texts: How to take full-resolution screenshots on iPhone? (Getting reduced from 1242 x 2208 to 674 x 1200)

texts: I've downloaded an app (that I built - I am preparing to submit) on my iPhone 6s Plus and I'm trying to prepare some screenshots for the App Store. Per documentation, the screenshots should be 1242 x 2208px, however when I take a screenshot and open it up on my desktop, I'm left with 674 x 1200px. What can I do to get the proper resolution for these screenshots?


texts: What tools are there for measuring Macbook wireless strength?

texts: I often have trouble connecting to wifi with my MacBook Pro. To help identify the problem, I was wondering if there were any tools for measuring wireless signal strength.


texts: Get the Mojave dynamic wallpaper back after upgrading to Big Sur

texts: I just upgraded to macOS Big Sur and I noticed the dynamic wallpaper from Mojave is missing, although the one from Catalina is still there. Does anybody know how to the the Mojave dynamic wallpaper back in Big Sur? Thanks.


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Back when I had a Windows machine I used a program called CrystalDiskInfo to see total hours of operation of my computer. I only used the numbers for fun or to like indicate how "used" my PC was..

So I'm looking for a terminal command or an app that can display that information for me.

Screenshot of the crystaldiskinfo gui.


texts: How to prevent auto mounting of a volume in macOS High Sierra?

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I am trying to prevent 2 volumes from mounting at startup.

I created a new fstab using vifs and added the UUIDs of the volumes I don't want to mount at system startup, but for some reason this does not seam to work in High Sierra. Both volumes will mount as usual.

Any idea what's missing?

The following syntax is what i used -

UUID= none apfs rw,noauto


texts: How to remap Caps Lock+HKJL to mouse scroll using Karabiner + Seil?

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I've remapped Caps Lock to F19 in Seil.

In Karabiner, I've remapped F19 to Hyper.

<item>
    <name>CAPS to HYPER</name>
    <appendix>Caps to Hyper</appendix>
    <identifier>private.caps_to_hyper</identifier>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19,  ModifierFlag::OPTION_R | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19,  ModifierFlag::OPTION_R | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19,  ModifierFlag::OPTION_R | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19,  ModifierFlag::OPTION_R | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R</autogen>
</item>

Now, I'm trying to get Hyper remapped to be mouse scroll when used with HJKL.

<item>
    <name>Scroll</name>
    <identifier>private.scroll_keys</identifier>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::H,  KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_SCROLL_LEFT</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::J,  KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_SCROLL_DOWN</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::K,  KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_SCROLL_UP</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::L,  KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_SCROLL_RIGHT</autogen>
</item>

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

(For reference, I also have the following in my private.xml file for making Control-HJKL arrow keys)

<item>
    <name>HJKL Cursors</name>
    <appendix>This uses HJKL to browse System Wide (Left/Down/Up/Right)</appendix>
    <identifier>private.change_browse_to_hjkl</identifier>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::H, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::J, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::K, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::CURSOR_UP</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::L, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::CURSOR_RIGHT</autogen>
</item>


texts: Why are inline images not visible in Mail on macOS Sierra?

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I'm on Sierra 10.12.3 and Mail wont display inline images. I already Googled for an answer and found a lot of stuff, but no solution so far.

For Yosemite I found this but can't find the option "Automatically detect and maintain account settings" in Sierra. Is it gone?

I already have "Display remote images in html messages" checked.


texts: Is there a firewall for OSX Lion, that allows controlling of outgoing connections? The built in firewall handles only incoming connections, apparently.


texts: How can I extract audio files from an app?

texts:
Is there any way I can extract audio files from an iOS app?  Would jailbreaking be required?

This would be relatively easy on Android, but I cannot figure out how to get the app onto a PC.

The reason I want to do this is simply because I have an iPad app that has some very nice alert sounds, which I would like to use for my desktop alert sounds, phone notifications and terminal bell (personal use only).


texts: Map volume controls to Function Keys on Sierra

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Since Karabiner is not yet updated for macOS Sierra, is there a way to map volume controls (increase, decrease and mute) to function keys (in my case to F10, F11, F12)?

From System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Display, I can map brightness keys, but is there a workaround for volume too?

To be clear, it's not an Apple keyboard.


texts: Mac won't boot: Way to mount drive and delete one file?

texts:
My macbook is currently a brick. I added a /etc/launchctl.conf file that must be malformed. The OS now crashes even when attempting to start in safe mode:

"launchd System bootstrapper has crashed: Seg fault"

I tried booting from a 10.6 boot CD but it just spun and spun. I have been able to boot an Ubuntu Live CD and mount the mac partition, but the hfsplus partition is always mounted read-only.

There must be an Apple utility I can use to get to a live terminal and delete this single file that is preventing my laptop from booting? If I can get the OSX install CD to boot will there be a utility that can help me?


texts: Is it possible to transfer media from Catalina to an iPod Nano?

texts: I have been wanting to update to Catalina but have been waiting. One of my biggest concerns is being able to transfer music to my iPod Nano. Is it still possible to import media from Catalina to the iPod Nano?


texts: Keychain doesn't remember password for network drives

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I have an MBP with Yosemite connected to my home network, and I want to automatically mount three hard drives located on a Windows 8 computer also connected to the network.

When I connect using "Finder->Go->Connect to server...", OS X remembers my user name and password, so all I have to do is this move three times, one for each hard drive on the Windows computer in question.

But I don't want to manually add these drives every time I log in or restart the Mac. So I add these network drives to "System Preferences->Users and Groups->My Name->Login Items" by simply dragging their icons from the Desktop to the item window.

But upon login or reboot, OS X doesn't remember the user name or password, and prompts me for it. And it doesn't help that I tick the "Remember password in Keychain" box.

EDIT: There are three keychain entries for the server (whose name is "HTPC"): internet password, network password, and certificate. The relevant entry in this case is, I guess, the network entry. It does have the correct account name and the correct password for the server. But I begin to suspect something else is happening here, since the logon dialog (that says 'Enter your name and password for the server "HTPC".' has 'Name: christer.tamm' when the keychain entry has 'Name: christer.tamm@gmail.com'. I'll try changing my user name in Windows 8, perhaps OS X doesn't handle the '@' character as it should. /EDIT

EDIT II: I tried supplying another account to log on with, this one without an '@'. Didn't work either. But then I just deleted ALL keychain entries to 'HTPC', and tried the same procedure as in the beginning of this tragic story. Lo and behold, it now works as it should. So while I am pretty clueless as to exactly what was wrong, deleting all the entries helped solving the problem. /EDIT II

What is going on here? Am I doing something wrong? Why doesn't OS X behave as I expect it to?


texts: How to recover WhatsApp media after getting a new phone?

texts:
I bought an iPhone 8 to replace my iPhone 6. I was able to migrate absolutely everything via the "Quick Start" functionality.

However, when I opened WhatsApp on my new phone, all the media sent via WhatsApp was gone. For example, I had a collection of "starred" GIFs that now is only displayed as a bunch of items without an image, and when I try to select one of them I get a "This item could not be selected. please choose a different item" error message.

How can I recover the WhatsApp media (including the GIFs) from my previous phone? I still have the iPhone 6 with all its data.

Thank you.


texts: Bootcamp assistant cannot partition drive

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I am trying to install Windows 10 1809 via bootcamp assistant on my 2016 MBP and it keeps showing me the following error:

Here is the output from diskutil list:

Carsons-MBP:~ carsonclark$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.7 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.7 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            21.1 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 68.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US... +5.1 GB     disk2

Here's my disk utility:

And I've tried the following:

Using disk utility to scan/repair disk
Reinstalling MacOS

The following terminal commands:

diskutil verifyvolume / diskutil repairvolume
/sbin/fsck -fy

I'm not sure what else to try. FileVault is off by the way.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can a file be copied to one hard drive in a RAID 1 mirror set (software RAID), and later have the 2 drives sync up?

texts:
I think I read that we can set up a RAID 1 mirror set (software RAID) using OS X Mountain Lion using Disk Utilities, and later plug in one drive and copy a file to that drive, and later on, plug both drives in, and the two drives will sync up automatically?

But I just set that up (using 2 brand new drives), and then Eject the RAID set, and now unplug both drives, and plug only one back in, and the drive won't show in Finder, until I use Disk Utilities to examine the drives, then the drive will show up in Finder.  And then I copied one file to the drive, and plug in the other drive.  And then this second drive blinked for 10 seconds, and I thought they sync'ed up.

However, when I Eject both drives and then plug back the second drive alone and invoke Disk Utilities and look at the drives and then go to Finder to see the files, that new file is not there.  And if I plug both drives in and restart the machine, and invoke Disk Utilities, the 2nd drive show up as "Failed", and the RAID set show up as "Degraded".

So is there a way to copy files only to 1 drive and let them sync up later?  Sometimes, my Macbook Air may have only 1 open USB port, so I can't plug both drives in.  (when I don't have any USB hub).

(I later on tried using "Rebuild" in Disk Utilities, but it took a few minutes and was rebuilding the drive and later on reported that the remaining time is 4 hours.  The first drive only have 5GB or content, and the 2nd drive only has 3.5GB -- only 1 file which is 1.5 GB is missing).


texts: Is it good practice to use OS X with a Standard user, and have a separate Admin account?

texts:
I am currently using OS X with a Standard user that has no admin privileges in the OS GUI.

Note: My Standard user does however have sudo permissions in /etc/private/sudoers. This enables password protection when doing critical tasks in Terminal, while retaining flexibility.

For everyday use in the OS GUI, I keep a separate admin account. When necessary, I am asked to enter its username and password, e.g. for unlocking System Preferences or modifying /Applications.

Questions:

Is this good practice? Why/Why not?
What are the risks associated with this setup?


texts: Transferring mobile apps from iTunes (iPhone) to an external hard drive

texts: I'm not too computer savvy, but I want to know if there is a way to transfer my mobile apps on iTunes to an external hard drive?  I am trying to free up space on my PC's internal space.  And if so, how do I go about doing so?


texts: Why does iPhone Voice Control turn on when I wear headphones while working out?

texts:
I listen to music on my iPhone 4 while working out on stair master. After about an hour, voice control turns on by itself. I turn it off but it comes back on. Then the iPod is paused then skips couple songs. It doesn't stop.  I think it has to do with headphones or something. Maybe sweat getting into headphones?  This happens almost every time I work out.

Apparently this is common issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2512674?start=0&tstart=0

https://discussions.apple.com/message/9714491#9714491


texts: Update Preferences Panel after using default write

texts:
I am using default write to set/unset Block all incoming connections option of OSX firewall.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf globalstate -int 2
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf globalstate -int 1

I realised that the option is not set if the preference panel is open.
Is there a way avoid this behaviour, possibly refreshing the Preference Panel UI after setting the new value?


texts: Mountain Lion Internet connectivity issue

texts:
I am system admin for my department I have recently updated all machines to Mountain lion and I am now getting reports of connection problems , the users lose their connection to the internet yet i can use ARD to successfully connect to the machine. We have done trace routes using terminal successfully.

If we reboot the machine the problem is then resolved. Has anyone experienced this issue and or have suggestions for possible permanent solution

thanks for your help
mcgrailm

mountain lion 10.8.4 Connected to Ethernet with Wifi disabled

the ethernet settings are manual and have double checked all the settings and cables. i change nothing and reboot the machine and magically have internet connection again

found that logging out and back in corrects the problem temporarily and creating and using another account resolves it completely but neither of these are an ideal solution its seems to be a problem within the user settings.


texts: Terminal shows ">" after running command

texts:
I am new to Mac Terminal. I am learning. After entering a command it gives me just that: >  What does it mean? What should I do now, how to continue or scape?

Here is the command I issued:

for file in *.txt; do echo mv "$file" "${file/#new/nou}”; done


texts: I have a my contact list on my PC, formatted as a table in Word (.doc). Is there a convenient way to transfer this info into my iPhone 7+ contact list other than manual data entry?


texts: When are sidecar AAE files created in a Mac?

texts:
I'm trying to figure out how the Photos app works.

I had the idea that each time you start to edit a photo, a sidecar (AAE) file is created.

However, I edited several photos and I couldn't find any AAE files created.  Where are the sidecar files that should have been created?

I'm searching AAE files with a Terminal search:
find / -type f -iname *.aae 2>/dev/null

Any help much welcome.


texts: Cannot set VLC as default through Get Info

texts:
I cannot set VLC as default.

I know about right-click → 'Get Info' but there is no drop-down to change the default so it's not possible to change it. I'm not sure why this is but I know from searching around that I'm not alone.


texts: iMac 27” 2010 Black screen just after chime

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I’m having a problem on my iMac 27” Just after the chime it will show the loading bar then after a few seconds it just turns off so there’s no way I can get to use the keyboard.Is this possibly a power supply problem? I would appreciate some help.. Thanks
Thundereux


texts: VMware Fusion: Command + Tab window switching not focusing *inside* virtual machine

texts:
I'm a "keyboard-oriented" user. I normally switches between applications via Command+Tab combo. I noticed the following issue when working with a Linux guest (steps to reproduce):

Run a Linux VM in Single Window mode.
Switch focus to another Mac application window such as Chrome browser.
Switch focus back to the VM via Command+Tab.

At the point, it looks like the VM has been focused, but it seems actually only the VM window is focused, but not the running VM itself. I'm saying this because at this point:

Command+H combo still hides the VM window. It's not sent inside the VM itself. Note I have unchecked the shortcut in "Keyboard & Mouse > some_profile > Edit Profile > Keyboard & Mouse > Fusion Shortcuts > Hide Application".
Command+M combo still minimizes the VM window, having unchecked the relevant shortcut as above.
Typing "Space" key is not sent in the VM.
Not until typing some "normal" keys, such like alphanumeric keys, does the focus actually move inside the VM itself.

This focusing issue does not happen when the VM window body is focused by mouse pointer. Actually it does happen if the window is focused by explicitly clicking VM window title bar, but not the window body.

Is this a bug or what config change is needed (e.g., keyboard settings)? Essentially, what I want is Command+Tab able to switch right inside the VM, but not at the VM window.


texts: Is it normal to still see what's on the screen when it's fully dimmed?

texts:
I'm using an external monitor, so most of the time I've got the MacBook Air's internal screen dimmed to 0. But it doesn't switch off completely at 0 brightness as I can still see some graphical elements. They're hardly discernible but still there.

I was wondering if this is normal.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any other way to disable the built-in screen.


texts:
In the past few days, there are some files in my Documents folder. Typical filename is like: 1400115281_report_pb.dump, a few digits followed by report_pb.dump.

The file seems to be kind of log file where the 1400115281 is app_id. Here is a part of the file:

  {"common":{"platform":7,"apn_type":"UNKNOWN","app_id":1400115281,"scope":"common","os_type":"mac_10.15.3","biz_id":"200000001","app_version":"1.3.0.437","net_type":0,"device_name":"x8
  6_64","sdk_version":18874398},...

What is this file for? How can I prevent it from showing up or default the file to another location instead of the Documents folder.

Update, the only Google result about app_id 1400115281 is:

It happened I installed Tencent Meeting lately, and the app version is also 1.3.0.437:


texts: macOS suddenly exhibits weird mouse acceleration after idling

texts:
Not sure what changed in the system but I'm running 10.15.6 (19G2021) and suddenly it have the mouse acceleration really fast if the system is idle for a few minutes.
As soon as I move the mouse for 1 second, the acceleration does return to normal.
I have a custom acceleration set in this system like this
defaults read .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling 0.125

Not sure if that matters.
I also have a Logitech mouse that is controlled by their software GHub.


texts: Does the newer MacBook Pro need anti virus

texts:
I am purchasing MacBook Pro 2017 with Touch Bar and I was told by one customer representative of the shop that you need anti virus because old one use to come with build in anti virus but not the new one.

Is it true? If so why?


texts: Why does Refind break when upgrading from Mac OS High Sierra (HFS) to Mojave (APFS) on NVMexpress Macs?

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Problem: NVMExpress Macs that have Refind do not see the APFS container and I cannot boot into my mac.

Also, apologies to those who were aware of this solution, but I faced this issue along with several other technicians on the problem and we could not solve this until now.

I will be answering my own question below but this post applies to users who are doing the following with their mac:

Have disabled SIPS on their device
Trying to use refind with Mac OS Mojave
Upgrading from High Sierra HFS to Mojave APFS
Using refind version 10.4 or 11.4

This post will not apply for macs that do not have:

A NVMExpress controller. Examples of Macs that do have it are the Mac Models 18,2, and 18,3.

If you install refind using the unix installer onto an NVMExpress machine, it does not automatically install the appropriate driver folder that will allow you to support APFS, leaving you to assume that refind is buggy. Refind ends up not being able to see the APFS container Preboot or Macintosh HD volumes on the refind menu to boot into your Mac OS Mojave System.

If you tried this on a non NVMExpress machine and had High Sierra APFS, you would only see the Macintosh HD volume, which validates that refind works. This is also true if you had Mojave on a non NVMexpress machine, as refind version 11 would easily pick up on both the Preboot and the Macintosh HD Volumes.


texts: MacOS two-finger scroll is sometimes interpreted as a single-click

texts:
I haven't seen anyone report this problem, and I suppose it could attributable to my clumsiness, but I've been seeing the following behavior, and I wonder if there are any fixes.
Hardware: Apple MacBook Air, M1.
OS: 11.2.2
Trackpad preferences are set to include nearly all gestures, including 2-fingers for secondary click. Scroll direction is natural.
What happens is that as I'm two-finger scrolling through a web-based article (news, for example), I'll put my fingers on the pad to scroll, and if I'm hovering over a hyperlink at the time, the machine will often interpret my action as a single-click and follow the link.
I have to assume that there's some sort of lowpass filtering or time delay so that the two fingers don't need to touch the trackpad at exactly the same time to be interpreted as a two-finger event. I wonder if the timer is adjustable.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks!


texts: Can I change the time delay length for when I require a password in the App Store (iOS 8)?

texts:
I currently have iOS 8.1 running on an iPhone 6 Plus.

I just switched back to Apple after being on Android for a year. On the Google Play store, after making a purchase & entering my password, I could choose the amount of time that could pass before I'd require that password again. I can't remember if this is possible on the Apple App Store, but I haven't been able to find that setting if it is.

Does anyone know if/how this is possible on iOS?

Note: I am jailbroken if there's a tweak out there for this. I've found a Cydia app that will automatically enter my password, but that's not what I'm looking for. I just want to increase the delay before I need to enter my password again.


texts: What version of Windows can I install on a 2009 MacBook Pro?

texts:
I would like to convert my old 2009 MacBook Pro into a Windows machine to use some apps that don’t run or do so extremely poorly on macOS.

This MBP supports El Capitan (10.11) as its last version.
What version of Windows can I install on it using Bootcamp?

Thank you very much


texts: Can not charge iPhone 5 from Macboook after Mavericks upgrade

texts:
I have a Macbook and usually have it plugged into power.  I then connect iPhone 5 via USB port to charge the iPhone - it has worked for 3 years.  I updated my software to Mavericks last week and now the Macbook says "USB Device Disabled" "Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB device"

Can anyone assist?


texts: Leaving MacBook Air on sleep for more than 5 hours causes it to not wake up at all

texts:
I am facing an issue with my brand new MacBook Air 2019 Retina True Tone model

When I put my Mac to sleep, close off the lid and let it stay like this overnight (roughly for about 6-7 hours), when I open the lid again, my Mac doesn't starts automatically. Even when I press the trackpad, spacebar etc, it doesn't wake up. I have to press the power button to turn it back on.

However, during the day, in my breaktime I leave it on sleep mode and close the lid for about 1-2 hours, opening the lid wakes up the MacBook normally.

This machine is working just fine for me except for when I wake up every morning and see that I can't start my work from where I left because my MacBook doesn't comes out of sleep.I have to shut down using the power button and then turn on my Mac.

Can someone tell me a concrete solution to this? Because I can't test each solution separately because it would consume too many days since the only time I can leave my Mac on sleep for about 5-6 hours is when I sleep.

Note : Yesterday I had updated my OS to Catalina as per the recommendation of apple chat executive, but the same problem happened today morning aswell and right now my software is up to date.


texts: Can I cancel iTunes Match and subscribe again without reuploading my music?

texts: If I decide to cancel iTunes Match for a bit and then resubscribe do I go through the whole 'match' process for my music again?


texts: How to change the default shortcut for "move focus to next window" to something else?

texts: On Slovenian keyboard it's impossible to click the default shortcut.


texts: How do I cleanly remove old Juniper Pulse installation from Mac OSX?

texts:
The Console application on the Mac is continuously throwing log messages presumably because fragments of a previous install are still in place. I have tried Googling around for a solution and using grep to search through plist files for obvious strings. No luck so far.

Getting recurring error messages per the below:

May 26 19:12:53 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (net.juniper.AccessService[73727]): Service could not initialize: Unable to set current working directory. error = 2: No such file or directory, path = /Applications/Junos Pulse.app/Contents/Plugins/JUNS: 16G2136: xpcproxy + 11215 [1386][C3C8A771-3847-30E4-BE12-7941C4A2924D]: 0x2
May 26 19:12:53 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (net.juniper.AccessService): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.


texts:
My dad was running macOS & Windows on his Early 2015 MacBook Air, and both crashed. Apple’s service center said the only option was to reinstall macOS.

Using the Windows Command Prompt I backed up as much data as I could. Then I tried to reinstall Sierra, but couldn’t boot into the Recovery Partition. Internet Recovery never worked (at best it progressed to 10% then stopped).

So I deleted all my partitions and downloaded a Sierra image from someone who put it in Google Drive. I don’t know what I did wrong but it turned my hard drive into an “OS X Base System.”

I tried resetting SMC, PVRAM/NVRAM… Nothing worked.

Now when I start the Mac normally it tries to resume the macOS installation, but fails because the HDD contains an “OS Installation Media.”

Then I got my hands on a friend’s Mac that I used to Create a bootable installer for macOS. I now have the USB boot drive, but I cannot boot to it (it shows the Apple logo and then “No Entry”). Trying to boot to the regular HDD also shows “No Entry.”

I would appreciate any help reinstalling my Mac cleanly.


texts: Why does my iPhone 4 get so hot during charging?

texts:
My iPhone 4 gets hot as the battery is charged. To compound the issue, I think I bought a cheap case that traps heat, which in turn makes the phone even hotter -- you can feel the heat if you hold it in your hand while it is charging. When you stop charging it, the excess heat goes away.

My question is: does this damage the hardware? Also, to reduce the heat, I put the phone on the floor (which is cooler) and I found that the device was not as hot as before (previously I had put the phone to charge on a wooden table). I am unsure as to whether my measure helps in elongating the battery life and protecting the electronic components.


texts: Can I make the srollbars in macOS wider?

texts:
The default scroll bar width in macOS is annoyingly narrow. E.g. when in iMovie or Photoshop, when I want to scroll through the video timeline, respectively image I cannot drag to left or right, but only use the almost inaccessible scroll bars.
And these are so narrow, that when I approach the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom, the Dock pops up and I start another app. This annoyance is already since Snow Leopard 10.6, now I use Big Sur 10.16 and it is still not fixed. (By the way, Linux and Windows have the same issues).
I have made the dock auto-hide to get more 'screen real estate'. But why is the scroll bar so narrow ?
Is there a trick to make them wider ?
Or another trick: enable dragging, like on a touch screen, when scrolling horizontally.


texts: I accidentally deleted a downloaded book from iCloud and wanted to restore the book to my phone. So I restored my phone to the last time I synced my phone. In doing so, I have lost all my Apple Watch activity rings data. Is there any way to undo that restore, and bring my phone back to before I restored it? I don't even care about the book anymore. I just want my old activity rings back.


texts: Localhost refuses to connect after upgrading to High Sierra OS

texts:
I did upgrade to latest High Sierra, moved all old *.conf files like httpd.conf~previous to be in use. Checking config works fine:

sudo apachectl -t
Syntax OK

ping of 127.0.0.1 works as expected, server config file is

SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf"

when I try to open localhost or try

curl -I -L localhost
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused

I'm keep getting refuse, did I miss something? I really will appreciate any help.

I did not change port in httpd.conf from 8080 to 80, because on 8080 I have ngnix listening.

Even when I do ping of some of virtual hosts I have defined it works I mean ping get data because it use 127.0.0.1, but if I try to open page in browser I get connection refused.


texts: Weird screen problems---iPhone 5S, iOS 8.3

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I was using the "Alien Blue" reddit app on my iPhone when suddenly the app closed out and my phone turned off.

After turning the phone back on I was greeted with a flickering backlight in both lock screen and home screen. After a few soft resets, the screen flicker has gone away, but now I can not open any app. They all force quit/crash immediately. Has anyone else encountered something similar? The phone is in a LifeProof case and has never been washed, dropped, or damaged in anyway.

Details:

Capacity: 16 GB
Available: 5.9 GB
Version: iOS 8.3(12F70)


texts: Keynote 6.2 does not keep vector art as vector when copying from Keynote into Adobe Illustrator, is there a work around or setting to fix this?

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I used to copy vector art from Adobe Illustrator and paste this art into Keynote. It was possible to go in the reverse order as well, i.e., copy vector art in Keynote and paste it into Adobe Illustrator have have full editing function. Now when bringing vector art back into illustrator, the art is RASTERIZED.

Does anyone know of a workaround or setting that can correct this issue?

I am on a MacBook pro running OSX v10.9.3 Mavericks

Thank you,
-matt


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If lion server runs on osx lion, what is accessible from the "outside"?

If I open a port and connect it to the ip of the lion server, will that traffic be intercepted by the server app and limiting the scope of the access to what the server app allows access too?

Will my entire file directory be available to the outside if I open the port? E.g. the lion OS running has some other apps running and files stored on it, will this be accessible from the outside? Or does the server app intercept the incoming requests and, depending on what has been made available as a service through the server app, that is only what the outside can access?


texts: Can .plist files be restored to the Preferences directory?

texts: Recently I have been having some issues with hooking an external monitor up to my Macbook (worked at first, now will detect but wont display anything). I found that the solution may be to delete com.apple.windowserver.plist in the Preferences directory and let OS X restore it for me on reboot. However, when looking through that directory I have found that the file doesn't even exist there anymore! Is there any way I can run a repair on my filesystem to restore that file or will I have to re-install OS X (FYI I'm running latest Snow Leopard)?


texts: How to change the background colour of a Keynote presentation gradually each slide?

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Can I automatically change the background colour of a Keynote presentation? I would like to have a lighter shade of a colour on the first slide and gradually darken each slide such that I end up with black on the last slide.

Even more awesome would be if I could go through a pre-specified gradient (e.g. a rainbow) instead of a "simple" light-dark transition.

I have 40 slides, and doing this manually is quite tedious.

Don't worry, it's not for an actual presentation.


texts: How do I remove Supervised mode on the iPad so I can attach it to another computer?

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I can't really figure out a way to connect to another machine once the device is in Supervised mode. Supervision Mode seems to embed itself into the operating system.

I am getting this error every time I connect to iTunes on a different machine (Windows 7 32-bit, or Mac OS X 10.10.2):

I used Apple Configurator to lock down the device and turned on "Supervision" in Apple Configurator:

Even if I remove the profile (Settings > General > Profile), I still get the supervision error.

My intent was to import pictures on a different machine, but the iPad will not show up as a device in iTunes, Windows Explorer, nor Mac Finder.

I should add that I assigned the iPad Mini 2 to myself using the "Assign" feature, if that makes a difference.


texts: Chrome crashes computer when I insert USB Ethernet adapter

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It seems that Chrome causes a crash on macOS whenever I insert a USB Ethernet adapter.

For a long time I didn't know the reason; I just plugged it in and tried it again and again until my Mac accepted it and let me use it. I thought it was just a problem with macOS.

But yesterday, I changed the default browser to Safari, and I was able to successfully use my adapter the whole day. At the end of the day I decided to make Chrome my default browser again, and my Mac crashed.

Today I experimented more and found that whenever I connect to the Internet via Ethernet, everything is OK until I open Chrome. I tried disabling all my plugins but it didn't help.

What can I do?


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Have the white prohibitory sign when trying to boot up MBP Retin 13" late 2012 running Yosemite. Have tried resetting PRAM (cmd + alt + p + r) and disk utility has been to no avail so far. Have tried repairing disk permissions, but get message saying that one of them has been modified and cannot be changed.

Really need help, any help would be much appreciated


texts: Connection to Mac OS 10.7 from Windows via VNC hangs on/after login screen

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I'm connection to my Mac Mini from Windows, using RealVNC client (also tried TightVNC with the same behavior).

And, Login Screen shows fine, but when I'm typing password sometimes it hangs. Also it hangs when I successfully typed password and pressed enter.
However, occassionally it allows me in (especially after restarting ARD or restarting Mac OS).
Also, when it hangs after sending password and pressing enter, actually VNC connection is established - when I moving mouse on Windows, it also moves mouse pointer on Mac OS.

Where can be a problem, and what I can do to debug this issue?


texts: How to prevent an automatic network share connection at startup?

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Problem Synopsis: I have a WiFi router that can connect to a USB storage device and then allow access to that device over WiFi. I had once connected my Mac (OS X Lion 10.7.4) to such a storage device using the Finder's "Connect to Server" option. I am no longer using that setup but every time I login to my Mac (after a reboot) I get an error message that says:

router was the name I gave to my network share drive.

Attempted Fixes:

I have explored my login items but cannot find an item that connects to "router". In fact the only login item I have is for iTunesHelper. This solution was suggested here.
I have also cleared the list of "Recent Servers" from the Finder's "Connect to Server" menu.
I removed the username/password for "router" from my keychain.

None of these solved the problem and my Mac still shows that message every time I login after a reboot.

Actual Question: Does anyone know how to disable this automatic connection at startup or remove this particular device from that list?


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Since I installed macOS Big Sur 11.1, I cannot see the usual folders in the left sidebar of Finder:

even though I have selected them in my preferences:

What is going wrong here and how do I fix it?


texts: Adding tags to files in OS X: How to use, where are tags stored, and will they work on a network?

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I've heard it is possible to add tags to a file's meta data in OS X, and have Spotlight search through such tags.

In a nutshell, how would one access this feature in Finder – not Spotlight (Command+Space) – but the adding of tags themselves?
Where are these tags stored?  Do they go in .DS_Store (I tend to delete those!) or elsewhere in the filesystem?
Does this tagging mechanism work on removable drives?  What are the requirements?
Does this tagging mechanism work over a network share?  I have some Windows SMB network shares at home that I frequently store files on.  Would it work on those or is another configuration required?
Aside from Spotlight, are there any command-line tools for searching through or accessing the tag data for files?

Thank you!


texts: Mac App Store updated an app, app doesn't know?

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A few days ago, I have seen the newly released version of Xcode (6.3) in the updates section of the store, so today I decided to update it.

Updating from 6.2, the process started normally (Xcode was closed during this time) all the way until I could see on launch pad that the download and installation are completed. In the App Store updates section, I can see in recent updates - Xcode 6.3

However, opening Xcode shows me that I'm on version 6.2! As if the update never happened, which means I can't run my projects on iOS 8.3 devices...

Now I know I could uninstall and reinstall, but I'm trying to avoid this painful process..

Do you guys have any idea about what might be happening here?

I found a similar question, unanswered, from Oct' 14' here


texts: How can I extract an .xz archive graphically on Mac OS X 10.4?

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Recent versions of StuffIt will extract .xz archives, but they will not run on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. And using something like Fink, it should be possible to install xz-utils on 10.4, so that .xz archives can be extracted from the Terminal.

But is there any graphical application that will run on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and which will extract .xz files?

It's OK if this application supports extracting .tar.xz archives in a single step, but not necessary, because if it extracts the .tar.xz file to a .tar file, even an older version of StuffIt can extract that.


texts: Way to utilize iCloud shared album externally

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I use iCloud to share photos with people, and I would like to use that resources in my personal blogs(similar to AWS S3)

I know there is a way to access the shared photos via web, but is there any way to access it more convenient?


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I am trying to install Steam with Wineskin but I get a window showing "winemenubuilder.exe has encountered a serious problem" the log of this crash is here on pastebin

I am using OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)


texts: How to find and remove duplicate calendar entries (Mac OS, Yosemite)

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I'm using the Calendar application on Mac OS X 10.10.1 "Yosemite". The calendar is laden with many years of history, and I've just imported some data from a phone as well. It turns out that some of the phone entries were new, but some were duplicates of entries already in Calendar.

Note that "duplicate" has some complicated cases. For instance, there are weekly repeating events where the phone's data correcting deleted some instances of the meeting (we didn't meet over the New Year holiday), while the original Calendar data incorrectly shows those instances occurring. Such pairs are "duplicate", even though they aren't identical.

How can I automate the process of identifying which calendar entries are duplicates, choose which one to keep, and delete the other? Is there AppleScript magic or something?


texts: Showing contact name with received SMS from Google Contacts

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For those of you who have linked your Google Contacts to your iPhone, when someone sends you an SMS did it display the person's name or did it simply display the number?

Because, although I have linked my Google Contacts to my iPhone, I can only access my contacts when I go Contacts -> Groups -> Google Global Address List -> Search.

When someone send me an SMS, only the number is displayed and I have to go Contacts -> Groups -> Google Global Address List -> Search to search for the number and see who it is.


texts: Bootcamp requires Windows 7. Possible to clean install Windows 10?

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I have iMac, late 2011, Intel CPU.

Original OS X was Leopard updated to High Sierra.

Hardware cannot update to any later version.

Installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp in High Sierra.

Updated Windows 7 to Windows 10.
Windows 10 had problems, i.e. System Restore did not work, a driver for Bluetooth not installed.

I decided to try a clean install of Windows 10.
But Bootcamp setup file prepared under High Sierra says it requires Windows 7.
Because of problems when update Windows 7 to 10, is it possible to install Windows 10 without starting with Mac OS X / Windows 7?

Note: Windows 10 will do a clean install (everything on drive deleted, reformat as 1 NTSF partition during Windows install). Bootcamp setup will open in Windows 10 but stops and states it requires Windows 7. Is there another version of Bootcamp available?

Note: Without Bootcamp, after installation, Windows 10 gets stuck when restarted. I get Mac white screen, then Windows blue flag with spinning dots. Screen blacks out, then starts over with Mac white screen. Repeats indefinitely. (However, no problem restarting during install process.)
Thanks for any information.

Bad news accepted, just want to know if this is possible and how to do it. If not; I'll deal with it.

Many thanks in advance.


texts: How to isolate cause of iMac System Crash

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For the past six months I've been trying to isolate sporadic iMac system crashes unsuccessfully.  The machine is a late 2012 iMac 3.4 GHz i7 with the 3tb fusion drive (replaced awhile back under the recall program), 32gb of Mac certified RAM  from Crucial, and the NVIDIA GTX 680MX graphic card option.  I sometimes hook it up to an external monitor.  I also typically have the machine hooked up to external USB drives.  The system can run for weeks without issues, then crash or sometimes mere minutes/hours.

The behavior is that the system simply shuts down with out warning.

Things I've tried:

Running the machine with a UPS to eliminate the potential for power fluctuations.
Running the machine without a UPS to eliminate the potential that the UPS is to blame.
Checked the RAM using a multi-pass scan.
Replaced the RAM with new RAM directly from Crucial despite no issues found in scan.
Scanned the hard drive and found no errors. (System uses 3tb Fusion Drive)
Reinstalled OS w/ restore from Time Machine backup.
Upgraded the OS.
Ran the machine w/o the 2nd monitor hooked up.
Ran the machine w/o the external USB drives hooked up.
Left machine with the Genius Bar twice and allowed them to run multi-day scans on the machine with no issues detected.

The only thing I haven't tried is to reinstall the OS from scratch and just manually restore everything rather than restoring from a TimeMachine backup.

Today it crashed again. I'm at a loss and close to just junking the machine.

I know I should be able to determine something from the Console logs, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for and the volume of information in these is overwhelming.

How would you go about determining exactly what's causing the crash?  Is there a string I should be searching for in the logs that would give me this information or any software I can run to monitor the system health to capture this at crash-time?


texts: libxml2 installation not being seen by LaTeXiT

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I just installed LaTeXiT and tried to change the output to MathML. I got this error at first

(it says Warning: the XML::LibXML perl module was not found). After this I ran brew install libxml2 and the installation was successful but the error persists. I presume that this is because libxml2 isn't symlinked to /usr/local, as homebrew openly says

libxml2 is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because macOS already provides this software and installing another version in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.

If you need to have libxml2 first in your PATH run:
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/libxml2/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/asmichel/.bash_profile

For compilers to find libxml2 you may need to set:
  export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/libxml2/include"

upon finishing the installation of libxml2. What is the correct solution to this problem?


texts: Mac bluetooth not connecting when opening from sleep

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This issue popped up a month or two ago, but it's recently gotten much worse to the point where I am unsure of how to fix it and waiting is no longer an option.
I have a 15-inch mid-2015 Macbook Pro, model A1398, running macOS Catalina 10.15.3.
When opening my laptop, my airpod pros recently stopped connecting like they usually do when I put them in. Manually connecting bluetooth from the taskbar does nothing; there is no confirmation that it is trying to connect, no fails, it just does nothing. Same is true for connecting from system preferences.
It is unlikely that this is an issue with the airpods, as I can connect to any other device perfectly fine. Also, I have tried factory resetting the airpods, unpairing and repairing, turning off and on bluetooth, and restarting my computer, none of which have had any effect.
Things that occasionally worked in the past—albeit inconsistently—included quitting mds, mds_stores, mds_sync, bluetoothd and coreaudiod processes from activity monitor, and then attempting to reconnect the audio. However, these often didn't work and usually I would have to wait until the airpods suddenly connected after anywhere between 1-5 minutes. However, now, the airpods have completely stopped connecting altogether.
I have also tried all 3 debug options in the bluetooth taskbar option+shift+click menu: factory resetting all connected devices, resetting the bluetooth module, and removing all devices. Although this helps it connect a little faster sometimes when I go through all the steps, this has not solved the issue permanently and is an excessively long process just to connect a bluetooth device.
At this point, I am stuck. I have looked at all online resources I could find, most of which recommend resetting my airpods, disconnecting then reconnecting, restarting, and other things I've tried. If anyone has any suggestions on what I could do to fix this, please let me know. I will try them out and update my question with results on how well it worked.
Thanks!


texts: Can I erase a missing device to iCloud after removing it from My Devices?

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I had to return a dead iPhone to my phone carrier, so I needed to 1) erase the phone, and 2) remove it from the Find My iPhone app on my iCloud account. The phone is still in my possession for a day or two, but I cannot get it to charge and the battery has no juice.

Since the phone won't turn on, I needed to perform those two steps on iCloud.com rather than on my phone.

Unfortunately, I accidentally Removed the phone before Erasing it. :-(

As a result, I no longer can see it in my list of devices in the Find My iPhone app on iCloud.com. However, in the Settings app, it lists that phone as one of my iDevices running either iOS 8, Yosemite, or WatchOS.

Is there any way I can still schedule an erase for the iPhone if/when it comes alive?


texts: Pop-up notification (or notification center notification) for battery in OS X Mountain Lion

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I don't have the battery/AC icon turned on because, for the most part, there's no reason for it to be there - I typically get cord-free 5 or so hours at a time, so it seems redundant.

Still, occasionally my laptop will just turn off due to the battery having been depleted.

So, I was wondering if it's possible to have some sort of "Warning, battery is at 1%!" notification in, say, notification center or via Growl?

Currently I just type "pmset -g batt" in the terminal, which I generally have open anyway, to get my estimation. But I would like a more automatic method of doing this, if at all possible.


texts: Running pipesim software on boot camp windows 10

texts: I installed windows 10 on my mac using boot camp but I cannot run Pipesim software that I downloaded. it says close boot camp services while on windows. how do I resolve this issue?


texts: Some windows in OS X Lion do not move to foreground when taking focus

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I have two windows open (so far I think this has only happened when at least one of the windows is a Finder window, though I'm not sure if that fact is essential to the problem), and I click the one in the background. The previously-focused window changes shade to show that it has lost focus and the now-in-focus window also changes shade to show that it has gained focus, but no matter how many times I click it, it doesn't come to the foreground. I have to try cycling between the windows in order to successfully move-to-background the out-of-focus window and move-to-foreground the in-focus one. Why would this happen? I've never seen such behavior in older versions of OS X and don't think it's a Lion "feature" either.

EDIT: Screenshot attached showing behavior in 10.8


texts: MacBook Pro 2011 keeps booting the OS X Utilities and won't accept our Apple ID

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Before the issue became my headache, one of our relatives created a partition on my MBP to keep their files. Yesterday they deleted their partition and there might be important files that was delete and we don't know what it is.

Once we turn on the MBP it boots directly to OS X Utilities. Did some research and follow all helpful instructions that we found online, but seems it won't work.

Steps that we did.

We tried the internet recovery, internet recovery error 4403f always shows even if we use a different internet access.
NVRAM reset.
Tried Single user to reset. (fsck -fy)
Ran Disk Utility and found that the "volume..." something was fixed.
Date was changed to current date to install OS X since we encounter an error about computers compatibility and need to try again.
Tried to hold the option button and choose Macintosh HD, but still boots OS X Utilities.
We use 2 Apple IDs, but new problem encountered. The error message says: "Apple ID has not been used in App Store and the other is for US App Store only and will be redirected. The installation was cancelled."

Question:

Do we need to use the very first apple id that was used to update or install the OS?
Haven't tried to erase the Macintosh HD in Disk Utility since when we try to re-install OS X Lion, the Apple ID's are not accepted.


texts: How to copy/export emails from old iPhone

texts: I use iPhone’s Mail app to get my emails. I got a new iPhone and found emails are not copied from the old iPhone. It seems the logic is to download emails from the email servers again. However, one of the email service has shut down and no service anymore. How can I retrieve/export emails from this email account? I have catched emails in my old iPhone.


texts: What is this "Screen Shot" app using so much battery?

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The battery on my MacBook Pro drains very quickly compared to what other people report.

When I'm running Slack, lots of Chrome tabs, and Docker for Mac and everything, that's to be expected.  However, when I close everything I'm still seeing drain and the energy app say that a major consumer is "Screen Shot" but when I click on it, it takes me to Activity Monitor - which does not show anything called "Screen Shot".

Take a look:

I have a MacBook Pro 2017 running 10.14

Does anyone happen to know what this is and what I can do to quit the app?


texts: Catalina: backup iOS devices programatically

texts: Before Catalina, I used to be able to use a simple AppleScript to open iTunes and select the menubar to back up connected iPhone/iPad; In Catalina, this function is moved to Finder and so far I haven't been able to find out how to click in the Finder's sidebar > location > iPhone. Has anyone had any luck with that?


texts: iOS - Can I "white label" certain apps not to be auto-offloaded?

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I use the  "auto-offload app" feature of iOS that uninstalls unused apps on my phone to free up storage.
For the most part this is really useful, but there are some apps which I use infrequently, and if they get offloaded they need to be reconfigured to work. Example: CCTV viewer app, which needs to be re-paired with the CCTV hardware each time, which is quite a complex procedure.
Is there any way I can "white label" certain apps not to be offloaded even if they are infrequently used?

iPhone 8, iOS 13.3.x


texts: How to create a Windows Compatible Encrypted disk image?

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I need to send a file over Email securely.  My idea was to use a Disk Image containing the file.  Unfortunately, the person who I am sending the file to has a PC running Windows 10.

I need a way (most likely through the command line) to create an Encrypted Disk Image from a folder that is both read and write compatible on both Mac's and PC.

Even better would be an Apple Script Droplet that would take a file (not a folder) create a folder and then create an Encrypted Disk Image from that folder that is both read and write compatible on both Mac's and PC and then remove the original file and folder.

Note:  Shell scripts are fine for the Apple Script Droplet.

I have tried creating an encrypted .cdr image and then changing the extension to .iso.  Worked on Mac, but "Error...Corrupted" on PC.

I have also tried
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o [filename].iso [encryptedfile].cdr
It worked but it was not encrypted.


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When I make photos with iPhone, these show GPS latitude + longitude in many software.

My normal camera has no GPS. How to add GPS info to these photos?


texts: Offline Updates for macOS 10.15 Catalina?

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In the past, it was almost-always possible to get offline installers for Apple macOS updates from https://support.apple.com/downloads/ (you get a PKG file in a DMG file).

However the same doesn't seem to be true for Catalina. So far none of the updates have been made available.

Supplemental Update 19A602
Revised Supplemental Update 19A603
10.15.1

At-least not in the usual place, they can only be installed using the built-in software updater.

Are these being made available for download somewhere, or is there any more information available on this issue?


texts: Video file location of dynamic wallpaper preview in system preferences

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i want to know the location of the little video that keeps on playing in a loop when we select a dynamic wallpaper ( Catalina for eg) and turn it to dynamic mode in system preferences.
Anyone knows where it is stored?


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I have a problem with installing windows:

USB Details:

Before I created a (what I classify as) bootable disk properly, I have went through the USB being corrupted because of me killing the dd process when running: sudo dd if=/path/to/windows.iso of=/dev/rdisk1. I forgot the bs=1m, so I killed the process. I used Internet Recovery to reset my disk because normal Recovery HD showed the error "Could not open device". The USB is a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3.

Internet recovery deleted my Recovery HD partition and rEFInd.

After resetting the USB with Internet recovery, I ran the dd command again. It did not detect as a Bootable USB in Opt ⌥ menu, nor in rEFInd. I tried to boot "Legacy OS" which led me to a black screen saying "No bootable device found - Insert device and press any key". So I re-plugged my USB and tried pressing a key, without any success. How do I properly (and preferably manually) create a bootable USB that boots Windows on mac, or how do I make the USB I made detectable?

I am running Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)


texts: To speed up iCloud Photos upload, will it work if I import them to macOS Photos first?

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I have a 100+ GB of photos on my iPhone and would like to enable iCloud Photo Library to better manage them from my Mac.
But I am worried about draining the battery while such a huge library uploads, as latest iOS uploads regardless of phone being on charge.
So, if I import all the photos to my MacBook first and enable iCloud Photos there, I can leave it running till upload finishes.
After that, when I enable it on iPhone, will the sync engine know that these are the same photos and skip uploading?
I doubt if it will, I am not sure if there is documentation on this. Has anyone faced similar situation?


texts: Lion and later: Stop auto launching iTunes on Bluetooth headset connect?

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iTunes has an annoying habit of auto launching upon connecting a Bluetooth headset to Mac. Pre-Lion, you could go to System Preferences -> CD/DVD Settings, and disable an option for auto launching iTunes.

However, in Macs without a CD/DVD, and post-Lion, up to Mavericks, there is no such setting available. Neither iTunes 11, nor System Preferences 10.9 present a setting to disable this annoyance.

Some say to disable the iTunes Helper from Users & Groups -> Login Items, but this appears to have no effect.

Is there another way to change this behavior?

Also posted on Reddit.

Also posted on Apple Discussions.


texts: firefox mac os: how to remap cmd+r to f5?

texts: I'm used to hit the f5 key for reloading page on linux/windows. Is there a way to remap reload page shortcut cmd+r to f5 on mac os?


texts: Make Sidebar items in Finder larger without affecting any other application

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Background

I'd like to make items in the Finder's Sidebar larger like this:

Theoretically, you can do it like this:

Open System Preferences.
Open General.
Set Sidebar icon size: to Medium or Large.

Problem

Unfortunately, it affects not only the Sidebar in Finder but also in iTunes and so on.

Is it possible to make Sidebar items larger for Finder exclusively?


texts: How do I stop Mojave Dark Mode turning itself on

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I recently updated to macOS Mojave and, although I think the Dark Mode is cool and has its place, it frustrates me no end that it seems to be on some kind of schedule. It turns itself on every day at 19:30 and I have no idea why, or how to turn this feature off.

Why is this setting activated and how do I change or edit this?


texts: Installing more than one battery pack in Macbook?

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I am interested in installing two standards aftermarket batteries (wired in parallel) in Macbook 11 inch 2017.

Please ignore the issues with the physical housing constraints - I am purely interested in the electrical details about the power supply and charging.

Is this possible? If so, has anyone done it?


texts:
I just received a new Mac, shipping with Lion. There is no install CD or DVD. Where is Xcode ? Do I have to use the App Store and create an Apple ID to get it?
What about X11 ?


texts: How to make Apple Magic Mouse 2 do inertia scrolling in Google Chrome with two fingers on?

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I have an Apple Magic Mouse 2 and a Macbook Pro (Early 2015, Big Sur 11.2.3). I usually put both my index finger and middle finger on top of the mouse and scroll with my index finger. On almost every single app (including Safari, Firefox), this way of scrolling gives inertia scrolling (which means the scrolling will gradually come to a stop after the scrolling finger leaves the surface of the mouse instead of stopping abruptly).
However, on Google Chrome, inertia scrolling only occurs if I leave only the index finger (the scrolling finger) on the surface of the mouse (I need to hang my middle finger in air). If I put both my index finger and middle finger on the surface of the mouse and scroll with my index finger, the scrolling is not "inertial" and will stop abruptly. How do I make the scrolling also "inertial" in Google Chrome while putting both my index and middle fingers on top of the mouse?


texts: iPhone Xr: Ringer volume sound loud for the first second then goes real quiet?

texts: I have checked sound and haptics, the phone settings the contacts settings, but still cant figure out why it changes volume during the ring tone. I use stock ringer tones.


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I have a MacBook on El Capitan with the following specs:

Early 2016
1.3 GHz Intel Core m7
8GB memory
Intel HD Graphics 515 1536 MB
SSD 500G (half used)

It is mainly used for writing Word documents and watching YouTube.

Does upgrading to Mojave make the MacBook slower?

Measuring:

CPU speed

GPU Speed

RAM Speed

Disk Speed

Boot time

Thanks for your help in advance.


texts: How to remove Apple's activation lock in iPad Air

texts: I have an iPad Air which someone gave me, and he said that he's forgotten all his Apple ID details and stuff. So I tried my best to try to unlock it (already used the DNS bypass). What I'm trying to ask here is, is there a way to completely remove the activation lock? Maybe by jailbreaking it. My iOS is version 10.1.1


texts: I want to connect to my mac remotely from my Windows PC. What good products are there available that you recommend checking out?


texts: iOS seems to refuse to allow me to email "long" voice memos, and I'm unaware of any way to extract them from iTunes backups of my phone. How can I retrieve entire voice memos that aren't really short?


texts: Gray screen immediately upon boot. Cannot enter into safe mode, and cannot show boot loader with the Alt key.

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How the problem came to be:

I wanted to dual boot Debian on my MacBook Pro 8,1. I got my USB ready, downloaded ISO, and installed rEFInd. I restarted to make sure the new boot manager worked. It did.
To burn the ISO on my USB, I followed the instructions on the official Debian page, which require the dd command.
However I was careless in my typing, and instead of choosing my USB to load the iso to, I chose a 10GB partition that I had set up long ago (i.e. of=/path/to/10GBPartition instead of of=/path/to/USB ). Tragically, I restarted my computer right as I realized what I had done.

Now, my computer loads immediately into a gray screen, and stays there. The screen comes up just about a second after the boot chime sound. I tried SHIFT, ALT, SHIFT+CMD+V, and I even tried inserting my OS X Lion CD, but absolutely nothing works. It simply goes straight to a gray screen, with nothing on. Any ideas on how to salvage this system?

Thanks for any and all help.


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I have been trying to find an answer to this online, and the closest I have come is this question: Very long login times in Mac OS X. It does, however, not replicate my issue exactly.

My Mac (OS X, El Capitan, 10.11.5) spends a very long time (approximately a minute) whenever I try to log in. This is a fairly recent development I have noticed over the past ~month -- before that, log in times were of the order of a second. As a research student who has to run in between different rooms with my laptop all the time, having to wait for it to log on for so long each time I close down the screen gets really frustrating. I could, of course, try to change the settings for the laptop to not go to sleep each time the screen closes, but that does not address the issue.

I have noticed that if I turn the WiFi off, the log in process is far shorter; I am logged in within one or two seconds after typing in my password, just like it always used to be before. Again, I could, of course, turn off the WiFi each time my computer will be going to sleep, but that, again, does not address the issue. I am in need of using WiFi, and dealing with turning it on and off all the time is extremely annoying.

Based on the research I have tried to do on this, it sounds like this has to do with some active directory settings, but this is something I am unfamiliar with. Can anyone tell me whether I am on the right track, or maybe tell me what my solution to getting constantly short log in times is?


texts: iPad mysteriously sleeps when I turn away to sleep

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I will preface this by stating that I'm not a nut. There's a very strange phenomenon that's been happening on my iPad Pro 2017 over the past 5 months that's mildly annoying and somewhat alarming.
Right before bedtime every night, I prop my iPad on it's stand located on my bedside table. Occasionally, I'll doze off while laying on my side while watching a video playing through the YouTube iOS app. My iPad goes to sleep within a minute after the video ends. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
Without fail, however, if I turn around and lay on my other side facing away from the screen, the video will stop playing and the iPad sleeps within less than a minute. I usually turn around and wake the iPad and hit the play button and the video continues where it last stopped.
I can emphatically say it never happens when I'm facing my iPad, or at least I can't recall it ever happening. Usually, I'll turn the brightness all the way down and roll over to my other side and try listening myself to sleep. I figured the brightness level might be a factor. It's inconclusive, however, as I often leave the brightness level very low when the room is dark.
I tried to come up with some possible explanations for this. Perhaps the iPad sleeps when it senses someone is not near the device to save energy? Possibly, but it would make playing music in the background impossible.  Could YouTube's App be the culprit?  Could it be a feature where it prevents users from using YouTube as a stereo due to licensing arrangements, or with an aim to upsell you their premium service? YouTube does prevent playing in the background and PiP, but it might require hardware access it doesn't have. Could it be a defective iPad or some strange setting? Sure, some other nefarious reasons entered my mind, but I figured I'll exhaust other possibilities first.


texts: How to disable AddressBookSourceSync in El Capitan

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AddressBookSourceSync continually prevents idle sleep.  I don't use address book syncing and in previous versions I used just to delete the app.  However this is now prevented by System Integrity Protection.

Is there an approved or easy way to disable the app (via a launcher or property list or something)?  Or do I have to disable SIP remove the app and then (if I can) re-enable SIP?

EDIT

It occurs to me that because SIP acts only on the boot disk, it is easy to delete the file by just booting from another disk (eg USB) and accessing the main HD from there.


texts: Apple Server.app setup hangs on `Preparing Mail service...`

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Each time I attempt to install Apple's Server.app, I get a hang at the point wherein it says, Preparing Mail service....

I am trying to set this up via both the GUI and the shell (sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/server setup) with the same result.

I've performed rm /Library/Server and gone a bit further with removing some other folders:

sudo mv /.ServerBackups /var/db/.ServerSetupDone /Library/Preferences/com.apple.serverd.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgr_accounts.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgr_certs.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgr_info.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgrd.plist /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd /Library/Server ~/tmp/server_backup

Any idea of any other steps I can take to troubleshoot this here?

I've been thinking that perhaps I can use sudo iosnoop or such to scrub through what files may be active during this setup, but I've not really been able to isolate any problems so far...


texts: Automatically resume Transmission torrents

texts: Is there a way to make Transmission on OS X automatically resume seeding/downloading when it's launched?


texts:
I stumbled upon errors when I tried to partition my HD for an ubuntu partition. First it kept saying Partition Failed: Filesystem Verification failed That problem did disappear after a while. Probably when I repaired permissions. Then it kept saying Could not unmount disk "HD"

I tried unmounting disk manually, though that brought up Filesystem verification failed again.


texts: Is there an alternative iOS to macOS music and photo sync tool?

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With macOS Catalina iOS sync has moved to Finder and became very unreliable, very slow, and even adding a single song starts a very long loop of syncing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/df2o4g/ios_sync_is_completely_broken_in_catalina/

Also when you have 20-40 GB photos and videos, you are looking for something better than iCloud Photo library or Photo stream. Like a better UX of deciding what is uploaded to icloud, what is on the mac (where space is possibly limited) and what is on the iPhone, and where it's clear, that "delete" button deletes from which of the three in the end of the day.

But slowness and not showing a progress status is also a huge issue with both Music/Finder sync and Photos app.

Is there a 3rd party project out there, who got these sync tools right between iOS, macOS and icloud? I'd be happy to support them.


texts: Is it possible to have an Apple Genius replace my Fusion drive with an SSD in my iMac?

texts: Can I take my iMac to an Apple store and have the Geniuses replace its Fusion drive with a pure SSD?


texts: I want to use 2 imacs (one with FCPX) in same house with Airport Extreme

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I have a new 2017 iMac, that when it arrives, I'll be using in a home office to edit videos for video production business on Final Cut Pro X (FCPX).  The 2017 iMac will be hooked up the same as I currently have a late 2013 iMac.

Cox coax cable to router to Ethernet cable to Airport Extreme to Ethernet cable to back of iMac.

I want to use the 2017 iMac solely for video editing and hope to keep it clean and fast, but would like to keep the 2013 iMac downstairs as a home computer.  What exactly would I need to make that happen. A second cable internet line and router for downstairs and home computer?  Seems expensive

I don't want to lose any speed or power upstairs with FCPX and the new computer.  This is paramount.

Would I be better upstairs in video production office to cable from Internet router straight to the back of iMac and not to Airport Extreme?

I'm sharing a house with 2 teenage daughters and a wife with iPhones, MacBooks, etc.  I'm hoping someone will feel my pain and help out a newbie with this.


texts: Oops -- deleted swap files (Mac OS, 10.6) -- will they come back?

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I'm worse than my grandmother when it comes to computers. So I got a Mac as my friends  who know me and know a bit about PCs said I'd fair better with a Mac. They were right and I love my Mac Book Air.

But I noticed over the last couple of days that everything was running a LOT slower and that my Microsoft Excel & Powerpoint each crashed twice (which otherwise NEVER happens -- have owned it for 2 years).

In trying to clean up some files, I foolishly deleted swapfiles, as I was worried I had downloaded some mega files (6 files, each over 1 Gb!) from the internet (although I am cautious when it comes to downloading anything!).

Of course only after the fact did I poke around on some forums and saw that these files seem pretty important to the running of the system.

How can I get them Back? Will they just come back once I start using my Mac again?  I also have a Time Machine backup, so should I look there? I"d rather avoide re-booting everything if possible.

FOLLOW-UP: Thanks for the answers below! I will INDEED be more cautious in the future! Real quick: re-boot is the same as re-start, correct? I hope it is, because I'm not sure if I have all the software to re-install everything. Please let me know; thanks again!

2nd FOLLOW UP: If I have to re-boot, do you think a safe boot would suffice? Would that mean I could avoid having to re-install software, e.g., Word & Powerpoint?

3rd FOLLOW-UP: If the swap files again get SO big, will re-starting the computer clear them?

Apologies that my questions are sort of pathetic -- I probably shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer ;-)


texts: Can't synchronize books with my iPod touch

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I have an iPod touch 4th generation with iOS 6.1.6 and my MacBook has OS X 10.9.5 with iTunes 12.
I have some books (epub) in iBooks, but I can't transfer them to iTunes nor synchronize them with my iPod.


texts: Alternative to Personal Blocklist for Safari

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I’d want to filter a bunch of spammy sites from the search results on Google, just like the Personal Blocklist extension does on Chrome, is there an alternative to Google’s Personal Blocklist extension for Safari?

I’ve found this but seems outdated.


texts: I am hoping to use CMD+i to replace esc in vim but found that CMD+i is mapped to Show Inspector. How do I remove this so that I can free up this shortcut in vim?


texts: What tools can be used for Mandatory Access Control on MacOS?

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Target OS: High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina.
I am looking for a tool/software which can restrict programs' capabilities with per-program profiles, just like AppArmor for Linux.
Example use case, admin users cannot access/usage some part/function of OS, like not able to mount any drive or volume to the system.
I think sudoers can be use here but being an admin user they can made changes in that too.
I am pretty new in this domain so any hint/suggestion will be appreciated.


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In top left corner it is written that no service in settings the carrier name is wrong and when I select the carrier manually it says the network does not exist
P.s. I ported my sim to a new carrier few months ago and used it normally but now suddenly in the settings it shows my old carrier


texts: CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) error not appearing in disk utility

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Recently, my Mid 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro displayed a blank, gray screen instead of booting up. I suspected there was a problem with the hard drive cable, so I took it in to a (non-Apple) repair shop to get a repair quote.

It turns out there was a problem with the cable, but they also said there was a problem with the hard drive. They said their tests revealed a “cyclic redundancy check” or CRC error which would necessitate total replacement of the hard drive.

I then took the MacBook apart, removed the drive, plugged it into another Mac with a usb-adapter and ran First Aid in Disk Utility.

Now, disk utility tells me there’s nothing wrong with the drive (big green check next to drive icon and no error messages.) I can also explore it in finder without issue.

So, my question is this: is it that disk utility does not recognize CRC errors where they exist, or is my hard drive actually fine and the repair shop people were wrong?


texts: Resetting OSX's hardware related settings after booting the system on a newer Mac model

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I have copied the complete internal disk (using Disk Utility) from a 2008 MacBook Pro, running 10.11.6, to a Late 2013 MacBook Pro (I wanted to avoid using the Migration Assistant because that leads to so many more issues such as broken Aliases, unregistered apps, missing some custom system settings and tools, etc.).

Everything worked fine on the new MacBook after that, with two exceptions:

iCloud asked to re-login with the password, but even though it was accepted, next time the Mac was restarted, iCloud asked again for the password. Solution here was to turn off iCloud entirely (with preserving all local data), then enable it again.
Some external USB disks do not work on the new MacBook, while other USB devices do work. The USB devices are recognized (e.g. in the System Profiler), but the drives do not spin up or fail in other ways to get mounted. For example, the external Apple DVD SuperDrive does not even inject a DVD.

After installing Sierra freshly on a second partition and performing a SMC reset, the Apple DVD SuperDrive worked again. However, when rebooting back into the 10.11.6 system, the DVD drive still would not work. Upgrading that system to 10.12.1 did not help, either.

I suspect that there are some persistent hardware related settings in the OSX system from the 2008 MacBook Pro that got carried over to the new MacBook, instead of having those reset for the new hardware.

So, my question is: Are there ways to cause an installed OSX system to reconfigure itself for the new hardware it's now running on? E.g, are there some plists I could delete and then OSX recreates them at the new startup?

I'd guess this should not even be necessary. After all, one could install an OSX system on an external disk and then use that to boot various Mac models, right? For that to work properly, the OSX must not retain any Mac model related settings. So I am surprised that I now have a system that behaves like it isn't aware of the newer model, even though this is 10.11, which came out after the model it's running on.


texts: cp from shell (Terminal) or Finder: "Operation not supported"

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An odd issue here after an upgrade from High Sierra to Catalina.  When I try to copy files from an SMB network share in the Terminal (bash and zsh), I get:
$ cp /Volumes/share_name/path/file.ext  ~/Documents
cp: /Volumes/share_name/path/file.ext: Operation not supported

When I try to copy the same file via Finder, I get "The operation can't be completed because it isn't supported":

I've tried to execute this with sudo and I've tried to repair user permissions (user ID is501, so: sudo diskutil resetUserPermissions / 501) and the same results.
Important to note: Other systems with Catalina work just fine with the same SMB share.


texts: how to create a 128MB HFS+ partition using diskutil

texts: I have a ~ 500GB disk in my new Mac, and I would like to create a 128MB HFS+ (Journaled) partition using OS X, but when I tried to do this earlier today the smallest HFS+ partition I could create was 1GB.  This partition needs to be only a couple hundred MB big because it's only going to be storing GRUB bootloader, i.e. a boot.efi file and some other small files, so when I hold the "option" key while booting I can boot into the appropriate Linux distribution I have setup.  Is it possible to create a 128MB partition with a HFS+ filesystem?  I would prefer to used the "diskutil" command line program over using the GUI app "Disk utility".


texts: AppleScript for lifting & stamping latitude & longitude of photos onto themselves

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After repairing my Aperture library, I have over 3000 photos with latitude and longitude information whose place displays as "Unnamed location" on the map. If I lift and stamp the data using Shift+Enter+C followed by Shift+Enter+V, Aperture names the place automatically. However, I don't want to have to do this for all 3000 pictures manually.

I think it should be possible to automate the process using AppleScript. However, I'm not sufficiently experienced to piece it together myself and was unable to find any help googling. What I have so far is

tell application "Aperture"
    set imageSel to (get selection)
    if imageSel is {} then
        error "Please select an image."
    else
        repeat with i from 1 to count of imageSel
            [What goes here to lift and stamp latitude and
             longitude of each individual photo onto itself?]
        end repeat
    end if
end tell

Any help, links or tips would be much appreciated.


texts: How to get rid of iCloud music on iPhone

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I have an iPhone 4s with iOS7 and somehow I see iCloud music which I haven't downloaded yet on my iOS device.
How can I get rid of these, I do not need to see them.


texts: Safari 8 Not Showing Network Requests when using the web inspector/develop tools

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I have a feeling that I may have toggled some settings, but I can't find it anymore.

Basically I am trying to monitor requests sent from my webapp. The usual method is Inpect Element -> Timelines -> Network Requests, where Safari gives me a graph and a list of all the requests made.

Now I can see the graph, but I can't see the list of the requests made.

Here's a screenshot illustrating where I'd like to see the requests:


texts: Shared Calendars not available in Outlook 2011

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Shared Calendars is not available in my Navigation Pane.

I am trying to add colleagues calendars. I understand they should show up in a Shared Calendars Section in the Navigation Pane. But I don't have that section at all. Have I hidden that somehow? Is there a way to add it back?

I use this process to add the shared calendar:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/912265

On the File menu, point to Open, and then click Other User's Folder.
Click Find User
Type the name of the person who granted you access,
click Find, click the person's name, and then click OK.
On the Type menu, click Calendar, and then click OK.
The shared calendar appears in the navigation pane under the Shared heading.

I know that the calendar is shared properly because other colleagues with same version of Mac & Outlook are able to view it.

Software:
 - Outlook 2011 version 14.5.1
 - OS-X 10.9.5 Mavericks


texts: Why safari hangs right after installation on Windows XP?

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I've just installed Safari on Windows XP SP3 and after succesful installation it starts and just hangs up. I also see process Webkit2Webprocess.exe which uses 100% of one core and nothing else happens.

Can you please give me some hints how to fix this?


texts: Open web page with macOS Safari in different language

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Is it possible to make Safari open a web page in a different language without having to change the whole system language?

I need to test if the Angular translations come out right but changing system language every time is really annoying.


texts: When trying to send a picture to a non iMessage contact on my iPad Air (WiFi only) it says that MMS must be enabled. Am I not able to send MMS on WiFi only?


texts: Stickies App Stopped Remembering Note Position

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I'm in OSX 10.10.2 and like to use Stickies (as a quick text dump before moving on). I have perhaps 100 notes and everything was fine until recently when the app stopped remembering the position I had dragged a note to.

I tried removing a fair number of notes but the problem still persists - drag a note, switch app and come back, the note is back where it started. Restarting doesn't help.

I can't see any other issues with the app.

Is there anything I can try before rage-quitting and switching to real post-it notes?


texts:
iTunes has been popping up several times per day asking me to accept or decline their TOS.  I have declined for the past 5-ish years (2.5 years on this laptop in particular) because it is not a piece of software that I want or need.

Previously, it was a one-time decline, and I wouldn't see it again.  However, there must have been an update to the software that is causing it to pop up nonstop.  It is extremely frustrating, especially since I can't just drag the app to the trash bin.

How can I stop this from happening?

Edit: 3 popups so far today, and it's 10am.  :rage:


texts: Numbers Sum of all values in a column where another cell within the row matches text

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I'm sorry if the title is confusing.  I'm struggle bussing hard on figuring out how to write some formula in Numbers. It really doesn't help that the name of the program and functions I'm trying to use are so generic, I get random completely unrelated math results with every search!

I have a table like this (obviously a lot more data):

ID    number
01    24
01    12
03    62
05    12
01    1

I have another table like this:

ID    count    total
01    3
03    1
05    1

I'm trying to write a formula to get the sum of each Id's numbers. I managed to get the count using COUNTIF(table1::B:B,$A:2), and copy / pasting that down the count column. Sweet! That was a pain, but I got it.  Now I want to get the total of all their numbers. I know it's going to look something like this: SUM( <iterate over range, if table1::A matches A, add table1::B>) But I'm struggling to figure out both how to do this and how to word searches to get relevant results.

So, in my second table, 01's total should be 24 + 12 + 1 = 37.

I would love both some help in figuring this out (I'm totally OK with being pointed to relevant functions and can figure it out from there!), as well as some tips on generally how to search for stuff like this. It stresses me out endlessly that they named the program Numbers and made it near impossible to find what I need.

Thanks!


texts:
On Ubuntu/Windows when I have a gvim window open I just type :!gvim filename to open a new window.

On OSX this does nothing.

I think it may have to do with OSX not liking multiple instances of the same program, but it lets me open all the gvim windows I want manually from terminal.


texts: Does the Macintosh classic have the signatures of the original Mac team?

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I am huge fan of Apple, and I just bid on one a 1990-era Macintosh Classic. The bid is going higher, but I only want it if the computer has the signatures of the original Mac team.

It's before I was born, I wish I was born in that era. But please let me know if anyone knows whether this model has those signatures. I am 100% sure the original Macintosh (128k) had those signatures.


texts:
Anyone knows a way to get a one line weather output in the terminal window with specified location?

So far I'm using curl wttr.in/city but I would like a one output like City, Sunny 0'.

I've found something like this (first answer):
https://askubuntu.com/questions/390329/weather-from-terminal

Unfortunately it does not work. I've installed wget command with brew and tried running those three lines from .sh file.


texts: Changing the Desktop background of the current Space does not change the background for other Space(s)

texts:
When I change the Desktop background in macOS, the change gets reflected only in the current Space and not the others. The background image I am selecting is one from the default set.

I tried disabling use different spaces for displays but that didn't work either.


texts: installed amarok through macports - no playback

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I installed amarok through macport. It doesn't playback the mp3's (actually it doesn't playback anything).

I looked at the console and it says among other things

.... [0x0-0x2b02b].org.kde.amarok[35766]   com.apple.console   WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

Any idea?


texts: AppleScript using JS to fill text field in safari

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I'm trying to create a script to add domains in bulk inside CloudFlare team.
Here is the draft (obviously I will replace theValue with a list)
set theValue to "cdn.ss.anno.channel4.com"

tell application "Safari" to tell tabs of windows to ¬
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('amc alw aet amd du by uy aly alz ama')[0].click();"
delay 0.2

tell application "Safari" to tell tabs of windows to ¬
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('ame amf amg amh ami hk amj hm eb oe ee alh jn ef amk aml lu cv jr e wt og sn amm amn ph p amo')[0].value='" & theValue & "';"
delay 1

tell application "Safari" to tell tabs of windows to ¬
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix aw iy iz ja aq jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji az jj jk cb jl jm jn b jo at jp jq cv jr e js jt tb hq hr tc ju ac y jv jw jx cm jy cg')[0].click();"
delay 0.2

The script clicks the correct button / fills the correct textfield, but it's seems that the textfield is not sent properly as the page display "source can not be empty"
If I'm using the same data manually it adds the contents of the text field just fine.

for information the website is https://dash.teams.cloudflare.com/, then under policy , adding a new domain


texts: Permission problem on Mojave and High Sierra

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I received an error saying "The folder  can't be opened because you don't have permission to see it's content." This is on an external drive and it's only happening to one specific folder on that drive. I checked the permissions and it says the top line says "I can only read", yet under the table, it lists my name and shows that I can read and write.

The only thing that I can think of doing differently was renaming the drive so not sure if that caused it. But then, why am I able to view the other folders in the same drive?


texts: What do I need to read/recover data from the hard drive of an Apple II CX?

texts:
My father bought an Apple Macintosh II CX in 1990 and it survived until 2010, when the main harddrive broke down and despite trying multiple times, booting from floppy disks failed for an unknown reason.

The main concern is the external 800 MB SCSI harddrive that is intact and hosts files that need recovery.

What kind of hardware and software (PC/MAC/Linux, anything goes) would be required to extract the data from the external hard drive? If there are several ways, what's the cheapest one?


texts: How to make show all music option reappear in the Music app?

texts: I turned the show all music option off on my iPod, but now the button has disappeared and hasn't reappeared since. How do I make the button reappear? I've already tried restarting my iPod, and the worst part is that I can only see my music on my Windows 7 PC.


texts:
When I connect to my work computer with screen sharing, the work computer's screen turns on and shows what im doing. I lock the work machine and turn off its display.

Is there a way to prevent the remote screen from turning on during screen sharing.


texts: How do I upgrade my iOS on my iPad 1st generation?

texts: How do I upgrade my ipad 1st generation ios from iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 6.0 so that I can use more apps from the app store?


texts: AirPods Pro connected to 2019 MBP; receiving end hears static

texts: As you could probably tell from the title, whenever I call someone with my AirPods connected to my MacBook, the receiving end of the call hears just a super robotized voice and a very static-like sound, so bad to the point where its not understandable. This happens on all kinds of calls (Discord, FaceTime, anything) and only happens with my Mac. However, itt doesn't happen all the time but I would say occurs 80% of the time? I don't quite know what causes the other 20% to work. This problem has been occurring consistently but only on my MacBook and not on my iPhone nor my ipad, so I don't know what the problem is.


texts: mouse direction setting on headless (mouse less) mac

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I have a mini that's running headless and mouseless.  I connect to it through TeamViewer.

All is great - except... The mouse direction defaults to Natural and I'm old school.

Since the machine has no physical mouse attached there's no mouse settings panel to change the direction on.

So - anyone have a guess of how to change the setting?

Thanks,

Steve


texts: I've jail-broken my iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3.3). I cannot restore it cause I don't have access to the computer that I used for jail-breaking my iPhone. Now I want to update my iPhone to iOS 5. Does it break the iPhone? or It'll work fine?


texts: Use rsync to automatically copy a file to another folder

texts:
I found this command to copy the content of source to a destination folder.

rsync -r source/* destination

What I would really like is to have this command run automatically each time a file is added to my source folder.

Is this possible?


texts:
I am looking for a GUI application, with in icon on the top bar, that can be used to start and stop different services on OS X.

These do not have to be real OS X (launchd) services/daemons, it is enough for me to be able to define them, with a name, a start and a stop script.

Mainly I want to use it for development to manage things like tomcat, nginx, postgresql... which are not usually started.


texts: "brew link node" creates/removes different number of symlinks when repeated

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I was upgrading Node.js node through Homebrew's brew upgrade, and it didn't link correctly.

  $ brew update
  (snip-snip formulae were updated)
  $ brew upgrade
  (snip-snip other upgrades)
  ==> Upgrading node
  ==> Downloading http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.11/node-v0.8.11.tar.gz

  ################################################################## 100.0%

  ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11
  ==> make install
  ==> Caveats
  Homebrew installed npm.
  We recommend prepending the following path to your PATH environment
  variable to have npm-installed binaries picked up:
    /usr/local/share/npm/bin
  Warning: Could not link node. Unlinking...
  Error: The brew link step did not complete successfully
  The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
  You can try again using `brew link node'
  ==> Summary
  /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11: 856 files, 13M, built in 108 seconds
  (snip-snip other upgrades)

I followed the recommended steps to force linking it.

  $ brew link node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0... Warning: Could not link node. Unlinking...

  Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11/lib/node_modules/npm/scripts/relocate.sh
  Target /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/scripts/relocate.sh already exists. You may need to delete it.
  To force the link and delete this file, do:
    brew link -f formula_name

  To list all files that would be deleted:
    brew link -n formula_name
  $ brew link -f node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 756 symlinks created

I was stunned with the number of symlinks, so out of curiosity I tried linking it again.

  $ brew unlink node
  Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 755 links removed
  $ brew link node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 352 symlinks created
  $ brew link node
  Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11
  $ which node
  /usr/local/bin/node
  $ brew unlink node
  Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 351 links removed
  $ brew link node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 304 symlinks created
  $ brew unlink node
  Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 303 links removed
  $ brew link node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 304 symlinks created
  $ brew unlink node
  Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.11... 303 links removed

The process stabilizes at 304/303.

Why so many symlinks?
Why does the link/unlink number change from 756 to 303?

Edit: ran the same update/upgrade/link/unlink procedure on a colleague's computer - in this case the symlinks went from 775 to 318 to 226, where it stabilized. Does anyone else have similar numbers? Do they depend on other installed brew recipes, or perhaps on npm modules?


texts: A tech from MacKeeper wishes access to my computer for licensing and activation. Is this a scam?

texts:
I paid for a version of MacKeeper which may be a mistake. Their tech  wants me to allow them to access my computer as in have access to my desktop files, etc. They say it is to fully license and engage the program . I have not done it as of yet.

Is this typical when activating? I'm not comfortable letting them have control of my computer


texts:
I bought a new hard drive for my 2011 MacBook Pro and did the following steps:

Backup using Time Machine
Replaced the hard drive
Put in a Snow Leopard DVD (10.6 from ~2009)
Booted holding down the c key

I can hear the DVD spinn for a while but I never get past the Apple logo in the boot, no error message.

Why isn't it working?


texts: How to I enable point-and-hold on iPhone5/iOS7 for atomic web?

texts: I have run Atomic Web for many years on my iPhones (3, 4, now 5).  However, when I upgraded to iOS7, when I hold a link, the menu no longer comes up.  Nothing happens.  I haven't been able to find any setting which would change this.  Is there something new with iOS7 which I didn't know about before upgrading?


texts: Image editor which can handle layer groups

texts: What free image editors exist for the Mac, which can handle *.psd files and treats layer groups correctly (for example, GIMP just ignores layer grouping)?


texts: Numbers 3 - How to apply custom chart style

texts:
Using Numbers 3.0 with Mavericks.

I am creating a bunch of scatter plots in numbers. I want to remove the big bubbly data point symbols and simply display the data as connected points.

Setting this up is no problem for one chart. I'd like to apply this style to every chart I make for the remainder of my project.

When I select the chart, I see a bunch of different chart icons in the 'chart styles' section of the formatting bar. I can apparently add the style of my current chart to this group for future use by clicking on a blank square with a plus button next to it. When I click the plus button, a new icon shows up in that little box.

Apple describes this process here.

I assume that, if I create another chart, I should be able to just click on that last custom chart style I had 'saved' and the series formatting would automatically change. But alas, it doesn't.

Is there something I'm missing? Does the "chart style" only allow changing the colors of the different series on a  graph, as opposed to accounting for changed data point styling?


texts:
After a failed installation of updates the following alert won't go away.  It gives me no option to cancel.  Any ideas on how to get rid of it short of rebooting the machine?  Using OSX 10.9.4.

Please advise.


texts:
I have a love-hate relationship with the new Reminders app in iOS 5.

I like how entering new items is made simple and the interface gradually reveals itself as you become more of a power user. Yet it fails at the most fundamental function—to remind me the important stuff that I entered.

How do I enable badges for due items in Reminders? I couldn't find the setting in Notifications preferences.

Does Reminders app support badges at all?