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I'm on an older imac on SnowLeopard and didn't upgrade as was happy with the OS and heard there were bugs with Lion etc.

I didn't realise Mavericks was going to disappear from the app store. I'm not sure if many of my apps like CS5 are going to be compatible with Yosemite, and I only have 4GB of RAM.

Is there any way to get mavericks now? Or am I too late?


texts: I've unboxed a MacBook Pro and am stuck at the very beginning. These are the two screens that loop - I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing now.


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I just recorded a video conversation using the 'screenshot' function on my mac. The idea was to record the video call, but also the audio of me and the other person talking... There was NO audio recorded!

How to record audio from the screen?!


texts: MBP Touch Bar Mirror Displays Keyboard Shorcut

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On the new macbooks with the Touch Bar, what keyboard shortcut can be used to mirror displays?

On Macbook Pros without the touchbar, the keyboard shortcut for mirroring displays was Command+F1. This doesn't seem to work on the new Macbook Pro with touchbar - you have to press the Fn key to show the F1, F2, etc. keys, and Fn+Command+F1 doesn't seem to do it.

Here are my current keyboard settings:


texts: What does "App" button in Home-Switch do?

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Sys Prefs / Accessibility / Switch Control / check Enable Switch Control

Home-Switch (depicted) window pops up with a button labeled "Application."

It's supposed to "controls the application in use. This scans through individual items or groups in the active window."  But I don't see it!  Nothing happens when I click on it.  Does it do anything for you?


texts: Automount'ed Samba Shares accessible via Command Line but hidden in Finder?

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I have 4 samba shares on a Synology DiskStation that I successsfully automount on my 10.9 / Mavericks based system under /Shares/ and when I open the command line I can go there just fine and list the files and directories just fine, however when trying to navigate to /Shares via the Mac OS X finder, the directory just seems entirely empty:

My /etc/auto_master looks like this:

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master        # Use directory service
/net            -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home           auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers    -fstab
/-          -static
/Shares         auto_smb    -nosuid

... my /etc/auto_smb like this:

home -fstype=smbfs,rw,soft ://joerg:myPassword@nasHostname/home
Downloads -fstype=smbfs,rw,soft ://joerg:myPassword@nasHostname/Downloads
Music -fstype=smbfs,rw,soft ://joerg:myPassword@nasHostname/Music
Videos -fstype=smbfs,rw,soft ://joerg:myPassword@nasHostname/Videos

What am I missing here? Why aren't the shares displayed in Finder?


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How can business users update to Mac OS X 10.8 on existing machines? My question regards a business with about 2 dozen Macs currently running 10.6.8 in Germany. The licenses would need to be floating licenses, i.e., licensed per seat, not per user.

Similar issues have been discussed here and here, but the answers are not applicable to the German market.


texts: Safari offers to translate all web pages -- how to limit to languages I actually do not speak?

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In macOS 11.1 "Big Sur", Safari gained the capability of offering translations of web pages. Google's Chrome has a similar feature, and offers to select a set of languages that the user actually understands so that translations are only offered for other, unknown languages.
Is there a way to tell Safari's new translation feature "I already speak German, English, French and Italian so don't offer translations for web pages in those languages"?


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I some application, such as Xcode, Pages and Pixelmator 2, when I save, I get an error about not having the permissions to save the file:

"The document “[document name]” could not be saved. You don’t have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info."

There's nothing wrong with the permissions. I can edit and save the same files from other applications, such as Textmate, Text Edit and Preview, without problems. I can also create a new project in Xcode, and it generates all the files without problem, but I still get the error message when trying to save any changes in these.

I'm running Lion, clean installed.

Edit: here's an example ls -l on some files I can't edit:

-rw-r--r--  1 ulrikdamm  staff  4221 Nov  1 08:36 french.strings
-rw-r--r--  1 ulrikdamm  staff  3755 Nov  1 10:53 german.strings
-rwxrwxrwx  1 ulrikdamm  staff  4147 Oct 31 23:49 hungarian.strings

even with full permissions, I can't save them. And it's not only some files that cannot be saved, it's all files, no matter what their permission level is.

Edit 2: folder permissions:

drwx------+ 32 ulrikdamm  staff  1088 Nov  4 14:00 Desktop

(yes, it's on my desktop)

id output:

uid=501(ulrikdamm) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),12(everyone),33(_appstore),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer)

Edit 3: I tried making a new user, and saving files there works without problems. Can it has something to do with some user settings being messed up?


texts: Bizarre message whenever I open my calendar

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This is maddening. Why does my calendar version 10.0 start out with this pop up every day???
"The URL https://calendar.google.com/calendar/dav/xxxxx@gmail.com/user/ encountered HTTP error 404. Make sure the URL is correct."


texts:
In Safari I can hold cmd to open a link in a new tab, I can hold cmd + shift to open in a new tab and focus the new tab, I can hold cmd + alt to open in a new window.
Is there any combination I can hold to forcefully open a link in the same tab? So, if there is a link on the current page that would normally be opened in a new tab (I believe by using target="_blank"), can I skip the process of opening it, closing the previous tab, then focussing the newly opened tab?
Lots of sites which try to force you to stay on them by opening every link in a new tab are very frustrating to use. Please let me know if there's a solution so I can force links to open in the current tab when I want them to.


texts:
I'd need to create an encrypted volume on my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan.

It's been a while since I needed to do something like that, I think it was 2010 when I used TrueCrypt.

I know that nowadays its development has been suspended or somehow discontinued, so I was wondering: how to have an encrypted volume with TrueCrypt-like level of security on Mac OS X?


texts: Is there an alternative dictionary for OS X?

texts:
Is there any better English dictionary software available to replace the simple default dictionary app in mac?

I need some features like

one-click word lookup,
hotkey to open the program,
hotkey to lookup,
speech synthesis...


texts:
When using Airpods with iPhone only everything works great, you put it on and start listening.

When you start to switch between your Mac and iPhone, I have problems. Most of the time, if I open the Airpods and connect them to the Mac, I will have this problem where every few seconds there is a second interrupt on sound (it stops). You can't hear music like that.

I'v tried to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone before connecting to the Mac, but this didn't work.
I'v tried to restart the Mac - and sometimes this doesn't work either.
I also ensured I have the latest firmware on the Airpots.

The experience is really not fun for a Mac user that switches between the Mac and an iPhone.

Does anyone have any other solutions or suggestions I can try to resolve this issue?


texts: Is Disk Partitioning User Data Sensible in Catalina?

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I'm a first time mac owner (coming from Linux and Windows) and so far I'm enjoying myself. =) Big fan of the Unix roots in a polished package.

I typically partition my system's "disk" drive to include a separate Data partition where I store all my active projects and personal data (on Linux, this would mean mounting /home to a separate partition).

I was about to do the same on my macbook, but realized there is already some volume segregation via APFS volume groups. However, I don't know if this has the same effects or not.

So my question is this: If I totally bork my OS somehow and want to completely reinstall from scratch, will the separate APFS volume be untouched?

It seems like the purpose is not for this but instead to prevent user apps from accessing the read-only system partition. So to me, it seems as if I should indeed create a separate partition so that any potential reinstall operations would not touch my personal data.

Thoughts? Thanks!


texts: Command line tool to convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF

texts: Is there any command line tool to convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF? If no, can it be automated by some Automator script (open-print to PDF-close)?


texts:
Since the decommission of Halo Demo for Mac, I have had no decent LAN/Internet games to play with my Mac.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I like First Person Shooters and Third Person Shooters the best, if you can think of any of those. They must be free.


texts: Disabling creation of unnecessary files on my external hard-drive?

texts:
I had an old mac that I decided to strip down for its hard-drive and RAM.  I threw a shell on the hard-drive, and now I can connect it to my new mac with a USB cable.

Essentially I want to be using it like any other USB drive.  However, mac keeps putting hidden files on it every time I plug it in:

drwxrwxrwx  1 user  staff  32768 Jun 16 09:31 .Spotlight-V100/
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 user  staff  32768 Jun 16 09:31 .Trashes/
-rwxrwxrwx  1 user  staff   4096 Jun 16 09:31 ._.Trashes*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 user  staff   4096 Jun 16 09:31 ._.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent*
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user  staff      0 Jun 16 09:31 .com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent*
drwxrwxrwx  1 user  staff  32768 Jun 16 09:32 .fseventsd/

Is there any way to have all this disabled, or is it simply a side-effect of the fact that the drive came from a mac?


texts: Activity Monitor, my system always runs in the red for CPU load - how to fix?

texts:
According to Activity Monitor my system is always running too high for CPU load. It’s always in the red in the CPU load graph and nothing I do corrects this.

I’ve tried resetting NVRAM, SMC and rebooting, so is this a problem with some sort of extension?

How do I fix this?!?!


texts: How can I check my line-in does work (MBP late 2010)?

texts:
How can I check my line-in does work?

I'm interesting what software should I use and how.

It is MBP, late 2010. I do have an external working mic.


texts: How can I omit FCPX Render Files from a Time Machine backup?

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I want to be able to add my Final Cut Projects and Events folders to Time Machine, but annoyingly Apple have decided to put a Render Files folder within each and every Events folder.

Is there a way of moving the folders to a different location on the hard drive, such as a Caches folder? Or is there some way of telling Time Machine to ignore folders containing the words "Render Files" (using some kind of script perhaps)?


texts: How to replace Mac OS X utilities with GNU core utilities?

texts:
I found there is some differences between the utility command I used on the mac OSX and linux. I want to make my experience united.

How could I replace all my mac utilities with GNU utilities?


texts: Why does correctly logging in take less time than an incorrect try?

texts: I entered a wrong password on my lockscreen today, and saw it took around 1-2 seconds for it to shake and prompt for a retry. However, if I enter the password correct, it takes fractions of a second to verify. Is there a reason for this? Shouldn't an equality check take the same time regardless of what was entered?


texts: My Graphic Card on Macbook Pro 2020 doesnt work correctly

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This is my Macbook:

And when I open google maps, 3d view, then my fan starts working very loud. And this is how it looks:
Is everything ok with this? Is my graphic card working fine?


texts: Mac OS X - report time on battery since last AC unplug but exclude sleep time

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Is there an app or existing command to report the battery time since the laptop was last unplugged from AC but exlude the time spend during sleep on battery?

This can be inferred from pmset -g log so I'm looking for a way to do this without using an app that stays resident to detect plug/unplug events.


texts: How can I autofill a formula in Numbers, but keep some referenced values the same?

texts:
So I have a chart in Numbers (iOS version, but I can use the macOS version, if needed,) which has formula that references some values from the chart, as well as some values from a different chart. I want to autofill this formula, while keeping the references from the other chart the same.

I want A2 to change for each row, A3, A4, etc. But I want values from table 2 to stay referenced to B2.


texts:
I recently upgraded my 2012 MacMini to Catalina. It was a bit of a nightmare as the internal drive wasn’t formatted to APFS. I imaged the drive and did a Time Machine backup then booted from the imaged drive, formatted the internal to APFS. Ran the Catalina installer file from the imaged drive and installed it on the internal drive. I then transferred all the data from the TM backup. It all seemed to work fine and I’m up and running.

The only issue is that It moved/copied a couple extra versions of user folders. I went in and cleaned/deleted them from the Users & Groups Sys Pref. When I go to empty the trash, it says the following for apparently 5 items that won’t delete.

  The operation can’t be completed because the item “Data” is in use.
  The operation can’t be completed because the item “com.apple.mail” is in use.
  The operation can’t be completed because the item “Containers” is in use.
  The operation can’t be completed because the item “Library” is in use.
  The operation can’t be completed because the item “acct name” is in use.

(account name redacted)

I have tried rebooting the computer several times and tried the force empty all to no avail. Any help would be appreciated!!


texts: Uploading photos from MacOS Photos to Facebook?

texts:
What is the "simplest" and most privacy-conscious way to upload photos from your MacOS Photos collection to Facebook?

I "trust" Facebook as little as possible (for obvious reasons) and so do not want to do anything that would give it full unrestricted access to my Photos collection.

MacOS has a Facebook "Extension" which allows Facebook to be added as a destination to the Photos "Share" menu, but I am very wary of enabling this and do not know what permissions it would give to Facebook. (I recall reading somewhere that, on iOS, if the Facebook app is given access to the iOS Photos collection, the Facebook app then automatically "helpfully" uploads all of your photos to Facebook, which is the sort of thing that I definitely do not want.)

At present, to upload a photo to Facebook, I seem to have to export the photo from Photos, go to Facebook in my web browser, and then select "Upload photo", and then navigate to the folder where I exported the photo in order to upload it. This is a somewhat cumbersome process. It would be useful if I could instead more simply "copy" a single photo from Photos and then "paste" it into my Facebook photo collection somehow, but unless I am missing something, this does not seem to be possible?

Is it a case of: ease of use, security; pick only one?


texts: How can you pause text to speech so that it restarts from where you left off?

texts:
I have a 40 page Pages document which is a transcript from a hand written diary.  I wish to use Text to Speech to read passages from my Pages document so that I can check the text against the original version.  This works well except that when highlighting a portion of text in the document and I wish to stop (pause) the Text to Speech it only starts at the beginning of the highlighted text and not restarting from the point of being paused.

If I use the start/stop keyboard shortcut in Text to Speech system preferences the situation is worse.  No matter if you have a highlighted portion of text it will restart from the beginning of the document!!

So the question is How to pause the text to speech process rather than stopping it?


texts: Is there are tool that can store and retrieve monitor arrangements as presets?

texts:
I'm working with a MacBook at different locations where monitors are then in a different positions relative to the MacBook's screen. As a result I have to rearrange the monitor setup every time I use a different workplace.

Is there a built-in way in OS X or a tool to save an arrangement and easily restore it, preferably from the menu bar?


texts: How to stop iTunes to auto download "Available apps" on start?

texts:
I have downloaded few apps on my iDevice and stopped the download realizing that was not the intended app.Whenever I start my iTunes, it tries to download them.

How can I stop the apps from getting downloaded ?


texts: How can I get apple mail to keep only the newest email from a daily subscription, and to automatically trash older emails

texts: I only want to keep the latest email from a subscription and I would like apple mail to automatically delete the older ones. Is there an Apple Script or way of setting rules to achieve this task?


texts: How are Notes Preferences Stored in MacOS?

texts:
Does the Mac Notes app store its preferences in a plist somewhere, or does it have a different method of storage? It doesn't seem to use ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.notes as most system apps do.
I'm hoping to find a method to script its settings programmatically (i.e. defaults write or similar).
Update
As Alexander noted, Notes is sandboxed, and stores some data accessible via defaults [read|write] com.apple.Notes (case sensitive). However the preference pane settings I'm looking for (specifically the New notes start with setting) don't seem to be saved there. I'm hoping someone else can find where that might be kept.


texts: Is $PATH just a file with a list (in order of preference) of directories?

texts:
I'm having trouble understanding exactly how $PATH works?

I am on a Mac..  If I install Python with Homebrew, it will install Python into the /opt/local/bin directory.

Now assuming Homebrew didn't make any changes to my bash profile, if I run a generic Python script, that will run using the system included Python located in Library I think.

My understanding is that if I go into my bash profile and add this line:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH

then it will add these directories to the front of the list.

I guess the question I have is, why do I add this line here.  Why can't I go directly to the source which I think is $PATH and add the line manually there.
Is $PATH a file?  And if so where is it located?


texts: Why does iOS insist on using my Facebook email address?

texts:
I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.

I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I do use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.

How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?


texts: How do I format a disk partition from the command line on OS X?

texts:
How do I format a disk partition from the command line on Mac OS X?

In case someone wonders why: because for some people Disk Utility fails.


texts: I've recently installed Mountain Lion 10.8.2. The installation is successful and had sound and network working out of the box. Now I wanted to install XCode for class and App Store says that I should update to 10.8.5 to install it. How can I install XCode without an update? I don't want to download large updates since my internet is highly charged.


texts: Multi user network share and resource forks

texts:
I have a scenario where multiple clients access the same NFS share, where they work with inDesign, Photoshop and such. They have problems with files and dirs going read-only (not in Terminal, though), and I have found the reason to be locks/extended attributes/resource forks. Over samba, it seem to work fine for them all, although they're not happy with the speed we've managed to squeeze out of the samba setup.

How do you manage scenarios like this? What are my options? Would a OS X NFS server not have the clients suffering from the same problem?

Linux 2.6 NFS, tried mounting with "nonamedattr", "noacl" etc. Server forces uid and gid. Clients are OS X 10.6.

Edit:

Adobe.com states exactly the same problems (locks, long delays/pausing, intermittent by nature) as we're experiencing.

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/networks-removable-media-photoshop-cs5.html


texts: Is there an application like Connectify for OS X El Capitan?

texts:
There is a well known app for Windows named Connectify, used to share a Wi-Fi connection between a computer that only has Wi-Fi with other devices which requests that connection from the computer.

This would be useful for example to connect a Chromecast to a hotel's Wi-Fi that has one of those captive password situations through your laptop which has an interface to let you enter the password.

What's the best alternative for this app on OS X El Capitan?

Please provide the whole procedure.

This is not possible with OS X built-in Internet Sharing.


texts: Why does Image Capture import fewer pictures than it counted?

texts:
I recently used Image Capture to get a backup of my iOS Camera Roll, and noticed a discrepancy.

In the footer of the app, Image Capture notes the number of items on the device, or the number selected if they are individually selected. But after Import All (or select all then Import), the number of items in the folder on my Mac was a smaller number.

Image Capture is version 6.3 (502.1)
OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks

iTunes - running or not running, same results.
Preview not running.
No other camera-acquisition apps.

Replicated this behaviour on 2 iOS devices:

iPhone 6 / iOS 11.4.1 (15G77) with settings:

iCloud Photo Library is OFF.
Optimize iPhone Storage is disabled.
My Photo Stream is OFF.
iCloud Photo Sharing is OFF.
Cellular Data (for Photos) is OFF.
Transfer to Mac or PC is Automatic (not Keep Originals).

iPad 3 / iOS 9.5.3 (13G36) with settings:

My Photo Stream is OFF.
iCloud Photo Sharing is OFF.
Optimize iPhone Storage is not available.

USB cables are original Apple, for both devices.

Videos import fine.
Edited photos import fine.
Hidden photos import fine.

Photos with the same filename, but different dates, also import fine. One of the devices has more than 10,000 photos, and since the filenames are IMG_0000 to IMG_9999 (with JPG, PNG, MOV, etc. extensions of course), there are only 10,000 unique names. I have, for example, an IMG_3955.JPG from this past March, and another IMG_3955.JPG from July 2014. The older one imports as "IMG_3955 1.JPG"


texts: Fill in suggestion in search without triggering search

texts:
On my iPhone I find that the google suggestion list has a large portion of my search term already and I'd like to use a suggestion without having to type it. Is it possible to select one of the suggestions and have it fill up my partially typed term but without triggering the search?

What happens now is it automatically executes the search when I choose a suggestion even though I want to add more to it first.


texts: I have several books in my iBooks app on my iPad, but when I'm without wifi, ibooks doesn't even show the books are sitting in my library, why?


texts: Which carriers support iOS 10's voicemail transcription?

texts:
I'm curious because I don't see any text under my voicemails when I tap on them, but I've seen videos of that being what you do, and I've read that it doesn't require any activation. I don't see why it would be limited to the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, or the iPhone SE (I have an iPhone 6). I've narrowed it down to my carrier (AT&T).

Is there a place where I can see if my carrier supports voicemail transcription?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Use "options ndots:2" in global DNS resolver

texts:
Until yesterday, I regularly ssh'd into my servers that have names like "server.prod.example.com" as "server.prod" and it worked fine.  (Actually, this required getting mDNSResponder to start with the "-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains" option, but that's a different story.  I think.)

Very recently, the ".prod" TLD was made active.  Now when I try to log into "server.prod", it resolves to 127.0.53.53.  This is a universal DNS problem and is solvable on other BIND-based DNS resolvers by adding "options ndots:2" to the resolver configuration (normally "/etc/resolv.conf").

Is it possible to set this option with MacOS's scutil/configd-based resolver?

I'll point out that the resolver seems to recognize the option when put in a resolver config file in "/etc/resolver": when placed there, "scutil --dns" shows the option.  Of course, it does no good there.

I'm on Mavericks, if that makes any difference.


texts: Any way to manage options in Open With dialog?

texts:
Basically, my problem is that my Open With list looks like this for .html files

I want to be able to manage it somehow. For example, I often open those files with PHPStorm but that list is obviously full and I have to click Other... every time for eg. PHPStorm.

I'd like to be able to remove virtualized Internet Explorers, Word and simply to be able to manage it somehow. Any way to do that?


texts: How can I diagnose what is interfering with my Wifi signal?

texts:
I have a mysterious  process on my Macbook pro which I can't isolate which comes around every 5 seconds and interferes with my connectivity.

My ping history looks like this:

    4 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=12996 ttl=53 time=93.144 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=12997 ttl=53 time=22.797 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=12998 ttl=53 time=23.122 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=12999 ttl=53 time=23.674 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13000 ttl=53 time=23.827 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13001 ttl=53 time=21.925 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13002 ttl=53 time=22.654 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13003 ttl=53 time=754.820 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13004 ttl=53 time=1448.052 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13005 ttl=53 time=1144.956 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13006 ttl=53 time=165.125 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13007 ttl=53 time=22.109 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13008 ttl=53 time=22.513 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13009 ttl=53 time=23.716 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13010 ttl=53 time=22.804 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13011 ttl=53 time=22.349 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13012 ttl=53 time=21.941 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 13014
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13014 ttl=53 time=1200.319 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13015 ttl=53 time=933.177 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13016 ttl=53 time=206.759 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13017 ttl=53 time=23.897 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13018 ttl=53 time=22.536 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.174: icmp_seq=13019 ttl=53 time=21.755 ms

I can tell that this is local to my machine (and not the network) because these results don't change when I switch networks and other machines on those networks don't show the same intermittent stagnation.

I have closed every application that I can including the obvious background ones (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) but the problem persists.

At this point I'm at a loss as to how to pinpoint what service or process is doing this. I'm hoping someone has some remedy or third party tool I can use to isolate the culprit and shut it down.


texts: Why is my iPod Shuffle an "Unknown Device"?

texts:
Help, I've tried everything.

I have an iPod Shuffle 2nd generation and ever since I plugged it into an AC wall charger, my PC has stopped recognizing it.

I tried multiple PCs, to ensure it's not my PC.

It blinks orange 3 times and then blinks green once, when I unplug it. But when I keep on docking/undocking I finally get it to have a steady blinking orange light, but then it detects my iPod as "Unknown Device" in Windows.

My iPod does work and charges with the AC wall charger, and I can listen to the songs that are in but I can't sync/put new songs due to this issue.

I tried nearly every solution that exists, such as updating the driver in device manager, making it be a mass storage device so I can reformat it, but I can't get it to become a mass storage device, it just detects it as an "Unknown Device" no matter what. I also tried to stop the iPod service to make iTunes recognize it as a mass storage or anything, just so I can reformat it (after doing this it should be no problem detecting on iTunes) but nothing works..

Getting tired of this.. any solutions?! I tried the Apple Reset Utility, Apple Guide 5 steps etc.. Nothing will recognize since it is an "Unknown Device".

Should I just throw it away?


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I have a late 2012 27" iMac with macOS Catalina. Recently I replaced it's hard disk with an SSD and I was extremely happy with the results. However, the replacement required removing the display from the chassis & putting it back with some adhesive strips. The strips I used apparently was not strong enough. A few weeks after doing the replacement, one morning I woke up with the display glass came off of the chassis and dropped onto the keyboard on my desk, pulling its power & data cables out of the board.

I plugged the cables back and reinstalled the screen. At the first boot it started with a "snowy" screen like this What causes “snowy” display on iMac screen after replacement (ifixit.com)
And since then, the computers boots only at 1280x720. I bought a new data cable and replaced it, nothing has changed. I tried resetting PRAM & SMC, I booted to ubuntu using a flash disk. None of it works.

It is an extremely weird situation. The display works. I don't have any dead pixels or anything.  But the resolution is terrible. Does anyone have any idea?


texts: Does iOS 8.3 break audio line out over lightning cable?

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I have a charger in my car that also has an audio line out (I've used a gsm iPhone 5 with this, currently I use a cdma iPhone 5s ).  For the past several years it has worked great.  I connect the audio out to my car stereo, and connect the lightning cable to my phone.  My phone then charges and plays audio to the car simultaneously.  After updating to 8.3 the phone will only play out of its tiny speaker which is not really audible while driving.

I've tried a "Reset All Settings", and power cycled many times.  I've tried several different audio playing apps.  The tell tale thing I've noticed is that in the past when I connected the device, the audio volume "goes away" because iPhone audio line out doesn't have any volume adjustment option.  Now when I plug in the lightning cable, the volume option never goes away.

I'm considering purchasing bluetooth audio or other solutions, but I'd really like this to just work like it has for years!  Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

--

I realized I have an iPad2 which can also connect to my car audio/charger, and it properly plays audio, and it updated to iOS 8.3?!  Unfortunately there is a hardware difference, because my car charger is the old school 30pin connecter, so it could be that my 30pin to lightning adapter died at the same time iOS 8.3 came out?


texts: Dialing from MacBook shows that my iPhone is already on a call

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When using the new continuity feature in OS X Yosemite together with my iPhone 5S running iOS 8, I can't dial from my MacBook. Here's what I do:

Both devices are on the same Wifi network
Both devices are logged in using the same iCloud/Apple ID
On the MacBook, I open FaceTime and type a phone number into the search field
Next, I click the phone icon next to the number and select the "Call Using iPhone option"
A popup is shown indicating that the phone is dialing the number

After a couple of seconds, the following message is shown:

The message says: "iPhone in Use. Your iPhone is already on a call." I'm pretty sure that my phone is not on a call at this point.

Clicking the "Try Again" option provides the same result.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: How to Save As PDF and Hide Hidden slides?

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I'm using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 on a Mac. When I use "Save As..." and choose PDF format, I would like a PDF that has all the slides except for slides marked as Hidden in my slide deck. But I always get all slides in the PDF.

This is a problem, of course, because hidden slides are hidden because they aren't ready for public viewing.

I would think there should be an option to suppress hidden slides, but I can't find one. My colleagues who use Windows do seem to have the option on MS PowerPoint for Windows.

It is possible to suppress hidden slides during Print... but then I am at the mercy of print formatting, and the PDF contains print margins that I can't suppress.

Has anyone found a solution for this?

Solution:

There appears to be no way to make "Save As PDF" skip hidden slides on the Mac version of Powerpoint.

So the workaround is to use Print instead, and print to PDF within that dialog. One can fix the margin issue this way:

Open the Print dialog.
Click Page Setup... to choose a paper size.
Change the Width and Height to match the full width and height of the paper you choose. For example, if you select Letter size, the default width and height are 10" x 7.5", so change it to be 11" x 8.5".
Now one can print to paper or print to PDF and get the full bleed, and hidden slides stay hidden.


texts: Do I need to zero out a new disk after formatting it?

texts: Does anyone know if I should 'zero out' the new disk I bought?  It was NTFS formatted so, unable to use it like that. I did a repartition to HFS+ in seconds, and then decided it might be better to zero out, was this a waste of my time or is there a benefit to this?  Finally this zero out took about an hour and ten mins for 500gb, does this sound like USB 3 performance? - I was expecting it to be faster... my new Macbook Air (which is doing the formatting) is USB 3 and so is the external disk, but 1.1 hrs for a 500gb zero out doesnt seem fast.


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I'm using microsoft office 2011 and for some reason option-delete doesn't seem to have the standard behavior it usually does. It works fine in word and excel, however.

I don't have another computer to test with — can someone who has powerpoint 2011 see whether option-delete works fine for them too (I want to know whether this is an issue on my end or just microsoft's poor coding).


texts: Is it a good practice to create a desktop shortcut on mac?

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I have been installing some popular software for Mac and observed that installation packages do not create a desktop shortcut as they often do on windows.

What is good practice to follow: Should I create a desktop shortcut for my application which i have developed?


texts: Time Machine deleting non-Time Machine files from disk?

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I recently enabled time machine by adding an external drive as a location for Time Machine to back up to.  However, before enabling Time Machine I took a few old files (totally about 500GB) which I wanted to archive and not take space on my machine any more and copied them to a separate Archive folder on the external drive.  Since then I have periodically been watching the drive space to see how much Time Machine is using.

Today I discovered to my dismay that disk usage was nearly 500GB less than I expected.  I went and looked and found that all but one of my archived files had disappeared (460GB worth).  From what I had previously read it was my impression that Time Machine won't mess with files outside its directory, but now I am not so sure.  I didn't delete these files, and they are not in the trash.  Where did they go?  Can Time Machine be to blame?

Update:  I am in no way space constrained on this drive, it was less than 1/2 full when the files disappeared.


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I have an EarPods with 3.5 mm Headphone Plug
 from Apple that comes with iPhone 6 and works on my macbook (mbp 2017).
Usually, if I press the middle key, whatever is playing will stop. If I press it 2 times, iTunes will play the next song. If I press it 3 times, iTunes will play the previous song.
However, after a few days after reboot (or power on), the event get repeated. That is, if I press the middle key once, the song will stop then start playing again immediately, almost as if I did not press the key. The same applies to playing the next song and the previous song: they become playing the next next song and the previous song's previous song.
Sometimes, after a few days after reboot (or power on), the control will just stop working, no matter what I tried. Only rebooting works.
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G12034)

What I've tried so far:

killall -kill coreaudiod
killall -kill hidd
reconnect the headphone

Is there any way I could identify where the problem is or solve this problem (except for rebooting)?


texts: Mac Pro loses network connection after wake from sleep since Yosemite upgrade

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I have a really strange issue since i updated to Yosemite.
When i wake up my 2012 Mac Pro, the network connection is totally lost.

Output from dmesg (sorry, couldn't copy/paste at this time):

- Nic en0 - no link detected
- Nic en0 - link detected
- some other things (approx. 2 sec)
- Nic en0 - no link detected

Disabling/removing and adding/re-enabling in System Preferences didn't solve the issue. Only rebooting the whole machine will help. Interesting: If i remove the cable from en0 and put it in en1 (Mac Pro has two NICs), everything is fine - until next sleep/wakeup. After the next wakeup en1 is also not working. Only thing which helps is rebooting.

Tried also resetting the SMC - didn't solve it.


texts:
How to enable Picture in Picture option on YouTube app for iPhone ?
I have enabled picture in picture option in accessibility i can use it on Netflix app and prime videos so on but im not able to use on YouTube app please help me out.


texts: How to restore my keyboard to default settings?

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I was using Google Colab on my web browser and was trying to set some keyboard shortcut on Google Colab.

After that, my keyboard keep showing weird letters when I am typing. You can see it in this image:

I tried to solve this by going to system preferences > keyboard. Then setting shortcuts and input sources to defaults. But it is not working. I tried various other approaches from articles on the internet but I still couldn't fix it.

Can anyone help me to fix this problem?

Mac version - macOS Mojave version 10.14.5

Web browser - Firefox version 74.0

Just to clarify, the problem is not totally related to the Firefox browser. It is also happening when I am using any other applications on my system like the text editor for writing code etc. It is a system wide problem.


texts: characters stick at the beginning of CLI

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When I press arrow up to search through the command history, some characters always remain at the beginning of the command line. Does anyone know what's going on ? How can I fix it?

for example, I ping google.com, it looks like this:

then I press up arrow a few times and down arrow a few times, some characters stick at the beginning of the command line like this:

those characters can't be removed or highlight, and I can still use the CLI normally, like this:
and move between directory despite the leading characters:


texts: Restart the computer when the system freeze

texts: I'm working on a code but sometimes the memory gets full and the system freeze. I've been searching a little bit and there is an option that restarts the computer when the system freeze, but I can't find that option in my iMac. It's important to mention that the Mac is in another place. I access to the Mac through AnyDesk but as I mentioned some times the Mac freeze and I can't be in that place to reboot it manually, I want to know if there is an automatically way to reboot when the computer freeze. I'm using macOS 10.14.6.


texts: iPhone sometimes goes to sleep running Pandora, sometimes doesn't

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I use my iPhone4 to listen to Pandora radio at work. I have it plugged in to a standard charge/sync cable, and a headphone jack to my speakers.

Sometimes the screen stays on indefinitely, showing me the current album in the Pandora app. Sometimes, it goes to sleep, and I have to manually unlock it to see the current album. Seems about 50/50, and I have no idea why it sometimes stays on and sometimes doesn't.

How can I get it to stay on, and not go to sleep (I do want it to go to sleep normally when I'm not using it for music, however)

Not sure if this is specific to Pandora, or if I'd see the same issue with the iPod app.


texts: Can I write an Automator/AppleScript script to download all the iTunes app updates?

texts:
This is related to How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates

I would like to write a script to tell iTunes to download all the free app updates available, and have that script run regularly using iCal. Is this possible?


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I've been trying to debug a "Waiting for index to be ready" issue with my Time Machine volume, and one piece of advice that I've encountered is re-creating the Spotlight index on the volume.

To do this I ran the following commands (as sudo):

mdutil -i off /Volumes/Backup
rm -R /Volumes/Backup/.Spotlight-V100

However, I'm now trying to re-enable Spotlight with the reverse of the first command, but this is what I'm getting:

mdutil -v -i on /Volumes/Backup
/Volumes/Backup:
    Indexing and searching disabled.

It simply doesn't want to do it, and I can't figure out why. I've tried manually recreating the .Spotlight-V100 with ownership set to root:wheel and mode set to 700 (exactly as the folder on other volumes is configured), and while mdutil has now created a VolumeConfiguration.plist file, it still won't enable indexing.

I can't find anywhere to get more information; the -v option of mdutil doesn't give any additional output, and nothing extra seems to be logged anywhere. There doesn't appear to be any physical problem, as the drive is new and reporting no I/O errors or other issues; aside from the "waiting for index" slow-down, Time Machine is otherwise working perfectly and I can view the contents of its backups without any problems.

Anyway, are there any other steps that can be followed to force Spotlight to re-index the drive, or find out why it's failing to do-so?


texts: MacBook Air Early 2014 responds to SMC reset but doesn't turn on

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MacBook responds to Shift+Control+Option+Power button, the magsafe's light color changes from orange color to green momentarily then goes back to orange. So it means the MacBook is still alive.

What could be the possible cause why the machine won't turn on?

UPDATE

It's working again now, after letting it rest for about two weeks since it crashed.

While in the middle of booting (progress bar is not finished) the computer just turns itself off. Tried to turn it on again it just kept on turning itself off while booting.

This permanently fix the boot crashing: https://discussions.apple.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-29433214-653435/image.jpg


texts: Two iPhones, one household: Installing iOS 5 without obliterating data

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I know these three couples. All six people have iPhones, and they have all recently asked me about syncing. I told them to wait until iCloud came out so I could give them a more informed answer.

I know that once you have iOS 5 on your phones, you can have separate iCloud accounts while sharing an iTunes Store account between you. That is not my question.

But to get iOS 5 on your phone, you have to plug it in and sync it with iTunes one last time. I can't test this, but I'm assuming that unless you create separate Windows or OS X accounts for that one lousy sync, you can't do it without screwing up at least one person's data.

That is my question: Is there a good way to install iOS 5 on two iPhones, from one computer account, without causing the data apocalypse you're trying to avoid by upgrading to iOS 5 in the first place?

EDIT: It occurs to me that after I plug in the phone, I could just uncheck every single "Sync" option underneath the tabs on the device screen in iTunes. Is that all it would take to upgrade to iOS 5 but leave the device untouched?


texts: My old computer in which I had iTunes on is broken.  So my question is, are there any other ways of updating an iPad without having iTunes? If not, are there any stores that will do it?


texts: See which app drained my Macbook's battery

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Sometimes I close my laptop, assuming that there is nothing running that prevents sleep, put it in my bag, and then find the next day that it didn't sleep - instead it ran out of battery and shut down.

Is there any way to see which apps or processes were preventing it from sleeping? It doesn't do this always so I don't want a manual method I have to do before I close the lid.

Note I am not asking which processes are currently draining the battery.


texts: Dictation not working in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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I have enabled dictation in the preferences, but it fails to start.

When I tap fn fn, the Icon with three dots appears, and quickly disappears. I don't see a microphone.

My system is connected to the Internet with an ADSL router, through an Ethernet LAN. I have temporarily disabled the router firewall, but it does not seem to help.

My system is in French (but I think "Dictation" should work since it is indeed called '"Dictée")

How can I have logs?

What can I investigate?


texts:
I have 2 internet interfaces: Ethernet and Wifi.
Ethernet is the office network (read: completely closed) and Wifi is way more permissive.

The ethernet is used for back-office systems (internal access only. addresses are not public) and the wifi for everything else. Now, what i do is:
1.Set Wifi as default network.
2.Server not found? Set Ethernet as default network
3.Content blocked? go back to 1.

Is there a way to make this auto?

Edit1:
Clarification: the back-office systems are not accessible via regular web, only via intranet


texts: Application refuses to open files via Finder

texts:
I have an application that I'm trying to automate opening a file for.  When I try to associate this app with a specific file type in Finder, I get this error:

The document "Document.<ext>" could not be opened.
<Application Name> cannot open files in the "<File Type>" format.

(I have redacted the file type and application name.)

But when I try to open the exact same file from the "Open" menu of the application, it opens just fine!

I also get the same error when I try to run:

osascript -e 'tell application "<Application Name>" to open "</path/to/Document.ext>"

Why won't Finder open my file directly?  Is this a bug in the program or is there something else I can try to open the document automatically without any user interaction?  I was under the impression that the Applescript would basically invoke the same functionality as the Apple+O/Open menu item. I'm hoping there is a way to do this, because this is a free app that came with a consumer electronics product (hence the redaction to hide the vendor) and there is exactly zero chance of any sort of support for fixing this if this is a bug that can't be worked around.


texts: How can I turn off push notifications for individual apps in iOS 5?

texts:
When an app is first installed, occasionally it asks if you would like to receive push notifications for that app. Normally I click 'No' and never think about it again. But yesterday, I accidentally clicked 'Yes', and would now like to turn push off for that app so as to save battery life.

If I go to notifications in the settings app, I can easily change the type of notification to 'None', however is this actually disabling push, or just hiding the notification?

Some of the apps that I am pretty sure I clicked 'No' to push notifications have this setting set to 'Banner' - making me think that these settings aren't related to whether push is turned on or off for that app.

What is the correct way to enable/disable push after initially selecting an option on app installation? Are the notifications settings related to push?


texts: Why do my iPad and iPhone send *two* notifications for every gmail I receive?

texts:
Every time I get an email, I hear a ping and a vibration on my devices, followed by another about 3 seconds later.

I'm using gmail (through exchange) on both devices.  The only option I can find in settings is to turn 'new mail' notifications on or off.   I do not have other email accounts on the devices, so it's not auto-forwarding to two accounts or anything.

I'd like to get a single ping and or vibration for each message.


texts: How do you turn off Bluetooth on startup using MacBook Air and macOS Sierra?

texts: Every time I turn on my laptop (from a completely off state) the Bluetooth is on by default. How can I prevent it from turning on at startup and then only turn it on (manually) when I want to connect any Bluetooth devices like mouse and keyboard?


texts: Can't Access Previous Purchases under Family Sharing

texts:
I recently switched to Family Sharing. Previously, we all had our separate iCloud accounts for contact syncing, calendaring, reminders, etc. and shared a single account for out store purchases.

Now that we've family sharing setup, besides still using separate iCloud accounts for the above purposes, everyone started using their own iCloud accounts for their store purchases as well.

When I go to Settings > Apple ID > Family Sharing > Share Purchases, I see that the old account we used to share for our store purchases is listed as to be shared among family members but when I recently tried to download a past purchase with that account, I repurchased it(I was logged in to the store with my own iCloud account).

What should I do if I want to be able to access my previous purchases?


texts: Does apple automatically sign out all connected devices when you change the apple id password?

texts:
Yesterday, I got a bunch of emails from Apple, sent to one of my unused gmail addresses (which still has forwarding to my regular one). I do NOT have an appled ID associated with that address, but it seems like someone was trying to create one.

They were (all in English unless otherwise noted):

10-12 identical "Verify your Apple ID." emails from appleid@id.apple.com, some in English, some in Greek (I'm Greek and in Greece, so this makes some sense).
"Your apple ID has been used to sign in to iCloud from an iPhone 4s." email from noreply@insideicloud.icloud.com (not sure about wording, because this one was sent in Greek: Το Apple ID σας χρησιμοποιήθηκε για σύνδεση στο iCloud από iPhone 4s.)
"Your apple ID information has been updated" from appleid@id.apple.com
"Welcome to iCloud" from noreply@icloud.com

I was alarmed by this. I'm 99% certain I did NOT ever create this apple ID, and 100% certain I didn't use it yesterday, from an iPhone or elsewhere. I went to the apple site, clicked on "reset my password", got a password reset email right away, and changed the password.

I checked ALL my gmail accounts (the one used for the ID, the regular one & a secondary one I have) and there has been no sign of breaching - no connected devices or recent sign-ins I don't recognize, no auto-forwarding or suspicious labels created.

Today, I received another email from apple

"Your recent download with your Apple ID." from do_not_reply@apple.com

I therefore realize that the device has somehow not been disconnected, although I believed that, as with other services eg. Google, whenever you change your password, each device asks you for the new password when automatically signing in. Is this not the case with Apple?

To rephrase, does Apple automatically sign out all connected devices when changing your password?

I also had to install iTunes, so that I could deauthorize the devices already connected, but the option does not show up on the list, which seems to mean there are no devices associated. The only method I found for doing that without using iTunes did not work properly.

The details which the person has entered to the account associated with my email seem legitimate (as in, non-spam/scammy) but it looks like they're not tech-savvy enough to even realize they're using the wrong email, so I don't think contacting them (they've even listed their phone number) would have any benefit.

Is it really possible for someone to register for an Apple ID and continue using that ID without verifying the email? Because this is what seems to be happening. I never clicked on those "verify" links, they even look unread in my inbox, but it seems like this person is still using that ID.

My goals here are

To make sure my email account is safe
To stop receiving annoying emails every time this person does anything related to their apple id.
To ideally stop this person from signing up for apple IDs or other accounts using an email that doesn't belong to them (and can possibly be a typo, judging by their name).

Any help/feedback at all will be greatly appreciated.


texts: How do I get source code or classes .m and .h files for .ipa files?


texts: Why is my memory still inactive after purging?

texts:
I'm trying to understand how memory is allocated on my machine.  I have read, and believe I understand, these posts and associated links:
Trouble Understanding Inactive Memory in MacOSX, Inactive Memory

However, I still have 10 GB of 'inactive' memory while a process is using ~25 GB of swap.  My machine has 32 GB RAM and a single process is using 21GB Real Mem / 24 Private / 34 virtual.

Why is this process going to swap?  Is it really using all that memory that's labeled inactive, or is it possible that something is wrong with my inactive memory?  I've tried purgeing, but that had no effect according to activity monitor.


texts: Time period covered by Network tab of Activity Monitor

texts:
I am monitoring my network usage with Activity Monitor. This screenshot shows 1.22 GB of data received and 700 MB data sent at the bottom right:

I am having difficulty interpreting these numbers. In the image, I sorted the apps down by "Received bytes" with a total around 443 MB, unlike the total number of 1.22 GB received. That's a discrepancy of 800 MB.

This discrepancy could be explained if the totals refer to the time period since start-up and the app numbers for the time period since launching the app. But I was unable to confirm that as well. This page suggests that the total numbers at the bottom right start with computer start-up:

  This however, does reset each time you restart your computer.

while this thread says that they reset when I launch the Activity Monitor:

  the Network tab in Activity Monitor behaves in the same way (totals are from when it starts, not the application being observed)

Do the total and app numbers refer to the time period since the computer turned on or since I launched Activity Monitor? If they are the same, what accounts for the discrepancy of 800 MB in data received?


texts: Apple iPad USB stick showing "External: open dir error, path = / "

texts:
Greetings dear community.

I bought a 128 USB stick for my Gilrfriend's Mac which works solely with an app called LUV-Share.

The USB was brand new and was supposed to store HD movies, which are above 4GB. This wasn't possible because the format of the stick was FAT32 so we formatted the stick to Mac OS Extended (Groß/Kleinschreibung/journaled), in order to be able to store bigger files. Now we have the movies in the stick but when opening the app and clicking the icon "External Storage" we get the following error:

"External: open dir error. path = /"

And this is where I find myself lost. Perhaps you could guide me to a solution for this matter.

Thank you in advance for your help and have a good day.

Sincerely,
Irendur


texts:
I have a Macbook with 256GB as I'm studying I have a huge amount of documents piling up, taking more and more space. Most of them I'd like to keep, still often I don't need them so often.

Is there a program that remembers how often I use a file/folder and if it's untouched for a certain amount of time it get's zipped and after some more time it'll be uploaded on the Cloud. I'd like to see then like all my files and folders but some are marked as zipped or uploaded.

Let's say you have one that is uploaded then when clicking on it it'll be downloaded without me noticing really and the process restarts again.


texts: I scaned many photos to one image file. How can i cut it down to many pieces? Can iPhoto do that or is there any other free software suggestion?


texts: how to increase Finder font size larger than 16 point in mavericks

texts:
OS X Mavericks seems to only allow for font sizes up to 16 point, which at a high resolution on a 27" iMac when I've been sitting across the room watching a movie, is not nearly large enough.

How can I increase past 16 point?  I've tried TinkerTool to no avail, and editing com.apple.plist also to no avail.  Is there any way to overcome this seemingly arbitrary limit?


texts: MacOS shutting down after password and loading screen, safe mode not working

texts:
After entering password on login, the loader gets stuck 2/3rds in and shuts down. Seems like my account is corrupt somehow. Have tried to access safe mode to create an alternate admin account (pressing down shift key while booting), but the normal login screen just shows up again.

Any way to rebuild my user account without having to do erase and reinstall MacOS?

Edit: Single user mode, CMD-S on boot, isnt working either, it gives some kind of build error which I can't recall atm.

Specs: MacOS Sierra, Macbook from early 2012.


texts:
I wrote the following very simple script:

  route -n add 192.168.0.0/20 192.168.224.1
  route -n delete 0.0.0.0
  route -n add 0.0.0.0 172.20.10.1

And would like to just double click it and you know... run it... on windows 8 i would just have to save as a .bat and right click it-> run as admin... How can i achieve similar behavior in mac osx (latest version)?

Extra points if i can just double click it (cut the run under elevated mode)


texts: the automatically share screenshots with Dropbox does not work for me in 10.9. I’m not sure what to do, already installed the latest version of Dropbox


texts: Why is my iMac awaken itself every now and then - Even if I've not even close to it? Same thing with my Macbook pro

texts:
So for example, I'm about to sleep and laying in my bed, and suddenly my iMac screen turns on and shows the login screen - I'm not close it and have not touched the mouse or anything that should have to awaken the mac. Pretty annoying since it does light up my whole room.
It doesn't happen every night but sometimes it does - Maybe once a week or something - and now it happens with my Macbook as well..
Anyone have an answer on this?


texts: How to delete photos only from one device?

texts:
As I have limited storage on my iPhone, can I delete photos from my iPhone and they will still remain on the iCloud? Or can they be accessed on my iPad which has more storage?

I think when I have deleted a picture on any device, they delete from the iPad as well (presumably through the iCloud).


texts: Siri is called repeatedly out of control

texts:
I face a problem with Iphone 6.
In the middle of work (particularly listening to podcasts), Siri wrongly thinks she is being called, pauses the main work, and starts asking for order.
Edit: "Hey Siri" is not allowed in my settings.

Is it a hardware or software problem?
Is this a common problem?
A suggestion for a good way to solve it?


texts: Is Airport Express compatible with AirPlay?

texts:
I have an Airport Express that I have plugged into a speaker system. I can change the music in my house with my iPhone through Apple's Remote app. Great.

Now is my Airport Express compatible with AirPlay? Can I 'push' music or sound to my Airport Express and out the speakers that are plugged into it? Or is this only possible with an Apple TV? And if I get an Apple TV can I do what I'm trying to do? 'Push' music from someone's iPhone that is on the same WIFI network as mine to a speaker system?


texts:
Inspired by this question on Stackoverflow, I noticed that my Java control panel reports that I have the latest version of Java installed (and I know that, because Safari is not blocking the plugin any longer), while the command line version seems to be different.

From Terminal:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_06-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_06-ea-b20)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode)

Java 1.7.0_06 is not the latest version, as far as I know.

Hence my question:

If I install Java 1.7 from Oracle's web site and then rely on the "automatic" updating that it provides, will the command line version be stuck with the old version? A bit confused here.


texts:
I need help to resolve an issue with just one of my displays freezing / screen blacking out.

My set up:

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)
Processor: 3.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M395 2 GB

Displays 4 (three external):

iMac 27"
HP 2010 20" Display, 1600x900  x 2 with only DVI-D and VGA inputs
Samsung S27R35x 27" Display, 1920x1080, HDMI and VGA inputs only

I am connecting the two HP 20" (old) displays via a DVI connection through Thunderbolt Adapters, using up both available Thunderbolt ports, then using a DisplayLink Adapter to connect the 3rd 27" Monitor via HDMI to USB (this is the monitor freezing / blacking out).

So, my question is, am I better trying to get a better cabling, if so what? Thunderbolt Adapter? Or is a graphics card needed?

Note: monitoring the AMD Radeon R9 GPU history, nothing is spiking out of control and my RAM steadily at 7GB from a 8GB available.

Any recommendations greatly appreciated.


texts: Searching for mac files of same name but in a different format

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I have a batch of files and need to search/gather files of the same name but in another format (as opposed to manually searching for the files which would take forever!),
eg. I have a list such as
fredbloggs.pdf
joesmith.pdf
benjones.pdf
..and need to find on my mac
fredbloggs.txt
joesmith.txt
benjones.txt
..is there any software out there that can match up files like this?
Thanks!


texts: Built-in mic on MacBook reacts in Sound System Prefs, but not in Skype (calls & audio settings). Can anyone help me?

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I can hear the person on the other side, but they can't hear me. In System Prefs, the blue bar reacts when I clap, but the same bar in Skype Audio/Video settings doesn't react. I've had this problem using Cisco WebEx as well.

In System Prefs, I selected Internal Microphone and the input volume level is up, so that can't be it.
I recently upgraded to OS X 10.6.8, and I think (not sure) it didn't used to happen before that (could be coincidence, but I thought I'd share).

I'm on a MacBook2,1.

Hope you can help :)

Sarah


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I have something they weird with a few app (e.g mail, message...)

E.g in Message, when I have my cursor on the top of a conversation and I scroll to the left to delete the conversation, the UI stop responding (but the process is still working fine)

I removed com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist but didn't help

Screenrecording https://app.box.com/s/xeo38qxk3i0evw6vl0817tgtl3rhaus5

Screenrecording TinyPic


texts: Trying to create a shortcut to remove empty lines from the notes section of a Reminder?

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Any idea if the above is possible? My reminders are synced with Exchange (work reasons) and when initially created in Outlook always end up with a bunch of empty lines in the “notes” field that only show up in Reminders. I can manually remove them, but am wondering if there is a way to automate the process.

Thanks!


texts: Why Apple partitions the SSD drive this way, and which partition should I removed?

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I am planning to reformat both of my drives in my 27 Inch iMac (mid 2011), and I have a question about the way the SSD is partitioned by Apple.

Why are there are three tiers in my SSD?

I don't want to accidentally erase any recovery partition and don’t see an explanation of these in the Apple Support website.

If I am to reformat the SSD drive, should I erase at the 'Mercury Electra' level?


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I have one specific podcast (Reasonable Doubts Podcast) that used to work correctly in iOS5, but since the upgrade to iOS6 with the standalone Podcast app, all the episodes are missing their dates, and sort in alphabetical order (fairly useless).

I've unsubscribed, deleted, and re-subscribed, and the problem still occurs. Is this a bug? User error? Something the Doubtcast folks need to fix with the feed on their end?

Can someone confirm whether the same problem happens for this specific podcast on your device? (Mine is a 32GB iPhone 5).


texts: My old iTunes library isn't appearing in iTunes on my new PC

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I recently set up my new PC (Windows 8) and installed iTunes. I then moved the iTunes folder from my old PC to my new PC. I set the iTunes library path in Preferences to that folder. But when I launch iTunes, none of the music shows up.

I also tried copying across the entire /music/iTunes directory, but it didn't work.


texts: Changing countries makes iTunes unable to locate music

texts:
I have switched from country A to country B, however all of my music in my library is now unable to be located and comes up with those exclamation marks.

How do I fix this?


texts: How can I keep iCal from stealing/short-circuiting email invitations?

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Almost all of my email calendar invites appear in my non-Apple email that eventually gets routed and delivered to Gmail and by me to my Google Calendar, however, for some individuals, none of their invitations come through email but instead show up in iCal as transient popup notifications, despite their inviting me with my email address.

I have a hypothesis that when they invite me using the same email address of my Apple ID and they are on some Apple device such as a laptop or iPhone, that Apple sees the email and matches it to my Apple ID and decides to short circuit the email invite (never sending it) and instead just populate directly to my iCal.  I haven't tested this hypothesis because I think it would involve asking one of the few people I have this difficulty with to take the action and did not want to impose upon them if I could avoid it.

Does this hypothesis make sense, or if not, what else could be going on here and how can I stop this from happening?  My end goal here is that I get an email invite in all cases and never have my iCal automatically pre-populate.  My reason for this desire is that I do not use iCal but instead use Google Calendar and I end up missing these invites all together.  Maybe it is as simple as just changing the email address for my Apple ID to be an address that I never get calendar invites for?


texts: On the few occasions I've tried using secure empty trash, it takes forever (I hear this is normal) but when it's in progress it counts the number of items to delete incorrectly.  I put one file in the trash, secure empty it, and it shows a progress bar stating that 5 items still need to be deleted.  It was a large file, so maybe it's split into 5 parts?  Or are there some other hidden files associated with my file that are being deleted as well?


texts: Creating a reminder on Mac programmatically/in a script, without opening the Reminders app

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For creating reminders from a script or command-line, the usual advice is to use AppleScript and tell application "Reminders" to do this and that—which pops the app open so that it accepts the commands. However, the ‘Fantastical’ app, at least in the first version, could create reminders without opening the Reminders app. They were still native reminders sitting there in Apple's app if I opened it. This approach has a couple advantages for me:

It's faster, since the Reminders app doesn't need to launch.

The Reminders app doesn't hang  around, appearing in the app switcher and in the dock. And I don't need to close it.

So what's the trick for doing this?
I'm  pretty  sure there  were no web APIs involved, since I never had an iCloud account and I don't think reminders can even be synced with third-parties like the calendar. Though I guess Fantastical could do something behind my back, but it's hard  to imagine it happening without a trace.


texts: Home screen wallpaper not covering entire screen

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I'm using ios 9 and ipad pro 9.7 inch. When I set the homepage wallpaper the bottom horizontal area reserved for icons is not using the wallpaper, instead it uses a grey background :

On the lock screen the images utilizes whole screen.

Can the wallpaper for home screen be set so it incorporates the menu space at bottom of screen ?


texts: What does a darker grey arrow in finder represent?

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I use Finder with the 'view as list' setting. Today I noticed that one of my folders had a darker grey arrow next to it than all the others:

(The notes folder is the one with the darker arrow)

I then took a copy of the folder to see if the copy would also have the dark arrow, but it jumped to a different folder! (now tests_and_trials)

I closed and reopened the finder window, and all the arrows were light grey with no dark grey arrows at all.

What was going on?

(This is on OS X 10.9)


texts: Unable to upgrade recent 1Password through App Store in macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91)

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For the very first time I cannot upgrade the app through App Store. It fully downloads the upgrade, but when it comes to installation it fails because it cannot quit itself I assume.

I can force quit all 1Password-related processes except of the Extension Helper. When I try to do this via ps aux and kill -s TERM PID, it immediately spawns itself with another PID.
Any help? I'm on Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91).


texts: I have a backup of my iPhone 5 on my computer and I had a security code that I know I used but as I just got a new iPhone 6S, the backup is not working as it is stating the security number I am putting in is wrong so is there a way around this or a way to reset the code of the backup that I no longer have the phone? I need this backup and I can't get into it....help! Thanks.


texts: Bypass unresolvable error when cleaning packages with package manager?

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Using MacPorts, when I run

sudo port -f clean --all all

Then I get an error. Snippet of output below:

--->  Cleaning ml
--->  Cleaning mldonkey
--->  Cleaning mlpack
--->  Cleaning mlt
Error: Unable to open port: Package Qt5Core was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `Qt5Core.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

I don't know which one is causing the problem (I tried uninstalling/installing mlt but that doesn't do it). This may not be specific to MacPorts, but I see the same error with homebrew posted so maybe it is more general.

I searched in /opt/local/ which is the installation directory of MacPorts but I don't have Qt5Core.pc.

Is there a way to make this MacPorts command continue running (kind of like with exception handling) and continue cleaning other packages after the error is encountered?


texts: Intermittently cant connect to VPN from Laptop, but always works from iPhone

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Ive got a few VPNs setup to different LANs, these are all IPSEC over LT2P connections and i manage them by OSX's built in VPN client inside system preferences > network.

Sometimes the VPNs will work fine, but sometimes i notice that i can not connect to any of my VPNs, and i get an error as per the below screenshot. Becuase they work fine sometimes, but wont connect other times i dont think its anything to do with credentials. Ive also noticed that none of the 6 VPNs i have will work, so it seems like its something to do with my laptop rather than the VPNs themselves.

Whats strange is that the VPNs themselves seem to be working fine, as if i connect to them on my iPhone running iOS12 they will connect.

Any ideas why my laptop running OSX 10.11 wouldnt work ?


texts: How to prevent Windows 10 from downloading and installing updates before the Boot Camp Support Software is installed?

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Microsoft is allowing users to download and install (but not activate) Windows 10 Pro 64 bit without using a Product key.

I tried doing a clean install of Windows 10 on my mid 2007, 20 inch iMac. During installation, I was not asked if I wanted to disable Windows Update. Windows ended up downloading drivers before I could install the Boot Camp software. Some of the drivers installed but most failed.

Is there a way to install the Boot Camp software before updates are downloaded?
Or, can updating be disabled during the Windows 10 installation?


texts:
How do I set a static IP address on a iPhone 5s running iOS 11.0.3?

Have looked in Wi-Fi but could see nothing about setting static IP address.

Thanks

Elaine


texts: Running sudo when user has blank password?

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I have a user with a blank password, but now I can't run sudo with that account.
sudo ls
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts

Is there any way around this?


texts: Can Finder delete a file directly and bypass moving it to the Trash?

texts: Is it possible to really delete a file (ie, bypass the Trash) from Finder? Currently, when I want to reclaim space from a USB drive, I rm files/folder from the Terminal, but I'd like to do it from the GUI (similar to Shift+Delete in Windows).


texts: How to view Software Update menu in top toolbar

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According to this:

http://www.apple.com/uk/softwareupdate/

I should be able to update Mac software from the View menu of System Preferences. However, I don't see a Software Update option.

Here's what I do see:

etc... then ...

Has something changed?


texts: Extending a wireless network with an Airport Express

texts:
I have a wireless network based on a Time Capsule (802.11n, first generation). As wireless connectivity is rather bad in one part of the house I wanted to use an Airport Express (802.11g) to extend the network. The end result should look somehow like

Internet Router <--LAN--> Time Capsule <--WiFi--> Airport Express

with the Time Capsule and the Airport Express both running in the same WiFi network.

Based on the documentation I found (e.g. HT4262) I assume I should create a WDS network but this somehow doesn't seem to work (the Express disappears from Airport Utility as soon as I define it as a WDS relay/remote base station).

So how do I have to configure the network in both the Time Capsule and the Airport Express to get this to work?


texts: Turning on FileVault fails on MacBook Pro with 'disk in use by driver' error

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I am trying to turn on FileVault on my retina MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.8.4), and after going through the key generation it fails with a "Disk in use by driver" error, as shown:

I've got nothing running (I had quit all applications) except Finder, and no USB or external drives are connected, and I am connected to AC power.

So, what could be wrong?


texts: Connecting a keyboard and trackpad to iPad Pro

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This might look like a weird question so let me explain properly first.

I have built a special desk with a stand to hold an iPad Pro.
My problem is that when the iPad is inside the stand, it is at a perfect angle for the user to watch the content on the screen but it is not really in a good position be reached anymore.

So I want to use a wireless device to use as keyboard and trackpad (mouse) from where I am sitting in order to interact with the iPad Pro.

I started by looking at the Magic Keyboard + Magic Trackpad 2 but putting these two devices next to each other is unfortunately longer than the free space I have available on the desk. I tried to find a combined version of the Keyboard and Trackpad but I have not been able to find one that works wireless. (I am also not 100% sure that iPad Pro iOS is compatible to be used with Magic Keyboard and Trackpad)
I have also tried to find out if another (smaller) iPad such as iPad mini or an iPhone can be used as a keyboard/trackpad to control the iPad Pro but I can not seem to find any answer online. Is this possible? or can a Apple TV2 remote be used to control an iPad Pro?

Does anyone know of a device that I could use to control the iPad Pro from a distance? (I need a device that does not stick out and goes well with the rest of the design, so please don't suggest an ugly Logitech keyboard)

EDIT:

I have now done some testing:

Magic Keyboard could successfully be connected and used as a keyboard with the iPad Pro.
Trackpad 2 on the other hand would not connect to the iPad Pro. It would just not show up as a bluetooth device on the iPad Pro.

So I am still looking for a solution to control the iPad wirelessly.


texts: How do I disable the Mac App Store notification badge for successful updates?

texts:
Since upgrading to Catalina, the App Store keeps its notification badge despite the app update automatically being installed in the background. Opening the App Store clears this badge and it will stay clear until the next update comes out (where it'll be installed automatically, so the badge is irrelevant).
Questions:

Is this the intended behavior, or is this an obscure bug?
If it is the intended behavior, does anyone know how to disable this while keeping automatic updates enabled?


texts: Is it safe to remove read, write, and execute permissions for 'others' recursively on home directory?

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I would like advice on whether it would be safe to block users not in the appropriate group from accessing my home directory. I have some servers running on my Mac (10.9) under a different account, and wish to decrease the consequences of a hacker exploiting one of them by preventing this account from accessing any of my personal files.

I am intending to use file permissions for this, but I am concerned that this may break something, by blocking system processes from doing what they need to. I would ideally like to block all but root and my primary account from accessing my primary account's home directory, with chmod -R o-rwx ~.

Does anyone know whether this would cause any problems, and also whether it would be effective in preventing other accounts (that may not sudo, and are not admin in System Preferences, these may be the same, not sure) from accessing these files, excluding an EoP vulnerability?


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ever since updating my mac to high sierra my kernel_task has been using way too much RAM up to 1gb (i have 4 gb of RAM).

Any solutions on how to resolve this?


texts: iPhone 5 iOS7 no sound only vibrates when ringing?

texts:
Here is what I tried...

Do Not Disturb is off
In Settings -> Sounds, Vibrate on Ring is off and Vibrate on Silent is off
The switch on the side is set to silver not red.
The music will play over the headphones and over the speaker.
The keyboard click sound will play over the headphones and over the speaker.
I looked in Settings -> Accessibility and there doesn't seem to be anything in there (however whenever I got the phone the zoom was turned on)

I don't know what else there is to try, but it doesn't play the ring tone when the phone rings.


texts: When I try to text to someone using my Ipad, it won't go through. What is "iMessage" and is that the problem?


texts: Left Alt key does not work properly on QWERTZ keyboard and iTerm2

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I am using the QWERTZ keyboard and I can't get the "@" (commercial at symbol) in iTerm2. As long as I'm using the left Alt key I'm only getting a question mark.

Using the same setup at my work keyboard works fine.


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I live temporary in Spain.

I have MacBook Air with OSX 10.8.

I have access to public WiFi but signal is week, and I do not want to hang over the balcony all the time :), or crack my neighbors (strong) wifi (WPA protected).

Is there a booster for WiFi signal reception, like a repeater (inverted router) or something like it.
I was thinking of a device that would connect to a wifi and then boost the same signal so I can use it inside my apartment.

My budget is limited, so i appreciate a low cost maximum effect solutions.

Any advice ?


texts: Do I have malware? Mysterious connection made by app

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I have Little Snitch installed. I use an app [that shall remain nameless in case this is a false alarm]. I was recently reviewing connection attempts in Little Snitch, and it claims that [this app] accessed "anonops.com" I checked this website and it seems to be an IRC server run for/by Anonymous (?) but I don't really know.

Can anyone shed any light as to why [this app] was trying to access this domain? It's not for software updates, because that it requests updates from [this app's official domain]. I don't want to accuse anyone of making malware, but obviously if the developer was responsible I can't just ask them and assume I'd be given an honest answer.

I'm running Mountain Lion and follow security best practices (no pirated software, don't open/install packages unless I know where they come from, browse the web with Java disabled, use Click2Flash and AdBlock, have "open safe files" disabled, etc.) so I wouldn't have thought I'd have been infected with anything.

I just want to emphasise I'm not accusing the developer of anything. Maybe it's another app just piggybacking off [this app], or maybe there's a completely legitimate reason for this that I don't know about. I just want to understand if there's something I need to be concerned about or not.


texts: How can I upgrade OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.0 to 10.6.6

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I need install an older version of XCode. I tried a lot of thing, but the XCode aways show a message saying I can't install it.

Now I want to try another thing. I have the install DVD of OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). If I use the Software Update program, it will update to 10.6.8. But the XCode needs only the version 10.6.6.

How can I upgrade from 10.6 to 10.6.6 but not to most newer 10.6.8? Is it possible?


texts: Terminal command in Applescript not working

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I am trying to get a terminal command to work in Applescript and I get the error "Expected end of line but found identifier." How can I fix this?

This is my code

try
    do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'; killall Dock" with administrator privileges
end try


texts: What is the normal operating temperature for the MacBook (2016 generation)?

texts: My MacBook sometimes becomes hot when I'm using it, and I want to make sure it is operating within normal temperature. What's the operating temperature for the MacBook that was released in May 2016 normally?


texts: MacBook Pro, iCloud Drive, Time Machine and Time Capsule 2

texts: Can I use Time Machine and Time Capsule 2 to backup not only my MacBook Pro files, apps, etc. but also the files stored on my iCloud Drive for sharing with my other MacBook Pro and others?


texts: Disable share (email, message, airdrop) on Finder and Safari

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Finder has the option to share via email, message or airdrop is you right-click/(control-click) on a file as one can see in the image below,

I don't need this feature and I wouldn't mind if it weren't for the fact that if you accidentally pass over the said option, I get the beach ball for a random interval of time ranging from 5-60 seconds.

A similar event also happens when I click on Safari's Share menu.

Granted that one can use keyboard shortcuts to avoid control-click altogether, but I prefer the mouse.

I have already turned off all contextual services in keyboard preferences and pored over the safari and finder .plist files to no result.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Without installing third party apps please!

Operating system: Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Programs installed: fresh install (a month old) + libreoffice, Dupeguru, VLC, qbittorent, synctwofolders, cool-term, DJview.


texts: Fixing "a sealed resource is missing or invalid" warning

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I've changed the application icon of my Eclipse editor, and this causes a confirm dialog to pop up asking me if I allow the program to accept incoming network connections. I faced this before, but then, I somehow got rid of it. Now I can't anymore.

Here's the output of the codesign utility:

$ codesign -vv /Applications/Indigo/Eclipse.app/
/Applications/Indigo/Eclipse.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
/Applications/Indigo/Eclipse.app/Contents/Resources/Eclipse.icns.bak: resource missing

Does anyone know how can I totally uninstall Eclipse so that the OS forgets about that "Eclipse.icns.bak" file?

Thanks!


texts: High Sierra performance problems - efilogin-helper taking a lot of CPU

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I have a stock 2015 15" MacBook Pro, i7 / 16GB / 512GB, still runs on High Sierra because I am contemplating to do a full clean install instead of an upgrade. Performance has been deteriorating to a point I can no longer be an active participant in video conferences. I'm trying to find out what is the cause of the slowdown and I'm mainly using Activity Monitor as a guide to what is taking a lot of CPU capacity. I think I figured out that including my Projects folder in iCloud wasn't a good idea as JavaScript applications easily install tens of thousands of files through dependency managers. I'm trying to fix that in another Question.

The only thing that stands out as really odd besides to filesystem and indexation related daemons is efilogin-helper hoovering around 50%-100% all of the time. The only hints I find on Google are about the wallpaper which I've reset to solid blue, so my system doesn't use that anymore.

I would like to not only have a practical solution to efilogin-helper taking a lot of CPU but also maybe understand a bit more about troubleshooting these kind of problems.


texts: How can I download Minecraft from Aptoide?

texts: I am trying to download Aptoide through Safari to get the latest version of Minecraft, but it keeps sending a message that Safari cannot download this file. How do I do this?


texts: I can reach GitHub from guest account only

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I can't reach github.com; the DNS resolves but then the connection times out (on Safari, Firefox and Chrome). I'm running macOS 10.15.5.

I've run sudo dscacheutil -flushcache and sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder, to no avail.
See this superuser question for all the debugging I've done so far

I'm asking a separate question here because one key clue is that when logging in with my laptop's guest account, I can reach github.com. If I create another admin user account however, the issue is still there.

For that reason I'm wondering: what are the networking-related settings that would apply to regular users but not the guest account?

Edit Adding more debugging info

dig output showing that DNS resolves:

$ dig github.com
; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> github.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54977
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;github.com.            IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
github.com.     59  IN  A   140.82.112.3

;; Query time: 109 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 09 22:07:32 CEST 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 55

Request timing out in curl

$ curl -v --insecure -L 140.82.112.3
*   Trying 140.82.112.3...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 140.82.112.3 (140.82.112.3) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 140.82.112.3
> User-Agent: curl/7.64.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Content-length: 0
< Location: https://140.82.112.3/
<
* Connection #0 to host 140.82.112.3 left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://140.82.112.3/'
*   Trying 140.82.112.3...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 140.82.112.3 (140.82.112.3) port 443 (#1)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
  CApath: none
[...TLS handshake details]
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: C=US; ST=California; L=San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com
*  start date: May  5 00:00:00 2020 GMT
*  expire date: May 10 12:00:00 2022 GMT
*  issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 140.82.112.3
> User-Agent: curl/7.64.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Content-length: 0
< Location: https://github.com/
<
* Connection #1 to host 140.82.112.3 left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://github.com/'
*   Trying 192.30.253.113...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connection failed
* connect to 192.30.253.113 port 443 failed: Operation timed out
* Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out
* Closing connection 2
curl: (7) Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out
* Closing connection 0
* Closing connection 1

If I curl without -L (i.e. without redirects) then I do get to the site, and get the HTML back:

$ curl -H "Host: github.com" --insecure -v https://140.82.112.3/
...
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
...


texts: Enabling both trackpad Drag Lock and 3 Finger Drag at once?

texts:
OSX has two methods of dragging with the track pad, “drag lock” (double tap then drag until you tap to release) and “three finger drag” where you touch three fingers and drag until you release. The problem is, it forces you to select one or the other.

Is there any way I can manually turn both options on at the same time?

The reason this is useful is because 3 Finger Drag is great for short quick drags, but for longer drags you often run out of room on the trackpad. Drag Lock is good for long drags but is quite slow when you have a bunch of drags because you have to double tap into and tap out of the drag lock each time. It’d be really great to have both at once.


texts: Is there a way to upload video from an iPhone to Google+?


texts:
I've recorded a lot of voice memos on my iPhone and now I need to transfer them to my computer and delete them. Is this actually possible? How is it done and what app do I need to use?

To put it another way: not from the phone but from a usb connected computer. Handsfree if you will - or shall we say tap-free.
Can I delete my iphone voice memos from the Mac desktop with or without using mouse? Seems lame to have to Google it, and then find nothing.
Also, assuming it's possible, can this be done without using the mouse?


texts: MacBook Air (2015) Trackpad and keyboard not working

texts:
My MacBook Air's internal keyboard and Trackpad have stopped working. To be honest, she had a bit of a fall about 2 weeks ago, about 3 feet onto carpet, it has worked fine ever since yesterday. I reset PRAM and SMC, no luck.

Works totally fine with external mouse and keyboard. How do I get it working again?


texts: Pasting clipped screen capture into osx email can't be seen by recipients

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When I take a screen capture using 'capture selection from screen' or using 'control-command-shift-4' and then paste it in an email, the clip cannot be seen by the receiving party. Instead they see a blue question mark in a box.

Has anyone else struck this problem ?

Saving the screen capture direct to disk works fine.


texts: Can iOS 4 connect automatically to a closed network with a hidden SSID?

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Problem: (stressing the "automatically" in the question title).

I add the hidden network by selecting "other" and entering the SSID. There is no security right now in order to simplify troubleshooting. When the iPod 4 sleeps, goes out of range or the wifi radio is turned off and then on, the iPod will not re-connect to the hidden SSID once within range again. Strange, considering I reset the network configurations before setting up the 1 and only network the iPod 'knows' as well as having installed a configuration profile on the iPod with the wi-fi settings for this hidden SSID. Nothing i try seems to get the iPod to connect automatically. The hidden SSID does appear in the list of networks when I go into wireless settings, but thats not good enough - the iPod needs to connect to the hidden network without any user intervention.

I should mention the router is a cisco aironet 1100 series AP. The AP has 2 SSIDs: the hidden network and a "Guest" network, and it is broadcasting the Guest network. The Subnets are different, in case anyone was wondering. Also, No, i cannot broadcast the hidden SSID; I'm not looking to change the network settings.

The iPod is running iOS 4.1(8B117) and is a 4g model.

Thanks,

Austin


texts: Time Capsule - what happens when full, if there is more than one system backup?

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I have a Time Capsule that was used for backing up several offline macs, when the local drive sizes were relatively small. (Lets say theres two old backups called "iMac" and "iBook".

Currently it backs up two relatively new devices (lets call them MacBook and Mini).

It has become full in the last year. I know that Time Machine discards older backups to keep the most current, but how does it decide what data to keep between the different systems?


texts: Looking for a very simple image viewer for usage of viewing graphic design previews

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Ive been looking for a program, that I can use to preview design outputs. On windows Photofiltre used to do it all very fast, but sadly it is for windows only.

So Im looking for very simple (fast) UI, that really only needs following features:

Eyedropper / Color picker
Dimensions tool for measuring (in pixels)
Button to easily go to 1:1 (actual size of the image)
(optional) Explorer / Image map (so you can navigate inside picture when zoomed in)

Photoshop has all that, but is more focused on editing images not viewing. I only need something very lightweight to view images. Sadly, to date I have not found such thing for macOS.


texts: How to configure "DiskImageMounter" like in /etc/fstab?

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Today I wanted to check the /etc/fstab on macOS and found that there is no /etc/fstab anymore. Ok, maybe its a long time since I've used it on OS X but i was always sure that the OS X had not too many differences from "UNIX" (since it is supposed that macOS (High Sierra) is indeed a UNIX).

But i had to realize that there is no possibility to admin or configure the fstab anymore. Now, there is an executable called "DiskImageMounter" living in /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app/Contents/MacOS/ which seems to do the disk administration.

But how we can configure it like with a "normal" Unix like with /etc/fstab? Is it possible?


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Though there are are some old answers here about how this was once accomplished, it's not clear what the current procedure for exporting Apple Health data is, and though there is indeed an export option in the Health app, this generates an empty file (after taking about 5 minutes).

How do I export Apple Health data?


texts: Approved Request Sent notification appearing permanently on my iPhone screen and not allowing any use of the phone, despite clicking OK

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After updating my iPhone to the latest iOS version a couple of weeks ago, every time I go to use my iPhone I have 2 consecutive notifications flash up on my screen re iCloud "approve your device".

Normally I can just tap OK through each and everything is back to normal. Whilst it was on Flight Mode today, it happened again, except this time the second message would not disappear and is now stuck on the screen and I can’t do anything with the phone. The message specifically states:

  Approval Request Sent

  To continue using iCloud on this iPhone, approve it from one of your
  other devices using iCloud or enter your iCloud Security Code

  OK

  Please advise by return email

When I try to access the iCloud site, it's requesting I enter a Two Factor Authentication 6 digit pass code, but i guess its sending that to my phone, which I can’t access.

How can I resolve this?


texts: I bought this device to replace an older HP external drive.  This WD drive comes with a USB 3C cable and a USB 3 adapter.  Im using it on a MPB -  USB3 port.  WD will only give me "theoretical" speed and not practical speed or expected speed.  Can anyone comment on what I might expect?  I seem to only be getting 46 to 61 MBps transfer speed which is slower than the 7 year old drive its replacing.  Trying to figure out why.  Tks for any help!!


texts: Apple TV Remote option in iPhone Control Center doesn't work

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I have an Apple TV which works perfectly. On my iPhone 6s I've been using the Apple TV Remote app for quite some time and that too works perfectly.

A week ago I activated the Apple TV Remote option for the Control Center (in Settings > Control Centre > Customise Controls) and for the past week I've been trying to get it to work, but for some unknown reason it never ever finds my Apple TV. It just keeps searching and searching!

How do I get this to work? It would be fantastic to use this from the Control Center!


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In the MacOS Notes app, I would like to set my own default font colors for different markup styles (headings, mono, title, etc).
For example, when creating a new note all the headings would be green and the title would be red.
I'm aware of the advice here about changing the .strings file but it looks like that is now outdated.
Are there any alternatives?