dmg file and restarting my computer, still same issue. I saw someone said to delete the X11 .plist files in your User Library but that didn't work.
I can click on /Applications/Terminal and it works but the functionality I am used to in the terminal doesn't seem to be working.
I have added /opt/X11/bin: to my path so I can execute the xcommands anywhere.
Xquartz assigned my environment variable to DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.07dUzDaTi1/org.xquartz:0
Any suggestions to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How can I change the view options for all subfolders at once?

texts:
I want to adjust the view options of a folder and all of its subfolders, the end result being that they have identical view options.

I'm not sure where to start with this. I normally launch View options using Command—J, but the settings I specify do not always carry over to a subfolder.

A bit of Google revealing some success with people using Automator, but the solutions appear outdated.

I am using Mountain Lion (10.8.2)


texts: Where can I get a copy of Mavericks after Yosimite has been released?

texts:
I think I would like to install Mavericks over Snow Leopard on my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro because I imagine it is more stable than Yosimite and I'm doing a lot of development on it, for which I want Port Tree (Fink in my case) packages to be available for items like Python, PostgreSQL, etc.

But Mavericks doesn't seem to be available on the App store anymore. Tried downloading from CNET, but all I seemed to be finding was an update.

I am tempted to just install Yosemite and would love to get some input.


texts: Is it normal for there to be a 5min+ period of high CPU usage when going to sleep under El Capitan?

texts:
I have recently upgraded my 8GB MacBook Pro (mid 2010, model ID: MacBookPro6,2) from OS X 10.6.8 to 10.11.4.

Under Snow Leopard, after I closed the lid it would take something like 30 seconds to write memory contents to disk before the HDD would spin down and the sleep light begin to pulsate.

Under El Capitan, it takes five to six minutes between when I initiate sleep and when the machine actually powers down and the sleep light begins to pulsate.

During this time there is very high CPU usage, as evidence by:

The fans often spin up (to very high speed, if I have closed the lid and zipped the machine into the neoprene case I normally carry it in).
The period of high CPU usage is clearly visible in Activity Monitor upon waking:

Screenshot after waking from full sleep; note CPU usage was very high, then moderately high while going to sleep; there is a momentary spike (presumably upon wake) and then drops to near idle again:

Sreenshot after putting machine back to sleep, then waking again after one minute (while machine was still busy); note CPU was near idle until sleep initiated, whereupon it was very, very high, then very high, then back to near idle upon wake:

I note that /private/var/vm/sleepimage is exactly 4GiB, even though I have 8GiB of RAM.  It was previously 8GiB under Snow Leopard.

Question: Is this behaviour normal?  If not, what can I do to fix it?  If it is, is there anything that can be done to mitigate it?


texts: Could downloading Tumblr videos damage/infect Mac?

texts:
I have downloaded quite some Tumblr videos, both cat videos, funny clips, porn.
I downloaded them manually, you can save them with right click and save-as with right method - no download program used.

I have old external hard drive where I keep them, downloaded both in Mac and in Windows. After clean install (due to technical issues not malware), I was going to put my collection back to fresh Mac, but heard these videos could contain malicious code/trojans/malware?

Haven't done it for a month now - likely never will again just in case - but it would be pity to delete them all so... do I have to for security reasons?

My question is - how likely could videos downloaded from Tumblr be malicious?
After all, it is one platform for many different blogs - cat videos, funny clips, porn - they are all uploaded to same server so how likely is they can be infected by
a) uploader
b) tumblr itself?


texts: Mac Pro (2013- black can) and non mac monitor?

texts: I am looking to buy a Mac Pro here in the next month but I'd like to use a Samsung 4k monitor. It has 2, HDMI ports and 1 Displayport. I understand the Mac Pro has thunderbolt2 ports, which, correct me if I'm wrong are the same type of port. Can I take advantage of the 4k capabilities of the samsung using a display port to thundebolt2 connection? thx


texts: Connecting iPhone Xr to a PC that doesn't have iTunes on it

texts:
I'm trying to pull some video off a friend's iPhone.  It's an iPhone Xr, Software Version 12.2 according to the About screen.  I want to copy the video to a PC running Win7 SP1.  I don't own an iPhone, so I don't have iTunes on my PC, and I'm trying to avoid installing it.

I connect the phone to the PC and the phone prompts with "Trust this computer?"  I press Yes.  I look at my PC.  There's no popup on how to handle files like if you plug in an external device.  I look at My Computer in File Explorer, and there's no iPhone present.

Is there some setting or something I need to tinker with to get my PC to see the iPhone?


texts: Can iOS apps read the location metadata when allowing access to Photos?

texts:
I am just wondering if by allowing access to Photos, the application has access to read the EXIF metadata (including where the photo was taken and stuff like that).

Is that possible?


texts: Set default boot disk to USB on macmini with T2 chip

texts:
I need to setup boot always from USB stick.

I can boot it from USB by pressing Alt and selecting specific source. Buy how to do it permanently? Is is possible?


texts: Automator-generated apps - Backwards compatibility

texts:
In my experience apps created with automator on Mountain Lion don't work on a Snow Leopard machine. The opposite isn't true though: apps created with automator on Snow Leopard do work on a Mountain Lion machine.

I'm creating a very simple wrapper around a command line executable and using cocoa seems overkill. I want the app to work on as many versions of OSX as possible though, so backwards compatibility is a concern.

Any thoughts on that matter? How can I ensure that my Mountain Lion Automator app is backwards-compatible?


texts: Link formatting in Automator's New Mail Message

texts:
I would like to send an email with automator and have a link that shows a couple words (for e.g. name of the site) instead of the whole URL like you can do with the add link inside of Mac OS.  I have tried just writing the link as HTML as shown below but that didn't work.  Is this possible?

foo


texts: How do play sound through 8 speakers through one channel in audio mdi setup on my mac book pro?

texts: I have a movie theater that has 8 speakers and I am wanting to play sound through all the speakers but when I try and use audio mdi setup it says that I have overlapping channels. I have 8 outputs through one receiver.


texts: What are the screen dimensions of the iPhone 4s and iPhone 5s?

texts: What are the dimensions of the screen on the iPhone 4s and 5s? I mean the length and width of the actual display, in mm or cm. I tried searching for it online but all the sites I looked just provide the resolution and not the actual dimensions.


texts: Home wi-fi network will periodically crash when MBP is connected to wi-fi; everything is fine on ethernet

texts:
I have a 2018 MBP that's connected to an Ethernet cable 99% of the time. This is my work machine, and I'm on it all the time. However, whenever I disconnect my MBP from Ethernet, and allow it to connect to WiFi, my entire home WiFi network will periodically disconnect.

Approximately every 15 minutes (it's actually almost exactly on the 15 minute mark), my home WiFi will lose its Internet connection. Looking at my WiFi diagnostics, it complains about DNS connectivity being an issue. I can restore the WiFi router's Internet connectivity by changing the DNS server in the router, but then 15 minutes later, it's down again.

Is there some kind of DNS server that could be running on my MBP interfering with my local network DNS? How would I even go about checking for that? Could there be some other kind of phenomenon going on?!

Edit: I'm using an AmpliFi Router HD mesh WiFi router with 1 base and 2 extenders. Firmware version 3.3.0.

I resolve this every 15 minutes by cycling back and forth between 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 as the DNS servers on my router.

Here's a screenshot of the error that I'm seeing from the router:

Also, here's my arp -a output, in case it helps

? (169.254.80.182) at f0:9f:c2:36:50:b6 on en0 [Ethernet]
? (169.254.85.113) at f0:9f:c2:36:55:71 on en0 [Ethernet]
amplifi.lan (192.168.134.1) at f2:9f:c2:36:1e:49 on en0 ifscope [ethernet]
philips-hue.lan (192.168.134.2) at 0:17:88:4f:4f:43 on en0 ifscope [ethernet]
home-mac.lan (192.168.134.5) at 78:7b:8a:c0:19:40 on en0 ifscope [ethernet]
wills-iphone.lan (192.168.134.218) at 40:4d:7f:95:e7:cf on en0 ifscope [ethernet]
? (224.0.0.251) at 1:0:5e:0:0:fb on en0 ifscope permanent [ethernet]
? (230.230.230.230) at 1:0:5e:66:e6:e6 on en0 ifscope permanent [ethernet]
? (239.255.255.250) at 1:0:5e:7f:ff:fa on en0 ifscope permanent [ethernet]


texts:
Recently I am recording the amount of data written in my SSD from kernel_task on my new M1 MacBook because that is the main source of memory swapping. I found that memory swapping is less when the MacBook is newly booted up, and more when I don't shut down for a few days.

However, I cannot find any relation why that is the case, or is that just a coincidence? I also got similar results when I use iStatMenus 6. Here is the recent 7 day results (white portion is when the computer is shutted down):

It seems like kernel_task is writing more the longer I leave it on, but I don't see any correlations between the two. I am using similar apps each day. Also, I am currently not worried about my SSD life because it is only writing 30GB per day max, and I have 100% SSD lifetime. Thanks for answering.


texts:
Now that I've upgraded to Lion, Quicken 2007 is history. I need a good replacement that automatically downloads credit card and bank statements from major cards and banks. I need to track investments, too. Importing of old Quicken data would be required, too. Quicken Essentials doesn't fit the bill for me.

I have looked at Money and Moneywell. Both have their strong points, but they don't do everything on the list above. Moneydance is written in Java and I don't like the non-Mac OS look and feel.

Thanks for your suggestions.


texts: Automatic incremental bootable off-site online backup

texts:
I'm looking for a way to clone my hard disk and have that clone be stored online. If my house burns down I could then download the disk file and mount it, so I could pick up from where I left off.

Currently I have set up Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable incremental image (sparsebundle) and store it on disk mounted over wifi (the disk is connected to a Time Capsule).

How do I incrementally upload my sparsebundle located on network disk to Dropbox or any other off-site service?

What I have tried

The Dropbox app was a no-go, because it doesn't support network disks.

CrashPlan simply didn't work at all (app wouldn't start).

Arq can do the job, but it doesn't just copy the file, instead it frames the disk image in its own backup structure. I guess I could compromise and use this, but then the restore process will have the additional step of remembering to use Arq. Would be better if I just had a disk image file in Dropbox directly.

Closest I came was to set up a cron job that would use dropbox_uploader.sh which could otherwise do the job, but it doesn't support incremental uploading, which makes it impractical (the backup is about 300GB).

I happen to prefer Dropbox, but only because I already have a lot of space there, but I can consider any other option as well.


texts: How to add Google Search to the Dictionary app on mac?

texts: Is it possible to add Google Search to the Dictionary app on macOS so that you can view images of the word in Google Search inside the app?


texts: How can I delete game data on iPhone 5? I want to start it over

texts:
I want to start Gardian Hunter from the start, but I can't delete my data.
Is it possible to delete it? Please help me.

I'm using an iPhone 5.


texts: Cisco Smart Tunnel crashes Safari. Can it be made to work on Mac OS X?

texts:
I deal with a customer who has provided me a SSL VPN address.  When I log in it downloads a .jnlp file, and then some files are created in /tmp.

The meat of how it works, is it tries to run Safari with a downloaded library included:

DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/tmp/narwhal.dylib /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari

Safari soon crashes with a segfault:

PlugIn Path:       /tmp/narwhal.dylib
Crashed Thread:  3  Dispatch queue: com.apple.networking.connection.0x7fe0d0468fc0
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000068
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.1 (11B26)

(See the full stack trace.)

The only other mention I can find of this error is on the Apple forum, which suggests it worked in 10.5.8 but not 10.6 or later.  I have a colleague that is running 10.6.8 and it works for him.  I am running Lion (10.7.1). Running Safari in 32 bit mode does not seem to make a difference, nor whether I prefer 32- or 64-bit Java.

My end goal is "connect to the SSL VPN".  The administrators of the server aren't able to support Mac users.  I can connect fine with Windows.

Is there a way to fix this, or perhaps take the details from the .jnlp file, and use a different Cisco client, which works on Mac OS X?


texts: Permissions of User directory are wrong after manual restore

texts:
I manually restored the files in my User directory running cp from the Mac OS X Mountain Lion restore disk. Now I can not access my files anymore, and ls -l prints this:

drwx------   2 root    admin    68 17 Okt 21:29 Applications
drwx------   5 root    admin   170 17 Okt 21:29 Desktop
drwx------  11 root    admin   374 17 Okt 21:37 Documents
drwx------   3 fabian  admin   102 19 Okt 08:57 Downloads
drwx------  46 root    admin  1564 18 Okt 20:32 Library
drwx------  14 root    admin   476 18 Okt 20:44 Movies
drwx------   5 root    admin   170 18 Okt 20:56 Music
drwx------  17 root    admin   578 18 Okt 22:31 Pictures
drwx------   4 fabian  admin   136 19 Okt 08:57 Public

From what I understand, it should say fabian instead of root everywhere, but I can't seem to figure out the right command to change this. So, does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Keep Mask in Same Spot While Key-Framing Transform - Final Cut Pro

texts: I would like to make it look like an object is rising from behind another object. The way I was thinking of doing it would be using a mask and key-framing the "Transform". The only problem is that the mask seems to move with the "Transform", stopping it from working. Is there another way to do this, or is there a way to lock the mask.


texts: Automator Change to directory of dropped files before running Shell command

texts:
Seems extremely simple, but I can't figure it out...

I want to be able to change to the directory (folder) where the dropped file is located before running my shell script on that file.

So either I change to the directory first with Automator, then pass that argument to Shell Script or Applescript

or I change to the directory inside of Applescript or Shell before running my Shell command.  pls help


texts: Disk Utility can't repair external hard drive, tried fsck whats the next step?

texts:
When I try and repair my external hard drives (I have two corrupt now some how both I think from improperly ejecting from the same machine), I get this message:

  Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, ?reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Do I just have to reformat them now? Whats the next step? Both where being used as backups for the most part with a few files. Thank you for your time.


texts: I have thousands of pictures in my iPhoto library. How do I transfer them to iCloud Drive?

texts: I have thousands of pix in my iPhoto library. Can anyone tell me how to back them up in iCloud Drive?


texts: Allow m3u files to be edited in TextEdit, saved, and used without a "is damaged and can't be opened" message

texts:
I am using OS X El Capitan.

I edit the .m3u files that are playlists with TextEdit. After editing and trying to play the playlist files I receive the "is damaged and can't be opened" message.

I can get around this by adjusting the whole system security (system preferences -> security and privacy) to allow apps downloaded from anywhere but I'd like to somehow set .m3u files to be editable without security concerns instead of changing the whole system to be less secure.

How can I get the .m3u extension to be ignored by this type of security.


texts: Can't see Apple_HFS partition after using Minitool Partition Wizard

texts:
I tried to reduce my partition size using Minitool Partition Wizard on my BOOTCAMP partition (I didn't touch Apple_HFS partition) now I can't see my Apple_HFS partition in Disk Utility.

However this partition works under bootcamp.

I think boot manager is broken. But I am not sure how can I repair while I can't see the partition.

Edit: as requested I've executed the following commands

readmbr  -t
readgpt  -t

results are

Selected \\.\PhysicalDrive0 to read from.
Disk ID is 028A47A7.
Sector size is 512 bytes.
Drive contains 240,057,409,536 bytes (240 GB).

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 29185/255/63 [468862128 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  468862127] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

and

Selected \\.\PhysicalDrive0 to read from.
Sector size is 512 bytes.
Drive contains 468,862,128 sectors.
Drive contains 240,057,409,536 bytes (240 GB).

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   211070944      2  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   211480584      262144
   211742728   153600000      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   365342728        2040
   365344768   100409344      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   465754112         752
   465754864     1269536      5  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   467024400     1837688      6  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   468862088           7
   468862095          32         Sec GPT table
   468862127           1         Sec GPT header


texts:
I have a shell script that logs messages to syslog using the 'logger' command. In my syslog.conf, I filter those messages to a specific log file. This is a portable solution that works across all unices. On OS X, I would also like to have these messages sent to growl. I have tried both of the following with no success:

*.*        |exec /usr/local/bin/growlnotify
*.*        @127.0.0.1:23052


texts:
Windows 10.  iTunes 12.7.0.166.

I followed the directions found everywhere to create a new aac file less than 30 seconds long and rename it to .m4r  then removing original (newly created) file from library.  When dbl clicking the new .m4r file iTunes launches but nothing happens.  I noticed that I have this same behavior with files already in my Tones folder which are a mixture of .m4r and m4a files.

The files play fine in other players such as groove.

It appears that I am now unable to import custom ringtones.  Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?


texts: Can't see Dropbox folder within localhost

texts:
I've setup Apache for web development on Yosemite. It's setup fine and I'm able to view folders within my documentroot using http://localhost as I'd expect to.

I now want to use my Projects folder within Dropbox using Apache so have moved my Dropbox folder within the documentroot. There are other directories within documentroot as well.

The problem is when using http://localhost to navigate around these directories, the Dropbox directory doesn't show in the browser. Nothing within it is accessible either. The directories sitting alonsgide are accessible as I'd expect. I think it's probably a permissions thing with the Dropbox directory.

I'm in the process of switching my dev environment from Windows (where this wouldn't have been a problem) to Mac so apologies if I'm missing anything. How do I make sure I can see and use this Dropbox directory when viewing its parent using http://localhost?


texts: Idle iPhone and iPad hog upload bandwidth

texts:
There are 2 iPhones and 2 iPads in our house and every now and then, when no one is using them, they will consume all of the available upload bandwidth of our internet connection for quite a long period of time.

I normally just turn them off or kick them from the wifi when this starts because I don't believe they're doing anything important, I have no idea what could require them to upload so much data.

The iPhones are both running iOS 11.2.6
iCloud backup is turned off on all devices
they upload both when they are plugged into a charger and when they are not.

I have a router running LuCI lede-17.01 branch (git-17.152.82987-7f6fc16) / LEDE Reboot 17.01.2 r3435-65eec8bd5f.

This is a huge problem because once anything is being uploaded all other internet drops (we don't have a great connection), e.g. pings and download speeds for every other device worsen considerably.

I want to prevent the deterioration of internet access for all other devices.


texts: OS X: Suddenly only one window/application visible at the same time

texts:
I have a rather weird problem with my desktop of my MacBook Pro. I use El Capitan 10.11.15.

For reasons I don't know I'm no longer able to keep more than one running application visible at the time.

For example, if I start Terminal, it opens. But when I start TextEdit, Terminal will hide or minimize and TexEdit will become visible instead. The same goes for every other application.

When I open Mission Control, it also shows only one active window, no matter how many other applications are running.

I must have accidently activated it but cannot recall how. I've tried playing around with Dock and Mission Control settings, but nothing changed it.

Does anyone know how to get it back to normal so that I have more than one window/application visible at the same time?


texts: Iphone 4 Screen not working - animating non-stop.

texts: My Iphone 4 screen doesn't display properly, contents on the screen are animating as shown in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olr2kgZ3cTU . Touch is working fine I am able to open apps... but the display is broken. The same behavior as in the video is observed during resetting, rebooting etc..  Tried factory resetting, updating the software etc..


texts: When will podcasts be automatically deleted in iTunes?

texts:
I've heard that downloaded podcasts that are visited would be automatically deleted after some time. But I'm not sure about when or which condition does this occur.

When will the downloaded podcast episodes be automatically deleted if not saved? How to control this event?


texts: After jailbreaking my iPad everything went well until one day pages glitched and i has to do a hard reset(pressing home button and lock button) after that all my apps were erased except for Cydia and Stock Apps. I tried many different way to fix it but nothing worked. Than i reset all the settings. After that my Cydia is gone too, the missing apps are still taking storage and my iPad is still jailbroken, anyone now how do i get the apps back? Thanks. My iPad is iPad 4 32GB, white WIFI. Jailbroken with evasion7 using 7.0.4 system.


texts: How to delete files from the "Masters" folders of "Photos" library

texts:
I am using osX Sierra 10.12.6, and about a year ago, scanned some slides for a friend and for convenience and some quick editing put them  temporarily in the "Photos" application, then deleted them.

However today a search with Spotlight reveals that they are still stored (or appear to be) multiple times, typically 5 times such as "picture1.jpg" located in the following paths:

"Masters:2018:02:17:20180217-091606:picture1.jpg"
or :
"Masters:2018:02:17:20180217-092544:picture1.jpg", etc...

The pictures are not visible in the "Photos" interface, and a search in the "Photos" search engine on file names returns nothing. But the pictures can be opened normally from the Finder where they appear to have all normal attributes.

I have tried to rebuild the "Photos" Library, but this did not change the situation. How to get these files erased forever in a clean way ?


texts: How I can save the Skype chat history from my iPad?

texts:
How I can save the Skype chat history from my ipad?
It does not matter in what format, for example as a text file.

In my ipad, I have a chat history, which is very important for me. This chat history includes several years of communication (so to copy it manually is extremely difficult, because it is impossible to select and copy a large amount of text in Skipe on an iPad, but only one message at a time). I still don't update from iOS 6.1.3, in order to avoid losing this chat history. I can not find the answer anywhere.


texts: Where can I find the Mountain Lion (Notification Center) notification sound?

texts:
I've been searching around for the little sound (the default one) when a notification is presented (on Mountain Lion Notification Center) but I can't find it. Example: http://d.pr/a/P5xo (sound recorded)
Any ideas? Thanks!


texts:
I have iPhone SE 2020 running iOS 14.1. In my Messages app I see a Junk folder. I receive a lot of spam SMS messages from senders like QP-BUYPRP. I need to mark these SMSs as Junk so that they are automatically moved. But all I see is option to Mute the sender.
Is there a way in Messages app I can mark SMS as Junk so subsequent SMSs go to Junk folder?


texts: Cycle though dropdown list using keyboard on Mac

texts:
In many situations I'd be nice to select the next list item using a keyboard.

Say I want to select "Ava 614" from the image below. I'd be nice to just hit the down arrow (or combo keys) then space bar, or return/enter to select. But that doesn't work. Up arrow selects the last item of the list, and down arrow selects the first item of the list.

Is there a way to select the next item in a list using the keyboard?

There's a similar question, but still doesn't answer this specific question.

Side question: is there isn't a system global shortcut is there one for Adobe Premiere CC?


texts: Why do I have a dozen copies of certain preference file in my ~/Library/Preferences folder?

texts:
I found the file .Globalpreferences.plist in my ~/Library/Preferences folder, but I also found the same file with seven characters appended to the .plist extension.
For example: .GlobalPreferences.plist.jFulwSB.
In total there are 30 .Globalpreferences.plist files with appended characters.
I also found this behaviour with the com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.plist file (192x), with the widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist file (106x) and the widget-com.apple.widget.weather.plist file (35x).

What are these files? Is it a backup? If so, what is backing them up?


texts: What is creating a file with the name "1" in my user folder after I delete it repeatedly?

texts:
In my user folder is a file with the name "1". When I open it in a text editor like Xcode, there is one line of text that reads:

button returned:OK

If I delete that file, it gets recreated after some time. My OS is 10.6.8

What is that file?


texts: No SIM Card installed error in iPhone 3g

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My iPhone 3G is showing

  No SIM Card installed
  Insert a valid SIM With no PIN lock to activate iPhone

It is in Emergency mode so please give me a solution if there is..?

It happened when I am tried to update the from iOS 4.1 to 4.2.


texts: Remotely upgrading to El Capitan broke Screen Sharing

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We have a remote Mac Mini acting as a build server that we use Screen Sharing to connect to and remotely manage.

Well I recently upgraded this box to El Capitan and now Screen Sharing won't connect to it at all.

I've upgraded the OS remotely before and never ran into a problem. Is there any way to connect to this box and get screen sharing working or am I S.O.L.? I can ping it, but I can't seem to do anything else (file sharing, ssh, screen sharing).

Update: I did a port scan on the server and it can't find any open ports. I guess that pretty much settles it then. I still don't understand how upgrading and rebooting the box could have so completely bricked it. I mean did Apple really not remote upgrading a possibility?

I'm half picturing some "Welcome to El Capitan, just a few screens to click through before you get your computer back" dialog to be sitting on the screen right now.

Update 2: So we got this resolved, but it looks as though something may have gone wrong during the upgrade process as our IT guy says it wasn't responsive when he plugged a monitor into it. He had to reboot the machine before it would respond. Anyway just wanted to give a heads up to others.


texts: Can I have separate Game Center accounts on two different iOS devices registered to the same Apple ID?

texts: Our kids each have an iPod touch and share my iTunes account.  My son now has my daughter's Game Center info on his iPod touch..  Can we get a separate Game Center ID for him?


texts: Is it safe to mount 2.5" SSD in Mac Pro w/o bracket?

texts: I have a 2.5" SSD (Crucial CT480M500SSD1) that I want to use as my boot drive on my mid-2010 8-core Mac Pro. It doesn't fit the hard drive mounting brackets, which are designed for 3.5" drives. Because the SSD (a) is very light and (b) has no moving parts (and therefore no gyroscopic effects and no vibration), I'm considering mounting it without using a bracket at all—just plugging in straight into the socket, and letting the socket hold it in place. Is this reasonably safe?


texts: How can I "mark as spam" in Sparrow for iOS?

texts: I have labels, archive, trash, respond, etc. but can't find any way to tag a message as spam on the iPhone version.


texts: Cannot get Python perspective with Eclipse IDE

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I installed PyDev for Eclipse, but after doing so, I do not see PyDev in the list of perspectives. If I try to reinstall, it says it is already installed.

Running Mac OSX 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) and tried both Kepler and Juno releases of Eclipse (installed from www.eclipse.org), and PyDev latest from www.pydev.org, using the same procedures I use under Ubuntu (adding the site under "Install New Software").

I'm running Java runtime 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609.

Any idea as to how I can get this working, so that I can get to a Python perspective in Eclipse?


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About a year ago I downloaded the "<3 Sudoku Daily" (click for MAS link) app from the Mac App Store. After a while I decided I didn't want it anymore, so I deleted it by putting the application file, in the Applications folder, into the trash and emptying the trash.

However, for almost the past year, the MAS has persistently shown an available update for the application, exactly as if it were still installed on my computer.

Things I have tried:

Installing the update (which reinstalls the app) and then deleting it
again.
Deleting the app using App Zapper and Hazel to erase any
associated files.
Signing out of my account and signing back in.
Contacting the developer.
Rebuilding LaunchServices per this other  question.
Reindexing Spotlight.
Disconnected any external storage devices that could even possibly have a copy of this app installed somewhere.

This phantom update has even survived the upgrade to Mountain Lion. It didn't bother me so much at first, but now, after almost a year, I'd really, really like to get rid of this application once and for all.

Does anyone know why the MAS would think that this app is still on my Mac, or what I can do to fix it?


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I need to open and convert old Autodesk Animator FLIC (.FLI) files (from MS DOS) into something more useful, like say AVI or even an image sequence. I realize both Motion and QuickTime "can" do this, but they mess up the films, probably because of a faulty decoder.

I've already downloaded the UNIX app xnview, but it doesn't work well. While it can handle the format well, it can only store one frame at a time as a standalone picture, which is PAINFUL to do when there are usually several hundred frames in any given animation.


texts: Settings to use in Garageband for creating sounds for an iPhone application?

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I'm trying to create sounds to be used with a mobile app for iPhone. Is there a default setting in Garageband? Or is there another best practices way to get this accomplished? The sounds are spoken word.

I've tried different effects and settings (and no effects), but there is either a lot of background noise, or it is much too loud in the ad hoc version.


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I have 2 computers. One is Mavericks (10.9.5) and this one is Yosemite. On Mavericks, this works flawlessly. With wine, Steam launches fine. However, there is a peculiar window showing up, and whenever I try launching a game/app, it pops the usual window with "Preparing to launch...", then it disappears and nothing happens.

The image on top shows the unusual window showing up next to the main window.

This is my setup in Wineskin of Steam (needs -no-dwrite because else, it shows blank buttons).

Here and here are the 2 Last Run log files.

UPDATE:

Reinstalling didn't help, and I figured out what the little window is. On Mavericks, it was on the navbar on top, and on yosemite, it is in this window. Clicking it shows the same options as the Steam icon on the navbar on Mavericks. Also, I may have found something related in the logs:

err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated.
Makesure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

I am using OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)


texts: Spotlight indexing occasionally throws Error Returned from daemon: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9 in console

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For the past week Spotlight on my Mac has been indexing my 256GB drive, using about 200% CPU more or less constantly and it hasn't gone anywhere, so today I opened up the console and filtered by Spotlight processes. It's mostly just "successfully fetched policies" but every so often (every few minutes) there's an error message that says "Error Returned from daemon: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9" Is this what is causing the problems? What does it mean? How do I fix it?

System Specs:


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Books 2.2 on Catalina 10.5.2

There appears to be no more 'show in finder' option! How do I know where my books actually are on my hard drive?


texts: iPhone 5 won't start after an iTunes recovery

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I shut down my iPhone 5 phone in the middle of an iTunes purchase download.

I went to an At&T store and they reset the phone. After three hours the phone went blue.  Phone will not turn back on now after doing the recovery via iTunes on the computer. The download did complete. At this point I can get the apple logo to show but that is all.


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When I plug in an external hard drive, I get "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer". The "Disk Utility" applications sees the physical drive, but doesn't show any partitions. If I use diskutil list, I get:

~ diskutil list

dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                      Linux                         1.0 TB     disk2s1

I don't know what exact file system is used on that drive. I know ext4 is the most popular, but this hard drive is from a few years ago, and may be something else.

I tried to install support for ext4

brew cask install osxfuse

then reboot system, then:

brew install ext4fuse

and still get the same outcome.

I need to read the data off of the drive. FYI, I'm running OS X Sierra.

Any ideas?


texts: Safari homepage hijacked and I can't change back

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imac 2011 10.10.5

Safari had homepage hijacked and I can't change it back to google.com.  When I go to Safari preferences and try and change, it just immediately goes to www.rack-search.com/....

I tried deleting all the com.apple.safari.plists in library.

Can you help?