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Does anyone know how to improve xcodes memory performance. With iOS9 the mem usage jumps to ~4gb i have a macbook pro i5 2.3 8gb But this damn thing is eating everything! At times it takes 2-3 min to switch between swift files or move to another location in the same file.

If i switch to another program (Chrome, slack or skype) those run perfectly fine.
After some monitoring with Instruments i saw the following (Simulator running)

After running it for 20min or so the issue also occurs on Instruments
I have regular spikes of cpu usage of up to 106% (Not to sure how
that works)
I got the iOS 8.4 simulator to see if 9 was specifically causing the issue, issue still persists.
xcode virtual mem is 5gb
xcode real mem stays between 500-750mb and has the occasional jump to ~1gb
xcode compressed mem is ~350mb
xcode threads climbs to about 32/34 when the issue occurs

Exact issue description
At random intervals(cannot find exact replication steps) xcode will apear to "hang" i am unable to switch between files or scroll on any pane (code, file structure or overview).
Also if I switch to another application while this is happening and switch back xcode will not come into view.
This can occur when xcode or the simulator is not in view.
There doesn't seem to be anything downloading in xcode or on the system.


texts: MacBook Pro 16” and HDMI splitter not working

texts:
I recently purchased several HDMI splitters to use with my MacBook Pro (16"). I was hoping to connect one of them like this:
                   ------ Monitor
                  /
MacBook Pro 16"  |
                  \
                   ----- ATEM Mini Pro

But, the display won't display anything. I've read this is because the laptop tries querying the monitor about what resolution it supports and can't but I've seen other people use this setup with success.
Can anyone tell me why the display won't turn on, or turns on with flickering?
Here is the HDMI splitter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DQBY5TX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&fpw=alm
The ATEM Mini Pro: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini/techspecs/W-APS-14
And here's a guide someone made showing the same connections working. I am going to use the other splitters in similar ways but haven't had luck with the above setup: https://dslrvideoshooter.com/ultimate-camera-rig/


texts: Start iMac in Target Display Mode without dedicated keyboard

texts:
I have an older iMac which I am retiring as a display. It works well enough in target display mode, but I have keep the keyboard around just to switch it to display mode.

Is there a way to

boot the iMac into target display mode
start target display mode remotely, such as from the console?


texts: Play Audio from a Mac over an iPhone Call

texts: I'm trying to play an audio file from my Mac Mini over an iPhone call. I tried using a male to male audio cable to connect the Mac's audio out port, into the iPhone's headset jack, but I guess that would be too easy. I also have a headset splitter but that doesn't seem to work either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: MacPorts not working after power outage during build (sqlite disk I/O error)

texts:
I was building packages in MacPorts on a Mac Mini when the power went out. Now anything I try to do in MacPorts (install, clean, selfupdate) results in the following error:

sqlite error: disk I/O error (3850) while executing query: ATTACH DATABASE '/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db' AS registry
    while executing
"registry::open $db_path"
    (procedure "mportinit" line 610)
    invoked from within
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, sqlite error: disk I/O error (3850) while executing query: ATTACH DATABASE '/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db' AS registry

How can I fix this?


texts:
I'm having trouble figuring out if my iPhone/iCloud is configured correctly? It seems odd that Photos is there in the iCloud Storage config, but then Photo Library is there under Backups config (highlighted in the green boxes)?

It seems like that should be one or the other? Am I double-storing my photos?

As a footnote, if I flip the iCloud Photo Library to on I get an error that I don't have enough space (which is what prompted the research).


texts: When I update my app, does it need to be re-approved?

texts: If I have an app on the app store and I want to update it, does it need to go through the approval process again every time I update it?


texts: Global service hotkeys ignored in some applications

texts:
I have defined some global hotkeys which run Automator services. These work fine everywhere except in two applications (iTerm2 and Emacs).
I would like to understand this better. Is it the case that these application grab the keyboard "harder" than others, and thus disable global shortcuts while they are in focus? Or do these shortcuts generally only function if an application doesn't handle the keypress (i.e., in any and all applications)?
EDIT: I do see these services in the system menu of the applications (even in those where the hotkeys don't work); and if I click them via that menu, they work fine.


texts: Reinstalled my MacBook Pro, resync with iPad issues

texts: I just wiped my MacBook Pro clean as part of my yearly reinstall habit. The problem is, now when I connect my iPad or iPhone, there is no really trivial way to sync my PDFs and ePubs back with the clean MBP. If I sync Books, it will overwrite my iPad and I'll be left without said PDFs/ebooks. I have all of them backed up, that's not the problem. I was just wondering if there's a way to do a two way sync, meaning take the pdfs/epubs I have on my ipad then sync them with the MBP. Or is this going to require me manually putting back all of my content sourcing from the MBP first?


texts: Bluetooth devices wake Mac OS X persistently

texts: I have a MacBook Pro running latest El Capitan and in the Bluetooth preferences pane I have set up that Bluetooth devices shouldn't be able to wake up the Mac. However, recently I have been finding my Mac overheated when I wake it from sleep. I observed the situation a bit, removed all USB devices and looked at Activity Monitor and the processes preventing from sleep were "rcd" and "hidd". After having put the laptop to sleep, the fans go completely silent for half a minute and then they start spinning. As soon as the fans start spinning either the keyboard's or trackpad's green LED turns on without any obvious input. A minute later the fans stop and that cycles until I wake it up.


texts: Where can I find an Mavericks driver for my Alfa AWUS036H

texts: I have a MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 and have just installed OS X Mavericks (10.9.2) and now can not use my Alfa AWUS036H USB antenna. It seams there are no new drives for this model. Is there a workaround for this or can another model be recommend the runs on OS X Mavericks?


texts: cannot download Safari 6.0.2 update from App Store on ML

texts:
As by the title!  I have an update notification:

Safari 6.0.2
 Safari 6.0.2  is recommended for all users running Mountain Lion
 v10.8.2 and includes security updates.  For more information, please
 visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

I try to update and I get:

 An error has occurred
 The operation couldn’t be completed.
 (NSURLErrorDomain error -3001.)(102)

Is this a problem my side?  If so, how can I fix it?


texts: Open iTerm and execute some commands automatically

texts:
I need to open some terminal sessions via iTerm 2 and execute commands on each terminal (e.g. rails s ; rails c)

How to do it via automator or alfred?


texts: How can I create (nested) Keynote.app slides from a XML file?

texts:
I have some nested lists (XML/OPML file) and I am looking for a (automated) process to create Keynote presentations from them. Use case: I write concepts for presentations in an Outliner, then would like to transfer the structure directly to a Keynote presentation for further editing. The structure may be something like this:

Breakfast
    - Coffee
    - Muesli
        · Yoghurt
        · Milk
        · Cereal
    - Mango
Lunch
    - Pasta
    - Water
    - Small Salad
Dinner
    - Fries
    - Caesar Salad

While OmniOutliner does export to Keynote, all nodes are flattened into bullet points on the top-level slides. Using the data above, it would only create three slides.

However, I would prefer the following: Every list item creates a separate slide, with all slides nested according to the original structure. The process should be automated, and the styling in Keynote is not of concern. NB: Nested slides are possible in Keynote:

Any ideas including Applescript, Automator or the Terminal (command line), are welcome.


texts: Turning phone on if lock button is broken?

texts: So my lock or "hold" button is broken and my phone turned off. My phone is plugged in to the charger and still won't turn on. Also I can't plug it into my computer because my computer doesn't recognize an iPhone as a device.


texts:
I have a mid-2012 retina 15" MBP.  WiFi works fine in OS X, but in boot camp (windows 7 x64):

I can see, but cannot connect to my 5 GHz network (n only, 40 MHz channel)
I can connect to 2.4 GHz (BGN, 20 MHz channel), but the connection has latency spikes and frequently drops.

Wifi chip is Broadcom BCM43xx, router is Linksys E3200 running firmware 1.0.04. Signal strength does not seem to be a factor. I've also tried updating the boot camp drivers, device manager shows "Broadcomm 802.11n Wifi Adapter", driver version 6.30.223.215. Is there something I could tweak to improve compatibility?


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When joining an OS X client to OD, it seems you use the server of the master OD. However, if the master is down for reboot or maintenance, how does the client know to contact the OD slave?

Would it be advised to create a DNS entry, lets say od.example.com, list both server IP's in the A record?


texts:
We wanna start doing car rallys and these routes are delivered using a GPX files.

What we are looking for is an app that can make a route from our home to the start of the gpx file and then start navigating the GPX route.


texts: Why is a application called "java" always open on my OS X 10.9.2 even when I force quit it?

texts: Whenever I turn my computer on I have this application open called "java." No matter what I do I can't exit it. When I try force quitting it, it's called "bin." Images below show what I'm talking about:


texts: Adding custom buttons to the Touch Bar without external apps

texts: Can I add custom buttons to the Touch Bar without using external apps (e.g., Better Touch tool)?


texts: Where did the free space for my deleted ExFAT partition go?

texts:
I had these partitions on an external hard drive:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Android                 63.9 GB    disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS RiptideHUP              968.0 GB   disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data RiptideF                967.8 GB   disk2s4

My aim was to delete disk2s2 and then resize disk2s3 to occupy the leftover space by deleting disk2s2.
I deleted disk2s2 using this command:

diskutil  erasevolume  "Free Space"  ""  /dev/disk2s2

Now, to resize the volume, I used:

diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk2s3  R

However, I got this error:

Started partitioning on disk2s3 RiptideHUP Error: -69743: The new size
must be different than the existing size

Can someone help me and tell me where I went wrong?

NOTE: Using diskutil list now shows:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS RiptideHUP              968.0 GB   disk2s3
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data RiptideF                967.8 GB   disk2s4


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I convert MKV files and burn them to DVD?

Does anybody know a good program for Mac that can burn a .avi or .mkv movie file to a DVD to play on any regular DVD player? I am looking for something like ConvertXtoDVD for Windows.


texts: Mountain Lion: Not joining preferred WPA2 Wifi network

texts:
My Mac Mini (2011) has always auto-joined networks worked fine until a few days when he stopped  auto-joining my preferred WPA2 Wifi network when I start it up. When I click Join Other Network and then  Show networks my wifi appears. When I double click it I have to enter my password than my mac joins it. But next time I start my Mac, I have to do that again.

How can I get auto-join to start working again?


texts: make keyboard shortcut screenshot include cursor

texts:
The cmd shift 3 screenshot doesn't include the mouse cursor.

How can I make it (as in, cmd+shift+3) capture the mouse position also?


texts: Why does Dia interface look blurry on my Mac?

texts: I have installed the latest Dia and XQuartz (X11) on my Mac OS X 10.8.3 retina display. As seen in the screenshot below, why do the items and anything I draw look blurry and pixelly? What can I do about it? Thanks!


texts: Establishing ssh session using Back To My Mac

texts:
I am trying to establish a ssh session to my MacBook using "Back to my Mac". So I turned the "Back to my Mac" option on in iCloud and ticked the remote sign in box. But if I issue the command

ssh user_name@computer_name.number.members.btmm.icloud.com

the terminal just goes into the next line and stays black.
Sorry for not providing more information, but I don't know much about this, so I don't know what else information to provide.

Does anybody know what I did wrong?

Edit: As suggested I used the -vvvv flag and got:

OpenSSH_7.4p1, LibreSSL 2.5.0
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug2: resolving "computer_name.number.members.btmm.icloud.com" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to computer_name.number.members.btmm.icloud.com [private_IPv6_address] port 22: Operation timed out
ssh: Connecting to computer_name.number.members.btmm.icloud.com [private_IPv6_address] port 22: Operation timed out

Also the command

ssh localhost

works without any troubles.


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My friend has a Mac book pro. I'm afraid I know nothing else about it.

For reasons unknown, and I dare not ask, she decided to rub a magnet over it, beside the touch pad.

She heard a strange noise, and powered it off. Then, when turning on, she just saw a question mark on the screen.

I'm guessing she's either wiped or destroyed the SSD. However, she's asked me to restore it and I know nothing about this.

Whilst my research shows me that files may have been synced to the Cloud (the cloud? Surely they mean to a server, using the technologies which have been available for years). But it doesn't state if the OS is backed up.

The computer didn't come with any discs.

On a Windows PC (which I have little experience with), I know that some times the OS isn't included but the serial number is, so you can get an ISO and re-install it that way.

Other PC's include the installation files on a partitioned hard drive.

My question is, is there a uniformed way Apple supply the OS with Mac products (unlike PC's)? If so, what is it?


texts: Screen Turns Black after tilted past about 70°

texts: 2 or 3 weeks ago, when I tilted my screen past 90° it just went black. I was confused, so I closed my laptop and it worked. I tried again, the same thing. Eventually, I couldn't even turn it past 70° without it switching off. Any ideas why this is, if it's just a temporary issue, or if I'll need to get it repaired? Thanks. (My Model is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports. macOS Mojave 10.14.)


texts: How do I remove Podcasts from IOS Podcast app

texts:
I've been using the IOS Podcast app and I'm trying to remove podcast from it. I had subscribed to a podcast, but now I unsubscribed and deleted the episodes. It still shows up in my podcast menu though. How do I remove it from the list of my podcasts?

Also, It does not show up on my podcast list on my mac iTunes, so I can't delete from there. Any ideas?

It's not a huge deal, but I download and try a ton of podcasts and the list builds up quick with podcasts I use and a bunch that I no longer listen to.


texts: When I send messages from my iPhone (A) to another iPhone (B), the responses from B keep coming to my Mac and do not appear on my phone (A), even when I have iMessages closed. This is maddening. How can I prevent this from happening?


texts: Apps on two different iPads with same account

texts: Dumb question but if you have the same apps on two different iPads with the same account will deleting one also delete it from 2nd iPad?


texts: How can I force read only access to a hard drive when I connect it to my Macbook Pro?

texts: I am trying to backup some old hard drives, and each time I connect it to my Macbook Pro (Big Sur M1 Silicon), it shows as being modified with today's date on it. I don't know if its spotlight or if its trying to create .DS_Store files everywhere, but it modifies each of the dates within the hard drive folders. How can I make a hard drive I am connecting to my Mac be read-only to begin with? Thanks.


texts:
Lately I've been getting lots of bugs: songs from Safari playing without me starting them, or pausing youtube but it doesn't support but Safari says there is no sound from the tab, closing the tab doesn't stop it, or accidentally pasting a URL into Spotlight then being unable to stop the audio that starts playing.

I would like to know how to

Find out what is playing audio
Stop it

Or, just 2 actually.

I want to stop unwanted audio from playing.

This happens on brand new Catalina 10.15.2


texts:
I tried different way to run a script on a specific schedule / time,
I found Lingon quite handy, I also try using calendar but the result was very bad.

I wrote this :

repeat
    set myDate to date string of (current date)

    set myTime to time string of (current date)

    set myDateTime to myDate & " - " & myTime

    if myTime > "11:30:00" and myTime < "11:30:10" then
        display notification "demo - This is the time"
    end if
end repeat

which seems to work fine but obviously, generate a few notification.
How can I run a script only once when this condition is found ?

I thought I can play with some delay but then I'm worried I would miss the time condition.


texts: How do I transfer my Watch settings to an additional Watch?

texts: I understand how to transfer Watch settings to a new Watch while unpairing the old watch. Is there a way to transfer settings while adding the new watch as and additional paired watch? Can I copy the settings from my old watch to the new one while keeping the old one paired?


texts: iTunes 12.5.4: generic icons in "artists" view sidebar?

texts:
In iTunes 12.5.4, I have mostly generic icons in the "artists' view. This is a huge waste of vertical height and I wish I could turn off these icons  – but since I can't, does anyone understand how these icons are populated with image data? I have a few icons with images but did nothing (knowingly) to accomplish that.

(sorry the image is so huge)


texts: Enabling System Preferences > Display’s „Retina scaling options“ on an external HiRes/HiDPI but Non-4K display (Dell U2515H)?

texts:
I just bought the 2560 x 1440 px @ 25 inch (117.5 dpi) Dell U2515H monitor and must say that I'm pretty pleased with the design and quality of the display. Excellent bang for the buck, very thin, frameless bezel, clean backside.

Using the included MiniDisplayPort-to-DisplayPort cable, it allows me to run at native 2560 x 1440 px @ 60 Hz from my MacBook Pro Retina 13" (Late 2013) and an even older MBPR 13" (2011). Both Macs are running the latest version of El Capitan.

I can enable the HiDPI modes using SwitchResX or the Terminal command, but in 1280 x 720 px (HiDPI), the UI becomes too big and one loses too much desktop property.

Question: Is there any way to enable the scaling options („Larger Text“ / „More Space“ and the sizes inbetween) under System Preferences > Displays, as found on the Retina MacBook displays and 4K/5K monitors?


texts: Speed up Mission Control Preview Animation

texts:
Once in Mission Control, I like to able to preview the contents of each the Desktops in the larger preview section instead of only relying on the thumbnail view.  You can accomplish this by entering Mission control and then hittingCTRL+Shift+left/right arrow.

However, the animation for switching between desktops in the main preview screen is so slow that it because unbearably useless for as fast as I like to work.  Is there a way to actually speed that animation up?


texts: I had a locking up problem on my 6 Plus and after talking to a Apple Tech higher up the food chain he said it was a software bug somewhere and that I would need to reset and start over as a new phone. Instead I bought a 7 and started over with my 6 as a backup. The 7 worked fine until I turned off the Icloud Contacts at which time the problem is now on teh 7 too. I even reset it as a new phone and teh problem continues. What can I do?


texts: Best software for monitoring/alerting based on log files?

texts:
I'm setting up an iMac to use as a server that will be doing some automated file copying/moving via the Hazel app, in conjunction with some shell scripts.  It's a system for dropping off files, which then get processed, copied to a couple archive disk arrays and then moved to a NAS.  It's very important that if anything goes wrong, or looks suspicious, I (and whoever else) can be alerted ASAP.

Hazel writes to a dedicated log file, and the shell scripts are writing to their own file, as well as the Hazel file.  I'm using some functions to write standardized error/warning messages to the log files.

I'd like to run a program/daemon/whatever on the server that monitors the logs and can keep track of errors/warnings and send alerts. E-mail alerts are the bare necessity.  Mobile push and/or SMS would be cool, as would intelligent alerting such as noticing if I don't mark an alert as "read" or "resolved" and continuing to alert me.

I'm willing to use a web service (preferably but not necessarily free) to help with this.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to look at iPad's photo folder on a Mac?

texts:
If an iPad is connected to a PC, then in My Computer, there is a iPad device containing a folder with all photos and videos.

But on a Mac with Lion, this won't happen... Finder doesn't show such device or folder -- even when I choose Preference of Finder to show every device -- is there a way to see the folder like on the PC?

(I just want to edit one video using HandBrake, so won't like to use iPhotos or iMovies to import the video, but just take the video file "as is".)


texts: Do Apple WiFi drivers have a problem with Asus Routers?

texts:
My two apple systems claim that my ASUS AC-88U is broadcasting country code '-'.
Asus claims  that they will broadcast NA (for North America). All the other routers in the neighborhood broadcast US.
Is this commonplace -- does Apple somehow flub the code for 'NA', or is ASUS blowing smoke at me here and my unit is in fact defective.


texts:
Are OS X and PureDarwin binary-compatible?

Can I run simple non-GUI app compiled for OS X on PureDarwin (or vice-versa)?

(Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X)


texts: Tmux within iTerm2: Unable to bind some keyboard combinations

texts:
I have the following bind-key definitions in my .tmux.conf file:

bind-key -n M-I select-pane -U
bind-key -n M-K select-pane -D
bind-key -n M-J select-pane -L
bind-key -n M-L select-pane -R

However, they don't work when I open a tmux session inside of ITerm2. It looks like the OS captures those shortcuts and doesn't let tmux act on them.

I have a similar problem when I press  ⌘-d within ITerm (no Tmux here) in that it triggers Mac OS X to close my terminal, even though what I want it is to delete a word in the shell (I have bindkey -e in .zshrc which should take care of that)

Below are my settings in iTerm2:


texts:
When I connect my iPod shuffle to my computer it is not pulling up the profile that I can put music on normally it will pull up but it not pulling it up for me, and it won't charge it.
Another thing is I put Youtube music on the iPod shuffle and when I put is in my speaker that I have it works but when I put in headphones it doesn't work.
Can someone help me figure out why it's not working


texts: Is it possible to exclude an app from the Screen time activity?

texts:
My statistics are skewed because of navigation applications (Maps/Waze), and I wish they were more accurate. Is it possible to exclude an application from Screen Time?
I tried to add Maps in "Always Allowed" but it still counts when I'm on the app.


texts: App Review - Do they allow app names with question marks in?

texts:
I have submitted my app to the app store 6 times and always been rejected because apparently the UIRequiredCapabilities key is not set correctly.

Well, I've tried many different combinations of things and cannot seem to figure it out and they are not helpful at all.

Doing more research today, I found this https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/apple-store-rejection-uirequireddevicecapabilities/57029/5

The chosen answer says that his issue was because his app name had a question mark in. Is this true, do Apple not allow question marks in the app's title?

My app has a question mark do obviously I would try that (even though it does ruin my app name), but I am a bit fed up of submitting and waiting so I figured it would be good for me and other people in the same situation to have a definitive answer.

EDITED with full rejection message:

Guideline 2.3 - Performance - Accurate Metadata

We were still unable to install the app on iPad and iPhone . The
UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities key in the Info.plist is set in such a way that
the app will not install on an iPad and iPhone.

Next Steps

To resolve this issue, please check the UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities key to
verify that it contains only the attributes required for your app features or
the attributes that must not be present on the device. Attributes specified by
a dictionary should be set to true if they are required and false if they must
not be present on the device.


texts: Is using 10.8 (over 10.9) a security risk?

texts: Is 10.8 currently (as of 2014 Aug) fully supported, especially security-wise, or using it might be a security risk?


texts: Problems copying content in Safari Developer Mode

texts:
When using Safari Developer Mode, I've encountered two oddities:

"Search" tab: Enter a search, click search result (left), then mark text in source viewer (middle), then click Ctrl+C (or right-click and select Copy). Result : Entire source is copied.
"Elements" tab: Highlight link: Right-click and select "Copy Link Address". Result: Nothing is copied.

Am I using it wrong, or are these in fact bugs in Safari?


texts:
Is there a good image file organizer for OS X?

I'm looking for something with good previews for image files, and that will allow me to tag the files.


texts: Connect old Cinema Display (24") as 2nd Display to newest iMac?

texts:
I'm considering buying a new 27" iMac (current model sold now).  I still have a 24" Cinema display (mini display port) that I currently have connected to an older iMac.

Now I'm wondering if this will work on the Thunderbolt socket.


texts: How can I open port 8080 of Mac OS X Lion?

texts: How can I open access to port 8080 from the outside world (private lan) on my Mac OS X Lion? I'd like to access a webpage that's running on my lamp stack on my mac (zend server ce) from within the lan. I can access port 80 just fine.  Port 8080 is blocked on the other hand.  I've also disabled the firewall.


texts: Apple App Store (install and get) loop, how to fix it?

texts: Apple App Store is stuck in a loop, when you press "get" you get "install", and when you press "install" you get "get" again, and so on with infinity loop, trying to download a free or commercial app — how do I make it stop?


texts: Discoveryd & LaunchServicesd Huge Memory Consumption

texts:
I have been troubleshooting why my Mac Mini is running slow and stumbled upon this:

The memory usage is in the GB!

On my MacBook the two processes take under 10 MB together.

Why are these procs taking up so much memory, and how can I fix it to resemble usage on my MacBook?

Mac Mini Server (Late 2012)

Mem 4GB
OS X Yosemite 10.10.2


texts: macOS 11 Finder preserve creation time (file/folder) for iOS 14 devices?

texts:
On iOS 14 or iPadOS 14, the Files app allows the user to view the creation time for folders and files, here is a picture of what I mean exactly. Simply press and hold on folders and files and a bar will appear and click on "Info".

In this case you will see these timestamps
Created: June 13, 2019 at 08:04 PM
Modified: June 13, 2019 at 08:04 PM

The question is whether macOS 11 (Big Sur) device in Finder shows the folders and files under "On My iPhone" + Creation time?

If it shows in macOS 11 Finder can preserve the files and folders when copying from iOS/iPadOS 14 device? This means that in this case I have this timestamp on the path /desktop, which is exactly the same as the source on iOS/iPadOS 14.

Created: June 13, 2019 at 08:04 PM
Modified: June 13, 2019 at 08:04 PM


texts: I turn off my Read receipt but the other person doesn’t. Will s/he get the Read notification when I’ve read her the person sent me?

texts: I wonder if the person who turns on the read receipt on imessage will get notified when I’ve read the text even though I’ve turned off my read receipt


texts: iPhone battery life is awful even after replacing it

texts:
I have an iPhone 3gs 32gb. As they do, my battery was noticeably depleting as well as conflicted with the device having been slightly water damaged (dropped in quickly but immediately turned off and dried out. Works "fine"). I decided to replace the internal battery with a factory OEM version but even after doing so my battery life is awful. I am talking about losing 10% during one 4 minute phone call or 30% in the first hour or less or simple standby.

Are there things I should look for or perhaps additional parts which could be causing the depletion?

For reference: I charged the phone to 100%, turned the phone off, then 3 days later (with phone off) the battery was completely dead. Something else seems to be constantly running or draining the battery.


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I am just switching from Safari to Chrome in my MacBookPro and first thing I did was to import bookmarks from Safari.
Now I would also like to import passwords from websites, logins etc.

In Chrome > Settings > Sign In > Advanced Sync Settings, I have already checked every available sync option, however just google account passwords have been imported, not Safari's.

I also tried Chrome>Import Bookmarks and Settings>From Safari>Import, but still no results.

Does anyone know how to import Safari/Keychain passwords to Chrome?


texts: What does "referenced file offline" mean in Photos?

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I have large numbers of files in my Photos from my recently migrated Aperture library that show a crossed out reference icon

indicating that the "referenced file is offline". If I try to access such files I get a dialog asking me to indicate a specific folder to allow Photos access. Sometimes this (tedious) process works, but often it does not, since the specified folder does not exist. This happens even though the referenced file was present in Aperture before migration. What's the user model here; where did my photos go?


texts: How do I connect a 3rd 4K monitor to my 2013 Mac Pro?

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I have a Mac Pro 2013. I already have two 4k monitors now connected to

the HDMI port (Bus 0)
a thunderbolt port with a TB->HDMI adapter (Bus 1)
Before I simply buy a third monitor and adapter, is it as easy as that?

Do I just plug another adapter into the last BUS that isn't being used? (I understand to separate the monitors on different buses.)

FYI, I tried a 3rd monitor that wasn't 4k and it didn't fire up/get recognized. I read somewhere on Apple's site that once you have one 4K monitor connected you need all of them to be 4K.


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I download pdf files on my Mac, and often transfer them to iPad to read.

This used to be straightforward, but the process seems to be much more complex.

I need to select the pdf, select "Open in iBooks" (which actually displays in Preview) then go through the process on iTunes to transfer it to iPad.

Is there a simpler way. I don't actually want to read in iBooks on the Mac (which doesn't happen anyway)?

All I really want to do is transfer selected pdf to iPad.


texts: Find podcasts with a certain duration or time length

texts: using iOS or MacOS, how is it possible to find podcasts with a certain duration and keywords, for instance, podcasts about bitcoin and duration between 5 and 15 minutes?


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I have added my favorite stores, Coffee shops, and addresses I go to a lot, into my contacts list, so I can say to Siri "Remind me to check the mail when I arrive at mom's house." However, Siri responds with "I am sorry I can remind you at work, home, or gym."

So what am I doing wrong?


texts: Yosemite or Snow Leopard for 2008 MacBook?

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I have a 2008 MacBook which is getting slow, I need to do an erase and reinstall.

I have the choice to install Yosemite (online) or Snow Leopard (from a DVD).
But would Yosemite be too much for my old hardware? In which case could I easily get more RAM put in?

If go back to Snow Leopard, will that soon be completely outdated?


texts: How do I rename the Boot Camp partition?

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The partition is currently called BOOTCAMP, and I would like it to be called Windows.

When I try to rename the partition is Disk Utility, no error is displayed, but the change is not persisted (i.e. I am allowed to type a name, but after I hit Enter, the name is unchanged).

I tried the following three commands in Terminal:

diskutil renameVolume disk0s4 Windows
diskutil renameVolume /dev/disk0s4 Windows
diskutil renameVolume /Volumes/BOOTCAMP Windows

The result is always:

  Failed to rename volume: Invalid request (-69886)

The name of the partition can not be changed using Finder.

How can I successfully rename this partition? Is the name a property of the partition (e.g. recorded in the GUID_partitioning_scheme on disk0)? Or is a property of the mount in macOS (e.g. its name is BOOTCAMP because it is mounted at /Volumes/BOOTCAMP).

If it's the first, maybe I can change it with a tool that works with the GUID_partitioning_scheme directly? (This seems dangerous though...)

If it's the latter, where can I change the way macOS mounts this partition? (And is that safe?)


texts: Is it possible to make Mail require a password on startup?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a way to password protect individual apps?

I want to know if I can make Mail require a password to actually do anything, see messages, etc. so no one can just go into my Mail and send messages or see my received messages.


texts: Converting mp3 and video content so I can listen to it on my iphone

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If I find a MP3 audio on the internet, or a MP3 video (or even YouTube), is it possible save this on my iPhone somehow so I can listen to it?

Not sure but I believe iTunes has a special format.


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I'm currently using two monitors, mostly for web development. I've 3 spaces on my main monitor (MPB), and one on my secondary monitor.

I switch between the spaces using ctrl + arrow, but there is one major issue with this. If my focus is on my secondary monitor, absolutely nothing happens when trying to switch spaces, because there is only one space on my secondary monitor.

That is intentional. I want ctrl + arrow to always switch spaces on my main screen. How do I achieve that?

I've tried toying with the "Displays have separate Spaces" option, only to find it that I hate it if the spaces are unified. I really only need spaces on my main monitor.

Using a 3rd party software is fine, but I'm not throwing my credit card at just any suggestion, so open source or other free software is preferred.


texts: Discrepancies in available capacity of Macbook Air SSD

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I bought a MBA with an SSD advertised to be 256GB.

The actual unformatted capacity, according to the system info tool, is only 251000193024 bytes.

This is only 233 Gibi (2^30) bytes, or 251 Giga (10^9) bytes. Regardless of whether Apple means Giga or Gibi in their spec sheets, this capacity is still outrageously lower than advertised.

Is a part of the SSD reserved for some hidden function and is subtracted from the size that appears in the system info?

Or is Apple consciously cheating its customers?


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Running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73).

After migration from my old machine to the new machine, I am experiencing an issue where some apps do not retain settings.

The migration was not trivial and I actually had to re-create the user account and then move all of the user directories by hand, including the Library directory, where the settings, I believe are stored.

The UID however did not change, so it doesn't appear to be a permission issue. I've checked the permissions and even chown'ed the entire Library dir just in case.

Notably, the following symptoms persist:

Opening iTunes always displays a welcome screen and EULA, every time I open it.
VLC always displays a welcome screen and none of the settings are saved
Photos app displays the welcome screen, but then takes me to the correct library and shows most recent photos correctly.

And many other apps that tend to write to Library dir behave in this way. They all open as if for the first time.

However, some apps do work fine. Like Firefox and Chrome. And several others.

Any ideas what needs to be done to restore order?

Thanks.


texts: Jailbroken iPhone 5S stuck on Recovery screen

texts: I have a Jailbroken iPhone5s Or well I had one. I couldn't install any apps or update any apps so I reset my Phone with reset all in settings It was stuck in the Recovery Screen just stuck. I then plugged it in with iTunes and done Update and Restore but then it was just stuck in that screen. I left it in there for about 6 hours and I can't seem to fix at all. Is there any way to fix this?


texts: I got a message from my bf on my iphone and could reply as normal, but when I sent a picture, a new thread was added in my inbox. The same thing happened when I deleted both of the threads and wrote a new message. The one I sent was there and when he replied, another thread was suddenly in the inbox. Why does this happen?


texts: iOS map app that can load MBTiles tileset

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Are there any good map apps that will allow me to load the map from an MBTiles tileset file?
I'm looking for something that will allow me to use the map offline while hiking.


texts: How can I recover photos from a damaged MacBook?

texts: My grandson spilled orange juice on my MacBook and ruined it. I bought an iPad to replace it, but I had dozens of old family pictures stored in iPhoto on the MacBook. Is there any way I can recover them and store them on my iPad?


texts: Best way to see multiple Microsoft Word windows?

texts: I just made the switch from Windows to Mac, and one thing that's been bothering me is that on a Mac, I can't see multiple Word documents that I have open.  On Windows, they all appear in the taskbar (after checking the option to not collapse instances of the same program) and I can quickly switch between them, which is useful for a variety of reasons.  On a mac, I can't do that.  The best way I've discovered so far is to go into mission control, but then I still have to make two gestures instead of one, and it's hard to see which window is which.  What's the best way to do this?


texts: localhost/phpmyadmin - 404 error on macOS High Sierra

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I'm setting up a PHP project on my machine's loalhost. This part is working fine, and it's loading the index.php correctly when visiting http://localhost. However, visiting http://localhost/phpmyadmin it is giving me a HTTP 404 error.

Here are my settings:

Project's path Users/zaina-alyahya/Sites/Meetings
phpmyadmin path Users/zaina-alyahya/Sites
DocumentRoot settings in httpd.conf: /Users/zaina-alyahya/Sites/Meetings/public
VirtualHost setup in httpd-vhosts.conf for /Users/zaina-alyahya/Sites/Meetings/public

Tried to setup a VirtualHost for phpmyadmin as well, but it didn't work.
I did however follow the steps in the second answer here. That worked, but it doesn't seem right to access phpmyadmin via phpmyadmin.localhost.

What am I missing in order to make localhost/phpmadmin load with no errors?

Here is my software configuration:

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
Apache 2.4.28
PHPMyAdmin 4.8.0.1


texts: Can macOS system open zip and tar archives natively?

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I have to upload an archive for some Linux, Windows and Mac OS users. I'm using Linux so I'm sure everybody could handle a tar file, Windows users will get some problems, so I think zip is the best way.

Are these formats native?


texts: Can a multi-output device have an input?

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I am setting up to live stream music. I've installed a virtual sound card (Blackhole) and created an aggregate device consisting of my mic input and the virtual output. I then set OBS to use the virtual device as the audio source, and switched on monitoring. It works! I can hear the music and my voice. The problem is that OBS is creating latency on the monitoring, so my voice is out of sync.

So, can I create an aggregate/multi device which has one input, and two outputs? That way I can have the input for the mic, output directly to my sound card so I can monitor, and have the virtual output going to OBS for the live stream. Is this possible? I can't find a way to add an input to a multi-output device, or to add more than one output to an aggregate device.


texts: Insecure update error - SUPublicDSAKeyFile

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A minute ago I had the following popup appear:

  Insecure update error!
  For security reasons, the file (dsa_pub.pem) indicated by the 'SUPublicDSAKeyFile' key needs to exist in the bundle's Resources.

I have no idea what application generates this error. If I open up the Console and search for "SUPublicDSAKeyFile" or other strings, I don't find anything.

How can I find out what this is about?


texts: I'm running Xterm in a Linux VMware Virtual Machine. I can copy out of it but I can't figure out how to paste into it. On a desktop computer, the middle mouse button or shift + insert does the trick. How about on a MacBook Air?


texts: Are WhatsApp voice calls recorded on your device?

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I know voice calling on WhatsApp is logged but is it stored on the device in a way you can re listen to the conversation?  I looked in the WhatsApp folders and everything is there from voice notes, photos, videos, etc. and there is nothing there for voice calling.

Are WhatsApp calls recorded and stored on the device or is it just a log where you can see you made a call?


texts: Number pad does not work in vim and less

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I am working from an iMac running Yosemite and using this keyboard.  The number pad works in the terminal, but when I open vim or less it does not.

For example using less, if I type for the number 8, I get ESCOx, not an 8.  In vim 7.2 (in command mode), it inserts an x.  How do I fix this behavior? I got this keyboard specifically for the number pad.


texts: Why Isn't the Dock Showing/Hiding Correctly

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I use two external displays and a MacBook Pro. I'm running Mojave 10.14.6. I've noticed a problem with the Dock. Expected behavior is the dock appears when I bring the mouse to the bottom of either the external displays or the laptop screen. This doesn't work. The dock stays where it was located.

This is where it gets weird.

If I want the dock to move, I have to select a window in the display that I want the dock on, then type text into a text field in that window, then bring the mouse to the bottom of the screen. That makes the dock move.
Any ideas how to fix this?


texts: iPhone 5s. If you are connected to wifi at home and the wifi temporarily loses signal does the iPhone automatically switch back to cellular network?

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I want to know if you are connected to your home wifi, and that wifi temporarily loses signal for a few hours, does the iPhone automatically start using your cellular network?

I had an issue with my Find Friends App not showing my location for a while, even though I never shut it off.  I am just wondering if this could be the cause.


texts: Is it possible to programmatically (or in machine-readable form) get location data from an AirTag?

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AirTags seem to be an incredibly useful way of creating a de-facto globally available location tracker, by taking advantage of the sheer number of iOS devices around.
I'd love to be able to obtain an AirTag and get location data from it (or more precisely from the Apple 'Find My' network) programmatically or in machine-readable form, though. Currently as I understand it the location is only available through the 'Find My' tool (digression: see this fascinating recent article illustrating that), which in effect means it's limited to what's plotted on a map. Can I get lat/long co-ordinates from this? Can I programmatically trigger the request for location? This would be a great way to (for example) plot everywhere I travel, by popping one in my bag and having a central server somewhere request my location periodically and log it. Real-time would be ideal, but even a history of locations would be good.
(Note: I wasn't sure if this question was better suited for here or StackOverflow. Happy if the community wants to move it).


texts: Github and credential-osxkeychain delete access

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Today I went to push to my Github account and got an authentication error. Surprised, I looked in Keychain Access to see if there was anything wrong as I had setup git to use git-credential-osxkeychain. I freaked a little when I saw that there were no references to git at all. I went to log onto the GitHub site and found that my password wasn't working either. After calming down from a I've-been-hacked-panic-attack I saw that Github had sent me an email that they had to reset some users passwords due to an internal error. Annoying but OK.

Here's the question: Is it possible for a service like git-credential-osxkeychain to delete keys from a keychain? Could this have been done by Github from their end somehow?

I ask as I went back to my backups of my keychain file and the old Github key is in there, and I definitely didn't manually delete it.


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I was trying to install Joomla on my Macbook Air under XAMPP. I successfully installed it, but when I try to open the front-end, I keep getting this mkdir():permission denied error.
Two questions raised while I was trying to solve this problem:

I noticed when I do ls -l, the owner/group of some folders is myname:admin, while those of other folders is root:admin. I am the only user of this computer and the myname user should have all root privileges.
What I don't understand:
A. Why when I do chmod I had to sudo chmod.
B. Why there are folders with different owner.

To solve the problem, I forcefully changed owner/group of all related files and directories to root:root and permissions of those to 0777. But eventually I will have to move this over to a production server and it is not wise to keep the owner and permission like this. Is there any better way to solve the problem while keeping the owner/permission settings as tight as possible?


texts: MacBook Pro: No feedback sound on changing volume and on mouse clicks

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I have a 13" mid 2012 MacBook Pro. I am not getting any sound on increasing/decreasing volume and on mouse clicks.

The MacBook has suddenly stopped making those click sounds and the volume button doesn't make that sound as well. My speakers are fine. I have recently upgraded my RAM.

What could possibly the issue be?


texts: Build without requiring users to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

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I'm following this guide on how to build NumPy with Intel MKL on a macOS (I'm on Mojave 10.14.5), and after installing Intel's MKL library, the guide tells me to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

The problem is, if I now build NumPy and share it to someone else, they will have to set this same environment variable manually. How can I automate this process so it's enough that they install Intel's MKL tools into /opt/intel/mkl without having to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH?


texts: Update to a specific version of Safari for iPadOS

texts:
I am using the iPad's Safari (browser) for development testing.
I need a specific version of safari that is 13.1.
The current version is lower than that. If I update safari from the app store it will update to the latest release version (~14).
How can I install a specific version of Safari on the iPad?


texts: Why are all of my all-day events on my iPad on the wrong date?

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All of my all-day events are a day "early" on my iPad. This applies to all-day events I have entered manually, birthdays (which I can edit indirectly through the Address Book), and synchronized calendars from Apple (e.g., US Holidays). For events that I can edit, doing so corrects the problem (though even that would require hundreds of edits to individual events), but I can do nothing about synchronized calendars. Events in Lion Calendar, iCloud, and my iPhone calendar are on the correct dates.

Has anyone else experienced this issue or found a way to correct it?


texts: My MacBook Pro has a flashing question mark in a folder against a grey background

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My MacBook Pro shows a grey screen with a flashing question mark in a folder.
I tried connecting it to an older MacBook using firewire cable. I restarted the Macbook Pro in Target Mode. Now I see Thunderbolt and Firewire icons flashing and moving in a grey background. There is a green power icon at the bottom as well.
I am not an expert even though I have been using Macs for ages.

How can I fix this issue so I can recover/backup things in the MacBook Pro hard drive?


texts: Default calendar alert keeps getting re-added to recurring event

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I have a custom-recurring event (for weekdays at 4pm) in which I have 1 alert for 5 minutes before.  Usually, all my events have an alert set for 1 day before, but for this recurring event alone, I removed (or changed?) the default alert when I created it.  I feel like it worked fine for years without issue, but for awhile now (say weeks/months), the default alert keeps getting re-added to the recurring event.  I keep opening it up, removing it, and select 'apply to all future events'.  I haven't worked out how frequently this happens, but it's at least happening once a week.

I tried ending the previous recurring event last week and created a new/fresh one, but the default alarm just popped up again!  How the heck do I kill that alarm once-and-for-all without removing my default alarm (which I use for all other new events) and keep the reminder in the calendar app (because I occasionally edit a single event in the series).

I have submitted feedback to Apple about this issue.

Side-note: around the same time this started happening, an "Open File" alert for a separate weekday recurring event also kept getting messed up.  The open file alert kept getting changed to the default alert at about the same incidence rate as the aforementioned event.  I had isolated that issue to the fact that other synched devices didn't know what to do about a file they didn't have access to and mangled the event, so I figured out a way to move the event to a calendar that's located "On My Mac" and I wrote a blogpost about it.  However, this is a basic alert, so that explanation doesn't cover this issue.


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I've just downloaded a new font from the web, and installed it into the Font Book application, where I can find it under all fonts.

Specifially, "Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Font" is the one I'm referring to. I want to use it when editing a PDF with the preview application, but it doesn't show up there. Have I just missed a step? How do I use a font from font book in preview?


texts: Minimal Xcode installation without iOS SDK

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I am in the progress of switching my MBP to run off an SSD, so I’ve been looking of ways to save harddisk space. Xcode with the iOS SDK weighs around 10GB, and since I don’t really use the iOS SDK for anything this seems like a good opportunity to save space.

Problem is that Apple seems to have removed all Xcode downloads that do not include the SDK. I have tried looking around the site and link-hacking, but nowwhere have I been able to find a minimal Xcode.

I don’t really care if it's Xcode4 or not, I just need it for Homebrew to work. Is it possible to find this somewhere?

(If not, is it safe to simply delete /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform and /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform)?


texts: connecting my laptop to iPhone HotSpot using Ethernet adapter

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Can someone suggest an adapter to connect to iPhone hotspot through Ethernet data cable?

Wireless hardware in my laptop has stopped working and I am using Ethernet cable to connect to Internet. But once in a while, I want to use it outside and I am looking for some kind of hardware to connect to iPhone HotSpot.

I looked at IOGEAR Universal Ethernet to Wi-Fi N Adapter and it could have worked but their customer support said they have had problems to connect to hotspot and they haven't tried iPhone hotspot yet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UAKCS6/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_YL-9ybAKFN7NK


texts: How do I get Safari to search all tabs from all Safari windows in the Tab Overview, instead of only those in the current window?

texts:
When I press the shiftcommand\ keyboard shortcut, it goes into 'expose' mode and allows to search thru only the tabs in the current window, not all windows.

It would be super handy to be able to search/display tabs from all windows.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: How do I get my firmware version prior to running jailbreak on a new 3GS?

texts: I want to jailbreak my new iPhone 3GS, but I need to find out what firmware it has before downloading the jailbreak software. I can't get past the emergency call only page, and I can't read it with iTunes because I am using an illegal carrier, so not valid Sim as far as Apple is concerned.


texts: What replaces x86 intrinsics for C when Apple ditches Intel CPUs for their own chips?

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There are whole industries founded on the use of Intel Intrinsics for CPU parallelisation (with SIMD). For example, the community of Lattice QCD physicists depend on that for boost in the efficiency of lattice simulations.

Intel-based macs can be and are routinely used by such professionals to do their job. However, there are rumours about Apple replacing Intel CPU with ARM cpus in future Macs. Will these professionals have to replace Macs with other Intel-based computers, or are there alternatives to Intel Intrinsics for C that are supported on ARM-based CPUs?


texts: Change OS X server website default location

texts:
I have OS X El Capitan and OS X server 5.0.4 installed. Both web and Xcode are enabled. Set web default location contains an index.html

When I open a browser and point to my domain like http://mydomain/ it directs to https://mydomain/xcode/.

How do I change this to make /mydomain/ point to /mydomain/index.html instead of /mydomain/xcode/? I already removed all Xcode stuff in /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/sites configuration file but it's not working.


texts:
I run VMware Horizon Client on my macbook pro. I tried to share files from a Windows virtual machine to my mac (and vice-versa) but it seems impossible for them to communicate.
In VMware Horizon Client > Preferences > Dive Sharing, I chose several folders but they don't show in the Windows VM.
Any help is really appreciated.


texts:
I know it's the spotlight indexing process, but it's been killing my HDD for the last few days and will not stop. The CPU usage is rather low but fs_usage shows that the mds process is doing something the whole time.

I'v tried force quitting it with kill -9 but it will just auto re-spawn and keep killing my HDD.

I'v added all my HDDs into the Spotlight privacy list as well as disabling indexing sudo mdutil -a -i off
I'v done several restarts but it keeps on going.

Any ideas on how to stop it from opening and running?

Update:

I Managed to stop mds by the following command:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library//LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.*

But after a restart my HDD is still writing ~6MB/s and reading ~500KB/s
Any ideas how to find out which process is consuming my HDD? It makes my computer incredible slow.

Update 2:

It only does 3MB/s write now that I have left the computer alone for a while.

Update 3:

It stopped just now for about 5 seconds, then started writing again.
I was doing nothing different.

Here is a screenshot of the usage:


texts: Command + R not working on Snow Leopard reboot

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I am trying to install OSX (10.6) from disk, but before I do I want to format the hard drive which requires the Disk Utility from the disk.

I am pressing Command + R at start up, but the MacBook is still booting up normally. I've tried before the chime, after the chime, during the chime. Nothing.

I am using the 13" MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install DVD that came with the laptop.

Any ideas what's going on?


texts: If a friend sends to me an address in a SMS or IMessage, for example "I am at 123 Main St" can I send that to the Map app to get directions there?


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I'm trying to upload all my pictures (around 4,000) to my Windows computer from my iPhone.  I have tried using the Explorer method, but it only copies around 10 items.  I also tried importing using the Photos app, but that gives me an error around 10 pictures in.  Is there an app I could use to transfer them to my computer?  I've had good luck with iMazing, but it costs quite a bit.  I would prefer to do this for free if possible.
Thanks!


texts: Upgrade Mac OS from El Capitan to Sierra

texts:
How can I find the build date of a serial number like W89072N87WY to check if an upgrade from El Capitan 10.11.6 is possible.

What’s the process to check for Sierra?


texts: Setting 2FA with device logged in with different account

texts: I have to set 2FA on my Apple Develop account to access it. The problem is that I use separate account only for development, let's say it's account A. My main account (B) is used on all my devices (iPhone, Mac) and it has 2FA already turned on. So is there any way to enable 2FA for account A and use devices where I'm logged in with account B? I think it might be quite common problem actually so there should be some solution.


texts:
I would like to drop Vuze that I've been running for many years now on my G4 Mac mini in favor of a more lightweight torrent client.

These two features are mandatory:

Watched folder
RSS scanner for automatic downloads

Any recommendation?


texts: MacBook bought as new could potentially be a refurbished older model

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In mid-2014, Wife bought a new MacBook directly from apple.com . Said laptop has been acting in some weird ways, like freezing and rebooting itself for no reason, or taking in the order of a full minute or two to start reacting when she opened it in the morning. She attributed it the OS the laptop came with (Maverick) being an inferior version. Now the laptop stopped working altogether ---as in, it won't boot, and it won't allow a fresh reinstall of the OS (either Maverick or other). We are putting our money on a hard drive failure. When she called Apple Support to have it taken care of, the conversation went like this:

Apple: can we have your laptop's serial number?
Wife: yes, it is [serial number]
Apple: oh, so our system says that your laptop is a 2012 refurbished model.
Wife: beg your pardon?
Apple: excuse me, I was digressing, have you thought of upgrading to El Capitán?

Wife is mildly disturbed by this, and so am I. For one, she paid the amount of money that a new machine costs! The questions at this point are:

Can we independently check the origin of the laptop via the serial number?
Has Apple sold refurbished stuff as new before, either by mistake or on purpose?
If we confirm Apple sold Wife a refurbished machine, are we entitled to any type of compensation?


texts: help with interrupted "Add to Library" for large number of files

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I have had a bunch of computers over the years and have a folder on my computer with a bunch of old music libraries in it. The folder is very large (600GB) and badly organized, unfortunately, but it doesn't have any duplicates. I thought I would try to organize the chaos by building a new iTunes library in a separate location on my LAN, using the option which allows you to copy files into the new location and organize them there. I divided my old library(s) into three parts and used "Add to Library" on each part. The first two went fine, but my computer crashed halfway through the last import for an unrelated reason. I don't know how much of the original/unorganized folder got added to my library or copied over to the new location.
Does anyone know a good way of checking this? If I simply "Add to Library" again, will I wind up with lots of duplicates, or is iTunes smart enough to avoid that?
My current thought is that I could compare the contents of the old, unorganized folder with the new, organized folder with rmlint or another tool. However I would prefer to avoid doing that because of the amount of time/disk space required.
I am using iTunes 12.9.5.5 on Mojave. Any help is much appreciated!!


texts: How to trigger download of thumbnails of icloud photo library to iOS?

texts:
After uploading a large number of photos through the web upload of iCloud Photos my iOS does not show thumbnails of those new pictures but a grid of icons with small clouds in it.

It has been like this since two days now. It seems the only way to get the thumbnails downloaded is to look at every picture on my iOS device.

Is there more efficient way to download thumbnails? (Preferably in the background)


texts: iPhone 6 iOS 9 how to fix blank screen - no apps visible

texts:
I'm running into a weird issue over the last couple days where I can't see any content on the iOS "App Store" when viewed on the device. Blank screen is visible. It seems that I can still update apps, and the updates screen has updates available.

How can I fix the "blank screen" problem with the Apple iOS App store?

THere's no spinner visible and the app can just sit there with no content refreshing.

See screenshot:


texts: How to identify plist values for iterm preferences

texts:
iTerm2 preferences are stored at ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist. (see also this post for details).
I can print its contents using
defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

Is there a way to I identify the plist value for a specific setting without setting the option in the GUI, saving it and checking the plist again?
I fail to find documentation on this.
I am specifically looking the following:

Save changes to folder when iTerm2 quits
emulate the button press of Save Current Settings to Folder


texts: Apply Pay - Missing transaction history if pay with Apple Watch

texts: If I use Apple Watch to pay, I cannot receive notification and also no transaction history found in the Wallet app. Is it a bug?


texts: Can I be signed into iTunes with a different account than iCloud on same iPhone at same time?

texts:
Can my iTunes & App Store account  be separate from my iCloud, Messages,and FaceTime accounts?
Can I be signed into iTunes with separate account from iCloud, iMessage, etc, at the same time on the same iPhone?
Can I have a separate account (Apple ID) for iTunes purchases than my iCloud account?


texts: Can Mountain Lion bridge two network adapters for Parallels VM use?

texts: I need bridged networking under Parallels for a VPN from the Windows VM. However, this conflicts with my main OS (Mountain Lion) using the same adapter. I'd be happy to direct the mac to wifi (AirPort) and the VM to Ethernet, but how do I do that?


texts: Recover photos from thumbnails in Photos app

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When I open some of my pictures in Photos app, an error message occurs: "the volume cannot be found".

This is because the pictures were "imported" from the desktop on a previous computer and Photos didn't make a copy of them (the setting was disabled).

These original files were lost, however Photos is still able to display a large preview (which actually doesn't seem smaller than the original picture).

Where can I find the picture files behind Photos's previews, so I can reimport them correctly?

I've tried finding a preview file location field in Photos's sqlite database (Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db) but with no luck.

EDIT : I am technically savvy and can use the Terminal for file search, querying a sqlite database like the one mentioned above, or other tasks.


texts: What does hitting the tab button do in terminal?

texts: In Terminal, if I hit  tab  twice, Terminal asks if I want to list all 1580 possibilities. What is this, and what is this used for?


texts: Can Spotlight be configured to search ALL files on the hard drive (or is there a powerful alternative) - like Windows' Start Menu search can be?

texts:
On Windows - since Vista onwards - I'm used to an extremely powerfully configurable instant file/folder/setting search feature: namely its instant indexed Start Menu search. Having a powerful computer, I add every single file and folder to the index so that any little file or folder I'm after (including both file name and extension), is immediately, instantly searchable right from the Start Menu.

It looks like Spotlight is OS X's equivalent of this.

Is there a way I can achieve the same thing, to index every single file on the hard drive, in OS X? So far I see no in-built way to add custom/system folders (or indeed all folders) on the Mac outside the ones it offers, like on this screenshot:

If there's no in-built solution such as a set of Terminal instructions, is there a good third party solution for this? (As always, free options are more desirable than paid.)


texts: Question is in the header. I know that Google Chrome stores his history in sqlite database, and there's impossible to sync Chrome's history. Can I do this with Safari? I didn't find this option.


texts:
I've got a pretty scary problem.
Yesterday I wanted to empty the trash but somewhere in the process it just hung up.
I rebooted a few times and tried it again and again but with no result.

I then used the terminal to delete the files out of the .Trash folder manually and I could narrow down the problem to one particular file/folder that I can't delete. If I try rm -rfv <file/foldername> it just hangs up. Even if I try to get more infos about the file/folder with ls -l it will hang up.

I also tried to repair the volume using disk utility with no success.


texts: I want to update my iMac OS X Mavericks Version 10.9.5 to OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Do I need to backup my files ? or not ?. I'm afraid to update it because I don't want to erase my important files. I'm thinking that if I update my iMac all my files or my apps will be erase or reset .


texts: Using hard disk after a S.M.A.R.T. error

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Good day everyone. I had an hard drive and start giving a S.M.A.R.T error and I've immediately replaced it. Now if I try to format it in exFAT, all goes right, (also checkdisk). Here is the result

But if I try to format in APFS or in MacOS Extended, it gives me following error:
APFS:

MacOS Extended:

I would like to know if it's safe if I continue using this hard disk (for example as an external one). If not, why does exFAT say  it's all right?


texts: How to remove photos without masters from library in OS X Photos app?

texts: I was cleaning my drive and removed many file duplicates. I removed many photo masters (originals) from OS X Photos app library, but when I open Photos app I saw that all photos are still in my library. Is there any way to delete photos without masters from my library?


texts: Added website with a subdomain on Mountain Lion server couldn't be found on other machines

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My server is accessible via example.com and I want my website to be accessed via sub.example.com. I added a website to Mountain Lion server with domain name that's actually a subdomain; sub.example.com. I than added a new host name to DNS service, so that the hostname sub.example.com resolves to the IP address of the server (192.168.1.2).

Now, I can view the website sub.example.com on the server itself, but other clients in the local network are not able to access the website.

The command nslookup sub.example.com has this result:

Server:     192.168.1.2
Address:    192.168.1.2#53

Name:       sub.example.com
Address:    192.168.1.2

Did I configure the website correctly? What's going wrong?


texts: Why doesn't the iOS status-bar network activity indicator show all activity?

texts: I have noticed that the spinning network activity indicator doesn't always show up when I know it's using the network. For example, I have my iPhone SE and my iPad 2 both downloading iOS 9.3.2 right now. The icon shows on the iPad but not on the iPhone. And then when I start typing a question in Stack Exchange, the phone does show the network being used as it searches similar questions but when the search is done, the icon goes away even though the phone is still downloading over WiFi. Searching for tags, though, it does not show the indicator. What is the cause?


texts: What is kernel_task writing and reading?

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After moving from High-Sierra to Mojave I noticed my Mac (23", fusion-drive 3.4GHz) has become much slower. In particular, I noticed that just after the startup I have a significant amount of disk activity.

I investigated this disk activity quite a bit and have come to understand that it's mainly related to the process kernel_task. I read in many posts about kernel_task taking the CPU to prevent it from becoming too hot, but I don't think this is my case:

I have disk activity, not CPU activity
This disk activity is related to my user (from 500MB to 2GB disk activity at each startup) while other users on the same Mac don't have (about 30MB at each startup).

I tried with multiple tools to understand what may be the source behind this kernel_task writing:

Activity Monitor: I clearly see the kernel_task as the main contributor to disk activity
log show: Not able to see any indication on a specific process
sudo fs_usage -f filesys: Sometimes I see kernel_task in the list, but without specific indication, just indicating /dev/disk2
ps axv: to show startup processes
sudo syscallbypid.d: to list the system calls, with their process
sudo lsof: to list open files
iosnoop and iota cannot be applied because of System Integrity Protection

So basically despite all my efforts shown above, I'm not able to say why in my user, at the startup, kernel_task writes and reads at least (but even more) few GB.

Are there any other hints to help me understanding what is kernel_task reading or writing after the startup?


texts: Can a Parallels VM be salvaged from a recovered .hds file (200gb file)?

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The computer got hosed & we lost the .pvm file, then the Time Machine Backup drive was involved in a car crash!
I know the .pvm file is a package with multiple files inside, but I've looked thru the recovered data & can't find a .pvm file.

I see multiple .hds files, but no .pvm file.

I am using Parallels 7 & trying to re-create the .pvm file on an external drive but am not having much luck. Changed the name of the file to **.hdd, attached with Parallels, but the VM complains that the Hard Drive is not there.  Possibly I am not understanding the basic contents needed for a viable .pvm package?

Is what I'm trying to do even possible?

The original problem with the Time Machine drive was "stiction", they put the drive into a  clean room to fix that, and as they were reading the data from the drive one of the heads failed.  Needless to say, the data recovery took 2 weeks, but I think we finally have all the data (in the form of raw files) from the Time Machine Backup drive now.


texts: Can't move files or folders to some positions

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As you can see in the below video, I can not move files or folders to some positions on desktop. There is nothing that blocks me to move. I couldn't solve what causes this problem.
Sometimes the problem can be solved by just restarting but not always.

Disabling "Snap to Grid" is not the solution of this problem. I want my files and folders to be snapped to the grid. Please watch the GIF above. As you can see from there, the folder can be moved and snapped to grid everywhere except top-left.
What might block one of the grid spots from receiving an icon on the desktop?


texts: Conflict between internal Apache and Apache installed via Homebrew

texts:
I have faced following trouble.
I wanted to have multiple versions of PHP so I used this article to achieve this. But I could not stop Apache via
sudo apachectl -k stop when running this command I am getting the following result:

So now it seems like I have two configuration paths:

open -e /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
open -e /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

And currently I am frustrated and stand with following questions:
- which path is correct?
- why any changes in both files do not change anything? (after loading php7 module instead of php5 doesn't impact after I ran sudo apachectl restart)
- how should I cope with this and resolve servers conflict?

Can somebody please help me to resolve this?

P.S. If any additional details are needed or I missed something please let me know in comments.


texts:
I'm a student in Germany, so I have to type a lot in German.
There's four additional letters in German, ü ä ö ß. Since I'm using a computer with US layout, I can't type them directly but by using alt key.
Ü by typing alt+u once then u, occasionally shift switch also, Ä by typing alt+u then shift+a. So it's a lot of keys, not quite efficient.
Since I only have to type these 4 letters, is there any way to make it a bit easier?
Like alt+u directly for ü, alt+a ä, alt+o for ö?

Looking forward for Help!
thx


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There are several launch daemons which I don't need running every day, but I want to run occasionally, for example Wireshark.  I disable it like this so it doesn't run at startup:
sudo launchctl disable system/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF

How can I manually run it while it's disabled?  It's not recognized by kickstart or print commands, even if I try enabling it first:
% sudo launchctl enable system/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF
% sudo launchctl kickstart system/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF
Could not find service "org.wireshark.ChmodBPF" in domain for system

The bootstrap command doesn't like this syntax even though this service-target works fine for disabling:
% sudo launchctl bootstrap system/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF
Unrecognized target specifier. <service-target> takes a form of <domain-target>/<service-id>.

The only way I found that works is the legacy command:
sudo launchctl load -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF.plist

But this requires knowing the location of the plist.  Is there a modern way?


texts: Disable click-through on all applications

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If a window does not have focus, clicking on it should raise it to the foreground and focus it, but it should not pass the click to the window.
There is an app "Klicko" (https://brockerhoff.net/klicko/index.html) that does this, but it has last been updated in 2008 and no longer works on my Big Sur Intel machine.
As you can see, my question is the opposite of Enable click-through, preferrably for all applications


texts: Recursive set creation date of pictures and videos based on filename

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I have a folder structure of thousands of pictures and videos. They are all exported and therefore have the same creation date, time. I would like to set the creation date for all the files according to the names the have. All files follow the same naming convention and have the date and time in the file name.

Example:

Pictures (top folder)
-- Folder 1
---- 2010-05-03
------ 2010-05-03 at 11-58-32.jpg
------ 2010-05-03 at 11-59-32.jpg
------ 2010-05-03 at 12-58-32.jpg
---- 2010-07-04
------ 2010-07-04 at 11-58-32.jpg
------ 2010-07-04 at 12-01-32.mov
-- Folder 2
---- 2090-03-03
------ 2010-03-03 at 10-01-32.jpg
------ 2010-03-03 at 11-01-32.jpg

My current version of the code includes the touch command and I go recursive through the folder structure, but this seems to get stuck after the first time I reach the lowest folder path.

for dir in Pictures/*; do
    if [[ -d "$dir" ]]; then
    cd "$dir"
        for dir2 in *; do
            if [[ -d "$dir2" ]]; then
            cd "$dir2"
            for f in *; do
                t=$(echo $f | sed -E 's/([A-z]*-)|([A-z ,;])|(\..*)//g' | sed -E 's/(.*)(..)/\1.\2/')
                touch -t $t "$f"
                done
            cd -
            fi
        done
    cd -
    fi
done

I also have thought about the find command, but I am not sure how to then extract the date and time from the filename for the touch command.


texts: Only seeing ONE of two external HD's plugged into Apple Airport Extreme

texts:
Here is the scenario:

I have TWO External TB drives.
They are both plugged into a Powered USB Hub.
That Powered USB Hub is plugged into the back of my Airport Extreme.
I can only see one.
They have both been formatted with OS Extended (journaled).
Each are visible if only ONE is plugged in (i.e.  TB_A can be seen if just TB_A is plugged in, and TB_B can be seen if TB_B is the only one plugged in)

Does anyone have any ideas?  So frustrated because it doesn't make much sense.


texts:
Adobe AIR does not appear in the App Store - this is Australia, on an iPad 2.

Are there geographic restrictions - surely it isn't sideloaded?


texts: Cannot connect to SSH server from Mac OSX

texts:
Whenever I try to connect to a remote server using SSH, I get an error
"ssh: connect to host x.x.x.x port 22: Connection refused"

I didn't install a Firewall or something similar. I know for sure the server is online and my credentials are valid - I am able to connect to the server using my (Android) phone or other devices.

Is there any way that connections are blocked by the System? This also happens for some other applications on different ports and servers.

Do you have any ideas how I can troubleshoot the problem? I can browse the Internet without any problems, but SSH and some other applications can't connect to different servers with different ports, including a Usenet client.

Happens on a Macbook Pro Late 2011 using MacOSX Yosemite.

If you need any more information, don't hesitate to ask.


texts: AppleScript file permission error when trying to save attachment of mail message

texts:
As per various code snippets on the web I am trying to implement a simple AppleScript to save the attachments of Mail messages to a folder.

set thePath to ((path to home folder as text) & "Documents")

tell application "Mail"

    set selectedMessages to selection
    set theMessage to item 1 of selectedMessages

    set theAttachments to theMessage's mail attachments

    repeat with theAttachment in theAttachments
        set originalName to name of theAttachment
        set savePath to (thePath & ":" & originalName)
        display dialog ("Saving attachment to " & savePath)
        save theAttachment in savePath
    end repeat

end tell

Here is what the dialog box reports when I run the script with one message selected in Mail that has an image attached:

  Saving attachment to Macintosh
  HD:Users:billtubbs:Documents:20180415_103233.jpg

Here is the error message I get:

error "Mail got an error: To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info." number -10000

It is raised on the line

save theAttachment in savePath


texts: How to access a clicked URL in a URL handler application created in Automator

texts:
I'm currently trying to modify the default URL handling behavior in OS X. I would like, when clicking on any link outside of a web browser, to copy this URL to the pasteboard instead of opening it in the default web browser – for instance, clicking a link in a Skype conversation should copy this URL to the OS X pasteboard instead of opening it in Firefox (which is currently my default web browser).

I have thought about solutions, but I’m currently unable to implement one. If I can create an application that puts URLs into the pasteboard that are sent to it, and can set this application as the default web browser, I would be able to achieve my goal.

I created an application with Automator that executes the shell command pbcopy and have set this application as my default web browser, but I didn’t get the expected result. I did some testing and I can confirm that the application runs on clicking on a link, however, I cannot get the URL passed to the application / shell script. I tried both stdin or a passed argument, but without success.

Is there a way for an application created with Automator to retrieve a clicked URL and send it to pbcopy, when that application is set as a (default) handler for URLs?

Alternatively, is there a better way to create a fake web browser that takes the input and puts it in the pasteboard than Automator? Or is there any other way that I can achieve my goal without a custom application / script?


texts: I am getting this message - Could not save as ... because write access was not granted

texts: I am getting this message in PS CC. I normally use a PC for all of my editing but my PC is down, so I am using a MAC. This is so foreign to me. I am trying to save a file that I imported in LR.


texts: 2FA for multiple Apple IDs on same device?

texts:
Apple now requires two-factor authentication on all Apple Developer Program accounts:

  In an effort to keep your account more secure, two-factor authentication will be required to sign in to your Apple Developer account and Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles starting February 27, 2019. This extra layer of security for your Apple ID helps ensure that you're the only person who can access your account. If you haven't already enabled two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, please learn more and update your security settings.

discussion about that change is aggregated here:
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/02/14/developer-apple-ids-to-require-two-factor-authentication/

This requirement presents a problem for people who are signed in to a personal Apple ID on their devices, but who use a separate company Apple ID for their Organization Apple Developer Account.

Ideally you could use a generic 2FA code generator, but that is not currently possible for Apple ID:

Ability to add non-SMS non-Apple 2FA to an Apple ID?

Can a single device generate 2FA verification codes for multiple Apple IDs?


texts: Old iMessages not transfered to newly setup iPhone

texts:
I just got a new iPhone and decided to start fresh and not restore it from an old backup (old one is cluttered with tons of apps I don't use anymore).

Everything is working just fine except from iMessage. On my old phone, I've got settings -> icloud -> messages enabled. When I check iPhone storage on my old device, I can see that messages takes up 1.7GB.

When I first enabled the same Messages switch on my new device I did get a progress bar saying 'Downloading Messages from iCloud'. I waited for maybe 15 minutes but it seemed that not much happened and stupid me did go to the settings -> icloud -> messages and disabled it. My thought was to then turn it back on again too see if it somehow got stucked and this maneuver would fix the problem.

At this time, while disabling it, I got a message telling me 'Messages have not been fully downloaded, tap Disable and Download Messages'. I'm not even sure what this means but I did disable it. After a while I enabled it again but at this time, nothing more happens regarding Messages.

When I enter Messages I can see that some of my old messages have been transfered to my new phone but not all. If I check storage on my new phone I can see that Messages is taking up 858K of storage so something seems to have gone wrong (compared to the Messages storage on my old phone).

I have tried to enable/disable icloud Message sync a number of times but nothing happens. It seems to have lost it's connection to the stored iCloud messages. If I login to iCloud from a browser I can see that Messages takes up a whopping 4.4GB! Not sure why the iCloud storage is so large compared to my old phone Message storage.

Anyway, my question is, how can i resume the transfering of my old iMessages to my newly setup iPhone?

I've also tried to logout, settings -> Apple-ID -> logout, and then logged back in again but no luck.


texts: Making a digital TV out of cinema display

texts:
I have an old cinema display 20", and I'd like to ask if I can make a digital TV out of this display.

Can I buy any tuner for it? What more do I have to buy if necessary?
What kind of tuners are in the market? What do you recommend?


texts: Edited photos have reverted to originals on iphone

texts:
I edited about 20 photos on my phone yesterday -- cropped, altered saturation and contrast etc. This morning, on my phone, those edits have all reverted to the original photos.

I use iCloud library. The photos had not completed uploading to iCloud library before I edited them. My phone uses ios 11.3

Can these edits be recovered now that iCloud sync up is complete and those edits are reverted to the original photos?

EDIT: given that there is no solution, and that others report the same problem (and that it happened again), I have filed a bug report at Apple:

https://bugreport.apple.com/web/?problemID=40326889


texts: If I cancel my apple music membership will I lose all my music that i downloaded from the app? Is there any way I could keep the music ? I only need to switch my App Store country since I am moving to Boston from Indonesia..


texts: Trackpad not clicking on MacBook Air 2019

texts:
A few days ago, I opened my laptop after a night of sleep just to see my trackpad stopped clicking. Almost like the trackpad is stuck and that it won't make that clicking sound when you press onto the trackpad. Regardless, I can still click as in drag and drop. The only problem is that my trackpad wont physical click. My trackpad was working fine for the last couple of months since I bought the MacBook, but it just randomly stopped working for me.
A day later this issue, my trackpad randomly started clicking again. I simply can't fiqure out why this is the case. Then frustratingly, the day later the click was fixed, my trackpad click stopped working again. I simply don't understand, if this is a dust build-up issue or swollen battery. As of now, the trackpad is still stuck and just hoping for a miraculous fix for my trackpad.
Please, any response or explaination could help.


texts: iTunes sync complaining about songs that don't exist

texts:
I had an album in Music ripped from an MP3 CD.  Creator had "titled" the tracks with numbers.  The import changed them to .m4a
I exited from Music, changed the tags, including the album name, and converted all from .m4a to .mp3
Opened music, went to the album, and deleted all the songs.  Imported them again from the changed files.
Now, the old song titles and the old album name cannot be found in Music.  But when I sync an iPad or iPhone, I get a pop-up saying some songs were not copied because they cannot be played on this iPad, including (former title of the last song in the album).
In Get Info, I edited the titles and other attributes of the last four songs in the album (hoping that would set some kind of "change" flag), but I still get the pop-up with the original wrong title.
The entire album with the original wrong tags is still visible in the iPad.  the new one is not.  I tried turning off "sync music" and it said it would delete all songs from the iPad.  It did not do that!  Tried unchecking the album and playlist and syncing, then rechecking.  Didn't help.
Is there some way to fix this?


texts: How can I view (not download) iPhone pictures on a Mac screen?

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 with various photos.
I have a Mac desktop running OS X Yosemite.

Is there a way to view a fullscreen slideshow of the photos on the Mac display?  I don't want to download the photos, just flip through them for display on the big screen.


texts: How do you change the environment variables for VLC on macOS High Sierra?

texts:
Recently, I was working on a project when I cam upon the following instruction (one of the many here: https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app/wiki/Mac#3---install-dependencies) :

  After you've installed VLC, set the following environment variables:

  VLC_PATH: point this to the VLC libs folder.
  Sample Mac OS X location: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib

  VLC_PLUGIN_PATH: point this to the VLC plugins folder.
  Sample Mac OS X location: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins

How does one do the following? I am using High Sierra, macOS. My Shell is ZSH.


texts: printing an email attachment on apple computer in pdf preview help

texts: i opened a file attachment and am trying to print from an apple computer. it's in pdf preview. it's looks huge on the screen but tabs and all are inline. but when i click print and it shows a preview of what is about to be printed, it's completely skewed to the right and extremely large. And this is exactly what prints out. help??? how can i make this attachment print correctly.


texts: TrueCrypt said it is not secure. What are alternatives?


texts: one computer, multiple iphones, multiple apple IDs

texts: We have 2 iphones and 2 ipod touches and 3 separate apple logins.  We manage all accounts on one computer by using multiple computer user logins.  Note:  this is how apple told us to set it up in the beginning when we had 2 iphones because it was over-riding one set of iphone contacts and mirroring both iphones the same.  So, we've been purchasing everything twice (or 3 times in some cases).  We want to share music, apps, etc but how?  Home sharing is turned on...I even asked an apple "genius" and he had no idea how to share content with multiple apple logins but all managed on one computer.  Any help would be appreciated!


texts: Do i need installing antivirus on Windows partition of Mac

texts: I have installed Windows 10 on MacBook Pro with Boot Camp. Now I would like to know if I should also install antivirus on Windows 10, or is all virus protection handled by the Mac?


texts:
I have multiple e-mail addresses associated with My Contact on my iPhone (6S, iOS 10.0.2). Some of those e-mail addresses are for accounts on the phone and some are for accounts not on the phone.

If I set the default mail account in iOS using Settings->Mail->Default Account, this does not directly control the From address selection of the outgoing mail. Probably this makes sense, because the From address can be set independently of the account used to send. Most advice I find in other questions/Web search only centres on this setting, which doesn't appear to be the only thing which is relevant.

When I compose a new e-mail, the selected From address is by default one which is a) not for the default account in Settings; b) not even an account which is setup on the phone. This is very undesirable.

As I enter the recipient name, the From address sometimes changes. It can change to at least 3 other values (all from My Contact, all from accounts on the phone). This could possibly be learning behaviour based on previously sent e-mails. These choices are often not ideal but better than the default choice.

How is the From address selection controlled? Can I at least control the default, even if the "intelligent" behaviour cannot be controlled? The default is almost always a poor choice for me, and I have to remember to manually check the choice and switch it every time.


texts: Using Apple Pencil as a stylus with older unsupported iPads

texts:
I have a bunch of old iPads lying around which are still in pretty much usable state. They are all from the era when Apple Pencil didn't exist.

I am looking to use one of them as a whiteboard in Zoom meetings so that I can draw quick diagrams in the Notes app and show them to the participants by sharing the iPad screen.

I am wondering if an Apple Pencil gen 1 or 2 can be used as a simple stylus to draw diagrams in the Notes app? I am fine as long as I can draw with the Pencil in the Notes app and none of the other Apple Pencil specific features work.

I do not have an Apple Pencil to try it out myself, but if this is something that could work, I am willing to invest into getting one (especially gen. 1 as that can be charged without an iPad).

Here are the model of iPads that I have along with the version of iOS running:

iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5
iPad mini 4 running iOS 13.5
iPad Air 2 running iOS 13.5


texts: How to make a portable, cross-platform, TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt USB stick?

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I'm using VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt.  TrueCrypt had a mode called "Traveller Mode" on Windows, that allows for the encrypted volume/file to be accessed without requiring an installation of TrueCrypt itself.

Unfortunately this functionality is not in the Mac version (nor is it in VeraCrypt).  I want to have a USB stick that will be accessible on both Mac and Windows (with the password), without anyone having to install anything first.

I have tried creating two volumes using FAT format - 1 that is encrypted and 1 smaller one that is not, then placing a copy of the installed VeraCrypt.app onto the unencrypted volume.  Unfortunately that copy of the app crashes when launched on a computer without VeraCrypt installed.

Is there a way to create a portable, cross platform, encrypted USB stick with VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt on a Mac running OSX Mavericks and if so, what is it?


texts: How to remove Landesk Core's proxy setting completely in OS X?

texts: today my Little Snitch detect my proxyhost has requested outgoing connection to Landesk Core even though it has been removed. How can I reset the proxy settings? (FYI, they are not in system settings.)


texts: How force launchd not to look into subfolders with QueueDirectories parameter in launchd.plist

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I'm processing images put into specific folder.

For that I run script with launchd.plist put into ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Everything work smoothly. But I want put resulting files into subfolder of that folder.
Folder is not empty, it has subfolder, so my script is run over and over again every 10 seconds.
There is nothing to process. But launchd runs script ten times a minute wasting resources.
How can I hide from launchd subfolders in folders from QueueDirectories parameter?
Filenames are arbitrary so I can't use WatchPaths parameter.
I believe parameter like maxdepth should exist.

Any solution?


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I'd like to give the Mail app a real try, and see what it'd be like moving off of gmail. I have a small company (2 people) and I use its domain name to receive and send all my email. Currently, I use google apps to handle all the company's email (and calendars too, etc.)

iCloud seems like it might be an option, except that the web client won't support a domain name.


texts: How can I get hardware schematics for Mac computers?

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I'd really like to have hardware schematics (circuit diagrams for motherboards etc.) for Mac computers, as they might help me to repair them.

Any clues as to how can I get them?


texts: "Service Battery" warning briefly appeared on brand new rMBP. Should I take it back?

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I bought a retina macbook pro yesterday and noticed a "Service battery" warning. It was there for a few hours and now has gone. Should I take it back to the store or do you think it's safe to ignore?

Update: The following day, the laptop battery was completely drained after being 100% the night before (and fully powered down). The "Service battery" warning also re-appeared. I took it back and it was just swapped it for a new one.


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My late 2011 17" MBP was delivered with an 85W MagSafe adapter.

Under heavy stress (either CPU and/or GPU) the MBP has to draw additional power from the battery in order to keep everything running. Though I can't imagine this being particularly healthy for the battery (as it keeps starting to charge a tiny bit every chance it gets, and stops again when power consumption goes up), this seems to be 'expected behavior by design', if I'm to believe the various discussions on the internet.

What strikes me as odd though, is that the 85W adapter isn't actually delivering a full 85W when the MBP starts pulling additional juice from the battery. It stalls at about 77W, according to the DC In sensor. This doesn't seem right to me.. why leech power off the battery if the preferred supply has energy to spare?

So, in essence, my question boils down to this:

Is anyone else seeing similar behavior?
Does anyone measure higher throughput from the 85W adapter than 77W? (charging / leeching both maxes out at this rate more or less)
Would the adapter be actually delivering 85W, and is the DC In sensor just plain wrong?


texts: Macbook doesn't stay asleep when lid is closed

texts: I have a 2006 Macbook running Snow Leopard. I suddenly noticed that my computer's battery would be at a different level when I woke it up than it was when I closed the lid to put it to sleep.  After leaving it on a table next to my bed a few times, I realized that my computer was randomly waking up (evidenced by the Apple logo lighting up) when it was laying on a flat, level surface with nothing on top of it or anything touching it.  I tried switching the settings so that I have to click the "sleep" option in the menu rather than relying on it to automatically go to sleep when the lid is closed, but the problem persists.  Why won't my Macbook stay asleep?


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I'm having a WiFi sharing problem.

I'm using my ipad air as a hotspot for my mac osx leporad (which has a airport card). My mac recognizes my ipad but when I click on it nothing happens. so I went to system presences and tried to add a network there and when I get to enter your password, I do that and it says connection timed out or password invaild......(Which I know the password it right)

If my mac can detect my ipad hotspot why won't my mac connect to it?????
Anyone please help me! Also I have a Mac OS X 10.5

Thankx