texts: Will Catalina stream movies (etc) to a 3rd Generation Apple TV box?

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I have one of the older, 3rd generation Apple TV boxes, (the sort that came with a clicky remote, not a swipey one). I regularly use it to watch movies and TV shows served up by a Mac currently running High Sierra (I think… might be Mojave), via iTunes with home sharing.

Given that iTunes is a thing of the past in Catalina, will this set up still work if I upgrade the Mac to MacOS 10.15?


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On desktops, when web browsing you typically right click on an image and choose an item from a contextual menu to display/copy the image URL. In iOS, when you tap and hold down an image, an action sheet displays asking if you want to save the image, copy to the clipboard, etc. But what if you just want the URL?

If safari doesn't offer this functionality, is there a 3rd party browser that does? Specifically, one that works on the iPad.


texts: How do I add multiple pictures from Photos to iCloud Drive?

texts: In Photos on iOS 10.3.3, when I select one picture and open the share sheet, there’s an option to “Add to iCloud Drive”. But when I select multiple pictures, the share sheet doesn’t offer that option. Adding multiple pictures to iCloud Drive one by one gets rather tedious. Is there some way I can add multiple pictures at once? Perhaps by using another app?


texts:
Here's how to reproduce this:

Installed VLC via: brew cask install vlc*
Open VLC (via Spotlight/Finder/open/something else using launchd**)
Finder alert dialog pops up with message:

  The application “VLC.app” can’t be opened.

This has never been a problem until I installed the latest version. I'm guessing it's more something to do with launchd than VLC (my other MacBooks are all fine).

How can I diagnose what's failed and/or make this app launch again?

* makes no difference downloading with browser).

** I'm able to start it via: $ /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC, so I am guessing it's something to do with what is launching it.


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OS 10.6

How do I find where the file for a particular mp3 that I can see in iTunes is?

-- How can I see what folder a track is in?

-- And how do I know which file in that folder it is?


texts: I need to highlight the narration in certain parts of the finished iMovie. How do I decrease the volume of only the music when both narration and music seem jumbled on the timeline?


texts: Enter "vertical bar" (or "pipe symbol") in Windows

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I have my MacBook late 2008 sometimes running Windows 7 via BootCamp. The keyboard has a German layout. Pretty much like the Wikimedia image below except that the blue symbols in the lowest line are not accessible.

How could I enter the vertical bar | via my keyboard?

Unfortunately Right Alt + < does not seem to work. (However, I can enter @ with Right Alt + Q et al. as I can do on external keyboards.)

Update2: From what I can tell from the languages settings, the Windows layout is missing the <-key between Left Shift and Y. What layout would provide it?

Update 3: On a co-workers current MacBook Pro its working as expected.

I'd also be happy with some comments suggesting ways to have it entered. I'm tiered of copying it from Wikipedia every time.


texts: Files on desktop un-deleteable, say "No Items selected" when previewed

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I have some image files that mysteriously showed up on the desktop. When I go to move them, they show a copy (+) icon and they are unable to be deleted. When I select either one and press space bar to preview, instead of a preview, the message "No items selected" is displayed.

I also noticed that they do not show up in a regular finder window of the desktop, but only in the desktop itself.

Upon relaunching finder (CMD+OPT+ESC > Finder > Relaunch), the symptoms vanished.

But does anyone know why this keeps happening? I've seen it multiple times now.


texts: After syncing iPhone with iTunes, where will the app-related files be stored on my Mac?

texts:
For example, if I played a game and downloaded some game contents in the app and then saved some game progress, there should be some files generated within the app. After syncing with iTunes, where will those information be stored?

I could find the appname.ipa file in iTunes Music folder, but that's the same app file downloaded from iTunes. For the app files generated after I used it, where will they be stored?


texts: Does Apple save a (hashed) version of my device passwords?

texts:
As earlier described in this question, I was asked today by my iPad to enter the user account password of my MacBook, and my MacBook later asked me to provide the passcode of my iPad. I'm specifically not talking about my iCloud password, the actual device passwords were requested and this behaviour is kind of known.

Now my question is: What happens to these passwords? Are they sent over to Apple? Are they used locally to decrypt something that has been encryted with that passcode?

So is Apple in possession of data that can be used to run brute-force attacks agains my device passwords? This would be totally against the idea of the T2-chip limiting brute-force attacks and I never agreed that such information is sent over to Apple and at no point was I informed about that. I'm not sharing my KeyChain with iCloud and do not wish to.

I couldn't find any exact information on that matter, anybody shedding some light on it is highly welcomed.


texts: Mountain Lion 10.8.2, Java Preferences has disappeared

texts: I just installed the latest Java update from apple (Java for OS X 2012-006) and I was looking to have a look at what's going on with my java(s) with Java Preferences app (which used to live in /Applications/Utilities though it seems it has now disappeared.  Any idea on whether there is a problem with my system or did the update clobber Java Preferences?


texts: In Apple Mail, is there a keyboard command to shift focus from a message to the message list

texts: In my usual review of email, I have the message preview pane open and use the keyboard to delete, archive, or skip messages with the focus in the message list.  Sometimes I want to click a link in in an email.  When I'm finished with that, I usually switch back to Mail using ⌘-Tab.  In that case it takes a mouse/trackpad gesture to put the focus back in the message list.  Normally, I would expect to be able to use ⌥-Tab to shift focus between the panes, but instead, the focus moves to individual items in the toolbar and skips the message list.  What am I missing?


texts: What's a good program for syncing files between computers?

texts:
I've been using Synk from Decimus off and on for a few years to sync files between two Macs.

Since upgrading to Lion, Sync 6 has started hanging during the process of scanning before the sync. Upgrading to version 7 is $45 which seems like a lot.

Is there another program out there that does the same thing? I don't need it to sync the contents of files that have been changed on both computers, just copy the most recent version of a file (or a new file) from one to the other. I'd also like to be able to have it ignore files with a specific Finder label.


texts: Screen brightness decreases when I middle-click

texts: I have a logitech wireless mouse hooked up to a macbook pro running 10.7. Whenever I middle-click the mouse button, the laptop's display brightness decreases. It behaves just as if I had pressed the F1 key. The middle-click still works in applications (e.g. Firefox opens a new tab), it just has this annoying side-effect. How can I correct this behavior?


texts: Transfer Photos from Mac to Android Device

texts: How can I transfer photos from Mac(including iPhoto) into Android phone? When I connect my android phone to Mac via USB, iPhoto can recognize it, but I can only find the import new photo button, then where is the export photo to android phone button?


texts: What are working stereo USB microphone options for the iPad? It needs to be usable as an audio input into recorder apps? Presumably plugged into the iPad through the USB camera connection adapter.


texts: Command to find out the version number of a .pkg file

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Does anyone know how to retrieve the version number of a .pkg file which isn't installed yet?

I'd like to use something like pkgutil --pkg-info, but that only works for installed packages.

I've also tried installer -pkginfo -verbose, but that doesn't show the version number.

Is there a built-in command to do this, or alternatively, could someone suggest a one-liner please?

Thanks.


texts: Mac OSX EFI problems, urgent help needed!

texts:
So, I recently did an update on OSX, booted my computer up and I discovered that I the update replaced my EFI boot rom and the SMC with the incorrect SMC, so now I can't use my battery and the computer is generally acting very strange.

I have looked all over the internet for some kind of answer on how to resolve this with no luck, or the solutions i have seen / found have been outdated and not appropriate for my Macbook Pro.

So essentially I have a Macbook Pro 13" late 2011 8,1 running OSX 10.9.5 the EFI and SMC for this is meant to be:

EFI MBP81.0047.2AB (2015-001)
SMC: 1.68f98 (SMC 1.5)

However, the SMC and EFI that I am seeing is this:

EFI: MBP81.0047.B2A (2015-001)
SMC: 1.68f99 (SMC 1.6)

Which is for the Macbook Pro 17" Early 2011 8,3.

Does anyone out there know how to resolve this I'm losing my mind over this since Apple refuse to tell me how to do it and the only option they are providing me with is a new Logic board, which we all know is not necessary.

I would genuinely appreciate a guide on how to solve this issue.


texts: How to view pid of process listening on port using netstat on macOS?

texts:
For *nix we can use
  netstat -anp

specifically the -p option. This is not supported on macOS. I also tried -b and -o which do not work. So how is this done on macOS?


texts:
One of Apple's calendar features on every device is that it takes the birthdays from the contacts and show them as a separate birthday calendar. This is a nice feature, but has a huge drawback in my workflow:

Since I do a lot of driving I use Siri a lot to create calendar events. But when somebody of my contacts has birthday on the day I want to schedule a meeting (or whatsoever) the birthday event is recognized as a full-time event, what causes Siri to warn me, that I already have an appointment - what is obviously not true because it's "only" a birthday. Siri of course then tell me which appointments I have "at the same time" (which is a feature when you are connected via bluetooth), so at least I know, that this are only birthdays and I can schedule a meeting anyways, but this is also annoying, because if there are like 5 birthdays that day, it takes a pretty long while until Siri read all appointments to me.

So my question is: Is there any way to to get rid off the full-time status of the birthday calendar or even make Siri ignoring this birthday events (without deleting every birthday from any of my contacts)?


texts: Can I encrypt an external harddisk which is in HFS+?

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(journaled, encrypted) is a new option which I am able to find in Lion.

Can I convert an existing harddrive (external) to encrypt the whole drive instead of using other tools ?


texts: View metadata for song currently playing on iPhone

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Is there any way to view metadata (such as composer, genre, year etc) for a song that is currently playing on an iPhone?

If there is no way to do so, and no apps which can do this, does the iOS API allow access to this information (i.e. could I write an app to do this myself)?


texts:
I have HomeKit and it’s stuck on the accept invite step for about 9 months.

The sender  has since removed my access but this remains.  What are my options?


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My work (Exchange) email signature has text formatting and a photo in it, as I'm sure many do. Does anyone know of a way to enable Apple Mail like signature customization in iOS?

My iPhone is jailbroken, so if you have a jailbreak solution that works I'm good with that.


texts:
How do I resize a table in Pages to fit page?

I am using an iMac with 10.9.5


texts: How can I connect two DELL monitors to macbook air 2014

texts: I have a macbook air from 2014. I connect one monitor to it through thunderbolt to HDMI connector. If it's possible, how could I connect 2nd monitor as well? (it doesn't seem to have mini-DisplayPort only 2 other usb ports.


texts: How to make it clear that a value is being changed using keynote

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I am using keynote to make a presentation.

Let's say that following 3 lines. And the third line is something like

We are opening a section for kids
In June use 20% discout on all kids items
On all kids items 30 days money back guarantee

Next I want this to happen.

When I hit next then a big "X" come over slowly on "20%"
When I hit next then I want "20%" to be replaced by "40%"

How do I do that in keynote. I just purchased keynote so I am using the latest version.


texts: Saving multiple Live Photos as video triggers "Unable to Save" error

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I would like to concatenate multiple Live Photos into one single video. This seems to be possible since iOS 13 by selecting (multiple) Live Photos and sharing them into "Save as Video" [1] [2].
For me, this only works if I have selected one single picture. When I select multiple Live Photos, I get the error:

Unable to Save. There has been an error while saving. Please try again later.

Is this a known issue? I could not find information on this, except to try turning iCloud off/on. This did not help.
iPhone 6S, iOS 14.0.1


texts: How do you connect from a Mac to a virtual machine running Windows? This VM is hosted remotely, e.g., on a public cloud or even a private vSphere environment.


texts:
I have already installad iOS11 Beta 1 with Apple Beta Software Program.

But there are new beta releases (Beta 2 and Beta 3), when I navigate to settings-general-software update, it says,

  iOS 11.0 Your software is up to date

I have also checked version, it's 11.0 (15A5278f) which is actually Beta 1.

Why don't new updates appear in software update section? How can I install new beta versions?


texts: Ethernet driver missing when installing Windows using boot camp

texts:
I installed Windows 7 64 bit using bootcamp. The Ethernet driver is missing. Can't find it search on disk.  Where do I get this driver?

I have a Macbook Pro OS X


texts:
Here is the dilemma that I'm having with the PDF export on Apple Pages. When I export my Apple Pages document into PDF and open it in any PDF viewer (let's just say Preview) then I don't get the TOC on the Sidebar. Just to clarify we are not talking about the cases when you do include TOC in your document and have it in the text of the final PDF. When I look at the Pages PDF Export I can see Thumbnails, Contact Sheet but in TOC I see just the name of the file.

Does the Apple Pages PDF Export actually have such a feature to customise the final PDF?


texts: Old Users App Store Account is still active on my computer

texts: I just picked up a used Mac for a great price (I might add but doesn't have much to do with my question); and the old users App Store Account is still linked to him, even though I have everything else going with my iCloud account and or Apple password.  How do I change it back?


texts: How do I unlock my Mac without having to click my name?

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In Snow Leopard, at least, I could press Cmd + L to select my name and then press Enter to get the password prompt, but I can't get that to work in Mountain Lion when I've left the computer locked for an extended amount of time.

How do I unlock my Mac without having to click my name when I've locked it?


texts: How do I fix "An email message can’t be created because Safari can’t find an email application."?

texts:
I have both Safari and Mail installed - ever since a fresh OSX Lion install. Also, I have never removed or reinstalled them or messed around with them. So this "error" message is quite a surprise to me.

How do I fix this?


texts: MacBook autofill name fields with someone else's name

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I have a brand new MacBook Pro. When I first started the computer and set it up, it asked for my name, but the field was already autofilled with my brother's name.

When I install software, when there is a name field (such as for registration), my brother's name is autofilled there. My brother hasn't lived here in over 10 years and this computer is brand new, he has never used it or even seen it.

Why would my computer be populating fields with his name?


texts: Invitees not getting email notification of the meeting (event)

texts: I created an event on iPhone (6.x) by tapping the plus sign on my icloud calender with two users having gmail email addresses. The email invitation has not gone out even after 15 mins now. Am I doing something wrong here? How can I resend the notification emails if there is such a way.


texts: Network connection timeouts on MacBook Pro

texts:
I have an Apple MacBook Pro with Mac OS Mojave 10.14.4 running.
Since 10.14.2 or 10.14.3 (I can't remember) the internet connection
times out every 2 minutes or so. It takes then from 20 sec to 1 min to load a web page. This happens for Chrome, Firefox and Safari-Browser, which I tested. This happens whether I use WiFi-connection or Ethernet-cable.
A typical ping for my WiFi-connection looks as follows:

MacBook-Pro:~$ ping 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=56 ttl=120 time=15.381 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=57 ttl=120 time=18.708 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=58 ttl=120 time=13.254 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=59 ttl=120 time=937.689 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=60 ttl=120 time=1901.038 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=61 ttl=120 time=2934.408 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=62 ttl=120 time=3958.543 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=63 ttl=120 time=4908.217 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=64 ttl=120 time=5905.401 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=65 ttl=120 time=6842.036 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 72
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=66 ttl=120 time=7862.743 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 74
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=67 ttl=120 time=8889.559 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 76
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=68 ttl=120 time=9843.350 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 78
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=69 ttl=120 time=10892.615 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 80
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=70 ttl=120 time=11936.543 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 82
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=71 ttl=120 time=12980.791 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 84
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=72 ttl=120 time=13820.231 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 86
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=73 ttl=120 time=14764.972 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 88
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=74 ttl=120 time=15707.589 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 90
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=76 ttl=120 time=15748.127 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 92
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=78 ttl=120 time=15691.715 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=79 ttl=120 time=14686.667 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=80 ttl=120 time=13683.104 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=81 ttl=120 time=12678.182 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=82 ttl=120 time=11673.334 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=83 ttl=120 time=10668.399 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=84 ttl=120 time=9664.758 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=85 ttl=120 time=8661.137 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=94 ttl=120 time=28.665 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=95 ttl=120 time=15.928 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=96 ttl=120 time=15.640 ms

This repeats periodically. The same behaviour, when I switch off WiFi and put an Ethernet cable onto the computer. As I have another computer in my home network having no network problems this seems to be a problem of this machine, but I have no idea what might cause it.

Any help is greatly welcome!
Wolfgang


texts: Cannot backup Documents folder using LaunchAgent and bash

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I use the open source borg backup tool to make a daily backup of my Documents folder which is also on iCloud drive. I use a LaunchAgent stored in my local library directory to execute a bash script which takes care of the backup. The script also does a backup of another folder which is not on iCloud drive and this works just fine. However, the documents folder is not properly backup up. Just an empty folder is created. If I run the bash script manually, then all works fine. I suspect it is some security measure by Apple that prevents the automatic backup of the folder. Can't help but think of this Apple ad
https://youtu.be/8CwoluNRSSc
Does anyone know how to solve this? And no, I don't want to use TimeMachine for a variety of reasons.
PS: Here is my agent file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.tom.snapborg</string>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>tom</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/tom/cloud/Dropbox/config/BashScripts/snapborg.sh</string>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>1800</integer>
    <key>Debug</key>
    <false/>
    <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

And here is the script
#!/bin/bash
# Check if it is a least 8 in the morning
[ `date +%H` -lt 8 ] && exit
# Check if last backup is at least one day old
lbd=$( cat $HOME/.logs/borg.log )
[ `date -v -1d +%Y%m%d` -lt "$lbd" ] && exit
# Wait a bit for network and check whether server can be reached
sleep 20
ssh -q tom@redacted exit || exit
# Check if upload speed is >= 20MBit (requires speedtest, can be installed with homebrew)
speed=`/usr/local/bin/speedtest --no-download --single --csv | cut -d "," -f 8 | cut -d "." -f 1`
[ "$speed" -lt 20000000 ] && exit
# Unmount BORG repository in case it is mounted
mount | grep $HOME/Library/mount/borg > /dev/null && diskutil unmount $HOME/Library/mount/borg
# Define Repository
REPOSITORY=ssh://tom@redacted:22/home/tom/backup
# Directories to backup
DIR1=$HOME/cloud
DIR2=$HOME/Documents
# Passphrase
export BORG_PASSPHRASE='redacted'
# Backup
osascript -e 'display notification "Backup in progress" with title "BORG STATUS"'
/usr/local/bin/borg create "$REPOSITORY"::'tml-{now:%Y-%m-%d}' "$DIR1" "$DIR2"
# Delete old backups
/usr/local/bin/borg prune "$REPOSITORY" --prefix 'tml-' --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=8 --keep-monthly=24
osascript -e 'display notification "Backup complete" with title "BORG STATUS"'
# Write backup date into log
date +%Y%m%d > $HOME/.logs/borg.log


texts: Restoring Preferences after downgrade from El Capitan to Yosemite

texts: I had to revert from 10.11.5 to 10.10.5 because of some devices not working on the newest OS. I had prepared a USB flash drive a while ago and in order for it to work I had to erase the partition the OS was on. I had been doing Time Machine backups regularly and before erasing the hard drive I copied the Users, Library and Applications folders to an external hard drive. Now I have a clean copy of 10.10.5 installed and transferring some of the files wouldn't work out because of the different operating systems. My question is if there is a way to keep my 'old' system preferences(at least) without having to set everything up manually.


texts: OSX takes several attempts to connect to internet over WiFi

texts:
When I start my mac my WiFi connects to my router as normal, however it never has an internet connection. I'm connected to my rounter and can log in to it I just don't have an active internet connection. If I turn off WiFi and reconnect it will eventually work, but it may take 4/5 restarts for this to work.

It's like this for all WiFi networks so it's not an isolated problem..

I've tried obvious stuff (restart router, delete connection) as well as the guide in this link http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/30/resolving-stubborn-wi-fi-connection-problems-in-mac-os-x/ with no success...

Would anyone know how to fix this.

I'm running 10.8.4


texts: My camera on my iPhone 4 is showing nothing but a black screen. Front and rear camera and it happens in all camera related apps as well. When I reset my phone it fixes it, but the problem keeps reoccurring. How do I permanently fix the problem?


texts: Popcorn-Time movies error loading data, try again later

texts:
The error appears when choosing the movies tab. I am noticing it in Popcorn-Time Version 0.3.5-4 (0.3.5-4), OS X 10.10.1.

Also noticed that the movie thumbnails are not appearing.


texts: An app that can scan archive files and delete them

texts:
I'm looking for an app that have this features:

Scan all archive files inside a directory (say, Downloads folder)
Determine whether if I have already extracted the archive files or not (inside the directory)
If I have already extracted the archive files, then delete them (archive files). If I'm not extracted them yet, keep it inside the directory

Any recommendations?


texts: Exclude mails from specific Inbox in "Inbox" view

texts:
Is it possible to exclude a specific mailbox from the "Inbox" view in Mail.app?

I got 3 mailboxes in mail.app, 2 of them are mail accounts for normal mail communication, 1 is used for receiving mails from senders which sometimes send to much mail (newsletters etc.). The problem that occurs is that all the newsletter mails show up in the "Inbox" view preventing me to see the mails from the other mailboxes.


texts:
I downloaded VLC to enable me to open an AVI file.
It didn't work.

So, I have two questions.

Is there another way to open AVI on my mac and how do I trash VLC from my computer?
Please keep it simple because so am I ;)


texts: Hangs, freezes or wedges of iCloud daemon on iOS 14

texts:
Been experiencing a persistent and frustrating bug in iCloud on iOS 14.3-14.4.
Frequently (several times per week) it "wedges" itself for lack of a better word. Saving new data to iCloud Drive via Share Sheet or Files.app freezes and crashes whatever active app is trying to use the Files backend. Another symptom is, some apps that use or query iCloud Files as a backend will hang during launch, and just display a white screen for about 20 seconds before abruptly quitting. One popular app that does this is 1Writer.
Toggling airplane mode doesn't fix this. Only a soft reset gets it working again.
Anyone else experiencing this?


texts:
So I recently had to reinstall my OS on my MBP.  After the reinstall I attempted to open Chrome, but it would not open...I forget the error message.  It was like there was a file missing or something.  So, I tried to reinstall it and this was a struggle too, since I had to do it multiple times before it took.  One of the things I had to do was delete the old copy of Chrome and I used App Zapper for that, since I could not remove it any other way.  After deleting the App, I ended up with a bunch of folders in the Trash that I cannot delete no matter what I try.  These folders are mostly empty with the exception of one which is basically full of what appears to be folders containing all the various languages that Chrome supports, however those folders are all empty too.  When I try to delete these files, I get a message saying that they cannot be deleted because they are being used, yet when I check Activity Monitor, I cannot find them anywhere.  I do not use Chrome often, so i don't understand how these files can be in use but they can't be found running anywhere.  I have taken them out of Trash, put them in a different folder that I renamed and tried to delete them, but nothing.  I have tried commands from the Command Prompt, like -rm and I don't remember what else, but that doesn't work.  I have uninstalled Chrome again, and tried to delete them and nothing.  What can I do?
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[]3
[]4
[]5

And this just continues through all the language files, so you get the idea...  So let me reiterate, NONE of these files are actually in use no matter where I search for them, I can't find them.  So how do you delete files that not being used but the OS claims they are....?

Here is the result of the rm -r * Terminal command:


texts:
When I click on iTunes update it shows there is a new version available.

However when I click on get it, it comes up with no updates available but shows 2 of the same versions downloaded? 11.2.1 !

How do I go about fixing that?

on MBA 10.9.3


texts: Applescript help to open specific pages from separate PDFs in same or different window, via their URL or UUID?

texts:
I use a database app called DEVONthink (DT), which stores PDF files.  I could use a hand writing a little script which is already partially written.  Its use-case is to activate DT, then bring-to-front a specific page from a multi-page PDF document, via what DT calls a "page link." (These are essentially non-website URLs).  Below is a simple script that almost accomplishes what I am trying to do:
on run {input}
    --set input to "http://macscripter.net"
    tell application id "DNtp"
        activate
        open tab for URL (input as string)
    end tell
    --return input
end run

The above script (written by somebody else) works like so: if the text of a DT "page link" was manually highlighted, a keyboard shortcut could launch this little script to boot DT and present the specific page of a multi-page document. FWIW, these page links look like so:
x-devonthink-item://E269E475-F33E-4DE6-8513-041F69EAB3FF?page=388

The modification I seek, is to simply jam the "page link" into that script so that the script is written/saved specifically to show a page (in a multi-page PDF) without clicking or highlighting the page link.  Anyone know how to do this?
Icing on the cake would be to also learn how to have multiple pages from separate PDF documents launch in the same viewer window, as tabs--but that's not critical to figure out at this time.
Thank you in advance!  (I am trying to learn AppleScript--still a newbie at it (or any code)--you guys on here are terrific!


texts: To stop a process in Matlab with Dvorak keyboard

texts:
The keybing CMD-C and CMD-point work in Qwerty keybinding in OSX's Matlab, but not with Dvorak keybinding in OSX's Matlab.
There must be a bug in Matlab, which is causing this.

The problem is that when I push press play button for an algorithm in while loop.
Many times, I want to stop it before the while-loop end.

The code below is not a low-level code since it can be stopped with Qwerty keyboard layout.

  How can you stop process in OSX Matlab with Dvorak keyboard layout?

Example of the function that I am trying to stop

while 1;
     3
end


texts: Uninstall OSX 10.10 without Time Machine backup?

texts: I have installed the OSX 10.10, and the update 10.10.1, and nothing I do can make my Photoshop function. (CS3) I wish, therefore, to uninstall Yosemite 10.10. However, I have never set up Time Machine. Can I do this?


texts:
I'm creating ramdisks on MacOS following the usual procedure (ie: diskutil erasevolume HFS+ mydisk after hdiutil attach -nomount ram://SIZEINBLOCKS). They work, but they show up in Finder windows with the usual icon for external drives.

I'm using these ramdisks for development tasks (as disposable drives where I can try builds and easily discard them), so I'd prefer that they don't have a drive unit icon in Finder windows. Is that possible? How?


texts:
I use a printer on a Windows server configured as

smb://server.domain/printer

as it requires authentication after the first use I had to give my credentials which where then stored in the key chain.

So far so good.

I then had to change my password on the server side. Now OS X refuses to print telling me "Hold for Authentication"

With lpq I see:

stbh is ready
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
1st     corti   483     Printer Status                  1024 bytes
2nd     corti   484     Printer Status                  1024 bytes
3rd     corti   485     Microsoft Word - ************ 371712 bytes

In /var/log/cups/error_log:

E [03/Feb/2015:07:43:53 +0100] [Job 483] Unable to support AUTH_INFO_REQUIRED
E [03/Feb/2015:07:43:57 +0100] [Job 483] Authentication required
E [03/Feb/2015:07:43:58 +0100] [Job 484] Unable to support AUTH_INFO_REQUIRED
E [03/Feb/2015:07:44:00 +0100] [Job 484] Authentication required
E [03/Feb/2015:07:44:02 +0100] [Job 485] Authentication required

I deleted the stored password in Key Chain, deleted the job and tried again but I still don't get the dialog asking me for the new password.

Any idea on how to force a new authentication?


texts: Unable to open Firefox and Xcode since my last update

texts:
I'm using OS X El Captain 10.11.6. It worked well until 14 Dec 2018. Indeed, I could use Firefox and Xcode (the main softwares I use) without any troubles.

But, since 14 Dec 2018, after rebooting, I can't use Firefox and Xcode anymore. For Xcode, I get this error:

No macOS SDK was found, but Xcode requires a macOS SDK. You may have an incomplete or damaged installation of Xcode.

and, for Firefox, I get this error:

Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

I followed the Mozilla Knowledge Base, I check the ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles folder and there are no folder in there. Has my profile disappeared?

I also noticed two Apple updates were installed on 14 Dec 2018:

XProtectPlistConfigData (version 2101)
MRTConfigData (version 1.38)

According to this link, MRTConfigData can delete malicious softwares and XProtectPlistConfigData can prevent their running.

Do those updates have an impact on Xcode and/or Xcode? How can I know what malicious softwares have been deleted? And how can I run Firefox and Xcode again?


texts:
I am planning to buy the new MacbookAir with M1 chip.
My usage

Basic Word, PowerPoint editing. Plan to use native Pages and Keynotes.
Frequent video editing using iMovie and Kdenlive. I do not require 4K. 720p at 30fps is fine.
Latex editor
VPN and ssh to remotely login to a ubuntu server.
Google docs and google spreadsheets (online)

The base model comes with 8GB RAM with 256GB storage. If I wish to spend extra money which of the following should I go for:

16 GB RAM with 256 GB storage
8GB RAM with 512 GB storage
Go for MACbook pro with 8GB RAM and 256 GB storage.
or the basic MACbook Air should be fine?

I personally think to go either for second or last option.
I do not intend to do any gaming or storing lots of images, movies, audios, etc. Mostly all my docs and PPTS will also be saved on drive and not locally. Immediately after rendering videos in .mp4 format they will be uploaded to Youtube and do not require save them MacBook Air storage.


texts: How can I download an application from the Mac App Store which is not compatible with my OS X version?

texts: Is there any way to download app from the Mac App Store which requires a more current OS X version than I have running on my Mac? I know it will not run, but I need the actual file.


texts: The identity of "imap.gmail.com" cannot be verified

texts:
Has anyone come across this issue?

What is going on and how do you solve it? Is pressing confirm okay?

This occurred when I went into MacBooks Notes app where I keep my notes.

Here is some of the Details when expanded:


texts:
XAMPP is installed in the Applications folder on MAC, whenever I create a new directory for a website and deploy the files I get an error related to permission.
For example:

Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/laravelproject/ExampleFile.php

Same applies to Wordpress when installing a plugin

Installation failed: Could not create directory.

I used the below command:
sudo chown -R root:admin /Applications/XAMPP/

Also
sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /Applications/XAMPP/

None of both has worked.
I've set admin group and everyone group to Read & Write privilege this didn't resolve the issue.
Whenever creating a new directory inside htdocs by default it doesn't have admin group added and also everyone group is set to No access I have to manually manage this always.
Your suggestions are highly appreciated


texts: QuickLook is not working with mac OS High Sierra 10.13.3

texts:
I installed quick look plugin  StringsFile.qlgenerator and I moved it the the following path /Library/QuickLook as illustrated in https://blog.timac.org/2014/0325-quicklook-plugin-to-preview-strings-files/
Yet, it is not working. The files that I am trying to use show are txt files .bib.
Any idea how to fix that.
Thanks


texts:
I just read this review in the New York Times about the Samsung Galaxy S3. Apparently, the phone comes with the ability to communicate with TecTiles:

  small, embedded-circuit stickers ($15 for five). When your phone gets near a sticker, it activates some task that you’ve selected from a list of dozens in the free TecTiles app: make a call, send a text, adjust a phone setting and so on.

This seems like a tremendous idea with a near-unlimited capacity for customization. Does such a product or capability exist for the iPhone or iPad? If not, is there any evidence that suggests Apple is developing such a product?


texts:
How do you determine what folder a note resides in, in the Notes app? I have about 20 folders and put 30 or so notes in many folders.
All databases use to have some way to view a path.


texts: Is there a guideline for the max number of active fonts

texts:
I manage my fonts through FontExplorer X. Today I noticed that I have 770 fonts activated. All legitimately licensed, by the way. The Adobe CS family installs a bunch, I've purchased and have received many more from friends: I could easily activate a 1,000+ fonts. (I'm referring to individual font files, not 1,000 font families).

At different times I've heard that it's not a good practice to have too many fonts active at once, but I can't find any guidelines as to what constitutes too many, and I really don't understand where the overhead is spent. Is it simply the font-listing UI's in different apps, or does every active font actually bring some overhead at a general OS performance level?

Let me know if my inquiry is unclear.


texts: How to make applescript hold a key for 2 seconds

texts:
So I am trying to make a script that moves me forward and backward to prevent afk in a game but the game is not registering the key as it is too short here is what I have so far.

repeat 100 times
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke "w" using command down
    delay (random number from 0.5 to 3)
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke "s" using command down
    delay (random number from 3 to 4)
end repeat


texts: Is there a way to password protect individual apps?

texts:
Is it possible to password protect a specific Mac application?

For example, I am interested in protecting Mail because even if you cannot retrieve new emails, you still can read all the already received emails.

This is not a question about security. It's about sharing a device within a family. I don't have crucial information. I just want to avoid my girl or son to send accidentally emails from my account or prevent them to read some of them.


texts: Invalid File Handle when deleting files in iCloud

texts:
I get an "Invalid File Handle" when I try and delete files in the iCloud Drive in Windows.

It doesn't matter if the file is currently downloaded or if the 'Free up Space' is selected.

I suspect it could be webroot protection, but I am unable to disable the service or open up the user interface to investigate.

At least one other user has this issue and I wanted to ask the Honorable gentleman if he also had webroot.

Thanks


texts:
I installed Windows 8.1 on my MacBook Pro 13 (2011 late) using Bootcamp and everything seems ok except poor sound quality. It is just so impossible to listen to music. The quality is like a radio or telephone. On the other hand on the Mac OS X the sound is pretty good.

Windows built-in tool for driver updates says that my drivers are up to date...

Is there any suggestions how to fix the sound on the Windows? I just really don't want to switch on Mac OS every time I want to listen to music.

Thank you!


texts: Microphone not detected when using 3.5mm splitter

texts:
I use a Mac Mini and bought myself a headphone splitter so that I don't have to fiddle about when I need to use my microphone... e.g I don't want to have to unplug my speakers whenever I have a Skype call.
When I have my microphone plugged into the 3.5mm splitter my Mac won't detect my microphone, although my speakers work just fine. I've also tried it with two different splitters.
Is it not possible to get it to work this way?


texts: Does archived mail count towards your iCloud storage allowance?

texts: Does archived mail in iCloud count towards your iCloud storage allowance?


texts: Best way to sync file between iphone and mac

texts:
I have recently moved from Android to iPhone 7 plus 128 GB and I thought to use this space by transferring files from my Mac to iPhone.

However, I don't know how I dod it. It was easier for Android, just plug the phone and drag-drop.

This may seem like a stupid question but any help is appreciated. I just want to transfer my music files and PDFs (ebooks, other documents).


texts:
I have a mid 2015 Macbook Pro.

When at home, WiFi is as good as can be expected, approx 30-40mb down.

I stay away from home at another house during the week and whilst all of my other devices achieve good WiFi (phone, tablet, firestick) my MBP almost grinds to a halt.

Whilst at that location I set up my phone as a hotspot and connected the MBP and that worked as it should, all fine, approx 10mb down. When I then switched back to the in-house WiFi however, it was back to an almost non-existent crawl.

I'm not big on networking issues so not sure where to look for any clues as to what could cause this.

Are there any tests I could run which would allow me to narrow down what the problem is?

EDIT

Ok, really weird behaviour now...

I decided to strip back and not have anything attached to my MBP and run the test again (using speedtest.net). Approx 70mb down. Wtf! Then as I add things back on, one by one, power supply, external monitor (video, not audio), keyboard (usb, music), headphones, usb hub (DAW dongle and external drive) it degrades with each addition, approx 10mb each (including headphones which are passive surely).

Has anyone seen anything like this before?


texts:
On a 120GB SSD hard drive in a MacBook only 68.68GB are available. The missing 51.32GB are not even shown as a free space.

Here is what the output of Disk Utility looks like:

As you can see on the first screenshot the disk has 120GB. However, the partition chart on the same screenshot only shows 68.7GB. Also the other two screenshots show that only 68.7GB out of 120GB seem to be available.

The command diskutil list shows that the physical disk0 is 120GB big, but the synthesized disk1 only 68.7GB:


texts: Control iMac and LED Cinema Display Brightness Simultaneously

texts:
I have a iMac 27'' and a LED Cinema Display 27'' connected to it. And I've noticed that to be able to control brightness I need to open the Display.prefPanel  and modify the brightness of the displays individualy.

Is there a way to do this SIMULTANEOUSLY? Maybe with a third party app? If not, is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to the second display brightness?


texts: I once installed an app requiring an Apple ID from the US store and now other apps require that Apple ID. Why?

texts:
I once needed an app which was only available in the US App Store, so I installed it using my US Apple ID. Now, months later when I want to update apps, many of them require the US Apple ID but even though that was NOT the Apple ID they were "purchased" with (most of these apps are free).

I am 100% certain these apps were not downloaded with the US account.

My question: How can iOS switch the ID used to purchase apps even though they were not downloaded with that particular account?

It's important to mention that as soon as I installed the US app I switched back to my normal Apple ID (and therefore the other store not being the US one).

This is not the first time I have seen this. I remember seeing this a few years back on an another iPhone.


texts: How to change the default gateway of a Mac OSX machine

texts: I am familiar with the route add default gw command in Linux to add a default gateway, but this doesnt work on Mac OS. I cant find any appropriate example in the route manual. Can anyone help me the command.


texts: Preview.app does not update a pdf when it changes

texts:
In all pre Lion versions of Mac OS X Preview.app could show an updated PDF when the PDF it was showing changed.

Example: I'm writing a latex document and recompile it. Without closing Preview it just reloaded the PDF.

In Lion it does not show this behaviour any more. It just seems to get stuck when the open PDF changes.

Do you know how to get the pre Lion behaviour? Or am I just missing something here? Is there a PDF viewer which can update the PDF when it changes?

The Problem actually was the way I build the PDF file. I have a Makefile to build my latex files which looks like this:

pdflatex -output-directory out main.tex
mv out/main.pdf .

So the file does not get updated. It get's replaced. On pre Lion Osx this worked fine. In Lion it does not. Now I just open out/main.pdf and update it with pdflatex and it works.

It also works with Preview.app


texts: My dock disappeared in Lion and won't come back unless I turn off autohide. How do I get it back?

texts:
Sometime last week my dock stopped showing up. I rebooted and the problem persists. I can get it back if I go to dock preferences and disable autohide, but I like to keep my screen real estate and would like to have the autohide working.

Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?


texts:
I am on macOS High Sierra

The first command (http://macappstore.org/hiera/)

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

looks OK

The 2nd command results in the error:

brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

However, as I understand it is not needed now.

The 3rd command results in the error:

brew cask install hiera
==> Satisfying dependencies
==> Downloading https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/hiera-1.3.4.dmg
Already downloaded: /Users/anarinsky/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/hiera--1.3.4.dmg
==> Verifying checksum for Cask hiera
==> Installing Cask hiera
==> Running installer for hiera; your password may be necessary.
==> Package installers may write to any location; options such as --
appdir are ignored.
Password:
==> installer: Package name is hiera-1.3.4
==> installer: Installing at base path /
==> installer: The install failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.)
==> Purging files for version 1.3.4 of Cask hiera
Error: Command failed to execute!
==> Failed command:
/usr/bin/sudo -E -- /usr/sbin/installer -pkg
/usr/local/Caskroom/hiera/1.3.4/hiera-1.3.4.pkg -target /

==> Standard Output of failed command:
installer: Package name is hiera-1.3.4
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.)
==> Standard Error of failed command:
==> Exit status of failed command:
#<Process::Status: pid 10228 exit 1>

I suspect that installing at the base path /  does not work.


texts: Over-promiscuous bluetooth on Macbook Pro

texts:
So I have bluetooth stereo headphones (Motorola s305), that, now with iOS 4.1 and AVRCP, are a delight with my iPhone 3GS, at least, unless I happen to turn them on when my Macbook Pro is around.

Then the MBP thinks it's a pairing request and the headset's command is lost (worse: this happens while the MBP is sleeping, causing it to wake).  I think I once paired it with the MBP when I didn't have other headphones lying around, but I've tried to get the MBP to behave by

Disabling "Discoverable"
Unpairing, then removing the profile of the s305 on the MBP
Telling my MBP to NOT allow BT devices to wake it up

Short of disabling bluetooth (would not be desireable - I like my Magic Mouse), what can I do to get my MBP to ignore the headset?


texts:
I have 5 iMac in my office. We use skype for conversation. I have used almost 5 different brand's headphone but headphone's external mic not work at all.

I have checked sound settings. In the sound settings under "Input" section, when I select "Line in" for my headphone the mic does not work. But when I select "internal microphone" it works.

The same headphones are working perfectly on windows system.

Does iMac require any special headphones?


texts: Why is Time Machine backing up 200GB, when I've only asked it to back up 7GB?

texts:
I've excluded most of my hard drive from Time Machine, so that it should only be backing up around 7GB from my home directory:

But as it's running, Time Machine says it's backing up almost 200GB. Why is that?


texts: Can I install an older OS X over a newer OS X without restoring from backup?

texts: Previously I was running Yosemite.  I upgraded to El Capitan and started having problems with an app I used regularly. The backup I have is OS X Lion.  If I restore this backup, I'll lose a ton of files. Is it possible to simply install Yosemite over El Capitan without restoring files from backup?


texts:
iPhone 7
iOS 10.1.1
Gmail 5.0.3
Chrome 54.0.2840.91

When trying to open a link directly within the gmail app, it opens in safari instead of chrome. This used work just fine until the latest update of gmail.

I looked in the gmail settings under google apps, to use the app instead of the browser. There is no option for Chrome where I imagine it should be.

I can't find any other option to make chrome the default browser instead of safari.

Help?

UPDATE: As of 11/26/2016, the problem seems to have been fixed. Links from my gmail app open up in chrome again.


texts: What are the regulatory requirements that will halt the sale of the Mac Pro in Europe?

texts:
As noted today on MacRumors Apple to Halt Mac Pro Sales in Europe Effective March 1 Over Regulatory Requirements However they fail to mention the specifics of why it fails to meet "Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition" ?

Apple today issued a notice to European distributors indicating that it will halt sales of the Mac Pro in Europe and select other countries as of March 1 due to new regulatory requirements going into effect on that date. The move will affect all European Union countries, as well as EU candidate countries and the four European Free Trade Association countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

As of March 1, 2013, Apple will no longer sell Mac Pro in EU, EU candidate and EFTA countries because these systems are not compliant with Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition which becomes effective on this date. Apple resellers can continue to sell any remaining inventory of Mac Pro after March 1.


texts: What determines the model name displayed in System Information compared to the model number?

texts:
I've just purchased a used Mac Pro that was sold to me as a "5,1" model, which according to everymac.com and Apple's support site, should be a Mid 2010 Mac Pro. However the model display in System Information/About this Mac shows it as an "Early 2009", as does the Apple warranty check.

It does have the 3.2GHz Quad Core Xeon processor which was only available with the Mid 2010 model (again, according to everymac.com) and the latest firmware for the 5,1 Mac Pro. I'm not sure if the latter is an indicator though as some searches around the web suggest that it was possible to upgrade an Early 2009 model with the 5,1 firmware which should make it a Mid 2010.

So, I'm wondering if this is just a case of Mid 2010s reporting themselves as Early 2009 Mac Pros in general, or if this model has had both an upgraded firmware and upgrade processor?


texts: App Store only sells latest OS X version? Can't get Lion 10.7 anymore?

texts:
I have a MacBook model A1181, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory. It's running Snow Leopard, and running fine including speed wise. I want to upgrade to make use of iOS simulator and XCode 4. Saw that App Store has only the newest 10.8 Mountain Lion for upgrade, and saw a few reviews saying it slowed down their Macs, even w/ 16GB memory, wonder what it will do to my machine.

I would prefer to get 10.7 Lion. Any way to get that anymore, maybe at Apple Stores? Or am I out of luck and have to go to 10.8 if I want to upgrade? Too bad I should have upgraded sooner when 10.8 wasn't out yet.

Update: looking around online, looks like my Mac may not even quality for requirements for 10.8, but 10.7 should be ok.


texts: Odd OS X behavior when it goes to sleep - returned to Login, said it shut down bc of a problem

texts:
I have posted something like this before, I run a 2012 MBP with Catalina. The odd behavior is that if I close the lid the machine seems to shut down completely (even with the power connected) and reboots. Sometimes it does a kind of "double reboot" where I hear the chime twice. I tried resetting the SMC, which seems to solve stuff for a while, and there is an update notice from Apple that says it is introducing battery health management among other things, so maybe that will do it.
Below is the report I got from my machine, but I have very little idea of what any of it means. So if anyone can tell me what the problem it is showing me is that would be great. Last time someone said I probably need to take this in for service and that's fine; I'll back it up again (there's not THAT much on it from the last couple of months) and if I have to, use my pre-upgrade-to-Catalina backup. FYI the only hardware work I have done on this machine is to replace the battery,hard drive and hard drive cable. The latter is notorious for failing in some mac models but in this case I don't think it's related.
Sleep Wake failure in EFI

Failure code:: 0xffffffff 0x0000001f

Please IGNORE the below stackshot

================================================================
Date/Time:        2020-07-09 22:23:24 -0400
OS Version:       ??? ??? (Build ???)
Architecture:     x86_64
Report Version:   29

Data Source:      Stackshots
Shared Cache:     0x640b000 F04A453C-3C9D-3D12-B86E-C514F0DE0B14

Event:            Sleep Wake Failure
Duration:         0.00s
Steps:            1

Time Awake Since Boot: 11s

Process:          swd [368]
Architecture:     x86_64
Footprint:        404 KB
Start time:       2020-07-09 22:23:24 -0400
End time:         2020-07-09 22:23:24 -0400
Num samples:      1 (1)

  Thread 0x810    1 sample (1)    priority 4 (base 4)
  <thread QoS background (requested background), thread darwinbg, process darwinbg, IO tier 2>
  1  start + 1 (libdyld.dylib + 109769) [0x7fff6d63bcc9] 1
    1  ??? [0x10eaba454] 1
      1  ??? [0x10eaba1dd] 1
        1  __stack_snapshot_with_config + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 135862) [0x7fff6d79d2b6] 1
         *1  ??? [0xffffff80002c8206] 1
           *1  ??? [0xffffff80009875f7] 1
             *1  ??? [0xffffff80008a0001] 1
               *1  ??? [0xffffff80002eb9e7] (running) 1

  Binary Images:
        0x7fff6d621000 -     0x7fff6d657fff  libdyld.dylib (750.5)               <D2A07EF5-A64B-3692-BE13-89DAA2EC5E80>  /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
        0x7fff6d77c000 -     0x7fff6d7a8fff  libsystem_kernel.dylib (6153.101.6) <E76440E1-D1E8-3D9A-8B47-D01F554FF1C4>  /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib
Model: MacBookPro9,2, BootROM 231.0.0.0.0, 2 processors, Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.2f44
Graphics: kHW_IntelHD4000Item, Intel HD Graphics 4000, spdisplays_builtin
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xF5), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.190.33 AirPortDriverBrcm4360-1601.1)
Bluetooth: Version 7.0.4f6, 3 services, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC  WDS100T2B0A-00SM50, 1 TB
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS41N
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 25.1

,,,,


texts: How does one backup to iCloud? “Backup Now” greyed out

texts: Googled "how to force iphone backup to icloud greyed out" but none of the top answer options exist on my iPhone 6. Logged in with Apple ID, not connected to wi-fi.


texts: External USB powered DVD writer doesn’t power up using macOS Catalina when using direct USB C to mini USB cable

texts:
I have owned three different models of the new MacBook Airs (2018, 2019 and 2020) running macOS Mojave (10.14) and macOS Catalina (10.15) and noticed a strange issue today when connecting a USB powered device.

On my 2020 MacBook Air running macOS Catalina 10.15.6, when connecting an external USB powered DVD writer (LG GP50NB40) to read a CD, it simply doesn’t power up or get recognized by the system. I have tried this out on both of the two USB C ports on the MacBook Air and the results are the same.
The green light on the front of the DVD writer blinks and you can hear a sound that sounds like the drive is attempting to “rev up” but isn’t getting enough power. The connection is being made directly via a USB C to mini USB cable (1m long); the same cable I have used successfully in the past on other MacBook Air models that ran that ran macOS Mojave.
Here is the really weird part; I could get the drive to mount if I connected some adapter or hub to the cables:

USB A to mini USB (via USB A to USB C Adapter): If I took a USB C to USB A adapter and used a USB A to mini USB (1m long) cable… Et voila! The drive is recognized and I can mount the audio CD!
USB C to mini USB (via USB C Hub): Ditto when using a USB C hub with the USB C to mini USB cable… It all worked!

But a direct connection via a USB C to mini USB cable consistently fails. Why is this? And what — if anything — can be done to allow me to use the USB C to mini USB cable? Is this some kind of macOS USB power issue managed by the OS or something else?
I have tried resetting the SMC as well as zapping the PRAM to no avail. Below is the device info from the system report for the drive if/when it was mounted:
Portable Super Multi Drive:

  Product ID:   0x1887
  Vendor ID:    0x0e8d  (MediaTek Inc.)
  Version:  0.00
  Serial Number:    M00I9K20652
  Speed:    Up to 480 Mb/s
  Manufacturer: Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc
  Location ID:  0x14100000 / 8
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):    500
  Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

Here is a pic of the power consumption — via an inline USB C power measurement dongle — for a direct USB C connection when it doesn’t work:

Power consumption from a USB A to mini USB (via USB A to USB C adapter) when it works:

Power consumption from a USB C to mini USB cable (via USB C Hub) when it works:


texts: System Keychain Certs Import fail with UNIX[Operation not permitted]

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I'm trying to add certs to my System keychain, which failed in the Keychain Access utility with a ERROR 10001 -- an unhelpful error message -- so I tried to run it in the terminal:

$sudo security import RootCert.cer  -k /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

security: SecKeychainItemImport: UNIX[Operation not permitted]

Does anyone know what is going on here?

I don't believe that this keychain is subject to  System Integrity Protection (SIP) as indicated in this answer since I'm not modifying /System. I can definitely add the certs to my Login keychain, but I need it to be in the System keychain for my application to function.

EDIT: I'm running High Sierra (10.13.5)


texts: How can https:// sites be accessed from an iPod Touch behind a proxy server that requires authentication?

texts:
On my iPod Touch 4th generation (latest generation as of the original time of this posting), when I'm at work, I can successfully access the Internet by connecting to my office's wi-fi network.  The network requires a set of basic authentication credentials to access the Internet.  When I open the browser on the iPod Touch and attempt to access an http:// site, I am prompted for my credentials; after successfully entering my credentials, I am able to continue and access the site.

However, I cannot access any https:// sites.  If I attempt to access https://owasp.org/, for example, I never get prompted for credentials; instead, the browser just does nothing -- the spinning "loading..." indicator up at the top of the screen appears, but otherwise nothing happens.  (I can get to this same site fine from my laptop PC connected to the same wi-fi network.)

The problem appears to be that the iPod Touch software only supports proxy servers that require basic authentication over http, but not https.

Is there any solution or workaround allowing an iPod Touch to access https sites through a proxy server that requires authentication?


texts: Sleep timeout missing from the energy saver preferences

texts: I have two Macbook Pros running on Yosemite. The first one is a 17 incher from 4 years ago. I'm able to set the time that it sleeps. The second one is a 15 incher retina made this year. In its energy saver section, I don't see a way to set the sleep time. It only shows the display time. How do I make both slider controls show up on this new Macbook Pro?


texts: Should I virtualize Windows on Mac OS X using Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion?

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I have a MacBook Air and would like to install Windows Vista in a virtual machine, so I can use both Mac OS X and Windows at the same time.

I have tried with VirtualBox, but it performed very bad and Mac OS X crashed sometimes.

It seems that Parallels Desktop 6 and VMware Fusion 3 does the job better. I will mostly do .NET development using WPF and some other software development.

As of 2011 what virtualization software, Parallels Desktop 6 or VMware Fusion 3 gives me the best Windows Vista user experience?


texts: How do I create a Windows-like Start Menu for the macOS Dock without 3rd party software?

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I am very new to Mac (only 1.5 weeks) and am trying to get used to its different way of doing things. Most of what I loved in Windows I've also found the macOS way of doing.

I am now more familiar with the Apple Menu and the Dock, and am getting used to the Finder. But I really do miss the Windows Start Menu.

I read this question  and have checked out uBar but it really seems overkill for my requirements and paying $20 for all the extras doesn’t appeal.

My requirements are simple:

I just want easy access from a single item in the Dock menu to a whole heap of apps that are organised into logical groups. For example, I want any games listed in a Games subfolder, utilities in a Utilities subfolder, office apps in a Office subfolder and so on.
If possible, it’d be a bonus if I could have recent items accessible from the same menu, and also be able to shutdown or put my Mac to sleep from this menu.

Is there any way to achieve what I want without the need for external applications?


texts: How to get Cmd-Tab (Mapped to Alt-Tab) in a Parallels Windows VM to cycle just Windows Apps?

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I have a Windows VM running in Parallels and is working just fine. I have mapped Apple-⌘ Cmd key to Windows-Alt and Apple-⌥ Opt to Windows-⊞ Win.

When I press ⌘ Cmd-Tab - even in full screen mode - I cycle through all Apps running in both Windows and MacOS. How do I get it to just be Windows?


texts: What does Converting (forward) mean in diskutil?

texts:
I had an APFS (Encrypted) disk which I chose for Time Machine backups on macOS Catalina.
I was asked if it was OK to erase the disk (Time Machine on macOS Catalina dosen't support APFS).
I answered yes and disk was formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)".
Initial backup is done, but encryption is taking forever.
Running diskutil cs list reveals Converting (forward) and Conversion Progress: 2%.
What does Converting (forward) mean and was my data backed up in clear (meaning it was encrypted during initial backup)?
Why is it taking forever to encrypt data given disk was formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)" before data was backed up?
Thanks!


texts: "fatal: Not a valid object name develop" error when running brew upgrade/cleanup

texts:
Whenever I run brew upgrade or brew cleanup I get this error in the output:

fatal: Not a valid object name develop

Although, it seems that upgrading works as expected. Where does the error come from and how to fix it?


texts: What's ls option in OS X does what ls -w 1 in Linux does, showing output in one column?

texts:
In Linux ls -w 1 shows list of files in 1 column instead of multi-column. What flag or other command will produce the same result in OS X?

Current output under OS X:

ls: 1: No such file or directory


texts: What is best way to get and play Age of Mythology on Mac?

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I have a 15 inch 1st gen MacBook Pro retina with windows 7 installed using boot camp and I would like to get the game Age of Mythology (with expansion) which I never had. What would be the best way to get the game and play it? For example, would it be best/possible to buy the windows version and play it on the 64 bit window 7 portion of my computer.

Note: Not sure if this question is better in Ask Different or Arqade. Will move question if prompted.

Thanks ahead of time for any advice.

UPDATE

I would like to get the game at a reduced price since it is so old so paying the full price for the OS X version is not preferred but will be considered.

UPDATE

And I would like the Titans expansion too.


texts: How to stop images in apple mail signature is being magnified

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I'm trying to add a logo in apple mail signature.
The image is a small PNG. When I added to the the signature in preferences, it's fine. But when I visit that signature again (or) create a mail with that signature, the image magnifies while the retina resolution is gone. How to I stop it?


texts: Is there any way to disable Mac OS X global search string propagation?

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Mac OS X has a feature where if you use any search box in any app, it automatically overwrites every other search box with the text you searched.

I find this rarely useful and it often interferes with any workflow where I expect an individual app to stay pre-filled with what I last searched in that app. Is there any way to disable it?

(I've also never seen anyone discuss this feature anywhere. When was it introduced? Does it have a name? Is it mentioned anywhere in the documentation on developer.apple.com?)


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I have an iPhone 6 with up to date software. But every time I open a game, the music or sounds won't play. At first, I thought it was the problem with games, but I checked each of their settings and the music is on. So I turned the volume up on my phone, but it won't play. The volume works for my music apps or video apps just not for my games.

Any advice would be great.


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Okay, so I'm pretty sure i have this right because i have tried a bunch of fixes over the past few days to get to this conclusion.

I think my IP address is for some reason being denied access to Apple servers.

I am able to sign into iCloud via my cellular connection.

But the moment I try to access or login to any of iCloud login (on mac/phone/windows pc) via my wifi (static IP) apple cannot sign me in and returns the error "unable to connect to server" or similar ones.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

NB: I have done everything from router reset to fresh install of OS. in fact, when I was doing the install, I had to switch between mobile hotspot and wifi to ensure Apple verified my credentials and let me begin the install in the first place. Because over wifi, I couldn't even get El Capitan to download.


texts: What happens if you run "open /Applications/*"

texts: I recently read in a blog post don't run open "/Applications/*" otherwise many tabs will reopen, But I ran it in Terminal and then suddenly all my apps in my Applications started to open my Mac started to heat up to 60 C and fans 1460 RPM I immediately force quit all the apps.What does "open Applications/*" do? and what is the meaning of *?


texts: iTunes 11 does not record Play Counts anymore?

texts:
I was playing an album the other day and noticed that none of the songs being played are incrementing their play count. I am running iTunes 11.0 and would like play counts to work like before.

What is happening and can I fix this?


texts: User Control screwed up but unable to click on icons with Mouse on OSX 10.8

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I dont know what has happened, but today user control with mouse and trackpad on my macbookpro is screwed up.

I rebooted twice, it made no difference.

The trackpad moves the cursor okay, but I cannot get tapping or clicking the trackpad have any effect.

With my mouse I can access menubars, but the left and right buttons are swapped round. I then went to the System Preferences screen to try and fix the mouse preferences, but clicking on any icon with left or right button has no effect.

I then found no icons of that type seem to work, I thought Id try and just update OSX with any updates available hoping that would fix anything that has got corrupted. But although I can get to the Appstore Update screen and there are two updates available I cannot get the updates installed. Clicking with the left button does nothing, clicking with right button changes the colour of the button slightly so the bottom half is in gray but nothing else happens.

As there is no menu option to install the updates I thought I tried and install the updates using the keybaord but I cannot work out how to do this.

Help Please !


texts: How to get 60Hz on a 4K Monitor using a 2018 Mac mini

texts: I do a lot of work with music, and have two external 4K displays hooked up to my Mac mini. I’m using two LG 24UD58-B monitors, but I cannot get 60Hz out of them using an HDMI cable, which is then connected to a Thunderbolt 3 to HDMI Adapter. On LG’s website, it says 60Hz is only possible with a DisplayPort cable. I’m not sure which cable I would need in order to get 60 Hz on both of these monitors, so if anyone could recommend one, and which way it should be connected, I would really appreciate it. For example, would I need a Thunderbolt 3 to DisplayPort cable, with the DisplayPort end connected to the monitor, and the Thunderbolt 3 end connected to the Mac mini itself? Getting only 30Hz out of these monitors makes them feel really sluggish so I would definitely prefer to get the 60Hz out of them if I could.


texts: Safari can't connect to localhost - Java OAth

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I am trying to write a Java code and I'm trying to do OAuth. I created an authentication URL which I'm supposed to go to with Safari with a callback url set as http://LocalHost except Safari said can't open page because Safari can't connect to server LocalHost
I've been all of the pages in AskDifferent and tried all the solutions like clearing cache, unchecking all of the proxies in System Preferences, deleting HSTS.plist and etc
The weirdest part is that when I go into the search bar for https://localhost it actually takes me to a page saying "It Works"
How do I fix this?


texts: How to release an app used internally (but in a different way)

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we need to release an App for one of our customers but we got rejected, we are told that this app does not comply with guidelines 3.2:

Guideline 3.2 - Business
During our review, we found that this app was designed for a specific business or organization and not for general distribution on the App Store. Business apps available on the App Store are meant for use by a wide variety of external customers around the world.

This rejection is a consequence of our reply to their request for metadata:

Who is the target audience?
How do users obtain an account?
Is this app meant for internal distribution in your own company, in the company of one target client, or in multiple target clients’
companies?
In which countries will this app primarily be distributed?
If this app is meant for internal distribution, will the app be accessible by both internal and external partners? Or will it be
exclusive to in-house employees?

Here comes the problem: this app won't be used internally to our customer, it will be used by internal or external partners distributed across Europe, Asia, South America (basically they're everywhere), it won't certainly be used only by in-house employees. More probably it will be used by truck drivers who owns their truck and got a partnership with some minor shipping agency.
How can we distribute this app? We cannot use Apple Business Manager as we cannot register every driver's device, we can't use MDM either. There's no way to release an app without passing through Apple (similar to .apk usage). Do we need to appeal to the review board?
EDIT: To be even more clear with our customer situation, this is the explanation i gave to Apple Review Board:
The target audience is not directly decided by Albini & Pitigliani S.p.a. (ALPI from now on), it's gonna be whomever works directly or indirectly for ALPI, meaning that a "freelance truck driver" can download the app and transport a payload for ALPI even without ever contacting them but by working for one of the internal or external partners of ALPI. Let me clarify another thing: ALPI has got more than 1000 employees, its presence is worldwide with more than 20000 customers and has got 94 offices spread in Europe, Asia, Africa, South and North America as you can see here https://www.alpiworld.it/network/network.asp. The app is gonna be used by a wide variety of external customers around the world. ALPI think its offices are going to be able to register users manually, but we could implement a sign in to make it compliant to Apple Guidelines and maybe that could even make it easier for ALPI. Replying to your third question, this app won't be used internally to ALPI, won't be used necessarily in a company of one target client of ALPI, nor necessarily in multiple target clients's companies, in fact it can be used by anyone who needs to track a shipment directly or indirectly related to ALPI. This app will be distributed worldwide, as i already told you some lines ago.


texts: Is there any other solution to connect to iTunes after an iOS upgrade?

texts: I have just downloaded the latest IOS upgrade on my iPhone, it is showing the connect to iTunes message, I no longer have a lap top, is there any other way to get my iPhone up and working again. Can it be connected to iPad ?


texts: Install iOS device drivers on Windows without installing iTunes

texts:
I have a Windows PC that doesn't have iTunes installed, because I don't want it. But I still want to be able to use other software to transfer data from my iPad, which means I need the drivers for it.

Apparently, they only install with iTunes, but is it possible to install them standalone, with no other software needed?


texts: How can I sync Calendars and Contacts to my iPod (3rd Gen)?

texts:
I have a 3rd generation iPod (Apple calls it an "iPod (Dock Connector)").  It syncs music, podcasts and audiobooks with iTunes 12.5.3 on El Capitan, but calendars and contacts are not synced.  (I didn't notice this previously, because until recently I didn't use Apples calendar/contact apps).  iPod has most recent firmware (Settings > About reports version 2.3).

How can I get calendar events and contacts to sync with this vintage iPod?


texts: How does APFS on macOS handle upper/lower case file names?

texts: So I recently learned here that HFS+ is case-insensitive but the APFS on iOS is case-sensitive. Is there a publically accessible documentation/reference which describes how APFS does handle upper/lower case file names on macOS? Or has somebody tried on Sierra already and can provide examples?


texts: How to change shortcut used for temporary zoom (accessibility feature)?

texts:
I have a particular application that has extremely small detail for some of its controls, and no way to zoom anything larger.  I find that the accessibility feature "temporary zoom" works great for allowing me to just momentarily pop a magnifying glass up to see the detail, then let go of the keys to go back to normal.

The problem is that I can't also interact with anything while the magnifier is up, because the shortcut for Temporary Zoom is ⌃ ctrl+⌥ option and does not appear to be able to be changed.  So whenever I click, I get a context menu instead of interacting with the underlying control.

Is there any way to map the Temporary Zoom shortcut, to something other than using ⌃ ctrl ?


texts: Trackpad on Late 2016 MBP Stops Working When USB Gamepad Is Attached or ControllerMate Is Running

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I have been user ControllerMate to optimize my workflow when using an external keyboard to trigger macros with Keyboard Maestro.

This worked very well until recently, when I installed an update for ControllerMate.

Now, when ControllerMate is running, the built-in trackpad of my MacBook Pro (late 2016) stops working. When I quit the application, the trackpad is functional again.

I thought it was an issue with ControllerMate, so I posted on their support forum, so far without any useful feedback.

Then I noticed that the same thing – non-functional trackpad – happens when I attach a gamepad controller via USB (GameSir G3).

Can somebody give me advice how to troubleshoot and perhaps find a fix for this problem?


texts: quick resize app to half of window on Lion

texts:
I am not a long-time Mac user and could find the answer.
So on Win7 there is a built-in feature when you click Win+← the window resizes to fit half of the screen and sticks to left.
Is there something similar on OS X?

Thank you.


texts: Terminal window title rapidly changes when first opening

texts:
When I open a fresh terminal window, the title at the top has this format:
[house icon][username]-[command]-[terminal size]

The command portion of the title initially says login, then it very quickly rotates through other commands like ps, awk, grep, cat, sed, dirname, then eventually resolves to bash. The title switching happens so fast that I can barely read the words. I'm on OSX 10.9.4 but I believe this used to happen on slightly older versions.

I checked out the history to see if it might be that, but it's not. It doesn't seem to affect anything besides possibly starting the terminal a second or two slower. Why does this happen and is there a way to fix it?


texts: Can I exempt a single file in iCloud directory from deleting locally?

texts:
I use the "storage optimisation" feature on my Mac. Part of this feature is that it deletes local files to save on local storage, and files can then be downloaded when needed.
I like this feature. However, I want to be able to prevent certain files that I use frequently from deleting locally.
When I am working offline, it is very frustrating to go to open a file only to find that it has been deleted locally and I cannot open it without finding an internet connection.
To be clear, I do not want to prevent syncing. I just want to keep the file permanently on my local hard drive.


texts: Only the first AirPods Pro I put in my ear works

texts: I bought my AirPods 2 months ago and since 2 days they started being weird. Only the AirPod that I put in my ear first works but when I put the other one in it keeps on lagging and bugging and still plays over one AirPod


texts: My iPhone has decided to wipe all Firefox bookmarks out of the blue

texts: From yesterday on, my iPhone decided to just delete every single bookmark from bookmarks and now I have nothing on Firefox. Why does this happen? I have connected the Firefox accounts on my Macbook and my iPhone and the boomarks on iPhone and Macbook were always in sync, until now.


texts: What are the typical changes pushed to Macs when you enroll your own device to a company?

texts:
I have recently enrolled my Mac to a company that I am working with. After the enrollment the performance of the machine drastically degraded.

When I decided to un-enroll, I contacted the helpdesk and their suggestion was to save the necessary documents and go back in the time machine. Which I did not like as a method.

Now I am trying to understand what has been pushed to the machine so that I can check and rollback them one by one.

Up to now what I have figured was some profiles and the filevault disc encryption.

Other than these two what kind of things are typically pushed to Macs when a machine is enrolled to a company?

PS: As of now the profile status shows DEP as No.

MB-22F1FWW4:~ mehmetkaplan$ profiles status -type enrollment
Enrolled via DEP: No
MDM enrollment: No


texts: Mac OS running slow after Mojave install and disk appears to be corrupt

texts:
I currently have upgrade OS Mojave on my laptop, imac at home and imac at work.  Don't ask me why I did all at once, other than not thinking straight.

After the install performance has dropped on all three of them.  The rainbow spinner continually appears even when just opening a simple file or directory.

I ran EtreCheckPro and it says that the hard drive is "corrupt" I suspect that something is going on with the file system that has it say this.  How can all 3 have corrupt drives?

I've tried the following:

Restarting NVRAM (command, option, P, R)
I tried restarting in safe mode then restarting so preferences would
reset.
Disk utility test on all 3 and it passes.
I've considered throwing my computers out the window but thought I'd
post here first to see if I can get any help.

Does anyone have any ideas to how I can resolve this?

EDIT: hard drive on the airbook is HDD 121GB Flash Storage it says.
Both Imac's are HDD.

Activity Monitor is stable no big jumps on cpu or memory usage.


texts: Disable automatic "overview scan" in Image Capture

texts:
I have two scanners accessible from my machine (using Lion): a USB flatbed scanner, and a multifunction network printer. Whenever I launch Image Capture (either directly, or indirectly from Preview), it selects the first scanner (USB) and runs an "overview scan". Whenever I change the selected scanner (e.g. from the USB scanner to the multifunction printer), an "overview scan" is performed again.

This automatic overview is irksome:

It is slow and takes several seconds.
It is noisy.
Most of the time, it is totally useless (especially when I want to use the "document feeder" of the multifunction printer, since then the overview is done with the flatbed source of the printer, so I get a blank overview).
There is a nice "overview" button that I perfectly know how to click, if I really want an overview.

Is there a way to deactivate this automatic overview scan ?


texts: How to change the default domain suffix for iPad Pro on screen keyboard?

texts:
As title, how can I change the default domain suffix to .com for my iPad Pro on screen keyboard (Safari browser) as shown below? Because I use the suffix .com more than other domain suffix. Every time I type the URL, I required to hold the .co.uk key in order to get .com which is quite inconvenient. I try google search but I didn't get any related result. Any solution? Sorry for my bad English.

Here are some additional information of my device

iPad Pro 12.9 inches
Version 10.0.2
iPad Language : English (U.K.)
Region : Malaysia
Keyboard : English (UK) QWERTY
Application : Safari Browser


texts: How to jump between Spaces on OS X when some are Fullscreen?

texts:
How to jump between Spaces on OS X using some key + number?

I know I can jump between Desktops (not including fullscreen apps) using  Ctrl ⌃   [num]  . I know I can jump between Spaces using  Ctrl ⌃   ←  /  → , but sometimes I want to jump from Desktop#1 to fullscreen app#5 and I want to be able to do this by pushing just one hotkey.

Can I do it on Mac OS somehow?
Or maybe you can advise me of some additional software to install to achieve such functionality?

Thank you.


texts:
I have the following crontab on my mac OS Catalina 10.15.1 :

* * * * * /Users/username/Desktop/cronjob.sh > /Users/username/Desktop/cronjob.log 2>&1

Within the command file is:

#!/bin/bash

touch /tmp/foo

However I was left with the following line inside cronjob.log

/bin/bash: /Users/username/Desktop/cronjob.sh: Operation not permitted

Why is operation not permitted event though the permissions for cronjob.sh is set to +x?


texts: Remove horizontal scrolling in finder with big thumbnail view

texts:
This is an overflow problem. Like in this picture, there is two scrollbars, you need a horizontal + vertical scrolling ?

Is there a way to fix that ?

EDIT : I found a tip by using 'sort by name'.


texts: Mac keeps on asking for password to delete files

texts:
I have renamed my Mac username from root login.  It was done successfully and I can see the new name of my home directory but certain folders in Mac HD have a red dot with a - symbol.

I tried to change permissions using Get Info and added my user name after which I can view the files but when I try to delete the files it keeps on asking for my password.

How do I resolve this?


texts:
Is it possible to paste a file to a subfolder in Finder with the keyboard?

I can paste into it with the mouse (using the paste command from the context menu) but CMD-V will always paste to the parent folder:

I'm looking for a solution where I don't have to go into the subfolder before I paste.


texts: Enabling "Hardened Runtime" from outside of XCode

texts:
This question is prompted by the new Notarization requirements that Apple will enforce for Mac Apps distributed outside of the Mac App Store targeting Mojave (in the near future.)

I maintain a suite of self-hosted, Developer ID Application certificate-signed apps, using a custom runtime (Excelsior JET for Mac Java JIT Compiler / Runtime); custom bash scripts (are used as part of the apps in the installation process) and automate the builds. Therefore, there are no XCod` projects per-se involved in this process.

After consulting the developer docs, I wasn't able to find a way to activate and customize this "hardened mode" (described here) by using any kind utilities from XCode, but from the CLI (instead of the IDE GUI). Is there any way to accomplish this?


texts:
I two days ago got a second hand iPhone 4s.
I notice that when I start using it, it becomes hot on top right side (if you look from front) and on left top side (if you look from back) near back camera and side steel too.

It becomes hot and battery also drops quickly like 9-10% in 12-14 mints.

I resetted the network settings too but it didn't solved the problem... :(

Please tell what should I do. I have no SIM card in it!! I'm using without SIM. I just turn on the Wi-Fi for some seconds then this happens.


texts:
I would like to know if OSX supports ssh -X right out of the box?

Using the command launches XQuartz and interestingly both are NOT working:
e.g. displaying pdf files returning :

evince foo.pdf

** (evince:1341): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=58045ffa2d1f3dc82398e1eb00000008 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon\n
Failed to get bus connection: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=58045ffa2d1f3dc82398e1eb00000008 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon\n


texts:
I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G21013) in Brazil.

Earlier today my machine switched to DST, which would be fine if the official date for the switch had not recently moved to Nov 4. Here is what I get on this Mac:

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2018
/etc/localtime  Sun Oct 21 02:59:59 2018 UTC = Sat Oct 20 23:59:59 2018 BRT isdst=0
/etc/localtime  Sun Oct 21 03:00:00 2018 UTC = Sun Oct 21 01:00:00 2018 BRST isdst=1

A Linux machine I've checked did not switch to DST. There I get

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2018
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 02:59:59 2018 UTC = Sat Nov  3 23:59:59 2018 -03 isdst=0 gmtoff=-10800
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 03:00:00 2018 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2018 -02 isdst=1 gmtoff=-7200

I understand that this is probably due to El Capitan not having been updated after the new DST date was decided.

I tried copying /etc/localtime from the Linux machine to the Mac (in Recovery mode). The date command in the terminal did display the correct time, but the clock on the menu bar did not. So I reverted the change, restoring the original file.

I've found up-to-date zoneinfo files at https://www.iana.org/time-zones but SIP does not allow me to update /usr/share/zoneinfo/ with zic.

How can I fix this?

Copy the whole /usr/share/zoneinfo/ from a newer Mac to my Mac? Will that work?
Change the time manually and wait until Nov 4 and then switch back to setting it automatically from Apple servers?
Change the timezone to one zone further west until Nov 4, leaving the time as is?


texts:
I've noticed today that my MBP 15" late 2014 maximum battery capacity is fluctuating somewhat.

These two screenshots were taken just seconds apart http://imgur.com/a/jqyZs

Should I be worried? Should I "recalibrate" the batteries?

Thanks!


texts:
I have an iPhone 4S 32 GB model.  It is not jailbroken, and I do not have any camera-specific apps installed.

Sometimes when I switch between front and rear cameras during a FaceTime session, upon switching back to the front camera the image that I am sending will either be flickering (occasional black frames) or it will be completely black.  This is confirmed both by me as well as the viewer on the other end.  Only by switching between cameras a second time can I get this problem to go away.

Is there a known bug/cause for this problem, or is it something I am doing wrong myself?


texts: How can I use an Apple TV with the iPad 2 where there is no internet WiFi? e.g. in a car?


texts: Mail.app doesn't delete the draft email after I have sent it

texts: I use Mail.app to access my Gmail account and it doesn't delete the draft email - which is created automatically - after I have sent it. How do I correct this?


texts: Mountain Lion - Umlauts with english keyboard layout

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i have small problems with my keyboard typing umlauts.
On Lion i could type umlauts with " followed by the vowel
This is no longer possible. The only possibility i noticed is to type
umlauts now by alt+u followed by vowel.

Can i revert this to " + vowel


texts: I have a quick question regarding upgrading to 3.0 to 4.02. To me this seems like common sense but I just want to double check before moving forward with the upgrade. Will he update wipe everything on my phone and then grab my backup in order to repopulate photos, contacts, sms, phone log, etc?


texts: A software that resets trackpad option automatically

texts: I've been running into this issue where certain trackpad gestures like 'swipe between pages with 2 fingers', 'force touch to show dictionary' or 'zoom in/out by pinching with 2 fingers' stops working for no reason. This happens like every 1 hours and the only solution I found was to recheck the options of trackpad action with the issue as the gif below. If there is a software that can recheck trackpad option every x minutes instead of me, that would be greatly helpful.


texts: How do I determine what is locking up my machine?

texts: My MBP is suddenly locking up to the point that only a power down will fix it. Neither command+alt+esc or command+alt+shift+esc do anything. It started by getting some nice screens in multiple languages that told me I had to power down. That happened about four times, now I don't even get those screens it just seems to lock up. I used to get crash reports to send to Apple, the details of which were nebulous but I don't get those anymore either. I am looking at the log but see nothing. Am I missing something?


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I have an iPhone 5 through Virgin Mobile USA. They say cannot unlock it due to "not having the technology", they say they can only unlock iPhone 5c and 5s. They did however give me the code which is useless because I don't know how to do it.

Is there a way to unlock it myself using the code? I tried going to a different carrier, but the iPhone gave the "SIM is invalid" error so I had to transfer my number back to Virgin Mobile after the other account was active.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sprint will not do anything for me either.
Tried bringing it to some places no one could do it.


texts: Annoying WiFi Issues with new MacBook Pro

texts: I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro 13 inch 2017 model running on Mojave. I've had it for a couple of weeks now and it has worked fine, until few days ago when it started to present really annoying WiFi issues. Approximately once per day the WiFi just disconnects and refuses to connect for a period of time. It is resolved after I repeatedly restart the computer. It's not an issue with the router or the connection as all the other devices in this household, as well as my previous computer which had no network problems. Even the auxiliary shared network connection from my iPhone can be difficult to establish. Are network issues something characteristic to these models? Is there any way to fix this?


texts: Sort order tiebreaker for "Album by Artist"

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If there are two tracks in an album made of various homemade MP3 files (rather than an imported CD or downloaded) that have the same "album by artist" value, what is the tiebreaker value that controls how iTunes orders those tracks?

I even deleted the files, removed all the ID3 tags, renamed the files with a "00 - " prefix to try and force the order, but still they display in a random order in the Albums view. In the Songs view when sorting by name they are correct, but when sorting by "Album by Artist" they appear to be sorted randomly, and the order is consistent with that in the Albums view.

Can anyone help? If I can just find the field that controls it I'll edit each track in iTunes to have "01" to "14" in that field to force it.

Many thanks in advance.


texts: How can I figure out the culprit with internet hiccups my wife is experiencing?

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I'm having a hard time figuring out why my wife hates our internet connection. She says that it times out on her throughout the day. This happens both on the laptop and phone. She uses FireFox and Chrome (work and personal), and the error connecting pages show up on both.

She is running Yosemite 10.10.2 on her mid-2011 MacBook Air and iOS 8.2 (12D508) on her iPhone 5. Both of her devices are running out of storage if that makes a difference. (There is never enough storage space for pictures of kittens.) She gets a ping of 30ms for google.com in the living room where our access point is located.

When I work from home, I do not experience any issues. My ping is at about 12-15ms for google, and I am hardwired to the router. When I'm mobile around the house, I have no issues whatsoever. I'm on a mid-2014 MacBook Pro.

Given that this issue is a hiccup, as it comes up, and fixes itself quickly, what would be a method I can use to figure out how to fix this issue so that she has a pleasant internet experience?

NOTES:

Internet setup > Comcast -> DOCSIS modem -> ASUS router ~10 yards~
Linksys AP (running DD-WRT)
My wife is about two yards away from the Linksys router
The hiccups happen during the day and not in the evening
The other devices on the network are our Windows 7 HTPC (sleeps during the day), DiskStation (sleeps unless it's woken up), an Android device, and an Onkyo Turner
Speedtest.net shows our connection at 120/12 MBps in during the day and 60/10 in the evening


texts: iPad 2018 locks although auto lock never

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My new iPad 2018 11.3.1 has auto lock "never", 90% battery, watching Safari streaming, after 30 minuted it auto locks and requires my pin. Why? I doubled checked the settings above, happened again! Why?

Heres a screenshot:


texts: What Photogrammetry software is available on Mac OS X?

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I have been searching for a photogrammetry application for Mac.
Can anyone tell me where can I get them?


texts: Notifications and quick settings panes stop working on iPhone

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After some time the notification slidedown and quick controls slideup(?) suddenly stop working. IOS8, iPhone 6. After reboot they work again and then again don't (after maybe several days). When the phone is locked, both panes work correctly.

What could it be and how to fix it?


texts: get name of file from file path using AppleScript

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I am trying to get the name of file using AppleScript with the following code:

tell application "Finder"
    set filename to name of "/Users/mainuser/Desktop/Test/shot.png" // should return  shot.png
    display dialog filename
end tell

I am getting an error saying:

error "Can’t get name of \"/Users/mainuser/Desktop/Test/shot.png\"." number -1728 from name of "/Users/mainuser/Desktop/Test/shot.png"

What I am doing wrong?


texts: Prompted to enter system lock PIN code to unlock Mac

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A former terminated employee Fedex'ed us his company Macbook Air. When we turn it on we get this screen you see in the photo below. We do not have this 6 digit "system pin", never set it up, and are unsure how to re-format it. I've never seen this before.

  Enter your system lock PIN code to unlock this Mac.
  Account Locked.

We do have proof of purchase from Apple for this computer and as I understand all Apple stores are closed now. Can anyone advise what can be done to unlock this laptop?


texts: Is there no way to display an o with a macron (ō) in the Gill Sans supplied with OSX / iOS?

texts: I’d like to use the character ‘ō’ in an app we’re building, and in its accompanying promotional website. We’re using Gill Sans for the interface font, but it seems to lack this character in the regular weight (it’s there in light). Am I missing something?