texts: Replace Specific Variables In Selected Text Via Script

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So for my work, I am constantly generating links that have to variables that need changed (Ex. http://www.thedomain.com/ajdkeial.html?keyword1={keyword1}&keyword2={keyword2} )

The link is generated with those brackets, to be replaced.  Now I am completely illiterate with code, but I am looking for a way to:  Select the text, and replace {keyword1} with the actual keyword I want, and {keyword2} with the second.

I envision this being done with clipboard history for the variables to grab via the app "Alfred", however I'm not sure how I could write a script that grabs these variables and replaces the text, then gives me the finished product.  If anyone had any direction to go to, it would be greatly appreciated.


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Right now my MacBook Pro is set to go to sleep after 1 hour and then when I wake it back up, I have to wait for it to find/connect to Wi-Fi again.

How can I maintain the Wi-Fi connection so when I wake the computer, it's already connected?

I'm running OS X 10.9.1 on a Retina MacBook Pro.

Here are my Energy Saver preferences:


texts: How to include iLife with a NetInstall Image of Lion?

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I've got a NetBoot server set up on Lion server that pushes several NetRestore and NetInstall images.

While I have a NetRestore image that already has iLife '11 on it, I want to have a NetInstall image that has iLife '11 as well. That way, I can do a reinstall of the OS and iLife without having to erase data.

I've found this article that says adding some iLife packages to the workflow with the "Add Packages and Post Install Scripts" automator action, but the guy who answered did this with iLife '09, wasn't completely sure, and used the NetRestore option.

Is there a way to run iLife install scripts with a NetInstall image?


texts: Is there a way to accelerate the boot process? Can we disable some (rarely used or not useful) services?


texts: Not Getting Twitter Highlights/Recommendations on iOS

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I have two Twitter accounts. Account #2 "recommends" tweets via in-app/push notifications and sends "highlights" push notifications but my Primary account only sends recommendation notifications (no highlights) but they don't show up in-app. All other notifications work well for both accounts on both iPhone and iPad.

I have both features turned on in "Push Notifications" settings on both iPhone and iPad. I've had this issue for months, it hasn't resolved itself. I've read the articles about both features on Twitter's website but they don't offer much trouble-shooting. No response from Twitter support.

Do I need to erase my login info from both devices, delete both apps, and start over again or is there a better solution?


texts: How to see all windows of an application within a space?

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I am a fan of the exposé feature in Mac. I work in multiple spaces dedicated to each for respective projects.

However, I would want to see all windows belonging to a particular application on that Space alone. Is there a way I can enable such a thing?

How to see all windows of an application in the same space alone ?

Edit: Added image to display windows of an application which belong to different spaces but shown together:


texts: Different "Preferred Networks" for different Network "Location"

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The question is: can I have different "Preferred Networks" when switching from one to another Network "Location"?

This issue has been discussed before at Ask Different: Can't I use different WiFi networks for different Locations?. However, I do not like a solution that ought to use some external App.

I would appreciate any comment! Thanks!


texts: Backing up Photos library to external hard drive

texts: Regarding Photos and its file structure, if I want to back up my photographs to an external hard drive, what files do I identify to be copied over? That is, if I back up the Photos Library, am I actually protecting the pictures themselves (or just links to them)?


texts: Set Spanish Layout to an external keyboard

texts: I am using my Macbook Pro with an external display, and a external mouse and keyboard.  This is a Microsoft wireless keyboard 800 with Spanish layout. Is it possible to reconfigure the keyboard to set a spanish layout? because, the OS autoconfigure to English layout (same as on Macbook)


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My date and time has suddenly become  1 jam 2013

In date and time preferences the setting "set date and time automatically" is disabled by which I mean it's greyed out. It's ticked and set to 10.2.0.90

How can I reenable this setting to change the date?

MacBook Pro with Mavericks


texts: Setting an alarm using Siri on Apple Watch does not set an alarm on iPhone

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When I set an alarm on my Apple Watch only the watch goes off when the alarm time comes around. I'd like my phone to also participate in the alarm.

I've even tried saying: "Hey Siri, set an alarm on my phone..." and that went off on my watch only.

Is this just the way it is, or is there a setting I'm not seeing that pushes the alarm to the iPhone?


texts: I am working on some OpenGL development and I get to the point where I can move the mouse but nothing responds (Sometimes I can wait for a really long time). The mouse still moves just none of the apps respond. This is especially strange since I have the sandybridge with 16gbs RAM. I would like to try to go and kill an emulator I am running to fix the issue, in Linux I would do this with ctrl+alt+fx to get to a terminal and type my kill command. This doesn't appear to work in OSX, is there another option?


texts: How to make a bootable, *usable* macOS USB key (NOT an installer)?

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2011 iMac running Sierra
I would like to have a copy of macOS that I can actually boot from and use on a USB key, so that I can run Carbon Copy Cloner from it to make backups of any volume on the machine at any time.  I previously had a dedicated small partition on one of my drives for this purpose, but that drive died and going forward I would rather have this on a USB stick.
To be clear, I don't want a "bootable installer".  I want a fully functional bootable macOS on the stick, i.e. it boots into Finder, etc.  All the answers I've found related to this, are about creating bootable installers.
Can this be done and if so, how?


texts: How do I pass the following error message in the Boot Camp Assistant: "Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition."?

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I am running the Boot Camp Assistant on El Capitan. Whenever I reach the third screen, titled "Save Windows Support Software", on which I can select an storage medium to save the Windows support software to, I am shown the following error message upon selecting a disk and hitting "Continue":  "Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition.".

I am using a Transcend 16GB USB drive. I have formatted it as FAT through Disk Utility. I have tried every possible partition scheme. I have also tried formatting the drive as Ex-Fat, again in combination with all three partition schemes. I keep seeing the error message. There seem to be a fair number of people who have encountered the same issue, and for some it was resolved by formatting the drive as FAT with a MBR partition scheme. For others however this did not work.

Any advice on how to make the Boot Camp Assistant accept my USB drive would be much appreciated.


texts: Drag and drop Chrome downloads like any other OS X file?

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When I've downloaded a file in Chrome for OS X, it sits in a little bar at the bottom of the screen.

Sometimes I want to drag and drop that file directly into a Chrome tab (for example, to upload it somewhere.)

Some websites allow this.

Other websites, however, won't allow this. They only accept files from Finder, not ones dragged directly from the downloads bar.

How can I get Chrome and/or OS X to treat these files from the downloads bar as normal Finder files, so that websites will be unable to differentiate?

I realize that I could, (and I in fact do), just locate the file in Finder and drag it from there. However, I do this often and it would save me time if I could just drag it directly from Chrome itself.


texts: No route to host, unless someone is logged in

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When trying to ssh into a remote OS X machine, I get:

ssh: connect to host … port 22: No route to host

ping or traceroute do not reach the machine either.

The interesting detail is that if someone is logged onto the machine as a guest, then the machine is reachable and it can be pinged.

Is it possible to have the machine always be reachable through the network? I have looked for information on the web, but while many pages describe how to enable remote access, I did not find any one that addresses the problem above.

(If needed, I can have someone log directly on the Mac onto my (Administrator) account. Maybe ssh works too when the guest is logged in, I was not able to try yet, as I only have a remote connection.)


texts: Determine an SSIDs Index Value in the Preferred Networks List

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Im looking for a way to use the macOS networksetup command (and some string/line filtering mojo) to output all SSIDs from the Preferred Networks, and then determine what index my corp SSID is located at (and then take action depending on what index value it has).
Example:
admin@mac1 ~ % networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks en0
Preferred networks on en0:
    Denny's
    Hipster Cafe
    Hilton Hotels
    My_Mom's_Basement
    Airport
    Marriot - Public-5G
    HOME-OFFICE

You will see each line shows an SSID. 'Denny's' is at index 0 (top) and, therefore, is the prioritized SSID.
Likewise, you will see my Corporate network ('HOME-OFFICE') is at the bottom (index 7 of 7).
How can I get the index value using a shell script? I have tried parsing the output and then building/filtering/appending a list using tools such as wc, grep, etc but haven't gotten the logic right thus far.
I already have the logic to move my corporate SSID up to index 0, but I only want to run that logic if the SSID 'HOME-OFFICE' is NOT already at index 0 - which I can't seem to figure out.


texts: Error: iPhone 5c Screen apps background gone yellow!

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I had purchased an iPhone 5c in January last year, and recently it had an error with apps being updated. Initial error was that some apps being updating were stuck at some point, and when I tried restarting the phone, sometimes the apps disappeared from the phone (got deleted, or hidden from home screen).

Later, recently I tried (on Windows 10, Itunes) refreshing the phone by first backing up the phone, and then updating it to latest ios version, and then backing it up again, and the restoring it to it's factory default, and then restoring it from the itunes backup. When the phone restarted after backup, the apps background was all yellow!

Here's a screenshot from my iphone 5c home screen. How can I fix this?


texts: Can I print envelopes/address labels from Address Book?

texts: As Christmas approaches I'd like to send a letter to my friends and family. I currently have their contact information in Address Book. Is there a way to print envelopes with my contacts' mailing addresses from Address Book? If so, how would I do this? If not, is there a program that will interface with Address Book and do this? If it's not possible to do envelopes, would it possible to at least print labels?


texts: Can I screen share an OS X computer to several viewers over VNC?

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I want to give a demo to people remotely. I want them to be able to use any VNC client to view my current Mac desktop. Can I use the built-in screen sharing features to do that? I'm using Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I don't want to set up a special "guest" account. I don't want to share my account password with them. Everything I try under "Screen Sharing" gives the VNC user a Mac login screen, and doesn't connect to the existing desktop. When I enable the "remote management feature" it connects directly to the existing session with full control. I don't want all the viewers of my demo to have full control of the desktop, although that may be an acceptable work-around.

(Note: I posted this on superuser.com, and I think it should go here instead, but I don't know how to "move" it.)


texts: Assigning keyboard shortcut to iOS User Agent in Safari's develop menu

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I am trying to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Develop > User Agent > Safari iOS 8.1 - iPhone menu item of Safari web browser. But in the System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcuts, when I enter Safari iOS 8.1 - iPhone, the keyboard shortcut does not work.

I suppose that hyphen [-] like character that appears in the user agent menu is some other character. Can somebody tell what character is that so that I can the keyboard shortcut working.


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Can I retrieve a list of the sizes of MacPorts installed packages?

Yes, I know they are compiled from sources, but if a list of generated files is known, it should be computable anyway.


texts: Macbook not charging after depleting battery

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OK, this is a bit of a weird one.  My wife, thinking someone damaged her Macbook's cable, unplugged it.  She then ran the Macbook until it shut down by itself.  When I got home, I tested the cable and it checked out fine, except that the light wouldn't come on when I plug it in (the first time, the green light lit up briefly, but never since).

I'm at a loss as to how to fix this.  The Macbook doesn't turn on, so no way to get system information or reset SMC.  I do know it's an A1278, probably from around 2011/2.  I've cleaned the contacts on both the cable and the Macbook.  Also, unplugged and reconnected the battery.  So far, no joy.  Any ideas/suggestions would be welcomed.


texts: How to set "default" .bash_profile when opening Terminal on Catalina

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I'm running Catalina, 10.15.2, which uses the new zsh shell as a default. I've created my own .bash_profile file in my home directory and I'm able to initialize this .bash_profile by typing:

source .bash_profile

The problem is that I have to keep typing "source ..." each time I open a new terminal shell. How do I default the shell to always use this .bash_profile file? Thanks!


texts: Photo edits in iOS 7 do not save when exported to PC

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I applied some edits to my photo using iOS 7's default photo editor: red eye correction, auto enhance, etc.

It looks great when I preview the image on iPhone, but when I look at the image on my PC it looks the same as the original: all the edits are gone. I use the Dropbox app on iOS to sync my camera roll to my PC through the cloud.

What do I need to do to push the edited photo to my PC?


texts: Is there an OS X app to route keyboard via bluetooth?

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I want an app on my desktop that lets me route my keyboard to my iPhone via bluetooth.

The main goal is to type with the keyboard when I get a text. I don't mind having to click a button on an app.  It would be nice if I can share it via bluetooth? So i can register it as a keyboard on my iPhone. Is this possible?


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I am using a MackBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8.2. I currently have Java 6 installed:

wdb-laptop:~ wdb$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_37"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06-434-11M3909)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01-434, mixed mode)

I would like to install Java 7 to play with JavaFX, however, all of my apps for work are still on Java 6. So I would like to install Java 7 "on the side". Is his possible? If so, how? I want to make sure I will not loose my Java 6 installation if I run the .dmg from Oracle.


texts: iMac 27" shutting down during Windows 7 install

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I've got a problem with my Mid-2010 iMac 27" where when trying to Bootcamp Windows 7 x64 (Ultimate edition) it simply wont get past the expanding files stage.

Despite numerous attempts to use USB and the retail DVD, it will take about a second to copy the files and then will start to expand files.

After a few minutes of hearing the DVD drive spinning, it shuts down.

Has anyone ever encountered this?

I'm currently downloading the latest ISO from MSDN to try however I'm not holding my breath lol.

Look forward to hearing from you all :)

Thanks

Gavin

Specs

iMac 27 Mid-2010
Processor: 2.93ghz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16gb 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024mb
Software: OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)

Partitions

Filesystem    512-blocks      Used Available Capacity  iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   292863368 173193648 119157720    60% 21713204 14894715   59%   /
devfs                369       369         0   100%      642        0  100%   /dev
/dev/disk0s4   195642688      4608 195638080     1%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
map -hosts             0         0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /net
map auto_home          0         0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /home


texts: Is it possible to change the default launch behavior of apps, either individually or generally?

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I don't like that apps naturally pull focus when you launch them, especially when they launch in multiple stages (like many games/ide's). I saw another post that showed how use terminal to launch apps into the background or hidden, and I'm hoping to find a way to make this the default behavior.

An example to clarify: Say I have my Mail app open full screen and I'm looking through my emails, and one or a few have links that I want to open, but not necessarily go to right away. I'd like to be able to launch Safari and open the link with out getting pulled away from looking through my email.

I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 on a MacBook Pro. Thank you for any ideas!


texts: Is it possible to preserve Light Table (or Album) ordering when exporting from Aperture?

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I'd like to export my Light Table to disk using a custom counter that preserves the ordering of the Light Table. Alternatively, I'd like to do the same for an Album.

Thoughts?


texts: Making 2008 Macbook work with new SSD running Sierra

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I had an old late 2008 Macbook lying around (fully functional, just slow) and a Samsung 840 EVO available (also working) so I removed the old hard drive I had in there and replaced it for the SSD. However, I simply get a prohibited symbol on start-up like the one shown below:

To recap:

I used Disk Utility to format the SSD drive using my new Macbook Pro and did Mac OS Extended (Journaled);
Connected the SSD to the new computer and restarted the computer, hitting Cmd + R to enter boot mode;
From there, I installed OS Sierra in the SSD drive. The computer then started running from the SSD, I created the user account, and all that. Eventually I was just at the classic Mac homescreen, everything working fine.
Since everything worked fine, I then opened up my old Macbook, removed the old hard drive and connected the SSD instead.
I closed everything and turned the computer on, leading me to the prohibited screen mentioned above.

The old hard drive was working fine and the opening and closing of the computer was straightforward and didn't have any issues so I believe the SATA cable inside the computer is working. I've googled this a lot but haven't managed to find any answers. Help would be much appreciated!

Finally, I thought maybe installing an older OS could work. Could this be a solution? Ideally, I'd want Sierra though.


texts: If I'm storing music and movies in iTunes, does it free up space on my Mac?

texts: My Macbook has 250 GB hard drive but I'm at 220 GB of movies and music. If I transfer those files from my Mac to iTunes will if free up space on my Mac?


texts: OSX default file permissions when copying/saving files

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Every time I save a file from a web browser or copy files from our local server to my machine, the default permission "for everyone" is set to none.
I'm a web developer. Files that are non-readable will not be displayed when accessed from an Apache server.

That means I always have to go through every file manually and change their permissions.

Is there a way to tell OSX that all files should be readable?


texts: When external speakers are plugged in to headphone jack of Macbook Pro (with Lion), output destination randomly switches

texts: I have an essentially new MacBook Pro with Lion and all updates applied, and am wondering if this is a hardware or software problem.  Essentially with something plugged into the headphone jack, things work as they are supposed to for a while, then the sound will switch back to internal speakers, or sometimes 'digital out' (I can watch it change in the system settings), and then often switch back.  It doesn't seem to follow any sort of pattern or be related to any specific application that could be open, and happens with different sources of audio (iTunes, streaming from the web), and different external speakers or headphones plugged in.  It does seem to be better for a while each time I unplug and plug back in the jack.


texts: How do I enable Java to do JNLP in Safari?

texts: We use the Java Network Launch Protocol to load up our applications at work, but it's failing for our Mac users now.  I VNC'd into my test Mac to give it a test, and it appears that nothing happens at all.  In the past, if Java wasn't installed it would give the install option, and if it was install it would to a launch.  Now the URL bar just flashes and goes back to the previous website.  Appears that perhaps some recent OS X update has broken this functionality.  How can I re-enable it?


texts: Is it possible to automatically sign in to the Mac App Store?

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Each time (at the beginning of the session) I buy or update an app in the mac app store I have to sign in.
I want to be automatically signed in, like I am in the iTunes Store.

I couldn't find any "remember password in keychain" option.
Did I miss an option somewhere? Or is there any way so I get signed in automatically?


texts: Use a custom thumbnail for (QuickTime) videos without distorting it

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I'd like to use a certain frame of a video as the thumbnail. To do it I right-clicked on that video file in Finder and opened its information. Then I selected the QuickTime-Player icon and copy-pasted the custom thumbnail.

While that thumbnail did change into the one I wanted to use, it was compressed from its (original) rectangular size to a square and now obviously looks very distorted. How can I prevent that?


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I have multiple SSIDs in the building.

When I choose a different Location, how do I make it connect to a different SSID?
When I choose a Location where Thunderbolt Ethernet is first in the service order, how do I make it disconnect from the SSID but leave Wi-Fi enabled for AirDrop?


texts: Low-resolution icons displayed in Dock and Launchpad

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Since about a week I have some icons in the Dock and in the Launchpad (e.g.: AppStore, Mission Control) with low-res icons.

However if I start the app (in this case App Store), the correct (high-res) icon is displayed:

After quitting the application, the low-res icon will be displayed again.

I have the same symptoms for a handful of apps (mainly Apple applications).

What's the cause of this, and how can this be fixed to ensure high-res icons are shown?


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Some of my users are sending me bug reports saying my website doesn't work on their device. They send me screenshots and videos of the problem. When I use all the simulators and the devices that I have they all seem to work fine.

So I'll need my user to send me the console log on their device so I can identify the problem.

I've searched online a lot and most of the answers are old and outdated. I guess not a lot of people build for mobile browser anymore. I found a way to use safari and connect to a mac but my user doesn't own any other device. So ipad is the only thing we can use.

Any solutions?


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Apparently Chrome will never support iCloud keychain and will use the default keychain because Apple only allows access to the former if the app is distributed through the App Store (see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=312105)

So I was wondering whether there's an app or script that automatically syncs between different local keychains (thereby working around the limitation imposed by Apple.)


texts: Using Applescript to execute Javascript in Chrome and set a value to a variable

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I'm building a service through Automator. So I'm trying to execute this bit of Javascript in Chrome and set the clipboard to the value of one of the variables.
Essentially it is grabbing the contents of an element which is a file path.
Ex:
id:file:///Volumes/Imaging Share/TENNIS_2018/TW-07.23.18-[54]-EleVen_Fila_Womens_Model/Capture/CaptureOne/Settings100/TWCES-GY-17057.CR2.cos

stripping "id:file//" and then saving the remaining string in a variable or clipboard.

The Javascript works if I execute it in the console but I'm not having any luck getting the Applescript to execute it and not quite sure how to get the value of the variable so it can be used later.
here is the javascript by its self

var link = document.getElementById('q');
var str = link.value.replace('id:file://', '');
console.log(str);

here it is in the context of the Applescript which is not working

tell application "Google Chrome" to activate
tell application "Google Chrome"
    execute javascript ("var link = document.getElementById('q');
    var str = link.value.replace('id:file://', '');
    console.log(str);
    str.select();
    document.execCommand('copy'); ")
end tell

Any help will be much appreciated.


texts: Dual boot: I cannot boot in OS-X, after installing Linux (Debian)

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After swapping the DVD drive with an SSD, I installed Debian Linux on it. I left the original SSD with OS-X untouched.

After a reboot, OS-X (El Capitan) started.
After another reboot, pressing Command-R, Linux started.
After yet another reboot, without pressing any key, Linux started by default, without the option to boot OS-X.

How can I have the option to boot in OS-X again? Do I have to set grub somehow?

I am using a MacBook Pro 17" 2009 with the original drive running Mac OS X El Capitain.

This is the output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         248.5 MB   disk1s1
   2:                 Linux Swap                         16.0 GB    disk1s2
   3:           Linux Filesystem                         150.0 GB   disk1s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         300.0 GB   disk1s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS shared                  20.0 GB    disk1s5


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Using the technique described in this post:

http://paulmayne.org/blog/2007/11/how-to-remove-broken-or-dead-tracks-from-itunes/

I was able to get a list of all of my broken links in iTunes.  The vast majority of these files have just been moved to other directories on my hard drive.

Are there any apps available which will just check my hard drive for the missing files, and then update the links if and when they are found?


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I just found out about the ^1, ^2 etc. keyboard shortcuts for switching to desktops.

Those only do desktops though.

How can I set-up keyboard shortcuts to switch to spaces?

E.g. full-screen safari is space 1, desktop is space 2, safari's fullscreen video that's being played is space 3.


texts:
I use a program called iShuffle with my iPod shuffle. All I do is copy music files in Windows Explorer to the Shuffle's Music folder, then run the little app and it magically works without iTunes.

http://agoraphobeus.free.fr/iShuffle/index.html

Is there an equivalent for the iPod Classic line, and older generations of that line?


texts:
I am trying to configure the network on my 12-inch MacBook. I have the following manual:

But there is no Ethernet in the list.

I tried to import it from my old computer, but it output the following:

  The "8021x" configurations could not be important because a "8021x" service has not be set up in Network preferences.

Could you help me?

OS Version: 10.11.5

 Hardware: Ethernet
  BSD Device Name: en1
  IPv4:
      Configuration Method: DHCP
  IPv6:
      Configuration Method: Automatic
  Proxies:
      Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
      FTP Passive Mode: Yes
  Service Order: 1

VPN-Zugang:

  Type: IPSec
  IPv4:
      Configuration Method: Automatic
  Proxies:
      Exclude Simple Hostnames: 0
      FTP Proxy Enabled: No
      FTP Passive Mode: Yes
      Gopher Proxy Enabled: No


texts: How to record both screen and sound with Quicktime on El Capitan?

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I'm trying to record both what's happening on screen and the audio being played by the applications. To my surprise, QuickTime did not record the sound. I believe it worked before in previous OS X releases, but that is not something that I use often so I have not bothered to try earlier.

What is the current situation on El Capitan ? Have I messed with something that prevents QuickTime from capturing the sound, or has it never worked ?

Here is my view of Quick Time  / New Screen Recording on a Mac Mini:

On my Macbook Pro, I have the option select None or Internal Microphone. Internal microphone actually records the speakers of the Mac Book as heard from its own microphone, which obviously sounds terrible.

This is a MacMini 7,1 (late 2014) and there is nothing in Input Sources.


texts: Does anyone know of an iPad case that blocks access to the physical buttons.  I would like the user to not be able to hit the homembutton or the sleep button.


texts: Recurring "error code -50/invalid argument" resolved by reboot, better solution sought

texts:
I'm using an old iBook G4 (PowerPC) running Tiger to serve iTunes to the house. For the past week or so, the mac boots fine, and then sometime during the day starts generating

An unexpected error occurred (error code -50).

errors when iTunes attempts to save its library file.

Checking reveals that the boot drive (main drive, in the laptop) behaves as if it is write-protected - I get the same error code when I attempt to create a folder on the desktop, for instance. If I attempt to create files via the terminal, e.g. via
    ls > foo.txt
I get an "invalid argument" error.

I've set the iBook to run in Target Disk Mode and run Disk Utility to repair the disk (from a Macbook running Snow Leopard) and get "The volume appears to be ok".

I don't have the option in Disk Utility to Repair Permissions in Target Disk Mode. When I ran Repair Permissions on the iBook itself, it came back with no errors, no permissions corrected, but did not in fact fix the problem.

Rebooting always solve the problem - for the next 5-10 hours or so.

Would Disk Warrior help, or some other software fix, or is it time to buy a new drive? (And, in any case, what's going wrong?)


texts: How do I Reauthorize Screen Sharing for Quicktime?

texts: At some point, I must have denied Quicktime access to screen sharing.  Now that I want to record a Screen Recording, I need to grant it permission again however, when I go to System Preferences to do this, Quicktime does not appear as one of the options to check.  Where did it go?  Is Quicktime holding a grudge because I denied it previously?  How do I Reauthorize Quicktime for Screen Sharing?


texts: What is the proper order to boot Macbook with Thunderbolt display?

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At work I have a MacBook Pro connected to a 27" Thunderbolt display.  I take the MacBook home with me in the evenings.

I come into work, plug in the power and Thunderbolt cable, open up the MacBook, and hit the power button.  I then close the MacBook and put it in its vertical stand.  The 27" display doesnt always turn on (or maybe its just slow).

Should I be turning on the MacBook and waiting for it to boot, or for the built in display to work, before plugging in the the external display?

What is the best/proper order?


texts: How to display non-DV video signal with Firewire input?

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Is there any way to get the video signal output from a Displayport (mDP) or Thunderbolt (1 / 2) socket into a Firewire (FW800, IEEE 1394) input? What cables, adapters and drivers or other software would I need?

I do have an mDP 1.2 to hdmi/dvi/vga adapter if that helps. So the question may be reduced to: How do I get a Firewire input to accept and display a monitor video signal instead of either a DV camera signal or a Firewire Target Display Mode signal?

Related questions

Connect firewire MacMini to thunderbolt MacBook Pro (other way around – solution: 1-way TB-FW adapter)
Is it possible to set up an old iMac as an external monitor without Target Display Mode? (basically the same question without enough details)
How to use an old iMac as an external display for a MacBook via wifi? (similar question but focussing on software solutions)


texts: Display Slack notifications on both screens

texts: I'm using my Macbook while it's connected to a larger display. I'm mostly working off the larger display. Is there a way for notifications to be displayed on both screens simultaneously? I'm specifically concerned about Slack, but if there's a way to do this for all applications, knowing how that works would be much appreciated.


texts: Resetting previously selected folder when selecting a file with Finder

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I use a personal password manager and the database is protected by a password and you have to provide a key file. To select the key file you click a file selection dropdown. A Finder window pops up and opens the folder I previously navigated to with this file dropdown and presents you the folder where I stored the key file. In terms of security, you understand this is not desirable behaviour.

Ideally I would want Finder to just open the default folder that pops up when I open a new Finder window. I would like to modify this behaviour for this specific application, but a system wide solution is also welcome. I don't mind clicking through several folders.

I am on a relatively fresh install of MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and I'm not afraid of tinkering with the Terminal or AppleScript. I just don't know where to start.


texts: Is there a way to differentiate in iOS mail notifications by account?

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Specifically, the notification (both unlocked & locked screen) in iOS. I have setup two mail accounts (iCloud and another server). When I receive a new message, the notification shows the sender, subject and the first row of the message’s body.

Is it possible to show the account where the mail was received?


texts: Apple App Store submission for an app that requires its users to be registered

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I'm building an app that requires users to have an account to log in.
There is no way to register an account through the mobile app. The users are hand picked and their username and password are emailed to them prior to downloading the app.

Is this something Apple will give me trouble about during submission to the app store?

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question either.

Thanks!


texts: External NVMe Sabrent SSD not recognised by Catalina Macbook Pro 16" over USB-C, only USB-A

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I recently bought a 2TB SSD hard drive, placed it in a USB 3.1 enclosure and formatted it to Mac OS Extended (Encrypted). I began to do a straight copy from another SSD (Sata), both connected via USB-C, the transfer was working fine, then froze. I cancelled the transfer, and the finder bar froze on "stopping". It was frozen for a while and eventually the entire Mac crashed.
After a restart, the new SSD (NVMe) would not appear, not in Disk Utility, Terminal or System Information. All that would appear in System Information was the enclosure with the name "JMS583". The SATA drive worked as normal. I physically reset the drive in it's enclosure, and it had no effect. Eventually I connected it to my old Macbook Pro 13" via USB-C to USB-A and it appeared. I re-formatted it and successfully copied everything across.
However, the drive still refuses to appear on my new laptop over USB-C, it only appears when connected to a USB-A port on my HyperDriveNet (which then converts to USB-C). If I connect to a USB-C port on the HyperDriveNet (USB-C to USB-C) it does not appear.
I've tried repairing via terminal over USB-A and it's had no effect. I've seen similar posts here and here. But nothing has helped. I unfortunately have no access to another USB-C laptop to check whether it's my laptop (I would not be surpised, Catalina and the MacbookPro 16" have been a real disappointment) and I would rather see if it can be solved without buying an additional enclosure/drive.
What I have gathered from my attempts is that...
• The SSD, enclosure and format will work with my mac, as seen over USB-A.
• The mac is detecting the enclosure over USB-C, just not the actual storage ("JMS583")
• The drive as a whole has worked before over USB-C as seen on the first attempt that led to a crash.
Could something have happened in that crash that meant it will no longer be seen over USB-C. I've pre-ordered an OWC thunderbolt enclosure... But waiting till August is not really an option.
Any help much appreciated!
Thanks


texts: Mac package installer installs the folder "Contents" in /Applications instead of the bundle

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When I try to use packaging with my .app to create a Mac installer, and I run the installer, it creates me a folder named "Contents" in my /Applications folder, instead the "bundle app" as it should.

I've test with pkgbuild + productbuild:

pkgbuild --component "./myapp.app" --version 1 --install-location /Applications component.pkg
productbuild  --package-path "component.pkg" --distribution "./Distribution.xml" --package-path "./Temp" --resources "./Resources" --sign mycert "myapp.pkg"

And just with productbuild:

productbuild --component "./myapp.app" /Applications -s mycert myapp.pkg

In both cases, I run the installer, everything seems fine, but in Applications folder I see "Contents" (that is the content of the app bundle)

I've tried with "./myapp.app/" also in --component attribute, and even adding "/Applications/myapp.app" in the --install-location


texts: 'Use mobile data for' toggle changes won't save on iPhone 6, iOS 9.0

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When I change an app's setting to use mobile data (or not), the changes aren't saved when I exit settings. It's infuriating as, for example, I can't use WeChat at all unless I'm on wifi.

Elsewhere on this forum it's suggested that the only way to rectify this is to restore not from backup. Is there really no other way? And if I do need to restore not from backup, how do I do it? And what will the consequences be - e.g. lost contacts, etc?

Many thanks for any help.


texts: OpenOffice multiple launcher in launchpad/dock

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I recently installed the OpenOffice 4 on my Mac and I use it also on Linux (CentOS 6.5 / Gnome2).

On Linux, after the installation, I got a specific shortcut (launcher) for every Office application (Spreadsheet, Text Document, Presentation, and so on) but on MacOSX I have only one launcher and I have to select the type of application afterwards.

Is there any way to install all shortcuts individually in the Launchpad and in the Dock as well like it is in the Office menu of Gnome under Linux?


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I upgraded from MacOs 10.14 to 10.15 (Catalina), now I can't open Transmission. I get the following error:

You can't open the application "Transmission.app" because it may be damaged or incomplete.

I tried reinstalling it both from the website and from homebrew.

I tried the xattr command mentioned in this Ask Different post, i.e.

    sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Transmission.app

I tried "Allow apps downloaded from anywhere", but still get the same error message.


texts: Where is GarageBand mapped on hard drive?

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I had a late-2015 MacBook Pro 15” that I recently submerged in water. I pulled out the 256GB SSD.  Just bought a MacBook Pro 16” 1T.  I connected the 2015 SSD to the new laptop via USB-C and opened GarageBand expecting it to immediately recognize the relevant music files from the old SSD. That did not happen. The old SSD is operable and doesn’t appear to have been corrupted or damaged by water. Both my new MacBook and an online recovery program found mostly the same files.
My questions:

SHOULD the GarageBand app have been able to detect the music from the old SSD in the plug-and-play fashion that I envisioned?

How do I go about manually searching for and restoring the GB files? Can anyone map to the default location of GarageBand files on the 2015 SSD that is now an external hard drive to my new MP 16”?  I didn’t change any locations or default system names when I was working with the 2015 MacBook.


texts: Installation failure - the mongodb driver for PHP on El Capitan

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I tried to install the mongodb driver for PHP on El Capitan. While running sudo pecl install mongo, I get the error message:

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/pecl install mongo

fatal error: openssl/evp.h: No such file or directory
 #include <openssl/evp.h>
                         ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [io_stream.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed
PEAR Version: 1.9.4 PHP Version: 5.5.28

I tried mongo driver install with PHP 5.5.26 also.


texts: Choosing OS X version for a mid 2011 Macbook Air 4GB

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As I understand the matter, it is generally better to use a later version, however, I realize that the newer versions are really designed for more powerful hardware.  The MacBookAir4,1 in question is a dual core I5 1.6 Ghz CPU with 4GB of RAM.  It is currently running El Capitan.

The choices include:

Mojave (latest, requires 2012 or later Macbook Air)
High Sierra
Sierra

What is an appropriate quantitative test to determine which of the three will run on the MacBookAir4,1 with a comparable performance to El Capitan?  While anecdotal reports are fine, any benchmarks to support a position should alleviate the issue of being 'opinion based'.


texts: Command-C does not copy highlighted text into clipboard from MacVim

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I just installed macVim/mvim on macOS Catalina and uncertain why the  normal macOS shortcuts are not working. They work on my other macOS Mojave system. There are probably some settings I am missing here.

This is what I have in ~/.vim directory.

Update Responding to question about the configuration on both systems: I used the copy from another mac to initialize the new system (that does not work) from the old system (that does) . That led to the entire home directory being bulk copied: so the configs are the same in both.

Another update  Corrected above to say vim _directory_ (not vim _file_)   Also here are contents of couple of those files

$cat gvimrc
set guifont=Menlo:h10

Under .vim/plugin we have:

$ll plugin
total 16
-rw-r--r--  1 steve  staff  6747 May  6  2017 cua-mode.vim
drwxr-xr-x  3 steve  staff    96 May  6  2017 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 steve  staff   224 Mar 13 12:18 ..

The cua-mode.vim is here
 https://gist.github.com/javadba/a639e8e75e63dfe0499679b3f78635e5 . As for all the other files this is working on the first machine and not the new one.


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Possible Duplicate:
  What are the benefits of iPhone jailbreak?

What is jail breaking? Why do people do it? What is the advantage and disadvantage?


texts: How do I renew my Developer Program Account?

texts: How do I renew my Developer Program Account. The Account I used to have has expired. Please give very clear and specific instructions.


texts: iTunes Backup - iOS & Settings only - No Apps

texts: Is there a way to backup the iPhone such that none of the apps are included? I can always download the apps from the iTunes App Store after the iPhone is restored. I would like to backup all the settings for Mail, Messages, iCloud, and the OS itself .. but I just don't have enough space on my SSD for the App backups in iTunes.


texts:
I have a broken Powerbook G4 lying around and I'm wondering if I can re-use the screen, that is still fine. Maybe it's impossible, but is there a way to use it with composite video input?
Thanks


texts: Change Safari search suggestions language on iPhone

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The search suggestions in Safari always suggest results in Dutch to me, despite using my phone in English, and my Google set to English by default.

I am Dutch and live in the Netherlands, so I guess this is intended behaviour, but I find the Dutch wikipedia pages to be lacking quite often, for example.

Is there any way to change this language?


texts: Partition type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF, drive unmountable How do I fix this?

texts:
I started having this issue when I tried to swap  my sshd for an ssd. My caddy was broken so I tired booting into bootcamp to run disk cloning software.

(Seagate backup time machine disk failed on me. I should have bought a new one on during the sales)

Windows 8 ran the disk startup utility which allowed me to boot. However, once I restarted I could no longer boot into osx and I got the dreaded all f partition type.

I followed a few posts on here and was able to get my partitions visible. Bootcamp is visible with no issues but my osx partition is still unmountable.

Have reinstalled OSX on the new ssd and have mounted the old drive in a drive caddy.

I'd really appreciate some support on this.

Thanks
Iridium


texts: Photos.app is not syncing when using hotspot. How to treat hotspot as a regular Wi-Fi on macOS?

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Recently I started use hotspot as my home internet. I have unlimited data and high speeds 160/40 Mbps. Everything works well except Photos.app. It just doesn't sync even a single photo.

I contacted Apple support, but it's just a big facepalm.
They asked me to test this problem with other iPhones and MacBooks.
I tested with over 5 devices, as I expected the result was the same.
I wrote them and provided steps to reproduce the problem, but their answer was:

  Thank you for the Response. Since the issue is happening on more than 1 iPhone, as I discussed when we spoke on the phone the first time, Its due to the computer needing a stronger connection other than hotspot. There is no need move forward with troubleshooting at this point due to the same thing happening on all the Apple products you have tried.  As discussed, we would have continued troubleshooting only if the issue didn’t persist on another Apple product, because then it would have shown that its device specific and this it is not because its all the Apple products you have tried. Thank you for understanding.

So that's why I am looking for the answer on how to treat hotspot as a regular Wi-Fi on macOS.

macOS 10.14.5; iOS 12.3


texts:
Regularly, after some time using Safari, 3rd party icons in Safari toolbar become blank.

Restarting Safari fixes the problem, but after some time it happens again.


texts: I use Pages on my iPad pro and would like to edit using my new Apple Pencil - can anyone tell me how to get Pages to recognise the Apple Pencil? Would be very grateful.


texts: Can I simply swap a Time Machine SSD with the original one on an MBPro?

texts:
I need to replace the original internal SSD (256GB) with a 512GB that has Time Machine on it and up to date.

I am hoping it were not required to involve yet a third disk - e.g. another USB hard drive in this process .. but am not clear on it.  Let us call this 1TBdrive

Specifically it seems one solution would be:

attach the 1TB hard drive and make it the time machine backup.
power off the MBPro and physically swap the 256GB with the 512GB
attach the 1TB USB hard drive and boot up, keeping the option button pressed to induce booting to time machine
restore from 1TB TM to the new 512GB internal drive

Unfortunately I do not possess this 1TB external drive.  So is there any way to do this with just the first two SSD's?

UPDATE Here is the relevant available disk space info

df -k

Filesystem                        1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity  iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1                          243915264 235014420   8644844    97% 58817603  2161211   96%   /
/dev/disk7s2                        499771696 214002444 285769252    43% 53500609 71442313   43%   /Volumes/os2mellyrn

Notice the externally attached SSD used for TM (disk7s2) still has 280GB available = more than twice the internal (active) SSD (disk1)


texts: Can I transfer and view xvid (avi) videos on an iPad?

texts:
What type of video files can I watch on my iPad?

I usually only have .avi files; is there an app that will allow me to play them?


texts: Why is Git not found after installing OS X Lion?

texts:
I just upgraded to OS X Lion and now cannot initialize Git where it used to work fine:

$ git add .

-bash: git: command not found

I'm new to Git and to programming, so I'm sure it's a quick fix, any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks guys!


texts: Avoid involuntary data pushing to iCloud during updates

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I run iCloud on iOS/macOS with only "Contacts" (and iMessage) enabled, because I don't want other data copied out of my device.

However, it seems that every time I upgrade iOS/macOS (and possibly when logging out/in of iCloud), that all other iCloud settings are forcibly enabled without my consent.

And you don't notice this until the device is up and running again, and then probably a lot of data has already been copied to iCloud before you manage to turn it off.

How can I make sure no data is copied to iCloud except what I have expressly chosen myself? Will it suffice to disable Wi-Fi before updates, since (I think) iCloud doesn't sync over Cellular Data.

Please provide step-by-step instructions for both iOS and macOS that are watertight.


texts: Fresh install or Cloning when migrating from HDD to smaller SSD (considering fragmentation, mostly)?

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I own a mid 2010 6,2 MBP and I am considering the upgrade to a SSD. I would probably get a 256GBs SSD and replace my optical drive for the older HDD, so I can have a little more of capacity, as I seldom use CD/DVD anyway (and could use an eternal USB wrapper if that was the case).

I recently changed my HDD and used disk utility to clone the older one to the new one (which I assume copies the exact blocks rather than operating on the "file data" itself, right?). Everything went flawlessly :) But here the new HDD was bigger and I did not have to take much care hence.

Now I want to upgrade from a 750GBs HDD to a 256GBs SSD. I have some doubts on the best approach to achieve so. Initially, it would be easy to remove or backup unwanted files so I would reach something below 256GBs, maybe like 200GBs of used space. But Would eliminating data and resizing the partition be efficient, regarding the way the data is stored on disk?

I mean, OSX using HFS is somewhat spoken about as not having to perform defragmentation operations, is that REALLY true? If I have 200GBs of the 750GBs on HDD used and resize that partition to, say, 205GBs, for performing the cloning operation to the new SSD, would that be efficient? SSDs perform better on random access writes and reads, but I would like to have my data as continuous as possible, specially if I consider that I will not defragment a SSD, because of the durability issues. :-) If I resized and cloned that older partition, should I worry about data fragmentation or am I just being paranoid?

Furthermore, every once in a while I read people recommending fresh installs. The point is that I HATE wiping my O.S. out for reinstalling it. Hence, my MBP initially had snow leopard, which was updated to lion, which was updated to mountain lion. I NEVER did a fresh install. That concerns me in two ways: Could my data be too much fragmented on the disk, without my knowledge (call me paranoid..)? Furthermore! Am I losing too much performance? For instance, I never achieved those incredibly low boot times that I constantly read people reporting (even with similar specs and almost no login itens or additional kexts loaded). My MBP performs well, it is not as if I NEEDED a fresh install because it is annoying me. However, I am a little perfectionist regarding performance/organization sometimes, I have downloaded installed and removed several applications, libraries, frameworks, they all leave some minor and annoying configuration files and stuff. But I do not know if a fresh install would bring me enough benefits.

Any advice here? :) I know the question is not the most deterministic one, but I appreciate any advices! Thanks in advance.


texts: How can I change the default text color in Apple Mail 8.2?

texts:
I want the default colour of my font I use to send emails using Mail 8.2 in Yosemite be blue.

Is it possible? If no, are their any easy work arounds?


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I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 running latest release OS X. Recently when I am shutting down my computer it just get stuck in the spinner. So the only way is to force shut it down which might not be good for the computer. Do I have to reinstall the firmware or I can do something to help it? Thanks

Note that this doesn't happen when trying to shutdown in recovery mode.


texts: Can't partition hard drive - "corrupt", exit code 8

texts:
I want to install Windows on a partition of my Mac's SSD. Therefore, I had BootCamp install Windows from an .iso file.
Unfortunately, BootCamp could not partition my drive. The error message doesn't say much; it just asks me to repair my drive via First Aid in Disk Utility.
I ran first aid on the physical disk. Result:

Next, I ran first aid on the logical volume. Result:

As suggested, I decided to run first aid from recovery. Since Disk Utility in recovery mode only lets me run first aid on the physical disk, the result is as expected: everything's ok.
Then, I tried manually creating a partition to boot into using a bootable USB. Disk Utility gave the following output:

Now, I'm not sure how serious I should take the message "the volume xxx is corrupt and needs to be repaired", since the first aid on the physical disk says, everything is fine.
Any idea what's causing this and how I can resolve it?
If possible, I'd rather not reformat the drive, except if it's necessary.

Edit:
As requested by @klanomath, I ran the command sudo gpt -r show disk0 in terminal. This is the output:
    start       size  index  contents
        0          1         PMBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  975425848      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
975835488    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
977105024          3
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header

Edit #2:
In internet recovery mode, I ran the command diskutil list, which returned this list:

I was not sure whether I should use disk1 or disk2, so I tried running diskutil verifyVolume diskX on both of them. For disk1, I received a message saying invalid request. For disk2, the following result and error message was displayed:

I then tried running the command diskutil repairVolume diskX, again for both disks. Same error message for disk1, following output for disk2:


texts: Desktop icons are disappearing & not behaving

texts:
I've just been attempting to shift some stuff across to an external hardrive to make space on the laptop HD and all was going well until I tried copying a large amount of photos into a folder on the desktop and then it all went bonkers.

One of the symptoms of this curious affliction is that if one is to attempt to create a new folder on the desktop, it works but is invisible. Another involves clicking the mouse on one icon, only to have opened the app/doc/program relevant to an icon either to the sides or above the clicked icon.


texts: Mac OS install drive not being recognized by computer

texts:
I recently installed Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite) onto an external USB drive. It has been working fine for the past few days. When I need to switch OS installs, I shut down the computer and then pull out the drive. However I think I just pulled out the drive a little too early, while it was still being written to, and now the drive is not being recognized at all by the computer. I get the following message.

Is there any way I can still save the drive without losing all my work on it? Thanks.


texts: How to disable the dock on a specific display in Mavericks?

texts:
I've just updated to Mavericks, and while I like having the dock on my 2 Landscape displays, my third portrait display is entirely unsuited to having a dock on it.

How can I suppress the dock from appearing on one of my 3 displays?


texts: Grain of sand in apple watch circular side hole - effect / removal option?

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I have a grain of sand in the endmost of the two tiny circular holes on the side of the apple watch due to imprudent behaviour at the beach.

Does this matter? If so, is there a way to remove it? I am hesitant to stick a pin in the hole to try to remove it as my feeling is this probably won't work and also may make it worse.

I am not aware of any effect on function at this point.


texts: WhatsApp haven't restored all the media files

texts:
I upgraded from iPhone SE to iPhone XS and restored the WhatsApp backup from iPhone SE to the new iPhone XS.

However, while some media files were imported, not all of them were imported correctly. They are blank.

Example:

How can I fix this? I'm using the latest version of iOS and WhatsApp on both phones.


texts:
Trying to get rid of Spotify's startup at login time I found an interesting behavior: while its plists are not present in any of the known locations such as Library/LaunchAgents and Library/LaunchDaemons and it's also not set to Open at Login either in the Dock or during logout, it still manages to start up somehow.

I've created a new test user, started the app just once, was greeted with a login prompt, closed the app and it decided it would start ever since. I've tried deleting the entire contents of the user's home folder in the Terminal while running as another user (rm -rf /users/testuser/*), but Spotify would start anyway.

Wonder how they do that? It's pretty easy to check by downloading and running the app, there's no need to even create an account.

The point of the question is to understand the mechanism rather than actually stop it from opening (there's a switch in the app).


texts:
I'm getting mad here while trying to fix a issue with iCal and Exchange.

After removing and adding back the Exchange Account in 'Setting' 'Internet accounts' the Exchange Group in the calendar has disappeared

Mail and contacts are working fine and are in sync with exchange, but in iCal there is the exchange account missing :-(

I tried several stuff: removed and added the exchange account. Double and tripple checked that "Calendar' is activated in 'Internet Accounts' and that in the Calendar Settings the Exchange account is activated, too.

Then I have stopped iCal, removed everything from ~/Library/Calendars, gone into ~/Library/Preferences and removed everything containing iCal.
rebooted several times (as suggested here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7837872) .

And talked with Apple Care too but the girls were overwhelmed and couldn't help.

The same account works with calendar on my iPhone w/o any problem.

Any help is welcome, I don't want to switch to Outlook just because of this :-(

My system: MBP Retina 13'' early 2015
MacOS Sierra (10.12.2)
Calendar 9.0 (2155.15)


texts: How can I set system audio + microphone as the audio input for video conference software?

texts:
I am trying to set up my audio devices in a way that I can stream a mix of my voice (internal MacBook microphone) and the Mac's system audio via a video conference software.
The software I am trying to use specifically is Microsoft Teams, but the same question could go for Skype or Zoom or any other video conference software that let's you select the audio input. I saw some online articles that suggested you create a "Multi-Output Device" in the Audio-MIDI-Setup software. But I tried that and I cannot get it to connect to Teams (i.e. I cannot select this Multi-Output Device as my "microphone" in Teams).
Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Thanks!


texts: iPhone 7 Plus repeatedly restarts after storage got full

texts:
I've got an iPhone 7 Plus, and I've used all my storage.
I've restarted the phone because it was stuck, and then it starts showing the Apple logo, and restarts repeatedly.

I've tried to extract the backup with the software '3uTools' and then an power outage occurred, the iPhone restarted and it's formatted.

How can I recover the data?


texts: Today I've updated a Mac mini and it won't boot even to recovery mode

texts: Monitor is switching between being black and turned off. The same when starting with Cmd-R. I clicked update, rebooted computer, and this happened. What can I do? I was updating to newest El Captain, probably, as I already had quite fresh version of it.


texts: iMac: update OS X from 10.5.8 to 10.6 (and beyond)

texts:
A friend of mine has a desktop Apple computer (I googled Apple computer images and it looks like an iMac). He has Mac OS X version 10.5.8. When we tried to upgrade it the OS reported that there are no updates available.

We googled around to find alternative ways of upgrading the system - 3-4 different clicking paths all leading to the same system update program - but with same outcome.

Finally we tried to download it but we could not find the 10.6 upgrade anywhere. The system does not allow to upgrade to any version higher than 10.6. I'm not able to check it now, but I remember for sure that the computer was bought around 2009-2010, and it is one of these two (1, 2), which should mean that it can be upgraded even up to Maverick.

How to upgrade to the latest OS X version?


texts: Cloning an image from MacBook Air to MacBook Pro

texts:
I am getting a mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. I currently have a mid-2011 11" MacBook Air.

I will be purchasing a Crucial M4 512GB SSD for the Pro and I want to clone my existing Air's HDD before I give it away. Can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make an exact image from the current Air SSD running 10.8.2 to the Crucial and then pop in in the Pro or will there be driver issues?

I know I can use Time Machine, but it's a little more of a round-about way if CCC (or SuperDuper or plain old dd) is capable of doing the job in one swoop.


texts: Using laptop as third monitor? Best way to set up (without thunderbolt)?

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I currently  have a 27' iMac that uses a Samsung 16' monitor as a second display using Mini Display Port to VGA. I also have a 2011 Macbook Pro and was wondering if there was a way to set up this up as a third monitor to the iMac. The MDP is already in use, so what would be my options (if there are any) for connecting a laptop as another monitor? Also note that this monitor does not have thunderbolt, so thats out.

Thanks in advance for help.


texts: Is there a way to check whether an app explicitly supports Resume or not?

texts: Is there any way to check whether an app explicitly supports Lion's new Resume feature or not? For example, as of right now, Safari supports Resume, meaning all the tabs are reopened, however in Google Chrome, this is not the case.


texts: How can I use tmutil to figure out which files just got deleted?

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I'm on Lion and until ten minutes ago I didn't know that the nifty new tmutil existed. But now I'm a little uncertain with all its options and sub-commands which to use to try and figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.

A program ran amuck and started deleting files from ~. It made only a little progress before I stopped it, but doubtless I lost some files. I just can't tell out of a drive with hundreds of thousands of files, which ones went away. I know there were some configuration files (for example .bash_profile) because those were right there in that folder, but doubtless it went off in some depth first rampage so no telling what got deleted and from where.

I can't just do a restore of /Users/John (the Mac OS prevents it), I can't restore all the files inside of /Users/John using the GUI (the Finder ignores all the .something files and folders, some of which I know were deleted), so my current hope is to figure out from the command line exactly which files got the axe and somehow restore only those from my Time Machine backup.

In other words... help.


texts: Can I stream videos to Apple TV using the VLC iPad app?

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Can I stream videos to an Apple TV using the VLC iPad app?

In other terms, can I browse through movies on my Mac and stream them to Apple TV?


texts: Without a backup, can I downgrade from Sierra to El Capitan?

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I haven't been making backups on my laptop (I know, this is something I'm going to change!) but I really want rid of Sierra, it's mucking about my wifi connectivity loads and I'm sick of it restoring Mac apps to the Dock that I just don't want there.

All the solutions I've seen so far to downgrade rely on having backups of your machine from a time where it was on El Capitan - which I don't have!

How/can I do this without having backups?


texts: Is there a way to tell Keynote to change the font for all the presenter notes in this file to a specific font? I find that sometimes it screws up the fonts for the notes (not the body) of a bunch of the slides, and it is tedious to change them one-by-one.


texts: Is there a command to remove previously installed package?

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I have installed a .pkg package with the installer command. But there are problem with that installation. Now I want to remove it. Is there a standard way to do it with command line interface?

Note: I have no access to the GUI interface of the machine.


texts: Battery percentage on iPod touch 5G iOS 8

texts: How do I get the battery percentage on the top right of my screen please help I tried many other things but didn't work


texts: Remove custom dns server setting via command line

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So I typically run the following to set a custom DNS server when I am on WiFi:

networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi <desired-dns-server-here>

However, I would like to know how to unset custom DNS servers and revert to DHCP provided DNS. This article from 2015 says that running networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi should do this, but on macOS 10.15 that results in ** Error: The amount of parameters was not correct.

Any ideas how this can be done?


texts: GDB Hang after "New Thread" on macOS Big Sur

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I have built GDB from source on macOS 11.4 and codesigned it. However, every time I try to debug a program, I get this:
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x10000324f: file main.cpp, line 50.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /Users/[path redacted]/a.out
[New Thread 0x2a03 of process 2389]

and then GDB hangs. I have been compiling C++ programs with g++. Here are some things I have tried:

Compile with -g option.
Compile with -ggdb option.
Compile with -ggdb3 option.
Run with sudo
Kill and re-run gdb repeatedly.
Try different binaries.
Disable SIP
Add more breakpoints.

I do not get taskgated / Mach Port errors; only the New Thread message.
I realize that this is a near-duplicate of Mysterious GDB hangs after clean & build, but I didn't see a working answer on that question.
For reference, here are my versions:
$ g++ --version
Apple clang version 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin20.5.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

$ gdb --version
GNU gdb (GDB) 10.2


texts: Change default font in Word Office for Mac 2011

texts: How I can change the default font of Word Office for Mac 2011?


texts: Can I receive local or push notifications to my email address?

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Can I receive local and/or push notifications to my email account instead of as a notification that appears on my iPhone?

I want to receive the local and push notifications for some apps but I don't want to necessarily receive them as pop-up notifications on my iPhone screen, but would rather access them in my inbox when I have time.


texts: What is the best dropbox compatible iPad app for MS office documents?

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It's pretty simple. I just got an iPad and want to get the best app to edit word documents that I have saved in my dropbox. There are many options: pages, quick office, docs to go, office2.

I am looking to be able to browse documents within DropBox and tap edit to open them in the editor. I'll make a few changes and expect to be able to tap save and have it automatically update DropBox.


texts: When streaming movies online, should I keep the computer on the charger?

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I watch a lot of movies streaming online. Should I keep my computer on the power cord, or should I charge the unit completely, remove the power cord, then wait till it gets to a low battery and plug it in again?

My main concern is that if I keep it plugged in, it will degrade the life of the battery, but if I keep plugging and unplugging, it will cycle through the battery life anyways.

My question is essentially: Should I keep it on the charger when doing something that would cause the battery to drain faster than normal?


texts: How do I grant a second user complete access to a user's Home folder?

texts: I want a second user (but NOT all users) to have complete read/write access to a user's Home folder – both users should have the same level of access on all files within, even those created by each other.


texts: My iPhone suddenly started showing me an activation error

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I am new here so please forgive me if it's the wrong place to ask.

My iPhone suddenly showed me an Activation Error with the message "Activation could not be completed. Please restore the phone and install the latest version of IOS and attempt activation again. If the problem persists, please contact customer support." - when I googled it, some solutions would say I need to download the OS from a laptop. But I do not have a laptop, this iPhone and another phone are all I have. Please tell me what to do, I need to access my iPhone urgently. Thank you


texts: How can I boot my dual-booted Mac back to OS X?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro and run Windows XP on it too much however I cannot remember how I can open the MacBook Pro with OS X on instead of Windows XP. How can I boot back to OS X?


texts: Can I disable macOS Sierra's sticky window edges?

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In macOS Sierra, the window edges are sticky and grab the edges of the display, the top of the Dock and the bottom of the menu bar when being moved around.

This is very useful most of the time, but sometimes I would like to disable it. Whilst it is possible to move the window away from the edge and move it back again which seems to override the sticky edge functionality, I'd like something to prevent the initial grab in the first place.

Is there a way to disable macOS Sierra's sticky window edges?


texts: Can iCal merge Events of attendes into one shared event?

texts: When I want to see which Events other Users in iCal are attending through the delegates tab then I get the same entry multiple times for Events which my delegates and I have accepted. Is it possible to just show one event in some special color or else so I don't get a cluttered Month view?


texts: Do external DVD drives other than a SuperDrive work with the MacBook Air?

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I need to access a DVD using my MacBook Air, and am planning to buy an external drive. I'd prefer going for an option cheaper than the SuperDrive.

However it looks like the SuperDrive doesn't work with other machines, and this worries me that other drives won't work with this machine.

If I get a recently manufactured non-Apple external drive, can I expect it to work with my MacBook Air?


texts: When my Macbook and home Mac were running Mountain Lion, I used Back To My Mac to get to my home system and it showed me all of my drives if I logged in with my normal account credentials.  Since I've upgraded to Mavericks, it appears to be defaulting to Samba instead of AFP because I only see the single read-only SMB share I have set up, and I can't log in with my normal account user/pass.  When I'm at home, if I manually go to afp://ip.address/ it works fine.  Obviously that is not an option with Back To My Mac.  Does anybody know how I can get the afp-over-wan behavior back?  It was really handy!


texts: Unable to include external media drive in time machine backup

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I have recently moved my apple photo library to an external hard drive to save space on my internal SSD, however i would obviously still like this external drive to backup with the rest of my computer. However it appears i am unable to take this drive off the excluded list (as shown below), does anyone know how i can remedy this?
Cheers.


texts: Xcode Error: Unable to install app (Error Code: Code: -402620383)

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I am using my free Apple developer account (Apple ID) for learning to develop iOS apps with Xcode. My iOS version is 13.5 and I am running Xcode 11.5 on Mac Catalina version 10.15.4.

I created a simple app that prints some text on the screen on my iPhone X, and when I tried to run the app, Xcode returned an error:

  "Unable to install app", error code: -402620383.

When I clicked for more details, I got a more detailed description of the error:

  "The maximum number of apps for free development profiles has been reached."

After much search on the Internet, I tried the following fixes and none of these worked:

Creating a new Apple ID and link that to Xcode.
Unpaired my iPhone X/deleted the provisioning profiles in windows/devices in Xcode.
Checked in the windows/devices and simulators and there were no apps installed.

The interesting thing is that I tried running the app on my wife's iPhone X (running iOS 13.5 as well) and it worked. Digging a little deeper, I noticed device management under settings/general is missing in my iPhone but present in my wife's iPhone. The profile of the app I was trying to install in device management. Maybe that is the cause of the problem. I really don't know what to do and would appreciate help on this, thanks!


texts: Horizontal lines visible on retina monitor

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I have a retina monitor, but I can see horizonal "pixel" lines on my screen. This occurred soon after I installed Yosemite, then the problem disappeared, now it has reappeared again. Restarting the computer or restarting in safe mode does nothing. How can I fix this issue?

My system details are as follows:

OS X Yosemite, Version 10.10.1
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1526 MB

Color LCD:
  Display Type: Retina LCD
  Resolution: 2880 x 1800 Retina
  Retina: Yes
  Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror: Off
  Online: Yes
  Built-In: Yes


texts:
I have found and tried several solutions to why Mail.app (I'm running Mavericks) has not been able to download emails for about 5 hours. I can send just fine, but when I go to my gmail account there are a number of new emails.

I didn't make any modifications to any program. I can take all accounts offline for a while, totally reboot the laptop, and so forth, but still all I can do is send.


texts: Apple TV 3 drops ethernet connection on 2 seconds

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I have a problem with ethernet connection on my ATV3. It started about one month ago. ATV randomly drops ethernet connection for a two seconds. Here is the screenshot from my router:

I'm already check the router interfaces and cable, other devices working fine without any problems.
I have enabled autoupdate on ATV and the latest firmware installed.
Also I tried to downgrade the speed/duplex on interface to 10 megabits half-duplex.

Is there any recommendations or solutions?


texts: How to solve Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Overscan problem? (Part of the screen is missing)

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I use the latest model of iMac 27 inch and output to an Samsung 40 inch HDTV, and found that the Menu Bar is missing on the HDTV.   This is usually known as the "overscan" issue, that the top 10 or 15 lines are missing (and so are the bottom, left, and right) -- this is because in the old days, there are some signals for TV info piggy-backed in the TV signal (usually at the bottom) and the TV won't want to display it, so the top, left, right, bottom 10 or 15 lines are cut off.

This isn't a problem with a Dell Studio 15 Notebook: the notebook computer output HDMI directly, and 100%, every single pixel is visible on the HDTV.

Also, I tried both a generic Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable (from Monoprice), as well as an expensive, Belkin cable sold at the Apple Store -- they are the same.

Also, this issue happens no matter I choose the "Mirror Mode" or the "Individual Display Mode" on the iMac -- in either case, the 10 or 15 lines are missing at the top, bottom, left, and right.

Is there a way to solve this?  To make it work like the Dell notebook? (either by hardware, software, or settings?)

Update: a better solution I found later on was to change the HDTV to not overscan at all, if that's possible.  More details in:  How to solve the "overscan" issue if the iMac is connected to an HDTV and using BootCamp and Windows 7?  That solution is to set the TV not to overscan at all.  For example, the setting of 16:9 or 4:3 may both overscan, but the setting of "Just Scan" will not overscan at all.


texts: What is the best way to save iPhone battery?

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Since I've moved to iPhone 4 from a 3Gs, my battery drops down extremely fast. If i use it for 20 minutes at the beginning of the day it goes from 100% to 60% and by 3PM with normal use it's at 20%.
What are the best settings to have as little battery drain while the screen is sleeping while keeping the internet and cellular connections active?


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Not entirely sure if this is where to ask this, but I can't find another place to...

I've recently switched from Windows to Mac and I am trying to understand more in depth what I'm working with.

My question is: are .dmg files the equivalent of .zip files in Windows? I came to this theory when downloading a .dmg and when I opened it, it contained a .app and and text file read me. To me, this seems like a compressed file.

Is this correct?


texts: How can I automate a key press with command and option keys involved on a MacBook?

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I'd like to automate the simultaneous key press of command, option and "s" on my MacBook, but unfortunately, I don't know Apple Script well enough to programme this. Any suggestions?
Thanks!


texts: Removing trusted certificate from Mail in iOS 8

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My IMAP (and SMTP) server used a self signed certificate.

Once I marked the certificate as "trusted" in the Mail app, is there a way to remove that trust again?

I tried deleting and re-creating the email account, but the certificate is still trusted afterwards.

The certificate does not show up in the Profiles section of the Settings app.


texts: Any need to connect iOS device to iTunes?

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My home iMac (mid-2006) finally died a few weeks ago. We have a variety of iOS devices (2 iPhones/3 iPads). They all backup to iCloud and have iTunes Match. Once I get a new Mac for the house, will there be any reason to register/sync these devices with iTunes on the new computer? It seems with over-the-air app and iOS updates, iCloud backup, and iTunes match there isn't a reason anymore. Am I right about this?

Thanks


texts: Macbook Pro 16" refuses to connect via ethernet

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I have new machine from my company. It's a 16" Macbook Pro, running 10.15.6.
Before I had 13" MBP, also running Catalina.
The old machine connected perfectly via Ethernet on my home office network.
The new machine does not.
Same cable. Same USB-C ethernet adaptor.
In network prefs I see green light on and IP addresses acquired. But there is nothing coming in. Pinging sends out no packets. When clicking a URL it says "resolving host" and nothing happens.
This same machine connects 100% via ethernet at my company's office on their network.
I have tried different cables, different adaptors and recently even a different modem. But no success.
Any ideas?


texts: What happens to your voicemail greeting when you "erase all contents and settings?"

texts:
I've run into an interesting scenario that hadn't crossed my mind before.  One of our employees is preparing to leave the organization.  She will be turning in her iPhone and is requesting that we remove all of the data from it.  Not a problem, Settings > General > Reset > Erase all Contents & Settings will do the trick.

However, she has recommended that we leave a voicemail greeting (the clip people hear when they reach your voicemail) with a notice that the caller should call our main number rather than wait on a response from her phone number.  This makes sense, but I'm not sure if that greeting will be wiped as well when we clear her phone.

I suspect that the greeting is stored on the carrier's end, rather than locally on the iPhone, but I'd like to check first.  Does anyone know for sure?


texts: Synchronize 2 different iPhoto libraries

texts:
I need a tool/script to synchronize two different iPhoto libraries between two Mac books. By now I want to have common albums with my mother and myself.
Is there anything to do this automatically via Internet or local network?


texts: Mountain Lion won't wake up after an extended sleep

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I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Now whenever the machine sleeps for a long time (more than two hours or so) while disconnected from the mains, it won't wake up.  I had to hold the power button to reboot the machine.

Is there a solution to this problem?


texts: Incomplete FTP transfers with Yosemite (Transmit & FileZilla)

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I'm having weird issues when uploading files via FTP. I'm not entirely sure, but I think I never observed this problem before using OS X 10.10:

File uploads via FTP in both FileZilla and Transmit are often and non-reproducibly incomplete. Text files just end somewhere in the middle of a line, yet both FTP clients report successful transfers. The next time I try uploading a file it might either just work or it might be chopped at a different position. It seems entirely random.

This does not seem to happen with SFTP connections. Also, I successfully uploaded the very same upload queue to the same server using FileZilla on a Windows machine – without any problem.

I wonder if somebody has had similar issues or even a solution.

Regards,
Daniel


texts: Yosemite keyboard shortcut for "keep both" "stop" or "replace" when moving files in Finder?

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When you copy or move files in the Finder in Yosemite and there is a conflict, a small dialog box pops up proposing:

keep both    stop    replace

(or "skip" if you press option).

However, I can't find any way to choose one of the options with the keyboard.

There's no default option. Cmd-R doesn't work for replace. Escape does nothing.

I've tried every combination I can think of and nothing works.

Are there keyboard shortcuts to choose these options?


texts: Using postgres with launchd without constant issues

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I have postgres and passenger installed from homebrew, and use the os x built in apache. I have several rails apps that use postgres which are managed by passenger which in turn is managed by apache.

Currently apache is started by launchd at boot from /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist, apache starts passenger via /etc/apache2/other/passenger.conf and once I've logged in postgres is started via ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist.

Everything starts fine and works great until I need to shut down or reboot my mac; then I run into a problem with how launchd tears down everything. Basically Launchd sends SIGTERM to every user process and then 20 seconds later (http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/launchd/launchd-842.92.1/src/core.c) sends SIGKILL, but postgres treats SIGTERM as a "smart shutdown" signal (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/server-shutdown.html) and waits for all it's existing sessions to close themselves before quitting. The problem is that the sessions are owned by the rails apps running under passenger and therefore won't shut down until apache shuts down. And apache doesn't shutdown until the system is shutting down. Which means postgres gets SIGKILLed and leaves it's postmaster.pid file lying around which prevents postgres from starting up the next boot until I rm that file.

Would moving postgres's launchd plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/ be a better idea? It would potentially make postgres and apache be shut down at the same time, which given 20 seconds to stop should be enough time for postgres to exit cleanly. But I could be missing an easier solution.


texts: Importing/Exporting Preview Signatures on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

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One of the things I always backup when re-formatting a Mac are the digital signatures I have saved in Preview. For this, my go-to reference used to be here: Can I export my signature from Preview on one Mac and import it on another?. But OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) seems to be doing things a little different.

Since Preview seems to be storing the signatures in a new, non-obvious location now, I've been using the opensnoop utility (http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/22/monitor-mac-os-x-filesystem-usage-access-with-opensnoop/) to see what files are being touched when I am working with Preview's signature creation feature.  Below is a sample capture:

501    791 Preview       26 /System/Library/Security
501    791 Preview       -1 /Users/user1/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Security
501    791 Preview       25 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mdsDirectory.db
501    791 Preview       25 /Users/user1/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
501    791 Preview       25 /Users/user1/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
501    791 Preview       26 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mdsDirectory.db_
501    791 Preview       27 /private/var/db/mds/system/mdsDirectory.db
501    791 Preview       26 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mdsObject.db
501    791 Preview       25 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AnnotationKit.framework/Resources/Base.lproj/AKSignaturesView.nib
501    791 Preview       25 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AnnotationKit.framework/Resources/Base.lproj/AKSignatureCaptureView.nib
501    791 Preview       25 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AnnotationKit.framework/Resources/Base.lproj/AKSignatureGestureCaptureView.nib
501    791 Preview       25 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AnnotationKit.framework/Resources/en.lproj/AKSignatureModelController.strings
501    791 Preview       -1 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AnnotationKit.framework/Resources/en.lproj/AKSignatureModelController.stringsdict
501    791 Preview       26 /System/Library/Security
501    791 Preview       -1 /Users/user1/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Security
501    791 Preview       25 /Users/user1/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
501    791 Preview       25 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mds.lock
501    791 Preview       26 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mdsObject.db_
501    791 Preview       27 /private/var/db/mds/system/mdsObject.db
501    791 Preview       26 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mdsDirectory.db_
501    791 Preview       27 /private/var/db/mds/system/mdsDirectory.db
501    791 Preview       26 /var/folders/l_/47ypnnb951qdym78xvjgsn8r0000gn/C/com.apple.Preview//mds/mdsObject.db
501    791 Preview       25 /Users/user1/Desktop/sample.pdf

Looks to me that there is something to be found in the file path:

/Users/user1/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Security

but when I try to traverse to the directory, the system tells me that path doesn't exist. I have also noticed that within the KeyChain Access utility, if you look at the contents of Local Items --> Passwords you will see that OS X now creates individual entries for different signatures now labeled Signature Annotation Privacy.

Welcome assistance on my quest to figure out how to locate, export and import Preview's digital signatures from one Yosemite machine to another.


texts: How do I silently start up my MacBook Air?

texts:
When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time.

However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others.

How do I start up my Mac silently?


texts: How can I bookmark the left page of a PDF in Preview?

texts: In Preview, Command-D will allow you to bookmark the current page of the PDF for later reference.  However, when viewing the PDF in two-up mode (Command-3), it will always bookmark the right-hand page.  How can I bookmark the left-hand page for those times when it's that page precisely that I want to bookmark?


texts: MacBook air shuts down abruptly while using directly with a charger, is it because I am not using battery backup?

texts:
bought a MacBook air in 2018. After a few months, the battery stopped working and I started using it directly with a charger without any battery backup. Sometime later the device started to shut down randomly even when plugged in and especially when using software like Photoshop.
I am anyway planning to replace the battery but before that, I wanted to make sure is this shutdown issue related to battery or something else?
Did anyone face the same issue before?
Thanks!


texts: How to change my own apple id, so I can upgrade xcode

texts: I am using company's computer. When I tried to upgrade xcode, it pops up someone else's account. Can I change it to my email address (apple id), so I can upgrade xcode. I heard that I need to reinstall the computer can do that (but I don't want to reinstall it)


texts: Force Spotlight to index a normally un-indexed folder

texts:
Spotlight only indexes a limited number of folders and doesn't index all of the files on your system. This makes sense and for the average user this usually isn't a problem. However, I recently discovered an annoying side-effect: Image files in a a non-indexed folder do not show their image dimensions in the Finder!

Screenshot shows that a image which was non-indexed does not have any dimensions.

Is there any way of telling Spotlight to include a normally un-indexed folder in it's index to ensure that the dimensions are shown in the Finder?


texts: Windows 10 Bootcamp throws exception on first boot with igdkmd64.sys driver

texts:
I've spent the better part of a week trying to get Bootcamp setup with Windows 10 on my Mac and have finally ended up in a spot that I've not been able to get around on my own.

I have installed Windows 10 via Bootcamp, and during the initial Windows boot-up during the installation, I'm given the following BSOD

I've googled like crazy and have come to the conclusion that this appears to be related to the Intel drivers. Every post I've found thus far however explains how to fix this when it occurs randomly once you are in Windows. They go through suggesting updating drivers, replacing the file, disabling windows updates for the hot fix that introduces this issue etc. All of which requires the OS to have been fully installed and booted. Neither of which is the case for me.

Is there any known fixes for this that I can apply? The fixes I can do probably needs to be done from within macOS because I can't get booted into Windows.

Computer specs

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
Processor: 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16gb 1600 MHz DDR3
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12
Graphics:

Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 1024MB
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB


texts: Access macOS High Sierra from a Windows 10 machine using RDP?

texts:
I wish to use Remote Desktop Protocol on my Windows 10 machine to remotely access my MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra.

Is this possible in any way shape or form?


texts:
I just bought new macbook pro, and opened up my terminal .
it shows:
(base) Jiui-MacBookPro:~ myname$
I want to change that "Jiui" part that is located in front of -MacBookPro.
How can I do that? I know how to change that "myname" part but don't know in front of that macbookpro.
Please save me :(


texts: How do I restore a case-sensitive, journaled Time Machine backup to a case-insensitive, journaled filesystem?

texts: I would effectively like to switch from a case-sensitive journaled filesystem to that of a case-insensitive journaled filesystem. Booting into Lion's recovery allows me to format the drive as I wish, however, no matter what I choose Time Machine will always reformat it as a case-sensitive journaled filesystem (which makes sense). My question is, how can I make this switch?


texts: Is the feed that comes from Apple's RSS feed generator out of sync with the app store?

texts:
For example...

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/toppaidapplications/limit=25/xml

Right now, for me, that feed shows Camera+ as being the number 3 app paid app. However, on the iphone app store at this moment, Camera+ is number 4 and Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots is number 3. In the feed Puss in Boots is like 8 or 9.

The timestamp on items in the feed appears old. I thought maybe it was some sort of caching issue on my end, maybe it is, but I've tried running this from a clear browser.

Also if I go to http://feeds.appstorefeeds.com/appstorefeeds-TopPaidiPhoneApps it shows Camera+ as being number 3. Still caching maybe? I don't know. Anyone have any insights?


texts: Pulling out WhatsApp from backup - without restoring iPhone

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I have Mac (now Pro, then Air)- and iPhone backup regularly using TimeMachine.

Is there a way restoring only backed-up text from WhatsApp without restoring entire iPhone?


texts: Keyboard is too stiff for me - any way to make it looser?

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Edit: I'm talking about scissor-type - and butterfly is worse, in my opinion.
In general, I feel that the keyboard of Mac (or here my main focus is actually MBP) is too stiff. Because I'm too weak, when I keep typing my fingers eventually start hurting.
This is the only reason why I keep using XPS, whose keys are very easy to type.
But because I want to completely switch to Mac, I'm looking for a way to make MBP's key looser, that is, less stiff. Is there anybody who has this kind of experience, or any successful result? I'm thinking like, for example, taking the key cover off the board and tweaking the spring(?) to make it weak or somethinkg like that.


texts: Has Lion Native NTFS read/write support improved?

texts: I know about the other third-party options out there, this is more to do with the native stuff that comes bundled from Apple.  For years Snow Leopard has had notoriously bad NTFS read-write support hence it was disabled by default.  We could enable it like this, but it was dangerous at best.  So, has this improved in Lion, or is this still a neglected dangerous feature?


texts: AppleScript to create spacing format like "S P A C I N G"?

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In order to format text documents in a more readable way it would be nice to format selected texts by an apple script executed via the context menu services in the following way:

select "text" with cursor
select context menu/services Spacing (to be created)
selected text is going to be formated to "T E X T"

Does anybody has the knowhow to program such a script?


texts: Outlook for Mac 2011: How to find the folder where a message is stored?

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When I perform a search in Outlook for Mac 2011, I can't seem to figure out how to determine which folder each of the search results is stored.

This questions has been answered for Office for Windows: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/i-can-t-find-the-folder-where-a-message-is-stored-HA001140027.aspx

This is probably completely obvious, but I can't seem to find it...

Update: I'm still looking for a solution that doesn't require me to switch to View -> Reading Pane -> Below


texts: How to analyze/resolve Gmail timeouts in Apple Mail?

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I am using Google Apps/Gmail with Apple Mail on OS X Mavericks. For some reason, sending email is extremely slow (minutes to hours) and I constantly get this message:

  The server returned the error: The connection to the server “imap.gmail.com” on port 993 timed out.

There are often (but not always) little error triangles on the inboxes.

Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do to solve the issue?


texts: Backup Disk 'doesn’t contain an EFI system partition'

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I have a 750GB Western Digital external HDD which I use for Time Machine backups (MBP, OS 10.10.3). Today I had the need to boot to recovery, which I did from said backup. But I was unsuccessful in doing it again, whenever I booted with ⌘-R, OSX went straight to internet recovery. I can still boot to recovery from it by holding ⌥ at boot and choosing the disk.

Now, when booting from my internal disk and running a Verify Disk on the backup drive, it says

Error: This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk.

Meanwhile, running diskutil list reveals

/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.1 GB   disk3
   1:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk3s1
   2:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS WD                      749.6 GB   disk3s3

I never bothered to check it before, so I do not know if something has changed there, but firstly, I do not know where the Microsoft Reserved partition comes from, or what it is, secondly, I can see the EFI partition, so why does Disk Utility ignore it? And how do I make it useable for recovery without erasing all data?


texts: MacBook Pro 13'' mid-2012 16 GB RAM upgrade effect

texts: I did upgrade my MacBook 13’’ mid-2012 to 16 GB RAM. Now when opening the lid after the computer slept for about an hour or so, I get a semi-transparent screen with a stepped progressive bar for approximately 2 minutes after that everything seems ok. No other changes are made to the computer. What is the reason?


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Is it possible to have an alert in Mac OS trigger an automation? To be clear, I'm not wanting to automate the creation of an alert. I'm wanting an alert to cause automation to be run. All search results I find relate to the opposite of what I"m trying to do.
For example, if I get a Slack message, I'd like to automate a response to them to let them know it's got my attention. That's probably not the best real-world example, but it conveys the concept.
Any suggestions?