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So I recently removed Windows 7 from my iMac, but Bootcamp didn't let me do it. I used Disk Utility instead. The old Windows 7 partition now shows up as free space. I want to reinstall Windows 7 again on my iMac, how do I set it up? Can I use the free space again? I want to give the Windows partition a bigger size than what the free space currently holds.

diskutil list command:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         801.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *801.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 54E92188-CDD5-44AE-9D58-EF6A5B69D707
                                 Unencrypted

diskutil cs list command:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 25AF6969-0B3A-4C2C-BE38-29864C233F66
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         801345126400 B (801.3 GB)
    Free Space:   18907136 B (18.9 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 21095CB1-4D76-44F5-B438-0B84A06AB0E8
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     801345126400 B (801.3 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 2DDF1B89-E73A-45E7-96CD-5FA1DC9CA275
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 54E92188-CDD5-44AE-9D58-EF6A5B69D707
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          800973897728 B (801.0 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

sudo gpt -r -vvv show -l /dev/disk0 command:

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, start=40, size=409600
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=409640, size=1565127200
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=1565536840, size=1269536
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - "EFI system partition"
      409640  1565127200      2  GPT part - "Macintosh HD"
  1565536840     1269536      3  GPT part - "Recovery HD"
  1566806376   386718759
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Specs:

iMac11,2 3.2 GHZ
1 TB HDD
OS X Yosemite version 10.10 (14a389)
EFI Boot ROM-Version IM112.0057.B01 (the latest)


texts: Why doesn't "su - user -c defaults read" work?

texts:
I'm writing a script to set a defaults preference for all users on a machine.

When I run it from a root shell, the defaults command runs as if it's been given incorrect arguments.

bash-3.2# su - mheath -c defaults read
Command line interface to a user's defaults.
Syntax:

'defaults' [-currentHost | -host <hostname>]
followed by one of the following:

read                                 shows all
...

I am assuming that using su is causing the arguments to end up in the wrong place and that defaults is hard coded to expect arguments in certain places. But I've no idea how to get around this.


texts: Check if iTunes account has credit card linked

texts: I received a message this morning saying an unknown device downloaded an app which costs $19.99. defending crowns or something like that, and the message says that if it wasn't me, I should click a link, I did, and now it's asking me to verify my credit card information and once that is done, I will receive a full refund. Sound suspicious to me, and I didn't think I had a credit card linked to my iTunes account as I always purchase gift cards instead. How can I check if my account has a credit card linked to it?


texts:
I plug in a flash drive to my USB port. How can I access it through bash?

($ cd  / takes me to the directory called Macintosh HD, but through Finder, I can go up one more directory called <myname>'s MacBook Pro. However,

$ cd /
$ cd ..

doesn't allow me to go to the directory <myname>'s MacBook Pro.) How can I get to the files on my flash-drive?


texts: Apple Watch Screenshot not saving on iPhone

texts:
I recently purchased a Series 4 Apple Watch yesterday, but I cannot seem to get the screenshot feature to work. The steps I have taken are:

Enable screenshots through the watch app on my iPhone
Restart watch
Restart phone
Screenshot by pressing the digital crown and side button

When I try to take a screenshot, both the watch and my phone vibrate, but the photos do not appear in the photos app on my phone.

My iPhone OS is iOS 12.3.1 and my Watch OS is 5.1.3 (needs to be updated)


texts: How to stop iOS 10 alarm from silencing itself after 15 minutes?

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Since updating to iOS 10, my alarm clock (which is set to play an hour-long song) is silencing itself after 15 minutes.

It doesn't technically snooze itself, as the snooze button is still present on the lock screen after the music cuts.

I've tried disabling the bedtime features, without help.


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Can I download apps larger than 50MB while using Personal Hotspot? If so, isn't the limitation on iOS itself rather arbitrary? I can just use personal hotspot to download larger files to my computer and then sync them back over to my device.

So, is this possible?


texts: Asking QuickTime Player 7 to play MIDI files through GarageBand

texts:
By just launching a MIDI file it will play by default using QuickTime Player 7, but the volume is rather low and the sound is far from polished.

How can I ask QuickTime player 7 (or any other application) to send the MIDI stream to GarageBand.

I have already done it from EarMaster to GarageBand and the difference is spectacular, but no option in QuickTime Player lets me select the IAC Driver.

I am hardly attached to QuickTime Player. If GarageBand will play MIDI files, please mention how.


texts: MacBook or iMac, is there any speed difference between that 256GB, 512GB and 1TB options? And what about SSD endurance, does it differ in any way?


texts: How to set different keyboard for login screen on iPad

texts:
This is iPad/iOS - specific.
I want a login keyboard that includes the numbers row by default.  I'm using Swiftkey but it only shows up inside running apps, not the login screen.
Is it physically possible to assign a different keyboard to the login screen?


texts: In itunes 10, where is the " Store Full Resolution Photos" option?

texts: I can't seem to find this option any more.  has it moved ??


texts: sms/imessage's allert don't work for one contact

texts:
I have an iPhone 11 on 13.5.1 iOs. Suddenly, the alerts of imessage don't work, for one only person. There is no budge for new message in the chat (on the main app, where all the chats are).
This specific contact is not on the "Do not disturb" and the alerts are on, but my iPhone neither rings nor has a banner for the new message. I've already tried to delete the chat, delete the contact, restore the settings but nothing of these worked. What can i do?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: when I open the message from this contact, he cannot see if I read the message or not. The status of the message is “delivered”.


texts: Time Machine stopped backing up my Photos Library two years ago

texts:
I recently had to restore a Mojave Mac Mini from Time Machine.  It all seems to go well until I discovered that the Photos Library was gone.  After looking through the TM backup, I see the last time it was backed up was 2018.  I did nothing I can imagine to exclude it. It's un-backed-up state is confirmed on a second off-site backup started in Feb of this year; the file simply does not exist.
There are no TM exclusion rules that would have prevented the file from being backed up.

I suppose I'm out of luck on a recent version of the file, but why would this have happened?  Unless I'm missing something, this brings into question whether TM is a viable tool for backups.
Update
I decided to take my lumps and restore the old library.  17 GB of data is better than none.  I did check the next time TM ran and it happily backed up the library!  Note that I did not change any settings.
This gives me great pause in relying on Time Machine for backups.  It archives many of the files on my disk, but if it misses even one, that is always going to be the one that you need.
Also of note, this is the only machine I administer that I don't use a belt-and-suspenders approach to backups.  All my other machines have at least one TM backup plus a bootable backup with Carbon Copy Cloner.  I just ran out of CCC licenses for this machine.


texts: Will old Apple Watch models work with AirPower?

texts: Apple showed off its AirPower charging mat with an Series 3 Apple Watch. Will AirPower work with older Apple Watch models as well?


texts: Reconnecting Bluetooth headset for iphone

texts: How should we reconnect a Bluetooth headset, if we have forgot it from the phone. Bluetooth can't detect the headset again.


texts: Unlock a Virgin Mobile USA iPhone 4s -- worthwhile?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4s that works with Virgin Mobile USA. Since carriers must unlock phones now I'm wondering about unlocking this one. But I haven't been able to determine if it would actually be worthwhile. Specifically, whether I'd be able to use the phone with a different carrier.

The phone is an iPhone 4s, marked on the back as an A1387, and identifies itself in settings as an MD236LL/A. This is a CDMA refurb model, obtained from an Apple store after the original phone got dropped in a puddle.

What I'd like to do: (a) use the phone with some other US-based carrier while at home, and (b) when traveling outside the USA, use the phone with a local SIM and GSM network.

I've tried searching for unlocking info but I'm getting conflicting answers about whether either of the above are possible:

Some sites say that since the 4s is a "world" phone that after unlocking it would work on both domestic (US) GSM networks as well as CDMA networks like Verizon.
Some sites say that although it's a "world" phone, it's tied to CDMA when in the USA. While traveling it would work with a GSM network using local SIM but in the USA it could not use a GSM network.
Still others say that "world" means nothing here, that it's strictly CDMA and can't use GSM at all.

Can anyone clear this up? I know I can legally get the phone unlocked, but would doing so get me either of the things mentioned above? Virgin Mobile USA's site isn't helping me. They have a chart listing types of unlocks for different phones, but from past experience with them I pretty much assume they're either lying or just plain wrong about most things.


texts: If I am storing photos on my Dropbox or Google Photos, can I delete them from my iCloud and still access them through these other apps?


texts: How to update App Store application from command line?

texts:
I would like to force an update of App Store applications from the command line.

How can I do this?


texts:
I was wondering - is there a way to force how a push notification will appear to the iPhone user? There are 3 options in settings for the user to choose - none, some kind of top banner that dissappears after a short time and an alert with buttons.

The problem is, while developing an application for iPhone, I found out that using the didReceiveRemoteNotification function did not return any results if I didn't click on that top banner. This doesn't seem to be firing up even when the application is taken to the foreground.

I need those data provided by this function to act upon in my application.

Thanks for your time!


texts: Can I determine how the Flashback trojan infected my machine despite disabling Java?

texts:
Apple's update on April 17, 2012 detected and deactivated the Flashback trojan.

Yet two weeks ago I had following the instructions here. After concluding that my Mac is not infected, I disabled Java.

I don't understand how Flashback could have sneaked in, especially after my guard has been up after an Arstechnica article, but that no longer matters.

How do I find out what kind of damage might have already been done? Will one of the log files contain a trace of what has happened?


texts: Removing characters from a string via Terminal

texts:
My main goal is to be able use Terminal to turn

http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Farchiveofourown.org%2Fworks%2F1885509&t=N2M3YmNhNjQzODU5MjI2NmE5ZjljY2Y4NWVhOTVhM2IwYzgyYzYyYixLOHhQakVRbA%3D%3D

into

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1885509

I thought a good place to start would be with finding a way to remove the http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=.

I triedtr -d; however, there does not seem to be a way to remove only the first instance of a group of characters.

The following (using cut) will only work consistently if there length of the string never changes, which means there is no guarantee for future use.

 echo 'http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Farchiveofourown.org%2Fworks%2F1885509&t=N2M3YmNhNjQzODU5MjI2NmE5ZjljY2Y4NWVhOTVhM2IwYzgyYzYyYixLOHhQakVRbA%3D%3D' | cut -c31-83

This looked promising:

 var="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Farchiveofourown.org%2Fworks%2F1885509&t=N2M3YmNhNjQzODU5MjI2NmE5ZjljY2Y4NWVhOTVhM2IwYzgyYzYyYixLOHhQakVRbA%3D%3D" | var=${var:30}

But because I can not get | pbcopy to work, not could I get outer to print, I have idea what it actually does.

I don't know if there is shell script that will allow me to keep what appears between the equal signs. From the tutorials and questions I have found, sed looks like it would be my best option (if I can figure it out) but it seems to work for files, not strings.

Where is a better place for me to start?


texts: macOS Big Sur - set env vars for GUI apps?

texts:
I followed many methods on Ask Different as to how to change the $PATH environmental variable for GUI apps. Some of the methods may work for pre-Catalina macOS, some may work for Catalina, but none of them work for me on macOS Big Sur.
So here's the story - I installed go to /usr/local/bin/go with Homebrew, and VS Code cannot find it -

Methods I've tried to solve this issue:

sudo launchctl config user path "/usr/local/bin:$PATH", and reboot.
Edit /etc/paths so that it includes /usr/local/bin, and reboot.
Other launchctl tricks.

So what's the recommended way to set env vars for GUI apps on macOS Big Sur? Any help is appreciated.


texts: How to turn on the hotspot remotely (e.g. bluetooth)?

texts:
I have a MacBook and an iPhone around. On the ground I have no phone signal, therefore there's no way to turn the hotspot on.

I put my iPhone on a long piece of wood and bring it in the air at a height of ~6 meters. There my iPhone gets phone signal and internet.

Is it possible to turn the hotspot on using some kind of bluetooth communication from the ground level?

Is there any other way to do it?


texts: iOS IMAP background sync for offline use

texts:
A script creates e-mails in specific folders (on a self hosted mail server) in 15 Minute intervals. The iOS mail client should download emails inside those folders while connected to Wi-Fi so all the emails are up to date when there is no Internet connection available anymore.

The mail app is able to fetch new emails while the app is opened, but it's not able to sync while the app is not active.

I also the tried using other mail apps like Outlook but the results are still the same.

I have tried setting the fetch schedule under Settings → Passwords & Accounts → Fetch New Data to every 15 minutes. Sadly it still does not sync the folders.

Do you guys know if it's even possible to do something like this on iOS devices?

Edit: Sometimes it seems like the mail client syncs the e-mails at 5:15 am. Sadly it only syncs the e-mail subject and not the e-mail content. I would need a internet connection to download the content. Why are the e-mails only synced at 5:15 am and not every 15 minutes?

I tested this on an iPhone 6s and iPhone X with iOS 12.3.1


texts: Connect 2 external HDMI monitors to one USB-C port through dual HDMI adapter

texts:
I recently bought a dual HDMI Omars USB-C Laptop Docking Station adapter for my Macbook Pro 2016 13.3" with touchbar.
I'm trying to use the HDMI ports to get my two Philips monitors to go in extended mode on my Macbook Pro. Using Windows in Boot Camp, I'm able to get the extended mode closing the lid, but on macOS, I can't.
Any suggestions (except using two adapters, which is very uncomfortable and it's the reason why I bought this new adapter)?


texts: Where can I buy iMovie that is compatible with SL?

texts: I just upgraded my macbook to SL and wanted to upgrade iMovie too. But the system requirement for the version available on App Store is 10.7.4 or later. Where can I purchase one that would work on a SL 10.6.8? Thanks.


texts: How to count the number of files and folders in iCloud Drive?

texts:
I have subscribed to a 2TB iCloud Drive account and uploaded several 100k files from a Windows 10 PC. During the upload, that took several days, the PC crashed and restarted for some unknown reason. And iCloud Drive also once told me that its database was currupted, but somehow continued and is now ready uploading all(?) files.

But I want to be sure and would like to
1) count the number of files and folders in iCould Drive and
2) get a list of all file and folder names in iCloud Drive

Is that possible using a PC, Mac, iPhone or iPad?


texts: iPhoto 9.5.1 deleting photos and library!

texts:
iPhoto 9.5.1 recently just deleted my photos. Was there an auto upgrade? it happened overnight so I was not on the computer. I cannot find all those photos in iPhoto/Library under User. Any suggestions? It seems that Time Machine does not back up iPhoto in Mavericks, so I've been reading. I cannot find the iPhoto file anywhere in Time Machine.

Where are those photos that were suddenly gone MIA?


texts: Control odd-even page pairing in Preview in two-page mode

texts:
By default, Preview displays pages like this in two-page mode:

How can I get it to display them like this instead?

Acrobat does the latter but Acrobat is not nearly as responsive with this file as Preview is.


texts: How Many Genius Mixes Are There in iTunes?

texts:
Every so often I'll add a couple hundred new songs to my iTunes and discover a new mix has been created. It makes me wonder then, exactly how many mixes are there, what genres are they, etc.

Here's a photo, in case you're unsure what I'm talking about.


texts: How do you get system diagnostic files from macOS?

texts: I am trying to debug a crashed (or hanging) app. How do I get the diagnostic files from the crash?


texts: Macbook Pro 2017 not detecting any screen, hdmi or VGA

texts:
I have been trying to hook my 2017 13" MacBook Pro (2 thunderbolt ports, no touchbar) up to an external display but it's not detecting any screen is connected at all. I've tried going via HDMI (USB-C cable to HDMI), tried via VGA (Via a USB-C hub) but nothing. I've tried multiple different screens too (including my TV), tried several different cables... Nothing. Might as well have connected the screens via a piece of string. It would behave the same way.

Options I've tried:

PRAM reset
SMC reset
Uninstalling and reinstalling DisplayLink

(I believe it should be showing in allow 'Screen Recording' security and privacy setting, but there's no reference of DisplayLink in there.)

Weird combinations of disconnecting, powering off, reconnecting...

I'm basically out of options. I know the new screen works because I've tested it with other devices. I know all the cables work, because I've done the same with those.

Is this issue symptomatic of a specific motherboard issue, or is there another option I can try?


texts:
iPhoto in my Mac mini pops an error, upon trying to import video from the camera:

/Users/Pat/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary.photolibrary/Import/Masters/Roll 1/EK000003.AVI
Can’t import the videos because the file is an unrecognized format.

What does this mean?


texts: Macbook Pro 2018: No Sound over Displayport after sleep

texts:
i use a Macbook Pro 2018 13" with the last Mojave Version. For better work, i use the LG 34WK95U-W as external Monitor over Thunderbolt 3. Always is fine. The Macbook is still loading over the Monitor and i have a great big Display. But i can't use the Sound-Speakers from the LG-Monitor. When i restart the MacBook and i am logged in, i can use the speakers. After the Macbook was sleeping, no sound over the LG Speakers. When i restart the Macbook again, it works.

Where is the issue and how can i fix that?

Thanks for your help...


texts: Thunderbird not accepting Apple RSS feeds

texts: I'm trying to subscribe to an Apple RSS feed. Thunderbird keeps telling me that Apple RSS feed URLs are invalid. For example, I can't subscribe to feed://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss Can I fix this problem, or is it just a problem with Apple's feeds?


texts:
I'm trying to compile a c++ program on the Mac terminal with gcc then the source files path. I've found some short term fixes on the Internet but I want it so it works every time. Also I hardly know anything about the Terminal so can the solution be explained very simply.

echo $PATH gives:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:’/usr/local/bin:??

/bin/cat ~/.profile prints no such file or directory,

/bin/cat ~/.bash_profile prints:

export PATH=’/usr/local/bin:??
# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
 PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

When I use gcc to compile the program I get "-bash: gcc: command not found"

However if I run the commands

export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"

…the terminal works. I'd like to know how to make it work without running those commands.


texts:
I bought some songs on iTunes with my iPad and want to transfer those songs onto my iTunes on my computer.

If I sync my iPad with the iTunes account on my computer, it will just erase whatever on the iPad now and import what is in the iTunes library on my computer.

How can I get these newly bought songs in my computer's iTunes account?


texts: Migrating applications without using Migration Assistant?

texts:
I am migrating from a Mac Mini (early 2009) running OS 10.6.8 to a Mac Mini (2012) running OS 10.8.5.  I made several attempts to use Migration Assistant to copy everything; all ended hung at "4 (or 3) minutes remaining" for hours and hours.  According to Google lots of people have this problem, but if anybody solved it I haven't found it.  2+ hours on the phone with a senior Apple support technician didn't solve it either.

Noting that it's always copying applications when this happens, I reran Migration Assistant copying everything except applications, and that completed.  (I have question marks in my doc where those applications should be.)  I tried Migration Assistant once more on just the applications, in case that made a difference, but it still hangs.

Clearly Migration Assistant doesn't like something in my set of applications, but I've found no diagnostics that would tell me what.  If it were choking on one (known) application, for example, I might try temporarily removing that to see if it helps.  I've got enough applications that I don't want to just start guessing.

How should I go about migrating my applications?  I think I need both the actual applications (contents of the Applications directory?) and settings (preferences, browser add-ons, etc).  Where do I find all the stuff I need to copy, and do I need to do anything more than copy the right files to the right places?  On Windows I know there'd be registry entries and config files and DLLs and stuff scattered across the disk, but Macs are different.  This is my first Mac migration.

I'm trying to avoid reinstalling (and then reconfiguring) all of my applications because (a) hassle! and (b) some came on CDs/DVDs and the new machine doesn't have a DVD reader.

I plan to update the OS on the new machine when I'm done, but I thought that migration might be easier if the OSs were closer to each other.


texts: Remove "Ads by Games Crystal" malware from Chrome on a Mac

texts:
A user on one of our computers infected her user with some kind of adware malware that results in pop-back ads by "GamesCrystal", an ad that appears on random sites with a tag "Ads by Games Crystal" in the bottom, and multiple calls to various unfamiliar servers.

I tried various things to get this removed. There was nothing obvious in Chrome that I could tie to Games Crystal. Malwarebytes for Mac didn't detect anything. Spotlight doesn't show any files with names like "Games Crystal" or any of the permutations of that I tried. There weren't any unfamiliar apps to delete in /Applications or ~/Applications.

How do you get rid of this malware?


texts: How do I export mail.app rules to other filtering solutions such as procmail?

texts:
In the past I handled email filtering using Mail.app's Rules. I want to move my filters out of Mail.app and into another solution, such as a centrally-organized IMAP + procmail setup.

Is it possible to export apple mail.app rules for use with procmail?

If not for procmail per se, how about exporting to other formats that might be an easier intermediary between Mail.app and procmail?


texts:
I need an alert on my iPhone capable of waking me up when a certain signal occurs.
I'm monitoring for the signal outside of the iPhone. On a webserver, or in a GoogleScript.
Ideally I would like to be able to hit a url, e.g.: https://myserver.com/myiphoneid/alert, and the iphone buzzes and foghorns.
I would have thought that someone has made an app to do this.
But I can't find one anywhere.
Is there something out there?
And if not, how to go about rolling my own? I'm familiar with iOS dev. Should I use push notifications? Or WebHooks? Or something different...?


texts: How can I quickly set the sound output device on Big Sur?

texts:
Before the update to Big Sur I could ALT+click on the sound icon in the menubar to change output devices (as described in this answer).
Now, on macOS 11.0.1, when I ALT+click on the sound icon I only see the internal speakers, while I have more output devices:

The Sound window in the System Preferences does show all output devices and lets me select them:

How can I quickly switch from Internal Speakers to the USB audio devices I have (like in Catalina)?


texts: Why are some SMS-recipients reachable through iOS but not macOS?

texts:
I can launch the Messages app on Catalina and send an SMS to anyone on my iCloud or Gmail contact lists, which gives me the convenience of touch typing replies, as well as seeing attachments on a large screen—except for one contact.
This one contact, with whom I communicate often, uses an Android mobile phone. I had understood that so long as I am using a recent enough iOS version (it's 14.1) and a recent enough macOS (10.15.7), and am logged into both using the same Apple ID, I should be able to message anyone on my contacts list using the Mac's keyboard, regardless of the mobile OS of the person on the other side, indeed even if the other person uses only a very basic phone device.
When I enter this recipient's name in Messages, I only get a few older messages. When I receive messages from this one individual, I can only see them on iOS, not through macOS.
Why are some message-recipients reachable through iOS but not macOS?
In case it matters, this one contact used to use an iPhone, but moved to Android. Yet even when using iOS, I was receiving "green", not "blue", message bubbles, signaling that the messages are sent/received through the phone company's networks, not through iCloud.


texts: Can I use my Mac's speakers and AirPlay / Bluetooth at the same time?

texts:
I have an iMac at my home office that I'm often playing music on from the output speakers. I also have an AirPort Express with a speaker connectable to via AirPlay / Bluetooth. I was wondering, is there any way to play my music from the standard output on my iMac, and at the same time, play it from my AirPort Express using AirPlay or Bluetooth?

Reference:

iMac 27" Late 2013 running OS X 10.11.3

AirPort Express Dual-band 802.11n


texts: Is it possible to back up in-app purchases and game saves?

texts:
Is it possible to back up in-app purchases (i.e. full game unlock) and game saves such that an iOS app can be deleted and later re-installed from the .ipa file? I'm using a 3rd generation iPad (model A1430; iOS 9.3.5).

Edit: I had recently re-installed the game "Escape: Norm's World XL" by IUGO Mobile but it appears IUGO's server required to restore my purchase of the local multiplayer mode no longer works. I contacted Apple and they told me to contact IUGO Mobile. Unfortunately, IUGO Mobile hasn't replied to my e-mails. I was hoping there was a way to backup and restore (local game mode) unlocks to avoid this situation when replacing my iPad.


texts: Which tools can I use to analyze memory dumps in macOS?

texts:
I am trying to analyze memory dumps from specific processes on the MacOS. I am using commands:
lldb --attach-pid 1041
process save-core "core"

And the size of the file core is 3.3GB. With the same application process on Windows I've go 150 MB and on linux 600 MB. Makes it hard to analyze it at that size.
What are reliable tools for the analyzing mem-dumps on MacOS, regarding looking for the sensitive data?


texts: Mac Shortcut Key Making Sound - What is it doing? (Or not doing)

texts:
I am using a Mac (OSX 10.15 Catalina).
Recently I have found that using the shortcut ( control ) + ( / ) causes my mac to make a system alert sound as if something was tried but didn't work...
The problem I have is that I can't determine what is assigned this shortcut and what it is trying to do (unsuccessfully it seems).
I could probably live with it except that I use Apps Script IDE and the shortcut is useful there for commenting/commenting code.
I have even paid for KeyCue but that hasn't uncovered anything...


texts:
When I go to sleep I tell a smart alarm app (Pillow) that I'm going to sleep. When I wake up I tell that same app that I'm awake. Between these two events, I would like for my iPhone not to vibrate or make any other noise. How can I achieve this?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm looking for a way to do this automatically.


texts: How to download legally OSX if you don't have formatted Mac

texts:
I've seen lot of guides how to install Yosemite etc which are "free to download" that start with "download OSX from Apple Store".

That is nice, but works only if you already have a working Mac that supports that target OS you want to get, otherwise you can't download them. In case you have a formatted Mac, some older model (I have mac mini from 2008), where online recover doesn't work - how would you download it?

There are torrents that contain .dmg file, but I don't think that is OK to use.


texts: Recovering files from SSD of MacBook Pro that won’t boot due to water damage

texts:
Before you start lecturing me on making backups, I'm happy no announce that 90% of my data is backed up. I did exclude some non-essential folders because my internet is garbage. Losing these are an inconvenience at most.

I have not opened my MacBook yet, still looking at what my options are before I start something I will regret. I simply want to connect the old SSD to a new MacBook once to copy some files. I have no interest in keeping the SSD after that.

I'm a bit lost because browsing google is mainly providing me with recovery services (a bit overkill? SSD should be intact) and products intended for converting the SSD into some kind of permanent external drive, but I'm only interested in a single copy. Fancy casings are not needed.
It has also come to my attention that regular SSD adapters might not work because apple used a proprietary design. Is this true?

I don't have the old MacBook with me so I'm not 100% sure what model it is. I think it's a 2015 MacBook Pro (no touch bar). What type of connector do I need?

I'm sorry if this is a bit vague. Thank you in advance.


texts: What do I do if Time Machine says "Waiting" to view a particular backup?

texts:
I have this happening on a Yosemite machine with a backup residing on another Yosemite machine.

Other backups further forward in time work fine. My desire is to delete this backup, but I can't because as long as it says "Waiting" there's no "Delete backup" option.


texts: How to enable echo service for tcp or udp on well-known port 7 on Mac OS X 10.8 or above?

texts:
I am learning TCP/IP protocol with a Mac, and need echo service (refer to [RFC 862], or Wiki) to test network. But it seems to OS X doesn't implement it or disable it.

I learned that launchd replaced inetd, you can create a launchd Property List File to launch daemons. In that way you can control some network service. So i edited telnet.plist (located in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons), set "Disabled" to "NO", and successfully enable telnet service. But I don't find echo.plist or something similar.

Or, I can create an echo.plist according to telnet.plist

But what ProgramArguments should be? Is there a built-in daemon for echo service of which name maybe echod?

Or, I have to compile inetd from source?

Thanks for any advice.


texts: How to optimise my script, a script for opening new a new emacs instance only if no instance is present

texts:
I use emacs and I have written a script which is half in bash and half in AppleScript in order to do the following (first I write the code and then the pseudocode). We assume that a emacs daemon is running.

pseudocode:

if (no emacs GUI process is active or a process is active but no window is present)
then
    open a new emacs window using emacsclient
    and
    put that window in foreground
else
    open the app Emacs.app (so no new instance is created and we simply put
                            the focus on the existing emacs window)

code for "switchToEmacs.sh"

#!/bin/bash
openedWindows=$(/usr/bin/osascript ~/emacsWindowsCount.scpt)
if [ $openedWindows -eq 0 ]; then
    /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient -n -c -e  "(select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame))"
else
    open -a Emacs
fi

code for "emacsWindowsCount.scpt" (used in the previous script, I have compiled the code with osacompile for performance)

tell application "System Events"
    if exists (process "Emacs") then
    else
        return 0
    end if
    tell application "Emacs"
        set numberOfWindows to (count windows)
    end tell
    return numberOfWindows
end tell

I have mapped switchToEmacs.sh to a shortcut using Alfred 3 and it does what I expect it to do, but it is slow! Not extremely slow but the switch is not immediate and I have to wait about 0.3 seconds. Conversely if I have an emacs window opened and type "emacs" in the spotlight, then the transition is immediate, so I would like to remove that unnecessary waiting.

Since I hate that waiting time (it seems very short but when you need to navigate a lot trough applications it becomes awkward) for now I am doing the following:
I have removed the emacs deamon, every time I log in I start emacs.app, when I need to close the emacs app I don't use CMD+Q but CMD+H, when I need to recall emacs I simply launch emacs.app (trough an Alfred 3 shortcut) so I get emacs focus.
With this workaround the transition to emacs is immediate, but I would prefer my script for two reasons: first, with the script so I can use emacs from terminal before having launched an emacs instance opening emacs.app, but the real reason is that using this method if I type "emacsclient -t myFile" in terminal and then I close the buffer returning to the terminal, then the emacs windows (the emacs.app) will get the focus, even if I have not given it to it. This is really awkward.

IMPORTANT EDIT:
I noticed that opening a new instance is immediate, what takes time is open -a Emacs. I have tried to replace it with tell application "Emacs" to activate window 1 (compiled) but it is still slow. Any ideas?

EDIT:
I have achieved perfect performance using this free tool https://sabi.net/nriley/software/#appswitch
Now there is still a little delay but it is due to the rest of the code.


texts: Import/Send Gmail and Work Email to iCloud Online?

texts:
SO I am a brand new Apple user. I have multiple email IDs, namely:

gmail.com
my office email

I want to import my old and new emails (both office and gmail) to iCloud online. I plan to delete my gmail after that and I want to send my office emails from iCloud (preferably web interface) (as in myname@myoffice.com and not @iCloud.com).

My concern is I have way too much mail to clutter my Mac and I would just be happy to store the mails online and have access to them through the iCloud online mail interface (that is ultimately making iCloud my onestop goto for all my emails).

Is that possible? If not what are my options?

Thanks.


texts: What does this keyboard shortcut symbol indicate?

texts:
The following was taken out of Photoshop. But I have seen many applications showing the symbol on the left as part of a keyboard combination. Which key is it?

[Something] + Command ⌘ + O

Something is?


texts: Can I use Xcode to run previously purchased apps?

texts: So I bought an app from the app store and I'd like to run it in Xcode. I know you can hook up your Apple ID to Xcode but I wasn't sure if you can then download previously purchased apps and run them. Anyone know?


texts:
I would like to run yosemite in virtualbox on yosemite. I've tried many step-by-step guides, without success. While there is a lot of descriptions on how to install hacked OS X on windows, I want to stay legal and use unmodified OS X, only in a virtualized manner.

Tried:

create ISO from /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app (at least two different ways) and supply it as Bootable CD and
create bootable USB and attached it as virtual disk

but boot always get stuck with Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport! message. There is a youtube video on how to eliminate this issue, but I'm not sure on how to set boot flags in virtualbox (tried: VBoxManage setextradata osx "VBoxInternal2/EfiBootArgs"  "-s", then boot displayed bash prompt for a second, but couldn't type anything there). I've also tried to set cpuidset (was suggested in one article) via VBoxManage modifyvm osx --cpuidset 1 000206a7 02100800 1fbae3bf bfebfbff, but that made no difference, neither.

I need all this hassle, because I want to create a build environment setup script, therefore

I should be able to throw away my os state at any time and start fresh.

Also

I don't want to install every sort of dev tools, because I want to keep clean my machine for daily use and
I want to be able to have multiple dev environments with different setups (for work and for my sandbox projects)

I'm also new to mac community. I appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.


texts: I have just updated my macOS to macOS Big Sur but I am very confused about the organization of users. On my previous macOS version, I had an account with all my applications and files stored on Macintosh HD - data disc, however, after updating to Big Sur, a new user had to be created and stored on Macintosh HD with my old user being stored in Macintosh HD - data. The real problem is, that all new downloads, applications, any new files and also desktop are stored in the newly created user on Macintosh HD. How come, since all user data should be stored in the Macintosh HD - data disc? Do I have to migrate all those gigabytes to Macintosh HD? My Mac is now the same as a factory new one, however, my old user is stored only as a folder in Macintosh HD - data. I will appreciate any help, I need my Mac up and running as soon as possible. Thank you.


texts: Trying to install Windows 10 on iMac Catalina via Boot Camp

texts:
I have created the iso and it is on an external drive. It was setup up via Boot Camp as a Windows boot drive.
I followed the instructions. When my Mac restarts, it just goes back to the Mac sign in screen, then the desktop. The Disk utility shows the bootcamp partition as Windows NTFS, but appears empty. What do I need to get this to work?


texts: How to migrate my Mac OS X application and data from MacBook Pro to Mac Mini?

texts:
At my job I have just switched from Windows to a Mac. I already have a MacBook Pro with all the tools for software development set up.

I would like to skip the painful setup process at my work computer and just somehow "clone" my MacBook Pro installation to my new Mac Mini that I got at work - all the apps, settings, files etc.

Is it possible? What tool should I use?


texts:
I have multiple user accounts from one computer, running Yosemite.

Using same Spotify username, I'd like to sync songs offline and cache in the same path. To achieve this, I tried aliasing /Users/Shared/Library/Cache/com.spotify.client to each user's ~/Library/Cache/com.spotify.client.

I noticed, however, even after one user finishes syncing, Spotify still attempts to download the songs.

What can I do to use Spotify client's cached data from the same location, so that I don't have to duplicate files for each user?

Note:
/Users/Shared/Libarary/Cache/com.spotify.client's permission is 770 and all users attempting to access this folder is associated with the owner group to this folder (recursively).


texts: Prevent Spotlight from indexing future hard drives

texts:
Using Mavericks, how can I prevent Spotlight from indexing all drives except my primary internal drive?  In my work, I connect dozens of new drives every week, and I do not want the .Spotlight-V100 folder to be created on them.

I know I can add each drive to the Spotlight privacy list, but that can only be done after connecting the drive, and then the .Spotlight-V100 folder has already been created.

I could disable Spotlight completely, but then I lose the convenience of indexing my internal drive.  I want to use Spotlight for my internal drive only, and disable it for all other drives, including ones that have yet to be connected.


texts: Pages 4.3 on Mavericks - data loss with filenames beginning with tilde (~)

texts:
I had a client report the sudden loss of files after upgrading to Mavericks.  It wasn’t difficult to duplicate the problem, on both her Mac and mine.  I’m wondering if someone may have seen this before, before I file a bug report.

Here’s the process, which has been 100% repeatable in my tests.

Create a folder, either on the local hard drive or on a server.  Call this folder “Will Vanish” or similar, because this folder and its contents will soon vanish.

In that new folder, place a few files you don’t care about.  Also copy a Pages 4.3 file into that same folder, or create a new file from within Pages 4.3 (part of iWork ’09).

Close the Pages file, if it is open.

From the Finder, rename that Pages file so that it begins with a tilde (~) character.

Open the Pages file in Pages 4.3.  Move the Pages window so that you can also see the Will Vanish folder and its contents.

Save the file (Command-S or File->Save).

The Will Vanish folder and its contents are now gone, and (at least by my testing) cannot be found.

I’m aware the tilde is a special character in Unix-like OS’s, representing the home folder.  Most typical users aren’t aware of this, and it’s somewhat common to use that character as a filename prefix to force the file to the top of alphabetical lists in the Finder.  That’s a common use case in this particular workgroup.  Luckily only one user has yet upgraded to Mavericks, and she prefers the older iWork (which is preserved by the new iWork install within Mavericks).

I’ve made a screen recording of this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1plb55o08tcwbp/Screen%20Recording%20-%20file%20loss%202013-11-22b.mov

I’m hoping that someone can confirm this experience, and/or comment on any workarounds.


texts: How can one open a specific tab in preferences via Terminal?

texts: So I know I can use open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane to open Keyboard preferences. But how can I open the 'Shortcuts' tab specifically?


texts:
There seems to be two different SSH client versions on my Macbook Pro running Sierra (10.12.4). If I do the following:

$> ssh dev

It works just fine. However, if I do the following:

$> open ssh://dev

It opens a new terminal which then complains about the encryption settings in my ssh_config file. Researching the specific complaints, I found out that opening through the protocol handler is using an older version of SSH.

How do I change which SSH client the protocol redirects to?


texts: Iphone 4 not charging after update to iOS6

texts: Why is my iphone 4 unable to charge immediately after updating to iOS 6?  I am using an apple brand cable, I tried it on my computer, and I tried it in multiple wall outlets, no change. The charge is now 0% and I cant do anything, but before I did I powered down and did a restart and it did nothing.   Phone was working perfectly before hand and now I don't know what to do. This less than 24 hrs after updating FYI. I'm really mad!


texts:
(1) So I understand that iOS 4 support CalDAV in for syncing the Calendar app on the iPhone. However, during my initial tests with a test CalDAV URL, I can see the events my iPhone pulled off the server, but I don't see a way of adding/editing events on my iPhone and pushing them onto the server.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is the iOS limited to subscribing to CalDAV, but not real two-way syncing?
If anyone can give specific instructions on how to setup two-way CalDAV syncing that would be great, too...
(2) Is two-way syncing via CardDAV supported? If so, how?
Thanks.


texts: Mac Pro, Boot into OSX without EFI after Bootcamp

texts:
I have a Mac Pro, early 2008. I installed Windows 10 using bootcamp.

The mac came with an 8800gt, but I had a GTX680 from my other PC which I put in the mac, it is not the mac version so I don't get the EFI menu.
The mac boots up into windows, if I hold option I obviously don't get the menu, but is there any way I can boot into OSX without switching out the graphics card every time?
Or do I have to get the mac edition of the card?


texts: How to disable the message notifications of skype on mac?

texts:
It is annoying that every time a message arrives, a notification pop up in the right corner of the screen, untill you click the close button. How can I disable this?

I found that a software named growl may help, but it is not a free solution.


texts: Is there a way to add all of the recipients of an email to a group/folder in contacts from Mail?

texts: In mail, I'll get email to a list of about 50 people, all of whom need to be in my address book. Is there a way to add them all at once? I can tell it to add one at a time, but I can't seem to get it to do more than that.


texts: Cannot Write to Bootcamp After Installing Paragon NTFS for Mac

texts: I ran a Windows 10 operating system on the bootcamp of my macbook pro 2015. However, after using that Windows system for a few years, it failed to boot (stuck at the logo) after an upgrade. I searched online and figured out a likely cause was due to corrupted hibernation file for the Windows system (see https://www.reddit.com/r/bootcamp/comments/ewuaxa/windows_wont_boot_stuck_on_logo/fw8qwu2/), and one solution was to use Paragon NTFS for Mac to force mount the windows partition on read/write mode. However, after installing NTFS for Mac, I still could not write to the Windows Bootcamp partition (still read only as before), and I did not see any mount on read/write mode option on the NTFS for Mac software. Can anyone tell me how to mount the Bootcamp Windows partition on read/write mode using NTFS for Mac?


texts: External Hard Drive Not Showing Up after dragging it to Terminal?

texts:
So from the left side of the Finder I accidentally dragged my external hard drive and now it doesn't appear there. I would like to see it there, I know it's reading it because I did an ls /Volumes and it's there. How do I put the drive back in the Sidebar?

Note 1: I tried to command+shift+G and went to /Volumes and tried to drag it in place that won't work, what do I do?

Note 2: It's not "Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on Sidebar, and check the box for it". The problem is with one particular external drive, I dragged it out of Finder and can't put it back.


texts:
In the last few days, Safari suddenly started crashing on WSJ.com. Particularly when opening articles with lots of ads, the page reloads several times then crashes saying “a problem repeatedly occurred”.
On the Mac, it says that it is using a significant amount of memory, on the iPad it just says website crashed.
I can load the articles when I disable JavaScript in Settings, but that is not an ideal solution.
Website works fine on Chrome and Firefox on the Mac, but does not work on Safari on Mac, or on iPad or iPhone.
I already tried:

clearing cache, history, cookies

deleting website data

force restarting

incognito mode

both WiFi and cellular data

deleting all content and settings in the iPad, and setting up as new device (!)

family member’s iPad - same issue

Any tips? WSJ customer support thinks it’s a problem with my devices.
This started shortly after last iOS update.
OS versions:

iPad Air 3 - iOS 14.2
MacBook Air - macOS Catalina
iPhone SE - iOS 13.3.1


texts: globstar: invalid shell option name on macOS even with bash 4.X

texts:
The new globstar option requires bash 4. So.. Which bash are we on?

 $bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

Let us try out globstar :

13:39:28/forecast-fresh $shopt -s globstar
-bash: shopt: globstar: invalid shell option name
13:39:32/forecast-fresh $

Is there any way to get support for this on macOS?


texts:
Network Diagnostics was removed from Mojave. The replacement does not tell you if the failure to connect issue is with the Internet, or your own WiFi. The program could often fix connections where the replacement can only give a report.

Is there a (3rd party) replacement for Network Diagnostics?


texts: I've got a Linux Ubuntu 10.10 machine running Vinagre (VNC client) and I can't seem to be able to connect to my spanking new Mac mini on Lion.  All I get on the Vinagre side is a blank screen.


texts: don't show contact photos in mail message view

texts:
How do I disable showing of the contact photos in OSX mail in the message headers in the message view? The faces distract me from the messages. They are pulled from some ldap server based contact list I guess.
I can hide them when I set the headers to "show header detail: None", but I need the headers. Custom header selection seems to be broken. I can remove some or all of them and it has no influence on what is being displayed.

I use classic layout, so I already don't see them in the message list.
OSX Mail Version 6.6 (1510)


texts: Bulk merge items sub-folders into new folder

texts: I have a main folder with about 80 folders in, each with about 10 items in. I want to be able to use a Terminal command or something to just move every item from each sub-folder into a new one (i.e the newly created folder would have around 800 items in, not separated by individual folders). Doing this by hand would be very tedious. Is there a way to do it easily and quickly? I have looked at ditto, but couldn't figure out how to use it for my use case. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!


texts: MacBook Air heating up and lagging for no apparent reason

texts:
Earlier today I had a few apps open, and one of them was Safari, which had some tabs open which may have been using a lot of energy and/or memory.

(One of them was this program by me which draws a grid of squares in isometric 3D, but unfortunately creates and stores a new object literal in the memory every time the function gets called to map a point from 3D onto 2D. This function gets called about 1600 times each frame, about 60 frames per second. Not a big problem unless I left it open for a while, which I did.)

So then I got the spinning wheel of death on some apps, various Safari tabs weren't even rendering, and my computer fan was whirring/purring faintly. That's all well and good, because I force quit everything, and when that didn't help completely, held the power button and shut down my computer, only to find that when I powered back on my computer it still was hot and stuff.

I guess my question is, does leaving your computer screen and applications on for a long time make it complain and it will still be laggy and hot and stuff even after you terminate all processes? Or is my computer just getting old so I have to buy a new one in which case tsk tsk Apple. I have a Early 2014, 13" MacBook Air.


texts: How to make Energy Saver Schedule to Shutdown when logged out

texts: I have an iMac with the Energy Saver schedule to turn off at a specific time and then restart in the morning. It does not work if I am logged out. How do I make it work if no one is logged in?


texts:
Apparently iOS no longer automatically includes apps in the search. Frankly, that’s the only thing I ever search for.

According to the accepted answer in Why is iOS unable to find my apps?, I need to turn on the feature for individual apps in the Siri & Search settings.

Is there a way of enabling all apps to be searched without enabling each individual app?


texts:
I am on macOS Sierra version 12.10.16. I downloaded an application. This app has .dmg extension. I would like to install it without using sudo or without being one of the sudo users.

When I do hdiutil attach <image>.dmg from Is there a command to install a dmg, it doesn't work.

If I do it using GUI I get this error message:

  Modifying “Applications” requires an administrator name and password.

How do I install a .dmg file without being a sudo user?


texts:
Is there a free temperature monitor program that works on a 2014 Retina MBP? I don't need fancy features, fan control, etc. Just temperatures are fine.

All of the ones I've found in the App Store and elsewhere are paid, and the only free ones I've found don't work with new machines.


texts: Listen to all voice mails on iPhone continuously

texts:
On older phones I could start vmail going and just let it run - through all messages. There were options to perform actions as you went along. But if you just let it go it would play all messages and save them.

I miss that:on the iPhone I have to mess with the keys for every message. The "speaker" , play/pause and go back are all v close to one another so it is frustrating. Also there is a few seconds of pause for the vmail to be retrieved - for each vmail.

Is there any way to get the behavior of the older phones for vmail playback on the iPhone?  Essentially a hands-free full playback?

thanks


texts: Cannot connect to software update server

texts:
By some reason I cannot connect to the software update server. I'm receiving the following message when I try to fetch the updates:

Can you suggest how I can switch to the native Apple update server? I used to be assigned to the corporate one before, but it's no longer the case. Any chance to change it without bringing my laptop to the Apple store?
The options suggested here didn't help. I keep receiving the same error.
OS version: macOS Sierra 10.12


texts: Number pad produces strange output in certain commands in Terminal

texts:
Running OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)

Well, something happened to my system (I can honestly say it wasn't me but), I was unable to use the USB keyboard number pad while using commands such as 'less', 'more' (and perhaps 'vim' and 'nano') in the OS X Terminal.  It would type output ESCOq for 1, ESCOr for 2, ESCOs for 3, ..., ESCOp for 0.  When exiting the programs, the USB keyboard number pad would work just fine in the terminal.


texts:
I'm running Little Snitch and every time I open Spotlight to find something it makes a bunch of http requests out to various websites, some I've visited in the past some I've absolutely no idea about.

I've no idea what Spotlight is doing and why it should be reaching out, but in anycase I'd much prefer if it didn't.

Is there any way to restrict Spotlight to the local machine and not have it make these requests?


texts:
My 2018 macbook pro with i9 processor running Catalina version 10.15.6 seems to randomly throttle the CPU frequency even with low CPU utilization and lowish temperatures:

I am using a docking station to connect to two external monitors and received hard wired ethernet. Additionally, I'm suppling power via the default usb c apple charger. I read in some places that this throttling could maybe with a bad power source, so I connected the default charger.
Any insight here? I updated to Catalina recently, but the problem existed before the update and has happened after as well. Does it have to do with my docking station? Hardware problem? The frequency throttling seems to happen even after I unplug the docking station, but I never really use my computer enough without the docker station to notice if it happens during normal use.
Here's output of pmset -g thermlog


texts:
I am trying to draw a button in my iOS app which would look exactly like a button in camera App of the new iPad (like on this image)
Since I don't have the new iPad, I can't check it by my own. But what I want to know is, how does this button look like if the background is dark, and if it is some complicated image behind, not just smooth blurred single color as on their screenshot. If somebody has the screenshots of camera app when background is not so ideal, I would appreciate if you share them. Or maybe somebody has values of colors, gradients, sizes, which are used in this button, then it would also be great to see.

Thank you.


texts: Can't update boot ROM firmware on iMac Late 2006

texts:
I want to use Boot Camp on my 17 inch iMac Late 2006, but whenever I open it, it tells me that I need to update my Boot ROM firmware to use the assistant. So I downloaded the latest Boot ROM from Apple's website. However, when I launched the installer, I was given the following error message.

This computer does not need this update.

But it does need the update. The Boot ROM version I have does not match the latest version on Apple's website. Does anyone know how I can get to installer to run properly?
I've already reset the PRAM and made sure my hard drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). And if it helps, I'm running OS X Snow Leopard.
Edit (12/21/14): I made some additional progress in figuring this out, but I'm still stuck.
To start, I tried booting into the Apple Firmware Restoration CD 1.3 and 1.4. However, none of the discs would boot at all. The power light flashes and bleep sound happens, but then it'd just proceed to booting Snow Leopard, ignoring the fact there was a disc. My optical drive is functional, so that's not the problem.
Next, I thought about modifying the installer so it'd ignore the above error message. I unpackaged the installer and dug into the file iMacFirmwareUpdate.dist. That's when I found out why I got the error message. My iMac was failing the hasValidEFI() function because my current firmware wasn't on the list of EFI's qualified to be update, even though my firmware was made for the same machine (IM51).
So I went inside the code and removed the hasValidEFI() check. After that, I was finally able to install the iMac EFI Firmware Update program. But when I opened that program, I got another error message:

The iMac EFI Firmware Update will not update over your current Firmware version of IM51.88Z.008F.B00.0608091133.

So once again, I'm stuck. If anyone knows a method to force a firmware update (or if I even should), I would greatly appreciate it.


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I set 20 minutes in System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver, however the screen saver starts after 5 minutes. I tried to log out and restart the mac with no success.

I should say that after restarting I can see 5 minutes again. So it looks like the settings were not saved.


texts: Where does a Fusion Drive store Time Machine local backups? Should I disable local backups?

texts:
Time Machine in OS X does store local backups (snapshots) on the local harddrive if you have Time Machine enabled.

Even if you backup regularly, the size of the local backups increases steadily. In a SSD-only setup I therefore disable local backups to decrease the write activity and used space of my SSD using:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

Should I do this in a fusion drive as well?


texts:
When I open Script Editor (by opening Finder, then clicking on Applications -> Utilities -> Script Editor) the following window shows.

As can be seen both in the top panel as well as in the side panel, Script Editor is is in the iCloud. Why is it in the iCloud? Didn't it used to be on the hard drive? Is it possible to download it to my hard drive? I tried to search for Script Editor in the App Store, but it doesn't seem to be there.

macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.4


texts: Large File still taking storage after Deleted

texts: I downloaded a file that is more than 20GB, but after deleting the file the space is still taken, and it's not showing in the finder. I'm using a macbook pro with retina display 121GB with bootcamp and OS X Mavericks.


texts:
I'm using this to transform my date from a DD/MM/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY

set today to short date string of (current date)
set t to (time string of (current date))
set [_day, _month, _year] to [day, month, year] of date today

set _month to _month * 1 --> 3
set _month to text -1 thru -2 of ("0" & _month) --> "03"
set the text item delimiters to "/"
set today to {_month, _day, _year} as string
set fullDateToday to today & " " & t as string

  e.g 04/20/2019  >  11/15/18

Although how can I transform the year in YY instead of YYYY ?


texts: Dual monitors Dell P2415Q 13" MacBook Pro 2018, 2.7 GHZ Quad Core i7, 16gb RAM, 256gb SSD

texts:
I'm looking to buy dual Dell 4k 24-inch P2415Q monitors for my new 13" Macbook Pro 2018. I'm concerned about iGPU performance.

Has anyone already tried to run dual 4k monitors on 13" Macbook pro 2018 with 2.7ghz quad core i7 and 16gb RAM? Apple says it's possible, but what about your real experience and performance when you do additional WEB development and light graphic works.

If it's not possible to keep fans cold and quiet, daily UX lag-free, probably I will stay with a single 24" or 27" monitor.

Front-End Development: Chrome, Firefox & Safari (with many loaded tabs), Sublime Text (IDE), CyberDuck (FTP), Sequel Pro (DBS), SourceTree (Git)

Graphic: Pixelmator (light photos/logos editing), Sketch (simple drawings), Figma, Axure RP, Google Web Designer

Other: MS Office, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Harvester, Viber, WhatsApp, Spotify, Slack, Skype, Telegram

BTW, I'm not interested in 15" Macbook Pro. Waiting for any opinion. Thank you.


texts: iPhone 7 won't charge from my MacBook Pro

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My iPhone 7 which I recently bought doesn't charge with my MacBook Pro Retina 2015. It always shows for one second that it recharges but then something like lost connection and then again. and goes on and on, both ports...

Strange thing is that my girlfriend's 6S charges in the same computer flawlessly.

I have tried 5 different cables and bought 1 new one. Same result
In my girlfriends Macbook air it recharges fine, also in other computers it recharges fine...
The iPhone recharges okay from within the AC Charger
I reseted PRAM and SMC, still the same result
Other accessories work fine (Recharging camera, USB port for dock in display)

macOS Sierra, iOS 11 Golden master beta, got Xcode 9 beta installed alongside Xcode 8.

Other thing I thought about is that it could be the Xcode messing around with the USB Port. But I uninstalled it with no luck.

Q: How can I make my iPhone charge (again) using my MacBook Pro?


texts: Do I need to make my Windows 8 install disk bootable when using boot camp?

texts: I have the Windows 8 consumer preview .iso which I plan to copy to a DVD to use with Boot Camp. Though my question is - when I burn the image to the disk, will I need to make the disk bootable to use it to install Windows?


texts:
Question title pretty much says it all.  My wife just started working for a company that uses Office 365 online.  When she is using a work computer, she logs in to her Microsoft Exchange Mail, Calendar, and her OneNote account via a web browser.  When on her home computer, she can connect Apple Mail and Apple Calendar to her Exchange account.  Is there a way to sync her Apple Notes to her OneNote account?

(I know that there is a Mac client for OneNote, by the way.  This question is about whether the native Notes app can sync to OneNote.)


texts: Syncing my iPhone 4 deleted all my music

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 and just just downloaded iTunes on my computer.
I wanted to save all my music to my iTunes so i could later transfer it but i synced it and all my music was deleted. Is there any way i could get it back?

I have all my music on another iTunes on another computer but that computer is now broken.


texts:
So I'm playing around with the Spotlight calculator, and came across a weird thing:

If I type

1..1, I receive 0.1
5..6, I receive 3
523..6.1, I receive 31.38

Does anybody know what mathematical function this is?

Edit: This works on macOS Sierra 10.12.2, as for people in the comments, it looks like three dots are required on macOS High Sierra.


texts:
I'm looking for a way to have all mail messages flagged/labeled with "Red" show up in a saved search in the Finder, but Mail.app flags doesn't seem to be indexed by Spotlight.

Any ideas?

Mavericks (10.9)


texts: iPhone 11 Pro - repeatedly being asked to enter passcode to continue using iCloud?

texts:
I recently changed the passcode on  my iPhone 11 Pro.  About a day after, I started receiving messages saying:
“Confirm iPhone Passcode - Confirm your iPhone passcode to keep using iCloud.  You recently changed this passcode you use to unlock this iPhone.  This passcode also protects access to data stored in iCloud.”
Is this legit?  I’ve changed passcodes several times in the past and never encountered this. Wouldn’t Apple program it so that when you change passcodes, it does so for all services? I searched for this issue on a few sites but haven’t found an answer.


texts: Can't run go file with go run (filename)

texts:
I just started getting into Golang and wanted to run a file in the terminal with go run and then the file name which is main.go

I configured the GOPATH like so:

export GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
export GOPATH="/Users/myUsername/Desktop/gocode/"
export PATH="/Users/myUsername/Desktop/gocode/bin:$PATH"

I created a folder on my desktop named gocode, placed three folders inside named src, pkg and bin.

And code is stored in src and when I want to run the code I get the following message.
my command was go run main.go
the output I received was  stat main.go: no such file or directory

I have no clue why it won't find the directory...


texts:
I use several apps installed using .dmg files downloaded from other sources rather than direct from the App Store.

When I try to remove them through Launchpad, these apps will not show the X button to allow me to delete them.

On the right: Mac App Store app; On the left: app from external source.

Is there any canonical safety way to remove them?

If I put them in Trash, will they disappear from my Mac without any related directories? How can I completely remove an app?


texts: After updating to iOS 8, Siri won't work with internal mic after first try

texts:
I’m seeing this problem:

Siri works fine the first time I try it after a restart, but on the second and subsequent tries, when I press and hold the home button, the screen turns gray and the microphone icon is displayed, but there's no sound and no wavy line indicating that input is occurring. The discussion is detailed here.  Some claim that Siri will only work via bluetooth. This appears to be happening on iPhone 5/5S hardware

Is there a workaround?


texts: iPad Pro gaze detection to prevent display sleep

texts:
Can/do the newly announced iPad Pros use the FaceID apparatus for gaze detection to prevent display sleep? This would be great to set the display sleep time to be after a certain period of non attention. Sometimes when I’m reading something I take my attention off the screen, then carry on reading, then suffer a spurt of non-attention, then the display turns off before I realise.

I’m wondering if FaceID is used to detect attention and prevent display sleep (and a cool bonus would be auto-dimming the screen when attention is not on the screen).


texts: Is there any software to track user activity on Mac OS Server?

texts:
I'm running a Mac server in my office with the following set up

Mac Mini with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2
Apple Server 5.4
NAS unit

On this system, we have a number of users connecting into it on a regular basis which we want to track all of their activity including logging on and off the server, which files they access and any other details we can possibly trace (as much detail as possible).

My question to the community is - does anyone know of any software that can actually do this?

All recommendations would be great.

Thanks.


texts: Will Time Capsule work on a college dorm's WiFi network?

texts:
My daughter is headed off to college. I'd like to send her off with a Time Capsule so she can wirelessly backup her MacBook automatically.

My concern is that Time Capsule will not work properly on her dorm's WiFi network, which she clearly won't have access to from a management perspective.

I know she can connect her MacBook to Time Capsule via ethernet but that is effectively a manual backup and I know that my kids (and many others) won't do that every night.

Does anyone have any more information on this or know how this could work?


texts: In mac OS, Is it possible to make a certain app use the root "Application Support" folder?

texts: I'm curious to know if there's a way to make a certain app use the root Application Support folder on mac OS? So all user accounts on administrative level can run that app with the same data base/information?


texts:
I have several boot drives in my Mac Pro, each with different operating systems.  Right now, I have Sierra, Yosemite, and Windows 10.  I use vifs to edit the fstab file, to prevent other volumes from mounting automatically at boot.  But under Sierra, this is sometimes ignored, and the other two volumes are mounted automatically at boot.  I never have this problem under Yosemite.  The strange thing is, it doesn't happen every time.  Sometimes when I boot Sierra, the other two volumes are mounted, and sometimes they are not.  Below is the contents of my fstab from Sierra.

#
# Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
#
# Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
#
#Windows
UUID=0EC23A58-2503-48E4-88FB-3F13F1F80F6A       none    ntfs    ro,noauto
#
#yosemite
UUID=66A393D3-C723-42D6-89A3-EA68B961FFF3       none    hfs     rw,noauto


texts:
appreciate any assistance, I'm a Mac Noob

Im trying to upgrade MySQL in MAMP to 5.6 according to the these instructions

When I try to run the .command script as per #2 I get the following output:

Sandies-MacBook:~ sandie$ /Users/sandie/Downloads/Install_MySQL_5.6.25.command ; exit;
-bash: /Users/sandie/Downloads/Install_MySQL_5.6.25.command: cannot execute binary file

I have found this post, but I still get the "Cannot Execute" error.  I checked the file type as per the instructions, and the result is:

Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

The instructions suggest I need to unzip it but I have no idea how?

Any help appreciated :)


texts:
In iOS 10 Apple added the ability to react to messages (“tapback”). You can give a thumbs up, a heart, laughter, etc. You do so by tapping and holding the message and then tapping your reaction when the options pop up.

Before iOS 10, though, tapping and holding a message allowed you to select part of the message, just like tapping and holding text most anywhere else on the iPhone.

Is it still possible to partially copy text from an iMessage or SMS? If yes, how do we do so?


texts: Can I remove the lines in the Notes.app and change the line spacing?

texts:
The only reason I use the Notes.app and not Stickies.app is iCloud sync.

I enjoy the customization (colors, fonts, minimized view) and minimalism (plain background, thin borders) of Stickies over the skeuomorphismic approach which generally requires much more space on the desktop.

How can I safely remove the background lines and change the line spacing in Notes.app?


texts: Alarm not based on neither sound nor vibration

texts:
When my neighbour's iPhone alarm sound wakes him up each morning, it wakes me up too. To top it off he snoozes for aeons, which usually means I'll never get to sleep again, even after he gets up.

I thought to ask him to switch to vibration only, but the walls are so paper thin and our beds are both right up against each side of the wall, that even this is likely to wake me up.

The solution I've been pondering is to find an alarm app that uses the flash light to wake people up. Questions:

Is the flash light on an iPhone sufficient to wake up a person?
Are there other options for waking him that will not wake me?

I reckon for example that the Apple Watch has a vibrating alarm, but this is a rather costly solution. Maybe there's a cheap ($10), small, comfortable, cool-looking wearable that does this specifically?


texts:
A MBPro with a 250GB running the latest Mojave suddenly went from 100GB+ of free space to 5GB and is warning us about running out. Looking at About>Storage>Manage, it seems most of the occupied space is System (168GB worth). Looking at things via the Finder, we only see about 90GB of stuff total and only 9GB in the System directory and 6GB in the main Library folder.  Running OmniDiskSweeper with the sudo command via Terminal, it confirms what the Finder is reporting…that there should be about 90GB instead of 245GB of stuff.  We also ran GrandPerspective and it does not “see” any inordinately large files.

Researching a bit, I found some possibilities that haven’t panned out.
1. it’s NOT local TimeMachine snapshots, as was the answer for some people
2. it’s NOT a runaway Spotlight index, as it was for some people
3. running TimeMachine did NOT clean things up, as reported by some
4. revealing hidden files did NOT reveal anything out of the ordinary
5. booting into Recovery Mode and running Disk Repair reported everything fine

Some have thrown their hands up wiped out their hard drive and reinstalled (which has fixed this issue for some).

The problem is, my friend with this laptop is traveling thru Europe and is not technically savvy. So, talking her through a full reinstall will be a big challenge.

There must be SOME way to see what’s occupying the space.   It would seem to me that perhaps there’s some that went wrong with the recent conversion from HFS+ to APFS when she installed Mojave.

Any ideas on how to reclaim the space without reinstalling from scratch?


texts:
Since my update to macOS High Sierra my memory is always at 75% even after a fresh startup.

Is it just iStat Menus that shows it this way or is there really only 25% of memory free (out of 8GB) ?

Or is it the memory that is saved for applications ?

What is the difference between:

Wired (???)
Active (currently in use?)
Compressed (not used since longe time?)
Free (free...)

After closing every app I could, here is the result, approximately 50% of RAM. But WindowServer is huge... What is it?


texts: mac with Big Sur stuck with wrong NetBios name

texts:
My macbook Pro with Big Sur on it got stuck with a completely random NetBios name. Any attempts to edit it to a proper name fail and get immediately overwritten with the same wrong one.
BTW, the wrong name is not exactly completely random, it is actually the name of a friend's device that showed up last time on my WiFi about 2 months before I did the fresh (not an upgrade) Big Sur installation on my macbook.


texts: Does "Never Play This Song" apply to one station, or all stations?

texts: Just curious if every time I press that X, it means I'll never hear a song. Some songs just aren't right for a station, but it doesn't mean I hate the song. Curious if it bans that song forever from all my stations or just one.


texts: How to have Safari open links with the evil target attribute open in the same tab?

texts:
In some pages, there are (still) links marked target="_blank".

Safari opens such link in a new tab.

How to have Safari open such link in the same tab ?

I have Safari 7 on Mavericks. I have older Safari as well.


texts: Mac stuck at the loading bar, when trying to boot from macOS Catalina Patcher

texts:
I want to install Catalina on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) with 10.13.6 (High Sierra) installed. Therefore I made a bootable USB drive with the macOS Catalina Patcher. First, I had the problem that the USB drive wasn't recognized. Now I used another USB drive and now it will let me boot from. But it always is stuck at the loading screen (nearly 100%). What I'm doing wrong?
I tried safe mode (with shift), reset the NVRAM/PRAM (with opt+cmd+P+R) and I don't see a value in reinstalling MacOs in my case.
What can I do to successfully boot from the USB drive?


texts: Swap Fn and Control key on a MacBook Pro

texts: I use a MacBook at work and the Fn is exactly where I expect the Control key to be. Is there any way I can swap the two keys?


texts: Why is Messages acting extremely slow like Internet Explorer?

texts:
I've got my iPhone sync my messages to OS X. However, even though my Mac and my iPhone are connected to my perfectly stable home network, OS X is getting messages with a few minutes of delay. All the messages are immediately available on my iPhone while OS X gets them with a huge delay, making it impossible for me to chat with someone on my Mac using Messages. This is happening occasionaly, and is happening for both regular SMS and iMessage.

I'm on latest release versions of iOS and OS X, and I've got a perfectly fine Internet connection. How can I prevent this from happening?


texts:
I owned a MacBook Pro. I want to play a PC game called WarCraft 3 (with the DotA mod). I have Google and done some research on how to play DotA on the Mac. I can think of three possibilities:

Possibility 1: Buy Warcraft 3 for Mac (it does exist). However, I already own the PC version, and I dont want to waste another $60++ bucks to buy the Mac version (it's an old game).

Thus, I come across some forums suggesting using a VM or using Boot Camp to install Windows and play. This leads to

Possibility 2: Using Boot Camp and install Windows. Well, it sounds good for me, but I've never doen it before and I'm afraid I'll crash or need to reformat my Mac when partitioning, and Apple also recommends keeping a backup for your Mac when using Boot Camp. I do not want to go through all these troublesome things, thus I do not prefer this method.

Possiblility 3: Finally, using a virtual machine. I use VirtualBox, and already have a Windows XP install, running, that works perfectly fine. Now, I am wondering, if I install Warcraft into this virtual machine, and play the game ~5 hours a day, will it crash my Mac?

I have a few general questions about running Warcraft 3 in a VirtualBox VM Windows XP on a MacBook Pro:

1) Will the game lag, the video rendering, etc.?

2) Most importantly, will it damage my Mac?

If you have other methods of playing DotA (Warcraft 3) on Mac other than what I mentioned above, please do share them.


texts: I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. Is this possible?

texts:
I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. I'm not sure if this would be possible with an Automator script, or if I would have to try to program some type menubar software or something. Any ideas?

thanks!!


texts: Email notification for specific emails containing "n words" if n > 500

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 and, like many of you, I receive emails on it. I do a little bit of translation on the side and receive emails on projects, where the email for example contains the sentence "800 Words".

My question is, is there any way I can adjust my settings such that I only get notifications on emails containing the string "n Words", where n is greater than, say, 500?

Thank you for your time!


texts: Mac Dictation and Dragon Dictate: which one has the highest speech recognition accuracy?

texts: Which one amongst Mac Dictation and Dragon Dictate has the highest speech recognition accuracy for English?


texts: Extending Finder view "All My Files" to external drives

texts: Is there a way to include files on external drives in the Finder's "All My Files" view? I found this older answer, but it's not working in OS X 10.10.


texts: How do I create an installer for a macOS app?

texts:
I want to create an installer for a Apache Mesos for Mac. I don't want to use brew since that needs several steps and an internet connection and packaging makes one definite version we can push and also isolate from version changes.

Furthermore, Mesos has dependencies on java, git, autoconf, automake, libtool, subversion, and maven.

How do I start with packaging all these dependencies?


texts: How do I rename app icons on my iPad home screen?

texts:
How do I rename the apps on my home screen?

I have tried putting the app icons in edit mode ("wiggle mode") but I cannot find a way to rename them.


texts: How can I change the black text in my terminal?

texts: I have changed the color in my profile, but some text is still black. How can I make all black text inverted, or any color that's visible? I'm including screenshot of my preferences and the issue. The second terminal screenshot is the result of highlighting, to illustrate the problem.


texts:
I have 2 @ 4TB drives in an 8tb Raid 0 stripe enclosure that has become corrupted.  I have tried to repair the volume via, disk utility, terminal and single user mode with no luck. All 3rd party software seem to only offer recovering as an option.  I am hoping there is still some way I can repair this drive.  Please let me know.

The message I receive is as follows:

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking extents overflow file
Checking catalog file
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files
Checking catalog hierarchy
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 423 instead of 420)
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 14859 instead of 11142)
Checking extended attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
The volume EU8TB could not be repaired after 3 attempts
File system check exit code is 8
Restoring the original state found as unmounted
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: Exec format error

I took a screen shot of orphaned files being fixed under single user mode.


texts: Make Emacs-style shortcuts behave differently than arrow keys.

texts: This is a bit of a weird question, I'll admit, but this is something that really annoys me. I have come to rely on the Emacs shortcuts (mainly ctrl ^+A, ctrl ^+E, ctrl ^+B, and ctrl ^+F) and the behavior of ctrl ^+P and ctrl ^+N is very different than in Emacs. With Emacs, going up a line will ignore soft wrapping and go to the next actual line, not the next displayed line. I've just gotten used to it, I guess. Is there any way to make the Cocoa/Emacs up and down keybindings behave like the real Emacs (preferably only ctrl ^+P and ctrl ^+N, not the arrow keys)?


texts: Change quality of built-in recording script

texts:
I've recently bought ScreenFlow, but I noticed that the recording quality is horrible, and even worse when uploaded to Youtube.

After some research I have to the conclusion that it records using Mac OSX Mountain Lion's screen capturing script that most programs use to record the screen.

So my question is, how do I change the quality at which this script records? I don't mind hacking stuff.

If this is not possible, what would be a good stand-alone program that can record by it's own account, not depending on this screen capturing script.

Thanks for your help!


texts: How to make a table editable in a keynote template?

texts:
When adding Images, Text & Shape to a Master slide you have the option of Define as Media Placeholder.

No such option (appears to) exists if you add a Table to a master slide. This means that when someone adds a slide from a template which contains a table it is non-editable.

Is there anyway of adding a Table to a Master Slide which allows that table to remain editable?


texts: What are these programs? Who installed them? How to remove them?

texts:
I have some strange programs installed on my mac. I have not installed them myself. Or they might have been installed with other programs.

How to uninstall them? They do not appear on my Applications folder.

Blinker
Font Proofer X
FTXcode
FTXviewer
KerxTester
MorxTester
UniCharter


texts: Can't add tag to apache config or log files

texts:
In OS X X.9 Mavericks, I'd like to add a colored tag to my apache config file, which is under /private/etc/apache2, and to my apache log files, which are under /priavte/var/log

I do not have the option to add a colored tag to these files.

Is it because they are "hidden"? Or does it have to do with file ownership? Is there a workaround?


texts: How to debug external display connectivity problems?

texts:
I'm having problems with connecting my retina MBP with external displays of all kinds. The DisplayPort->VGA adapter has a 1/4 success rate. The HDMI port (via a DVI adapter) does not see my monitor.

These monitors all work with every other laptop (Mac, Windows and Linux), including my old pre-unibody MBP. Worst of all, I cannot depend on this laptop to make presentations, because it's often failed to connect to projectors.

How can I debug these problems? I don't see any obvious way to resolve issues when automatic discovery fails.


texts: OS X 10.9.1, Mail 7.1; Mail: Mail rules reset with restart

texts:
I am trying to use junk mail custom actions to add additional tags to mail identified as junk. I also unset the "Sender of message is in my Previous Recipients" option. I am finding that each time I close and then restart Mail my custom actions are reset and, also, the "Sender of message is in my Previous Recipients" option is set back to on. This happens reliably.
* How can I reliably diagnose and/or fix this problem?


texts: Where are Photo Stream pictures stored on my Mac?

texts: I am trying to locate the pictures from my photo stream to back up on my computer and I cant find them. Any help is greatly appreciated


texts: Has someone set up an HP DeskJet 812C with SnowLeopard or Lion?

texts:
My parents have an old printer: an HP DeskJet 812C. I upgraded the OS on their iMac to SnowLeopard before checking if the printer was compatible. Unfortunately, it isn't. There's a Gutenprint driver for this printer, but the documentation looked rather involved. I didn't have much time to dedicate to the task.

Can someone simplify the gutenprint setup process for me? Has anyone successfully used an 812c with SnowLeopard or Lion?


texts: Why are some tracks in my iTunes grayed out?

texts:
Note: There seems to have been quite a few threads on grayed out tracks on iTunes but none of them seem to be relevant with my question/issue.

Context: I have just subscribed to Apple Music about 2 weeks ago for the first time. Still on trial period.

As shown in the image below, these are the 2 albums I added to my library from Apple Music. The first album, I also download the physical files, whereas the second album I do not download for offline listening.

Track 10 for first album is grayed out for some reason, while track 4 for the second album is grayed out.

Both songs are playable. I have no issues playing them despite being shown in gray.

What is it indicating?


texts: Should I format my disk when reinstalling macOS?

texts:
I'm having some issues with my 16 inch MacBook Pro. It restarts and gives me the "Your computer was restarted because of a problem." prompt. It has done that 5 or 6 times so far. I was advised to do a recovery.

Apparently, you can reinstall macOS without wiping the disk. You can also reinstall and wipe as well. And if you go even further, you can reinstall and start from scratch without any data or apps.

Is it preferable to go all the way and start from the beginning, like how it was on the day it shipped?


texts: 10.7.5 on a late 2009 MacBook Pro crashes

texts:
Ever since I installed Lion on my late 2009 MacBook Pro, it crashes several times a day randomly during some operation (open an application, browse the net, add photos, etc.).

I read the answer about updating Show Crash Prefs in System Preferences and tried to do it, but it doesn't work.

I updated Info.plist file with text editor exactly as in the answer, but the Finder still doesn't give the option of selecting new Show Crash Prefs?

Am I missing something?


texts: Activity Monitor showing ~3,000% percent CPU under normal use

texts: Shows huge percentages for dropbox but total is normal, and everything seems to be running fine. I have a Macbook with Intel Core2Duo


texts: iPhone XR black screen and hissing noise

texts:
Today my iPhone's screen randomly went black when I was talking to someone on skype, nothing would work, I tried restarting, etc, plugging/unplugging the charging cable. It was also making a hissing noise while the screen was black.
Everything went away after I used the combination to take a screenshot (volume up button + power button), then the hissing noise went away and my screen started working.
Does anyone know what this was?


texts: Cannot enable calendars and reminders in iCloud

texts:
I am using late 2014 retina macbook pro 15 inch but first when i click the iCloud settings it takes 15 seconds to open it. When I enable the contacts, I can't open the Contacts app it says contacts quit "unexpectedly".When I try to enable Calendars, I get a dialog box asking if I want to merge calendars on my Mac with those on my other devices and I get the spinning icon with the "Setting up..." text and after a few minutes, nothing happens and the checkbox is left unchecked. When I try to enable Reminders, I get a spinning icon to the right saying it is "Setting up..." and then after several minutes it does nothing and the checkbox is left unchecked (no dialog box reporting any problems).

I tried everything, logged out and logged in iCloud several times, tried to add accounts to calendar and reminder separately but nothing works.

Does anyone know the whats going on with the iCloud?

Thanks.


texts: How do I enter a degree symbol – ° – on an iPhone or iPad?

texts: Let's say I'm working on my pork belly recipe [I'm not – there's only one you'll ever need] and I want to record a temperature. I don't want to write out "500 degrees" I want to write "500°". How do I do this?


texts: Can my daughter's iPad mini upload photos to Photo Stream without downloading photos from my devices?

texts: I just bought my daughter an iPad mini for her birthday, and I have everything set up with iCloud like mine, because if she takes a picture, I want it to show up in my photo stream so that I see what she's taking pictures of. But - I don't want all of my pictures to go into her photo stream. Is there a way to do that?


texts: How can I get my AppleScript code to move files?

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Having used Automator to organise files by file extension successfully before, I decided to create an AppleScript application that will save me having to change parameters manually, as Automator doesn't allow me to set a variable for the "Filter Finder Items" action.

However, for some reason or another, my AppleScript code decides not to actually move .wad files. I've tested it with .jpg files and it works perfectly. I've tested it with .epub files, same thing. But it doesn't seem to be able to detect .wad files.

Below is my code. It creates the folder in the correct location with the name I put in the first dialog box, but it doesn't move .wad files into the new location. I end up just creating a blank folder. The Result AppleScript gives me when the script terminates is {}

display dialog "Set folder name" default answer ""
set foldername to (text returned of result)

display dialog "Set file type" default answer ""
set filetype to (text returned of result)

set newfolder to ((path to downloads folder as text) & foldername as text)

tell application "Finder"

    if not (exists folder ((path to downloads folder as text) & foldername as text)) then
        make new folder at (path to downloads folder) with properties {name:foldername}
    end if

    move (every file of folder (choose folder) whose name extension is filetype) to folder newfolder

end tell


texts: Are "Extensions" something that disappeared many Mac OS versions ago?

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On a sheet of Mac keyboard shortcuts for booting, one of them says, "hold down shift while booting and the computer will not load login items or extensions".

Am I wrong, or are Mac OS "extensions" something that were phased out a long time ago?  (In other words, with OS X Lion, the shift key simply cancels loading the login items, period?)

Note that, of course, I know that "extensions" has meaning in other apps -- Firefox, Safari, Thunderbird, etc.  But please confirm my Mac OS X suspicion as I describe it above.

(Yep, I know this is related to my other question.  Getting this answer clear will allow me to resolve both questions clearly and designate their correct answers.)


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I have MacBook Pro I bought 6 months ago. When I charge it, it overheats in the charging port and my charging adapter is also hot.

Should I return it or keep using it?


texts: How to backup an encrypted Core Storage volume off-site?

texts: Given a hard disk with an encrypted Core Storage volume (but not the decryption password, because the backup service should not have access to that), how would one go about backing it up in a way that allows for pushing it to a cloud storage provider (like Amazon S3) and for incremental backups in the future (because you don't want to to push a full 1TB every day when only a couple of blocks have changed)?


texts: Automatically shrink existing Time Machine Backup to a fixed size

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I googled for hours to find a solution for this issue, but I couldn't find an answer that fitted for my problem.

My setup:

I have an iMac with a ~1TB Hard Drive
I'm backing it up via Time Machine to a Synology NAS DS214+ with ~2.7TB Space

My problem:

I forgot to set a size limit for the backup user. No my Time Machine Backup uses about 2.3TB space. That's not cool.
I can't set a quota to the Synology user, because it beginns to count starting zero.

What I want to do:

If anyhow possible I want to tell my Time Machine Backup to shrink automatically to a limit of ~1.5TB by deleting the oldest backups.
Then I want the sparse bundle to not get bigger anymore.

Does anyone of you see a solution? Or do I have to delete all my old backups to reach my goal?


texts: Selectively route VPN traffic - how do I determine subnet value?

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I'm trying to route just specific traffic (a specific domain) on my Mac over my company VPN. This seems to be the most recommended way to do it,

Create the file /etc/ppp/ip-up with following content:

#!/bin/sh /sbin/route add SUBNET $5 replacing SUBNET with subnet, you want to route through VPN (for ex. 192.168.0.0/16)

execute as root:

chmod 0755 /etc/ppp/ip-up This file will be executed each time you connect to VPN.

...but I don't understand how to determine the SUBNET value. Do I need to create a subnet? Is the subnet name for the VPN in network preferences somewhere? I really don't have a good idea of what a subnet even is, so I'm not following how to implement the solution above.


texts: What do the "Energy Impact" numbers displayed in the new OSX 10.9 mean and how are they calculated?

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I love the new energy tab in OSX 10.9 mostly because I love data about my machine.  I'm curious how the energy impact is calculated, and what the number represents.

It seems clear from using the OS for a week that apps that are running more CUP/memory intense processes (for me: Mathematica and MATLAB) use more energy, or apps that can't take a nap (like listening to pandora in google chrome).

What isn't displayed are some of the bigger energy hogs on a portable: Display settings, WiFi, Bluetooth.  I'm wondering if some of this is wrapped into current apps (i.e., if i'm using safari or chrome full screen, will the display power be lumped into this app?) Do display preferences for the app change the energy being used (i.e., working in a text editor with a white-on black scheme instead of black-on white would theoretically use less energy to display).

If these are percents, they do not sum to 100, which is a little annoying.


texts: Disable 'allow permission to send push notification' in Safari 11.1

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Even though the option of "Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications" is unchecked, I get alert in websites asking for permissions. How do disable this completely?

Also to confirm, I'm getting the native alerts asking for permission. Like this: