texts: How to connect to a Windows 7 PC from Sierra?

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I have a Windows 7 Pro PC and want to share its drives so my Mac with Sierra installed can see it.

The PC is named "PC", it's on a workgroup called "WORKGROUP" and the only user on it is called "Tim" and this user has never had a password created for it. The Windows username is therefore PC\Tim. I checked the Guest account also and it's enabled now.

I went to the root of the drive I want to share and set the Everyone user to have FULL CONTROL. I set up advanced sharing so that the drive was shared from root and has "everyone" as "full control". This is how I want it.

On my Mac I want to connect to it via its IP address. I open the "Connect to Server" box and type in smb://192.168.1.106.

This prompts with the "connect as" box but I can't get past it. I've tried selecting Guest which goes to the "problem connecting" screen. I've tried the names tim, Tim, pc\tim, PC\Tim and none of these work.

I tried setting up a new account on the Windows 7 PC, called "MAC". It has a password, which is MAC. I added the user MAC as full control on the root of the drive I want to share. I added the user MAC permission in the advanced sharing screen and ensured that it had full permissions.

The prompt still refuses to authenticate the users.

Note: I also tried connecting to cifs://192.168.1.106.

So. Is Sierra Mac just no longer able to connect to Windows computers?

/edit

I've noticed this error message in the console during the time it's tryign to authenticate. I've also confirmed that YOSEMITE will connect just fine: This only affects SIERRA.

RPC to srvsrvc gave error 0x16c9a034

Googling this leads to a rather unhelpful Apple article.


texts: iPhone on my account, but activation locked to another account

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I've had a secondhand iPhone for three years, using it with my iCloud account. Just now I tried to wipe it with an iTunes restore. The first step was to disable Find My iPhone. Doing so, I received a confirmation email that the phone is now unlocked. To my surprise, upon reset, it went into activation lock mode and asked for the previous owner's login.

The phone is listed in my iCloud Settings. Should I try to track down the previous owner, or will removing it from my own iCloud Settings page free it? (But removing it will also wipe the last evidence that the phone is mine.)

Another way of looking at the question: Can a single phone be listed in several iCloud accounts?


texts: Can't boot from USB or reset PRAM/NVRAM on mid-2006 iMac

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I got a free mid-2006 iMac from a friend, and while it boots to the login screen, all the user accounts are password-protected, so I've decided to try reinstalling Mac OS X Leopard.

I created a bootable USB drive and confirmed that it works on another Mac, but I can't access the boot menu by holding Option on startup. I've tried holding option before the chime, during the chime, and immediately after the chime but to no avail, as I ultimately still end up at the login screen.

I read that one fix to this is resetting the PRAM/NVRAM by holding Command-Option-P-R right after pressing the power button but before the gray screen, but this does not seem to be doing anything as I end up at the login screen and stay there rather than rebooting.

How do I force it to boot from a USB drive?


texts: How can I connect my iPhone 6s Plus to my stereo?

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I understand that Apple's iPhone Lightning Dock has a headphone socket that I can use:

  Connect the dock to powered speakers or a stereo using a 3.5mm cable (sold separately) to play music and podcasts from your iPhone

I actually have a similar (3rd-party) dock that I used with an iPhone 4s. However, (a) that obviously has an old-style 20-pin connector, and (b) the sound quality was poor.

Clearly Apple's new dock would have the right connector, and hopefully the sound quality would be better, but I worry about the negative reviews of that dock, which imply that the stress on the connector can cause the phone's lightning socket to deteriorate and eventually fail.

I don't care about having a "stand" for the phone, and I don't really care that much about charging... is there a cable-based solution I could use? (In other words, something where I just plug in a cable rather than putting the phone in a wobbly stand).

Or, is a wireless more appropriate? I see that there are Bluetooth receivers out there that seem to be designed to do this, but again there are a lot of negative reviews, mostly about the reliability of the Bluetooth connection. The only device I found that got a lot of positive reviews was the Arcam rMini Blink, and that's quite expensive.

Don't Apple offer something in this space? (Not that it'd be less expensive!).


texts: How do you boot verbosely when booting off an alternate device?

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I've got a problem where boot is failing when booting off a USB stick.

So, I hold option down to choose the USB stick, but if I immediately hold down command-V after, it still boots with plain grey screen.

What do I need to do to see the boot process when booting off an option chosen device?


texts: How Can I view My local/offline Html file on Ipad

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I have My HTML file saved in many locations on IPAD to try to launch it.

In files. When i click on the html file, it shows a preview ( with an empty white page) since this step is not calling any links (js, css, etc) i tried to tap and hold to see if i can open it with safari also no luck, and i did some research about it. It says that you can not open html with safari or any other browser on ipad cause it will not call the links in the folder.
I tried to open it in dropbox also. Again it shows a white empty page.
I tried to launch it directly after downloading the file from we transfer (i sent it to myself) also no option to launch it. It only gives me the option to save it.
I used to save it to files, icloud or dropbox. I previously downloaded an app called documents by readdle. Locate the file. When i used to click on it, it used to work perfectly fine. Within the app itself. No browser needed. But suddenly after updating the app all the html folders i have stopped working.
I also tried documents pro app: no luck
goodreader app: it opens the file but freezes and the app stops responding after.
I also didn’t find a way from safari to locate a specific file and open it.

  so i reached the i “give up” phase. And i am searching for help


texts: How can I downgrade Safari 6 to 5 in Mountain Lion?

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Is it possible to downgrade Safari 6 to 5 in Mountain Lion?
I tried to install 5.1.7 but it says it only works with OS X 10.7.

Is there any workaround I can try?


texts: How can I easily transfer videos from iPhone to iPad

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iPhone records nicer videos than iPad, but working with iMovie on iPad is more pleasant than on iPhone. How can I easily transfer recorded videos from iPhone to iPad, preferably without using a computer?

There are many ways to share photos easily like Photo Stream and direct device to device beaming using the iPhoto app, but these do not work (yet) for videos.


texts: Spotlight search stopped suggesting my frequently-used app

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I use Spotlight Search frequently to launch apps on my Mac, and it works perfectly. I use Telegram Desktop frequently by typing a few letters in Spotlight Search. I just type a few letters and tap enter and it opens. Simple as that.

However, today it started not finding it. Instead, it shows this:

The app is there, launches perfectly manually from Applications folder:

But in Spotlight Search, it's not being suggested. I've got Applications option ticked in Spotlight options from System Preferences (though I haven't touched it anyway) and it suggests other apps from the Applications folder with no problem. I am on macOS 10.12.6.

How can I fix this problem?


texts: What's a Freshbooks-compatible native Mac time-tracking app that is still updated? I found a few that work on Freshbooks's site, but it looks like they haven't been updated in years. I can track via Freshbooks's web app, but I'd prefer not to have Safari running just for that. That's why I'd like to find a native Mac app.


texts: Time machine - 10.12.5 no backup in x days” from TimeMachine notification

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Previously you would get a notification that says "no backup in x days".. but in 10.12.5 there is no notification.. is that feature no longer there where it doesn't tell you that you haven't backed up for awhile?

if not how do i get it back?

thanks.


texts: Copy Omnikey shortcuts to another computer

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I use the Omnikey extension on Safari 11.1, and find it very useful.  It allows immediate access to the search function on various websites through Safari’s address bar, merely by typing a keyletter or two; the user can specify both the sites searched and the keyletters. This dispenses with the intermediate step of navigating to the website to be searched, or even typing out the whole website URL in the search bar: the search occurs immediately upon the user’s entry of the site-choosing keyletter, the search term, and the return key.

I’d like to duplicate my Omnikey list of websites and keyletters on another computer. The net returns no info, and I’m not a programmer so the Git Hub link doesn’t help. Searching on the mac for the URLs in the Omnikey shortcut had no results.

Can any of you tell me where the data is retained, and how I might accomplish this?


texts: can't update iPhone 6S to public beta 9.1

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I have a new iPhone 6S and need to upgrade it to the public beta for 9.1 in order to restore my back up from my old iPhone

I have installed the profile on the device as per their instructions then restarted but every time I go to settings > general > software update I get this error:

  An error occurred while checking for a software update, cancel or try again

Is their another way to install the beta?


texts: Bootcamp assistant won't let me increase the Windows partition

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I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my Mac. The Bootcamp Assistant won't let me increase the Windows partiton's size above ~45 GB. I've got 200 GB free out of 500 GB on my SSD.

I run Disk Repair, but that didn't help. Do I have to buy iDefrag and defrag my disk, or are there other options (besides reinstalling OS X from a backup)?


texts: Enable/Disable TextExpander using Script

texts: I am trying to disable/enable textexpander using a single shortcut key. Text expander's preferences require using option, command and control together with a predefined shortcut key. Is there a way to bypass this using apple script and simply enable/or disable textexpander using a single shortcut key? Thanks.


texts: How to calculate max with condition in Numbers?

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How can I calculate max with condition in Numbers?

In other words, I want something like maxifs, which operates max operation instead of sum operation for sumifs.


texts: Are there disadvantages to using different Apple IDs for iCloud and Store purchases?

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Apple provides instructions for configuring one Apple ID for iCloud and a different Apple ID for Store purchases. But this is clearly not the "recommended" approach.

Is there a reason to avoid doing this? Are there disadvantages, such as lost integration, or omitted features that result from using different IDs for iCloud and Store purchases?


texts: iPhone 4s dropped-now the screen is black

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My daughter dropped her iPhone 4s (ios version 6) and now the screen is black (this was only four weeks after I replaced a cracked screen myself on this same unit and everything was working fine). She said it first landed from waist height on the top edge of the unit. Even though the screen is black, calls still come in (but I can't seem to answer them despite my swiping the screen area to answer), texts come in, the vibrate feature works, music was playing for a while and then I touched the screen where I thought the play/pause button would be and it the music stopped.  When I hold the power button down to shut down the unit, I swipe where I think the "slide to power off" message on the upper screen area would be and in fact the unit powers off, so this tells me the digitizer is working at least in that area of the screen.  I removed the back cover with the power on and when I hit the power button, I could see the edges of the back of the screen light up even though the screen was still black, so this tells me that some kind of power is making it to the screen. I then powered down the unit and re-seated all the connections to the logic board; it didn't help.

I read somewhere that restoring the unit to factory settings may work.  She never backed up the iPhone to an iTunes account on our PC but did use iCloud backup.  When I attempted to backup the iPhone to the PC iTunes account it required me to unlock the iPhone and every attempt I've made to "blindly" swipe and enter in the passcode has not worked. I didn't even get a vibration indicating the wrong passcode was entered.

If I restore the iPhone to factory settings, I read that it will update to ios 7. I've read and been told by many people that ios 7 is not optimized for the iPhone 4s and that it's a bad move to upgrade and best to stay with ios 6.

I'm hoping for some help here in (1) what may be causing the black screen and (2) will restoring the iPhone to factory settings work and if so, is there a way to restore the iPhone, given my situation, without upgrading to ios 7?


texts: How do I switch tabs when using iTerm2 with Z shell

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How do I switch tabs when using Z shell on iTerm2? I have already tried all the possible key combinations. Here is an image of my current setup:

OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.4 (18E226)

iTerm2: Build 3.3.0beta7

Key combos tried: Different combinations of Command, Control, Option, →, ←, }, { keys.


texts: iPadOS 14 external keyboard arrow keys issues

texts: I recently purchased a Logitech K380 keyboard for my iPad, running iPadOS 14.4. It's awesome, but I have one issue. When I use the arrow keys, it doesn't let me navigate text with the arrow keys. For example, when I enter text on the search bar, I press the arrow key to go back a letter to edit, and it just swipes. Is there a way to change this so I can navigate through text with a hardware keyboard's arrow keys?


texts: Japanese kana layout on iPad screen keyboard

texts: How can I get ordinary kana layout instead of the sorted あいうえお? It's almost as annoying to use as writing English with the keys ordered like ABC. I need this instead:


texts: Activating my unlocked iPhone 4S using a Friend's SIM temporarily

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So I bought an unlocked iPhone 4S and im stuck at activation. I just want to get into the phone, get some apps and other stuff via Wifi.
My friend has an unlocked iphone as well, can I put his SIM into my iPhone to get through activation and then remove it ?

Will that affect my phone or soon to have SIM ? Will that affect his SIM or his iPhone ?

Thanks !


texts: Virtualbox - Can't install guest additions (Big Sur)

texts: I'm trying to install guest additions on my macOS Big Sur VM, but the installation never has been successful. I always get a triggering "The installation failed" screen. Since Command+R can't be used to enter recovery mode on Virtualbox for some reason, I used the installation disk and I disabled Csrutil from there. I restarted to the "Normal mode" and guess what? It failed again! I double-checked using csrutil status and SIP is off, but why can't the guest additions be installed?


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When I click install, the task bar immediately fill up and stay like that forever.
iMac late 2013 / macOS Catalina 10.15.4


texts: Temporarily put OS X notifications in "do not disturb" mode?

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A person will be sitting next to me, working together with me on my Mac, and I would like the make sure none of my personal notifications appear during that time. I would not want to lose my carefully chosen notification settings though so a "temporarily do not disturb me" would be perfect.

Note: this is for OS X, not iOS...


texts: Excluding /Library (sic, not ~/Library) from Time Machine

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Is there anything - at all - of value I will lose as a user, by excluding /Library?

Let's assume that rebuilding from the backup to a new machine is not important.

So, what is important is absolutely not losing any of my Notes notes, email,   perhaps Calendar materiel, etc., from Apple apps.

Specifically what will be lost if I exclude /Library?

(Perhaps some settings, or? Anything at all?)


texts: How can I PXE boot MacOSX 10.11 in virtual box

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I'm looking for a way to PXE boot macOS running in VirtualBox so that I can capture an image for fog server. When I restart the OS I can get into the boot options but there are no options to boot from LAN.

I've also changed the order in which to boot from in VirtualBox:


texts: Macbook Pro (Early 2011) USB Ports Not Recognised - Overcurrent Detected

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I am repairing a friends Macbook Pro Early 2011. The HDD had failed and they were desperate to retrieve photos.
I managed to do a deep scan on the HDD and recovered the photos to my NAS and I have just fitted a new Toshiba 500GB HDD.
I tried to install Mac OS High Sierra using a bootable USB device however the device was not recognised so I had to install Mac OS Lion using Internet Recovery.
Once I go Lion is running I have identified that neither of the two USB ports are recognising any of the three USB Thumb Drives I have.
Occasionally this message appears:
USB Accessories disabled - Unplug the accessory using too much power to reenable USB devices.

I upgraded the OS to Sierra by downloading the OS from Apple and thought maybe that would do the trick but still no USB ports working.
I have reset the SMC (I believe this model has to use the non removable method) the power light is supposed to blink when doing this with the Shift / Alt / CMD and Power button held down but it did not? When I released the buttons the power light went green and then orange?
I have also tried reseting NVRAM by using the CMD Alt P / R and power on chime twice and then let it boot up. Still no USB ports?
I have just also tested a powered USB hub and the Thumb Drives connected still do not show up. This hub works on my own (newer) Macbook Pro.?
Anyway, with nothing plugged in, I followed the guide to boot into single user mode and after it finally got to the command prompt it started displaying the following overcurrent message:
AppleUSBHostPort::InterruptOccurred: overcurrent detected with port status 0x4000, localSimulatedInterrupts = 0x0
So that tells me there is a problem associated with the USB ports?
I cleaned them with rubbing alcohol and after booting up I was met with the following message on the screen:
USB Accessories disabled - Unplug the accessory using too much power to reenable USB devices.
I have also found an old post that I submitted when I was originally trying to get the Mac to boot, before salvaging the data from the HDD. The overcurrent message was prevalent then.
000032.259671 PRT3@fa130000: AppleUSBHostPort::interruptOccured: overcurrent detected with port status 0x4000, localSimulatedInterrupts =0x0

Maybe whatever took out the HDD also took out the USB ports?
Is there a way of disabling the warning, if it is a software error and the ports are actually OK?
Anything else I can try / test?


texts:
I'm using an iPhone 7 plus device and I updated the software version of my device to the latest iOS 11 version.

Are there public jailbreak steps for iOS 11?


texts: Make iTunes stop prompting me for my username and password

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On OSX Lion, iTunes keeps prompting me to enter my username and password to "sign in to enable this computer for automatic downloads." In the past I tried checking the box to remember my password but it kept forgetting, so now I just disabled the "always check for available downloads" option in Prefs -> Store. It still prompts me. It drives me crazy.

Is there a way to get it to stop prompting for my password, so it will just behave like a well-behaved offline music library manager, and only ask me for my username and password when I open the iTunes store?


texts: Is there a way to exclude certain apps from showing in the spotlight/alfred results

texts: I mainly use Alfred to launch various apps and I am kind of annoyed when I am trying to open chrome, the chess app is the first in the results and fibre channel comes up first when I am trying to open Firefox. Unfortunately it seems like I can not add specific apps to be excluded in the spotlight preferences so that chess.app and fibrechannel.prefpane are not shown in the spotlight results. Is there another way to achieve this?


texts: Is it normal for the Finder to be slow when many files are in a folder?

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I have a maxed out MacBook Pro (end of 2013, 1TB SSD, Quad Core Haswell) and collect a lot of ripped mp3 files from viny, move them around in a folder structure. The problem is that Finder is incredibly slow and laggy, dragging files from one folder to another seems almost broken. I also noticed the same stuttering when scrolling through my apps folder.

Is it normal for Finder to react so slow, when many files are in a folder or might this be a hardware problem? I'm on 10.9.5 and can't upgrade at the moment.


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I would like to know if anyone has an idea or suggestion to what's happening on my SSD.

I was using Lion on my Vertex 3 SSD 240GB - MacBook Pro (early 2011 model) and everything was running well until this week, when the system got stuck at Apple screen logo with that "loading" icon.

I tried to boot in the verbose mode and after 30 minutes the fsck process started but no output in following 40 minutes. Also tried Internet Recovery (the process got stuck while trying to download Lion) and Snow Leopard Install DVD (also got stuck while trying to install), but now luck.

My last try was to use another hard drive running Lion, connect my SSD via USB adapter, open Disk Utility, create a new partition, open Snow Leopard Installer (from its DVD) and make a new installation having the SSD as target. The installation was ok and after rebooting the OS, I was able to boot my SSD connected via USB. Tried to move it back to the internal SATA connector and the issue remained the same.

So here is what I have:

Hard Drive with Lion installed - works from the internal SATA connector.
SSD with Lion installed - only works (boot) from USB adapter. From its SATA, it shows the Apple screen logo and loading icon.

Has anyone faced this issue?

Thanks in advance, this is my first question here. Let me know if any other info is required because I'm kind of new to Mac OS X.


texts:
I have one Mac which experiences WiFi spikes in all networks it connects to. Here is my Ping over 10s; there is a spike to about 230ms about every second, how can I fix this???

I already tried to disable location services -> no change

The Command: tail -f /var/log/wifi.log brings out this:


texts: Snow Leopard, App Store unable to download anything

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I am experiencing a weird problem, my Mac is running 10.6.8 and I want to download Mavericks, the problem is that when I click "Download" under the purchases tab, I enter my password and ... nothing happens. In fact it does the same thing for every app. Am I condemned to stay under Snow Leopard forever?
By the way I have been able to download and install Mavericks in the past.


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I have an old (original) iPad mini running iOS 9.3.5 (the latest it will support).
Until mid 2018 this was my main device, now superseded.
I recently tried to use it and some of my mail accounts do not work.
My hosting company has changed the mail servers, but even though I updated these I cannot get Mail to work, although it works on my newer iPad.
The problem seems to be that SSL will not work, although it does on my newer iPad running latest iPadOS.
If I turn SSL off it works!
I have created an email account on vivaldi.net which seems to work OK with SSL.
Is there any reason SSL won't work on the older model?
Are there any certificates etc that should be updated?


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After upgrading to Lion, I am getting a launch error from Xcode 4 saying it requires Snow Leopard. I see 4.1 is now a free app for Lion in the App Store, but it doesn't show up in Software Update.

If I install it from the App Store will it upgrade 4.0 or live side-by-side?

Or, do I have to uninstall Xcode first if I only want 4.1?


texts: Touch ID when “Sublime Text wants to make changes”

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I figured out how to use Touch ID for some changes.

But when I edit /etc/hosts with my Sublime Text, I still get this window:

How can I use Touch ID for messages like this?


texts: How do I recover bookmarks on chrome for Mac?

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Alright so today, my chrome decided to just simply not load anything. No matter what url you visited, it just wouldn't load. However, when I browsed as a guest, chrome worked perfectly fine. So from there I found out that the issue was with my account. I tried removing my account from chrome then adding it back on, and then I realized I lost all my new bookmarks. Google was able to sync my old bookmarks, but my more important and new bookmarks were unable to get synced.

That being said, where does chrome store bookmarks so I can recover them?


texts: How to make devices connected through ethernet sharing port be able to see devices on the Wifi Network

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My home network is 192.168.1.0.
I am sharing my wifi connection through my MBP Mid 2010 ethernet port.
So my MBP is also on 192.168.2.0 as well as the device that is plugged on the this internet port.
How to make the connected device visible on my home network and make the home network visible to this device?
In my shallow knowledge I got to route the traffic from one network to the other and vice versa, but how?? I am running Maverick BTW.


texts: How can I access my elderly mothers iPad for teaching and troubleshooting purposes, while using my mac from many miles away. I have done some reading and found I-Keyboard and Airplay as possible solutions. Can anyone assist with which of these solutions is viable?


texts: Does the iPad Mini have a connectivity kit? (Need to transfer photos)

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From what I've read, in order to connect my iPad mini to my iPhone 5, I need (1) a lightning to 30 pin adapter, and (2) an iPad Cammera Connection Kit, which has a 30pin to USB adapter. This is a bit cumbersome, so is there just a connection kit for the iPad Mini?

Note: I know that there are solutions such as iCloud and Dropbox, but those are limited in capacity, so I am looking to transfer photos to my iPad as another form of redundancy


texts: How to swap command and option modifier keys with a script in OS X Lion

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I use a PC usb keyboard with my macbook. So, I've gone into System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... and swapped command and option for the usb keyboard. This puts those keys in the "correct" position for a mac.

But, for part of the day, I remote desktop to a windows machine. So now, I need to swap the keys back, so the remote desktop client isn't confused.

It's easy enough to do this through the Preferences UI, but its cumbersome.

I'd like to use a script of some kind (maybe applescript), so I could  quickly swap back and forth.

I've found several scripts online, but none of them are for Lion.


texts: Is it possible to set restrictions on any iOS app?

texts: I want to put a passcode restriction on the Video app (and others), but the options I see in Settings are only for a few things. Is there a way, native or third party, to do this?


texts: Is there a way to view all Spaces in macOS (using a shortcut)

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I'm looking for a way to view all desktops (spaces) at once with a single shortcut (like CMD + Up for Mission control) . If i could archive the same effect you get when you use mission control and go up with your mouse. as explained in: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-in-multiple-spaces-mh14112/11.0/mac/11.0
I noticed that when you have at least 1 fullscreen app open (and it is focused) mission control wil always show the spaces preview but in all other circumstances it will only list other spaces in at the top as Desktop 1, Desktop 2, Desktop 3 etc.
This is the effect I want to achieve (when activating mission control, show a preview of the spaces)

Any 3rd party options would also be acceptable.


texts: How to get a list of all songs in iTunes?

texts: Is there an easy way to get a list of all my songs in iTunes into a text file?


texts: Changing OSX Mavericks Server to default to personal website rather than welcome page

texts: I've looked at every option in OSX Server for Mavericks but I don't see anything that allows me to default to my website rather than the "Welcome to Server" page. I have a DNS set up through Godaddy. I had no issues before I installed OSX server. I tried using an alias but that still requires that the URL I provide people has to include that alias. Not a good solution.


texts: macOS Mojave -- Finder won't show favorites and can't drag new folders into favorites

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Something happened to Finder on my Mac.  It won't show the favorites I've selected (as per Finder->Preferences), and I am unable to drag any folder into the Favorites area.

I've included a screenshot to highlight the first problem I mentioned.

What do I need to do to regain this functionality?


texts: How can I move photos from iPhone to my local disk?

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This has me stumped. I have nearly 4GB of photos and videos on my phone, and I want to put them into my computer's pictures folder.

I have opened Windows Explorer and found the photos in the weird location Computer\Torbens iPhone 4\Internal Storage\DCIM\800AAAAA, but I cannot copy or move the files from here to a local folder. When I try, Windows says "Error copying file or folder. The parameter is incorrect."
I have synced with iTunes but don't see where iTunes would have made a backup copy of the photos.

This is immensely frustrating. I can't believe it has to be this difficult and I must be missing something, but I don't see what that is.

1) How do I get my pictures off the phone and onto my local disk?

Also, it would be so much simpler if Windows would just assign a drive letter to the device, just like it does for my digital camera and any other USB storage I connect. Is there any way to make Windows do this, or is Apple being restrictive again?

2) How can I get a drive letter assigned to the phone? (Less important but mighty annoying.)

Details:
iPhone4, iOS 4.1.2, iTunes 10.5.1.42, Windows 7.

Update:
Am I understanding correctly that neither of the sync nor backup functions in iTunes backs up the photos?


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I'm trying to connect an LexmarkE210 to a Mac. Running
sudo lpinfo -v | grep 210   # find LexmarkE210 URI

gives me usb://Lexmark/E210?location=1a140000 as the URI for the printer.
The .ppd driver was downloaded from openprinting.org
I first tried:
lpadmin -E -p "Lexmark-E210" -v "usb://Lexmark/E210?" -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Lexmark-E210-gdi.ppd" -o printer-is-shared=false

then tried without the question mark:
lpadmin -E -p "Lexmark-E210" -v "usb://Lexmark/E210" -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Lexmark-E210-gdi.ppd" -o printer-is-shared=false

to pass this to lpadmin (as described in
Add an IP printer with command line)   The result in either case is:

but it didn't work. So how do I pass the URI to lpadmin?
A third attempt to install the printer (no ?) with lpadmin returned printer status with the error:

A resume command, sent through the Web UI will set the printer status to idle, however, the problem persists.


texts: Getting warning each time i open browser using Epichrome

texts:
I am using Epichrome to have multiple Chrome browsers at the same time. I have three browsers that I made with Epichrome, but each time I open one of them, it gives this warning:

I am using MacOS Catalina (10.15.2) on my MacBook Pro, and the browser I made using Epichrome is called 'Duolingo'.

Does anyone know a fix for this, if not why it is there?


texts: Software Screen Tinting, or Colour Overlay for Mac Users with Dyslexia

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There are students at the school I work at who are dyslexic, and have the specific strand of dyslexia which doesn't deal well with black text on a white background. One way you overcome this with print is you put a coloured film over the text you're reading - and it really amazing how it improves their comprehension and their fluency (you can see an example of the overlay here).

I'm looking for a way to 'tint' the screen with software in the same manner on the mac. There is a windows solution, and a paid solution, but I'm looking for a free, cheap or built in way to achieve the same result. I've googled, and found a couple discussions but no solution.

Are any of you aware of any software or system preferences I can use to either:

tint the whole screen a colour (ideal)
change the background colour of windows / documents to one similar to the tint (better than nothing)
achieve a comparable result.

If you have dyslexia and have found a workaround for this challenge I'd be really grateful for your input as well!

I thought that this would be achievable with the color setting in System Preferences but I don't think it allows the tinting sense. I might be wrong though.

Thanks for your help!


texts: Free up disk space during Catalina update

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I tried updating to Catalina, but it got stuck on not having enough disk space. It says I have to quit the installer, select a start disk and boot from that, but my system's drive is not in the list of drives that I can select...

So, instead, I started the Terminal, went to the drive through that and I started deleting things. But every time I run df I don't see a change in the amount of disk space. Between reboot changes are persisted though, even creation of new files.

I then installed Mojave on an external drive and mounted the internal drive, it shows up as 52GB free (vs 12GB from df). But when I run df I still see only 12GB free.

I figure there is some sort of place where deleted files are getting moved to in order to provide me with some fancy restore magic for when the installation is done. Where is this magical place and how do I delete files from there so that I can continue the installation?

The answers here don't address my issue because I already know what was eating my disk space.


texts: macOS Mojave launchd regular interval script - error is always "Found non-key inside  at line 11"

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The .plist in question is at the bottom but I can't find a way to run it every 7200 seconds.  Checking it produces the same error.

I have tried various versions taken from the StackExchange such as:

 <key>StartInterval</key>
 <integer>5</integer>
 <key>ThrottleInterval</key>
 <integer>0</integer>
 <true/>

The rest of it is fine as proved by removing the interval arguments.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
 <string>Wi-Fi.OFF.ON</string>
 <key>Program</key>
 <string>/Users/XXXXX/Desktop/Wi-Fi.OFF.then.ON.sh</string>
 <key>StartInterval</key>
 <integer>7200</integer>
 <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

plutil -lint TEST

TEST: Found non-key inside <dict> at line 11

Can anyone point out my error in Mojave?


texts: Applescript "expected then but found identifier"

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At present, I have a very simple bash script which calls osascript -e a bunch of times; it looks like this (newlines added for readability):

#!/bin/sh
osascript \
  -e 'tell application "Terminal" to activate' \
\
  -e 'set allWindows to number of windows' \
  -e 'set newTab to true' \
\
  -e 'repeat with i from 1 to allWindows' \
  -e '  set allTabs to number of tabs of window i' \
  -e '  repeat with j from 1 to allTabs' \
  -e '    if custom title of tab j of window i contains "Hi" then' \
  -e '      set frontmost of window i to true' \
  -e '      set selected of tab j of window i to true' \
  -e '      set newTab to false' \
  -e '    end if' \
  -e '  end repeat' \
  -e 'end repeat' \
\
  -e 'if newTab then' \
  -e '  tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down' \
  -e '  tell application "Terminal"' \
  -e '    do script ("tabname $2") in selected tab of the front window' \
  -e '    set custom title of selected tab of the front window to "$2"' \
  -e '  end tell' \
  -e 'end if' \
\
  -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script ("$1") in selected tab of the front window'

The idea behind this is to let me call something like ~/term.sh pwd Hi to open a new terminal tab with the title "Hi" and call pwd inside it.

The only problem is that it errors with 222:227: syntax error: Expected “then”, etc. but found identifier. (-2741). I assume this means an if is missing a then, but can't see any of those. The other thought I had is that 222:227 indicates columns, but again I don't see how those columns of the command are wrong.

Is there anyone who can point me in the right direction here please?


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I have a question, probably for developers. I have two iPhone 11 Pro’s running iOS 13.1.3. They are exact mirrors of each other using the same Apple ID and iCloud restore.

One receives most third party app notifications, while the other receives 50% of them. I have reinstalled the apps that don’t work on the one device to no avail.

Question is do some apps only register to one Apple ID for notifications, or does the push server think they are the same device because the were restored from the same iCloud backup?  Hope it makes sense.


texts: How to get Apple Command Line Developer Tools without App Store?

texts:
I got a mid-2013 MacBook Air for UNIX development.  I'm disappointed that it came with no C/C++ compilers and with no make, which are apparently part of Apple Command Line Developer Tools, which is supposed to be available for download from Apple Developer Connection, but which has been down for close to a week (and counting) due to some kind of user-database security breach in ADC.

If ADC is down, how come Xcode itself doesn't have any problems downloading Command Line Developer Tools, as per the "MacPorts fails to find 'make'" question?

How can one download make and clang et al without an App Store account, and when ADC is down?  How does Xcode do it?


texts: Can I unlock an iphone and still develop apps for it?

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I am being offered an iphone 4 but it is locked to orange and I want to use my O2 sim in it.

The thing is that I want the phone so I can go into app development and have heard that working with a jailbroken phone can be a problem.

I have read here that jailbreaking and unlocking are different things but unlocking needs jailbreaking however jailbreaking can be reversed but there's no info on weather that will undo the unlocking so I am really confused :S

So can I unlock an iphone and still develop apps with no problems assuming I have a developers licence and update regularly?


texts: Use specific local gcc and related libraries with Homebrew

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I would like to use Homebrew to install some stuff,

In the mean time, I have already installed my local gcc, and I want Homebrew to use this specific one (this gcc at /usr/local/bin/gcc is frequently upgraded by myself).

Unfortunately, Homebrew always figure out its gcc dependency, and related libraries, then download them all at /usr/local/Cellar.

For instance:

On my Mac, which gcc indeed points to /usr/local/bin/gcc, when I brew install suite-sparse, it downloads gcc-4.9.1, while I already have gcc-4.9.2 locally.

I just want to keep things simple, use my local gcc with the associated library, e.g. gmp and mpfr (at /usr/local/lib), is it possible with Homebrew?


texts: Two external monitors + one own on mid-2015 13-inch entry level MacBook Pro?

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Is it possible to run two external monitor setup on mid-2015 13-inch entry level MacBook Pro (the one for $1299), so that laptops screen is also available? Basically making it three monitor setup - two external and one built-in.

P.S. I do not consider adding any external portable USB graphic cards, as I've tried one with good reviews and it sucked.


texts: System keeps booting into recovery after upgrading to El Capitan

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I have (had) Maverics running under VMWare Workstation 12. Sadly I decided to upgrade to El Capitan. Now my system always boots into recovery (located at "/Volumes/OS X Base System"). I tried reinstalling Mac OS there but it keeps booting into this

What should I do to boot from /Volumes/Macintosh ? I tried selecting "Startup Disk" but it still boots into recovery :(


texts:
I had one iPad 2 and I got a second one. I want to sync them both to the same iTunes account from the same Macbook Pro. When I plugged in the second iPad it asked me something along the lines of

  This computer has been previously synced with an iPhone or another iOS device

Well, I wanted to share programs and things between them so I thought it would be good to choose "restore" - however that seems to have been the wrong thing to do because iTunes now thinks I have two of the same iPad and won't let them each be customized.

How can I backup to this step where I can have it ask me this question again? (Basically, wipe the second iPad 2 and start over.) I thought about maybe "restoring" it but then I didn't want iTunes to think that my only iPad had been wiped and then wipe the original the next time I connected it.


texts:
So last night when I finished using my MacBook and then I noticed the left speaker had some small ball of dust. So I thought of taking it out in the morning tomorrow. So then when I tried to take it out it instead it went inside I tried gently shaking the MacBook to make the small dust particle to come out through the speaker. But no luck/ Should I worry about my speaker getting damaged or dust flying into the logic board and making my MacBook slow. As dust is a poor conductor of electricity.

PS. Can I just set my MacBook fan speed to 6000RPM to kick out the dust?


texts: Is there a way to copy paste the content of this warnings in Xcode ?


texts: Have Mail.app format the text when changing the default message font

texts: I've changed my default font for message to be Georgia 12 Normal. The trick is, to have the message formatted this way (Georgia 12 Normal), so when the recipient open the email it is also formatted as Georgia 12 Normal. Can anybody tell me how to have Mail format new messages to Georgia 12 Normal.


texts: Turn off location suggestions in Calendar

texts:
On my iMac (10.13.6) and MacBook (10.15.3), whenever I add a new event to the Calendar app and attempt to enter a location, a dropdown list of suggested locations appears:

How can I turn these suggestions off?

I have tried to disable the Calendar app in System Preferences > Security > Privacy > Location Services as well as turning off "Location Based Suggestions" for System Services under the same path, as suggested here, but these settings had no effect.


texts: MacBook Retina strange system/battery behaviour

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I am quite used to the fact, that MacOS X does a lot abracadabra internally to provide the best user experience ever, but I also used to understand all that happens. With my pristine MBPr (3 battery loadcycles) I got lost. There are at least two things that I do not understand.

First of all my pmset -g configuration is as follows (note hibernatemode is off):

Currently in use:
 standbydelay         4200
 standby              1
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 gpuswitch            2
 darkwakes            1
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 sleep                10
 hibernatemode        0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

When I was using my notebook at the very beginning it was running on batteries until almost drained. At about 1% I rebooted it, but instead of rebooting it presented me a nice empty battery pictogram (just one you may know from iOS devices). I pushed power-on button several times just to see the very nice pictogram again. I left the notebook then and started looking for a charger. Accidentaly after a few seconds MBPr powered itself (!) on. Still on battery! I pressed Option and waited on boot screen until it turned off again - but this lasted for long minutes.
Having it recharged to 100% I used it on battery again. This time I didn't notice that it went down to 0% while I stil had my system booted and many applications open. I glanced a "running on reserve battery power" warning and screen went blank. Pushing power-on button - no action. I simply put a charger in and went to sleep. In the morning another suprise: I open the lid and see that the system didn't actually shut off. It is up and all my applications are still running. So at 0% battery it simply went to some "sleep" mode.

My guessing is that either battery is somehow uncalibrated and provides more power than the system expects from it, or MBPr with ML is keeping some additional non-reported reserve of power below displayed 0%. Or am I wrong? It's a pity that the nice sleep indicator was removed from the chasis - without you never actually know what your system is doing right now.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can't boot Mac, only shows a Folder with a Question Mark?

Can any one tell me what a white screen on an imac means? There is also a folder with a question mark flashing in the center of the screen. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Thanks!


texts: What speed does the A4 in the iPhone 4 run at?

texts: Apple made a big deal about the iPad's A4 running at 1GHz, but they've never said how fast the iPhone 4's processor is. In the teardown, iFixit mentions that the iPhone 4 uses an A4 but never gives a clock speed. Has anyone been able to find out how fast it actually is?


texts: Loading gif and progress bar on start up

texts:
After doing a pram and a smc reset my late 2011 mac book pro 10.8 shows the apple logo on a grey screen with a loading gif and a progress bar which once finished the mac just turns off.

I have got the error in the disk utility of my hard drive. "Invalid index key"

I am currently backing up the hard drive in the disk utility!


texts: Why does Xcode 4.1 Installer ask me to quit iTunes if iTunes isn't running?

texts:
Xcode 4.1 Installer downloaded from the App Store, I have no applications running except the installer and the Finder. The dialog that pops up says that iTunes needs to be quit in order for installation of Xcode to continue.

How do I make Xcode installer realize that iTunes isn't running?


texts: Replace hard drive whilst saving installed software

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I want to replace hard drive on my 2012 MacBook Pro. I have all the data backed up, but the only thing I want is to keep all my installed software, mainly music software like native instruments, waves, ableton etc. I have no idea where the serial numbers are.

Is there any way I can copy my current system onto a new hard drive without reinstalling everything?


texts: Can I use an Advanced Format drive in a Late 2010 13" MacBook Pro?

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I have the 13" Late 2010 MacBook Pro, and the 250 GB Hard Drive is way to small, so I'm looking to get a bigger one.

I wanted to upgrade to a 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue (WD7500BPVT), but I've read reviews that say the Mac will constantly park the head and that I need an HDAPM fix or downgrade to a lower EFI.

Is that because it's an Advanced Format (4k sectors) drive, or what causes this?

Is there a good way to know if a hard drive is fully compatible or not? Is there any 640 or 750 GB Drive that works in the MBP without having to install fixes or anything like that?


texts: My 10 year-old Apple Magic keyboard is not working. No green light display and attempting to connect to keyboard #1. I have restarted my computer 3 times, put in recently purchased batteries with no response from my keyboard. Any suggestions before I purchase a new keyboard?


texts:
On installing the new OS a problem with logging on after the machine has been asleep  started immediately. Occasionally my keyboard input is ignored and, after a brief pause, junk was loaded into the login input field. When I extend the time-out before the machine goes to sleep I get the same occasional reaction when I go back in without needing to login, but this time it's with typing into URLs in the browser. When the happens I always have to reboot!

Technical people at Apple, who placed 'Capture Data' app on my desktop, say the problem originates with home-brew, my package manager! I've since reinstalled homebrew  as suggested on several sites so it will work with El Captain.

http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/installing-homebrew-on-os-x-el-capitan-10-11-package-manager-for-unix-apps/

http://digitizor.com/fix-homebrew-permissions-osx-el-capitan/

I still get this issue occurring in a random fashion about 10%+ of the time.

Related to this issue? I can't install all that I need to set up IPython. Here pip doesn't always work.

pip install readline Ends up displaying :clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes arch x86_64 -DHAVE_RL_CALLBACK -DHAVE_RL_CATCH_SIGNAL -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_APPEND_CHARACTER -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_DISPLAY_MATCHES_HOOK -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_MATCHES -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_SUPPRESS_APPEND -DHAVE_RL_PRE_INPUT_HOOK -I. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c Modules/2.x/readline.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.11-x86_64-2.7/Modules/2.x/readline.o -Wno-strict-prototypes
    clang: error: no such file or directory: 'arch'
    clang: error: no such file or directory: 'x86_64'
    error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------

Command "/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/private/var/folders/bj/chzjff753fz0hr1l5r9kcc1c0000gn/T/pip-build-OS8w2B/readline/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/bj/chzjff753fz0hr1l5r9kcc1c0000gn/T/pip-selOV9-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/bj/chzjff753fz0hr1l5r9kcc1c0000gn/T/pip-build-OS8w2B/readline

Same results when I try to install psycopg2!

Any suggestions on fixing the initial problems and getting stuff installed?

Thanks!!


texts: Distinguishing iPad with Retina Display and iPad2

texts:
Tomorrow I will buy a 2nd hand iPad with Retina Display. But I do not have an idea how I can distinguish it from ipad 2. I know retina display is a very significant difference for experienced users. However I have never used an ipad 2 or ipad 1 so I cannot understand the difference.

What is the best way to distinguish two of them? It seems like there does not exist any logo like ipad 2 or ipad with retina display on the back of the device. Is there a way to understand it from settings menu or somewhere else?

Regards


texts: I ran CleanMyMac 3 earlier today and after cleaning my MacBook all my .js files have PHPStorm icon. How can I reset it to default icon ?


texts:
After upgrading to Yosemite I see under App Store > Updates.

  This update is for an app downloaded with a different Apple ID. Sign
  in with that Apple ID and try again.


texts: Is there any way to get rid of the TOC page with iBooks Author?

texts:
I'm making a picture book with iBooks Author. Each page is one simple image. That's all there is to the book.

So I don't need the TOC. Is there a way to get rid of the TOC?


texts: Make CMD-Delete a keyboard shortcut in Apple Mail to move a message to the archive?

texts:
The delete key moves mail to the trash in Apple Mail, which is fine.

But is there a way to make CMD-delete the keyboard shortcut to move the selected message to the archive?

I know there is the shortcut CMD-Ctrl-A , but that is too slow for me.
(I spend about 3 hours a day on mail.)

I tried to define the shortcut in System Preferences / Keyboard / shortcuts, but it wouldn't allow me to do it (when I type the shortcut in the "Shortcut text field" , I get the "doh" sound).
I also tried Alt-delete and Ctrl-delete, none is allowed.


texts: iTunes crashes when I press refresh on the podcast pane

texts:
I'm using Mac OS 10.6.8 and I guess I've updated iTunes recently to 10.5 (141).

I pretty much only use iTunes to get my daily fix of podcasts and now it won't get new episodes and just crashes when I ask for a manual update.

I'm not syncing to any device and I've to tried to reset the store cache at the Advanced Preferences (no result).


texts: Renewed Apple developer account with wrong credit card

texts: I paid my Apple developer account membership (renew) order with my brothers credit card. What to do? Can I cancel this order and renew again with my credit card?


texts:
I find myself running some long scripts/commands and I don't want to wait looking at it until it finishes. On the other hand, I would like to know right away when it ends. I know you can do the trick with &&, but it seems like a lot of typing.

Is there a way to do this by actually putting a post-execution hook in bash? I know this is Bash related and not so much OS X but maybe there is something hidden in OS X.


texts: Is it possible to find out an app installation date on iOS?

texts: Is there a way to find out the date of installation of an application that was added to my iPhone?


texts: To deal with superfluous carriage returns in TextEdit

texts:
I want to let TextEdit never save <CR>, the carriage return.

Different operating systems save end-of-line as different Unicode characters.
For MS DOS (like Windows) it is <CR><LF>, and for Unix and Mac <LF>, and for the very old Mac OS 9 just <CR>.
Here <CR> is the carriage return, and <LF> the line feed.

When sometimes I paste, into TextEdit, several paragraphs from a Windows-created file, for example pdf or doc/docx, <CR>'s are also copied.
TextEdit does not fully conform with Unix standards, in that it does accept <CR><LF>'s, by showing them indeed as line breaks.
I cannot tell, then, whether a line break is Window-styled <CR><LF> or Unix-styled <LF>.

When I save my personal writings in pure text (txt) written in Markdown, I don't want these <CR>'s, but can neither see them, nor delete them in TextEdit.
It is when I open the text file in question with Vim, did I spot those <CR>'s shown as ^M.
Indeed, in Vim, it is easy to replace them with empty strings.

However, I too edit in TextEdit often.
Can I set TextEdit so that it never saves <CR>'s in a buffer of its?
That is, when I paste a <CR> in a buffer, the <CR> is ignored and not written.


texts: Running Windows 10 from bootable DVD without installing on hard disk?

texts:
I am trying to boot from a Windows 10 DVD, but it says something about installing it.

I don't want to replace my existing OS with Windows 10. I just want to use some software with it. How do I do that?


texts: Can I prevent a whatsapp text from being sent, if it hasn't yet been delivered?

texts:
I sent a text, it went to the servers but it hasnt delivered to the person yet.
So I did that method I read about to block him until he comes online, then the text wont deliver to him.

Will this work?
Is there another way?


texts: Meaning of lines in "wcap" that don't have a MAC, and are not "beacon" or "wep" broadcasts?

texts:
After creating a wcap file with Wireless Diagnostics I used vim to inspect this file:

  $ tcpdump -r 2017.98.14_17-33-49-EDT.wcap > output.txt

and then I removed all lines that had either of
(1) a MAC address.
(2) the "beacon" string.
(3) the "wep" string.

Here is a sample of what remained:

  17:33:51.074520 4185535295us tsft -51dB signal -89dB noise antenna 0 5785 MHz 11a ht/40+ 65.0 Mb/s MCS 7 20 MHz (L) lon GI mixed BCC FEC [bit 20]
  17:33:51.076525 4185537310us tsft short preamble 12.0 Mb/s 5785 MHz 11a -53dB signal -89dB noise antenna 0 BA RA:d4:b2:7a:39:f4:1e (oui Unknown)
  17:33:51.289354 4185750140us tsft -53dB signal -87dB noise antenna 0 5785 MHz 11a ht/40+ 65.0 Mb/s MCS 7 20 MHz (L) lon GI mixed BCC FEC [bit 20]
  17:33:51.611685 4186072156us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s 5785 MHz 11a -79dB signal -87dB noise antenna 0 Action (a2:3a:de:12:fd:d5 (oui Unknown)): Vendor Act#0
  ....

Doesn't each line in wcap represent a packet?
If so, what type of packet is not a broadcast or does not have a MAC address?

Since I made the effort to inspect my LAN (for other reasons), I'm just curious. Not really a big deal of course.


texts: Is there any audio splitter applications?

texts:
As I know,  there are many audio splitter software like GoldWave on the Windows platform. But I cannot find any similar applications for Mac Os.

What I want is an audio splitter which can

automatically split the audio file according to its wave, that is, it can recognize the pause automatically;
split the audio according to its lyric file.

Do you have any suggestions? I do not like to install a Windows along with OS X to use such software.


texts: How to change the country/region in developer.apple program?

texts:
Today, I was enrolling my developer.apple ID for 1 year, by 99 USD. The region of my ID is currently set as US. That's why it's showing billing information as a format of US.

But I want to purchase the program using a master card from Australia. So that in the billing information section I could select sate/city of Australia from the drop down box. I can change the region in iPhone, iTunes, App Store, but it is not have any impact of by developer.apple billing/contact section. What should I do? Thanks a lot in advance.


texts: Is there a tool to simply join 2 pdf pages in one?

texts:
It seems a hard to find an answer to such a simple request:
I have a pdf file with 16 pages A4 size. I would like to make a 'spreads' view of it, this means that page 1 and page 16 (cover and backcover) should remain A4 size while all the pages in between should become A3 size.

I tried the following:

Using Preview.app I can display the pdf the way I want but I can't
save it for use with any other pdf viewer.
Print to pdf the in between pages with the "multiple pages per sheet" option doesn't
work for me because page margins are inserted in between the a4
pages.

I know some a good pdf editor can do this but these tools are expensive and I don't need it for anything else. With Windows I used a simple freeware tool.

Do you know how to do it for Mac?


texts:
Using 2017 MBA with High Sierra. Randomly drops the internet connection. Sometimes several times per hour, sometimes once a week. Most of the time it also drops the WiFi connection.

Have tried turning WiFi on and off
renewing DHCP lease
rebooting things

All of these work or not on a random basis.

I rule out the WiFi network itself since all my other devices maintain the signal with no problems (2017 iMac w/High Sierra, 2007 iMac w/ Sierra, 2006 MacBook w/OSX 8.6?, original iPad, and iPhone 8), even when situated at the same physical location.

When the MBA drops the WiFi the toolbar icon at top drops out. But the Network panel in system preferences recognizes that the WiFi network exists and has a strong signal but is not joined.

There are no other competing networks in my area.
I also removed saved networks previously used when away from home.

This random action does not seem to be correlated to sleep mode, long stretches of inactivity, keyboard actions, or anything else i can identify.


texts: Preview is a very useful application on OS X, for example, when I am previewing a .doc document, can I increase the preview's font size? command++ does not work.


texts: Is there a way to re-purpose an iMac as a second monitor while using components?

texts: I have a late 2009 iMac 21.5". I am buying a new iMac and want the old one to be put to use. Is there a way to make it a 2nd monitor? What can become of the old components inside the 2009 iMac? The hard drive (replaced by Apple) is only 2.5 years old - can that somehow be used? Thanks for any suggestions.


texts: how do I get homebrew build a package (clisp) with the debug flag set

texts:
Is there a brew --with-debug-flag-set package style command available to get brew to build a package that includes debug information.

Specifically, I would like clisp to be built this way so that disassemble works in the repl.

I imagine something along the lines of:

brew install clisp --with-debug

or somesuch.


texts:
I can open a file in emacs with this command:

open -a Emacs main.cpp

But when I apply the same command to multiple files

open -a Emacs main.cpp test.cpp

two emacs windows will appear. I would like to open them
in the same emacs window, is this possible?


texts: I'm syncing my iPhone's Notes to iCloud. If I delete one of these notes, is it permanently deleted, or is there a way for me to recover it?


texts: Debugging Web app running on a specific (older) version of Safari for iOS

texts:
We have an issue with our website and a client's iPad.

We have a button on our website. The action of this button is handled by jQuery. The button works perfectly on everything we have tested it on, including our own in-house iPad(s).

A Client of ours, however, is having no such luck. Whenever they tap on the button in their iPad, nothing happens. We have watched them do this in fullstory multiple times, consistently they try to tap the button, but nothing happens.

On every iPad we have tested, the button works. All except this one client's iPad. Safari is the browser used by all of us.

Looking at the User Agent string, the only difference we can see is that we are running iOS version 9.3.5, whereas the client's version of iOS is 8.2.0.

We want to do everything we can to recreate the issue that the client is experiencing. so is it possible to install iOS 8.2.0 onto one of our iPads in order to try and re-create the problem?

Is there a way to recreate the same software environment (Safari running on iOS 8.2.0) that our client is using to debug the issue with our website?


texts: How to send S/MIME encrypted mails from iOS with attachment?

texts:
I can only send encrypted mails if I start the mail app directly. But if I try to send a mail from the image gallery, the mails are neither signed nor encrypted (and I can't find a way to enable that).

Edit: My current (non-acceptable) workaround would be to save the mail as a draft, then open the draft with the default mail app and then send it.


texts: Issue setting environment variable that points to smb

texts:
Can someone tell me the proper syntax for setting an environment variable that points to a smb volume directory?

What I have tried so far:

TNS_ADMIN=/Volumes/abc
TNS_ADMIN=smb://servername/abc
TNS_ADMIN=/servername/abc

Additional info, I have Oracle InstantClient installed and I'm trying to use SQLPlus. Except, the connection file I need is located in the shared directory located in the aforementioned smb volume.  I'm trying to set the environment variable (TNS_ADMIN) such that it points Oracle to look at the smb volume, where the file is located.  Nothing appears to work.  Looking for guidance on what the proper syntax should be on setting an environment variable that points to a smb volume.  Hope that makes sense.


texts: running macOS UI based Application as root

texts:
I'd like to open a specific macOS application which require root privileges (uid=0 or gid=0) in order to access specific files. However, when trying to run with sudo directly I get the following error:

sudo /Applications/myApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myApp
Illegal instruction: 4

and if running it indirectly using open it gets the uid of current user and not root.

any ideas who to do it ?


texts: Need ability for 2 people to listen to my iPhone 6S at the same time. Visiting museum while traveling. Tried finding spliters online. Only find ones the have charging and listening, not 2 sets of listening.


texts:
Sometimes, opening one or more very large pdf documents will cause Preview to crash. When this happens, I usually open preview by double clicking on its icon in Applications while holding down the shift key. This prevents the previously opened documents from being opened again.
However, today, for some reason, that's not working. If I open Preview while holding down shift it still tries to open all the documents that were open when it crashed, and consequently crashes again.
I'm imagining the list of open documents is stored in a plist file somewhere, but there are currently no files in ~/Library/Application Support/Preview, so it's not there. Is there some other place to look for it?
I'm on OS X 10.11 if that makes a difference. I know it's old and have no intention of updating.


texts: Do any iOS versions come with a built-in RSS reader?


texts:
I am currently in China and I would like to bypass the censorship. (Mostly for Google and Netflix)

I have a linux host in France that I could use for the SSH tunnel (let's call it user@domain.fr)

In my Mac Book Pro, I typed the command line
ssh -ND 9999 user@domain.fr, I configured my socks proxy, and everything worked fine.

First idea: I tried to follow this tutorial

My Pac file is :

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
     return "SOCKS domain.fr:9999";
}

I put the file proxy.pac in my linux host via scp command. When I checked the URL of the file with Mobile Safari, it displayed the code written above, so I guess it can access it.

Then I configured the iOS device (Proxy Http -> Auto -> URL...) but it didn't work. What's strange is that I can still access non-censored website (like Apple), but I can't access censored-one (Facebook, Twitter) I would have thought that configuring the Http Proxy to Auto would affect the whole Web Browser.

Anyway, I wonder if that's because I need an authentication to access my host. And if that's so, how could I make it work?

Second idea: : I tried port forwarding with this tutorial
Since my basic needs are Google and Netflix, I used Termius and configured the port forwarding as followed :

Port Forwarding > Local
Host : domain.fr:22
Port from : 9998
Destination : google.com
Port to : 80

Port Forwarding > Local
Host : domain.fr:22
Port from : 9999
Destination : netflix.com
Port to : 80

Then I tried to access via localhost:9998 and localhost:9999.

For Netflix, I have a Http Status 404 : the requested resource is not available.
For Google, I have a Http Status 404 : the requested URL was not found on this server.


texts: If I have an iPod touch (1st gen) can I install apps?

texts:
I found what I think is a first gen iPod touch (see here).

I had to restore it and it says it cannot update beyond iOS 2.2.1, build version 5H11.

When I browse the App Store, all apps seem to require a minimum of iOS 4.3.

Can I upgrade iOS beyond 2.2.1?
Can I install apps?
Where can I browse for compatible apps?


texts: Display visual notification of currently-playing song in iTunes?

texts: Is there a way to display the currently-playing track on my Mac? I would rather not use a 3rd-party app.


texts: Has anyone seen this weird floating light in iTunes before?

texts:
I connected my iPhone to my computer, and iTunes opened up as it always does. However, I got this weird video playing in the window. I have no videos on my phone or in my iTunes library. It wasn't interactive—clicking didn't do anything.

It's like I had a UFO on my computer :) Has anyone seen something like this? I can't recreate it for the life of me.

.


texts: Fixing broken Messages on OS X Mavericks

texts:
I managed to break my Messages install trying to get it to work on my MacBook Air by deleting Library files that worked with it. Now when I try to open messages I get the error

  An internal Messages error occurred.

    There was a problem with Messages. You need to quit and open Messages again.

Can I just copy Library files from another one of my computers running OS X? Or is this the sort of thing that I need to reinstall the OS for?


texts: How can I tell iTunes that a .M4V (movie) is an HD movie?

texts: HD movies that I buy from iTunes appear in iTunes with the movie's name and a little "HD" symbol next to the movie. However, movies I've ripped from my BluRay discs, which are HD, aren't recognized by iTunes as being "HD". Of course they play fine via iTunes or AppleTV, in HD and everything, it's just I'd like to somehow edit the metadata or whatever it is that iTunes uses to identify a movie as being HD. I know it's just cosmetic, but it irritates me!


texts: How do I restore a Windows 7 DMG file to Boot Camp (and make it bootable)?

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My iMac's HD died last week, and so I was unable to access OS X (I had a Time Machine backup of it though). Fortunately I was able to boot into the Recovery HD and use Disk Utility to backup Boot Camp to a DMG file on an external drive before I lost that forever.

So, now I have a DMG file containing Windows 7. From what I understand, it's much more difficult to restore Windows Vista/7 than it is to restore Windows XP because the boot method has gotten more complex.

However, could someone point me in the right direction in order to restore a Windows 7 DMG file to Boot Camp, and of course make it bootable? I already tried the method shown here, which is quoted at a lot of places, but it definitely only works with WinXP and nothing newer.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Separate everyone's phones & our Mac from receiving everyone's texts while sharing the same account?

texts: I want to share our account because we both use the reminders, photos, notes, etc., and when I tried to set up a new apple ID, it nearly took those away.  I, or he, would've lost our notes, etc.  I don't want to lose stuff, and I was able to separate them before the latest big upgrade back in 2014.  Surely I can do this again.  Same ID, but different, separate users.  How is it done?  Please and thank you!


texts: Can someone who rsync-s his iTunes music avoid full-fledged exports?

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I'd like to listen to my iTunes music (especially lossless) in the car and on the go.

I was waiting for a 256GB option from Apple, not particularly for the iPhone 7.

With the iPhone 7 it will still be a hassle to pass a digital signal to an amplifier (plus I'm tired of the price tag Apple imposes for just some extra memory).

Suppose I use instead a 256GB microSDXC card, providing the ultimate portability. I understand that by using an SDXC rather than an iPhone (or the less-than-very-interesting iPod Touch) I would lose the Plays and the Last Played counts. But that's about it.

This has surely been asked many times before. I wish Apple made it possible to sync from iTunes to a device that provides digital audio out (there are several options on the market), but they have zero incentive (and much to lose) by adding such a facility, or even making it easy to do so.

My question is then: The state of the art, as I understand it, in September 2016, is to:

Export from iTunes a playlist (one whose size does not exceed the SDXC's capacity).
Use rsync (which can be easily installed through MacPorts) to sync just the changes.

Step 2 is pretty fast. But it's tedious to repeat Step 1. Can one do better?


texts: System slowness: How to disable or short-circuit tccd in Mojave? (slows app & subprocess startup)

texts:
There's a serious problem that's come up especially in Mojave and Apple seems to not really be interested in resolving this from my discussions with engineers in the know. It especially manifests itself when opening certain apps and subprocesses therein (two examples are python and emacs). This didn't seem to be so much of a problem initially in Mojave, but it's getting worse and it most certainly was not a problem in High Sierra.

It appears to happen due to tccd (some discussions; there are many mentions of these issues in obscure spots around) somehow generating some additional overhead that wasn't present before in previous OS releases.  While Apple may consider this to be acceptable, there are many of us who are struggling with the additional time that it's adding to process spawning.

This seems to be able to be reproduced via any app that's existent under any of the sections under System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy.


texts: How can I make applications on OSX open new windows in the same space when opening a file from Finder?

texts:
OSX 10.8. Pretty simple. Right now when I open a file through Finder, if the filetype is set to be open by application Y, oftentimes OSX finds a space that has an open window of Y, and sends the file into that window in that space. What I want though is, when I open the file, I want a new window for that file, and in the same space.

Per this question, I know that there is a workaround explicitly for Chrome, which is great; ditto this for Finder. But I want this setting to be system-wide. E.g. I want to open a new txt document through finder and have MacVim open a new window with the file in my current space (as it would if it were launching for the first time) rather than locating an open window in a separate space and pulling the file into a tab in that window.

Note, I do have my settings set so that switching to an application does not switch to a space with an open window for that application, which works correctly, but when the application launch takes place through a file opening rather than via the cmd-tab switcher, it still does the find-an-open-window-even-if-in-another-space thing.

Note again, there are two issues here--

I don't like that it switches spaces
I don't like that it opens the file in an existing window rather than in a new window

--and I don't see how you can solve one without solving the other; but it'd be great if either or both could be solved.


texts: How to repair and/or reinstall Homebrew safely?

texts:
I am trying to repair Homebrew.

I recently tried to reinstall it but when I typed "brew doctor"

My output was:

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
The current working directory doesn't exist, cannot proceed.

I have tried to re-install it by typing this into the command line again:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

But my output is:

It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

How can I fix my Homebrew install?


texts: Can I use my enterprise developer account to sign Passbooks that will be used externally?

texts:
Can I use my enterprise developer account to sign Passbooks that will be used to download tickets from a public facing website?

The reason I ask this is because in the enterprise developer program it states that I cannot have apps in the normal app store but only sign apps that would be distributed internally.


texts: Is there a Macbook (or pro) with TB3 USB C ports without butterfly keys

texts: I wanted to get an older, pre-butterfly keyboard but I also really wanted TB3 support so I can connect my monitor, peripherals, etc. into a dock and then only have to connect a single USB C cable when I'm using the system at my desk.


texts: kernel_task CPU usage with SIP on a MacBookPro8,2 with no battery

texts:
Is there any evidence or technical documentation to support the notion that System Integrity Protection can cause excessive use of the CPU by kernel_task in some situation?

Background

No battery. All Apple operating systems on an external hard disk drive, limited (by the MacBookPro8,2) to USB 2.0.

With Sierra, and with pre-release High Sierra, when not booted in safe mode I nearly always found that kernel_task hogged the CPU.

My usual workaround was safe mode.

After considering answers to the following questions:

kernel_task consumes 500% CPU on AC power, sometimes (2012-11-24)
How to disable the SpeedStep when using MacBook Pro without a battery? (2014-01-06)
Kernel_task boosts CPU to 300%-500% (Yosemitte MBP 2011 without a battery) (2015-02-04)
kernel_task hundreds of % CPU yet cpu frequency is being lowered (2015-04-01)
Very high kernel_task CPU usage after updating to Yosemite 10.10.4 (2015-07-04)
Macbook Pro with abnormal CPU usage and unrecognised battery. How to alternative SMC reset (2015-09-02)

– I aimed to move (set aside) the following file:

/System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources/MacBookPro8_2.plist

Prerequisite to the move:

disable System Integrity Protection (SIP).

After using csrutil(1) in Recovery OS 17A264c to disable SIP, I booted High Sierra in normal mode …

… I was pleasantly susprised to find that with the .plist still in place:

in normal mode without SIP, the CPU was no longer hogged.

Shut down, started, no hogging.

Started 10.12, no hogging, updated to 10.12.5, restarted, no hogging.

2017-06-10 around 16:50 the Mac unexpectedly stopped. When started, to 10.12.5, I noticed that SIP was re-enabled (not by me). No hogging.

Started Recovery OS 17A264c, disabled SIP, restarted to 10.12.5, no hogging …


texts: Unexpected visual switching between desktop

texts:
Sometimes, when an app is in full-screen mode on a desktop, and that I click on the dock to display another app which is not in full-screen, in another desktop, the application is displayed, but come back to the full screen app immediately. It sounds like an app quick preview
I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.2 but it used to happen with previous OS.
How can I prevent this from happening so I can switch to the other application via the Dock?


texts: Is there any program that can add titlebar functionality to the menubar panel?

texts:
Looking to reproduce the Unity/Gnome3 (Linux desktops) feature set on a Mac:

specifically:

adding various window management buttons to the menu bar panel (close, maximize, maybe tile left/right)
drag from the top to drag a maximized window, just as you would drag from the top in Windows. On Gnome desktop you can just drag from the top to move a maximized window, even though there is a panel at the top of the screen just like on Mac. Really good use of Fitts law.
double-click on empty space in the menubar panel to maximize/unmaximize a window.

Are the any ready-made solutions to this? Are these features actually possible to implement on Mac?


texts: Move quickly between pages in Safari on iOS7?

texts:
I know you can swipe from the screen edges to move forward and back in your history. I am looking for a quick way to go between the open web pages on my iPhone (without all the tapping required to bring up the overlay buttons, then the page view, then scroll to another page).

It would be great if there is a way to use multi-finger swipes to switch between open pages (~tabs), like ⌘⇧} on OSX.


texts: Chrome loading inconsistently after Mojave upgrade

texts:
After the Mojave upgrade my Google Chrome has consistently loaded slow and often will spin and not to connect to a website. The option is to switch to Safari (AS I Am doing now)

I have reset chrome, cleared all cache, uninstall and re-install.

When I force quit I do get a crash message that I share with google.

I have also tried both incognito as well as regular. See attached

NOTE: I tried loading Chrome:extensions from chrome and it just spins without loading

See attached screen shot of what it does indefinitely


texts: Why does dictation on my MacBook Pro record my words fine but not on my iMac?

texts:
The dictation in Mountain Lion on my iMac does not record many of the words I speak.

I cannot get it to make a paragraph, either on my desktop, nor my MacBook Pro.

Why does dictation on my MacBook Pro records my words fine but not on my iMac?


texts: How to use Apple Mail as default email program in Windows 8 running under Parallels?

texts:
I am using Microsoft OneNote, Visual Studio 2013 and Visio 2013 under Windows 8.1 running on Parallels 9 on my iMac. All of these have support for sharing content via e-mail.
Is there a way to configure the host's Apple Mail application as the default application under the virtual Windows? Is there maybe some kind of proxy EXE that would fire up the Apple Mail app?


texts: bash command works on Ubuntu but not on macOS

texts:
I have this command which works fine on Ubuntu but on macOS I get an error.

The command:

sudo $(grep -qxF '127.0.0.1        app.local' /etc/hosts || echo '127.0.0.1     app.local' >> /etc/hosts)

Output:

usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user] [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user] file ...


texts: Does the App Store update Java, if installed?

texts:
If I installed Java (or an older version), will the App Store update my local installation, even though I installed, and updated it outside of that?

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572


texts: Is there an equivalent to ⌘ + D in the new save dialogs?

texts:
In Snow Leopard and prior, when clsoing a window with unsaved changes, the system would suggest to either save, cancel or discard the changes from keyboard shortcuts. You could:

save return
cancel ⌘+.
discard the changes ⌘+D.

The Lion save dialog that gets summoned instead of the "Would you like to save?" dialog works differently:

⌘+. and return still work1, but ⌘+D has no effect.

Is there a new keyboard shortcut to discard?

1. I'm not in front of my Mac right now; IIRC they work, but maybe I'm wrong.


texts: Weird El Capitan interface / icon glitch - clear cache?

texts:
Yesterday, I've run into a weird problem on my early 2015 MacBook Air.
I was copying over some files from a Windows 7 VM (Fusion 8.0.1) when all of a sudden my host OS' interface ran all sluggish and laggy. Things like switching between Desktops / full screen apps stuttered and opening apps took way longer than normal.
Every sane computer user would probably reboot as step #1 - and that's what I did 3 times - to no avail. Stutter continued. Welp.

Next up was resetting SMC and PRAM; shortly after, the lag issue vanished. Seems to be running just fine now, maybe even a tad bit faster than previously (should note that I upgraded from Yosemite, it was no clean install).

All good now, or so I thought. Opened the preferences panel of one of my VMs in Fusion just to notice something odd. I can't tell whether it is an El Capitan thing that I just happen to have noticed right after those lag issues, or if they are somehow related. Basically, clicking and holding on any of those icons would make them glitch out weirdly (check out the image below).

Now for my question: Any idea how to fix this? Is there any cache that I could clear to force it to reload those interface elements? Or is it actually an El Capitan issue?
I googled this and couldn't find anything. Tried manually uninstalling and reinstalling Fusion completely, didn't help. Tried recovery, repairing disk, tried single user / safe mode, didn't help either.


texts: You can't use Airport Utility without Airport Extreme?

texts:
I want to use Airport Utility to settle wireless time limits, it seems that I can't use Airport Utility. Is it because you can use Airport Utility only with Apple hardware like
Airport Extreme?


texts: Macports issues after Mountain Lion upgrade

texts:
After upgrading Lion to Mountain Lion, the MacPorts system seems broken.

Refering to the MacPorts's migration page, the best solution seems to unistall all and reinstall all the ports.

Is there a simpler/less drastic solution?


texts:
I don't know how to get my .profile aliases back in to the terminal every time I try them, this error massage comes up:

apaw:~ apaw$ cdp
-bash: cdp: command not found

How do i exit this -bash? I strongly believe it was named different while it still worked.


texts: External HDD (Apple_HFS) not recognised by Finder under Sierra 10.12.6

texts:
my external HDD (used for TM backups and some other stuff) suddenly stopped working with my MBP 2017 (Sierra 10.12.6). I can see it only through the Terminal (see screenshot 1)

DiskUtility won't load when this particular HDD is plugged. I have also tried several diskutil command lines:

verifyVolume & repairVolume

verifyDisk

repairDisk

Did not perform the last one, cause I really don't want to lose my data.
Tested on two Windows machines with Apple_HFS driver. Driver was found and data are just fine and readable.

Someone with an idea how to fix this without losing data? Any help will be appreciated!


texts: New Finder windows are opening in tabs when I want them to open in a new window

texts:
If I have a Finder window open, whenever I try to open another Finder window it opens as a new tab in previous window. The checkbox in Finder Preferences is not checked. See image below.

I'm trying to learn applescipt and i'm on the part where I open multiple Finder windows. I can't do that part as easy as it is because all I have is one open window with several tabs. How do I get folders to open in a new window?
If i open my home directory in Finder and then click on a folder, the folder contents just replaces the earlier window contents.


texts: Checking for malware and verifying a program is not a malware

texts: I've tried to install Panda3D sdk, but I've received an error, saying the application isn't made by a known developer so I can't install it due to my security settings. I understand this precaution is made by Apple against malware. However I still want to install Panda3d, how can I be sure it isn't a malware or has malware in it?


texts: Airport Extreme and os x 10.6.8 compatibility

texts:
I have an imac os x 10.6.8 with 4GB memory and Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The Airport Extreme (already purchased) is compatible with os x 10.7.5 or higher.
What is the best and, most importantly, the easiest way to go about upgrading? Which os version should I upgrade to? Thank you.


texts: What applications do a good job of using the iPad's retina display for stock data?

texts:
I have a few leads, but wanted to know what people feel is an excellent stock price data-visualization and data-exploration app on a retina iPad display.

Excellent would include:

very clear data with multitouch features for zooming, selecting price points or data ranges.
more native iOS features than simply a web view app (unless that web view stands on equal ground with a native stock app)
is equal to or better than the iPhone stock app in terms of features, polish, ease of use and data viewing function.
some basic import / export capabilities for portfolio management (extra credit - not mandatory)
simple averages and overlays to see trends and not just the open/close/range volume data (extra credit)
no ads or the option to pay money to avoid advertisements on the screen

Excellent doesn't necessarily mean:

Real-time data feed (although a solution that required a lot of steps to refresh the data on a daily basis would be far less useful than an app that could tap into a feed of data that was market delayed.)
derivative and super complicated analysis lines that are more appropriate for professional trading software (and I would expect to cost hundreds of dollars)
portfolio management
actual trading - I'm looking for historical data - not a platform for executing trades. Don't rule out a trading app if it otherwise meets the requirements and is open to anyone with a reasonably low bar to entry (like opening an account with $50 or such)

It doesn't matter if you need to buy the app or if it has an optional or mandatory data service that feeds the data (but please call that out if makes or breaks the app).


texts: How to share Mac System which has Lions OS 10.7?

texts:
I was able to share my mac system screen using VNC server in Snow leopard OS but now I have upgraded the my Mac OS to Lion OS. Now VNC server is not compatible with Lion OS.
So can any one help me how to share my Mac system so that others can access my system remotely and run the iPhone application in XCode and able to see the iPhone simulator.


texts:
I'm trying to run MySQL server (Percona) by launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.percona-server.plist and I see the following message in /var/log/system.log:

Aug  9 01:36:14 xxx com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[253] (homebrew.mxcl.percona-server[37257]): Exited with code: 1
Aug  9 01:36:14 xxx com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[253] (homebrew.mxcl.percona-server): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

If I run it manually it gives me

$ /usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err'.
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var/mysql
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 172: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied
130809 01:49:36 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.pid ended
/usr/local/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/xxx.local.err: Permission denied

Any ideas?


texts:
Sometimes a note in Notes suddenly disappears. It usually (always?) happens just in a few seconds after the creation, while I'm still editing the note.
What causes this kind of behavior and how can I fix this?

(Technical details: OS X 10.8.2, GMail sync is on.)


texts: What is an iPad app that will allow viewing AND editing/markup of PDF documents in multiple tab views?

texts:
I need to find an ipad app that will allow users to do the following:

View PDFs
Edit PDFs (at least simple markups)
Open multiple PDF documents in tabbed views
Link with a DropBox account for cloud access

Anybody know of an app to do this?

Adobe Acrobat Reader is just fine except the markup tools are week and only one doc at a time.  BlueBeam allows great editing and multiple tabs, but is super buggy and slow.


texts: If I sign into someone's ipod to download something, using my ID & password and forget to logout, will I be able to locate the device using Find My iphone?


texts: I'm looking for an app that will periodically plot my coordinates on a map which I can directly or through an export/import, put onto a google map. Is there something that does this?


texts: How to edit videos with coustom musics on iPad?

texts:
I bought iPad Pro to replace my MacBook in some light works.
For personal interest I produce small (2-3min) videos, but on iPad there is no way I can add coustom musics I find on internet (even though musics are non copyrighted).
Also it don’t let me use musics from my Apple Music account.

Is there any soulution to this issue?
How other people use iPads for video production. I want to do it fully on iPad and don’t want download and sync music from MacBook to use on iPad.


texts: How to map the F11 and F12 keys to Volume Up/Volume Down

texts:
I have chosen to use the F1-F12 keys with their original -PC- behavior, because I want F5 to refresh the page in Firefox! (and not control the backlight of the keyboard)

Now I would like to "remap" the Volume Up/Volume Down key as originaly intended: F11 and F12 keys (I'm used to that). I don't want to have to press Fn everytime.

I've searched everywhere I can't find a way to do that (for now I have to press Fn+F11 and Fn+F12).


texts:
Recently I've a problem with TM, i do usually attach the HD every week, but lately it's not backing up and it's extremly slow.

In particular, If i start the backup it says something like: backin up 21GB taking 10 hours . Which is way too much.

Moreover, I left the pc on (using caffeine) the whole night and this morning no backups were made. But TM is set up to take backups every hour. If I start it manually it runs for a while and then suddently stops. Saying nothing.

Any thought on how i can investigate the problem and solve it?

EDIT
Apparently there's a file/folder that makes the problem
. It's been stuck at the same amount 15,6 GB for 1hour without moving. I think the problem is there. any way that I can know what's going on?


texts: Other storage category excessive since iOS 8.3 update

texts: I recently upgraded to iOS 8.3 from 8.2 on my iPhone 5s and for a week my memory/capacity remained unaffected.  But then one day I checked my available capacity and it dipped to 2.1 GB from 10.6 GB.  Then today I checked again and the capacity dipped again to 1.6 GB.  When I plugged my phone into iTunes, the "other" bar memory was 19.5—it was never that high.  What could be the problem?  I have a Virgin mobile 5s, if that helps any.


texts: How to usb tether a wifi network using iphone

texts:
I have installed windows 10 on my Mac and the Wi---Fi is interfering with the Bluetooth so I've turned off the Wi-Fi on the Mac.

My iPhone is connected to the Wi-Fi so I want to usb-tether the Wi-Fi to my mac through my iPhone.

But I have noticed that usb-tether is using cellular connection instead of Wi-Fi which costs me money.

Is there a way to usb-tether a Wi-Fi network instead of cellular network?

Android happily do this. After all it is common sense to tether the gateway.


texts: Is it possible to create a service using only the shell and bypassing automator altogether?

texts: Using automator is somewhat of a tedious task. Using the shell in the Terminal is much easier all around. Even using the "Run Shell Script" action inside automator is not the same as using the actual shell in the Terminal. A script that works normally in the Terminal may break in Automator. Then editing requires opening Automator again (I have a habit of quitting the program assuming everything will work) and waiting on everything to load. So I thought, why am I even using this program? But then when I start thinking about creating a service, I realized that I have no idea how to go about it without the slow and clunky Automator application. Is this even possible?


texts: What is the OS X equivalent to the free command to show buffer and cache memory?

texts: The free command displays the buffer and cache memory on Linux. What is the command to show the equivalent information for an OS X machine?


texts: Should I buy Coda 2 on the app store or directly from Panic?

texts: I'm very interested in buying Coda 2 (a web development IDE) when it comes out on the 24th. My concern is that the App Store version will have less features than the non-App Store version. Will Apple's new sandboxing policies be likely to limit the use of an application like Coda? Is there any reason to not buy direct from the developer?


texts: iPhone asks for Apple ID password on third party app launch after iTunes sync

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I've just synced my iPhone with iTunes to get some Music on the iPhone. After doing so, the iPhone wants my Apple ID password, when I try to launch a third party app. All Apple apps (Photos, Safari, Notes, etc.) work fine, but all third party apps require me to sign in to the App Store first. I mean once; as soon as I signed in once to the App Store, all third party apps start to work again.

On my iPhone I use the same Apple ID as in iTunes.

This is the popup when I'm not connected to the internet:

By the way, this is by far not the first launch of "FBReader".

And when I'm connected to the internet it looks like this:

I can't even do this on the iPhone, because my password manager doesn't work of course! I need internet and a second device to get my iPhone working again.

Is this expected, normal behavior? Is every Apple user suffering this?

Or is there something fishy on my device(s)? I suspect that this is a copyright mechanism that runs amok because the iTunes sync cripples my iPhone.

Some time ago, I've changed the Email address of my Apple ID. Before that, this never happened. However, this was some time back and since then many updates to both my iPhone as well as my Mac happened.


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I upgraded to iOS 5 sometime ago and all was fine.

Last night I got a message that another upgrade was available, so I followed the prompts.

During the upgrade the connection between my PC and iPad failed.

Now the iPad will not boot.  It just shows the Apple logo and stops.

How do I fix a interupted iOS upgrade?


texts: How do I get LaunchBar to open the enclosing folder for a selected file?

texts: After selecting a file or application in LaunchBar, how do I get it to show it in the Finder? (I'd like the equivalent of right-clicking on a file in a Spotlight search and selecting "Open Enclosing Folder" in the pop-up menu.)


texts: How do I minimise any window using terminal commands?

texts: I'm trying to make my discord bot console (running in terminal) minimize itself, but I do not know a command for minimizing. I tried looking around but I found nothing.


texts: Some texts automatically underlined in iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1

texts:
I am using iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1, My problem is text automatically underlined on some buttons in the application

Is there any settings available to remove the underline? Or how to fix this issue ?


texts:
Since many days, my time capsule, isn't making any backups. I checked the light status and its green, when choosen the command for backup now, it spends good amount of time (10-15 min) saying "preparing backup" and then failing, and upong entering "Time Capsule" preferences and choosing the red icon, I am showed the following message

I tried restarting time capsule and my mac. But nothing works, My system is updated too. How can i fix this problem and why is it happening?


texts:
I'm a longtime Windows user, and I was given a Macbook Pro at work. I was recently given a new one, and I need to use Migration Assistant to move all my data from the old one to the new one.

I've got a lot of settings that I don't want to spend time on again, and I've got a Parallels VM on it. I want the new Mac to behave exactly the same as the old one, so nothing would be changed. I'm used to the Windows world where I would image a computer and then deploy that image on another computer.

Would Migration Assistant truly copy everything from the old Mac to the new? If there are things that Migration Assistant wouldn't copy, can you please tell me what they are?


texts: iTunes pauses and does random things when my headphones move

texts: I am using iTunes on Mac.  I suppose there might be a problem with my headphones and it is sending random commands to the computer.  When I move my head, my iTunes pauses and sometimes it goes to a different podcast.  Is there anything I can do to simply disable the headphones from controlling iTunes?