texts: How to downgrade an iOS app for iPod touch?

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Is it possible to downgrade an app from a newer version to an older version without having a copy of the older verion.

I guess this could also be rephrased to, 'is it possible to download an older version of an app from the AppStore after the new version has been released'


texts: Change Finder window graphics back to the more visible Snow Leopard ones?

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When Apple moved from Snow Leopard to Lion, all the Finder window graphics became much duller.  The enabled states of buttons in the Finder, System Preferences, all over the GUI, became much harder to determine.

This has not been fixed in Mountain Lion.  Is there a way to make difference between the button states of enabled and disabled much more visible?

The ones of particular interest are the Forward/Back ones in Finder windows.


texts: Is there a way to switch between two folders for iTunes Media, especially for Macbook Air or Macbook Pro for limited storage?

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For Macbook Air and Macbook Pro, with SSD, the drive might be limited to 128GB or 256GB.  The drive also might have bootcamp for Windows, so that will further decrease the drive's size for Mac.

When the drive is closer to being full, can we "switch" between

/Users/mike/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media

and

/My Passport/iTunes Media

any time we want?  (My Passport is a Western Digital Passport Drive with 1GB).

That seems ok as the Help in iTunes's Preferences says:

  iTunes Media folder location

  To change where songs and other files you import into iTunes are
  located, click Change.

  To change back to the original location for files (Home/Music/iTunes),
  click Reset.

This is also useful if we want to keep, say, 20GB of music on the MBA or MBP, so we can take it with us any where, and keep all the PodCast videos, movies purchased on iTunes, iTunes U videos on the external drive, so when we are home and plug in the external hard drive, we can change the path back for the videos.

(This is not so convenient, as we need to change the path for music and then for videos, but at least it may be a workable solution.  My library is about 550GB on iMac so I am afraid it may mess things up if I change it to the external drive and change it back and all the references to songs and videos, and the indexing for search are gone).

(what if we create a "symbolic link" from /Users/mike/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/iTunes U to /My Passport/iTunes Media/iTunes U and the same for Movies and Podcasts as well, and copy all those files over?  Then when the drive is plugged in, things should work, but if we unplug the drive and take the MBA or MBP to a coffee shop, will iTunes act weird or lose the references or index to those missing videos?)


texts: Apache 403 error after Big Sur upgrade (Forbidden - You don't have permission to access this resource)

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After upgrading my machine from Catalina to Big Sur, I can no more use a custom folder for my apache Server.
I can still use the default Sites folder.
<Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
    AllowOverride All
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    Require all granted
</Directory>

But as soon as I change it to any other folder, like for example /Users/username/Development/Sites/:
<Directory "/Users/username/Development/Sites/">
    AllowOverride All
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    Require all granted
</Directory>

I get a 403 error: Forbidden - You don't have permission to access this resource.
I checked the permissions I have in /Users/username/Sites/

And tried to replicate them to /Users/username/Development/Sites/, but can not use system as user when doing sudo chown system /Users/username/Development/Sites
I also tried to use _www user, but it didn't work.
My other computer that is still under Catalina, has exactly the same configuration and permissions and it works pretty fine!
What did I miss??


texts: Syncing photo library to PC - Number of photos does not match

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I am trying to consolidate my photo library with my girlfriend's, across several devices. I am having some problems getting her iPhone photos to my PC.

What I tried so far:

1) I accessed her iCloud via browser. However, apparently you cannot download photos in bulk there.

2) I installed the Windows app for iCloud that also has an add-in for the file explorer to download pictures. However, this app is outright broken. First, it stopped syncing after a certain number of pictures. I reinstalled the app and the app started syncing again, after the same number of pictures, but different MB folder volume. So there must be something off.

3) I connected her phone via USB to my PC. Before, I made sure that I enabled the option to store high-resolution versions on the device, and not only on the cloud. I then transferred the pictures.

However, I still have some issues:

1) The folders were named e.g., 120APPLE and 100CLOUD. How come that there are two types of series of folders, one called APPLE and the other CLOUD?

2) The number of items was completely off the count in the iPhone app. In the App, it was 7777 items. The count of transferred files was 7926. Also, if I only count the CLOUD or only the APPLE folders, I do not get the same count.

Any ideas what could be the explanations for the two issues I am facing?


texts: I have installed TortoiseHg on my Mac. I can run it, and it opens the repository browser. However, unlike on Windows, it doesn't add new items to Finder context menu. So I cannot right-click a file or a folder and do 'commit'. How can I perform commit then, without going to Terminal level?


texts: Finder crashes and cannot be relaunched (El Capitan, 2010 Macbook Air)

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Model: Macbook Air (11", Late 2010, 1.6 GHz)

OS: El Capitan 10.11.6

Problem: Whenever I try to shut down or restart my Mac, Finder crashes and then nothing else happens. The computer continues to function, except without Finder. The menu bar disappears until I start another app (from the dock). I've tried relaunching Finder from the dock but nothing happens. I've also tried relaunching it via command + option + esc but that doesn't work either. The only way I can bring Finder back is to force restart the computer by holding down the power button.

There are some other odd symptoms, too, like that whenever I get a notification for an update I'll click update and then nothing will happen. I've found that when I restart and get to the login screen I can shut down and restart normally from there.

Besides these things the computer functions normally. I just can't get it to shut down or restart normally.

Any ideas of what might be going on? I can paste an EtreCheck if that would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Note: What I'm experiencing seems to be identical to the problem described in this unanswered question. As recommended by a commenter, I've tried creating a new account but it has the same problems I've described above.


texts: iPhone GMail Push Setup (Exchange) Delete > Bin rather than Delete > Archive?

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I have GMail setup on my iPhone with push, as an exchange account. It's awesome. However, when I select to delete an email (as I often do - I get rather more rubbish than I'd like) it archives the email - and I want to delete it properly from my phone.

This is the opposite of a lot of questions, and I'm aware that if it's setup as a gmail account I can change this setting, but seemingly not if it's setup as an Exchange account.


texts: PowerPoint AppleScript: How do I set Play = Automatically for a media2 movie shape?

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I am working on a script that will iterate through a folder/DroppedItems of photos and movies and place each one centered and maximized on a slide. I would like to set the movies to play automatically so it will work with a simple clicker. I've tried a bunch of different things with the syntax and I'm still coming up short. Here's what I have that I thought was most promising. Part of the issue it seems is that "play settings of theAnimation" looks like it is getting compiled to a type rather than a property. It should say "animation play settings" I believe. I've tried forcing it by pasting in the chevron syntax, but that still doesn't help.

tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
    tell theSlide of the active presentation to set theMedia to   ¬
        make new media2 object at end with properties  ¬
        {file name:theMediaFile, lock aspect ratio:true}

    set theAnimation to animation settings of theMedia
    set animate of theAnimation to true
    set playSettings to play settings of theAnimation
    set autoPlay to play on entry of playSettings
    set autoPlay to true -- originally and erroneously omitted; thanks Jack!
end tell

This is the setting in the UI that I am trying to change via AppleScript:

Here is a simplified version. It works in the code (that is, I can see that the property is correctly set to true), but it isn't reflected in the UI nor in the behavior when running a slide show:

tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
    set thePresentation to active presentation
    set theSlide to slide (slide index of slide range of selection of document window 1) of thePresentation
    if (count of shapes of theSlide) = 1 then
        set theShape to first shape of theSlide
        set play on entry of play settings of animation settings of theShape to true
    end if
end tell


texts: screenshot showing dimensions 2880x1800 but resolution 144x144

texts: I am trying to take some high quality screenshots on my 13" MBP for a website - they need them to be as high resolution as possible (at least 1000px wide) - when I take the screenshot (command+shift+3) and look at the info in Finder it shows dimensions of 2880x1800 but a resolution of 144x144... what is the difference and can I take screenshots at a higher resolution somehow?


texts: Proper save format for preview for editable pictures

texts: Suppose you edit a picture in Preview and added new elements such as text. In what format should you save the file if you want to resume editing the added elements, like changing the font of the text for example?


texts: What is "Sign on via TV Provider" (Apple TV)?

texts: I'm interested in 'cutting the cord' to digital ("cable") TV service, so I'm exploring the "online" options, such as streaming through my Apple TV (3rd Gen.). I notice that usually when I try to do that, it requires me to visit activate.somewhere.com or otherwise sign in with my TV Provider credentials. What is this all about? And what happens when I don't have a "TV Provider" any more? Will this still work if Verizon (or someone else) still provides only my Internet service? Much thanks.


texts: Change mouse pointer in iTerm2 (or disable mouse pointer)

texts: In iTerm2 (fullscreen mode) my pointer is permanently a "text select" pointer. It bothers me, so I would either like to change it (to the regular arrow-type pointer) or disable it when in my fullscreen iTerm2 instance. Is this possible? I'm on OSX 10.7.


texts: Something has been wrong with my finder and Mac. How to fix?

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Finder is often unresponsive.

Also in many software, like xcode or any project. I used to be able to right click and select open in Finder. Now if I do that nothing happen.

Zip utility is much slower. Takes minutes to solve.

I think this happen since I used ccleaner or something.

How to fix?

Finder seems to be the one affected. I wonder if there is other apps with option to "open in Finder" like xcode.


texts: Optimize macbook pro for internal SSD+HDD drives

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I upgraded my MacBook Pro by replacing the SuperDrive with an SSD. I'm now using the SSD as the boot volume and have all my applications. My home folder is on the HDD.

My question is how to best optimize my setup for speed/performance/lifetime.

A few specifics questions

Is the SSD the ideal location for applications?
Where should the swapfile be located? Will it decrease the lifetime of the SSD?

My computer's specs


texts: No email notifications when Mail.app isn't running?

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On Mountain Lion, I don't get email notifications in Notification Center when Mail.app isn't running.

This is not the expected behaviour (it is inconsistent with the Mail.app behaviour on iOS) and makes the notification feature redundant (Mail.app shows a new email badge and also has an email-snippet view).

Is there a setting or third-party solution to fix this?

UPDATE:
When I'm interacting with email I want to be able to command+tab.
This is very handy when composing a message that consists of copy-pasted content from other applications.
I also use the "drag a file to the dock icon" functionality to create a e-mail with an attachment.

But when I'm not interacting with email (98% of the time) I don't wan't Mail.app cluttering the application-switcher but do want to be notified of new email (via either a notification or a badge).


texts: How to insert up arrow in microsoft word for mac using keyboard shortcut?

texts: Is there a way to insert uparrow that is not a wingding in word with a keyboard shortcut? Whenever I insert the symbol from the character browser it switches my font to wingdings and it's frustrating because then I have to manually switch back to the original font.


texts: can an iPad be linked to two different iTunes accounts?

texts: Can I load the songs/games I purchased using my Itunes account to my husband's iPad?  My iPad is not working.


texts: Can Siri be used effectively by someone who stutters when they speak?

texts:
I am curious if Siri can be used effectively by those who stutter when they speak. By effectively, I mean that the error rate where it misunderstands what you are intending to say is low enough that it can be used without undue frustration in day to day life.

I would ideally like to hear from someone who has firsthand experience with this.


texts: *macOS 10.13 High Sierra Beta* Cannot Resize APFS Volumes on External Hard Drive

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I have impatiently updated my Mac to the High Sierra Public Beta and I noticed something strange when I was trying to mess with my external hard drive. I have a 4TB WD MyPassport for Mac and I was planning on partitioning it so I could have half of it to use as a Time Machine and the other half for storage. So, I naturally thought I would reformat the drive as APFS and then partition it so everything is in the same format as my internal hard drive. However, once it was in the APFS format and in the partition drop-down, everything was grayed out from the plus/minus buttons to the resize text box. Down below where they normally display the errors it only said that "This volume cannot be resized." I did also run into the issue where I thought that I would just reformat it back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (AKA: JHFS+). In the drop-down for the Erase menu, I was only given the four APFS options as the format. So, being the hard-head I am, I went into terminal and used the "diskutil eraseDisk" option to reformat it to JHFS+, which worked. From there I was able to partition it off and reformat one volume to APFS for Time Machine and use the other for extra storage. What I learned after setting up Time Machine, is that it actually needs to be in the JHFS+ format to work. TL;DR So, I guess my question ends up being: does anyone know why I can't partition a drive that is in APFS format? And why does Time Machine use JHFS+ format if the new native format is APFS? As far as the first question, is it just me or maybe because High Sierra is in Beta and it's just something that hasn't been fixed? And for the second, also maybe because it's in Beta and it's just something that hasn't been updated?

Thank you for everyone's time reading this, I know it was kind of a long one.


texts: Can I restore my data to an older version of macOS?

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I had to send in my old Mac (10.11) for screen repair, and worked on a replacement MacBook with 10.14. Now, I'd like to transfer my data back from the replacement's Time Machine to the old Mac. I don't want Mojave because the very real downsides of breaking some pieces of software I rely on don't outweigh the cosmetic benefits.

Now, Migration Assistant tells me I cannot use my backup on the old Mac!

Is there a way to transfer only the data and leave the macOS untouched? User data and OS should really be separate.


texts:
I know Preview can annotate images, but does anyone know which app is used to create the style of arrows in the following image?

(This appears in https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/220496/251846, but the author has become inactive, it seems.)


texts: How to diagnose slow file transfer performance?

texts:
I just bought a brand new MacBook Pro and am transferring files from a brand new external SSD hard drive. Performance is much lower than I expected.

The picture is showing ~44 MBps, which has been on par for this file transfer.

Here are the specs I'm working with and my research so far:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
Samsung T3 Portable SSD - 1TB - USB 3.1 External SSD (MU-PT1T0B/AM)
Physically connected using the Apple Thunderbolt 3 cable that came in the box

Some research and notes:

Hard drive is not full
External drive is not full
Mac is using FileVault
External drive is using FileVault

How can I diagnose this performance issue further?


texts: Why can't I shuffle songs within a specific album under the latest version of iTunes 12.5.1.21?

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Prior to the update, I was able to select the "Shuffle Songs" button in the upper-mid Information Bar, click on a specific song in an album and then hear a mix of songs only from that album.

For example: If I clicked on a song from the album L.A. Woman and I had shuffle enabled, I would only hear other songs from that album.

Under the current version, If I select a song from L.A Woman, I will get that one song and then a mix of songs from my entire library.

In this example, the next song might be from Frank Sinatra, the Dead Kennedys, or anything else.

How do I disable this "feature?"

I don't want to have to click "Shuffle Album" to hear the songs shuffled.

Often I will start with one song I want to hear, hear another song from the random shuffle on the album, and then select a new song to hear from the same album


texts: Screen share app goes black when turning scaling on

texts:
When I turn scaling on for Screen Share the window just goes black. If I turn scaling off it stays black. I have to disconnect and reconnect to get the screen back, but then scaling is turned off again. Is there any way to fix this?

Host is Mac Mini running macOS 10.11.6 (15G18013)
Guest is Macbook Pro running macOS 10.13.4 (17E202)


texts: Error when restoring a iOS 4.3.5 backup onto a iOS 5 device

texts: I have tried several times with several backups, but i keep getting the message that the backup is corrupted or not compatible.


texts: How to test my installation script on macOS?

texts:
What is the best way to test an install script on macOS?

I have written an installation script so that others can easily install the program qme-ng which I forked and am working on.

However testing the script is very hard. I can manually uninstall all the dependencies, Boost and gmp, each time and see whether my script can properly reinstall them but it is very costly. Furthermore I'm worried about the possibility of dependency removal that isn't complete which can complicate the issue.


texts: How to get macOS Server download code in Apple Developer Portal?

texts:
As I recall, macOS Server used to be available to download for free via a redeem code to Apple Developers enrolled in paid Apple Developer Program. However, after the latest redesign of the Apple Developer portal during mid 2019, I'm not able to find the redeem code anymore.

It used to be possible to get the download code after logging in to the iOS Developer Center and opening the downloads page. There used to be a Get Download Code button which is not there anymore. Here is a picture showing how it looked like.

Now It's only possible to download the macOS server beta, but not the latest released version.

Does anyone know how can I get the redeem code nowadays?


texts: How to clean up emails when replying in plain text?

texts:
I have a problem that I want to solve after many years of using Mac OS X Mail.app... I generally like to send plain text emails that are full width (format=flowed) and nicely indented for quote levels. When I receive emails that are in HTML my problems begin. I have the option of switching them into plain text before I hit reply (using alt+cmd+p) or after I hit reply (using shift+cmd+t). Please no replies telling me to answer rich text emails with rich text replies. I want my cake on this one.

If I switch to plain text before then generally the plain text will be wrapped to a specific width and also, in some cases I'll get lots of ">" where there should be vertical line quote indents.

If I switch to plain text after then I may loose a lot of the quoting levels. What I want is to be able to end up with clean flowed plain text replies with nice quote levels.

Has anybody else seen this behaviour or seen a plugin/app that can solve these issues?


texts: "View In Mac App Store" button in Firefox

texts:
Does anyone know if it's possible to get the "View In Mac App Store" button on web based pages (e.g. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jellyfissh/id416399476 ) to open the mac app store when using Firefox? It only seems to work in safari atm.

My specs:
Running Firefox 4 on OSX 10.6.7 on Macbook Pro


texts: Are all iPhone4 apps available for iPhone 5 also?

texts: My father in law is considering getting an iPhone 5.  There are some specific apps that he is interested in; are all apps available for iPhone 4 also available for iPhone 5, or do developers have to port them?


texts: What is the RDUSB00E6Setupd process running by launchd in a Macbook Pro with  Mavericks? I can't find any information about this and my computer is running quite slow, trying to figure out what is causing it.


texts: How to install modules from CPAN without sudo?

texts:
Is there a way to install modules from CPAN without resorting to sudo?

(And without perlbrew, please.)


texts: Accessing an ipv6 NAT64 connection on my iPad, broadcast from Mac

texts:
I'm trying to follow this tutorial on how to setup an ipv6 wi-fi connection, so I can test my app:

http://www.brianjcoleman.com/tutorial-how-to-test-your-app-for-ipv6-compatibility/

If I don't tick the "Created NAT64 Network", it works fine (and I can connect and use the wi-fi connection from my iPad). However, as soon as I tick that box I don't get anything (says "No Internet Connection" when trying to access from the iPad)

Setting it up with this works fine, but its on an ipv4 address:

Enabling NAT64 works, and shows the connection on the iPad, BUT there is no connection:

Here are the software versions of my iPad:

The Mac is running on 10.12.1, so should be a high enough version to do this.


texts: how to find the last time I used my usb drive?

texts:
I used to have a Sandisk Ultra Fit 128GB stick plugged onto one of my USB ports of my MBP. I'm running OS X El Capitan (10.11). Today I found that my USB drive is missing.

How do I find the last time that I used my pen drive so that I could get a sense of when I lost it? I have some very important data in it so I'm dying to find it somehow! Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: I'm pretty sure that I had and used it two days back.


texts: When is Apple Watch backed up to a paired iPhone?

texts:
I'm unsure about exactly when an Apple Watch gets backed up to an iPhone with which it is paired. Online sources are a bit vague and say a variety of things (some are perhaps outdated). Is it

only when Watch is unpaired,
whenever the paired iPhone is backed up (and the Apple Watch is connected via Bluetooth), or
periodically?

Or is it something else?


texts: I have a server running at port 4433 on my localhost machine. I'd like to refer to the service as http://mytest.com:4433 from the browser or any script that I write. How could I set the DNS on OSX to do this? Thanks!


texts: MacBook Pro 2018 ventilation slots blocked

texts:
I bought my MacBook Pro in October 2018. Now, on both the left and the right side of the machine's backside (the bottom) both the ventilation slots show some kind of foil coming out. The foil is coming out of the vents exactly symmetrically and it's slowly getting worse. Now about 4cm of foil are visible on each side.

I went to a premium reseller and they said they rarely see this and they said it might be the battery coming out which is unsettling.

I do perform calculations for my university course so R or Python might run for a while but I don't think this would cause harm to the laptop to this extent.

Has anybody else had this issue?


texts: How does file system mounting in macOS work

texts:
I unmounted /dev using the following command: umount -f /dev.
I can still access mounted file systems. When I restarted my changes are still there.

Question: How does the mounting application know where to write to? I mean, disk are only available in /dev, and once that is unmounted, no process is supposed to get access to disks. I'm quite confused.


texts: Is it possible to evaluate an expression in launchd's ProgramArguments array?

texts:
Is it possible to compose my launchd.plist file so that an embedded expression is evaluated and not treated as a literal value? And, if so, how?

I have a ~/Library/LaunchAgents/setenv.JAVA_HOME.plist file which contains a /bin/launchctl call as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>setenv.JAVA_HOME</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/bin/launchctl</string>
        <string>setenv</string>
        <string>JAVA_HOME</string>
        <string>$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.8)</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ServiceIPC</key>
    <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

Problem is, the $(/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.8) expression is not evaluated and instead the JAVA_HOME environment variable is assigned the literal value $(/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.8).

I asked this question in Stack Overflow last week but have had so few views I'm guessing that that's not the place for it.


texts:
The problem occurred after installing the update SMC 1.6 on Apple - OS X Mountain Lion:

First for a long time was a white screen and noisy cooler

After the system battery icon was crossed out and the indicator on the left side of macbook does not show anything and everything worked cooler at high speed (he was cold macbook)

After reboot appeared crossed circle and the system has stopped running

I took out the hard drive and connected via a USB adapter to the same Macbook pro and have to boot from my hard drive - as a result the system has booted and gave to make a full backup timemachine

My macbook does not boot with any device (Hdd, Usb flash, DVD, other HDD) while on other laptops these devices make it possible to boot
Any ideas?


texts: Cannot use ssh/ping domain name after connecting to openvpn

texts:
I've got two macs, both on the same network, both using Tunnelblick to connect to vpn.
Both with same settings. Both connect fine and both have the same settings for DNS and search domain applied after connection.
The only difference actually is that one is Lion and second one is Mountain Lion. That's the end of the differences.

After connecting to my vpn on Mountain Lion I cannot ping nor ssh to any address using domain name. And I don't mean local/private domain. I mean google.com for example. Nothing!
However, when using nslookup/dig/host domain name is resolved just fine.
On the second machine with Lion everything works just fine. With the exact same settings.

Any thoughts?

I've already tried adding -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains and it didn't work [why would it, google.com is not under the search domain specified in my dns settings...].


texts: Apple has ditched matte laptop displays: Display replacement options?

texts:
I was thinking about buying a MacBook Pro for coding while not at home, but suddenly realized that they all come with glossy displays. The glare/mirror effect is utterly unacceptable for me. Are there good and easy ways to fix this?

By good I mean:

No voiding of warranty
No other nasty visual side-effects (apart from slightly reducing overall brightness, which is OK)
No noticeable additional weight

By easy I mean, either somebody else would install it, or it may be installed by a very silly guy like me with near-zero probability of breaking anything. :)


texts:
How do I slow the speed of podcasts on my iPhone?

I have looked through all of my settings and have searched all possibilities on the podcast itself. Voices are too fast to be understood. There is no trouble with the playback of music.


texts: Keep MacBook on when closed without keyboard and mouse

texts:
I use my Mac a lot to show movies or play video games on a larger display without a keyboard or mouse attached.

How can I set up my Mac so that it continues to display to an external screen when closed without a keyboard or mouse attached?


texts: Create custom shortcuts and assign them to F keys

texts:
I recently migrated to OS X 10.10 from Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux). In Ubuntu, I could make any key of my keyboard do anything I liked. I used to have the F1, F2, and F3 keys set to function as the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top left of the screen (which are the same as in OS X). This was ridiculously useful, and I want to do this on my Mac, but I don't know how I can.

I've already used Karabiner to map the current functions of the F keys to their Fn + F* equivalent. So instead of lowering the brightness with F1, I can do so with Fn + F1.

I have read that you can add a shortcut by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources, and then clicking on the + icon. But using Yosemite, my + icon is not there, so I cannot add the "close window", "minimise", and "maximise" shortcuts. Besides, though I can see in the shortcut list that some shortcuts use F keys, I'm not able to assign F keys to any shortcuts myself.

So I would like to:

In particular, make shortcuts to close, maximise, and minimise and window. (In general, create customised shortcuts to do anything a terminal can do.)
Assign this custom shortcut to F keys, overriding F keys' default behaviour to adjust screen brightness, volume, etc.


texts:
Lightning cables are expensive, and I have 2 of them which are in great shape except that they are failing because of pitted contacts. That is, the gold metal of one of the 8 leads has been removed, probably through arcing as shown in the photo below from this website.

My question is: is there a way to fix this without having to keep paying for whole cables?

For example, if there were some epoxy or superglue that was conductive, I wonder if that would make sense? If a suggestion like that makes an expert squirm for some reason I don't understand, I guess that's what I'd like to know.

I just don't like wasting.


texts: Screen Sharing not working for non-admin local accounts on Yosemite Server

texts:
Question says it all. Current versions of Yosemite (10.10.3) and Server (4.1).

Under Server > Settings
     Enable screen sharing and remote management checked.

Under Server > Access
     Admin and a non-admin local user listed.

I can log in Screen Sharing as the Admin user but not via non-admin accounts.


texts:
a friend of mine has an iPhone 3GS and is swtiching to an iPhone 4S.
Now, she's tried to backup all her WhatsApp chats using the WhatsApp backup, but it gets stuck. So I'm thinking whether iTunes backup may do that too.

I know iTunes backups everything on your iPhone, so if those chats are on her iPhone it should work, isn't it?

So should I connect the iPhone to a PC/Mac and start an iTunes backup? Would that work to get the chats back when I'll restore the backup in the 'new' iPhone?


texts: How to fix a MacBook Pro display that turns off?

texts:
I have a 12 month old MacBook Pro, and just over the last 3 weeks or so, the screens (one additional screen) just turns off and I cannot get it back on again.

I have to restart to turn the screen back on.

I'm not sure how to diagnose the issue and find out how to fix it, I'm really hoping to avoid using Apple support because it's my work laptop and I really need it to work daily.


texts:
Howdy. I have a MacBook Pro 15" (MB133LL/A) with a Matsushita UJ-867 DVD drive. The DVD drive is failing and I'm looking for a replacement.

Are there any other supported drives for this machine than the UJ-867?


texts: How to fix Right-click issue in WebStorm on Mac

texts:
I am using the BetterTouchTool Version 1.47, and configured that a right click should be simulated using a tap with two fingers using the magic mouse (see picture).

The problem is that WebStorm 11.0.3 does not register the event, hence I am not able to right click in WebStorm using the magic mouse. I am running OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. Has anyone experienced the same thing, or have a solution to the issue?


texts: How to open folder in Finder as root (like right-click on folder does in Linux)?

texts:
I have always used Linux before and now switched to macOS. I have found a solution for right click button open folder in terminal.
but I also want to have the option to right click and open folder in finder as root. does someone know how to get this ?


texts: Whats the 35mm focal length equivalent of an iPhone 5s?

texts:
It seems a bit wide, my guess is about 25mm (35mm equiv) or so. A Google search didn't find anything useful.

Also, any info on usable ISO ranges?


texts: If I delete a paid app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I redownload without paying?

texts: If I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I download it again without paying for it again like I can with iOS? In the event of an app restore, does the app retain settings, saved progress, etc from the previous installation?


texts: Missing toolbar for New Message window in Mail.app

texts:
I no longer have the toolbar at the top of New Message (The one with buttons for Send, Add Attachments..). It is only missing in New Message, if I for example reply to a message, the toolbar is correct.

I can still send the message by selecting Message -> Send in the menu bar.

I have tried going to View -> Customize Toolbar, but it doesn't display any options.

I'm out of ideas. Searching the web I am only able to find the 'Customize Toolbar'-fix. I also haven't minimized the toolbar, as I've seen some solutions suggesting.


texts: Encrypted external drive usually prompts for password, despite being in keychain

texts:
I have an external encrypted drive, and almost every time I plug it in, it'll ask me for the password, even though it's already in my keychain. If I type the password in, it'll mount as expected. Oddly, if I hit cancel, it still mounts anyway, presumably because the password is in the keychain.

The problem is that it prompts for a password each time, even though it clearly doesn't need it because the password is in the keychain.

Possible oddities/useful details:

Mac OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks (though not a recent issue)
USB3 Guardian Maximus (2x 2TB HDDs in RAID1)
Drive is partitioned into two Logical Volume Groups each with a Logical Volume Partition, Formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)

On plugging in the disk, I get the following in the Console:

21/02/2014 9:41:22.000 am kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 20202020202020202020202036564D4344594535 0x525 0x3100 0x0, 3
21/02/2014 9:41:24.000 am kernel[0]: CoreStorage: fsck_cs has finished for group "BB4FAC13-41D6-4432-BBE6-BFC79161DE11" with status 0x00
21/02/2014 9:41:24.000 am kernel[0]: CoreStorage: fsck_cs has finished for group "9072D797-3F1C-447C-9EF7-801428DB9C8B" with status 0x00
21/02/2014 9:41:24.799 am com.apple.kextd[12]: LVG changed
21/02/2014 9:41:24.801 am com.apple.kextd[12]: LVG changed
21/02/2014 9:41:24.000 am kernel[0]: CoreStorageFamily::unlockVEKs() failed to unwrap the vek, status = e00002bc
21/02/2014 9:41:25.021 am com.apple.kextd[12]: LVG changed
21/02/2014 9:41:25.000 am kernel[0]: CoreStorageFamily::unlockVEKs() failed to unwrap the vek, status = e00002bc
21/02/2014 9:41:25.025 am com.apple.kextd[12]: LVG changed

After mounting, it just says: (PARTITION_# are partition labels)

21/02/2014 9:41:25.000 am kernel[0]: hfs: mounted PARTITION_1 on device disk3
21/02/2014 9:41:53.000 am kernel[0]: hfs: mounted PARTITION_2 on device disk4

Update

I did the keychain repairs/resets as suggested by @megadroid and things seemed better briefly, but still not 100% reliable.

What I've noticed since then is that it's much more likely to mount cleanly (without the redundant password prompt) if the computer is unlocked, whereas if it's asleep or locked (i.e. password required after screensaver activates) then they won't mount cleanly.

Haven't really tested this thoroughly, but am wondering if it's actually something completely different, like the locked/unlocked state of my account (and perhaps therefore my keychain?), that causes the prompts to appear and the disk to fail auto-mounting.

Update 2:

Just plugged it in, everything mounted cleanly/without prompt before I'd logged in. So it's not the keychain being locked while the computer is locked.


texts: Is there an Air Video app, but for photos?

texts:
I was wondering if there is an app for the iPad in order to see photos that are shared in a Windows/Mac folder.

I went to Australia and took over 12000 photos, now I want to take a close look at all of them without without importing all to iTunes (so it does not fill up space on my iPad).

Something that I could check, mark in order to move/copy to a diff folder so I can edit them later.

For iPhone there is the WiFi Photo Viewer but I can't find one for iPad.


texts: First time iPhone user here, some of my App icons on my Home Screen sometimes “blink” (turn to grey for a second), whats the meaning of it?

texts: i've just got my first iPhone (7), and i'm kinda new to the iOS and everything, but today i've noticed something that i'm not exactly sure what it was, but it seemed like some of my App's icons on my homescreen blinked/flickered (turned grey) for just a sec in a random order, then went immediately back to normal, is there any info on what happened?


texts: How to fix disappearing All my books in iBook

texts: When I open some book it is show me an alert message "This book can't be opened" and then all books disappear.


texts: I'm prompted on every reboot for a password for a stale iCloud account

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I have had an iCloud account associated with a Gmail ID old@gmail.com. I then switched to another ID new@gmail.com, so I removed old@gmail.com from my iCloud account and entered new@gmail.com. This was an year or so back.

A few days back, I found an entry in the Keychain for old@gmail.com, so I deleted it. After that, I'm prompted one every reboot to enter the password for old@gmail.com:

I cancel it, but it comes up after every reboot. I tried entering my iCloud password, but it doesn't work.

How do I get this prompt to go away and never come back?


texts: How to restore manually Saved State files of Terminal?

texts:
My MBR crashes quite often. Normally I've multiple terminal windows and usually they're restored after crash.

However from some to time they're not restored, so for that reason I was doing the backup every hour (in cron, not Time Machine) to backup the whole ~/Library/Saved Application State including com.apple.Terminal.savedState.

However when I've replaced back my savedState folder (1. removing the old one, 2. using different type of terminal) and run Terminal - it simply doesn't work as expected (as it seems it doesn't load the state files).

Is there anything that I'm missing? Do I need to do anything extra so Terminal can recognise its state files or simply backing up more folders to keep my window states safe?

The backup folder consist data.data (48M), windows.plist (empty) and window_1.data - window_56.data files (total 55M).


texts: PDFs looking different in Yosemite Preview.app

texts:
I've just installed Yosemite on my iMac and noticed that my PDF files viewed with the Preview.app don't look the same as in Mavericks. If I view the PDF files directly in Safari, all looks like it should. Against this in the Preview.app it looks kinda trashy.

Is there anyone who can confirm this? And if it's so, how can I make Preview.app show the PDFs like Safari does?


texts: macbook pro out of warranty, two keys not working in built in keyboard. Options?

texts:
I have a 2007 macbook pro and two keys are not working on the built in keyboard.

I tried cleaning the keys by removing the keys and the plastic under it but that didn't help.

After removing the keys, tried to depress the plastic blob underneath to make it work but that didn't work either.

What options do I have? Am planning to take it to the local apple store to see what can be done if all else fails


texts: What is the purpose of speculative memory?

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Recently, I've found out that Darwin has speculative memory metric. But, I don't know what the purpose of speculative memory. The memory metric can be checked using vm_stat command on terminal.

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free:                              334212.
Pages active:                           1450252.
Pages inactive:                         1367584.
Pages speculative:                        81968.
Pages throttled:                              0.
Pages wired down:                        794478.
Pages purgeable:                         377078.
"Translation faults":                1584392481.
Pages copy-on-write:                  316685071.
Pages zero filled:                    358257445.
Pages reactivated:                      9976919.
Pages purged:                           2557552.
File-backed pages:                       597869.
Anonymous pages:                        2301935.
Pages stored in compressor:             1170377.
Pages occupied by compressor:            165553.
Decompressions:                         7496783.
Compressions:                          14958548.
Pageins:                               29715699.
Pageouts:                               1058099.
Swapins:                                6422438.
Swapouts:                               7169648.

Refer to Darwin source, speculative is that used to hold pages that have been read from disk speculatively and the memory metric is the number of free pages and havent' actaually been used.

I can't find any information about speculative memory on the Internet. It's very strange that the memory is an official darwin memory metric, but no one says for it.

What's the purpose of this mertric unless used for any purpose?


texts: Why is it that after moving my cursor around really fast for half a second, my cursor becomes huge?

texts:
If I move my cursor around really fast, half a second after I start moving it the cursor becomes huge. Why does it do that? Can I disable it somewhere in settings?

Note: I noticed it works with a few mice I have tried, and my built-in trackpad. I didn't change any of the default settings that should change this, so you might be able to do it to. If you need proof, I'd be happy to make a video.


texts: How to make a KVR1333D3S9 work with a MacBook Pro 7.1?

texts:
I recently bought a couple of memory modules from Kingston to be used on my MacBookPro 13" 7.1, they are KVR1333D3S9/4G which should work fine with the computer as the frequency and latency is supported, but when I installed them OSX will never boot, it stops on DSMOS as arrived.

The only way I fount to make it work is using one of the KVR and one os those that the computer originally had. But then the memory works at 1067 and worse,I don't have 8GB but only 6.

Googling I found that I should had to buy a certified memory, and I know, I should googled a bit more before buying this memory, but I don't want to give up, not now.

Does any of you have a "trick" for this kind of memory to work.


texts: Does the iPhone ask for iCloud password after updating to iOS 8.1?

texts: I forgot the password of my iCloud account. I'm using iPhone 4S I am afraid that if I updated to the new iOS, the phone will be locked and I wouldn't be able to use it. P.S. I have tried iForgot to restore my password, but it didn't work out as it keeps telling me that my answers are wrong.


texts: Is there any way to write an automation or program on an iPad except Shortcuts?

texts:
I would like to build an interface - a set of menus, for example - which presents information from an app or a webpage and allows me to read and interact with it in a different way than it is presented or accessible in that app or website. I am working on an iPad, so I am considering trying to write some kind of web scraping Shortcut which returns information from the website.
I was curious, is there any other hypothetical way to create an automation, on an iPad? Could there be any tool which could override, control and automate the iPad, even if Apple has made it very difficult to do so?


texts: Does Apple Music store original ripped music in cloud?

texts: I had a long talk with a guy from apple costumer help because of the notorious recent problems with Itunes/Apple Music. By the way he told me that if I have a big collection of music on my mac containing amongst other thing ripped music in a better quality then the usual 256 of Apple this would now, as part of Apple Music be stored in the cloud in its original (better!) quality. So when I have a second Mac with the same Apple ID I wouldn't need to copy anything from Itunes to this second Mac. To simply start a new Itunes folder on the second Mac would synchronize EVERYTHING. So after the necessary time my itunes on the second Mac would look exactly like the Itunes on my first. Is that really so? I couldn't find anything about that on Apple's description of Apple Music (and by the way, I don't have Itunes Match, but that's probably besides the point).


texts:
tldr: how do I erase all of the information from my startup disk? Logging into recovery mode and selecting "erase" has no affect on my disk's "free" space.

While attempting to diagnose an issue I was experiencing, I decided to erase my iMac's startup disk and then restore from a time machine backup. So I log into recovery mode, open up disk utility, and select "erase". Somewhat surprisingly, I see that, while the disk's "used" space drops to almost zero, all of the data seems to be transferred to the "other volumes" category, and the amount of "free" space on the disk doesn't change.

I assumed that this was simply a labeling issue, and that the operating system had earmarked all of this "other volumes" information to be deleted asap. So I opened up time machine and restored from backup. After having completed the time machine restore, I logged into find that all of that "other volumes" data was still taking up hundreds of gigabytes of space, and I had only ~20GB free on the computer.

So I try logging into recovery mode again and selecting "erase." This time it does free up all the "used" space, but it still leaves ~500GB of "other volumes" data.

So how do I actually erase all of the information on my startup disk? Logging into recovery mode and selecting "erase" seems to have no affect. Thanks!!


texts: How is my 2nd Airport Extreme Connecting To My 1st Airport Extreme?

texts:
I have 2 5th Gen Airport Extreme's and a 4th Gen Time Capsule. The 1st is connected directly to the modem. It is set to emit 2.4GHz, and a 5GHz connection. I have an ethernet cable running from the 1st to the 2nd in another room. The ethernet is connected to one of the router ports on the 1st and to the WAN port on the 2nd. Now, I have the Time Capsule, and 2 computers connected to the 2nd Airport's router ports.

The 2nd Airport ( Airport Link ) is set to bridge mode, but also set to extend a wireless network. It extends the 1st Airport's 2.4GHz connection and the 5GHz connection. I am having issues with the computers connected to the 2nd Airport ( Airport Link ).

My goal is to have the 2nd Airport act as essentially a switch, use the ethernet connection of the 1st Airport for computers connected to the 2nd Airport ( Airport Link ), via ethernet. Also have the 2nd Airport extend or amplify the WiFi connections for the 2nd half of the house where the 2nd Airport ( Airport Link ) is located, BUT I need to make sure that it's not extending the WiFi by connecting to the Wifi connection of the 1st Airport, but rather still using that original ethernet connection.

Do I need to set the wireless on the 2nd Airport ( Airport Link ) in the options to "Extend Wireless Network", or to "Create Wireless Network" and name the WiFi the same names as what they have on the first Airport with the same passwords?

I have Back To Mac enabled on the 1st Airport. Do I need to sign in and enable it on the 2nd Airport ( Airport Link ) since the computers are connected to this Airport base station via ethernet?


texts: Opening an attached pdf file on wiki page outside of browser

texts: I have set up a personal wiki on a localhost using drupal. I have attached pdf's that open in the browser window which is generally ok but I'd rather be able to open them in Preview so I get all the usability benefits of that app (without downloading them and thus creating a 2nd version outside the wiki directory). Anyone have a suggestion?


texts: How can I force Apple Mail to COMPLETELY refresh an IMAP account?

texts:
I have a Gmail account that is configured on three different Macs, let's call them Home, Work, and MacBook. Home and MacBook are on iCloud, Work is not, and MacBook is the one experiencing the issue.

No matter what I seem to do, Apple Mail on the MacBook, for only this Gmail account, displays no messages in any folder, and indicates two unread messages in the inbox. Home and Work display the same account correctly, with an accurate reflection of the inbox and messages contained in other folders.

Things I have tried:

Synchronize
Rebuild
Disable account, quit, remove ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-address@imap.gmail.com folder, then restart
Removed the keychain items for the account from iCloud, remove folder above

Each time, the account comes back with two unread messages out of zero. The Account Info screen shows accurate numbers for everything except the "Sent Mail" folder (though nothing in any folder displays). In experimenting with enabling and disabling IMAP for labels within Gmail, I have seen the item for the "Sent Mail" folder in Account Info display with the correct number of messages, but a title of "Sent Mail" does not exist. Very odd. Sorry I don't have a screenshot of that.

Any ideas?


texts: MacBook Pro won't start, status LED fades with ambient light sensor

texts:
I have an A1260, MacBook Pro. I removed the screen due to it being cracked and ended up using it as a server and just connect it up to a display via DVI whenever I need to (most of the time I used screen sharing). Anyways:
It won't start up. When I press the power button, it turns on, the DVD drive spins up, and the front LED goes from bright to dim. There is no startup chime. Resetting the SMC and PRAM doesn't do anything and don't actually work as expected. Meaning when resetting the PRAM the device doesn't reboot and no start up chime is heard.
I decided to take the device back apart and see if I notice any faulty components or any weird shortages from when I disconnected the display and took it off the device. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary (though I'm an amateur). What I did notice, however, is if I turned the machine on, and raised and lowered the keyboard, the status LED on the front would dim when the keyboard was down and would brighten when the keyboard was up. A quick google search didn't turn up anything at all.
I also noticed that if I turn on the machine and keep holding the power button, after a short period of time the status LED would blink rapidly and then the machine would reboot.
Any ideas what kind of issue this is?
Thanks!
-- edit --
I forgot to mention, if I connect the device up to a monitor, I get an "invalid signal" status displayed on the monitor. Sometimes no signal is detected at all.


texts: How to move Lion installer to another Mac?

texts:
I installed Lion on my MacBook Pro.  Worked great.

Now I want to install it on my iMac, I don't want to re-download it from the App Store because it's a 3.5GB download and I have to pay for all my bandwidth (yes, I'm Canadian).

Is the installer executable on my MacBook Pro somewhere?  If so, where is it and can I just copy it to the iMac and run it?

Thanks,
Rob


texts: Is the Original AppleTV (First Gen) compatible with iTunes 11?

texts: I am afraid to update my Mac to iTunes 11 since I still use an original AppleTV (the old one with the hard drive) on one of my televisions. Does anyone know if the original AppleTV is compatible with iTunes 11?


texts: How to get rid of the App Drawer/App Store button in Messages?

texts:
I recently updated my phone to iOS 11 and I find the new "App Drawer" at the bottom of my messages to be annoying. I saw on gadgethacks.com that if you click on the App Store button it hides the App Drawer. However, if I click the App Store button again and exit out of my message and return to it, the App Drawer reappears in all its glory.

I want to know if there is any way to permanently remove the App Drawer/App Store button from Messages?


texts: What do each of the files do inside of an iPhoto Library?

texts:
Inside my iPhoto library, there are many files and directories.

-rw-r--r--@  1 kevin  staff   3.9M Jul 10 21:10 AlbumData.xml
drwxr-xr-x   2 kevin  staff    68B Dec 23  2013 Attachments
drwxr-xr-x   2 kevin  staff    68B Dec 23  2013 Auto Import
drwxr-xr-x  21 kevin  staff   714B Jul 10 21:10 Database
-rw-r--r--@  1 kevin  staff   324B Dec 23  2013 Info.plist
drwxr-xr-x   3 kevin  staff   102B Jan  9  2014 Masters
drwxr-xr-x   3 kevin  staff   102B Jan  9  2014 Previews
-rw-r--r--@  1 kevin  staff   341B Dec 23  2013 ProjectDBVersion.plist
-rw-r--r--@  1 kevin  staff   576K Jul 10 21:10 Projects.db
drwxr-xr-x   4 kevin  staff   136B Jan  9  2014 Thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x   4 kevin  staff   136B Jul 10 21:10 iLifeShared
-rw-r--r--@  1 kevin  staff     1B Jul 10 21:10 iPhotoLock.data
drwxr-xr-x@ 55 kevin  staff   1.8K Jul  7 10:00 iPod Photo Cache

Inside the Database folder:

drwxr-xr-x  801 kevin  staff    27K Jul 10 21:10 Albums
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 kevin  staff    18B Dec 23  2013 BigBlobs.apdb -> apdb/BigBlobs.apdb
-rw-r--r--@   1 kevin  staff   2.4K Jul 10 21:10 DataModelVersion.plist
drwxr-xr-x    6 kevin  staff   204B Dec 23  2013 Faces
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 kevin  staff    13B Dec 23  2013 Faces.db -> apdb/Faces.db
drwxr-xr-x  800 kevin  staff    27K Jul 10 21:10 Folders
drwxr-xr-x    3 kevin  staff   102B Dec 23  2013 History
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 kevin  staff    17B Dec 23  2013 History.apdb -> apdb/History.apdb
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 kevin  staff    22B Dec 23  2013 ImageProxies.apdb -> apdb/ImageProxies.apdb
-rw-r--r--@   1 kevin  staff   1.5K May 21 18:22 Keywords.plist
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 kevin  staff    17B Dec 23  2013 Library.apdb -> apdb/Library.apdb
drwxr-xr-x    2 kevin  staff    68B Dec 23  2013 Places
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 kevin  staff    20B Dec 23  2013 Properties.apdb -> apdb/Properties.apdb
-rw-r--r--@   1 kevin  staff    42B Mar 15 20:31 SpanCache.plist
drwxr-xr-x    2 kevin  staff    68B Dec 23  2013 Vaults
drwxr-xr-x    3 kevin  staff   102B Jan  9  2014 Versions
drwxr-xr-x    3 kevin  staff   102B May 21 18:21 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x    9 kevin  staff   306B Jul 10 21:10 apdb
-rw-r--r--@   1 kevin  staff   304B Jul 10 21:10 tmSync.plist

What parts of iPhoto are these files and directories responsible for?


texts: how to find out the submenu item's name in this special case (for a shortcut)

texts:
In TextEdit there is this submenu (see the image) that I want to define a shortcut for.
I can't define a shortcut for the "Right to Left" item, I assume it's because there are actually 2 such items in the submenu, under different sections. So how do I uniquely identify this item? Thanks.


texts: Getting photos from MobileSync data created by iTunes

texts:
My wife had an iPhone 4, which she synched with a PC using iTunes.  Both the phone and the PC are gone, but I have backups of the PC, including the folder where I believe iTunes kept copies of her photos:

C:\users\herusername\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync

We don't currently own either an iPhone or an Apple computer.  Is it possible to retrieve the photos from the files in this folder, using only a PC?


texts: Is there perf profiler tool for Mac to trace all page faults?

texts:
I'm looking to install perf which is a kernel profiling tool for Linux.

Basically I'm trying to trace all page faults, so I run equivalent of:

sudo perf record -e page-faults -ag

Is it possible to install/use above tool on Mac? If not, what's the equivalent tool to achieve similar results (tracing all page faults with stack traces).


texts: How to make DHCP domain name registration work with OS X?

texts:
On Windows computer that are inside a domain the names are auto registered in the domain DNS when the DHCP assigns their IP addresses.

This is happening because the DHCP server is configured to dynamically update the DNS.

The problem is that this is not happening for OS X clients and I suspect that I need to configure something in the client to make it work.

How can I solve this problem?


texts: I lost my app source files, but have the app on my iPad

texts:
I've been working on an app for a while on a school computer, and had it nearly finished before the computers were wiped without my knowledge and with no warning.

I have the nearly finished app, however, published to my iPad under my own Developer App profile. Would there be any way for me to get the app from my iPad and unpack it somehow? I've looked the question up already and some have said that you can unpack it with some third party software, but it doesn't say what the software actually is.

I would really appreciate some help with this. I have a version of the app backed up, but it's much older and I would rather not redo things if I didn't have to.


texts: In macOS Photos app, can you export all pictures of a person?

texts: I'd like to export all the pictures that Photos.app has tagged as a particular person. Is there any way of doing that?


texts: Will a Lion Fortran Binary work on Mountain Lion?

texts: I want to install a fortran binary from here GCC wiki GFortran binaries, but the binary for Mountain Lion is not yet available.  Would the binary for Lion work, or would it be a terrible mistake to install it?


texts: Is there anything missing in an encrypted iPhone backup?

texts:
As far as I understand iOS Security, Oct. 12, an encrypted backup via iTunes also backs up the keychain of the device. While I recognize that some elements might not be restorable onto a different device (non-migatory), I was wondering if anything substantial is actually missing in an encrypted backup.

I am asking this because I heard that after wiping an iPhone, the private key of the app Threema is lost and cannot be restored via backup, even on the same device.


texts: OSX ssh server disconnects after 15 minutes

texts:
I have a Mac mini running MacOS Sierra, with Remote Login turned on. I can ssh into the mini just fine (Cygwin's SSH client), but if I issue a long-running command (e.g. building clang from source) it doesn't complete, because the ssh connection gets disconnected. This is the end of the output of the ssh client when invoked with the -vvv switch:

debug3: send packet: type 1
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open:
  #0 client-session (t4 r0 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/5 cc -1)

Connection to mini11 closed by remote host.
Connection to mini11 closed.
Transferred: sent 3712, received 129732 bytes, in 735.3 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 5.0, received 176.4
debug1: Exit status -1

I tried running the build command from caffeinate -i, but it didn't seem to help. What now?

Every OS/X SSH article I found was about OS/X SSH client being disconnected.


texts: Is it necessary to "Restore" files from a Time Machine backup if I can already access them directly from the backup disk using Finder?

texts:
I have an external hard drive that I've separated into two partitions: one that I use for additional file storage, and one that I use as a dedicated Time Machine backup disk. Something has gone wrong with the Time Machine partition, such that it will no longer mount, cannot be repaired, and cannot be erased on its own, neither by using Disk Utility nor through the command line directly, so I've decided to just erase and reformat the entire drive.

I used Time Machine to backup the file storage partition onto a second external hard drive (by selecting the second external hard drive as my backup disk and excluding all volumes other than the file storage partition of the first external hard drive from the backup), with the plan of then restoring this backup onto the first external hard drive after it's been erased and reformatted.

Having never restored anything using Time Machine before (at least aside from after upgrading to a new version of macOS), I was expecting that the backup would be stored on the second hard drive in some sort of archive file-esque format, with the individual files being inaccessible until the backup has been properly "Restored" somewhere else using Time Machine. However, when I opened Finder after the backup had completed, I saw that the result was a lot more like I had just copied and pasted everything from the file storage partition onto the second external hard drive.

Aside from the fact that everything is stored within a folder called "Backups.backupdb", it really seems like I've effectively just transferred everything from the file storage partition of the first external hard drive onto this second external hard drive; the backup folder on the second drive is approximately the same size (just a few MBs larger) as what was stored on the file storage partition of the first drive, and every file I've tried to open from the second drive (pictures, pdfs, mp3s, etc.) has worked fine so far.

So, my question is, is there any reason I should bother "Restoring" this backup to the first hard drive, or can I just start using the second hard drive the same way I was using the file storage partition of the first hard drive before, and then just use the first hard drive for something else after I erase and reformat it?

The only potential issue I can currently see with doing the latter is that the backup folder on the second drive does seem to be in a sort of "read-only" mode, as I'm prompted to "Authenticate" with my password when I try to transfer a file into one of its subfolders, and maybe this is reason enough on its own to bother going through with "Restoring" the backup to the first drive. However, I don't really know much about the specifics of how Time Machine works, so I'm also interested to know if there are any other issues associated with using a Time Machine backup folder like a regular storage folder that I'm not aware of.


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I'm trying to free up space but 150gb is taken by "other volumes".
diskutil list shows that "VM" volume is taking 150gb.
How can I resize it to be smaller?

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         249.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +249.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume osx                     93.2 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.5 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                522.7 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      148.7 GB   disk1s4 <--- too big?


texts:
In Cambridge Dictionary, terminal has two meaning separately reference to computer and electrics.

  1) Computer, a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen, used for communicating with the part of a computer system that deals with information
  2) Electricity, the point at which a connection can be made in an electric circuit

Which does 'Terminal' on MacOS derive from?


texts: What could be stopping my WiFi printer from working?

texts:
My iMac suddenly stopped recognising my HP OfficeJet 6500 printer over the wireless network. Previously, it worked fine for years. It works with USB, and the printer connects to the router without a problem - it just doesn't see the computer, which is also connected to the same router.

Things I have tried:

I upgraded the Mac to Lion (which I guess counts as a software re-install - it was previously on Snow Leopard)
I have completely reset the printing system on the Mac, and allowed it to re-find the printer and reinstall drivers.
I have reset the printer to factory defaults, and then re-connected it to the router.
I enabled Printer Sharing in System Preferences
I have installed a new router (a different brand)

In case it's helpful: the printer problem originally appeared to be part of a general network problem (I was also having trouble connecting to the internet and to AirPlay etc.). Replacing the router seems to have cured the rest, but the printer still didn't work - that's when I tried all the other things.

Can anyone suggest something else for me to try?


texts: Is it (or will it be) possible to import data already collected by other apps into the new health app in iOS 8?


texts: How can I open certain links in Google Chrome, which is not my default browser?

texts:
My default browser is Safari. I would like to open all Google Meet links (e.g. https://meet.google.com/xxx-xxxx-xxx) to open in Google Chrome. I open these links from a calendar event in Apple's Calendar app.

How can I make these kinds of links open in Chrome instead of Safari?


texts: Mac Mail keeps failing to connect my accounts (Gmail, iCloud and a POP)

texts:
Mac mail connects and then disconnects with no discernable pattern.  Connection doctor just spins and says it can't connect to the server.  BUT... if I am connected to a VPN then everything works fine.

New Macbook Pro, 10.14.6 osx.

I have tried:

Deleting the network related plists in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.apple.network.eapolclient.configuration.plist
com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist

I have updated the 10.14.6
I have deleted and reinstalled all of the email accounts
I have disabled all monitoring, scanning and filtering
I have rebuilt the mail accounts
I have tested with numerous VPNs and they all keep the connection alive or correct the error if activated after a fault.

The connection will work for a varying amount of time but typically no more than 15 minutes after a reboot.  When it works, everything works great then it simply stops working.  Typically the Gmail account will fail first, then the iCloud.  The Exchange account never fails to connect.  I had a POP account that would also fail but I have removed it to troubleshoot.

Everything works if I boot into safe mode.

QUESTION: What logs can I provide to help troubleshoot?


texts: Errors running certain apps under macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta 10

texts:
Apple Mac Pro (early 2009)
4,1 -> 5,1 Firmware upgraded
macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta 10
Tweetbot 3.1

Hello, I upgraded my machine to Mojave Beta 10 yesterday via a somewhat devious route http://dosdude1.com/mojave/. I don't know if this devious route is the cause of the problem, but I am having problems starting a couple of apps, notably Tweetbot 3.1. When I attempt to open the app, I get the message...

I've tried doing as the message suggests and deleting the app and downloading again from the App Store, and I've also tried @tweetbots suggestion of rebooting after deleting and before downloading. I get the same error message each time.

google search of these symptoms cropped up a lot in 2015 following Apple's failure to renew an out-of-date security certificate relating to the App Store.
a tweet from the app's authors @tapbots advising someone to do the above process but ensuring that they are logged into iTunes before they download. I tried this, but again I got the same result.

Can I run a command to test the integrity of apps without waiting for Apple support or vendor support to know if I can fix this myself?

UPDATE:
I ran the codesign on one of the offending apps, Tweetbot, and got the following message...

Executable=/Applications/Tweetbot.app/Contents/MacOS/Tweetbot
Identifier=com.tapbots.Tweetbot3Mac
Format=app bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20200 size=28056 flags=0x200(kill) hashes=869+5 location=embedded
VersionPlatform=1
VersionMin=658432
VersionSDK=658688
Hash type=sha256 size=32
CandidateCDHash sha256=7eb53c5bd255631bc46f3bee6965fed6de8b6049
Hash choices=sha256
Page size=4096
CDHash=7eb53c5bd255631bc46f3bee6965fed6de8b6049
Signature size=4555
Authority=Apple Mac OS Application Signing
Authority=Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Info.plist entries=35
TeamIdentifier=9JTH7AWHE6
Sealed Resources version=2 rules=13 files=31
Internal requirements count=1 size=224

I'm not sure what to do with this information.

Any ideas, anyone?


texts:
Messages showing FB contacts as numbers

Here is my settings for facebook.


texts: Size of text in the new Retina MacBook Pros

texts: I saw there is a new version of MacBook Pro is out which has Retina Display. This means there are more pixel per inch. Does this imply that text is smaller?


texts: Why can't I control environment variables via /etc/environment?

texts:
Google search reveals that "/etc/environment" can be used in OS X to set global environment variables (like JAVA_HOME etc, in key-value pairs). I have tried to add following string to this file on OS X Lion:

sudo sh -c 'echo "FOO=bar" >> /etc/environment'

But after rebooting OS X, echo $FOO displays empty string.

Am I doing something wrong or is the information on the internet misleading and "/etc/environment" can't be used in OS X, and am I limited to "/etc/launchd.conf"?


texts: Repair or recover drive from recovery mode

texts:
My main HDD is failing to boot. (Neither Normal, Safe mode nor Single User).
I can only boot from Recovery Mode or DVD.

The scenario was the following:

Computer was asleep (lid down).
Lifted the lid then connected USB mouse.
Mouse nor trackpad nor keyboard responded.
Closed the lid, removed the USB mouse then opened the lid again.
Trackpad and keyboard responsive once again, but after trying to close some programs computer freezes.
Shutdown computer by pressing power button for 10 seconds.
At restart computer doesn't boot anymore.

When booting in verbose I noticed the following:

...
...
USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000000009833 0x5ac 0x8403 0x9833
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Write] [PBlkNum 2] [FSLogMsgID 61471212] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [FSLogMsgID 61471212] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
jnl: unknown-dev: update_fs_block: failed to update block 2 (ret 5)
jnl: unknown-dev: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs: early jnl init: failed to open/create the journal (retval 0)
Kernel is LP64
com.apple.launchd                       1          com.apple.launchd
com.apple.launchd                       1          com.apple.launchd
***
com.apple.launchd                       1          com.apple.launchd
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
** Root file system
   Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-557-393)
jnl: disk0s2: replay_journal: from 13043200 to: 3971072 (joffset 0x15502000)
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Write] [PBlkNum 2] [LBlkNum 2] [FSLogMsgID 1396728806] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevMode devfs] [MountPth /dev] [Path /dev/disk0s2] [FSLogMsgID 1396728806] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
jnl: disk0s2: update_fs_block: failed to update block 2 (ret 5)
jnl: disk0s2: journal_open: Error replaying the journal!
hfs_mount: journal_open == NULL; couldn't be opened on Macintosh HD
mount_hfs: Invalid argument
FIP USER Space POST: Integrity test failed!
BootCacheControl: could not unlink bootcache playlist /var/db/BootCache.playlist: 30 Read-only file system

After that it just gets stuck and never gets past that.

I booted in recovery mode then tried verify and repair disk with disk utilities put is seems to be OK. However Macintosh HD cannot be mounted.

Tried fsck_hfs from Recovery Mode terminal then got Macintosh HD cannot be repaired.

I'll want to know if there is anyway to rescue the system without reinstalling Mac OSX or at least a way to recover some files from the drive before reinstalling Mac OSX.


texts: Trying to buy OSX Mountain Lion, keeps trying to update

texts: I want to install OSX Mountain Lion on a hackintosh that I'm building, but I don't have a copy of ML. When I try to download it, it says that the update is free because I already have ML. How do I actually download the OS?


texts: Copying files to the clipboard using applescript

texts:
Often I find myself at the command line wanting to copy files to the clipboard, so that I can paste them as attachments in Mail.  If I have an image file, image1.png, I can accomplish this with

osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to set the clipboard to ( POSIX file "image1.png" )'

If I execute the above command and then open a new message in Mail and press command V, the image file is pasted as an attachment.  Note that pbcopy is apparently not a solution here, because this would copy the contents of the file and result in junk when pasted with command V.

My question is how can I do the same thing with multiple files?  Suppose I want to paste both image1.png and image2.png.  This is trivial from Finder (select them both, command C, then switch to Mail and command V; voila, both files show up as attachments)… but how can I do this from the command line?


texts:
I have a 15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display that doesn't work with my USB 2 hard disk. It doesn't mount, doesn't show up in Disk Utility, and doesn't even show up in System Information  in the USB section.

This hard disk works fine on my Ubuntu desktop, and it worked fine on my previous Macbook Pro (2009 model). It doesn't work on my new Macbook Pro, but another disk does.

This is a bus-powered drive. I tried rebooting my Mac, and plugging into a different USB port. The LED comes on when I plug it in, but that's it. If I put my ear to the disk, I hear mild clicking sounds (but I am not worried about data loss since the disk works great on my other machines, every time, without the clicking sound).

Any idea what I can try? Use an AC power adapter? Thanks.


texts: Is it true that if I let Google Photos store all photos, then I can back up to iCloud with minimal storage?

texts:
Is it true that on the iPhone, most things that really need to be backed up, except photos and videos, are the phone contacts, Notes, calendar, and data that may not even need 100MB?

So if I let Google Photos store all my photos and videos with unlimited storage and "good quality", then I can let one or multiple iPhones / iPads back up to iCloud with the 5GB free plan?

What may the settings be to choose which to back up to iCloud? For example, for emails, those don't really need to be backed up because they are on the email server anyway?


texts: Due to a new job, I am about to shut down an old email address. Of course, I want to save the old emails so that I can access them if I need to. I want to save them on my Time Capsule so that they do not fill my local disk. How can I do this best?


texts: Trying to close open port 5900 or find process that opened it

texts:
On a Mac Pro 2013 running High Sierra I have discovered that port 5900 remains opened which is a "VNC remote desktop".  I do run TeamViewer but have turned it off & confirmed it being off with activity monitor.  On Terminal I have tried (see below). I really don't want this port simply being opened all the time.

patobrien$ sudo lsof -i :5900
Password:
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
launchd   1 root    8u  IPv4 0xb6a6e03f8b5bc76d      0t0  TCP *:rfb (LISTEN)
launchd   1 root   13u  IPv6 0xb6a6e03f8b5b5d7d      0t0  TCP *:rfb (LISTEN)
launchd   1 root   20u  IPv6 0xb6a6e03f8b5b5d7d      0t0  TCP *:rfb (LISTEN)
launchd   1 root   25u  IPv4 0xb6a6e03f8b5bc76d      0t0  TCP *:rfb (LISTEN)
 patobrien$ sudo kill -9 1
kill: 1: Operation not permitted


texts: Weight of a refurbished Macbook Air package

texts:
I want to know how roughly the weight of a refurbished Macbook Air package, I need this as to know how much it will cost me for the international shipping.

Here its URL from Apple Store


texts: I have a calendar event set to open an application at an early time. However during this time, my Mac is at sleep. Will the calendar wake the Mac to open the application? If not, how can I make it so that it will do that?


texts: Where's the US-International keyboard on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)?

texts: On my old MacBook Pro, I mostly used the US-International keyboard, which used the Opt key to switch to a  large set of markings.  On my new MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), I can't find it.  The only "English" keyboard has just a few such "dead keys", but none of the marks used by eastern-European languages are present.  I've found a number of references to US-International keyboards on Mavericks in various forums, but no clues for how to enable it.  Does anyone here know?


texts: Does the AppleTV had a place where I can see what's been downloaded to the device?

texts: I've been looking through the user interface of the 2012 AppleTV and I can't find a place to see what has been downloaded to the device (e.g. movies or TV shows)--or the progress in-process downloads. I just purchased a season of a TV show and I want to see how many of the episodes have downloaded and to make sure they're downloading, without actually going to watch a show and see what the scrubber bar says.


texts: How should I reconcile dot-underscore files after a manual backup?

texts:
I recently had to (hurriedly) back up data on an older Macbook before migrating it to a new one. Since all I had at my disposal was a large FAT32 formatted drive, I used that and a manual copy. I've since used rsync to put it back on a (non-journaled) HFS+ drive (under Ubuntu).

Now most of the files have a corresponding ._ file alongside them. I understand that this is how OS X stores extended attributes and other information on non-HFS+ filesystems. So my question is: now that I have these files back on a HFS+ filesystem, how can I reconcile the information in the ._ files? That is, since the data in those files can now be stored in the HFS+ metadata for each file, how do I put it back?


texts:
I received a strange Pop Up message. The unsettling part is password will be sent in clear text.

Is my phone affected with any malware or app virus ?


texts:
Using a shell script or Terminal, how do I overwrite files that may or may not be present. I looked at man page for cp, it said use the -f argument to force overwrite. But, it does nothing.

$ cp -f /path/to/source/file.txt /path/to/target

Or is there another option to overwrite files using the common in-built command line tools in OS X?


texts: While using Screen Sharing, a double click to the remote Mac acts like a single click

texts:
I'm using Apple's Screen Sharing to control a headless Mac mini from an iMac. Things mostly work, except when I try to double click anything on the Mac mini, it acts like a single click.

I've tried adjusting double click speed using System Preferences on both the Mac mini and the iMac with no success. I've tried setting the sender double click to very fast while the receiver is set to very slow, and then clicking at various speeds. No combination seems to work.

As a test, I plugged a mouse into the Mac mini and I can double click items normally.

Any suggestions on how to make double clicking work?


texts: How to create a bootable Windows 10 USB with a Mac to boot/install on a PC?

texts:
I have no access to a Windows machine at the moment, but need to create a bootable Windows 10 USB stick from a Mac that can be used to boot and install on a PC (not a Mac).

Microsoft provides the ISO file

Can I just copy that ISO file to the USB and boot to it? I would use the Media Creation Tool, but you can't if you're on OS X.

For reference, my Mac is on High Sierra.


texts: Function keys and Enter key on built-in keyboard of 13" rMBP mysteriously remapped. How to fix or reset to default?

texts:
The built-in keyboard of my Macbook Pro started acting weird. I only started to have this problem around last week. I thought upgrading to
Yosemite 10.10.3 would remove the issue but it still exists.

Pressing the Enter/Return key OR Right-Shift triggers the
"Shift-Enter" combo.
Pressing the Escape key is now increasing the brightness of my
display.
Pressing the F1 key decreases the brightness AND decreasing my
volume.
Pressing the F2 key increases the brightness AND triggers the Escape
key.
Pressing the F5 key decreases the keyboard light AND inputs "-" and
vice versa.
Pressing the F6 key increases the keyboard light AND inputs "/" and
vice versa.
Pressing the F7 key inputs ";".
Pressing the F8 key enters a new line or triggers the Enter key (?)
Pressing the F9 key inputs "\".
Pressing F11 key decreases my volume and brightness.

Using an external keyboard doesn't seem to have a problem. I tried doing a PRAM and SMC reset but to no avail. Tried also changing the keyboard preferences like restoring to the default settings, removing extra keyboard layouts I use for work and using the function keys as standard function keys. I tried installing Karabiner keymap tool hoping to disable some keys but it still triggers some of the weird behaviour the keys mysteriously adapted so I uninstalled it.

The problem did go away two days ago (I have no idea how. I was just doing work research and the keys started working normally) but unfortunately, after turning it back on today for another day of work, the problem came back.

Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
Is it most likely a hardware or a software problem?


texts: To create a new apple ID on another iPhone

texts: Now my wife is holding iPhone 5S. She can't remember even though she created Apple ID and I cloud mail. She asked me, please create an Apple ID for her on my iPhone. Because I am working on abroad. Let me know how to create an Apple ID on another iPhone.


texts: Derive the launchd config plist based on a launch label

texts:
When I list the currently running services, I see a service I'd like to remove:

% launchctl list | grep -i spotify
 -  13  com.spotify.webhelper

Launchctl allows me to stop it via launchctl stop com.spotify.webhelper but it does not allow me to completely remove it (uninstall it) unless I specify the .plist file.

How can I derive the plist based on the label?


texts: Photos: Move images from iCloud to local storage without losing metadata (albums, tags, etc)?

texts:
I'm looking free space in my iCloud storage my moving images to local storage only.
I know I can export the full size images, delete them from Photos.app, then re-add them to Photos as referenced photos. But doing this will lose all the metadata in Photos (albums, tags, etc), not to mention moving them to the top of my recently added all-photos list.
My beloved and lamented Aperture had the Relocate Originals command which would move a managed photo to external storage, but Photos doesn't seem to have this. Is there any AppleScript or Swift-accessible system api command that can?
Any way to do this short of writing my own migration tool to save all the possible metadata, then re-add it to the deleted-then-reimported-as-referenced photos?
Cheers!


texts: superfast ssd (PCIe connector) to MBP mid2012?

texts:
is it possible to put one of these new generation ssd to my MBP with pci express connector?

PCIe SSD


texts: No cap after a period in Dragon Dictate 4

texts:
In Dragon Dictate 4, when I say "Hello world period this is a test period", it outputs:

  Hello world. this is a test."

There is no cap after the first period. Is there any way to fix it?

This issue affects most programs: Evernote, the default Mac OS X mail application, Safari, Latexian, etc. There is no such issue using Dragon's notepad or Google Chrome.

Obviously I don't want to have to say "Cap" after each period.


texts: "Continue" button greyed out when installing .pkg

texts:
Update: There is no solution.  After I got the .qtz file into /Library/Compositions, it didn't work, and then I found out that third-party visualizers have been disabled as of iTunes 12.6.  It may still work on previous iTunes versions, but I do not know.

On 10.12.6, I am trying to install an iTunes visualizer, but there's no way to progress past this screen.

It is supposed to be installed to /Library/Compositions, so I tried

sudo installer -pkg ~/Downloads/wowlab_oneday_1.0.1/wowlab_oneday_1.0.1.pkg -target /Library/Compositions

The result was:

installer: Error trying to locate volume at /Library/Compositions

The same error occurred regardless of the destination specified.

These are the files Installer wants to install:

When I expand wowlab_oneday_1.0.1.pkg with Unarchiver, it contains a Resources folder, Distribution file, and wowlaboneday.pkg.  This second .pkg can't be extracted with Unarchiver.  When I click Show Package Contents, it contains Bom, PackageInfo, and Payload.

How can I get the .qtz file out and into /Library/Compositions, presuming that's what needs to be done?


texts: Is Apple using the updated 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard when replacing older keyboards under the new keyboard service program?

texts: Apple revealed an updated 2018 MacBook Pro with an updated butterfly keyboard. I recently had my 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard replaced under the keyboard service program that was recently opened. Is Apple replacing older keyboards with the new keyboards under the keyboard service program?


texts: Change MouseMomentumScroll and Update Preferences Cache via defaults write

texts:
When scrolling with inertia is enabled on my Magic Mouse, Google Maps street view goes bonkers.
I'm running Catalina 10.15.6 and I want to write a simple shell alias to quickly change the setting:
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse MouseMomentumScroll -integer 1
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse MouseMomentumScroll -integer 0

This works great and I can verify the change via:
defaults read com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse MouseMomentumScroll

I was under the impression that defaults automatically refreshed the cache, however, I can't seem to get the preferences cache to update. I've tried:
killall -u $USER cfprefsd

but no love there.
What else can I do to mimic the behavior that happens when changing the setting via System Preferences? Is there a pure terminal solution to achieve this?
On a side note, this question is similar, but the answer suggests using sudo to unload a kernel extension. It's also from 2014.


texts: Are these two optical drives interchangeable?

texts:
I have two laptops:

MacBook 2,1
MacBook Pro 5,3

As the optical drive of the MBP has issues, I would like to use the optical drive from the MB.
The MB optical drive has an ATA interface, while the MBP drive uses SATA. Googling I find that these interfaces are not interchangeable.
However, both use the ATAPI protocol, so this made me doubt my earlier conclusion.

This is the information of the MB optical drive:

This is the information of the MBP optical drive:

Will I be able to swap-out the UJ-868 (MBP) drive with the GSA-S10N (MB) drive?


texts:
I did research beforehand on google How to Sync Any Folder to the Cloud With Symbolic Links and on Ask Different, but I still cannot find an answer to this specific question.

The file I want to symlink to is in the following format:
/Users/Name/OneDrive\ -\ X\ Y\ Education/Documents/Z\ Documents

Z\ Documents is the name of a subfolder of (~/Documents)

I tried rewriting it in different ways for it to be without any spaces as symlink requires there to be like that, but had no luck. I am quite inexperienced in this, but I was thinking maybe you can do something like quotation marks for Terminal to consider it one 'term'?

If something in this question is unclear, please leave a comment and I will do my best to clarify. Any possible answers are appreciated. Thank you.

IMPORTANT EDIT

Thank you for your help and effort. I made a mistake in my question with the directories, but I think it is a bit too big to correct, so I am going to rewrite it here if it's alright.

Here the directory that I want to link to:

/Users/NAME/OneDrive\ -\ PATH\ TO\ TARGET/Documents/X\ Documents

The first part is the location of the folder on my drive. The second part (after the first space) where is states 'PATH TO TARGET" is some part of the directory which is required to connect to the server or something like that. 'Documents' is a subfolder of OneDrive and 'X\ Documents' is a subfolder of 'Documents'.

I have listed the 'source' ONLY above. The target I would like to be found in folder in my defaults downloads location:

~/Downloads/X Documents

What I would like to happen, is when I open the folder X Documents, I am redirected to the source directory I described earlier (X Documents within Documents within OneDrive)

Thank you again for your time helping me out with this.


texts: Automatic numbers superscripting in OS X Maverick and Pages 5

texts:
Is there any way to setup automatic superscripting in OS X Mavericks and Pages 5 (i.e 1st => 1st.

Is there a 3th party plugin that implements that functionality?


texts: What is the keyboard shortcut to set the language for text in MS Word 2011?

texts: I usually write in English, but I often quote things in other languages like German or French. I know that you can set the language, like the font under Tools -> Language. Is there a keyboard shortcut to make this easier?


texts:
Many apps use your "current location" (or what they think is your current location), to make ads relevant to where you are, and other location related app features seem to use this information. Pandora, Spotify, etc. for example play audio ads for businesses near where they think you are.

I went to school in Iowa, but have been living in Chicago Area for 9 months now - yet all of my ads are for businesses in the Iowa City area, among other location based features throughout apps.

Is it possible to update what these apps think you current location is? I have location services and everything activated. It feels like the location is permanently cached as Iowa City.


texts: Most optimal way of recovering files from a non-bootable MacBook in Recovery Mode

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Let me first mention that a related question and answer is given in Backup to External in Recovery Mode (Terminal or Time Machine) . For the sake of completeness, I will tell the complete story about my recent nightmare.

Some days ago, I was trying to update my MacBook Pro (13 inch version from 2011) from Sierra (the latest version of it) to High Sierra. However the installation failed and I received a message that I should restart my computer. By clicking the (unique) option "Restart", I ended up with a prohibitory sign after some time.

I tried to use First Aid on Macintosh HD from Recovery Mode. It failed miserably and the details contained a bunch of "Missing thread record" followed by some numbers. The final message after the failed process was the following "First Aid process has failed. If possible backup the data on this volume. Click Done to continue".

I tried to access the Internet Recovery Mode following the advice of the Apple support. It failed giving the error -2002F.

My third attempt was to use the Single User Mode in order to apply the fsck command. However I could not even start to write in the terminal since it was going crazy in a loop by giving the message that the Root could not be found (the number of the error if relevant was probably 19). After some time, everything stopped and the background got white, while the letters got black.

As I understand, now my only option is to backup through Recovery Mode following the options mentioned in the above cited question and, then, erase my Hard Drive through Disk Utility. If I have any other available options, please, let me know.

The problem is that I don't have an external hard drive and also I don't have another MacBook. I will try soon to borrow an external hard drive from a friend.

Now, I shall ask my questions.

1) Suppose that I can have access to another MacBook. By using First Aid through another MacBook in my Hard Drive in the Target Disk Mode, would I obtain a better result? In other words, does the First Aid of Disk Utility acts differently when applied through another MacBook than when applied through my Recovery partition (assuming that my Recovery partition is fully functional)?

2) Suppose that I transfer my files to an external HD through any of the methods in the above cited question and, when trying to access the transferred files, discover that they are actually corrupted. Would they also be corrupted if I have instead performed the transference by using another MacBook and the Target Disk Mode?

3) More generally, what would be the better method of recovering my files that would optimize the amount of fully functioning files recovered?

4) In general, when such failures in installation occurs, what folders and files are likely to have been overwritten or erased? More precisely, what folders are modified by updating from Sierra to High Sierra when the installation completion is successfully achieved?

I ask these question because I may be able to get my hands in an empty MacBook if I pay someone, therefore I would like to know beforehand if such action would indeed be optimal.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to add Twitter to Notification Center in iOS 5?

texts: I just got a new 4S and am not seeing notifications pop-ups from Twitter.  I'm using the Twitter for iPhone app.  How can I enable new tweets in notification center?


texts: Can I charge a 2017 MacBook Pro with a third-party USB C power adaptor?

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I've got a 2017 MacBook Pro which comes stock with an 87W USB C Power Adapter.

I want to purchase an additional power adapter, but I don't require an official Apple one. I notice that Anker make one with 60 W power output over USB C.

Other than charging my laptop at about 2/3rds the speed of the Apple Power Adapter, (2/3rds = ca. 60/87 w), would there be any effect / damage on my machine?


texts: If automatic app updates are disabled on an iOS device, how often does the App Store update its app badge to show the number of available updates?

texts: Assuming that automatic app updates are disabled on an iOS device, how often does the App Store check for app updates and update its app badge to show the number of updates that are available to be installed?


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I have just sold my iMac 27 inches for the reason it being too big! I will avoid mentioning the reasons, but...

Now that I have got the exact money to buy the new 13 inch retina one. Problem is I am a programmer and I am wondering if such screen is not too small for working. I doubt I will have, in a good span of time this money again so chances are the following:

buy MBP 13 inch retina, that has a very good display for my sight.
buy any other random laptop that is 15 inch or more or an older version of MBP.

So in short, the question is:

Does the MacBook Pro 13 inch retina have a good ( / big ) enough screen to be productive at work, particularly for a programmer?

Any experience with this?


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Has Apple made any announcements that they will patch Krack on iOS 10-only devices?

Has Apple made any announcements that they will not patch Krack on iOS 10-only devices?


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I want to use my old iPhone for iMessage but I am running into an issue setting up iMessage as it seems to be waiting for phone activation which wont happen because I have a new android phone.

How can I set up my iPhone to only send iMessages from my Apple ID?  Right now my old number is grayed out with a loading wheel to the left.


texts: Can I force Mac OS X not to complain when a volume is removed without first unmounting it?

texts: I have a USB flash drive that randomly disconnects itself from my Mac, and each time, I get a warning from Mac OS X (several computers, running 10.7-10.9) that it's been improperly removed.  I use it for portably storing Waves licenses, so I rarely write to it.  I'd like to suppress this message, as it's annoying and occasionally interferes with something I'm doing.  Can I get Mac OS X to shut up about this issue?  I tried using an NTFS filesystem on the drive to force it to mount read-only, but I still get a warning when it's disconnected.


texts: show or copy password instead of dots in application

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In windows i had a program to inspect the password that i stored in filezilla.
But I forgot my ftp password I can still see the dots but I want to see what the password was that I stored.

Is there anything like that for the mac?

I found a solution for filezilla.

In the filezilla menu use "file->Export".
Save the file to a location

An XML file is generated with al the ftp sites entry's

Open the file with a browser and you should be able to see the passwords


texts: Restoring from Time Machine Backup – Cannot replace Mac HD

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I'm trying to restore my computer to a previous backup of my Mac HD. However, when I try, I see an error notice telling me that I cannot, since this file is not able to be deleted:

  .PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware

How do I restore to this backup from last week, considering that I can't delete the above folder, or resultantly, another version of Mac HD ?

What I've done:

Enter Time Machine > scroll through to appropriate backup > hit "restore" button > You can erase volume “Macintosh HD” and replace it with the restored volume or cancel to stop the restore. > receive error notice related to the above.