texts: is there a way to disable a drive bay from the command line?

texts:
Regarding a previous question I asked a while ago:
Macpro 5,1 mid 2010 cannot boot to Mojave from Mountain Lion?
I am wondering, is there any sort of default writes or other software solution which would allow me to completely disable a drive bay? If I have both the Mojave and Mountain Lion drives loaded into the drive bays, the computer will always choose to boot Mountain Lion, and the only way I can get Mojave to boot is to physically pull out the Mountain Lion drive.  I am just trying to come up with a way to be able to boot to Mojave from Mountain Lion since it cannot see the volume (due to it being APFS)...  Is there anything I can do?  The last thing I want to have to do is solder wires to the mother board and connect them to a switch so I can disable a drive--- I would much rather find a way to do this with software.


texts: Bring up new Finder window on current desktop

texts:
I've been using the ⌥⌘Space shortcut to open a new "Search my Mac" Finder window. However, the problem with this is that I recently turned on Sierra's new "prefer tabs when opening windows" option on. That means that if I have a Finder window open in Desktop #4 but am currently in Desktop #1, the "Search my Mac" window will open in the Finder window in Desktop #4. What's even more confusing is that the Finder window isn't brought to the front. It stays in Desktop #4 and no matter how many times you press the ⌥⌘Space shortcut, you'll be opening new tabs in that window with no visual cues whatsoever.

So is there any way to (force) open a new Finder window on the current desktop, almost like pressing ⊞E on Windows? I do this so often, that having to switch to the desktop with Finder open becomes burdensome.


texts: Cannot export System.keychain Certificate from with private key as p12 via Terminal security export command

texts:
I have a machine certificate installed in system.keychain and want to export certificate with privet key via security export command.

But getting error :security: SecKeychainItemExport: User interaction is not allowed.

Command :
security export -k /Library/Keychains/System.keychain -P password -t identities -f pkcs12 -o /Users/skull/Desktop/test.p12


texts: Does Catalina synch and backup devices running iOS 12?

texts: I've got one of the first generation iPad Airs and it will only update to iOS 12.4.2.  I'm trying to back it up and synch it using my iMac on which I've installed Catalina (10.15). The iPad shows in the sidebar of Finder but when I click on it, after a minute of waiting I get a message saying "The selected device could not be found."  I have no problem backing up and synching my iPhone which is running 13.1.2 and I've had no problems backing up and synching this iPad in the past. Does anyone know if the new method works with devices running iOS 12?


texts: After installing Mojave, my previous username/password combination does not work

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I just installed Mojave on my MacBookAir, and now my username/password (under Yosemite) are not accepted. I called Apple support and they told me to restart and immediately push down command-r giving me a MacOSUtilities window. I, then, chose the DiskUtility option that was offered, but the advisor didn't know what further to do, and scheduled me for a further call tomorrow.

Any immediate advice (somewhat disappointing--one would seem to expect smoother installation behavior from Apple)? Perhaps I'll have to take it to an Apple store for assistance.

Do I need the original "admin password"? (The laptop was purchased several years ago. I don't know if offhand.)


texts: What can I do about duplicate data in Apple Health?

texts:
Recently (and not tied to any iOS or app update) Apple Health has doubled all the steps it has recorded. This occurred literally overnight, so that now for every day, as far back as I've looked, all the steps recorded are twice what they were (correctly) previously. Since this occurred suddenly and retroactively, and without any updates taking place to Apple Health, iOS, or (as far as I can tell) any apps that share steps, it appears to be a bug in Apple Health itself.

What can I do about this duplication of step data in Apple Health? How do I reset or correct such discrepancies?


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It worked before, and I'm not sure when it stopped working, but I'm unable to start Web Sharing at the moment.  Attempting to start it from the Sharing screen results in "Web Sharing Starting..." immediately followed by "Web Sharing: Off".  I've tried reverting to the httpd.conf in /etc/apache2/original, but the result is the same.

What else could I try?


texts: Macbook Air how to setup proxy for iTunes and App Store?

texts:
I am confused how to setup proxy for iTunes and App Store on Macbook Air.

I have noticed that Safari can connect to the Internet through proxy, but for iTunes and App Store, I do not know how it works.

Can you help me with this? Thanks.


texts: Preventing access to mounted volumes for non-admin users

texts:
I have some volumes with sensitive data mounted in my main, admin account.

I'd like to give some other users access to the same computer using a "standard" user account. Such a standard account seems to be effectively blocked from accessing any files which are inside the admin account's home folder, but all the mounted volumes are completely accessible.

How would I make such volumes inaccessible?


texts: How do I prevent an internal partition from mounting at boot

texts:
I have a HFS partition on my internal boot disk on a Mac Mini (High Sierra) that I would like to not automatically mount at boot time. Rather, I want to reserve it to raw-mount to a VirtualBox VM by default.

How do I configure the Mac to not automount the partition?

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            600.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:   ***           Apple_HFS Shared user data         199.6 GB   disk0s4
   5:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         199.6 GB   disk0s5
...

I want to reserve disk0s4.

I've seen some similar posts that suggest automountd is involved, but don't provide any help configuring it.


texts: How can I remove the Job Title and Company from all Address Book contacts using AppleScript?

texts:
I would like to remove the Job Title and Company from every contact in my address book using AppleScript.

Any ideas?


texts: How can I save a file to a specific "keyed" location?

texts:
In Finder to go to a specific location I can do Cmd-Shift-G

But what if I want to save to a specific location? That is, I don't want to click through a folder hierarchy in the save dialogue box.

For example I would like to save the current file to ~/.ssh

The Where drop down allows you to select a location, but I want to be able to enter the location using the keyboard.


texts: Writing AppleScript to change a TextEdit document from .rtfd file to .rtf

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I am using TextEdit and need the document to save as a .rtf, but when I am copying and pasting the data over, since there are small images and thumbnails, it will always save as .rtfd.

I am currently going through the process of doing this manually, but when dealing with 50+ documents, going into the Get Info area, setting the proper extension, then saving that file again takes time. I do not need the images to be there, but going through and removing manually is also not a good option.

I am currently trying to learn AppleScript and using Script Editor, but wanted to see if in the meantime anyone had any ideas here or have a script that does this?


texts: Is there a way to make the Function keys act as standard keys with a Logitech K811 keyboard?

texts:
I changed the Fn key on my Macbook Pro to actually work in the reverse way (so, just hitting the F1 key actually sends the "Function 1" signal, rather than the brightness decrease signal when the Fn key is not pressed, and the brightness decrease signal if the Fn key is pressed). I did this because, as a developer, it's much more useful to me to be able to utilize the function keys than the other (what I consider auxiliary) functions.

However, when I'm at home, I use an external keyboard (a Logitech K811). It's a great keyboard, but it doesn't seem to sense the preference change I made with the Fn key. That is, on my macbook keyboard, I don't have to hold Fn to activate the function keys, but on my Logitech keyboard, I do.

Is there a way to make the Logitech keyboard also act the way I have it setup in my System Preferences?


texts: i am unable to download and upload app on my ipad mini ,! help me out

texts: what should i do to fix this? it is happening past twodays. iam from India, please help me out .


texts: I'm looking to give my friend my macbook pro for a month. So how do I make it so there is no possible way that he can access my stuff. When I mean no possible way, I mean no way through terminal or any means like that. Will creating a standard new account satisfy, or something more is required?


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Based on the order I insert USB disks, they can be named either /dev/disk2 or /dev/disk3 for example, and this is a problem for me. Is there a way to make the naming persistent, or reference them in a persistent way?

Under linux I would use udev, or I would reference them under /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -- is there something similar for Mac?

To clarify, although I could specify the UUID in /etc/fstab, I need to access the physical device file under a persistent name.

The reason I'm doing this is I'm accessing the raw physical partition under VirtualBox (giving the guest OS access to it). And with virtualbox I create a file that contains a reference to /dev/disk2, so if the device number changes, the file I've created with virtualbox won't work and I either need to unplug things and replug them in, or run the command again with the correct device.

Thank you.


texts: why does find / rm tells me it doesn't find a folder after it found it?

texts:
I'm trying to remove some folders recursively:
find . -name bin -type d -exec rm -r {} \;

when I run it, I get an output like this:
find: ./Services/BinanceConnector/bin: No such file or directory
find: ./Services/BinanceLeech/bin: No such file or directory
find: ./Services/BitmexConnector/bin: No such file or directory
...

but these are folders that do exist and will get removed.
when I run the command again and the bin folders do not exist, there is nothing printed on the console.
what causes this?

Edit:
ls -ld ./Services/BinanceConnector ./Services/BinanceConnector/bin
drwxr-xr-x  18 thomas  staff  576 Oct 12 21:46 ./Services/BinanceConnector
drwxr-xr-x   3 thomas  staff   96 Oct 12 21:46 ./Services/BinanceConnector/bin


texts: How to sync Iphone on laptop with music collection on desktop?

texts:
I would like to use my laptop as the syncing point for my iPhone, but I don't like having my music collection on the laptop. Is there a way I can sync my iPhone with my laptop and still be able to add music files to the iPhone while maintaining my music on the desktop?

I have a Macbook Air as laptop and a Mac mini as desktop. The Mac mini is my current sync point for both my iPhone and my music collection.

Can I share the music folder on the desktop via NFS and mount it on the laptop?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to allow opening unsigned pkg file?

texts:
I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts rather than the mouse. Is there a a way to define a keyboard shortcut equivalent to Right-Clicking a pkg file and choosing "Open", which warns about opening an unsigned package?

Note this is not the same as the regular File->Open, which simply rejects opening the package altogether.


texts: How to filter meeting invitations/updates into a separate folder in MS Outlook?

texts: I get a lot of meeting invites and would like to move them to a separate Outlook folder. How can I do this in Outlook 2016 for Mac?


texts: Folder action acts on files not specified in the workflow

texts:
I just started using Automator for the first time. My folder action gets two Finder items: say 'foobar1.pdf' and 'foobar2.pdf' files, and copies them to another folder.

It works but there is a side-effect: also the auxiliary files with the same name but different filename extensions (.aux .nav .snm .toc and .out) were also copied.

To solve that I created another folder action to send 'foobar1.aux', 'foobar1.nav' and so on to the Trash. But to test it, I did not add 'foobar2.aux', 'foobar2.nav' and so on. The new script works—the files are send to the Trash but now there is a beneficial side-affect: the auxilary files for 'foobar2' are also deleted even if they were not included in the workflow.

Is there a logical explanation for this behavior? Any way to avoid the side-effects?


texts: Remove last login message but keep motd in terminal?

texts:
Does anyone know a way to stop the "last login" message from showing up when I start up the terminal, but still have the MOTD show up?

I tried touch ~/.hushlogin, but that prevented both from showing.


texts: AppleScript used to download subtitle files

texts:
I'm trying to download over 1000 subtitle files for a list of films. I have the list in Microsoft Excel. I found an application called FlixTools that lets you search for a film and then download the subtitles for that film. So far, I have written the following AppleScript:

activate application "Microsoft Excel"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Microsoft Excel"
    keystroke "c" using command down
    key code 125
end tell
activate application "FlixTools"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "FlixTools" to keystroke "v" using command down
tell application "System Events" to tell process "FlixTools" to click button "Save Subtitle"

Running this code returns an error saying: "Can't get button "Save Subtitle" of process "FlixTools"".

The FlixTools window looks like this:

After clicking on the "Save Subtitle" button on the bottom right, a window appears to save the file:

I'm new to AppleScript, so any help on how to format achieve this would be appreciated.


texts: MacBook cannot connect to non-SSL websites

texts:
I have the late 2013 MBP 15″ with Retina and recently I've been unable to connect to websites not using SSL with either Firefox or Safari. This includes other applications that use HTTP such as the Twitter official app and the App Store.

These sites work fine using the Tor Browser Bundle, and other machines on my network seem to have no issues. This problem persists across other networks and ISPs (Tested with Verizon fios and Time Warner cable.)

If I attempt to traceroute an unencrypted site (for example, honda.com) it ceases to progress after hitting vlan38.dca2a-fdisa-sw2-msfc1.netsrv.digex.net (164.109.3.146)

Edit: Problem persists with both Root account and freshly created non-administrative user account.

Edit2: All proxy settings have been disabled, both in wireless settings and Firefox. Problem persists.


texts: Can't load OSX after installing Boot camp

texts: My bootcamp installation seems to have failed and I can't get back to OSX by holding option key on my wired keyboard for iMac at reboot. What else can I do? Please help.


texts: Unicode fonts not stacking correctly (especially Kokonor)

texts: Correctly formatted Tibetan text, when pasted into Word, especially using the Kokonor font, does not stack correctly. Is there a solution or workaround to this?


texts: How to enable "Click-to-play" in Google Chrome Version 43.0.2357.124 (64-bit)?

texts:
I run Google Chrome Version 43.0.2357.124 (64-bit) on OS X Yosemite.

I want to enable Click to play option, mainly because I would like to lower the power usage of Google Chrome and Google Chrome Helper processes.

However, I cannot find it under Settings > Content settings > Plugins and it should be there according to Why does Google Chrome Helper spike my CPU? and many other webpages.

Question:

Has Google decided to removed this particular Click to play feature from Chrome or for e.g. it has moved to some other section of the Settings?

One way or another, is it possible to enable Click to play option for plugins?


texts:
I'm having some problems with entering sleep and wakening, so I'm considering making a fresh installation of Mountain Lion. How can I make a fresh install of ML? I have Bootcamp partition which I'd like to remove also.

Also, what is the procedure for fresh Lion install?(maybe I'll try installing this OS because in Lion I didn't have this problem).

BTW - I have ML downloaded through Apple Store because I bought the new laptop and I'm entitled for upgrading.

Thanks


texts: Minimum Resources to Download / Install OSX on MacBook Air

texts:
Given a 2012 MacBook Air sold without an SSD, what would need to be on a replacement SSD to be installed in the MBA?  The goal is to have enough resources on the machine to download and install OSX?

For those providing answers, do not assume the reader has experience installing operating systems: please provide at least a reference (hyperlink) to the steps associated with your answer.  Thank you

Update: perhaps there is a method to place the OS install files on the replacement SSD (maybe it own partition is necessary), install and somehow prompt the install process?


texts:
I am trying to use su and sudo on my iMac that I did a fresh clean install of Mac OS X 10.9 and Server 3.0. I explicitly set the password for root with

passwd root

but when I try to use su or sudo from a local network account, it does not accept the password. When I was reading through some of the man pages for su, sudo and passwd, one of them (but I do not remember which) mentioned something about different behavior in an Open Directory environment. I tried digging around but could not find any more info.

Can anyone help me here?


texts:
Installing Linux on a Mac has always been complicated by the need for running rEFInd.

Yet Ubuntu's instructions for installing on a Mac mention Etcher (step 3), but do not mention rEFInd.

Can you confirm that to completely displace macOS and end up with a single-boot Mac running Ubuntu, these instructions are sufficient, and there is no need to run rEFInd?


texts: Customize touch bar button when using the browser?

texts:
Can I turn off the touch bar when I use the browser like Chrome or Safari?

Sometimes, I click the Reload button unknowingly when I fill the website form. This is a nightmare for me, especially for filling long questions.

I only found this article from official,
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207055#customize

But it doesn't mention how to customize setting except for default touch bar.

OSX: 10.14

Update

I want to get rid of the reload button like the following.


texts: How can I view the time of a text message in iOS 7?

texts:
In iOS 7, I've noticed that some SMS/MMS messages have a date and time stamp displayed above the message.  Although this is useful, not all text's in the list receive such a date and time stamp.

Is there a way that I can view the date and time for ever text message?


texts:
I am hoping someone can help me with a smart playlist creation question.

I have two smart playlists (A and B)

Playlist A contains songs that are
"singles" (meaning I don't have the
full album) and are not in playlist B
Playlist B contains songs in my
Library that are rated 5-stars

I would like to create playlist C that includes all songs for a specific genre in playlist A and B.

This sounds simple, but if an artist is in Playlist A and B, I can't get the songs in Playlist B to appear.


texts: How to recover deleted files from Iphone 4(iOS 4.3)

texts:
I hate itunes and so I usually use Windows7 to browse my Iphone4 and backup Videos and Photos. Yesterday I did just that.

I cut the videos and pasted on the D: drive. It ran out of space so I freed up some space and did cut and paste again. The result was 15 corrupted files and no files on the iphone.

I did this millions of times and it was always ok.

I've looked for recovering software but none seem to recognize the iphone.
I went to an apple store and the dude obviously told me that the proper way to backup files is using itunes. He also mentioned that "there are some products out there that could do that for you. You should google it".

Does anyone know an app that can recover deleted files from an Iphone?


texts:
I've bought a Lacie Porsche usb key two weeks ago and it used to work well but now I can't mount it on my MBP, it's not even detected by the system profiler... But it works well on a friend MBA or even worse, on a Windows computer...

My USB ports works well with other devices like HDD or some usb key of other brands. Any tips ?


texts: How do I set site restrictions on iPhone?

texts:
I would like to restrict some sites on my iPhone?

How it would be possible? (if it is)


texts:
I'm trying to configure some virtual hosts and I'm quite confused as to when this file is loaded.

At what point is /private/etc/hosts loaded? When logging in? At every DNS call? When Mac OS restarts?


texts: Is it possible to reduce the size of a chrome window further than normal?

texts:
I would like to be able to reduce the window size of a chrome window to make it easier to view a tiny video playback whilst using other tabs on a laptop.

At the moment, the minimum size takes up a lot of space on the screen. Is it possible to make it smaller, either through a tweak in Chrome or MacOS?


texts: How does the Put Back feature of the Trash work?

texts:
This question is really more for my fellow computer scientists: how does the Put Back feature of the Trash directory work? I'm guessing the OS maintains some sort of index file which stores the path to the current location of the file before moving it to the Trash? Of course, this would be a bit more nuanced with non-empty directories...

Everything that was returned in an admittedly brief Web search had to do with end-user interaction with the Trash. I would like to know how OS X is doing this "under the hood" so that I can emulate the same handling in a script that I am writing.


texts: Unable to connect to a website on some WiFi networks?

texts:
I'm unable to connect to nytimes.com as of now with these WiFi networks in my college: secure, secure High-speed(5-GHz) and Eduroam recently (All are one time Sign-on and show lock icon in WiFi list). I could do that last week and I have not changed anything in network settings.

The error is standard offline error in Safari “You’re not connected to Internet” and sometimes “Server unexpectedly dropped the connection”. However I'm able to access a lot of other websites at the same time. I have tried this and got the same condition in multiple buildings.

On network say "X" (doesn't show lock icon in WiFi but requires authentication), I can visit the website after logging into Fortinet popup.

After switching back to the aforementioned networks and typing the IP address instead of textual URL, I got an error which said something like unrecognised domain. and some cache info.

What can the reasons behind this and what can I do to solve this?

Edit: The said WiFi "X" is also an college network.


texts: CMD + W doesn't work anymore on macOS Mojave

texts:
After installing the .dotfiles on my new Macbook (Mojave) the keyboard combination CMD + W to close tabs or windows stopped working system wide.

I found out that when I press fn + CMD + W it works. But this is not my desired solution.

Any suggestions on how I can get CMD + W to close tabs or windows?


texts: Looking for Working Weather Dashboard Widget

texts:
So the weather widget apple includes with macOS no longer works. It's been broken for a while now, I suspect it's never coming back. Especially since it was powered by Yahoo. Also Apple's "dashboard widget" directory hasn't been updated in 10+ years. So that's useless.

I'm looking for a simple little widget that will give me current conditions and a 7+ day forecast. Nothing complicated. But it is really useful and it's a bummer not having it.


texts:
So I got this weird situation probably because of my own stupidity. But here goes: I am on Lion (10.7.3) and decided to install FaceTime from the App Store. When trying to install the App Store app says that I need to move current FaceTime.app to trash. When trying to do so the OS says that I cannot remove FaceTime app since it's required by OS. Being confused I open the terminal and go all sudo rm -fr on FaceTime.app. Getting back to App Store I try to install the FaceTime again, but this time I get message saying that MAS version of FaceTime is too old for my OS.

So basically my question boils down to - how do I get my FaceTime app back?


texts: Something prevents me from reaching no space left on iPod

texts:
I want to reach the disk space limit of my iPod touch to handle the 'no space left' condition in my app. In order to do that, I've been sending big files to fill the space of the disk.

I send the files with iTunes, but somehow the memory limit is never reached. It seems that everytime I try to reach the limit with these transfers, iTunes is automatically copying older files from my ipod to my macbook in order to create space for the new files. At least it seems so, but I'm not sure. Something else could be happening but I don't know what.

My iPod touch is on iOS 9.3.5 and I have the latest macbook pro.


texts: How I do permanently authorize an app on my mac?

texts: I use Clean My Mac to periodically clean out old log files and caches. Right before the clean, it asks me permission and I have to enter my password to authenticate. Is there any way I can authorize the app once and skip this step every time?


texts:
I've survived for two months or more without my MacBook Pro but I really miss a Windows app called Azuon.  With that, I'd set up a search in ten seconds, start it, and come back a half-hour later to find what would have taken me days with Kayak, SkyScanner, Adioso, Momondo, Matrix, Rome2Rio, etc.

I did a web search but the only hit was an Italian video that had "IOS" in the title but had a MacOS screen for the whole first minute.  I can read Italian, but I can't follow it as audio without the help of lip reading.

So, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to run Windows apps on IOS.  (Actually run them on IOS, not on a networked Windows host via RDP, Citrix, VNC, etc.)

I can't even try to port Wine myself, since I don't have anything to run XCode on.


texts: File has different owner if examined using `sudo`

texts: I have some files backed up on an external HD, and according to Finder they're all owned by my standard user account. According to Terminal, however, they're owned "unknown" if I look at them using sudo. If I don't use sudo they agree with Finder. I still seem to have normal access to them, but can anyone tell me what's going on here?


texts: WhatsApp chat history transfer different Apple ID

texts:
I lost my WhatsApp chat history from my phone, but discovered that it was backed up on another device. Both iPhones have different Apple IDs for iCloud, so I am unable to just restore it in-app.

Is there a way to move all of the chat history without changing the Apple IDs on both phones to be the same? How would I go about this?


texts: Still Need Internet Connection for Apple Music Offline?

texts:
Do I still need data to play Apple Music "offline"?

Currently, Apple Music's downloaded music stops playing after 10 minutes of no data/no wifi.


texts: My iPhone thinks it's always docked -- Volume slider disappeared with no audio output

texts:
EDIT3*

I managed to fix this problem in a risky way, but it worked for me. Read below.

Pin 11 apparently carries out the following function :

11   GND
If connected to GND the iPhone sends audio signals through pin 3-4
otherwise it uses onboard speaker.

Source

My iPhone is stuck at the function of using an onboard speaker (dock), and only produces sound when connected to a dock or a charging connector. Whenever I take it out, the phone mutes itself except for ringtones.

I am guessing that some switching mechanism is stuck at that setting. Does anyone know if there is a specific pin-like switch that needs to be adjusted to fix this ?

EDIT

I noticed that sound only plays when connected to the charging dock and powered on. Using the cable with no power OR without the dock mutes the phone. If I remove the iPhone from the dock while it's playing music, it continues for a few seconds and then mutes, the music player is still running on play, but with no audio output.

EDIT2

When trying to connect the AppleTV, I found the following evidence that shows how the iPhone thinks the dock is connected.

The iPhone was NOT docked at this time.


texts: How to see public IP address of outgoing internet traffic when connected via router?

texts: There is this nettop tool which shows the IP address but it doesn't show the public IP address when the Mac is connected via router - it shows the same address as we can see using System Preferences' Network option. Does anyone know how to see the public IP address of outgoing internet traffic leaving my computer?


texts: Can a Macbook dual boot Snow Leopard and Lion?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Dual Boot Lion / SL

My Macbook currently has Snow Leopard on it.  I'd like to try Lion as well, but is there a way to make it dual boot either one, perhaps using BootCamp?


texts:
I have someone who is not using their AT&T iPhone 3GS. They are willing to give it to me since they have a later model. How can I convert an AT&T iPhone 3GS to a Verizon iPhone 3GS?

What hardware changes need to be made?


texts: How to use LaunchPad and Mission Control on Mountain Lion with an external keyboard

texts:
I am using an external (generic) keyboard.

I just switched from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

On Snow Leopard, I could pull up Expose by pressing F2 on my external keyboard, but now I can't.

Is there a FN key (or a way to enable the right FN key) to show "Mission Control"?


texts: How to find file system of external hard drive?

texts:
I have plugged external hard drive. It does not show in Normal Mode. I can see its Type Name and Identifier thru terminal.

I want to find the file system of the external hard drive.
I want to format the disk.


texts:
Old discussion about this topic for OSX Lion here.
However, I think there is no good answer to this topic, since pgfplots is not already installed so not only a .sty file problem, like Alan writes there.

I am trying to run this script here but get the error about the missing pgfplots, after the generation of the Liste.dat:

I run ls /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/scripts/pgfplots/ and get

matlab2pgfplots.m   pgf2pdf.sh  matlab2pgfplots.sh  pgfplots.py.

This suggests me that have the command but the error is internal in pgfplots.

I reinstall the system and run the command sudo tlmgr install --reinstall pgfplots but I get the some error message as above.

How can you install pgfplots in OSX Yosemite?


texts: I searched a way to upgrade my jailbreak iphone 4 with 7.1.2 iOS to 8 or later iOS, but none of them work (one proposed "solution" is to download ifile and change the name of the iOS; this is a bad joke). On this forum there are similar question, but they are too old for this reason I decided to ask this question.


texts: What is this "System software from developers" security feature called and where can I find the technical details for how it works with applications (like AVG)? I believe this is a kernel extension, but how exactly does it work?


texts: Connecting macbook pro (2019) to Samsung monitor turns both laptop and external monitor screen black

texts:
I tried to connect a Samsung monitor (SyncMaster 226BW) to my Macbook Pro (2019). At first it seemed to work for a few seconds, but now every time I plug it in both the laptop screen and the external monitor screen go black. Sometimes the laptop blinks for a second or so. Its driving me crazy! What can it be?
I connect my laptop with a new VGA dongle to a new VGA cable (checked with another cable too).. I can't do anything in settings on my mac, because every time I plug in it turns black (it doens't turn black when it's only connected to the cables and not the monitor).
Someone else knows this problem? I searched quite a lot but couldn't find the answer. Thanks a lot! :)


texts: Mount HFS+ filesystem with disable read and write caches

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I've got the HFS+ filesystem represented by .dmg image file. For security reasons I'd like to make sure every I/O applies directly to the .dmg file and not through any kind of memory in the middle.

Is there any way to cancel the option for read and write caching while mounting the filesystem?

During my research (source:  Apple Developer) about this I discovered that HFS+ hears contain attributes field, which refer to volume attributes. One of its containing bits is named kHFSVolumeNoCacheRequiredBit and this bit is set if the blocks from this volume should not be cached, which is pretty much what I need.

Any idea how to configure this volume properly (command-line, application, API, etc .. )?


texts: Is there a way to click windows fileshare links in macos?

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My company (like many others) primarily uses Windows computers and as such has a lot of Windows-based fileshares. We have also standardized which fileshares map to which lettered drives on those PCs, so everyone has the same "F" drive.

I know that I can use the "connect to server" functionality using the smb: protocol to connect to them. However, a lot of our intranet websites and emails have links that just point to "F:/docs/some/files". When I am using my mac I can't click on those links because Macos doesn't know how to handle them.

Is there some way to configure Macos, or some app I can install, which will automatically handle those links and map them to the appropriate smb: path?


texts: MacBook Pro with lid closed goes back to sleep right after scheduled wakeup

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I'm trying to run an app from crontab at 3 in the morning. My 2010 MacBook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.5 is usually turned off at this time of the night, so I'm setting Energy Saver's scheduled wake up at 2.59 and then scheduled sleep at 3.02. But the cron job still doesn't run, because my computer goes back to sleep roughly 20 seconds after being woken up by the wake scheduler.

The reason is obviously the lid being closed. Is there any way around it to preserve the lid-sleep functionality but to wait a couple of minutes before going right back to sleep so that the cron job has time to run?

I know cron is deprecated but I'm not looking for solutions with launchd and anachron and such, if it's possible to solve without these.

Also it would be nice to have a solution that works for OS X Mavericks as well because I'm going to upgrade soon.

If there's an app for this with a proper GUI that's what I'd prefer. Any ideas on how I can resolve this?


texts: What is Photos doing when it says "Updating"?

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My photos app says it's "Updating". It has left my machine almost unresponsive for several hours now with iStats reporting 50-70% CPU usage and SSD usage at about 50 MB/s. I installed Photos several weeks ago and haven't added more than a couple photos recently. Although when I installed it originally (by upgrading Mac OS), it did spend an incredible amount of resources as well. My photo library consists of 7600 photos and 325 videos that I loaded in from an iPhoto library. There is no significant network traffic going on.

Is there any way for me to find out what exactly the Photos app is doing? Maybe if I could get some insight into it or perhaps control how and when it does its thing I might be able to understand it better.

Update:

Hmm... I have a theory now. Maybe this text from preferences is a hint:

  Optimize Mac Storage

  Store full-resolution photos and videos in the
  iCloud. Originals will also be stored on this Mac if you have enough
  space.

Maybe the app has decided that I have "enough space" (I now have 7 GB free out of 256 GB). Certainly the Photos Library folder/file has been growing during the process. The question remains though. Are there any way to gain insight into the workings of the Photos app?


texts: How can I stop spaces from switching automatically?

texts: I will often use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 to switch to another space when a program is busy / unresponsive. Very often, without warning or apparent reason, Spaces will switch back to the first space without my requesting it to do so. Why does it do this and how can i stop it? How can I make spaces only switch in response to my requests?


texts: Java 8u45 installation unable to locate a Java runtime to invoke

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I've downloaded and installed Java JDK 8u45 for OS X 10.10.1 and after the installation has completed (successfully), java -version produces the following:

  Unable to locate a Java Runtime to invoke.

Is this an installation bug with this particular version, or have I forgotten to do something?

me@my-laptop$ /usr/libexec/java_home -V
Matching Java Virtual Machines (0):

Default Java Virtual Machines (1):
    1.8.0_45, x86_64:   "Java SE 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home


texts: What software can play FLAC files and has basic playlist support?

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What are options to play FLAC files and have playlists on OSX? I've not seen a way to make iTunes play them natively, songbird looks terrible with retina display and same goes for clementine.

I just switched to osx from linux and I was hoping I wouldnt have to go back to CMUS.


texts: I want to test an iphone app on my windows laptop

texts: I want to do manual testing of an iPhone app on my Windows laptop. Is there any tool or simulator. How can I install the build on that simulator?


texts: Touch bar and/or Catalina seems to make the keyboard unresponsive

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I have a MacBook Pro 15-inch 2019.  In various apps, the keyboard seems to be unresponsive, but I’m not sure why.  In other apps (like Slack, for example), the keyboard works perfectly.  I think it’s got something to do w/ the touch bar?  When I use a docking-adapter, and connect an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor, I’m able to type on it fine; no matter which app I’m in.  Is this a known issue?  Also, I upgraded to Catalina about a week ago, so I'm wondering if that's an issue as well?

Note - I was only able to type this by typing in Slack, and then pasting into the Question field; I couldn’t type directly into the field on the Ask Different website.


texts: How to synchronize QuickTime video playback with 3 different Macs?

texts: Do you know a method to play three (QuickTime) videos in sync on three different machines? At least I would trigger the space bar to start them in sync.


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How can I create a bundle of HTML/CSS/JS/Image files that can be double-clicked to bring up a web browser? Ideally I would like to be able to use an icon on the file as well.

Is there a plugin for Chrome or Firefox that I could use to save page as a bundle?


texts: Send args to Firefox when launching from terminal

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Additional arguments on start of Google Chrome from Terminal app are send in a following way:

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app   --args -myArgs="ARGS"

What is the syntax to sending arguments to Firefox?

Tried the obvious:

open /Applications/Firefox.app   --args -myArgs="ARGS"

This runs the Firefox, but the args are not set.


texts: What are ios simulator alternatives if I don't have 60 GB free space on my Mac?

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I'm running a MacBook Pro (Big Sur OS) with the following disk space ...
$ df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5s1  234G   15G   26G  36% /

According to this, Xcode free space requirement, I would only be able to install the latest version of XCode if I had over 60 GB of free space.  I don't even have that much disk space on my machine and was wondering if there is a free alternative for my Mac where I could simulate running a web site on iOS.


texts: How to fix mail to particular contacts not appearing in Sent folder?

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On Mountain Lion's Mail, I am having a problem with the messages I send to a particular coworker from my work account not appearing in the Sent mailbox.

The messages are going through. (I got her to Fwd: the important one back to me.)
Messages I sent to my other accounts, even from that account, are correctly appearing in Sent.
Messages I send from another address (even using the same SMTP server) are appearing in Sent.

Things I've tried so far:

Connection Doctor. It shows no issues.
Deleting + recreating the account.
Rebuilding the mailbox.
I'm familiar with Use This Mailbox For > and it is not a factor here.

Any ideas?


texts: Create a contact in people in Outlook 2016

texts: In Mail for Mac I can create a contact directly from an email message. In Outlook 2016 for Mac how can I do that as well? Seems like email has made more advances that Outlook has.


texts: How to fix iCloud Outlook calendar pasting?

texts: I have a client that has Outlook 2007 on Windows 7. He's unable to right click and paste into the notes section of an appointment (the contextual menu doesn't even appear). I've seen other people having this issue on the Apple support forums and the Microsoft support forums, but no one has posted a resolution. Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts:
Is it possible to integrate Growl into iCal so that invitations made by other users are shown by Growl especially those which are pending?

Alternatives to show iCal notifications are also welcome!


texts: Is it possible to automatically configure multiple iPads with the same settings?

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I need to configure a bunch of iPads with the same settings. For instance, volume level, auto-lock, side-button, timezone and light level.

Currently I'm doing this manually on each iPad through the Settings app in the device. This is both tedious and error-prone...

I'm thinking it should be possible to create a master settings file or image file (or something) with the correct settings which could then be loaded on to each device.

Is that possible?

Background: We need deliver iPads preconfigured with our "kiosk" app for customers to place in their office/retail locations. For instance, disabling auto-lock is crucial here. Currently I have some 20-30 iPads that needs to be configured the same way.


texts: Search Spotlight for a file of specific type between two dates

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I've had a hard time tracking down a way to search for documents of a specific type between two dates in Spotlight. Maybe it's not possible? I'd like to be able to type something like this in Spotlight:

kind:pages modified:>151120&<=151126

Which would then return Pages documents modified between November 21st and 26th, 2015. I've tried various date formats and searching for (Spotlight) alternatives, but no luck yet.


texts: Recoverability with HFS Plus following removal of a disk from RAID 0 hardware or software

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A theoretical question (I do not have spare hardware to test for this).

Scenarios

If RAID 0 is used (no redundancy of data) with HFS Plus, and if a disk within the array is disconnected for a while whilst the file system is mounted by OS X, then I assume that:

the OS will at least present a red alert for an improper eject
worse behaviours may occur.

I'm not particularly interested in the behaviours of the Mac around the time of disconnection. Most interested in the aftermath …

Logically, I guess: switch off all hardware, replace the missing part of the RAID 0 array (reintroduce the missing disk) then restart the Mac.

The question

How likely is it that the end user – the person who found or made the disconnection of the disk – might recover data in the following situations?

Where the RAID 0 is software-controlled (for example, created by Apple Disk Utility)
where the RAID 0 is hardware-controlled.

I imagine that the end user would find recovery difficult or impossible; that the RAID-specific expert services of a company might be required.

Whilst the question is theoretical, I will greatly appreciate any experience-based answers.


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I've recently discovered AppleScript. AppleScript affords a simple, natural way to programmatically simulate keyboard-and-mouse interaction with Mac applications. AppleScript is great, however it suffers from the following problems:

The latest stable release is from 2014, and last year the AppleScript product manager was laid off and his position was eliminated.
The official documentation has not been updated since January 2016, and all of the tutorial and reference books that are dedicated to AppleScript date no later than 2010 (with the exception of this one, which seems to be a copy-and-paste of some stackexchange Q&A with the AppleScript tag).
Script Editor, the built-in AppleScript development environment, has no debugging capabilities. There seems to be just one commercial IDE for AppleScript*. It looks amazing and has all the debugging features that one would expect from a modern IDE, but it costs $100, which would be too expensive for my pocket even if Apple did not seem to be phasing out this programming language (see bullet point #1).

Are there any alternatives to AppleScript? Is there an actively developed and supported programming language with a good, cheap IDE, and good, up-to-date documentation, that makes it possible to simulate keyboard-and-mouse interaction with Mac applications in a quick and easy way? Something, maybe, like the Apple counterpart for Microsoft's VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) for their Office suite on Windows?

* It appears there's another third-party AppleScript IDE: Smile. Unlike Script Editor, Smile is free of charge.


texts: How to contact Apple about connection issue on bugreport.apple.com?

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I have been trying to log into their bug reporter system (bugreport.apple.com) for about a month.

Every time I log in, I get redirected to an error page, which tell me to report the problem. The thing is, I have reported the problem through the email-address they provided in the error page and also through the "Report Login Issue"-link at the login page.

I have only received an automated message, which tell me they received the message and I haven't got any other update (and I still can't log in).

I have waited almost a month, what should I do?

Here's a screenshot of the error I get when I log in:


texts: Intermittent stuttering after upgrade to OS X 10.9.4 from 10.9.3

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MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013.

OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

After the update from 10.9.3 to 10.9.4 my cursor/keyboard inputs stutter every ~5 seconds for about a second after my computer awakes from a sleep.

The problem goes away after I restart my computer twice (about 90% of the time, about 10% of the time one restart works).

The problem always returns after the computer awakes from a sleep.

This only occurs when I am using a USB - Ethernet dongle (Cisco Linksys Model No. USB 300M) to connect to the internet and when I have wifi sharing on. (In this given office I use the dongle to connect to the internet then my laptop acts as a wifi access point for other computers / phones)

I am not 100% certain that wifi sharing needs to be on to reproduce the problem.

I get no output in the console associated with the stuttering.

Has anyone experienced this problem / found a solution?

From the patch notes:

  Fixes an issue that prevented some Macs from automatically connecting to known Wi-Fi networks

I'm curious if something related to this caused the issue.

Update: Not the dongle?

I'm beginning to think the problem is associated with manually assigning my IPv4 settings (IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router) and DNS Servers.

Every time I used the USB Dongle I was manually configuring the above settings.  I discontinued use of the USB dongle and attached to a wireless router using the same manually configured settings and I'm experiencing the same stuttering at the same time as I was when I was using the dongle.


texts: I'm looking for a simple application that password-protects selected applications. Can anyone help please? Just bought an Apple device after several years using Android.


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On Windows, you can drag and drop the file using right mouse button, and choose Copy or Move. Moving a file is a very basic computing need.

I cannot find any way to do that on OS X without using the keyboard. Is it possible to move files using mouse only?


texts: Automator Start Capture action doesn't detect stop in Quicktime in OS X 10.8.2

texts: I am attempting to create an Automator application that will launch Quicktime, create a new audio capture, start that capture, and then save it with a specific filename after the stop button is clicked in the capture window. Although I was able to do this in Lion without any difficulty, I keep running into problems with the Start Capture action in Mountain Lion. Even though the "Wait for capture to complete" checkbox is checked, the action doesn't seem to detect when the stop button is clicked in Quicktime. Any solutions, tricks, or workarounds that would get this working properly would be greatly appreciated!


texts: WhatsApp notification on iPhone lock screen shows contact name instead of nickname

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Whenever I get a WhatsApp message with my iPhone locked, I can't see sender's nickname as set by them in their WhatsApp profile. I used to see it previously, but now I see the name which I have saved the contact with in my Contacts list. I would like to get back the ability to see nickname instead of contact name. I don't want to delete the name in my contact list I just want it to be like it was previously.

How can I do this?


texts: Mac Terminal "find" command : What does a double slash in the result output mean?

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I use the find-command for searching in large and nested directory-structures.

In the result-output is sometimes a double-slash ( // ) included.

Example (after "Downloads"):

#> find ~/Downloads/ -iregex ".*some.*"
/Users/michael/Downloads//subDirectory/some_file.pdf

I first thought it would mark the current working-directory. But that isn't the case.

What's the meaning of this double-slash?

Usually I copy the result into the clipboard, change to the finder. Then
"shift" + "command" + "g" and pasting the path (until the file) into the box. So that the containing directory is opened.

Works fine. But the double-slash I have to remove manually.

Therefore: How can I avoid it?


texts: Reinstalling clean system on faulty hardware? Suggestions

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I have a faulty MBP 17' Late 2009.
I can sell it for spares & repairs on ebay for quite a lot as I've found but it has a lot of sensitive data on it and I'd like to return it to a base system.

The problem is that there's a problem with the heatsync and it will switch off without warning if it gets too hot.

What would be the safest method of doing clean install. I have no means of connecting the internal drive to another machine.

Thanks very much.


texts: i went to use my macbook pro and it appeared with a blinking question mark i got past that page to the OS X Utilities but how do i reboot it without losing everything i have? I don't have a disc or a time machine backup.


texts: Fixing "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition" error on a fresh Mac OS installation

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I've been working on this problem for over 10 hours. First of all, I installed Mojave using the Mojave patcher on an older MacBook (The model number is A1278. It's a 2011 Macbook Pro) I completely erased my disk before installing Mojave. Here is the output of diskutil list:

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Local Disk              999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Local Disk             +999.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 17B0E440-563B-4759-B442-CC8FE78F58DB
                                 Unencrypted

and sudo gpt -r show disk0:

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1951845952      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1952255592     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1953525128           7
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Why am I still getting this error when I run boot camp assistant? I've already followed a guide that involved deleting any hidden Microsoft files in the EFI EFI partition. But I don't think it really did anything because as I said, I completely erased this disk before installing Mojave. I'm at a complete loss here, and I'm desperate for help.

EDIT: I know this question has been asked before, but from what I can tell, no one has had this exact problem. On the posts I see involving this problem you can clearly see Microsoft partitions in the diskutil list. I have no visible Microsoft partitions. I performed a clean install. So I'm at a loss for why I keep getting the error.

I used GPARTED to format the SSD and then reinstalled using the macOS Mojave Patcher ( http://dosdude1.com/mojave/#additional_info ), and I still have the same problem. I don't know what else to do.


texts: SafariBookmarksSyncAgent going nuts - filling hard drive space with log messages

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How to turn off SafariBookmarksSyncAgent forever?

I have noticed my MacBooks pro hdd suddenly showing out of free space notifications (I have a bit more than 30Gb of free space) and after a while this space frees up again.

Activity monitor shows that SafariBookmarksSyncAgent is using around 90% of CPU and Console shows heaps of error messages with text "SandboxViolation: SafariBookmarksS(2819) deny(1) file-read-data ~/Library/Safari-home/lock" and "FileLocker: No lock info supplied; lock is invalid" being logged. Ok, there is something wrong with Safari and I can not figure it out (I tried to give full access right to all Safari files to "everyone") and there is "Lock" directory in Safari which is recreated every time I delete it.

I have unchecked Safari syncing in iCloud preferences - apparently iCloud is trying to sync Safaris bookmarks across all my devices.

I have been trying to deal with this problem for a month but it keeps returning.


texts: How do I run an app using launchd at regular intervals?

texts: I have an app which is written in AppleScripting language which checks if the S.M.A.R.T. status is 'Verified' if it is not then it will automatically show me a dialog alert. But I need it to run every 30 minutes. I used cron before but it never works with .app extension. So how can I accomplish running the app at regular intervals using launchd?


texts: Where to find logs for hardware-related shutdowns in OS X 10.11?

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I have a 2009 Mac Mini running OS X 10.11.6 set up as home theater. Its fan has been quite noisy for a while, but it has still worked fine... until a couple of days ago, when I found out that it had shut down on its own. I turned the Mac again, the fan started making noise... and a few hours later it also shut down on its own (I don't know what message or pop-up it showed, because I have it plugged into my TV, and I didn't have it turned on).

My theory is that the fan couldn't cool the system well enough, so the CPU temp rose so much that OS X shut the computer down on its own, but when I turned it on today and looked on /var/log/system.log, I couldn't find any message related to that, nor in any of the other log files available at the Console app.

Where would OS X store logs of such a thing happening, if any?


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A week ago my Mac stopped booting. It goes till 99-100% and stops. Booting in safe mode does not help.
I brought my Mac to restore it. They have reinstalled my OS and restored my files. It was working fine at this point.

But, I need all the programs that are there installed and I have restored everything from a backup and got the same problem.

Any ideas what it can cause and what I can do against it?

MacBook Pro late 2013, macOS 10.12.6


texts: In Mountain Lion how do I set, in one place, the PATH environment variable for all newly launched applications?

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On Ask Different there are many questions regarding the PATH environment variable and how to set it for applications launched by a shell, by spotlight or via the finder (typical questions: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications or How to change PATH environment variable...).

Answers range from sh startup scripts to /etc/paths to /etc/launchd.conf. Here I am after the answer for a unified setting of PATH for all apps under Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.


texts: Is it possible to connect a microphone to an iPhone/iPad via WiFi and use it instead of the built in one?

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It is possible to connect a microphone to an iPhone/iPad using bluetooth, BUT would it be possible to achieve the same kind of connection with a microphone but over a WiFi network?

To explain: I have a microphone that is connected to an router via WiFi, would it be possible in some way to connect the iPhone/iPad to this microphone and use it instead of the built in microphone?


texts: Does the Apple HomePod speaker system support additional functionality through third-party apps? For example, will I be able to stream services such as SomaFM through a HomePod unit?


texts: Can I tell iTerm 2 to change color when I'm root

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I would like to tell iTerm2 to have red text whenever I'm root when logged into a server.
Note:
I'm not able to change any configuration on the remote server.


texts: What would happen if I put an iPad sim card in my iPhone

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Can I put a data only, no voice or text sim card in an iPhone.

I'm keen to get 4g but I've found the cheapest monthly plan for a nano sim is  £33 for 3GB. This included unlimited text(SMS) and unlimited voice calls.

I make almost no calls, and few text messages.

I was looking at what plans were available for the ipad mini (nano-sim too) and noticed it was half the price: £15.99 for 3GB. Pretty big difference.

Has anyone tried an iPad only sim in an iPhone?

I'd use iMessage, FaceTime & skype to get round the lack of voice and text, and keep my old iphone 4 as a backup with a PAYG sim.

Notes:

iPad mini wifi - so I intend to tether
iPhone 5s(when it arrives)
new 4g networks are coming in December so I don't se the point in locking myself into a 12 month plan, when the price is likely to drop.


texts: Dealing with macos Versions feature and file syncing services

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Full disclosure: I'm yet to come to terms with the Versions feature and that saving ain't saving anymore. I've had no shortage of dramas losing work and losing track of files since the feature was introduced, so maybe "I'm Doing It Wrong"TM.

The latest drama comes about when using file syncing applications. In my case, Box. I have a regular workflow that looks like this:

Open a file stored in my Box Sync folder on one computer, do some work, save it.
Open the newly synced file on a different computer, do some work, save it.
Return to the original computer, where the file is still open...

At this point I'm faced with a challenge. The open file doesn't have the changes from the other computer, which is normal - I haven't re-opened it from disk. However, there is no longer any way to close the file without saving the current contents! I can either close and revert (which replaces the file on disk with the last saved version on that computer) or I can close and save (which replaces the file on disk with the current version on that computer). Either way, I lose the changes I made on the other computer.

The best workaround I've come up with is to force quit the application (which is risky), or to duplicate the open file in Finder, close the open file (choosing revert or save - it doesn't matter), delete the just-closed file and open the duplicated file instead.

Pretty convoluted right?

It gets worse when I'm sharing my Box folder with a second person - in that case I need to be mighty sure to close the file after every editing session, or risk overwriting the other person's changes.

Is there any way to rescue some sanity before macos descends completely into iOS-banality?


texts: Why can my iMac see my Macbook pro with 2 different icons on the network sharing? (as if it were 2 devices)

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I recently noticed that my iMac lists my macbook pro with 2 different icons (the normal laptop one and a generic pc one)

I am worried this means i have a server running on the background or some other possible security issue.

I disabled file sharing completely (SMB and AFP) and they both disappeared, but im still worried this might happen at some other time without my knowledge thus being a security issue.


texts: Is there a way to adjust drag'n'drop release pressure on Force Touchpad?

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I recently switched from 2013 MBP with physical touchpad to new M1 Macbook and it has very annoying drag'n'drop behaviour.
If you click without moving your finger it behaves as expected - once you release finger pressure below certain value (adjustable in System Preferences) it de-clicks, but if you move finger after pressing touchpad (when you drag'n'drop or select text) you need to lift finger a lot of more, almost have to let it off from surface. It creates very bad experience, very often it does not release when I feel it should (because I'm below threshold for normal click) and object I was dragging lands in a different spot then I expected. It makes using apps based around drag'n'drop like Logic Pro borderline unusable on touchpad.
I know that I can enable 3 finger drag in Accessibility and I also know that you can click with one finger and move cursor with second one. I'm looking for more permanent solution, I'm fine with fiddling in Terminal or installing shady 3rd party apps.


texts: iPad how to make the side bar disappear temporarily?

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How to make the sidebar disappear temporarily?
I am trying to play a game on my iPad but the sidebar is in the way.  I don’t want to delete the sidebar permanently because I use it quite often during the day.


texts: Editor or notes application with Markdown support?

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Are there any editors or notes applications out there that support Markdown?

I am often having to make notes or documents where markdown formatting would be ideal, and have gotten into the habit of using markdown on a daily basis.


texts: How to show progressbar in App store during installation?

texts: I try to install Xcode through App store. As I found, it can take a long time (hours) while it is fully installed. Is it possible to display progressbar, how much time (estimately) is remaining to finish installation? Or at least a progress bar, that shows, how much percent of size was downloaded / installed?


texts: Music in Catalina doesn’t remember window size

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Each time I open the Music app in macOS Catalina (10.15.1), the window size is set to maximum. I then have to rescale it down to fit my use case. But after it’s been quit and reopened, it is again huge. I find it silly to use Music at its biggest size on a 27” screen!

Am I alone in this? If so, are there any steps I can take to fix this?


texts: Do AirPods charge batteries with Qi now?

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The Apple page about "Wireless Charging" talks about Apple's new AirPower mat due in 2018 working with iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Elsewhere it talks about standard Qi charging technology being used.

Does that mean today’s AirPods charge with any Qi-compliant charging pad?


texts: How to use the new iPad (3rd gen) as a second screen?

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I carry my iPad everywhere, and now that I've got the new one with the high resolution display, I'd like to use it as a second monitor for my Macbook Pro.  It would be great if I could occasionally use it as a second display for my various windows computers as well, but primarily the Mac.

I'm not terribly interested in using the touchscreen or moving the audio - in other words I don't need to control the computer with the iPad.  I just want to extend the desktop with the retina display and give myself a ton more space with a tiny monitor.

What iPad secondary monitor apps support the high resolution retina display?

If there are several, preference would be given to the one that uses the least network bandwidth, if known.  I won't be watching videos, but when I'm just showing a static image on the iPad (such as a document) I don't want it using 20% of my wireless network.


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I have a script that creates previous week's folders with the week number in the name. Here's how I'm getting the value of the current week number and assigning the previous week's number.

WEEKNBR=$(date +"%V")
PREVWK=$((WEEKNBR-1))

The value of WEEKNBR is in a two digit form eg. "Week05" but the PREVWK would be "WEEK4".
How would  go about subtracting 1 from WEEKNBR and have the result be preceded by 0 when applicable?


texts: What SIP voip client for OS X I could use?

texts: I'm looking for a, preferably free, SIP client for OS X, one that will allow multiple SIP accounts and preferably supporting g729 audio codec.


texts: how to install mac OS (Sierra) from USB drive, I am out of options

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I have been fighting with this problem for some days now and I gave up solving it looking for a solution on google.

I have a Macbook Air (late 2010) which had Lion. My gf wanted to pass it on to her cousin, so she cleaned everything, but she was not able to complete the reset for various reasons.. internet not working for password issues and so on.

Now I took over and tried almost everything..
Command + R sends me to internet recovery, to which I also have to "open" my wifi network, since the Mac does not recognize my password for whatever reason.
Once I am in, I tried to reinstall Lion following the instructions, but it ends up asking me an Apple ID, which I created, only to end up telling me I am not allowed to download the OS because my Apple ID was never used to purchase anything on the App store yet.
Important here maybe is also to say that my girlfriend does not want to use her Apple ID, since she wants to pass it on without her credentials. I am not even sure if she ever purchased anything with her ID as well, since she got the computer from her father, sigh..

So I looked for other options, the bootable USB came next, so I downloaded Sierra from Apple on my pc (funny enough no Apple ID was asked) and I downloaded TransMAC to create a bootable USB drive for Mac.
Then I went on to insert the USB and start the Mac holding down the Option/Alt button, but unfortunately it would not give me the option to start from USB, not even asking anything actually.
So I am brought back to internet recovery, which does something for some minutes, I suppose, and then takes me back to disk utility.

There I tried to restore the USB stick on the hard disk, but I always get "source is busy" when trying that, although I erased my hard disk and followed the instructions I found for that. Somehow I managed to extract the OS .dmg file on the free space on the USB stick (which is 32 gb), but again I am not able to restore it on the hard disk or anything.
On top of that, every time I try to restore/use the image, then the source is not available anymore (semi transparent) and I am forced to restart the whole process, it's either source is busy or another message I can not recall at the moment.

Terminal.. I found the string of command I should write in order to launch the install of Sierra from Terminal, but somehow my session starts with a weird -bash-3.2# prompt and sudo is not recognized as a known command. I guess I am not in the root there, or not sure where the problem is.

I shall also make clear that I am no Mac user and my system administrator memories are 10 years old and obviously need a deep refresh.

So, please, what can I try or where did I do wrong?
I am not too solid on the bootable USB creation and why the Mac would not even consider my start + option button held, but transMAC tells me the USB is ready for mac.

Thanks a lot for your help and sorry for the long explanation, but I wanted to to cut out most of the otions I already went through following this forum in the last few days ;)


texts: What is different between itms vs itms-apps when opening url from device

texts: I've an app in appstore and when it has an update the link was given in the format itms://itunes.com/apps/[AppName] Now I've recently uploaded a new version of my app and from the older app when I click the update link it takes us to store but doesnt give option to update. It gives a button saying open, I have to then take the store option again for download then it comes with the update option. So, I changed the link format to itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/[AppName]/[AppId] and this time when I clicked on the link it opened up correctly giving me option to update. Was this a new update in the format? What was the difference between opening link between these two formats?


texts: How to enable Flash Player plugin for Safari in macOS Catalina?

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The problem is when I'm watching any video that uses flash player, it is showing abnormal behaviour. I'm confused whether it is using flash player or not.

Any ideas on how to check whether Safari is using flash player or not.

How to enable flash player plugin in Safari ?


texts: How can I mount a Time Machine sparsebundle so I can modify it?

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TL;DR: I have a Time Machine backup that I want to modify before running Migration Assistant, but when I try to delete a directory from it either with rm or unlink I get "operation not permitted". How can I mount it so I can make a change?

The reason I'm at this point:
Upgrading my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks went so badly that I eventually booted from a USB key, reformatted my hard drive, and re-installed.

I have a Time Machine backup on a 3TB AirPort Time Capsule, but restoration was painfully slow (even over a wired network) so I gave up that as well.

I copied the sparsebundle for the machine I'm trying to restore to an external FW800 disk and plugged it into my iMac. Started Migration Assistant, then ssh'd in and mounted the sparsebundle. At that point I was able to select it in Migration Assistant, select the account I want to restore, and begin the process. This took another ~20 hours before showing me the progress bar for ~30 minutes of copying.

During the 20 hours I was able to run some dtraces over the ssh connection and ascertain that most of the time was spent picking through the files in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems. I want to run Migration Assistant again to restore my applications - I figure it will be quicker than re-installing / re-licensing everything. In order to hopefully eliminate most of the 20 hour wait, I want to remove the gems directory before running MA.

I (think I) know how hard linked directories work in TM backups. /Library has a different inode in the "Latest" backup, compared to the previous timestamp. /Library/Ruby has the same inode in both. Therefore I'd be content with just unlinking /Library/Ruby in Latest.

bash-3.2# pwd
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/numberwang/2013-10-23-192429/Macintosh HD/Library
bash-3.2# ~/hardlink -u Ruby
hardlink: Operation not permitted
bash-3.2# mv Ruby old.Ruby
mv: rename Ruby to old.Ruby: Operation not permitted


texts: Force Preview to open all selected images in one window

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Before mavericks, selecting several images in Finder and choosing Open on them would open them in Preview in one window, with all image thumbnails nicely on the left hand side bar.
Since Mavericks, this is no longer the case. Sometimes the selected images all appear in one window, sometimes Preview arbitrarily open some images in one window and other images in another window...
How can I force Preview to open all in one again?


texts: iTerm2 applies strange color to vim's default

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When I updated my iTerm2 recently in November (the main release, not nightly-build), colors are rendered strange. Fortunately, I restored old iTerm2 in the trash can, and made a comparison.

In each of the four pictures, the left penal is a tex file, the right a cpp file, and the terminal's theme is always Tango dark, with no additional alteration.
In such order, they are: October iTerm2 with "default" color of vim's; October iTerm2 with "koehler" color of vim's; November iTerm2 with "default" color of vim's; November iTerm2 with "koehler" color of vim's.

Compared with the 1st picture, I am sure the 3rd picture has something wrong, but the 2nd and 4th are similar.
So it seems the "default" scheme of vim is rendered incorrectly, and I found that it is not the only color scheme affected, like "desert" is also different, but I am not going to post so many pictures here for sake of space.

So, is it true that iTerm2 makes some mistake in interpreting vim's color settings? If it doesn't, why is 1st and 3rd pictures so different, and what's wrong?
If it does, is there some way to make iTerm2 apply correct color for "default" in the old manner, since I like it (1st picture, right panel).
You might think me fussy, but I use vim in iTerm2 every day.
Or the best advice for me is that I never shall update and stick to old iTerm2 from now on?


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It seems like there is no simple solution to providing my beta iOS app to people outside of physical contact.  The ways that I have found to do this WITHOUT using the App Store (which Apple explicitly says is not for Beta testing) are:

Use Developer Enterprise Program; Expensive and Excessive
Use TestFlight; Only up to a measly 25 "Internal" Testers allowed before extreme Guidelines put in place for more people (Why not just put it on App Store at this point...?)
Give them my whole Xcode project and have the user build it in their own Xcode environment; Impossible to ask of non-tech-savvy people + I do not want to give my project to people outside my company
Ad-Hoc Development; Make everyone give me their UDIDs...Huge hassle for others/ People might not want to do it outside my company

The app I am developing is going to be used by people in the scientific community to control a specific device that my company is making.  There's a chance that it might never be up to Apple's standards for apps on the App Store, but could be used by more than 100 people in the near-distant future.  I guess the real question I am asking is: How do I get my "sub-par" beta app to a large group of people?


texts: Is there a good way to distribute WPA2 keys within the 'enterprise'

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Due to this whole cloud thing, we've started to end up with more and more macs within our enterprise network. And, like most enterprises, we've got an internal wireless network that we'd rather not distribute the password to. Currently we've got techs visiting people and entering their wifi keys, but we'd like to be able to send folks a file they can import. Is there some tool natively in OSX that handles this? Or some 3rd party package we can use?

If you are familiar with Lenovo Access Connections and the key files one can send about for that, we are looking for a macbook version of that.

Clairifications:

MAC address cloning is not an option. Outside of it being sham security, we've got an existing ecosystem using the current WPA2-PSK scheme and we don't want to break that. The question isn't how we can re-architect our wireless security to fit a few outliers, it is how can we include the outliers in the current scheme.


texts: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' with HTML + shell script

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I've been learning the shell with a great tutorial, linuxcommand.org. After a lot of learning and practice with navigating directories, editing files, etc, I've moved on to writing shell scripts.

One of the first tutorials linuxcommand.org has is using HTML in a shell script to return some system info. You can check it out here . I'm currently on the 'Command Substitution and Constants' section.

One of the first things in the tutorial said the file could be used by redirecting the standard output to .html:

    ~me$ ./sysinfo_page > sysinfo_page.html

my script looks exactly like the one on the link, but I'll post it anyway:

(the only difference is linux uses the env var $HOSTNAME, I'm on OS X and it's $LOGNAME)

#!/bin/bash

# sysinfo_page - Generate an HTML page based on system information

title="My System Information"
RIGHT_NOW=$(date +"%x %r %Z")
TIME_STAMP="Updated on $RIGHT_NOW by $USER"

cat <<- _EOF_

        <title>
        $title $LOGNAME
        </title>

$title $LOGNAME

$TIME_STAMP

_EOF_

When I type into the command line:

    ~me$  ./sysinfo_page

it gives me the contents of only the HTML, but it isn't formatted and still displays the tags. I'm assuming that by redirecting the standard output to a .html extension would give me the formatted HTML page, without the tags but I wouldn't know because, after giving chmod rwx permission with 755, I type:

    ~$me  ./sysinfo_page.html

And get this error:

./sysinfo_page.html: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./sysinfo_page.html: line 1: `'

I understand by what I've read that < > indicates a placeholder, but that's the HTML syntax...and exactly how it works on the tutorial. I thought maybe adding a <!DOCTYPE> would fix it, but didn't. My question is, what am I doing wrong here? How can I get it to display the HTML page correctly?


texts: What are the physical anti-theft protection for MacBook Pro (2015 Retina)

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Since the slot for Kensington cables has been removed from the MacBook Pro Retina: what are the possibility to physically protect a MacBook Pro (2015 and 15 inch model) against thieves?

The goal is to prevent the computer to be stolen in a library, coffee, conference room, hotel lobby when I am next to the computer, but not currently working on it (e.g. discussion with somebody else, looking for something in my bag...) and not to leave it alone in the open.


texts: Two iPhones, one computer, one music collection

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(This is not the usual "I want to share one Apple ID across two iPhones" question. Sharing an Apple ID may be the answer, but it's not the goal. I know of at least one other possible answer.)

Problem statement

How can I share about 10GB of music on a computer (most of it not purchased from Apple), along with its associated metadata, between two iPhones?

Current situation

I have a 20GB music collection. I ripped most of it from our CD collection. I got most of the rest from Amazon, Google Play Music, or sites with songs under Creative Commons licenses (free and legal to download). I purchased a couple of dozen songs from iTunes Plus (no DRM); if I need to, I can easily convert them to MP3 files that have nothing to do with Apple.

Currently, all 20GB lives on a desktop computer running iTunes. All the music is synced to an iPod Classic.  About 10GB is synced to my spouse's iPhone. The metadata -- playlists, song ratings, playcounts, etc. -- is shared between the computer, the iPod, and the iPhone. All three use the same Apple ID.

I like the PC/Mac iTunes application. I love being able to simply plug in my iPod or my spouse's iPhone and keep everything in sync.

I'd love that same simplicity with the new iPhone I'm about to get. I'm not sure what that implies for the choice of Apple ID(s) I'd use with my new iPhone.

Possible solutions

The simplest solution is to sync my new iPhone to the same desktop computer. Would that mean my iPhone would need to use the same Apple ID as my spouse's? How much of a problem would that be?

Another simple solution: I could clone my iTunes library (with a new Apple ID) and use it for my new iPhone. The metadata would start the same but fall out of sync; that's unfortunate, but it avoids any problems from sharing an Apple ID between two iPhones. I'd also have to add any new music to both iTunes libraries

Observations

Family Sharing doesn't help because I want to share music not purchased from Apple.
I don't need to share app purchases.
Most of our data (e-mail, calendars, contacts, photos) is associated with our respective Google accounts.
This article describes how to have one Apple ID for "iTunes & App Store," and different Apple IDs for iCloud, Messages, and FaceTime. The article is about sharing an ID to share purchases, which is not what I want.

FYI, This "Think Different" question goes into even more detail about having different Apple IDs on one iPhone. Edit: so does this article on support.apple.com.

My spouse only uses iCloud for wireless iPhone backups. (I also manually back up her phone to the desktop computer using iTunes.) I expect my iCloud usage to be the same.
I already have most of my songs (but none of my metadata) uploaded to Google Play Music. Please see "I'd love that simplicity ..." above.

I'm afraid to start setting up my iPhone until I know what Apple ID I want to use. (I think I can begin setting up my new iPhone by choosing "Move Data from Android," then choosing "Skip This Step" when I'm asked to sign in with or create an Apple ID. Am I risking anything if start this way?)


texts: SSH into iPhone without "OpenSSH"-like IPA?

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My iPhone‘s screen is broken and touch doesn’t respond. I would like to do a backup. The problem is iTunes requires a confirmation from the iPhone to do the backup.

My idea is to jailbreak the device and establish a SSH-tunnel. After that I would like to install an IPA to remotely click the trust button from my computer.

But now it seems to me that there is a requirement of something like OpenSSH to be installed to do that.

Does anyone know if my idea could work anyway ?

If someone has a better idea for backing up feel free to tell me :D


texts: Add Custom Files to a Package to be installed on specific paths with productbuild/pkgbuild?

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I build my pkg with productbuild and pkgbuild.

My root path looks like this: ROOT > Applications/Scripts/Library/private/

In Applications/ is my .app , which works. However in Library for example is another folder "Desktop Pictures" and there is a background.png. I would like to have that exact path with the .png on the device that i install this package, so i can use it later for automatically set the background.

Not working tho

This is how the pkg gets build:

pkgbuild --root "ROOT" \
--identifier "${IDENTIFIER}" \
--version "${VERSION}" \
--install-location "/" \
--sign "${IDENTITY}" \
--scripts ROOT/Scripts \
"${PACKAGE_NAME}_before.pkg"

productbuild \
--distribution distribution.dist \
--scripts "ROOT/Scripts" \
--sign "${IDENTITY}" \
--package-path "${PACKAGE_NAME}_before.pkg" \
"${PACKAGE_NAME}.pkg"

Edit:
Although the command

pkgutil --payload-files mypackage.pkg

Tells me for example:

.
./Library
./Library/Desktop Pictures
./Library/Desktop Pictures/background.png

Edit: I basically found out, that manually installing the pkg and typing in my password, its working.

So let me rephrase my question:
How is it possible to install the files to my mac without having access to password input, since its automated?


texts: How to Enable Paste Menu Item in System 7

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I recently got a Macintosh Color Classic running System 7.1, and I am trying to move old files off of it. My goal is to copy files from the Macintosh to a floppy drive, then read them from a USB floppy drive on a modern Mac.

The issue I am running into is that the Macintosh Color Classic does not seem to let me paste any files through Finder. The files in question are stored on the internal drive, and when I attempt to paste files to any location from the clipboard, the Paste menu item (under Edit) is unavailable.

I have tried to use keyboard shortcuts (CMD + C and CMD + V). I also let the Macintosh format the disk, in order to avoid any compatibility issues. I am not able to connect the Macintosh to a network, so floppy drives will be my only option. How can I enable the Paste menu item or otherwise copy files to a removable disk?


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I have an old LaCie 2big Network 2, (directly via LAN, no extra network,) which doesn’t want to work with Time Machine on Big Sur. I just want to use it as a safety backup for an old Mac I want to sell.
Now, ideally it would be in a backup-style (compressed, encrypted) .dmg image, made via Disk Utility-> New Image -> Image from Folder (User-folder (all I need.. right?) Alternatively the whole HD.. same problem, tho)
First, I got some permission issues so I disabled csrutil.. Now, I get a “Failed with status 60: timed out” error. I still see the .dmg being created and increasing in size.. but eventually being deleted again..
EDIT: Trying to use hdiutil results in "[DIHelperProxy(Thread) waitForHelperDone] timed out waiting for helper registration". Does this sound like a bug? Or is it a HW problem?
Any ideas why this might be?
The only alternative I see is hard-copying the complete home-folder ‘raw’ to disk.. which just seems messy (and takes forever) :// any other/better ideas on how to do such a manual backup? (I’ve see that you can create an iso if you delete the user but I’m a bit scared.. anyone tried this on Big Sur beta?)
macOS Beta 7 (20A5374g)


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I recently changed the email address and the password for my apple ID. Since then, when I launch an app, it occasionally asks me for my apple ID password. Even apps that I've successfully launched before, might ask me again. This is very annoying and I'm loosing hope that this is going to stop.

What can I do about it?

Oh, it's an iPhone 6s with iOS 12.1.


texts: How do I sync apps to my iPhone with iTunes 12.7 or later?

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I’ve got an iPhone 4S that I still use, but the WiFi chip has died. I want to try the hairdryer and freezer trick (I used it once before) but in the meantime I want to be able to add apps to it through iTunes. However, somehow the Apps tab is gone. Is there a way to get it back?

Help would be appreciated a lot.


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I am using an iPad 3 (WiFi) on iOS 9.2.1 and since two days I have been having an issue. I don't have an unlimited WiFi connection, I use my mobile phone hotspot for iPad. Now whenever I connect my iPad to hotspot, it starts using very high data, i.e, 2-3 MB every second without any app running. I also tried turning of Background App Refresh, Automatic Downloads are turned off, I tried a soft reset but to no avail. Any idea what's causing this??
P.S: By data, I don't mean mobile data on iPad(My iPad is WiFi only), I mean that it's using the data from my hotspot connection.


texts: Photos & Reducing Clutter on macOS High Sierra

texts: I’m using macOS High Sierra. Recently I started to shoot movies and use FCPX to edit etcetera. My question is when going to About this Mac > Storage > Manage > Reduce Clutter> Review Files > Large Files… Much to my frustration I find oodles of QuickTime movie files. I’d like to delete them and regain the almost 300 GB of storage that’s being used up. But I’m worried they would no longer be stored in my Photos application (where I imported or dragged and dropped everything I’ve filmed). Why do they end up saved in that documents file and is it safe to delete them. A related question, when I delete downloads, if I’ve saved them in photos or in pages, will those be gone from those places or will they remain?


texts: Can I use an iPad charger with my iPhone 4?

texts: Is there any harm in using the iPad charger for iPhone 4?


texts: Is there a Time Machine-equivalent cloud backup solution for macOS?

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I really like Time Machine for local backups, but I'd also like to have a cloud backup of everything on my local disk.  What's the best way to get full, versioned incremental backups of my machine, to the cloud?

The obvious solutions do not fulfil this seemingly simple goal:

BackBlaze is convenient and works well but doesn't back up anything outside of /Users/—and even then has undocumented exclusions such as not backing up empty directories, symlinks, etc.
iDrive also has various (but at least better documented) mandatory exclusions including /System and /etc.  They advertise disk image backups, but this is a Windows-only feature; when I contacted iDrive support they suggested I use the iDrive app to backup my local Time Machine drive.  That would work but means I have to carry around an extra hard drive (or NAS box!) just to do cloud backups, which is lame.  (iDrive is also a resource hog, making my system unusably slow when it is running, even when it's not saturating the network connection.)

Ideally I'd just like to configure TimeMachine to backup to a cloud-provided network share, but I suspect that this might be terribly slow (and prone to corruption due to network disconnects) even if I could find a provider offering SMB-mountable cloud storage.

Is there a solution that provides Time Machine levels of convenience and protection without needing a local disk?


texts: OSstatus -22 Error, Disk Utility in Catalina

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I have an OSstatus -22 error with Catalina while trying to restore any ISO/DMG to a USB flash drive using Disk Utility. I can use the terminal option just fine, but does anyone know of a reason why this error appears? I never had it under Mojave. Been looking for a solution to flash old PowerPC images in Apple Partition Format; used to work fine without any 3rd party tools. This is the closest solution I came to: Disk Utility fails with OSStatus error 22 during cloning/recovery operation
Thanks!


texts:
I have another HDD problem.
I had a broken enclosure witch was acting really weird. It freezes up the finder at some point and I wasn't able to do anything else but to unplug it so "force eject" witch it seems that it was bad for my hdd.

After a few of those One of my external stop appearing in Finder or anywhere else but shows  as "Untitled" in Disk Utility and cannot be mounted. The name "untitled" wasn't actually the name of the volume I had so I guess something happened there.

I have a bunch of data on it. I've tried "first aid" and everything seems fine, but I still cannot mount that volume.

I did not tried yet any recovery software, I don't wanna mess anything.

Any suggestion on how to fix that?


texts: I can't type the '%' (percentage) character in my mac terminal

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Just recently, I notice that while using my mac terminal I can't type in the '%' character.

I can use any other character using the same key, for example '5' and '∞' (option+5), but when I want to use '%' (shift+5) I get the error terminal sound.

If I try to copy and paste text with a '%' included, it will copy all the text except for the '%'. If I connect to a server using ssh, ‘%’ works perfectly.

Any suggestions to fix this?


texts:
Logitech Options won't let me change the "Keystroke assignment" assigned to a mouse button anymore. I just get a sad error noise every time I try to set one.
Strangely, there are already keystroke assignments set for the mouse buttons on one of my Logitech mice. (I set them a long time ago.) They appear in the Logitech Options app and those assignments still work. But I cannot change them.
This is on Catalina, and I have Logitech Options and Logitech Options Daemon enabled under Security & Privacy => Accessibility and Security & Privacy => Input Monitoring.
Logitech Options used to work fine for me, but it stopped working at some point, and now no amounting of fiddling seems able to make it work properly again.
Any ideas?


texts:
I've been using a Mac running Sierra with an Airplay 2 capable Denon home cinemas amp for several months without any major problems.

After upgrading to High Sierra I've run into two VERY annoying issues:

Whenever I switch audio output from internal speaker to the Airplay amp and then hit play in a Youtube video or other video player iTunes starts instead of the video playing!  I have to quit iTunes and hit play again before it actually starts playing
Whenever playback starts all open network connections drop.

Does anybody know how to stop iTunes autostarting when I switch to Airplay as the output device, and how to stop the connections from dropping?  Neither of these things happened in Sierra.

EDIT: I tried getting a list of audio devices and AirPlay doesn't show up at all.

  system_profiler SPAudioDataType Audio:

Devices:

    Built-in Output:

      Default Output Device: Yes
      Default System Output Device: Yes
      Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
      Output Channels: 2
      Current SampleRate: 44100
      Transport: Built-in
      Output Source: Internal Speakers

    iShowU Audio Capture:

      Default Input Device: Yes
      Input Channels: 2
      Manufacturer: shinywhitebox ltd.
      Output Channels: 2
      Current SampleRate: 44100
      Transport: Unknown
      Input Source: Default
      Output Source: Default

    Stream/Record:

      Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
      Output Channels: 2
      Current SampleRate: 44100
      Transport: Unknown
      Output Source: Default

However "Denon AVR-6400H" shows up as an available output device in the audio prefs pane and in the icon menu options.


texts: I just Create one Directory to .dmg file using Disk Utility. Can anyone Please Tel me how to convert .dmg file in to older Directory-folder.


texts: How to switch input in split panel terminal?

texts: I split terminal upper and down, I want to input the command in the upper panel, what should I do?


texts: Internet connectivity on 3g iPad when on a non-internet-connected wifi

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Imagine the following scenario, which I am proposing to a client for their service technicians' trucks.

I have a very small wireless LAN that exists only for the purpose of providing print services for iOS devices (using a Lantronix xPrintServer, a portable WiFi router, and a mobile printer, all wired into the truck's electrical system).

I have an iPad that is connected to the WiFi in the truck, and also has 3G service.

On that iPad, I go to check my email. What happens? Does it try to connect to the mail server over WiFi and fail? Or does it know it can't route that way and use the 3G instead?


texts: MacBook shutting down when I put it to sleep with external monitor

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I have a MacBook Pro 13" (2020 running mac os Catalina)and it's connected to an LG 4k display (in clamshell mode). When I stop using it, I put it to sleep by either using the launch bar or ⌘ Command⌥ Option⏏. It sleeps but when I leave it for a while, it shut down and I have to restart it by pressing the power button.

I leave the MacBook both charging and connected to the display, however when I want to use it again, I've noticed that it had shut down and I have to restart it by opening the lid and pressing the power button, how do I fix that?


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I've run into quite a problem - my Mac (mid 2015 21.5" 4k iMac, running Mojave) cant find my boot partition (disk0s2).
I've made some headway, it previously just showed it as FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF.

I now have disk0s2 back, recognised as APFS, but it isnt in a container so my Mac can't find a way to use it. It's also now 883.2 GB rather than the 960 GB it was before (any explanation for that would be helpful).

I dont think I have deleted the files associated with the container, my reason for this is that when I type in diskutil list, after it listing the contents of disk0 and disk1, it shows disk2 to disk17, each with no 'type' and all called 'untitled', each of them being different sizes but none more than 6.3 MB - I think these are the contents of what was previously an APFS container.

Prior to this my primary drive was just in a container called 'Container 1'.

I no longer have the ability to paste anything from Terminal here because my fresh install of macOS Sierra diappeared at some point (I'm installing it onto a usb drive right now). When I type gpt -r show disk0 theres an entry with no index number that has the size 226802864 (maybe thats the lost partition). there are a couple others but none that size.
I posted more detail here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8584377

I've installed macOS Sierra onto a USB, this is what disutil list gives me:

(disk2 to disk17 are no longer visible, maybe because this wasn't done in recovery mode)

and this is what sudo gpt -r show disk0 gives me:

I've entered sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 bs=512 count=1 skip=409640 | hexdump -Cv and this is the result:

It was pointed out that this might be a duplicate of the question found here: macOS partition startup Volume type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF but I followed the steps in that guide and that's where I am now.
diskutil list:

sudo gpt -r show disk0:

diskutil verifyVolume disk0s2

So, while I've followed the guide, disk0s2 was 960GB and in a container, but isnt anymore. I cant access that disk at all, although the data is intact.
I've been informed that Sierra was pre-APFS so I'm going to be updating the OS on my thumb-drive.

I'm about to install Mojave to read the APFS disk, but until then these are the files that iBoysoft Data Recovery has found, in case anything useful can be gleaned from them:

I've installed mojave on a USB drive, now maybe I can do something with APFS, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here are my current 'diskutil list' and 'sudo gpt -r show disk0' readings:

I can't comment yet but if you give any suggestions I'll update my question, thank you.


texts: By moving my iTunes Library to a network drive, will iPhone/iPad backups also be stored on that network drive? (If not, is there a way to set this up?)


texts: Is it a bad idea to have a shared Apple ID for purchases that also is used for iCloud?

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There is lots of advice that suggests using a shared Apple ID for purchasing things (so that all devices using that Apple ID for purchasing can access those purchases) and to then use a separate Apple ID for iCloud for each "user".

This makes perfect sense to me, but what should be done if there is currently 1 Apple ID (my account) that is used for all the purchases and also is used for my iCloud, and I want to add another user to the mix?

What problems will there be if my Apple ID is used for the purchases on all devices and also used for my iCloud account for my user, while a different Apple ID is used for iCloud for a different user?

Note: The places this would apply to would be my iPhone, another iPhone, and 2 user accounts on an iMac (one for me and another for the other user)