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Is Apple TV Full HD?

I need to stream video to my TV wirelessly, but necessarly need to be Full HD to use all the TV resolution.

I think Apple TV is not Full HD, but I don't know if it exist some hardware like it, with same features, but that supports Full HD. What your recommend?

I've researched if Apple is planning to release Apple TV that supports Full HD but I found nothing about.


texts: Restrict macOS from automatically enabling "Keep in Dock" after rearranging Dock icon

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I like to have many programs running and move around things as needed, but I hate keeping anything permanently in the Dock. As of now, I have to manually uncheck Keep in Dock every time I move an app icon and it's really annoying. I don't want to do that anymore. How do I disable that feature?

This has nothing to with "Most recent apps" as that's already turned off.

Also, this question has been asked before, but everything I've found is 3+ years old and no one has an actual solution. I'm really, really hoping that in the few years since then Apple added some basic customization.


texts: Where can I find a list of changes to Terminal.app in Lion?

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I'm thinking of upgrading to Lion after hearing that they've upgraded Terminal.app somewhat. The main thing I've heard is that Terminal.app now supports 256 colors, but I don't care about colors. I want mouse events in screen without using MouseTerm.

Where can I find all the changes to Terminal.app provided by Lion? Are mouse events included in this update?


texts: Why does creating a new account and making it an administrator require system restart?

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Why does creating a new account and making it an administrator require system restart in macOS?

I do the following:

login to macOS (El Capitan) as admin1
open Users & Groups Preferences
add a new user admin2 using + button
check Allow user to administer this computer

OS responds with:

  You must restart the computer for your changes to admin2’s administrator settings to take effect.

The question is: why?

If I restart OS and login again as admin1 what has changed compared to the state before restart? admin2 was a just-created user and there were no processes nor other active settings that depended on it.


texts: JBL Soundfly Air with multi-router AirPort Express WiFi

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I got my hands on a JBL Soundfly, but it shows some trouble when I connect it to my home WiFi, which consists of 2 first generation AirPort Express linked by a cable to create a shared network.

The AirPorts are set to 802.11n only (2.4 GHz).

When I stream music from my iPhone via Airplay the connection gets disrupted a lot (noticeable audio gaps).

When I attach another WiFi-Router to the network, and connect the Soundfly to that AP, it plays without problem.

Does anyone have the Soundfly running in a similar AirPort Express network and does not experience any problem?


texts: iPhone 5s crashing infrequently, despite restoring

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I just got my new iPhone 5s last week. Sometimes it crashes. Even App Store, Music and Voice Memo crash, but it does not happen frequently. Then there are about two times the phone freeze for a moment while I was browsing through my photo and when I was downloading app. Here is my diagnostic and usage screenshot:

I have restored my phone to factory setting yesterday but the problem still persists, so is my problem serious or is it normal? Since the Apple Store is quite far from my house, is it worth my time travelling there?


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I checked all the answers to my question (how to add two mobile numbers to one contact in iPhone) but I didn't see a clear answer.

A lot of my contacts have more than one mobile number, and while my android phone syncs beautifully with gmail contacts (multiple mobile numbers), my iPhone 4 only allowing me one mobile number. After that when I click on add, I get a list of home,work,fax,etc. But no second mobile number.

My 5 years old Nokia phone let me add custom labels to any phone number, like I can add a number and name it "boat phone" , gmail contacts also can do it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: Which macOS processes handle iMessage network communications?

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I am trying to identify the macOS Catalina processes which handle network communication with Apple's iMessage servers.

If you have iMessage enabled and quit the Messages app, incoming messages are still delivered to your computer.

I've tried killing the imagent and IMDPersistenceAgent processes because they sounded related to messaging, but the former seems to be related to FaceTime only and killing the latter did not stop incoming iMessages.

To be clear: I am not simply trying to disable iMessage. I am trying to identify the processes that handle communication with iMessage. This is for two reasons:

The termination of these processes needs to be able to be executed in an automated bash script using pkill or something similar, and deactivation of iMessage cannot be done in such a way.
The computer needs to remain activated with the iMessage service so that when the processes are restarted (or the computer is restarted and the processes are launched on their own), any pending incoming iMessages are delivered. If iMessage were to be deactivated and then later activated, any messages during the period of time which it was deactivated would not be delivered.


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My Father's iPod (classic) has all of his music arranged and named perfectly.

However, his iTunes is not in sync with his iPod, as his computer hard drive was damaged, and all of his iTunes data lost. Because of this, we have not been able to back up the iPod, and if it is damaged, he will have to rename thousands of songs again.

Is there a way to sync the music from his iPod to his iTunes, or any other possible way to backup the iPod data?


texts: iPhone 7 won't activate and can't access Apple Support or iTunes

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My new iPhone 7 recently had an error that said it lost cellular connectivity and required an update. I'm traveling and don't have access to iTunes (on work computer and I cannot install software). I spoke to my cellular provider (Ting) and they couldn't identify an issue and recommended I do a factory reset. After resetting, the phone now says it cannot connect to the activation network (says it's not available), only has Wi-Fi connectivity, and occasionally has an error that says it can't be activated because the activation data is not available.

I cannot access Apple Support because it requires Two-factor authentication, and since my iPhone won't work, I cannot get the validation code (that is extremely frustrating), and this means I can't post on the Apple Support site. Also, since my iPhone won't work, I can't call Apple Support.

Other things I've tried (from this site and Apple support forum) included removing the SIM card and powering off and on. I've tried activating it for two days on different Wi-Fi networks, tried connecting to another computer with iTunes, but ran into the Two-factor catch-22. I went to the Apple Support process of recovering my Apple ID, and they say that will take several days and hasn't resulted in anything useful at this point.

Is there anything else I can try to activate my iPhone? Would could possible cause this problem - software or hardware (e.g. SIM card)? Am I just totally out of luck? If I didn't happen to have my work computer I could just be stranded.

UPDATE: I returned home and was finally able to contact Apple support. There is a service issue with my iPhone model (A1660), and there is a repair program from Apple to fix the hardware issue. I'm going to the store today and will update with results.


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This is my diskutil list.

I wish to merge Misc (disk0s4) with Macintosh HD (disk0s2) leaving only Macintosh HD (disk0s2). Normally I would use this command to merge the two disks:

diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ Macintosh HD disk0s2 disk0s4

But, I am not sure whether this command will format my Macintosh HD which I do not want. Misc (disk0s4) is already formatted and thus empty. But Macintosh HD (disk0s2) can not get erased.

Can I securely use the command to merge the two disks?

System information:
OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.3


texts: I know that there’s an option to announce calls. Is there any way to automatically announce Reminders at the time for which  they’re set? I’ve looked around, but couldn’t seem to find anything that would make that possible. (Though there may be and I’m just not aware of it.) Any assistance would be very much appreciated. Thank you.


texts: Mid 2010 i7 Macbook Pro 6,2 stuck at Apple logo on boot

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Recently my 15 inch Macbook Pro (mid 2010, i7) hasn't been booting normally (No drops, no spills, etc). It just hasn't been able to boot normally. The issue I'm having is it only goes as far as the apple logo, the spinning dots, The keyboard then lights up, the monitor dims and it just hangs there forever.

Here is what I have tried:

Resetting the PRAM
Resetting the SMC
Reinstalling Mountain Lion via USB stick
Reinstalling Mountain Lion via Recovery Disk
Removing all peripherals from macbook ports
Repairing Permissions (from safe mode)
Deleting all start up items.

I can boot into safe mode and I have access to everything, but the graphics are choppy when trying to view widgets, expose, mission control, etc.  Websites & web graphics are also very glitchy.

After a clean install of  Mountain Lion, it SOMETIMES loads to the login screen normally, when I enter my password in, to the right the spinning load icon freezes, and once again I am not able to boot OSX normally.

A year ago, I had an issue with the Logic board and it was replaced by Apple it worked fine again until now.  I'm wondering if this could either be a Hard Drive failure or possibly graphics or logic board issue.  I made an appointment to the genius bar tonight, hopefully someone will be able to tell me something.  Does anyone have the same issue OR have been able to fix this?


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I want to see if somebody has tried to log in on my computer, which is running Yosemite. I am primarily interested in tracking ssh log in attempts, as well as tracking people physically typing passwords on my keyboard to try to log in.

Closely related

List failed login attempts on Mavericks


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After downloading an attachment in skype, which is saved to my ~/Downloads folder, the attachment won't show up in de Downloads-folder until I click the 'eye' or 'magnifying glass' icons overlaying the download in the skype-message window.

Even when listing the files in the Downloads-folder in terminal, the skype downloads won't show up.

Where are the files downloaded in a skype message stored, until I click one of the two 'Reveal in finder'-icons (resolved in update 1)

Question: Is there a setting/possibility, to automatically make the attachements show up in the Downloads-folder without having to click on them aftet the download is completed?

UPDATE 1:
The files seem to be located in /Users/<user>/Library/Caches/com.skype.skype/fsCachedData

UPDATE 2:
I tried writing an automator script, which watches the above folder for new files, automatically renames them to their original names and moves them to ~/Downloads, but I don't know where the original names are stored.
I tried to just change the extension of the files which also failed, as automator only differentiates between file-types, but not different extensions


texts: Can someone get into my iPad, access my camera and turn on the webcam and record without my knowledge? I got an email that said they did.


texts: How to avoid newly downloaded iOS apps to be automatically downloaded in another device

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Say I download App A in my iPhone. The app will be automatically appeared in my iPad. How to prevent that from happening? I want to download separately because different devices have different needs.

Thanks


texts: Mac Clients getting IP address out of DHCP range when Net Restoring

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I have a Mac Server setup to reimage my Mac Clients and it has been working great since 10.9.

My server environment is primarily windows with the exception of a few Mac servers (Imaging, Printing, and Caching).  I have a windows server that runs DHCP and has a small range setup for reimaging.  The clients used to get an IP in this range, however, since upgrading the Mac Server to 10.12 they are getting an IP address outside the DHCP range and causing IP conflicts.  It just seems to pick a random IP.

My DHCP range is 192.168.17.130 - 192.168.17.160. The Macs are getting IP's like 192.168.17.83 (which is already allocated to another device on the network).  My DHCP server is not showing any mention of the Mac client, and it also has lots of available IP's to lease.

I do not have DHCP server turned on, on any of my Mac Servers.

As you could imagine it is causing the reimage's to go really slow and act strange.


texts: Reading user Plist files from /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users

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Identifying user accounts in macOS (Catalina) can be achieved using the following command
 dscl . -list /Users | grep -vE '_|root|nobody|daemon|Guest'

Which gives me the below output.Note: hiddenswasti is a hidden account (not visible in the login/welcome screen) while swastibhushandeb is a normal account.

Referring to a post here ,it is inferred that the user specific plist files residing in var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users can be read using defaults read or plutil -p and contains valuable information to ascertain if an account is hidden or otherwise.

Issue I am facing is to develop a one liner code (using bash )is utilizing the output of the dscl command detailed above and use generated output as input to plutil -p to read the contents of hiddenswasti.plist and swastibhushandeb.plist. Would appreciate help.Thanks in advance.


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Is there a way to maintain a wifi connection after log off on OS X 10.8 Lion?

I would like to be able to log in, log off, and log into a new account on my domain without having to plug in my ethernet cable.


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The native Gmail iPhone 4 app on my phone behaves weird, it is not showing pictures that come as attachment, when I click on the picture it starts downloading the picture but it displays those classic picture not available pic with a question mark. I tried deleting account and adding it again still no luck..

Any clue?

I'm on iOS 4.1


texts: clipboard not working after Security Update

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EDIT: The update had the Security and Privacy icon (steel home with vault lock), while the last installed update (2017-001) has the High Sierra icon. So may not be 2017-001. Yet this is the last installed update.
So Installed the security update 2017-001 for mac OS X High Sierra on a MacBook Air 13" 2016 and my clipboard is broken now. Update 10.13.1 is installed.
I am admin. It is systemwide (except for GarageBand). The following were tested:

reset
check the 'V' and cmd button work and use the menu option.
echo "hello" | pbcopy; pbpaste
disable CopyClip app at start-up
enable guest user, log-in as them
safe mode
killing and pkilling pboard process (sudo too). Actually using paste kills the process anyway (the launch daemon reloads it).
freeing HDD memory as it was getting very low. Now 10/256 GB.
zapped P-RAM
reset SMC
removed as many launch agents as possible
snooped in /private/tmp

It works in recovery mode —I do not have time machine enabled or the spare memory to backup ATM.
 Launch control status –6
The best lead I have is an abort signal for the launch control:
 $ launchctl list | grep pboard
 1234 -6 com.apple.pboard
 $ id -u
 501
 $ launchctl debug gui/501/com.apple.pboard
 Configuration failed: 150: System integrity Protection is enabled

That is the launch deamon cannot start it (-6). In recovery mode, where it works, the status is 0. System integrity protection was always enabled.
The pasteboard service (pbs) has a normal status. Dragging text works (no idea of what that service is). Another user (see below) has Sys' int' prot' disabled and has a copy paste issue.
Update environment
This section is here solely in the offchance someone has the same problem and happens to have the system similarly configured.
The install of the update was only slightly odd as in it did not ask to reset the machine. After accepting the update request, I proceeded to shut down stuff and Matlab was crashed. The terminal was ssh'ed into a pi and office and pycharm were open.
The previous time the machine crashed was the day before with Kerbal, a videogame that does not really work on an Air.
On the update to HighSierra my Office had the unicode bug, which was fixed by a reinstall. After which all worked fine.  My Office 365 was first a pirate version then a legitimate version.
Other Microsoft related stuff are Parallels with Win 10 (untouched in months) and Paragon.
Last launch control tinkering I did was to get a NFC card reader to work.
CopyClip is an clipboard extension app.


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I have two accounts in Mail (v. 10.3), on a MacBook Air 13" running macOS 10.12.6. One is a work-related account with a POP configuration and the second one is from a hobby-group with an IMAP configuration. The work account has changed servers several times in the last few years. When the work account changed servers, I would add the new account, and leave the old inactive accounts on the mail app.

Today, I tried unsuccessfully to modify an existing account with the new servers addresses. I looked up analogous situations here and on other Mac forums to find out how to deal with my old accounts. I am worried that if I remove them completely, I will lose old emails.

Can I continue adding accounts with very similar information to old accounts without running into trouble? If not, how can I keep all my old messages under the most recent work account?


texts: Apple Watch mute only notifications and not alarms

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Is there a way to mimic the Do not Disturb mode found in the iPhone on my Apple Watch?

I'd like to receive notifications but without any sound nor haptic feedback. I know I can use the Silence mode, but that silences my alarms and notifications too!

So, once again I'd like to mute only the notifications (not alarms) but still receive them.


texts: Password prompted for app updates in phone 5

texts: I have iPhone 5 and iOS 6.0.1 updated. Device prompts for password even while updating the apps. What is wrong with the device? Am I missing any settings?


texts: I'm finding my iMac 21" late 2015 to be unstable after upgrading to High Sierra

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If I leave my iMac for a while, it refuses to come out of sleep mode; the screen remains black, the mouse, once it unfreezes moves slowly and then the pinwheel appears forever. I'm forced to force power down (pressing the button).

To explain :

I've just bought a reconditioned "as new" 21" iMac which came with High Sierra, but unfortunately the setup was all in German despite my choosing the UK language.

Apple support advised me to erase and reload my OS X, but of course my last registered OSX is El Capitan. All went well with that and the migration of my files from Time Capsule backups, but I thought I should follow Apple support's advice and upgrade to High Sierra.

It hasn't really worked well since. It's sometimes very slow to respond despite it's fusion drive, while at others it works fine.

Any ideas? I think I'd rather return to El Capitan which seemed to be okay...


texts: Parsing time from the CLI in Sierra adjusted for the timezone

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$ date
Fri Nov 25 16:44:07 SGT 2016
$ date -j -f "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" "2016-11-12T01:46:00.000000Z" +%Y%m%d%H%M
Warning: Ignoring 8 extraneous characters in date string (.000000Z)
201611120146

I'm in +8 hours so when I parse that UTC string with .000000Z, I want the resulting time to be 201611120946, not 201611120146.

I tried .%Z but that didn't work, so I am little stuck how to get this date parse to work.


texts: Passwordless SSH between MacOS and MacOS not working

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I know there are many tutorials, including instructions on this forum but I find that SSH still asks me for a password.
Here is what I tried on the local machine:
ssh-keygen -t rsa                   #   Generate Key Pair, accepting all defaults
ssh-copy-id me@192.168.1.235        #   Copy to remote
ssh me@192.168.1.235                #   Still asks for password

I have also tried with a custom key:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test.rsa
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/test.rsa.pub me@192.168.1.235
ssh-add ~/.ssh/test.rsa
ssh -i ~/.ssh/test.rsa me@192.168.1.235

In the remote host, I have changed the privileges to authorized_keys:
chmod 600 authorized_keys

I have tried all the variations to copy the key to the remote server, but they all give me the same results, and the authorized_keys file has the same new key.
Many of the tutorials are several years old, and some are for linux, so I don’t know whether things should be different.
Is there an extra step I need to take to use SSH without a password?
I am on MacOS Catalina.
Update
I have turned on verbosity, and I get something like this:
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/me/.ssh/test.rsa RSA SHA256:…etc…
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/mark/.ssh/test.rsa RSA SHA256:…etc… explicit
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive


texts:
The mojave upgrade from 10.14.5 to 10.14.6 broke my old VLC install (already fixed by upgrading the VLC install) and I think it has also broken my Meld 3.19.2.osx6 build provided through Homebrew.

I don't find any build more recent than mine.

What's the different thought way to meld in macOS? (What's the alternative free (and gratis) program?)


texts: iMac's Built-in microphone doesn't work on Windows 7

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I have an iMac on which i have installed Windows 7 32-bit. I have used Bootcamp version 4.0.4033.  I have done it with the Apple tech support person. My built-in microphone doesn't work in Windows. I set it up correctly, according to specs in the Windows help. I realized that it doesn't work when I tried using Skype.
Could you please help me figure this out?


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I moved to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 but the display at 2800x1800 looks too small in Windows 10. In Windows 8.1 the display was fine at 2800x1800. Also, before installing bootcamp drivers in Windows 10 the display was good(a little big and visible not too big, no back on top and bottom it was complete full screen clear display). How would I fix that?

Laptop: MacBook pro retina 15-inch.


texts: Change Dock color on left/right site in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

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New in OS X Mavericks, when using the famous dock on the left or right site:
It has a white background now. It makes it hard to see the icons and the design is awful.

Does anyone know how to change it back to the old black and transparent style?
(in the screenshot on the left side)

  Same Topic available on apple boards:
  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5469133


texts: How can I import GoPro mp4 video to iMovie 11?

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I have video in an MP4 file from a GoPro camera.  It imports fine into iMovie on my iPad Mini and I can edit it there, but I'd rather edit in iMovie 11 on my Mac (OSX 10.9).  However, iMovie 11 won't import the GoPro MP4 video files.

They play fine on Quicktime Player on the Mac, but iMovie refuses to import them.  Quicktime says the MP4 files contain "GoPro AVC encoder, 1280x720 AAC, 48000 Hz stereo, 29.97 FPS".

Why does iPad iMovie work but not the iMovie 11?  Do I have to get a converter to convert to a different encoding?  If so, which encoding?


texts: Do I need to upgrade the firmware on a Mac Pro with mismatched processor config and serial number?

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I'm looking at buying a used Mac Pro. However, I want to know what I'm really buying as the serial number he provided does match the processor configuration in the about:

EveryMac says this is what the machine is according to its serial number:

The 2.4 GHz 6-Core configuration wasn't released until 2012 according to EveryMac:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-twelve-core-2.4-mid-2012-westmere-specs.html

So my question is, am I buying a 2009 Mac Pro, originally shipped with an "Eight Core" main board, but has been upgraded to a 2012 2x 6-Core main board?

If so, will I need to upgrade the firmware to match the new board?


texts: Have DHCP for Wi-Fi and static IP for Ethernet?

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I'm trying to connect to a device over Ethernet and set a static IP for the Ethernet to talk to the device. When I do this, I can talk to the device but it kills connection to the Wi-Fi and I can't use the Internet.

Is there a way to keep the static IP just for the Ethernet and keep the Wi-Fi connection as dynamic?


texts: iPhone Activation with NO SERVICE problem

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My iPhone7 started with "NO SERVICE" problem, I fix it by restore system but a week later the problems appears again.
Then I do a fabric reset but now I can't activate my Iphone because it can't read data from SIM.

My SIM works good in an old model (iPhone4). When I try activation by iTunes, there is only a white screen with the word iPhone and no activation buttom or something.

How can I activate my phone to restore my old backup?

PS. I can't take it to Apple because there is no Sellers on my country.


texts: Macbook Pro doesn't recognize password until reset

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For some reason my OSX El Capitain Macbook Pro has started to not accept my password until I hold down the power button and restart it. Then it accepts the password just fine.

Any ideas what might be going on/how to prevent that from happening? It's kind of annoying to have to restart the computer constantly...


texts: What does "Restore from iCloud Backup" currently NOT restore? (Fail to preserve/discard/lose/delete?)

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What does "Restore from iCloud Backup" currently NOT restore?  Is restore from local backup more or less, complete?

(My intention is for the answer to stay up to date, SE-style; I know this answer has changed over time and don't know what the current answer is.)

My experience suggests I'll have to enter my Apple ID password a bunch of times.  (So I'll copy it into the clipboard as soon as I can after a restore so I can paste it as needed.)

As I recall, several apps that were on a previous iPhone and I don't think I ever uninstalled weren't installed on the new one I restored to.  But I'm not certain.

I believe a some of my old iMessage discussions are gone, but most aren't.  I'd like to better understand what doesn't survive and why.  I have some old local backups and wonder if there's a tool for restoring those old conversations back into Messages.

I would guess that my list of open apps isn't restored, so things that I should keep running at all the time, like the Tile App, Groundwire, would need to be restarted.

Interestingly, my new phone does display signal strength in dB instead of bars, using some trick I used on a previous phone long ago.  (Update: That feature didn't survive a more recent upgrade.)

From reading Apple's iOS Security Guide, I know some functionality isn't restored iff the new phone and the old phone aren't the same phone.  What about keys, etc in apps like Signal...?

(Info about what's restored when an iPad backup is restored to an iPhone or vice versa would be an added plus, but is probably better for another question.)


texts: Are there iPhone applications like INFOMAPS?

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I am looking for iphone applications like this one.

What I am looking is an app that:
Shows me the map, with tram stops and metro stops.
And with hotspots or touristic places in the map, so that you know where to getdown of the tram and metro.

This is the best one I used it already for amsterdam, but they dont have many cities.

Anyone knows apps like these, let me know


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I'm looking for a way to create an aggregated audio device with a specific configuration, but not sure how to map them.
I've got a headset, iRig, garage band and other app.
Essentially I want to create this setup:
iRid input -> garage band -> mix -> headset output
                   |          ^
                   v          |
headset mic  ->   mix  -> other app

I expected I could map this to basically 2 aggregate audio devices with one of them:
"Mix for app":

add headset mic as device's input - possible
set garageband output to this - possible
set app's input - not possible :(

I believe I could do this with the blackhole app, but it requires quite a bit of work to get more than 1 blackhole working at a time.
Apart from spending money on Loopback, what are my options here? Am I missing some possible configurations?


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Energy impact of Safari is extremely high on my Macbook Air Mid 2013 El Captian 10.11.2. It lead to high usage of CPU (Temperature ~65.0°C) and the CPU fan is running in full speed (6500.0 RPM) constantly.

I have tried so far:

Clear all Safari cached
Restart laptop
Remove/disable all extensions
Uninstall all the software that might possibly affecting e.g. Anti-Virus

The issue is only happening in Safari. Chrome and Firefox are both OK.

Thanks for helping in advance!

CPU:

Energy Impact 1:

Energy Impact 2:

CPU Temperature and Fan Speed:

Network Activity:


texts: PDFs randomly open in Preview instead of Acrobat

texts: Not a major but a semi-annoying problem is that totally out of the blue all PDFs will start opening in Preview instead of Acrobat. All PDF file icons change from the PDF icon to Preview, as if the default program switches. Then it goes back by itself, for no apparent reason after I manually drag PDFs into Acrobat. Just happens randomly and I wonder why that is and how to prevent it, because it happens often enough to be a minor nuisance.


texts: OSX - File Sharing - Permission problems

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I bought a Mac Mini (OSX High Sierra), also with the intention to use it as a file server.
I am very surprised that this seems to be an issue.

I am using Samba share that is also supposed to work for Windows.

I created 2 users on the Mac Mini --> User1 and User2.

When I now share a folder "User1-share" from the User1 account and give rw permissions to both users for this share, then these permissions do not seem to be inherited.
This means that if I create a file or folder in the shared folder via network with User2 from another mac, then User1 does not have permissions to write to this file.

This seems to have never really worked based on this article the problem exists since 2012?

Permissions for new files in shared directory

Is this a common problem and can't be solved. I hoped that maybe someone came around this already and knows the solution?

I am sure there is more info required to track down the issue and I am happy to provide it.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Chris


texts: How to get access to hidden folders from another Macintosh HD (Users/Applications)?

texts:
I need to back up the main Users folder, as well as all other data, from my main Mac (2013 13" MBP). I've gotten the dreaded UEFI-inspired flashing question mark, and tried running Disk Utility's repair options on it, both on in recovery mode on the main machine, as well as from another machine (with the drive connected via a SATA-to-USB cable into another older MBP — my wife's).
B/c I didn't have the option of backing up the machine "normally" — copying all files and folders through the Finder of my wife's machine, due to perms issues — I've used the utility app Disk Drill to create a .dmg file, encompassing the whole drive's contents (a byte-for-byte copy, is what it's called in this software).
First, is there any other way of getting to the main Users folder, and the Applications, too? They're all hidden, as they were installed/created by a user not present on my wife's machine? (I just wanted the assurance of copying the files by hand, too, before wiping my machine's 1TB SSD and restoring the files from the disk image file I'd created in Disk Drill.) Secondarily (as a bonus question), is there anything suspect with the above approach?
Many, many thanks, to all who take the time to read, much less answer.


texts: Dell U2713HM LCD Monitor Killing Wifi (and ethernet) on my Mid-2012 MBP and iPhone 4S

texts:
I just purchased a Dell U2713HM monitor.

As soon as the monitor is turned on, the internet (both wifi and wired) goes out.

I have tried the following fixes:

1) Changing channels on wifi router.

2) Changing display resolutions. Very low resolutions bring the internet back (on both cable and wifi).

3) Different ways of hooking the display up to my Mac (directly via a Mini-displayport to displayport cable or by first connecting a mini-displayport to regular displayport adapter and then hooking the monitor up to that).

4) Trying to find settings in the monitor's OSD that may account for the strange behavior.

Any and all help is very appreciated.

Thank you very much!


texts: Mac Book Air 13" (2011) - Wifi continuosly disconnecting

texts:
Last October I bought my first Mac, a Macbook Air 13". It works perfectly except for the wifi: I can be connected for hours without problems, but then it suddenly disconnects. The wifi widget doesn't change, and the way I solve it is disconnecting and reconnecting again.

I can't find the way to trigger this behaviour, which can happen after some minutes, or hours.

This doesn't happen with the other PCs that connect to the same wifi, nor with the iPhone.

I use WPA encryption; a friend of mine suggested using WEP to solve it, but I want to have a more secure network.

What could I do?

UPDATE:

I don't know if this can be important for the issue. I bought the MBA in USA (NewYork) and I live in Spain, Europe, could it be possible to have some slightly different technology/software interfering?

I have it updated to the last version

The exact model of the router is Huawei HG532c

UPDATE2:

Links that may help, seems like a is Lion issue

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2664670?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16785261#16785261


texts: My password to login to my "screen" isn't being recognized

texts: My son used my computer last night.  he logged onto it using the Guest User.  He therefore logged off my "screen".  I keyed in my password in the startup screen and it wasn't recognized.  I rekeyed it in a few times incorrectly ( bad I know) but then finally found the CORRECT password and it keeps on "shaking" as it is incorrect.  This is about to drive me crazy and I have spent 1 hr trying to fix it and nothing is working.  please help me!!


texts: How to get p4merge to come up when I do git mergetool and not filemerge

texts:
I'm on macOS Mojave,
Git version  2.19.0

When doing git mergetool, instead of p4merge, filemerge comes up.

Searched my entire drive and the only instance of p4merge I see is in

/Applications/Sourcetree.app/Contents/Resources/git_local/libexec/git-core/mergetools/p4merge

Am I missing something, I think perhaps I need to install p4merge or something..

Here is what I have done already:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null

brew cask install p4merge

When I do run the above command I get an error:

(master) ✚ >M< > brew cask install p4merge
Ignoring commonmarker-0.17.11 because its extensions are not built.  Try: gem pristine commonmarker --version 0.17.11
Ignoring commonmarker-0.17.11 because its extensions are not built.  Try: gem pristine commonmarker --version 0.17.11
Ignoring commonmarker-0.17.11 because its extensions are not built.  Try: gem pristine commonmarker --version 0.17.11
Updating Homebrew...
Ignoring commonmarker-0.17.11 because its extensions are not built.  Try: gem pristine commonmarker --version 0.17.11
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 2 taps (homebrew/core and homebrew/cask).
==> Updated Formulae
conan

Error: Cask 'p4merge' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.


texts: MacOS displaying 100s of notifications about 117th birthday

texts:
A large number of notifications are being generated for all contacts celebrating a 117th birthday.

There is also no way to bulk dismiss them.

The notifications have a Calendar icon, but this could mean they're from contacts, or another stream such as Facebook etc. Anyone know the cause?


texts:
Ever since iTunes 11, the Apple UX team has destroyed iTunes usability.  Presently is is extremely hard to find audio files in large libraries.  Previously you could search the entire library and subfolders handily via the filtering search methodology.  Now this is entirely obliterated and I struggle finding things handily as before.  I have complained to Apple several times now both on Radar and standard feedback, but it seems that they have no interest in listening to user feedback now.

Now with that rant out of the way, I have been searching for quite some time for an option to replace iTunes, but nothing has proven satisfactory.  I had quite hoped for Vox to fill the space, but its iTunes library search function is broken and seems to not be able to recuperate over the last few updates.  I have tried every other piece of software that I've seen on MacUpdate so far as well, but again nothing has filled the void.

What software are you finding fills the feature problems that the recent iTunes updates have created, if any?  If everyone else is like me I believe I'm going to write an iTunes-like app that puts the functionality back whilst reading iTunes libraries.


texts: Applescript and keynote : change image z-order (send to back)

texts:
I want to generate a keynote presentation from a set of images. A few applescripts are around for that and work great - but:
I cannot find a way to use AppleScript to arrange the z-order of shapes, i.e. send an image to the back so that it doesn't occlude the title.
Thank you!


texts: RedQuits (or alternative) on Mac OS X 10.10

texts:
I have installed RedQuits on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).  Unfortunately, it is not working at all.

I have made sure that RedQuits has access to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility, but it seems to not work.

Currently, the RedQuits website states it works with Mac OS X 10.6.

Does anybody know how to get RedQuits working with Yosemite, or of any alternatives that will cause the close button to quit an application?


texts: What is the maximum safe current for Mac Pro PSU?

texts:
I regularly put my 2010 Mac Pro under pretty heavy usage, maxing out the 12 core CPUs and GTX Titan Black.  I can monitor the voltage and current using iStat Menus, but I'm looking for a specification of how much current is allowable for each device.  The readings that concern me are Vcore, PVTT, PSU (PSMI), PCIe Slot and Boost.

I believe this system has a 980W PSU, which is 82 amps at 12V.  The readings shown here add up to much higher than that, but my 120V UPS shows that the whole system is using less than 700W.  Confusing.


texts:
Ok, Ive searched a long time and I dont see an answer. I have restrictions/screen time on my sons iphone. He has found a loophole where he can get onto google or youtube via Settings -> Passwords and Accounts and then goes to Website & App Passwords. Once there, he can pre-populate an account and if he clicks the account, it will give an option to Change Password on Website
He then proceeds to watch youtube videos till 2am in the morning. Im open to buying an app that would lock the settings app, but not sure if thats even possible. Appreciate the help.


texts: What could be preventing my backup script from running?

texts:
I'm having trouble getting a simple backup script to run. The following script runs most of the time, but occasionally it fails entirely (without printing out any log information). Is there something in the script that could intermittently prevent it from running?

Even when it does run, the test log messages are sometimes delayed in appearing (as if the log file is not touched when it is written to, or the write to the log file is delayed), making diagnosis difficult.

#!/bin/bash

printf "`date`: Start of Runkit backup Power Manager script:\n" >> ~/Library/Logs/Mine/tests.log

if [ $(mount | grep -c '/Volumes/Run Kit') != 1 ]
then
    printf "\tDon't copy: /Volumes/Run Kit not mounted\n" >> ~/Library/Logs/Mine/tests.log
else
    if [ $(pmset -g ac | grep -c 'Wattage') != 1 ]
    then
        printf "\tDon't copy: Not plugged in\n" >> ~/Library/Logs/Mine/tests.log
    else
        caffeinate -s -t 1200 &
        printf "\tDo copy: /Volumes/Run Kit mounted\n" >> ~/Library/Logs/Mine/tests.log
        /Users/Rax/Library/Application\ Support/SuperDuper\!/Scheduled\ Copies/SDUtil -i || open file:///Users/Rax/Library/Application\%20Support/SuperDuper\%21/Scheduled\%20Copies/Smart\%20Update\%20Run\%20Kit\%20from\%20Main.sdsp/Copy\%20Job.app
    fi
fi

printf "`date`: End of Runkit backup Power Manager script:\n" >> ~/Library/Logs/Mine/tests.log

exit 0


texts: Is there a way to control which Apple Pay is chosen when I pay from macOS?

texts:
When I choose to pay for something in macOS using Apple Pay (e.g., from Safari or the App Store) from Mac hardware that doesn't have a touchID hardware itself, I'm sometimes offers my iPhone and sometimes my Apple Watch. However, I don't see any pattern in which device is offered, and often the least convenient device is selected.

Is there a way to control which device is chosen for paying with Apple Pay, or to select or change to a different watchOS/iOS device?


texts: Next tab shortcut not working with right side keys

texts:
I often navigate my many many open Chrome tabs using shortcuts for 'goto left tab' and 'goto right tab' using cmd + alt + left/right.
I'm using an apple keyboard and this works fine using the alt + cmd keys on the left of the space bar, but using the ones on the right (beside the arrow keys) doesn't work for the right tab (left works fine).
This is a minor annoyance but I find myself doing this one-handed while trying to multi-task and frankly it's not possible to do at the moment until I can fix the right tab issue.
This combination works fine in other applications, so I don't know what's going on with Chrome..
PS using an Apple external keyboard (A1242).
Thanks!


texts: Where are the AirDrop files after transferring to Mac?

texts:
I used AirDrop for the first time to move files from my iPhone to my MacBook. I read the brief information on the MacBook itself when set it up. The files transferred but I can't find them. They were photos and a brief video.

Any idea where the files might be?


texts: Project file can't be build error you don't have permission to view it

texts:
Hello may be this is silly question and may be asked before it but i am not getting proper solution for this. I have downloaded one project from the internet and when i am trying to run it/build it the xcode says :

The file “PROJECT NAME” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it..

Can anybody have idea why this is happen ? Please help me to resolve this issue


texts: I have had my iPad mini for a long time, and it's been having issues for the past year. Whenever I let it completely loose power, it takes forever to actually turn back on. When I have it plugged in, it will power back on and show the apple logo on the white screen, and then shut back off. It does this a few times (like 5 or 6 times) before actually powering all the way on. Does anyone know what's going on or how to fix it?


texts: Macbook pro mid-2010 randomly cuts off. Panic report

texts:
I am not sure why this keeps happening. Either plugged in or off it cuts off. If I leave a video playing on youtube it seems to be able to handle that, if that is left by itself. But if I say type into faceboook, youtube, stackexchange into the search bar fast it cuts off. It's as if I am over-exciting it or something and then it turns off. Here is the panic report that keeps appearing? any ideas?
THANKS!


texts: How can I see the list of recent opened files in Numbers? Is this supported at all?


texts: How can I detect in activity log if 'PC repair shop' guy had a look at my files

texts:
I’ve got sensitive data on my Mac.

I’ve taken it to a repair shop, because my mac was not able to boot. They are keeping it till 28. December.
I gave them my password.

I’m scared they will check and see some of my folders/text files.

So, is there any way to check activity/system log? I would like to see when and what was opened/viewed.


texts: Can you really upgrade the RAM in the M1 2020 Mac Mini to 64 Gigs?

texts:
Several Sites Claim to sell Mac Mini 2020 M1 Ram Upgrades to 64gb
--but--
Everymac.com and the Verge.com both claim the RAM limit is 16gb and is not upgradable.
Why are the answers to this question so variable?
What is correct?


texts: How to create Catalina.app for creating bootable disk

texts:
I want to create bootable usb disk.

According to the apple help page I need to download Catalina.app

But I can't download it from App Store.

Is it impossible to create Catalina bootable disk if I already installed Catalina?


texts: How to create a blank RTF file in AppleScript inside current folder?

texts:
In regards to this question: How to create a blank RTF file in AppleScript?

Can you modify the code in a way it would save the file to the current location of the app? as in instead of saving it to Desktop, it would save it to wherever the .app is located. That way I could add the .app to the Finder-Toolbar and be able to click it from any folder and create that blank rtf file inside the current folder whatever it may be.

if not possible, then maybe force it to ask for saving-location just like it asks for name.

Thanks


texts: Is it possible to block specific websites and only those sites on iOS?

texts:
I'd like to block just 4 specific websites but AFAICT there is no such option.
There's the option to "Limit Adult Content" but sadly it blocks way too much. For example it blocks stackexchange.com. I searched for restaurants on Google it blocked every single result. There's the option to only allow a whitelist of sites but that's not useful for me either. I'd have to add every result and every link I click on.
Effectively I'm looking for a blacklist option. Is there a way to do it? Maybe install a custom network profile or something?
Update #1
Well so profiles don't solve it. They just do the enable the same features as available from the settings.
Next thing is to look for passthru VPN software or something like that


texts: How Can I access Mac OS X Base System on Boot Screen?

texts: Im going to try to wipe out my hard drive and reinstall Mavericks but whenever i reboot the iMac and hit the OPTION key it won't show Mac OS X Base System. Can anyone help me on this?


texts:
I purchased a MacBook Pro:

It says that:

  8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
  Configurable to 16GB.

What does configurable means here? Can I upgrade the memory to 16GB?


texts: Accessing Mac's Virtual Hosts from Parallel's XP

texts:
I am having problem with accessing Virtual Hosts (located on my Mac) from XP installed via Parallels.

Here's the setup:

Mac OS X 10.6.6

using pre-installed apache running via Web Sharing (not using MAMP!)
several virtual hosts set in apache's config

Parallels 6
Windows XP Pro 64bit installed via Parallels

Network setup set to Shared
virtual hosts from Mac added to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file

Pinging gateway (Mac) from Windows seems to work just fine, but cannot access websites hosted on it - neither by directly accessing IP nor by VHosts.

Turning off firewall didn't seem to help.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: putting windows 7 on a flash drive using bootcamp

texts:
I'm thinking of changing to a new MacBook Pro 15" (the one with an 256GB SSD), 256GB is enough for my files and OS, but I also want to have about 50GB for a Windows 7 (BootCamp) partition. So, taking note of this extra requirement, 256GB will be rather small..

I was thinking, because I don't use the Windows 7 that much, I can install Windows on a 64GB SanDisk Cruzer USB flash stick and then boot from that.

Is this solution compatible with BootCamp?


texts: How can I get a copy of a user-added image iOS is using for the wallpaper?

texts:
I thought I saw this question answered before but I'm just not seeing it now. If I can't access the file itself I know I can get a screenshot and crop out a little bit but I'd like the whole image if it is possible.

I looked in Photos but didn't see it, and I looked a bit in the wallpaper preferences and didn't notice anything that would help.

I'm looking at a friend's iPad with iOS 7 and I'd like to get this wallpaper image before updating.


texts: error with email account setting up iCloud on MacBook

texts: when in initially began the iCloud setup on MacBook i put in wrong email address. I don't think i put in a password. Now i keep getting box that says it can't access iCloud . I have a proper username and password for apple id , iTunes etc which I want to use. How do i get rid of this wrong iCloud username?


texts: Mac Mini without keyboard or mouse - no signal on monitor

texts:
I have decided to turn my old Mac Mini (2011) into home media center.

To do that I simply connected it to TV using HDMI cable (directly via HDMI port) and installed Remote Mouse on it as well as corresponding app on my iPhone.

Now if I use Remote Desktop / Teamviewer app - I can wake up this Mac Mini and can use Remote Mouse app from phone to control it without any problem (rather flawlessly).

However without Remote Desktop app nothing seems to wake up this Mac. It does not even show screensaver (sleep is disabled), it is just "no signal" on TV and remote mouse from phone has no effect.

I tried to change TV connection from HDMI port to Thundebolt port (thunderbolt to HDMI adapter), however this does not change anything.

I have also tried using my Bluetooth mouse connected with Mac Mini, but this also does not change anything, mouse shows it is connected, but "no signal" on TV.

Anything am I missing there?


texts:
I'm getting this error while trying to start the mysql server

$ sudo mysqld_safe --user=mysql
110425 23:11:33 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/mysql/data/unknown-e0-f8-47-0c-04-a0.lan.err'.
110425 23:11:33 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
110425 23:11:35 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql/data/unknown-e0-f8-47-0c-04-a0.lan.pid ended

any suggestions?


texts: Will Apple EarPods functions work with an Android phone?

texts: Will the Apple EarPods microphone and volume functionality work with Android phones?


texts:
I'm with Verizon and my 8+ is constantly dropping my calls with the error "call failed".
I've tried:
toggling airplane mode
restarting the phone
dialed *#31#
checked for Verizon update
cellular data roaming off
voice and data to 3g
date and time to "set automatically"
Any thoughts?


texts:
My contacts, notes, and calendars on my iPhone all disappeared about a week ago, except for a few which look like contacts I have added directly on the phone.

It took me a bit to realize it, but once I did I tried syncing my iPhone to get the contacts, notes, and calendars back. This lead to the realization that my sync settings were messed up because iTunes started trying to backup my entire phone. Somehow the "Automatically Backup..." had moved from iCloud to This Computer, so I switched that back to iCloud. I'm the only person who has access to this computer or phone, so these settings changed on their own.

Once that sync with my Mac finished and the contacts, notes, and calendars were not restored I went looking and noticed that everything under iCloud syncing had been turned off on my phone, including Find My iPhone which is supposed to only be turned off if I enter my password. Again, I'm the only user and didn't change that so that was weird.

Turning contacts, notes, and calendars syncing back on under Settings > iCloud has not restored any contacts, notes, or calendars to my phone. I waited a couple hours to give it some time since it is set to check every hour. I have also tried turning on push and changing the time to 15 minutes. I even tried "manual" but couldn't find a button to push to do it manually.

I just tried turning off iCloud syncing and using iTunes to sync contacts, notes, and calendars manually. I tried twice, the first time just clicking sync all, and the second I selected "Replace information on this Phone". Neither resulted in any contacts, notes, or calendars on my phone.

Since I still have no contacts, notes, or calendars on my phone despite having iCloud contact syncing turned on both on my Mac and on my iPhone, is there a way to force the phone to do a fresh pull of the contacts, notes, and calendars from iCloud?

(Alternatively, have I missed something else that might be keeping iCloud from syncing the contacts, notes, and calendars.)

If it is helpful: I just noticed that my broswer tabs are syncing in both directions, Mac to iPhone and vice versa. So iCloud sync isn't completely borked.


texts: How to change the appearance of volume & brightness overlay in dark mode?

texts:
As you all know, in MacOS Mojave Apple has released a thing called Dark Mode. My problem is that I got used to the previous appearance of dark mode, when there were only dark Dock and Menu Bar. I've found out that I can type a command in Terminal to get back that previous view:

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

That worked fine, BUT there is one trouble. Not everything turned white correctly. For example, language switcher stayed as white text above white background, which is not really legible. Brightness and volume regulators stayed as dark cells above dark background, which is similarly illegible. Pictures below:

Appearance of language switcher was fixed by typing:

defaults write com.apple.TextInputSwitcher NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No

After this, it turned fully black (like for regular dark theme), that's fine by me.

I believe, that I can do the same thing to the audio & brightness overlay. The problem is that I don't know the specific name of this UI element to address it using that command. I would like to change its appearance to light one. It there a way to do that?

One more thing - is it possible to change the color of Notification Center and notifications themselves? They also stayed fully dark. I prefer seeing in dark only menubar and dock. I would be very grateful if there is a solution to my problem. Thanks in advance!


texts:
I wanted to try the solution from there (and many other sites point to this solution) but the preferred network list and all the buttons (shown in the step 4) are greyed out on my Mac (10.9.5).

How do I remove a known network from my Mac?


texts: Can Time Machine backups become corrupted when backing up to a NAS?

texts:
Short question : When backing up you mac to via Time machine to a 3rd party NAS (non time capsule, but instead something like a Synology or Drobo NAS). Can the time machine backups become corrupted and unusable, either due to the laptop / computer being turned off, disconnected from the network or for some other reason.

Long question : Im evaluating using Time Machine vs Carbon Copy Cloner as a backup solution. When speaking to Carbon Copy Cloner they mentioned that backing up to a NAS as opposed to a direct HDD wasnt the best idea as the backup could become corrupted, im going to ask them why this might be, but i also wanted some impartial input, any ideas why this might be and would Time Machine suffer the same issues ?


texts: How does macOS get "pretty" hostnames in Network view?

texts:
In computer networking, "hostnames" are limited to alphanumeric characters, with dashes (no whitespace or other punctuation).
However, when I open the "Network" in Finder...

I can see some devices (usually macOS) show up with spaces, punctuation, and UTF-8 characters in the name:

Ultimately, I'm looking to have the Raspberry Pi on my network show up with a pretty name. However, in my searching on how to do this, I'm finding I'm not even clear on how macOS gets these pretty names to show up. Searching for this yields too many results of articles explaining to people how to change the hostname of their mac, which I don't need help with.
On my Raspberry Pi, I can run hostnamectl and set the "pretty" name, but that doesn't seem to affect anything.
Anyone know how this is achieved?


texts: I had begin the update and left it overbite for download, it downloaded completely but then failed. I started the download again and this time it had finished successfully but I didn't notice it and thought it had failed again so started the download again. When it downloaded about 3 GB I saw the Yosemite installer and upgraded. But now the second upgrade icon is still there. How do I remove it and its data?


texts: Is there a network usage utility that shows data usage by network connection

texts:
I use my Mountain Lion MacBook Air to connect to the internet using various methods. At home, I use my wired connection, which does not have a cap. Sometimes though, I connect via my iPad, which uses LTE, and does have a bandwidth cap. At other times, I connect through 3G on my iPhone, where the bandwidth cap is even lower.

Is there a utility which would run on my computer and automatically track and record the amount of data sent. I am interested in seeing the data by connection (which WiFi network I connect to) and be aggregatable by date (so I can see for today only, month-to-date, previous month, etc). For example, I would like to be able to see how many megabytes of bandwidth I have used in March 2013 while connected to a WiFi network called "Bob's LTE" or May 1st through May 8th 2013  while connected to "Bob's iPhone".

Does such a beastie exist?


texts: Can you keep an iPhone permanently offline?

texts:
After doing initial setup and whatnot, will the phone and all preinstalled apps work properly without ever connecting to the internet again? (Assuming basic cellular is active, or not if that makes a difference)

Specifically, is there any “phone home“ requirement in the default software?


texts: I get repeated requests to supply my iCloud password each time I use my iPad.  I can just hit cancel and move on, but will get the popup again in a few minutes.  Is there a way to stop this?  I do not use the back-up feature to secure my information.


texts: How to block certain IP/MAC Address that access your WiFi Network ?

texts:
I can see people access into my Wifi by going into AirportUtility
Here is a list of people that are connected to Wifi at the moment.

There're 2 of them in there that I'm not sure - how they get in there ?

Goals

I would like to both of them out.
I also want to block a certain MAC Address for future access.

What I have tried

I've been playing around with the AirPort Utility, and all I can do is restrict the time access to a certain MAC address.

I also came across an app called Little Snitch, but that not exactly what I want.

Is there any Mac App that let me block/allow a certain IP address ?


texts: Can I change what the button on my Bluetooth headset does?

texts:
I have several Bluetooth headsets that have a function button in addition to volume up and volume down buttons.

How can I specify – or even determine – what the effects are of pushing that button?

While such a headset is connected to my iPhone XS, pressing the function button once often toggles pause/play on the current music player app (even if in the background).  If I double-click the button ... weirdness.  E.g., it might initiate a phone call to the last person I called.


texts: How to properly clean the ventilation slots on my Macbook Pro

texts:
I moved to a tropical country and have a real problem with mosquitos and like insects

.

They house themselves (dying) in the ventilation slots and I regularly clean it up with a cotton swab, but the space is so small that the slots stay dirty and I'm worried the MBP will have problems, also I like to have my things neat.

What would be the best way to clean this part of my computer, without pushing the mosquitos and the squished entrails deeper into the vents?


texts:
I bought a second hand MacBook, that had not had a fresh install of OS X.  The original owner's username and password are in the system. I do not know the administrator password.  I can use the Mac normally by signing in/out without asking for authentication. However when I tried to install some programs, the system asked for authentication, so I decided to reinstall the system.

I downloaded a Mavreicks OS 10.10 from the Internet, then I made a bootable OS X on a USB thumb drive using Transmac software. I logged to my Mac in the Recovery mode booted from the USB. I then erased the main HDD partition and tried to reinstall the OS, but an error msg poped-up saying:

  Can't download the additional components needed to install OS X.

How can I now do a fresh install of OS X?


texts: Unable to boot into ElementaryOS on MacBook after PRAM reset

texts:
I installed ElementaryOS on a separate partition of my HDD.

Not sure what happened but the audio in OSX stopped working after the installation. After trying everything else, I found resetting the PRAM resolved the problem.

However, the boot menu no longer shows on startup. The Linux volume won't even show after holding the option key -- only the Mac volume.

I can see the volume in disk utility but it won't mount.

I've tried:

sudo bless -mount /Volumes/disk0s5

But I get:

No mount point for /Volumes/disk0s5
Can't determine mount point of '/Volumes/disk0s5'
Could not statfs() /Volumes/disk0s5
Could not determine filesystem of /Volumes/disk0s5

So, ermm…, I'm stuck.

How do I get my boot options back?


texts: What text editor under OS X can close current window when you press ESC key?

texts:
I'm looking for a text editor that can close the current file when you press ESC key.

I am interested about this for using with a file manager, I open for edit a file and with ESC I want to return to the file commander.

I tried to override the close window command on XCode but it didn't work, instead of closing the window it does write me an upside down question mark!?

In addition, I tried to assign ESC as shortcut key in System Preferences, but this is not allowed.


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I'm trying to turn off the Web Sharing service from the Preferences panel, but everything I try, it just gets stuck on ‘Interrupting...’, with an orange icon, and it doesn't do anything. If I close the Preferences panel and come back, I find it turned on again.

(I reckon that it's not stopping due to the missing /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist, because when I try to stop it using the terminal, with sudo apachectl stop, I get an error that says that it can't find that file)

What could I do to fix it?


texts: Sync Google contacts and iCloud contacts

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I use CardDav to get my Google Contacts on my iPhone, which works great, but I would love it when those contacts were also in sync with iCloud contacts.

Meaning when I add John Doe in Google contacts it will show up in iCloud (eventually) and vice versa when I add Jane Doe in iCloud it will show up in Google contacts.

I've got an iPhone 4S with iOS7 and a MBP with Mavericks.


texts: Macbook Pro Retina 13,3" tingling/buzzing sensation

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Okay, so YESTERDAY i bought my (super very wow expensive) Macbook Pro Retina 13,3". Huge investment for me.
Yesterday night i tried charging i for the first time, and it started tingling against the palms of my hands whenever i like moved it across the under-keyboard area. I've read a lot about it, and i've read that it's normal, and that i have to use a three plug charger - the problem is that in Denmark we dont use three plug chargers, so i really dont know what to do! I just can't believe that i've saved so many money for so long, and that I experience problems after less than 12 hours.. ugh.
Hope you can help me.


texts: Is Apple education pricing only for university, not HS, students?

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I'm not in university, but I am in high school.

Is this enough to qualify for the educational discounts that Apple offers?


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My system is kept fully up to date and I still see this problem intermittently, although not as often as I used to; I would say that this has not been fully fixed. If there are any workarounds other than rebooting, this would be a good place to collect them. This has previously been closed and re-opened due to demand.

Cutting and copying do not always seem to change the content of the clipboard, whether triggered from a keyboard shortcut, a menu option, or even drag and drop. At the least this results in sometimes praying the wrong information, at worst it results in cut randomly acting like a delete key. The behavior as I have observed started out as staying to randomly occur and then consistently happen until the system is rebooted, for all programs including finder and the terminal.now it seems to stay randomly and then intermittently but at a high frequency occur, again regardless of program.

Searching on google produces no useful results for this issue.

Copied from Drag & drop and cut & paste not working [closed] so that others may find this question in search

  Possible Duplicate:
  Can anyone explain this clipboard behaviour?

  This is weird. I'm on OSX Lion, and sometimes both drag & drop and cut
  & paste stop working, at the same time. They stop working in any
  program, not just the Finder. And it's not just the shortcut: if I try
  to right click and select "Copy" it doesn't work either.

  This has happened three times so far. A reboot fixes it, but it's
  annoying at best. Any solution?

Does anyone know of any way to fix this, or otherwise how to report this to Apple?

@bmike I have removed other questions, I had this issue on a series of Macs, both iMacs and unibody MBPs, under OSX 10.7 and 10.8. I no longer use OSX so can't really contribute any more to this question.


texts: What do these Bluetooth icons shown in iOS status bar mean?

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I have two Bluetooth speakers from the same brand. They both have a mic and a call answer button as well as media playback control.

When I connect to one of them I see the following icon in the status bar:

The other speaker when connected, shows the following in the status bar:

Why is a speaker represented by a headphones icon?
Why do the icons differ?
What are their respective meanings?
Does the absence of a battery indicator mean that the speaker doesn't report battery status?

I am using iOS 10.3.3.


texts: Problem reinstalling PostgreSQL after installing Parallels

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I’m trying to reinstall postgresql on my mac (yosemite) after installing parallels seemed to mess up permissions to directories that psql and homebrew need. I was able to force-uninstall psql, but when running brew doctor before reinstalling I get:

Warning: The /usr/local directory is not writable.
Even if this directory was writable when you installed Homebrew, other
software may change permissions on this directory. Some versions of the
"InstantOn" component of Airfoil are known to do this.

You should probably change the ownership and permissions of /usr/local
back to your user account.

The other Warnings I get apply to /usr/local subdirectories.

I see many similar threads that recommend changing ownership via:

sudo chown $(whoami) /usr/local/

...but my question is, if I use this to change ownership & permissions back to my user account will this mess up Parallels?

Sorry, new to this, don’t quite understand the relationship between parallels & /usr/local/


texts: When I delete messages from my iPhone, my Macbook Air keeps copies of the messages, is there a way to enable sync so that when I delete the messages from iPhone they delete on Mac and vice-versa?


texts: How can I add standard users to the print managers group?

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I'm sysadmin for a small company; my users are on 10.6.8 (iMacs) and do not have admin rights for various reasons.  The only times this is annoying is when a print job jams or otherwise does not go through, and the user can handle the issue, but I have to come by and type admin credentials to "Resume" the printer.

Is there an easy enough way to grant standard users rights to the Print Managers/Admin group?


texts: macOS 11.0 Big Sur compatibility with Mac Book Pro 2013

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I read on macOS Big Sur Preview page that the upcoming release will support only the Late 2013 and later models of MacBook Pro.
Does it mean the Early 2013 MacBook Pro won't be able to run macOS Big Sur? What is the difference between the two?


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I found these various commands and am confused why they're so different from each other:

m3u8 stream to mp4 using ffmpeg - GitHub Gist

ffmpeg -i "http://url/in.m3u8" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 out.mp4

Converting an HLS (m3u8) to MP4 - Stack Overflow

ffmpeg -i http://url/in.m3u8 -acodec copy -vcodec copy out.mp4
ffmpeg -i http://url/in.m3u8 -acodec copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy out.mp4

FFMPEG mp4 from http live streaming m3u8 file? - Stack Overflow

ffmpeg -i http://url/in.m3u8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc out.mp4
ffmpeg -i http://url/in.m3u8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -t <time> out.mp4

Download or convert M3U8 stream to MP4 - FFmpeg Support Forum

ffmpeg -i "http://url/in.m3u8" -c:v copy -c:a copy -f mp4  C:\LOCATION-NAME

How do I download the following m3u8 url? - VideoHelp Forum

ffmpeg -i "http://url/in.m3u8" -c copy out.mkv
ffmpeg -i "http://url/in.m3u8" -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc out.mkv

What are the proper bits to put in this command and in what order?
Does the URL need to be in quotes?
Where in my system will it save this "out.mp4"?

In case anybody wants to know, I'm trying to extract the main video on this page:
http://abc13.com/science/meet-female-scientists-thriving-in-male-dominated-field/2040879

In the code for that page I found this m3u8 url:
http://content.uplynk.com/ext/1efe3bfc4d1e4b5db5e5085a535b510b/052617-ewn-4pm-women-in-science-vid_web.m3u8

I went ahead and tried one of the above, just to see what would happen. It did give me an mp4 of the video, but the audio/video was out of sync pretty badly. Here's the command I used:

ffmpeg -i http://content.uplynk.com/ext/1efe3bfc4d1e4b5db5e5085a535b510b/052617-ewn-4pm-women-in-science-vid_web.m3u8 -acodec copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy out.mp4

 5. so, in addition to the 4 questions above, is there a way to get the a/v to stay in sync?


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My Mac Pro become bit slow, I installed a lot of things, I downloaded a lot of torrents but I did not find any particular problem, but I found it is better to reset all my Mac. So I went through steps prescribed on YouTube:

Shutdown Mac.
Press Command + R and power button.
I got a window contain, disk utilities, so I did erase all my Mac disk. After
I selected “Reinstall OS X”
After a couple of steps, It is asking for my Apple account user/password. I have given both. But it says “this service unavailable, please try later. ” I tried more than 20times, Same user/password I am using on my mac air also it working well.
For this issue, I find a solution online, that first login in iCloud or iTunes with Safari. After try again. I did same but no luck.

So, I plan to install with USB. For that, I followed different video from YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIbOg89KIUE).
That says

Take 8GB or more USB flash drive.
Reformat it as bootable USB, that I did.
Download “Install macOS Sierra” from App Store.
Copy it to USB drive. I did all that as he showed in the clip.
And connect that USB drive to the mac pro.
Press Option + Power button
I got two options on Mac internal hard disk second my USB drive,
I selected USB drive and press install.
Then I am not getting any thing just white screen, I waited for 10mins no response.
For this problem, I found a solution online, that says, give very generic permissions to that USB. I did and tried again even no luck.

Please help me how to reinstall my Mac Pro please.


texts: Should a weak iPhone battery output less than 3.7V?

texts: Is there a way to check for weak battery? My battery dies after 2 hours of use but still outputs 3.7V in a multimeter check. Could it still be dead?


texts: Which incoming ports do you need to open in osx firewall?

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I use pf (BSD packet filter via Terminal). The recommended use of pf is to block all incoming ports and then open those you need.

I want my system to work properly and don't miss things like Automatic Updates, AirPlay, AirDrop, etc.

I came across the following list but it doesn't specify if it is incoming or outgoing.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202944

How can i find out?


texts: Only display on Thunderbolt works. Camera, audio and USB ports do not

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Very similar problem as this question, only the display itself is working on the thunderbolt monitor (I only have one, unlike the linked question which had two) with a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013). No camera, no audio, no power to USB ports on the display. If I disconnect the thunderbolt display from the MBP, then power does go to the USB ports.

OS X 10.10.5 (14F1509)

(more details below which probably don't amount to much)

This is actually the 2nd Thunderbolt monitor I've had recently. My company exchanged out my previous one, which had similar issues. The prior Thunderbolt was fine, then one day the display would not turn on, attached devices no longer received an active charge. Power would return to USB ports if display was unplugged from the MBP. Then a day or two later, everything went back to working, but the new monitor had already shipped out.

Replacement monitor worked fine the first day, then (of course) the day I shipped back the prior one, started acting consistently as described above - display only, no camera, audio or usb power.

I tried the SMC reset steps (about three times, in case it was sensitive to pressing all 4 keys "at the same time" in just the right way). That hasn't worked.


texts: Does iOS prompt for an Apple ID password after a device has been turned off for a certain period of time?

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One of my family members has an iPhone that up until several days ago hadn't been turned on for at least 6 months. When booting the phone, they were met with the Activation Lock screen and asked to enter the password for their Apple ID; I physically saw this screen, so know that it wasn't the standard iOS prompt that asks for the Apple ID password after an update, etc. I immediately assumed that this meant that the device had been erased due to too many incorrect passcode attempts; however, after entering the correct password for the Apple ID, the standard Home Screen was displayed along with all of the content that was present on the device before it had been turned off those months earlier.

So - my question. Does iOS automatically prompt for its linked Apple ID password after being turned off for a certain period of time?


texts: Adding SMB share to sidebar in OSX Mountain Lion

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Is there a way to add an SMB share to the sidebar in Finder, such that when I click on the alias, it mounts the share and opens it up like a regular folder? You can do this in Linux and Windows, and if I recall correctly, OSX Lion.

It doesn't work on Mountain Lion (10.8.[0-2]).


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In Mountain Lion scroll bars are turned off by default, and are only seen if actively scrolling.

How do you enable them, so that they are seen all the time ?


texts: Is there a way possible to make iPad sleep / wake at specific time intervals using Apple configurator?

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I would need to control an iPad's sleep/wake at specific time intervals.

I know using Apple configurator helps disabling all hardware buttons and touch events too... But my motive is to make the iPad wake by 7am and sleep by 10pm.

I know apps like MokiTouch and KioskPro helps, but has limitations. Is there a way to achieve this via Apple Configurator ?


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I need to open zip files embedded in a word doc on Mac OS X. However that functionality is not available upon clicking or through any of the menu options on Word for Mac. So I tried to copy paste the embeddings in a different file and saved that file as something.zip instead of something.docx. This when opened with Archive utility led me to the folder structure and ultimately the folder "embeddings" that contained the actual embedding as someOleObject.bin
If I know the content of the zip files, i.e. if they contain *.doc or *.pdf I can simply change someOleObject.bin to someOleObject.pdf and recover it Here is the Apple community post most accurately describing this solution, incase someone needs it for reference.
However I don't know the content of the zip files, so once I reach the embeddings and try to rename the someOleObject.bin to someOleObject.zip and open using Archive, it spawns more someOleObject2.bin type of files.
I'd appreciate any solutions to work around the above issue.


texts: Ping respects hosts overrides - but browsers don't, in spite of DNS cache flushes

texts:
I have a baffling problem. Browsers on my system (10.10.3 Yosemite) don't respect overrides included in my hosts file. This includes Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. I have tried rebooting, clearing history, clearing Chrome's DNS cache with

chrome://net-internals/#dns

and OSX/Safari's with

sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache

Chrome sometimes respect it for about 5 minutes at a time after clearing its DNS cache, but then miraculously stops again! And this is not reliable.

Ping through the terminal always respects the changes as it should.

I am completely out of ideas. Anyone?


texts: Time machine creating files and directories at random places

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I'm gonna keep this short and simple. I have a ~/.vim folder and ~/dotfiles/.vim folder (the ~/dotfiles/.vim was copied to ~/.vim). Yesterday I noticed that I had several files with weird permissions in the ~/dotfiles/.vim folder, that was originally in the ~/.vim folder. These are two of them from ls -l:

-rw-r--r--@ 1 root           staff    0 Aug 14 20:22 .vimrc.swo
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root           staff    0 Aug 14 20:22 .vimrc.swp

From this

$ xattr -l .vimrc.swo
com.apple.backupdelta.creationMarker: yes
inodeForCreationOriginal: 10315637

and this

$ xattr -l .vimrc.swp
com.apple.backupdelta.creationMarker: yes
inodeForCreationOriginal: 10315632

it appears that time machine has created som sort of backups of some files in ~/.vim (the Vundle.vim directory is another example created at the exact same time). Is this normal behaviour? If not, what might be the cause and how can I fix it?


texts: Closing Preview documents without confirmation dialog AND without quitting Preview

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Is there any way to close "Untitled" Preview documents without getting the confirmation dialog box (where it asks "Do you want to save the changes made to the document ....?")?

I don't want to just quit, or force quit, the Preview program, because I often have some other documents open that I want to combine and/or save with different names LATER.

I've tried un-checking the General System Preferences option "Ask to keep changes when closing documents", but that didn't work, even after a reboot. And there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the Preview preferences.

I just want to quickly close a bunch of untitled documents so I can free up some memory or reduce clutter, without having to mouse over to each individual dialog box and click "Don't Save".

If that isn't possible, here some ideas for other methods that would also be helpful - I just don't know if they're possible either:

A. Select a bunch of Untitled documents in a multiple document Preview window and:

Close them all at once without saving any of them.
(There is a File menu option for "Close Selected Documents", but it opens up a separate confirmation dialog box for each one.)
Save or Rename all of them all at once (i.e. Untitled1, Untitled2, etc). Then if I have the General Systems Preference "Ask to keep changes..." unchecked I could close them all at once by closing the multiple document window.
Combine them all into one document. (I know you can use Print to convert them into a single new document, but you still have to close the original separate documents).

B. Use a keyboard shortcut for the "Don't Save" button, so at least I can get through all of the separate dialog boxes more quickly.


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Much like: How do I cat a deleted file which is still open by its inode?.

I am using 'Sleuth Kit' command line tool, to gather relevant data from the disk. But I keep on getting:

Error opening image file (raw_open: file "/dev/rdisk1s2" - Permission denied)

This is so, whether or not I included r. How can I solve this problem?


texts: Finder directory containing latest iCloud Photos

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I often want to included a recent photo in an email, file upload, or other similar context.

I want to select this image via the normal macOS file picker.

I do not want to go through the hassle, each time, of exporting the photo from my Mac Photos library or AirDropping it from my iOS device.

I'm fine finding and exporting older photos via Photos. But I want the most recent photos easily available in this directory so that I can quickly select them with the macOS file picker.

Is there any way I can "mirror" my latest iCloud Photos into a much-simplified Finder directory?

Requirements:

I want to save this file location in my Finder sidebar, just like I do for my "Downloads" folder, "Screenshots" folder, etc. ~/Pictures/Recent/ or similar.
The single directory should contain all of my latest photos from the last day or week or so. Or just the latest 100 images. No subdirectories for each image.
The images should be in common image formats such as .jpg, not .HEIC.
I don't want the images to be iCloud "masters", or pick up edits, or delete from iCloud, or anything like that. Just a dumb copy of photos from iCloud.

I expect that this will need to be done via a script or regular automated process.

Do any tools exist that provide this functionality?

How can I create such a regularly-updated directory of my recent photos?


texts: How to enable/disable auto AirPod switching on phone call?

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When my AirPods are connected to my mac and I am listening to music, if I receive a phone call on my iPhone sitting next to me, my AirPods will automatically switch to my iPhone. How can I disable this?

I remember I enabled this feature somehow on my iPhone but I can't figure out how to turn it off.


texts: Name does not appear in top right corner in iCloud and incorrect time zone is set

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The times in my iCloud calendar are all wrong.

The answer I found to fix this is to click on my name in top right hand corner — only problem is that my name does not appear there and I can find nowhere to access settings for the time zone.

iCould currently shows "Pacific time zone" and I need it to be set to "Australian Eastern Summer time".


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I have a Transcend SD Card 256GB

I was installing CentOS in one partition of my SD Card, testing the OS in my MacBook Air.

Now I can't remove the partition and restore my SD.

sh-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 7887C476-CBE0-4D10-B95A-5C79F83B20D7
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.4 GB    disk2

/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *259.7 GB   disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data ExFAT                   99.5 GB    disk3s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data W                       84.9 GB    disk3s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data DEL                     1.1 GB     disk3s4
   5:                  Linux LVM                         73.9 GB    disk3s5

/dev/disk4 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *7.5 GB     disk4
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk4s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS Untitled0               7.5 GB     disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *44.6 GB    disk5
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk5s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS Untitled1               44.6 GB    disk5s2

/dev/disk6 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *21.8 GB    disk6
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk6s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS Untitled2               21.8 GB    disk6s2

/dev/disk7 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk7
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk7s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS HD710A                  999.9 GB   disk7s2

sh-3.2#

I have problem with:

5:                  Linux LVM                         73.9 GB    disk3s5

I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.6

I got:

sh-3.2# sudo diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ ExLinux disk3s5
Started erase on disk3s5
Unmounting disk
Error: -69879: Couldn't open disk
sh-3.2#


texts: The location of plist file with defaults

texts:
How to know the location of plist that defaults read reads. For example, defaults read com.google.Keystone.Agent returns the information.

{
    ActivesInfo =     {
        "com.google.Chrome" =         {
            LastActiveDate = "2015-10-11 00:45:56 +0000";
            LastActivePingDate = "2015-10-11 07:00:00 +0000";
            LastRollCallPingDate = "2015-10-23 06:59:59 +0000";
        };
        "com.goo

Is there a way to know from what file the information is read?


texts: How to reconnect to Airport Extreme hard drive without rebooting

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I put a mac formatted hard drive on my export extreme. I can connect just fine. If I leave the house and use the computer outside I'll get a message about the drive not available and the option to disconnect. I pick that. Then when I get back home the Airport Extreme still shows up in the finder but clicking it I get the message

  "AirportExtreme" can't be opened because the original item can't be found

Rebooting my mac fixes the issue but that's no good because I lose the state of all my apps.

Is there fix for this issue? Either (a) a way to make it just work like it's supposed to or (b) some command I can run to fix it?


texts: How to remove incompatible software flagged during 10.10.3 upgrade?

texts:
I just updated to 10.10.3 today and got this warning about incompatible software:

I got the same warning during the 10.10.2 upgrade.

I once had Trim Enabler installed and got a failure during upgrading to Yosemite, so I disabled it rather than deal with the kext signing issue. So I keep getting this message during upgrades, but can't find any info about where this is coming from.

The Qmaster preference is a total mystery, I don't know where that came from. I used to have Logic Pro a few major versions ago, but uninstalled it a while ago, is that the source? How do I locate the source of this warning?

Most importantly, how do I eliminate whatever is causing the warnings? I comprehend that they have not been migrated and just want to get rid of them as I don't need them.


texts: Open Preference Pane from command line on El Capitan (Mac OS X 10.11)

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I'm trying to open Preference Pane from command. However, when I invoke open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Dock.prefPane as in
How do you access network preferences from the Terminal?, I get Finder that contains the preference pane opened instead.

What might be a way to open the preference pane? I also tried /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Dock.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Dock to invoke the binary to have this error message.

-bash: /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Dock.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Dock: cannot execute binary file


texts: How to use two Magic Keyboards simultaneously?

texts:
I am trying double keyboard setup. I have been able to connect both keyboards using the method described in this answer.

However, the problem is that using a modifier key in one keyboard and pressing a letter in the other one is not working. I guess that Magic Keyboard is not sending anything when you press a modifier key unless you press a letter as well.

Can you think of any solutions/hacks/etc. to this problem? That is, is there a way to use a modifier key from one keyboard and use a letter (number, symbol, etc.) from another keyboard?


texts: How to disable iTunes (sudo chmod no longer works)

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I used to be able to disable iTunes by:

$ chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes

But then apple made it harder:

$ sudo chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
chmod: Unable to change file mode on iTunes: Operation not permitted

My objection is: Apple starts iTunes automatically, if opened and not signed in (with the sign-in dialog up) it blocks restarting (I have to force kill it) and when XCode updates, iTunes needs to be closed and it also isn't able to exit, and I have to force-quit again.

I don't know how Apple is able to deny the "sudo chmod"

I'm looking for ways that still allow me to run it when I need to.


texts: Will generic lightning cables and the "authentication chip" present in the genuine cables work with iOS 8?

texts:
I have an iPad Mini that doesn't charge anymore because the lightning cable stopped working. Since the warranty is over, I can't get a free replacement. I don't really feel like buying a new lightning cable because they're expensive AND STILL fragile. I thought about buying one of those cheaper, generic lightning cables, but some of them are not compatible with iOS 7, and the rest state that they work only with iOS 7. With iOS 8 coming out later this month, I don't think those would work after the update anyway.

Now, I know Apple makes Lightning-to-MicroUSB connectors. I like the idea of that, I have a few Micro-USB cables lying around that are sturdy and NOT fragile, so I could use one of those with the connector. I think this would last me way longer than another lightning cable. My questions are:

Why do the generic lightning cables specify iOS version compatibility and why aren't they readily compatible with all iOS versions? Is it because they lack the authentication chip inside?
If I buy this adapter - is it guaranteed to work with iOS 8? Is it universally compatible with ALL iOS versions and does it have an authentication chip inside?


texts: Can I submit an app to the App Store that needs a hardware device not available in the market(yet)?

texts: I am working on a project where im developing a circuit (Raspberry Pi) and an iOS app where the app is used to communicate (via Bluetooth Low Energy) to the Raspberry, only to setup some credentials. The circuit is a prototype, my question is, if I send the app to review will they reject it because the reviewer does not have the Raspberry device to test it?


texts: Display S.M.A.R.T. statistics for an SSD?

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I purchased a couple of used Intel 320-series 160 GB SSDs. I attached one of the drives to my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8 using a SATA III to USB 3.1 cable.

When I attempted to view the drive statistics, it resulted in S.M.A.R.T. Status: Not Supported.

I'm fairly certain S.M.A.R.T. Status: Not Supported is wrong. According to Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series, S.M.A.R.T. is supported. From the document (section 5.4):

  The Intel SSD 320 Series supports the SMART command set, which
  consists of:

  SMART READ DATA
  SMART READ ATTRIBUTE THRESHOLDS
  SMART ENABLE/DISABLE ATTRIBUTE AUTOSAVE
  SMART SAVE ATTRIBUTE VALUES
  SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE
  SMART READ LOG SECTOR
  SMART WRITE LOG SECTOR
  SMART ENABLE OPERATIONS
  SMART DISABLE OPERATIONS
  SMART RETURN STATUS
  SMART ENABLE/DISABLE AUTOMATIC OFFLINE

How do I display the S.M.A.R.T. statistics for the SSD under OSX 10.8?


texts: How to enable "Show message on Lock Screen" with Script

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So, In Mavericks, you can set text to be displayed on the lock screen by checking the box: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > "Show a message when the screen is locked", then clicking "Set Lock Message..." and entering the desired text.

My problem: I want to do this to dozens of Macs by sending them a script.

Now, I found that I can set the text to be displayed with this command:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow \
         LoginwindowText 'Enter desired text here'

But, I cannot figure out how to check that "Show a message..." checkbox via either a script, an MCX setting, or a Profile.

Any ideas?


texts: Sharing a Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse sequentially between two Macs

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I work out of my house where I have two computers: a mid-2010 Macbook Pro (for my day job) and a mid-2010 iMac (personal). During the workday, my iMac acts as a second display for my Macbook Pro via Mini Displayport.

Currently, I use a USB keyboard and mouse for my work computer and a Bluetooth keyboard and Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad for use with my personal computer. I'd like to get rid of the wired keyboard and mouse and just use the Bluetooth stuff for both machines (but never simultaneously).

Is it possible to easily share the single set of input devices without having to repeatedly break and reestablish the pairing of the input device to the correct computer? I'm not opposed to buying some type of additional hardware to accomplish this, provided it's not prohibitively costly or cumbersome to use or configure.

It's not clear to me how I would tell the MacBook Pro to leave the devices alone so the iMac can have them for the evening. I want to avoid de-pairing and re-pairing the devices each time I want to shift them back or forth.

Basically is there software or hardware that works as a Bluetooth KVM switch?


texts: How can I add a margin to a table cell in Pages?

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How do I change Cell margins and padding? I'm not seeing any options for these anywhere.

Is that possible with Pages?


texts: How do I find my purchased OS X 10.9.2 which was accidentally deleted from App Store?

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I have accidentally deleted my copy of OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 from the App Store in the  purchased section under my account.

Is there any way I can get it back again without paying for a second time?


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Is it possible to lock the screen in OS Yosemite using code? And then put in a scheduler to run every two minutes?

If so what script language are we talking, task scheduler program etc


texts: How do I archive a Time Machine drive to disk image?

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Is it possible to archive a Time Machine backup drive? I’m aiming to trash some older physical media and would like to migrate the contents to a larger drive without all the overhead that Time Machine comes with. Near as I can tell, this is not possible due to the way Apple structures the Time Machine backup. This is a 750GB drive with just over 500GB in use. A few notes:

I’ll never be backing up to this drive again
I’ll never need to restore from this drive the typical way you’d restore from Time Machines. I’ll be manually poking around the folder structure for files if needed.
Ideally I’d like this archive to be a single file that would be easily portable and something that could be mounted like a DMG
It seems that .sparsebundle files would be an ideal way to archive these. It is what Time Capsule does but I can't figure out how to create them in Disk Utility or the terminal
I have a Time Capsule at my disposal as well as a PC and linux machines at my disposal. My main macOS computer is running 10.15.4 but I have access to older versions of macOS if any of these help make this happen


texts: Successfully installed macOS Sierra on USB flash drive, now what?

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My mid-2015 MacBook Pro crashed. I replaced the SSD with an Aura Pro X2, but I was not able to install macOS Sierra to it, but I was able to install macOS Sierra to a 16GB USB flash drive.
But now what do I do with that flash drive? How do I get the OS installed on my hard drive?
Would I have to go back to Terminal and run the command that Allan gives in this post?
Can Recovery Mode install OS X onto a blank SSD?


texts: How can I get the tags section on Finder sidebar on OS X 10.8.5?

texts: Yesterday I reinstalled Snow Leopard because Yosemite is too heavy for my MacBook. How can I get the tags section on the Finder sidebar on OS X 10.8.5 like Mavericks or Yosemite?