texts: Macbook Pro says it’s charging but isn’t, both when plugged in and not plugged in

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I plugged my macbook in when it was on 10% and noticed it said not charging, so I unplugged to try a different cable but noticed when it was unplugged it still had the battery with the charging icon, and said it was plugged in (which it wasn’t) but not charging.
I restarted it but there was no change: the battery thought it was plugged in when it wasn’t and when it WAS plugged in it didn’t charge.
It’s since died and I can’t charge it to start it up again.


texts: Linking homebrew, php, mcrypt, and localhost:8000

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I currently using

php -S localhost:8000

for my php testing server on OS X.

I am trying to use OpenCart which requires mcrypt and OS X does not come with that.

I installed Homebrew, php 5.6.5, and mcrypt.

It still says that mcrypt is not on when I try to install Open Cart which requires that.

How can I be sure that the correct php version from Homebrew as well as mcrypt are linked properly?

In the past I manually installed MySQL and also tried to manually install php 5.6.5 to replace the version that came with OS X. The phpinfo(); page I made and the command line both state that I have version 5.6.5 so I am unsure if that is linked to Homebrew or to when I manually tried to install php 5.6.5.

Thank you


texts: Apple Numbers - Paste tab separated value list

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How can I paste a list of floating point values into Numbers such that it is split automatically to several cells?
The list looks like
1.2345\t2.345\t4.435634\t3.456

The delimiter can be replaced by any other character, but I testet also , and ;,and Numbers inserts the whole list always only into one cell instead of splitting it to five cells.
Update:
There are several threads on how to open CSV files correctly, but since I have to copy and paste the lists line by line from different files it would be easier to get this done by copy-paste.


texts: Need to reinstall OSX Mavericks on older MBP (originally with Leopard)

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The HDD on my trusty Mac has given up the ghost, and an attempt at repair this weekend resulted in failure to boot. It originally had 10.5, which I updated through to Mavericks.
I still have a Snow Leopard install disk so I can at least get it running after HDD replacement, but Sierra will not run on it due to age and is the current offering in the App Store. Is there some way that I can obtain and upgrade to Mavericks to ensure my backup works?
Thanks in advance.


texts: Writing a backtick (`) followed by enter produces another backtick in Sierra

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I've noticed that since I switched to Sierra (currently on 10.12.1) whenever I write a backtick followed by enter (or shift+enter), in many programs I get another backtick. This didn't happen in El Capitan.

I first noticed this in the Slack native app, where I could enter a code block by surrounding some lines with triple backticks, like

```
some code

```

But apparently the same happens in e.g. Chrome. As I wrote the example above, typing three backticks and pressing enter gave me four backticks instead of jumping to the next line. But if I do the same thing in Safari, it works like it used to in El Capitan.

I believe the Slack app was done using MacGap, i.e. it uses OSX's WebView, so the issue might have something to do with that as well. Then again, MacGap takes advantage of WebKit and thus I guess the problem should also occur in Safari (and perhaps not Chrome), if it trails back to WebKit.

I use a Scandinavian keyboard with the input source defined as Finnish. It seems to also contribute to the problem, as I can't reproduce it if I switch to US input source.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this – other than switching to a US input source?


texts: Create install media - lion -command not found

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I am trying to create a bootable usb drive in order to rebuild my sons old imac. I have followed the instructions given on this and other forums but am getting command not found when trying to run either of the commands

sudo /Applications/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion.app —nointeraction

sudo /Applications/InstallMacOSXLion.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/InstallMacOSXLion.app

to create a USB installer. What am I missing?


texts: Default folder sort options not honored when opened in another application

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I open finder, navigate to a folder and set my sort options to "last modified"
I then open chrome and go to some website where I can upload files. When I click a button that pops a finder window to select files and navigate to the same folder its sorted alphabetically.
Why isn't mac honoring my sort options for finder pop-out windows? Unlike MS Windows you also cant just change sort options inside of a file explorer window opened by another application- at least I could not find a way.


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I made the (idiotic) decision to install a beta version of OS X Mojave Big Sur, which later became corrupted, forcing me to reinstall OS X Catalina.
During the time that I had Mojave Big Sur installed, I opened Photos which migrate the library to its new format.  My Pictures folder was archived by Backblaze.
After I installed Catalina, I attempted to open the Photos library (restored from Backblaze) and got this message:

I don't recall the process exactly, but I was able to open Photos which included some of the original photos.  As you can see, this new library (highlighted) is substantially smaller than the other libraries:

How do I get the photographs and the meta data from my older library?


texts:
There is a shortcut in Quicktime to start new audio recording that I use
^+⌥+⌘+N
But once I installed Evernote it overwrote the shortcut so now it launches Evernote every time. I have deleted Evernote and now when I open Quicktime and press the shortcut, Mac os 10.10 returns this error:

  There is no application set to open the URL evernote://start/.

My question is how can this be fixed?


texts: Applescript service which utilises "on idle"?

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I have been trying to run a script on a recurring basis via an apple service.

Most answers I have seen have been are for 'stay-open' apps - whilst this possibly works as a solution and I have glanced information about hiding from the dock/application switcher this isn't an elegant solution for me I don't feel.
Advice in the comments of this answer says that the 'on idle' call of a script only works when it is saved as a 'stay-open application', but is there an automator-native way of getting a service to execute it's script at an interval?

With the answer linked above the launchd option described is probably the best solution so really on an academic level I am just curious whether this is possible with an Automator service running some applescript

If it helps frame the context of the question any better here is the code I want to run:

on logSomething(message)
    tell application "Finder"
        tell me to log message
    end tell
end logSomething

on getCurrentApps()
    tell application "System Events"
        set processList to get the name of every process where background only is false
        return processList
    end tell
end getCurrentApps

on storeAppName(thePath, applicationName)
    --this creates an object vehicle in which to store data
    script theData
        property appName : applicationName
    end script

    store script theData in file thePath replacing yes
    return theData's appName
end storeAppName

on readAppName(thePath)
    tell application "System Events"
        if exists file thePath then
            set theScript to load script file thePath
            return theScript's appName
        else
            return false
        end if
    end tell
end readAppName

on idle
    set dataPath to "tmp:unhide_windows_data.scpt"
    set storedProcess to readAppName(dataPath)

    tell application "System Events"
        set currentProcess to first process where it is frontmost
        -- my logSomething("currentProcess windows: " & (the name of windows of the currentProcess))
        if currentProcess's name is equal to storedProcess then
            --report that the stored and observed process name are the same
            display dialog "They are the same"
            my logSomething("Is the current process visible? " & (visible of currentProcess as text))
        else
            --report that the stored and observed process name are not the same
            display dialog "They are not the same, storedProcess: " & storedProcess & ", currentProcess: " & currentProcess's name
            my storeAppName(dataPath, currentProcess's name)
            set visible of currentProcess to true
        end if
    end tell

    readAppName(dataPath)
    return 5
end idle


texts: Will it notify my mom if I turn off find my iPhone?

texts: my email is my apple id so if it sent a email to my apple id that is ok, but i want to know if the person who pays for my phone, my mom, will get a notification. Please help.


texts:
I have an environment with multiple iMacs (OS X 10.7.4). Every iMac has an administrative account and several user accounts. These accounts are the same across all the machines. To browse the web, they go through a proxy server. The intention is for all the iMacs to behave in the same way.

On some machines, all accounts are able to browse the web normally. On others, the administrator account can browse normally, but the user accounts cannot. They are unable to even contact any servers via http. However they are able to ping the same locations as the administrator account, such as within the network and to the proxy server. Their network settings under System Preferences > Network > Ethernet are identical, including all proxy settings. The parental control and user account settings on both systems are identical. The settings for their web browsers (Safari and Firefox) are all identical.

I'm not going to rule it out as a network issue just yet, but some indication of where to look would help, or if there is some obscure OS X setting which could be preventing web browsing for specific users.


texts: Switching between RDP sessions on OS X El Capital

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OS X El Capitan 10.11.3

I use Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.26

and many times open multiple sessions

The only way to switch these sessions i see is by clicking using mouse and i can't find any keyboard shortcuts to switch between multiple session

Is there any way to switch between sessions?

Regards


texts: Bind mouse key to continuously send clicks

texts: Question is in the title. I have a mouse with extra buttons and would like to bind the button so that it sends continous left clicks when I hold it down.


texts: How to disable ._ AppleDouble files for SMB?

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I have a small problem. I don't want that our Macs here create the ._ files to the network drive. For example when you copy an image over the finder to the SMB storage.

Is there a way to disable this function in Finder?

The .DS_Store file is already disabled, but not files such as ._pic1.jpg .

We activated veto files in samba to prevent creation of ._ files, there arose an error – not enough permissions on the drive.

Thank to all ;)


texts:
I'm about to dive into iOs programming, which is a whole new area for me.
One of my friend said he's gonna sell his mac mini mid 2011 device, which is a little hardware upgraded.

My question is, can I develop applications  targeting most recent IOS version with this machine. Is there a restriction like, this mid 2011 machine's OS version can only have XCode version up to something, and up to something versioned XCode can only support developing IOS applications targeting not most recent version of IOS?

Or shortly, can I develop iOs applications that can run on most recent IOS version with this machine?


texts: How to disconnect MacBook Pro 15 2017 battery?

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I'm struggling to figure out how to "unplug" or disconnect the battery of my retina MacBook Pro 15' 2017 from its logic board, to reset the SMC.

What cable(s) do I need to disconnect exactly?

Those?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Why does my MacBook sometimes ring the startup chime four more times after the initial chime?

texts: Sometimes, not always, upon restarting my Macbook (late-2006), the chime is repeated four more times after the initial chime.  It then starts up normally.


texts: Cannot boot Mac Mini with striped RAID 0 set

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Today we could not get one of our machines running with 10.9 and RAID 0 which stripes the data on the boot volume.

After several hours of doing the 'standard' tasks like fixing permissions etc, we've hit a dead end for troubleshooting.

Here's what's going on:

Machine starts, we can see the apple logo and the spinning wheel / activity indicator animation. Nothing else happens.

Running safe boot mode ends in the same state.

So I have tried running verbose, the last line is:

Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-226.1.1)

If I do a hard shutdown and start the verbose mode again, I can see in logs (last lines)

Executing fsck_hfs...
hfs: Removed 0 orphaned / unlinked files and 4 directories

I have started the system in single user mode.
I ran the fsck on it, it worked just as expected:

fsck -fyd

I've retried it twice before I got a note saying that file system is ok.

Reboot: same issue.

I can access all of the files and stuff on the raid when in single user mode, but there's no way the system will boot.

I woud love to hear some opinions, please limit the answers/comments to system tools or free tools available on the internet.
Also, there's no way I'm going to remove the drives and attach to another system.


texts: How to know what packages are available with (home)brew?

texts: I am new to Mac coming from Ubuntu Linux background. How do I find out what packages are available for Homebrew? With Ubuntu I could search packages.ubuntu.com for example, or Google since its using apt


texts: Does GPS tagging for camera images work without wifi connection with iphone 5?

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I want to make pictures with the iphone 5 and want the position information (GPS) in it.
Is it possible to tag pictures without any internet connection?


texts: How to share and sync only selected Contact groups between iphones

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OK here goes. I apologise in in advance if questions is really stupid.
My husband and I run a charity. The charity doesn't have much money so we use our personal iPhone (with shared apple-id) to do personal stuff as well as charity work. The charity bought another iPhone for another charity worker to use. The three of us need to be able to share all the Charity contacts which I have in special contact groups. At the moment this other worker shares our apple-id. It makes me nervous though 'cause she can see all our personal photos and contacts not related to the Charity. How do I get around this? And how could it work for other charity workers? Also we need to send out a lot of large group texts (as our charity recipients don't use email). Is there an App you'd recommend? The GroupText one I use doesn't have much flexibility.


texts: How do I recover lost photos from iCloud. They are not in recently deleted

texts: My sister has lost upwards of 400 pictures in an accidental deleting spree. She deleted the photos from her iPhone and it chose to delete it from iCloud too, which is not a big deal in itself, but they are not in recently deleted. We have 10 days to figure it out, please help!


texts: How to 'unregister' a file type / MIME with launch services

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I'm working on a document based application in Cocoa, the file is a bundle type (a folder which the Finder shows as a single file much like an application.)

I had everything working perfectly but then I made the  mistake of adding a reverse domain name type identifier to my file's type in my info.plist (something I later learned Apple explicitly warn not to do here). Well, this immediately broke my file type, documents from my application only look like folders in the Finder now, so there is no 'open' or 'open with' option on any of them and the data inside is exposed.

Removing the MIME identifier from my plist and rebuilding does not repair the registration of the files type in launch services, not even after explicitly pointing LSRefresh at the build (it is only a debug build).

Please, can any of you terminal gurus tell me how to remove the file type from the Launch Services database? I'm sure that if I can do that then everything will restore when I next launch the app.


texts: All apps using significant energy on new machine (MBP 13", 2020)

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I have a brand-new MBP 13", 2020 with high-end specs (i7, 32GB, 1TB HD). I've always had MacBook Pros in the past, but this one takes the longest to start up (around 4 minutes) and no matter which app I'm working on, the power drop-down tells me it is 'Using significant energy'. If I have multiple apps open then usually there are multiple apps listed in the drop-down, and not just Chrome or energy-hungry apps, but also Mail, Word, Excel, Spotlight, Dropbox, Safari, etc. Even if I have just one app open, it will always be flagged as using significant energy. This is the case whether the machine runs on battery or external power.
I have already installed all OS (Catalina, 10.15.6) and app updates, e.g. Spotlight is fully indexed and Dropbox is fully synced. Additional but possibly unrelated symptom: twice I have left my machine for ~30 minutes on external power and found that it had switched off when I returned. Not restarted, not gone into sleep or hibernation, and no crash report - just turned off. My open documents in e.g. Word, Excel were in recover mode on reboot.
Can anyone help? It's an expensive machine, and not exactly what I had expected so far!


texts: How do I reset microphone permissions on Catalina?

texts:
I know there is an article covering this for MacOS Mojave, but as I am trying to grant an application (Plogue Bidule) permission to access the "microphone" and with this all audio input but do not receive the prompt that allows me to do this on MacOS Catalina, I rephrase the question for Catalina.
Thanks for any hints.


texts: Why haven't I been paid yet for In-App purchases made on my app?

texts:
I have an app with one In-App Purchase item. When looking at the Payments and Financial Reports the Estimated Amount Owed is > 300 DKK (I'm from Denmark).

However, there's been no payment yet. What am I missing?

I checked in Agreements, Tax, and Banking and I have a Paid Application contract in place with Bank Info.


texts:
I bought a new Android phone and I would like to pass the contacts I synced to iCloud from my old iPhone to my new Android phone.

How can I do this?


texts: How to avoid redundant iCloud photo upload from iPhone when the same photos have been uploaded from Mac?

texts:
I have iCloud Photo Library enabled on Mac as well as iPhone so all my photos remain synced. Yesterday I imported a bunch of photos (~200) from iPhone to Mac with Photos app import feature. Then I allowed the new photos to be uploaded to iCloud from Mac. My phone didn't have wifi access at this time so phone didn't upload those, as expected. Now when I connect the phone to wifi all the photos seem to be being uploaded from phone as well ( as seen in Settings > Photos & Camera on iPhone. It says Uploading 268 items there), when they've already been uploaded to cloud from Mac.

Is there any way to allow upload only from one of the devices? I was hoping iCloud sync will be able to figure this out and only upload the photos that require uploading.

What's the best I can do to avoid redundant uploads?


texts: If an app was downloaded and later deleted would it appear on others devices with the same Apple ID?

texts: An app was previously downloaded on a phone with the same Apple ID as mine but then was later deleted. My question is, since it is already on the cloud, will it still go to other devices with that Apple ID?


texts: Can I use the software on my mac to help me claim my eligibility for the Up-to-date-program, so I get Mountain Lion?

texts: I recently got a new MAcbook pro, and while I was exploring features on the Apple site and learning to make the transition to a Mac from a PC, I noticed there was an up-to-date program. I do not have any receipts or the papers from the shipping to prove when I bought my mac and they denied my first attempt. I would like to get the new software, but i need to know if there is any certificate installed to help me prove I bought my mac.


texts: External hard drive has 3 partitions, all 3 are about full and appear on desktop but finder shows no content

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I have an external 3 TB hard drive with 3 partitions. I use 2 partitions for backups with Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner.

Recently the following has started to happen: if I open a partition in Finder it doesn't list any files and says there are 0 items on volume. It lists the remaining disk space accurately but doesn't list the contents. Get Info appears to list the space accurately as well. All three partitions show up in the terminal. Using the terminal I went to these volumes and 'ls' listed nothing there.

I reset the NVRAM and relaunched Finder, the problem was solved for about 15 minutes. The second time I looked at these partitions the problem was back. All 3 partitions list nothing. Any ideas how to fix this? Is my drive hosed? I'm running High Sierra on my older iMac. Whenever I restart my iMac, things are normal first time I check. Second time and then after no contents are shown.

Below is Finder window for one partition.


texts: How do I listen to sample/preview in the iOS Music app?

texts: The iTunes desktop application has a feature where you can listen to a 90-second sample, or preview, of a song before purchasing it. However I can't find this feature on my iPhone. I'm looking in the "Music" app on iOS 9.2. Is there a different place that I should be looking? Is the feature hiding behind some sort of touch gesture that I just don't know about?


texts:
A have a MacBook running Mountain Lion that backups up to a Linux machine over afp (netatalk) using Time Machine.

In Time Machine preferences I can see that the Oldest backup was on 5th March 2012 (a year). If I go to 'Enter Time Machine' I can old go far back as 4th of March 2013 (a week). Using the 'tmutil' command I can see 43 backups from 2012 until an hour ago.

There has never been a problem with space on the Linux machine and there has been little change to settings or software on either computer for over a week.

Is there a way I recover from these missing backups? How can I prevent this occurrence from happening again? I do not need anything from this backup at the moment but I still want the ability to do so.

[EDIT] So one of the comments below got me thinking. There are two interfaces on this computer. One is set statically with a hostname and IP address, the other is by DHCP and takes the default Mac OSX hostname.


texts: 2008 Mac Pro: Any chance of upgrading hardware to current technology?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can I upgrade my 2008 Mac Pro completely?

I have a 2nd Gen 2008 Mac Pro 2.8ghz Quad Core with an 8800GT. I'm sure I can get away with the processing power and more RAM for now.

Is there any way possible I can put a modern day GPU inside this machine?

What does it entail to do such customizations?

Could I gut this machine and upgrade it fully to current technology?

Thanks.


texts: How to open a new tab in iTerm in the same folder as the one that is open?

texts:
I'm using iTerm for my command line needs, and when I open a tab using ⌘T I want it to open the tab cd'ed to the same location as the tab that was open when I hit ⌘T (instead of opening in my /Users/kramer65).

I searched around the Preferences, but I can't seem to find it. Does anybody know how I can do this? All tips are welcome!


texts: How to remove Java 10? Or revert to the previous version?

texts:
The Java updater on my Mac installed an obscure version of Java 10.0.1 which I never heard before. The result is that ALL my java apps are not running anymore, which makes Java pointless.

The official instructions to remove Java are:

sudo rm -fr /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

Which is useless because I don't use Java on the browser (who is crazy enough to do it?)

sudo rm -fr /Library/PreferencePanes/JavaControlPanel.prefPane

Which is useless because it just removes the preference pane

sudo rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Java

Which is useless because this directory is already empty

The official instructions to remove Java on a Mac do absolutely nothing.

If I run my Java apps with java -jar from the terminal they work. From the terminal, I see this:

/usr/libexec/java_home -V
Matching Java Virtual Machines (3):
    1.8.0_131, x86_64:  "Java SE 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home
    1.6.0_65-b14-468, x86_64:   "Java SE 6" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
    1.6.0_65-b14-468, i386: "Java SE 6" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

So, from the terminal, the Java version is 1.8.0_131, which is my desired version. From the desktop, when I launch apps with JavaAppLauncher, the Java version is 10.0.1.

How can I revert this disaster that Oracle did with their automatic updater?


texts: iTunes starts playing music without explanation

texts:
For no apparent reason, iTunes starts playing music on my iMac running OS X 10.9.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2119211?start=15&tstart=0

I have to close itunes 10 times an hour. How do I fix this?


texts: Command + Tab in the same application with many windows

texts:
What I want to do is: if I have 3 open pdf's files, 3 open word's files, among other applications, I want to press Command + Tab and the 3 pdf's AND the 3 word's will appear.
For example, in the image below, there are 3 Word files open, and 2 Safari windows. But when I press Command + Tab the Word application appears only ONCE and the SAFARI application appears only ONCE too:

But for example, in Windows 10 that three word's files appears in Alt + Tab. I didn't find a windows image with 3 Word files. But I found one with two Google Chrome windows open. It's the same example:

I don't know if there will be a setting for that or I will just have to press Command + Tab+ ↑ and select one.


texts: Have I completely removed BitTorrent and all the junk that came with it?

texts:
I tried to install BitTorrent to download some Linux ISO files, but I clicked through the install screens too fast, and missed the part where it said that it would install browser addons and other junk. I removed the BitTorrent application by deleting the .app file, removed the browser addons, and reset my home page and search engine. I also ran Malwarebytes and it found some adware, so I had it remove them. Then I rebooted and ran the scan again, and it found one more piece of adware, which it then removed. After rebooting again, Malwarebytes says that it can't find anything. Is there anything else I need to do to completely remove BitTorrent and all the junk that it installed?

I'm on a 2013 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6

UPDATE:
The actual app that I installed was called BitTorrent. I didn't download anything with it.

UPDATE 2:
I downloaded Bitdefender Virus Scanner from the App Store and ran it on my entire hard drive. It said that my Mac was clean.


texts: Why does using an AT&T Star Service while on LTE temporarily switch you to 4G?

texts:
This question applies to phones on the AT&T network.  I don’t know if the same happens on other networks.

You're no doubt familiar with the AT&T Star Services codes one uses from the Phone app on an iPhone, such as *3282# to check data usage or *646# to check minute usage.

Whenever I send one of those codes while on the LTE network, the connection switches to 4G and remains there until you get the information you requested (via SMS), and remains on 4G even after the SMS text is received.

After anywhere from 20 to 60 seconds the connection automatically goes back to LTE.

Any idea why this happens?


texts: Restore from TimeMachine after merging all partitions

texts: I have a MacBook Pro Mac1 with multiple partitions as shown below. I want to restore this Mac1 from a timeMachine of another Mac2 which has only one partition and I want to do the restore so that Mac1 will end up in one partition as well. I closed Mac1 then hit Command+R when it booted then when I chose restore from TimeMachine it asks me which partition I want to restore to but I want to restore it into one full partition. So, I've tried merging the partitions of Mac1 using disk utility before doing the restore but I doesn't allow me since everything is grayed out as shown below. Both Macs are macOS Catalina. Any advice?


texts: I want my Mac running Sierra, to stop hiding dock when I enter "Command+Option+D"

texts:
I want my Mac (running macOS Sierra), to stop hiding Dock when I enter Command  + Option + D.

I need to use that key command for InDesign.


texts: Any better way to move app library path to external drive than using symbolic link?

texts:
I am running MacOS 10.14.5. I used symbolic links a lot to free up my internal drive. My internal drive is almost full and I need to free up some spaces again. Normally, the symbolic links solution work very well even for many apps. But there is one app which can not recognize the symbolic link I created. So I am wondering how to workaround this issue? I have to move this app's library directory to external ssd drive, it uses 50% of my internal drive.

Btw, the path I plan to move is at ~/Library/Containers/xxxx.

Thanks a lot.

PS: I am wondering if I can create a .sparseimage file and then put it at external drive. And add it somehow to /etc/fstab to mount it at a specific location. Not sure if this will work. I am checking this way now.


texts: Script to toggle between fn keys (with Touchbar)

texts:
I'm trying to write a script to toggle between Fn keys and app controls on the Touchbar using macOS High Sierra. There a few apps out there that say they can do it but none seem to work for Touchbar. So I'm now trying to write script that opens up the System Preferences, keyboard settings and toggling the Touch Bar setting. So far I have the code below which toggles "Adjust keyboard brightness in low light". I just need to adjust to select an option from the Touch Bar drop down menu.

tell application "System Preferences"
    activate
    set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
    reveal anchor "keyboardTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
end tell

quit application "System Preferences"


texts: What is a good 2D scrolling shoot-em-up for iPad in the style of Gradius V

texts:
I'm looking for a shooter in the style of Gradius V, meaning futuristic, weapon power ups, frantic action. I'm not interested in a WW1/WW2 style shooter.

Google and the app store are not coming up with any relevant results; any ideas?

Also, iPad specific (can be universal binary of course!), iPad 1 compatible. I have an iPad 1.


texts: How can I clear pending iCloud Downloads?

texts:
So macOs just lied to me. I went into storage and recommendations.
And saw this

Which clearly says store all files photos and messages in iCloud and save space on Mac automatically when it's needed.

As soon as I accepted this recommendation what it actually did is this

Which reads quite the opposite "The full contents of iCloud drive will be stored on this mac" ?!?!?!

I managed to turn it off but now I have these massive downloads pending and not doing anything.

How do I remove them?


texts: macbook 13" and the audio jack for sound input

texts:
I've followed the instructions at this link to set the audio port for input, yet nothing changes as described in bullet 6.

Any idea what I could try next?


texts: How do I change an Application Icon in the Applications Folder?

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I just installed an application and drag/dropped the file into the Applications folder. The application (or folder) icon is showing as some grayed out icon with a crossed-out circle over it in the Applications folder's stack in the Dock. This is not the application icon obviously. When I go to the Application Folder it displays correctly.

How do I make it display correctly in the Application Folder stack in the Dock? Is there a way to refresh it somehow?


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Due to permission issues, I'm using root account on macOS High Sierra. However, a number of things don't work, and one example of such is that iBooks is broken. Upon launch, the following dialog is displaced:

"Reset Library" and "Try Again" causes the same dialog to appear again.
Attempting to launch it from the command line gives the following output:
objc[30122]: Class bb74bdd798ceadff5c1f0c2b is implemented in both /Applications/iBooks.app/Contents/Frameworks/BKPlatformCore.framework/Versions/A/BKPlatformCore (0x10f54f150) and /Applications/iBooks.app/Contents/MacOS/iBooks (0x10e770a30). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
2020-06-25 10:14:40.898 iBooks[30122:981215] TISFileInterrogator updateSystemInputSources false but old data invalid: currentCacheHeaderPtr nonNULL? 0, ->cacheFormatVersion 0, ->magicCookie 00000000, inputSourceTableCountSys 0
Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier -14934.
Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier -14934 has been replaced with -28673.
2020-06-25 10:14:41.079 iBooks[30122:981260] Unsupported configuration. Please update your BookKit.framework.

The reason I wanted to use iBooks is because I read digital books and Preview does not always remember where I am, especially if it crashes for some reason. I also heard that it is designed quite well.


texts: My colleague just did CTRL + Mouse Scroll scrolling to zoom his screen and is telling me it's a default setting, but it doesn't work for me. Where do I enable that?


texts: I have iPhone and I have developed an app in xcode 7 I want to it to install and run into iphone but how to do that ? Like android load .apk file on phone and from phone just double click and you done. Some what like procedure is there in iphone ?


texts: After iPad restore (from iCloud) apps still appear as 'waiting'

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I just got the new iPad, and since I backed up my old iPad using iCloud, I restored from the iCloud backup. After restore, it restarted and began downloading all the apps.

Now, I have all these apps on my Mac, so I plugged in the iPad at this point and clicked "Sync". The sync has not finished yet (it's still copying music), but iTunes has restored all of the apps first.
However, on the iPad all of the apps still appear as 'waiting' even though iTunes seems to have installed them.

Will this magically fix itself after sync, do I need to reboot, or is it more complicated?

EDIT

I gave up, and did a backup and restore via iTunes.


texts: How to get rid of default font (Helvetica Neue) in Numbers?

texts:
I am using Numbers '09. I defined (and saved within My Templates) a template of a very basic table format where all cells are formatted with Palatino:

If I simply hit ⌘+Xwithin any selected cell,
immediatly the font of the cell is switched to Helvetica Neue:

This magic font switching also occurs on some other operations (example: move of a block of cells).
This is leaving cells with the wrong format. When I discover this format corruption I have to manually set the font back to the one I configured in My Templates.

What could I have done wrong with my template?
How may I avoid this behaviour?


texts: Mojave guest OS on Yosemite Host via Parallels Desktop 10

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I can't get to the welcome choose your country screen when installing Mojave virtualised via Parallels Desktop 10 on my Yosemite system (MBP Retina 2015).

I downloaded the 6GB Mojave '.app' file as per the OSX Daily webpage (http://osxdaily.com/2018/09/29/download-full-macos-mojave-installer/) via the installer from this website:
http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

1st attempt (via .app file):
Parallels didn't automatically find the OS file so I located manually. I got the message "unable to detect operating system". I clicked continue and selected OSX. When starting up I got a boot failed message. I figured perhaps Parallels doesn't recognise an OS via .app file and that I should convert it into an ISO file...

2nd attempt (via ISO file):
I created an ISO file from the .app file. I did this via steps 1-7 (under the 'Creating the installation media image iso' sub-heading)in this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/a9twye/mac_os_1014_mojave_vmware_15_diy_guide_no_3rd/

Again Parallels didn't automatically find the OS file so I located manually. I got the message "unable to detect operating system". I clicked continue and selected OSX. This time I got the apple logo and load-up bar screen. I then got the MacOS Utility screen. After selecting 'install macOS'  and clicking continue it took several minutes to get to the next page. Then I got to the screen where It says select your drive to install. I selected the Macintosh HD and clicked next but then I got the error message:
"An internal error occurred while preflighting your volume for APFS conversion".
I was reverted back to the MacOS Utility screen. So this time I did not click on 'Install MacOS' instead I selected 'Disk Utility' and clicked continue which quickly took me to the Disk Utility screen. I selected the Macintosh HD and went on the menu bar to select [Edit -> convert to APFS...]. I got the dialog box 'Converting Macintosh HD to APFS' saying the conversion was complete and the operation was successful.

So now I got past the select your drive to install screen. However, I couldn't complete the installation. Using this video as a reference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbLEtH4PnlQ):
I couldn't get past the blue loading-bar screen (6:00) ie. could not reach the welcome screen (6:03). Basically after the blue loading-bar screen I get the initial apple logo screen and then goes back to the MacOS Utility screen.

I don't know if this is an issue with Parallels Desktop 10, the Mojave file I downloaded or something related to compatibility. I prefer not to update/upgrade Yosemite.

Would greatly appreciate any advice.


texts: How do I find out word count in pages 5.2.2

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I often write short articles and am limited to 100 words per document.

Can I find word counts in pages 5.2.2?


texts: Is there a way to purchase incompatible app from Mac App Store

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I haven't upgraded to Yosemite on my Mac yet and still using Mavericks. I wanted to purchase an app during its promotion period but the app min version is 10.10 so Mac App Store complains saying that the app cannot be installed and does not even allow me to purchase. Is there a way where I can just purchase even though I might not have to download and install it. I searched and could not find any way (iTunes does not support).

While I might upgrade shortly, it might take time since I want to take proper backups and then upgrade during which the promotion of the app might be over.


texts: How to copy/sync music downloaded from Apple Music on iTunes to iPhone?

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I have Apple Music subscription. When I make songs available offline(on iPhone 5s) I can listen to them on the device that I downloaded the songs without internet and not offline on iTunes on my Desktop running Windows 10.

If i make music available offline on computer then I can listen to them only on computer without internet and not on my iPhone. I have to re-download the music onto my iPhone.

I'm using the same apple account. All my songs are getting downloaded twice. What should I do to copy the music from Desktop to iPhone without redownloading?

Hardware

iPhone 5S - iOS 9.1
Windows 10 - 64 bit

Why should I have to download a song on each device when I'm signed in on the same Apple account?

Also, when I add a song to Apple Music, It comes under my music from my iPhone and also to itunes my music in computer, but i have to make the music available offline again even if i did download on to the phone earlier. The offline music does not sync.


texts: Personal Hotspot changes location in Settings app

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On my iPhone, the Personal Hotspot appears directly under Settings app:

However, sometimes it  goes missing and can be found within Mobile Data:

The behaviour doesn't seem to depend on anything. Sometimes it's here, sometimes it's there. Is there any reason for that?

I am using an iPhone 6 running iOS 10.3.3.


texts: Configure your mail with mail.app on Mountain Lion

texts: I have Macbook Air 2012 model (128 GB SSD) with Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and I am having difficulties trying to configure the mail.app. When I first tried to set-up my gmail account it started to sync my Macbook with my whole gmail account which is very huge (about 10 GB). Is there any way not to sync whole mailbox? Given the limited capacity of SSD I wanted to have something like we have on an iPhone where for instance only 1000 (or less) of emails messages would be stored locally.


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Short Question :

Is there a mobile app or some desktop software I  can use while my iPhone / iPad is connected to my Macbook Pro that will allow me to record a video of the screen ?

Long Question :

I dont quite a lot of mobile site development and testing. When presenting bugs etc to my team I  like to show them a video of what is happening.

For desktop issues I  just open the browser and the use screen capture in Quicktime. Where ever possible I  do the same for iOS issues using the mobile emulator in Chrome, but because its only an emulator it isnt 100% accurate so not all issues show up.

Some issues I  have to use the real device. At the moment I  capture video for this by using one iphone to film on and another to show the issue, but this is not particularly slick.  (I know I  can run a desktop iphone / ipad emulator through Xcode, but this only has Safari on there, not Google Chrome as some issues are browser specific)

Is there a mobile app or some desktop software I  can use while my iPhone / iPad is connected to my Macbook Pro that will allow me to record a video of the screen ?


texts: Upgrade iOS 10 beta to iOS 10 final/public release

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I have participated in the iOS 10 Beta in the summer and I have downloaded the recent release candidate version a few days ago (10.0.1 - 14A403)

How do I go about upgrading it to the final iOS 10?


texts: wget: ERROR cannot verify www.important_website certificate

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I am installing a large amount of files with wget and all of a sudden I get the error message:  cannot verify www.ncei.noaa.gov's certificate, issued by ‘CN=DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US’.
Why did wget all of a sudden stop working?


texts: How do I change the font in all pages in Pages app at once?

texts: I want to change font everywhere in a pages document in one go without doing it manually for every page.I would like to know how can I do this.


texts: Is it a way to publish latest and one before latest version of an app in App Store?

texts: For safety reason we would like to offer to our customer to download the version before the latest one in App Store. Is it possible?


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I am using an ICS-based solution for Mozilla Lightning, using FTP to access and modify an ICS file.

How can this be integrated into the iPad?

My URLs are of the form: ftp://username:password@domain.com/calendar.ics

I am open to alternative solutions such as automatic conversion to webCal or something similar. Please note that I need the calendars to be continuously synchronized.


texts: I did a complete reinstall of OS X El Capitan last week-deleted the old Macintosh HD and installed OSX. Upon checking some hidden folders, I noticed that some files have Date Modified and Created property set to dates such as February 12 2016. I find that peculiar, because I installed OSX last week. How come I have folders on my computer that were modified even before they existed? Is this a leftover from Apple's team of engineers, meaning that they created this folder on that date?


texts: Changing my Apple ID's email: address is not available

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When I try to change my Apple ID's email address (a Hotmail address), I get the message This email address is not available. Choose a different address.

The email address I intended to change (a Gmail address) is mine and I had another Apple ID opened with that earlier. I was not able to delete that account, as Apple doesn't allow that. Hence, I put a Yahoo email in the account so I could remove the Gmail from the account. So, currently, there is no Apple ID registered with the Gmail address.

Why can't I switch my current Apple ID to the Gmail address?
Should I transfer all my info to the Gmail as a newly Apple ID and use that if the change is not possible?


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i tried saving aliases (see below) for the root user in .bash_profile to /var/root/.bash_profile and restarting Terminal, but it didn't work. where does the .bash_profile file need to be to maintain persistent aliases in the terminal?

$ cat /var/root/.bash_profile
alias grep='grep --color=always'
alias net='sudo netstat -ap tcp && sudo lsof -Pn -i4'

my specifications:

sh-3.2# system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 12.5.0
      Boot Volume: lily
      Boot Mode: Normal
      Computer Name: lily’s MacBook Air
      User Name: System Administrator (root)
      Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
      Time since boot: 12:37


texts: If you temporarily unsubscribe from iTunes Match, will your track list be deleted?

texts: What happens if you (temporarily) unsubscribe from iTunes Match? Will your library (i.e. the list of all your tracks that Apple stores on their servers) be deleted, or will it only be disabled until you renew your subscription?


texts: Fullscreen a running application from the terminal

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I'm trying to pull a prank on a friend. I have a shell script that continuously cats a C source code file so make it look like the terminal is "hacking" something. The next thing I would like to do is have the script make the terminal full screen.

Is there anyway in the default terminal app to make a window full screen based off of a PID or some other identifier?


texts: Extract Installer Package Signing Certificates from xip archive

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It's possible to extract Code Signing Certificates (CSCs) from an .app or signed .dmg as ASN.1 (DER) with

codesign -d --extract-certificates prefix /path/to/file.dmg

After that you can do stuff with it using openssl, security etc.

My goal is to do the same for signed xip archives, which use Installer Package Signing Certificates (IPSCs). You can verify xip signatures with

pkgbuild --check-signature /path/to/archive.xip

But there doesn't seem to be an option to actually export the certificates the way codesign can do it with CSCs.

Is there a way to do it from the command line?

The eventual goal is to deal with xip archives that are signed with self-signed/self-issued IPSCs. It will be a script that first checks the signature with pkgbuild, and then, if the user wants to, it should export the certificates, and then add them to the keychain as trusted. I know you could always just dequarantine the xip file with the self-signed certificate, and this will be an additional option, but this is always on a per-file basis, so there also has to be the ability to extract the certificates (root/leaf) and import them into keychain as trusted (or trusted root). How I'll do the latter I don't know yet, but first thing's first.

Thank you for your help. (This is my first post at AskDifferent.)


texts: How can I convert a font from Font Book to .ttf?

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I am programming an application for IOS 5, but I need to use a different font. I found the perfect font for the job in Font Book, but it needs to be a TrueType Font file. Is there an easy way to do this?

By the way, if you can tell me how to make my own, I would appreciate it.


texts:
The following trick is supposed to enable selecting from a Quick Look preview:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE

… and then relaunch Finder.

In the past it worked for me, but not longer.

Is this broken in Sierra?


texts: I made use of Time Machine to restore my Mac's OS and data to a new drive after the old one failed. Time Machine doesn't seem to recognize that the new drive and the back ups are related. Is there a method to connect the two, or do I need to wipe that drive containing the old history, and just start a new TM backup?


texts: How can I open new Chrome window with different arguments?

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I want to have a new Chrome window with same origin policy (CORS) disabled for development, while keeping the existing one open for browsing. I already have tried the CORS plugin but it does not work for local files.

Apparently, this can be done on Windows. Can it be done on OSX (10.8) ?


texts: Copy to clipboard from Tmux in El Capitan

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I am quite happy with the Terminal changes in El Capitan (see e.g. this question).

However, i can't figure out how to enable copying to system clipboard from within Tmux. For instance, now that I am able to select text within Tmux properly by mouse, how can i copy selected text to clipboard as well, in addition to Tmux's own buffer?

I have the following in my tmux.conf:

setw -g mode-mouse on
set -g mouse-select-pane on
set -g mouse-resize-pane on
set -g mouse-select-window on

setw -g mode-keys vi
bind-key -t vi-copy 'v' begin-selection
bind-key -t vi-copy 'y' copy-selection

I tried modifying the last line to

bind-key -t vi-copy 'y' copy-selection \; copy-pipe "pbcopy"

but it didn't really work. Would be grateful for suggestions!

Thanks!


texts: How do I lock my Mac without changing the display (keeps showing output)?

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I'd like to lock my Mac, that is, require a password before any input.

This is normal.

What's different, though, is that I'd like to be able to show the exact same output as if the screen was not locked.

Let's say, for a trivial example, that I was watching a the output of a long-running process.

If I could do this, I could then lock the mac, but still be able to see the output. If I wanted to do anything other than watch the output, though, I'd need to unlock the Mac.

Note: I have done some cursory research on this.

But it's pretty hard to find this in a search engine.

Even on the StackExchange, most of the questions are about how to lock the screen without putting the Mac to sleep or activating a screen saver:

How do I lock my mac without the screen going dark or going to the screensaver?

Lock Mac without turning off the screen

Is there a way for locking the screen and putting it to sleep/activating the screen saver to be two different events on a MBP?

For those sorts of things, control+⌘+Q works just fine. I'm asking about something different.

Update: Looks like this guy asked something similar: Transparent locked screen

And the best Invisible Screen Saver for multiple monitors is Transparent by Monkey Bread Software.

https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Software/Transparent.shtml

Now I just need to find out how to lock the screen and go to that screensaver in one stroke.


texts: How to install and configure Tomcat for eclipse IDE in macOS?

texts:
Yes I know there are various similar questions like.

  eclipse how to configure tomcat that install from package manager?

but not finding any solution to the problem I am facing.
What I am trying to do:

Install Eclipse on macOS
Install Tomcat 8/8.5 on same machine
Configure Tomcat to test Servlet developed in eclipse

What I have done so far:
1. Installed Eclipse
2. Installed tomcat using brew install tomcat@8 :nothing else done
3. Tried adding Server in Eclipse with path : /usr/local/Cellar/tomcat@8


texts: How to port this *nix-shell script to OS X?

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I've got a unix-shell script that's supposed to work on nix machines. This doesn't run on OS X however, due to "cp" command not defined. Changing it to "copy" didn't help.

git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h" | xargs -I %id% git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r %id% | xargs -I % cp --parents % upd/

The script should make a copy of files changed in last git commit.


texts: Risk of altering folder structure in Apple Photos?

texts:
I've used Apple iPhoto and now Photos for many years, and now have a library of about 32,000 photos and videos. Right now that library is on an attached drive with no rights, so family members can log in and see it.

Looking through the bundle and 'Masters' folders, I see a lot of irregularities in folder names over the years, perhaps between versions, and where I imported other libraries they seemed to get placed in subfolders of the import day, rather than in a higher level date folder. There are also some other quirky things about date and folder location according to ExifTool which I'll look to fix later.

I want to put all of these in a standard /year/month/day folder format as I may move to another app in the near future, but also to make them easier to track in my backups.

I made some small changes and then rebuilt the database and all seemed well, but I want to ask if there is a known danger of loss of photos somehow due to the way Photos manages this. I didn't find much on the Apple site to explain how Photos does folder level organization (EXIF CreateDate?), since this is what Photos abstracts as part of its UI.


texts: Stolen mac locked automatically or by thief?

texts: My MacBook Pro was stolen a few days ago.  I have a lock on the start up screen requiring a password anytime the laptop comes out of sleep mode, however when I attempted the "Find My Mac" app, it says it is already locked (despite me not locking it, putting it in "lost mode", or inputting a 4 digit code).  It also is not showing up on location map, possibly pending connecting to the internet?  Could the laptop be automatically locked (without me putting in a 4 digit code) by attempting a restart or logging me out as a user, or could the thief have locked it somehow themselves?


texts: How can I determine which paths are required?

texts:
I am using Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

My Mac has several volumes with OS X and each volume has several users.

I wish to minimise the work required to ensure that my paths are adequate both for the installed OS and subsequent non-Apple additions by updating /private/etc/paths.

Is there a way to determine where executables requiring a path reside or should reside?

Is it practical to move items to a directory in the path?

My /private/etc/paths contains:

/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin

echo $PATH produces:

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

However the above are not adequate for some applications.

A search for directories named sbin produces many hits including:

/usr/local/sbin

Should the various share directories be in the path?

Searching for directories containing executables with the following find command produces over 8,000 hits and is clearly not a viable approach.

find / -perm +0111 -type d


texts: Show all iTunes iOS apps that aren't installed on any devices

texts:
I've got an iPod Touch and an iPad, both connected to iTunes on the same computer. So, they share the same iOS app library in iTunes.

How can I quickly see which apps are not installed in either the iPad or iPod Touch, without having to switch back and forth between the devices, in iTunes?

I'd like to clean the apps by removing all apps that aren't installed on any of my devices. I've got hundreds of apps in iTunes but only a fraction of those are actually installed in my devices. Normally I wouldn't bother cleaning them, but there are a lot of big games that I don't have installed, and I like to keep my iTunes on my SSD, which has a limited amount of space.


texts: How do I count words in a PDF file on OS X?

texts: I'd like to count words on a PDF file on OS X. The inspector doesn't contain the word count.


texts:
Is it possible to clear Automator logs?
How do I clear Automator logs?


texts: iCloud says "Password is wrong", but I think it's correct. How should I proceed?


texts: Any ideas why my Airport Extreme identifies itself as a Time Capsule in Time Machine?

texts:
I recently noticed that Time Machine on both my Macs (Mountain Lion, 10.8.3) seem to think that my Airport Extreme base station (AEBS) + USB hard drive is actually a Time Capsule. Screenshots below. BTW, I asked this question on the official support status of AEBS + USB HDD, but this question is different (though related)

Question: Why does Time Machine (on Mountain Lion) think that an AEBS with an external HFS+ USB drive is a Time Capsule? I don't recall doing anything special but are there some special settings that "make it so"?

TM thinks it's backing to a Time Capsule

TM performing a backup to the USB HDD (HFS+) attached to the AEBS


texts: Untrusted certificate warning with Safari on IOS 14.2

texts:
I am using an internal personal root ca to secure connections on several internal web resources (Synology NAS, UniFi Controller, VCSA, Dell iDRAC Console).
I have installed the Root CA Cert as a profile and set it as trusted on my iPad (IOS 14.2)
All the certificates were made today with 824 days validity and extension Server cert with "TLS Web Server Authentication" usage.
When connecting to the Synology NAS and UniFi Controller the certificate is trusted. However the certificate is not trusted when connecting to VCSA, iDRAC Web Console.
The carts presented are the expected ones and I have tested all the above web consoles from Windows 10 and all have trusted certificates presented.
What could be the reason as to why some of the carts are untrusted when it comes to IOS?


texts: When syncing photos through iTunes to my iPhone 4, I am finding that certain photos are not syncing. In one event there are 600+ photos yet only 200 are syncing across. Does anybody know why?


texts: Mail.app not showing the "synchronize" option for an IMAP account

texts:
I have 6 different IMAP accounts configured on Mail (all of them for gmail / google apps accounts).

All of them, except one, have a "Synchronize" option in the menu that appears when right-clicking any of the inboxes or other IMAP folders in the left pane.

This one account which doesn't have this option also has occasional major lags in syncing with the server.

ALL of the account settings are identical (including enabling of IDLE).

Any ideas what could be causing this and how to resolve?


texts:
Hi I tried to install Windows 10 as dual boot on my iMac (late 2009) High Sierra. First I ran into this problem someone else also had here, which is unfortunately unanswered. Anyway since I couldn't use Boot Camp Assistant, I created a bootable usb stick and installed windows manually. This worked quite well.

Then when my screen went sleeping because of I was afk for too long and I woke him up suddenly the screen split into 4 parts like in the image:

So I reinstalled windows 10 but they same happened, when the screen went to sleep (restarting didn't restore normal screen).

What can I do? Does this sound like a windows problem? Or is it due the fact that I am booting it on a Mac? Is there hardware incompatibility? I mean it works fine until the screen goes sleeping. I could reinstall windows and turn off screen sleeping as fast as possible but then something will possibly trigger this again.

edit
When I restart on macOS then there stays a line from this bug which disappears after the login


texts: Receiving notification from Mail and Messages, but no snippets

texts:
When I first got my iPhone, I disabled receiving notifications from Mail and Messages apps on the lock screen and the notification center, because these apps display snippets of received messages in those locations and anyone could see them without a password. (Since most people send short emails and messages these days, the snippets are practically the whole messages.) I left the sound notification and the banner enabled.

Yesterday, I saw someone else's iPhone: He still received notifications from Messages but the notification read: "You have a new message!"

That's perfect! I want that too. But no matter how much I searched, I didn't find any setting that enables me to do this. Web search was a complete waste of time.

Does anyone know how to conceive such a thing?


texts: Hidden Documents folder after turning off iCloud Drive

texts:
I recently tried iCloud Drive for syncing my Desktop and Documents folders. However, Documents was already being synced via Dropbox and I noticed that iCloud Drive and Dropbox don't get along. Seemingly random files inside Documents were copied over and over again for some reason.

So I decided to revert back to Dropbox and turn off iCloud sync. That worked fine on my iMac. However, doing the exact same thing on my MacBook Air made the Documents folder disappear. I quickly realized that it is only hidden (see screenshot), albeit without a preceding dot (.). I'm now struggling to unhide this folder. Any ideas?


texts: Can I decrypt a dm-crypt filesystem on OS X?

texts:
I've been an Ubuntu user for years, and I just got my first Mac. One thing I haven't yet figured out is how to decrypt my encrypted filesystem on which I store my SSH and GPG keys on my flash drive. I used this guide in the past to set it up, and have just been running the shell script to decrypt and mount it since then.

However, I cannot figure out how to decrypt it on OS X. Running brew install cryptsetup doesn't work.


texts: Do I really need to replace my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have an early 2011 (8.2) MBP (i7@2.0Ghz) which I've upgraded to 16Gig memory and 512 Gig SSD.

I am a heavy CPU and IO user: vagrant, Vmware Fusion, external display, Office, various IDE's (Xcode, Eclipse derivatives for Scala, Ruby,Java), IntelliJ, Webstorm, databases - Postgres, Mongo, MySQL. The main pigs are my VMs (esp win 8 ) which crucify the Fan; I am going deaf but it is so annoying that the fan just ramps up and down the whole time, the machine gets quite hot too but I have an external keyboard and mouse which mitigates that unpleasantness.
Geekbench seems to suggest that I will be 25% better off in raw performance terms with a later machine.

Will the noise/heat/performance be any better if I get a late MBP with an equivalent spec?


texts: Can't download anything with enough storage?

texts: I have 478 MB available, and this game is 228 MB. Every time I try to download it, I get a message saying I don't have enough space. But I do. What am I supposed to do?! I really want this app!


texts: How to keep apps separate per user in iTunes?

texts:
My husband and I are currently sharing a computer and due to the limited data on the iCloud we both like to create a backup of our cell phones on the computer. With each iOS update I like to reset my phone as new and then restore it from a backup. The problem with this is that every time I restore it, it's putting both mine and my husbands apps on my phone. We tried creating different profiles on the mac and backing up our phones under our own profile, but for whatever reason all the apps still combines. Now half the time I have to enter his password on my phone or vice versa if there's an app that needs updating.

What if anything can I possible do (without having to buy another Mac of course) to keep our apps separate?


texts: Macbook turns off before battery is 0% when left unplugged. (Already reset SMC and PRAM several times)

texts:
This is my first question on this forum. My MacBook has been turning off randomly when left unplugged. It shuts down before the battery indicator reaches 0%. I have reset the SMC and PRAM several times before. It starts up and i've cycled the battery 2 or 3 times after a reset. So it does start up without being connected and has let me cycle the battery from 100% to 0% Since it's actually letting me cycle the battery, i'm under the impression that it's working again. But out of no where it's shuts off on me randomly.

I thought maybe it could be the thermal paste on the heatsink just getting old, but why doesn't it shut down when connected to power? Could the battery be bad? The indicator is showing that it has charge. Could it be possible that the SMC chip has gone bad? I have had this MacBook since 2012. I've put some work into it. Increasing the RAM, replacing the optical drive with an SSD, reapplication of thermal paste to both the CPU and GPU. Could it be a one of my hardware monitoring programs forcing a shut down? I get no warning prior to the machine turning off. I can start it right back up after but it isn't log before it does it again. The more I start it up after the shut down, the less time it takes to shut down again the next time.

MacBook info:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012, Unibody)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processor
16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1 GB / Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
500GB SSD
1TB HDD

UPDATE:

I used different battery health apps and they show that my battery is good. Using the system_profiler SPPowerDataType command showed that the amperage was zero which according to the Fully charged MacBook Air turns off when power cord removed post meant that the battery is bad. I'm guessing this doesn't alway prove to be true, at least not in my case. I am currently running my MacBook without the charger plugged in and it isn't shutting down right away after unplugging it.


texts: Getting the space key to act like the return key

texts: I come from a Windows background and I have gotten into the habit of hitting the Space key every time there's a popup on my screen that I want to close.  But on the Mac, it doesn't do anything, but hitting Return does.  Does anyone  know how I can get Mac to let the space key act like the Return key on modal dialogs?  I tried to find something in the Keyboard preferences but don't see anything related to popups.


texts: No access to an old Apple ID due to incorrect information

texts: The Apple ID which is linked to my iPhone can't be accessed. I have tried 'Find my ID' but it won't accept my birthdate and emails are not being received to any of my current or old email addresses.


texts: Is there a way to securely erase an SSD on my MacBook Air?

texts:
I have a late 2011 MacBook Air with an SSD and Lion. I used it for a while and then I activated FileVault 2. Now the data is encrypted, but I need to securely erase it so I can sell the computer.

I thought about erasing it with gparted by installing it on a USB.

Any suggestions?


texts: Have Mountain Lion Messages running but hidden from dock?

texts:
I use Mountain Lion (10.8.3) Messages exclusively to monitor text messages sent to my cell phone. When I first start my computer or login Messages is hidden (I don't want it in my dock) and if I receive a text message I get a banner alert from notification center. If I open the message I enter the Messages application and the running application shows up in my dock.

What I would like to do is have Messages behave as it does when I first start the computer (receiving notifications but not visible in the dock as running) all of the time (I assume it's running in the background somehow).

If I click 'Hide' on the Messages icon in the doc it remains visible, and if I quit messages entirely after reading a message I stop receiving notifications.

I have tried editing its Info.plist to include

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

as suggested in the Hide a running app from dock thread, but the behavior remains the same.

Thanks!


texts: I'm trying to add a few files into a dmg. How do I create a DMG file from a directory?


texts: My slideshow has two songs. The first one is a great beginning but too long. It's 3:57 minutes. I want it to only play for 2 minutes. How do I keep the song and limit its time?


texts: Do the content blockers that can be installed with iOS 9 work in Chrome for iOS?


texts: How to free up storage taken by the "On My iPad" app?

texts:
I have a 6th generation iPad, iPadOS 13.5

I have used an app called "On My iPad" that came preinstalled to this iPad to copy files to this iPad (like PDFs, movies, etc.). Eventually, I deleted all the files that I have copied (at least this is what I think I have done).

The problem is that there is still a lot of storage taken by something in this "On My iPad". Has it not completely deleted the files? How to clean up the storage?

Please see the screenshots.

You can see that there are zero items showing when I open the "On My iPad" app. There are three folders Downloads, Keynote, Pages, and they are all empty.

Recently Deleted

There is nothing in the Recently Deleted items.

iPad Storage

When I look at the overall iPad storage I see that there is about 1GB taken by the "On My iPad".
Also, there is a discrepancy in the reported available space. The "On My iPad" above shows that 20.31 GB available. The iPad Storage reports 14.3 of 32 GB used, i.e. only 17.7 GB is available.

Documents and Data

When I tap on the "On My iPad" to see the details, I see that "Documents and Data" take 1 GB.

Recommendations

When I tap further on Recommendations, there is nothing there. When I had some files, they were showing here. I have deleted all I could. Apparently, something is still sitting somewhere.

I have seen advice to delete an application and reinstall it back to reclaim the storage taken by the "Documents and Data" and I have done this trick successfully with the Keynote application. But there is no option to delete the "On My iPad" application and there is no such application in the App Store, so this method can't be used here.

Any ideas?


texts: How do I remove duplicate and/or unwanted directories from ~/Library/Mobile Documents?

texts:
I know that there are similar questions, but I could not find one that asked about this, specifically. I am running Mojave (10.14.6) on a 2017 iMac 27/5K. In the ~/Library/Mobile Documents directory, I have several directories that are either for iOS applications

I no longer use/have deleted, and/or
I still use, but for which there is at least one (in some cases more) duplicate.

Two examples are in the screenshot, below:

When I try to remove these directories, they almost instantly reappear.

How do I permanently remove these unwanted and unneeded directories?


texts: How to pass two variables from previous actions to "run applescript" in Automator

texts:
What I'm trying to is:

Receive a string from "Ask for Text".
Get a file from Finder.
Do some codings these inputs in Applescript.

Seems like Applescript only receives file as input, I have no idea how to pass string from step 1 to it. Any suggestions are appreciated.

note: all "ignore action's input" are uncheck.

The workflow looks like this:


texts: Why does this Applescript for talking to iTunes fail with timeout for some customers?

texts:
This script works okay for me and most of my customers, but for a few customers it times out with error -1712; I've no idea why. I've tried increasing timeout, but it makes no difference.

The file /tmp/itunes_model.txt doesn't get created so it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

How can I debug/fix this?

with timeout of 1200 seconds
tell application "iTunes"

    if (count of every file track of library playlist 1) is equal to 0 then
        set thePath to (POSIX file "/tmp/itunes_model.txt")
        set fileref to open for access (thePath) with write permission
        set eof fileref to 0
        close access fileref
        return
    end if

    tell every file track of library playlist 1
        script performancekludge
            property tracknames : its name
            property locs : its location
            property persistids : its persistent ID
        end script
    end tell
end tell

set thePath to (POSIX file "/tmp/itunes_model.txt")
set fileref to open for access (thePath) with write permission
set eof fileref to 0

tell performancekludge
    repeat with i from 1 to length of its tracknames
        try
            set nextline to item i of its tracknames ¬
                & "::" & POSIX path of item i of its locs ¬
                & "::" & item i of its persistids
            write nextline & linefeed as «class utf8» to fileref
        end try
    end repeat
end tell
close access fileref
end timeout

Added a try-catch around the error as requested and reran; the first time it was run it actually worked which is interesting, but the second time it failed again gleaning no more useful information.


texts: “You don't have permission to save files in the location where screen shots are stored”

texts:
Every time I try and take a screenshot this appears ^. I've tried looking for the location of my saved screenshots typing in commands into the terminal and  my Desktop folder is unlocked (in Get Info).

This is what was on my terminal:

I typed: defaults read com.apple.screencapture location

Result: The domain/default pair of (com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist

I typed: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop

Result: Could not write domain com.apple.screencapture; exiting

Please help!


texts: Are there any free alternatives to finder?

texts:
Relatively new to the Mac world, I still find the 'Finder' not really that user friendly.

What free alternatives to Finder exist?

*I mean really file browsers, not application launchers like Quicksilver, Launchy etc..


texts: How to print to printer connected to Windows 7 PC from iPad Air?

texts: I see the answer for printing from an iPad to a Windows enterprise, but I just want to print from an iPad Air to my home printer (HP Officejet Pro L7590) that is running on my network from a Windows desktop.  Is there a solution simpler than Presto?


texts: Contact syncing is not working for some contacts using iCloud

texts:
I've verified that at least some of my contacts are not properly syncing between my iPhone running iOS 5.1 and my Mac running OSX 10.7.3 (both the latest OS versions currently available).

Here, you can see that the contact named "Android Standup" is available on my iPhone but not available on my Mac:

I have iCloud set up to sync Contacts on both devices, and both are using the same iCloud account:

The "Android Standup" contact is only available on the phone.  It's not available on iCloud.com or on my mac.

However, I verified that contact sync IS WORKING for some contacts. I just created a new "Test Contact 1" on my phone, and it appeared almost immediately in my Mac's Address Book.

Why are some of my contacts (such as the Android Standup contact) not syncing to iCloud?


texts: Mac Mail "View as Icon" missing in High Sierra?

texts: I upgraded to High Sierra and now the "View as Icon" option in Mail is no longer there.  Anyone know where it went? Is it gone for good :-(


texts: iOS 10 double click home to pay issue iPhone 6s

texts:
I find that it is virtually impossible to double click from the lock screen to open wallet and make a payment using a iPhone 6s and iOS 10.

If can remember to shift my thumb and use the edge of the thumbnail to double click the home button then all is good.  On the other hand, I find myself fumbling on paying  at a checkout, unlocking and relocking several times.

The problem appears to be that with iOS 10 as soon as your thumb hits the home button the phone gets unlocked.  Yet double clicking home to open wallet must be done from the locked state.

Is there a better way to deal with opening wallet while standing in a checkout line?  Or do I need to teach myself in that case to double click with my thumbnail instead of thumb print?


texts: What does the "Suggest" menu item do, on iOS 5?

texts: What does the "Suggest…" menu item do? I am referring to the one that comes straight after the "Paste" item.


texts: App Store doesn't launch after El Capitan 10.11.1 update

texts:
I just installed the 10.11.1 update for Mac OS X 'El Capitan' on my late 2011 MacBook Pro.
The App Store icon is still visible in my dock, I am able to click it, but the App Store does not launch.
Is there a way to reinstall the App Store or to fix this in any way?

Update: I have tried restoring "App Store.app" through Time Machine, but the system refuses to remove or replace this file.


texts: What are the minimum requirements to charge the 2016 MacBook Pros?

texts:
As the MacBook Pro 2016 series supports various USB PD profiles, I'm wondering whether they will also charge using other USB standards, for example:

USB Type-C, 1.5A or 3.0A at 5V using the passive marking resistor (not PD)
USB Type-A using an A to C cable, connected to a USB BC DCP at up to 1.5 A (for example newer iPhone or most Android compatible chargers)
USB Type-A, connected to an iPad charger at 2.1 A or 2.4 A (using Apple's proprietary D+/D- voltage handshake)

I'm aware that most of these will not be able to supply enough power for normal operation of the computer, but being able to charge slowly while in standby would still be useful.


texts:
I'm wondering why (since I've installed macOS Big Sur) my Mac wakes up from standby without requesting me a password when I press a key (usually Ctrl) on my (Keychron) external USB keyboard.
This is not a consistent behaviour (I suspect that if enough time has elapsed, then the login screen is shown indeed).
No, I don't have autologin set up.

P.S. I love it, and I'm not trying to change this behaviour. I'm just curious about why this is happening at all in first place.


texts: Why is the filesize of downloaded disk image different?

texts:
I have a disk image which I uploaded to a web server and then downloaded with Safari 5.1 in OS X 10.7.

Finder reports the original as 34,911,334 bytes, and the downloaded file as 34,909,684. Both appear to contain identical contents when mounted.

What's going on here?

Edit: See output of ls -l@ and md5 as suggested:

$ ls -l@
total 136376
-rw-r--r--@ 1 rich  staff  34909684 15 Aug 16:37 Downloaded.dmg
    com.apple.diskimages.fsck         20
    com.apple.diskimages.recentcksum          80
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDownloadedDate          53
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms         144
    com.apple.quarantine          74
-rw-r--r--@ 1 rich  admin  34909684 15 Aug 12:42 Original.dmg
    com.apple.FinderInfo          32
    com.apple.ResourceFork      1650
    com.apple.diskimages.recentcksum          80

$ md5 Original.dmg
MD5 (Original.dmg) = 4c1ed7a85de6ae51479a136ea23ac69e

$ md5 Downloaded.dmg
MD5 (Downloaded.dmg) = 4c1ed7a85de6ae51479a136ea23ac69e


texts: iPad 3 not connecting to a cellular network at all

texts: My iPad 3 doesn't want to connect to my cellular network. When i want to go onto the appstore or internet it says I'm not connected. We have taken it to our local iStore and to the network providers but it hasn't done anything, probably made it worse. We have turned it off and on, reset network settings and even changed networks. its second hand and we haven't used wifi on it yet. What could it be and what should we do?


texts: Smart mailbox for unread messages in Mail.app

texts:
Problem

I've created a smart mailbox in macOS Mail for "Unread" messages with the following rules:

  Contains messages that match all of the following conditions:

  Message is in the mailbox: Inbox
  Message is unread

The smart mailbox will always correctly include unread messages in my inbox. But often, it will incorrectly include read messages in my inbox. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Other information and troubleshooting steps so far

Currently using macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Email account is hosted by Google
Other smart mailboxes with other rules still work properly.
If I use the filter button in my inbox, Mail will properly perform filtering -- even for unread messages.
I tried marking the problematic messages as unread and then as read again. Afterwards, the number next to the title of the "Unread" mailbox will decrease (because I have taken steps to mark messages as read), but the "Unread" mailbox itself will still list those messages (even though they are read).
I tried the above step from gmail.com. Same result.
I tried getting new mail. Nothing changes. I tried rebuilding my mailboxes. No rebuilding happens.
I tried rebooting my computer in safe mode. Then, any smart mailbox I created would contain no messages regardless of the rules I set.
There doesn't seem to be any pattern to which messages are problematic.
My "Unread" smart mailbox still behaves properly for non-problematic messages even if it contains problematic messages.
Once a problematic message appears in my "Unread" smart mailbox, it will stay there for a few days. Then, it will suddenly leave "Unread" and sit in my Inbox where it belongs.


texts: What are some good two factor methods for logging onto your Mac?

texts: What are some options I can deploy to require users to use multi factor authentication when logging onto their Macs. In the same fashion you use your password and Google Authenticator code to log into Gmail, GitHub, Slack, etc., is there something for logging into your Mac.


texts: Is there a way to purchase the official Lion release when the Gold Master was previously installed?

texts:
Is there a way to install the official release when you installed the Gold Master version? I can't purchase it from the app store because it think I have the app already intalled...

I wonder how you can purchase/install lion on x machines since your appstore login can be used at home, at works, etc...


texts:
Home network set up: Incoming line from the world goes to an Internet switch with local Wi-Fi. One of the switch lines runs to a second switch at the other end of the house. Most of our devices have hardwired connection. I really don't want Netflix on the AppleTV to fight for bandwidth with my laptop and my wife's iPad.

I also have a Mac Pro that is the center of my computing life. The Mac Pro has its Wi-Fi switched off.

I've told my iPhone and Mac to sync wirelessly. This isn't happening.

Do both computer and iOS device have to be using Wi-Fi for wireless sync to happen?

Is Apple networking smart enough to do the right thing if I have my desktop with two live ethernet connections. (This was a good way to get in trouble with just wired networks. Spanning tree and all that to shut down the extra link.)


texts:
I have an iPhone 5 that's eligible for Apple's battery replacement program. I haven't actually had any trouble with it, but I suppose I should take advantage of the offer before it expires. There are two Apple stores in the area, so I'd prefer to take the phone to one of them. But the web page doesn't actually say whether battery replacements are done on site or how long the process takes.

What should I expect here? Would Apple replace the battery while I wait? Would they ask me to leave the phone a few hours or overnight? I don't imagine they'd swap it for another phone, if only because they wouldn't have the original iPhone 5 in stock at this point.


texts: Create macOS script to run a Terminal Command

texts:
I want to ultimately create an executable file that will run a terminal command:
open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory="Guest Profile"

I want to know what other text and where to add into the Script Editor with the above command so I can create an executable file that runs that command. I would like to do it with out the Terminal window opening. But if it has to open, I would like to add some more code so that is closes.
If there isn't, there should be a Chrome extension that does this.
Thanks.


texts: Can I use keywords in Safari as Google Chrome?

texts:
The main reason because I use Google Chrome on my Mac is its keyword feature that I can use as shortcut while I'm searching for something.

This is an example of my main keywords: http://i.imgur.com/dORgCC0.png

This is an example of keyword feature in action: http://gfycat.com/IlliterateBiodegradableGreatargus

Is there a way to do the same on Safari?


texts: Trying to update WhatsApp with new Apple ID. When I enter my password, it keeps saying my account is disabled. So I have to reset it, and when I reset it, the same problem exist.


texts: Website says enable cookies even though they are enabled, on Catalina

texts:
I use the bill pay feature from my credit union.  After upgrading to Catalina the bill pay feature reports that cookies are disabled.

Cookies are not disabled.  I have cleared them, cleared history, restarted safari, restarted the computer.  Still no love.  You can see that new cookies have been created after logging in to the credit union.  But the bill pay feature still reports that cookies are disabled.   I have two systems running Mojave that don't have this problem.  What could be blocking this web site from reading the cookie? The firewall maybe?


texts: How can I enable internet sharing to work automatically in Mac OS X Lion?

texts:
After having upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion on my iMac and MacBook Pro, how can I get "Internet Sharing" to work automatically as it did in Snow Leopard? In particular, my iMac gets its internet via a DSL Ethernet connection, and I have enabled internet sharing on it. While my MacBook Pro can see, via wifi, the iMac, every time I awaken the MacBook Pro from sleep, I have to manually select the iMac from the list of available wifi sources and manually re-enter the password.

To attempt to get things to work, I removed the preferred wifi network and then added it back in. I made sure I checked the box that said “Remember networks this computer has joined” in the general preference pane section and also I made sure I checked the box that said “Remember this network” in the specific dialog box for logging in to my iMac-provided network. However, despite, that, when I did the test of putting the MacBook Pro to sleep and awakening it, I still had to manually select my iMac-provided network and provide the password.


texts:
On a Late 2008 MacBook Pro with a dead battery, i have a SMC issue that popped out.
My fans are at 100%, no keyboard backlit, the usual SMC story.
I've tried the usual technique from the Internet to reset the SMC plus the SMCFlasher tool, but no success.
Until now, each time i've had the SMC problem, the only working solution for my was: Left Shift + Option + Ctrl + Power.
Now, if i use that technique, the notebook shuts down and the only way to start it again is to Press PWR 10 seconds without the power cord, 10 seconds again with the power cord plugged in, and then a simple push of Power Button.
Any other ideas ?


texts: How to run C# using Sublime Text3 build system on macOS?

texts:
I'm trying to run C# on Sublime Text 3 using a build-system config on macOS (with Command + B key combination).

I've tried a few build systems:

{
    "working_dir": "${folder:${project_path:${file_path}}}",
    "selector": "source.cs",
    "quiet": true,

    "variants":
    [
        {
            "name": "Build",
            "shell_cmd": "dotnet build",
            "word_wrap": false,
            "quiet": true,
        },
        {
            "name": "Clean",
            "shell_cmd": "dotnet clean"
        },
        {
            "name": "Run",
            "shell_cmd": "dotnet run"
        },
        {
            "name": "Run Interactive",
            "cmd": ["dotnet", "run"],
            "target": "terminus_open",
            "auto_close": false,
        }
    ],
}

// {
//     "cmd": ["csc $file && $file_base_name"],
//     "shell": true,
//     "file_regex": "^(...*?):([0-9]*):?([0-9]*)",
//     "selector": "source.cs",
//     "quiet": true
// }

// {
//     "cmd": ["cmd", "/c", "del", "${file/\\.cs/\\.exe/}", "2>NUL", "&&", "csc", "/nologo", "/out:${file/\\.cs/\\.exe/}", "$file"],
//     "file_regex": "^(...*?)[(]([0-9]*),([0-9]*)[)]",
//     "variants": [
//         { "name": "Run", "cmd": ["cmd", "/c", "start", "cmd", "/c", "${file/\\.cs/\\.exe/}"] }
//     ],
// }

Installed mono using brew install mono

ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/ returns ln: /usr/local/bin//dotnet: File exists

However, command + B on a filename.cs returns:
bash: dotnet: command not found

What should I do?
Thank you!


texts: Is there any way to change the visual style of the interface buttons in OS X?

texts:
For instance, in Tiger, the blue/grey "OK" or "Cancel" buttons in a window had a rounder radius. In Mavericks, they're more rectangular. Are the button images stored in a resources folder somewhere in the Library? Is there a safe way to change them?

Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to merge Safari history databases?

texts: Recently Safari had a glitch and wiped out my browsing history. I only discovered this after a couple weeks but had a backup that ran up to almost the day of the loss. I've restored the history from that backup, and would like to append the recent history since the loss. Is there a way to do that? Specifically is there a process I can used to take one set of backup files (History.db-shm, History.db-wal, and History.db) and merge them into another set?


texts:
I have successfully been able to install Linux Mint on my Mac. The only issue is I cannot select the boot partition holding option. To fix it I booted into linux and ran sudo efibootmgr -o 1,80. This forced my Mac to boot into Linux. This now forces me into Linux but I have to old down option to boot back onto OS X.

Question is, is there a similar command to efibootmgr for OS X? This way I will be able to create a shortcut for booting into Linux and OS X. Currently the option key does not detect Linux but rEFInd does. Is there a command tool that allows be to boot into the other option like efibootmgr or not on OS X? I guess bless cannot do it otherwise we would see it on the boot screen.


texts: I currently live in an area that has very poor internet connection. I can log in to iTunes but it would cost a fortune to download the updates to the OS. Is there a way I can have somebody bring the OS update on a thumb drive and load it from there?


texts: How do I get rid of this Danish iWeb homepage?

texts:
Whenever I reboot my Mac (formerly 2009 13" MBP, recently migrated to a 2015 13" MBP) my Google Chrome homepage shows the following Danish iWeb help page. I no longer have iWeb installed, but I imagine it's followed me onto my new MBP via the Migration Assistant.

I've verified that my home page is setup correctly in chrome and if I close the Chrome window and re-open it my home page will be correct, so this problem only occurs once per boot.

Here's the window that I'm talking about:

I've never had my Mac set to Danish, but this Mac has gone through several family members and several OSX updates through the years.


texts: OS X Server Users Read & Write but can't delete

texts:
running OS X Server (Mavericks) I am trying to use file sharing.
When I create a Folder and select that for sharing and add users they get read & write access, but when I take a closer look via the Server App under Storage, they all have no "Delete" permission on folders inside the share.

This happens on new folders I share as well as with users I newly create.
Any ideas?


texts:
The new "Search Tabs" feature of Safari 8 is pretty nice. When "show all tabs" is activated, you can type some text to filter the tabs to the one you want. However, once I have a single tab visible, it would be very nice to be able to activate that tab. This would allow "spotlight" type functionality for tabs.

However, it doesn't seem like there is a keyboard shortcut to activate the tab once I've searched for it, so I'm forced to click the tab with my mouse! This seems like an oversight, I can't believe Apple would add a nice way to filter the tabs, but no way to select one!

Screenshot:


texts: How to disable sidetone (voice feedback) on USB headset on macOS Catalina?

texts:
I have a Plantronics C5220 USB-C headset and when I use it on Skype I can hear myself in the headset speakers, that's what they call "sidetone" (or voice feedback).

Apparently there is a native option on Windows OS to disable it, I wonder if there is any way to achieve that in macOS ?

I have already been through sound settings and midi/audio settings.


texts: Is it good practice to edit photos from the Photo Stream using iPhoto?

texts:
For a while I've been taking photos on my iPhone and then editing them using iPhoto on my iPad. I select the photos from the Photo Stream since they are conveniently available on the iPad. It occurred to me recently that perhaps this is not a good idea.

What are the pros and cons of doing this? Could I lose the edited images since the pictures are from the Photo Stream? Should I be transferring the photos from the iPhone to the iPad before editing them?

Some guidance would be appreciated.


texts: Energy saver 101 : sleeps after or when battery is at x hours?

texts:
Using Mac OSX on a macbook pro. in energy saver - battery tab : if i have sleep at 1 hour, does that mean the computer will sleep after an hour on battery OR when there is a about an hour of battery remaining?

If its the former -> is there a way to make it the latter? I want the computer to sleep when battery has about half an hour left.

Can use terminal or preferences or put a well known freeware.


texts: Does a 10W or 12W charger make an iPhone willing to boot up sooner?

texts:
I cannot be entirely sure about this but it seemed to happen this way:
When the iPhone 5, 6, or 7 was out of power, I could plug it into my car's USB charger or a portable USB battery charger for 10, even 15 minutes, before the phone is willing to start up.  A 15 minute wait, can be a bit too much -- if it were 2, 3 minutes, it would be more tolerable, but a good 15 minute, is too much.
But I noticed sometimes when I plug in the lightning jack for a charge, the iPhone will start immediately.
Is it due to some charger are supplying 5W, while some are supplying 10 or 12W?
I suspect iPhone might be doing some calculation: if possible power consumption is less than power input (10W), then be worry free and power up immediately. However, if possible power consumption is more than the input (5W), then don't power up first, accumulate first before powering up (and it turned out to be 15 minutes usually).
Does someone know for sure how this works?
P.S. Decemeber 2016: So today, I tried out an iPhone 5S, and saw that it was 1%, but too late, about 1-2 seconds after I plugged it in, it turned itself off. And thinking that it was a 39W 2 port charger with QC 3.0 (an Anker charger used in the car), I thought it should start up almost immediately. Not so, it took close to 15 minutes before it turned itself on, and I didn't look what battery level it was when it started up, but 10 minutes or so after the start up, I looked, and it was at 21%. So it looked like it could have turned itself off sooner.


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