texts: Whispersync-like experience for PDF or TXT files?

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When I start reading a PDF or TXT on my Mac and continue reading it on my iPhone, I have to waste time looking for exact place where I stopped reading on my Mac before continuing to read on my iPhone.

Is there a web-based app or a Mac/iOS app that would remember where I left off, the way Whispersync does in the Kindle app?


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Could you please let me know how I can change the creation date of a file in Lion.  I realise there is the touch-t command but that does not work in Lion.  A couple of people have mentioned another way, but I think they've written the solution in "coder" language rather than layman language - would someone be able to answer it in a way a layman can execute?

Many thanks for your help.


texts: When I open a minimized window, I don't jump to the space it opens in

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I have a new hard drive with Mavericks, and I didn't have this problem on my old Mountain Lion install, so I'm sure there's some new setting somewhere I'm missing...

I have a lot of spaces open, and Google Chrome windows in all of them. I also have some Chrome windows minimized on the dock. Let's say for example that I'm in Space 1 using a Chrome window, and the minimized Chrome window was last active in Space 4. When I click the minimized window to open it, it animates up and fills the page in Space 1, where I am. Then it automatically moves the previously minimized window to Space 4. (So far, so good.) The problem? It doesn't automatically switch to Space 4. I'm still in Space 1, even though I clearly wanted to view the window I just un-minimized.

When I was using Mountain Lion, it automatically switched me over to Space 4. Any idea why this isn't happening now, and what I can do to fix it?


texts: Update 200 multiple devices with the same specs at the same time?

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I have 200 iPOD touch devices with the same specs. Currently, i am updating them one by one using Apple Configurator which does not require me to download the update multiple times. But, i still have to connect the devices and go through the update process one device at a time.

Is there a better way to do this?


texts: iMac loses WiFi connectivity, doesn't show it

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In the past few days, my 2011-model iMac with Yosemite 10.10.2 has started dropping wireless connection, yet it doesn't seem to be aware.

I'll be using the computer, and notice a sudden loss of internet connection. The WiFi status indicator on the toolbar hasn't changed, holding option while clicking shows that it thinks it's fully connected, shows the signal strength info I would expect, says the internet is "reachable", etc.

However, pinging any domain/IP fails, and even pinging the router itself fails. Turning off the iMac WiFi and back on works - but only lasts until the next disconnect.

As far as I can tell, it's not the router. I have a PC, other Macs, and iPad/iPhone devices and they have no trouble.

I can't say for sure, but this didn't begin until after our area experienced a power outage and my iMac was cut off from power.

A week ago I installed a new Linksys WRT AC1900 router because I needed to solve signal strength and other issues with my last router. For the first several days I had no trouble.

I have two questions:

Does anyone know what might even cause this?
How can I better debug the issue?

Update:

Here's a picture of the alt+click of the wifi menu when I notice the internet has suddenly dropped:

And here's a picture of the same menu after I've reconnected and have internet access:

While unreachable, I also cannot ping the router itself:

PING 172.168.1.1 (172.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

And the same ping while the connection is back:

PING 172.168.1.1 (172.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.224 ms
64 bytes from 172.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.064 ms
64 bytes from 172.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.959 ms
64 bytes from 172.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.940 ms


texts: Is a partial restore from an Address Book .abbu file possible?

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I have an old Address Book .abbu archive that has some contact data that I need to recover. I do not want to restore the entire address book archive, and I especially do not want to overwrite my current address book.

But...  It seems like the only way to access an .abbu file is to entirely replace the current address book in a full restore.

Is there any way to browse and selectively access contacts in an address book archive?

Thanks!


texts: Where are System Preferences settings stored? Trying to script equal brightness settings for two monitors

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Does anyone know where the System Preferences settings are stored on Mac OS X? I presume there's some .plist with them somewhere.

I think that they might be stored in multiple .plist files. I'm looking for the setting for the brightness slider in particular because I'd like to be able to write a script that sets the brightness to be exactly the same for two monitors.


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After OS X 10.9.3 with the restored ability to sync contacts with iTunes (over USB) was released, I finally upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. Before I boycotted OS X 10.9 because I didn't want to give my contacts to iCloud (or any cloud, see also What's the best solution to sync contacts from Mac to Android Phone?).

But when I went in the iCloud settings after the upgrade, the contacts sync was active (Isn't Apple capable to migrate a simple setting like this from OS X 10.8 to 10.9? ;-)). I immediately switched it off, but I suspect that some or all of my contacts were already synced to iCloud.

I'd like to check that no contacts are in iCloud (and delete them if some are there). What's the easiest way to do this? Just create another account, use the same Apple ID for iCloud and delete them from there?


texts: Are users on iPhone 5 (iOS 10) able to see new apps on the App Store?

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We're an app developer and want to ask if iPhone 5 users (who cannot upgrade to iOS 11) are able to see newer apps or updated apps on the App Store that has been made 64-bit compliant.

Can they see these apps on the app store?
Can they install these apps?


texts: Keeping old version of Firefox while updating to new version

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On my OSx I want to be able to switch version of software I use.

Like right now I have Firefox 29, but I want to try firefox 32. is there a way I can download and install version 32 and keep the old one as well?

How such strategy can be implemented on all softwares ? This gives me leverage to switch to older version with ease..


texts: Contacts.app: How to merge duplicate contacts?

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The Apple article If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts, suggest using the Card > Look for Duplicates option. However I can clearly see three or four contacts all with the same exact details in the list (e.g. for each contact, there are 3 or 4 duplicates of it), but the "Look for Duplicates" option simply can not.

Is there a way to select, by hand if I have to, the contacts and moosh them together into just one contact?


texts: Play folder or file in iTunes without adding it into library

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Is there a way to play a file or folder in iTunes without adding it into iTunes library?

I have quite large collection of music that i want to listen to but not necessarily keep. So i want to be able to listen to some music files in a given folder (be it a complete album or just a collection of various songs) and once i'm done listening and close iTunes i want  all the files that i just listened to be gone from iTunes library.

I want to be able to do it with iTunes, because I can control iTunes with apple remote and with alfred remote.

And if it is not possible, maybe there is a workaround to achieve similar results?


texts: What have more performance, a virtualized Boot Camp partion or a virtual hard drive?

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I need to virtualize some Windows applications (I will use Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion). I have to options:

To install Windows in a partition using Boot Camp and virtualize this
partition from Mac OS.
To create a virtual hard drive, install
Windows in it, and virtualize it from Mac OS.

I know that if I proceed with the first option, I will be able to boot into Windows if I want, and the changes made will be bidirectional.

But, my question is: What method offers more performance, virtualize a Boot Camp partion or virtualize a virtual hard drive? I don't think, I will need to natively boot Windows. So, that is not an advantage for me.

EDIT: Ok, I did some tests and I can tell you a virtual hard drive feels way faster than a bootcamp partition. So if you really don't care about natively booting Windows, create a virtual hard drive. Besides speed, you will gain the very handy suspend and wake from suspend capability.


texts: Open a web page in Google Chrome without activating it

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Sometimes I want to open a web page in Google Chrome, but without switching to the browser. I have an applescript command (osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome"  to open location "URL"') to open a web page, but it activates the browser. Is there a way to open a web page in the browser without activating it?
The script below opens the link with no errors but activates Google Chrome. I'm not sure why is that the case.
tell application "Google Chrome"
    open location "chrome://settings" without activating
end tell


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Some days ago the "Multilingual typing" option (which enables to type in two languages at the same time without having to switch between keyboards) in my iPhone 5S (with iOS 10) automatically shut down.

I already downloaded multiple dictionaries and enabled the respective keybords under the General menu.

Does someone know how to enable it again?


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I made a little, easy AppleScript and used Automator to launch it on click:

tell application "Terminal"
do script "myScript"
end tell

What about back-compatibility? Can I run it on every previous Mac OS X? Will it work?


texts: I’m getting the prohibitory symbol when starting up my mac. I can get into recovery mode. Neither disk utility or reinstalling macOS Sierra are working in recovery mode. They both fail. It just says unable to unmount volume for repair.


texts: I have a 1G Samsung T5 that I would like to partition into 2 partitions so I can use one of them for Time Machine backup. However the Partition button in Disk Utilities is always grayed out for the T5 disk. It is not grayed out if I select the Machintosh HD. What do I need to do to partition the T5? (I am running newest MacOS).


texts: Preventing Finder from changing "Date Modified" attribute

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Finder has a pesky trait where sometimes it would set Date Modified to today's when browsing a really old folder.
For the time being, I am using attribute Date Modified as a quick guidance when looking for something.
To preserve Date Modified attribute, I am using sudo chflags -R uchg <folder> and sudo chflags -R schg <folder inside iCloud Drive folders.
Actual question - are there any issues/risks/problems when using sudo chflags -R schg <folder> and sudo chflags -R uchg <folder> inside iCloud Drive folder?
Ps. I realize that setting these flags will prevent me from making any edits (i.e. access will be read-only for my user and the system); that's my intention, I want to treat certain folders as true archives - i.e. no edits whatsoever even to attributes


texts: How to share photos with iOS users if you don't own any Apple products

texts: I have a bunch of family members with iPads. I'd like to share picture streams with them. But I don't want to buy any Apple products, thus no icloud access for me. I have pro accounts for dropbox and 2 other services like that, Amazon CloudDrive, etc. But nothing seems to be providing anything other than a download link, that ipad users simply cannot import into their pic library.


texts: "To watch this video, change your restrictions in Settings.", but my restrictions are off

texts: I'm trying to launch a video from the TV app on my Apple TV, but when I click on it I get the error message "To watch this video, change your restrictions in Settings.". The problem is that my restrictions are turned off. I try to avoid going directly through the app that the video is played through because it blasts me with other videos before I can get to the one I want.


texts: Xcode 6 and MacBookPro 2014 128 Gig with Yosemite - OVERHEATING and Long Load Time

texts: I have a BRAND new Macbook Pro running Yosemite and xCode 6.1. EVERY TIME I try to open xCode it completely overheats my computer and takes 15 minutes to open xCode. I have no idea what is happening. I was going to remove and reinstall xCode but it is now done through the Mac App Store. Any help or advice would be much appreciated!


texts: Change default screenshot format for iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8?

texts: I would like to change the format of a screenshot from .png to .tiff. Is this possible? Moreover, is it possible to write a script or some equivalent that can automate screenshots on any apple mobile device i.e. iPhone and/or iPad?


texts: Default terminal icon accidentally deleted!

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I accidentally deleted my default terminal icon and I also unintentionally replaced the Terminal.icns file in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/Terminal.icns
So can anyone provide me with the original icns file?
This not a duplicate question the other question is regarding apps not icons and I have deleted the icon not app please red the question carefully


texts: Use Quicklook to see the Content of .JSON files?

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Currently, I can use the space bar to preview a number of files such as .txt, .css, .html etc in Quick Look.  I cannot, however, see the actual contents of a .json file.

Is there any possible way to see the contents of .json files through space bar preview in finder?
(I'm Using OSX 10.8.4)


texts: View TLS Certificate in Safari 8 / Yosemite

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i've installed the new OS X Yosemite recently. Now i'm trying to view the TLS Certificate and the Certificate Chain in the new Safari.
In the older versions of Safari one just had to click onto the padlock to view the connection properties.

I know, it's all possible by using another Browser, but i like the new Safari ;-)

Best regards, Jonas


texts: Application runs, but I can't find the .app file (Pages, Numbers)

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If I open up a .pages or .numbers file on my computer (macOS 10.12.4), the respective applications open without delay.

However, when I search for Pages.app or Numbers.app in Finder, I cannot find either application! Neither application is listed in the Applications directory.

Where are these apps located?


texts: Is it possible to install Mac os x in virtual machine on a macbook pro?

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I'm going to try diffrent versions of MacOSX on my macbook pro. I have a Snow Leopard installed there, and need something else (possibly a Tiger) as second solution, to test the software.

So I thought of a virtual machine that would be running on my Snow Leo and have a Tiger running on it.

I tried VirtualBox, and install a MacOsX from there (from a .iso disk image), but it basically hangs during the very beginning of the instalation.

Is there any good and easy to perform solution to do this?


texts: How to calibrate a superdrive's laser for CD and DVD burning?

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Since I bought my Macbook Pro 5.1 two and a half years ago I could barely burn DVDs and CDs. I have read some discussions on the Apple forums that pointed a potential solution that didn't work for me: blowing compressed air into the superdrive.

The only thing that actually worked for me was to go to the nearest Apple reseller and ask them to run a special calibration DVD on my Mac. After that I can burn CDs and DVDs for a few months, but then again I have to go back to the Apple reseller (which is now closed) and ask them to recalibrate my superdrive laser.

Is there any other way of calibrating my superdrive's laser for CD and DVD burning?


texts: How to turn off "moving into" in IOS camera? (Live Photo)

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One of the recent IOS updates introduced a feature which no doubt some like, but I hate it.  I refer to the 2-3 seconds of video showing how the camera moved before I took the picture.

I have absolutely no use for this, and since I do take real videos from time to time, I have no way to automate removing the crap.

Is there a way to turn it off?


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I would like to know how long an iPad Mini would need to stay in water in a way that it is never ever usable again. I know this is a bit unusual, but I'd really like to get rid of the old device and I'm also curious what it would take to destroy the device. I've already had my device a day ago for about 22 hours in the water, but I can still use the device without any major problems. In fact, this post was written on it.

So would anyone know how long it would take to completely destroy the device?


texts: Accidentally deleted external USB Drive and now I can't access it

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I accidentally formatted an external USB Drive to APFS, I needed to change it back so I found this walkthrough:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-revert-back-to-apples-hfs-from-apfs/

and I ran this command:

diskutil apfs deleteContainer /dev/disk2s2

Now I can't use the USB drive anymore, I can't see it in diskutil via command line.

The only place I can find it is in system information as so:

STORE N GO:

  Product ID:   0x0302
  Vendor ID:    0x18a5
  Version:  11.00
  Serial Number:    1314110000000445
  Speed:    Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: Verbatim
  Location ID:  0x14100000 / 18
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):    500
  Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

But it doesn't seem to acknowledge that this is a drive, how can I fix this?


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I am running Messages on Mavericks. When I begin to type someone I wish to chat with, I get a list of suggestions. I wish to remove some people from that list. I have removed them from my Contacts already, but they persist in the list.

I know that Mac Mail has a way to edit the list of previous recipients. Does Messages provide the same?

Thanks!


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I just upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X El Capitan and I wanted to update my Windows 7 to Windows 10.
But, before that, I need to make a backup of my Windows partition.

As I've done it before, I have a Windows (NTFS) partition on a backup HDD.

The thing is, I want to make a new backup with Carbon Copy Cloner, but it tell's me it can't be done because there are two volumes with same UUID.

OK, then, I fight with my Windows backup partition to have it a different UUID from the one I got for my "local" Windows partition... and I'm loosing the fight !

I have this when using diskutil info /dev/disk0s2 :

   Device Identifier:        disk0s2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s2
   Whole:                    No
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      Windows_NTFS_Untitled_3

   Volume Name:              Win

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Win

   File System Personality:  NTFS
   Type (Bundle):            ntfs
   Name (User Visible):      Windows NT File System (NTFS)

   Partition Type:           Microsoft Basic Data
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Volume UUID:              24D65D1E-43E8-4FF0-BBBF-A82CC6B45D20
   Disk / Partition UUID:    D5C23E74-E658-45E1-B9B3-44681D0D02C2

   Total Size:               85.0 GB (84999667712 Bytes) (exactly 166014976 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        34.1 GB (34093342720 Bytes) (exactly 66588560 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
   Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No

   Device Location:          Internal
   Removable Media:          No

   Solid State:              No

... and I have this using diskutil info /dev/disk1s4 :

   Device Identifier:        disk1s4
   Device Node:              /dev/disk1s4
   Whole:                    No
   Part of Whole:            disk1
   Device / Media Name:      WindowsB

   Volume Name:              Windows

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Windows

   File System Personality:  NTFS
   Type (Bundle):            ntfs
   Name (User Visible):      Windows NT File System (NTFS)

   Partition Type:           Microsoft Basic Data
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported
   Volume UUID:              24D65D1E-43E8-4FF0-BBBF-A82CC6B45D20
   Disk / Partition UUID:    C8E2A2D5-6065-4903-8BB6-AC02698323A6

   Total Size:               84.7 GB (84655734784 Bytes) (exactly 165343232 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        44.0 GB (44012474368 Bytes) (exactly 85961864 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
   Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No

   Device Location:          External
   Removable Media:          No

As you can see, the "Disk / Partition UUID" is different, but not the "Volume UUID".

Does anybody have a solution to change the "Volume UUID"?


texts: Is there a way to disable the Spotlight hot keys via the terminal?

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I am trying to make configuration of a new macOS system as automated as possible. I use Alfred and prefer to use Cmd-Space to trigger the Alfred window instead of the install default of calling off to Spotlight.

There is a similar question about disabling Spotlight to re-use the hotkey for Alfred How to disable spotlight for Alfred however it relies on the GUI and navigating System Preferences. I'd really like to be able to automate this as part of bootstrapping via yadm which I use to configure as much of the machine as possible to a preferred working state.


texts: How do I use a cable lock with my Mac Mini? It doesn't appear to have any mounts for the typical cable lock. Do I have to get an enclosure and secure that to the desk?


texts: Macbook pro 2017 - Second monitor is not full screen

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I'm using the second monitor for my Macbook pro (not mirror, just as the secondary screen), but unfortunately, it's not filling the entire screen for some reason.
I've tried almost everything but it looks like a weird bug.
Is there any solution for this problem?
I'm attaching a photo of the monitor (the black area should be filled-the monitor is bezel-less designed).
I'm using Samsung's S24R350FHE monitor.
Thank you for the help


texts: How do delete permanently (not hide) some of my iBooks?

texts: I have several iBooks that I have no interest in reading again. I want to delete them completely, but have only been successful in hiding them. I don't even want them in my iCloud storage now, but can't figure out what to do. I have iOS 9 and probably hundreds of books.


texts: Did Mountain Lion fix Launchpad's re-arranging curse?

texts: Anyone that has used Launchpad aggressively knows that (at least on Lion) it would re-arrange the icons upon reboot.  There was no way to save or lock the order and location of the icons.  Is this fixed now in Mountain Lion?  Or did they just add a search bar and call it good?


texts: What’s good about Safe Sleep (hibernation) in Macs if the system will open apps anyway?

texts: I’m trying to understand better this hibernation feature in Macs.  However, what’s really the difference between resuming from safe sleep and just to plain old “reopen windows when logging back in”.  I mean, if you have saved all your files, what's the difference?


texts: El Capitan - Losing internet connection every 20/30 minutes

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MBP Early 2015 keep losing internet connection! Still connected to the router but no data in or out, can't even access router settings.

If I toggle wifi on and off it will be good for 20/30 minutes and then same cycle. What should I do, what is the problem?

I know the same exact question is out there but nothing is working!

I have tried:

Remove airport/network configs
sudo ifconfig awdl0 down
5gHz band
Removed network
Replaced modem
Cleared DNS cache
Removed proxies in network settings
Disabled "wake for wi-fi network access

Don't know what else to do... Haven't done any PRAM or SMC resets.


texts: Spontaneous high pitches & loud squeal in headset connected to Mac USB port

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This has happened 4 times on my MacBook Pro Retina in the last 6 months but also on two other Macs. Beats headsets to cheap Logitec. It is high volume, high pitch, spontaneous, comes out of no-where and definitely damaging to ears.

Has anyone else experienced this?


texts: Where are environment variables specified when .profile, .bash_login, .bash_profile cannot be found?

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When I type env at the terminal prompt, I get a dump of all the environment variables.  When I check / or ~, however, I do not see a .profile, .bash_login or .bash_profile.

Where is this being stored in Mac OS X 10.6.7 ?

Thanks,

Scott


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I tried to change input language by pressing shortcut commandspace and also by choosing language on the menu bar. It automatically switches to English language.

The only way I found to fix it by rebooting the Mac.

Maybe someone knows another way?

I'm using English, Japanese and Russian on a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.


texts: How to get Apple News App in iPhone 5 (India)

texts:
I have iPhone 5 and iOS 9.2 installed right now in my phone but still i am not getting Apple News app in my phone.

Can any one let me know how can I get that application on my iPhone 5 (India).


texts: iPhone how to disable sound notifications at work

texts: Let's say you are at the office 9-5, can you schedule the phone to be muted (mostly messaging, FB) during these hours and / or this location.


texts: How can I type the currency symbol for Costa Rican colón on my Mac?

texts:
On OS X, how can I type the Costa Rican colón?

The symbol is:

₡


texts: Is it possible to lock my MacBook to my Apple ID so that if it gets stolen (macOS) is useless when someone tries to reinstall it?


texts: Why is my iTunes library in iCloud grayed out?

texts: I got a new MacBook Air. I registered with iCloud purchased iTunes Match and now my whole iTunes library (originally on my iMac) shows up in iTunes on the MacBook Air, but it's all grayed out and nothing will play. What haven't I done?


texts: I am missing the option to see the remaining battery life as time in the menubar?

texts:
In previous versions of OS X the battery indicator in the menubar included options to show the remaining battery life as percentage or time (or nothing).

In Mountain Lion, there's only an option to show the percentage?!?!

How can I get the missing option back?


texts: iOS: How to change text size in app or otherwise read covered part?

texts:
A certain app displays a number in a large font, and it happens that if the digits are too wide (eg. there are no narrow digits like "1" in the number, but only wide ones), the number is cut off at end and ellipsis are showed instead of the last two digits. So instead of displaying 02345678 it shows 023456….

The app support recommends to reduce the font size, but that does not help. I changed the size under Settings app → Display & Brightness → Text Size to all possible values, but it seems the app ignores that settings (I also rebooted in-between, as suggested by the support).

Is there any other way to see the entire displayed number? Some kind of zoom? Hack? Anything?

I am using an iPhone SE running iOS 12.2.


texts: How do i remove favorites folders from my ipad on ios 9.1?

texts: In my list of bookmarks, i have several empty folders labeled favorites. How do i get rid of these? The edit button doesnt allow it to be deleted.


texts: How to add new dictionaries to /usr/share/dict/

texts:
I'm trying to add a new word file to /usr/share/dict/ on macOS Catalina v 10.15.1 and I'm getting:

$ sudo touch /usr/share/dict/mywords
touch: /usr/share/dict/mywords: Operation not permitted
# touch /usr/share/dict/mywords
touch: /usr/share/dict/mywords: Operation not permitted

I've read some guides online for similar issues that recommend going into the security & privacy settings and granting your terminal application "Full Disk Access".  However I have already done that.  Other suggestions include completely disabling SIP which I would like to avoid.  Does anyone know of another way to give me full access to my filesystem? Or at least access to the directories I need as I need them?


texts: Delete the current line in Android Studio?

texts: I want to select the entire line my cursor is on so I can delete it. By using CtrlE I can move my cursor to the end of the line. But CtrlShiftA doesn't work... What's the alternative(s)? Thanks.


texts:
Ok I searched like the whole internet for this topic but couldnt find ANYTHING at all and thought maybe this is the right place to ask such a question. I was recently visiting apples iphone site and man they have a LOT of images in high resolution there. But when scanning the site to see how much MB I actually load I was stunned! All these images made up only 1. 4MB which is incredible. For example look at this picture here from the Apple Website:

http://images.apple.com/v/iphone/home/r/home/images/iphone_workshops_6s_xlarge.jpg

This high resolution image is only 182 KB big I cant get such results in Photoshop when saving jpegs. I mean you can clearly see that the details are kinda smudged so I am guessing this wasnt edited the normal way.

Does somebody have an explanation for that compression and maybe a tutorial how to achieve such low sizes? I am a web developer and when I create website with slideshows where I usually use image sizes like 1920 x 400 or something similar I never get images which are under 500-800 KB


texts: applicationDidFinishLaunching - anyway to get this using script/command?

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Is there a way to detect when an app has finished launching after using open <path_to_app> in a shell? The prompt after issuing the command is immediate, but for apps that take a while to fully launch will timeout events until fully launched…

Using ps aux | grep -i 'path to app' | grep -v grep | wc -l, returns a process ID almost immediately (at app launch time), so no good.

Any help, greatly appreciated.


texts:
i can't access itunes, appstore, even the website www.apple.com using my wifi, both on my iphone or pc.
i've tried to looking for the troubleshoot problems using my windows pc and it says
"Windows can’t find the host name "apple.com" using DNS" what should i do?


texts:
Since upgrading to iOS 10, in certain e-mail accounts (notably an msn.com account) I cannot delete certain messages in Apple Mail. If I swipe left or open the message, and click the Trash icon, I get an error message

Unable to Move Message
The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash.

This appears to happen only for messages that have already been deleted via a different client (e.g., Apple Mail on macOS) but that still appear in iOS. No matter how long I wait, these messages do not correctly sync with the iOS client on their own, and manually deleting them produces the error above.
All the instructions I've found online for addressing this (apparently common) issue either do not apply to iOS 10 or simply have no effect (repeating the same error). The only way to delete a message once this error occurs for it is to disable and then re-enable the offending account, or delete and re-add the account entirely. The account then correct syncs with the server and shows the already deleted messages as gone. But that only works until the error happens again.
How do I avoid "message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash" on iOS 10?


texts: Why I can't remove linux partitions on macOS Sierra

texts:
I'm trying to remove linux partition from my iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) on MacOS Sierra 10.12 Beta 2, So I tried existing solutions by using Disk Utility, I tried from Recovery as well, But it says

  You can not remove this volume because the previous volume can not be resized

Some existing solutions use Terminal but I have no idea about that.

I need a simplest and easiest way to remove these linux partitions and grow my mac partition.


texts: Any trick to use my 2008 iMac (mini-DVI) as a secondary monitor for my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a 2008 iMac (with mini-DVI and NO Thunderbolt) and I want to use it as a secondary monitor for my MacBook Pro.

The FAQ for Target Display Mode says that it's possible to do it with an 2009 or later iMac but not with the 2008 version I have.

Are there any tricks to do it by adding any kind of software, hardware, cables or adapters?


texts: PowerBook G4 cannot boot up and doesn't install any versions

texts:
My school IT guy tried helping me with an issue with my old PowerBook G4. I just got it from my friend because he had no use for it and he didn't know the password. I tried resetting the password and it wouldn't boot up and I have no idea why. The IT guy tried reinstalling every version of OS X. Every time he tried installing a new version. Starting from 10.5 to 10.2 everything failed and wouldn't work at all. There was some luck with 10.4 and it started installing but then crashed in the middle of installation about 4 times.

It could be a hardware issue, but is there anything that I could do without changing the hard drive? I tried clearing PRAM and going to Safe Mode/Verbose mode, and nothing worked.


texts: In Shortcuts on iPadOS and iOS, where is the Adjust Date action?

texts:
I found a way to end an event 50 minutes after I started it using Adjust Date. However I could only find Adjust Date by copying it from a shortcut I downloaded here

Where did Adjust date come from?


texts:
If I open a large .JPG file in Preview I will see a big blank green screen...

I tried to delete the user's cache, some files from the preferences, but nothing helped me...


texts: Is there a recommended way to backup photos on an iMac

texts: I have about 2,000 photos that I don't want to lose no matter what happens. I'm not even sure where the original images are stored. The images were taken by various iPhones I've had over the years. If I open the Photos app on my iMac I can see all my images. Same with my iPad and iPhone. Is there a recommended way to back up these photos or, since I see them on all 3 devices, are they already backed up. My iMac is 10 years old and I'm afraid my disk will crash before I can get a new iMac.


texts:
is there an easy-to-use karaoke training software for Mac OS X?
My point is, I select the .kar file (or the vocals-only .mp3) and I sing against, then I listen to what I've actually sang?

FWIW, I'm no professional singer. I'm a software developer, but singing is my hobby, so I seek utility to help me train myself singing...


texts: iCloud Drive says it's syncing Desktop & Documents but it's not ... why?

texts:
Upgraded to a new iMac because my 2011 won't take new OS's. Still runs like a champ tough. Migration generally went well from 10.13 to new iMac's 10.14 with one glaring exception, per the subject query. Decided to let it go, spend a day doing all the other manual migration and verification steps, and upgrade to 10.15 Catalina guessing it might fix it. Nope.

Googled my fanny off. Found the best info on this forum and an excellent posting from Jacob Ford. My symptoms are different. System Preferences and Finder all behave fine. I followed the reset permissions advice, etc to no avail. My iPhone, iPad and iCloud.com don't reflect my new iMac ... they're stuck in the past. I turned off iDevice and old iMac iCloud Drive Desktop and Documents syncing a couple days ago. Turned off new iMac Desktop and Documents syncing for 10 minutes or so today and then turned it back on. iMac still behaves fine but when I login to iCloud.com it says all is fine but ain't got the right files. And, System Prefs:Apple ID:Manage...:Other Documents shows very wrong size, consistent with iCloud.com

Is there a reset procedure to restart the sync down of iCloud documents on macOS?


texts: Cannot pair Playstation 3 controller to iMac

texts:
firstly, apologies if this has been asked before, however I have read tons of online guides and had no luck solving this issue.
I bought a Playstation 3 controller with the intention of using it to play games on my Mac and my bootcamped Windows machines (I do not own a Playstation 3 console). Eager to start playing my games from a whole new perspective, I searched the web for instructions on how to connect the gamepad to the Mac computer via USB and Bluetooth.
As I said, I've read a dozen different guides and watched a few videos explaining how this could be achieved. They always list the same set of instructions:

Plug in via USB, controller should show up on list of Bluetooth
devices.
Press PS button and remove the USB cable; lights on    controller
should blink faster and Mac should ask for a passcode.
Enter passcode, add device to favourites, done.

However, I can't seem to get past that second step, where I am supposed to press the button and remove the USB cable. First of all, the lights blink slowly as the computer is charging the controller. Pressing the PS button doesn't make them blink faster, as when the device is looking to pair via Bluetooth. Also, when I remove the USB cable, the lights stop blinking altogether.
To expand on what happens step by step, the controller first shows up as 'Not connected', as expected. When I press the PS button, it switches to 'Connected' and the lights blink faster. After a few seconds, the lights stop blinking and eventually the controller switches back to 'Not connected'.
If I click on 'Pair' while the controller is 'Connected', it will either say 'Pairing failed' or 'Couldn't connect to this device' (I'm not really sure when each of these appear, but either way it just means I've been unsuccessful in trying to connect the device). I've never got a pop-up asking for a passcode.
My computer is a mid-2011 iMac 21.5" running OSX El Capitan 10.11.3 Beta. I've had some luck connecting my controller to my Windows 10 machine, however only through USB (I don't think I tried Bluetooth) and of course with the aid of Motioninjoy.
I'm thinking if I can't get this gamepad to work then I might replace it with either an Xbox 360 one (which seems to be the most compatible with PC/Mac games) or a Playstation 4 one (which I'd assume is more compatible with the newest OSX).
I would very much appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.


texts: How can I use my iPhone's contacts with the new Google Maps?

texts: The new Google Maps app seems like a good substitute for the inbuilt Maps app, as has been discussed ad nauseam. However, one drawback it exhibits over the inbuilt app is that it doesn't seem to directly integrate with your contacts - and doesn't seem to integrate with any contacts you have stored with Google Contacts/Gmail either (in my case, I sync them with my iPhone, so they are the same set). Are there any workarounds or hacks which can be used to get it do this? The best I've found so far is the obvious - to open the contacts app, copy the postcode (I am in the UK so that's typically precise enough for navigation) and paste it into Google Maps. Is there anything simpler/quicker?


texts: SysAdmin account shows at login, but doesn't work and is not listed in Users & Groups

texts:
When I start my MacBook Air (Mojave), I see the correct list of accounts from which to choose.

If I choose my SysAdmin account, it accepts the password correctly, the horizontal progress bar advances to the end and then it redisplays the login screen with the list of available accounts - but MINUS the SysAdmin account.

If I logon with another account which has admin privileges and look in Users & Groups, I see all the accounts listed, minus the non-functioning SysAdmin account. I see the same list of accounts in Users & Groups, with no SysAdmin account listed, if I don't try to logon to the SysAdmin account first.

I have created a new Administration account (with a slightly different name), which works fine.

How do I remove the non-working SysAdmin account from the account list that appears when I start my Mac, as I can't find a way to see it in the User & Groups list?

Many thanks !


texts: Is there a way to mount a disk directly to a specific folder?

texts:
Using Mac OS X 10.4

I made a script a while ago for my linux box in order to take archived data off of 300 floppies that automated the process. I would make an image of the floppy and copy the files directly off of the floppy. I managed to install xcode on the machine (in order to install ddrescue)

The thing is on a linux box I mounted each floppy to /media/floppy and unmounted it to ddrescue it and copied it directly to a usb drive.

I'm trying to port my script to the mac, and it seems that it's default behavior is to automatically mount each zip floppy to the /Volumes folder, which is fine, except it uses the volume's name as it's mount point folder name. So if a floppy's volume name is, "Jimmy Bo Bobs" it will mount to /media/Jimmy /Bo /Bobs.

So my question is I need to get the volume name either consistent to one name, or adaptable to the volume's name.

So my initial question is can I some how mount a drive to a specific folder, Like I would normally do in linux?

 #Linux
 mount /dev/sd1 /media/floppy
 #Mac
 diskutil mount /dev/disk1s1 /media/floppy #Doesn't work

If it's not possible, is there an easy way to extract the volume's name so that I can then link the script like this.

 Volumename=Jimmy Bo Bobs
 do stuff to /Volume/$Volumename

I'm guessing if it's not possible I'll have to grep the mount command to the /dev/ pointer and then somehow parse that string which is what I want to avoid since it would require even more research.


texts: Is there a way to automate the launch and close of an app based on another app?

texts:
I want app A to launch and close depending on when app B is launched and closed. Is this possible in macOS?

It's sorta mentioned in this questions
Can launching an app trigger the launch of another app?

But it's not the same thing. I want to monitor the running of another app. I want it to launch and close without repeated monitoring


texts: Unable to delete specific sites from Safari History

texts:
I'm unable to delete the two links (sites) from my Safari History - Apple Support which is actually a malicious URL. Right-click --> delete doesn't work for those 2 sites alone. Delete works for all other sites though.

Could someone help me work out how to manually remove those?

I'm on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6


texts: When do you replace an iphone 5s battery

texts:
When do you replace a the battery of an iPhone 5s?  I used an app that said it has 900+ charge cycles.  I find I have to charge it constantly because it doesn't hold its charge very well.

I know a Macbook and iPhone are not comparable but this link says after 1000 charge cycles for the Macbook, it's time to replace the battery so I'm wondering if there's a similar rule of thumb for an iPhone too (specifically iPhone 5s)


texts: How to resolve missing "Setup" button for Cardio Fitness feature?

texts:
Apple recently added the ability to track "Cardio Fitness" levels in the Health app using newer models of the Apple Watch.
Official setup documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211856
The seemingly-critical Setup button does not appear for me, and it appears this is a fairly widespread issue. See this thread for someone else's experience.
In my case I'm using an iPhone XR with Apple Watch 6, both with latest OS.
Is there a known solution to this problem yet?


texts: quickest way to transfer iPhone photo to "/tmp"

texts:
The Photo app has so many features, I can't figure-out this basic task:

take photos with iPhone.
save photos to /tmp

I've been copying/pasting pics into emails, then emailing myself, to get my pics into my local drive. Surely there is a simpler way.

btw: What is the setting to stop "Photo" from launching every time I plug-in my iPhone?


texts: I've downloaded audiobooks from OverDrive Media Console to my computer with no problem. When I sync my Iphone 4 to my computer, the book chapters don't sync in chronological order: what can I do to have the chapters sync identically to the order I have on Itunes, instead of erratic order I get on Iphone?


texts: Is there a way to refresh a file that is opened by TextEdit?

texts:
As an academic, I often have to conduct "numerical experiments" by running a small computer program that outputs to a text file.
I use TextEdit to read the text file.
However, when I re-run the program, and the contents of the text file changes, I find that the contents in TextEdit do not automatically update to the new version.
In order to access the new version, I need to close the existing TextEdit window, and open the file again in TextEdit.

Is there a way to refresh the file to the new version in TextEdit?
For those of you who know about the program Vim, what I am looking for is like the command :e[dit] in Vim which allows one to

  Edit the current file. This is useful to re-edit the current file, when it has been changed outside of Vim.


texts: How do I silence my phone for ten minutes?

texts:
How do I temporarily enable do-not-disturb mode for 10 minutes?

If I turn on do not disturb, silent mode, or airplane mode then I tend to forget to turn it off. If so, I miss important work messages.

I use WeChat and suffer from flurries of activity. Somebody will start a chat room, pull you in, and then your phone will beep and shake constantly for about 10 minutes.


texts: Using python 3 when the default is python 2.7

texts:
I installed python3 with homebrew and can access it with python3 command in terminal.

I'm installing a command line app that needs python3. When I try to use it it says:

  Python 3.3+ required

When I do python --version it reports python 2.7.

How can I get the app to use python3?


texts: Does IOS Dictation Database Contain “UGH”

texts:
I recently had someone reply to me over text and they claim “speech” to text wrote “ugh” instead of “huh”. It was part of a text that offended me by how it was written and I believe they intentionally wrote “ugh”, even though they claim otherwise. This person uses “ugh” quite often to portray or describe displeasure.
I’ve tried multiple times to get speech to text to produce “ugh” and I don’t think its in IOS natural database to do so.
I know you can manually make IOS learn words, but it’s not in their accessibility database as an entry.


texts: How do I downgrade my Safari from version 6.1 down to version 6.0.2 on my Mac?

texts:
I need to downgrade my Safari version from 6.1 back down to 6.0.2.
What are the steps?


texts: Can I query/change the polling rate on USB keyboard in OSX?

texts: Is it possible to check the polling rate of my keyboard in OSX? Is it possible to change it? I'm using a standard Apple USB keyboard.


texts:
I need to reformat my work mac. My boss bought it about a month ago, so it's one of the newer ones that didn't come with an installation disc. It's running mountain lion and has a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

I tried the CMD-R at startup trick, but it didn't work. Then I looked it up online and read that the new models don't have recovery partition, so you need a disc to reformat it, but I don't have disc!

I thought about downloading Mountain Lion from the app store and trying the USB drive trick, but the app store doesn't have Mountain Lion in my purchases because it came with the mac! I don't want to pay $30, just to reformat my Mac with something it already has.

Advice?


texts: Apple Watch locked when restarting after long powered-down state

texts:
I've kept my Series 5 Apple Watch switched off for a long time and restarted it today. It shows "Device Locked. Unlock iPhone to start using Apple Watch" message when I wear it.
On my iPhone 7, the Watch app seems to have forgotten my Watch and shows the 'Start Pairing' screen, but when I go to start pairing mode, it doesn't detect the Watch, and the watch doesn't respond either. The watch is not listed when I go to manual mode as well.
What troubleshoot tips should I try?


texts: Malware caused "Search With Google" service to be named "Search With Trovi"

texts:
I'm dealing with a Mac that has been affected by some kind of Trovi malware - I've managed to undo most of the changes but there is still one I can't figure out.

The malware renamed the "Search With Google" service to "Search With Trovi". My fixes have sorted out the functionality of the service, in that it now successfully launches a Google search in Safari, but the name is still wrong. See pictures below.

Any ideas how to fix this?

I've tried searching the names and contents of all files on the Mac (including invisible files, and including those in packages) for instances of the text string "Trovi" but have had no luck.


texts: Recording with Audacity using Soundflower causes echo/reverb

texts:
I'm using Audacity and Soundflower to record sound internally on my MacBook Pro. For example I can play a YouTube video and listen to it with head phones, while recording the sound output. All that works fine, the problem comes when I click record in Audacity. It records the sound, but it is adding an echo or reverb which distorts the sound, especially the bass drum in techno music. How do I turn this echo/reverb off?

Btw, if I listen to the music with my headphones, through Audacity, but I don't click record, the sound is great. The problem comes when I begin to record.


texts: Can I snap windows to fill 1/4 of the screen like in Windows?

texts: I know you can 'pin' two windows left/right on Mac through the full-screen option but is there no simple shortcut like on Windows, to resize/move just the current window top/left and bottom/right? In Windows you can easily get up to 4 windows neatly arranged and I am struggling to believe Windows is ahead of Mac in terms of user interface... so how can I do this?


texts: How do I prevent someone from switching off mobile data from control center in iOS 11 while the iPhone is locked?

texts:
Till iOS 10.3, control center did not allow you to toggle mobile data from control center. Thus, if your phone was being handled by someone else, he could not switch off mobile data without locking the phone.

However, with iOS 11, mobile data switch has been added to the control center and now anyone handling my iPhone with iOS 11 can switch off mobile data. This also compromises Find my iPhone feature in a big way.

How do I prevent somone from switching off mobile data from control center?


texts: Sync playlist to iPod on other networked iMac

texts: I have a main iMac with an iTunes library that I share with Apple TV and an iMac my kids use. I want my kids to be able to plug in their iPod and sync it with a playlist I have set up, but the playlists don't appear as options on their computer, even though they can see and play them through the shared library. How am I supposed to accomplish this?


texts:
Is there a way to see the settings of my iPhone without actually looking at the phone? For example on a computer logged into the AppleID or iCloud? I need to make sure the "Find my iPhone" info is turned on on my daughter's iPhone.

I was using the app xFi Locator to track her whereabouts and it was working fine until her data was turned off, because it had reached the limit. I've contacted xFi support and they had a list of items to look for, which were all set properly.  However, I think my daughter has turned this feature off.  Hence the question above.


texts: Does iOS 10.2.1 have a built in file manager?  If so, where is it?


texts: How can I list only interface name and assigned IP with ifconfig in terminal

texts:
Is there a way using only ifconfig to list only network interface names and their assigned IPs?

I am aware that I can do ifconfig | grep inet but this does not include the interface name (en0, en1 etc)


texts: Prevent iTunes from opening when connecting bluetooth headset

texts:
Every time I connect my bluetooth headset to my Mac, iTunes decides it's time to launch.  Is there a way I can prevent this behavior?

I found this thread, but there is no solution: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2570254?start=0&tstart=0

OS X 10.8.3
iTunes 11.0.2 (26)
Using Beats Wireless

Update

Even after removing iTunes from my computer, it stills prompts me to "find iTunes" whenever a bluetooth audio device is connected.


texts: Calendar days diappearing from Apple Watch

texts:
My Apple watch regular loses the ability to show me calendar appointments for a day, roughly once a week. I've tried Watch->General->Reset->Reset Sync Data multiple times to no avail. Whenever this happens, the day in question is just invisible to the watch. The calendar appointments are visible to the calendar on my iPhone, but not the watch. Other days are visible while this problem is occurring, but not the "bad" day. I have multiple calendars connected to my iPhone (work Exchange calendar, personal GCal, etc.), and they're all missing the same "bad" day.

The really strange thing is that I get notifications for the appointments on that day. I have a 2:30pm CDT appointment today that's got a 15 minute reminder on it, and it's going to trigger at 2:15pm CDT today. This frequently, but not always, occurs on Fridays, as it is today. The watch is just saying "NO MORE EVENTS".

If anybody has any ideas or paths to try in debugging, I'm all ears, eyes, and fingers.


texts: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) graphic card issues

texts:
First of all this is my hardware:

When i power on my new mac book pro (with touch bar) i figured out a strange problem (i think is related with my graphic card).

This is the procedure to get that issue:

Power on my mac
Type my credentials
the first window i open (in this case the "spotlight" window) appears in this way:

There are a lot of white pixel ...
Then if i close the spotlight window and i open again that problem disappear.

If i restart my mac i don't have this problem. It only happen if i shut down my mac and then power on it again. In this example i used "spotlight" but happen the same with the "Finder" app.

---EDIT---

My GPU:

Intel HD Graphics 530
Radeon Pro 450

Yes i have this issue on my interal display (external monitor never used).

---EDIT 2---
SMCand NVRAMdidn't fix the problem.

---EDIT 3---
After many call to "Apple Care" they figured out that my mac book pro has some hardware issues. They offer to me a substitution. Of course i said yes. In 2 weeks they will send to me a new one.


texts:
I’m trying to understand how I can avoid wear on my expensive 2TB SSD   I use Windows 10 under bootcamp for games on my 2019 MBP 16inch.

Can I enable trim as supported by macOS, on Windows?

Will macOS also trim the windows partition?

If no to both, what’s the impact?

Do I need to destroy the windows partition semi regularly to avoid the disk being over worn?


texts: Installed Windows on Mac, now want to go back to OS X

texts:
I tried to revert back to OS X, but I can't boot into recovery, or USB. It shows the prohibited symbol (a circle with a line through).

I thought it was a good idea to install Windows on a Mac, but it turns out it's a terrible idea (driver issues, slow downs, overheating).

What should I do?

I think my hard drive partitions are messed up.

I used this guide to install windows 7
http://derekhat.com/install-vista-on-a-macbook-without-bootcamp/


texts: In my MacBook Pro one label called 'Password..' showing. How should I remove this permanently?

texts:
In my Macbook pro, Some times the below password label appears.
I tried to close all the applications. still not removed always showing on the screen top of all applications.
I always do restart the laptop to remove this. after that it will come sometime later. Then also I've to do a restart to remove that label.
I've attached the screenshot below.
Kindly help to identify the issue
Thanks in advance.


texts: How to return back to the default view of pages in Pages?

texts: I've screwed something up with a settings and I cannot go back to the defaults. How to return back to the default view of displaying pages (page under page) instead of having them diagonally or page next to another page ? That's how it looks like rn


texts: How can I launch screensaver with a keyboard shortcut?

texts: I've looked around but can't seem to find any good answers. Would appreciate any pointers.


texts: Does a first generation iPod touch have the ability to download apps and use emojis?

texts: I am getting a 1st gen iPod touch for a friend and I was wondering if you can download like apps and games on it and if it has emojis? It would help to get an answer before I buy it!


texts: iCloud Status of Apple Music After iTunes Match Scan

texts:
I just purchased and ran iTunes Match on my collection. Approximately 80% came back as Matched, 10% as Uploaded, and an additional 10% came back as Apple Music.  All my files were previously ripped or purchased MP3s.  I completely understand and expected the Matched and Uploaded results, but have no idea why the others are coming back as Apple Music. I am subscribed to Apple Music, but only have iCloud sync enabled on my PC running iTunes 12.2.2.25 (which appears to be the latest version).  Any idea 1) why these are showing up as Apple Music, and 2) how to I get them to switch to Matched as I believe they should be?  Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.


texts: Why does opening the camera app pause music or podcasts on an iPhone 6s?

texts: When listening to audio like music, podcasts, or an audio book on an iPhone 6s running iOS 9 the audio pauses when I open the camera app to take a photo. This doesn't happen on other devices. Is there a way to stop it from pausing?


texts: Detect Terminal Color "Theme" from Command Line

texts:
When one uses the terminal inspector, one can change many properties of the terminal, such as background color, text color, and selection color.

How can I detect what these properties have been set to from the command line?

Is there some cache or file within
"/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources" that holds this information?

Thank you.


texts: Added LG monitor and cannot get display icon to show

texts:
MAC 10.3.6 cannot get the display icon to show up on the menu bar of my macbook pro AND the attached monitor.

(older) LG 24M47H-P
Display preferences show LG Full HD

✔ Show mirroring options in menu bar when available.

What am I missing, this worked with my old Mac running Snow Leopard.


texts:
Is FrontRow available for Mac OS X Lion or is there some third party app which does roughly the same?

I particular like about FrontRow being able to use it with my Mac Remote and I love to watch trailers / dvds. iTunes integration is not that much of importance to me, but would be a nice to have.


texts: -d option for split is illegal on OS X 10.9

texts:
I have bash script that works on Ubuntu but for OS X 10.9 i get the
error for split command:

split -b 1000000 -a 3 -d $F $F && rm $F || { echo "Error: 'split' command not installed" ; exit 1 ; }

split: illegal option -- d .

According to the split man page, -d is

   -d, --numeric-suffixes
          use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic

Is there workaround for this?


texts: Download 'El Capitan', 'Mavericks' or 'Yosemite' from external link

texts:
The HDD of my MacBook Pro (2012) dies and I bought a new one. The problem is that I don't have another Mac to download the OS from Apple Store...

Someone know from where can I download the OS El Capitan, Mavericks or Yosemite to install it and then download 'El Capitan' and from Apple Store and make a clean installation?


texts: Mail.app (Yosemite) sometimes doesn't sync Exchange Inbox

texts:
I have intermittent issues where Mail.app on Yosemite (10.10.1) sometimes fails to sync my Exchange Inbox. From home, I use OWA, and I see a different view there, with a number of conversations that don't show up in Mail.app. When I move the conversation to a different folder, it does seem to be synced correctly.

Anyone has seen this before, or know a work around to sync better?

@edit by DO:
I've a similar issue, I think this happens specially to mails in conversations. These are the errors I'm getting:

02/12/2014 22:55:08.206 Mail[21335]: Stream 0x600000911820 is sending an event before being opened
02/12/2014 22:55:08.384 Mail[21335]: Error: 500 The e-mail address cannot be found.
02/12/2014 22:55:08.511 Mail[21335]: EWS fetchRootFolderId: received an error: 234


texts: What makes the bash interpreter utility interpret differently standard and smart double quotes, present in a shell script, created in TextEdit?

texts:
While learning bash scripting by going through a Beginner's Guide, I tried writing some lines of code in the .sh file, created in TextEdit on macOS Yosemite and running it using the command bash \path\to\script\file\example_script.sh in bash Terminal.

Line of code that I first tested:

echo “The path to my home directory is: $HOME”

Standard output (stdout) in Terminal:

“The path to my home directory is: ??

instead of getting:

The path to my home directory is: /Users/Ri$hi

Then, I got to know about the curious case of "smart quotes" from a stackexchange, and played with some funny combos, like below:

Line of code that I tested later:

Scenario 1:

echo “The path to my home directory is: $HOME (foo) bar”

stdout:

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Scenario 2:

echo "The path to my home directory is: $HOME (foo) bar"

stdout:

The path to my home directory is: /Users/Ri$hi (foo) bar

Scenario 3:

echo “The path to my home directory is: $HOME” “(foo)” “bar”

stdout:

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Scenario 4:

echo "The path to my home directory is: $HOME" “(foo)” “bar”

stdout:

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Scenario 5:

echo “The path to my home directory is: $HOME” "(foo)" “bar”

stdout:

“The path to my home directory is: ?? (foo) “bar”

So, I thought why not find out the reason interactively on this forum.

NOTE: Terminal always displays standard double quote " when Shift+" is pressed, but it allows displaying smart double quotes “ ”through ⌘+C, ⌘+V operation.


texts: Security benefit of using a 'standard' user account?

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As the sole user of my macbook, are there any security benefits of using a standard user account for day-to-day usage and entering in the admin password if needed?
I have found years old, inconclusive, forum arguments, but would be good to hear an updated view.
Thanks!


texts: Can I cancel this neverending message move in Mail.app?

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A few days ago, I decided to move nearly 80,000 messages from an IMAP server to a Gmail server using Mail.app on Sierra 10.12.1:

This task still hasn't completed.

"Checking for Mail…" comes and goes as one might expect, and normal mail functionality seems to work fine. Connection Doctor shows nothing strange.

However, this task has been going on for days, and moves very slowly—I've left the computer on all night and it only chews through a few thousand, occasionally stopping with an error. If I restart Mail.app (it takes a bit to quit), it eventually comes back up with the same 79,718 messages needing to be moved.

Is there any way to terminate this process? I'm inclined to try another tool at this point, but I'd like Mail.app to stop trying to move these messages.


texts: How to view multiple inboxes on Apple Watch (individually)

texts: It seems like in the iPhone's Watch app for email I can select one and only one mailbox to read from the Watch (Include Mail setting). I really dislike the "All Inboxes" concept, but would like to have two of my four inboxes available, along with a sub-folder or two. Is that possible with the stock Mail app? Thanks!


texts: Debugging Server connection interrupted messages

texts:
I'm suffering at irregular intervals on my network with:

Does anyone have some practical advice how to limit this? I don't understand what the problem is. The new Macbook Air with Mountain Lion has no problem pinging 192.168.1.2 (the Time Capsule) on my home network.


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I have an iPad 2 with an almost fully updated iOS 8.  I have an iOS update that is supposed to fix something about ringtones and security.  I have the prompt that is asking me to download it, but when I do so, after hitting around 80- 85%, it says "Software update failed" and asks me to try it again.

I have been "Trying again" for the past hour, running this around 8 times, and I have pretty much given up. Memory is still plenty on the iPad 1, so I don't understand what's the issue here. I have the iPad plugged in to the wall, and I have really fast Wi-Fi in here.


texts: What app is this icon with a square and a black triangle?

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I've seen this icon in a tutorial I watched on YouTube. What app is this icon?
Have searched through Google Images but found nothing.


texts: Sound not working on MacBook Air mute box is checked and greyed out

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My audio on my MacBook Air is not working. When I go into System Preferences and go to Sound, the mute box is checked and greyed out. My Mac can't play anything including iTunes and YouTube, even system sounds such as the sound when you send an email.

I have reset the NVRAM and repaired the disk using Disk Utility. I also went into Terminal and ran sudo killall coreaudiod but that didn't work either.

When I turn on the laptop it doesn't make a startup chime like it normally would. My headphone jack does not have a red light in it and it shows I have no audio output or input.


texts: Is there a way to enable Two-factor authentication for my apple id without any physical device?

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Apple has stopped publishing my apps in appstore, because my appleId has to be enabled with "Two-factor authentication" first. Now I have no MAC nor any iOS Phone / Tablet anymore.

How can I enable "Two-factor authentication" without to be bounded to any physical device. I can still manage the disabled apps in "Apple Store Connect", but I am forced to enable "Two-factor authentication".


texts: Change split view divider size in Mojave

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Mojave has introduced a very clear divider when we use two apps in full screen.

The issue is that it is very large. How can I get the divider to be as in High Sierra ?


texts: Force OS X to open .tex files with TexShop

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I would like the .tex files to be opened using TexShop by default. So, I am trying to change the default behaviour by clicking right mouse button --> Open with --> checking always open with and choosing TexShop. It then opens this particular file with TexShop but it doesn't work later (files are still opened using MacVim).

How can I fix this?

I'm using OS X Yosemite


texts: Safari IOS keeps redirecting to https to non-supported http site

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I'm using Cloudflare, i have set redirect https to http and it just ends up in a redirect loop on Safari,
 Neither removing cache worked. Its very annoying , for a service status page of my web.

But what, it works on Chrome, Puffin and a lot of other thirdy parties browsers..

Safari just tries to redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

Is there any way to stop this?


texts: Apple ID and Primary Email Address - providing that I change my primary email, will my purchases be kept?

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as from the title, providing that I change my primary email, will my purchases be kept? I'm stuck at https://appleid.apple.com and trying to figure it out.

Thanks


texts: Terminal Change text appear area to bottom right

texts: I want my terminal to have the prompt lines (I don't know what to call them) come from the bottom of the terminal window, and be fixed to the right of the screen, not the left. Is there any way to basically invert the place that my terminal text comes from?


texts: What methods exist to give an iPhone an external hostname, on wifi or cellular data?

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I want to give my iPhone (iOS7) a hostname, which will automatically resolve from anywhere as long as the phone is online. My iPhone can be jailbroken as part of the solution; that's not preventative. I'd prefer that the hostname be dynamically updated, but if not, I can script the polling/constant update. The goal is to not have to manually figure out/enter IP or routing information in order to remotely connect to my phone, regardless of whether the phone is connected via wifi or cellular data.

What I've looked into:

I've seen a few links as to how to automatically have it update
DynDNS or similar with its local IP address, but that's not
terribly useful, since I'd like to be able to access it remotely
(not on the same LAN). There are sites which I could scrape that
give me my external IP, but a lot of people seem to be of the
opinion that cellular providers do NAT or similar IP
consolodation, so that would invalidate the resolution of the
hostname when the phone wasn't on wifi.
I could also run an always-on VPN from the phone, and have it either
connect or proxy through a computer I control, one with an external
IP, and have that computer NAT requests for the hostname to the
iPhone. I know how to set up a VPN, but I don't know enough about
how VPNs work over cellular data with an iPhone to set that up; if
anyone knows more about this solution, please mention it in an
answer.
I could also run a constant SSH reverse proxy or something like that
(which sets up an always-open socket, push notification style, by
initiating on the phone and keeping it open with the remote peer),
and resolve the hostname on the peer and then somehow relay requests
to the phone. Like the VPN idea, I know about this in theory, but
don't really know where to start looking for info on how to
configure it.

Question:

How do I give my (optionally jailbroken) iPhone an externally resolvable, preferably dynamically updated hostname on both wifi and cellular data?


texts: MacBook pro boot's to wrong OS after waking up from Safe Sleep

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I am dual booting Ubuntu and OS X Mavericks on my MacBook pro 9,2. I am using the rEFInd boot manager, since I was told that I should use it to dual boot OS X and Linux (I could have used rEFIt, but it seems to be no longer maintained).

Every time I boot up my MacBook after OS X has gone into Safe Sleep, instead of booting into OS X (and thus restoring everything that I was doing), it boots into Ubuntu. That's annoying, but I acknowledge mistakes happen, but when I reboot back into OS X, everything is gone.

It will be great if there was a way to restore the state before OS X has gone into Safe Sleep, and better yet have the MacBook actually reboot into OS X after a Safe Sleep.


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I am seeing some unexpected results while copying package files in a shell script. There are two interrelated issues.

I have commands similar to the following in a shell script:

cp -rp path/to/package/file destination/directory

The problem that I am seeing is that sometimes the package is copied as a whole, which is what I want. Other times the package "goes away" and just the contents of the package ends up in the destination/directory. I don't see the pattern which is causing this to happen differently. Specifically, in the shell script, the package is copied as a whole. But when I try the exact command from the terminal, I get only the contents.

In the shell script, while the package seems to be copied as a whole, it takes a very long time. Like 20 minutes to copy a 17MB file to a USB drive. When I copy the same package via Finder, it copies in about a minute. Then during testing when I rerun the script, it does not take 20 minutes, but just the minute.

These two results are unexpected. I would expect the same result each time, not varying results with the package verses package contents, and the time to run the script.

Any ideas?


texts: Any way to see my PC and Macbook's folders using iPad?

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Is there a way to do that?

The only way i can think of is to use dropbox but it doesn't support some common file types such as .mpg, .mobi, and .epub, and is limited to 2GB.

Also, doesn't it make sense if iPad comes with an app on iOS that can do it?


texts:
I have followed a guide online which requested me to run this command:

sudo cp /opt/local/bin/node /bin/sh

It was a guide for fixing LESS. Instead of fixing it, it only made it worse. I have lost the file.

Is there any way to recover/refetch this file, or could someone upload their sh file for me?


texts: This is more of an annoyance than anything...I have a MacBook Pro (latest Retina 15") and a Mac mini (latest model) both running Mac OS 10.8.4 and whenever I connect to my company's wifi network, I get prompted with a 'Verify Certficate' warning message. is there a way to permanently trust the newtork to avoid that warning?  There's an option to show the certificate which prompts with checkbox to 'always trust' and I have it selected, but whenever I connect I get the same message.   Is there something that I can do to avoid the warning message?


texts: What will occur if the .DocumentRevisions-V100 folder is deleted?

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This post concerns the folder located at the following file path:

/.DocumentRevisions-V100

I right-clicked this folder in Finder.app and selected Get Info. After several minutes of waiting, the "Size" field still stated, "Calculating size."

So, I ran the following command in Terminal.app to get this folder's file size:

sudo du -sh /.DocumentRevisions-V100

This informed me that this folder takes up 70 GB on my rMBP.

After searching online, I learned that this folder is said to contain automatic back-up versions of files. However, I do not know how this works, exactly. My understanding is that once a window is closed or an application is Quit, then one can no longer click Undo to revert to previously saved states.

So, my first question is, how does one actually access these file back-ups? For example, when I pull up an old .rtf file in TextEdit.app, I see no option to "Revert to a previously saved version of this document."

In my view, 70 GB is a significant amount of space. I would like to clear up this space on my Macintosh HD. I recognize that one should delete system files with caution. Is it okay to delete this "DocumentRevisions-V100" folder?

What exactly will happen if this folder is gone? I do not see its purpose or value.

OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.


texts: Gmail notifications in Notification Center

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I am looking for a way to see new emails that I received show up in the notification centre. Right now I am following the advice gleamed from this page but when new emails come in all that happens is that I get a notification on my desktop in the upper right corner. However, when I open the notification centre it says "no new notifications". This isn't terribly useful because I want to see all my new emails at a quick glance in the notification centre.

If I am away from my desk I am not going to be able to see all the emails that I missed.

Edit: I am using Safari on OSX 10.9.5


texts: How do I install macOS Siri from Sierra to El Captain on my MBP Mid-2012?

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I've gotten a MBP Mid-2012 & would really love to install Siri on the same. I've also had tested macOS Sierra Beta from Apple Developers Program & wanted this to be a part of more fast OS El Captain (OSX) as the current El Captain runs blazing fast on my Mid-2012 MBP.

macOS has a different architecture, which is accepted - but Siri would just be an .app file. Given that it's a .app file, can I know the procedure how do I go about installing only Siri on El Captain?


texts: How to add a shortcut to an individual iBook file to the iPad home screen?

texts: I'm currently in the process of creating an iBook for use within my company. Some of the people who will be using it aren't particularly tech-savvy, so I want to make it as easy as possible for them to access the iBook directly from the home screen of their iPads. I don't want them to have to worry about navigating into the iBooks app at all. Is there any way to save the individual iBook file directly to the home screen?


texts: How to delete all emails from inbox in iPad 8.1.3?

texts: How do you delete all inbox mail messages in iPad iOS 8.1.3? It doesn't support prior move tricks many have posted as a method since it is unresponsive to the Trash target mailbox if you use the 'move all' trick.


texts: Is there any reason to switch from MobileMe to iCloud if i'm still on Snow Leopard?

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I use iDisk and have some Web Galleries on my MobileMe account (both features that have been siginficantly changed in iCloud), and since none of my computers run Lion (my iPad runs iOS5) I cannot sync fully with iCloud.

Is there any reason why I should switch to using iCloud now? or should I continue with the benefits of MobileMe.


texts: Aperture: Library over multiple Hard Drives

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I switched to Aperture some time ago. And right now, the moment has come that I want to save some space on my internal hard drive. What I found on the Apple website is this:

I can't seem to find this feature. Online tutorials simply suggest to create multiple libraries and switch between them. But I'm looking for the kind of solution that Apple suggests in this screenshot: I want to use Aperture with my library (one single big library) and Aperture manages where all pictures are stored, across the multiple hard drives. It should be something going on at the background, out of my knowledge. I just want to be the clueless user of the application.

Has anyone found how to do this?


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I would like to track album releases for a group of artists. I could just loop over all of them and check to see if they have any releases since the last one, but it would be much more efficient if I could select future releases.

How can I get anticipated releases via the iTunes API (or another one if this isn't possible)? I was thinking maybe preorders or there would be a list of upcoming releases for that week?


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I'm going to Japan (Tokyo, being more specific) on April, and I'd like to buy an iPhone there. I made some research and found mixed information about whether is possible to buy an unlocked iPhone 7 256GB in an Apple Store in Tokyo.

This post for example, is from someone that bought an iPhone and it didn't work in US. But MadDane said in Aug 18, 2016:

  I have lived in Japan and have friends that came to visit while I was there that bought an iPhone 6s while there. This was at an Apple Store in Tokyo, but it was unlocked and works perfectly overseas. So you should definitely be able to get the same.

So, is it possible to buy an unlocked iPhone in Japan at an Apple Store to use it later with a GSM carrier in Brazil?


texts: Why can't python find scipy after a pip install?

texts: I'm using pip to install python packages on macOS Sierra. When I pip install scipy and try to import it, python can't find the module. However when I pip install numpy and do the same thing, it seems to work. What's going wrong?


texts: Why does my MBP mid retina 2012 run so slowly when using it's built in monitor?

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I'm having severe performance troubles when I'm using the laptop's built in screen as opposed to an external display.

Whenever I stop using the external display, many of the OSX animations become slow and choppy.

I suspect what's happening is that my external display always uses the discrete graphics card for acceleration. I also sometimes work quite close to the limit of my physical RAM. This probably makes it hard for my integrated graphics card to work efficiently.

Any suggestions on how to force this machine to use the discrete graphics card EVEN when not using an external monitor?

Specs below:

  Model Name: MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier:   MacBookPro10,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:    2,3 GHz
  Number of
  Processors:   1
  Total Number of Cores:  4
   L2 Cache (per Core):   256 KB
  L3 Cache: 6 MB
  Memory: 8 GB

  NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

  Intel HD Graphics 4000


texts: Is there any way an iOS app can access the mic/camera without the user's knowledge?

texts: In iOS (14.3, as of today), in Settings→Privacy, you can see/control which apps access hardware on the iPhone, such as the microphone and camera. Is this The Exhaustive List of which apps do have access? Is there any way (short of an iOS bug) an app could access the mic/camera without it being listed here in the Microphone/Camera settings?


texts: Java won't work in Chrome/Safari/Firefox, but does in Terminal

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I've updated to Oracle's 1.7 64-bit beta, and this is what my Java Preferences window looks like (you will note that the webapp checkbox is checked and I've restarted my machine since checking it):

I've tried unchecking SE 6 32-bit, 64-bit, and both, as well as disabling SE 7. Doesn't do anything. I've rebooted after installing. No dice. I've checked Software Update. Nope.
java -version reports:

java -version java version "1.7.0_05" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
(build 1.7.0_05-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build
23.1-b03, mixed mode)

This test page in Safari returns a blank, Chrome asks for Java plugin, and Firefox says "Java is broken":
http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
which java says /usr/bin/java
Any idea what the problem is? This is endlessly frustrating given how mindlessly simple it is to install Java in both Windows and most Linux builds.
Have tried reverting to SE 6 by uninstalling SE 7. Here's the infuriating reality I am dealing with:


texts: Why all previous SMSs are deleted after receiving a normal SMS on my iPhone4/iOS 7.1.2?

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I received a normal SMS (GSM SMS, not iMessage) from my friend on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2. There were lots of messages (more than 10K) in that chat thread before the last message received. When I opened that SMS, I saw that there is only one message in that thread. All previous messages were deleted after receiving that SMS.

I tried reopening the Messages application, restarting my iPhone, scrolling up after more messages received, but no luck.

After that, I logged in to my iPhone with SSH and downloaded the SMS db file (~31MB) located in /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db. I opened the db file with sqlite3, there were 36K SMS/iMessages, but there were no messages before the last message in that thread in the database file.

Is there any reasonable scenario that cause this data loss? How can I recover those deleted messages?


texts: How do I control text alignment in a document with a  3 column layout in Pages 09?

texts:
How do I create a menu/brochure for a salon with 3 columns, where the price will be next to the description but right-aligned?

I think there has to be be a better way than hitting the Space bar to get it to the right!


texts: How can I remotely send an SMS message through my Mac from my iPhone?

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Is there an application for Mac OS X which would allow me to remotely send SMS messages through my iPhone? Ideally, just a simple application or maybe a full screen remote application like TeamViewer.

I prefer a free solution.


texts: How do I create a scheduled task that deletes files of a certain name everyday?

texts:
Our voicemail system sends our messages to us via email as mp3 files. When I download the file, it comes down as "message.mp3", but of course OSX will rename them "Message (x).mp3" when you have more than 1. What I want to do is create a script/task that will automatically delete them everyday (or whatever I choose) as long as they're more than a couple days old.

I don't know how to a cron task, and one solution I came across was to create an AppleScript (which I also don't know well) and then use iCal to schedule an event everyday that runs the script. But it doesn't work.

Here's the AppleScript:

tell application "Finder"
    try
        delete (every file of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:username:Downloads" whose name starts with "message" and modification date is less than (get current date) - 2 * days)
    end try
end tell

And in iCal I created a repeating event, with the script attached.

Does anyone know how to do this (perhaps a better way?)


texts: Create shortcut button to Enable Voice Control

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Is there anyway I can create a shortcut button and place it on the tool bar for: System Preferences > Voice Control > Enable Voice Control? Is there already a keyboard shortcut for this?
After putting my computer to sleep and waking it up, Dictation does not always work unless I select and then un-select this.


texts: How to stop assignment of numbers to hostnames?

texts:
My devices, including airport stations, keep being assigned a number following their name (i.e. "ATV (3)"). I was hoping Mavericks would fix it but it did not.

Is this fixable, please?


texts: Using search bar in safari to search a specific site

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One can do searches from the address bar in safari. However one can only specify one search engine to use. Id really like to specify that I want the search to happen in google/youtube/wikipedia etc. Id really like to be able to do searches from the address bar in safari.

I had this in chrome a while back, and I'd love to use it in safari. Does anyone know if an extension is available to do it?

a description of the functionality can be seen in this gif:
https://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/09/h2-chrome-omnibox/chromebar_gif_slow_it_down/


texts: How does Time Machine deal with moved files

texts:
I have a large photo library (a couple of 100GBs of data) on an external hard drive, but I will need to move it to a different drive.

When moving the files, will time machine try to backup up all the moved files again, so my photo library will be stored twice in the backup set - or is it able to recognize that the "new" files are indeed identical to existing files in its history?


texts: Is an external GPU possible for MacBook Air 2012?

texts:
I work with machine learning and 3D rendering, both of them need powerful GPU, and my laptop completely lacks it. I had an idea to buy a PC with good GPU, but then I found several articles which says that using an external GPU (eGPU) may be possible for Macs, but there are different technical and software restrictions.

So, can I use eGPU for my MacBook Air? If so, what GPU, anyone or only some of them? And what other devices I'll need to combine, get everything work correctly?

Here are (the most important, I think) details about my laptop:

macOS Sierra
Version 10.12.6

MacBook Air 13-inch Mid 2012
Processor: 1,8 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GM 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

Thunderbolt Bus:
Firmware version: 23,4
Link Status: 0x101
Speed: up to 10 Gb/s x2
Receptacle: 1
Link Controller Firmware Version: 0.12.3


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I use a cryptocurrency and it's blockchain is represented on disk by a single large lmdb database file.

The file is 72GB or so.

Each day the crypto node updates the chain with new transactions so the file is always getting added to.

I'm running Time Machine and seeing huge backups.

I thought Time Machine only backed up deltas of files? (i.e the difference between the old file and new file).

Does Time Machine instead backup a file completely, EVERY time it changes by a bit?

It seems that way.

Is time machine so that it will backup a full 70~ gigs a day each time my blockchain db changes slightly?

This seems wrong to me.

What do video editors do?? Aren't they always hitting this issue with large video files, 4K and whatnot?


texts: How Google puts unwanted apps on our Macs?

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I cannot find in my memory a situation when I was installing anything from Google except from Google Chrome (that is my main browser).

Recently I saw on my Mac an app titled Google Search.app.

(Above screenshot taken from Launchpad)

Tiny (87 KB) but in my case definitely unwanted. I see that the only thing it does when opened is open Chrome with a new tab which has google.com for its url.

This makes no sense to me. Also this app is not stored in my home directory /Users/slick/Applications/Chrome Apps. Rather, it is stored in /Applications. Will definitely land into the Trash.

Question: How it was installed without my permission (if I'm a root on my own computer)? How should I stop this in future?


texts: Block Internet access to specific apps on specific Wi-Fi networks

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My company just set my laptop up with Backblaze, and the backups are killing my crappy rural DSL connection when I bring the machine home. Are there utilities that can block specific applications from accessing the Internet on specific Wi-Fi networks?

I've seen recommendations here for apps like Little Snitch or Radio Silence that can control Internet access on a per-app basis, but they don't seem to say anything about specific Wi-Fi networks. Can Automator control these apps when connecting/disconnecting from a specific Wi-Fi network?


texts: Counter formula that subtracts with each transaction

texts:
This must exist, but I can not figure it out with Numbers. I have an inventory of products I sell. I want to automatically subtract from the total original inventory each time an item sells. And to do this, I fill out a re-useable packing slip in Numbers. The item and quantity is listed on the packing slip, which in turn automatically deducts from the inventory- a simple sum formula.

For example, I have 200 of an item and in Numbers it is listed as such in a certain cell in a table that keeps track of inventory. If I sell 10 of that item to a new client, I fill out a packing slip. My formula in the packing slip automatically subtracts 10 of that item from inventory. Now the inventory states 190 left. Great so far.

I save a copy of that packing slip for the client as a pdf. And then later that same standard packing slip is zeroed out and used for the next client.

So say the next order is a dozen for that same item. Now a problem. The inventory formula only recognizes the latest entry, so instead of now having 178 items left in inventory (200-10-12=178), the inventory states 188 items left because it 'forgets' about the ten already sold.

I don't want to manually fill myriads of entries in cells that compute each and every transaction just to make this work. I just want to formulate a running inventory count so each time a packing slip entry is made, the corresponding amount is further subtracted from the ongoing inventory count, just like a barcode reader might subtract from the total as a counter.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.


texts: Some files disappear from an APFS snapshot

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I'm using rsync on top of a mount_apfs snapshots, to backup a consistent file system view and without having to stop applications during the backup.
While so far, it has been working pretty well, from time to time rsync shows messages like:
mount_apfs: snapshot implicitly mounted readonly
file has vanished: "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage/leveldb/021794.ldb"
file has vanished: "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage/leveldb/021795.ldb"
file has vanished: "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage/leveldb/021796.ldb"
rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at main.c(1209) [sender=3.1.3]

Which usually happens when an application interferes with rsync by deleting files in the middle of a backup.
To me, a snapshot is supposed to offer a frozen view of the file system at some point, but maybe it's not exactly like that for an Apple snapshot?


texts: iOS: How to set language of app independent of iphone/ipad language

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More & more apps try setting their language automatically, based upon the language of your iPad, then the list of chosen languages.

Unfortunately, as do a lot of people, my preferred iOS/OSX system language is English, but certain apps (notably the new TomTom Go Mobile) need Dutch to be much of use (at least in Flanders, Belgium).

At the same time, the new WW (Weight Watchers mobile app) has poorly implemented localisation as well. Result: when my iPhone is in English, it loads the French version (go figure) even if french is only the third preferred language (behind english & dutch)

These apps should receive a warning in the app store, get banned altogether until their localisation performs as advertised, or its settings should get set from the settings menu, imho.

Is there a way to set the language independent from the main iOS language?

This problem pops up regularly (notably in bi-lingual countries or international, cosmopolitan people whose preferences and language capacities vary greatly).

If anyone at Apple is reading this; please help!


texts: How to repair a MacBook Pro 2007 hard drive bus?

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Is there a repair I can do to the hard drive bus on a MacBook Pro 2007?

I've changed the SATA cable but it still won't see the drive, which I know is good as it boots externally! Disk Utility doesn't detect it either.


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What is the process (if any) for disabling other users ability to create local accounts on a macOS device (including local administrators)? An alternative would be also to disable local administrators ability to create local accounts entirely which is also fine, as we use Active Directory for authentication. I know in Windows I can use local and AD group policies to manage this on Windows systems but I'm not familiar with a local group policy application in macOS.

We centrally manage full disk encryption on our mobile estate and users creating their own logons on organisational devices is something we'd like to avoid.

Many thanks in advance.


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Mojave 10.14.4 here -- mds_worker processes constantly crashing and re-spawning as per the logs.  The 'indexing' spotlight bar stops at various different points, always getting stuck, though in different places apparently.  I've rebuilt the database many times (using mdutil -i on/off, -a -E, etc., as well as the GUI method).  The database is clearly not complete - searching filenames that I can literally see turns up nothing in some cases and finds it in others.  Mail isn't returning good search results either.

In-place OS reinstall has been done; didn't clear up the issue.

Apple is now recommending I install Mojave on a separate partition, boot into it and see if it has the same issue - don't see how that's going to help (yet), but I have to do it in order to move the process forward.  I'll update with any findings once I've done that.

It seems like it's choking on some piece of data I have, and I need to figure out what that is so I can remove it.

It seems like many md_worker processes get spawned from a parent -- and the process that crashes does so, so quickly that I can't don't have time to do an lsof -p on it.

Is there another way to do this, or to get more information about the file(s) it's choking on from log?

Edit1: Ok, I figured out that I can get significantly more information about what mds* is doing with the following commands.  I have yet to run this on the affected machine.

sudo log config --mode "private_data:on"

log stream --style compact --predicate '(process contains[c] "mdworker") && (subsystem == [c] "com.apple.spotlightserver")' --info --debug

The first command turns off obfuscation, otherwise file paths are obscured (and replaced with "<private>") - I suppose to make it safe to share logs.  See here: https://superuser.com/questions/1311578/in-console-app-how-can-i-reveal-to-what-private-tags-are-actually-referring


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I have a rather large Photos library (> 100GB).

I am in the process of tidying up a few USB hard drives containing, among others, a bunch of photos.

How to check which photos on these drives are already in Photos and can be safely deleted?


texts: Cannot update macOS or format drive of Macbook Pro 2011

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I have a MacBook Pro early 2011, 4 GB RAM, i7-Processor and Samsung SSD 500GB drive. I installed Windows 10 via DVD on a partition and macOS El Capitan on another partition.

I want to update my macOS to a higher version, but it doesn't work. The problem is, that I can't select my drive.

The Volume "Apple" is marked as a start volume. But Apple's macOS installer always returns the error, that it can not find any start volume.

I tried to go to Recovery Mode and install the upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra via USB, but I always get the same error.

After that I tried to format the whole driver in Recovery Mode or via USB-Boot, but Mac cannot format any partition or the whole drive. The error is, that are too many mistakes in partitions and Mac cannot format the volume.

If somebody has experience in such a situation and can help me,
I'll be very happy.


texts: Bash or Zsh, what's the difference, why use one or the other?

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So, the question pretty much says it all. I'm on Snow Leopard, and I do a lot of web development, particularly in Rails 3 which makes heavy use of the console.

I've seen some notable bloggers etc. mention Zsh as their preference over Bash, but I don't know what difference it would make.

Could anyone give me a good comparison of what difference there is and what might make one prefer one option or the other?


texts: How to set screen resolution with a keyboard shortcut on Retina MBP?

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I've found myself switching between the 1440x900 and 1920x1200 "effective resolution" setting depending on what I'm doing (need more space on screen, etc).

Is there a way to toggle between these two modes with a keyboard shortcut?
Can I invoke one mode with a keyboard shortcut?
Alternatively, can this be done via an AppleScript (and therefore bound to a keyboard shortcut)?


texts: What are the electrical requirements for magsafe charging?

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I'm supplying power to a MacBook Pro via a magsafe cable from a broken 60 W power supply.

Is it safe (1) to omit the initial high impedance 6 V or 3 V and simply apply "14,5V to 18,5V on Magsafe 1 and up to 20V on Magsafe 2"? Do I have to match the voltage of the power supply reported by the cable connector (16.5 V)?

Powering your (Apple) laptop in the wild
 Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector
What voltage readings should i get from my 60 watt magsafe

(1) Assuming I'm not shorting the pins with a spoon. This risk seems to be why the PS only turns on full power after it senses 40 kOhm across the power pins for 1 s. Is there a risk of shorting the pins when the plug is not properly seated? In that case I'd apply power after nicely seating the plug.


texts: Is it possible to trade my 2009 MacBook Pro for store credit or something?