texts: iCloud "message size violation" when sending zip containing more than 127 files

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Revised question
As per Tetsujin's suggestion in the comments I did some further testing.
There seems to be a problem with iCloud and sending a zip file of a folder with a certain amount of files. There appears to be a limit of 127 files in 1 folder, regardless of file type (tried .png, .svg and .txt).
When sending the mail using the Mail app I get a message size violation error and the mail can not be sent. Using the iCloud web interface the mail does appear to be sent (no error, appears in 'sent' list) but it never arrives.
Does anyone know why this limit exists? (as Tetsujin mentioned in the comments it might be some 7-bit shenanigans)

Old question
If I try to send an email with a 1.3 MB zip file as attachment I get a message size violation error:

File sizes of the zip file and original folder (1.3 MB and 10.7 MB respectively):

At first I thought it was somehow related the original folder being more than 10 MB, but according to Apple's iCloud support page the limit is 20 MB:

Limits on sending messages
There are several safeguards in place to make sure that only iCloud members can send messages using iCloud. One of these safeguards includes reasonable limits on:

...
The size of incoming and outgoing messages (20 MB, up to 5 GB with Mail Drop turned on)

Why am I unable to send this zip file? (also: shouldn't Mail Drop kick in if it thinks the attachment is too large? It is turned on.)


texts: How to limit my Mac's exposure to malware?

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With OS X malware increasingly in the news (see the Flashback Trojan issue), is there anything that I should do to increase the security of my Mac and reduce my exposure to malware?

What I'm doing so far:

keep up with OS X system patches
installed an antivirus package and kept up with the associated updates
separated my regular user login and the admin login
keep third party software up to date (Firefox, Flash, etc.)
research, scan, and limit the things I download
use adblocking and JS block browser extensions

Is there more that I could reasonably do to improve my machine's security? Any tips/suggestions for software or security best practices would be appreciated.


texts: Keyboard trouble after upgrading to 10.12.4

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Since upgrading to 10.12.4 on my mid-2011 MacBook Air, combinations of the left cmd and Z, A, and Q have stopped working. The Z doesn't work at all.

I have tried to reset keyboard shortcuts and booted into safe mode to test, but neither have helped recover the function of these keys. Any ideas?


texts: I have tried to erase all data from my MacBook Pro and erase and re install osx disk

texts: Does my Apple MacBook Pro have to have been previously connected to my wireless connection to connect it to that network to complete an internet recovery?


texts: How may I quit iPhoto without saving modifications?

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I am working with a huge photo library and from time to time I experiment quick editing on some pictures. Sometimes I also make uncontrolled changes which apply on a set of pictures I can't correctly see.

In these situations I would like to be able to exit iPhoto without saving these unwanted modifications.

I didn't find any preference permetting to achieve this wanted behaviour. Hopefully I have this basic function on most applications which can modify files or libraries beyond what the user can see.

Is there any hidden defaults of iPhoto which would give access to such a simple function?

I am actually running iPhoto '11, but I'm interested by this function for any version running on Lion, Mountain Lion & Mavericks.


texts: Is there a way to stop Mail from downloading e-mail when using IMAP?

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In Sierra, and it looks like this started with Mavericks, Mail downloads to a local disk entire e-mail messages when using IMAP.

It used not to do this in Mountain Lion (10.8).

Is there a way to configure Mail in Sierra to download just e-mail headers when using IMAP?


texts: Macbook pro external display (while in clamshell mode) won't sleep all of a sudden

texts: before, when I left my macbook pro alone for 15 minutes in clamshell mode the external display would go to sleep instead of putting on a screen saver. Now all of a sudden it goes into screen saver and I have to manually put the display to sleep (using hotkeys). does anyone have any idea why this could be ? If it helps i'm running 10.10.5... and my power savings setting hasn't changed.


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Is there a way to purchase an app from the App Store using iTunes without having to download it?  I'm thinking like a hidden preference/mouse/modifier key during click, etc.

I know the download can be canceled, but what I'm asking is if there is a way to prevent the download all together...


texts: List the extensions *enabled* in Safari for Mac OS X

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Possible Duplicate:
  List the extensions installed in Safari for Mac OS X, and state whether each one is enabled

I'd like a list, from which text can be copied.

(Not a screenshot of preferences.)

This information does not appear in any of the following:

Safari
System Profiler in Snow Leopard
System Information in Lion.


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I would like to disable ECDSA SSH host keys.

I deleted the existing keys:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key*

I uncomment ECDSA in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

$ grep -i ecdsa /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key

But when I restart sshd the keys are re-generated

$ sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
$ ls -l /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key*
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  480 Nov 16 14:57 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  162 Nov 16 14:57 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub

Ideally, the system would not employ weak elliptic curves as ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 at all going forward.

How can I prevent sshd to regenerate the ECDSA keys?


texts: Unlocking iPad Purchased from Government

texts: I have an iPad that was purchased from a previous employer (government local council). I have tried to factory reset it, but when setting up, I am told that this needs to be completed by the administrators for the council that I used to work for. Is there anyway of getting around this, without talking to the administrators from my previous employer?


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What iPad apps are available that support handwriting recognition?

Are there any good iPad apps for taking notes that can recognize handwriting?


texts: What are the purposes and safety to enable the hidden debug menu in Disk Utility?

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I'm primarily interested to know whether installation of Lion included the Recovery System.

I understand you can enable extra formats and debugging in Disk Utility, using the following commands:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility advanced-image-options -bool true

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool true

Is this safe? What can this be used for?


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Since Mac OS X Lion introduced the Resume feature, where applications save their open windows and document states, compatible applications have stored their window states to disk in the directory ~/Library/Saved Application State, in directories like com.apple.finder.savedState.

However in my Saved Application State directory, there is no com.apple.Preview.savedState. When I launch Preview.app, it does remember all its open windows and their states, but I cannot find where the state is stored on disk. It does not appear in the usual location. Can you help me find where Preview.app is saving its window states?


texts: MacBook Pro stuck on white screen after dual-boot adjustments

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I wanted to have dual-boot setup on my MacBook Pro. So after searching for a bit, I found a couple of sites that offered a step-by-step explanation on how to do it using rEFInd.

I successfully installed it - I got the rEFInd startup screen and everything. The problem is that when I selected the USB drive I wanted to install from. It always got stuck on a black screen saying

  No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

But that’s a different problem. After not being successful in booting from the USB drive, I had a “brilliant” idea.

I could take the same image I flashed onto the USB drive and try to do the same but on the partition I had prepared for Linux, so then maybe rEFInd will be able to boot if it’s on the hard drive. So I did the following:

sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m

With diskN being the partition on the hard drive, then restarted. And after that, the MacBook Pro never came back. It makes the chime sound, and that’s it. Also, I notice that Caps Lock and Eject keys don’t work, as I tried booting from a Linux CD and now I cannot eject it.

Startup key combinations don’t work, so using the recovery partition is not an option. It only turns on, makes the chime sound and get’s stuck on a white or grayish screen.

Any advice on how to solve this or ideas on what could have happened?


texts: Set macOS to output Limited RGB (16–235) color

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My projector only supports limited RGB color. That means it expects all RGB values to be in the range of 16–235.

macOS High Sierra appears to be outputting full RGB (0–255) color to my projector. This means the darkest blacks and highest whites get crushed, and the detail lost.

How can I make macOS output limited RGB color, instead of full?


texts: Network Intermittency with Time Machine causes a 'Completed Verification' dialog

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It appears that when disconnecting from a network while a TM backup is in progress results in the "Time Machine has completed a verification of your backups" message once the connection to the backup server has been reestablished.

This has recently occurred five times in a row as my computer has had to move around between my home and school quite a fair bit in the past few days and will likely continue doing that for the rest of the year. I would let it complete the backup overnight, go to school in the morning and be greeted by the dialog when I return home to the network that the backup is on, let it run overnight again, and the cycle repeats.

Is there any way to avoid/resolve this matter besides having to do the steps in  http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machine-sparsebundle-nas-based-backup-errors.html every time this happens? It's fairly annoying because I have a backdated 100baseTX network which means transfers in the order of gigabytes can take six, seven or even eight hours.

edit: version information and more

Computer
OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 (but this issue has been happening since and possibly before Mavericks)
Mid-2014 13" rMBP@3.0GHz, 16GB RAM

Backup server and network
NAS running Debian with AFP support and sparsebundle file over a 100 Mbit connection

I highly suspect that this perpetual verification is caused by network intermittency - for some reason disconnecting during a backup causes TM to have to verify the backup and once reconnected, declare it "corrupted".


texts: I was watching a video and this guy managed to add Cmd+number to the tabs title - instead of the window title that only shows the current selected tab - how?


texts: Fake rectangle/window visible under some windows

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tricky question here.

I don't know how long this has been going on, but I noticed it only recently. My semi-transparent windows have a “fake” square/window beneath them, which is visible (it also project a shadow, but only when the window is in foreground.

Screenshot:
 (the textedit window serves just as a white backdrop).

Video showing behaviour:
http://cl.ly/132M2T0p3j0E210d0S2K

I initially thought this was just TextMate, but I noticed this on terminal.app too (semi-transparent too).

I am running 10.6.6, have no “strange” hacks or input managers installed AFAIR.
I understand that this is probably a very exotic bug, so tools that can help me track down the cause are welcome, and I'll gladly accept such an answer.

Thanks in advance,

A.


texts: Moving Microsoft Office from one Mac to another

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I recently bought a new MacBook to replace my iMac where used Microsoft Office for Mac. I set up my MacBook and transferred everything over, but couldn't run Office without the activation key.

I deleted and installed a trial of office 365, and used until the trial expired. Now I think I have the activation key (from looking it up—it's the same as the product ID?) I tried moving over from a backup, but I'm getting the Office 365 activation, and does't accept the code I have.

I have tried migration assistant and replacing the library files but nothing. I keep getting this screen now matter what I try:

Can I move the original Microsoft Office suite over from the iMac to my new MacBook any other way to stop getting this massage? I think I got as a download years ago, so no disc.


texts: Can't install OS X, shows a message to restart Macbook, repeats

texts: I have an installation disk for OS X but when I turn on the Macbook it shows the Apple icon, then goes to a screen of codes and an error message that tells me to restart my Macbook. Once I do, it then repeats and I don't know what to do, any advice?


texts: Completely removing an iOS app from iPhone xS

texts: I'm trying to delete a few old apps from my iPhone but the best I can do is hide them. Does anyone know of a way to completely and fully delete the apps?  Thanks


texts: What Apple Watch sleep tracking app uses minimal battery power and is fully compatible with the iOS Health app?

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I want to use an Apple Watch 2 to track my sleep. In order to achieve this I will need to wear the Apple Watch during sleep, which creates an issue around battery usage. So my thinking is that I can put the watch on charge twice daily on most days: in the morning while getting ready for work and again at night while getting ready for bed. By doing this I estimate the battery will have enough power to keep the watch going 24/7 on most days.

Obviously this means I need a sleep tracking app to do the tracking. My requirements are:

It must be highly efficient in terms of battery usage
It can track sleep while the watch is in Airplane mode
It can synchronise data with the iOS Health app on my iPhone
It must be able to provide a summary of my sleep on the Apple Watch itself

NOTES:

I do not mind paying for the App if doing so results in me getting a much better product
I am open to using 3rd party devices if it means the quality of tracking/measurements are much higher
While not a requirement, if the app also supports syncing data with other HealthKit apps that would be a plus

I did consider posting this in the Software Recommendations community, but it didn't seem to have the appropriate tags.


texts: macbook pro 2011 13" doesn't detect external display

texts: I have a miniDP to VGA adapter, and its worked fine until this morning, I woke up and shook the mouse, but only the internal MacBook screen worked, not the external monitor. I tried to reset SMC and PRAM but it did not help. What might be wrong?


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Every time I connect my iPhone to the home wifi the connection slows down drastically. I don't have any uploads running neither system updates so I cannot understand what is causing this issue.

I have checked on the router if I can limit the bandwidth but this cannot be done. I have also tried to reset network settings without success.

The iPhone was bought in the states (I think) and I am using it with a wifi for th Italian market. Could this cause the problem?

Any suggestions appreciated.


texts: Kanex Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter doesn't play audio on Sony Bravia TV

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I have MacBook Pro with a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter. I use the adapter to play images from the Mac to my Sony Bravia TV.

Since it doesn't play sound, I have an audio that connects the Mac to the PC in HDMI Audio jack.

Even though, the sound still doesn't play on the TV (and when the cable is connected to the Mac, the sound also doesn't play on the Mac, which indicates the sound is going somewhere else, but not the TV!).

I've tried some configurations on the Applications / Utilities / Audio Midi Setup, but nothing works!

What should I do? Any idea on how to make the audio cable work?


texts: How to UNDO stopping OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files?

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I tried stopping OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to a memory card.
The method by Metaxis to the question here "How to stop OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to memory cards and USB sticks?" works fine and I have used it many times, but this time I wasn't paying attention and have addressed the wrong folder.
The question how to stop in the original post

This is what I did including the responses and replacing my first name with first name and full name with myfullname:

MBP-van-firstname:~ myfullname$ mdutil -i off /Volumes/SD128MB
/Volumes/SD128MB:
2016-03-02 22:57:40.638 mdutil[1232:208844] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/SD128MB -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly
Indexing disabled.
MBP-van-firstname:~ myfullname$ rm -rf .{,_.}{fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
MBP-van-firstname:~ myfullname$ mkdir .fseventsd
MBP-van-firstname:~ myfullname$ touch .fseventsd/no_log .metadata_never_index .Trashes
MBP-van-firstname:~ myfullname$ cd -
-bash: cd: OLDPWD not set

So, where the action were supposed to happen in the targeted folder, they were in the wrong folder. How can I undo this?


texts: stop iOS contact importing contact info from mail footers

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I recently changed from using the gmail app to the native iOS mail app on my iphone.

Now when i search for a contact in the address book to make a phone call it seems to have pulled in a load of contact info from peoples email footers, i have some email accounts for work that i dont want to clutter up my contact book, is it possible to only set the 'search emails for contact info' setting to only apply to select email accounts ?


texts: How do I change an app icon image on the menu bar?

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(macOS 10.15.7)
I want to change the icon image of an app on the menu bar, for example, the "syncing" image of Dropbox:

However, I cannot find the corresponding image in /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources . Another post says changing the menu-bar icon may require the knowledge of Xcode.
Is it possible to change a menu-bar icon without using Xcode? Or is it possible to at least "shrink" the original icon (make it smaller but not disappear) without using Xcode?


texts: On dual-boot macOS/Ubuntu Mojave install failed with "This disk cannot be used to startup your computer."

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My box is mid 2012 MacBook Pro, 1 TB HD, Sierra 10.12.6. It has dual-booted with Ubuntu using rEFInd until the High Sierra installation failed, after which I only used Ubuntu. After uninstalling rEFInd I'm attempting to upgrade the macOS side to Mojave and get the error above. I've already run First Aid on the Macintosh HD. Here's the partitioning:

# diskutil list disk0
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            500.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         498.8 GB   disk0s4
# gpt -r show disk0
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   977270656      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   977680296     1269536      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   978949832   974313152      4  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  1953262984      262151
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Is there a way to install Mojave without reformatting?


texts: What is the logind process, and why is it running?

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I've recently noticed that a new process is up and running every time I start my computer - logind, running as root.

I'm unsure why this is happening - could it be a patch or so? I'm running a fairly vanilla version of OS X 10.8.4


texts: Paint.NET for Mac for pixel by pixel art creationg

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Does anyone know any Mac alternative that has the exact features that Paint.NET has when it comes to creating pixel art, and free?

With Paint.NET I'm able to select whatever pixels in the grid to drag them, or change their colors all at once, or delete them, or to give the mirror/reflect (horizontally/vertically) effect.


texts: Catalina Messages app: run applescript on receive new message & when the message is read?

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Are applescripts for Messages still saved in /Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.iChat?  That seems like an odd location, but I didn't find a folder for com.apple.messages

I tried saving this in the com.apple.iChat folder, but nothing happened:

using terms from application "Messages"
    on message received
        display dialog "testing"
    end message received
end using terms from


texts: latest command line tools available for macos mojave?

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as by subject -- I have lost track of what the latest CL Tools are available for Mojave (MacOs 10.14.x).  I have
pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
version: 10.3.0.0.1.1562985497

Are these the latest (obvs for Mojave, the very latest require MacOS 11 to install)?  xcode-select seems to believe they are, but brew complains I could get newer tools (or, alternatively it is a bug in brew) so I am not sure which one to believe.


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Since the beginning of today, the time now being midday, I've been having issues with my MacBook Pro. Even when I closed everything it refuses to work. Basically when I close the lid, everything is fine but when I open it the screen just doesn't turn on. The sleep light remains at a single level of light, rather than brightening and dimming over the course of several seconds. If I hold the power button down sometimes it will bring the screen back after what looks like a progress bar and sometimes it will reboot the machine.

If anyone can help me, it'd be much appreciated.


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I have made-for-iphone hearing aids, which are great for delivering good quality speech sound over bluetooth direct to my hearing aids. They are Starkey Kinnect, which connect easily to iOS devices but have no connectivity to a computer - they do not pair with the Bluetooth on the MacBook (2014 version). With the current need for Zoom, Google Meets etc connectivity, I am often in video meetings for which I need to use my MacBook for the size of screen. The sound is preferably directed through earphones, but they do not give clear speech for me without the hearing aids and are awkward and clumsy to use over the HAs.

Starkey TruLink has an option to use the iPhone as a microphone and send this across the room (say) to my HAs. I wonder whether the 3.5 mm headphone jack on the MacBook, set as output, can plug directly in to the Lightning port on the iPhone (via what adaptor?) to use the audio stream from the computer as an external microphone for the iPhone, which can then connect to the HAs? Are the voltages and impedances compatible?

Or does anyone know of a gadget that will do this mimicry of an external mike?

I am aware of the Airfoil utility that is claimed to do this, but not sure if the iPhone will recognise this as a "microphone", and also I have seen reviews that state that the latency is about 2s so it is unsuitable for real time use.

Thanks!

Keith


texts: "You don't have permission..." uninstalling xcode on Catalina

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I installed xcode long before my Catalina upgrade. I currently don't need the bloat on my mac and was going to try to remove it. However, I'm getting "You don't have permission to perform this task" when I try to move it to the trash. I am an administrator locally. Appreciate any help.

$ ls -la  /Applications | grep Xcode
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 96 Apr 17 09:03 Xcode.app


texts: Is Pinch To Zoom in TextEdit feature available in Lion?

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In Mountain Lion it is now possible Pinch To Zoom in files within TextEdit. I think this is a new feature in Mountain Lion.

I'd like to know whether it is available in Lion?


texts: So my iCloud email told me I didn't have enough storage. I couldn't send or receive emails. Which I just realized I wasn't getting any new emails. I just added more gb. My question is will I never get those emails sent out during the time I didn't have enough storage?


texts: Differentiating and comparing between MacBook Pro models across different generations

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What details (such as dates/year, identifying numbers, etc.) distinguish 3rd generation 13" MacBook Pro models from 4th generation?

These 3rd generation models featured the older more reliable keyboard, power adapter, memory card slot, USB-A slots. I am shopping for a used device and would like to know how to differentiate one of the most recent devices of this generation (prior to the more problematic keyboard design, Touch Bar, etc).


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I have recently upgraded to SSD (Samsung Evo 850) from HDD on my MacBook Pro Mid-2012.

However, the installation of SSD has been very painful. I tried to use Disk Utility in recover mode many times but it would fail either to erase or mount the SSD, even though it recognized that the SSD was plugged in. I thought it was the faulty SSD.

Then I hooked up the SSD using USB and proceeded to install OS X on it (using my HDD). The SSD functioned very well using the USB, so I put it in, and hooked up using the flex cable that was previously used for my HDD. However, it doesn't function, the OS sees that there is a drive hooked up, sees the name, size and etc, but won't load, gives me the question mark folder sign, when I try to verify or repair the disk, it fails to do so.

So I think it is something with the SATA cable. But the cable functions perfectly when used with the HDD. So I was wondering if the HDD cable that comes with MacBook Pro Mid-2012 is compatible with SSD. I have watched several videos of people upgrade from HDD to SSD, but they all seem to be using the same cable. Any ideas what might be the issue or if I need a different kind of cable?

EDIT: The issue has been solved. As people have suggested here, it was just a faulty cable, or just the original cables don't work with SSD. I bought the same cable, 821-1480-A from a vendor on Amazon and it works quite well with SSD for now. Thanks everyone for your help.


texts: iPod Nano (6th Generation) Lyrics Support

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I'm thinking of getting an iPod Nano (6th Generation) and I'm not sure if it has support for lyrics.

Does anyone know if it does?


texts: I've spilled a coffee on my keyboard, as a result right and left arrows don't function any more. Is there a way to change locations or maybe to create a shortcut to represent those keys? for example shift + up arrow = right arrow, smth like that?


texts: Why does my Mac play YouTube videos in open Chrome tabs before it's finished rebooting after installing a security update?

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For a while now, I've noticed that if I have a YouTube video active in Chrome when I install a security update, my Mac will start playing that video before about 20 seconds before the login screen appears. If I have multiple windows each with a YouTube video in them, they all start playing before I've logged in.

Why does this happen, and (besides making sure none of my Chrome windows are in YouTube video tabs when I reboot) how can I make it not happen? It seems like a potential security issue for anything to be happening with my user account before I actually enter my password.

I filmed my laptop doing this, because it's such surprising behaviour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVvu94g3iq0


texts: Mail.app doesn't detect address in address book

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I have a Company name in my Address Book with an e-mail address assigned to it.

The name is Blast Corporation and I want to enter that into the "TO" field in Mail.

Even though Address Book clearly shows it, it does not appear as a suggested address in Mail.app

How can I fix this?

This is in OS X Lion.


texts: Firmware Password isn't the one I entered

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So the firmware password isn't the one I entered. To avoid the usual onslaught of insinuations that it 'might not be my computer' that usually accompany questions of this nature, I want to state unequivocally that I am not asking how to bypass it, I'm trying to figure out why, and what (if anything) I can do to restore the EFI so that the password I entered will work. It may seem like a fine distinction, but it's an important one.

The nearest I've been able to ascertain is that the firmware I'm running is not the right firmware for my machine/OS combination. I was looking through the list of firmware updates on the Apple website here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201518 and it seems that I'm running a version that isn't listed. According to the site the version for my machine should be: MBP112.0138.B16 When I look at the system information is says that I am running MBP112.0138.B18

Could that be the issue? If I flash the older firmware will it respect the password or will I still be out of luck?

EDIT:

So in my haste I overlooked the disclaimer on the Apple EFI/SMC Updates page stating "If you don't see a firmware version listed in this article, it means that either a firmware update is only available as an automatic update, or no firmware update is needed."

That answers the question.


texts: Opening new Firefox window from command line while it's already running

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Does anyone know how to open a new Firefox window from the command line while Firefox is already running? I can't find any solutions currently out there that work for me.

I've looked at the MDN web docs Command Line Options but everything I have tried there throws the "A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time." error.

I use multiple Firefox Developer Edition windows across multiple spaces. I'd like to be able to swipe to a fresh space, type this command, and see a new window open in that space. A .bash_profile alias would be ideal.

Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and Firefox Developer Edition 58.0b11 (64-bit).


texts: AirPods struggle to switch between iPhone and Mac

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Typically my AirPods are connected to my iPhone, but often I want to switch them to my Mac and vice-versa.

When I Option click the audio menulet, I can select my AirPods and I even see their current battery life. However, when I select them, they do not connect.

Similarly, when they're connected to my Mac, I can't select them on my iPhone.  They are paired with both devices.

The only thing that fixes this is a reboot of my Mac or iPhone (whichever I am trying to connect to).

This is cumbersome though. Is there at least a service or something I can kill that will reset my bluetooth on macOS? Any other suggestions to resolve this issue?

I am using an iPhone X running iOS 12 and my Mac is running macOS Mojave 10.14.


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I have a MacMini with a VGA monitor plugged in to the display-port with an adapter. I've just added a 32" HD Ready (720p) TV as the 2nd monitor via the HDMI output of the MacMini with no adapter, and it looks terrible. I think it's being driven at 1080p by default, it looks really ugly.

More importantly, the screen area extends slightly beyond the actual monitor. I've tried changing the display settings from "Default for display" to "Scaled" and changing the option between 1080p, 1080i, and 720p and while 720p looks a bit better none are great and none give me a properly aligned screen:

My TV doesn't appear to have an option to calibrate the display size, can I do it through OSX? In the past I've found connecting to a TV's VGA input works better but surely if I have HDMI out on the Mac and HDMI on the TV, this should be possible to work properly?!


texts: Can I safely delete the "Deleted Users" directory after an upgrade or a data transfer?

texts: I have just transferred data from my old MacBook Air to my new MacBook Pro. There is now a Deleted Users Directory in the /Users directory. Can this be safely deleted?


texts: I have a time capsule that I've been using for years, as a wireless router as well as automated backups and external storage.  All of a sudden, both my Mac Book and iMac stopped being able to access the external storage, and the backups from the iMac stopped working as well, but it is still working as an internet and wireless router.  In finder, when I click on the Time Capsule drive, it says Connection Failed.  Since I see the same behavior on both computers, and it started at the same time, I am guessing the problem is on the time capsule.  Any ideas?


texts: unable to access youtube favorites on iPad1 since Youtube changed their API in April 2015

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My 3 years-old has been using my old iPad1 to watch videos on YouTube and 'saved' them in the 'favorites' section of the legacy youtube apps (icon is an old TV Set, not the new white arrow on a red background icon).
After some readings it appears that:
1- youtube does not support anymore this legacy youtube app since they use a new API since Apr.2015
2- when I try to get the new youTube App from the App Store, I'm being prompted to upgrade to iOS7 first
3- when I looked at upgrading an iPad1 with iOS7, most articles say that it is not possible (iOS7 hardware requirement not supported by iPad1)
I'm only trying to get back the list of favorites (i.e. video links) which seems to be still there in the YouTube apps...
If anyone is facing the same situation, happy to share thoughts and hopefully solutions!
Many thanks in advance,
David


texts: I was trying to install Homebrew in Terminal. I have MacOs Catalina 10.15.7. I am the admin of my computer. But i keep getting the following messages.


texts: After upgrading to Lion interface alignment seems to break, any ideas?

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After upgrading after Lion (circa 3 months ago) more and more interfaces seems to just break. It's easiest if see it yourselves!

Anyone know how to fix this issue?


texts: Does Find My iPhone still work with a SIM block?

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My iPhone was stolen this morning. I've had the SIM, but not the IMEI blocked.

It was turned off immediately by the thief. I'm hoping that, as it's got the iOS 7 beta, they'll be unable to crack it and confused, and might turn it on. Will Find my iPhone still work if the SIM is blocked?

The network support guys assured me it works on a lower level than standard 3G internet access. Is this the case?


texts: What resources are shared in iCloud Family Sharing?

texts: I have been trying to get a handle on iCloud Family sharing before I turn it on. There are two potential issues I could see having with it. First, is iCloud storage space shared amongst the accounts or is it linked a particular Apple ID. Second how does PhotoStream work with it. My wife and I currently like sharing all our photos so we can see what the kids are up to when they with one or the other of us. Will that still be the case?


texts: How to completely remove Nix package manager?

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I installed Nix package manager, and now I would like to remove it completely.

How can I do it?


texts: How can I reduce/optimize downloads when upgrading to an SSD and installing Mountain Lion?

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I am worried about downloading so many things:

Here what is I have:

A macbook Pro, with Mountain Lion installed (Upgraded from Lion)
Things installed Xcode, Eclipse with android, RVM, GIT, And lot of another developer tools.
A lot of another things like spotify offline songs, emails, some 30-40 applications downloaded from app store.

Now here is the thing:

Do I need to download xcode, Mountain lion, Eclipse etc again to make a fresh install on my new SSD.

Whats the possible way to minimize the download?


texts: Macbook Pro Retina OSX 10.8.3 - Itunes - Windows 7 PC

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I have been a PC guy for 35 years. I just recently got a MacBook Pro Retina. I have well over a terabyte of MP3's on several hard drives on my Windows 7 PC. All of the files are legal rips from my vast collection of CD's. Is it possible for ITunes to play my MP3's from my Win7 PC if I share the folders?

Thanks in advance!


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Chrome absolutely kills battery life on my MBA.

So I would like to switch my default browser to Safari when I am unplugged. When plugged in, I would like Chrome to be the default browser.

Any ideas how to do this?

I've seen tools like Hammerspoon but couldn't find a use case for what I need.


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I recently encrypted a SD card with disk utility to secure some of my most precious files, with a password. I then renamed the SD card, and then copied the files to it. The trouble is, that when I unplugged my sd and plugged it back, the password I did set didn't work anymore. I guess it's because I changed the name of my card. I tried many things with the terminal, but I can't get anywhere. Does anybody have an idea that could get me out of this trouble, cause those files are really important to me, I'd be desperate to lose access to them forever.

Many thanks in advance,


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I still have a very vague understadning of how iCloud Library and the new 'Photos' app operate. How do I distinguish between photos on my device and what is stored in cloud. How do I delete something only on my device and still preserve it in cloud?

Right now I have 2215 photos and 6 videos in iCloud they say. Ok, so where are my all other videos that I was forced to delete due to insufficient space?

I guess I can always use something different like Google Drive, Dropbox or Picasa to back it all up manually and have complete access to it all the time, but I just want to understand if Apple's new solution is completely useless.


texts: prevent desktops/fullscreen windows from being re-ordered

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When an application gains focus, it can change the order of desktops in mission control.  In my mind, this creates some very confusion animations.

Can we force desktops to stay in their order?
Can we disable the animation entirely? (I saw the thread here, nothing seemed to wrok.)


texts: iOS contacts app that can print data from vCards

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Is anyone aware of an iOS app that can sync with CardDav to get a contact list and can then print off a nicely formatted contact card?

Basically, I want to be able to print information for referrals for patients.  Contacts can work great for holding this information, but we can't print it from iPads


texts: MacBook Pro Mid 2015 Display flickering to static/weird colour during usage

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About a day ago my 2015 MacBook Pro running macOS 10.15 Beta (19A536g) started experiencing an issue where the display would flicker to different colors randomly during usage. Moving the mouse around causes the display to revert back to its normal colors temporarily but it tends to alternate between the two very often.

I have already tried an SMC and PRAM reset as I had no ideas on what to due.
As well there is currently no system updates available.

Any ideas on what could be causing this and/or how to fix it? Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. I'd really like to avoid bringing my laptop into the Apple store if possible.

Here is what it looks like when the display shifts colors. :


texts: Terminal Ping, how to get simple integer

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i am wondering how exactly you would get a simple integer result instead of all the miscellaneous information such as the packet size, transmission number and target.

To elaborate:
I would prefer the output to look like:

117.85

A single integer response, similar to how the syntax: ping -c 1 google.com returns a single result, however i would prefer the method to omit the detailed ping report and only displays a single number.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Using three-finger drag and three-finger back on browser

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For OS X Lion 10.7, is there a way that I can use three-finger drag and still be able to use gestures to swipe "back" in Firefox or Chrome?

I've found out how to do one or the other, but not both.


texts: Uploaded homemade mp3 to icloud music library, now "not available in my country or region"

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We recorded an mp3 with the kids, and I want to add this to my icloud music library so it's available on my iPhone and any of my devices, the same way I access other songs in my icloud music library that I've purchased from iTunes, etc.

I managed to add it to the library, then clicked "add song to icloud music library". How it shows up in my library on my phone. However, it now cannot be played and says "This song is not currently available in your country or region."

I only have one iTunes account and we've not left the country, etc. Is there a way to see an icloud music library dashboard where I can manage these things and resolve this dumb issue?


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I am using an iPhone 7 on iOS 10.1.1 and I need some help!

Every time I get a notification it is empty/blank, only the name of the app is in the title. How can I fix this?


texts: Does 'family sharing' require that members use same apple ID for both iTunes and iCloud?

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Each member of our family has two unique Apple ID's, one for use with iTunes and another for iCloud (e.g. 4 members, 8 Apple ID's). On the family sharing page it says "Family Sharing requires a personal Apple ID signed in to iCloud and iTunes". We are hoping to achieve not only the shared apps functionality of 'family sharing' but also the shared calendar, photos and Apple music subscription.

Does this mean that each of us has to use the Apple ID's for our personal iCloud accounts to signin to itunes if we want to use 'family sharing'? i.e. we have to use the same Apple ID for iTunes and iCloud?


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I`m unable to terminate process by SIGKILL signal.

$ ps aux | grep -i phps
username 17564   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??  ?E   Sun09AM   0:00.00 (phpstorm)
username 27664   0.0  0.0  2442020    788 s000  S+   11:53AM   0:00.00 grep -i phps
$ sudo kill -9 17564
$ ps aux | grep -i phps
username 17564   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??  ?E   Sun09AM   0:00.00 (phpstorm)
username 27883   0.0  0.0  2423392    312 s000  R+   11:55AM   0:00.00 grep -i phps

What does it mean that process in parentheses?
How to kill it?


texts: Appstore, turn off password for free apps download?

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is there a way to turn off the password requirement when downloading free content from the appstore?

I just find it slightly annoying when other app marketplaces don't have that compulsory requirement

did not google, thanks for doing it for me while I type my password


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I have read other questions here and can't make this work. I'm trying to Share Mac internet with iPad using USB.
Under settings->network I see which device is connected to internet, for example "wifi". Now under settings->sharing I choose this device under "share your connection from", and then in the "to computers using" I'm choosing "iPad USB". Then I select the checkbox next to "internet sharing" and it says "internet sharing: On". The iPad is connected to the mac. There's no internet in the iPad. Any ideas?

Edit: Sharing the same internet connection over bluetooth works, but I want over USB.


texts: Can MacBook Pro get slower after SSD is almost full?

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MBP 13, 2015 with 128 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM.

I have noticed, that after only some 20 GB of SSD was free my Safari browser was very slow.

RAM was used 4-6 GB from 8.

Is it general possible, that SSD can slow the MAC or it was some other reason?


texts: What options for clean install of MacOS High Sierra after permanent error message?

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I have a late 2012 iMac i7 16GB RAM and 1TB FusionDrive which I want to sell. Using the Disk Utilities in Recovery Mode, I erased all data on the Macintosh HD partition. I then went on and selected reinstall MacOS High Sierra in the recovery mode, which failed a couple of times (no progress for hours) and after several tries it showed Mountain Lion (instead of High Sierra before) as the OS to be installed. I tried this as well, but the installation process froze after about 7 hours with "3 hour remaining". Then, I created a USB bootable installer for High Sierra. When booting the iMac and pressing the option key, I am presented this USB drive as startup option, and when I select it I end up in the recovery mode window again with the option to reinstall High Sierra. The installation takes about 5 minutes and in the very last second I receive an error message "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again".

What options do I have from here?

Note: I already checked the system date, which is current. I checked if there's a recovery partition, and there is a Apple_Boot partition but without the usual name ("Recovery HD"). There are no disk / partition errors when running verify / repair.


texts: iPhone: What is `accountsd` and why is it using 80% CPU?

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I just got a new iPhone 6 for my SO and noticed that it is quite toasty to handle with the battery draining quite fast.  It has been 24 hours since I first set it up.  I plugged it into Instruments and loaded the Activity Monitor and noticed that accountsd is chewing through 80% of the CPU:

What is accountsd on iOS and why is it chewing up so much CPU?


texts: Copy an application over to another phone?

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I have a very old demo application on my iPhone. It was on the app store a long time ago (1 year) the guy who developed it works with me. He's since taken the app off iTunes, however our boss wants to demo it tomorrow. Anyone know how I can go about getting the application onto his phone bearing in mind the following:

We can't deploy from the developer's computer
It's not on iTunes


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My browser is Safari.

If I want to download something, is there a way I can limit the download speed?

Doesn't necessarily have to use the Safari downloader (although that would be ideal), I assume I could copy/paste links into third party apps that may do this.


texts: Remove Search.strtpoint.com Search Engine

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I, perhaps unwisely, installed iFunBox based on an article in a respected Computer Magazine APC.

This appears to have installed a Search Engine in my browsers.
It was easy to remove from Firefox, but I can't seem to delete search.strtpoint.com from Chrome.

Safari now crashes whenever I run it.

Any ideas on how to fix these problems?

EDIT
I have managed to fix Chrome.


texts: Why won't Apple Mail open after install of OS X El Capitan 10.11? Any ideas?

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I have installed the latest beta of OS X, El Capitan 10.11. The mail app said it needed to index mail. when it finished that process the mail app crashed. Now it refuses to open. Mail has been rendered unusable with this upgrade, for me.

Anyone have any ideas of things I could try to fix this?
Thanks.


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I installed VLC app on my 4th generation apple TV. I also connected the VLC app to my time capsule. However the VLC app says "folder is empty".

However there are 100s of mp4 files on the time capsule.

Why can't VLC player see those files?

I installed Infuse 4 and it said exactly the same issue.

The files can easily be played using Itunes. but that requires my computer to be On during the playback.


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I used an external program to mark the ID3 "BPM" metadata of 8,000 music files.  How can I get iTunes to reload metadata from those files?

Right now if I just begin playing a file it will recognize the new metadata, but there must be some way to force iTunes to do this in bulk.


texts: Terminal goes slow after install Mavericks OS

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After I've update my OS to Mavericks.

Terminal goes really slow, I've found out that the problem must be from Xcode.

While I remove Xcode from my computer terminal works fine, and after I installed Xcode,  it goes slow again.(It takes like 2 second for ls command)

Please help.

PS. my computer is MacBook Pro with Retina.


texts: Trackpad works but it is not detected in System Preferences

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about a month ago I spilled juice on the keyboard. I took my MacBook Air for a diagnostic and they told me it worked but the battery had gone bad. The battery repair cost is approximately 14000MXN or 700.94USD. It was very slow so I installed macOS Mojave on it and I can't change the trackpad settings.
P.S.: The battery is included in the logic board and that's why is so expensive.
Device: MacBook Air 2017
-José


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In iPad Safari, when a page has a link to a youtube video, if I click the link, Safari will open youtube app. Is it possible to change this behavior? I don't want to use the youtube app and I want to open the youtube page in safari.

iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1.


texts: How to rotate text in single cell in Pages on Mac?

texts:
This is what I have now:

And this is what I would like to make:

Is there a way to do this?


texts: How to make a custom search engine in AppleScript

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So I have a database of folders and files (.txt) and I'm trying to create a program that I can enter keywords and have it search those files, and it will output the text of any files containing the keywords. I have a working code that does just that, but it doesn't search the words individually - it searches for the words together, as a single string.

For instance, if I input "Joe Bill Bob," I'd like it to output files that contain each of those words anywhere in the file, even if they aren't next to each other, or in that order.

I would rather avoid doing a repeat loop to input one search term at a time.

I'd also rather avoid setting up hundreds of variables in the code, and do a repeat loop that if a character isn't a space it adds it onto the first blank variable and if it is it skips to the next variable.

If you have any other ideas, that would be great. Thanks!


texts: How can I analyse Others data in my iPhone?

texts:
My iPhone 5s currently running on iOS 9.2 has been misbehaving for a couple of months now. No matter, how much free space I give it, it slows eat it away, reducing MB by MB till I have 0 bytes free space left.

Even if I don't use the phone, it stills eat away the free space. My suspect is that an app is writing logs like a maniac. I tried syncing with iTunes thinking it might be the debug logs that gets sent for crashes etc, but it's not that either.

How do I go about getting an idea on what makes up this other data? If I know its an app (I am thinking Whatsapp since its a chat app and the only thing on my phone that keeps on running all the time), I can get rid of it.


texts: Don't have Time Machine back up a file again if a Tag is added to it

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If I have a large file, let's say a 1 GB ISO file, and I add a tag to it through the Finder, so that there's a blue circle next to the filename now, then Time Machine will consider that the file has changed and back it up a second time.

So this one file takes up 2 GB of space on Time Machine now. Is there some way to prevent Time Machine from backing up the entire file if just a tag was added to it?


texts: If I set an alarm clock with a ringtone, how long will the ringtone run if I do not stop it?

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If I set the iphone alarm clock with a ringtone, how long will the ringtone run if I do not stop it?

Will it run all the way until it runs out of battery and the phone shuts down?


texts: VM size in Activity Monitor: hundreds of GB?

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When I open the Activity Monitor, I get something looking like this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342.

But why the heck is "VM size" around 100-200 GB??

Here is the capture from the apple support:

See the "VM size: 172.23 GB".

Is that a bug, or can you explain to me where are those GB?


texts: How to use Applescript to turn off Apple TV in iTunes?

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In Automator, I would need an Applescript who turn off Apple TV sound.

See this picture. I need the "Apple TV salon PT" checkbox unchecked.


texts: How can I transfer photos from the Camera Roll to Photo Stream?

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Not all of my photos go to Photo Stream, some still go to my Camera Roll.  I'm trying to get them on my Photo Stream so they will be on iCloud.
With 30 photos on my camera, 10 in stream, I took 6 photos.  2 appeared in stream, 4 did not.  Some of my subsequent photos also appeared in the stream, but not all.  This is arbitrary behavior by the program.  How to fix?  Assume ios 7.0.


texts: Recommended partition size MacBook Pro (Mavericks) for Windows 8.1, Windows database app?

texts: Any suggestion regarding size of partition to set in Boot Camp to be sure of having adequate space for Windows 8.1 and at least one large Windows application, a custom database application?  I'm thinking about 150 GB ...


texts: Okay, so every time I install Yosemite on my iMac, it gives me the same response. I delete the copy, and reinstall it, but it still gives me the same error...


texts: CalDAV only works for first synchronisation, and then stops updateing the calender forever

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From the same server I can successfully sync cardDAVs contacts, and IMAPs-mail, so I've ruled out network issues.

Furthermore, that same installation also syncs many other users (non-i) -Devices Contacts, Calenders, and Mails, so I've ruled out SOGOs CalDAV implementation.

This Problem is not present on the WinPhones, Androids(with DavDroid), Thunderbird/Lightning, and even Outlook 2010. I kind-of feel stupid now having recommended iDevices in the past.

I tried:

Rebooting normally
Signing out of iCloud, then rebooting
Factory-reset, then configuring the CalDAV first, then the rest.
Opened the non-SSL Port (shudder) to the outside world for testing.
Creating the Calender "twice", Once as Calender, and once as Contactlist

None of those worked, and the last one was impossible through the settings dialog

I'm not quite sure, how to proceed. In the meantime, I bought some cheap androids, so that my users at least have their calendar on the road with them.


texts: print option lost after Mountain Lion upgrade

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After I recently moved my data from a Mac Mini '09 to a new Mac Mini with Mountain Lion, I find my print options no longer allow me to print "fast"  (on Canon pixma mx712).  The print quality options now are "draft," "normal," and "best" but "draft" is greyed and not available.

Are there any settings I could look for and change?


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I just set up default app for certain file extension by mistake. Now i cannot revert it back to default, i can only set another app to open this type of file (CMD+I).

I've tried to rebuild LaunchServices then reboot, but nothing changed. I still can open .twig files with SublimeText 3


texts: How can I increase command line memory_limit for PHP with MAMP PRO?

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I've edited every single php.ini on my Mac (at least all the ones found by "locate") and still can't seem to increase the memory_limit directive for PHP.

I'm using MAMP PRO and running PHP scripts in the terminal.

How to solve this?


texts: How to check that my recovery disk is working correctly?

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My iMac has recently stopped working after trying to upgrade the OS (I believe it came from El Capitan). Now, when I boot it I only see the folder with a question mark.

When I boot it in "reinstall OS mode", it doesn't work:

Cmd ⌘ + R tells me that "a necessary component is missing" and cannot download a proper version of the OS
Maj ⇧ + Opt ⌥ + Cmd ⌘ + R tries to download OS X Lion, but then fails installing it because "You cannot upgrade this version of macOS because a new version is installed"
Opt ⌥ + Cmd ⌘ + R tries to download an OS, but then stays stuck on the apple on the screenshot.

I have been able to download a MacOsInstall.dmg file directly from Apple, and mount it on a USB drive (on my Windows computer, using transmac), however, when I plug in this file and boot using Cmd ⌘, the USB drive does not appear in the list of the drives they propose me to boot from. Is there any possibility for me to check that the USB stick that I created is correctly configured?

My objective here is to find a way to make the computer work again. If impossible, I'd settle for a recovery of my data for which I had no backup.


texts: How can I get iTunes to automatically refresh the media library?

texts: Most of the media players that have a "media library" functionality usually self-refresh the library when files are added or removed. As I share the media library with other media players (I use iTunes only to copy music on the iPod), I would like iTunes to automatically refresh when I add, remove, or rearrange audio tracks in the file system. How can I get iTunes to do this?


texts: How to change file icon based file's extension (.txt, .cpp, .docx, etc)

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Desired result:
All .py files show a nice Python icon, regardless of what default program they opened with. (Same for .cpp files, .txt files, etc)
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How it currently works:
Files (ex: .py files) are associated with their default program (in my case, Sublime text editor). The program (Sublime) then gets to choose what icon to show. It is possible to manually edit the program's (Sublime's) code to change the icons.
Details:
https://superuser.com/questions/178316/how-to-set-an-icon-for-a-file-type-on-mac
(I have done this with Sublime)
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Why this result is not enough:
I recently switched to the Atom text editor which broke all the icons I had setup in Sublime. In addition, I can't change the icons for Atom like I did in Sublime. The Atom editor's plist file and resources folder is not setup like Sublime. (It is still possible, but rather than renaming/replacing things, Atom actually requires additional code to be written/modified, and I don't have the skill/knowledge to just write the necessary code, and I cannot find any tutorial for learning how)
I (and I believe many others) would prefer that the file icon was set independently from what the default program is. (I mean an Excel file should look like an Excel file whether or not I open it with Microsoft Excel, Numbers, or Sublime)
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Possible solution:
It might be possible to fix this with an opener-app. If an opener-app is made the default opener for all file extensions, it would be able to set the icon for all those extensions. Then when the opener-app opens a file (for example .py file) it could then open that file with another program (for example Sublime). This way the default program could be changed through the opener-app, (for example, changing  the opener-app to have all .py files open the Atom Editor) but, because the opener-app is still technically the default, all the file-icons remain unchanged.
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Question:
Does anyone know of an app that does this already?
(If you know of any resources on how to create an app like this, I'd be happy to use them to make the app myself, and post the answer here)


texts: How to change computer name as it shows up in AirDrop?

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I use AirDrop quite often to quickly send pictures that I take on my iPhone, to my Mac. The problem is, I have several Macs (all of them are Mac minis) and when I activate AirDrop on my iPhone, they all show up with the exact same name.

I've Googled, and the only three ways of changing the displayed name in AirDrop that I've found are:

changing the computer name in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Computer Name,
changing the "Me" card's name in Contacts, or
modifying a Plist file with the command
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES.

Unfortunately, none of these are working for me. 1 doesn't seem to apply, as my computers already have unique names in the Sharing control panel, but they don't show up in the AirDrop display on my iPhone. 2 wouldn't work, because changing the "me" card would sync across to the other Mac (my contacts are syncing using iCloud). I tried 3 and it doesn't work either - the AirDrop item disappears from Finder, however my computer still shows up in the AirDrop display on my iPhone. The only working solution I found was by turning off WiFi on any computers that I don't want to show up in AirDrop, which prevents them from showing up in AirDrop on my iPhone. Fortunately this works for me, since I typically AirDrop files to only one of my computers, and all of my computers are connected via Ethernet anyway, so WiFi is unnecessary for network connectivity. Is there a different way of either changing a computer's name or making it disappear entirely from AirDrop?


texts: Are passwords in my keychain readable by enterprises MDM tools?

texts:
So, our company is starting to push MDM (VMWare Workstation One) around... I understand they want to be safe... But I'm worried about my safety.
Question: Is my keychain still safe after MDM is pushed to my macbook?


texts: Can i keep audio on phone during airplay session

texts: My monitor does not have speaker, so can i just mirror the video but the audio play on my iphone speaker?


texts: How do you remove fonts from the Favorite collection in the Fonts dialog?

texts: As titled. For example, if you bring up the Fonts dialog in Mail.app (⌘-T), and add a wrong font by accident to the Favorite collection (gear icon → Add to Favorites), how can you remove it?


texts: Contacts on my iPhone 6S not appearing on iCloud on my Windows 10 PC

texts: I have a new iPhone 6s. My contacts are Google and are all on my iPhone. I cannot see my iPhone contacts in iCloud on my Windows 10 PC to let me prepare Group contacts for my iPhone.


texts: Delete Key Repeat on macOS Sierra 10.12.0 Broken

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Holding down a key on the keyboard does not cause it to repeat correctly.  The key will repeat, but only after 2 seconds or so.  In some cases it doesn't repeat at all.  There are a few suggestions floating around in forums but none seem to correct the problem.

Settings in preferences are ignored:

Interestingly, key repeat does seem to work in Terminal, but that's the exception.  It's broken in Notes, Mail, TextEdit, etc.

Any ideas?


texts:
I got a 13" 2015 MacBook Pro 13 and today it turned off because I didn't have the charger with me. Now when I plug the charger and try to turn on, it shows an almost empty battery and a lightning bolt below and won't turn on. Also, the charger LED is off.

I checked the pins and are ok and everything is clean.
When I disconnect the charger it shows a plug icon next to the lightning bolt, so the charger is getting recognized.
I don't have any other MacBook to check if it's my MacBook or the charger

What could it be?


texts: To share dynamically network between OSX and Virtual OS

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My colleges say that OS cannot dynamically share network between two OS, in contrast to Windows.
One college solved the problem by ethernet connection and external network card, discussed here.
However, I know that this is possible to solve also programmatically.

I think the tools required for this are

LXC and Vagrant, discussed here

I think this is what is wanted here

Setting parasite host

In Network settings, I cannot change Attached to to Host-only Adapter.
I have to keep the bridged mode:

Details

host OS Yosemite 10.10.3
Virtual OS Cern Linux 5, based on Redhat; I think this is virtual OS independent

How can you share network card dynamically between OSX and Virtual OS?
You can choose whatever virtualization you want, but my colleges use VirtualBox because it is freely available.
Our Virtual OS is CERN Linux 5 which has GNU development tools 2013 i.e. a variant of Redhat.


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is it possible to move a reminder from one reminders list to another?

For example I have two lists:

Today
Tomorrow

How could I move for example "call cindy" from "Tomorrow" to "Today"?


texts: How to insert annotation/signature at location of mouse click when using Preview?

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Is there a way using Preview -- or another app -- to insert an annotation (text, signature, etc.) at the location of a mouse click rather than having the annotation appear in the center of the document and having to drag it to the location?
I would love this in Preview, but I've been editing so many PDFs lately, I'm inclined to get a better PDF editor that offers faster annotations and editing.
Thank you!


texts: Can arrow keys be added to an iPhone keyboard?

texts: Is there a way to add arrow keys to an iPhone keyboard under iOS 6?


texts: Why paste from screenshot into Mail will save as TIFF format?

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I use ^ Control⇧ Shift
⌘ Command4 first, then I paste it into Mail, when I double click the image that I pasted, it is TIFF format.
I try to change the screenshot format to PNG; it works. But when I change back to JPG or BMP, both of them will be saved as TIFF format.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

How can I save it as JPG format?


texts: My iPhone front camera won't work (it freezes)

texts: I dropped my phone in the water and everything works, except my front facing camera. When I go to change from back to front, it freezes and won't let me go back to the back camera, and it's blurry.


texts: Restored from iCloud - asking for old friends account constantly

texts: I just got a new phone, and I restored from my previous phone's iCloud backup, which worked great EXCEPT I apparently had one or two songs in my music that were authorized by an old friend of mine. It keeps asking me now for that friends Apple password to authorize the song - but I have no idea what song it is. I would really just like to get rid of the song, but how can I go about finding it?


texts: What does Spotlight consider to be a 'Document'?

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I have noticed that the Finder's Recent Smart Search Folder doesn't show several type of 'app document' file.
The same is true if I create a new Smart Folder with the criterion set to Kind = Document.
(You can sort through the results by Kind in a List View)
For instance: Affinity Suite documents, such as .afpub, and .afdesign are not included.
Omnigraffle and OmniOutliner files are included.
Files from other apps, such as Finale (.musx) and Dorico (.dorico) are not included.
If I change the search criteria to Kind = Other: Affinity, then I get the Affinity documents, so it's not like Spotlight hasn't indexed them.
Does anyone know on what basis Spotlight considers a file to be a document?
These 'missing files' are the native document format for these apps, so they are listed in the apps' Info.plist, under CFBundleDocumentTypes.


texts: How can I use smtp to connect email to mail client

texts: Right so we have set up a mail server for our company that does not use imap nor pop at the moment, it is based on smtp port 25 and I can't figure out how to link it with my mail client as it always asks for imap or pop :/


texts: How to read the backups history of my iPhone?

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I am regularly making backups of my iPhone otarie on a Mac through an USB cable.

Versions of the OS used:

iOS   11.1
MacOS 10.13.5

I am not using iCloud.

Within iTunes I often see many backups apparently started (or terminated)
at the same date and hour:

What are all these backups?

What are the dates on left and right columns?

Which of these backups are partial or full?


texts: Macbook Pro low battery warning to instant recharge

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My Macbook Pro (Mid 2012, OSX 10.10.2) sometimes gives the Low Battery warning, then immediately after dismissing the notification the battery pops back up to about 25% battery, still showing a red battery icon.

It is above 20% but is still red.

What could have caused this, is it an error in Yosemite OS X, or is it a reserve battery power I did not know about, or is it something completely different


texts: How to Decouple iCloud-Sourced Photos from the iCloud in Photos Application

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Is there a way to decouple photos from iCloud in the Photos application when they arrive?  Basically, on macOS, I would like iCloud to deliver new photos and otherwise leave my local photo library alone.  If this is not possible, is there a work around, such as a method for creating independent copies of photos that arrive via iCloud?

I have found similar questions that explain that iCloud tightly couples photos across devices but nothing about how to work around the problem.  Clearly different devices have different storage capacity, so it makes sense that one would like to enforce different policies on each device.


texts: iPad Pro 10.5" down to 92% battery health after 6 months of use (update: 84% after 1.5 years)

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I bought an iPad in January 2018 (this was written in July 2018). The coconutBattery app indicates it was manufactured in August 2017. It has gone through 63 charging cycles and the battery health is already down to about 92%.

Meanwhile, my iPhone X, which was manufactured in October 2017 and which I started using in November 2017 is still at 100% battery health (in truth, a few mAh above design capacity), despite 138 charging cycles.

Such rapid degradation seems out of character. None of my previous iPads (or iPhones, or MacBook Pros, ...) showed anything like this so quickly. If it continues like this, the battery will barely last for 2 years until it reaches the 80% health indicative of end of life.

I'm wondering if Apple usually replaces batteries (or the whole unit) in such a situation. Also, is there an "official" (Apple-blessed) way of obtaining the device's battery health? I don't think they will consider info obtained with coconutBattery as valid. I know about the beta Battery Health feature in the Settings app, as it's available on my iPhone, but apparently not for iPads.

UPDATE Jul 22 2019: the battery is now at 178 cycles at only 80.7% health. Technically it’s a few percent over the 80% limit, but when it drops below 80% I’m calling Apple to see if they’ll offer me a free replacement, seeing as a battery with less than 2 years of usage and less than 200 cycles shouldn’t be nearing its end of life.

By the way, sometime near the end of last year, or the start of this year, I started to care for my devices’ batteries in a way that most would describe as OCD-like, after doing some deep research in scientific journals for the main factors that prolong battery lifetime. I’ve rigged a USB connector, sitting between an Apple original iPad charger and an Apple original Lightning cable, with the proper pull-up resistors to charge at 500 mA (seeing as low C-rates are better for the battery). About 90% of the time my iPad is charged exclusively through this, and for most of the rest of the time, at 1 A. Only very rarely do I charge it using a 10 W or 12 W charger, and I may have tested it a few times with USB-PD using an original MacBook Pro USB-C charger and an Apple original USB-C to Lightning cable.

Most importantly, I’ve been manually stopping the charge at 60 to 70% most of the time as well (I have let it slip to the 80% to 90% range a few times, and even more rarely, to 100%). This is universally accepted advice to prolong the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries. Like I said, one would be hard pressed to find a person that charged this iPad with as much care as I did, and all the research indicates this iPad’s battery should have easily lasted for thousands of cycles. Yet, this still happened, so I’m pretty sure I have a lemon in my hands.

My next step is to try to perform a full charge, followed by a full discharge (all the way until the iPad shuts off on its own) and another full charge, without any partial charges in between, just to see if this is a calibration issue with the battery gas gauge IC. I’ll report back once this is done.

UPDATE Jul 26 2019: did a full discharge cycle followed by a full recharge cycle. Battery health improved somewhat, to ~84%. There's also a lot of variation. For instance, with the charger connected and at 100% charge (so it's no longer accepting charge), over the course of a few minutes, I've seen the health change from 84.1% to 83.6% and then climb back to 83.9%. I definitely think this battery is somehow defective.


texts: What can we do now that Facebook iPad app crashes on launch after update?

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A family member today updated the Facebook app on a 3rd generation iPad (retina display) running iOS 5 and now the app crashes every time one tries to launch it.  We've tried rebooting the device, deleting and reinstalling the app, and angrily glaring at the machine.

The old version worked. Is there a way to go back to the old version, to make the new version work, or to somehow solve this problem? We'd rather not upgrade to iOS 6 as part of the solution. iCloud backups are off; I don't know if there's some sort of local backup on our computer or not, or what we'd do if that were the case.


texts: Wifi problem in OSX 10.7.1 after wake from sleep

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Basically it takes very long (sometimes up to 5 minutes) to reconnect to wifi after waking my Macbook Air (june '11 model) running OSX 10.7.1
It does show a list of available networks when I click the wifi icon and it does include the network I want to connect to, but it doesn't do anything if I click the network name.


texts: Why does my new Macbook Pro ship with Mavericks instead of Yosemite?

texts: Why does my new Macbook Pro ship with Mavericks instead of Yosemite even after ordering it after the release of Yosemite?


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I'm waiting for my iMac 27" late 2015 4.0ghz i7 to arrive and I'm looking to buy a 32gb kit to upgrade. I've been browsing for an hour and I can't find any specific buyer guides or websites that sell Mac compatible memory (in the EU).

According to Apple's RAM specs, I managed to find this:  PCPartPicker.com

This is what the Apple specs say:

PC3-14900
Unbuffered
Nonparity
204-pin
1867MHz DDR3 SDRAM

Source: Install memory in an iMac


texts: Can I just move SSD from 13inch MBP to 15 inch?

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Mid 2010 13 inch MBP is under 10.11.6 while the 15 inch is a 2012 non-retina model that is under macOS Sierra. I've been told that this is possible earlier but would like to hear form more people. Some are saying Macs are hardware independent, some say they are, so I need a consistent answer. The 15 inch currently has a HDD which is not going to cut it for me.

What do you suggest I do to move my 13 inch's SSD + data into the 15 inch safely. I have a bunch of environments setup which would take so much time to set up again, so I'm trying to make the switch safely.


texts: Creating .DS_Store Files to Prevent Icon Previews

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I'm interested in knowing if there are any ways to intentionally create a .DS_Store for use in preventing the display of icon previews?

Basically I have a network volume with lots of images and movies on it, so naturally browsing it is a nightmare in the Finder due to how slow everything is, however I don't really want each user's Finder storing .DS_Store files all over the place.

Instead I'd like to be able to just create or copy a custom .DS_Store file of my own into image/movie heavy folders in order to disable icon previews.

I've tried using a .DS_Store file that I know has the correct settings, but copying it into a new location just doesn't seem to work, presumably the file contains some reference to the folder it belongs to, so the Finder is just ignoring it.

Are there any tools out there that can be used to create and manipulate .DS_Store files, preferably programmatically, and even better if they can be run by a shell script on other unix platforms.


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I have a little synthesiser that has a 3.5mm out. On my PC I can plug this into the Line In Port and use it in sound recording software such as Audacity.
Today I tried connecting it to my MacBook Air 2020 (2xThunderbolt and 1x3.5mm I/O) to realise that macOS recognised it as a set of external headphones rather than a recording device.
Blow is a picture of the Synth. I'm by no means a music expert - I would just like to have a little play around with it and record sounds onto my MacBook. Could somebody point me in the right direction for what USB-C Device I should get to properly connect it to my Mac? Many thanks in advance.


texts: Reinstall OSX without having firmware password (but having root access to osx)

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I know that the question can sound suspicius but let me explain. I've installed in end 2015 a frash mac osx. I setted up the firmware password and never used again. Until today. The problem is: I forgot that. I know that I can go to an Apple Store or a certified shop and have it restored, but this requires me a lot of time (I'm far away from Apple Store and the neares shop told me they have to keep it for 10 days beacuse they have other pc to repair first..).

My goal is to reinstall a fresh Mac OSX (I do every year). Is this possible without having the firmware password? I usually do the Command+R and the proceed from there, but I can't beacuse I don't remember the password.

I was wondering: if I download sierra installation can I run a fresh installation and erase all data?

PS: With the find my phone I can reset pc, but can I also reset the firmware password (I dubpt so)


texts: The iPhone could not be restored because the firmware file was corrupt

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I am trying to Factory Restore iPhone 6S "A1633" on my Mac Running Big Sur 11.1 / Intel.
I am in recovery mode on the phone and plug it in it starts the update OR restore downloads the file, installs then produces this error. It seems that the firmware file from apple is corrupt in some way.

The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored because the firmware file was corrupt.

Disconnect and reconnect, then try again.


texts: Is TrueCrypt compatible with FUSE for OS X and SSHFS?

texts: TrueCrypt 7.1a is already installed on my MacBook with OS X 10.8.4. I plan to install OPENFUSE 2.6 and SSHFS 2.4.1, are they compatible with TrueCrypt?


texts: What is the best way to cover your camera and microphone?

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My question is not about "should I do it or not?"

Is there any solutions to cover camera and microphone? Some people use tapes.

It will be interesting to have something that will not damage this parts and that could easy be "uninstalled" :)


texts: Automator - How to know what I can do with Automator in each app

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I'm new to AppleScript and Automator, I've reached to stop and play next and previous track in Spotify, here's what I use inside the AppleScript:

tell application "Spotify" to playpause

for play/pause^.

tell application "Spotify" to next track
tell application "Spotify" to previous track

for next and previous track^.

My question is, how can I know what else I can do with Spotify (or any other app) and automator, what any other word can I write instead "playpause", "next track" and "previous track". Thanks.


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I have been trying to sync my playlists from itunes with my new ipod nano 5th gen, but the podcasts don't sync (they did sync on my old 2nd gen).  Any suggestions for how to fix this?

The music playlists sync as do the podcasts, but the playlists with only podcasts don't sync.  I sync automatically when plugging into my Macbook Pro with iTunes version 10.
I don't have any playlists that have both podcasts and non-podcasts.


texts: How to fix locate.updatedb not respecting directory excluded from /etc/locate.rc?

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I wanted to exclude some directories from the results of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb by editing /etc/locate.rc.  Unfortunately if I edit locate.rc locate.updatedb runs forever and does not actually terminate -- I have to kill it, and then the database for locate is an empty file.

Any ideas on why locate.rc is not respected?

I'm on ML (OS X 10.8), using bash from Macports (bash 4.2.37(2)-release), and my locate.rc reads:

#
# /etc/locate.rc -  command script for updatedb(8)
#
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.rc,v 1.9 2005/08/22 08:22:48 cperciva Exp $

#
# All commented values are the defaults
#
# temp directory
#TMPDIR="/tmp"

# the actual database
#FCODES="/var/db/locate.database"

# directories to be put in the database
#SEARCHPATHS="/"

# directories unwanted in output
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /Users/me/.vim /Users/me/.cups /Users/me/tmp"

# filesystems allowed. Beware: a non-listed filesystem will be pruned
# and if the SEARCHPATHS starts in such a filesystem locate will build
# an empty database.
#
# be careful if you add 'nfs'
#FILESYSTEMS="hfs ufs"


texts: Is it okay if your power adapter gets hot, because mine gets really really hot, it's kinda burning to the touch and I'm really worried, especially because my Iphone is brand new and i don't live in US, but that is where i got it from, and there aren't any apple stores in my country so i can go and ask for help. If anyone knows any solution, i would be really grateful. Thank you.


texts: Photos.app is not combining JPEG and RAW photos after small alteration

texts:
My camera is currently set to take pictures in RAW + JPEG. I import the two files into the Photos app, and it combines them into one. I like this.

However, I have now used ExifTool to add in the GPS coordinates. I deleted the old files and re-imported them with the exact same file names. Now I have two pictures when I was expecting one.

If I take the original files and re-import them, they get combined again.

Is there some way to get Photos.app to realize that the two files should be combined?


texts: Can I change the LTE bands supported by my iPhone 5s

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I bought an iPhone 5S in Chile, model A1457 knowing that it doesn't have the LTE bands that are needed in Argentina. It was the only model available.

Is there any way to add the band/s that are missing in order to use LTE?
Via software or a carrier update hack?


texts: My application specialized icons no longer show in Dock. Instead it is showing default icons in the dock

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Recently Application-specific icons are not appearing in the dock. Instead it's showing the generic icon for many apps I'm running. The icons for many apps is this.

Why are my app-specific icons no longer showing in the dock.  I tried

  killall Dock

but that only changed one specific icon. There are still 16 more occurrences of these generic icons. I also tried `

  defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock

but to no avail.


texts: Switching between fullscreen applications gets "stuck" on Space 1

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I run all of my applications in full screen mode on a laptop without an external monitor.  I almost exclusively use Alfred to swap between applications, since I'm frequently moving between more than just two of them.  Alfred, for context, uses the open command to perform its application switching.

Anyway, there are several applications where, when I switch to them (doesn't matter where I'm coming from), the desktop switches to Space 1 (which is the empty space containing only Finder) and the main application actually switches to Finder.  I can hit Cmd-Tab once to get to the intended application (note that this means the target application moved in the list order, since tabbing once would otherwise result in returning to where I came from), but obviously that's another step that is undesirable.  To make matters worse, it is somewhat nondeterministic (I'd say it happens around 60-70% of the time), so I never really know if I'm going to "make it" when I try to switch apps.

A non-exhaustive list of applications where I've seen this happen (again, swapping to, not from):

Sublime Text 3
TweetBot
Calendar (like, the first-party Apple Calendar)
Mail (very rarely)
Slack

I've never (not even once) seen this glitch happen with the following applications:

Safari
Terminal
1Password

Put another way, the symptoms here are similar to what happens if you disable the "When switching to an application, switch to a Space…" option in the Mission Control preferences, but not quite the same.  Toggling that setting has an effect, but doesn't fix the problem.  With the setting off, what happens is the focused application will switch reliably to my target app (I don't get "intercepted" by Finder), but the space doesn't switch.  Which is to be expected, since that is the intended behavior of the setting.

To make matters even more confusing…  I enabled the hidden "Quit the Finder" menu option and shut down Finder.  So that left me in a situation where nothing was active on Space 1 and all of the applications were in fullscreen.  I then tried to switch to one of the problematic apps.  The results were that I was switched to Space 1, but the focused application was my target (presumably since Finder wasn't available to intercept).

It's almost like what's happening is the window manager is sometimes failing to switch me to the space which contains my target application (e.g. Slack) and instead switches me to Space 1, at which point the default "on switching into a space" behavior takes over and focuses the most-recently used application on that space.  And this behavior is independent of what applications are open on Space 1, but is somehow dependent on the application I'm swapping to.

I've been using Alfred (and QuickSilver before it) to switch applications basically since Mac OS X 10.2, and this is the first time I've ever seen anything like this.  I've also seen this across two completely distinct laptops with entirely separate user accounts, settings and application setups (modulo some overlap, such as Alfred, Dropbox, etc).  I'm basically out of crazy ideas to even debug the issue.  Help?

(btw, I actually never use Finder, so I would legitimately accept a solution which kills Finder and removes Space 1 altogether, but I doubt that is possible)

Update  The semantics of this problem appear to have changed in 10.12.2.  Specifically, now the application deterministically gets focus, but the space still often gets "stuck" on space 1.  So it's now almost identical to having the "When switching to an application" setting deactivated.

Even more interestingly, I've now seen it occasionally with Cmd-Tab, but only when the system is under high load.


texts: Can I prevent some iPhone apps from needing to be reloaded?

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Recently some iPhone apps which are already installed are not available when clicked.

I noticed recently some apps I don’t use often need to be reloaded. I assume this is some kind of memory reallocation innovation to make room for all of my favorite podcasts.

It happens like this, I click on an icon, and a clock-like loading animation covers the icon and it’s unavailable until it’s “reloaded”. Ok. But this necessitates WiFi, and near impossible to reload while on the train, for example.

Today I was not able to use my gmail app, and more importantly Transit app were unavailable when I needed them. I absolutely can’t have Transit app ever unavailable or requiring download  as I rely it to find alternate routes home during my NYC commute to work and home.

Is there a way to prevent certain critical third-party apps from unloading?


texts: Can't empty the trash after deleting user account

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I had an old user account on this machine that I no longer needed and was taking up a lot of space. I removed it by going to System Preferences > Users & Groups and deleting the user. It took a while, but it seemed to work and the user disappeared from the list.

However, I didn't seem to reclaim any disk space, which I thought was odd. So I checked and the deleted user's folder was still present in /Users.

Since the user was no longer listed in Users & Groups, I tried just manually deleting the user folder from the Finder and then emptying the trash. This worked up until it hit file 103,556, at which point it seemed to get stuck. I let it run overnight for 8+ hours and when I came back to it this morning, it was still sitting at 103,556.

I couldn't cancel the delete operation or anything, so I force-restarted the computer and tried emptying the trash again. Again, it counted up to the same file and then stopped.

Is there any way I can force-empty the trash to get rid of this user account?


texts: How do I attach more than one photo to a single email sent on my iPhone?

texts: There doesn't seem to be a way to attach photos to an email in the Mail app on the iPhone.  I can send photos from the Camera Roll in the Photos app, but I can only attach one photo per email?  Is there a trick I'm missing?  Or is there an app for that?


texts:
I used to have bluetooth PAN by default, but i was messing around with the network interfaces.

and when removing it, i accidentally set it to not return. I've spent hours googling and constantly removing plists, yet i can't get it back. please help.

Version OSX 10.13.2


texts: How to completely reinstall an app such as Google Chrome on the Mac?

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The short question is: if I have an app (Chrome) that keeps on crashing on app start up, how do I reinstall the app totally so it will run again?  (removing the app and download and reinstall won't work).

The long question is:

I have an iMac on the top floor of the house, in California, and some days the thermometer showed a max temperature of 39C (which is 102F).   That day, when I see the Google Chrome window, I clicked on it, and it crashed.

At that time, the temperature of the room is probably around 36C.

So to prevent any further damage to the computer, I shut it down and wait until the next day in the morning to power the computer up again.

But now Google Chrome will start up and immediately crash.  I tried going to the Applications folder, delete the whole app, and use Firefox to download Google Chrome from the Internet again to install it.  But the same thing happened.  Install, reboot, app crashed.  Reboot again, run the app again, and it crashed again.  I reinstalled the app for about 3 times total.

And since it might be related to the app setting data having some issue that caused the app to keep on crashing, I found the folder where the app data sits:  ~/Library/Application Support/Google, and I renamed it to ~/Library/Application Support/00G00gle and tried and removed the app and downloaded the app and reinstalled it.  But still it crashed.

So is there a way to totally reinstall the app in this case to make it work again?


texts: How can I export all my Iphone's data from the backup data into a useable format?

texts:
I am switching from my iphone after many years to a pinephone. I would like to be able to use or access the data, notes, files, sms, images, voice memos, contacts and so on.
I don't need to worry about the data being set up on the new phone. I just want to make sure I can access and use the data before I let go of my iphone.
I would also like some assurance that any third party program isn't uploading whatever they can get to their own servers to their own ends. Via paying for the software or auditable open source software.
Lastly I want to be as thorough as possible in not leaving anything out.
Any suggestion of tools or knowledge about how the backup data is stored or could be exported that could lens insight into a solution is appreciated.


texts: How can I change file name color on desktop?

texts:
I'm using a white background picture. How can I change the color of the text for items on my desktop to black?

Bonus points if there is a way to turn the shadow off too.


texts: What is the biggest disk that can be used in place of the optical drive in an early 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro?

texts:
The limitation in a 15inch early 2011 mbp is that the hdd should have a height of 9.5mm and that the SATA port only works reliably with drives that connect at SATA 2 speeds (3G bits/sec)

To use a hdd in the optical drive you have to use an adapter, of course. The height is easy to verify.

I'm looking for the drive with the most storage space that will work reliably in this case.

There are reports that the 1.5TB hdd by HGST works in this case. Are there any other drives that work?


texts: How To Execute Login Items Before Application Reopen?

texts:
System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> [user] -> Login Items

seem to be executing after, or at least in parallel with, the application reopens on reboot.  In my case this is undesirable because I have software that must run in order to keep the system from crashing when applications like Chrome start running.

I know I can turn off application reopen but that's not what I want either.

How can I specify that I want the Login Items to open first?

Failing that, how can I specify that I want one of the Login Items to open first?


texts:
I've had an iPhone 4S for about 1.5 years now. I have never had a problem taking tons of videos and pictures until now. Out of nowhere it says "can not record" because storage is full. I'm like "what, I have only one video".

When I check the usage, I have 11.1 GB of OTHER? I have only 1GB of Apps. What do I do to get rid of this? What is it? Calling people at Apple didn't work. I have contacts, notes, texts, apps I don't want to lose.


texts:
My daughter was playing with her 5th gen iPod Nano and somehow locked it.  Now whenever the screen comes on there is a picture of a padlock.  I have read that you can connect it to the "original" computer that the iPod was set up on, but it was so long ago I'm not even sure that computer is around any more.   In any case, it says this is only necessary if you have forgotten the unlock code.

Update:  After fiddling with it for too long, I discovered that if you hit the round circle in middle, it pops up a four digit code for you to enter.  But I have never entered a code, my daughter claims she didn't either, I don't know what computer it was originally set up with, and to add insult to injury, I don't even know where the cable went that connected to this thing.


texts: Using sudo command in shell script in Automator app?

texts:
I'm planning to make a small Automator app to make these commands into something I can run regularly:

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/*
rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/*
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Caches/*
atsutil databases -removeUser
sudo atsutil databases -remove
sudo atsutil server -shutdown
sudo atsutil server -ping
sudo rm -rf /var/folders/*

Since it involves sudo, which I understand is a dangerous command, is this recommended for someone new to Automator, and it won't damage the Mac?

I tried the command suggested at iMac not shutting down since upgrading to OS X 10.11, El Capitan to fix problems with my Mac shutting down (it's MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 on an old Mac Mini).

I would welcome any advice on this, as I know the basics of Automator, just whether it's recommended to do so with sudo commands as an Automator app.


texts: Anyway to restore AFP as the default in 10.10?

texts: In OS X 10.10, Apple moved from AFP to SMB3 as the default method of connecting to servers (Command + K). Anyone know a way to restore this back to AFP?


texts: I am an iOS user and i have recently started ecountering various issues on my iphone. Given statistics given by the system monitor app about 800 mb of my 1gb memory is used almost all of the time.In addition the page fault number goes up thousands per second. I have also recently started encountering what I think are kernel panics on my iphone. The screen goes blue and my headphones make a crackling noise. I can not be sure however because nothing appears in the error logs.Another issue is that apps wont open sometimes until i kill the last opened application.I am on a jailbroken iOS 8 device and am wondering if the page faults and memory have anything to do with the problems I'm encountering or it they're normal. I also want to know if it's software or hardware and how to fix it if possible. Many thanks.


texts: DAM or Document Mgt SW for Mac's in a Adobe CC workflow

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We currently have unexplained intermittent issues with our Mac OS X clients and permissions on AI, PSD or PDF files that are stored on a Win2K8R2 server using SMB.  All Mac's are joined to AD via Centrify's client, and what seems to be a problem every so often is the user will get a message that the file is locked, or they cannot save it to the network share.  All users are in the same AD group, and that group has WRITE permission on the share.

Being that Adobe doesn't officially support their products being saved to Network shares, what do other shops do to work-around this strange limitation.  All sorts of people have posted to various sites about the same issues we encounter, and we can go weeks, if not months with everything working fine, and then we'll have issues for a while.

Here's Adobe's official stance on saving Illustrator AI files to Network Shares:

Illustrator support for networks and removable media

I have some upset users, as this always seems to be an issue when we have a "hot rush" job, and this slows things down considerably.

My only thinking is to work with something that saves locally, and syncs back up to the server.  The file share is currently 1TB, and will be 1.5TB soon.  With SSD based Mac's, I can't download the entire share locally to each machine, and have it sync back with the server, so I was looking at DAM software or something similar.

Does anyone have any ideas to solve this very painful condition, that seems to come and go when we need to rely on things the most?


texts: remove track number from start of song name iTunes

texts:
I just imported my own folder of audio files into iTunes.

Now every song is prepended with a track number, 01, 02, ... 18, etc.

How do I remove these? Other albums don't have this (despite the files in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music having the prepended numbers).


texts: Texting and phone I am texting is asking for my name

texts: I have my neighbor's phone number and he said that I could let him know if I needed any help moving.  When I went to text him, it seemed like his phone required my name or it wouldn't let me text him. First of all, how would his phone do this? And, second, why would I have to give a name?  Is this my iPhone 4 doing this or his phone?


texts: shortcut for starting and stopping youtube video on second screen on mac

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I often watch tutorial videos from youtube on my macbook.
So i want to watch the tutorial on my second display and work on my macbook.
Because i often have to start and continue the video i always have to move my cursor back to the other monitor and then tap on the small start button and move back to my macbook display.
i would love to have a shortcut e.g. option-s which starts/stops video or maybe two, one to start, one to stop.
is this possible?


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I use an iPhone 6s. I am looking for an app locker. I tried searching on the App Store, found various app locker apps but none of them works.

Is there any method to lock my apps?


texts: iPhoto: How to only set the year of a picture?

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I use iPhoto to manage my pictures. Unfortunately I have many pictures from the 80s. These pictures are actually slides that I have scanned in during 2008. So my problem is that the creation date of all these pictures is set to the date when I scanned it in. Now I want to set the real date of these pictures. Unfortunately I don't know the exact date, but at least the year.

So is there any function available to only set the year field of a date without a specific date?