texts: MacBook doesn't turn on after SSD switch

texts:
I have Mid 2012 MacBook Air. I decided to clean it from dust, but I totally forgot to shut it down instead put it into sleep mode. I removed the SSD while it was asleep, I think this is the issue.

Now it turns on in like 40 minutes.

Coolers are working on max speed, and after loading bar finishing, I have this:

It's said to connect Apple mouse, but I cannot connect it either it's ignoring it.

While attempting to boot as shown in the screenshot, nothing works - keyboard, mouse, trackpad, USB.

I googled and I found many solutions, but nothing helps me since keyboard and trackpad/USB mouse are totally not working. Like, reset RAM cache, etc. E.g. one of the solutions was to hold Command +  Option + P + R keys after power on.

I really want to make it work again. Any clue on how to fix this?


texts: Recovering a Skype password from the Keychain

texts:
I lost my computer and Skype was tied to an email account I no longer have access to because I graduated. I recovered the Keychain from a backup and I can see these items, all with kind application password:

skypeapp-f92ff56fb86b, account .token.0, which Skype Helper.app can always access
skypeapp-ece94a0d3781, account .token.0, which Skype Helper.app can always access
Skype4Life-AddinToken-https://substrate.office.com/Todo-Internal.ReadWrite, account <my username>, which Skype.app can always access
Skype for Desktop MSA, account <my username>, which Skype.app can always access
Skype for Desktop, account <my username>, which Skype.app can always access
skype, account .token.1, which Skype Helper.app can always access

The first two have a password of p (really). I thought the latter would have my password, but clicking the checkbox Show password prompts for the password twice (once with Keychain Access wants to use your confidential information stored in "skype" in your keychain and again with Keychain Access wants to access the key "skype" in your keychain) but does not show the password: the checkbox remains unchecked and the text field to the right remains empty.

I could recover the account if I could look at previous calls in order to answer the security questions. Launching Skype and signing in with another account creates Skype for Desktop MSA and Skype for Desktop in my login keychain, so I replaced the account name and the values with the ones from the previous keychain, but I did not get signed in, possibly because the authentication tokens expired.

I also tried a macOS installation on a live USB where the login password was the same as the Keychain password and replacing the files in ~/Library/Keychains with those from the backup, but it still did not show those passwords.

I also tried copying the cookies for the Skype application from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Skype for Desktop/, independently of the passwords above, and it failed.

I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.6andKeychain Access` 10.5.

How can I recover my password, or access the account long enough to view details?


texts: What techniques work to handle errors in AppleScript so I can place a dialog?

texts:
I'm new to programming and AppleScript and I have lots of problems with error handling.

Could anybody share their error handling for file operations like move/trash files? Here is my code so far:

try
tell application "Finder" to open file file_path
on error e number n
if e contains "Can’t get file" then say "mount external drive" --file not found, maybe this hard drive is not mounted
if e is x then something
end try


texts: WF-1000XM3 Bad Sound during Calls on MacOS

texts:
So, WF1000-XM3 works pretty fine on my Windows 10 (after A LOT of drives installation) and on Android. On MacOS it does well if NOT on a call, using AAC as the default Codec.

BUT, when I enter on a call (meet, zoom, etc...) it falls back to SCO as the codec and then the sound is awful. I tried all the download developers tools things and Enabled AAC and aptX, but still WF1000-XM3 does default to SCO making it really bad for any meeting, to the point where I just set meetings with the Laptop Mic and output sound on Wf1000 (then it uses AAC).

Sony support only mentioned that this should be on the Apple side and refer to further assist.

Has anyone seen this before?


texts: Repair options of a (really) Broken HFS+ "Invalid extent entry" volume?

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I have an un-mountable external 2TB harddisk, formattet HFS+, one "usable" partition, containing a set of my backups. It won't show in Finder, it won't repair in disk utility, it won't repair on the commandline:
$ diskutil verifyVolume /dev/disk2s2
Started file system verification on disk2s2 zuhauseBackup
Verifying file system
Volume is already unmounted
Performing fsck_hfs -fn -x /dev/rdisk2s2
Journal needs to be replayed but volume is read-only
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Invalid extent entry
The volume   could not be verified completely
File system check exit code is 8
Restoring the original state found as unmounted
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8

$ diskutil list /dev/disk2
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS NameNotShown            2.0 TB     disk2s2
$

(The above NameNotShown is, in reality, shown correctly).
Linux hfsplus-fsck also give the same error as the macOS tools (it appears to be exactly the same tool):
$ sudo fsck_hfs /dev/rdisk2s2
** /dev/rdisk2s2
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-522.100.5).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
   Invalid extent entry
(4, 0)
** The volume   could not be verified completely.
$

Mounting it to a Linux PC I can see some files in the Backup-Directories, yet most "important" directories only show up as files of size 0.
The above Invalid extent entry seems to be the culprit. Any ideas how to get around this and possibly fix my volume, hopefully at least recover the files?


texts: Big Sur 11.2 keeps forgetting Location Permission for Chrome

texts: Seemingly every week Chrome will lose it's location permission and require me to re-check its box in the Privacy settings. Did I do something to make the exception temporary? Does it reset when Chrome updates? Can I say I permanently trust it?


texts: Facebook Video Chat plugin no longer works on Mavericks

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After upgrading my Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I've encountered a minor problem. The video chat plugin of Facebook no longer works. On the Facebook chat box, the video chat icon is no longer visible. I've tried uninstalling the plugin by removing the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/Facebook but I still haven't seen the video chat icon.

I have installed/setup the video chat plugin of Facebook before and it was working well before the upgrade. I already installed Java on my system since it prompts to be installed after the upgrade.

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)

So, any workaround for this? This is the first issue I've encountered on OS X Mavericks.


texts: Is it possible to access the app data of third party apps that aren't listed under File Sharing in iCloud?

texts:
I have an iPhone 6 Plus with a large library of photos stored in a somehwhat obscure third party photo frame app. The app imports photos from the photo library and saves its own copies to display in a slideshow. The owner of the device deleted photos from their library after adding them to the photo frame. As a result, the only place these photos are stored is in the app data of this somewhat obscure third party photo frame app.

I am trying to retrieve the original photo files from the app data. The app is backed up on iCloud but doesn't list its app data under File Sharing in iTunes so you can't access the data.

Is there a way to access the files stored in app data? I've already tried this terminal command:

ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/ ~/Desktop/Real\ iCloud\ Drive

to show hidden folders in iCloud Drive - this shows some apps and their data but not the photo frame app.

Can I somehow download a copy of the entire iCloud Backup and navigate to them that way?

EDIT: I'm thinking accessing via iCloud because the files are stored there but of course they are also on the device itself so if it's more feasible to do it that way then I would love any suggestions for that too


texts: How to configure where Lion fullscreen apps open

texts:
I recently noticed that when I fullscreen an app, it opens as a new space all the way to the right, after all my desktops. I don't think this is how it worked before -- I seem to recall that it used to open the fullscreen app immediately to the right of my current desktop.

Is there a way to configure this? Where are fullscreen apps opened on most users' operating system?


texts: Cannot export with iMovie on iPad. Memory issues

texts:
I have a problem with iMovie on iPad.

I didn't have enough space to export a project to the camera roll. And the iMovie export to camera roll functionality wasn't available.

For this reason I've made some space, and iMovie export correctly started, but just before to finish, I got the error message: "not enough space to export it" (although I've freed the necessary space).

But what it is worse is that now iMovie is using the space I've previously freed, and the app memory usage is getting bigger and bigger. And still the movie is not exported outside the app, I believe a new copy is cached in the app bundle after each (failed) export.

What can I do?


texts: Volcano II Bluetooth Metal Speaker initiating calls

texts:
I'm using a Volcano II Bluetooth Speaker with my iPhone. Since it once got connected to a friend iPhone, I noticed that my phone was randomly initiating calls to that friend, when I'm using the Speaker.
What is this caused by ? How to fix that ?
Please note Siri is disabled.


texts:
I am trying to install rEFInd on my MacBook Pro 2018 laptop with the new T2 chip that adds extra boot security.

I have both used APFS and MacOS Extended (Journaled). I have also disabled secure boot and csrutil.

When I install rEFInd using sudo ./install.sh  --alldrivers  --ownhfs /dev/disk0s3 (where disk0s3 is my MacOS Extended (Journaled)), I then get an error when selecting the rEFInd disk in the Startup Disk, I end up getting an error saying that there was a bless error.

How would I install rEFInd on my MacBook Pro 2018 laptop?

Edit:

If it helps, I am on macOS High Sierra and will soon be updating to macOS Mojave in the next few weeks.

This is also the format of my disk:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         499.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTMGR                 307.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +499.7 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            199.5 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.6 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4


texts: Does size of Time Machine backups increase after changing from HDD to SSD on a Macbook Pro?

texts:
I upgraded to an SSD earlier this year, and the experience has been great!

I use Time Machine for backup on a weekly basis on to an external hard drive and have noticed that the size of the backups have grown ~5X. Earlier, with a hard drive, the size of the backup was ~10GB, and now, the backup size is ~50GB.

I suspect this has something to do with the way SSDs work, specifically something about SSDs having to rewrite huge sections of memory even if only a part of the section needs to be changed.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Hardware: I am using Micron's Crucial BX100 SSD on an early 2011 MBP running OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11.6)


texts: moving a file crashes Finder with kernel Code Signing error

texts:
When I move a file, either into another folder or the Trash, Finder crashes and relaunches, and the file doesn't get moved. This also happens when I try to empty the trash. Console shows a couple of error messages after this. First, it says a crash report was saved, and there's a message like this:

3/12/14 4:13:16.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 5905[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x1030eb000 from offset 0x1a9000 in file "ﾭ�ﾭ�/Users/myusername/Documents/Folder1" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

EDIT:

There are some other messages that get posted, too:

3/13/14 9:33:10.000 AM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10da2a000): p=1334[Finder] final status 0x1000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
3/13/14 9:33:10.000 AM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 1334[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10da2a000 from offset 0x1a9000 in file "ﾭ�ﾭ�/Users/myusername/Documents/Folder1" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
3/13/14 9:33:11.000 AM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10e9f6000): p=1379[ReportCrash] final status 0x0, allowing (remove VALID) page
3/13/14 9:33:11.268 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[249]: (com.apple.Finder[1334]) Exited: Killed: 9
3/13/14 9:33:11.862 AM ReportCrash[1379]: Saved crash report for Finder[1334] version 10.9.2 (10.9.2) to /Users/myusername/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-03-13-093311_Ny-Computer-iMac.crash
3/13/14 9:33:11.871 AM xpcproxy[1382]: assertion failed: 13C64: xpcproxy + 3438 [D559FC96-E6B1-363A-B850-C7AC9734F210]: 0x2

And here's the crash report (it's too big to fit in the box, which is why I didn't want to post it originally): http://pastebin.com/TTT2v6Rb


texts: Has Mountain Lion changed file sharing setup or permissions?

texts:
Recently I installed Mountain Lion (I had Snow Leopard), I used to share files with a PC enabling the file sharing and use Filezilla in the PC to download and upload files.

Now with Mountain Lion for some reason I can't connect to the Mac computer. Nothing changed; I'm using the same credentials. This is exactly what I did: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-file-sharing-from-mountain-lion.html

Is there some kind of new security policy or something similar in Mountain Lion?


texts: Setting up Wireless on a Brother HL-2270dw on High Sierra

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Any ideas on how to set up wireless printing on a HL-2270dw for someone running 10.13.x (High Sierra)?

Most of the Brother instructions require 10.11 or 10.12.  The SetupWizard Java App crashes on 10.13.

/Applications/Brother/Utilities/WirelessDeviceSetupWizard/HL-2270DW/Utilities/SetupWizard.app/Contents/MacOS/SetupWizard

Results in

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/apple/mrj/MRJQuitHandler
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:1007)
    at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:174)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.defineClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:801)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:699)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:622)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:580)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:185)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496)
    at SetupWiz.<init>(SetupWiz.java:119)
    at SetupWizard.main(SetupWizard.java:108)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.apple.mrj.MRJQuitHandler
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:582)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:185)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496)
    ... 11 more


texts: Is there a way to stop receiving iMessages on OS X when the Messages application is closed?

texts: After I quit the Messages application, I will still receive my iMessages on my Mac. I don't want to disable my iMessages completely but I'd like them to stop bothering me when I've closed the application.


texts: Why can't my friend text me on my iPad mini 2 from her phone which is not and iPhone?

texts: I cannot receive nor send texts to my friend on her phone, which is not an iPhone. The error message is "This phone number is not registered with iMessage".


texts: OS X Snow Leopard won't boot into Recovery mode, need to reset admin password

texts:
My Mac Pro running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 won't boot into Recovery or Internet mode.

I want to reset the password for the admin account as I have forgotten it for all users. I also would like to reset the admin account in general. Formatting the Mac to open in macOS X Server startup would also be great.


texts: Can Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 app in the App store construct and print multi month wall calendars?

texts:
I have an iMac ( 2017 ) running Catalina 10.15. A year and half ago when I was running Mojave I purchased Adobe photoshop Elements 2019 directly from Adobe . The program was very glitchy but did function after a fashion.

When I upgraded to Catalina, Elements got even worse and the only solution Adobe wanted to offer was to get me to pay more money and then to continue to do so.  When I bought Elements 2019 it was not available in the App store and now it is.

My question is this: is the ability to design and print the multipage wall calendars that are part of the Adobe purchased app, still available in the App store version?


texts: How can I tell an Automator action, that the source path of a document should also be the destination path?

texts:
I'm using the Automator action "Convert to PDF" from ABBYY FineReader Pro. It just does OCR recognition on a given file and saves the output to a new PDF.

It looks like this:

The issue I'm having is the output folder ("Ausgabe speichern in"). I want to tell Automator, that the full path of the input file is also the desired path of the output file (nice to have: and appends "-ocr" to the filename).

I already found out, that this could be done with the AppleScript snippet, that you see on the bottom of the screenshot. Unfortunately, the files will end up in /Applications, because the ABBYY app is in there and so the variable isn't being interpreted as I wanted it to be.

Any insights and hints will be highly appreciated.


texts:
Is there a way to permanently save a cookie in ios8?

So I can clear every other cookie and browsing data but that cookie?

My banking makes me confirm the computer/phone I'm using through email and code, I have to do this each time, only if the cookie is deleted.

I'm using the iPhone 6 no jailbreak.


texts: Uses for Force Touch in the Xcode editor

texts: Are there any special uses for the Force Touch trackpad on Apple's newer laptops in the Xcode source editor? I have tried to use it for various things but Force Touch always seems to do the same thing as a regular click. It would be cool to be able to force touch a variable and have that open the refactor menu, for instance. Is such a thing possible?


texts: MacBook Air microphone volume extremely low

texts:
Everytime I try to make call with Skype or Google Hangouts from my MacBook Air, the embedded internal microphone volume is too low. I am sure it is working, because when I shout loudly enough, the people on the other side of call can hear me, but only really quietly.

I have Macbook Air 13'' late 2010, right now running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, but I had this problem since the very beginning.

I have played with volume and also input volume levels in Settings → Sound, volume is on maximum level, but still unusable. I have Googled for the problem and tried several workarounds, none seems to be addressing my issue/working for me.


texts: How do I retrieve songs hidden in the iCloud with iTunes 11.0.4?

texts: My younger sister bought a few pop songs on my mom's computer (which is not an Apple but she has iTunes on it), and because of the iCloud they showed up on my computer as well. I really can't stand her songs (I've always been a major classic rock fan), so I deleted them from my Mac not knowing that they would also delete them from my mom's computer. Then she and my mom got mad that her songs were deleted, so I looked up how to retrieve them. I went to the iTunes store > Account Information > iTunes in the Cloud, but the only thing there was "Manage Devices" and "iTunes Match." There's no option to view hidden songs in between those two options, like it's supposed to. I just updated iTunes so that I have iTunes 11.0.4, but it still doesn't show up. Is there anything else I can do? I really don't want to re-buy her songs.


texts: 2012 Macbook Pro Black Screen, Fan Spins Up Fast and can't be powered off

texts:
I was recently asked to fix a 2012 Macbook Pro 13" (MD101LL/A*) and was told it had a drink spilled around or on it.
So it has a green light on the charger and will power on. But the symptoms are that the screen will stay black and not show anything, the fan will spin up slowly to a lot higher than it should, and it can't be powered off by holding the Power Button.
I did already take the logic board out and inspected it and it looks like there's some corrosion damage in a few spots. The components i noted that had corrosion on them i checked the schematics and started checking for voltage coming out of them from the schematics. Most pieces i checked seemed ok, like they were outputting voltage on the pins they should be.
However, i'm just kind of stumbling in the dark trying to figure this out. I'm not exactly sure what specific circuits/systems i need to be checking and how to find out the right voltages/outputs from them. Does anybody have any pointers?


texts: Connection L2TP via IPSec to VPN as PPTP VPN no longer supported on macOS Sierra

texts:
How to resolve problem with connection to VPN via L2TP/PPTP on macOS?

Apple announced ending support for PPTP in latest macOS Sierra.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206844: Prepare for removal of PPTP VPN

So the only chance I have is to try it with L2TP via IPSec as my server admin does not offer any other options.

Admin says there is a problem with L2TP/IPSec using on login from macOS Sierra because Apple has got its own implementation for IPSec with its new OS version and common solutions do not work.

Some pages advise to use OpenVPN, but anyway, is there any possibility to connect to VPN with no-longer supported PPTP?
Or are they any options to connect with PPTP/L2TP, other than using mac's Network Interface within Network Preferences?


texts:
I have a 2009 octocore Mac Pro. A few weeks ago it started making a constant noise. It sounds like a fan. The computer is not particularly hot. I checked with Temperature Monitor and CPUs/disks/etc. are around 40C. Only the Northbridge chip and sink are at 73C and 65C.

Is there anything obvious that my Mac needs or that might have caused the fan to get so loud?


texts:
I'm running Mojave as an update from Sierra— things were easier so far until last week when TextEdit started to do a number on me by not autosaving when it normally should, and worse still, not manually saving whatever changes I'd made. As Apple put it:

  The document "so-and-so.txt/.rtf(d)* could not be autosaved. Your changes will not be saved until the problem is resolved.

Uh, excuse me?? What problem do you mean? I just downloaded a few fonts prior to all this, so it couldn't have been anything I did. And I can't just duplicate this, because that won't save well either.

Is this some sorta glitch that popped back up? (I read it occurred quite often with MacOSX Mountain Lion)


texts: Problem with passing iTunes payment method

texts:
I wanted to use iCloud on my iphone, and therefore created an apple ID, but when I'm trying to sign in to itunes it says since it's my first time using this ID I Should select a payment method, and despite I can see the "none" option in my itunes menu I can't use it. Since I don't have access to either a credit card or iTunes gift card, I was wondering if somebody could tell me if there is another way to pass the payment method.
I have an iPhone 5S with iOS 8.1.3.
Thanks.


texts: Find queries appear automatically in the find fields for other applications

texts:
After years on a much older version of Mac OS, I'm now on v. 10.13.2, and I observe strange behavior when I use find functionality, in various applications.

If I search for some string in one application, when I open the search interface in another application, the same string auto-populates the search field.

It happens even when the search string is not in the clipboard, so it isn't just that the clipboard is autopasting — there's an actual transfer of the search string across applications. Affected applications include current versions of BBEdit, NisusWriter, Chrome, Firefox, the built-in Dictionary, Terminal — so I assume it's happening at the level of the operating system.

This is intrusive and unwelcome default behavior, and I'd like to know how to turn it off. I see some unanswered questions about the same issue here and there (for instance, "Disable search field syncing", "Why does a find field value in one application show up in a the find field of another application?").


texts: How to access katakana on the Japanese keyboard for the iPhone?

texts: I have the Japanese keyboard enabled and am able to input hiragana and kanji fine, but I can find no way to input katakana. How can this be done?


texts: Letters / text that I type shows up in the wrong order

texts:
I've been having this issue for a while now, very inconsistently.
When I type strands of text, sometimes the letters appears in the wrong order (I remember it mostly happening when I type text in Safari).
One example:

I typed "Install Canon Printer".

I am using an iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) running 10.10.5, with this keyboard:

They keyboard is plugged directly into the iMac (no hub).

Note: Sometimes I type things wrong, but AFAIK I'm not dyslexic.


texts: Cannot export private key from System.keychain with Keychain Access or command line

texts:
I'm trying to export a private key from System.keychain in Keychain Access. I've tried running Keychain Access as a root. No matter what, I always get the following error.

When I try to export the private key via the command line I get the following.

security: SecKeychainItemExport: The contents of this item cannot be retrieved.


texts: When I save a document, can I enter the location with path input?

texts:
When I save a document in any editing program, it pops up a save window where I can choose the desired save location by clicking folder names.

Instead of mouse-clicks, I like to input the path name directly using keyboards. For example,

when I want to save a document in the folder of \Users\myusername\Dropbox\myfoldername, I want to actually type it.
In the current working directory, I want to create a sub-directory and save it. In such a case, I want to actually type something like subfoldername\filename.ext, instead of create a new folder and then save.

Is it possible?


texts: import file view on Mac El Capitan Not there

texts: Not sure what this view is called but when importing a file from computer to the internet I no longer have this type of viewing option (see photo), is there way to have it appear this way?


texts: local snapshot not restoring in APFS file system

texts:
Using tmutil localsnapshot I was able to create snapshot(in this format: com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-12-28-032610), but was not able to revert to this snapshot using tmutil restore since APFS doesn't show me the path to this snapshot.

Any way to fix this?


texts: Deleting files requires password and doesn't increase free space

texts:
I've been using my Mac for around 2 years, and 3 years overall with uni. I keep deleting files. When I do this, it comes up asking me to confirm my password that would normally come up after logging out and back in.

When I go to 'Trash', there is nothing inside the folder. Then, when I check my hard drive info, it just keeps going down in size, and not back up. Even deleting files over 1 GB in size. Makes no difference. Anyone got any ideas?


texts: Why does F4 not work in MacOS X (Touchbar macBook, or macBook Air)?

texts:
I'm using iterm2 together with tmux and I need the function keys. Ever since I got the TouchBar Macbook Pro and upgraded to HighSierra, the F4 key became disfunctional in iTerm2 and emacs.

The F4 key is used to cycle through the open tabs in tmux forwards
The F3 key (cycle backwards) and in fact all other F keys work as expected
The F4 key worked before the HighSierra / Touchbar upgrade.  I used Time Machine to migrate, so no configuration changed.
The F4 also does not work with on an external Magic Keyboard, indicating a software / mapping issue.

I suspect that some change in High Sierra makes macOS not pass the F4 key on to applications, but I'm not sure.  I have checked that no system wide keyboard shortcut is assigned to F4. What else could I check?

Update: The issue can be confirmed with the keyboard viewer, a program that allows to display all keys pressed. It clearly confirms that all keys except F4 are registered by the system while F4 is not.


texts: How can I update to macOS 10.12.1 (16B2657)?

texts:
I'm trying to develop apps that use the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar.

On Apple Developer's documentation, it states that at least Build 16B2657 is required.

  To develop apps that use the Touch Bar, your Mac will need to run Xcode 8.1 on macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2657) or later.

However, I have Build 16B2555 installed. As seen on Wikipedia, it seems like both Builds 16B2555 and 16B2657 are of version 10.12.1. However, one's released before the other.

I've tried to check for updates in the App Store but there doesn't show any.

I also tried downloading it from Apple Support. But it doesn't seem to install:

So, how can I update to Build 16B2657?


texts: How to know what's my iphone 4s carrier using IMEI?

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I have an iphone 4s ios 6.1.3 my cousin bought it from U.S.A or so he says. He says the carrier is Verizon CDMA. However in the settings I see carrier: virgin 14.0

I am outside the USA so i need a sim unlock, I contacted virgin USA, they said that the IMEI is not registered in the system, i need to contact apple they will unlock it.

I contacted apple USA on the phone, they said they don't unlock phones, they only help with hardware issues, I need to contact virgin to unlock it!

I contacted a local apple store, I asked them how to know whats my carrier? They said virgin 14.0 is nothing, not important, it doesn't mean that my iphone is virgin
I gave them the IMEI and they are trying to see if it can be unlocked.

I have some questions:

How to know what's the carrier using IMEI? My IMEI is 99 000266 076389 5 I tried to use an online IMEI checker, it only says service expired
How to know in which country it was registered? As you know virgin and other carriers are available in many countries, I want to know what support team I should contact.
Since the phone seems to be locked to the carrier, is there a way to know what's the iphone phone number was using IMEI?


texts: Does the Apple Genius Bar replace Macbook Air battery on site?

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I called Apple's toll free number but wasn't able to get a clear answer from them.

My 2011 MacBook Air's battery is dying and I would like to have it replaced. The only problem is that I am traveling abroad soon (in 3 days). If I go to an Apple Store to have it replaced, will they do it on site such that I can get my laptop back right away, or will they keep my laptop for a few days to replace the battery?

When I was talking to a rep on the phone, he recommended that I just go to the store and get the problem assessed. But the closest Apple store is about an hour away...Thanks!


texts: Iphone 5s says storage is full when I have few images/videos or apps on it

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My phone has been giving me the "storage is full" message for quite some time now. However now it is preventing me from downloading or taking pictures on my phone when I have maybe at most 20 pictures on my phone and two apps.
So I hooked it up to my computer and iTunes is saying I have 10GB of pictures/videos that are non-existent on my phone.


texts: Insert key in mac book pro 2011 with windows 10 with bootcamp

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I have a MacBook Pro 2011 running windows 10 with bootcamp.

How to use "Insert key" (Ins) or equivalent on Mac keyboard, in MS word 2016 ?

There isnt key insert, and fn + return doesn not work, and also bringing the windows onboard keybord does not send inset command ?

Thank you.


texts: How can I send iPhone to iPhone messages rather than SMS messages?

texts: My friend has an iPhone the same as mine, but when we message each other they get sent as SMS messages not iPhone to iPhone messages? This of course costs us more money through our telephone provider.


texts: Setting nano as default editor not working for crontab with fish shell

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I want to set nano as default editor for crontab on my Mac.
This works:
VISUAL=nano crontab -e

but this don't work
set -U VISUAL nano
crontab -e

here still vim is used as default editor
ECHO $VISUAL

shows
nano

as value.
Any ideas where is my mistake?


texts: Where does Apple's predictive keyboard get its "contextual" content from?

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So I was playing around with the iOS 8, when I notice that upon typing "new" anywhere, the predictive keyboard suggests the term "NewTerm". I recall using this word in a tweet, so I brushed it off. But then, when writing the word "swift", the keyboard suggested "Swisslapse" upon having written "swi". Now this shocked me quite a bit, as I have only used the term "Swisslapse" in a private iMessage chat, which had been deleted three months back (from all my devices). I tried typing a few other words that I had used recently in Safari (running in private mode), but to my relief the keyboard did not suggest them.

However, this creates a couple of questions:

Does Apple cache my iMessage chats?
Does Apple cache my keyboard input in selected apps?
Is it possible to request a purge of my caches?
How can I disable further caching (if any).

I think it would be helpful to add that I had installed iOS 8 on the 9th of September, right after the GM seed was released to the developer center. Therefore it is impossible for iOS 8's predictive keyboard to have learnt these words at time of input.

Based on the answer provided by Brian Nickel, iOS added the words to my local keyboard dictionary (i.e. words I want autocorrect to learn), which I then synced to iOS 8 while restoring my device from a backup; which resulted into the predictive keyboard suggesting them when seemingly necessary.

So it seems that Apple isn't infringing upon our privacy after all. Glad to have that cleared up!


texts: Rebinding "switch to next window" keyboard shortcut

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It seems that the default shortcut for switching to the next window in Lion is ⌘ `.

Is there any way I can rebind this to something else? (Preferably using built-in software.) I tried looking for it in System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, but I couldn't find anything.


texts: Key combination to enable two-finger scrolling with mouse

texts: I am currently using a trackball and I am not satisfied with the scroll wheel. I wonder if there is a key combination to enable "free roaming, scrolling" mode, which locks the mouse and scrolls the screen according to the mouse motion, just like two-finger scrolling in trackpads. So that I will map the extra key on the trackball with that combination and scroll around with the ball while pressing that button.


texts: I deleted GarageBand by dragging the app to the trash, but in the system information it says it is still taking up over 20gb, where are these files located?


texts: Is it possible to use iOS7's AirDrop with the Mac AirDrop?

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iOS 7 is out, and it has AirDrop. I'd like to be able to AirDrop files between my Mac and my iPhone, but it seems that iOS devices don't show up on the Mac AirDrop console.

Is it possible to use AirDrop to transfer files between a Mac and an iOS7 device? Is there, say, a file-manager app I can install that makes it possible?


texts: MacBook filesystem FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF after deleting linux partition

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So I have MacBook Air late 2015. I’ve been using bootcamp for a while.

Yesterday I installed rEFInd to use triple boot for Linux. Made partition for Linux. Later I decided to delete this partition and extended Macintosh HD. Later when I restarted MacBook it was not able to boot.

I used Internet Recovery and found some threads about this issue:

Tried to fix filesystem type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF and probably made it worse

I tried:

diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt remove -i 2 disk0

And when I try to:

gpt add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 322344416 -t 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0

it says not enough space or something like that. I got stuck in here.

I fixed my problem by this commands!!

gpt remove -i 3 disk0
gpt remove -i 2 disk0
gpt destroy /dev/disk0
gpt create -f /dev/disk0
gpt add -b 40 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B /dev/disk0
gpt add -b 409640 -s 322344416 -t 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk0
gpt add -b 361738240 -s 128495616 -t EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 /dev/disk0

After this commands I was able to boot in macOS, no data loss or anything but unfortunately 20 gb is missing from Macintosh HD which was Linux partition at first. After booting to macOS I tried to sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0 but it didn’t work. Also Windows Bootcamp is not working properly: when I boot in Windows 10 it says Error code 0xc000000e.


texts: I may have used Disk Utility to erase my drive - is there hope?

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I have an external NTFS drive from which I was trying to copy some files to my macbook pro 10.6.6.

I was getting error 36 so with disk utility I clicked on Repair Disk. Now all my data is gone!

What gives and how can I fix it?

By the way I was using Paragon NTFS as well.

Part of the log:

2011-02-12 16:32:56 +0100: $UpCase file is formatted for use in Windows NT/2K/XP
2011-02-12 16:32:56 +0100: Verifying 95756 folders ...
2011-02-12 16:32:57 +0100: Deleting entry "._501" from index 0x1b ".Trashes"
2011-02-12 16:33:30 +0100: Correcting error in index 0x30 ($I30) for file 0x1746d.
2011-02-12 16:36:57 +0100: Creating root directory
2011-02-12 16:36:59 +0100: Inserting empty data to files.
2011-02-12 16:37:00 +0100: Verifying files security...
2011-02-12 16:38:50 +0100: Correcting $MFT bitmap data.
2011-02-12 16:38:51 +0100: Correcting $Bitmap data attribute.
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:      94.88 Gb in 569134 files
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:     111716 Kb in 95758 directories
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:          0 Kb in bad blocks in 0 fragments
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:     125388 Kb in use by the system
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:       4096 Kb occupied by the log file
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:       4096 bytes in each allocation unit
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:   61049000 total allocation units on volume
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:   31304981 allocation units available on volume
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: The volume /dev/disk1s1 has been repaired successfully.
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:
2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100: Volume repair complete.2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100: Repair tool completed:
2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100:
2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100:


texts: Tool for drawing bezier lines - inspector for the length of the line

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Looking for a tool what allow me:

draw shapes with bezier lines
the inspector shows the length of the line

For example OmniGraffle allows draw a shape with bezier lines, but it doesn't show the length of the line e.g. for the following image omnigraffle show shows only the width and height of the bounding box.

I need the length of the line.

Any such tool?


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I have saved the wifi password for our network on an iPhone 5c.  In the meantime the wifi username and password has changed.

So what I had tried so far:

Go to Settings -> Wifi
Choose the wifi network's "i" icon
Choose "Forget This Network"
Choose "Forget"
Back to the wifi settings
Select the wifi network's "i" icon again
Select "Join Network"
Safari opens and ask for a user name and password
Enter the user name and password
Choose Done

Next time when I join the network again, on my on-screen keyboard, I go to "Passwords".

The only options I see is the OLD username and password so that the new one that I just had entered is missing.

How can I replace the OLD wifi username and password so that I do not have to enter it manually again?


texts: MacBook Pro (15" mid-2010) crashes upon waking up from sleep sometimes

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I have this MacBook for quite a while now. It's been working just fine with the exception of sleep/wake-up issues. Sometimes there's no problem at all, but occasionally it does not.

For instance, I woke up the machine after it slept all night. Everything seemed to work for a while (~1m). I had an external monitor plugged in - shortly after unplugging it (but not immediately, ~30s), the main screen's video gets scrambled followed by an automatic restart.

Update: What factors might contribute to this problem? I put the computer at the capable hands of my Apple Premium Reseller and came back empty handed not once but twice thus far as they have been unable to reproduce this problem.

Now, I know I'm not dreaming this problem and have videos to show exactly what happens. What other factors might play into this problem?

Logs:

30/12/11 6:37:40.000 AM kernel: nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
30/12/11 6:38:03.000 AM kernel: MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: 00:19:e3:fc:03:cf  MAC AUTH succeeded
30/12/11 6:38:03.000 AM kernel: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP
30/12/11 6:38:04.000 AM kernel: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
30/12/11 6:38:04.000 AM kernel: en1: BSSID changed to 00:19:e3:fc:03:cf
30/12/11 6:38:05.862 AM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
30/12/11 6:38:06.086 AM com.apple.backupd: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
30/12/11 6:38:06.000 AM kernel: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1325219888
30/12/11 6:38:16.098 AM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 19
30/12/11 6:38:19.000 AM kernel: 0        0 AppleUSBCDC: start - initDevice failed
30/12/11 6:38:19.000 AM kernel: 0        0 AppleUSBCDC: start - initDevice failed
It was booted back up here -> 30/12/11 6:39:06.000 AM bootlog: BOOT_TIME 1325219946 0

I tried using gfxCardStatus to switch to the integrated Intel and it seems to run smoothly. Conversely, I tried running it with the nvidia and looks stable right now. It's a bit difficult to reproduce this crash as it doesn't happen consistently. I already attempted to reset power management (Cmd-Opt-Shift power button).

What should I do next?


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I have 2015 early macbook pro 13", but I can't seem to find the 2560x1600 resolution. The highest resolution I can set it on is 1680x1050. Default for display is only 1280x800.
What's the problem here? I'm using the newest Yosemite OS.

Here's the screenshot:


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I'm changing my highlight color via a command I find in Mathias Bynen's dotfiles like so:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColor -string "0.764700 0.976500 0.568600"

I'd like to change it to something other than green, but I don't understand the syntax that is used for the color configuration (i'm a web developer so anything behind hex or rgba is dark magic to me).

First, what is the color specification?

Second, is there any documentation behind AppleHighlightColor?


texts: How to disable itunes writing things to my music files?

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I stored my music collections ( mostly in .m4u extension) in Dropbox folders, while I play these music files in itunes, I fount that Dropbox continuously sync these files.

What does itunes write to these files and how can I disable it?


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I have an iPod touch Gen 3 running ios 4.2.1.

I have done a restore via itunes on my MacBook many times in the past. Usually when I do a restore, all the apps on my iPod are restored.

For example, I recently did a restore last year and all the apps were restored.

However, today I did a restore and the apps have not been restored. Worse still, when I go to iTunes and view my ipod, the Apps tab in iTunes is missing. There is only  a tab that says "file sharing" but when I click on it nothing is displayed.

When I go to the iTunes directory on my Mac (under home > music) I can see all the app Ipa files but there doesn't seem to be anyway to restore them.

How can I get my apps back?

Because this ipod is so old, none of the apps are available in the iTunes App store anymore.

And yes, I know that this model of iPod is no longer supported, but I have always been able to restore in the past without any problem.


texts: Emacs copy a paste line with comment adds extra space / line

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I work in emacs in a termal tab, and instead of using the built in copy and paste shortcut commands I generally just highlight (with the mouse) to copy and paste.  This works fine for normal code/text, but when the section being copied includes a comment, the pasted text includes extra white-space after the end of the comment line - and it's a pain to go to every comment line and delete that whitespace (which wraps onto a newline).  See example below:

Is there anyway to stop this behavior?

For example, in a python code, highlighting from the initial # to the end of "stringy":

# Some comment line
someInt = 10
someString = "stringy"

is copied and pasted as:

# Some comment line
              | <-- end on first pasted line is now about here
someInt = 10
someString = "stringy"


texts: Safari opens new tab with rapidly changing URL

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Potential virus

Hi I recently went to a streaming website and after watching a movie I went on and did other things like surf the web

But two hours later in a next safari tab I noticed that It had rapidly changing URLs and it was basically a blank page but with different urls changing under seconds

I was wondering if my machine is compromised?


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I currently have an issue changing the background image on my Mac.
Every time I open up the preferences it shows this question mark, no matter what I select as an image, (my own, a pre installed, solid colour) it never updates or saves.
I presume something is corrupted on machine but I don't know where to look to fix it.

Update: Mac Version 10.15.6


texts: Two different Apple IDs with two different @icloud.com mails

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I have a complicated problem. It started when I created an apple id with icloud email. Later after some months, I created anther apple id with a new icloud mail. Now, I am using this new apple id on my apple devices.

My Problem:
I need to use my old icloud email on my new apple id. In other words, I want to terminate my current (new) icloud mail and move the old icloud mail so I can use it with the new apple id instead.

I tried different ways, but no solution! Is it possible ?


texts: Uninstall VMWare Fusion and VMWare Tools on boot camp partition

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I was using VMWare Fusion on a boot camp partition and installed VMWare Tools on the Windows volume.

How can I completely uninstall everything related to VMWare Fusion?


texts: Unable to build iOS app using enterprise license in cordova

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For a while now, we are developing an app that has to be distributed within the company. We are now reaching the final stage of the development proces and are trying to build for ios with cordova.

That is where the problem occurs, we can't seem to get the building right with our enterprise license. He only accepts our development license, but when I add the enterprise license i get the error: Could not find the codesign identity linked to the provision profile.

We have tried everything that we know, and the only thing we find on the internet is that it has to do something with Keychain Access.

Do some of you have any experience with this?

Thanks


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I have a Synology DiskStation NAS that I use for Time Machine backups on my LAN. I want to be able to back up when I'm away from home. I've tried:

Connecting via L2TP VPN running on Synology
Connecting directly to Synology via AFP

Through both of these methods I can mount the Time Machine share in the Finder, and I've confirmed read/write access to the share when connected over the internet.

However, when I've mounted the share over the internet, and try to "Back Up Now," I get a message that it couldn't find the disk. Even though the disk is mounted.


texts: Re-download apps with second computer/device

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My situation:

I have an iPhone with synced to my computer and my wife just bought an iPad (in shipment) which she will sync to her computer.

We want to use my Apple ID on both computers/devices so that she can use apps and music I have already purchased. Syncing the devices to the same computer is not an option.

Is this an option, and how would it work, i.e., would she have to "purchase" and get a message saying it has already been purchased, and to re-download?

Thanks!


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I'm looking to upgrade my 15'' 2011 MBP from 4 GB to 8 GB. The memory upgrade on the Apple Store is 200$, apparently it can be done for ~100 $ quite easily.

I've seen this 2x8GB kit from Crucial: Crucial 2x4GB memory kit.

Do you think it's a good choice ? Any better ideas ?


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How do I change the icon on an external drive? I have a Samsung T5 SSD but following the instructions (copy from source Get Info dialog, and paste into destination Get Info dialog) has no effect and no feedback. This used to work in the past, but since then I've upgraded to newer external drives (and have updated macOS several times). Has something changed that now makes this impossible?

I've tried this now with several drives (various hardware) and am unable to change the icon on any of them. This used to work before (1) updating macOS and (2) reformatting the drives with APFS/GUID. Has one of those changes made it impossible to change the icon on external drives?


texts: Connect MacBook Pro 2015 to iMac 2015 with HDMI?

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I forgot to bring my "Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt" cable to connect my MacBook Pro to my iMac screen. I do not wish to spend again all that money to go buy one now.

The only thing I have here is a "HDMI to HDMI" cable and there is a possibility for me to go buy an "HDMI to Mini DisplayPort" which are cheap.

I would like to know if connecting the HDMI from my MacBook and using the adapter to connect to the Thunderbolt of my iMac will work.


texts: How to remove partition on SD card using a Mac?

texts: I got Raspbian on a SD card, and then accidentally wiped it. Now I have 2 visible partition. How do I get rid of the partition on a Mac.


texts: How can I turn off Bluetooth with only keyboard actions?

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A trackpad in another room was interfering with my ability to use my laptop's native trackpad, such that I could not click on anything. I wanted to either turn off bluetooth or disconnect the offending device.

I used Finder to get into Bluetooth settings but then I was stuck. I could not figure out a keyboard shortcut to get to the button to turn off bluetooth nor to disconnect the connected trackpad.


texts: Apple Mail.app hides Archive folder - how to get it to show

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I use Mail.app with FastMail. Mostly, it just works.

However, when I start up Mail it never shows the Archive folder. The Archive button will move mail to it, but it's not there. The Goto mailbox menu item is greyed out for Archive in the Mailbox menu too. (cmd-2)

I can right-click on another folder, all of which show up, and choose "Get Account Info" then it scans all the folders, shows Archive which I double-click to open, and use that window, closing the original Mail window. All works fine and dandy. It's an annoying little dance I don't want to have to do.

Worth noting that once I've done the dance, then the cmd-2 short-cut works and the menu item above works fine.

In FastMail the Archive folder is configured to be displayed. It's set to Always Show.

This is on 10.9.2.

Using another mail client (Airmail, or Postbox) I didn't see this problem, but I like Mail.


texts: How to get date when photo is clicked from android phone and is transferred to iPhone via Xender?

texts: I have clicked few pictures from my android phone few months back. Today when I transferred those photos to my iPhone, it shows me created date as today. Is there a way in iPhone to get actual created date (The date when photo is clicked from android phone)?


texts: How do I check the effective file permissions/accessibilty for/of a given file and a given user?

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How do I check the effective file permissions (including ACLs)/accessibility for/of a given file and a given user (including service/system accounts) without checking the whole path manually?

Example: Suppose a user joe, and the file /long/path/to/file.txt. Even if file.txt was chmoded to 777, joe still has to be able to access /long/, and then /long/path/ and then /long/path/to/ before. If joe doesn't have at least read access to all folders in the path, he can't access (read/write/execute) the file. So the effective permissions for him (as "world/all" user) are 0 and he can't access the file.

Alternatively: how do I get a list of the permissions (including ACLs) of all users (including service/system accounts) for a given file?

An app or a bash script are also welcome.

A similar question with a slightly different focus has already been asked at Unix & Linux: How to check if a user can access a given file?


texts: How can I safely create a partition to an already bootable drive

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I already asked this question on Apple's community forum, right here, so I'll post the answer here if something comes up there first.

This is my problem :

I recently bought an external drive of 500Gb with the intent to use it to store large files that I use on my Mac and to use it as a bootable drive for Windows.
I followed this tutorial to make the drive bootable on Windows 10, everything works well for that part.
Now I want to be able to partition the drive so that I can have 2 parts for Windows (1 part that contains the infos for the boot, 1 that contains Windows) and 1 part that I can use on the Mac side to store files. I thought that I could simple use the partition operation on the Disk Utility app, but the operation is greyed out. I found many answers on forums, but none of them is exactly what I'm looking for. Any idea how I can can achieve it ?

The actual state of the drive :

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE          IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WINBOOT                 209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS BOOTCAMP                499.9 GB   disk2s2

Thanks in advance and have a good day !


texts: Upgrading from Snow Leopard (10.6.3) to Mountain Lion

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How do I upgrade to Mountain Lion, and then to El Capitan?

I just installed Snow Leopard (10.6.3). I have tried to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but that requires that I have 10.6.8 or higher, which I don't.

Also, I have for the last 2 days, checked for any updates and have installed whatever was available. I am now confused on what to do.


texts: Unable to reach Startup Manager or any boot options on OSX Leopard

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I have 5 year old 17" MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard that, without any warning, is suddenly unable to locate its startup disk. I've tried every possible boot key combo, but only zapping NVRAM works, everything else results in a grey screen including the startup manager and diagnostics.

Definitely not the hard drive or hardware. I plugged the disk into another computer and it functions perfectly.

Any ideas or help appreciated.


texts: How can I create a Lion USB recovery stick without Mac OS?

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I have a serious problem that I need help with.
Background
When I installed Lion, the install of a recovery partition failed. This is not good, since the offical Lion recovery disk assistant (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433) is only able to create a recovery USB with an existing Recovery HD on the mac.
My attempt to fix
There are many (inofficial) workarounds: Since they are all the same, I'm sure that you're familiar with it:

Open the package contents of the Lion installer from the Mac App store to get the InstallESD.dmg.

Restore the InstallESD.dmg onto the HFS+ formatted USB (GUID). I used a 8GB USB stick.
Source: create Lion install USB

This solution should be more convinient than the official soluion, since the Lion software would not have to be downloaded again.
What happened
The install USB booted fine. But the install failed. It could not even start. I got the message like: Install failed. Restart Installation.
But I did not restart immediately, since I wanted to format my whole SSD with the Disk Utiliy (which went fine). I formatted the SSD using the same Lion install USB. Having restarted the installation, I keep getting the same message! I've tried different partition layouts (always HFS+ with GUID):

only Macintosh HD partition
EFI and Macintosh HD partition
only Untiteled partition

I'm not able to install Lion! I do not have any install DVD (for any Mac OS). I only have the Lion Installer from the Mac App store with the InstallESD.dmgon a backup. Is there any way I can create a Lion Recovery Stick (with or without the dmg) on Windows or Ubuntu?


texts: Can I create two different Docks that I can switch back and forth between?

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I have two different accounts right now - one for work, one for play. It helps me stay focused, and it's quite useful.

However, sometimes I don't really love switching back and forth between user accounts sometimes. Thus, I've thought up an idea: What if I had 2 different Docks that I could switch between with a keyboard shortcut?

Thus, my question: Can I create 2 different Docks with 2 different sets of apps on each of them that I can switch between with a keyboard shortcut?

Example: Dock 1 has Finder, Mail, Safari, iTunes, Chrome, Trash on it; Dock 2 has Finder, Firefox, Trash, Opera, and Dictionary on it. I press Command-Option-0 and it switches to Dock 2. I press it again and it switches to Dock 1.


texts: Will buying a new hardware stop my Apple TV+ subscription payment for a year?

texts: Apple is offering one year of free Apple TV+ with new hardware purchases at the moment. My question is, when I purchase a new qualified device, will Apple stop charging me for subscription fees for 12 months?


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I usually listen to Mac output through headphones, which I keep plugged in almost all the time. I'm happy to have speakers squelched. But there are some alerts--e.g. message coming in from IM, or notifications from a web page, that I'd like to hear about if I'm across the room.

Is there any way to separate some audio signals from others? Certain notifications I wan to play over the speakers, even if the headphones are the primary output. If this is not feasible through the standard audio system, is there some sort of USB or wireless audio or visual notifier device I could purchase? I don't need full stereoscopic audio quality for this--just something to indicate "notification has come in" when the sound is not otherwise audible.

I'm using a MacBook Pro, 15", 2011 version if that matters.


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I am jailbroken running iOS 8.1 and was wondering if there are any working app cracking scripts similar to clutch or rasticrac. So far, the ones I have tried do not fully work on iOS 8.1. I do have experience so I do not mind advanced methods. I also do not want an illegal App Store that allows you to download IPAs. Also, are there any free tools for Macs that I could use? Thank you

Edit:
I am not going to use this for piracy


texts: Magsafe-2 car charger for 2015 MacBook Pro?

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Is there such a thing as a Magsafe 2 charging cable that can be used from a car's 12V power outlet (UK).
This is for a 2015 MacBook Pro.
Thanks


texts: Backblaze and similar services not necessary for a small hdd? Upload full disk dmg to cloud services easier?

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I understand the usefulness and convenience of a site like backblaze, but if I wanted an offline backup and my drive is under 100gb, would it make sense to just make an encrypted full disk dmg image of my main drive every once in a while and put on something like google drive which is a couple bucks a month for 100 gigs storage?
In case local backups aren't working (unlikely) I could use another computer to grab the file onto a thumb drive, and restore the image from disk utility recovery and it should work?
Could the usb with the dmg be ntfs or exfat coming from windows, or would it have to be hfs+ or apfs for disk util to see it?


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I know almost nothing about computer repair. I'm an elderly woman who is partially blind. I did find a step by step guide on iFixit and have a friend with tools and nimbler fingers than mine. He's not familiar with Mac's.

This is model iMac14,1 late 2013.

My problem is: How to get a functioning OS on the new drive so I can clone my old drive onto it.

I CANNOT install the latest Mac OS. If I do (I think) I won't be able to clone my current OS (High Sierra) backwards over it. Most of my important apps and games aren't compatible after High Sierra.

There's a 20$$ Mountain Lion OS in the Apple mac store, but I don't for sure know how to install it on the iMac - the Mountain Lion OS is a download. Do I have to borrow a dvd player and burn a disk, and use the dvd player for an install - or is it good enough to have the dmg on my current peripheral drive?

Will this even work?  1) Have a OS ready on the new internal drive, 2) clone (Carbon Copy Cloner) my current working OS - I'm booting into it on a peripheral drive - over the new OS on the new drive.

I know - so many questions. If you have advice, I'm grateful.


texts: grep ^\. not working as expected in Mac terminal

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if I run the following command in my mac terminal:
ls -al | grep ^\.

or
ls -al | grep '^\.'

or
ls -al | grep "^\."

I get no results back even though there are several files in my home directory that meet this criteria. I tried this in both bash and zsh, and get nothing.
If I run this same command without quotes in Ubuntu, I get the expected results. Can anyone explain why this is?


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Has anyone experienced any issues with using finder since updating to Yosemite?

Since updating, I can't open finder at all. I click on the icon and the pc just hangs up and in activity monitor, finder is just (not responding).

I've rebooted the machine, tried to open/locate a file in spotlight search and when I find a file, it won't open.

Any help/thoughts what to do would be appreciated.


texts: "You need to restart your computer" freeze while waking up

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Yesterday I just closed my mbp and this morning I had the great pleasure to have this:

At the login (passwork) screen...

I had an uptime of more than 5 days but still ... I upgraded the memory from 4 GB to 8 GB (the Crucial kit) and since then I had this problem twice. Maybe it doesn't mean anything because I have the MBP for only 2 weeks and I upgraded the memory after a few days, so the statistics are maybe meaningless.

My question is: do you have this problem sometimes ? Should I check something in particular to try to avoid that ? Is it possible that the memory is incorrectly installed (very unlikely...) ? Is it in any case a memory problem ?


texts: Why is the iPod Touch 5th gen able to record 1080p yet the iPhone 4 isn't?

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Looking at the specs, both the iPod Touch 5th gen and the iPhone 4 have five megapixel rear facing cameras.

Why, then, is the iPod Touch 5th gen able to record 1080p while the iPhone 4 is only able to record 720p?

Is this a software limitation, or is there something better about the iPod Touch's hardware?


texts: Mac OS X 10.8 App Store hogs the connection when downloading new OS X

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I'm trying to download Mavericks from App Store but it's hogging my internet connection.
Is there anyway to set the App Store to download at a lower speed or take fewer connections or whatever to be able at least to open web sites while downloading?


texts: How to mount an APFS volume as a user's home directory?

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TLDR;
I can mount an APFS volume on /Users/foobar, where foobar is not an actual user, but mounting fails when trying to mount to /Users/newuser, when newuser is an actual user.

BACKGROUND:

I'm trying put my home directory on an encrypted external SSD so that I don't have to use filevault on my boot drive-- I need the machine to boot up and autologin so server processes can start up after a power failure. All the gritty details on what I'm trying to do are in this gist, but I will try to discuss the essential points below.

Before actually trying to move my own home folder, I created a Standard user called newuser to experiment with. I removed /Users/newuser and replaced it with a new empty folder. I also created a /Users/foobar folder (no foobar user). When I try to mount either with

sudo diskutil mount

or

sudo mount_apfs

I get errors when trying to mount on /Users/newuser but both commands work with /Users/foobar. Both directories are empty, have the same Unix permissions and ownership, have no ACLs, flags or extended attributes. /Users also appears to have no special properties that are visible to ls.

I also tried mounting on /home instead /Users as suggested here, and when I first created the /home/newusers directory I was able to mount on it, UNTIL I changed newuser's home directory in the Users & Groups Preference Pane. Once it became the official home directory I could no longer mount.

Evidently something in the system (Mojave 10.14.2) is refusing to mount over a user's home folder.
Is there any way around this?

(I just saw a recent question dealing with this but didn't see any new ideas to try)


texts: nVidia GPU Disable hack via NVRAM, any software way to power-off the chip?

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Following this guide and substituting GeForce for AMD, I've been able to get my mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina functional again, albeit without the advantages of the discrete GPU (background: original GPU failed sometime between 2013 and Oct 2017 but machine continued to function and I had no reason to check for the GPU until Oct of 2017, Apple replaced logic board Jan 23 2018, second GPU failed most likely on last Friday evening and machine refused to boot at all).

The only problem, or at least the only one that I'm going to worry about, is that things are running a bit hot. Is there any way through software that I can either power down or throttle the GPU? At least I assume from the information in that guide that it is the GPU causing extra heat due to there not being any drivers loaded to control it.


texts: I have an iPad 4.  Still have ios 6.  Want apps I can't purchase since they require ios 7.  How much space am I losing to upgrade to current ios 8 version?


texts: How do I make a bootable USB OS X installer on a Mac?

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Does anyone have a Terminal command-line recipe for making a new bootable USB flash drive for one of the new MacBook Air's?  Is there a way to dd copy the USB boot device that comes in the box and make the new copy bootable?  I'd like to make a new backup copy of the USB rescue device for my MBA, preferably on a much larger flash drive with room for a backup of some of my working directories.

Added:

And is it possible to make, not just a rescue drive, but a bootable USB drive that will boot a fully updated version of the OS (say 10.6.8 or later)?  If so how on a MacBook Air 11, and how big a USB stick will this require?


texts: Unable to change author name in an ebook on iPad

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I have a Mac computer where I downloaded an ePub and then changed the author on the Mac in the list view of iBooks.

MacOS 10.12.6 Sierra
iOS 12.3.1 for the iPad

Then I dragged and dropped the ePub from iBooks to desktop. Then I airdropped the ePub to my iPad from my MacBook. The author name is showing accurate on my MacBook. I had the book transferred to my iPad and there it is showing the old name for the author. Deleting the book and re-downloading/re-editing didn’t help.

Apple Books on iPad is remembering the old metadata and not updating the author name.

I have been trying to fix this problem for the whole night but nothing worked. I even deleted Apple Books from my iPad and reinstalled it but that too didn’t work. I need to organize my files and this issue is really frustrating.

Can anyone help point out how I might make a change to the author data of an eBook I didn't author initially?


texts: How to create a disk image from the command line

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Currently part of my build process is as follows;

Start Utilities/Disk Utility
Select New Image
Set Save As to widget
Set Name to widget
Set Size to custom size 50 mb
Set Format Mac OS Extended

but is it possible to do all this from the command line ?


texts: How do different methods of connecting USB-C display work?

texts:
There are multiple ways how we can connect an external display via USB-C to an Apple device (say MacBook Pro). For example:

directly (e.g. LG UltraFine)
using Apple's USB-C to HDMI/VGA/DVI dongle
using a USB-C dock that supports DisplayLink

The last mentioned method - DisplayLink dock - is a 3rd party solution that does not seem to be supported by Apple and requires special drivers to be installed. Do other methods also require special drivers?

Is using original Apple dongle or connecting a display directly better since it connects directly to GPU while DisplayLink needs to encode/compress the image? (I've noticed it uses substantial amount of CPU).


texts: how to open file type with app on remote machine via apple script app as default app for file type

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I would like to set the default file association for a file type (PDF) to an Apple Script app. The Apple Script app will open the file type on a remote machine (using remote Apple events) with a specific app (Preview.app). Not that it matters but, the remote machine is a virtual machine on the local machine. I think the script should look something like this:

set remoteMachine to "eppc://elcapitan.local"
tell application "finder" of machine remoteMachine
    open ("/Applications/Preview.app" as POSIX file as alias)
end tell

set pathToLocalOnRemote to "/Volumes/cajal"
repeat with fn in argv
    tell application "Preview" of machine remoteMachine
        open pathToLocalOnRemote & fn
    end tell
end repeat

What is not clear to me is, what actually happens when a file type (PDF) is opened in the Finder? The default file association will specify which app to use. Inside the app, is there just a binary that is called which gets a list of file names as its argument? If so, is this binary just like some command line binary? In sum, can I trust Finder will execute my script by something analogous to a command line call with a list of files as the argument? Also, will the file name list be given as the (full) absolute path?


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I recently switched to using Macbook Pro  MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) and it is running MacOS High Sierra verison 10.13.6 .
When I connect it to an external monitor (DELL U2414H) I notice that font display is grainy and fuzzy, as shown in this screenshot:

I am connecting to the external monitor via HDMI. I see similar display when I connect to the external monitor using Displayport.

I searched through the forums and I tried below approaches:

forcing to RGB mode as explained here: https://www.mathewinkson.com/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor.
enabling/disabling _LCD Font Smoothing
Setting various values to AppleFontSmoothing
(i.e. running the command defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing 2)
Restart the machine multiple times, resetting NVRAM and SMC settings
Open the app in low resolution mode

But none of these steps helped, and fonts on my external display still appear fuzzy. I understand that in the external monitor the fonts can't appear as crisp they are on built in display. But I didn't expect the fonts to appear fuzzy on the external monitor. FWIW I was using a Macbook with out retina display prior to switching to this model, and didn't had any issues with display of fonts in the external monitor as I am currently facing.

Is there a solution to make the fonts to appear without any fuzziness apart from buying a new external monitor ?


texts: How to change multiple file type associations on the Mac at once?

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I want to change my default media player in macOS.

(In my case, I want to change it to my own AppleScript-created instance of VLC that I exported as ‘VLC-New-Window.app’, which is scripted to always open files in a new VLC instance so that it doesn’t override the existing paused playlist or video file I want to keep in the background.)

It is very tedious to find an example of every file type I use VLC for (whether mkv, avi, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, mp3, flac, or m2ts), right-click on it, and manually set the new default program each time.

And honestly I’d like every audio or video file type that VLC can open to be applied here so that I never have to worry about this again.

Is there any method that can help automate this, or do this in batch?


texts: Seeking spam filter that uses a database shared by all its users

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One thing that's great about Gmail is that it uses the entire userbase to identify spam - if enough users mark something as spam, it's likely spam and gets marked for everyone as such.

Are free spam filter systems available for OS X and/or Linux that work similarly, so that I can use them with regular single-user IMAP mail accounts?

I realize that there are plenty of bayesan based filters, but those need training and do not work so well in my experience.

Note that I am not talking about providing mail filtering for a mail server with 100s of users. Instead, as an end user, I want to run a mail filter as a background process on my Mac, scanning my IMAP inbox regularly and moving likely spam to another folder. And when I mark something as spam manually, this process should share this information with a common server (which I'd pay to use) or a decentralized distribution system, and thereby identifying likely spam as a "hive intelligence".


texts: In High Sierra or Mojave, is it possible to harden our login password so that the hash is more difficult to crack? I'm not a crypto person, but can we increase the iterations or hashing algo strenth or something... to make the CPU work harder when using sudo and such? I know Debian/Ubuntu distros are capable of such hardening. Is it possible in macOS?


texts:
I'm trying to convert a P12 file to a PEM file. When I execute the command, the terminal asks me for three things:

P12 passphrase (I type it in, hit enter)
PEM passphrase (type it in, hit enter)
PEM passphrase confirm (type it in, hit enter)

I know I can execute a sudo command all in one shot by using the following:

echo sudopassword | sudo rm -rf /file.p12;

How can I add all three values in one shot?


texts:
I'm struggling with signing my installer to keep Gatekeeper happy.

When building i sign the .pkg:

productsign --sign "3rd Party Mac Developer Installer: GNXXXXXXXXXX (XXXXXXXXXXX)" UnsignedJaXXXXXXXXXX0.5.pkg JaXXXXXXXXXXt0.5.pkg

using this certificate:

When checking with pkgutil I can see that the file is signed:

However still Gatekeeper is not happy.

spctl gives this result:

What am I missing?

Update

spctl with verbose:


texts: When I look at the "Recents"-tab on my iPhone, I can see about 100 call entries. But when I delete a call an older call moves up. So, older calls must be stored somewhere. Is there a way to recover the call history without deleting calls?


texts:
I have an apple music subscription and then decided to make some cool playlists.

But now, my library is FULL of albums that I never play outside of my playlists, an ugly ugly nightmare. I guess my question is:
How can I have songs in playlist but not in the library?

I don't want to see them outside of the playlist!


texts: How I can export analytic data from iTunes Connect

texts: I have iTunes Connect account, I want to export the analytics from iTunes Connect and then generate a report in my own system. I read many article but haven't been able to find any api to connect to iTunes Connect remotely. Any help in this regards will be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can Apple Macs bind to two domains in two separate forests?

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Is there anyway natively or with third party extension to bind a Mac so that it can search two domains for Authentication?

We have two forests each with one domain in them. In Active Directory terms there is a trust relationship between them so users can log in to Windows workstations with credentials from either domain. As we try to move to a single Domain in a single forest I need to understand if the Mac's can at least temporarily support Authentication against both domains...

After sorting that I can see how it handles the same username, Active Directory ID (SID) etc...


texts: How to tell what apps are not being used?

texts: I have a iPad 4th gen. I want to delete unused apps.  Is there a way to easily tell what apps are not being used?


texts: Disable Spotlight indexing, save battery life

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I am using my laptop with very limited battery availability. I need to save as much battery as possible.

I would like to disable Spotlight indexing, how do I do that?
What else should I disable, even temporarily, to truly maximise savings? Services? Unix daemons? Is there a list?

Thanks.

PS I have already:

dimmed keyboard backlight (on a MacBook Pro)
switched off WiFi (apart from this post)
dimmed screen backlight
disabled discrete graphics
closed non-vital apps


texts: Is there a Terminal command that will force open the DVD tray?

texts:
Is there a command I can enter in Terminal that will force eject a CD or DVD? One that will always work, equivalent to a "Force Quit" for an app?

I have an intermittent problem getting the DVD in my Mac Pro to eject. Right now the only solution is to do a full restart, but that is obviously not always convenient. I'm hoping there is a workaround to this through the magical power of UNIX...


texts: How to make the iMac go to sleep after certain amount of time?

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My MacBook Pro has settings for putting the Mac to sleep after a certain amount of idle time. My iMac does not have that setting. See the screenshot (sorry, it's in German).

I want to make sure that the iMac uses the least amount of energy when not used.


texts: where did this 2nd desktop come from, how to I move an open window back to the original?

texts:
I was deep into answering another SE question and without realizing it I sent my browser (chrome) to the corn field a second desktop. I'm trying to read an equation in an SE question and type it into python but they are on two different desktops, and I don't want to close either of them.

I grabbed the Chrome by the very top with my cursor and tried to slide it just a little bit to the right, but instead it moved to the second desktop with a default background. I have no idea how this happened

I've been vaguely aware that multiple desktops exist in MacOS but never used it. Now I suddenly have two questions:

How can I move chrome back to my "main" or normal desk top where all the other screens are open?
How might I have sent chrome to the corn field a second desktop to begin with?


texts: How to set kernel state to unbounded ("unlimited") value using sysctl?

texts:
I want to set kern.maxfiles kernel state to unbounded value using sysctl.

However, the commands sysctl kern.maxfiles=unlimited yields an error (not an integer), while I'm not sure of the sematics of sysctl kern.maxfiles=-1 (cannot find any documentation).

Anyone knows?


texts: How to set a variable to all the numbers located in a list?

texts:
Lets say I have a variable set to this:

set myVar to {"asdf", "qwerty24", "23", "22", "21abc" "20"}

How can I set a variable to the numbers in myVar, including those with text inside of the item--but without keeping the part that is text.
Each item should only contain one number, if an item were to consist of multiple numbers ie "302 303" then the outputted result would preferably be just combined to "302303". Any spaces in the item need to be removed to, just like the text. If each number needs to be an integer so "0abc.1200" needs to have it's period removed and result with "1200". The result would be preferably listed as {"24", "23", "22", "21", "20"}, instead of being listed as {24, 23, 22, 21, 20}.


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I have a Mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro running OS X (Yosemite) 10.10.2. It has a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB of RAM, and a 750GB HDD.

Over the past couple of weeks it has become incredibly slow, to the point that simple actions such as clicking on an icon in the dock have caused the spinning wheel to appear. As far as I can tell nothing significant changed around the time that this behaviour started.

There is nothing unusual shown in Activity Monitor: CPU usage is low and there is over 6 GB of free memory with no swap being used.

Some example of the degree of slowness are:

Scrolling down the page on an already loaded page in Chrome - Spinning wheel for 30 seconds
Clicking in text field on Github in Chrome - Nothing happens for 34 seconds
Refreshing a page in Opera - Spinning wheel for 27 seconds
Opening Calendar from the dock - 70 seconds for Calendar to open, no visual feedback
Clicking to focus open Pages document - Nothing happens for 21 seconds
Opening System Preferences and clicking Keyboard - Spinning wheel for 30 seconds
Clicking on the File menu in Finder - Spinning wheel for 23 seconds
Swiping up with three fingers on the trackpad (show Mission Control) - Nothing happens for 12 seconds
Moving cursor down a single line in vim - Spinning wheel for 12 seconds

I have tried the following:

Turning it off and on again
Making sure everything is up-to-date
Performing a disk repair
Resetting the SMC
Resetting the PRAM

Is there anything else I can try to fix this?

Edit: Unbelievably enough I somehow didn't think to check the logs. Doing so shows the following message occurring regularly. Does this mean that my hard disk is damaged, despite the fact that the disk repair claimed to have fixed any issues?

kernel: CoreStorageGroup::completeIORequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for LVG "Macintosh HD" (C9D97BC3-3A2E-405E-BE14-0E9B3FAD7A0D), pv 90103BF0-50B3-455D-947E-A020BC46F680, near LV byte offset = 161931108352.
kernel: disk1: I/O error.


texts: An "Emergency" link on my iOS 7 lock screen goes to a phone dial page that says "Emergency call". What are the restrictions on this page? Can anyone use my iPhone to dial out? Does it only work with emergency numbers (e.g., 911)? Is there a time or use limit?


texts: Does anyone know where this folder came from? I don't believe that I created it, but it doesn't seem that it comes by default because there is nothing in it. The folder I'm referring to is the one titled Data in case that was not clear. Thanks for any ideas you may have.


texts: How to export to $PATH permanently because .bashrc file doesn't exist in $HOME directory

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I am trying to figure out macOS and want to install Composer which was not a problem....but I need the Laravel and Symfony installer and in the documentation it says that I need to export the variable in .bashrc file.

Normally that file is in /home/username/ directory on Linux

But where is the .bashrc file on the Mac? How to export to the PATH?


texts: BootCamp The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned

texts:
I am currently trying to install bootcamp, however i am experiencing the following error:
"The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned."
"You must have at least 42GB of free space available."

I have checked my storage and i have 62GB available storage.
I have checked and my Time machine is switched off and I have also tried sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 999999999999 in terminal and still not working.
I would really appreciate if someone can help.
I am using macOS Mojave.
Thanks


texts: Hot File Clustering with multiple partitions

texts: I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if the hot file clustering feature will exists only on the boot partition or if there will be one for each partition (even if it won't be on the most external part of the hard disk).


texts: How do I automatically resize all iPhoto pictures above a certain size?

texts:
I have many photos managed by iPhoto that are over 16 megapixels, much larger than I need. I'm running low on hard disk space and I'd like automatically resize all images over a certain size/resolution by 50%. This is somewhat similar to how iTunes can downsample all your music files above a certain size on your iOS device.

I'm guessing an AppleScript is necessary for this?


texts: Two months ago Collin Mistr shared a patch tool for older, low-end Macs to be able to install macOS Sierra (link). Besides the fact that I do this upgrade, since my Mac Mini is late 2009, I wonder are there any benefits. El Capitan looks good on it, with 4GB of RAM etc. Any advice?


texts: How do I remove multiple mail rules using iCloud server?

texts: Using the iCloud server, is it possible to remove multiple rules at once (instead of selecting each rule individually)?


texts: Add/replace image in Keynote 9.1 (6369) from outside Photos or Movies

texts:
I am working in Keynote 9.1 (6369).

Apple support shows one can drag-and-drop in an image. But is there really no more direct way to, having clicked on the photo icon in the bottom-right corner of the media placeholder, navigate outside of the Photos or Movies directories? That seems astounding.

Can I set the list of directories from which Keynote allows me to choose images? Or is there a setting to navigate via Finder instead of the default UI for choosing?

If this behavior is improved in the more recent versions of Keynote, that might be close to a reason to upgrade my OS.


texts: How do I disable the Mac OSX desktop switch fade

texts:
I've toggled reduce motion, but this fade animation is still pretty bad.
Is there a way to just have it instantly switch?
I am on Big Sur.


texts: Can I use the LG Ultrafine 5K display with a PC?

texts:
I remember the controversy around the 27" Apple Thunderbolt display: it doesn't work with a PC. Despite the fact that Thunderbolt encapsulates DisplayPort, you cannot use it with a DisplayPort connection - which is even more confusing considering Thunderbolt 1 and 2 use Mini-DisplayPort physical connectors.

The new LG Ultrafine 5K display looks very attractive - at least as far as the published specs are concerned (I'm not a fan of the 'chin' on the top of the monitor). I see that it only connects using USB-C connectors and according to Apple's published information: it uses Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C to deliver a 5K video stream by using both DP1.2 channels at once.

...but does this work with a PC? And if so, to what extent?

My current workstation has a Broadwell-E X99 motherboard which has an ASUS Thunderbolt 3 add-in card which "works" by having me connect a DisplayPort cable from my GPU's output back into the Thunderbolt card, which then combines it with the PCI-Express channels. My GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 which supports DisplayPort 1.4 - I note that only DisplayPort 1.3 is necessary for uncompressed 5K at 60Hz in 24-bit color mode - but Thunderbolt 3 only supports DisplayPort 1.2 - and I can't see any other Thunderbolt add-in cards that accept two DisplayPort inputs (for dual-channel DisplayPort)

Can the LG Ultrafine 5K monitor be used with a PC - in any capacity?
Can the LG Ultrafine 5K monitor be used with a PC - in 5K 60Hz mode using a computer with DisplayPort 1.4 ports?
Is there also enough bandwidth to run it in 5K/60Hz mode with a Gigabit (or even 10GigE?) adapter also plugged into the monitor?
As an aside, does the monitor support multiple inputs? What if I attach another Thunderbolt 3 video source to another of the USB-C ports on the monitor?


texts: Tool to transform text to all caps or lowercase

texts: Is there a system-wide text manipulation app that enables you to select text and convert all letters to upper case or lower case, like a code text editor would?


texts: How do I transfer my photos from my cloud to my Mac?

texts:
I don't want my photos from my Mac going into my cloud. I only want to put my photos from my cloud onto my iMac....how do I do this?

I tried a few things and the end result was  7,000 pictures that were in my photos app on the computer starting to fill up my cloud.


texts: Adding a Google account for calendar purposes on iOS 8.3

texts:
I'm trying to add a Google account for use with the native calendar app on a new iPhone with iOS 8.3.  This Google account does not have Gmail set up for it, but I am using it for Google calendar.

With another iPhone running 8.1.3, I can go to "Settings", "Mail, Contacts, Calendars", and "Add Account."  I select "Google" and see a screen like this:

I can enter my Google account information and hit next.  I get an error that says that e-mail won't work:

But I can hit Save anyway, and on the next feature select screen, I can turn off Mail and leave on Calendars.  At this point, I can use my Google calendars in the iOS Calendar app.

With the new phone on iOS 8.3, here is what the new Google Add Account screen looks like, apparently showing a webpage from Google:

Next, I get an "Accept" screen like this:

After clicking "Accept", I am taken to the feature select screen for the account; however, everything is grayed out:

After a few seconds, it times out and sends me back to the first Add Account screen, failing to add the account, but giving no error message.

Is this a bug in iOS 8.3?  Is there a different way I need to add this no-Gmail Google account to the Calendar app?


texts: What is "ss_conn_service " running on OS X?

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I'm using OS X El Capitan on iMac 21.5". As an experienced user, I follow activity monitor sometimes for security of my device. For 2-3 days,"ss_conn_service" is running on my device. I cannot determine what the process do. I suspect from a Galaxy Tab which I plugged to my device 2-3 days ago. Did you encountered with this process ?

Sample of the process obtained from Activity Monitor:

  Analysis of sampling ss_conn_service (pid 62) every 1 millisecond
  Process:         ss_conn_service [62] Path:
  /Library/LaunchAgents/ss_conn_service Load Address:    0x100000000
  Identifier:      ss_conn_service Version:         ??? Code Type:
  X86-64 Parent Process:  launchd [1]

  Date/Time:       2015-11-20 15:09:20.236 +0200 Launch Time:
  2015-11-20 10:30:28.221 +0200 OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.11.1
  (15B42) Report Version:  7 Analysis Tool:   /usr/bin/sample

Thanks.


texts: Will I lose all existing photos if I turn on photo-syncing to iTunes for the first time?

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iPhone4, syncing to iTunes 10.6.3 on a mac G5 running OS 10.5.8
(This is the latest system version that the G5 will run)

I sync some audio on the G5 to my wife's iPhone, no problem.
About half the iPhone memory is taken up with photos going back several years- photos have never been synced. If I turn ON photo syncing now, will it delete all photos on the phone? We do NOT want this to happen! But it's clogged up, and the photos don't need to be on the phone, just kept somewhere else where we can see them. But how do we get them to that "safe somewhere else" without risking them getting deleted forever? [I really miss the days where an iPod showed up on the desktop as an external disk, and you knew where you were!!!!]
The dialogue on iTunes says 'Sync from folder...' which is what alarms me. I want things to go from the phone to a folder.

Hope someone can explain this to me. Cheers!


texts: How do I make more space on a Macbook air?

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I have a bunch of files that I don't need. I'm wondering what's taking up all the space. I am tempted to almost format the laptop and start fresh.

What can I do to find out what is taking up all the disk space in my Macbook?


texts: MacOS cannot copy "special" files...they are marked with "s"

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Their permission scheme is srwxr-xr-x.
I can't copy them, as I get the following error message.

cp: cannot create special file '/Volumes/Samsung_T5/Dockers/vms/0/00000002.00001003': Operation not permitted

I tried with sudo, but the files are still not copied, although the message is a bit different. This time, it says "Invalid argument."
And yes, I'm trying to move Docker folder to an external disks as it is filling up my hard disk.


texts: switch input (language) quick with keyboard

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I am a Taiwanese and study in France now. My major requires read and write in English.

I get a iMac with 10.6 on it. It really bothers me to switch between these 3 input languages with mouse.

Is there any, easy and reliable, way to switch with keyboard? Applications, scripts or official Apple tricks are all appreciated if it works fine.

Thanks to Patrix and Lizzan. It is good to know this setting. I tried that solution and it works fine. But I want to (if it is possible) have a shortcut for each input, so I don't have to pay attention to which input source is selected. (If I have only 2 language concerned, it works perfect. But I use 3 input language.) However, that solution is good enough, I just want to know if there is a "perfect" solution.


texts: Change color of the Cmd+Tab app switcher on Yosemite?

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Is it possible to change the color (specifically, darken) the cmd+tab application switcher on yosemite?

It's hard to see, especially against a white background:


texts: Adding a MAC to a Windows Domain - well not quite

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I am a Windows SYS Admin. We already have some MAC's, but I am not happy with the way that I CAN'T really admin them.

So, my question:

As we get a new MAC now, what's the correct way to add it? (It's never really a part of the domain - I know that)

I will have 1 admin user on this MAC, and the owner as well (total of 2 admins) - IS there a difference to which account is created first?

Can I make it, that the user's account will be able to see his currently private folders on our File Server (SMB protocol?) - if our AD users are: first.last - can that be the login to the MAC?


texts: How to use Launchctl for schedule application

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I try to work with Launchctl and have a question:

How can I set up an application to run in a few minutes using Launchctl? (for example, open the program MyApp.app with arguments "hello" "world" Every 10 minutes)

I know that it can easily be done by creating Launch Agent, I looking for a way to do it using Launchctl directly to programmatically.


texts: I like to download podcasts to my ipod to listen to them at work or at the gym. However, after I have listened to them, once I sync my ipod with my computer, it deletes the podcasts that I have played from both my computer and my ipod, despite the fact i have the settings set to not delete them automatically after they have been played. I like to keep old podcasts of some shows (such as This American Life) because once they add the new episode to itunes, the old one is only accessible through purchase and I want to save them in case i want to listen to them again. Any idea what's going on?


texts: Why does the file creation date remain the same when copying and pasting a file?

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When copying a file from flash drive to macOS file system, the file creation date remains the same as the original file.

If it is on Windows, the file creation date of a new file when copying a file and pasting it will not be same as the original file, but will have the current date time instead.

Why is the behavior different between OS? Is this due to the different specification in NTFS and HFS file system?


texts: I am having trouble accessing my Gmail account via Mail on my iPad. It keeps saying my username or password is incorrect when it's not. I have that rotten two-step authentication turned off and this is still happening. How do I fix this?


texts: Can you delete documents from the library on Mac without serious consequences for your computer?

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When I checked my Mac's harddrive I noticed that it was almost completely filled with files in the category 'other'. I used mac cleaning software to see what files were taking up a lot of space and those were mostly documents with names like: d8434hjk3hj5v3kj
Without any extension.

Will deleting these folders harm my mac?

Mac specifications:
- Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
- 21.5-inch, medio 2011

I'm not much of a technology guy so if I need to be more specific please let me know.


texts: Automatically Retrieving Album Names for Unknown Album Songs in iTunes

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I'm running iTunes 11.1.2 on OSX Mavericks and have a bunch of songs of unknown albums. I know that we can retrieve album artwork from the album name, but that's not what I am interested in. What I would like to know is wether it is possible or not to retrieve album name for each song I have given only song name and artist name (and maybe the song file itself, of course).

All I found when searching for it is the unknown album problem when updating iTunes, or the album artwork retrieval from album name. Thank you.


texts: What is Apple Card and how do I get one?

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Apple released Apple Card this month (August 2019). What is it and how is it different from other similar cards?

How do I apply for it? How do I know if it's available in my country?