texts: Can I disable pinch to show all open tabs in Safari?

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Too often, when I try to move my cursor and click, or try to drag something or select text, and my two fingers end up on the trackpad at the same time, all my open tabs shrink into this view:

This is extremely disruptive as it makes me lose my focus and then I have to locate the page I was currently on, click it and then resume working.

I can't tell what this specific feature in Safari is called (I want to still be able to pinch to zoom in and out of a page), and couldn't find info anywhere on how to completely disable it.

Can I disable this? (or I can use another browser, obviously...)


texts: Is there a way to preserve the formatting of inline images in emails in Outlook for Mac?

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At my office, most users are PC based. However, a few teams have Macs. The standard email tool is Outlook, and the Mac users have Outlook for Mac.

When someone sends me an email that has images pasted inline with the text, all of the images are stripped out, replaced with an icon of a question mark, and added as attachments.

I've done a bit of research, and it seems the reason this happens is because Outlook on Windows defaults to sending an email in RTF format. Outlook for Mac doesn't use RTF, so it converts it to HTML format. If someone sends me an HTML email, I see the images inline without any issues.

So I wonder, aside from asking everyone in the organization to change their email format to HTML, is there a way to preserve the inline images and formatting of the RTF email?


texts: How to transfer data from one iCloud account into a new one?

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Since approximately 2009, my mother, brother, and I have all shared the same Apple ID and therefore, iCloud. Each of us have our separate devices, computers, and different music, apps, contacts, and other data on them. It's been really messy and generally a pain to try and make our stuff separate when we share the same cloud and everything. Now my brother and I want to get our own separate accounts, but we don't want to have to repurchase over 500 songs and 170+ apps, move around thousands of pictures, reenter our contacts, etc, etc...

Is there any way we can transfer our individual data to a new iCloud account on our respective devices? I feel it should be as simple as signing into the device with one Apple ID, downloading what I want, and then signing back in with my new Apple ID where everything will download. But knowing Apple and my luck with technology it probably won't be that simple.

Thanks for any help.


texts: Sync Google Contact Groups with Apple iOS Contact Groups

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I am trying to sync my Google Contacts with my iPhone / Apple Contacts. The contacts sync fine, but the groups are not preserved.
In Contacts for Mac, I can create a new group and add contacts to it, but that contact group will not sync across to Google Contacts, and vice versa.

Is there a way to keep these groups in sync?


texts: Cross-Platform File System file sharing between MAC, WINDOWS, LINUX?

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I've a laptop with triple boot, Yosemite, Windows 8.1, CentOS 7, and need a partition for sharing files between the 3 os's, i've been using exFAT, as it is supported by OSX & Windows but had some issues with linux and after try to mount it on linux, osx didn't recognize it, and i was unable to mount it, then just windows recognized it and after 1 day of using it got corrupted, i had to get my data back with TesDrive.

Now i'm looking for the most accepted file sys to share files between them, so far i've found these options:

NTFS: Using MacFUSE & NTFS-3G to enable read/write access,  or Paragon NTFS, but i've heard some bad things about stability & speed of those options... i would not like to lose my data.
HFS+: Using MacDrive Pro in windows to have read/write access to mac partition, i guess there's a way to allow linux support for hfs+. Heard some good & bad things about MacDrive but still not so sure...
exFAT: This way is the way i've already tried, bad experience with it, but most of the people seems to approve this option. Maybe i did something wrogn, BUT still the data loss is a problem...
FAT32: Limited drive size. Limited permission settings. Not the one i would like to pick.

Needs hierarchically ordered:

Stability (No data loss)
Great File Size support
Journaling
Speed

UPDATE 1:
After more research i've found Tuxera NTFS for mac, seems to be nice, but... how good is it in real life? does it offer real NTFS full support as it says?, great Stability? Speed? Journaling?
Is it worth for the price?


texts: Check the status of a Finder copy-paste operation from Apple Watch

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Today I had to leave my Mac, while a copy-pasting operation was in progress with a large number of files. I found myself wanting to know how long the operation had left (and if it had encountered any issues, duplicates etc.). This left me wondering, would there be a way to view this progress on an Apple Watch?

I'm not entirely sure if this already exists via an app on the App Store (please let me know, if there's one) or if someone has coded a sideload app. Either way, let me know because I'd love to investigate. I understand how the app would encounter issues interacting with the actual macOS, but I wonder if anyone has any insight.

Perhaps if not for the Apple Watch, but for the iPhone?


texts: Adjust Proximity Sensor back to iOS6 levels for iPhone 5

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My wife recently updated her iPhone 5 to iOS 7 (from iOS 6).  After the upgrade she has had issues with the proximity sensor.

It works fine when holding the phone to her ear with her hand.  However, when she tries to pinch the phone between her head and her shoulder, the proximity sensor does not see that it is near anything and she ends up dialing keys or hanging up.

Again, this only happens when trying to hold the iPhone with her shoulder.

Your response may be, "don't do that".  But she was able to do it with iOS 6 just fine, so it is kind of hard for me to tell her that.

It is only after the upgrade to iOS 7 that she started having this issue.

So my question is, can the sensitivity of the proximity sensor be adjusted? (So I can put it back to iOS 6 levels?)


texts: Keyboard shortcut (App Shortcut) taken? Cannot use "^Z"

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When I try to add a Shortcut like this

System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->App Shortcuts->+->Some title->

I cannot use ^Z as Keyboard Shortcut.
It is automatically replaced by

Shift (illustrated as arrow-up)
followed by
Command (illustrated by the Command key symbol)
followed by a
Y

I guess this is because the shortcut is taken. But I couldn't find where. I checked all the other item above "App Shortcuts", i.e. "Accessibility", "Spotlight", ...

How can I check which app is using it and how can I force the system to use my shortcut?


texts: I sent my files(pdf, docs...) from macbook to iphone but i did not open my files when received. And now i can not find my files anywhere. Is there anywhere or removed?


texts: Crawl live website and do a text/code search?

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I need a Mac app that can crawl a live website and do a text search (and, as a bonus, a source code search) and report the results.

Surely something like this exists. Help!


texts: Share favorites in Firefox using Bootcamp?

texts: I'm using BootCamp to install Windows 7 on my Mac. On both OS I'm using Firefox 6. Is there an easy way to automatically share the favorites in both OS?


texts: Where does iostat get its information on mac?

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Goal: update terminal command prompt with CPU usage statistics since last prompt appeared, e.g., jeremy@Mac:57%CPU|~/ $

Research: I know on Linux, iostat reads /proc/stat and looks for changes between checks to give accurate information. I used something like the following on CentOS:

 local cur_tick_total=$(awk 'FNR == 1 {sum=0; for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {sum+=$i} printf "%.0f\n", sum}' /proc/stat)
 local cur_tick_idle=$(awk 'FNR == 1 {print $5}' /proc/stat)
 local delta_tick_total=$(( $cur_tick_total - $__prev_tick_total ))
 local delta_tick_idle=$(( $cur_tick_idle - $__prev_tick_idle ))
 local percent_idle=$(( $delta_tick_idle * 100 / $delta_tick_total ))
 __cpu=$(( 100 - $percent_idle ))

Question: How can I do this on Mac? If iostat works the same way as on Linux, it has to read from somewhere like this, but /proc/stat doesn't exist on Mac. I want to know where it looks to be able to read from that location myself as part of my PS1.

Edit: iostat's output does not work for my purposes, since it outputs either system load average, which is a nonsense number or CPU % usages since system boot, which is not helpful to me. I want a more instantaneous actual CPU usage metric that I can get instantly via the command line.


texts: Screen shots shortcuts disabling themselves (Yosemite)

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I use screen shots all the time (Cmd+Shift+4 ftw). But suddenly, I'll go to take a screen shot and the shortcut doesn't work. I go into System Preferences > Keyboard and see that ALL the screen shot shortcuts are unchecked. I check the shortcuts on, but then a few seconds later, they will be unchecked. I click Restore Defaults to turn them on, but they still disable a few seconds later.

Has anyone else had this? What could be causing it?

Even if I want to take a screen shot during this, I don't have enough time after checking the box to press the shortcut before it turns back off.

Thank you in advance to anyone who offers assistance.


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Since migrating to Catalina, I am not able to run an interactive shell through SSH to one of my linux servers. Using a Windows machine (I do not have a pre-Catalina machine available), I have no problem connecting.

Non-interactive ssh works correctly (I use an authorized key, so no password prompt) :

~> echo 'uname -a' | ssh user@server
Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
Linux ????? 4.9.78-xxxx-std-ipv6-64 #2 SMP Wed Jan 24 10:27:15 CET 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Interactive ssh hangs, until the server's sshd kick me out :

~> ssh user@server
[Long wait]
packet_write_wait: Connection to ????: Broken pipe

When use verbose (-v), I can see that the authentication works:

~> ssh -v user@server
[...]
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey)
[...]
debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00@openssh.com want_reply 0
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LC_CTYPE = UTF-8
[long Wait]
packet_write_wait: Connection to ????: Broken pipe

Not using a authorized key results in a password prompt, and then the same Broken pipe

Versions:

~> sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.15.1
BuildVersion:   19B88

~> ssh -V
OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3

Any idea ?


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I'm looking to buy my first macbook and I am unsure which one to buy. I will use my laptop while travelling mostly next year on my working holiday visa for general purposes (web browsing, watching movies etc), photo editing (Photoshop), occasional video editing (premiere) and android development.

I cannot decided which model to buy:

13" MacBook Air full upgraded ( 2.2GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM, 256GB SSD)

vs

13" MacBook Pro (2.7GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz, 8GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM, 256GB SSD)

both are priced at S$1,968.00 - might even go for the 512GB - also same price for both (S$2,388) but I'm not sure yet as I'll carry a 2TB external with me.

I'm frustrated why Apply still use Dual core CPU when there are so many quad cores available

My questions:

Could a full upgraded MacBook Air match/exceed the Pro in terms of performance? Would a fully upgraded MacBook Air have shorter battery life than the quoted 12 hours?


texts: How to apply a Category to an Outlook Email using AppleScript

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I have the AppleScript below for Outlook 2016. I am able to mark my mail as read, and I am able to move the email to the appropriate folder. But I can't categorize the email for some reason.

Does anyone know what the proper keyword is called and maybe more importantly, a website to help me lookup AppleScript keywords for Outlook specifically?

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    activate
    set msgSet to current messages
    if msgSet = {} then
        error "No Messages selected. Select at least one message."
        error -128
    end if
    set theMsg to item 1 of msgSet
    set theAccount to account of theMsg
    set archiveFolder to folder "Tickets" of folder "Archive" of theAccount
    repeat with aMessage in msgSet
        set aMessage's is read to true
        set aMessage's category to "ForReview"
        move aMessage to archiveFolder
    end repeat
end tell


texts: Properly sort multiple albums from one artist in a year in iTunes

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I am trying to clean up as much of the metadata as I can in my iTunes Library. One issue I came across is albums from a band, where the band releases multiple albums in a year. While this doesn't happen all that much, a good example is the Smashing Pumpkins, who released Machina in Feb. 2000, and then released Machina II later that year in Sept 2000. Live concerts are a great example as well, for example if you have recordings from different shows on a tour.

In iTunes, currently Machina II is before Machina (Probably because in ASCII 'I' may come before '/'. This wouldn't matter much, except all the other albums from this artist are in order. Every once in a while, I am in the mood to listen to a particular artists set of albums over the years, and you can see then this won't work out.

Is there a way to say either what Month the album was released, or another workaround (other than just saying the next year for example)?

Update: I looked through the AppleScript dictionary, and it doesn't look like you can access anything except the year through AppleScript either.


texts: Deleting Photos From "Photos" App Does Not Delete Them From Local Drive

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I have some photos and I want to remove some of them by first previewing and then removing, like I always do on Windows.

Because "Preview" does not let me look multiple photos and "Quick Look" has no delete function, I imported the photos to "Photos" app by dragging the folder into the app and started to removing photos.

Then I also go to recently deleted tab in "Photos" and deleted photos permanently.

But it does not remove them from local drive. They are still on my drive, I can see on Finder.

How do you remove photos in MacOs? I could not find an easy way to remove photos "on fly". If possible, I don't want to use 3rd party apps.


texts: Wanting to Make Linux Partition, Will I Be Able to Delete It Later?

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I've been trying to create some persistent USB Linux thumb drives loaded with Elementary OS and a few other Linux distros, but have had no such luck.  I don't really like the idea of partitioning my Mac and installing other OS directly on it, as I like to keep my Mac drive purely macOS, but since I'm having no luck with the persistent thumb drives, I'm considering partitioning my Mac drive and installing the distros on their own partitions.  This idea doesn't entirely bother me, but I've been reading of other user who have had issues deleting the partitions after they have been made.  I don't want to be stuck with a Linux partition on my comp if I don't care to keep using it.  Can anyone here verify if they can delete a Mac partition?

My setup is a 2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch Retina running macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra).

Thanks.


texts:
How do I run the app: ~/ngrok by typing ngrok?

I want to add a shortcut to the ~/ngrok location so that I don't need to know the place where it is when I run the app.


texts: Record MacBook Audio Out With iPad/iPhone Earphone Jack

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I just bought myself an iPad to take notes with Notability so that I can record my teachers' voices along with my notes, for this upcoming summer semester. Now with the mandated lock down, all my summer classes will be taking place online with Zoom.

To try to still be able to record them while taking notes (without having to play the sound out loud), I bought myself a TRRS cable. I connected one end to the MacBook earphone jack and the other end to the iPad earphone jack. (Inspired by this Cult of Mac article: How to record any audio on your iPhone).

However, when I try recording sound coming from my Mac, here is what my iPad is picking up:

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Also, here is the cable I bought : CableCreation 3 Feet 3.5mm TRRS Auxiliary Audio Cable


texts: changed password but still can't access my account

texts: My original computer with my itunes account crashed and burned. I am trying to make sense of the account on my new computer. I was able to buy musice and movies but now I can't do anything. I changed my password but I keep getting a message that says my password is incorrect. its not incorrect. Anybody have any ideas how to fix that. I am totally frustrated.


texts: Factory reset halfway through filevault decryption?

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I am selling my MacBook Pro and was reading through what to do before factory resetting the Mac. One of the recommended steps was turning off FileVault, but now I want to reset the hard drive and reinstall the OS and I'm stuck waiting for FileVault to do it's thing. I'm not sure how long FileVault will take but I don't want to keep the purchaser waiting and he's coming by in about 18 hours.

Can I erase the drive halfway through the FileVault decryption process without it causing problems for the Mac? I'd imagine that if I'm erasing the drive the FileVault status won't matter too much but I'd like to be certain.


texts: Extend the passcode lock timeout on iPhone 4S and iOS 5 connected to exchange

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Preface

I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 and to prevent Find Friends from asking for a password every time it is opened I have enabled the passcode lock and set it to the max of 4 hours. This is fine as in reality it means at most once a day BUT it is now connected to our works exchange server which apparently is aloud to force the iPhone to remove the 1 hours and 4 hours lock options meaning I have to put in the passcode lock almost every time now which I do not like.

Attempts to fix

I have tried several tricks I found which apparently have been "fixed" by apple like disabling the exchange, changing the lock to 4 hours and re-enabling the exchange but this doesn't work any more.

I have found a few older posts about changing the "maxGracePeriod" in some of the iPhone config files like this post: http://modmyi.com/forums/member-written-iphone-news/700148-extending-time-passcode-lock.html#post5480817

So I jailbroke my iPhone and using iPhone Browser on my PC connecting to my now it and also iFile directly to look for these files but it appears that ether they have moved the files or my iPhone doesn't have this file.

Question

SO:

How can I remove the restriction Exchange puts on my iPhone of 15 mins max before the passcode is required?
OR maybe remove the requirement for Find Friends to require the passcode lock at all (I will amend the question to reflect this if this is the final result)


texts: Photos not backed up to iCloud even though I have space

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My iPhone 11 says that 577 of my photos have not been uploaded to iCloud because there is not enough space.
However when I go to Settings > iCloud it says that I have only used 35.6 of 50 GB of the storage.
All of my other 1000 photos have uploaded but I don’t know why these are not.


texts: When is an updated app downloadable from the App Store on the iPhone and iPad?

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Example: Pokemon Go 0.83 was available yesterday around noon (Nov 27, 2017), and one of the person in our group downloaded it around noon.

But I checked and checked, even restarted the App Store app, rebooted the iPhone, and could not see the Update button. Not until about 10 or 11pm.

And today I wanted to see how the app looks like on the iPhone X, and again, I restarted the App Store app, and rebooted the iPhone X, and there is still no Update button, when it is 5pm and 28 hours after somebody was able to update it.

When is it supposed to be available and is there a way to force the update to show up?


texts: How to find the currently connected network service from the command line?

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I would like to find out which of the available network services (e.g. Ethernet or Wi-Fi) is currently active. In this screenshot from the Network Preferences, you can see that Wi-Fi is currently active (the green dot):

How can I get that information from the command line?

The networksetup command allows me to list the available network services:

$ networksetup -listallnetworkservices
An asterisk (*) denotes that a network service is disabled.
Ethernet
FireWire
Wi-Fi

It can also show some details on the service, like the device name:

$ networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder
An asterisk (*) denotes that a network service is disabled.
(1) Ethernet
(Hardware Port: Ethernet, Device: en0)

(2) FireWire
(Hardware Port: FireWire, Device: fw0)

(3) Wi-Fi
(Hardware Port: Wi-Fi, Device: en1)

Unfortunately, the info on which service is active (the green dot from the screenshot) is not available in this info. Is there another command that I could use to get this information?


texts: So I tried to change the output of my terminal prompt but when I try something like /W it just puts the /W not the path.  For example export PS1="/W $ "turns my prompt into "/W $"


texts: Phone shows 11 gb is used while only a little over 1 gb is used?

texts: I added all up all of the usage data on my iphone 5s(16gb) and it came up to a little over 1gb, while it says 11 gb is used, with only 1.7 gb is free.


texts: Remove locations from list in Reminders app

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I am trying to remove the locations listed in my Reminders app on my iPhone 5c (iOS 8.2). I have several that I no longer use/need but cannot work out how to delete them? I have the 'home' one and that's the one I use the most.

I have removed locations within the Maps App thinking this may help, but to no avail. Can anyone suggest another method?


texts: How to get my old disk back that contains personal data?

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I was not able to power on my MacBook Pro 2015. It was getting stuck on the Apple Logo. I took it to the Apple Service Centre, they diagnosed it and replaced the SSD.

The kept my old disk with them that contains my personal data and they are refusing to give it back to me. What are my options? I am sure there are ways they can still access the data. Are there any data protection laws for replaced disks from Apple's Side? Should I be worried?


texts: Play folder with right button with iTunes

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This answer to Play folder with right button with VLC explains how playing all the audio tracks within a folder can be accomplished when using VLC.

I don't want to install VLC, how can I accomplish something similar with iTunes?


texts: Thunderbolt display not charging MBP battery

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I have a mid-2012 Retina MacBook Pro and two Thunderbolt displays purchased in mid-2014. The MBP sits plugged into one of the Thunderbolt displays almost all the time, unless I'm using it away from my desk.

Lately, I noticed that the computer's charging behavior was odd:

The menu bar's battery indicator did display the "charging" lightning bolt;
The percent charged number did not change over the course of many plugged in hours;
The indicator light on the MagSafe charger did not turn on.

Some power was clearly coming through, since the battery was not draining; it was just also not charging. Restarting did not solve this, and neither did resetting the SMC (my go-to move for weird power or peripheral glitches). But: plugging the laptop into the other Thunderbolt display did solve the problem.

Thus it seems there's a problem with that particular Thunderbolt display. How do I troubleshoot it?


texts: Bought an iphone 6.  Set my old phone iphone 5 back to factory settings and gave to a young friend.  She keeps saying icloud is stopping her from using it. Took it back and did another factory reset via iTunes.  She went into mobile shop with it but she now says I need to give her my apple or icloud password or, go to 'find my phone' select 'all devices' to open list of devices linked to my account on the old phone. Not mobile savvy, too old to learn new tricks.


texts: Creating a new iPhone contact from an email in a specific address book

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I have two e-mail accounts on my iPhone 4, one of which is my "work" Exchange account, and I therefore have two sets of address books ("From My Mac" and "Work").

From an e-mail, and also from the Phone's Recents list, if I select an e-mail address or phone number and then select "Create New Contact", I am not given an opportunity to select the address book that it should be added to. It always adds it to my work (Exchange) address book.

How do I select which address book I to create a new contact in? Alternatively (and less preferably) how can I move the contact after-the-fact from one address book to the other.

I'm not interested in solutions that involve having to sync with my mac every time, using iCloud, Google Mail or anything that I have to pay for.


texts:
The first line of this snipet goes to the logfile, but the second doesn't.
I need the second be executed and loged.

#!/bin/bash
printf '%s %s (%s) running...\n' 2>&1 | tee -a $logfile
output=$(restic -r ${backupdir} snapshots ) 2>&1 | tee -a $logfile

How can i log the output= line as well?


texts: SMB share only accessible with FQDN or IP address, netbiosname no longer resolves

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We have several Macs in our office, ranging from 10.5.8 - 10.8.2.  Until a few days ago all of the machines could access all of our file servers, running on Win 2007 server, using just the netbiosname by "Connecting to Server" in Finder.  Basically they could reach the share by connecting to "smb://Server1/MyFiles".

Well, a few days ago we migrated one of our file servers (Server1) from a physical box to a VMWare VM.  Ever since that change we have been unable to connect with our 10.7 & 10.8 Macs using our traditional method.  Attempting to do so results in a "Server not found" error. The workaround that we've found is that we can still connect using either the FQDN or the IP address, such as "smb://Server1.Domain.Extension/MyFiles" or "smb://160.1.1.1/MyFiles".

Some more info:

Golden Triangle environment, AD providing authentication & OD providing management
10.6.8 & older Macs can still access by connecting to smb://Server1/MyFiles
10.7 & 10.8 Macs can only access via the FQDN or IP, smb://Server1.Domain.Extension/MyFiles
The Search Domain still populates correctly as "Domain.Extension" in the DHCP/DNS settings of the affected machines
Pinging Server1 from the affected Macs is successful, the address populates as Server1.Domain.Extension
Unbinding and rebinding has no effect
Comparing the affected, recently migrated, server to our other working server in Directory Utility shows only one difference.  The dsAttrTypeNative:servicePrincipalName value is different between the two.

The working server, Server2, has two values: HOST/Server2 and HOST/Server2.Domain.Extension

The affected server, Server1, has three values: HOST/Server1, WSMAN/Server1 and WSMAN/Server1.Domain.Extension

My first thought was the SMB compatibility issues that arose when Lion was first released but considering everything worked smoothly until the server migration I can't imagine this is the case.  We also considered DNS but with it pinging properly, and the older Macs & Windows machines connecting properly, we have a hard time believing that.

Has anyone run into this before or have any ideas?


texts: Will iPhone remote earbuds work with 6th Gen iPod Nano?

texts: ....will iPhone remote earbuds work with 6th Gen iPod Nano? My brief internet search (random Google searches, Apple forums) yielded no results.


texts: I just installed Mountain Lion, and of course I've had to set up Xcode Command Line Tools, reinstall Git, and do other things to get up and running again for programming. Naturally, PHP was pushed back to 5.3 from 5.4 that I previously had installed when my MacBook Pro was running Lion. I ran through the process downloading PHP 5.4, unzipping it (tar xf php5.4), configuring it (./configure with and without options), making it (make), running the make test (make test), and installing the make (sudo make install). When I ran configuration with options it did not allow me to make and when I ran without configuration options it failed to pass make test a few times (when this occurred I sent the information to Zend). When it did pass make test though, it said that it installed successfully, but when I would check the version (php -v) it still comes up with PHP 5.3. I've done this almost nine times with restarts and re-downloading the package every time; no sauce. Does anyone have any ideas what could possibly be going wrong? Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Error message "iPod is disabled. Try again in 22,236,924 minutes."

texts:
I think my son was trying to guess the passcode! What do I do?

I can't wait 42 years!


texts: Opening a playlist from a different country?

texts: I'm trying to open a playlist I saw on twitter (https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/made-of-cocaine/idpl.27f9313c33104fb2a5dec76e3694ea63), when I follow the link, iTunes opens on the "New" tab, and that's it. I noticed that the country code is explicitly coded into the url (us), and I'm in a different country (Hong Kong), but I'm having a hard time believing that it would just silently fail because of that. Anyone know what the deal is?


texts: Switch Layout between different Keyboards

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I own a MacBook Pro with a German keyboard layout but bought a UK external keyboard because the special characters are much more convenient for coding and LaTeX.
Currently, I have to manually switch between UK and GER keyboard layouts in the menu bar, when I am switching between the internal and external keyboard.
Is there a way to make MacOS always recognise the internal keyboard as German and the external always as UK-layout?


texts: Is there any trick to use a clamshell mode without closing the MacBook?

texts: I would like to take the advantage of typing on the MB keyboard and using touchpad while enhancing the performance - by my logic, mirror displays, is more GPU intensive than clamshell mode.


texts: Spotlight and Alfred can't find alias to Emacs.app

texts:
I installed Emacs.app with Homebrew, and used brew linkapps to create an alias in my /Applications directory.

Since I updated to OS X Mavericks yesterday, Spotlight and Alfred can no longer see this alias.

Since discovering the problem, I've tried reindexing my MacBook as described here, as well as reinstalling Emacs and restarting the machine.

Any other suggestions?


texts: My 17″ Macbook Pro died last November. I have a new Macbook running 10.9.3 but my iPhone 4 won't sync wirelessly because it's still looking for the old Mac. I cant find a place to make it forget the old one and sync via wifi with my new one?


texts: localhost doesn't find all files in Sites-Folder

texts:
I have a strange problem:

I installed XAMPP long time ago and created a folder with an index.php file in my sites folder. When i start XAMPP and go to the browser localhost/~username i can see the folder-structure.

  I click on the folder i created some month ago, and safari shows me
  the index.php file.

  But now i create a new folder, with a new index-file in it, and
  navigate to it, i'm getting an 404 Error.

  Both folders are in the same Directory: ~/Sites

Open localhost/~username and i can see all folders in the ~/Sites - Folder
Clicking on the folder created long time ago: works
Clicking on the new folder created few seconds ago: Error 404

I think there is a problem in the apache-config file, but i do not understand why apache finds only the new file.


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I have a MacBook Pro 15 inch, 2014 model, with 2 GPUs: Intel and NVIDIA 750M.

Last Monday I turned it on and I noticed that the screen is white as you can see in the picture.

I don't know what is the problem with it. I tried some solutions that I found on the web like resetting the NVRAM & SMC without result. I tried also to deactivate the dedicated GPU using gfxCardStatus but also no result.

The problem is that when I keep the Mac turned on for some time (>2 hours) the screen goes back to normal without white edges.

When I turn it off and keep it turned off for a while, then turn it on again it becomes white again and I must wait >2 hours so I can see my screen without this whiting effect.

Can you suggest a solution? We have no Apple Store or Apple repair in my country.

I tried to use my Mac HDMI but it's not working too. It was working before I got this problem. The mini DisplayPort to VGA is still working.


texts: Minimum partition size for normal osx usage?

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I want to set up a linux/osx dual boot on a mbp with a shared zfs pool for data and /home. My question then is, if /Users is on a separate partition, does anyone have any recommendations towards how large the osx partition should be?

There're a couple of threads that seem to indicate that it has to be at least 9-10GB (What's the minimum partition size for osx mavericks when dual booting with windows 8?), but this is obviously a bare bones minimum rather than a typical scenario for a normal laptop setup.

I know that I can easily get away with a <5GB /root in linux, but I have no experience with macs. Thanks!


texts: Can I disable the iPhone's auto-rotation to landscape mode?

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I can't stand iPhone's auto-rotation feature, e.g. rotate your phone just past some threshold, and the screen rotates from portrait to landscape.

This is always tripping me up, especially when I'm lying down and simply want to read my iPhone in portrait mode.

Is there a way to just disable the feature altogether?


texts: Macbook pro wont boot, Kernel cache read error 0x6

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I have recently installed macOS Sierra and sometimes my Macbook pro mid-2012 boots up properly (rarely). Otherwise it does not boot. When I try to boot it with cmd+v , it shows following text:

Read error 0x6

Kernel cache read error 0x6

It's been days since Im facing this issue. Any solution? Right now I'm asking this question using my Mac because it was of of those good times when it did boot properly.


texts: How could I replace Mathtype in a mathematic document with Catalina?

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I think I'm not the only one with this problem on Mac.

I have to buy a new MacBook with Catalina 10.15 (64 bits).

Being a math teacher, I need Mathtype to edit equations in my docs. I have a lot of old (and actual) docs made with Mathtype. The big advantage with Mathtype is that I can change my equation's font (arial, franklin, etc.). This is what I'm searching for.

But Mathtype (Wiris) doesn't plan a new version for Catalina (see https://lp.wiris.com/catalina/ or others forums). If I change my mac, I couldn't use Mathtype anymore.

I do not know what to do with this problem...

I can use Pages or Word for editing.

I could use Latex : not easy to use different font. Not easy to insert graph or other geogebra images, etc. I tried this solution last year, but I'm really too perfectionist to get what I need.

I could use Word 2016 equation editor : only 2 or 3 fonts availables on the web...

I could use Page 8.2.1 equation editor : the Blahtex fonts are limited. This is impossible to find a ttf who matches with possibles fonts.

I don't understand why I seem to be te only person with this problem on internet... It's impossible. Probably because others don't care about the font.

Could you help please? Some suggestions?

(Sorry for my bad english)


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I don't really know that is this forum is best for asking this question but if there is any other place to ask this question Please let me know.

We have an issue at home where the iPhone not connect to my WiFi network or if got connected, it will not stay for long, i have to stay at the same place after connecting it.
I have tried so many ways to get rid of this problem but not getting the right solution for this.

iPhone 4s & 7+ works perfectly fine.

I have tried so many solutions for this but none of them worked for me.

Changed my IP address
Restarted my WiFi device
Restarting iPhone
Forgetting and re-adding network


texts: iPhone won't connect to some Wi-Fi hotspots

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As of the last few months, my phone refuses to find most public hotspots, but will generally connect to home wireless networks.  For instance, I can connect to my home wireless and my girlfriend's home wireless, but if I go to a local place like Starbucks that I know for a fact has public wifi, my phone won't pick it up.  Restarting the phone doesn't fix it.

I haven't updated to iOS 6 yet.  Could that potentially fix the problem?  IS there a different problem that could be causing my issue?


texts:
I am trying to setup the Open Directory server and it keeps failing stating that

/etc/openldap/slapd_macosxserver.conf: line 229: invalid path: No such file or directory

This is on a newly installed server. Was there something else besides running through the wizard that I was supposed to do?


texts: How to restrict the level of privileges of applications on jailbroken devices?

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This question is related to this other question.

After you have jailbroken your device, you have root access to your device and so do apps that you install.

Can you change the account that an application runs with after you have installed it? This would allow to use an account with less privileges.

If it's possible, then how do you grant/revoke access to data (address book, emails, settings) and APIs (install keyboard hooks, issue network request)?


texts: I screwed up big time when I tried deleting my Windows 7 VM on VMWare Fusion 7 on my Macbook Air. I put the VM in the Trash and emptied the trash. Now when I try to create a new VM, I get File Not Found. I tried moving VMWare Fusion into the Trash so I can uninstall it and then reinstall it but it's not working. How do I fix my problem so I can install a more recent Windows VM? Thank you.


texts: How do I combine two text values from different cells to equal another cell?

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Let’s say I always know my row will be 14.

I only know the column by another value above it.

For example, $Q$7 = A

I want to be able to take that value A and add it so that my formula is now $A$14.

I need a formula that finds the value of $Q$7 and places it as $A$14.

Then if I applied that to let’s say $D$5 where $D$5 = R
the same formula would now equal $R$14.

Does that make sense?

I know to use = $A$14 in the cell but I want it to depend on the column.

Thanks for any help.


texts: Resolving "There is a problem with your mailboxes." in El Capitan

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I'm running into an identical problem with Mail on two separate systems, both starting immediately after upgrading from a long-working Yosemite to the new El Capitan and persisting through the latest 10.11.2 version.  The systems have at least 16GB of memory and well over 200GB of free disk space, no other apps are running, nor does Mail have any extensions installed.

The problem manifests with Apple's Mail, even while unattended, at some point spontaneously popping up with this error in a dialog box:

  There is a problem with your mailboxes.

  Try clicking Quit and then opening Mail again. If this message
  reappears, click Quit and Rebuild Index. The next time you open Mail,
  it will import your messages.

The only options are Quit and Quit and Rebuild Index. Neither resolves the problem for future invocations.

Connection Doctor shows all connections (SMTP and IMAP) as green, in fact the Show Details panel continues to show what looks like active and good communication even after the model error box appears, this includes "OK Still here" idle responses.

Activity monitor usually continues, but sometimes halts while Download Messages. Mail will often peg at 99-100% CPU.

Console will issue these messages, but nothing more descriptive:

Mail: Error accessing account, (null)
kernel: process Mail[###] thread ##### caught buring CPU!; EXC_RESOURCE suppressed due to audio playback
com.apple.xpc.launchd: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000005.Mail[###]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

Note there is no sound being played, so I don't know what the audio playback would be.

I have tried:

Rebooting
Safe Rebooting (holding down Shift at boot)
Using Disk Utility to verify the disk
Repairing Permissions in El Capitan
Launching Mail in safe mode (holding down shift when starting Mail)
Using nearly every aggressive feature in Onyx
Taken all accounts offline and online, incrementally from the Mailbox menu
Disabling and re-enabling the email account(s) from Mail Preferences...
Deleting and re-adding the email account(s)
Discovered it happens with even just one account, regardless of which
Resyncing the accounts, from the Mailbox Menu
Rebuilding the accounts within Mail
Reindexing the accounts by deleting the Envelope Index files and letting it download all content again
Removing Mail's saved state
Remove and Rebuild mail's container
Vacuuming Mail's index, though used V3 instead of V2

Can anyone suggest something else to look at or try?

An interesting possible clue:

In Mail's Connection Doctor it is possible to check Log Connection Activity, and then Show Logs.  In the YYYY-MM-DD_Library.log file, I'm seeing something that smells highly suspicious.

Mail[###] <Debug>: SQLite error 7 (out of memory): Error preparing statement for query SELECT ROWID, remote_id, flags FROM messages WHERE remote_mailbox = (SELECT ROWID from mailboxes WHERE url = ?) AND remote_id IN ( ...a huge list of integers, at well over a hundred thousand, appear here ... ) ORDER BY remote_id

It is true that the server this connects to has multiple years of messages, though they are spread across about three dozen mail folders.

Open to ideas to try.


texts: How can I open a specific port on OS X 10.11.13

texts: I am currently working with msfvenom on OS X. But I wanted to know, the terminal commands to open a specific port say for example 4444. Can someone please help me out with this?


texts: Is there a way to force the youtube app to load videos in non-HD resolutions?

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When watching youtube on my iPhone 4 I've noticed that by default the videos in the youtube app load at "HD" quality levels.  As my ISP throttles YouTube traffic, this makes watching them impossible.

This question: YouTube App streams much slower than YouTube mobile site on iPhone shows how to work around this with mobile Safari, but I'm looking for a way to continue to use the YouTube app.

Is there a way to choose video quality while using the iPhone YouTube app?


texts: How to record a specific area of the screen with QuickTime Player

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I've tried to record a specific part of the screen with QuickTime Player. But again nothing works as expected with the Mac, but I have to work with.

My result is always a black video with the selected size.

What I've done so far:

Open: QuickTime Player
Choose: File > New Recording Screen
Press: Red Button
Mark an area on the screen for which I want to record.
Click: Start Recording

On the screen recording I press stop and I get back to the player.
When I play the recorded movie, I only get a blank screen. I see from the consumed time, that it was recorded and also a save would be not empty.

What is the trick to getting something useful with this Apple Product?


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I've seen that on Microsoft PowerPoint, you can see the file as .ppt, which is a standard powerpoint file, and .pps, which will open straight into the presentation. Is there n equivalent of this in Keynote, be it a file extension or just a setting?

Note that I don't mean export a keynote as powerpoint, then change it to .pps, as this will remove parts of the presentation, like some animations. I mean a conversion that will keep it as is, just open straight as the presentation.


texts: Full-screen games on a Retina Macbook Pro sometimes start strangely

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When I start Braid on my Retina Macbook Pro, the game will sometimes start normally, and I can play it, but other times only the bottom left corner of the game is visible, and the graphics look really ugly. The same happens with Trine 2.

I don't know when it works or when it doesn't, just that it seems somewhat random to me. Could it have something to do with the graphics cards? Right now my battery is at 100%, and I'm connected to the charger, so I think the discrete card is the one powering the game. Could this be the problem? How do I tell?

Also, on each game's launcher, I select the "2880x1800" resolution.

Here's Braid looking all messed up:


texts:
I was curious if Word 2010 for Mac has a activity/history viewer for what there has been written/deleted in the document, like Google Docs has?
So far I have not found anything, not even on the web (Googled it).


texts: Can I run an 8k display on an M1 Mac, at 30hz?

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I want to buy an M1-based Mac. Tempted by the new 24-inch Imac but I suspect the answer will not change whether it's a Macbook Air, 13-nch Macbook Pro, or Mac Mini, as they all run the same SoC.
Can I run an 8k display on it?
I understand that a 6k monitor is supported at 60hz. Assuming we're talking 16x9 aspect ratio:
(8 ^ 2) / (6 ^ 2) = 1.77777... # we must square because 4k, 8k etc refers to one dimension and there are two

60hz / 1.77777 = 33.75hz

In other words, with the same pixel-rate as 6kx60hz, the display system should be able to do 8k by 30hz. Question is, is this supported?
I'm very interested in buying the 8k LG Nano 55 and, since I'm mainly doing static graphics, the refresh rate is not too worrisome for me (I was an early adopter of 4k for the same reason and 30hz was not a dealbreaker).
Will an M1 Mac support 30hz 8k over HDMI 2.1? Might it even support it at 60hz or something in between? I've known Mac tech specs in the past to be conservative. Actually if Apple is talking about 6k with its own 6016x3384 resolution "6k" monitor, as opposed to simply expanding Full HD by three as I did above, then the above calculation compared to the LG is 36.82 hz. Basically I'm guessing/hoping that 8k would be fine, but that since Apple doesn't do an 8k monitor, it's only providing a max resolution of 6k because that's the top product it sells. But I'd love to get confirmation from someone who might have tested this in reality.


texts: Once you remove an app from iOS notification center, can you add it back?

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I exited out of my snapchat notifications in the notification center (I clicked the "x" on the right hand side) and now I can't see anything and I want to get it back.

I don't know what to do.


texts: Website gets blocked by webfilterproxyd even without website restriction

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I have a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.6.4 which has Parental Controls enabled for an account, but with Website Restrictions set to 'Allow unrestricted access to websites'.

However, there is one website (which I cannot specify for confidentiality reasons) which does not load at all. Instead I get the following error message in the system log every time I try to access the website:

sandboxd[12606] <Notice>: webfilterproxyd(712) deny network-inbound 10.1.1.3:49757

Obviously 10.1.1.3 is the machine's IP address and 49757 in this case would be the port that the request was sent from.

The website in question is in no way a bad/inappropriate/illegal website, so I don't see why it would be filtered.

Disabling Parental Controls completely for this account fixes the problem, but I'd rather not do that.

Any idea how I can fix this, or why it is happening in the first place?


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For a Mac mini or such acting as a server in a server room or colo, accidentally choosing the Apple > Shut Down… menu item is a major problem. Without physical access, you cannot start the Mac up again.

  Is there a way to make it more difficult to inadvertently shut down a Mac?

One workaround is to set System Preferences > Energy Saver > Schedule (button) > Start up or wake (checkbox) to boot the computer, say 2:00 AM if you often do admin work at midnight. But I'm looking ways to avoid the shut down problem in the first place.


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I have a Early-2011 MacBook Pro base model. It has 4GB of RAM, and I use it for heavy development work.

It shows a pattern of continuously dumping into a black screen which asks me to restart (a kernel panic) almost once a week. It seems that I don't have enough RAM, as today I had Xcode, Eclipse and Firefox opened side by side (each of these apps are memory hogs), and when I opened iCal and Safari, I got a kernel panic.

I tried a free memory application available in the App Store, and it said that before opening these two applications I had 22 MB free memory and 1.1 GB inactive memory out of 4 GB total memory. It looks like inactive memory is not getting freed (my understanding is that inactive memory is what the OS uses for fast app switching), and the OS simply crashes. Safari only had one tab open.

Will additional RAM help or is there a different problem? I'm also using a Samsung 21.5" monitor through mini DisplayPort to VGA connector if it matters.

Update: this problem started occuring again: the system becomes slow then I get a kernel panic. Would upgrading RAM help? I have nearly 1GB of inactive memory.


texts: Why is migration from Mac Thunderbird to Mac Mail not working properly?

texts: I want to switch from Mac Thunderbird to Mac Mail. To do so, I compressed all folders of the account in Thunderbird and after that, I used the import wizard of Mac Mail. Unfortunately, a lot of Mails are missing. A folder that contains hundreds of mails in Thunderbird, contains only one message in Mail, but I get no errors or warnings. How can I migrate my local folder? (I cannot switch to IMAP, thank you ;-) )


texts: My friend can’t see my invitation in photos for my shared album

texts: Whenever I send my friend an invitation in photos for my shared album she says she can’t see it. And I told her to check all her tabs in photos and her mail and she still couldn’t see the invitation. And my other friend could join without trouble so, I don’t get it. Please help me solve this problem.


texts: Purpose of XPCservices and Agent related to an Application

texts:
Just for general knowledge what is the purpose of XPCServices and Agent related to a specific application? I will try to give you an example.
I noticed when I launch the Calendar Application I see the following 2 processes running:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CalendarNotification.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/CalNCService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/CalNCService
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CalendarAgent.framework/Executables/CalendarAgent


texts: MacOS X very slow, while Windows 10 is snappy

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I have a fairly old (late 2009) MacBook, I replaced the HDD with an SSD drive, and installed High Sierra on it.
It ran slowly but I assumed it was because it's old, but I installed Windows 10 on it, and it's pretty snappy, not like a modern i7 CPU, but, much, much faster than MacOS X, which is surprising.
Could I be missing a setting or something?
I enabled TRIM support.


texts: Playing non-iTune music files on iPhone SE

texts: I recently used CopyTrans Control to copy music files from my PC to my iPhone.  When I try to access my library of music on the iPhone, I keep getting blocked by an "Account" screen requiring me to join Apple Music.  When I plug my iPhone into my PC, I can see the music files I copied but I can't play them.  Any ideas?


texts: Any way on God's green earth to disable resuming applications after a crash?

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Using OS 10.6.8

Every month or two I'll have a hard crash on my MacBook Pro and I'll have to force reboot by holding down the power button. No big deal, I've been doing this on various macs since 1995 since OS version 7.1.

What drives me absolutely bonkers in 10.6.x is that in certain cases like a hard power-cycle, OS X Snow Leopard insists on resuming all 20 or 30 applications I had running before the hard reboot.

Is there some way to tell the OS just never ever ever (ever!) to resume my applications at boot time? I've done everything I can via system preferences and tinkertool of course.

Please help! It takes literally 20-30 minutes for my computer to get up and going in some cases (16 GB RAM, tons of applications running) and if this happens while I'm with a client it's incredibly embarrassing.

I just want a fresh start. Do I have better options in 10.7+?


texts: How to fix damage caused by a water spill?

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There was water spilled on my MacBook Air but I replaced the internal speakers.
Now the sound is not working at all. No internal speaker or microphone is showing up and also the sound does not work with headphones plugged in. Tried reinstalling software, resetting NVRAM, and SMC. When running system_profiler SPAudioDataType I get
Jakes-MacBook-Air:~ jakemacbook$ system_profiler SPAudioDataType

Audio:
    Devices:

Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this or what I have to replace?


texts: How do I stop my browsers creating a new tab for every new domain?

texts:
I have a MacBook and have tried browsing with both the Safari 7 and the Chrome browsers, but every time I go from one domain to another, it automatically creates a new tab. So if I click a link that goes from Yahoo to, say, the IMDB, it will create a new tab for the IMDB site.

This is really annoying because the back button will only navigate me back to the beginning of the history for that domain.

On my PC, no new tabs are created unless I specifically create them.

Is there any way I can prevent this behaviour?


texts: All Siri Shortcuts result in "Sorry, there was a problem with the app."

texts:
I'm trying Siri Shortcuts for the first time and they don't seem to work at all. I can create shortcuts in the Shortcuts app, and run them from within the app, but when I assign them a phrase and try to activate them from Siri, she always says "Sorry, there was a problem in the app."

This happens even with downloaded gallery shortcuts, and with absurdly simple test shortcuts, and it happens on my iPhone 5S as well as a nearby iPhone 6. I've restarted both phones.

I just installed the Shortcuts app today, so I'm not sure how I could have gone wrong so soon!


texts: I have an iPhone 4s running on iOS 8.1.3. I've owned it for about 2-3 years now and have taken good care of it physically and hardware wise. But recently my phone had died. I plugged it in to the charger no problem right? I come back about 20 minutes later to see nothing had changed... I tried adjusting the cord, trying to power down the device, rebooting, safe mode, and just letting it sit without the cord and retrying to charge it. Nothing worked; the phone just kept blinking the red battery logo even of 1 entire day of charging. What is there to do?


texts: App Store apps can't be opened after upgrading macOS 10.12 to 10.13

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I updated my Mac from 10.12.6 "Sierra" to 10.13.6 "High Sierra".
Now every app that was installed using the App Store is not able to run anymore.
They all give me the following 2 screens:

All apps show up like they are not installed:

If I install them like here (5th item in list):

Then it still won't work. I have signed out of the App Store completely and signed in again - that resolved nothing. If I go to another tab, or re-open the App store then it shows up again like I didn't install it.

If I launch the apps from a terminal then I get:
Killed: 9
Which seems to be the code for a SIGKILL

SIGKILL
Default action: Abnormal termination of the process.
Description: Kill (cannot be caught or ignored).

I tried fixing with chmod +x for the executables, but it does not fix the problem.
At this point I don't know what to do except reinstalling my whole OS.
Can someone help?


texts: How to delete Whatsapp media without deleting messages

texts:
The most similar question that I've found is this: Whatsapp on iOS, how to delete voice messages? and also has no answer.

I want to keep all chat messages but delete all it's media. I am not talking about the camera roll. I have the setting off, so Whatsapp does not save the media to the camera roll. But it still uses space, so I want to delete it also from Whatsapp.

How can I do this? I don't want to select one by one because there are more than 10k items of media..


texts: Macbook Pro wakes and "dings" when plugged in

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My macbook pro from mid-2019 "dings" about once a minute when asleep and connected to power.

Logs (they repeat every minute)

2020-03-21 13:05:59.499831-0400  localhost kernel[0]: (AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver) [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
2020-03-21 13:06:00.201815-0400  localhost kernel[0]: (AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver) [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
2020-03-21 13:06:52.954700-0400  localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) AppleACPIPlatformPower Wake reason: XHC2 XHC3 XHC1
2020-03-21 13:06:52.954707-0400  localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) AppleACPIPlatformPower Wake reason: XHC2 XHC3 XHC1
2020-03-21 13:06:58.252577-0400  localhost corespeechd[1347]: [com.apple.corespeech:Framework] -[CSHostDaemonMac _isWakeReasonVoiceTrigger] Wake reason: <private>
2020-03-21 13:06:58.252620-0400  localhost corespeechd[1347]: [com.apple.corespeech:Framework] -[CSHostDaemonMac _getPowerAssertionIfWakenByVoiceTriggerNotFromS3Sleep] Wake reason is not VoiceTrigger or it woke from S3

I don't think it does this at the office, but I don't usually leave it asleep for long periods of time there, so I'm not sure. Now that we're all working from home, it's plugged into my desk all the time.

I have a suspicion that it's the particular power adapter, but wanted some confirmation before purchasing a new one.

Thanks!


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iPhone has many miscellaneous  animations. For example, there is a “maximize window” animation whenever we open an app, and a “minimise window” animation whenever we close an app.

On Android, we can opt to disable animations via Settings → Display → Animations → No animations.

How do we turn off animations on iPhone?


texts:
We have a few Mac's that choke on folders that have a lot of .TIFF files in them.  The quicklookd process, and Quicklook Helper processes skyrocket in RAM and CPU usage.

I'd like to keep quicklook from trying to generate previews for TIFF files, and found this helpful post:  How do I keep QTKitServer (QuickLook Helper) CPU usage from exploding out of control? OR How do I disable QuickLook entirely? but it states at the top of that file, that:

    "..... The contents of this file are also auto-generated and
;;;;;; not user editable; it may be overwritten at any time."

So, this is a temp fix at best.  I could always script something up which copies back our modified file during bootup, but I am wondering if there's another way to go about this.

Right now, this users' Mac is unusable right now when viewing these files in the Finder.  The RAM usage quickly spirals out of control (almost immediately jumping to 4GB) and then the paging to disk starts, which bogs the whole machine down.

Also, this post is linked to in the think different post:  http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1463364


texts: Removing Air Watch without removing WiFi/Exchange profiles

texts:
Is it possible to do either of the following:

Remove Air Watch from an iOS device without deleting WiFi/Exchange profiles
Backup the profile and restore it after removing Air Watch?


texts:
I'm trying to access my MacBook from a Windows PC over the network. The computer is connected to the router, the MacBook is connected to a WAP, which is connected to a switch, which is connected to the router.

When I click on Network on the PC, the MacBook doesn't show up. It has done previously. Sometimes the Windows computer shows in the Finder sidebar and sometimes it doesn't.

How can I make the MacBook show in Network [Places] on the Windows machine? And how do I make the Windows machine stay in the Finder sidebar?


texts: Browsers don't restore tabs after quitting in macOS Mojave

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I'm new to Mac, so please be patient :)

I've got a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with macOS Mojave. Some apps are pre-installed, because it's a company laptop. So, maybe something in there, but I'm not sure.

The problem is that neither Safari nor Vivaldi (I installed Vivaldi to check there) restore opened tabs. But Safari has an option "Safari opens with: All windows from last session" and Vivaldi "Startup: Last session". On my Ubuntu Desktop Vivaldi works perfectly with it.

So, what's going on here and how to fix it?

Update due to comments:

I'm not using Incognito, so that's not the problem
I unchecked the Close windows when quitting an app option in System Preferences > General but this didn't help
I've checked the answers at How can I save state of tabs in Safari? but none of the answers helped, so it seems this problem is unique to macOS Mojave (especially since Vivaldi is also affected)


texts: Check if apps have been transferred in iPad backup to iTunes

texts: I just backed up my iPad 1st Gen into iTunes on my MacBook Pro, but I need to make sure all my apps have been transferred. How can I check this?


texts: Software not available from update server when installing Windows 8.1 on Mavericks

texts:
I am trying to install Windows 8.1 on OS X Mavericks via Bootcamp. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2010 model.

I'm running Bootcamp assistant 5.1.0 (473).

Unfortunately, I am getting the following error message when the installer tries to download Windows support software:

Any ideas why?


texts: Apple Numbers: how to change a date format to a number format

texts: In Apple Numbers the app can work out the number of days between dates, but then if I times this by a number (ie, a %interest rate and an amount of money) Numbers insists that the answer is a number of days!  Even if I go to Cell>Date Format and change it.  The system ignores this and returns to displaying the answer as a number of days.  How do I force the system to show this cell as a number and not in the date / days format?


texts: Programmatically creating mount points in macOS 10.12

texts:
Apple have confirmed to me (https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=4948585099558912) that with macOS 10.12, permissions to create a folder inside /Volumes require root access.

Using the mount command requires that the mount point exists first, so you're going to have to sudo to create that folder for the mount point.

I develop an app which presents a list of network shares to a the user, and allows them to selectively mount them. I handle this by firing off a command process in the background which uses mkdir and mount to mount the network drive.
Of course this now fails, as it doesn't have permission to create the mount point.

One option I am looking into is modifying sudoers to give all users permission to use mkdir.

Can anyone else think of a way to programmatically mount a network drive via Terminal without password prompts, or messing with sudo?


texts: Black login screen after Mojave update – temporarily fixed with dummy user and blind logout

texts:
I currently experience a crazy macOS bug.

After updating from 10.12.6 over 10.13.6 to 10.14.6 my Mac Pro 5,1 boots to a black login screen. VoiceOver tells me that the login is there, but everything is black. No cursor. No nothing. Through a huge portion of serendipity I found this temporary fix:

Using safe-mode I created a dummy user without password and set this user to auto-login (so it boots right through)
Boot › Auto-login › then I blindly logout using VoiceOver
And tadaaa: As soon as the logout is done the login screen comes up and I can login to my normal user. Mojave then behaves just as expected. No further problems so far.

I have no idea how to fix this permanently. What could a logout trigger that would suddenly make the screen appear? Or asked the other way: What would make the screen go black after 3/4 of the boot that a logout fixes? Hints greatly appreciated.


texts: How can I read Exchange 2003 email on a Mac with Outlook 2011?

texts:
I previously here asked about a problem setting up Exchange server on Outlook 2011. The answer provided began, "Outlook 2011 requires an Exchange 2007 and above server."

Problem is - my company has Exchange 2003 and they're not likely to change any time soon.

How can I read my email on my Mac? And is there a way I can also fully use my calendar (including scheduling appointments with colleagues)?

(My Mac's full technical specifications are in the linked question.)


texts: What application uses a red cone icon with a notch in it?

texts: I saw the following icons in a screen shot of a mac. I know the F-icon is Autodesk Fusion, but what is the icon next to it, the red cone with a notch?


texts: How can I restore an Application state from a cloned system?

texts:
I successfully restored my iMac after a hard drive failure, but the Time Machine backup was a bit old.

I can access the "failed" hard drive as read only, which contains my most current files.

I would like to restore some applications to the state they were in when the hard drive crashed (Safari/Firefox/Chrome tabs, Stickies...).

In this answer, the answer suggests replacing the whole Library folder, but it sounds risky or long for just a couple of apps to be restored.

Where would I find these application states?


texts: Lotsawater screensaver Mavericks problem

texts:
Prior to updating to Mavericks I used LotsaWater screensaver. It would display my desktop while the screensaver did its thing. Now it shows a blank white screen when it kicks over to the screensaver mode.

Under System Prefs>Desktop & Screen saver, the preview window shows how it's supposed to look and if you tap on preview it works right.

Is it that the maker of this screensaver hasn't made it compatible with Mavericks? Or am I missing something?


texts:
I used to work with magic mouse 2 on my iPad Pro v13, but since the latest update 13.3, now the mouse is not even discoverable via Bluetooth.

I tried everything from resetting network, to hard rebooting, on/off, mouse, accessibility, not even discoverable in switches and so... The mouse is working just fine on other devices, but the iPad pro... any ideas?


texts:
I know how to change the screen resolution for the entire system.  That is not a problem.  What I would like to do (for my boss) is to "make everything bigger" in macOS 10.14 Mojave Mail, which is his preferred mail client. I know how to increase the size of the fonts in the mail list and in the massages already.  That helps some, but there is also the issue of the left-hand navigation pane (Inbox, Sent, Junk, etc).

Is it possible to increase the resolution of specific apps independently of the rest of the MacOS system?  Alternatively, how does one increase the size of other things in Mac Mail?


texts: MacOS Mojave: Can not make changing background wallpaper

texts:
Opening "SystemPreferences", then "Desktop & Screen Saver", and then the "Desktop" tab:

I would like to add my own folder holding pictures to display as a background, and to change these pictures in certain intervals.

I am able to add (with the "+" button) on the left the directory which holds by picture, but the checkboxes "Change picture" and "Random order" on the right are greyed out. How can I enable this?


texts: MBP with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 loses connection to system SSD at random times and freezes

texts:
So, out of nowhere my 2009 MacBook (2,66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GByte aftermarket ram) started freezing after 200+ days of uptime (sleep time included of course). I had installed a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 256Gbyte SSD a year and a half ago and were quite happy with system stability.

Now these logs appear quite often before freezing my machine completely:

disk0s2: no such device
disk0s2: media is not present

Here is a photograph of such a log (original, larger sized photo here):

The reason I had to do a photo is, of course, because disk0s2 is my harddrive and at the moment of logging it was apparently gone - so no persistent logs for me.

I tried a diagnose and repair with the Disk Utility, but it found nothing and the problem persisted. Uninstalled a couple of apps, but also to no avail. Any advice on how to proceed with diagnosing the problem would be much appreciated.


texts: Charles Proxy blocking internet sharing when off

texts:
I can successfully use Charles proxy for my iPhone device through internet sharing via wifi. I also successfully installed a SSL certificate on my device to decrypt secure traffic. When I activate HTTP proxy on my device as directed on the Charles proxy website everything works perfectly.

However whenever I turn HTTP Proxy off on my device, I no longer receive traffic (this is the problem). This happens whether Charles is running or not. It happens after restarting my mobile device and notebook. I've turned sharing internet on and off both with Charles on and off, recording on and off. I've even tried removing the SSL certificate on device. I can't use my internet sharing without Charles actively viewing my traffic (which upsets many of my apps). I was able to accomplish this in the past.


texts: Batch replace substring with another in filenames

texts:
I have a bunch of files named similar to this:

1_1.pngEND1_1.png

How would you replace .pngEND with _?

I've googled this problem and tried  literally 5+ solutions, non of which worked on mac.


texts: Are there any disadvantages to using the brew version of bash for /bin/sh?

texts:
I have patched bash & sh with the latest patches as described here, but now have some issues with some things in my dotfiles (particularly the loading of rvm and some custom functions and completions).

I don't have the issues if I just use the brew version of bash as both /bin/bash and /bin/sh, but I'm wondering if I might run into other problems with system stuff.


texts: How to get around “say” command bug when setting volume?

texts:
Context:

I have an AppleScript .scpt file that speaks the selected text in the System Voice. The selected text is copied to the clipboard, and then the text is spoken via the say command. The script is triggered by keystroke via FastScripts.

Because the macOS Text-to-Speech volume is too loud by default (and there is no global volume control for the Speech), I use AppleScript to set the volume as a fraction of the current volume. I learned how to achieve this from this post:

How to change volume of “say” in AppleScript?

Here is the part of my code that is relevant to my question:

set the clipboard to ("[[volm 0.35]] " & (the clipboard))
set this_say_Pid to do shell script "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pbpaste -Prefer txt | say > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!"

The above code speaks the clipboard text at a volume that is 35% of the current system volume, which is what I desire. (Yes, the audible Speech is really that loud by default.)

The code works well, except I've discovered a bug.

How to reproduce the bug:

To observe this bug, copy the following text to the clipboard, and then run the above code:

  - This is a test.

The problem-text is difficult to format in Markdown (which is what Stack Exchange uses) because 1) blank newlines are automatically removed, and 2) a hyphen-space combination is converted to a list bullet point. This is why the above text formatting looks wonky; I had to use a blockquote to get around issue one, and I had to add a code block to get around issue two.

Here is the problem-text, literally spelled out in words (if you want to open a text file and recreate the text):

newline
hyphen space Text

Make sure that you include the blank newline when you copy the text onto the clipboard. Make sure that there is a space between the hyphen and the first word of the text. Otherwise, the bug will not surface.

The problem-text must be the very beginning of the clipboard text. That is, if the problem-text is in the middle or at the end of the clipboard text, the bug will not surface.

Additional ways to reproduce the bug:

The hyphen (-) can be substituted for an en dash (–) (⌥ option + -) or an em dash (—) (⌥ option + ⇧ shift + -), and the bug will still surface. As far as I have found in my tests, there are no other punctuation symbols that can be substituted for the hyphen that will trigger the bug.

There is another way to trigger the bug, which does not involve a hyphen or dash. If the text is preceded by at least 2 newline characters, the bug will surface.

For example:

If there is 1 newline character, the bug will not surface.
If there are 47 newline characters above the text, the bug will surface.

Whether there are any spaces between the 2+ newline characters and the text does not matter; the bug surfaces either way.

The effect of the bug:

When running the AppleScript code with the problem text on your clipboard, the volume is not decreased one bit; the clipboard will be spoken at the system volume level.
Also, there is a noticeable delay before the text is spoken.

To be clear, while the context of my question is an .scpt file, this is not technically an AppleScript bug. The bug exists when using say directly in Terminal.app. For example, type the following in Terminal to reproduce the bug:

say "[[volm 0.35]]
- This is a test."

Is it possible to remedy this bug, so that, when the clipboard contents begin with any type of problem-text, my script remains sensitive to the custom volume, and a delay is not introduced?


texts:
I recently enrolled into paid Apple Developer Program as an Individual.

I'd like to know what otherwise paid apps or services are available for free to members of paid Apple Developer Program?

For e.g., macOS Server.app, which is available as a paid app on the Mac App Store, is available for free via a redeem code to registered Apple developers. I am interested in knowing if there are other paid apps or services (Apple or 3rd party) which I am eligible to obtain for free.

Additionally, what are some of the benefits available only to registered developers, like the ability to contend for WWDC ticket lottery?

Note: What I am interested here in knowing, are the things similar to macOS Server.app which could be obtained by paying, even by non-registered developers, but offered to registered Apple developers for free. I am aware that the various services offered as a part of the paid developer program costs money (technical support incidents, signed certificates), but they cannot be otherwise obtained from Apple by paying and not enrolling into any of the official paid developer programs.


texts: Disabling Voice Control, or at least muting it (iOS 10)

texts:
I have an iPhone 6S recently updated to iOS 10.0.1.

Holding the Home button for about 1 second activates Voice Control, with a characteristic loud double beep.  This is very easy to activate accidentally, which is especially undesirable if I am trying to discreetly check my phone during a meeting or something.  It's also easy to accidentally push the button when the phone is in my pocket (and locked).

I have no interest in actually using Voice Control at all, and it's very important to me that my phone not make unwanted noise.

Is it possible to:

Disable Voice Control entirely?
Stop it from beeping when activated?  (It doesn't respect the hardware Mute switch.)
Reduce the volume of the beep?  (It doesn't seem to respect the ringer volume.)
Prevent Voice Control from activating when the phone is locked?  (I would also prefer that unauthorized people not be able to use its features.)

I saw Disable voice control on iPhone 4s, ios7.1 which suggests turning on Siri.  Indeed, Siri has options to disable access on lock screen, and to turn off "voice feedback", making it silent.  But for privacy reasons I do not want to enable Siri.

Since that question relates to much older versions of hardware and software, I am hoping that something has changed since then.  (Also, unlike in that question, my Home button works fine physically.)


texts: What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory?

texts: The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing


texts: How to make macbook pro use a 16:9 aspect ratio?

texts: How can I force my screen to use a 16:9 aspect ratio? I don't mind seeing black bars above and beneath the screen content.


texts:
Is it possible to create a hotkey (or other trigger) that opens a menubar app?  I don't mean launch.  I mean, cause the menubar app to display its contents.

Let's say, for example, I wanted to create a hotkey to open a menubar weather app.  Can this be done?

The app I'm trying to open is open source on Github, so I'm open to coding the trigger into the app if need be, but I have no clue how to do that, which means I'd prefer a simpler solution.

I'm using Mountain Lion.


texts: Can I change the default size of a new table in macOS Pages?

texts: In Pages, I frequently have to make documents (for school) with a two by five table.  Each time I click the table button, I then have to resize the table.  Can I change the default table size, so each new table is automatically two by five?


texts: localhost redirecting to https after Mojave upgrade

texts:
After the recent upgrade to macOS Mojave Safari started redirecting from http://localhost to https://localhost. The problem persists only in Safari, in Chrome everything is the same as before. Now I'm temporary using 127.0.0.1 as a replacement, but it's inconvenient due to some limitations of software I'm using.

I tried searching and found some similar questions, where accepted answers were to kill Safari and remove ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist file, and in my case it didn't work.

I also tried this answer, without luck.


texts:
In Numbers, how can I convert a number to negative.

E.g.

200
233
186

Becomes

-200
-233
-186

In Excel, you can use tools like Paste Special, but these don't exist in Numbers.


texts: I am Unable to Uninstall an Applications like Node or Atom in OS X

texts:
I just bought a Macbook Pro and I'm new to OSX. I can't uninstall applications like Node, Atom, etc. They are not shown in my Application folder  nor in the Launcher.  How can i delete them?'

Below is screenshot of my Applications folder.  However, if I search for Atom using Spotlight,  I can access it from there.


texts: Want to create smart playlist where song titles match names in another playlist, but w/ diff. bitrate

texts:
My iTunes music library consists of iTunes downloads (256 kbps), and songs copied from my CD's (~400 – 1100 kbps).  I have a dumb playlist containing a subset of these, which I sync to my iPod Nano (it doesn't have room for my entire library(.  Also on the nano are other dumb playlists, each containing specific songs that are subsets of my main dumb playlist, which are tailored to my various workouts.

Recently, however, I've started listening to audiobooks on my Nano, which means I need to free up more room, so I'd like to replace all the CD-quality songs on my nano with 320 kbps versions (and I'd likewise like to still be able to use my various workout playlists).  I thus had iTunes create 320 kbps versions of all my CD-quality songs. What I'd like to do is create smart playlists containing only songs whose bitrate is 320 kbps, and whose title matches a song found in a specified dumb playlist. This doesn't seem to be possible, but if it is I'd love to find out how!

Yes, I could just leave things as they are and, from within the Nano control window available in iTunes, tell iTunes to convert everything on my Nano to 256 kbps.  But, since I have the space for 320 kbps, why not keep the maximum resolution?  Granted, I might have trouble telling the difference....


texts: Macbook pro late 2011 can support 16GB 1600Mhz RAM

texts: I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 16GB 1600Mhz of RAM. I want to know if it is possible before buying something incorrectly. My macbook model is MD322LL/A A1286.


texts: Mac Becoming Extremely Unresponsive After Updating OS (Low CPU Usage)

texts:
I recently updated my 2015 iMac to the new OS (10.15.7) and at times it becomes incredibly sluggish to the point of not being able to do any productive work. It sometimes takes 20-30 seconds just to click a button; sometimes opening a web page takes minutes. I recently gutted the computer in an attempt to speed it up, and before updating the OS it worked really well. To download XCode I had to download the new operating system, and after downloading it the Mac has slowed down considerably, even though the CPU usage stays very low.
It seems to be getting worse. Yesterday I was able to run the iOS simulator and it wasn't running too poorly, but today the simulator wont even start up. I've tried restarting the computer. I just don't understand why my mac has become so sluggish even though the CPU isn't being fully utilized whatsoever.
Why would my mac run slow if the CPU usage is very low?


texts: Trying to use Notability in split-screen mode on iPad

texts:
So for 8 years I have been using my 1st-generation iPad Mini, which cannot be upgraded past iOS 9, and therefore I have never had the chance to practice using split-screen or slideover mode (or any of the other multitasking innovations that came with iOS 12).  But I've just bought a brand-new iPad and am trying to figure out how to make the most of what ought to be a huge productivity boost.

What I am doing:  with one app open, I swipe up from the bottom of
the screen, press & hold Notability in my dock, and drag it to the
right half of my screen.
What I expect to happen:  Notability should
fill half of the screen, and there should be a movable divider
between the two open apps.
What actually happens:  Notability opens
in "slide over" mode, filling only about 1/3 to 1/4 of the screen;
while it can be moved, it can't be resized.

What am I doing wrong?  If an app is in slide over mode, how do I get it into split-screen mode?


texts: Mystery: Filevault not prompting for password after hard drive removed and reinserted

texts: I hooked up my 8,1 Macbook Pro's (A) fully Filevault 2-encrypted internal disk (El Capitan) to another Mac B (also El Capitan) externally to back it up. I had to input my Filevault password (every time) to access the disk, ran the graphical disk utility app's first help function on the disk which corrected some minor problem and after backup used diskutil eject to eject the disk (all on Mac B). The Macbook's (A) battery was disconnected for a few hours. When I put the disk back into my Macbook (A) (and reconnected the battery, obviously), there was no Filevault login, just a progress bar. It looks and feels to me as though the Macbook boots the system on the hard drive without the password. The boot does not complete beause my GPU is fried (that problem, yes). Can that be? Did disk utility app do sth. to the disk? Or is the Macbook booting the unencrypted recovery partition although I chose the recognized hard drive from the boot menu? Does anyone have an idea about what might be going on?


texts:
I'm running an iPhone 6S Plus on iOS 9.0.1 and am having problem syncing all of my photos with iCloud - it's been stuck for almost a week now and won't upload any more photos, even though I have around 3GB of free space.

http://i.imgur.com/Vp23h6l.jpg

Is there anything you could recommend please? I was going to stop the sync and restart it again but it warns me that I may lose some files, and since almost all of them are photos and videos of my cat who passed away today I'm terrified of losing them :(

Thank you


texts:
My rules in Mail.app works only when I run them manually. I gues this should not be a case. Rules should work on each sync. On https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhlp1017/mac I have found

  Mail stops applying rules to a message when it encounters the Stop Evaluating Rules action, or when a message is transferred to another mailbox by rules used on a mail server or computer or device synced to your computer.

Could be Gmail who prevents rules to start?


texts: Can I set Dark Mode dynamically on my iPhone like I can in macOS?

texts:
I have a Mac with Mojave installed and I can set my desktop background to be Dynamic:

This means my desktop picture will change from a hot sunny desert picture to a cool dark night-time desert picture.

Is there a way for me to set the dark mode on my iPhone so that it does the same thing? I would like it to be bright during the day and dark at night.


texts: Can I play music from my macbook on my iPad for free?

texts: Is there an app that works to play music that's on my macbook on my iPad? Right now my iPad is connected to my stereo, and is only the 16 gig model, so I can't exactly move all my tunes onto it. I know I can use airfoil to play iTunes on my macbook and have the iPad act as the speaker control, but it is expensive. I installed the Remote app and set up home sharing but it only seems to work in the opposite direction (play music on my macbook speakers using the iPad as the controller).


texts: Adding options to application, upon startup?

texts:
I'd like to change how my Chrome starts up (specifically, i would like to add some options --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install

How can i do it please?


texts: How can I move through words when typing a command in iTerm2?

texts:
I'm in Lion

with iTerm2, Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh

but I cannot move through words when pressing: ALT+left arrow or CMD+left arrow or something

instead, when I press "ALT+right arrow" it prints [C
and when I press "SHIFT+ALT+left arrow" it prints D0

how I can config iTerm2 to behave like any other program when moving through words?


texts:
Is there a way to specify what resolution I want my external monitor to be?

I have been looking around the internet for a few weeks, but I have not found a solution that works.

The native resolution of the external monitor is 1440x900, but that does not show on the list of resolutions on the list. With "Option" pressed when pressing "Scaled" the best fit I get is 1280x768. There are higher options available, but not in the 16:10 scale, so the monitor rescales them and they do not look nice.

When I boot in Boot camp (Windows 8.1) Windows picks up the monitor right away, knows what resolution it should be, and sets it to 1440x900, so I do not think there is any issue with the hardware.

The resolution on the MacBook's monitor is 1280x800. I thought that maybe it was trying to keep the two monitors to a similar scale, so I tried setting the resolution of the external monitor with the lid closed, but the results where exactly the same.

I don't think it is an issue with hardware (it works in Bootcamp), but basically what I have is, 13-inch MBP (mid 2012). It has the mini display port, and I am using a VGA adaptor (Monitor is VGA only).

Is there anything else I can try, even if I need to go into a settings file and manually add possible resolutions?


texts: Why does iPod 3G show exclamation mark / folder icon after CF upgrade?

texts:
I have been trying to upgrade my iPod 3G to use a 64g CompactFlash card, as outlined in this blog post.

I have had partial success. I can format the iPod using Disk Utility. I can get iTunes to see the iPod, and even sync songs to it.

But I cannot get the iPod to work by itself. When it boots, it always gets stuck on the exclamation mark / folder icon:

I have tried repeatedly to use "Update" to fix the iPod's software. I connect the iPod to my Mac via USB, and I connect the FireWire cable to a charger so it has power.

The update process seems to work fine on the Mac side. iTunes eventually tells me to disconnect the iPod, and connect it to a power supply, so it can fiinish the update. The iPod itself says "OK to disconnect."

Just like in the blog post, the iPod never resets itself. It just sits at the "OK to disconnect" screen, even after I disconnect it. If I manually invoke a reset (as the blog author did), I end up back at the exclamation/folder icon. The update process never completes.

I have tried almost every variation of this process I can think of, using several Macs.

I know the iPod itself is okay. If I switch back from the CF to the stock hard drive, it works fine.

I guess I'm about to give up on this upgrade, but wanted to see if anyone else might have suggestions how to get the iPod to complete the update process and boot normally.


texts: Is there a plug-and-play card swiper for iPad to get data from the card?

texts:
We are in the process of assembling iPad kiosks.

We are not writing an iOS app, iPad will just have a bookmark to a web application that will be hosted on our server. As far as the user is concerned, he won’t be able to really tell if it is an app or a website.

We need to be able to read membership numbers from a membership card, which is just a plastic card with magnetic stripe on it. I am told that to be able to use any swiper I need to write some custom code, but we are not writing any code, we are just pointing to the website.

Is there a plug and play swiper? Maybe I can write some simple iPad app which will run on the background and will be able to accept input from the swiper and pass it to Safari, so webapp can get it? Hope it makes sense.


texts: Xcode problem with directory permissions

texts:
I'm trying XCode4. I created a new project, told XCode to put in my ~/develop/ directory, but then I immediately get asked:

  “Test project” is locked for editing and you may not be able to save your
  changes. Do you want to unlock it?

  “Test project” is currently locked
  because you do not own the parent
  folder and have no write permissions
  for it.

  [Don't Unlock]     [Unlock]

...which isn't true: my ~/develop/ folder is owned by me (staff group) and has drwxr-xr-x permissions. I write to it every day. XCode is running as my account.

Is XCode right? What can I do to fix this? If I press “Don't Unlock” it seems to work fine.


texts: How do I undelete an app without losing data?

texts: My little sister accidentally deleted one of my iPhone games. I know I can get it back by "rebuying" or resynching it via iTunes, but this will give me a clean install, without all my saved game state. Is there any way for me to reverse the deletion without losing all this information?


texts: Macintosh HD missing after failed catalog btree rebuilding

texts:
There is an I/O error in the hard disk in my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and as I start it up, a progress bar fills up and then it shuts down on its own. I attempted to recover the files in single-user mode and try to fix it by rebuilding the catalog btree as in this answer:

fsck_hfs -Rc -d /dev/disk0s2

Unfortunately it encountered numerous errors as it approached the part with a disk error. Since then the Macintosh HD does not mount in single-user mode and I am only left with the Mac OS X Base System.

Running df -hl on the 500GB drive gives the following:

Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
root_device  1.2Gi  1.1Gi  106Mi    92%  280978 27978   91%   /

of which 1.2GB represents the Mac OS X Base System.

fsck_hfs -l /dev/disk0s2 gives:

** Checking catalog file.
   Missing thread record (id = 18)
   File record has hard link chain flag (id = 38468309)
   File has incorrect number of links (id = 38468309)
   (It should be 1 instead of 2)
   ...
   Missing thread record (id = 216712)
   ...
   Incorrect number of thread records
(4, 202)
   Incorrect number of thread records
(4, 202)
** Checking multi-linked files.
   Incorrect number of file hard links
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** The volume   could not be verified completely.

And /sbin/fsck/ -fy gives:

** The volume Mac OS X Base System appears to be OK.

I tried to manually mount the drive with

mount -t hfs /dev/disk0s2 "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"

but it didn't work:

hfs_mounts: failed to mount non-root inconsistent disk
hfs_mount: hfs_mountfs returned 22
mount_hfs: Invalid argument

How do I correctly rebuild the catalog btree and remount disk0s2 (which is the Macintosh HD)?


texts: Is it possible to save MacOS application user guides for offline reading?

texts: I was working with Automator offline and wanted to look up something on the userguide but I learned it cannot be accessed offline? Is there a way to do that?


texts: Add custom options to Apache Vhost config

texts:
In Snow Leopard Server I was able to add lines to the Apache vhost files in /etc/apache2/sites in order to add custom configuration options.

In Lion Server those changes are overwritten as soon as the Web service is restarted. Is there any way to add such configuration options in a way they'll be preserved?


texts: How to migrate several usb Time Machine backups to a Time Capsule?

texts:
I have several Mac each with its own USB hard drive, holding a Time Machine Backup.

I am wondering if I can move all of them to a Time Capsule. I have seen tutorial about single time machine backup, and as I understood, it's not a standard or official procedure.

But I didn't see any tutorial or advice for moving more than one backup.

Don't know if it's relevant, all the backups have been made under Lion, then Mountain Lion, and Time Capsule will backup ML machine.


texts: macOS stuck at Apple logo if I boot with USB drive plugged in

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It wasn't like this before. Somehow, if I leave my USB plugged in, my Mac doesn't boot. Instead it gets stuck at the Apple logo with a very slow progress bar. When the bar finishes, it just waits. I tried resetting the PRAM but nothing changed. I also tried booting into Safe Mode, but it wouldn't boot. I did boot into Recovery Mode (cmd + r), and was able to repair the disk, but it said everything was fine. But I still can't boot my Mac. What should i do?

PS: I dont know why, but there is a Disk named Mac OS X Base System in Recovery Disk Utility, which I only see when I can't boot my Mac. I also can't eject this.


texts: Photos won’t connect to iCloud on Catalina

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I’m running Catalina on my Mac mini. Photos will not connect to iCloud to sync. When I click on the check box, a pop up tells me I can only save to one iCloud account, and won’t connect? So obviously I’m not syncing to iCloud.
The only thing that I can see is that in Internet Accounts, I see there are two entries for my iCloud account, exactly the same. I can’t delete either as they are both the same,

I can not figure out what’s happening.


texts: How do I turn off Airpod notifications on MacOS Big Sur?

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As of Big Sur, everytime I open or unlock my Mac or walk over to it from being somewher else I get this notification

I don't need it, dismissing it is a distraction and waiting for it to disappear is an obstruction to getting work done.
How and turn it off so I never get notifications about my Airpods?


texts: 2008 Macbook not recognizing bootable USB

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I've recently bought a new SSD for my 2008 13" Macbook, wanted to perform a clean install of El Capitan, however after creating the bootable USB I am unable to boot from it. I plugged the USB into the Macbook, held Opt while powering it on. Only a blank screen with a cursor appeared. I also tried resetting the NVRAM with Cmd + Opt + R + P with no results. I also tried Cmd + R which resulted just with flashing file & question mark.
I created the USB using TransMac on my Windows PC following a guide below:
https://www.wikigain.com/create-bootable-usb-installer-for-mac-transmac/
I tried creating several USBs and even burnt a DVD, none of them were registered on the Macbook. I also tried creating a Yosemite USB and DVD, no results whatsoever.
I have no other Mac to try the USB on, but from what I've read on other threads, some of the newer computers have no problem recognizing it.
I also tried burning a DVD with a different program called UltralISO, still no results.
Edit: Checked the Disk Manager on Windows, the USB has the EFI partition (see screenshot below).

Edit 2: Watched a video on YT with similar problem. Guy solved it using an older USB stick. However there shouldn't be a problem when I used a DVD instead? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JClNt8w3fPo&t=7s
Edit 3: I'll try and do a Mavericks clean install. Maybe it'll work??
Edit 4: So, I spent my whole night shift formating some old USBs I found in the office (no luck there). But! I successfully managed to boot a Mavericks installation using an old HDD with SATA adapter. However I am now stuck a the . Also one of the USB managed to boot with Snow Leopard in it, but the problem persists (https://youtu.be/6KEmzxJc-sM).


texts: Getting unknown command error when trying to run script via cron

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I recently had to re-install 10.9.5 (default install) and am now finding that bash scripts that run perfectly from the command line (~/Me...) no longer work using crontab. I use crontab to invoke "Diskutil unmount volumeX" but am getting mail from cron saying "diskutil" command not found. Is it a PATH issue and if so how would I fix it.
Thank you in advance for any help.


texts: I am unable to boot my mac in El Capitan and Single User mode

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I am unable to boot El Capitan.

When I turn on the computer it seems to load fine for a while, but then this screen shows up:

When I try to boot into Single User mode, it stops loading at this point:

Then minutes later, this happens:

I've tried to repair the HD using Internet Recovery, the log says the partition seems fine:

I have also reset the PRAM several times.

The error I get when trying to boot into Single User mode seems pretty crazy. Is it likely that I'm gonna have to reinstall the OS?


texts: sshdfilter and ipfw - why are my rules flushed so often?

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I have sshdfilter setup to maintain ipfw rules when someone is un invitedly trying to login my system. This has been working quite a while. Since a while - beginning to suspect the last lion upgrade (10.7.2) - I see sshdfilter adding rules and, when I check, I don't see the rules in ipfw using 'ipfw show'. When I add them manually, they show but again, after a while they are gone.
What I found in /var/log/system.log are messages like:

Nov  6 21:53:12 mac servermgrd[31448]: servermgr_ipfilter:ipfw config:Notice:Flushed IPv4 rules
Nov  6 21:53:12 mac servermgrd[31448]: servermgr_ipfilter:ipfw config:Notice:Flushed IPv6 rules

and I assume that after such a flush, my rules are in bit heaven.
How can I prevent my blocks are flushed?
My setup looks very familiar to sshdfilter improvements

edit: In the meantime I changed sshdfilterrc to add the rules to /etc/ipfilter/ipfw.conf. This file is imported when the flush is executed. Disadvantage is that this file has to be maintained....