texts: How to use ESC key to exit full screen mode on TextEdit?

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I'm trying to change the ESC key on TextEdit to use it to exit full screen mode.
It's a shortcut I find very convenient in many other parts of the OSX environment, like for folders or on other apps (press ESC to exit full screen), but with TextEdit the ESC key will just prompt you to insert a list of preset words (ie 'I', 'but' etc.). This is personally a feature I have no use for and don't care about, and would much better use the ESC key to exist FS, like on many other apps.
I know of the feature to create a keyboard shortcut for an app in System Preferences, but it won't accept ESC on its own.
Does anyone know of any other way to achieve this? I'm on MacBook Air, Yosemite, French version.
Thanks, Vincent


texts: Log out after X minutes turning itself back on

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This is driving me insane. The checkbox in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General Tab > Advanced > Logout after X minutes of inactivity turns itself back on whenever I move away from the settings screen. I recorded a gif to illustrate this:

Anyone knows why this is happening? Is it some new antivirus setting? Some remote setting? Some MacOS setting? Btw I'm running latest El Capitan
EDIT
I tried using Automator to disable this again every 5 minutes. Didn't work haha.
I was also able to figure out the file where this particular pref is saved, running sudo fs_usage -w. It's here:
/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
running defaults read shows me the preference is AutoLogOutDelay
If I run:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist com.apple.autologout.AutoLogOutDelay 0

The computer freezes for 5 minutes. I have no idea what's going on
Edit 2
Found a thread from Apple discussions. The last message in the thread points to Profile Manager, General > Login Window > Options I will try to check with the network manager.
No, it's off there too. Looking further into fs_usage I noticed something strange. A process VShieldScanner.3263 is editing the preferences, namely McAffee ...


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How can I back up my MacBook when it's display is broken and I don't know if the computer is currently on or off or whether it is booting up correctly?

I've been keeping backups on an external HDD with Time Machine and asked a recent question about a problem I had with that - "not enough space on disk" - so please can answers to this question also explain how to back up if that is an issue?


texts: Is there any way to add (sound) typewriter effect to keyboard stroke?


texts: Launch an Application on login for the Guest User

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I would like for the Guest Account on the iMacs in my school to automatically launch Google Chrome when the Guest Account is logged into.

With normal users, you can accomplish this with the Login Items tab of Users & Groups in System Preferences, but that tab is missing for the Guest User.

If I attempt to login to the Guest User and navigate to Login Items, I am able to add Chrome, but when I logout and log back in the login item is deleted.

How can I accomplish this?


texts: Making file associations launch a certain extension, but with a console program?

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It is possible using the right click menu on "Open With" to get the option to choose an application to open a certain file extension.  You can then say "Always Open With This".

That works if the program is packaged as an OS/X bundle (which is actually a directory containing lots of stuff under the hood).  But is there an easy way to make it so a regular console program could be used to open it by passing the file path as the first parameter on the command line?

Even if you turn on the "All Applications" it leaves Open grayed out on console programs.

Is this the kind of thing which would require an Automator script of some kind, or is there another way?


texts: How to search text in files of all types (including binary)?

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I want to find some text inside binary files. Is it possible to do in Finder (it skips binary even if I set up "All kinds" of file types)? Otherwise I would be thankful for utility that can do it.

PS: I need to search among many files in directory.


texts: How can I get v6.3 Command Line Developer tools to install?

texts: The App store is repeatedly wanting to update the same version of Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) version 6.3. Is there a way to triage or diagnose this systematically? If not, does anyone know a janky trick to allow the installer check for this package to complete successfully?


texts: How do I mount an Windows SMB server as a writeable volume on Lion?

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When trying to mount an Windows file service over SMB (Samba) in Lion I get the following error when trying to write:

  % touch testfile.txt
  touch: testfile.txt: Read-only file system

This happens both when connecting via Finder or mounting in the Terminal.

mount_smbfs -f 777 -d 777 //david.hall@fileserver1/wwwroot remote
Password for fileserver1:

I have no problem reading the files and my user do have permission to write to the directories in question.


texts: How to navigate spaces in a dual monitor setup?

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I have multiple spaces setup and can navigate them via ctrl and the arrow keys left and right on the current active monitor.

Now I want to change to a space that sits on the other monitor.

How do I switch there? I am looking for a keyboard only solution.


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Since a few days, I am not being able to press T and any other key on my Wired Apple Keyboard. Nothing happens when I press Shift and T. Keyboard shortcuts like Cmd+Shift+T don't work. Cmd+T works.

To get a capital T, I need to turn on Caps Lock or copy and paste it from somewhere.

I enabled Verbose Boot by setting the kernel flags a long while ago. Maybe at the same time when the key stopped working right[1], after 20 lines of text the verbose boot kept typing in the $ character automatically until I pressed any key on the keyboard.

I can fix this by attaching a non-Apple Keyboard, setting its layout and unplugging it, after which the Apple Keyboard starts working perfectly (which means there is no hardware problem). But when I reboot the key stops working again.

Also trying to press Shift+T in verbose boot does nothing, while other keys show up fine. Shift+T doesn't even work in Safari in Recovery Mode. I also can't reset the NVRAM by pressing Command+Option+P+R, it just takes me to recovery mode.

[1]: I don't remember doing anything except setting up oh-my-zsh around this time


texts: What external screen size/resolution will make using Xcode on an 11 inch Air better?

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I'm looking for an external LCD for my 11 inch Macbook Air (i5, 2013). The only thing I (am going to) use the Mac for is Xcode so the screen size needs to support development needs.

I hear the minimum decent resolution for Xcode is 1920x1080.

Is that enough or should I be looking for more pixels?


texts: Show telephone symbol in Calendar when using arbitrary video conferencing tools

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Due to the current situation I'm using a lot of video conferencing software to meet with other people.
I organise my daily schedule using Apple Calendar Version 11.0 and noticed that when I'm using a Zoom link as the location for an event, a nice telephone symbol appears. When clicking on it I get redirected to the said link and can conveniently open Zoom.

However, when I use less popular video conferencing tools (e.g. https://bigbluebutton.org/) this doesn't work.

Is there a way to achieve the same behaviour for less popular tools as for e.g. Zoom?


texts: Extra safari bookmark bar with only favorites icons

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I lost this extra bookmark bar in Safari 13.1.1. It's not the normal favorites bar which you can activate in the view menu, but an extra one with icons. Just below the favorites. Anyone who knows how I could activate it again?

[![https://i.stack.imgur.com/CKPpB.png][1]][1]


texts: Why does the Dock disappear on my Mac? It pops back up when I put the cursor to the bottom of the screen but does not stay there permanently any longer.


texts: Big Sur Home.app suddenly requires iCloud Keychain

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I'm using the same set of connected devices in Home.app on two Macs (both on Big Sur), an iPhone and an iPad. All of a sudden, the Home app on one of the Macs prompts me to enable iCloud Keychain in order to use it (see the screenshot below). I never used iCloud Keychain, and I frankly rather wouldn't have my Keychain in the Cloud. I do use iCloud for Home.app.
The other Mac and the iDevices still work fine without iCloud Keychain, though.
Is there a way to get Home.app to work as before without iCloud Keychain?


texts: How do I convert "3 days" to 3 in Microsoft Excel for OSX

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I have a column filled with values like 3 days, 12 days, etc

How can I strip out the text and force convert these to integers?


texts: Multiple iTunes libraries - podcasts merged after 11.1 upgrade?

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I use two iTunes libraries (Windows7x64, shift-key on iTunes launch) to manage content for several different devices (iPhone 4S, iPod Nano, iPad2), and have been doing this for a couple of years.

After the upgrade to iTunes 11.1 I went to sync my iPod (on library 2) and found that all the podcast subscriptions from library 1 had been added.  I double-checked that I was in the right library and then removed them.

When I went back to library 1 to sync my iPhone I found that the podcasts I had unsubscribed and deleted in library 2 were gone from library 1 as well.

So it appears it's no longer possible to have two completely separate iTunes libraries any more?

Anybody know how to force the two libraries to be completely separate?


texts: How to use other key combination to replace ⌘W?

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I am using a small mechanical keyboard on which if I press a special function key and key 'W', it means 'up'

I use iTerm2 as my console app. From time to time I use 'up' to recall past commands.

Unfortunately this function key is next to the ⌘ key. So sometimes I miss the special function key, and pressed ⌘W accidentally. It closes an active tab of `iTerm2' instead of going back in command history.

Is there any way I can use some key combination to replace and disable ⌘W in order to close a tab?


texts: How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X?

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I use Gmail as my e-mail client, but when I click on a "mailto:" link, the Mail.app is opened.

Is there a way to avoid the Mail.app opening in this case? Can I open Gmail instead?


texts: Keyboard shortcut is triggered for many times automatically

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Possibly after upgraded to High Sierra, I found that whenever I send a keyboard shortcut (e.g. ⌘+W to close the current tab in Safari), the shortcut is triggered for many times automatically and for example, suddenly 3 of my tabs got closed even though I intended to close only one.

This phenomenon happens inconsistently (sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't).

Is this a bug? I'm not sure what has happend in my case and maybe I'm missing something after upgraded to High Sierra...?

Also, is there any way to fix it, for example resetting the keyboard setting or something like that?

UPDATE

I found that this happens in other keys (not even keys combination on shortcut). The below is a screenshot when I tried to type in ghost run -D, where t was triggered for so many times.

UPDATE 2

This happens not only on keyboard shortcuts but also on the normal typing. And I found that people using Karabiner-Elements (which I used as well) report the same issue, though they are not sure yet if it is caused by the software.


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I'm using a Mac computer for the first time. It is a Mac Mini 2012 with macOS 10.13 installed. I hooked up one monitor to the Mac Mini.  Why does System Preferences > Display > Arrangement show two displays?

How do I get my Mac Mini to recognize that there is only ONE monitor display connected to it?


texts: Moving MS Office 2011 from Mojave computer to older High Sierria machine

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I want to upgrade my Mojave iMac to Catalina. I have a few 32 bit apps that won't work so I am migrating them over to an older iMac running High Sierra. I have successfully migrated two applications (Aperture and Photoshop).

However, I'm not having any luck migrating Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. I cannot redownload the program because it is no longer supported by MS so I have moved over the plist and other files as recommended at https://cwl.cc/2012/02/easy-way-to-move-microsoft-office-2011-mac.html along with the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011 folder.

However, when I try to launch any Office application, I get the following report:

Microsoft Word cannot be opened because of a problem.

In the Problem Details and System Configuration section of the report, I see:

Process:               Microsoft Word [1128]
Path:                  /Volumes/VOLUME/*/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word
Identifier:            com.microsoft.Word
Version:               14.4.6 (14.4.6)
Build Info:            Unknown-141106~0
Code Type:             X86 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Microsoft Word [1128]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2020-01-18 21:41:16.948 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.13.4 (17E199)
Report Version:        12

Time Awake Since Boot: 1500 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Notes:                 Translocated Process

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    DYLD, [0x1] Library missing

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @rpath/mbukernel.framework/Versions/14/mbukernel
  Referenced from: /Volumes/VOLUME/*/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
   0xb6000 -  0x1e32feb +com.microsoft.Word (14.4.6 - 14.4.6) <3A8997BD-2AAF-E42B-B1AA-610F3C008907> /var/folders/*/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word
 0x22ab000 -  0x22f105f  dyld (551.3) <AEE46C03-FE99-3D3F-9A28-119D4A885857> /usr/lib/dyld

Anybody know how I can find this library and get it installed on the old iMac? I cannot use migration asst. because they two mac versions are different and the old iMac does not support anything OS version greater than High Sierra.


texts: Apple Mail IMAP incorrectly moving to Gmail's Trash, not Archive (All Mail) as intended

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Setup: macOS Big Sur, using Apple Mail client connected to Gmail via IMAP.
Expected behavior: when deleting an email from Apple Mail client, Gmail should preserve it in All Mail (i.e Archive).
Behavior I'm getting: Gmail moves emails to Trash.
Gmail IMAP settings:

Apple Mail settings - Mailbox Behaviors:


texts: Custom app distribution through Apple Business Manager

texts: How can we distribute custom apps worldwide using redemption codes through Apple Business Manager?


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VLC responds to the itunes control keys (you know: back, forward, pause/play) on the keyboard.

Yet when I use them, both iTunes AND VLC respond, which is quite stupid. For example: I want to pause a video playing in VLC (iTunes isn't even running) so I press play/pause, VLC pauses yet iTunes launches and starts playing.

How can I temporarily disable the control keys for iTunes?


texts: Printing the current date/time with sub-second precision

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GNU date(1) understands the %N format spec, which outputs nanoseconds, so:

$ date +%H:%m:%S.%N

outputs 19:10:03.725196000

BSD date doesn't understand %N. How can I print the current time with sub-second precision on OS X?


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Can I delete music off my phone without this deleting my music on my iTunes account? If I can then will the songs reappear once I plug my phone back into my mac

I need space on my phone but don't want to loose it completely or for it too reappear when I sync it.


texts: How can I add CC and BCC fields in Gmail app?

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I wonder how to add CC and BCC fields in Gmail app. I use iOS 9.

Here is what I see:

Clicking on + didn't reveal anything exciting.


texts: Is there an iPad app that lets me program animations?

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I've started using my iPad for my lectures (giving them, not listening to them) and it's working Just Fine ( Is there a PDF annotation app for the iPad with minimal (or no!) annoying page transitions?).  But I want more.

Sometimes, I like to have a little animation to demonstrate something, such as a pendulum under different conditions (friction, coupling, that sort of thing).  Prior to using my iPad, I wrote these using processing which is a set of Java libraries that make it easy to write the sort of thing that I want.  It has the bonus that I can export the programs as java applets to put on the web.

I'd like to be able to do this on the iPad.  Since it doesn't support Java, I can't just run the applets in a web browser (which would be the easiest).  So I need a different system.  Initially, I thought that this was a hopeless task since programming directly on the iPad seemed not possible.

But then I ran across iLuaBox, Luna, and PyPad which seem to suggest that it is possible to have a limited programming environment on the iPad.

But searching for programming stuff on the App Store is fairly tricky as one gets a whole host of books on the topic and things that turn out to be just text editors (and searching for it off the App Store just turns up stuff about programming for the iPad).  And I'd like to get a sense of all that's out there before experimenting since it seems certain that I'll have to learn a new programming language (and I'm no programmer).

So what apps are there that would allow me to write a simple graphical animation program?

A pendulum is a good example of what would be needed.  It should:

Have basic graphical capabilities: "draw a pendulum of length l at angle alpha"
Be able to do basic maths: "the position of the pendulum at time t+h is computed from its position and velocity at time t by applying Newton's Laws"
Have basic programming capabilities: loops, conditionals, variables, and so forth.

One that I have found that would seem to have all of that is this one.  I have to admit that the temptation to write my animations on an iPad using CBM64 BASIC is very strong (plus it doesn't have such a steep learning curve as, say, Lua since once long ago I used to program in BASIC on a CBM64), but if there's something a little more practical then I might just find the strength to resist.


texts: Adobe CS5 compatibilty with new OS on iMac

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I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8. I need to update the operating system as I can't update search engines etc. but am worried if I do CS5 Adobe suite won't run (I also have Microsoft 2008). I need both for my job.

Happy to update to not the latest OS, but just enough to make sure I can access the web (already can't do Linkedin).

What should I do? Thanks!


texts: iTunes: get selected mobile apps with AppleScript

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I fear I already know the answer to this one, but is there any way to access the locally-stored Mobile Applications in an iTunes library using AppleScript?

The selection property appears to not function with apps:

tell application "iTunes" to get selection

With, say, a podcast, I get a result like:

{file track id 656 of user playlist id 541 of source id 74 of application "iTunes"}

But with an app selected, I just get:

{}

Alternatively, is there a 'rawer' way to access the mobile applications? Merely enumerating them in the file system won't suffice, because I'm trying to change their file location in the iTunes library.


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I opted out of beta downloads under System Preferences > App Store, but I still see macOS beta downloads in the Mac App Store.

How can I fix this? Caching issue?


texts: Does Time Machine back up potentially corrupted files?

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I have an external hard drive that I bought for my laptop so I could back up the important stuff and do a clean install, as somehow I got that stupid MacCleaner adware thing on it and it was causing issues.

I've used Time Machine only back then, several months ago.  After doing a clean install, low an behold, someone's contact info directed me to update Adobe Acrobat and then quickly scrolled through some boxes where I accidentally clicked on something to install something similar (doh!).  I followed the instructions to get it off my laptop but I'm not sure it's all fully gone as I occasionally get some pop-ups.

Question, now that I'm backing up onto external drive again using Time Machine, will those little bad files also be backed up as well, or does Time Machine just back up files and applications?


texts: iTunes crashes quickly after opening, every time

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I'm running iTunes 12.6.0.100 and MacOS 10.2.3 on a late 2015 iMac. Every time I open iTunes, whether with a brand new local library or an external drive library I've had for several years, the app crashes. It doesn't throw an error or anything, it just closes. I've tried, of course, opening it without a library to create a new one, and also booting in safe mode. Neither of these have helped. I've also tried reinstalling iTunes itself.

I do have iTunes Match on my account, but am not an Apple Music user.

I read somewhere that I could try clearing out the iBooks library, and so I tried this. At first I thought it might be helping, as it took a little while for it to crash, but it still crashed. There does seem to be some inconsistency in how long it takes to crash when it opens, but this doesn't appear to be related to anything I do differently.

What might be happening, and what additional things could I try?


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I tried to install an authorization plugin on mac OS X 10.7 that previously worked on Snow Leopard but all I'm getting is a white screen with the cursor. Did something happen to authorization plugins in Lion? Is there a way to fix this?

PS. Something definitely changed considering the way it looks now.


texts: Fixing Time Machine Backup Broken by Deleting Most Recent Backup with tmutil

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I broke my Time Machine backup by using tmutil delete on the most recent backup.  This meant that the "Latest" symlink no longer pointed to a valid location.  My attempts to create a replacement symlink have failed, probably due to some sort ACL issue or a problem with extended attributes.
Here is an attempt to recreate the symbolic link:
DeepThought:DeepThought cclark$ sudo ln -sn ./2020-12-20-161820 Latest
Password:
ln: Latest: Operation not permitted

Has anyone ever recovered from this situation?
I have tried disabling SIP, and have made sure that Terminal has been granted Full Disk access.  I have also tried creating an alias using Finder, which was successful but was not recognized by Time Machine.
The backup is on a Synology NAS.


texts: Monitor turning black when power cable is touching the chassis of the Macbook

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I have a Macbook Pro 2018 and an external display connected to it via USB-C on the Macbook to DisplayPort on the monitor.
When the tip my (original) (powered) power cable is touching the Macbook chassis (without pluging the plug in, only touch it) the monitor turns black quickly (it doesn't power off or something) and goes back to normal as soon is the jack and the chassis are not anymore touching.
What kind of effect is that?


texts: How do I access workspaces by number on macOS Sierra?

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I'm running macOS Sierra 0.12.3 (16D32).

By exploding the desktop (four finger swipe up on trackpad) and then moving the mouse to the top bar I can create/update/destroy my workspaces.

With a four-finger swipe left/right or C-left/right I can move to the left and right.Also with a tool like BetterTouchTool I'm able to set shortcuts to move left/right.

I'd like to create a shortcut to access the workspaces by number. For example given the following workspaces Desktop 1-4:

I'd like to find a tool or system event where I could jump right to Desktop 3 perhaps with a keybinding like Cmd + 3.

Does such a tool, or system event exist on macOS where I can access my workspaces by number instead of only moving left or right?


texts: How do I change just one dimension in Preview, when dragging/using the mouse?

texts: In Preview, I want to change just the width of an image by dragging the points/dots surrounding the image on the sides, with my mouse.  But instead of just the width changing, the entire image gets changed, both height and width.  This started happening when I upgraded to Mavericks.  How can I control the dragging feature in Previews again?  Being able to adjust just the width or just the height separately?  Thanks.


texts: Uninstalling PyGTK from macpkg on Mac OS X

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I downloaded the pygtk pkg file from macpkg.sourceforge.net.

I want to remove this installation and instead use the version
that is provided by homebrew.

What files do I need to remove?


texts:
A few months ago on a flight, I stupidly put a glass of wine next to my immaculate Macbook. The inevitable happened and half a glass of red wine was split directly onto the keyboard. In a combined two handed move which I now call the "Macbook Save", I held down the power button to turn it off and tipped the Macbook to the side and the wine ran out of the keyboard.

I cried a little and then left it switched off in my bag until I got home two weeks later. I was surprised to find that it was in full working order but the U key has been a little temperamental. Today I took the key cover and butterfly mechanism out to find the culprit of my intermittent key, some red wine staining.

Is this slightly rubbery part removable? I'd rather not force it and break a nearly perfectly functioning keyboard. If not I was going to try to get some tiny amounts of pure alcohol under there to try and remove the red wine deposits. Is this a terrible idea? Looking at keyboard replacement videos I can see how it managed to survive relatively unscathed as the keyboard looks glued in!


texts: Is there a full list of FN-key mappings for the MacBook Pro?

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I am looking for a document that would specify how can I produce strokes like the ones below on a MacBook Pro keyboard.

Insert
Numpad Plus
Numpad Minus
...


texts: Unable to clear Xcode from Trash. Force clear in Terminal returns permission error?

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Since the App Store seemed stuck with updating Xcode to 7.3, I have decided to delete it and reinstall. However, after moving Xcode to the Trash, it refused to be cleared and instead be stuck on the "Preparing to empty the trash..." window.
So, I've decided to force empty the trash in Terminal by rm -rf ~/.Trash/*, only to get an endless loop of error message saying this:

rm: /Users/jordanchanph/.Trash/Xcode.app/Contents/.../IOCatalogue/reset.xml: Permission denied

How can I empty the trash?


texts: Does Time Machine take advantage of two backup disks to backup more fine-grained snapshots?

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I use Time Machine with two backup hard discs.

Does Time Machine create an identical copy of the data on both disks, or does it back up more fine-grained snapshots to different disks, so that I have more choices regarding the timestamp to restore to?

Let's say, with only one disk, Time Machine backs up hourly snapshots — 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, etc. Does it back up snapshots taken at 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 to the second disk?


texts: Move an old Time Machine folder (NOT volume!) to a different disk

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I have an old Time Machine backup that I moved from its volume to a folder on a different disk. Now I want to move it to yet another volume. The problem is that the volume where the backup folder is now shows about 90 GB of used space, while the folder itself shows a size of about 240 GB and I don't have that space available at the moment.

My question is: how can I move this folder?


texts: MacBook Air: Close lid and lock features

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I wonder if there is some way to customize the lock screen feature of my MacBook Air (running Mountain Lion) in such a way that:

1: When I close the lid, and then open it, the screen is not locked (that is, I do not have to type my password).

2: When I explicitly put the MacBook Air to sleep (with Power Button + Sleep option), and then wake it from sleep, the screen is locked (that is, I do have to write my password).

@bmike Thanks for for your response, but I think I did not explain clearly what I wanted. I wanted an easy way to put the computer to sleep and either not been asked for a password when it wakes (if I close the lid) or been asked for a password (when I explicitly put the computer to sleep).

@George Oross: Thanks for your response. I tried to find in the apple developers website some info on how to detect those signals, but made no advance.

I think that the best way to do that is to enable the "lock screen" menu item (via Keychain Access). If I want a "secure sleep" I first lock the screen through the menu and then close the lid to put it to sleep. If I want a "non-secure sleep" I simply close the lid.


texts: Apple Preview resets notes and highlighting on a PDF. How do I recover them?

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I ended up having exactly the problem described here: I was highlighting and taking notes on a PDF file with macOS 10.14 Apple Preview and I realised only yesterday after finishing studying a university pdf that the last version of the file has only saved the highlighting of the last chapter of the pdf.
The thing is that in Time Machine previous file saves actually do have previous notes and highlighting, it is just that every file save only has a portion of around 50~70 pages of saved edits, while previous edits disappear and the file looks like as if I started highlighting from page 50, and then from page 100 and so on...
I could theorically save duplicates of each edited version and then remove “cleaned up” pages to recover with the ones from a previously saved version, but my philosophy is that we use computers to help us, not to help the computer, is there any way to do that edit-recovery automatically?
Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening again? It’s the first time I can’t trust preview to save my notes.


texts: Converting Unmanaged to Managed devices in iOS 7 OTA

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iOS 7 introduces the concept of enrolling Apple devices with MDM providers out of the box, so when the iPads are being sent out by Apple to companies, they can be enrolled into an MDM program and the device can be managed through out by the MDM provider right from when the iPad is unboxed, but the documentation is not clear on devices that already are out there.

Is there a way to convert unmanaged unsupervised devices to managed devices? …and I don't mean app level management (i.e I know it is possible to use Configurator to push certain apps that can then be managed, but the rest of the apps cannot).

Is it possible to completely convert an unmanaged device to a managed device such that all the apps, config, settings are controlled by MDM OTA ? The OTA(over the air bit is important too since I am looking to implement it that way).


texts: Disk space not freed after deleting files, unable to save things, unable to delete things, unable to update things

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Recently my Macbook Air has been saying "The disk you are attempting to use is full. Removing files and emptying the Trash will free up additional space."

I have deleted everything in the trash, many other files, and 52 GB of photos. The only photos I have in my library now are 4.53 GB worth. When I click go to About This Mac it says I have 46 GB which is impossible. My computer is supposed to have a 121 GB Flash Storage with a 4 GB memory.

In the past two days after deleting all my photos the computer isn't letting me save, delete, or update anything. Right now I have OS X 10.9.5.

What can I do to fix this problem?


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I would like to remap my Left Control to Fn key using hidutil. This is the command I've been trying to use:

hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x7000000E0,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000??}]}'

There is a list of hex IDs on this page:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450/_index.html
but Fn key is not there.

I couldn't find it in a USB specification either: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/documents/hut1_12v2.pdf.

The ID (0x3F) found in this document:
https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/blob/master/src/bridge/generator/keycode/data/KeyCode.data
is wrong.

What is the hex code for Fn key that I can use with hidutil? Or is it not possible what I've been trying to do?

(I would have remapped the keyboard using Karabiner-Elements if it wasn't buggy on my computer.)


texts: Ways to find messages from blocked contact info

texts: Is there a way, or ways, to retrieve iMessages or text messages sent to me by a number or email address I have blocked on my iPhone 6?


texts: Preview zooms view when moving document from laptop screen to external monitor

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In Preview, when I drag a PDF document from my laptop screen to an external monitor, Preview zooms in the view by a large amount--enough that I have to click the "minus" button a couple of times to get the view back to where it was. Likewise, if I move a PDF document from the external monitor to the laptop screen, Preview zooms out by the same amount.

This behavior happens with all PDF documents unless the view is set to "automatically resize", in which case moving the document doesn't cause zooming, but does cause Preview to scroll the document down about a quarter of a page.

This behavior occurs only on one of the three external monitors I've tried it on (a Viewsonic; the other two are a Dell and a Samsung), but it happens to be my work monitor. My computer is a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" running Snow Leopard. Has anyone seen this behavior, or have any ideas on what's causing it or how to stop it?


texts: Can I use Siri to tell me the time without using the Internet?

texts:
I only use Siri when I need to know the time. And she can't do it 80 percent of the time.

In a scenario: phone is in my pocket, I am listening music through earpod. And I want to know the time without taking phone out specially in cold. But on the way internet connection sometimes sucks. When she finds the connection, she brings an article about Time magazine.

After tries and talking to myself on the road. She tells me the time.
But sometimes I have to take the phone out, again it is cold and I already talked to myself in the crowd.

me - Hey Siri, What is the time ?
siri - I can't get any request right now.
me - Ok Siri, What time is it?
siri - Here is a article about Time magazine. (WTF)
me - Ok Siri, Time, time, time.
siri - It is 19:08.
me - fckiss you siri.

So is there a way to force Siri to tell time without going internet?
It would be better if I could make her tell the time in my native language though. It is shorter.


texts: Can no longer sign in to @me.com or @icloud.com email address

texts:
A few days ago I started noticing notifications from my email clients that there was an authentication error for my email address ending in @me.com. I tried re-entering my password several times, I changed my password, tried the @icloud.com version of the email address but unfortunately, nothing worked. I can however, still sign in to webmail at iCloud.com, and to other Apple services using these credentials, just not email.

Does anyone know what can cause this? I have quite a few internet accounts that depend on this email address.

Kind regards,
Roemer Bakker


texts: How can I truncate filenames after X number of characters using Automator or AppleScript?

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I have IFTTT sending several new desktop wallpapers per day from Reddit to Dropbox. These wallpapers arrive often with very long filenames. I need a way to automatically shorten their names (without renaming to date and time) when they're downloaded to my Mac by Dropbox.

I want the action to run automatically, so it can't require me to select Finder items or supply the number of characters to keep
It needs to run by itself as a folder action or AS via Hazel.

Could someone please give me an Automator folder action or AppleScript I can put in Hazel to truncate the filenames after X number of characters?


texts: Add osascript SystemEvents to Automation

texts:
BigSur 11.0.1 (20B50)
Trying to run osascript from Alfred. It uses keystrokes.
Get error :
execution error: System Events got an error: osascript is not allowed to send keystrokes. (1002)

As far as I know I need to add osascript binary to automation, which I can't do! Only for Accessibility.

The most stupid thing is this: I can't run script with System events even from terminal, but if I add and then delete osascript from Accessibility, then everything works fine until reboot.
Just tell me if I do something completely wrong.


texts: I updated my phone using my husbands itunes acct. and now i've lost all of my contacts and pics and his are on my phone

texts: I updated my phone using my husbands itunes acct. and now  lost all of my pics and contacts and his are now on my phone.  How can I get them back.  Doesn't look like I had mine backed up.  Please help.


texts: iTunes Apple Music not starting a New Station from Artist/Album

texts:
I, like others I've been seeing on Apple official support forums, am having issues to start a new Radio Station with Apple Music on my iTunes.

This feature works with almost no artist that I tried in my library. The issue only occurs on iTunes. All artists/albums I try to create a new Station from with my iPhone 6 work just fine.

Is there any way you guys can think of to "reset" something that may be getting this stuck? A cache or similar?

Thank you for your time!


texts: iPhone broken screen access with VNC (or anything)

texts:
My iPhone 5 (iOS 6, jailbroken) battery inflated a little bit couple of weeks ago, but enough for the screen to pop out. Screen and touch were still fine, until last week-end where stripes start to appear. I had to wriggle a bit the screen (or the screen connector) to make them disappear but now it's completely off (there's only backlighting).

I try to access the screen to display some (jailbreak) information iTunes does not want to restore.
I try to have the iPhone screen displayed on my laptop, with the ability to control it.

I have root SSH access and Veency installed (but disabled). I tried to enable it with SSH but did not find how to.

Is there a Mac software that only requires plugin to display screen (and control it), or a way in SSH (or other) to enable Veency so I can try to connect via VNC?

Thanks!


texts: SD card is read-only, all Disk Utility options grayed out

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I'm using Lion (10.7.3) on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. I just got a 32GB SD card and formatted it with my camera. I'd like to transfer some files onto it from my computer, but the card seems to be read-only when I access it in Finder. And in Disk Utility, all options are grayed out so I can't reformat the card.

I found this KB article which seems to describe the problem, but the solution doesn't work:

$ diskutil partitiondisk disk1 JHFS+ newdisk 100%
Started partitioning on disk1
Unmounting disk
Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

What's going on and how can I get around it?

Edit: yes, I already checked the physical lock switch on the card!


texts: Self-Renewing 'Automation' virus redirects Safari and Chrome through ads to bing. Renews through a memory alert

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Running macOS 10.14.2. Safari 12.0.1.

Symptoms:

Safari redirects searches through proxy to bing
Chrome redirects searches through proxy to bing
In Privacy Settings, under Automation "Finder" with no icon has access to Safari
When removing it, a preferences pop up shows up.
Immediately after a memory warning shows up and cancel the preferences pop up.
"Finder" reappears under "Automation" with safari checked.
When quitting Safari, it launches alone. (Can't close safari)

Attempts:
Used "tccutil reset AppleEvents", both pop ups appear once after execution.
Used Avira anti-virus with quick scan it found and eliminated 1 virus, ran a full scan and it found and removed 4. Did not run it again.

No clue how to remove this without disabling SIP which is not something I necessarily want to do, nor would I know how to exactly find "Finder".

It also seems to be using some exploit to grant itself Automation privileges even after you uncheck them via some memory issue that triggers the memory warning.

How can malware like this be cleaned?


texts: After Upgrade to Mountain Lion I get blurry fonts

texts:
Since the upgrade to Mountain Lion, I get blurry fonts system-wide. It doesn't matter where it is: I've seen them on the log-in screen, Safari, Mail, Xcode, and Skype. Every font is very blurry.

It seems as though a non-native screen resolution is in use, but, in System Preferences, the "built in screen resolution" option is chosen.

I have a 15" MacBook Pro (Model A1286) with the High Resolution panel (1680x1050).

Can someone confirm or help here?

Some screenshots:


texts: EFI Boot doesn't work when trying to boot windows from my Mac

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2 years ago, I installed Windows on a external SSD to be booted from my Mac. It used to work well. I would plug my external SDD, hold the option key at the beginning and chose if I wanted to boot on MacOS or on Windows (for windows, the name of the volume was EFI Boot).
But today, something went wrong and the EFI Boot doesn't work anymore. When I choose it, the screen and the mouse freeze and I have to force a power off.
The problem probably comes from the fact that I recently tried to install Linux on another partition of my external SDD. Although, I didn't want it, the EFI Boot file of Linux were placed in the EFI partition of my internal drive. In the end, I deleted Linux and the EFI File generated in the EFI partition of the internal drive. So technically, I didn't touch the EFI partition of my external SSD. But clearly something happened Beauce now it doesn't work anymore.
Do you have any idea what happened?
Is there a way to repair or recreate the EFI partition that would boot on the windows that is already installed on my external SSD?
Thank you!


texts: Under Catalina, should I use HFS+ or APFS when symlinking media folders to external drive

texts:
As I'm planning to install an SSD into my iMac with smaller capacity than the internal Fusion Drive its replacing, I will need to symlink my Movies, Music and Pictures folders to an external mains powered USB 3.0 desktop hard drive, plus store my Steam games library on the same external drive.

I'm running macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina) on a late-2012 iMac.

What are the pros and cons of using APFS vs HFS+ for the external drive?


texts:
I get a lot of spam in my iMessage, such gamble, sex etc.

On my iPhone, it can be filtered into a separate column.
But on my Mac, there is no way to filter messages from unknown senders, which is annoying.

iPhone

Mac

Question

Is there a way to write an AppleScript to clean spam messages that contain specific words? I can trigger it at a certain interval to clean up spam messages.


texts: How do I find out what my time capsule is doing?

texts:
I configured my Time Capsule so the LED blinks when it has activity.  As I type this I notice that it is blinking constantly, even though my network is idle.   The computer that uses it for backups (not the one I am on) is off, so it isn't running a backup.  The cable modem uplink to the ISP is not blinking -- so the traffic isn't from outside.

I looked into the logs and don't see much that is interesting.   Is there any way to find out what it is doing?


texts:
I like that my Apple Watch (series 3) shows a Now Playing screen whilst listening to a Podcast on my iPhone; however I often accidentally press the playback speed button on it. This is annoying and frustrating and personally it's a function I never have a use for. Is there any way I can remove, disable or lock this functionality?

thank you


texts: Can I use the whole internal SSD for Boot Camp on a T2 based Mac (Mac mini late 2018)?

texts:
TL;DR
Can I safely install Windows 10 on the entire internal SSD on a T2-based Mac (mini) rather than splitting the drive space between macOS and Windows? Is there a particular method for this that I should use?
Longer version:
I have a 2018 Mac mini. I opted for a model with a small internal SSD as Apple's SSD pricing is ridiculous. (I also upgraded the RAM to 32GB myself for the same reason.) After some wrangling with the T2's secure boot peculiarities (it seems you have to install macOS from the recovery environment; running the installer app from the App Store results in an OS installation that this Mac won't boot from.), I'm now using macOS from a 2TB USB 3.1 external SSD instead, which cost less than 1/5 of what Apple would have charged me for that capacity.
I'd like to occasionally boot Windows on this Mac as well. From past experience, attempting to boot Windows from a USB drive is not worth the trouble, and Thunderbolt drives aren't entirely straightforward for this purpose either. Plus, they're comparatively expensive. I'm not using that internal SSD at the moment though, so that seems a good place to keep Windows.
I've read a few horror stories of people apparently bricking their T2-based Macs by wiping the internal SSD though; keeping a small macOS installation around on the internal drive and only using part of the SSD for Windows is certainly possible, but it'd be much nicer to just use the whole thing for Windows and not constantly be fighting for disk space.
Is that possible? The Boot Camp assistant obviously won't let me do it directly, but can I safely wipe the drive from Windows setup and use the whole thing for Windows anyway without the T2 going into lockdown mode? Or should I be going about this some other way?
Note: Based on the responses so far, I feel I should point out that I'm definitely not a Mac newbie, I'm familiar with how I would do various Boot Camp, partitioning and OS setup tasks on older Macs. (And I happen to write Mac device drivers for a living.) The T2 security chip in the 2018 Macs and the iMac Pro significantly complicates matters of booting, even with secure boot disabled. I'm looking for answers about T2 based Macs specifically, from people who have practical experience with such Macs.


texts: How to restore default iTunes media organization?

texts:
I have iTunes running on my El Capitan Mac Mini. I have the iTunes Media folder linked to a NAS using NFS. This has worked for me quite well in the past. However after upgrading the storage on my Mac and reconnecting it to iTunes things have stopped working as well.
For some reason iTunes will organize the files in the way it would before. It will no longer put movies in a separate subfolder (which I like actually), for TV Shows it will no longer create season subfolders and most annoyingly it will put all the music in the iTunes Media root folder.
What's even stranger is that when I use a local iTunes Media folder everything seems to working as it should. But when I point iTunes back to my remote folder it resumes with the weirdness.
Is there any way I can check and restore the iTunes media organization behavior?

Edit:
I've also tried using a different remote location. Both through NFS and through AFP/SMB. All remote locations had the same behavior. Also tried having the iTunes Media folder local and have the subfolders point to remote locations.


texts: Synchronising contacts between iCloud and iOS

texts:
I have a problem with my contacts synching between iPhone and iCloud. There is a number of contacts that appears with the tag iCloud in my phone, although they arent on the iCloud website or my contacts app in OSX.

Here is how the contact looks on my iPhone.

That same contact does not appear on iCloud.

On bottom of contact says:

How can I fix this problem, without adding missing contacts manually ?


texts: How can I launch an AppleScript app I'm creating without moving my mouse?

texts: The initial cursor position is essential to my app's function. I could preserve the cursor location with a screen capture (using keystrokes only) but I'm hoping to avoid writing a handler to wrest the cursor's location from the picture. I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.


texts: It seems that iWeb is now long dead, so I am looking for alternative WYSIWYG web editors. Free or open-source would be great, but I wouldn't mind thinking about paying a small fee for a mature piece of software either.


texts: Is it possible to play Podcasts through the headphones connected to an Apple Watch?

texts: Using either the built in podcasts app, or a third party app is it possible to play podcasts with the audio getting sent to the bluetooth headphones connected to an apple watch? In my testing with Overcast the audio was sent to the bluetooth headphones connected to my iPhone. Since I'm a totally blind Voiceover user I'd like to be able to hear the podcasts through the same headphones connected to the apple watch so I can listen to a podcast and check out my workout progress at the same time.


texts: AppleScript to click buttons and close tabs

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Im not really familiar with applescript (using C/Python/Pacsal atm). So far did the autoclicker for my WoW ore prospection.

I would like to use the script on safari to click the link with name "1st Text goes here" to open new tab, then click other link "2nd Text goes here" and then close tab. (repeat n number of times)

My knowledges led me to the following.

tell application "Safari"

end tell

Hints and tips are also appreciated.


texts:
I have a beefy Docker image that I'd like to run on my work machine (OSX 10.13.3, 16 GB RAM, Core i5), but I find that when running the image, along with a web browser, that the computer crashes or needs to rest for long periods of time due to memory errors. Most of these  seem to stem from the set of cached files stored in memory, which seem to increase over time:

Is there a way to put a hard limit on the size of the file cache (say, 2GB)?


texts: Where are the memory and kernel logs stored in macOS Catalina?

texts:
I want to learn how to debug kernel crashes and am not at all familiar with macOS logging. Specifically the logs files that might reveal a system crash for example due to kernel panics.

Does Apple document this or do I need third party book or training?


texts: MacBook Air didn’t download the system update successfully, and hang in the mid. Pls adv how to go back to normal OS

texts:
MacOS could not be installed in your computer
The installer resource were not found
Quit the installer to restart the computer and try again

Pressed restart then it hang and get this MacOS message again


texts: Can we view or edit HostName value via macOS desktop UI?

texts:
Here are two instances where I found that setting the computer name via System Preferences > Sharing > Computer Name does not really set the HostName attribute.

The macOS version is macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 in both instances below.

Instance 1

I got a brand new MacBook Pro which had the following settings under System Preferences > Sharing.

Computer Name: Lone's MacBook Pro
Local Hostname: Lones-MacBook-Pro.local

The scutil and hostname output looked like this:

$ scutil --get ComputerName
Lone's MacBook Pro
$ scutil --get LocalHostName
Lones-MacBook-Pro
$ scutil --get HostName
HostName: not set
$ hostname
Lones-MacBook-Pro.local

Then I went to System Preferences > Sharing and set the Computer Name to luke. Now the output looked like this:

$ scutil --get ComputerName
luke
$ scutil --get LocalHostName
luke
$ scutil --get HostName
HostName: not set
$ hostname
luke.local

The HostName attribute is not set!

Instance 2

I was working on a friend's MacBook Pro who had some other HostName already set (perhaps someone else had configured it for him). He had the following settings under System Preferences > Sharing.

Computer Name: mmod
Local Hostname: mmod.local

The CLI output looked like this:

$ scutil --get ComputerName
mmod
$ scutil --get LocalHostName
mmod
$ scutil --get HostName
mmod
$ hostname
mmod

Now I went to System Preferences > Sharing and set Computer Name to luke. The output now is:

$ scutil --get ComputerName
luke
$ scutil --get LocalHostName
luke
$ scutil --get HostName
mmod
$ hostname
mmod

Again, HostName remains unaffected.

Question

I know that I can set the HostName attribute with the scutil --set HostName luke command.

My question is: Is there a macOS desktop UI element where I can view or edit this HostName attribute without having to run CLI commands?


texts: Folder action automator does not trigger on change but works manually

texts:
I have folder actions automators for 2 different folders.  One works automatically as expected, the other does not.  Both are constructed the same way and both run manually, but one does not run automatically when folder contents change.  Both execute a shell script with the following pattern:
cp -n /path/to/source/filename-v* /path/to/destination/

Where the folder action monitors changes the the respective folder and the script simply copies the new files to the respective destination folders.

Both work when executed manually, but one does not trigger on folder action like the other.

What am I not understanding?  Is there another option for creating this type of automation without using automator?

It's possible that this is just buggy:

Why aren't any of my Folder Actions triggering?
Unreliable Folder Action

Furthermore


texts: Is there a way to minimize time taken to Export to File a movie clip? Currently it's taking a long time. Is there a specific setting to switch on or off? Not reduction in resolution etc.


texts: Is there a Windows 7/8/8.1 like automatic window sizer?

texts: so I got a Macbook Pro a few months ago to use for coding and as a DAW. Really the only thing I miss about Windows 8.1 is the ability to drag a window to the upper left or upper right corner and have it automatically resized to take up the half the screen. Is there an option in Yosemite like this, or a tool I can download? Found it to be a real time saver as opposed to fiddling with height and width.


texts: No sound after upgrading to Lion, despite hardware working fine

texts:
After upgrading to Lion, I have no sound at all under OS X.  It doesn't come through my speakers or through my headphone jack.  I've checked in the Sound preferences, and it's set properly.  I've tried killing coreaudiod, which does nothing.  I've triple-checked that I'm not muted (I'm not) and the volume is up (it is), and I've made sure I'm upgraded to 10.7.1, since that was supposed to resolve some sound issues.  There's just nothing.

The good news is that I know that the hardware's not broken, since my Widows BootCamp partition works just fine.  The bad news is that I don't want to boot into Windows to listen to iTunes.

What am I missing?


texts: Prevent websites from taking over audio on iPhone?

texts:
An increasing number of websites like CNN.com take over the audio of my iPhone's Safari app with advertisements and pause the Music app.

How can I prevent this. I only need the audio on Safari when I am watching a video.


texts:
After upgrade my system to 10.7.4, the XBMC Eden (latest version) shows green lines all over the screen.

Does anybody have this issue?


texts:
I've recently been wishing I could still play a Minigolf game that came installed with my first cell phone, a Sony Ericsson T610 (eat your heart out, iPhone!), which roughly looked like this:

'Member?

There are good reasons to believe that the game is "abandonware" and that Sony Ericsson doesn't offer support for it anymore.

I think the game can be found as a .jar file online, and is either this one or this one.

However, after downloading these files, I haven't been able to run them. Java is installed in the /Library folder of the Macintosh HD drive, and when I right-click the file to open it, I get a "The Java JAR file “Real_Minigolf_2005_128x128_SE_K300i-448093.jar” could not be launched. Check the Console for possible error messages." error message.

I have looked into this answer and this one, but neither have worked.

Is it possible to run these files on a Mac running El Capitan or above?


texts: Any iPhone apps for fine-resolution mapping?

texts:
I am trying to record tracks at a much finer scale than is possible with GPS, but hopefully using something simple and cheap, ideally an iPhone. The resolution for track data I am after is around 10-20cm.

The location of the track, and even the scale is not as important as the fine details of the shape of the track.

What I have in mind as the ideal solution is an iPhone app that uses the camera in conjunction with the other sensors to record a track in a similar way to an optical mouse detecting movement over a desk's surface.

So you would hold the phone with the camera facing down and walk the track. The app would trace the moving surface and infer where it is going, using the gyroscope and accelerometer to help correct for tilting the camera. It would also use the gyro and to a lesser extent the compass to help correct and detect the turns in the track. The height of the phone off the ground I don't think could be sensed or inferred but you could just enter that and hold it carefully at a consistent height. The LED could be on to aid detection through shadows.

If you happen to be walking in a track that finished where it started, you could mark that in some way to close the loop and it would try and correct it if the ends didn't meet up, and if you walked a long way, perhaps over 50 meters, it could also use GPS data to calibrate the scale of the track, but probably not really contribute much to the details of the track's geometry.

So does something like this even exist in any form for iPhone or otherwise? Is there anything which is simpler, e.g., it just uses the gyro/compass and a pedometer-style measurement method?


texts: Macbook Air El Capitan constant message about iCloud

texts: My Macbook Air OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 gives me a notification about every 5 minutes that says Finish changing your password. I get directed to the iCloud settings when I press the detailsbutton on the notification. When System Preferences pops up a prompt also comes with it that says iCloud Preferences wants to make changes to your account. Type your password to allow this.. Nothing happens after I enter my password besides the prompt disappearing. What's going on here?


texts: How do I get different colors for directories, etc. in iTerm2?

texts:
I have a new MacBookPro, and I installed the latest release of iTerm2.

Even after I imported various color schemes, I notice that they just change the color of the text and background only.

What I was expecting to see were different colors for files VS directories, VS hidden files, etc etc. How do I do that on iTerm2?

A related question is how do I actually specify what I want the colors of directories, files, etc to be?

Thanks


texts:
My iPhone wouldn't accept my passcode, so I looked online, and it said to put the phone into recovery mode, then sync it to a computer with iTunes. It said to hit restore when iTunes gave me the option.

I am aware of what this will do to my phone, however it won't turn on, and I'm wondering if when it restores, will it turn itself on. And also, if the reason why it won't turn on is because of recovery mode. what should I do?


texts: Old iMessages and text messages have all disappeared after iOS 10 update?

texts:
When I opened my Messages app after updating to iOS 10, my entire history of text messages was gone. I thought maybe they would return after leaving the phone plugged in and connected to wifi but this isn't the case.
Where'd they all go? Literally years of conversations have disappeared - I didn't think this was a problem at first but I hadn't realized how much I relied on old text messages for stuff.


texts:
I've got a Mac mini 2014 (running macOS Sierra 10.12.2) with the Server.app installed.

I was planning on hosting a webserver on this device on the default http(s) ports. However, I've found that one of the services installed by the Server app has already bound these ports.

I've tried to disable the service that's binding these ports by using launchctl and stopping anything that vaguely looks like apache/httpd. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough.

Does anyone know which service is binding these ports?


texts: How to properly downgrade from Catalina to Mojave with no internal free space left?

texts:
Today I upgraded my Macbook Pro to Catalina, but after realising that I can't get files from my Samsung SSD and can't to few other features, I try to downgrade to Mojave again.

The downgrade method I read was through a Time Machine, but after an hour of recovering my stuff, there was an error window that says "An Error Occurred Restoring from Backup".

After that I tried to reinstall my macOS, but I can't do it anymore, because I have no space left on my Macintosh HD (only 300 MB free space, before all of this there were a 50 GB of free space).

What should I do? What is the best way to get back to my files? To delete everything on Macintosh HD via Disk Utility and then try to get back all of the stuff from Migration Assistant, or is there any better ways to do this?


texts: Can I view my home network's iPhoto / Photos library on an Apple TV?

texts:
I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet, but I'm curious if it is still possible on the Apple TV to view your iPhoto/Photos library from a computer on your LAN like you could before without using iCloud?

Previously, you could go to the 'Computers' icon on the Apple TV and view a shared iTunes library on another computer on your home LAN (as described here). Though it didn't connect directly to iPhoto/Photos, it was able to see your home collection via iTunes. I use this feature quite a bit when showing home pictures and videos to folks on my HDTV.

After seeing some of the reviews of the new 4th gen Apple TV in late 2015, I saw that you could still connect to your local iTunes library, but the option for viewing your photo library was no longer visible; I don't know if this was because of the reviewer not having a library switched on or if the feature has been removed.

I am still on a 3rd gen AppleTV which always allowed me to view photos from my LAN's Mac Pro. Home Sharing is still enabled as it has always been. I have, however, upgraded from iPhoto to Photos in the last few months and also kept up-to-date with the latest iTunes releases. Unfortunately, I've only just noticed that under 'Computers' on the TV I no longer see Photos as a viewable item despite Music/Movies/etc still being there. Going into iTunes preferences I do have home sharing enabled, but no options visible specifically for Photos there.

Any idea if this is still possible? Was this removed by the move to Photos from iPhoto or was it a recent iTunes release that killed it? Frankly, the apparent removal of the feature from the 4th gen TV was a bit of a show stopper for me since I don't particularly care about the new app capability of the device, but mostly I refuse to upload my gigabytes of personal media to Apple's servers (nor do I want to pay for it when I have my own storage solution).

Thanks!


texts: Where did folder "merge" or "keep both" go in OS X 10.9 Mavericks?

texts:
Before Mavericks one could hold the ALT key and move a folder "A" onto a folder "B" where already an "A" existed. In this case Mac OS X asked in Lion if I want to merge - or on Mountain Lion if I want to keep both (which was also a merge).

I can't find this option in Mavericks.

Did Apple remove this useful feature?

Any hints?

(And yes: I own ForkLift, which can do it - I just sometimes still prefer the Finder).


texts: Installing an SSD in a MacBook Pro mid 2010 but OS X is on an external USB HDD

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The HDD in my MacBook Pro failed so I followed some online instructions, and as I had a spare external USB HDD I ended up with the latest OS X Mavericks on the external HDD.

It was all done by Apple over the internet. The MacBook will now only work with the external HDD. I have a new SSD that I want to fit in the MacBook and have all the files on the current external HDD transferred to the SSD. When I restart the MacBook I want it to boot from the new internal SSD.  However, I am a bit stumped with all the various instructions so can someone give me an easy guide i.e. step-by-step?  I want the MacBook Pro configured as if it was new, i.e. with all the necessary software on the SSD. I have Time Machine backups, I have an USB enclosure. The SSD is a Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB. I also have the original discs with OS etc.

Do I install the SSD in the MacBook first and then format it using the original OS disc?

I ask because I have plugged in the SSD using the enclosure and it is not recognised with Disk Utility?  I have also discovered that the existing internal HDD is accessible again and alive but when I try a restore command I get a message: "Cannot restore from source disk"!

I hope I have explained my predicament clearly. References to cloning, carbon copy etc have me lost.

I did this and got  the following.
I did as instructed which was as follows,  and as it all happened so fast I may miss out a bit!  Installed the SSD, ran OS dvd, partitioned the new ssd, then clicked on continue, got an option to restore OS, selected that and used time machine backup.  This tranferred my latest backup to the new ssd, tok about 2 hours.  Mac restarted and booted from ssd. Everything worked. Turned off mac and back on all booted ok. Delighted.  Switched off last night, this morning switched mac back on, would not boot from SSD. Then would not boot from USB HDD.  Put back in OS DVD, checked disk utility, saw samsung ssd, under partition all ok but cant make it start up disk, got error message, partition fail, tried verify disk now and got some information was unavailable during an internal look up. , then tried partition, got error couldnt unmount disk.  I then tried the unmount tab but it says could not unmount, .  I am stuck good and proper. I wonder why it worked for a while and then once left powered off overnight failed.  help??


texts: What is the best way to automate PDF page extraction and conversion into jpg for downloaded files in iOS?

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From time to time I need to check a webpage, download a PDF file from there, find something inside, extract that page and convert it to an image. I can do it easily on macOS, but on iOS it gets more complicated. It would be great if I could on the way, using my iPhone.

I have been trying a way to do it using the apps I know. My last try was with Workflow, but it seems that it does not support PDF to JPG conversion. I may try to write some code in Pythonista and it can probably work out, but i would prefer a simpler solution. Is there an app/solution that can accomplish this?


texts: How can I modify or eliminate the mouse pointer while recording the iOS Simulator with QuickTime Player?

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I would like to use QuickTime Player to create a screen recording of the iOS Simulator running an app. I need to simulate taps on the simulator with the mouse, but I don't want the standard arrow mouse pointer in the recording. An alternate appearance of the mouse pointer (such as a circle to represent the tip of a finger) would be preferable to hiding the mouse pointer entirely (I still need to see where it is so I can use the app correctly).

What options do I have for modifying or eliminating the mouse pointer on OS X? My machine is running Lion 10.7.5.


texts: Logging into a macOS system from a Linux system gives a locale-related warning

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I'm logging into a Mac laptop from a Linux laptop over ssh - so I have an ssh daemon on the Mac side, and I'm using the /usr/bin/ssh client on the Linux side.
I consistently get:
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8): No such file or directory

Logging in from the mac to the same mac, does not give the warning; it's only when I log in from a Linux system that I get that warning.
Putting the following in my Mac's .bash_profile does not help:
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Running localedef on the Mac gives the following error:
bash-5.1# /usr/bin/localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
Can't open UTF-8: No such file or directory

But I do appear to have an en_US.UTF-8 locale on the Mac:
bash-5.1# pwd
/usr/share/locale
bash-5.1# ls -ld en_US.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  256 Jan  1  2020 en_US.UTF-8

What do I need to do to log into the Mac from Linux without a warning and get my preferred locale set?
I'm using homebrew's /usr/local/bin/bash if that matters.
Thanks!


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I use Safari as my browser, but I've found that it frequently hangs for 20, 30 seconds (sometimes longer), often times when I wake it up from sleep and/or when I open a new tab.

Though I'm not sure it would be helpful, the next time it does it I'll see if I can sample the process and report back with the results. In the meantime, is there something I can try? I'm running on a mid-2007 MacBook so, while I think I have enough processing power (2x2.16Ghz) and memory (2GB), I suspect it's a disk issue.

Is there something I can do to reduce disk usage? Should I clear my cache (this isn't a problem), my history (I want to keep this if possible) or both?

edit: Is there any way to determine what plugins I have installed? I have RescueTime and Evernote, so either of them could be the culprit, but I know that there are programs that like to install hidden extensions, so that could be the problem as well.

By the way, here's that sampling output summary - I've cut out the call tree as it was way too long to post:

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
        21       _pthread_start
        21       thread_start
        7       __semwait_signal
        7       mach_msg
        7       mach_msg_trap
        7       pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003
        6       CFRunLoopRunSpecific
        5       CFRunLoopRunInMode

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        __semwait_signal        2058
        mach_msg_trap        2030
        semaphore_wait_signal_trap        589
        select$DARWIN_EXTSN        588
        0x0        294
        __workq_ops        294
        semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap        294
        kevent        293
        pread$UNIX2003        116
        fsync$UNIX2003        50
        WebCore::BinaryPropertyListSerializer::appendStringObject(WebCore::String const&)        42
        WTF::HashMap<WebCore::String, unsigned long, WebCore::StringHash, WTF::HashTraits<WebCore::String>, WTF::HashTraits<unsigned long> >::get(WebCore::String const&) const        19
        write$UNIX2003        19
        __dtoa        15
        WebCore::IntegerArrayHash::equal(WebCore::IntegerArray const&, WebCore::IntegerArray const&)        13
        WebCore::String::characters() const        11
        WTF::HashMap<WebCore::IntegerArray, unsigned long, WebCore::IntegerArrayHash, WebCore::IntegerArrayHashTraits, WTF::HashTraits<unsigned long> >::get(WebCore::IntegerArray const&) const        7
        __memcpy        7
        WebCore::String::isEmpty() const        6
        __sfvwrite        6
        WebCore::BinaryPropertyListSerializer::addAggregateObjectReference(unsigned long)        5
        __vfprintf        5
Sample analysis of process 18283 written to file /dev/stdout


texts: Can I output my sound to my Thunderbolt Display AND my Macbook Pro?

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I work each day from a Macbook Pro, connected to a thunderbolt display.  I keep my laptop open so that I can have two displays at once.

From the top-bar settings, I have the option to toggle my sound to "Internal Speakers", "Display Audio" or a couple of headphone options that I have available.

I tend to listen to music through the "Display Audio" which is the Thunderbolt display.  However, I'd like to try and output audio from both sets of speakers (the laptop and the display).

Is there a way to do this?

NOTE:

About 7 years ago, someone asked a similar question about, but in regards to a Cinema Display (see here).  From this Q&A, the answer appears to be that this isn't possible.  However, this is updated technology and I'd imagine that there is a possibility that this has been changed.  Is dual-audio output an option on updated Apple hardware and os?


texts: Is there an app or option that allows phone to ring for emergency contacts only when silent or Do not disturb?

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I work sometimes till 4 am and my friends and the rest of the world obviously don't know in advance that I don't want to be called at 8 am.

Is there an app or setting that can allow me to have an emergency override list of people I need to be woken up for if a possible emergency arises but ignore all other calls until I wake up?

I'm familiar with the Do Not Disturb option, but it has limitations that it blocks all calls. What if there is an emergency at night?

What if I want to allow certain callers during the Do not Disturb time? Is there a way to have an emergency list that allows calls during silent?


texts: How can one trigger the creation of an iCloud Drive alias?

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I am not referring to traditional symlinks in general, but specifically to the "alias" files used within iCloud Drive. I am also not referring to "stub" files that indicate that a file has not yet been downloaded from the cloud. These are specialized macOS alias files (yes, aliases) that point to files elsewhere in iCloud Drive. They're the files mentioned in this Apple discussion forum thread.

When a file in iCloud Drive is opened with an application, an alias (i.e., a file that "points" back to the original) is created in the iCloud Drive folder corresponding to the application used to open the file (unless the file is stored in that app's folder). For instance, I created a Keynote presentation called Intro to Git and stored it in ~/Documents (which corresponds to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents in the iCloud Drive hierarchy). I then opened it in Keynote. The original file stayed in ~/Documents; however, an "alias" was generated and stored in Keynote's iCloud Drive folder (~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~Keynote/Documents, or iCloud Drive > Keynote in Finder).

When I view the file in ~/Documents, it looks like this:

In other words, the original file is stored in Documents. However, within the Keynote folder, there is an alias file generated by iCloud Drive (note the in Documents text, indicating that this is not just a regular alias, but one automatically generated by iCloud Drive and detected by Finder):

Having these aliases is particularly convenient, as it creates a single location from which I can open various documents editable in a certain application that may be stored throughout my iCloud Drive file system. However, I cannot seem to trigger the creation of aliases for several new spreadsheets I have made, all of which are stored in iCloud Drive but not in the Numbers folder. I've tried adapting the strategies mentioned in the PDF Viewer and MindNode support documents on this topic (Apple has none), including opening the documents in Numbers on both Mac and iOS, to no avail. Based on what those documents say, it seems that the alias should automatically created when I open the document in Numbers for the first time, but that is not the case.

I do not want to create a regular file alias in the Numbers folder (which I could do by holding command and option while dragging, or using Make Alias). Instead, I would like to trigger the generation of an iCloud Drive-specific alias (such files' actual names follow the format .########-####-####-####-############.alias, where each # represents a hexadecimal digit) in the Numbers iCloud Drive folder. How can I accomplish this?

I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and iOS 11.4.1. I'm using the latest versions of Numbers and Keynote on both as of the time of writing, but this is not an application-specific question.

Edit: A hexdump of both the specialized iCloud alias and a regular alias to the same file indicate that these iCloud aliases are more than just a special file name—they also contain additional information. Specifically, there's an additional section in the alias file following the text NSURLDocumentIdentifier, which contains docs.icloud.com:com.apple.CloudDocs/[hexadecimal string]. There's also a _NSURLParentDirectoryIDKey that doesn't exist in the normal alias file. Moreover, these iCloud aliases are readable by iOS devices—normal alias files (for obvious reasons—they're pointing at a file on the Mac's local file system) aren't readable on iOS.


texts: Clearing the cache/history not removing form field values

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I am using Firefox and Opera in OS X 10.5.8. I have cleared the cookies, history, private data number of times. But when I visit gmail/facebook, the email ID is still auto filled up. Is there anyway to remove these values.

This is not an issue in Safari. When I reset the safari, everything gets deleted/removed.


texts:
Is it possible to use SteelSeries keyboards with MacBook Pro?

I'm thinking about SteelSeries Apex line.


texts: How do you change the keys inserted while holding the Option key?

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The Option key influences what characters are inserted when pressing different keys.

For example, Option-k is ˚ and Option-Shift-k is .

Is it possible to modify these? Is it possible to, for example, make Option-Space insert an En-space? And if so, how would I go about doing such a thing?


texts: Disk utility free space doesn't match Apple > About this Mac > Storage

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There's a difference of almost 6.14GB regarding how much free space both methods report.

What's going on here?
How much free space I actually have?

(The mounted image is very small, non worries about that)


texts: I have the ac version of the airport extreme.  I have formatted my 8TB seagate drive to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) several times and repaired it.  The Mac immediately asks me if I want to use it for time machine but the airport cannot see it.  It is a powered drive.  The drive has its own proprietary USB 3.0 cable.  I have successfully used it with an airport extreme (ac) before.  Additionally, I have tried putting a powered USB hub between it and the airport.  How do I fix this?


texts: Hide Mail from showing in Spotlight but keep Messages

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I want to remove Mail from Spotlight as I don't use it on my Mac. However, the only way to do this is to uncheck "Mail & Messages" from being indexed on Spotlight in Preferences, here:

Unchecking this removes my Messages from showing in Spotlight, which I do want to appear in Spotlight searches.

I have deactivated all mail accounts in mail in the hope this would remove the Mail index for these accounts but this didn't remove Mail from Spotlight. This is a screenshot of mail still showing despite no email accounts being active:

I am using OS X El Capitan, latest release.


texts: Several days ago, I installed the text editor TextMate 2. I notice that the icons of my .h and .m files which were created in Xcode have been changed to the new one. Like the screenshot below which shows the new icons (i.e. AppDelegate.h) and default icons (ViewController.h) at the same time. I am not sure it is the TextMate that caused this issue because if I right-click -> get info on the new icon, it stills display the default one. My question is how to restore the file's icon to their default looking? Thanks.


texts: How to add automatic paragraph numbering in MS Word?

texts: I often "reverse outline" my work by printing out my file, numbering the paragraphs by hand, and then making an "outline" of my essay/piece which then will help me to conceptualize what I am doing - and how to rework it. Is there a way to automatically add numbers for paragraphs in Word so I don't have to do it by hand? I know that you can add automatic numbering for lines but I can't figure out how to do it for paragraphs.


texts: How do I show the High Sierra application privacy dialogs again?

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Background: see my other question here.

I missed the new application privacy dialogs (e.g. in iTunes) the first time around after I upgraded to High Sierra. Is there any way to show them again?

I have tried restoring my iTunes preferences folder from a Time Machine backup before the upgrade, and then restoring my entire library folder (both from a second user account), but neither worked. Removing /var/db/.AppleDiagnosticsSetupDone and logging back in also did not work.


texts: Remove menu bar apps from menu bar in OS X

texts: What is best method to remove menu bar apps from MacBook Pro Retina running Mavericks?  I've tried Broomstick and a few others with no real easy success.  I've also tried going through System Preferences / User Groups and then Login Items


texts: How to use USB wifi adapter on a MacBook Pro running on Mojave

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I need to create a wifi from the wifi my computer get, I bought a tp link USB adapter, used the USB to USB-c MacBook Pro adapter and connected it to my computer, then I downloaded the drivers but I can't make it work, because I cannot connect the USB wifi adapter to the wifi.

Please could someone help me !


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I have one Mac Mini (1 TB) and I am about out of space. Buying a new with 2T is some $2500-out of my budget. I can just muster to buy another 1 TB...

Is there a way that I can do my work (on one screen, with one keyboard) accessing two / both Mac Mini's?

(For example, what takes up most on my computer is images, so I was thinking if I put all images on one Mac Mini...)

Thank you for any help - most appreciated. PS> Please know I am no techie-person.


texts: No sound when iOS screen off and using Google Maps navigation?

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I'm using latest versions of iOS and Google Maps on an iPhone 7, and when I turn the screen off, I do not hear turn-by-turn directions when using the navigation feature of Google Maps. Yet, according to the "Battery saving tips" of the Google Maps app documentation, I should still hear the sounds.

I verified this by turning off the screen (pushing power button) a few seconds before the next turn navigation came up. Then verified it was working by leaving the screen on for the next turn. The phone is not connected to any bluetooth devices either.

Also, the Google Maps settings all seem to indicate that sounds are all enabled properly (volume icon on map is set to "unmuted"; under navigation settings, all relevant-looking settings are enabled; etc.).

Any ideas why this would not be working for me? I've yet to try a restart of phone nor have I tried a reset of phone. (Will eventually try those if no other suggestions come up.)

Update: I also just tried re-navigating to new location; I turned screen off in the middle of the, "okay navigation all set" message. Then, the "you're on the fastest route" message played while screen off, but then all the directions no longer play, so issue still happening.

Update 2: I disabled bluetooth and restarted the phone, and the problem still exists. The voice directions also do not play when I have a different app in focus.  I'll try a fresh install of Google Maps at some point soon.


texts: iPad gets self-assigned IP address with ethernet adapter

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I have an iPad and an ethernet adapter.
I'm using the ethernet access in a college dorm.
Every device in the network has to be registered with a MAC address, I registered the MAC address of the ethernet adapter and it's working on my computer, but I can't get it to work on the iPad. It just gets a self assigned IP address starting with 169.
After searching the internet for a while I got the hint to manually change the IP address. I used the IP address that's showing on the computer when the adapter is plugged in under "router" (I'm not using the direct IP address that's given because it results in having no connection on the iPad at all).
After that, I got the error in Safari on the iPad that the server could not be found. Therefore I wrote down the DNS-server from the network page that's showing if the adapter is plugged in into the computer.
After that Safari starts to load the page (the blue bar appears like 10% and nothing is happening).
What else could I try?
EDIT: the network is protected by 802.1x PEAP-EAP. On every device one has to download a software package that configurates the network access. I did it on the iPad. Maybe the iPad doesn't support 802.1x PEAP-eap?


texts: I lost my iPhone. I connected this iPhone to my iCloud, but I can't get this phone. That phone not having GPS on and Data Pack. Is there any way to find this? Is there any possibility to use this phone?


texts: Migration Assistant fails on Ethernet Mavericks-to-Mavericks migration

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I have the following setup and am attempting the use Migration Assistant over Ethernet:

Source machine: Early 2009 24-inch iMac running OS X 10.9
Destination
machine: Latest MacBook Pro Retina running OS X 10.9
Connection: direct Ethernet cable between machines

When I use Migration assistant following Apple's documentation I pass through the confirmation code step on both machines, and then get as far as the "Checking Source Machine" screen on the destination, and am stuck there for about 10 minutes, at which point the destination machine jumps back to the language selection setup page, and the source machine says "This machine is attempting to reconnect to your other Mac".

At this point I'm at a dead end: Attempting to proceed through the setup again on the destination gets me nowhere, and the only option on the source machine is "Cancel Transfer", which quits Migration Assistant there and ends the whole process.

On the source machine I've turned off LittleSnitch, which I normally have running, turned off Apple's firewall, and enabled file sharing.

What am I missing? Are there other settings somewhere that I need to check? I've also tried using FireWire to connect my machines, but have a different set of issues there.


texts: How do I stop/freeze my secondary display?

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I'm fairly new to Mac and having a dual monitor setup, but I have my secondary display working and arranged above my laptop. I want to be able to move between screens on the laptop and have the secondary display on the TV freeze on that document so that I can read what else I need to search for. I have tried turning 'Mirroring' on and off but it doesn't seen to stop the secondary display.

I am on Mac OS X 10.7.5 (MacBook Pro 13" Late 2011)


texts: Remove special characters and replace space with _ from files and directories Recursively in Bash

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I have a script that is giving me some problems, I know that I have to re-do it recursively but am having some trouble. The script should rename all files and folders in a given folder by removing special characters like $-,)(! and replacing " " with "_"

Here is the piece I need to re-do:

# Rename directories
find "$ORIG_DIR" -name "*" -type d| while read dname
do
    NEW_DIR=`echo "$dname" |sed -E 's/^[ \t]*//g; s/[ \t]*$//g; s/\./_/g; s/\,/_/g; s/ /_/g'`

        # Rename files
        find "$ORIG_DIR" -name "*" -type f | while read fname
        do
            NEW_FNAME=`echo "$fname" |sed -E 's/^[ \t]*//g; s/[ \t]*$//g; s/\./_/g; s/(.*)_/\1\./; s/\,/_/g; s/ /_/g'`
            if [ -e $NEW_FNAME ]
            then
                echo "$NEW_FNAME already exists. Not replacing $fname"
            else
                echo "Replacing $fname with $NEW_FNAME"
                mv "$fname" $NEW_FNAME
            fi
        done

    if [ -e $NEW_DIR ]
    then
        echo "$NEW_DIR already exists. Not replacing $dname"
    else
        echo "Replacing $dname with $NEW_DIR"
        mv "$dname" $NEW_DIR
    fi
done

END


texts: Difference between back-up computer vs. complete copy of everything?

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What is meant by backing up computer vs. creating a copy of entire hard-drive?  Are the meanings the same?
How to create entire bootable copy of my computer using time machine?
I have a time capsule.  Is what I have an exact copy of my computer?


texts: iPhone 3GS Upgrade/Jailbreak/Unlock Help

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I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.0.1 with baseband/bootrom 05.16.02.  I want to upgrade to iOS 5.1.1 but also make my device unlockable.  With that baseband, however, I can no longer unlock my phone.  I know I can install baseband 06.15.00 for the iPad WiFi+3G that Apple bundles with iOS 3.2 to 3.2.2 and then unlock, but that breaks GPS functionality.

However, according to this post it looks like it's now possible to go back to baseband 05.13.04 from 06.15.00, which still allows for unlocking.  But I'm SOOOO confused.

So I install baseband 06.15.00 using a custom ISPW for iOS 3.2 to 3.2.2, jailbreak and unlock with redsn0w, then downgrade baseband from 06.15.00 to 05.13.04 while upgrading iOS 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 all with another custom IPSW, and then re-jailbreak??  Ugh!!  My head is spinning!


texts: Is there a way to quickly search the web via Spotlight?

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On macOS, you can use Spotlight to quickly do a web search of your query through hotkeys by pressing CMD + B.

Is there any equivalent functionality in iPadOS?

Using a Bluetooth keyboard, I have tried the same hotkey on iPadOS 13.1.2 with no luck. Pressing Enter after typing a query in Spotlight brings up the first result, but I would specifically like it to bring up a web search in Safari's default search engine.


texts: PDF reader for Mac: stripping white background

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I'm in search of a PDF reader capable of stripping the white background of a pdf page and applying a theme in place of it.

For example, I use Ibouquiniste on my iOS devices: it has the capability of putting a very paperlike theme in place of the eye-annoying white background.

Is there anything similar for Mac?


texts: Bootcamp won't boot after resizing partitions

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I know this question has been asked a lot, but my situation seems to be a little different than most of the others I have been reading about. I haven't been able to find a solution that could fix this issue.

Basically, I created another ExFAT partition for universal storage between both OS's, and now Bootcamp won't load. I was aware of the issues with the Hybrid MBR changing after repartitioning, but I figured I could fix it after I resized.

I tried the guides here and here, which are so far the two main methods I could find online, with most of the others being a variation of the two. Both haven't worked for me.

Here is some info that might help to diagnose the issue:

I'm running Mac OS 10.11.6 and Windows 10. I can see the Bootcamp partition in Finder, and it does show up under startup drives in Settings. A lot of people who have this problem don't seem to be able to see either, so that is different. Also, I have rEFInd installed, so I don't know if that makes a difference either. SIP is also disabled.

Here is some terminal output:

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            350.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data STORAGE                 98.2 GB    disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                49.9 GB    disk0s5
   6:           Windows Recovery                         471.9 MB   disk0s6

diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059
    start       size  index  contents
        0          1         MBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  684863280      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
685272920    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
686542456  191828360      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
878370816     262144
878632960   97550336      5  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976183296     921600      6  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
977104896        131
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
     Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

 1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  685272919] <Unknown ID>
 2: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 685272920 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
 3: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 686542456 -  191828360] HPFS/QNX/AUX
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 878632960 -   97550336] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Note that it may look a bit different than others' situations because I have already tried various solutions, such as the above code block. When I try to boot Windows, it comes up with:

  Recovery
  Your PC/Device needs to be repaired
  An unexpected error has occurred.
  Error code: 0xc000000e
  You'll need to use recovery tools. If you don't have any installation >media (like a disc or USB device), contact your PC administrator or >PC/Device manufacturer.

I was wondering whether I need to either repair the partition or set a boot partition within Windows using a bootable USB/DVD.

How can I make Bootcamp boot again?


texts: Web sharing : Images won't load - 403 Forbidden

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I've recently "activated" the web sharing in OSX 1.8 « Mountain Lion ». It works well with PHP & HTML. But I stuck with 403 errors with images (jpg, png).

Do you have any idea why ?

Thx


texts: MacBook Pro updated to EL Captain 10.11 but QuickTime Player didn't upgrade

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The ONLY reason I upgraded to EL Captain because the new QuickTime Player allows me to make a video of my app while I play on my device. However, I've upgraded to EL Captain 10.11 but the QuickTime Player is still version 10.4

The El Capitan upgrade went smoothly for my MacBook Pro. Everything works well. How do I update the QuickTime Player? I tried going through App store but in search, I couldn't find it.


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I'm new to Mac.

I have files on a shared folder that I often access and every time I restart the computer I have to go to Finder->go->connect to server->fill in the information and press connect. Is there a way I can always have the shared folder available and have the computer remember my password for it?


texts: How can I identify files and programs connected to the kernel_task process in Mac OS?

texts: I understand that the kernel_task process is linked to several .kext files found in System/Library/Extensions (and possibly Library/Extensions ?)  How can I identify which files are contributing to the 400+ MB memory usage identified in Activity Monitor?  Is there anything I can do to uninstall or delete unneeded processes to reduce memory usage here?


texts: how to run alias using bash -c from IDEA

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I'm trying to run a program defined in an alias (and the alias is defined in a source file)

alias myapp="/somepath/app -arg1 -arg2"

Then I go to IDEA and create an External Tool

Program: Bash
Arguments: -c "source /filewithalias.sh && myapp"

Then when I run, I get the following message:

bash: myapp: command not found

EDIT:

I already tried prepending

shopt -s expand_aliases

To the command string but the result is still the same


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After installing big sur, i noticed my 2017 macbook pro would lag every few hours, during the lag i basically cannot do anything because it was so laggy, but one time managed to open activity monitor when it was lagging and i saw kernel_task was using 400% or higher cpu, ive already tried to restart my computer but it just comes back after few minutes, ive also tried reseting my smc and unplugging my cords but it still didnt work, how can I fix this? (sorry if my english is bad, english is not my native language)
also, my mac's model id is 14,2


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I recently got a MacBook Air and am getting used to the macOS interface... Liking it so far but still relearning how to do some basic stuff.

For example, right clicking on VLC, and all the porn I've been watching comes up! Don't want to risk that popping up if someone else is using my computer for a few moments.

I've tried setting the Number of recent items under system preferences to none, but vlc still remembers all my filthy video titles! What gives?

In windows I could clear my recent documents easily enough, or use a tool like ccleaner to clear system cache, browser histories, recent documents etc with one click.

Can you recommend something similar for Mac?

(I know the best solution for this is separate user accounts - but would like to be confident that I could pass my laptop quickly to someone at a moments notice without all my recent activity being two clicks away!

Thanks for any help.


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So I've found this wildly helpful blog (http://blog.wyeworks.com/) and managed to muddle my way to step 5 (after leaving ridiculous comments after getting stuck on step one)

    $ brew install memcached mysql postgresql

I've gotten the "your system is raring to brew" message. However, when I entered the string to install the rest of the libraries, I got a fatal error message and when I ran the brew doctor code again I got the error message:

Error: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin
This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those
provided by Homebrew. The following tools exist at both paths:

memcached

Consider amending your PATH so that /usr/local/bin
is ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH.

Which seems simple enough, but all of the instructions I've found online are horribly contradictory and not helpful at all.  The most common advice seems to be to change the path via creating a new file (and then referencing it in terminal through various and vastly different code strings), but no where states where you create this file. I think I am going to bug people with my lack of knowledge but any help would be appreciated. Would this page help at all?? http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14363/plistedit-pro

I have Xcode 3.2.6, Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I'm trying to use Homebrew (and I have run the update) and rbenv.

Simply put, I am looking for a way to edit my path, for what to edit it to, and how to get homebrew running with no errors.


texts: How to disable updates for specific app in Mac app store?

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How can I disable updates of a particular app (in this case: iMovie) in the Mac App Store?  The method documented here (right click on update, select Hide Update) no longer works.

I have app Store version 2.2.1 (584), macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 (16G29).