texts: What should the permissions on the /EFI partition be?

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Currently, I am able to mount and edit the EFI partition without any special privileges. Is that correct?

I understand that the bootflags for SIP protected regions are stored in nvram which is inaccessible through bless, but it seems strange that I can manipulate the binary, and the changes will persist through a restart.

Is something wrong here? If not, why is it the case?


texts: How do I get old photos back in iOS 8 message

texts: Since updating to iOS 8.1.2 I can't see old photos on messages just new photos


texts: CoreStorage logic volume failed to mount

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I have an encrypted hfs+ external SSD. When I plug it into my mac and, it prompts for my password, but after I enter it nothing happens.

I tried this in terminal:


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The numbers that are no longer in my contacts still keep popping up when I try to compose a new message.

Why is this happening? Is there a way to purge the contact list so no already-deleted-contact remains?


texts: How to select photos which are not tagged or set face(s) in Photos?

texts: In Photos there are not a selector called "Face is empty" or "Tags is not set", so what should I do?


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Are Mac OS X services name sensitive?  I have the following Applescript code and can install it as a service (using Automator) with the name "Move_Mail_L5", but can't install it as a service with the name "Move_Mail_LV".

on run {input, parameters}
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Mail"
            click menu item "Landscaping V" of menu 1 of menu item "Move to" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Message" of menu bar 1
        end tell
    end tell
    return input
end run

My four files in ~/Library/Services are

Move_Mail_L5.workflow
Copy_Mail_LV.workflow
Copy_Mail_BC.workflow
Move_Mail_BC.workflow

There is no naming problem with "Copy_Mail_LV.workflow".  Its code is the same as that of "Move_Mail_L5.workflow", except that it has "Copy" in place of "Move".

My Mac Book Air 2012 is running Sierra version 10.12.6

Added later: I can install it with the name "Mov_Mail_LV".


texts: How can I list all my passwords stored in Keychain Access?

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I am trying to use the 'security find-internet-password' command to show my passwords.
I want to write a script to loop through my keychain and list all of my passwords.
I have read the man page for security and tried the examples but cannot get it to return any of my passwords.

Here is the command from the man page:

find-internet-password [-h] [-a account] [-s server] [options...] [-g] [keychain...]
            -a account      Match account string
            -c creator      Match creator (four-character code)
            -C type         Match type (four-character code)
            -d securityDomain
                            Match securityDomain string
            -D kind         Match kind string
            -j comment      Match comment string
            -l label        Match label string
            -p path         Match path string
            -P port         Match port number
            -r protocol     Match protocol (four-character code)
            -s server       Match server string
            -t authenticationType
                            Match authenticationType (four-character code)
            -g              Display the password for the item found
            -w              Display the password(only) for the item found

I have tried several syntaxes for the command including leaving the keychain value blank. in the below examples admin is a account name for one of my internet accounts.
I would prefer to be able to get all of the passwords at once but when I dump-keychain it gives an unreadable mess of text with lots of tags that I cannot parse. Is there any

$ security find-internet-password -a admin -g
$ security find-internet-password -a admin -g login
$ security fine-internet-password -a admin -g user
$ security find-internet-password -a admin -g /Users/Chilly/Library/Keychains/user

I would prefer to be able to get all of the passwords at once but when I dump-keychain it gives an unreadable mess of text with lots of tags that I cannot parse. Is there any documentation on the web for the format of that dump file or how to parse it. Suggestions I have seen say to just 'grep' the file but I need documentation to know what to look for.
(and to read a manual on grep and awk and sed but those are widely available:-)


texts: I am trying to import Mini DV on my 2020 MacBook Pro.  My camera is a 22 year old Sony HDR-HC7E. I have a 400 to 800 Firewire cable, and 2 Apple adaptors - Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 2 to 3.    I have tried using iMovie which sees that a camera is plugged in but cannot import the video.  I have also tried LifeFlix and it did not import the video either.  My Sony camcorder is not on the list of camcorders supported by iMovie.  Is there another software I could use to capture my videos?


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My Macbook just experienced Kernel Panic and don't know what to do since it is my first time to encountered this, should I do something to prevent and to ensure that this will never happened again on my Mac however there's a lot of info's about regarding on how to fix but I'm worried that they might be bad or not reliable to trust kindly give me an suggestions.
As a first timer to encountered this kind of system issue should I do some steps regarding this or just ignored it?
My mac version is MAC OS BIG SUR 11.2.3


texts: Does the iPhone 8/8+/X Require Metal for a Mag Mount?

texts: Older iPhones required a metal plate be secured to the phone to work with a magnetic mount.  With wireless charging, does the iPhone 8/8+/X require a metal plate to work with a magnetic mount, or does the wireless charging circuitry provide enough attachment?


texts: Get two-factor authentication code from terminal?

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Is it possible to retrieve my Apple ID two-factor authentication code via the terminal instead of the GUI prompt, i.e. via ssh or a bash script?

I don't own any Apple devices other than a headless Mac mini for iOS development (I am loaning some iOS devices for development, but don't want to mark those as trusted, for obvious reasons).

Right now, I have to remote desktop into the Mac mini to get the 2FA code whenever I need it. I'd like to be able to at least just ssh, if not set up a bash script to text me when prompted.


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About twice a night, iChat will disconnect (though it'll still show me as connected).  After about 10 minutes, it'll realize it's disconnected and bring up a dialog telling me it lost the connection.  I can then close the dialog and reconnect with no trouble.

My computer's network connection seems to be fine throughout this.

Any idea:

What might might be causing this?
How to fix it?
At least how to make it tell me more immediately when it loses the connection?


texts: Remove picture compression for Word 2011 for Mac

texts: I'm trying to stop Word 2011 from compressing my pictures. In Windows, I can apparently do this by going to File > Options. However, there is no File > Options for Mac in Word 2011. Does anyone know how I can get Word to stop compressing my pictures?


texts: Badge count for number of items in a folder on the Dock?

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After clearing hundreds of items out of my Downloads folder, I'm eager not to repeat the process. Anyone know of a plugin/app/hack that will let me badge a folder in the Dock with the current number of items in that folder?

Such a badge would make it very apparent when I need to access/clear stuff out.


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How might I use Automator or Applescript to launch iTunes at midnight, and kill it at 5am ?

(This is the only time when I have unlimited bandwidth..  rural sat-based ISP.. ugg.)

Thanks.


texts: Is there a URL scheme for the Music app that allows me to link to a playlist?

texts: I have started using Launch Center Pro and I'd like to create a shortcut for a playlist on Music. Is this possible using the URL scheme of the app? If so, how?


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I have a macbook pro (15 inch mid 2015 with macOS High Sierra) with Hebrew keyboard (the keyboard has this https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/keyboards/hebrew_notebook.png layout, this is European layout with Hebrew keys on it).

On the '7' key there are the '&' and the '₪' sings. The '&' sign can be triggered by the standard shift-7 shortcut, but I don't have any idea for how to use the '₪' sign (its pretty useful in Hebrew). I haven't found any solution (not online or in the keyboard settings), does anyone has any idea?

Thanks!


texts:
Preview has a pretty clean and efficient PDF editor, especially when it comes to adding and removing pages.

What I'm really looking for is a function that can remove duplicate pages.

I've got a pdf with tons of duplicate pages and it would be really great if there was an option to remove all doubles.

Any ideas?


texts: “fse.node” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. While doing npm run dev or watch

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On macOS Catalina 10.15.3, I am getting the below error message while running npm run dev or npm run watch. It seems like something to do with nodejs but no idea know how to resolve it.

  “fse.node” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
  macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.


texts: How to install OS X Mountain Lion without an Internet connection

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I wish to upgrade my MacBook Pro's hard disk to Solid State Drive, and that requires an installation of OS X on the SSD drive before I can replace the hard drive.

The typical installation instructions are:

Create a bootable partition on the SSD
Hook up the SSD via an external adapter (for example, USB), boot up the MacBook Pro and start the recovery process.
Select the SSD drive as the drive for OS X to be installed.
Agree to the license agreement, log on using Apple ID (if required) and let "Install OS X" app download a copy of the OS over the Internet before installing it to the SSD
etc, etc, etc

The issue is without a very fast Internet connection, the installation process will take a very long time.

Are there any alternatives such as pre-downloading a copy of OS X, or cloning the content of the drive?


texts: When I export video from Final Cut Pro, how to set the export directory?

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This is my video I edit in Final Cut Pro, but I don't know where to set the export place when I share my video. If I share it, I don't know where to find my exported video.

Add information


texts: What is the difference between an "aggregate" and a "multi-output" device?

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For those who might not be familiar with it, OS X gives us an option to output audio to more than one device through the Audio MIDI Setup utility. As a matter of fact, two options; creating an aggregate device or a multi-output device. What's the different between them?

I have a mid-2011 Mac Mini, connected to a Dell LCD via (MiniDP - DVI) and a Samsung TV via HDMI (which in turn is connected to an older A/V receiver via toslink). The Mac Mini is also connected to a 2.1 desktop speaker system. Given this setup I managed to get the audio to work, first by creating a multi-output device, then I realised that most guides mention using an aggregate device, which I am not sure I understand what it really is. Is there really a difference, if so what's the right way to achieve audio output through multiple devices?


texts: MacBook Air 2010 OS X 10.6.8 w/Broadcom wifi disconnecting: "Disassociated because station leaving"

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The wifi on my MacBook Air 2010 keeps dropping the connection at home with a Linksys WRT160N router running DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/27/08) std. Other devices maintain their connection to the router just fine.

I'm getting these messages in my kernel.log:

air-ethernet kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en0. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).

Does anyone know the canonical solution to this problem? There are threads on Apple Support Communities that go on for 70 pages, but no high-profile links that have a definitive answer.


texts: How to upgrade firmware and reperform a Samsung 840 Evo on a Mac

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i got one of these Samsung 840 Evo Basic 500GB on an iMac (used externally in a TB case - standalone, not Fusion).

I know there's a firmware update out which is already available for Mac users too but they only offer an iso image that only seems to work when used on a self burned CD. As i don't have an external CD for my iMac and not planning to have one i wonder what other way would be possible to update the firmware and probably use thise Performance restauration tool from Samsung that they offer for Windows.

I've already tried booting into Bootcamp where this tool runs fine and also recognizes the SSD on the Thunderbolt port but it won't work as it only recognizes NTFS partitions and mine has HFS+ ofcourse.

Any idea how to get that running? I'm on Yosemite with all machines, so rEFInd doesn't seem to be so easy to and i'm not sure if it would be a good idea to use it to get something like freedos running or whatever that Samsung tools need to get running.

Any help?

P.S: I've got problems with the SSD getting slow and have serious problems with a freezing finder where i hope the firmware update and the performance restauration help to get it running again. Just to give you a reason why i want to update the firmware.


texts: iOS 11 autocorrect bug typing the letter capital I

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So for some odd reason it seems that some iPhones are having trouble processing the letter "I" and I was wondering if anyone knows the solution to this or if it's just a bug in iOS 11?

on some iOS 10 and iOS 11 devices, a question mark shows up or another symbol where they should be an I. Examples:


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Does anyone know a application or project for Mac OS X like Zeitgeist for Ubuntu?

  What is Zeitgeist?

  Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’ activities and events,
  anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations had.

  It makes this information readily available for other applications to
  use. It is able to establish relationships between items based on
  similarity and usage patterns.

  The service consists:

  Engine
  Extensions
  API
  Dataproviders

(Quote from http://zeitgeist-project.com)


texts: With the new Apple Music app is there a way to sort my music by Album?

texts: It seems that Apple have messed up sorting again in the new Apple Music app. I want to sort my music by Album Title, not by Artist and then Title. Is there a way to do this?


texts: Why do I have to "transfer purchases" from my iPad when syncing to iTunes?

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I just started syncing my iPad to my desktop iTunes and it's taking a very long time to "transfer purchases" from the iPad. I was under the impression that iTunes remembered all my app downloads and purchases via iCloud (and verified I could see them in iTunes) so I don't understand why iTunes would need to transfer anything off my physical device.

What exactly is it doing and why is it necessary?


texts: How can I keep photos on icloud that I want to delete from my phone?  If I delete a photo from my phone after I have backed it up to iCloud will it stay in iCloud the next time I back up my phone?


texts: How to set up Loki Render on Mac OS X Lion

texts: I am trying to do network rendering in Blender3D using Loki Render across my 3 Xserves. I have no experience in setting up network rendering and the instructions that are given on the Loki Render home page do not help me. Any help would be appreciated.


texts:
iTunes, trying to be helpful, automatically stops updating my podcasts when it thinks I've not listened to them recently enough. It's quite maddening!

How can I turn off this "helpful" feature?


texts: MacBook Pro 2019 Touch Bar lagging when Changing Volume

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I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 15 inch with touch bar. I change the volume a lot when watching youtube videos. This makes the Touch Bar lag and then crash.

This has been a major issue since I was listening to songs through iTunes and the Touch Bar lagged off while I was changing the volume. Just to try to get it to respond I tried increasing it the max and min. The volume throttle didn't move so I assumed it wasn't responding. But after about 2 minutes music was played at full volume.

Is there any way I can reset the Touch Bar just like I have the ability to reset NVRAM. I am aware that the touch bar is totally controlled by T2 chip. So I think resetting the T2 chip will most probably solve the issue.


texts: How to change computer name so terminal displays it in OS X?

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I have a Mac Server 3.1.2, w/ system 10.9.4 that is not being used as DNS Server. Windows Server 2012 is DNS & DHCP server. On the Mac, Terminal cannot ping hostname of mac, however, it does identify itself with it's hostname so I'm concluding this mismatch is the cause of my issues.

Anyone have a suggestion?


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I see that it's possible to password protect specific notes

I wonder if this can be done automatically to new notes so that I don't need to do it every time, if I want encrypted notes

Is it possible to lock all notes, and automatically lock new notes, on Notes app?


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Whenever I try to install MacOS Catalina which I have downloaded from App Store, It shows me that MacOS Catalina is not compatible with Twitterized Macs.

What are the Twitterized Macs?

Macbook Specs:

MacBook Pro 2017 (14,2)
Core i7 3.5GHz
16GB RAM
500GB SSD


texts: Where is the Tilde Symbol on Swiss Mac Layout (Home Folder Symbol)?

texts: Where is the tilde symbol (~) located on a Swiss mac keyboard? Is there a shortcut to easily generate it?


texts: iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 13.6.1 not supported by Xcode 11.7

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An app I developed works fines with my iPhone 8 running iOS 13.6.1. But when I go to test it on another phone, I receive this error: "This iPhone 7 Plus (Model 1661, 1784, 1785, 1786) is running iOS 13.6.1 (17G80), which is not supported by Xcode 11.7."
I looked at upgrading to Xcode 12 but apparently it's still in beta?
Any suggestion on what's needed to make this combination compatible?


texts: AppleShowAllFiles Command not working in Mavericks OS X 10.9

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I have looked everywhere, but the command
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
and all variations thereof does not work since I upgraded to Mavericks. Why is this?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. All advice for 10.8 does not seem to carry over to this new OS


texts: After High Sierra, weird colours appear when waking up MacBook Pro

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I'm coming from reddit where they suggested me to post here. There seems to be many users with the same issue. Using a 13" MBP Early 2015.

After updating to macOS High Sierra I see weird colours for a brief moment each time I wake up the MBP. Here is a GIF to visualise it.
From what I read there, it seems to be an issue with the new Metal 2 graphic system. Any other suggestion?


texts: How to change the function plot colour in Grapher and make it persistent?

texts:
Here's y=x^2 plotted in blue:

I coloured the function by going to "Window > Show Inspector".

So all is nice and smooth, but when I change the function to, say, y=x^3, the plot turns black and has an the width of 1.0 again:

How to keep the style of the function object the same, even if I change its parameters?


texts: why can't i watch this .avi file on my mac (mountain lion)?

texts:
I have an .AVI file that I got from a windows machine and i am trying to run it on my mac and i get this error.

The Tell me more button doesn't really give me any useful info.

Any suggestions on how to be able to view this from my macbook.


texts: Is there a way to disable a disk or disk controller before OSX boots?

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Context:

I use a mac for data recovery forensic operations, and for compliance with my users' requirements, I need to guarantee that no disk writes will be performed on a physical hard disk attached to a mac until a user enables the disk.

Question:

Is it possible to disable all access to a disk, SATA port, or disk controller entirely outside of the OS, before the system boots?

Disabling only read access is acceptable, but tends to be harder to verify compared to "make the computer act like the disk itself isn't plugged in".

When we were doing data recovery with a Linux homemade tower, we would go into the BIOS and disable the SATA port with the sensitive disks on it.

It's OK to disable the entire disk controller as part of a solution; these systems are externally booted from USB devices, and internal hard disks will not be used until they are re-enabled.

The physical port to which the disks in question are connected will not change.

What I've Tried:

I've seen the solutions to this question. Those solutions all disable disks right after boot, which is not sufficient: disabling automount of the disk or hiding it from OSX's disk management does not satisfy the users' (admittedly silly) audit requirements.

Other Ideas:

Is it possible to do this from an EFI shell? I'm happy to install rEFInd or similar on the bootable USBs.

Are there nvram settings that can be changed to achieve this?

Are there kernel boot parameters that instruct OSX not to initialize or use a PCI device, tree, or disk?

Are there kernel modules that I could install that would achieve this? If so, they'd probably need to be open source so the users could audit them and make sure they're loaded early enough to not let any writes through.

Since the recovery OS is USB, are there kexts that I could uninstall in order to disable access to all disks/SATA devices?


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I've been getting messages recently that "My startup disk is almost full," and I'm quite sure I haven't used the full 250GB of my Macbook's hard drive. Using "Get Info" on Macintosh HD says that I'm using around 245GB (aka 5GB from being full), but I have no idea what could be using that much space. My home directory (with Photos, Movies, Downloads, etc.) is only around 34GB. Applications? only 11.

In fact, I looked into it using a disk sweeping application, and it profiled my hard drive as only having 65.1GB in total! Where are the other ~200GB? What's filling them?

(I did search using Finder for files over 1GB, and there were only a few, so I don't think the problem is one massive file).

Result of ImageDiskSweeper:


texts: Can iOS dictation be made to stick to a single language?

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I'm using the dictation feature in iOS a fair bit, and as a multilingual speaker I do so in several languages. However, one very annoying feature (and I believe it to be recent) is that it will occasionally switch languages mid-sentence.

This behavior can be both good and bad: when my input language is set to Dutch and I'm obviously speaking English, my phone happily corrects the input language and uses English instead.

On the other hand, my Spanish comes with a strong Dutch accent and so my phone decides that I must be speaking Dutch and creates something incomprehensible.

Can this feature be turned off so that I may use dictation in multiple languages properly? :-)


texts: Problem booting Ubuntu from newer Macbook Pro (late 2011 model)

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I'm trying to create a USB stick that is bootable on both PC and Intel Mac systems, which will contain a full installation of Ubuntu (i.e. not just a LiveCD).

I've succeeded in creating a USB that will boot on PCs and a Macbook Pro from ~2009. However, trying the same USB on a newer Macbook Pro, from late 2011, does not work.

I have gone with a method adapted from the one described here, which creates a Mac partition on the USB and copies some rEFIt files into it.

On booting the new Macbook Pro, holding the option key allows the choice of boot device to be made. Selecting rEFIt then allows Linux to be chosen, which works the same way as on the older Macbook Pro. However, on the late 2011 model, following the selection of Linux, all I get is a screen saying that no bootable devices were found.

Does anyone know what might be causing this, and, if so, how to fix it? The version of Ubuntu I am trying to run is 10.04 32-bit.


texts: How to delete all photos from the iOS 7 camera roll WITHOUT importing them?

texts:
I have 4000 photos in the camera roll
I don't want import them into my MacBook's iPhoto or nowhere, so
simple want delete them directly in the iPhone (iOS 7).
selecting them one-by-one (you sure agree) is NOT very user friendly

What is the "Apple way" of doing this (usually) simple thing?


texts: I can't re-attach my thunderbolt display stand

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I have removed the stand from my Thunderbolt monitor to place a touch overlay device on the sceen (needed to lay the screen flat facing up to attach the overlay)

Now I am trying to re-attach the stand and the flange that holds the torx screws has gone back inside the monitor. It seems to be locked in the "closed" position at this point.

I can release the latch at the top with a credit card but the flange doesn't come back out. I can't figure out how to get the flange that the torx screws screw into exposed again so I can re-attach the stand.

Any help? I see several other people with this question on the web but no answers. It seems the flange locks in two positions "open" which exposes the screw holes and "closed" where mine is stuck now.

Thanks


texts: Can you actually use Terminal to crash your computer?

texts:
People who don't understand Terminal are often afraid to use it for fear that they might mess up their command and crash their computer. Those who know Terminal better know that that's not the case - usually Terminal will just output an error. But are there actually commands that will crash your computer?

WARNING: you could lose data if you type these or copy paste, especially sudo and rm commands.


texts: How can I have Calendar use an Alarm Clock reminderalarm for alerts?

texts:
I used Samsung Galaxy 6 for couple of years.  I loved that in the Clock you can use the Alarm and set not only time of alarm but also the date. For example, if you want to watch a game that was 4 days from now at 11AM, you could set your alarm 4 days and 3 hours from now.

It would ring your standard alarm sound until you stop it, even if it takes 7 minutes for you to stop it. So it was loud, consistent, and it would not stop sounding the alarm until you stopped it.

On iPhone I can set the alarm only 23.59 hours in advance.  I cannot set it a few days ahead because I cannot select a date, just the time.

If I use Reminders or Calendar I can set it on any day in the future but the alarm sounds that I choose will only sound once or, max, twice. I know, I tried them all.

If I am in machine shop and I can't hear first alert, I'm screwed because that reminder is gone. If I go to restroom and my calendar or reminder beeps, I am screwed again.  I missed sound and it wont beep again.

Often during the week I have different waking times, 5 on Monday and 6 on Tuesday and then 7.30 on Friday so why I cannot set Alarm on my iPhone to ring at any time on any day of the month in advance?

Is there anything that can simply perform all these functions?

Setting an alarm on any future date
Setting any time on that date
Alarm continues to sound until manually stopped?


texts: Is it possible to control a digital camera from an iPad2?

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My 15 yr old daughter has cerebral palsy and has limited control of her hands which makes physical control of a camera difficult.

Is it possible to connect a digital camera to her iPad 2?

This would allow her to control the camera remotely from the iPad which she manages very well with the touchscreen. The built in camera is good however very limited due to difficulty holding it whilst taking the picture.


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I am having a hard time finding an adapter from Thunderbolt to two separate (not mirroring) VGA outputs. You would imagine that if it is designed to do that Mac would make an Adapter for that very application. Any one have any suggestions?

I am using a Mac Pro if that helps at all.

My ultimate problem is that I am using two thunderbolts to power two identical projectors with VGA and each projector is stuck in different resolutions. The Projector company suggested I try using a thunderbolt to Dual VGA adapter.


texts: How do I copy music to my iPhone using iTunes 11?

texts:
I've always managed my iPhone/iPad/iPod Manually, I recently updated to iTunes 11 and now I can see no way to get my music onto my device.

I used to be able to just drag songs from my library to my device, now there is seemingly no way to do this.

I can view the music on my device by clicking on it on the top right corner of iTunes, but I can't seem to get to a state where I can drag music from my computer onto my device.

I'm using iTunes 11.0.1.12 for Windows if that makes a difference.


texts: Adding a new hard drive to RAID1 software RAID fails

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I've got a Mac Pro 1.1 running macOS Server 10.6.8 that I want to use as a RAID-Server. I use Disk Utility to run a RAID1 set with two 500GB hard drives.

Now adding a third 500GB hard drive to the existing RAID-Set with diskutil appleraid add member fails by showing me the following error message:

Error: -9911: The target disk appears to be too small to add to this RAID set

But when I delete the RAID-Set and set it up with all three hard drives together, the RAID is being created without any problem.

I belive that it could have something to do with the fact, that the third hard drive is a different model (different company), and the other two are the exact same. But if that would be the case, then I could not replace a hard drive in a RAID-Set, even if it would be from the same company and the same model line – since even those can change over time – except if I buy the exact same one – right?

I want to be sure that Apple RAID is capable of adding a new drive to an existing RAID if I have to swap a damaged one. Is anyone able to help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance!


texts: iPhone shows OS X Handoff of a device I want to remove

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A month ago i had two user accounts on my MacBook (pro), both was setup to get text messages from my iPhone. Now I have removed one of the user accounts, but in settings on my iPhone I can still chose the old mac user for text forwarding.

My question is: Can i remove the old device from the list below?


texts: Is it possible use USB tethering feature of ios devices as similar to andriod?

texts:
Connecting device over WiFi through WiFi-router and using that connection in another machine with USB tethering by not using mobile data.This is possible in android devices.

Just to make it more clear, I don't want to use my mobile data but I have a working internet connectivity by WiFi router, So I wish to use the internet connection in my laptop through my iPhone 6 plus which is connected to internet via WiFi (NOT BY MOBILE DATA),

However in android devices if device is connected to working WiFi connection it is possible to use that connection in any other machine through USB tethering(100% tested).Just need to if I can do this using my iPhone too.
Hope I am clear with question.

The main motive is to get the WiFi connected ios device connection to a machine just in case if the machine having a WiFi issue and Ethernet port problem.This is possible with android device through the USB tethering which doesn't uses the mobile data Only it uses the connection of the router and provides to the machine


texts: is there a way to create an AFP link to point to any user's home directory?

texts:
I would like to send a link via email to a file that everyone has in their Dropbox. The file exists on everyone's machine in the same relative location, however everyone has a different User Name.
On my machine, the file is accessible at afp://Users/scott/Dropbox/shared/example.pdf
Unfortunately, afp://~/Dropbox/shared/example.pdf does not work.

I am running Lion (10.7.1), most others are as well, a few are running Snow Leopard (10.6.x)


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I know that, for example, when I'm playing a video in YouTube on my iPhone then I AirPlay it to Apple TV, iPhone simply pass video link to Apple TV than iPhone works only as remote (in fact, turning iPhone's wifi off, Apple TV will keep playing video).

So is there a way, even with Mac, to give to Apple TV an URL then look it there?


texts: What is the chatLengthEstimator.cmsketch file located in the Library/Suggestions folder? (Mac OSX)

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I stumbled upon the Suggestions folder /Users/zezuz/Library/Suggestions  while browsing through my MacBook Pro, running High Sierra. (which btw, I never knew even existed)

In the folder is a file named chatLengthEstimator.cmsketch. I tried to view it but no program I have can open a .cmsketch file. Clicking the "search App Store" option resulted in nothing.

A google search also returned little, but it seems that it's some sort of sample or database file, possibly related to TIDB?

My questions are:

What is a .cmsketch file?
What is, specifically, the chatLengthEstimator.cmsketch file and why is it being "suggested" to me?

Thank you in advance for your help!


texts:
Well, the title says it all:

Can I edit the Info.plist of an App so that is always starts hidden?


texts: How do I enable Intel Virtualization in a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I tried booting into EFI by holding ⌥ Option⌘ CommandFO
My end goal is to enable nested VT-x in VirtualBox.


texts: Mac shared folder can't be accessed via afp if it's on another HD

texts:
I have a folder on a second internal HD that I share from my Mac mini (running 10.12). I usually connect to it through SMB, but I need to use AFP due to using an older Mac. However, I cannot get the folder to show up while connecting via AFP, it only shows via SMB. I have tested and found that any folder shared from my internal SSD/boot drive is accessible via AFP, but not any folders from my internal HD.

Any idea what's going on and how I can fix this?


texts: Applecare Validity for Macbook in Turkey

texts: I am getting conflicting answers (even from the Apple itself) about the validity of the applecare plan for Macbook Pro (purchased from US) in Turkey. I know that there are Apple stores in Istanbul and that Apple gives technical assistance there. However, some says that applecare is not valid in Turkey. They say that in order to benefit from the applecare plan I should either mail my computer to US or bring it to US or perhaps to some nearby EU country where the plan is valid. On the contrary some says that applecare is completely valid for MacBooks in Turkey (though not for Iphones, Ipads, etc.). I would be grateful if I can have the correct answer and, if the plan is valid in Turkey then how the process works. Thank you.


texts: Can I use target disk mode from a Thunderbolt 3 mac to a Thunderbolt 2 for data recovery?

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I have a late 2014 15.6" Macbook Pro with Thunderbolt 2, on which I accidentally wiped the entire partition table, including Recovery HD (yeah, I was stupid). There's some data on it that I kind of want (nothing super important though). I haven't had any luck recovering the data with freely available tools (I tried a few things on Linux live USBs, and I also tried the Disk Drill MacOS USB, which saw nothing), so I was trying to demo the R-Studio data recovery software to see if it could find the lost partitions and files. However, the USB wouldn't boot on the old laptop, and the tech support guy at R-Studio said the only way I could do it was to run R-Studio on another Mac and read the drive using Target Disk Mode.
If I buy a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 cable, would I be able to use Target Disk Mode from my 2017 15" Thunderbolt-3-equipped work laptop? And would this in fact give the level of hardware access needed for lost partition/lost file recovery?
I feel like the data has to still be there in some form, because I haven't written anything to the disk since I borked it up.


texts: My iPod Touch won't play some of my files

texts: I've been having trouble with my iPod Touch. I mostly use it for listening to podcasts, however not only will some of the files not play, some aren't even accessible. Where files should be, there is simply an icon with a silver musical note on a white background.


texts: Which iPad devices support 3 apps on screen at once in iOS 11?

texts: In iOS 11, three active apps can be on screen at once. Running the public beta on my iPad Air only shows one active app on screen at a time. I assume the new 2017 iPad Pro devices can show 3 active apps but can any other iPad do that?


texts:
Using Brew I have installed Node 8.x due to a version restriction on something i am working on.

I used brew install node@8 in the command line

However i need npm 5.x for a similar reason, which I gather should be possible. However whatever or however Brew installed node/npm I can not override the npm version which is 6.x

Any ideas how I can get this to work?

I have also tried post install to do npm install -g npm@5 which installs a version of npm somewhere, but it is not overriding the npm installed through node@8


texts: Speaker transplant between iPhone 6 Plus and 6s Plus

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I have an iPhone 6s Plus and looking forward to giving it to my little sister. She complains the speaker is too quiet and that's true. You can barely hear any audio from both the earpiece and the loudspeaker. I also happened to have an old iPhone 6 Plus which I drenched in water and not working anymore. Apple said it was irreparable since then it sat on my cupboard for years. I wonder if I could transplant the earpiece and loudspeaker from the water damaged 6 Plus to the 6s Plus. I have concerns regarding this because I know both the iPhones (6 Plus and 6s Plus) look identical from the outside (Except the thickness) but the 6s generation was the first set of iPhones to introduce 3D touch which works with the help of the Taptic Engine.

The Taptic Engine takes a significant amount of space inside the phone and hence I am worried if they had to change the internal design of the speaker in order to recive haptic feedbacks. I don't really have anything to lose. Both the phones are not in use currently so I don't mind if they become totally unuseable anymore. What I mean to say is even if the process of speaker transplant is difficult. I still wouldn't mind cause I am just doing this for fun. I'd save some penny and get some experience of fixing stuff
The question

Does the iPhone 6s Plus and 6 Plus have the same Earpiece and
Loudspeaker design?
Is it difficult to transplant the speakers? I saw an IFixIt guide and
it doesn't seem that bad
I also have a dead 5S. Any chances of that speaker to fit in the 6s Plus?

Thanks a lot for spending time in reading this question.


texts: Quickly Focusing on Dialog Buttons Other Than Those in Focus

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In macOS dialog menus, two buttons are usually already in focus: one will probably be encircled in blue and is invoked by hitting Space, the other will be filled in blue and can be invoked by pressing ↵.

Sometimes, there's only one button in focus (like in the following image) or there are simply more buttons than the two already in (either kind of) focus.

In either of those cases, is there any way to quickly set focus on the unfocused buttons?

P. S. - I was considering settings this:

To All controls, but that's too much of compromise in dialogs where I actually need quickly to move between boxes and modify their contents.

Thanks!


texts: I was randomly logged out of my Mac on Sierra. Is there any way I can find the cause?

texts: My retina MacBook Pro seems to like logging me out occasionally. Are there any logs which I can see that could explain why this happens?


texts: How to interact with programs when names read from a list

texts:
I have a script which checks for loads of applications if they are open, and closes them if yes, and opens them if not.

Until now I had a simple:

tell application "System Events"
if exists (process "Caffeine") then
    tell application "Caffeine" to quit
else
    tell application "Caffeine" to activate
end if
...
end tell

To go through the programs. Today I had to edit some programs and I figured "this could be so much simpler with an array and a for-loop"

So I tried this:

set theList to {"Caffeine", ...}
tell application "System Events"
repeat with prog in theList
    if exists (process prog) then
        tell application prog to quit
    else
        tell application prog to activate
    end if
end repeat
end tell

But now for some reason I get an error, each time I run the script:

  error "System Events got an error: Connection is invalid." number -609

The error pops-up always from a different point in the script.
I'm really confused why this doesn't work.

Can anybody assist me in getting this to work?


texts:
I have a 15-" MacBook Pro Retina from mid-2014 which came with a 250-GB SSD (which I will henceforth refer to as "the old SSD"). I've bought a 1-TB Aura SSD (which I will henceforth refer to as "the new SSD") and installed it. I've also restored/migrated my stuff from TimeMachine and downloaded the driver that OWC provides in order to make the new SSD compatible with Boot Camp.

I now want to make a partition on the new SSD to install Windows 10. I've been told I need to use Boot Camp because Disk Utility (which I've used before to partition and erase discs) can't make a bootable partition for Windows. (If this is incorrect, I'd much rather use Disk Utility than Boot Camp, but in what follows I'll assume it is true.) (Mind you, I've never used Boot Camp before, so please bear with me if I'm doing things wrong.)

My problem is that Boot Camp can't see the new SSD, only my external drives. I've tried restarting from the old SSD (which now lives inside a USB case and can thus be connected to my Mac as an external drive), but that doesn't help.

Here are two screenshots of the Boot Camp window (sorry, I've got three things showing there and only two can be seen at a time):

The SeaGate drive is an external drive I use to store stuff that doesn't fit in my internal SSD; I don't want Boot Camp to touch that. "Mac HD" is the old SSD. I'm not sure what "OWC Envoy Media" is, but googling it returns images of the old SSD's new case, so I'm guessing it's also the old SSD.

Thanks in advance for any help. :)


texts: Technical details behind Apple's performance throttling of the iPhone

texts:
What are the technical details behind how a worn battery slows down the iPhone 6?

Why does replacing the battery with a new one fix the issue? Is it iOS doing the throttling or is it physical limitations of the hardware?

Relevant news story on the subject


texts: How to prevent iTunes from trashing older versions of apps on updates?

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Recent versions of iTunes have incorporated a new behavior which is to automatically move any previous version of a mobile app to the trash when those apps are updated. As far as I can tell, there is no setting to for the user to change this behavior.

I do not want iTunes to automatically throw away all older versions of my apps. Frequently, mobile app updates are buggy or remove functionality and I want to retain the ability to regress to previous versions. I, also, do not want to have to continue repeatedly dragging hundreds of apps from the trash back into my Mobile Applications folder.

What can I do to prevent this automatic trashing of my apps? Is there a way to change this setting through the Terminal? Or an AppleScript that will override this behavior?


texts: Setting up a special secondary display on iMac

texts: I am a video editor and I have seen 2-display video setups a where one monitor is used for the editing software, and the secondary monitor is used to preview the edited footage. How would I be able to set this up on an iMac, if at all possible?


texts: Why does Apple Music synchronize pictures only for some artists?

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I have an issue with Apple Music. It seems to download artist picture only for some artists, as in picture below.

Moreover - for these bands it shows in upper-right angle "Show in Apple Music" and for the other there is not such option.
I think it is strange behaviour, as all 3 of described artist are rather well known and available in Apple Music.


texts: The launchpad button does not appear in the dock?

texts: Just bought a new Macbook Pro with lion, but the launchpad button is not in the dock and I can't find it anywhere on the computer. I thought it may be gone because when I started the computer I used a firewire cable to put all the information from my old Macbook into the Macbook pro, and so all the settings from the Macbook were transferred. Could this have deleted the launchpad button? All help is appreciated!


texts: Folder/Finder Startup Items: How not to open window after logon?

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I'm using El Capitan at the moment, but I've had this "problem" for a long time - it's more an inconvenience, really. I have a number of network volumes in my Startup Items because I want them to be re-connected at logon. This works, but always opens a bunch of Finder windows, even though the "Hide" flag in the Preferences is set for these volumes. How can I prevent these windows from re-opening every time I log in - and if this is not possible, is there a trigger or something I could use to automate closing the windows, e. g. using Automator?

(I found a related question here, but it has no answers and is targeted towards general application behaviour - I don't care about other applications at the moment, I'm specifically looking for a solution to the Finder issue.)


texts: How to reset Logitech mouse's back/forward buttons?

texts:
I've been using my Logitech Anywhere MX with my Mac succesfully for a couple of months, but suddenly last week the functionality of the back/forward buttons changed from navigating to previous/next page in history to switching to next/previous tab in Chrome. How can I restore the previous functionality?

I've already checked the Logitech Control Center, and there the buttons are still defined as back and forward.

Note: If I remember correctly, the buttons have never worked in Finder.


texts:
It seems to be bad design that I can not just scroll down on the month view of Calendar, so that the grid just moves up.   Going prev/next through the months is very uncomfortable any time you are dealing with periods of time that span from one month to the next!

Any method to get this function?  Calendar/iCal has been around a while, they should have built this in -- it is a common and convenient feature.


texts: Adding my iPhone number to the list of allowed accounts in Messages.app

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When I enter my Messages.app settings for my iMessage account, I can see that I can receive iMessages on the two emails that I have entered. Is it possible to add my iPhone number to that list too?

Until now I have only found a way to add email accounts.


texts: iPhone contacts bar with letters doesn't work for letters D-Y?

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I have this very strange issue with my iPhone 4's (iOS 5.0.1 9A405) Contacts app.

As you know, there is this "bar" on the right which allows you to touch a letter and have the table directly "jump" to that letter:

On my iPhone, the bar only works for letters A, B, C, and Z. Not the letters in between. If I touch any of the letters D-Y, it jumps to C. Huh? Note that searching for a contact starting with letters D-Y and/or scrolling to it manually works fine.

While investigating for the possible cause of this weird behavior, I also found out that there's a section # between the letters C and D, which I suspect might be causing the problem. Why is it there? All contacts in that section start with C and should thus be in the C section. Here are two screenshots of the misplaced # section:

Thanks a lot for your help!


texts: View your rated music, apps and etc. on the iTunes?

texts:
I would like to ask, where could I find all my rated music, apps and etc. on the iTunes? Moreover, how could I unrate those items?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Arthur


texts: MacOS Sierra, Mail can't create smart mailbox based on another mailbox

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My mid-2011 iMac was running OS X Mavericks for years, and I decided over the weekend that it was time to see about upgrading to Sierra (not High Sierra).  So I cloned my boot drive to another partition, and upgraded to Sierra on it.  For the most part everything is fine, but there's an issue with Mail.app that is really frustrating me.

In Mail I have rules, based on the send address from different people/places, that move those emails into specific folders (mailboxes, in Mail terminology).  For instance emails from my bank go into my "Finance" mailbox.

Then I have a separate smart mailbox labeled "Finance" with a single rule - "Messages is in mailbox 'Finance'".  This allows me to organize all my different frequently used mailboxes into one area "Smart Mailboxes" which I can move to the top of the sidebar for ease of access.

In Mavericks, this works great and I have a couple of mailboxes set up this same way.  But in Sierra, this doesn't work at all.  The rules work fine for moving the emails into the separate folder/mailbox, but the smart mailbox rule fails to save.  I can set it as desired, but on subsequent editing it will always read "Message is in mailbox 'No mailbox selected'" and therefore will show me all emails in my inbox, rather than just those in the Finance mailbox.

The issue appears to only be with using mailboxes that are in my iCloud account.  I can select a folder in a Gmail or self-hosted mailbox for example, and the Smart Mailbox rule works fine.

Why does this work fine in Mavericks but not Sierra, and how can I get it to work once more?  I have already tried a Rebuild but it did nothing.


texts: Shrinking a Core Storage volume without the booter partition

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I have a 14 TB external drive containing a single 14 TB HFS+ encrypted partition (besides EFI). I cannot resize this partition to add a new one. When I tried using either Disk Utility or diskutil, it says

You can’t perform this resize unless it has a booter (target partition is probably too small)

Essentially I am having the same issue as described in this question: Can't resize partition: "You can't perform this resize unless it has a booter"
However, the answer to that question does not work for my scenario because there is no unallocated space after the single partition and I cannot manually add the booter using gdisk or gpt because of that.
My question is,

is there other ways to shrink this partition, besides moving everything out and reformatting it. Or,
how do I add in the required booter partition (so that I can resize normally using Disk Utility)?

Note that this is a Core Storage volume because it is encrypted.

I had the idea of forcibly creating a new GPT table where there is enough space for the booter, but I haven't done that because I don't know how that would affect the existing partition.
I also tried using diskutil cs resizeVolume, which will resize the inner Logical Volume, and then I could add another Logical Volume after it. The problem is that these two volumes will then share the same encryption key AFAIK, which is not desirable.

FYI, here are all the things that have happened that put me in this situation:

This is a brand new 14 TB hard drive. I originally formatted it into two partitions: one 10TB and one 4TB. Both were HFS+ journaled encrypted (so they were Core Storage volumes).

Later, I attempted to resize them into 12TB/2TB using Disk Utility, which failed miserably.

After this, the second 4TB partition could not be found, and the first one could not be mounted. This was reported by diskutil cs info about the first partition (originally 10TB):
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 69E42F2B-A2E4-41EC-93A9-4D62C0C9082B
|   =========================================================
|   Name:         -none-
|   Status:       Initializing
|   Size:         0 B (0 B)
|   Free Space:   -none-
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 4BBFE85D-06C3-4285-98D9-D6D30E3E4031
|       ----------------------------------------------------
|       Index:    0
|       Disk:     disk2s2
|       Status:   Failed
|       Size:     14000175669248 B (14.0 TB)

However, I managed to completely recover the first partition (filesystem intact and fsck passed), by destroying and recreating the GPT table, in which the first partition occupies the entire disk — that is, the end of the partition is now right before the secondary GPT. Now the GPT looks like this:
      start         size  index  contents
          0            1         PMBR
          1            1         Pri GPT header
          2           32         Pri GPT table
         34            6
         40       409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  27344355255      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
27344764895           32         Sec GPT table
27344764927            1         Sec GPT header

And now I cannot resize the 14TB partition.


texts: Mid-2012 MBP -- put a 16GB SODIMM in one slot?

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I have both a 9,1 and a 9,2 Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pros which have both failed. Having finally gotten both computers back from my daughter, the only thing that I can find wrong with either one is that it appears that one of the two memory slots has failed in each computer. (Mr Google has led me to places that have the story that Apple put a little too much torque on the screws holding the ports to the motherboard. And also the news that the only way to fix this is to replace the motherboard.

I bought a refurbished  9,1 last summer which came with a single 8GB SODIMM in one slot rather than the advertised 2x2GB. I sent it back when I realized that it had a failed RAM slot. So apparently this is not an uncommon failure.)

These machines were long-ago upgraded to 16gb by replacing the original memory with a kit of 2 8GB SODIMMs, and so taking one out leaves me at 8GB, which is a sad place to be. When I go to Amazon and look at the product for 2gb, 4gb & 8gb Crucial chips, there is also an option for a single 16gb chip or a 2x16GB 32GB kit that's on the same form factor.

So now I'm wondering if I can get one of those 16GB chips for each computer, put it in the working slot, and have 16GB. According to this Macrumors thread, the answer is "no"

  The important point is that while Ivy Bridge does support 32 GB, it only supports 8 GB per module. You'd need four slots for 32 GB to work, and the MacBook Pro (like every other laptop pretty much) only has two.

But I can't figure out if this is really true -- this post here gives me some hope  although it shows a screen shot of Crucial saying "no".

Does anyone know anyone who has tried this and know one way or another?


texts: iMac does not log to internet even though wifi connected

texts:
My MAcOs Sierra version 10-12-6  dont connect to internet anymore. I run diagnosis ISP failed, Internet failed, Server failed.

wifi (green light)
Wifi settings (green light)
Network settings (green light)

I have my laptop beside it and everything works fine.
I am desperate I navigated internet tried a lot of things without success.

Thank you for any help or suggestions.


texts: What does 'sync' exactly mean when using iTunes?

texts:
I have been confused about using "sync" in iTunes. Let us say I have

A laptop, and
An iphone.

When I connect the iPhone with the laptop, iTunes pops up inviting me to sync

By "sync", does it mean to

overwrite the content of the laptop with that in the iPhone,
overwrite the content of the iPhone with that in the laptop,
or something in between?


texts: How to make script to convert lower case characters into upper and vice versa

texts:
Need to create 2 scripts in automator.

Select text in any application (textedit, pages etc.) and change all letters from lower case to upper.
Same, as above, but from upper case, to lower.

Scripts should work not only with English, but with other languages as well. Thank you.


texts: Leaving dictation mode without having to press the done button in iOS

texts:
Is there any way to leave dictation mode with a voice command, without having to press the done button in iOS 8 or above?

I use the built in speech recognition program.


texts: Does turning off wifi improve battery life?

texts: I have an iPhone 5 with an unlimited data plan. I usually have it at home where I only have a mediocre cell signal. I don't want to put it in airplane mode just in case I get a call or text so would turning off wifi help save battery life even when I could be on wifi? I mainly use it just for communication if that helps. Thanks


texts:
I recently did a clean install of OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on my MacBook Air.
I was making a credit card payment on the Barclaycard website and received a dialog window saying ""Safari" would like to control this computer using accessibility features."
I chose "Deny" but I am wondering why I received this dialog in the first place? I am certain I was on the actual, official Barclaycard website. Do I have malware? The only extensions I am using with Safari are AdBlock and 1Password.

Text only version:

"Safari" would like to control this computer using accessibility features.
Grant access to this application in Security & Privacy preferences, located in System Preferences.
Open System Preferences Deny


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I have been having a nightmare since I decided to update to High Sierra.
High Sierra was failing to install on my HD disk prompting me with the error discussed here (https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/87690)

I managed to install the OS on a pen drive and boot from there, then, after creating a backup of my files I converted my HD disk to APFS using disk utility and restarted my computer with  cmd + R

When starting the installation High Sierra installer asks me for my drive password in order to mount it and begin the installation. I set the password and it proceeds.

The problem comes after it finishes downloading and it reboots. I am presented with a screen asking me for my disk password. I enter the same password I use in order to mount my disk but it keeps rejecting it.
I am SURE I am typing the password correctly, with no caps, or spaces.

My concern is if the password being asked is the same password I use to unencrypt my disk and mount it. I am not sure how to proceed now. Pretty frustrating week trying to install High Sierra.

Any tip in the right direction will be appreciated.

EDIT: I found this link (https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/80174) with a solution to some people. In my case, it fails because there I have no /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default directory... All I see on my original drive is /var/db/PreviousSystemFiles.plist and /var/db/PreviousSystemLogs.cpgz

EDIT 2: Warning, if you go for the option above, make sure to backup your /users/ folder. In some tests I made I found out that after doing the above, High Sierra ends up overwriting the whole folder thus losing all data.


texts: Mail.app Never finishes "Downloading Messages"

texts:
On MacOS mail (Catalina, but also on 10.14), I've noticed that the client never finished downloading mail from my cPanel/WHM-based server (which has support for Apple Push for iOS, for what it is worth). The mail will come in and be readable, but it will keep saying "Downloading Messages" in the status area and the Activity window (the activity window will show it downloading, say, "Message 12 of 12."). Because it gets stuck like this, I never receive notifications when messages come in -- unless the Internet goes down and then suddenly I get a rush of notifications for everything that came in recently. I've noticed this problem on multiple different computers (a 2015 15" MacBook Pro and now a 2019 16" MacBook Pro) and on multiple networks.

With this, I am almost always seeing Mail listed as drawing significant power on the little menu bar icon for the battery.


texts: Poor quality font when connecting MBP 2016 to external 27 inch full HD monitor

texts:
I have bought a Samsung 27" Full HD (LC27R500FHNXZA) monitor and have connected my MacBook Pro 2016 (macOS 10.13 "High Sierra") to it via HDMI.
This is the image I see:

And this is the image I see on my own display:

I still see individual pixels clearly. I tried to follow this guide to copy the generated file in the Overrides folder and restarted my MacBook Pro, but it didn't work.  Any idea?
Maybe full hd is too small a resolution for a 27 inch monitor?


texts:
I have a School email (Microsoft Exchange) which is limited to 350MB of storage. Therefore every month or two I need to move all my emails to the Mac drive instead of the Exchange server.

One thing I noticed is that the Exchange automatically sends a reminder that my storage is nearly full, and I think this reminder could be used to trigger an event that moves all of my Exchange email to a backup folder on my Mac.

Reminder > Select ALL Exchange email (not All Mail) > Move to Exchange Backup (Local folder)

Is there any chance this could be done?

(Bonus: when the emails are moved, is it possible that all the emails on the Exchange server are permanently deleted?)


texts: MacBook Pro later 2011 - HandOff and AirDrop not enabled

texts:
I've checked my MacBook Pro (later 2011) and my version of bluetooth is 4.3.0f10.
I know that HandOff needs at least bluetooth 4.0 to work and BT LE. I have my bluetooth superior to 4.0 but my LE is not suported and so HandOff and some features of Continuity.

I've read that some guys can make this work in a MacBook Air (mid 2011) and iMac following this tutorial: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=20015070&postcount=609

My question is:

This tutorial will work in my MacBook Pro?
If dont. Theres a way to make it work?

Thanks!


texts:
I've seen products out there that let you view a security camera in your home remotely via an iPhone app.

But I was wondering if I could build a cheaper solution. I would like to use my built in webcam on my MacBook as a remote security cam (really, I'd just like to be able to check in on our dog at home while we are away, security being a secondary concern) and be able to view it on my iPhone and potentially on my work PC as well. Although, if it was just working for the iPhone that would be plenty enough.

Is there any software/apps out there that will do that currently?


texts: Keep note sheet as black text on white background while Notes.app is in dark mode

texts:
I am enjoying dark mode in macOS Mojave. This includes the list boxes and sidebar in the Notes.app. Except, the note sheet itself is awkward with white-text-on-black-blackground.

Is it possible to keep most of dark mode except the content of each note?


texts: Use Caps lock key to click without 3rd-party software

texts:
Clicking became very difficult on my early 2009, 17" MacBook Pro with Mavericks (10.9.1).
I thought about using the Caps Lock key to send a mouse click.

I saw this question with an answer involving a third-party tool, but I wish to find a more low-level solution.


texts: Phone responds to swipe but not touch - hardware or software problem?

texts:
My phone responds to swiping in a certain area, but not to touch. Can this be a problem with the touchscreen, or is it a software problem?

Have tried wiping the phone and reinstalling to no help.


texts:
I would like to disable hotspot as a dropdown option under WiFi settings.
I manage multiple Macs in profile manager and they are set to connect to a our WiFi which is locked down. Users have been able to bypass our network by tethering the Mac to their phones effectively bypassing our firewalls. This is not good seeing as we are a school.

It looks like a massive omission on Apple's part - not allowing one to disable the ability for users to tether the Mac to any phone.

I realize that WiFi can disabled which may resolve this, but I need to connect to our network via WiFi as these are MacBook Air's without wired LAN connections. Can anyone help me figure out some way to disable tethering as an option either using a script or terminal command, or even better, somehow using profile manager?


texts: How to jump to a location using mouse on iTerm/terminal?

texts:
I work on a terminal most of the time.

Is there an application / plugin over iTerm or any other terminal like application using which I can control the cursor location of my terminal using a mouse ?


texts: How to record audio over Powerpoint/OpenOffice slides?

texts:
Many times I've seen videos of people talking while presenting their slides. How is that done on a Mac?

I know that I can do a screen recording with Quicktime, and I notice there are two options New Screen Recording and New Audio Recording.

But there is no New Screen+Audio Recording.

Thanks for any help.


texts: What rules does OS X use for naming mounted volumes?

texts:
When I use VeraCrypt (a successor of TrueCrypt) to mount volumes on my filesystem, and I don't specify where it should mount them, the results are:

/Volumes/NO NAME
/Volumes/NO NAME 1
/Volumes/NO NAME 2

...and similar. I suspect these default paths don't come from VeraCrypt, but rather are set somewhere in OS X itself.

I ask because I'm trying to predict what other people's OS X installations will do, and I'm worried theirs are configured differently than mine. I'd like to be able to predict the mounted paths on other comps, and I'm getting reports of paths like:

/Volumes/Untitled

But I can't reproduce this.

Questions

Can anyone verify this is standard OS X behavior?
By what rules does OS X decide where volumes are mounted on the filesystem, especially what are the defaults and how are they set?
Is this question related to the unix or BSD ancestry of OS X?

EDIT

I'm really trying to understand why and when different volume labels are used (the "NO NAME" or "Untitled" part).


texts: Where are Google Chrome bookmarks stored in macOS for multiple profiles?

texts: I can find bookmarks for one profile at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks. However I don't know where I can find the bookmarks for the other profile. Where should I look?


texts: Cannot boot normally or in safe mode, booting to recovery mode results in circle with line through it

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I opened my Macbook Pro to discover it was off, I pressed the power button and it had the AHH and the apple symbol and loading bar.  However, the screen is covered in alternating bars of pink and blue.  After the loading bar was almost full, the mac suddenly went to a very dark blue (but not black) screen. After 30 seconds, there is a power off click and the screen goes black for a few seconds before rebooting again.  It is trapped in an infinite loop. I reset NVRAM, SMC, no effect.  I shut it down to stop the loop, but the loop just restarts.  Booting to safe mode breaks the loop... by taking me to a blank white screen until I shutdown.  Booting to recovery mode simply traps me on the loading screen, but there is no loading bar or apple logo, just an eternal circle with a line through it.  Please help.
I tried booting to Verbrose Mode, here is a video.  After the text stopped, the screen turned solid gray and the text disappeared, and a few minutes later it rebooted again back into the loop.
https://streamable.com/e/m4xuku
I used option D to run a test, it found nothing wrong.


texts: How come the Podcast app is hogging so much GPU?

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I have a 15 inch 2015 MacBook Pro with Catalina installed, and I was wondering why my fans go nuts when I play a podcast with the Podcasts app. Htop didn’t show any unusual CPU activity, but then I noticed from iStats that the GPU was blasting pretty high.

Just wondering is this how it should work? I was in the impression that it’s the CPU that handles audio playback. I don’t remember this happening in iTunes.

You see the sharp valley in the graph when I paused the pod:


texts: I was wanting to know if i could use my laptop as a keyboard, i am wanting to plug a device into my laptop's USB port and send keystrokes from the keyboard out of the USB port, the connected device would be things such as: raspberry pi, arduino, servers. The program will be similar to a keylogger,  I do have programing knowledge, please give me advice on how to make this project possible, or tell me if a solution has already been found. Thanks


texts: Macbook air stutters during streaming video

texts:
I am streaming video from an ASUS router to a macbook air (2013) and having horrible stuttering problems. No big deal, you may say - I just don't have the bandwidth for it. The only thing is, if I copy the video over the network to my laptop, it only takes 10 minutes for a 90 minute movie, telling me that I have 9X the bandwidth required for streaming. This suggests that buffering may be the problem, but I've used both Movist and VLC and get the same problems.

Has anyone experienced something similar - where more than enough bandwidth is available, but video streaming still stutters horribly? And more importantly, did you find a solution?


texts: Understanding RAM and Disk Space when using Windows on a Mac?

texts:
I am trying to understand how you need to set things up when trying to run Windows from a Mac (using Bootcamp /  Parallels).  I understand the differences in terms of Bootcamp requiring you to choose at bootup versus running side by side with Parallels but I want to understand the implications around HD and RAM.

So lets say I buy a Mac with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB of RAM.  I see that if you want to install windows, you need to partition and allocation memory and disk space for Windows.

On Windows I would need to run:

SQL Server 2008
Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft Office
and a few other pieces of propriety software

So my questions are:

How do i decide how much space is allocated to Windows and once I decide that, can I change it in the future?  I was thinking about allocated 100GB to Windows which seems like it should cover me.
How do i decide what RAM is allocated to Windows.  Can I change that on the fly in the future after that decision?  Once I do this (lets say i allocate 8GB of RAM to windows), either through BootCamp or Parallels, does that mean that my Mac only will be able to leverage 8GB (since i have a total of 16GB) regardless if I am running Windows at that time or it only "takes" 8GB away when i start up windows.


texts: How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in system and third party apps? (e.g. an image editor like GraphicConverter)


texts:
Weary of the Finder's sloppy, semi-legible sizing of list view columns, I'm attempting to code an AppleScript solution. Omissions and bugs in the Finder's dictionary make this (to indulge in understatement) challenging.  The goal is to have any window display a minimalist list view with a single keystroke, with all columns set to the minimum width that avoids truncation and the window itself sized to its content.  Something along these lines…

The primary difficulties I've encountered so far are in the column class of list view options of Finder window.

visible doesn't accurately reflect the columns' actual state
setting visible has no effect
width can be read but setting it has no effect

Nor does it help that the Finder's zoom button hasn't done anything sane or useful since cell phones were the size of a shoebox.

Has anyone attempted a similar project or one that overcame any of the difficulties noted above?  One hates to resort to the semi-reliable inelegance of GUI scripting.


texts: Convert between FileVault 2 and Disk Utility encryption?

texts:
I know of two ways to enable full-disk encryption in macOS Sierra:

Turn on FileVault 2, or
Boot to recovery, reformat the disk as encrypted, and reinstall macOS.

I've read in several places around the web that the underlying encryption technology is the same either way, and the difference is just how the decryption key is obtained at boot time.  With FileVault, a user's login password also serves to unlock the disk, but when you encrypt with Disk Utility, you choose a separate password just for the encryption.

I've found that if the disk was encrypted via Disk Utility at install time, you can also enable a user to unlock it via the FileVault preferences window.  Then, at startup, you can unlock the disk using either the disk password or the user's login password.

Having gotten into this hybrid state, though, I don't see a way to get out of it.  What I'd like to know is:

After I've enabled a user to unlock the disk, is there a way to remove the old disk password (that was created with Disk Utility at install time) and replace it with a recovery key, so it's like a normal FileVault setup that just uses user passwords?
Alternatively, is there a way to remove the user from FileVault so that only the disk password will work?

And, on a related note:

If FileVault was enabled in the usual way (starting from an unencrypted Mac), is there a way to add a disk password that's separate from the user login passwords, like what I'd have if I'd encrypted via Disk Utility at install time?


texts: Get Open Sound Control (OSC) Input Names

texts:
Since beginning to learn Quartz Composer, I've stumbled onto Open Sound Control (OSC) and have begun looking for OSC compatible iOS apps. I have a universal iPhone/iPad app called Control which seems to be capable, if not just a bit ugly.

I'm attempting to use it as an interface into Quartz Composer projects via the built-in OSC Receiver but there is no documentation for the Control iOS app, so I don't know what key is bound to the various objects from within the iOS app.

Is there software that will plainly listen for OSC events, and report on the keys and values being transmitted? This can either be standalone software, or a built-in component of Quartz Composer that I have not seen yet.


texts:
Just recently sold a Late 2013 MacBook Pro (upgraded to 16" MBP). I didn't manually remove Find My or sign out of iCloud on the device. However, I erased Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data and reinstalled macOS Catalina. Will the new owner be locked out?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Does Xcode Has Keyboard ShortCut for going back and forth in programming?

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In xcode you can go back and forth in your program by swiping the mouse.

Is there an additional keyboard shortcut for that?

In visual studio 2010, for example, you do so by Ctrl - and Ctrl Shift -

How do you that in xcode with the keyboard?


texts:
I'm using the latest Safari but have noticed this in previous versions too.

When I'm on some page, http://example.com/page/111

And I'm trying to type and go to another page http://example.com/page/222

(i.e. I go to the search bar and start typing 222 instead of 111) and then press enter, the page either changes to 222, or returns to 111 (in which case the URL in the search bar changes back to 111).

It's absolutely random from my point of view, but maybe I'm doing something wrong, or have a wrong setting?


texts: Can I setup a single Sparsebundle in RAID 1?

texts:
My goal is the following: use my iMac as a TimeMachine Server (under OS X Lion Server) to backup my MBP via the network.

What I did is to choose, in the TimeMachine Server configuration, the internal drive (1TB) of the iMac as a target for the backup.

However I would like to have redundancy, not for the whole iMac data, but for that backup.

If I backup the sparsebundle created on my iMac (using CCC for example), then I'll have to copy the entire content all the time.

So would it be possible to create a virtual RAID 1 drive whose two drives are two sparsebundles, one located on the iMac internal drive and the other one on an external drive.

I think that would be a very interesting solution for what I want to do, and it would be possible to scale it for 3 drives.


texts: Finder icon no longer in first position pressing CMD-TAB

texts:
It's been quite a while (and probably it started happening under 10.13) that, pressing CMD-TAB to switch among open applications, the Finder icons is no longer shown in first position, as it had always been.

Now it is in random position and this is uncomfortable.

I searched the web a lot but nothing was similar to this issue. I'm almost sure it depends on some plist preference file, but I cannot go randomly deleting them and see what happens (even saving the original ones).

Or maybe there's a terminal command to fix the issue.

Any clues?


texts:
I've been using Apple Music on my Mac and iPhone for years and I'm facing a strange issue since 2 weeks that I cannot solve.

Some albums/songs I never added to my library myself (and some that I genuinely added) appeared in the Recently Added section. I can remove them but they keeps reappearing few hours to one day later.

I unsuccessfully tried:

Deleting songs on iPhone or Mac
Disconnect and reconnect Apple Music from both iPhone and Mac

Configuration:

macOS Catalina 10.15.4
MacBook Air Early 2015
Apple Music with family sharing

Any suggestion to solve this problem?


texts:
I have a white 13" MacBook (late 2009) with 2GB memory.
It is currently running Mavericks.

The machine is too slow, probably because the memory is just 2GB.

I'm considering downgrading it back to its original OS, which was Snow Leopard.

I bought Lion from the App Store when it came out, but I can't find it now, only Mountain Lion and Yosemite.

What would be the ideal OS X for this machine?
If it is Lion, how would I go about getting another copy, given that I've bought one once already?
What if I upgraded the memory to 4GB? (But installing new memory requires opening the machine up, which is not so easy.)


texts:
I need to change enable camera for Google Chrome. So I go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy and it hangs.

Console log:

Dec 13 07:17:37 macabook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.remoteservice.30883):
Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path =
/Library/Apple/System/Library/Frameworks/SafariServices.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.SafariServices.ExtensionHelper.xpc error = 122:
Path had bad ownership/permissions, origin =
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Security.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice.xpc

Dec 13 07:17:37 macabook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.remoteservice.30883):
Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path =
/Library/Apple/System/Library/Frameworks/SafariServices.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.SafariServices.xpc error = 122:
Path had bad ownership/permissions, origin =
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Security.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice.xpc

Dec 13 07:17:37 macabook com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice[30883]: objc[30883]:
Class AWDSecurityPrefAutoUnlockSetup is implemented in both
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Security.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice (0x107217768)
and
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Security.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Security (0x109b34180).
One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

I tried: reboot, safe mode, cleaning /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder. Nothing helps.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
Catalina 10.15.1


texts: What programs exist to find and delete "orphan files" left after deleting an Application?

texts:
I have transferred my system from Mac to Mac for over 15 years. I have preference files and other plists lurking around in my system for programs I tested years ago.

Is there a smart program that could point me to these orphan files knowing that the application that created them is not on my system?


texts: MacOS Say Command Hangs Writing to a File

texts:
For many years I've been using the say command to read back essays I've written.  My workflow is

Use say to write out an aiff or WAVE file
Use an audio player like iTunes to playback the file, pausing and rewinding as needed

However, recently the say command started to hang when I used it with an input and output file.

$ ls -lh /tmp/md_to_sayfbfhyf.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 alanstorm  wheel   5.8K Jan  5 08:59 /tmp/md_to_sayfbfhyf.txt

$ say -f /tmp/md_to_sayfbfhyf.txt -o output.aiff

This command will hang after writing a little over a MB to the aiff file.

$ ls -lh output.aiff
-rw-r--r--  1 alanstorm  staff   1.1M Jan  5 09:13 output.aiff

After that say will always hang unless I kill speechsynthesisd.

Also, this appears to be a problem with writing the output file -- running just

$ say -f /tmp/md_to_sayfbfhyf.txt

works without issue.

I'm on MacOS: 10.13.4 (High Sierra)

The command works with very small text files that contain a sentence or two -- but files with more than a few paragraphs of text hang.  I have not zeroed in on a specific file size or word count.


texts: Does iTunes 11 need extra services or tools to manage duplicates in the library?

texts:
In the new version of iTunes 11 the find duplicates option is gone and I don't want to revert to iTunes 10 to get that function back.

I know I had 1 GB of duplicates in iTunes 10, but I can't have iTunes show them to me anymore. My first thought was wondering if iTunes 11 finds/delete/merge them automagically?

I mean, I know that I had two versions of "Lemon Tree", one is the original one and the other is a cover, but now I can't find the cover anymore. The same with other covers.

I ran http://www.macroplant.com/meta-tunes/, and I only found 3 duplicates, while I am sure I had 100+ duplicates, because last sunday I imported a lot of songs and the "find duplicates" found 800 MB.

If anyone has insight into what iTunes 11 does when upgrading a library that would be a great start, but I'd prefer an ongoing plan to keep my library minimally duplicated.


texts: What are the In App Purchase subscription durations when testing subscriptions through TestFlight?

texts:
When I test an internal development build In App purchase subscription durations are greatly reduced according to the table at:

http://help.apple.com/itunes-connect/developer/#/dev7e89e149d

Actual Duration Test Duration
1 week          3 minutes
1 month         5 minutes
2 months        10 minutes
3 months        15 minutes
6 months        30 minutes
1 year          1 hour

In an internal development build when I purchase a 1 month subscription, it actually expires after 5 minutes.

When I submit a build to iTunes Connect to use with Testflight, will my beta testers see the shortened durations (5 minutes) or will they see the actual durations (1 month)?


texts: Weird "Network" folder on lion's sidebar

texts:
After swapping my HDD to an SDD (and using CarbonCopyCloner to clone the disk), there's this weird "Network" folder appearing on my sidebar.

If I click it, it shows a folder for a split second and then it goes back to the previous folder I was in. I can't remove it from the sidebar by right clicking it (it shows no menu).

I attach a screenshot of the problem. Anyone have any ideas?


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I'm attempting to automate the filing of e-receipts into a digital filing application called Paperless from Mariner Software.

Within the Paperless AppleScript Dictionary, the following is defined for a receipt (class/data type):

receipt n [inh. library item] : A receipt.
elements contained by .
properties
merchant (text) : The merchant's name.
amount (text) : amount of the receipt (as a string); can include currency symbol
tax (text) : tax or VAT of the receipt (as a string); can include currency
symbol
payment method (text) : method of payment
category (text) :
category of receipt
notes (text) : notes for the receipt
date (date) : date of the receipt
custom 1 (text) : custom data 1
custom 2 (text) : custom data 2
custom 3 (text) : custom data 3
file (file) : file reference for the receipt

responds to add.

In my AppleScript, I try to create a new receipt with the following code:

set MerchantID to "Apple -- testing"

tell application "Paperless"
activate
add  receipt with properties {merchant:MerchantID}
end tell

However, it fails with the following error:

error "Paperless got an error: Can’t make receipt into type library item." number -1700 from receipt to library item

What confuses me about the error is that I am attempting to make a receipt which is a class that is inherited from the more general type library item.

Can someone explain how to create a new item based on classes defined like this?


texts: Icloud Uploading Stuck. Does anyone know why it actually does this?

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The attached image is what's currently displayed if I click on the wheel in Finder. Is it related to 'bird' and if so how?

But does anyone know what causes this to happen?

OK. Thanks to another post, I'm on the trail of the culprits.

robert@zeus brctl-dump % brctl monitor com.apple.CloudDocs|grep %
 o /com~apple~CloudDocs/Downloads/badaboombb_ot/fontinfo.txt ↑ 2 KB (1834) 95.0%
 o /com~apple~CloudDocs/Downloads/backissuesbb_ot/fontinfo.txt ↑ 2 KB (1834) 95.0%
 o /com~apple~CloudDocs/Downloads/Afans Live Filters - for Designer 1.6.zip ↑ 92 KB (91525) 95.0%

And so on for a maybe hundred files in my case. All files show the little UP arrow, indicting that uploading is still taking place, and the percentage left at the end of the file info. All of them 95%
SO it seems to be getting stuck at 95%?
Also, some of the files listed no longer exist. I've long since deleted them, yet here they are still in the upload list. What to do.

I found this useful info in another post here. View amount of time left when uploading files to iCloud

======== Progress of sorts ========

In all this - Photos is syncing perfectly. Anything from any of my devices, iPhone and iPad is syncing perfectly. It's just this Mac that seems to be stuck.

Doing a 'log show | grep Cloud streams a LOT of information about what's happening. And this looks interesting, and there is a lot of it repeating. Does this indicate something is Stuck and throttling iCloud?

2020-01-22 13:18:20.328917+0000 0x459b     Error       0x807e               469    14   bird: (CloudDocsDaemon) [com.apple.clouddocs:default] [ERROR] Failed to remove sync root bit [22: Invalid argument]
2020-01-22 13:18:20.329095+0000 0x459b     Error       0x807f               469    14   bird: (CloudDocsDaemon) [com.apple.clouddocs:default] [ERROR] Failed to remove sync root bit [22: Invalid argument]
2020-01-22 13:18:20.329174+0000 0x459b     Error       0xbc20               469    14   bird: (CloudDocsDaemon) [com.apple.clouddocs:default] [ERROR] renameat(-1, '<private>', 21, '<private>', 4) failed after trying to fix permissions [17: File exists]
2020-01-22 13:18:20.329313+0000 0x459b     Error       0xbc21               469    14   bird: (CloudDocsDaemon) [com.apple.clouddocs:default] [ERROR] -[BRCStageRegistry moveFromStage:toPath:fileName:error:]: (passed to caller) error: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=17 UserInfo={NSDescription=<private>}
2020-01-22 13:18:20.329422+0000 0x459b     Fault       0xbc22               469    14   bird: (CloudDocsDaemon) [com.apple.clouddocs:default] [CRIT] UNREACHABLE: Failed to move from fault stage to live Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=17 UserInfo={NSDescription=<private>}


texts: When I text 1 person (who also has iphone) the message never says Delivered but the person does get the message.  Why doesn't it say delivered like it does to anyone else I text with iMessage?


texts: OS X software for copying from Windows File Shares

texts:
I am migrating from Windows as my desktop operating system, but will still need to interact with Windows file servers.

Is there any OS X software to help with copying files from file servers.  I am specifically looking for an analogue of Robocopy that will copy files from a directory on a Windows file server, and retry any files that fail.

I'm happy using either a GUI or command line.


texts: How do i modify the command to read temperature and time

texts: How do I modify the command sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |grep -i "CPU die temperature" to also provide a timestamp in terminal?


texts: mds_stores prevents me from ejecting Time Machine disk

texts:
I know many people have complained about being unable to eject a Time Machine disk.  The usual response I have found online is to download and use "What's Keeping Me?" to find out what process is accessing the disk. Well, I have done that, and it turns out the culprit is mds_stores -- in other words, Spotlight.

Now Spotlight shouldn't be indexing my Time Machine volume -- I have it excluded in the Spotlight privacy pane.  Killing the mds_stores process allows me to safely eject the TM disk, so in a sense my problem is "solved".  But why is this happening?


texts:
I have a bunch of old files in FLV format, which VLC will convert to M4V format while preserving the audio and video tracks (not re-encoding them).  Many of them have Finder comments that I want to copy to the new files, appending a note that it's converted.

I see that running:

mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f"

in bash will read the comments, but bash appears to have some trouble with non-ASCII characters.  I've tried xattr and an osascript command to apply the comment to the new file, but both are choking on the special characters (mostly bullet: •).

I even tinkered with making an AppleScript droplet to do it, but that's a mess too…

Any advice?


texts:
I have a hard disk which is in NTFS.
I want to make it writable without formatting.

I have gone through some solution for it but its working in previous version not in el captian.

I tried this link
but when doing this step

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.original
sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs

its says its not permitted.


texts: My MacBook Pro is connected to wifi but is not opening any web page both from Safari and Chrome

texts: I have checked my TCP which is set for DHCP and is automatically, in DNS I have only one ip which is 10.0.1.1 and my proxies are not checked. I don't know how else check if all is good. Please help


texts: Why Auto-Dark-Mode doesn't work sometimes?

texts:
I'm using the 2020 Intel MacBook Pro and I'm facing the following problem.
The Auto-Dark-Mode of MacOS is not as stable as iOS or iPadOS. If I'm using a single app in foreground (probably Safari) and it's sunset time, the Auto-Dark-Mode works as expected, but when I'm working on a project so I have 5-6 apps opened together in foreground, Auto-Dark-Mode fails but the wallpaper goes to Dark-Mode (but the the apps doesn't), and it happened right now while I'm writing this post.
Note: When I toggle Dark-Mode manually after Auto-Dark-Mode fails, they goes to Dark-Mode as expected (if they have light mode, for example some apps like VS-Code don’t change their theme with system). I’ve faced this issue on Catalina as well.
How can I resolve the issue?


texts: What's the difference between the different "generations" of iPod touches?

texts: I've been looking at buying a used ipod touch from craiglist but I'm confused as to what's what. The adds all say things like "2nd generation 8gb" or "3rd generation 16gb" and I'm not sure what the difference is.


texts: Is it safe to always leave a Macbook Pro on?

texts:
I have an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected to my Macbook Pro.  I have the lid closed and have it running.  I run it as if it were a desktop PC, always on.  I only shut off the LCD attached to it.

Is it safe to always have the Macbook Pro on and running?

About every other week I let the battery drain almost completely.  I also have a Belkin laptop cooling stand running underneath it.  Is there anything else I can do to safely have my MBP running most of the time?

Update:
Just wanted to add that I have the newer 2010 Macbook Pro.


texts: Has 3D touch to switch apps been removed in iOS11?

texts:
One of the best uses of 3D touch in my opinion was being able to push on the side of the phone and swipe between apps in a single, fluid movement. However once I updated to iOS11 I noticed that I cannot do it anymore.

I have an iPhone 6s, this is also the case for a friend of mine who has the iPhone 7.

Is there any option to re-enable it?


texts: Archive/set some photos in Photos.app not to be synced with iCloud Photo Library

texts: I want to use iCloud Photo Library just to get photos I take on my phone to my computer. My Photo Stream would work fine if it was reliable. Now I have more than 5GB of photos so I have to pay at least $1 a month just to sync photos unless there is a way to download only or archive some photos not to be synced with iCloud Photo Library (yet still viewable in the app).


texts: Disable notification center on lock screen (or prevent it from clearing notifications)

texts:
One of the must utterly infuriating problems I have on recent iOS versions is the fact that swiping down from the top of the screen while the phone is locked will bring down the notification center and clear all of my lock screen notifications.

This happens all. the. time. I usually keep my phone in my pocket, and if I get a message or feel it vibrate, I will reach into my pocket and with my thumb and forefinger pull it out. Perhaps 50% of the time when I do this, my thumb ends up pulling the notification center down when I pull my phone out.

This alone isn't a big deal, I can just swipe it up again. The problem is that when the notification center comes down, for some god-knows-why reason, it clears the notifications that were just on the screen, meaning I'm now prevented from doing precisely what I pulled the phone out of my pocket for in the first place.

There has got to be a way to fix this horrible UX.


texts: Mac Pro Nvidia Graphics Displays Incorrect Resolution

texts:
I have a Mac Pro 5,1* with an Nvidia Quadro K1200 graphics card. Note that while this card is not officially supported by Apple, it works perfectly with Nvidia's graphics driver. The K1200 powers two Dell P2415Q 4k monitors (4k@60Hz). I am very happy with the monitors, as the 4k is a massive improvement over the 1080p monitor I was using before.

However, my computer would beg to differ. For some reason, MacOS has decided not to recognize the screens as 4k. All of the System Preferences, System Report, and other display information insists the screens are 1080p60.

Photoshop recognizes the screens as 4k (for example, when a 24MP image opens full screen, the zoom is ~40% (on a 1080p screen, it would be ~15%). When I take a screenshot that is 2px wide and 4px tall (as recognized by the system), I can count 4px across, and 8px vertically.

More information: I am running MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 build 16C67. This discrepancy is on the "default" resolution scaling. I can choose other scaled resolutions, but only up to 3360x1890, which is significantly smaller than the official 3840x2160 the screen supports (which I appear to be getting).

My question: why does this discrepancy exist?

*Note: the computer is actually a 2009 model (4,1) but has the (5,1) firmware upgrade.

This is the output of system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType:

Graphics/Displays:

NVIDIA Quadro K1200:

  Chipset Model: NVIDIA Quadro K1200
  Type: GPU
  Bus: PCIe
  Slot: Slot-2
  PCIe Lane Width: x16
  VRAM (Total): 4095 MB
  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID: 0x13bc
  Revision ID: 0x00a2
  ROM Revision: VBIOS 82.07.7f.00.14
  Metal: Supported
  Displays:
    DELL P2415Q:
      Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz (1080p)
      Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
      Display Serial Number:
      Main Display: Yes
      Mirror: Off
      Online: Yes
      Rotation: Supported
      Adapter Type: DisplayPort
      Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
      Television: Yes
    DELL P2415Q:
      Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz (1080p)
      Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
      Display Serial Number:
      Mirror: Off
      Online: Yes
      Rotation: Supported
      Adapter Type: DisplayPort
      Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
      Television: Yes


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