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Once some time ago, I had SSH access to my iPad (3rd generation running iOS 5.1.1) and had changed the root password successfully.  Now however, I can no longer access it via SSH.  I have gone back and reset the password numerous times (currently back to the stock password of "alpine") but try as I might, all I ever get is "incorrect password" when trying to su from terminal on the device.

Am I missing something about the master.passwd file somehow?  I'm using iFile and also iFunBox, and both applications have no problem reading/changing the contents of the file.

Here is the current file content, does anyone see anything wrong with it?

##
# User Database
#
# This file is the authoritative user database.
##
nobody:*:-2:-2::0:0:Unprivileged User:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
root:/smx7MYTQIi2M:0:0::0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh
mobile:/smx7MYTQIi2M:501:501::0:0:Mobile User:/var/mobile:/bin/sh
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:System Services:/var/root:/usr/bin/false
_ftp:*:98:-2::0:0:FTP Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
_networkd:*:24:24::0:0:Network Services:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
_wireless:*:25:25::0:0:Wireless Services:/var/wireless:/usr/bin/false
_securityd:*:64:64::0:0:securityd:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
_mdnsresponder:*:65:65::0:0:mDNSResponder:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
_sshd:*:75:75::0:0:sshd Privilege separation:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
_unknown:*:99:99::0:0:Unknown User:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false

EDIT:  Output of ls -l /etc/passwd is:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 896 Dec 11 13:03 /etc/passwd

Output for master.passwd is:

-rw------- 1 root wheel 780 Dec 11 13:03 /etc/master.passwd

Is there something wrong with these permissions that I'm overlooking?

UPDATE:  Sadly I've gotten no further on this.  I'm at a complete loss as to what to do, other than wipe my iPad and re-jailbreak in case somehow that will help.  Really rather not do that so, I'm still hoping for another solution from someone.


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I want to convert .mov to .mp4! I saved the video from iMovie but it is in .mov format! How do I convert it to .mp4?

I'm using a MacBook and I want to share it to my phone, but my phone can't open .mov format video.


texts: How can I upgrade Mac OS without the administrator password?

texts: I recently received an old iMac secondhand.  I have no way to reach the original owner. I am trying to upgrade the OS software, but the prompts demand the administrator's name (which is auto-filled) and password (which I do not have).  I understand why these security features are in place, but is there any way in the world for me to access Admin. privileges without the password?


texts: Where can I download the Learn to Play lessons in Garage Band 10.3.2 on Mojave?

texts:
I am using the latest version of garage band

I keep looking around the menu and online help, but I cannot find out a place to download the lessons.

Where can I download the lessons again?


texts: What happens to my music if I unsubscribe from Apple Music?

texts: What happens to all the music I have accumulated during the time I have been using Apple Music if I choose to unsubscribe? As I have been paying for those songs, do they remain available for listening once I unsubscribed?


texts:
I have tried to add TextWrangler to the path environment modifying the file .bash_profile. This is what I have added:

# Just a comment
PATH=/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/MacOS
export PATH

I am not sure if it was exactly like this, but I am sure it was not so different. I must admit I do not know exactly what I was doing with the commands above, but by suggestions of other people and content on the web, I decided to add it to the .bash_profile file.

Now, when I type for example ls or open or nano it does not work. I have seen on the web that this has already happened to other people.

I am not able to open the .bash_profile file with TextWrangler to restore it as it was, so this is a big problem, I might say.


texts: How do I read show notes while playing a podcast in the iOS Podcasts app?

texts:
I can’t figure out how to view show notes in the iOS Podcasts app.

Previously, I could just tap on the album art in the now playing screen, and it would display the show notes just like lyrics to song. But now, tapping the album art brings up a tape deck.

Where from can I read the show notes?


texts:
I have MacBook Air (Early 2015) yet the installer says "macOS Catalina cannot be installed on Macintosh HD" when I try to upgrade from macOS Mojave (10.14.6). I have 8.7GB of disk space available.

What does that mean? any options?


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Rebases and stashes are noticeably, painfully slow. This doesn't seem to happen with the outdated version of git installed by xcode - but the macports version and the version installed from git-scm.com (v2.10.1) run like molasses.

I've seen a few places (including this question) state that WebRoot is the problem, but I am not running it.

Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone got a solution or at least tips for troubleshooting?

Thanks!


texts:
The reader of my university lecture regularly posts lecture notes online. The pdf contains handwritten mathematical theorems including the proofs. Everything is written on a completely white background.

I want to create a new printable file containing the theorems and comments only (no proofs) as exam preparation

Is there an easy tool able to accomplish this on a Mac running High Sierra? It may be a bit tricky to get the breaks in pages right.  The workflow would ideally look like this:

Use rectangular selection tool to highlight proof. Hit some key to delete selected area/fill the rectangle white. Select everything below the proof and move it upwards until no whitespace is left.


texts: How to stop iOS from showing tomorrow's birthdays everyday

texts:
My iPhone, for some reason (I haven't set up anything like that), shows the next day's birthdays everyday at 12:00 (at noon). How do I prevent that? I don't want to remove them from calendar, I just want to remove those annoying notifications.

(Default Alert Times for Birthdays is already set to "None")


texts: How can I remotely, outside my network, access files on my Windows computer from my iphone over the internet, using mobile data?

texts:
I have the app File Explorer on my iphone which lets me access and stream files to my iphone while my Windows computer and Iphone is connected to the same network. I access my Windows computer using a local IP i.e. 192.168.0.x.

However, when I am away from home and not connected to my network, using mobile data, naturally I cant access my home computer anymore from my iphone using File Explorer because its using the local IP of the Windows computer to connect. The only way I can still access the computer is through the Google Remote Desktop iphone app, but that gives me an interface I can barely control through an iphone screen.

What I want to do is use File Explorer to access my home computer from my iphone while I am away, that is while the wifi on my iphone is not used, only using mobile data. This works with Google Remote Desktop but so far I cant do it with File Explorer.


texts: Wifi AWUS036NH working in 10.9 but with no Internet

texts:
I have got a Mavericks (10.9) installation on a Mac and a AWUS036NH WiFi card. There are several drivers to get WiFi card working. There is one of them in this page (http://store.rokland.com/pages/support) and another in the bear extender page, device that uses the same chipset.

The thing is that I installed the driver and the tool that is installed does the wifi connection to the router, its says that its connected but when I use the browser or other application, there is not internet.

Airport is disabled.

I dont know what can I do.


texts: Stop macOS from creating synthesized disks from an APFS partition?

texts:
I have a raw dump of an APFS partition that I've created so that I can roll back a system to an exact state for testing. This dump was created using dd, and is not created form any of the volumes inside the container, but rather the entire APFS partition from the physical disk.
I'd like to restore it back on to the physical disk using dd, and normally I would do this by simply unmounting the partition so that the system isn't accessing it anymore. But because macOS is automatically creating a synthesized device from this APFS partition that contains all of its volumes, I can't restore it without the system going nuts as the partition's data changes out from under it.
How can I stop macOS from automatically creating the synthesized disk so that I can freely modify the raw data of this partition?
For example, if this is what diskutil list reports:
/dev/disk2 (external):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         499.9 GB   disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +499.9 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume MyDisk                  462.0 GB   disk3s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 43.9 MB    disk3s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                510.5 MB   disk3s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk3s4

... then I want it to stop "synthesizing" /dev/disk3 completely. Unmounting the volumes disk3s1-disk3s4 is not good enough. And diskutil won't let me unmount /dev/disk3.
So far the only solution I've found is to do this on macOS 10.12 or earlier, since that system doesn't know about APFS. But I'd much rather do it on my main system running 10.14.
edit: I found one possible way of doing this: using GPT fdisk (gdisk) to change the APFS partition's type code to something that macOS won't handle (like 8301 Linux reserved), unplug and replug the disk, write over the partition, then change the type code back to APFS. It's not a great solution. I'd much rather find something better.


texts: MacBook Pro 15'' Retina Mid-2015: Upgrade RAM to 32Gb

texts:
Is this possible?

I read on the crucial.com website that it is not.

I imagine 2x16Gb would be a bit expensive but not unheard of.


texts: Does Photos.app support a watch directory?

texts:
Is it possible for Photos to automatically include all files in a given directory as part of its Library? Picasa, for example, offers this.

I have a folder on my computer that is automatically synced to other devices via an online service (e.g. Dropbox, OneDrive, etc). Although I can manually import those files into Photos, that requires performing the import every time new files are added to that directory.

I have tried creating a new Photos library (holding down Option on launch) in the directory mentioned earlier to see if it might magically add all the files there, but that has no effect.


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I have to make a little keynote tomorrow, and I have all the slides saved as PDFs. I will be using a projector as a second screen to my laptop.
What's the best way to transform this long PDF document into something more slidy?
If I open in with built-in Preview, I get some annoying issues such as the page number that pops out on the bottom of the slide whenever I flip a page and the non-full-screen-adapting when the ratio of the PDF isn't the same as the ratio of the screen.

So, any solutions?

Note I don't own a Keynote copy, so options like PDF to Keynote are not valid ones.


texts: Using another laptop's keyboard as Macbook Pro's input device

texts:
I have my HP Spectre X360 & a Macbook Pro

The question about using HP Spectre's keyboard as an input device for the Macbook Pro. Is it possible? if yes how?


texts:
I have git on /usr/bin/git (I think was Xcode install) but it is 1.7.5.4 and I want to use the current version 1.7.7

Is there a way to uninstall that version and use the new one?


texts: How to access my MacBook's Serial Number

texts:
A friend of mines has a MacBook with MacOS X 10.5.8 Leopard on it but it doesn't bear a serial number.

We checked "About this Mac".

We checked "System Information".

And we even checked underneath the MacBook where Apple usually engraves the MacBook's serial numbers.

My friend can't view most websites and doesnt have any of the original packaging.

Is there anything else we can do to find out the MacBook's type and serial number?


texts: How to view page source in Safari browser on an iPhone?

texts:
I thought there'd be an easy way to do this, but I may have been wrong.
How can I view the source for a web page using Safari browser on an iPhone?


texts:
all of my Macs are running OSX Mavericks right now, except one iMac that is still on OSX 10.8.5
I've tried to find a possibility to upgrade to Mavericks, but can only find Yosemite upgrades in the appStore - is there another possibility up upgrade that machine?

Thanks for your hints and ansers,

Thomas


texts: How can I get iOS to stop changing asterisks (*) to capital "I"s?

texts:
I do a lot of writing on iOS: mostly email (in Outlook for iOS) and plaintext drafts (in Ulysses) using an iPad Pro with a keyboard. My writing style happens to include:

Lots of bulleted lists
Seriously, like way too many
Sometimes even when they may not totally be needed

Here's the problem:

Sometimes, when I type:

* Blahblahblah

...it changes to:

I Blahblahblah

What I've determined - this problem occurs:

Inconsistently - I can repro it regularly, but not all the time
After some (variable) amount of additional keystrokes happen - the text appears as typed (an asterisk) at first, then sometimes changes after I add more chars later - sometimes one later, sometimes a bunch later, sometimes not at all.

Putting it together, I'm thinking it's caused by some form of autocorrect in the OS.

Can anyone confirm if that sounds like the culprit, or how to determine if it is?
If so, how can I teach autocorrect that I like bullets (and markdown), thank you very much, without just turning AC off entirely, robbing my loved ones of a regular source of humor?


texts: Still not possible to convert HFS+ Journaled boot to APFS?

texts:
We're at High Sierra beta 9, and it still doesn't seem possible to convert an HFS+ Journaled boot drive "in-place" to APFS.

I tested this with a totally fresh install using a late 2014 27" Retina iMac, installing onto an external SATA LaCie Thunderbolt 2 drive that I partitioned into three parts: 500GB for Sierra, 500GB for High Sierra, and 1TB for future use.

While I was able to install the latest High Sierra 10.13 Beta (17A360a) on one of the partitions, I could not get the option to convert that HFS+ Journaled partition into APFS.

Supposedly, it can be done "in place" by booting to the 10.13 Recovery partition, starting the Disk Utility, and using the menu options to "Convert to APFS".  However, when I did that those options are grayed out when a partition containing an OS is selected.  Interestingly, if the volume DOESN'T have an OS, then that option is available

Awfully hard to test our software on a new file system if I can't convert the boot drive to the new file system...

UPDATE:  I was able to erase one of the external HDD partitions, reformat it to APFS, then install the High Sierra beta from the Recovery Partition.  It installed, it booted, and it ran through its setup processes.  For a very long time, it seemed it was doing something to the internal Fusion drives -- and I didn't see them mount on the desktop, but I think maybe Spotlight was trying to index them.  During this time, neither Safari nor System Preferences would open ("Application could not be opened)".  However, eventually, things settled down and I was able to eject my internal Fusion drive, and I was able to do things again.  So we'll see.


texts: What Apple iPhone have that iPod Touch doesn't?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Any other major difference between iPhone and iPod Touch except telephone function?

Short answer: Touch is not a cell-phone.

I'm looking for long answer because I don't really get why iPhone is like 2x more expensive than Touch?

P.S. I'm comparing iPhone 32 GiB (4th generation) with iPod Touch 32 GiB (4th generation). Newest models with the same capacity of memory.


texts: How can I delete photos from the photo library in iOS 8?

texts:
I'm using an iPhone with iOS 8.4, and a Mac with Yosemite using the Photos app and syncing with iTunes. iCloud Photo Library is turned off on both the Mac and the iPhone.

After syncing with iTunes there are photos on the iPhone that should not be there; they are not included in the "selected albums" list in iTunes. Some of them are no longer in my Photos library (on the Mac) at all. But after many syncs they still appear on the iPhone.

When I look at the offending photos there is no trash can icon (like there would be if they were in the Camera Roll), and tapping the Edit button brings up the message "This photo is not editable".

How can I delete these rogue photos? An ideal solution would be one that actually "syncs" my phone to the selected albums list in iTunes (ie. removing any photos that aren't in that list). But a way to manually delete photos would also be appreciated.

Edit: None of the photos in question were ever shared with iCloud sharing. They do not appear in any Shared Albums, and turning off iCloud sharing has no effect.


texts: Will apple accept a javascript app that usees Google Maps API?

texts: Will there be any problems if I send a javascript and html app to the App Store, which uses the Google Maps API. The app is a route planner.


texts: I can t find my internal HDD drive (part of fusion drive) on iMac 27 late 2012

texts:
Hello as I wrote on the title I have an issue with my fusion drive .. After entering internet recovery mode I only see the SSD ... Here is the photo also from my diskutil list and diskutil cs list :

Before that I took a messages twice that the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer .. This is the reason I entered Internet Recovery mode ..


texts:
I have macOS unified logs from System A in .logarchive format. Any attempts to parse the .logarchive in System B using log show command provides following error:

bash-3.2#log show /tmp/unifiedlogsv2/unifiedlogs.logarchive
        ==========
    /private/tmp/unifiedlogsv2/unifiedlogs.logarchive
        ==========
    log: Archive format needs updating (to version 3), doing so will render the archive unreadable by older tools.
    Re-run log with --force if you want to allow this upgrade

When run with --force option, the following error is displayed:

bash-3.2# log show --force /tmp/unifiedlogsv2/unifiedlogs.logarchive|more
log: warning: The log archive contains partial or missing metadata
log: Could not open log archive: The log archive format is corrupt and cannot be read
==========
/private/tmp/unifiedlogsv2/unifiedlogs.logarchive
==========

The same logarchive opens fine in Console. My objective is to parse the logarchive using the log show command. Any suggestions how to do so?


texts:
I'm looking for a solution to monitor the refresh rate of the OSX.

In several reviews like this one about the retina Macbook Pro by Anandtech they report actual fps to discuss the performance of scrolling in Safari in Lion vs Mountain Lion.

What tool are they using to monitor the fps? What similar tool like this can you recommend?


texts: AppleScript Text Delimiter for most recent text

texts:
I have a lot of text on the file My_Note_Backup.txt

Each time I run an another script, it added to this text something like

demo
demo
{
demo demo demo
demo
}
demo ...

and this repeats around 60 times a day.

How can I have an AppleScript which copies only the last note in between { and }

I have the text delimiter here, but how can I get the most recent text only?

set theName to ""
set theName to the clipboard

set theText to Unicode text
set theSource to theName
property leftEdge1 : "{"
property rightEdge2 : "}"
try
    set saveTID to text item delimiters
    set text item delimiters to leftEdge1
    set classValue to text item 2 of theSource
    set text item delimiters to rightEdge2
    set theName to text item 1 of classValue
    set text item delimiters to saveTID
    theName
end try
set the clipboard to theName

the text file is

set dataBackupFile to (path to desktop folder as text) & "My_Note_Backup.txt"


texts: How much GPU memory do iPhones and iPads have?

texts: I'm wondering how GPU memory works on the iPhone and iPad. After reading the Apple tech specs on the iPad 3 (http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/) it says the A5X is a system on a chip with a dual core CPU and quad core GPU. Do they share the same system RAM? How does the GPU do fast operations if it has to work in system RAM? I'm sure it's my lack of understanding of the system on a chip architecture that is confusing me, but if someone can chime in with their knowledge that would be helpful.


texts: Installed reFIT on Lion and now I can't login

texts:
I installed reFIT on my new MBP, and now, unfortunately, OSX can't get past the login screen. When I try logging in, it simply bounces me back to where I started, the login page.

Since I can't get in to OSX, I can't delete the /efi folder as recommended. Is there any way for me to fix this so I can at least get back into OSX to fix things?


texts: I gave my granddaughter my samsung android phone when her iphone got broken. I now have an iphone. I have to send her texts using SMS (turned it on in settings) but when she answers I do not receive her replies on my iphone 5.   I've noticed my messages to other iphone users are not always iMessages anymore.  Frustrated with not being able to communicate with granddaughter.  Does it have anything to do with the droid was my phone before and used same number?


texts:
I have my macOS user home on external TB drive. I'd like to keep copies on two different TB drives.

Is there a difference between:

cp -Rv /Volumes/extdrive/myhome  /Volumes/extdrive2

and using Super-duper / CCC to do the same thing?


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I'm working off a mid 2009 13" MBP right now which I want to replace soon. I'm thinking of getting an MBA instead - I would probably get an 11" for the road, with an external monitor for working at home.

But here's my problem: I will go back to school this summer and I'm required to use Excel for Windows for my classes (sadly, Excel for Mac won't do, urgh!). Therefore, I will have to also install Windows 8 (with Boot Camp) on my new computer. Will either of the MBAs hold up? (Obviously, I'd go for the highest RAM and hard disc possible.)

Thanks a lot!


texts: The email account and password to my son's iCloud account were changed without authorization

texts: The email account to my son's iCloud account, as well as his password, was changed without our knowledge. Is there any way to get them back? I didn't change them. Is it possible that he was hacked?


texts: What do I need to know if I am going to use FileVault

texts:
I am going to big travel trip with my Mac and I have think that turn on FileVault will be a good decision, for the case if may MacBooks was stolen.

I have found the stories (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8301725, https://mybyways.com/blog/macos-filevault-and-sierra-update-get-stuck-when-running-concurrently) that sometimes updating the Mac OS can be broken if I have FileVault turned on due to errors in updating software. In the travel I will not have the ability reinstall my MacBook, so may be it will be better to not install Mac OS updates during the trip.

May be there is something else what I need to know if I am going to turn on FileVault. Some to doand not to do.


texts: How can you print an email in gmail app on iPad

texts: How can you print an email using gmail app on iPad


texts: How do I set all of my apps to Vibrate but my calls to Sound in iOS?

texts: I have tried to do this by hand, but it just doesn't work and shuts off all notifs. Additionally, there are apps like WhatsApp which just don't have a Vibrate setting. Is there a systematic way to do that?


texts: No audio for mp4 files in Quicktime and ITunes but works for VLC

texts:
I have some movies in mp4 format. They work perfectly on VLC (audio and video) but not with QuickTime and iTunes. I can only watch the video but without audio!
I have a MacBook Air 2017.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Good simple Clipboard manager

ClipX is a Windows clipboard management application.

The search feature would be incredibly powerful if I could find a suitable equivalent to Clipx on OS X.

I'm currently using Flycut but it's a bit buggy, inteface isn't what I'd prefer and interacts poorly with Eclipse.

Thanks! So curious if something like this exists.


texts: "All My Files" Folder was Emptied when I Deleted Content of the Downloads Folder

texts:
I am a Windows developer and have just got hold of a Mac for development of apps. I am fairly new to working with "Finder" and I am finding it easiest to do everything I need with the file system through the console. I have had to install alot of software and on the 128GB MacBookAir I want to keep the used disk space down...

Following the download and installations process I went in the the Downloads folder and deleted all of the .zip and .bin files to free up around 12GB - however I am now worried as upon removal I noticed that instead of listing the 10 installation files being deleted it said 25,000+ files. I now look at the "All My Files" folder and this is empty - I am worried that I have accidentally removed all the files from this folder.

Question. Have I removed all the file from this folder like a prime n00b, or was this folder listing all of the contents of the compressed files in the Download folder, and when I removed these the "All My Files" contents updated to reflect this?

Thanks for your time.


texts: How to increase size of the Spotlight search results window?

texts:
Is it possible to increase window width of the Spotlight search results under Mac OS X 10.6.6? I mean the semi-transparent "instant search result" window appearing at the top right corner under magnifying glass, not the Finder window.

The standard window is too narrow: longer file names or Dictionary word translations just don't fit there. Why not using more screen space for the search result?


texts: How do I remove the IOS 7 update on my phone?

texts: How do I remove the Ios 7 update on my phone? I've been having problems with my 4S since it was installed such as not being able to connect to Wifi and unable to send emails.


texts: Automator workflow/service or Applescript for looped edits in Preview

texts:
I was originally trying this with Automator, but if someone can guide me to accomplishing this easier with Applescript then feel free, though i haven't worked with it before. I'm trying to get the Crop Images and/or Scale Images actions running in a Preview service. I've saved a workflow with some Watch Me Do actions, and I'm able to run the service from Preview -> Services. But if i add either of these actions it skips the Watch Me Do actions and hangs. It seems as if these built-in actions are not using the open image that the service is already processing. How can I include these actions in my workflow? It seems Automator ignores anything i do with the area selection tools (like the "rectangular selection") so i have to use these built-in actions.

If this can be done only in an application or workflow, but not a service in the way i describe, that's fine as long as i can have the watch me do actions and scale/crop actions done on the same file while it's still open, and then loop at the end so i can have the same edits done on the same file multiple times.

update: i don't necessarily need the WMD actions included if it's not feasible in Automator. I was told on Apple Discussions Forum that "Generally speaking, Automator works on files passed to actions and/or on applications. In your particular case, you can use Automator to crop/scale/etc. images, but it's mostly a closed process once the Automator workflow launches. Trying to use Automator to performs actions on an image already buffered into an application's memory space isn't going to work."

I could potentially use built-in actions like Crop, Scale, and others if i can get them to work on a single designated file and repeated the actions in a Loop. someone suggested using red menace's Dispense Item Incrementally action (http://automator.us/leopard/downloads/) so i'm going to give this a try.

update 2: unfortunately, i checked this out and from what it says it's intended for multiple items to be processed where i just need the workflow to process 1 image file continually until i stop the loop so the selected edits repeat within the 1 file. here are some basic actions i'm trying to get started with:

(1) get specified finder items (2) copy finder items (3) scale images (4) crop images (5) loop

The problem is that i want to loop only actions 3 & 4, but the loop starts over at 1 and creates a new file each time it loops. Can i create 2 workflows where the 2nd one (containing actions 3/4/5) starts when the first (containing 1/2) ends so only the 2nd workflow is looped? I'm not sure how to tell the 2nd one to start when the first ends though. Do i just set the input of the 2nd to use the 1st workflow file?

Originally i had this setup solely as WMD (watch me do) actions but Automator won't record the selection tool. if i can get the selection tool recorded then i can keep it as a WMD based workflow. Acorn (for crop/scale i believe) & Extra Suites (Applescript app for recording the mouse click & draw) were apps i saw mentioned on other posts that came up on google searches which might be able to help accomplish this workflow or script.

thanks


texts: Is there a way to have iOS remember passwords to HTTP authenticated sites?

texts:
There's a page I frequently access on my iPhone that's protected by HTTP authentication, and I'm finding it annoying having to type in my username and password every time I want to access it. I tried saving the logged-in page as a home screen icon, but I'm still prompted every time. There isn't option to save my password when I'm logging in, and I can't find one in the settings either.

Is this possible?

example authentication screen to show what I'm referring to


texts: iPhone 6 (IOS 11) Picture library storage wont go down

texts: So for a while now I've had little to no space on my phone because of my picture library, I couldn't even back it up. So today i decided to delete upwards of 700 photos and 70 videos. After deleting them in the storage nothing has changed, I have disabled iCloud Sharing and no, before you say anything, there are no photos in my recently deleted.


texts:
I have done some searching on Google and found some tests saying HD 4000 is a great improvement over the previous generation, but I didn't get any tests that compared it with discrete chips.

Could any of you guys that are more into hardware tell me if the Intel HD 4000 will be better than Nvidia 9400M?

The integrated graphics is in the Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro with 2.9 Ghz Core i7, while the Nvidia part is in the 2009 13" MacBook Pro 2.53 Ghz Core 2 Duo.

P.S. I only play Diablo 3 on my laptop. I don't care about graphics as long as the framerate is good. Currently, with the Nvidia chip, it's really bad. It is listed as low-performance on Blizzard's site, but the Intel HD 4000 is, too.


texts: Using a virtual machine as a network tap on a mac server

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hoping for the virtual machine to be a 'network tap'.

configuration is an intel mac with an airport card and several usb nics. The airport card is for connectivity to the internet. the usb nics provide connectivity to the local lan. internet sharing is used on the mac to distribute internet access and the mac is also a file repository.

Internet sharing on the mac results in a dhcp serving addresses in a different class c for each nic-so one nic for example will get 192.168.2.x, the next nic gets 192.168.3.x, etc. This allows each nic to service a whole lan segment. Wireshark installed on the mac sees all interfaces and allows monitoring of traffic. I do not want to run wireshark natively on the mac. It's a production machine and messing around with the bare metal is discouraged. A virtual appliance is perceived as safer (even though it may not be, i cannot convince the responsible higher ups)

So, vmware fusion is set up on the mac to run an instance of windows xp sp3. wireshark is installed on windows.in this configuration, wireshark only sees the airport but not the usb nics. The network adapters are set up in bridged mode on vmware. Is there a tutorial that clarifies setup for the nics in fusion and the proper ip addresses they should have in windows? Should they be bridged there as well? If i use the same ip as that used on the mac, obviously i get an ip address conflict.

I was hoping for the virtual machine to be a 'network tap' but it's having trouble seeing the nics, let alone the traffic that is not even destined for it. i guess another way to solve this problem is to get the traffic to go through the xp instance. XP would need a dhcp server running. This dhcp server would service the nics. i tried tftpd but that is a little too rudimentary- it does not see the virtual interfaces. i'll keep looking but need some enlightenment.

please be gentle.


texts: Make application "active" while on another desktop

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Is there a way I can change the current menubar to an active application while on another desktop ?

Example :

Safari running on desktop 1
While on desktop 2, activate safari so that the menubar changes from "Finder" to "Safari" WITHOUT switching back to desktop 1

Is there an automator code that can help achieve this too ?


texts: Siri finds images in Photos even though search has been disabled - iOS 11.4.1

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I was demonstrating Siri yesterday to my friend, showing how it can search the internet for random images (show me an image of a chickadee, a Volkswagen GTI, Albert Einstein, a pressure cooker, etc.) and it was pulling images from the web until I had it search pit-bulls using the phrase "show me a picture of a pit bull."

Siri found and displayed images of my 2 pit-bulls from the Photos app on the iPhone! It would not find any images when I searched using the dog's names, however. When I tested this same search phrase with "German Shepherd" it found images of three other dogs in Photos, which are shepherd mixes, not pure breeds.

Most of the selected images were basically face-on (two eyes looking at the camera, floppy ears, etc,) but some are from the side and it found them even though pit #1 has a narrow face, pit #2 has a block-head, and none of the shepherds have the typical erect ears.

I know that facial recognition is pretty far advanced in iOS, but I had no idea it could recognize dog breeds, and I was amazed that using "show me a picture" searches the Photos app. What is more disturbing is that I deliberately set Siri not to search inside the Photos app:

Does anybody have a clue what is going on? I realize this question may be interpreted as a 'why Apple does something' query, and I will accept a downvote or two. I'll delete the question if folks think its immaterial in the long run.

I'm mystified.


texts:
I have seen a lot of related questions/answers but it seems that there still isn't a working solution for it. So I have sum up all related info that I found and maybe we can find a solution to it.

So one of the way to do it is like in SIMBL's plugin for colored icons (google it) and like its done in Dropbox - inject code at mach_kernel. But I don't like this idea with code injection and it seems that there can be a simpler way with modification of system resources.

So all data for sidebar entries is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
(It's binary plist, open it with Xcode/PlistEditPro/etc)
favorites -> VolumesList

icon for entry is defined with a pair of data: Icon and CustomItemProperties -> com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector

that mean that it is possible to change Alias to custom for default entries, or adding Icon and CustomItemProperties -> com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector to custom entry with data copied from default entries and it will work.

You need to log off -> log in to see changes.

But with that you only can change entry image that already is in system. So I looked more detailed to fields Icon and CustomItemProperties -> com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector

Field Icon is hex encoded and decoded it looks like that:

ImgR��4����FBIL��(����������������ћЊщ��H+�����ю≤�€\��ћCW����     €ю��������€€€€���ю≤�юD�юC�з�^~�^{��@��T�o�o�l�b�a�r�D�o�c�u�m�e�n�t�s�F�o�l�d�e�r�I�c�o�n�.�i�c�n�s����M�a�c�H�D��_System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ToolbarDocumentsFolderIcon.icns���/�€€

(default Documents field)

So it's pointing to normal, colored documents icons file. Changing data for another .icns file (even valid or from another default icon) make entry show default stock folder icon.
But if change it to another default icon and then change com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector like in that icon then it will show that another default icon.

com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector looks like this:

1935819875

(default Documents field)

This means that Icon data and com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector number are related and pair of them determines entry icon. I'm not figured yet what is this number and what it means, but for default entries it always begins with 19358**. I think it's related to CoreServices.framework header LSSharedFileList.h and it's number of entry in some kind of system resources list.

Is there someone know what to do next? I would be grateful if you could help me with it.

Here is list of default entries data http://www.mediafire.com/view/?l5sqalslbcxj2dl
It will help you if you want to change your stock folder icons in sidebar to icons from default entries.


texts: Remove keybinding in a specific app (X11)

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Mac OS' X11.app uses certain key bindings that I'd rather send to the underlying X app in use. Specifically I'd like to pass Command+W and Command-1 (and -2, etc) to the X app in question.

Is there any way to disable keybindings in an app? I'm aware of the system dialog that allows adding additional keybindings, but that doesn't seem to allow removing them.

Or maybe there's a way that's specific to X11.app?


texts: Macbook Pro 2018 13 inch Partition Won't Delete

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When I tried to bootcamp today and it failed midway through and wouldn't delete the partition. I've tried deleting the partition manually through disk utility both through the regular desktop and recovery mode. I was unable to delete this partition made by the bootcamp utility and trying to use bootcamp utility to delete yields no results.
This is why my disk utility looks like. Macintosh HD is my main partition that I wish to keep and Container disk1 is the partition that was originally made by bootcamp and that I tried to manually erase but it does not go away.
Attempting to do diskutil list yields:
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         197.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         53.6 GB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +53.6 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s3
   1:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.1 MB    disk1s2
   2:                APFS Volume Recovery                20.5 KB    disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +197.0 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            165.7 GB   disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.2 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                510.5 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk2s4

Doing diskutil cs list yields "No CoreStorage logical volume groups found"
Please help, I am lost and unsure what to do.


texts: Safari can't access to ipv6 address whereas Chrome can do

texts:
When using Cisco OpenConnect client there are no problems resolving IPv6 only sites. However while using open source openconnect command line client from brew Safari can't resolve IPv6 only sites. Open source openconnect uses vpnc script to configure network interfaces. IPv6 address is assigned and connectivity is working just fine.

Same problem with OpenVPN, both open source and proprietary OpenVPN.net client.

While searching for an answer I came across a question first posted on apple communities exactly three years ago:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24511921
but it does not provide any command line solutions suitable for adding to vpnc script.

Are here any scutil experts? I suppose there should be away to mark a VPN interface utun0 as IPv6 enabled. At least official Cisco OpenConnect client somehow does it just fine.


texts: What are the legal implications of Jailbreaking an iOS device?

texts:
I am forced to Jailbreak an iPad so that I can deploy a custom application for a client. This is an application that no one can have but him, so basically jailbreaking is the only choice I have?

I can't even install the app as a demo through the provisioning profile because that expires I think in 1 year?

What legal implications, in various jurisdictions, are there for jailbreaking an iOS device?


texts: Creating an event from Last Imported in Photos.app

texts: How do I make an event from my last import using Photos? Does Photos only use albums rather than events? Is it still possible to merge events?


texts: How to boot 2015 Mac Pro without monitor

texts: I have a mac pro which I and several colleagues access through screen sharing.  It has no need of an external monitor itself.  Periodically, it shuts down (perhaps because of university-mandated update) and won't restart without a monitor attached.  How can I get it to reboot without a monitor?


texts: How to sync iCloud contacts with Google?

texts: I recently started using the Gmail app on my iOS devices because it has better search functionality than the native Mail app. However, that means that when I'm writing emails the app is using my Gmail contacts and not the local phone contacts, which is annoying. The solution is to keep my iCloud contacts, which currently sync between my Mac and my iOS devices, in sync with Google as well. What is the best way to do this? It appears that I can sync my computer's local contacts using Address Book, but that won't help with my contacts which are stored in iCloud.


texts:
I'm experiencing this weird bug on OS X El capitan.

There is a white bar over most of my menu items in the top right of my screen. The items are still there and are interactable.

Anyone got any ideas? A quick google search didn't seem to give me any ideas for it.


texts: Which IRC client stays online when in background?

texts:
I tried some iOS IRC clients, but when I put the app in the background, I am logged out.

Are there any iOS IRC clients that stay online when in background?


texts: Can I use Bluetooth and headphone jack simultaneously

texts: I have an iPhone 7plus. How can I simultaneously connect music to my headphone jack and my phone to a Bluetooth device? I am trying to play my music on my motorcycle through the stereo using the headphone jack while using my Sena Bluetooth headset to talk on the phone.


texts: Emulating a thunderbolt drive backed up by a disk image on a booted mac

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Is there an way to make a disk image on a booted mac show up as a storage device on the Thunderbolt bus ?

I know it is possible to put the mac in Target Disk Mode and then the whole internal drive shows up as storage device on the Thunderbolt bus, but I only what to share a disk image that way, and I want to keep my mac booted up in macOS.

Technically I believe this is possible. But I'm pretty sure macOS does not ship with appropriate drivers. I also think that it may be do able for a third party to write such driver.

Come to think of it, one way to do this would be to have a Virtual Machine, backed up by the disk image, booting into TDM mode. But I don't know that any VM software has a TDM mode...


texts: How to clear browser cache for just one specific site in Mobile Safari?

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I'm doing some testing on a mobile site in development and there are many updates and changes happening to this site. In order to test afresh and clear any JavaScript or what-not that is held in the cache on my iPhone I need to clear the site from the history.

However, i'm not too keen on wiping all my browser history as I don't want to have re-sign into every site I'm currently logged into or have cookies for. This testing could last several months and the thought of having to clear my history and sign into all my various accounts every time is not that appealing.

Is there a way to specifically clear out the history of just one domain from my history without wiping all my cache out?

I could (and do) have other browsers on my iPhone (chrome, opera - if that even counts as a browser) but as Safari is the browser the target audience will mostly use I need to keep with this one predominantly.


texts: Is there an iOS timelapse app that saves frames to camera roll?

texts: I'm looking for an app that will save individual frames to the camera roll as it goes, at something like a 1-5 second interval. I'm having trouble finding any apps that don't expect you to use them to make the final video; I'd rather do that at home on the computer where I can use the images along with the ones off the SLR.


texts: How can I remove the music bar in iMovie 10.0.3?

texts: I last used iMovie 3 months ago, but now it's totally different.  I've figured out some things, but under the audio track there is now space for a music track, which I'm not using, and I can't see how to hide it.  It takes up so much room that I can't see enough of my clip to work on.  Is there any way to hide the music track if I'm not adding music?


texts: Can't get commands inside .bash_profile startup script to run

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From my bash shell (latest version of Lion) if I issue the command...

source ~/sh/bashmarks.sh

The bashmarks.sh script will run and the functionality it provides is available.  However I don't want to manually run this script so I have tried to put it into my ~/.bash_profile (the above command is the only thing in the file).

If I quit Terminal and then restart it, the ~/.bash_profile runs, but it reports...

: command not found

How can I get the commands contained in this script to run when the Terminal is opened?  I know the correct .bash_profile is being run, because I can modify the file with some other commands and those don't work either, but the point being is I can see the output change when I modify the contents of the file and restart the shell.  So it is picking up the right ~ user directory (I am the only account on the machine).


texts: Enable full disk access for an application without a .app extension

texts: I'm trying to mess around with the circuit design application "Digital" but it doesn't seem to be able to read data from folders. I tried giving it access in system preferences, but it doesn't seem to allow me to add .jar applications. This might not be the issue, but it seems like the most probable cause. If allowing all applications full disk access would fix it, I'd be ok with the security hit. I'm on the latest version of digital installed with homebrew. I'm on M1, if that's relevant.


texts: How to get user GUI input from BASH scripts?

texts:
From a BASH script I want to get user input and change system settings, in a loop.  I first tried cocoaDialog but that has a fatal flaw: the dialogs are always on top of other windows.

Ideally, I could throw up a dialog with "set sleep mode" and "set awake mode" (for toggling the "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" setting) buttons and the dialog/window would stay put when buttons are pressed.  In the case of cocoaDialog, I had to put up a new dialog each time a button was pressed.  It would have been fine, but aside from the above problem already mentioned, putting up a new dialog positions it in the middle of the screen and not where the old one was (and cocoaDialog doesn't have positioning arguments for dialogs).

Anyone know of a solution?  I suspect AppleScript would work, but it is so complex and I've not been able to find suitable examples I could copy/modify.

Thanks.


texts: Why I can't get out of EFI firmware update 2.7 on my MacBook Pro?

texts:
Performing the EFI firmware update to version 2.7 these days, I noticed that my 15" MacBook Pro (bought March 25, 2012) resets for five times before booting effectively.

Even then, I can notice that EFI firmware 2.7 is still available in Software Update.

I tried to repeat the update operation, but still no joy. It seems like the update couldn't take place for some reason.

I can't figure out why.


texts: Most recent backup not available when attempting to restore iPhone

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I am trying to restore my most recent backup onto my iPhone, but I can only see old backups when I click Restore. My most recent backup does appear in iTunes under Preferences.

How can I access that one, as the other is actually 8 months old? My iPhone has been stolen I am keen to recover my most recent data.


texts: iBooks - The file X couldn't be saved in the folder Y

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A few days ago, iTunes up and dumped every one of my ~300 books (PDFs, added manually from a source) — not any kind of warning or explanation, no upgrade I accepted, the sidebar item just vanished — and iBooks is refusing to recognize a single one of them. It managed to add a whole two, and in the process copied them to another location without my consent. I then created an alias to force iBooks to read from the appropriate location on an external drive. Such was the intent, in any case.

iTunes doesn't like it when ~/User/Music/iTunes/ is an alias. Automatic sorting of music goes one directory too high because of reasons. A stupid bug that was never fixed, and likely never will be. I can deal with that, but now I find that iBooks is completely broken in an identical scenario. Why should it care whether a directory is on the boot partition or a larger external drive?

The error in the title took a good five minutes to appear. I used Force Quit so as not to be required to manually close ~300 individual alerts, since "do this for all" is apparently outside the app design at this point.

So my question is this: How am I supposed to store my mountain of not-books on a portable HDD if the most obvious solution doesn't cut it?

Edit: Aliases and symbolic links are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing when used in this manner. iTunes cannot function properly with this configuration because reasons, and iBooks is even worse. Also because reasons. What else is there to do?


texts: Mac Chrome Scrolling issue (followed many guides, none have worked, video showing problem included))

texts:
Please reference the video below, I created it using three different browsers and showing my settings and scrolling inputs so that either the Dev team can use this information to apply a patch or someone can guide me to a working answer.

I have been searching for day trying to disable two finger swipe (Horizontal) in chrome so that the browser will not navigate forward/back.  Every method I have found has not helped, and I did not show it in the video but I also tried adjusting some chrome flags and that did not help either.  I did restart chrome after my changes each time.

Methods I have tried; and that have failed:
 - command line turning off gestures for chrome only
 - turning off gestures completely in system preferences
 - defining custom gestures using bettertouchtool
 - messing with flags pertaining to keyword relating to this issue, such as touch
 - I think that is all...

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/aYTyjqenSIA

My conclusion is that this is built into chrome, since I do not experience this issue anywhere else.  I am unsure why but the incognito build seems to be lacking this functionality, as i cannot drag the page to the right (Scroll left past the left bound of the web page) to trigger the back functionality.


texts: OSX Automator/AppleScript howto automate an application import+export of selectable/dropped files

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I'm newbie to Automator/Applescripting and I'm trying to figure out if Automator and/or Applescript might be used to launch InkScape.app and do an import of a user selectable file and have InkScape export/save a HPGL version afterwards in a user selected destination.
Only I'm not sure howto make InkScape play along if possible at all. I can easy do a simple 'Launch Application' action but it doesn't accept and Finder Item as input from a previous 'Get Selected Finder Items' So I assume I'll need to trigger InkScape's Import (Cmd-I) action after launching it. Only howto do this?
Hints appreciated, TIA!


texts: Messages on Mac displaying "Not Delivered" but message is being delivered

texts:
I've tried logging out and back into my Apple ID account on my Mac, but some (not all) messages are showing the red exclamation point and "Not Delivered", but when I go to the same thread on my phone the message shows up as delivered. I've also checked some of them with one of the  people I was chatting with and they are being delivered.

This behavior started 2 or 3 weeks ago.


texts:
How do I export a Bundle with changes (delta) from Textmate 2?

I have installed the Bundle manually and it appears in the ~/Library/Application Support/Avian/Pristine Copy/Bundles directory.

But I've made edits with the bundle editor so there are also "delta" files in ~/Library/Application Support/Avian/Bundles

Is there a way to merge these or export a combined version besides manually editing as XML?


texts: What can be done about the calendar app closing itself on an iPad?

texts: I have been using my calendar fine but this afternoon when I click on the tile it briefly opens (1 sec) and then closes itself. I have waited 30 mins, I have turned iPad off & back on and still no joy.


texts: How can I download plain .txt files in Safari/Chrome?

texts:
Some data formats will not be automatically downloaded by Safari/Chrome. Usually there are other options:

.jpg → right-click will show a dialog with an option download
.pdf → when you hover over the PDF an option to download appears

How can I download a plain .txt file? (example URL)


texts: How access files from macOS that are stored locally in the Files App on a iPadOS or iOS device

texts: How can i access files from macOS (v10.14, v10.15.beta) that are stored locally on a iOS or iPadOS device via the File app and that are not uploaded to iCloud or other Cloud services and are not stored in a folder from Apps like Pages, Keynote? Obviously not even synchronization does copy those files. I'm using iPadOS (v13.1). Thanks.


texts: Karabiner-Elements: How to disable a group of keys in a simple way?

texts:
Is there a simple way to disable a group of keys in complex modifications in Karabiner-Elements?

Consider an example:

Under the following condition

  "set_variable": {
      "name": "con-1",
      "value": 1
  }

I want to disable all alphabets/numbers/simbols (or most of them at least), except for a and b.

Just for reference, this page discusses how to disable individual keys. Applying this approach to many many keys is not efficient.

I appreciate your insight in advance.


texts:
Last login: Fri Sep 27 15:42:55 on ttys000
    You have mail.
    -bash: EO: command not found
    -bash: cl: command not found
    -bash: cl: command not found
    -bash(7167,0x10a4bf5c0) malloc: can't allocate region
    *** mach_vm_map(size=18446744071689805824) failed (error code=3)
    -bash(7167,0x10a4bf5c0) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
    -bash: xrealloc: cannot allocate 18446744071689803274 bytes

    [Process completed]


texts: iMac 27" model 2010 - speaker weird after exchange of logicboard

texts:
I exchanged the logicboard and now the speakers don't work well.

If plugged in both on the logicboard then the right speaker (the one without the subwoofer) makes distorted sounds.

If I plug out the other speaker then the right speaker sounds good!!!

Left speaker plug in only: no Sound at all.

I checked the restistance. It is similar on both speakers. Between 1 and 2 pin it is 5 ohm and between 3 and 4 it is 10 ohm. So apparently, all is fine with th speakers itself.

I also tried to reset PRAM and SMC.


texts: Deleting a 'No such file or directory' file

texts:
I recently swapped out the CD drive on my Macbook Pro late 2011 for a hard drive. On that hard drive there were some files that I wanted to delete, as per usual I moved them to the Trash. Now that they're in there they can't be deleted because due a to a message saying that the "folder is currently still in use". I located the folder to be on my newly added hard drive in its /.Trashes/ folder. I accessed this directory through the terminal and executed the command "sudo rm -rf /.Trashes/", however upon execution the message "No such file or directory" is noted after each of the folders within. I keep reading that this problem is something to do with 32 bit and 64 bit architecture confusion but if I'm honest I don't really understand what this means.

There is no option to reinstate the folder in the Trash ("Put back") and I can't forcefully remove the folder on my new hard drive that is stopping it from being in use. I've also accessed my /.Trash/ folder on my OS hard drive and done the same command ("sudo rm -rf /.Trash/") with no such luck.

Does anyone have any idea how I can go about deleting these files so they're removed from my trash and new hard drive?


texts: Is is possible to deactivate the Lightning port?

texts:
On a current iDevice, such as an iPhone 6 or an iPad Air 2, is it possible to deactivate the Lightning port?  I don't want to break it, just temporarily disable it, similar to how Settings > Bluetooth can be used to temporarily disable Bluetooth.

Edit: Why?  To prevent data exfil in an enterprise setting.  So I'm looking to prevent data sync and data transfer.  Charging is still ok.


texts: Running a command line tool based on its extension

texts:
I use Leo for structured editing of my code, and Leo has the extension of .leo.

In order to run Leo, I use the following alias

alias leo='arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/python2.6 /Users/bin/Leo-4.7.1-final/launchLeo.py --gui=qt'

It works well to launch leo with leo file as follows.

leo -f hello.leo

However, I need to find a way to launch Leo by clicking the leo file in the Finder/Path Finder.

What might be the solution to this problem?

ADDED

Mankoff's advice on using Automator works.
For running PyQt with -f option, I set "Pass input : as argument", and have the following bash code, which launches with/without -f option depending a file is dragged on or not.

if [ -z $1 ]
then
  arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/python2.6 /Users/smcho/smcho/bin/Leo-4.8-b1/launchLeo.py --gui=qt
else
  arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/python2.6 /Users/smcho/smcho/bin/Leo-4.8-b1/launchLeo.py --gui=qt -f $1
fi


texts: I've installed Windows with the Boot Camp Assistant Tool but I want to create a third parition to install Ubuntu. On the Mac I can't change the volume size, is not that i receive some error, is just don't give me the ability to shrink it. If i try to resize the Windows partition from Windows (so to get some free space from there), Windows says that the maximum aviable space that can be reduced is 600 MB (even if I have 30 GB free on Bootcamp partition). Is there a way to create another partition without deleting Bootcamp?


texts: Old versions of the OS X Human Interface Guidelines

texts:
I'm looking to write a paper on how the OS X user interface has evolved from OS X Leopard all the way through to OS X Yosemite and am seeking guidance on where to find older versions of the OS X Human Interface Guidelines documentation.

The following data should aid in the search in the circumstance that navigating the WayBack Machine in the event that that is the only viable option.

OS X 10.5 Leopard Release Date: October 26, 2007
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Release Date: August 28, 2009
OS X 10.7 Lion Release Date: July 20, 2011
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Release Date: July 25, 2012
OS X 10.9 Mavericks Release Date: October 22, 2013
OS X 10.10 Yosemite Release Date: October 16, 2014

Any help in finding these documents would be greatly appreciated.

If there's not a complete link to them, perhaps several answers could point to each or one answer be maintained to point to them all.


texts: Is there an iPhone application same like MS Office Suite?

texts:
I am wondering if there is any iPhone application same like MS Office suite, I mean Spreadsheet, Word Processor and so on.

If you know a free app it will be better if not so what is the best pro payed one


texts: Lost game progress after reinstalling app despite app having Game Center integration

texts:
I used to play The Sims Freeplay on my iPad, but after playing the game for a week I deleted it, but I did not remove it from Game Center. I re-installed the game, but I couldn't continue my progress. Game Center is still showing the progress of my old account, but I couldn't continue it. Does Game Center save my The Sims Freeplay progress?

If it doesn't, why did it save for my Clash of Clans account? I re-installed the game and I still can continue my progress.


texts: Terminal CMD + SHIFT + Left/Right Brace No Longer Works

texts:
I'm using Terminal and don't know if this has been an issue after upgrading to Mountain Lion, or whether I made a configuration change that had a side effect that I didn't realize. When I use the CMD + SHIFT + ] or CMD + SHIFT + [ keys, the mac beeps at me instead of switching the tab I'm using in Terminal.

Is there a way to remap this sequence? Where would I look?

Note, I can use CMD + SHIFT + ] / [ to shift tabs in Safari and Chrome, so this only happens in Terminal. (I also noticed that CMD + 1, shifts desktops instead of shifting to a particular tab; I'm okay with that not operating as I would expect since I don't use that shortcut).

Note, I have switched my CMD & ALT keys on my keyboard, but if I use a keyboard without these switched, I get the same behavior.


texts: Restore delted messages from macbook to phone

texts: I deleted all my texts from my GF by a mistake on my iPhone and i dont have it backed up by ICloud (Im dumb i know). I have all the texts on my MacBook under Messages. Is there any way i can get them down to my Phone again? Thank you for you help (I'm desperate)


texts: Options to play video with menu on iPad / iOS

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I want to play a video with a language-menu on iPad, like DVD menus. I've read on a forum that DVD-menu's are not possible, but this was an old thread.

What are the options nowadays to play a Video with Custom Menu on iPad?

EDIT:

What I want to do exactly is let the viewer choose the language of the movie (subtitles).
This would be done by a DVD-like menu, with video in the background. This is important, because it's for presentations.

I learned that DivX supports menu's, so I'm trying thit at the moment, but the software to do this is pretty bad.


texts: Is there a way to bind the chrome style look up in dictionary to a key binding? In case you don't know what function I'm talking about here's a screenshot:


texts: How can I specify a smaller block size for a Ramdisk?

texts:
I use a ramdisk to speed up a git repository with a lot (> 60k) of small (~200 bytes) files.

Is there a way to create a ramdisk with a smaller block size?


texts: Connecting a MIDI piano keyboard to the iPad with a MIDI cable

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I have an iPad Pro and wanted to connect a keyboard with my iPad via a MIDI cable that I also have (https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B00NH13DV2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1).
And I don't know which adapter to buy to be able to do it.
Thank you very much


texts: How to replace the currently selected text in Applescript? How does Devontechnologies WordServices' do it?

texts:
Devontechnologies offers a collection of services that let's the user perform some common tasks on text (upper case, lower case, ROT13 and so on). They do it without (as far as I can tell at least) using the clipboard (pbpaste/pbcopy).

I have googled a lot about this but the only solutions I have found are based on pbcopy/pbpaste and I want to avoid that. Any suggestions?

I am creating my own service similar to Devon's WordServices that takes an editable piece of text, manipulates it and finally replaces the original text.


texts: High frequency sound and unwanted shutdowns

texts:
My Mac-Mini (april 2020) makes a high frequency noise, it doesn't always occur and never after a reboot.
Probably this kind of noise :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_induced_acoustic_noise
A bigger problem is when using any software (drawing or coding or just when the computer is idle,) my Mac Mini turns off randomly (not every day) and I need to unplug it to reboot.
I call Apple, make a diagnostic and go to an Apple premium reseller. No problems found. :(
Any ideas ?


texts: Downgrading from Yosemite to Mavericks with TimeMachine backup from another Mac

texts: I have an iMac mid 2011 with Maverick which i have replaced with a iMac retina 27" with Yosemite Preinstalled. I did a Migration Assistant to transfer files from old to new mac. Now i want to downgrade the new machine from Yosemite to Mavericks. Can i use a TM backup from the old machine made AFTER the migration, to do this? (Using the OS X Utilities restoring from TM Backup).


texts: Mac mid-2010 screen stay black but sometimes works

texts: I have an mid-2010 iMac with 2 gigs of rams and he doesn't work everyday. He make the start sound but I need to restart 4 or 5 times to see somethings . Is this a problems of gpu or power supply ? Did I have ton reflow the gpu ?


texts: Rename various folders ignoring current name with Better Finder Rename

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I have the following folders

trip to xxx
folder-temp
pic-temp
my-xxx-videos

I wanna rename all the folders to "my-folders1", "my-folders2" and so on.

I am using better finder rename but I don't see an option that lets me completely remove any folder name and replace it with something else. Any ideas?

I already know how the incrementing number work.


texts: Setting up Family Sharing/Apple ID without using school email

texts: I am trying to set up Find My iPhone on an Apple 5s for my 16 year old son.  However, he does not want his email address used for the Apple ID because it is connected to his school.  Would there be any drawback to setting him up as an "under 13" child so he doesn't have to use his school email?


texts: Focusing On An Input Box Quickly Will Delete The First Two Characters Typed!

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If I focus on a user-input box, select what's in it, press delete, and start typing, the first two characters I type will get selected and deleted.
Let's say this is an input box:

Input Content

I put my cursor there:

Input Content |

I select:

|Input Content

I delete:

|

I type:

a|
b|
c |
cd |
cde |

When I type in an input box that I have selected in, the first two characters are selected and deleted.


texts: What security does iMessages provide or is it open and subject to the security of the connection used to send the messages?


texts: how to block Adobe, Google and others from installing crap on my Mavericks

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Adobe and Google insist on install crap on several folders, like update checkers and things like that.

This is the crap I have identified by Adobe.

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist

also crap from TeamViewer

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist

crap like this run when the system starts and load bloatware on the memory with useless stuff.

I would like to prevent this from happening.

My first idea was to replace the original files with blank ones and set chmod to 000 but when I have to legitimate install some software from them, they replace my file with a new version. The problem is that the installation runs with root privilege.

Is there a way to block my tricky files from being replaced by an installer with root privileges?

I know what you will say... root privileges... but may be there is a way...


texts: A command line utility to test the status of files in iCloud drive directory

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Is there a command-line program that determines the status of files (uploaded, uploading, ineligible, etc) in the iCloud drive?

For example, I would like to be able to use a program such as find to get a list of files that have not been successfully uploaded to iCloud drive.


texts: How to start Firefox web browser from terminal in private mode?

texts: Simply put, how do I open the Firefox directly from Mac OS X Terminal in private mode?


texts: Why does Apple TV not stop my Mac from sleeping?

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When using Home Sharing on Apple TV 3rd gen, the Mac will fall asleep even though it is needed to stream content. So in the middle of a movie the connection will be lost because the Mac goes to sleep.

Why does it not stay awake? It seems like a big oversight on Apple's part.


texts: Does the new 24" iMac Touch ID keyboard work with Mac's with the T2 Chip?

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I have a 2019 MacBook Air with Touch ID and was wondering if the new 24" iMac Touch ID keyboard will work with my computer. I know for sure that it works with all other Apple Silicon computers, but what about computers with the Apple T2 chip. When I use my Mac with my external monitor my unlock with Apple Watch doesnt always work and putting in the password is hassle especially when I am in a hurry
Thanks in advance!


texts: Is iPad Pro's GPS supposed to be not as accurate as iPhone's GPS?

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I have an iPad Pro, and noticed that its GPS will tell the location off by about 100 feet to 150 feet. Sometimes it says it cannot find any GPS signal, when the iPhone 6 has no issue at all.

The spec page of iPad Pro says that it has

Assisted GPS and GLONASS

at first I thought the aGPS is not as accurate as regular GPS, but then, it is the same specs as for iPhone 6 or iPhone 7.

So can it be fixed by software or will it require a hardware fix?

(if the GPS is to find a cafe or restaurant, it is no problem.  But when playing Pokemon Go, it is annoying to be not at the exact location -- except one advantage is that you can scan an area slightly off to the real location, so it is like you can scan 2 areas at the same time if you use both the iPad Pro and the iPhone).


texts: Is it possible to create (and save) a fluid app with multiple tabs?

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I use Fluid to make webapps that I want open all the time function more like independant native apps, so they're not lost in a tab in my browser.

And Fluid allows for tabbed browsing, so I can choose to open another tab for a link, say, if I don't want to open it in my main (non-fluid) browser:

But I can't find any way to save multiple tabs as the Fluid App's home page, like you can on any web browser.  I want the app to automaticially open two tabs, so one fluid app can be for chat, but have a tab for two different chat rooms, one for Trello, but with tabs for a couple of boards, etc.

Am I missing some way to do this?


texts: Change font size of mail list in Mail.app

texts: Is it possible to change the font size of list of mails on the left side inside Mail.app? I find it to be a bit too small for my liking.


texts:
What is a non-destructive way to prevent an app from opening?

Command line code is OK (as long as it isn't "rm (appname))
Applescript is OK
The app may want to be used in the future, so corrupting it is not allowed
Answers like "Just don't use (app)" should get you shot into the sun, but, alas, our space budget just isn't what it used to be
Not a start-up issue.


texts: Mac App Store: How auto update happens for an Application which requires installer

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We've an application which we are planning to add to App Store.

Till now we were hosting an installer on Enterprise Servers and users were downloading it from server.

Does App store support such applications which requires multiple components to be installed using an installer?

We need installer as it installs the main application and start backend service.
Also, how auto update will happen if new version of application is available on AppStore, will it start package installer?

Please provide pointers on this.


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I can't set up my Google Accounts on my MacBook Pro. When adding my work (one step) or private (two-step) Google account in the internet accounts panel in system preferences, it doesn't go past this screen. When I select the apps to sync, I can click Done and then Done get's greyed out. I see the grey spinning wheel very shortly.

For the calendar, I tried this but without succes:
Can't enable Gmail calendar syncing

I've had this issue on Yosemite as well, but now also for el Capitan. Other sites suggest going on a different network would solve the issue. I tried wired, WiFi and a mobile hotspot I created with my phone without succes.

It seems that in the process I'm going one step further than this guy Internet Accounts - Login Issue with Google and iCloud. I'm running out of options and frustration is growing strongly. Thinking about doing a clean install.


texts: Is there a way to make the Menu bar show at all times in fullscreen windows?

texts:
I'm new to macOS and I really like the way you can assign a window to be it's own Desktop via full-screening. However, I have an issue with the default way the Menu bar works in full-screen.

I often move my cursor to the top of the screen to click on my tabs in my browsers and editors, and accidentally trigger the Menu bar obscuring my tabs. Other times I'd like the Menu bar to be available at a glance rather than having to trigger it by mousing up.

Is there some setting or application that will force the Menu bar to show at all times for full-screened windows?

It appears I'm not the first to have this issue, but the solutions in this post didn't work for me and based on the comment for the top answer it won't work for anyone.

If there is no way to do this can anyone give me a hint where I can get started writing an application to do this?

PS: Please don't suggest that I simply hold alt when clicking the fullscreen green button or anything else like just resize the window to fill the screen". This doesn't solve my issue because it strips away many of the advantages of fullscreening.


texts: Find out which certificate authorities do not come with the system

texts: I believe that some of the programs I downloaded in the past have installed some root certificate authorities on my Mac (the OS is Mavericks). After learning more about SSL/TLS, I figure that this is a security risk and I want to fix it. How do I distinguish these CAs from the ones preinstalled with the OS so that I can get rid of them?


texts:
Is there any FREE real SSH apps for iOS 5. There should not be any jailbreaking.

I wanted something like these:

iPhone SSH clients reviewed: iSSH, pTerm, and TouchTerm
Three SSH terminal apps for iPhone

I want to use an online shell.


texts:
I have word document (.docx on a mac) at 3.4 MB. When I save it to PDF it becomes a whomping 90 MB. I can't make it smaller and I can't figure out why it's happening. Here are the details:

I've tried to convert it to PDF through: save as pdf, print --> open as pdf --> save, print --> save as PDF.
I've done the PostScript work around and it did not help
I've used the quartz filter to reduce file size, it did not help
I've used websites to compress the PDF, they did not help
I've copied and pasted to a new word document, same thing happened.
The document has very few photos and things. It's 120 pages, mostly just text in Calibri, with a table of contents and page breaks.
I have an old version of this file at 3 MB, PDF at 4 MB. When I open the old version and save it as PDF, it jumps to 75 MB. WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Other computers have had the same problem with it saving at 90 MB.

I do not have any adobe products, just Preview.

Even more than how to compress this file, what I really want to know is why is this happening? What is it about my computer or documents or preview that's making this so stupid??

THANK YOU.


texts: Applescript (PDF to iTunes): How to extract and/or write metadata with special characters? Help please :-)

texts:
INTRODUCTION

Hello there,

Like always, I want to put in front that I'm not a script expert. I'm not even a basic coder. I just try to learn, little by little about coding when I have these challenges. Please be through enough for a Dummy!

PRECEDENT

I need to transfer the metadata information of the author of a PDF book to the Author tag in my iTunes library.
(Yes! I got rid of iBooks and got back Books in iTunes)

Recently here in this site, with the help of one of the members I got a script problem solved. Or sort of.

THE PROBLEM

I say sort of, because even when the script will do the task flawlessly if no special character is in the name, the script has a huge limitation: It won't read, write or both, text containing special characters.

EXAMPLE:

Mercé Lamás del Jagüey Nuñez   becomes in iTunes  Merce\U0301 Lama\U0301s del Jagu\U0308ey Nun\U0303ez-

I appreciate your help to find a solution.
I need to automate this task to properly curate the +4000 PDF books in my iTunes library.

Thank you!

SCRIPT IN DEVELOPMENT

tell application "iTunes"

set sel to the selection

if sel is {} then display dialog "Please select something" buttons {"Cancel"}

repeat with i from 1 to count of sel

    set the_track to item i of sel

    set the_posix_path to POSIX path of (location of the_track as alias)

    set authorfield to paragraph 2 of (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemAuthors " & quoted form of the_posix_path & "|  awk -F\\\" '{print $2'}")

    set artist of the_track to (authorfield & "-") as string
end repeat
end tell

GRAPHIC


texts: Every time my family and I try to download an app, the AppStore pops up saying my Apple ID or password is incorrect. So the first time I reset the password. It happened again and I did reset it a second time. The third time I wrote down the password, so I knew it was right. But AppStore still doesn't accept my Apple ID or password. I've changed it about 5 times now. What do I do?


texts: How to completely remove Fuse for Mac OS X, MacFUSE, NTFS-3G

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I want to switch to Tuxera NTFS for better support. But don’t know how to uninstall all these apps before completely switching to Tuxera.

I also install fuse_wait.pkg but I am not sure how to unistall .pkg file.

I followed this video for NTFS-3G installation in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).


texts: App to view my iOS photos with their filenames

texts: Is there an app for iOS where I can see all my photos from the iOS Photos app, with their filenames next to them? Preferably without duplicating the photos, but rather just mirroring them and showing the metadata associated with each photo.


texts:
So, a while ago something happened to my MacBook Pro such that when I boot it, it doesn’t turn on the screen - it hasn’t been a problem, because I simply closed the screen, waited for it to go to sleep, and then opened it again;  the screen would be working and I could login.

So, today I decided to update to High Sierra, and now it won’t turn on the screen whatever I do - I suspect it has to do with the startup screen when you install a new OS. It’s HDMI port doesn’t work, and I can’t find my mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter, so I don’t know what to do.

Can anyone help me?


texts: Coreaudiod spams system log: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive

texts:
I'm getting my system log virtually spammed with:

May 13 23:56:36 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
May 13 23:56:37 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
May 13 23:56:38 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
May 13 23:56:39 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
May 13 23:56:39 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
May 13 23:56:39 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
May 13 23:56:39 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
May 13 23:56:41 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
May 13 23:56:41 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
May 13 23:56:42 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active

Googling yields no useful results. Any ideas what this is and how to alleviate it?


texts: How can I update iOS apps that I own but were installed from a different account?

texts:
I used to have access to two different app store accounts. My own, personal one and another that belonged to a client I worked with. I had to use that client's account a lot and AFAIK you can't configure an iOS device to remember multiple logins, so I would often install apps I already owned from their account.

I no longer work with that client and, at some point, they changed their password. Now, when I try and update those apps, it challenges me for a password. I could understand this if these were apps I don't have on my own account, but I do.

Deleting and re-installing these apps fixes the problem. But there are some apps I'd prefer not to delete because I want to keep local content.

I'm presuming I might be able to get round this by hooking up my iOS devices to my PC and backing them up with iTunes. Then deleting and reinstalling the apps. However, I'm not sure this will work. I also hate iTunes with a vengeance and would prefer not to use it if at all possible.

Will this work if I try it? Or is there any other way I can get my apps to update?


texts: How to create multi-field dialog box in AppleScript (to request time from user)?

texts:
I have an Automator Application that I would like to ask the user to enter a time of the user's choosing.

Ideally, I would like the dialog box to have three fields:

1) Hour field

2) Minutes field

3) Period (p.m. or a.m.)

Fields one and two are enterable by the user and there is a colon in between the two fields. Field three is a simple drop-down list and the user must select one of the two options.

I would also like the AppleScript to check that whatever text is typed in the hour and minutes fields comports to the standards of time, and if it does not, then an error message is presented and the user must enter the text again. (I.e., the text entered in the first field must be a single-digit number between 1 and 12 and the text entered in the second field must be a two-digit number between 00 and 60.)

I know that all of this can be accomplished in three separate dialog boxes, but I really would prefer to have it all completed in one dialog box (for the sake of presenting the user with a convenient UI).

I am not very proficient in AppleScript, so this project is extremely ambitious for me. Can this be accomplished in AppleScript?

If this behavior is not possible AppleScript, can someone recommend a similar alternative language in which this kind of dialog box is possible?

Thank you.


texts: How do I overwrite my game data in Shall We Date?: Ninja Assassin+ by deleting my old Game Center account for it on my old iPhone? Because my current data on my new phone is more up to date than the data on my old phone. How do I sync or overwrite the data so it can be the same data as on my new phone ? I also have the Game Center update on both phones  .


texts: Final Cut Pro 10.4.3 Mojave Compatibility

texts:
I'm having some compatibility issues in macOS Mojave.
I can't see the thumbnails preview of Titles, Effects, etc.

Is there any known fix for this?

UPDATE 1

Maybe it's something related with OpenGL: Some things that broke in Mojave OpenGL


texts: How to enable logging for smbd on macOS?

texts:
I would like to enable logging on my file sharing service. (It's crashing intermittently and I can't figure out why.)

When I inspect the plist for the file sharing service smbd on my Mac running Mojave, I see:

user@mac:~ $  plutil -p /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist

{
  "AclsEnabled" => 1
  "DOSCodePage" => "437"
  "LocalKerberosRealm" => "LKDC:SHA1..."
  "LogLevel" => 0
  "NetBIOSName" => "transom"
  "ServerDescription" => "Transom"
  "SigningRequired" => 0
}

So, it looks like logging is configured with the parameter "LogLevel".
I've read the smbd man page, and it's not much help, with this parameter.

What are the allowed log levels?
Which level is best for debugging smbd crashes?
What's the preferred method for tweaking a value? (plutil can set, or...)


texts: Has anyone ever tried to use an iPhone as web server?

texts:
Yeah, it makes no sense to use an iPhone as web server, although the hardware could be used in some interesting ways if this would be possible. You could, for example, set up the iPhone to send a phonecall or SMS with pre-recorded message to someone who, for example, send his phonenumber through it's web interface to be included in it's address book.

Again, it's not very useful, but it would be cool to be able to communicate with an iPhone-based web server. Who knows? Maybe someone does come up with a practical purpose for this!


texts: Restoring from backup does not restore some applications - I need their data badly

texts:
Well, I've got my iTunes backup restored to my iPhone. Unfortunately, I've had an important application for me - Photo Drag Pro, which was probably now removed from the App Store. However, I need to restore data from that application.

The application itself shows for a few moments on a home screen, noting "Wait" and then disappears. Is there a possibility to restore that application, possibly with data? It means a lot for me!


texts: Find out apple email id from iphone activation lock

texts:
Is there anyway to find out the email address attached to iphone, when iphone is currently locked to activation mode ?

I just needed to know the email address so I can reset the password.
The person who attached the Apple ID forgot which account she was using


texts: Sending push notification to iPhone via AppleScript

texts:
Is there any combination of iPhone and/or Mac apps that I can use to send a push notification to my iPhone?

For example, let's say I want to create a service (invoked via (Application Name) > Services) which sends the highlighted text on my Mac to my iPhone as a push notification message.


texts: Cannot restore MBP 16 - macOS Verify failed

texts:
When I try to reinstall macOS from Recovery, the install happens and stops at the end saying "failed to verify macOS"

I have tried:

Reset NVRAM/PRAM
Reset SMC
Tried to change Security setting (no administrator exists anymore)
Cannot install from external drive due to the security settings
Currently i do not have access to my time machine backup

Background:

I got a 16inch MacBook Pro and it stopped working during an update. Also there were some weird issues happening on the software as Finder was hanging , and taking lots of time. Since this was migrated OS from multiple computers in the past, i thought this was a good time for a clean install. And stuck with nowhere to go.

Any help would be much appreciated


texts: How to copy plain text from web pages in Safari?

texts:
When using Safari, I find no plug-in to force copied text from web pages to not include rich-text formatting and only copy the raw ascii characters.

How can I, using Safari, only copy plain text into the clipboard from web pages?

If that is not possible, is there a way in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 to only paste plain text?


texts: How to Install Windows 8.1 on Haswell Mac?

texts: I have a Haswell retina MBP, but following the installation process with Bootcamp Assistant v.5.1.1 results in an error when Windows attempts to install. Are there any guides available that walks one through this process?


texts: See/read Mac mini hard drive from MacBook Air?

texts:
My Mac mini crashed during an OS upgrade and my display simply looks a bit like my opening screen but is refreshing (jumping around?) rapidly with no way to make any keyboard input.  I'd rather not do a reset as I have some   files I want to keep.

Is there a way I can use my MacBook Air via USB or any other method to access/transfer the files so that I might retain them?


texts: Best practice to connect two monitors with my Macbook Pro

texts:
currently i am asking which is the best practice to connect two HDMI monitors on my Macbook Pro. I have on HDMI slot and one Display Port. It is possible to chain the monitors via one display port or i have to connect one via hdmi and one via the mini display port?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to connect to a Wi-Fi network that requires a special sign-in

texts:
In my residence there's a new Wi-Fi system.
We connect to this network that requires a password and then it is supposed to redirect us to a website that ask for another, personal password.

So far I have been able to connect my Samsung tablet and phone, after I connect there appears a message to sign-in to the Wi-Fi .
But using my MacBook it's not the same: I type the first password and connect but there's not an option to sign-in.

I don't know what to do now.


texts: Yahoo! two-step authentication with iOS Mail and Apple Mail

texts:
I have recently activated two-step authentication for my Yahoo! e-mail account. I am now no longer able to use iOS Mail (on iPhone) or Apple Mail (on macOS) even though I have created third-party app passwords as recommended by Yahoo!.

The error messages read "Invalid Password. Please try again." (in Settings | Mail | Accounts | ...@yahoo.com | Re-enter Password) and "Wrong Password. Try again." for iOS Mail and Apple Mail respectively.

So how can I successfully configure Yahoo! third-party app passwords into iOS Mail and Apple Mail?


texts:
How do I make my Safari Pinned Tab Favicon multi-colored like Pandora has?
My logo and favicon are three colors.
I followed this tutorial to get the red svg I currently have, but it's a few years old.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/pinnedTabs/pinnedTabs.html

Thanks!

Jason


texts: Kindle iOS app - how to bulk delete personal documents

texts:
Is there a way to bulk delete "personal documents" from the Kindle iOS app?

They don't appear under the app folder in itunes when the phone is plugged in to a computer and my web searches have been fruitless.

Thanks.


texts: Wireless keyboard pressing the command key by itself

texts:
Recently, my Apple wireless keyboard has been pressing the command key by itself repeatedly. It's stuck like that until I turn off then on the keyboard.

Anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?


texts: Two Factor Authentication on 10.10.5 Yosemite

texts: I cannot find where to get my two factor authentication verification code from in settings on the Mac, neither is there any input field for me to type in the code. What do I do?


texts:
Is any technical documentation available for Apple's new File System. By technical, I mean File System's internal structures, File allocation block etc.
If Apple has not released any documentation, did someone tried to reverse engineer it?


texts: 13" MacBook Pro mid 2014 no startup key combination works - unable to update or enter recovery mode

texts:
I have catalina installed and can't update to big sur ("update not found / the requested version of macOS is not available) so i wanted to do fresh install from recovery mode but after trying all possible options I can't get anywhere. any combination of cmd R option/alt shift doesn't work. the only startup key combination that works is cmd+S. I also tried with bootable USB devices but the option/alt key doesn't work to select boot option. i tried with a live kali usb still not working. both those USB work on my MBA or iMac.
I tried the built in keyboard as well as my magic keyboard.
The only difference that I can see in Disk Utility is that the problematic MBP has "2 not mounted" compared to the other 2 and its the Preboot that is not mounted.
I really don't know what else to do.
Update: I found out there might be an issue with Big Sur on some 2013-2014 models and that might be the reason for the update issue, but that's not my main issue. I want a clean instal and ssd format for the MBP and I can't find any solution to go into recovery mode nor internet recovery. I tried holding them before I power on , just after, after the chime, I tried almost everything and nothing works.
UPDATE 2: I managed to get into recovery mode using the below command, thanks to a different question here.
sudo nvram "recovery-boot-mode=unused"

I installed a fresh copy of Catalina but I still cant get into recovery mode by just holding cmd+R or into startup manager by holding option/alt.


texts: Cannot install Mac OS X Lion due to disk errors

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I’m trying to install Mac OS X Lion after accidentally having erased my disk in order to reboot my iMac, which I did without backing it up. On a separate USB drive, I formatted and installed a Lion DMG file in order to reinstall the software back onto my computer, which currently starts up recovery mode because of my missing OS.

In order to download my OS from my USB into my hard drive, I believe I need to partition and erase my drive, however I get the error that the disk cannot be unmounted, most likely because the volume is being used? I have tried forcing the disk to unmount several times and have been stuck on this issue for days.

Please help. I just want to use my computer normally.


texts: Is it possible to bring up or tear down an iOS OnDemand tunnel based on a site accessed by mobile device?

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Say, if accessing one.example.com should always bring up the tunnel, how can this be expressed with OnDemandRules? Or if two.example.com should always tear down the tunnel?

The Configuration Profile Key Reference states that the latter case could somewhat be handled by using a DomainAction with value NeverConnect that would "never trigger a VPN connection attempt". Which would be, although better than nothing, not exactly what I'm looking for – except that even this does not work as expected (if I've understood the documentation correctly):

<key>OnDemandRules</key>
<array>

  <dict>
    <key>Action</key>
    <string>EvaluateConnection</string>
    <key>ActionParameters</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>DomainAction</key>
        <string>NeverConnect</string>
        <key>Domains</key>
        <array>
          <string>two.example.com</string>
        </array>
      </dict>
    </array>
  </dict>

  <dict>
    <key>URLStringProbe</key>
    <string>http://a.url.that.returns.a.two.hundred.ok/</string>
    <key>Action</key>
    <string>Connect</string>
  </dict>

</array>

My understanding is that as the OnDemandRules array of dictionaries is evaluated at every connection attempt, and if the device is accessing two.example.com, the first dictionary would match and the tunnel would not be brought up. If the device is accessing another domain, for example one.example.com, the first dictionary would not match, the second dictionary would match, and the tunnel would be brought up. This does not work, however, and the tunnel is never brought up. If the order is switched and the Connect dictionary is on top then the tunnel is always brought up (including when accessing two.example.com).

Is my understanding of the whole thing way off, or is Apple documentation or/and implementation somehow broken? Has anyone come up with OnDemandRules that can be used to selectively bring up or tear down a VPN connection based on the sites the device is accessing?

Edit: The tunnel can be brought up "by-domain" by using the following rules (this assumes that there is no local resolver present):

<key>OnDemandRules</key>
<array>

  <dict>
    <key>Action</key>
    <string>EvaluateConnection</string>
    <key>ActionParameters</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>RequiredDNSServers</key>
        <array>
          <string>127.0.0.1</string>
        </array>
        <key>DomainAction</key>
        <string>ConnectIfNeeded</string>
        <key>Domains</key>
        <array>
          <string>one.example.com</string>
        </array>
      </dict>
    </array>
    <key>URLStringProbe</key>
    <string>http://a.url.that.returns.a.two.hundred.ok/</string>
  </dict>

  <dict>
    <key>Action</key>
    <string>Disconnect</string>
  </dict>
</array>

This however suffers from the fact that resolving the domain name first fails, causing the initial page load to fail in Safari. After a page reload the page is shown, and the tunnel is brought up. This happens even if instead of 127.0.0.1 a real, working behind-the-tunnel DNS server address is provided. Is there a way to not fail the initial lookup?

Also, the latter dictionary (Disconnect) is never reached, and the tunnel stays up for some time. How can I do the "opposite" of the above and tear down the tunnel for some domain names? The DomainAction of NeverConnect does not do this.