texts: Can a custom label be applied to a contact field using partial text from the field value?

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In the Contacts app in OS X Yosemite it is currently impossible to import custom field labels when importing from a CSV file. I use a 3rd party app to manage my contacts and I would like to import the custom labels that I use for postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses for my contacts.

If I create a field that merges the custom label with field data, and a separator character in between, would it be possible to use an AppleScript to extract the custom label, remove the separator character, and rename the field with the custom label?

For example, I currently have a custom label for a phone field:

  Field Custom Label: Dad Mobile

  Field Value: 123 456 7890

  Merged Field: Dad Mobile;123 456 7890

When importing the file into Contacts via CSV I would map it to "phone other". So the phone field for the contact would look like this when imported:

  other:  Dad Mobile;123 456 7890

Again, the script would extract the custom label, remove the separator character and rename the field with the custom label, resulting in:

  Dad Mobile: 123 456 7890

I am somewhat new to scripting.


texts: Redirect all logs to a network share - local HDD "disappears"

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How do I tell OS X to not write logs to the local volume, but in stead to write them to a remote share?

I'm troubleshooting a intermittent issue on a late 2012 Mac Mini server where the internal RAID appears to just "goes away."


texts: Create a terminal command to open another user profile in chrome

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How can I create a terminal command to open another user's profile in Chrome?
It takes me a long time to switch between them because I have a lot of users in Chrome.


texts: Which US Apple stores accept iTunes Gift Cards?

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From time to time, retailers will discount iTunes Store Gift Cards and I'm tempted to stock up since discounts are enticing ways to shop. It appears that Apple has three sorts of gift cards available in the US. I am interested in the usually colorful or music related one.

Originally, these cards only worked to buy music from the iTunes Store, but now my Apple ID works with several other store fronts in addition to the expected iTunes music store on iOS, Mac and Windows:

iBookstore on iOS
iCloud to buy additional storage space annually
iTunes match annual subscription service
App Store on iOS
App Store on Mac OS
Apple Store app on iOS for ordering product online or for pickup in Apple Retail Stores.
Apple Store on the internet at http://store.apple.com

Which of these will accept a US purchased credit from a physical or electronic iTunes Store Gift Card if your Apple ID has a US billing address? Which of these will not be able to spend credit redeemed from the iTunes gift card. I do know that the Apple Store gift cards are accepted at the Apple Retail stores, but I've never seen them discounted or available anywhere but from Apple Retail.


texts: Error when remotely controlling iOS device over VNC

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I'm using Quamotion xcuitrunner to remotely control an iOS device over VNC. I'm launching xcuitrunner on Windows, using the command line.

When I connect to localhost:5900 using TightVNC, I see a black screen with the following text:

Could not connect to the device. The installation of application Quamotion Agent on device iPhone failed.
The installation proxy returned the error ApplicationVerificationFailed.

The following syslog messages may contain more information:
0x16f577000 -[MIClientConnection _doInstallationForUrl:withOptions:completion:]: Install of "/var/mobile/Media/PublicStaging/com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner" type Customer (LSInstallType = (null)) requested by lsd (pid 81)
Acquired termination assertion for event <BKSTerminationAssertionCreateEvent: 0x14de894c0; Identifier: 45-1B4BE7A4-CCC7-458A-A2DD-B7B0E2176EFE; Name: FBSApplicationTerminationAssertion; Target BundleID: com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner; Efficacy: Unconditional>
0x16f577000 -[MIINstaller performInstallationWithError:]: Installing <MIInstallableBundle ID=com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner; Version=1, ShortVersion=1.0>
com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner:7:5:1:1:Start : Install (New)
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf IssuerCommonName LeafMarkerOid Revocation1 SubjectCommonName]
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf IssuerCommonName LeafMarkerOid Revocation1 SubjectCommonName]
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf IssuerCommonName LeafMarkerOid Revocation1 SubjectCommonName]
Trust evaluate failure: [leaf Revocation1]
0x16f577000 +[MICodeSigningVerifier _validateSignatureAppAndCopyInfoForURL:withOptions:error:]: 199:

Failed to verify code signature of [...]/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.nV5S17/extracted/Payload/WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner:
0xe8008018 (The identity used to sign the executable is no longer valid.)
0x16f577000 -[MIInstaller performInstallationWithError:]: Verification stage failed
com.apple.test.WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner:7:5:2:0:Fail (End) : Install (New)

Can you please help me with this error?


texts: GoFlex Seagate 2 TB HFS+ Journaled would not mount

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Guys I got GoFlex Segate 2TB OSX Journaled
The error I get:

sudo fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk1s1
journal_replay(/dev/disk1s1) returned 16
** /dev/rdisk1s1
  Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=98304 cacheSize=3145728K.
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-305.10.1).
  could not get volume block 2, err 16
  could not get alternate volume header at 409598, err 16
volumeType is 0
0000:  00a0 bd01 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000       |................|
0010:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000       |................|
. . .
01f0:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000       |................|
  unknown volume type
  primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
  alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
  primary VHB is at block 0 0x00
  alternate VHB is at block 0 0x00
  sector size = 512 0x200
  VolumeObject flags = 0x01
  total sectors for volume = 409600 0x64000
  total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00
  CheckForClean - unknown volume type

Update:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS iMac-SSD                959.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         2.0 TB     disk1s2
sudo gpt -r show disk1
gpt show: unable to open device 'disk1': Resource busy
diskutil verifyVolume disk1s2
Started file system verification on disk1s2
Verifying file system
File system check exit code is 8
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

I am on OS X El Captain. The disk is OS Journaled file type 100%. My mate was painting and he moved the drive and caused unsafe disconnect. Now First aid reports problems with Partition map.

What does this mean? How can this be fixed?


texts: How to set function keys as TouchBar default for Java applets

texts: I found this resource which outlines exactly what I want to do, however does not work for Java applets. Is there any way to display the function keys as default when using a Java applet, or any way to set key combination I can enter to lock the function keys on the TouchBar until I enter it again?


texts: I can see another computer's shared iTunes library even though they are not sharing their library

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For some reason, from my own iTunes library on my Mac, I can see another computer's (running Windows 7) iTunes shared library, even though they are not sharing their library (via Preferences -> Sharing).

I myself have shared my own iTunes library, and they can see it just fine. But I should not be able to see the other person's library when they are not sharing it. I checked the preferences myself.

Also, my own iTunes is logged into my iTunes account, while the other computer is not logged in to any iTunes account.

Why is the other computer's iTunes library visible to my own iTunes?


texts: Leave Apple Magic Trackpad 2 plugged in charging?

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Is it okay to leave the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 (late 2015) plugged in via the Lightning cable?

Is the battery-charging smart about not over-charging/over-heating?
Are there any other pros or cons to leaving it connected to my Mac via the cable? Does it run faster/better or slower/worse? Does it use the cable for communication rather than Bluetooth?

The manual merely mentions that you can use it wirelessly after charging via the Lightning cable.


texts: Brew cask considers deleted apps "installed"

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If I delete an app with rm -rf /Applications/myapp.app or just move the app to Trash, brew cask would still consider it installed. Why is that? How do I explicitly tell brew that the app is already uninstalled / removed?
Background: this specific behavior is causing me headache when I wanted to install upgrade the wireshark cask while '/usr/local/Caskroom/wireshark/3.2.3/Uninstall ChmodBPF.pkg' is gone (somehow removed) as I cannot install / reinstall / uninstall / upgrade wireshark without --force:


texts: Time Machine and File Storage on 1 External Drive Security

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If I partition an external drive to use one partition for file storage and another for time machine, will the partition for time machine be as safe from malware as if it were on a separate drive?

As in if I get a virus on my Mac or on the file storage partition, the will the time machine partition of my external drive be more vulnerable because it on a partition of the same drive?

Both partitions would be setup with the encrypted format.


texts: What are the Manual settings for Internet sharing between 10.9 and 10.7?

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I have a system with OSX 10.9, and another system with OSX 10.7.5. I am trying to setup internet sharing between the from 10.9 to 10.7.

10.9 has internet through WiFi, and I used a LAN cable to connect it to 10.7 system. If I use DHCP for settings, here are the IP addresses I get.

10.7 (client)
Ethernet:
IP Address: 192.168.2.3
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.2.1
DNS Server: 192.168.2.1

10.9 (Host)
WiFi:
IP Address: 192.168.0.5
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1
DNS Server: 209.18.47.61/209.18.47.62

Ethernet:
IP Address: 169.254.32.154
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Router: <blank>
DNS Server: <blank>

I remember facing the same issue few years back, and I resolved it by setting it manually. But I can't figure out what are the correct settings, Can someone please help me, it's really urgent!!

EDIT:
I tried setting both of them manually (ethernet addresses) to:

10.7(client)
IP Address: 192.168.2.3
subnet: 255.255.255.0
router: 192.168.2.1

10.9(host)
IP Address: 192.168.2.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
router: 192.168.0.1

doesn't work either!


texts: How can I stop F8 key from bringing up Mission Control?

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My problem is fairly simple: Currently both F8 and F9 bring up Mission Control. If I use the System Preferences, it shows that the "Mission Control" keyboard shortcut is F9. If I disable this, then indeed F9 no longer works, however, F8 does still work.

Where could it be configured that it should use F8, since the System Preferences does not show it anywhere.

I know that this does not happen for everyone, but it is maddening for me, since I really want F9 to be used for Mission Control, and for F8 to be returned to eclipse…

Update

This occurred after an update from Snow Leopard to Lion.


texts: MacBook Pro 2015 13" says fully charged but does not turn on

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I have a MacBook Pro from 2015, and I haven't used it in a while. I connected a charger until I saw it's full and tried to turn it on but nothing is happening.
Also the trackpad is not clickable.
What can I do?

Thanks


texts: 10.7: managing SMTP (outgoing) server for multiple POP email accounts on the same mail server

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Folks:

re:   mail.app  5.2 (MacOS 10.7.4), possibly similar for earlier versions

I'm struggling to understand how to establish and maintain multiple simple POP, non-SSL email accounts on the same mail server.  Say, I have two accounts for which the hosting service control panel gives these manual setup summaries:

  account: blue@example.com
  password:  [blue's password]
  outgoing server:  smtp.example.com, on port 98
  incoming server:  pop.example.com, on port 99

  account: green@example.com
  password:  [green's password]
  outgoing server:  smtp.example.com, on port 98
  incoming server:  pop.example.com, on port 99

I want to add these to mail.app.   No problem with establishing and maintaining the incoming account information.  But mail.app uses a non-parallel method for specifying the outgoing server, yes?   It wants you to enter the data for a multiply-used SMTP (outgoing) server once, then assign each parallel account to that server.   For the above accounts, I think success of this process is indicated by the SMTP Server List (as seen in edit-the SMTP-Server-List mode) showing:

          Server Name               In Use By Account
          -------------------               --------------------------------------------------------------------
          ...
          smtp.example.com      blue@example.com, green@example.com
          ...

(Leftmost "Description" column omitted.  The table display will likely be mangled in this posting;  you can possibly see it correctly by copying the above, pasting it into a new document in an editor, and setting a monospaced font.   I think the accounts are listed in order of establishment;  here "green" is the second account entered for this outgoing server.)

So far, so good?

Though the basic information about the outgoing server --the server name and port settings-- is the same for both accounts,  I think one must set --and later, maintain-- the account name and passwords individually for  each account, even though the common server information is the same.  These are not simply copied from the incoming values for the same account,yes?  (I do not recall seeing an email account in which these credentials differ for the incoming and outgoing servers, and I'm fairly sure some client apps automatically use the same for both.)

I cannot seem to find a method in mail.app's UI to set and later reach these unique settings.

Reference:   this thread gives the general method for adding the second account, but is not sufficiently specific, and refers to mail.app on MacOS10.6.

When I add the second outgoing account, selecting the common server from the Outgoing Mail Sever (SMTP):  pull-down gives me the information for the first account.   Am I supposed to over-write that information?  I don't think so -- correct me if I'm wrong.  I think mail.app should present me with empty boxes, indicating I can enter the new account name and password for the second account. But it doesn't.  (Maybe occasionally, it does, but I can't really figure out how this works.)

The same goes for later maintenance.  If the password for the "green" account changes, I need to make that change to both the incoming and outgoing server, (right?) but I don't see a method for persuading mail.app to show me the credentials for "green" so I can update the password for green's outgoing server.

How is done?   Am I missing something incredibly obvious?

Supplemental:  I noticed that I can run Connection Doctor and click on the rectangle of a failing ("red light") SMTP account to bring up the Edit SMTP window. Cool!  That would be a reasonable, though obscure, way of accessing the SMTP credentials following a password change for that account.   But the account selected in that window seems to have nothing at all to do with the failing server.  It looks like mail.app highlights a random SMTP account in the Edit SMTP window.

TIA


texts: How to eliminate noise on iPad analog/headphone output?

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I'm a musician with a home studio.  I've been wanting to incorporate my iOS devices (iPad 3, iPad mini retina, and iPhone 4s) into my music making for years, but only recently have synchronization and MIDI technologies gotten to where they needed to be.  Now I can sync my devices to my mac running Ableton Live, but this is where the trouble began.

In order to actually hear my devices, I'm running them through an analog line mixer alongside the output of my Mac.  The trouble is that the amount of noise coming out of the headphone jack of the iOS devices is outrageous.  It's not just normal line noise however, I'm hearing all kinds of access and data transfer going on.  It comes & goes in bursts, some lasting only a couple seconds, some lasting much longer.  Also there is a horrible, continuous high frequency whine, and little blips & "glitchy" sounds, much like if you've ever had your cell phone pick up noise from a computer, etc.  Bottom line it it's all horrendous to listen to, and definitely not acceptable for any sort of music making.

But here's the interesting bit.  If I disconnect the device from the Mac - all is quiet.  Not just quiet, but SILENT, except for the audio I'm actually playing on the device.  It's pure heaven to listen to... absolutely pristine.  But connect the Mac again and... back into the bowels of audio hell.

This is true on all 3 of my iOS devices, with completely different cables.  It's also true if I connect to my USB hub.  However, if I provide power to the iOS device via an external source (like a Lenmar portable power pack), then I do NOT get any noise.  It seems like some sort of grounding issue or something that only happens when physically connected to the Mac in some way.

Is there anything I can do to remedy this?  As it stands now, the analog outputs are simply unusable for music making if I want the devices to be powered at the same time (and with how much power some of these apps draw, power is really a practical requirement).  I've experimented with the MusicIO app, which allows for digital audio over USB.  While it does actually work, I'm having audio glitch issues with it which are unacceptable (and completely different from the noise described prior).  I also have an iConnectAudio4+ which works for digital audio, but only on a single iOS device at a time so really also doesn't get me what I'm after.  Anything I can do to "isolate from ground" or whatever else might be causing this horrible noise?

EDIT:  Some additional interesting info.  The noise is not actually in the analog path of the iOS device audio.  It's being introduced somehow into the path of my entire audio system by the analog out of the iOS devices, but is not in that signal path.  To illustrate this, I can turn OFF the mixer that the iOS devices are going into, so that no signal at all is passing through.  Yet I still hear the noise on the main outs of my system.  If I unplug the analog out of the iOS devices - even though they are not currently able to pass sound anyway - the noise stops completely.

EDIT 2:  I'm pretty certain now that this is a ground loop issue inside the iOS devices themselves.  I can essentially break the loop by disconnecting either the Mac, or the audio output.  If both are connected - even if the audio output of the iOS device is muted entirely - then I get all sorts of access noise coming out of my main system audio outs.  But since this appears to be inside the iOS devices, I can't really do anything to "lift" or otherwise isolate the ground.  I'm really stumped on what I can do about this other than add some sort of pro-level 3rd party docking solution to get balanced audio out (or even digital).  But I really don't want to do this.


texts: How to hide sharing screen in Apple watch

texts:
Open Activity rings in Apple watch and then swipe left. Sharing screen is shown.

Sharing screen says "To start sharing your Activity. Use Activity app on iPhone". How to hide this screen completely in Apple Watch.


texts: How to install iOS image (dmg file) from Dev Center?

texts:
I downloaded an iPhone iOS dmg file from the iOS Dev Center, but don't know how to install it.

How do I load it on to my device?

I'm using iTunes 11 on Windows.


texts: How to give myself permission to edit the locked hosts file on MacOS Mojave?

texts:
I am logged in with my admin account, which is my only account on this computer. I checked under preferences and it says "admin".

I have located the file here:

/private/etc/hosts

When I go to getinfo, it looks like the file is not locked. I also added myself and for good measure everyone with r&w permissions:

Still, when I open it and try to edit it, it says I have no permission:

What am I doing wrong here?


texts: How do I do a clean install of macOS Mojave?

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I follow instructions and installed macOS Mojave on my MacBook Air. The update installed and when I try to use the new software, to my surprise, every 2 minutes the screen was frozen.

I am using Mac since I was 18 years old and I am 50 now. I know macOS and the use of software very well.

I have created a USB macOS Mojave installer and tried clean install. To my surprise it got me nowhere. I tried recovery from Internet with no luck. I partition the hard drive to journal but with no luck again.


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Downloaded and installed the AirStream application, and when I launched it nothing happens. In Terminal the output is

$ open /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app.

This seems to be a Java stub/launcher

$ file /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub (for architecture i386):  Mach-O executable i386
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub (for architecture x86_64):    Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
Lees-MacBook-Pro:Casks hanxue$ oprn /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub

When I manually run it

$ open /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub

This is the result

/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub ; exit;
$ /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/airstream/latest/AirStream.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub ; exit;
JavaVM: Failed to load JVM: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home/bundle/Libraries/libserver.dylib
JavaVM: Failed to load JVM: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home/bundle/Libraries/libserver.dylib
JavaVM FATAL: Failed to load the jvm library.
[JavaAppLauncher Error] JNI_CreateJavaVM() failed, error: -1
logout

Java is properly installed, and I have other Java applications running without a hitch. How do I solve this error?


texts:
I have an Apple iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) with 8GB RAM and I would like to expand the memory to 16 GB. I have found the following ram on line (Newegg)and I would like to know if is it compatible and you would recommend it. I live in Bahrain:

Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) 260-Pin SODIMM Memory - CT2K8G4SFS824A


texts: Reset a 2nd-hand iPad that has "Find my iPhone" activated

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My iPad died to the point it wouldn't even boot up. So I sold it as-is for parts on eBay. Since it wouldn't boot I could not erase it before selling it.

I've now been contacted by the buyer (in Russia) who says they have gotten the iPad working but because of "Find my iPhone" being active they can't reset it.

Obviously I don't want to give the buyer my iCloud password. Is it possible for me to allow the buyer to reset the iPad by removing it from "Find my iPhone", or remotely erasing it, or some other method? How can I indicate to Apple that I'm happy for anyone to reset this device?


texts: Scripting Terminal Command with Automator

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I am trying to automate a set of terminal commands. I was given the below instructions and manually doing it works just fine, but I wanted to know if there was a way to use the Mac "Automator" on my Mac to make a script/batch so all I have to do is click on it to apply all of these no matter what computer I want to run it on. Is that possible? (see below)

If the error persists, please try running these commands at the terminal to see if that corrects the issue:

<?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>eicar</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/bin/launchctl</string>
        <string>limit</string>
        <string>maxfiles</string>
        <string>16384</string>
        <string>16384</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ServiceIPC</key>
    <false/>
 </dict>
 </plist>

Launch Terminal
Type sudo su then enter your password to log in as root
Type vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.launchd.limit.plist
When in the vi editor, press i to enter insert mode then paste the exact code content above (Cmd-V). This will force the limit to 16384 files per process and 16384 files total
Save your file and quit using Esc followed by :wq
Reboot your system, and check that it is working using the command launchctl limit


texts: List of apps for "Screen Recording" permission on Catalina is empty

texts:
After the Catalina upgrade I lost the screen sharing capabilities in all the apps that I used for screen sharing: MS Teams, Zoom, Lifesize, etc.
I'm familiar with the general procedure outlined in https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/384229/14844 and elsewhere.
However, the list of apps for "Screen Recording" permission is just completely empty. It appears as if the apps asking for such permission somehow fail to get themselves registered with macOS. I can start Zoom, hit screen sharing, hit the "Open System Preferences" button in its dialog but still see blank there. Same for the other apps.


texts: How does Time Machine restore backups from APFS volumes?

texts:
Is Time Machine aware of any of the new APFS features, e.g. sparse files, file cloning etc.? As the Time Machine volume itself is still an HFS plus volume, I would expect some difficulties in mapping these concepts to the older file system.

I'm asking because I use some of these extensively (e.g. file cloning for organising my photo library and sparse files for Docker), to the point where they would not fit onto a volume when restored as regular files.

I have done some tests with zero-copied files, and it seems that at least these seem to be represented as hard links in the Time Machine backup volume, but I wonder if they are also restored as such (which would actually break some use cases, as COW space sharing and hard links behave differently when writing to the files).

In other words:

Does Time Machine restore sparse files as such, or are the restored files non-sparse?
Does Time Machine restore cloned files (created e.g. using the finder or cp -c) as such? Or are they restored as regular duplicate files (or, potentially worse, as a single file with multiple hard links)? If so, is there a difference when only part of the file is shared, versus all blocks?


texts: System Preferences freezes when I go to "Security & Privacy"

texts:
I'm in the process of migrating from Mojave (on the internal HDD) to Catalina (on an external SSD).

Under Catalina, if I try to go to "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences, it hangs, and becomes unresponsive until I Force-Quit it.

I've seen suggestions specific to other System Preferences panes hanging, under different macOS releases, but not specific to Catalina or to "Security & Privacy."

NEW 4/28/2020

I finally found the time to try a "safe mode" boot on the Catalina side today. At least, I think it was a safe mode boot -- it didn't say anything about safe mode, the way it does for recovery mode. I held the shift key while the switchover was in progress, up to the point where it asked for my password (both load-source drives, i.e., both the internal HDD and the external SSD, are encrypted), and then held it for quite a while after giving it my password.

It asked for my password a second time, just before the desktop came up, and the secondary screen did not come up (thereby dumping a s---load of icons onto the main screen desktop).

Attempting to go to "security and privacy" in System Preferences still threw up a pinwheel mouse-pointer. While it was doing that, I tried Disk First Aid. It was then that I realized that whatever was locking up System Preferences was also eating up lots of CPU time: performance was extremely sluggish just navigating to Disk Utilities. Once Disk Utilities came up, it showed both "SanDisk SSD" and "SanDisk SSD - Data"; I ran Disk First Aid on both of them. It appears to have found nothing.

A symptom I failed to mention before, but which may be related

When shutting down on the Catalina side (and this has been happening for about as long as the System Preferences lockup, again only on the Catalina side), Firefox will refuse to shut down unless forced. In fact, as I recall, if I'm on the Catalina side, Firefox will come up without my explicitly launching it. Even if I explicitly closed it before shutting down. Could this be a piece of the puzzle?


texts: Reinstalling OS X Lion vs restoring from Time Machine backup

texts:
If the system doesn't boot up (it was due to this issue), is it better to reinstall OS X Lion, or restore from a Time Machine backup?

I do see a Time Machine backup from 3 AM last night, so if that is used to restore the machine, will it read all 600 GB from the external backup drive and copy it to the iMac's hard drive, or will it just do the selective restore, kind of like Windows 7's setting a restore point, and any rollback should be partial - i.e., it only needs to restore a few files to make the system work fine again, but is it the same as on OS X Lion's Time Machine restore?

Is restoring a better approach than reinstalling OS X?


texts: What's the terminal command to see how network shares are connected?

texts: I would like to see how certain volume shares are connected to my Mac. I'm on a Windows network and need to know if shares are connected over smb2 or cifs or afp protocol... etc... Do I need to restart my Mac each time to get an accurate reading? (cache)


texts: Does Spotlight normally index links in ~/Applications?

texts:
I have installed MacVim through homebrew, and this resulted in an alias in ~/Applications that points to /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-66/MacVim.app.

Unfortunately MacVim does not show up in Spotlight searches. Is this normal?


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Is there a docbook viewer for OS X? I don’t mean an editor, just something to view the output. I know that there is no standard format, but something that looks like formatted output rather than XML would be ideal.

There’s nothing on the App Store, and I’ve done rounds of the search engines.

I would prefer a solution without Java.

(I’m going to ask the same about an asciidoc viewer in another question).


texts: Alternative to Keynote with better typography options?

texts: What software are people using on a Mac to create nice-looking presentation slides, notably, with custom drop shadows on text?


texts:
I have a hackintosh system. Fully working one.

I have a secondary partition called "Storage". I would like to move my user folder from /Users/"Username" to "Storage"/"Username".

Afterward create a link from "Storage"/"Username" to /Users/"Username"

Is this possible? Anyone tried?

Don't wanna brake system before trying.


texts: Force quit apps on shutdown automatically

texts: When I turn off my Mac if I have iTerm or FreeChat open, my Mac stops its shutdown and tells me that I need to manually quit these apps before shut down. I was wondering if there was a way to have it quit automatically for me when I shut down. I've looked at Mac Shutdown but its more of quitting at a certain time or event.


texts: changing notification sound for different notifications

texts:
I want to change the notification sound for each event like email, FB, SMS so it plays the sound I like and differs for each one from the other, is there a way to do this?

Searching for it, led me to the fact that I can do it but I'm not sure how and there was nothing which seems the right thing to do.


texts: Can I disable window resizing from the top edge of the window in Lion?

texts:
I often move windows around on the desktop by clicking and dragging them by the title bar.  As of Lion, you can resize the window from the top, so if you put the cursor in the top portion of the title bar, the icon turns into resize arrows, when I actually want to move the window, not resize it.

Is there a way to turn this new feature off or customize it so resizing from the top is disabled?


texts: Do you have to keep Bluetooth on to scan for Bluetooth Low Energy devices?

texts:
When using advertise-only non-connectable Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy / Smart devices like heart rate monitors, do you have to keep / turn Bluetooth switch on in your iPhone / iPad?

I believe the energy drain is negligible, but the need to and explicitly turn on BT may be really frustrating for some applications.

Thanks.


texts: Make open file 'finder' larger by default

texts:
How do I make this window larger by default so whenever I 'open a file' in any program, it's not super small?
I am referring to the window size, not the text size.
I have the finder (outside of 'open a file') larger by default, I am unsure how to make this one larger.


texts: Operating System Not Found from bootable USB?

texts:
Hi I am trying to create a bootable USB for Windows 7 (I have superdrive removed).
I went the rEFIt +  Microsoft Bootable USB Tool route and keep getting
"Operating System Not Found".

I also checked the USB in Disk Utils and it shows as MBR.

USB also shows up if I press "Alt" when booting, but same "Operating system..." error.

How can I fix this?

Spent half a day already...


texts: AFP connections dropping on 10.8.5 Server

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We are experiencing a very odd problem when AFP connections to our server are dropping part way through, which often then means the client machine crashes.

AFP logs on the server show nothing, but the /var/log/system.log events below show the disconnection as it happens.

Note I have installed the 10.8.5 Combo Updater, reinstalled the Server.app from the AppStore, tried various client machines, and experienced the same problem.

There is plenty of space on both sides and the folders in question are about 40GB.

Disk Warrior on both ends has been used already, nothing interesting found.

Oddly enough connecting via SMB does not cause these problems, so it appears AFP or network related, as far as I can tell.

Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack.example.com KernelEventAgent[46]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack.example.com KernelEventAgent[46]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/INCOMING', from '//tony@ml.example.com/INCOMING', not responding
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xffffff801e112ef0
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/INCOMING prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  doing reconnect on /Volumes/INCOMING
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Volumes/INCOMING
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/INCOMING
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/INCOMING
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 10 /Volumes/INCOMING
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack.example.com KernelEventAgent[46]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Oct  7 18:28:14 sixpack kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/INCOMING

Any suggestions or ideas most appreciated!


texts: Is it generally advisable to get anti-virus software for Mac OS X?

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Is it worth to buy an anti-virus software for Mac OS X?

I heard both opinions like "it's not possible to get a virus on Mac OS X" and "Mac OS X is also vulnerable against virus... "

Which is true? What is the accepted practice, if any? Under what circumstances would anti-virus be advisable?


texts: How do I switch the font back to previous in El Capitan?

texts:
The font changed in El Capitan and, consequently, in some of my programs, the font is off of the screen or cut off. How do I change the font back to the previous font, before El Capitan?

Examples:

Eclipse Project Properties Dialog

Eclipse Find Dialog

Firefox Context Menu


texts: Turn off iPad on-screen keyboard using Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Desktop Keyboard

texts: I'm using Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Desktop Keyboard with an iPad. This works great, except I'm not able to turn off the onscreen keyboard.  I understand that there is an eject button on the Apple Bluetooth keyboard that allows turning on and off the onscreen keyboard.  Is there a key combination that I can use to do the same on the Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Desktop Keyboard?


texts: Inner/Outer (Inside/Outside) margin in Pages

texts: Is there any way to set inner/ outer margin in Pages? I'm going to print my thesis both side and as I can see in the Document tab under Document Margins there is only Left and Right margin. If it's the only setting how can I achieve it? I've got more than 60 pages in my document.


texts:
I run anything there on document or selection I get

  /bin/sh: pandoc: command not found

I installed pandoc by brew install pandoc
My pandoc's version is 1.13.2.1.

There is probably something broken in my $PATH.
Echo $PATH gives /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin.

Both my $HOME/.profile and $HOME/.bashrc have export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 only.
Doing ls -1 /bin/sh gives /bin/sh so existing.

Why does this error message come?


texts: I have a MacBook Pro that does not seem to be booting. If I were to take the hard drive and put it in another computer an select that in the BIOS, would it boot (if the hardware between the two computers are different?


texts: Can I copy a URL from Safari address bar as percent-encoded string?

texts:
What Safari currently does is quite annoying, it copies the URLs as-is, for example:

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/中國

While I understand why Safari does it (for human readability), many applications have issue dealing with UTF-8 in URL (Twitter, for example).

I prefer Chrome's behavior, where URL is copied as percent-encoded string (only the UTF-8 part, ASCII is copied as-is, this approach is likely chosen for compatibility):

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B

Can I do this in Safari without resorting to URL encoded manually?


texts: Fan of my MacBook Air is Running at High Speed and Making Noise

texts: I have this noise problem recently. Everything was good a few weeks ago.


texts: GPT looks valid. Diskutil sees empty disk

texts:
External 3 TB disk.

Stopped working after a power bump.

GPT reports as follows:

bash-3.2# gpt show /dev/disk6
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  2930266584      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  2930676224      262144
  2930938368  2929332616      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  5860270984      262151
  5860533135          32         Sec GPT table
  5860533167           1         Sec GPT header

This looks normal.

bash-3.2# diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk6
Nonexistent, unknown, or damaged partition map scheme
If you are sure this disk contains a (damaged) APM, MBR, or GPT partition map,
you can hereby try to repair it enough to be recognized as a map; another
"diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk6" might then be necessary for further repairs
Proceed? (y/N) y
Partition map repair complete; you might now want to repeat the
verifyDisk or repairDisk verbs to perform further checks and repairs

Repeating this makes no change.

DiskUtil reports as follows:

bash-3.2# diskutil list /dev/disk6 /dev/disk6    #:
TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:    *3.0 TB     disk6

I figured that it might be a bad PMBR.  From all accounts, this is just an MBR with a non-bootable partition in it.  I created an HFS disk on a USB stick, and copied the MBR (dd if=/dev/disk7 count=1 of=/dev/disk6) to the ailing disk.

I used R-Studio to scan the disk.  R-Studio finds files and directories and such.

Ran TestDisk (separate command line disk utility) It's numbers agreed with GPT's.

I then used dd to make a backup of the first 34 blocks of the disk, and used gpt to destroy and recreate the partition table.

  604  gpt destroy /dev/disk6
  605  gpt create /dev/disk6
  606  gpt show /dev/disk6
  ...
  610  gpt add -b 40 -s 409600 -i 1 -t efi /dev/disk6
  611  gpt add -b 409640 -s 2930266584 -i 2 -t hfs /dev/disk6
  612  gpt add -b 2930938368  -s 2929332616 -i 3 -t hfs /dev/disk6
  613  gpt show /dev/disk6

No joy.  I'm missing something here.


texts: Trackpad and Keyboard work on login screen, but sometimes don't after login

texts:
For some time (I'm on macOS Sierra right now, but I've got the problem at least since Yosemite), my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 acts weird. Even though keyboard/trackpad always work up until the login screen, sometimes they (always both) stop working after login. Luckily, the on/off switch still works, and a cold reboot usually solves the problem (sometimes it takes several reboots).

What causes this? If it's a "hardware" issue, how come the keyboard always works until the login screen, and how come that it only appears sometimes, and can be solved via (a sufficient number of) reboots?

P.S.: I've tried resetting the PRAM and the SMC, but that doesn't seem to help one bit.


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I would like to add a user specific host file on my Mac (El Capitan 10.11.5) to a users home directory and have this be checked in addition to /etc/hosts when resolving domain names.

I found a similar answer here. This answer was a flat no because that individual did not have superuser privileges. This is not the case for me because I do in fact have superuser privileges.

I found another answer here, but that doesn't seem to work on my machine. This answer involves setting the HOSTALIASES environment variable to ~/.hosts, but no addition to the ~/.hosts file ever had any implications in my web browser, which is the goal of me wanting to create a user specific host file.

NOTE: After reading through a bit of the man pages of bash, the correct environment variable on mac that the second answer needs is HOSTFILE. However, this still didn't affect anything. Thoughts on this?

EDIT: This is for a single user environment as MrWonderful suggested. However, I would like for the hosts setting of one user to be unaffected but another user.

Thoughts?


texts: What's the implication of deleting /usr/local/var?

texts:
On MacOS, what's the implication of deleting /usr/local/var (when it contains the following 3 folders - homebrew, run and mysql)?

Note, you can assume I don't care about anything in the mysql folder because I want to delete it. (but I want to know what would happen to the other two folders (I can imagine the homebrew folder contain homebrew related stuff but I don't know what the run folder does at all).

Also, I used ls to list the content of /usr/local/var folder before I delete it so that means I may have missed some content that can be displayed by ls -la, so if there are any other files that I may have missed, can you tell me as well?

Debugging info:

$ brew --version
Homebrew 1.6.9
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 7dac; last commit 2018-06-20)

System Version: macOS 10.13.5 (17F77)

Kernel Version: Darwin 17.6.0

I didn't do any backup and didn't use Time Machine.


texts: How could I streamline this script to find Finder items faster?

texts:
I have an Applescript script which checks if my playlist has less than 25 songs in it shorter than 11 minutes and then moves some random files from another folder to my Temp folder to make up the number.

Is there any reason the "Finder" bit of the script is so slow (it takes nearly 15 seconds to execute)? Any code workaround I could use here?

--this adds some songs if the playlist has less than 25 songs in it shorter than 11 mins
tell application "iTunes"
    set thePlaylist to playlist "Temp on iPod"
    --counts tracks less than 11 mins long
    count ((tracks of thePlaylist) whose duration is less than 665)
    set currentCount1 to result
    if currentCount1 is less than 25 then
        tell application "Finder"
            set theDestination to folder "Macintosh HD:Temp to be Listened to:temp on iPod:"
            get every file of folder "Macintosh HD:Temp to be Listened to:Temp:Short Temp (Small Files, <20mb):" whose kind is "MP3 audio"
            --this only gets the top level files
            set theMusic to result
            set myList to {}
            set theReplaceNo to (25 - currentCount1)
            repeat theReplaceNo times
                set currentFile to some item of theMusic
                copy currentFile to the end of myList
            end repeat
            --reveal every item of myList
            reveal myList
            delay 1.5
            move myList to theDestination
        end tell
    end if
end tell

Can anyone help?


texts: USB keyboard temporarily not responding after wake from sleep

texts:
I have a USB Keyboard connected to my 2012 MacBook Air running OS X 10.9.5. I use the computer in closed-lid mode and connected to a monitor. Often, but not always, when I wake the computer from sleep, I have to repeatedly tap keys on the keyboard before the keyboard starts responding. The sequence of events is as follows:

I wake the computer from sleep by pressing a key on the keyboard.
I attempt to type, and nothing happens. Not even the caps lock key on the keyboard works to illuminate the caps lock light.
I rapidly press random keys (or a single key) on the keyboard, and the keyboard begins to respond after a while.

The USB keyboard is connected with a powered USB hub between the keyboard and the computer. Using a different hub does not solve the problem. The keyboard does still show up under USB devices in System Information when it is not responding.

Is there a solution to this annoyance?

UPDATE: When the keyboard is not responding, I can make the caps lock light on the keyboard illuminate by pressing the caps lock button with the mouse in the OS X keyboard viewer. Doing so does not restore the keyboard to a responsive state though. I still have to repeatedly tap keys before the keyboard starts responding.

UPDATE: The problem remains under OS X 10.11.6.


texts: Transfer music to iPod touch with iTunes without disrupting existing music

texts:
I have a specific album on my Apple Mac in iTunes that needs to be copied to my iPod Touch. I have music on my iPod touch that was from another device (old PC), so I cannot sync the entire music library on iTunes (Apple Mac), as it does not have some of the music I have stored on my iPod, and will erase it.

If I manually select the album I need to transfer from iTunes to iPod, will that then erase everything on my iPod and replace it with the one synced album? Or will it just add the one album I need to my iPod, and leave all the other music on the iPod intact?


texts: Calendar/iOS - move event from Google Calendar leaves original

texts:
Calendar event in Google Calendar.

iOS Calendar.app

If I modify the the calendar, to either iCloud or local calendar, it does not move the calendar, it makes a copy.

The result is: two calendar entries side-by-side.

This has been happening for a while (maybe a year or two).

This doesn't happen when I use Calendar.app to move events into Google Calendar.

(NOTE: Google Calendar app in iOS does not let you change the calendar of an existing event).


texts: How to show my iCloud Calendar entries in my Android calendar app?

texts:
I know this may sound stupid, but I can't figure out how to sync my Android calendar app with my iCloud Calendar?

All I want to do is to display my business appointments (MacBook Pro; Owner) on my private phone (Honor ??; Subscriber). I don't even need to update them from my phone.

I tried to share it (Apple -> Android), but it wants me to create an Apple ID. I have a private one already, but I don't see any possibility to add it to my Android calendar apps. Neither default calendar app nor Google Calendar.

And accessing the calendar over the web browser is utterly pathetic (Ignoring the fact that Apple prevents access from "non-apple devices" anyway - in 2019).


texts: Font changes on Preview 2017 for text on photo

texts:
I can find no answers to changing the font size on a photo in Preview. It is not a PDF.
All the answers I've seen are for PDF or from years ago.
Thanks.


texts: iTunes cannot connect to Apple ID Server

texts:
This is my first post to this exchange.  Being a programmer, I'm a huge stackexchange user and always get my answer so hopefully I will have success here.  Apple support stinks.

On windows 7 64bit.

My itunes was working fine and was in mist of purchasing songs, but could not verify my credit card details at checkout and then some error occurred.  I restarted and plugged in my iphone and then itunes said it could not connect to iphone until upgrading to new itunes version.  Well, I've used the iphone/itunes version before so I knew this was BS.  Long story short, I upgraded and now it cannot connect to Apple ID Server.  I downgraded version and same thing.

What's really strange is that my iCloud connects just fine.

I went through all the checks Apple suggests...the connection, the winsock, disable firewall, system date, etc, etc...and nothing seems to fix it.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

I know I'm using windows, so don't be hate'n.  I am bootcamping on imac so I'm not all bad. lol.


texts:
I'm having trouble getting macOS Mojave to recognize a Samsung X5 external SSD.

When I plug the drive in, it lights up, but the OS doesn't seem to see it. I've plugged the drive into a Windows PC with a Thunderbolt 3 connector and Windows saw the drive fine, so it isn't a hardware issue.

Samsung has some encryption software preinstalled on the drive, so I disabled that via Windows hoping it would allow the Mac to see the drive, but no dice. I've installed the latest version of Samsung's software but that also doesn't seem to do anything.

I'm at a loss, any thoughts would be appreciated.


texts: Software Glitch iPad 2 Caused Activation Lock

texts:
I’m very new to this thread and I hope I’m in the right place for help.

I’ve got an iPad 2 WIFI only model and have an issue, some time ago whilst I was using the iPad it suddenly and out of nowhere went to an activation required screen.

I believe this to be a software issue as the iPad hasn’t gone to the very beginning of the setup process, I’ve attached 3 screenshots showing what it does.

When I turn on the iPad I can see my wallpaper I’m required to enter my PIN to unlock but after that it goes straight to an activation required screen. Unfortunately it’s been years since setting up the device and as I’ve never had need to use iCloud password as I’ve got a seperate iTunes and App Store Apple ID have forgotten it. I can’t reset the password as I’ve got two step verification setup and I can’t find the recovery key, and unfortunately when two step verification is activated Apple automatically take away elements of the account recovery process. I no longer have the option to reset the password by answering security questions, recovery email or even submit an account recovery request.

Unfortunately Apple won’t assist me without proof
of purchase and as I purchased the iPad in Oct 2013 I’ve found it impossible to get a copy of an invoice from the supplier thus no help at all from Apple.

As the iPad still has everything installed on it is there some way of extracting the password by some means.

Is data extraction or connecting the iPad to my iPhone Wirelessly to access the iPads data even possible?

I’d appreciate any assistance anyone could give me.


texts: iOS (iPhone) "Other" storage category is huge

texts: I referenced this existing question and numerous forum threads on the internet, but still have not found a solve besides restoring the iphone.  Is there any known way to decrease the "other" storage category in iOS? I am in iOS 13 w/ an iPhone 11 Pro 64GB.  My "other" category is 30 GB.  I have tried everything with no avail short of restoring the phone from scratch and starting over.  Open to ideas...


texts: iPhone 5 shutting down automatically again and again

texts:
My iPhone 5 (factory unlocked) of three years (almost) started shutting off by itself since yesterday. It is completely unusable. Most of the time now, as soon as I boot it up again and unlock it, it shuts off. Other times, it stays on for a while before I run any app (stock, third-party, settings) and it shuts off. On rare occasions if I keep it in airplane mode, it stays on. Until, it shuts down later. I suspected something related to network connectivity was triggering something that was causing the phone to turn itself off. I tested by removing the SIM card altogether, but I couldn't find any particular pattern.

I have tested with the battery at > 50% and > 80%. If it is a software issue, I am assuming an iTunes restore to 9.2 should do (it's in the process).

It's running iOS 9.2. No jail-breaks. No recent physical abuses inflicted on the phone to warrant a reaction like this.

Can anybody please share any ideas on what might be the issue here?

Update: If it is plugged directly to a power adapter, it does not shut off with or without network enabled.

Update: 9.2 restore didn't help. I also experimented by leaving the phone connected to the power adapter but with the adapter not connected to any power source. It didn't shut off all night. Since then, I have been using it without it being connected to anything. The battery has drained from 100% down to 70% so far, with network/wifi and everything enabled. It hasn't shut off. This is perplexing.


texts: Installed a new LCD screen on iPod but concerned to charge

texts:
As stated, I just installed a new ipod touch 4th generation LCD. As many youtube tutorial layout I went ahead after installing my LCD to power on the screen. However, here is my dilemma, the battery has no charge. So I am debating on charging the itouch through my laptop. But I am worried I may damage it. This is because I before when I tried installing another LCD, I went to charge it and then got the white screen of death. However, maybe it was a defective screen and it was just a false positive.

Is it ok to charge the screen after I install the L cable and center cable of the Itouch? please give answers if you are 100% certain of this because I am low on money and I can't afford to purchase another screen.

Thank you


texts: How should I migrate my iTunes library to a larger external disk while preserving metadata?

texts:
I currently have a set up where my default iTunes Library (of ~550 HD movies) resides on a 2TB external HD. I share this library and use it to serve my Apple TV/other LAN devices. The drive is close to full, so I got a 4TB External HD to migrate the Library to.

The default library path is set to /Volumes/MEDIA_2TB through iTunes Preferences, though all the .xml and .itl data still resides in ~/Music/iTunes/.

I'd like to migrate my current library contents to /Volumes/MEDIA_4TB while retaining the metadata (ratings, play count, watched/unwatched, date added, etc), as well as set Volumes/MEDIA_4TB as the new default library.

It seems that the file paths are tied to the metadata files though. If I change the default iTunes Library through iTunes and then "Consolidate Library" will this work? Is there another/better way?

Note that I don't want to create symlinks as in this Q&A: Move external iTunes library files to different location without losing metadata


texts: Does Apple accept .app jars on the Mac App Store?

texts:
I know that I can bundle a .jar into a .app using Automator and AppleScripts.

However, can this .app be submitted to the App Store?  And if it can be submitted to the App Store, will Apple accept an application of this type?  Are there any examples of apps on the App Store that are .jar converted to a .app?


texts: How to Spotlight index a folder under /private/var

texts:
I got a directory /private/var/directory that I'd like to index using Spotlight. It looks like everything under /private/var/ is excluded from indexing. I tried to import it using:

mdimport /private/var/directory

But it didn't work. I also thought it might be excluded by some kind of sandboxed environment, but I couldn't figure out if that is the case.

As a last resort I could move the directory somewhere else but I'd rather not do that as it would be a lot of work in this particular case.

How can I force Spotlight to index this directory?


texts: Keychain won't remember my SSH password when connecting to server

texts:
I routinely develop on two different servers.

One server requires my private SSH key stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa. This part of the story works fine.

The other server should not require any SSH keys, yet OSX shows me this password prompt every time I connect:

It doesn't matter whether I press OK or Cancel, because there's no public key on the server. And so obviously there's no password either.

Why won't the password dialog remember my password in the keychain? I've checked, and an SSH item shows up in my Keychain Access app, yet the prompt still appears, every time I SFTP or SSH to the server.

I'm guessing it might have to do with either a misconfigured server, or the fact that the username I connect with is the same for both servers. If you could confirm that the problem is either of these it would be helpful, thank you.


texts: How can I set up a system-wide key combination to toggle a specific System Preferences setting ("Tap to Click")?

texts:
I want to be able to toggle the "Tap to Click" setting under "Trackpad" > "Point & Click" in the System Settings app with a key combination from within any application.

I looked at "Keyboard" > "Shortcuts", but the options here look pretty limited. "App Shortcuts" seem to be the closest thing -- it appears you can bind a key to an option in pull-down menus on the top menu bar, but if there's a way to bind a key to a toggle in the System Settings app pane, it's not clear to me.

Perhaps this is something that's better done by AppleScript (or system-hooked JavaScript)? Or triggering a command-line option?


texts: My iCloud account was infected with a ransomware virus thru in a Windows Desktop

texts: Do I have to pay the ransom or there is a software I can use? The fies were encrypted and a .ooss extension was added. Thanks in advance for all your input.


texts: Messenger app not recognizing microphone on new iPhone 7 Plus

texts:
New iPhone 7 Plus. Installed Messenger. Messenger says to allow access to microphone.  Go to Settings > Messenger. No option to allow microphone.  Although there is an option to allow camera.

Microphone works in other apps.

iOS is up to date. How can I fix this?


texts: Why doesn’t the fourth generation iPod touch have a wireless window?

texts:
I was watching the keynote today and noticed that the fifth generation iPod touch has a wireless window. This was also on the 3rd and previous generations, and also on the cellular iPad.

But why doesn’t the fourth generation iPod touch have a wireless window, but fifth generation does?


texts: Can you figure out if your friend is sharing their location from their iPhone or MacBook?

texts: Can you figure if your friend is sharing their location from their iPhone or  MacBook ?


texts: Listen to my audiobooks on iphone6 that are not bought from itunes

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Total Apple noob here.

I have a macbook running yosemite 10.10.5 and an iphone six.

I have some audiobooks in mp3 format on the macbook. How can I listen to these audiobooks on the iphone?

-I plug my iphone into the macbook.....it does not show up in finder

-it does show up in itunes. I dragged and dropped the mp3s into my iphones audiobooks folder in itunes. It transfers, and when done, the audiobooks library is still empty. When I use the files app on my phone it says I still have 0 files. The audiobooks then show up in my music library, and can only be accessed from apple music app (which does not play audiobooks well).

-The audiobook files do not show up on my files system on the iphone when I try to access them with third party audio book apps.

How can I achieve this?


texts: Why is it still not possible to cut files to paste them elsewhere in Catalina?

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I find it weird that this simple functionality doesn't exist in macOS, as it does in other OS. IIRC, it used to exist in the System 7 era.
What would be the rationale to get this simple functionality out of the window (I should say Apple here, I know ;) )?


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I have created an ldap server (hosted externally with a domain name) on a ubuntu 18.04 machine with openLDAP. I configured linux machines to allow my users to connect using ldap and it works as expected (the user can log-in on the machine, and it creates a new home directory).

However on mac, I can list my users in the Directory Utility :

And I can get my user information (with his group declared in ldap)

bash$ id -p hlarget
    uid hlarget
    groups  sysadmin everyone netaccounts com.apple.sharepoint.group.1

But when I try to login as the admin user to edit my directory, I have a 2100 error. And when I try to log using ssh hlarget@localhost, or even in session manager, I cannot :

    failed CRAM-MD5 authentication for authzid - 'dn:cn=hlarget+o=example+ou=users,ou=users,dc=example,dc=com' authcid - 'hlarget' error 49

I'm pretty sure it's an encryption error (I use ssha encryption for my UserPassword). How can i figure out what the problem is? And how to fix it?


texts: Can I configure a task to run while my MacBook lid is closed?

texts: Can I use pmset or a utility like Power Manager to have a task (such as an arbitrary script or backup) run at a specific time while my Mavericks MacBook Pro's lid is closed? Are there perhaps pmset settings I need to change to make such a thing work?


texts: Change Snow Leopard Login Wallpaper w/ Terminal

texts:
I know this is possible as I did it once before.

How do you set the login background wallpaper to something else using terminal?


texts: Accessing Apple Mail's mailboxes remotely, maybe over SSH?

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Because of the way my work email is set up, I currently have my Mac (at home, running Mavericks) fetching my email via POP from my work's email server. I've been able to access my email over SSH manually, going into the .mbox folders and looking at emails and attachments manually.

Is there a program I can use to access these emails in a more friendly format? (I'm not a fan of scrolling through pages of .jpeg binary blobs to get to an email.)

An additional challenge is that I'm not always going to be able to access from a mac, so I can't just mount the directory and start working with the .mbox directories that way


texts: How to list the Mail directory from the Terminal?

texts:
Is there a way to change the file or directory permissions so that I can list the contents of the Mail directory from the Terminal command-line in macOS 10.15.4?

When trying to list the contents, I currently get this error.

$ cd ~/Library/Mail
$ ls -l
ls: .: Operation not permitted

The Mail app works without issues.  I can see the contents of the Mail folder in the Finder by using the Option key.  On earlier macOS versions, I could list the contents from the Terminal without issues.  But not any more after migrating to a new MacBook Pro running 10.15.4.  What changed?


texts: Disk Utility Error "Storage system verify or repair failed"

texts:
Installed Lion on a brand new HDD. Boots fine, but when I run Disk Utility on the Media, it reports

Verifying partition map for “WDC WD10JPVT-16A1YT0 Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
Checking storage system
Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Error: Storage system verify or repair failed.

The "Error" statement was in red. Running the Disk Utility on the Lion partition in the same HDD reports no error.

Questions:

Is this because I've enabled File Vault on the HDD?
Should I be worried about the error reported by Disk Utility?


texts:
I have an old MacBook 1.1 and since I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 it does not seem to connect to my external Monitor or TV. I'm using the Mini-DVI to VGA adapter. I've tried using detect displays and made sure the monitor is outputting through VGA.

The strange thing is I have my MacBook set up to dual boot into Ubuntu and I can use the external monitor when in Ubuntu. It seems to be software issue on the Mac OS X side.

Can anyone suggest any troubleshooting steps?


texts: How can I troubleshoot sharing problems from outside the LAN?

texts: I'm trying to connect with a server that is not on the same network as my mac, when I enter the ip address the connection doesn't go through. The ip is correct, the server is on, and remote access & login are allowed; I even tried sending the login name i.e afp://ipaddres/shortname. Is there something I am not doing or doing wrong?


texts: How can I trick an app into thinking my processor is more advanced than it really is?

texts:
So the reason behind this is because I need to start using Zoom. Using the virtual background tool, users with powerful enough processors can upload photos and videos to be displayed behind them. The only issue is that my laptop isn't powerful enough to be able to support a video virtual background.

Of course, this isn't a real issue, but it would be nice if I could have a short video of the BBC dad looping in the background. So if anyone has any way to trick the zoom.us app into thinking I have a powerful enough processor, that would be great. (The necessary processor is a 6th gen i7 intel processor or later; I have a 5th gen i7 intel processor.)


texts: How can I quickly play the selected song in iTunes, without playing the rest of the album?

texts:
When no music is playing and when a song in album view is selected, how can I quickly play this song, but only this song, and not the following songs in the album?

I found out you could use Up Next via the context menu (right click), but that takes two mouse clicks and after that you manually need to press play to start playing. Is there a faster way to do this (preferably using a shortcut)?


texts: Is there a way to update a Mac to High Sierra or Mojave if OEM SSD is unavailable?

texts:
I have a late 2013 Mac Pro that had been running Sierra before its internal SSD died. I'd like to replace the internal drive, but OWC's site indicates the following:

"macOS 10.13 and later versions include an EFI (firmware) update that adds support for the Aura Pro X to the host computer. If you do not first update the host firmware by installing macOS 10.13 or later onto the existing SSD, the Aura Pro X will not function properly once installed."

Is there a way to get the Mac's EFI updated using an external drive so it will be able to make use of the replacement internal drive?

Internet recovery allowed me to do a fresh Mavericks install on the machine, and I'm currently updating it to El Capitan, from which I'll hopefully be able to get Sierra running, but I'm expecting that High Sierra will give me trouble on the external drive.

Any recommendations?
Thanks!


texts: Using The Terminal Command to Shutdown, Restart and Sleep My Mac?

texts:
I'm getting more interested in using Terminal as an alternative way to address solutions on my Mac. I have seen this question entitled "Is there a better way to shutdown/restart OSX?".

I would therefore like to know:

How to shut down, restart and sleep my Mac using the Terminal command exclusively ?


texts: Is blessing the Ubuntu partition reversible in OS X?

texts:
I'm considering using Ubuntu as a main OS. So far, I've been using it in a dual boot setup with OS X. The dual boot worked by holding the ⌥ alt key upon boot (not rEFIt).

Blessing the Ubuntu Partition will speed up the boot process. Apparently, all I have to do is this:

sudo bless –device /dev/disk0s3 –setboot –legacy –verbose

I will do this using the Terminal with the Recovery USB for Lion.
I do not yet understand in detail what the command does. Also, I do not know how to reverse it.

You can see my partition layout here:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk0
   1:       Microsoft Basic Data EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            92.7 GB    disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         10.5 GB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         15.7 GB    disk0s4
   5:                 Linux Swap                         4.2 GB     disk0s5
   6:                  Apple_HFS FREEDOM                 4.2 GB     disk0s7


texts:
I have a new iPad Air (4th gen), and a Lumix GX9 digital camera. The first time I plugged the camera into the iPad using a USB C to USB Micro B cable, they immediately connected and I was able to transfer RAW photos to Lightroom. Ever since, every time I plug the camera into the iPad, it begins charging but nothing ever actually connects.

If I connect the two while the iPad is locked, I get an "Unlock iPad to use accessories" message, but nothing happens when I unlock it.
If I plug the camera into my Mac Pro, it connects immediately and is mounted as a regular volume.
If I plug the iPad into the Mac Pro, nothing obvious happens, but I do see it detected and listed as a USB device in System Report.
I have tried multiple USB C to Micro B cables, all with the same result. - I have reformatted the memory card in the camera and reset settings there.

Is there some other trick to getting iPadOS to connect to USB devices?

After more experimentation with a standard USB-C card reader, a second Lumix camera (DC-G9), and a variety of cards, I have some more data points:

All cards (32 and 64gb, UHS-I and UHS-II) and formats (ExFAT and FAT32) work fine with a card reader connected to the iPad.
All cards and formats work fine connected to a Mac running macOS 11 or a PC running Windows 10, either in a card reader or in the cameras.
The iPad will only connect to the cameras with a 32gb card factory-formatted FAT32. The same card reformatted does not work in camera (but works via a card  reader or PC, as above).


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A couple months ago I took a trip out of town, so I set FaceTime on my Mac to auto-answer calls from a specific email address of mine.  I followed these directions:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/17/automatically-accept-facetime-calls-mac/

It worked like a charm, but now that I'm back I want to disable this ability, and can't!  I've tried to use:

defaults delete com.apple.FaceTime AutoAcceptInvitesFrom

And though it reports to have done its job:

There is no (AutoAcceptInvitesFrom) default for the (com.apple.FaceTime) domain.
Defaults have not been changed.

Facetime is now actually auto-answering ANY incoming calls.  Not even just those from the email address I originally specified.

Obviously this is not a great thing as I'm getting facetime calls out of the blue while in the middle of a conference call with a client, talking to my family members, etc.

How on earth can I truly disable facetime from auto-answering any calls, ever?

UPDATE:  April 14 2014.  This is still happening in Mavericks when I turn Facetime back on.  I would really like to be able to use FT now that there are audio calls, but I can't have it auto-answering all incoming calls all the time.

How on earth can I disable this?  I again tried

defaults delete com.apple.FaceTime AutoAcceptInvitesFrom

But got

Domain (com.apple.FaceTime) not found.

in response.

UPDATE 2:  It gets weirder.  on a lark I decided to try this again too:

defaults write com.apple.FaceTime AutoAcceptInvites -bool false

And this time around, IT WORKED!  Sortof.  My iMac now no longer auto answers calls.  However this same command does absolutely nothing on my MacBook Pro, which is still auto answering every call.

So I'm halfway to a solution... anyone have any idea what's going on with the MBP?


texts:
Is there any utility or script that integrates with iTunes and helps me organize my libraries by doing lookups on large databases such as Amazon?

For example:

downloading track names from Amazon
downloading CD covers from Amazon
downloading book categories from Amazon (this one especially would be useful)

Or in general, at least a "look it up on Amazon" script would be great.


texts: Running Mavericks. Need to return to Snow Leopard

texts:
I am running Mavericks 10.9 on my imac.
It does not have the same ability of
slideshows with music in Garageband
as I had in Snow Leopard 10.6.
Is there any way I can return to Snow Leopard?


texts: how can I protect the private data on my Iphone?

texts:
what is the best way to secure data on my iphone?

In my opinion I have to protect myself against the following risks:

theft
fault and phone must be returned

I fear for the following data

Logins to email, dorpbox, calender, ...
mails, photos, chat history, ...

The phone is allways locked, but with hardware access it might be possible to read the data...


texts: How to import Apple Mail archive files in Outlook 2013?

texts:
I need to import Apple Mail archived files in Outlook 2013 on Windows, but every time I open the import wizard and reach the file selection step, I cannot select the archived file. It doesn't even show in the dialog box.

I don't know what the issue is. Is it the file size issue as the archive file is large (about 7 GB) or there is any other fault?


texts: 2011 MacBook wakes immediately on sleeping, even after change of HD and OS

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I have a 2011 MacBook Pro. About six months ago it developed a sleep problem - it wakes immediately on sleeping. Occasionally when recently rebooted it will sleep as it ought, but usually not. On each waking, the log says this:

localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) Wake reason: ?

Not helpful!

I've done all the obvious things (network, bluetooth, USB) and tried to reset PRAM and SMC, though the latter doesn't seem actually to reset.

More info which might be relevant - occasionally when the Mac is powered off and I plug in the charger, it boots.

Last week the original HD failed and I had a SSD installed. I also upgraded the OS from Snow Leopard to Sierra. The fault has persisted through both these changes. This leads me to wonder if this is a hardware issue.

Only other info about the machine is that it suffered the degrading-solder problem common to 2011 MacBooks. Since it happened before the Apple Repair scheme kicked in, I had it resoldered by a third-party.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: Further to this: a few things I've found: a process called 'hidd' is listed as Preventing Sleep in the Activity Monitor. Its parent is called 'launchd (1)'. And

pmset -g assertions

gives the following:

Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

And finally - when I put the computer to sleep, it very briefly sleeps (1s or so), but then HD starts up again. The sleep light goes off, and does not wink or re-light, but the display stays off. To 'wake' it again takes 10-15 seconds.


texts: Can I playback Voice Memos recordings using a different app?

texts: I often record meetings that can run 2 hours long. When I play them back, it is very hard to drag that tiny little slider to navigate to the point at which I left off. Often, I will tap the wrong thing and the Voice Memo returns to the beginning point. Both of these scenarios are very frustrating. It would be nice to play recordings back on an app that will Pause and stick even if you close the app. And it would be great to be able to have a more precise slider to navigate within a long recording.


texts: Apple Pages insert equation greyed out after 8.1 update

texts:
I've been using Pages' insert equation functionality to insert LaTeX equations for a long time now. However, recently after the new update I am unable to do so as the option is greyed out.

I tried copy-pasting an equation from one of my older files just to see if I can edit it. And I can!

Not sure why I cannot insert new equations though. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks


texts: How to rebind Go Back and Go Forward in Preview on Lion?

texts:
It seems that in Lion, standard shortcuts were added for the Go menu items Back and Forward. The shortcuts (⌘+[ and ⌘+]) are unusable on Finnish keyboard, and I'd like to rebind them. By unusable I mean that e.g. [ is produced with Alt+8 on a Finnish keyboard, and pressing ⌘+Alt+8 does not do anything in Preview.

I have added Forward and Back shortcuts for Preview.app under System Preferences, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Application Shortcuts, but Preview only shows the default shortcuts. In Snow Leopard I was able to (re?)bind the actions this way, but it seems that this doesn't work in Lion.

What to do? Navigating huge PDF files without back/forward is painful.


texts: Ipad Air iOS 8.4 Restrictions passcode forgotten

texts:
How do i recover/reset/remove restictions passcode on iOS 8.4 ?
I have already tried :
SBParentalControlsFailedAttempts
X
SBParentalControlsPIN
1234.

No result obtained .
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.


texts: Error when downloading Window support software under Boot Camp

texts:
Currently, I have already upgraded to Mac OS X Lion.

But an error occurred(Progress to the last 99%) that when I trying to downloading Windows support software via Boot Camp 4.0.

It says "Can't install Windows Support Software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server".

How can I do ? thanks


texts: How to fix keyboard layout bug in Sierra?

texts:
Yesterday i had updated El Capitan to macOS Sierra on my Macbook Air 2015. But i had found a bug with changing keyboard layout. I have two keyboard layouts: US and Russian.

When i'm pressing CMD + Space shortcut, it is visually changing of keyboard layout, but actually sometimes keyboard layout is not changing, while not press ALT or CTRL or FN or SHIFT button, for example. How to fix that?


texts: How to disable "look up" context menu in Google Chrome OSX 10.10+?

texts:
This is a distinct question from Is the "Lookup in Dictionary" context menu option hardcoded in Google Chrome for Mac?

I want to get rid of the "Look Up x" contextual menu in Chrome:

How can it be done?


texts: Terminal deleting additional letters, submitting different typed in letters and returning different previous commands

texts:
I'm trying to use my terminal to play around with some code (particle.io), I've never used it much before but it's acting in strange way that's making it near impossible to use, there's three things I've noticed:

Firstly, if I go back to a previous command (by pressing up) it's changed slightly.

For example here it's removed a '"' from the 147.

Then if I key backwards and try to change this param or anything in the text when I delete and retype words it removes letters from both sides of the cursor.
Finally when I hit submit some slightly different is submitted, for example in that picture I tried typing hundred, then it got modified and then changed again on submit.

I was wondering if anyone knew what on earth is going on with my terminal, I'm up-to-date on the latest El Capitan.

Thanks!

Edit:

echo $SHELL gives /bin/bash


texts: Does Time Machine reserve additional disk space?

texts:
I have a 1.25TB partition that I use for Time Machine backups. When I am in the system preferences for Time Machine on my Mac, it states there's 525GB of 1.25TB available. But when I browse to the partition, there's only two sparse disk image bundles present (one for my wife's laptop and one for mine), and the total size between the two of them is only 83GB. So why does Time Machine think there's already almost 750GB of disk space already being used? Does the Time Machine partition reserve space for future use and adjust the report of available disk space accordingly?

edit

Here's the (relevant) output from df:

Filesystem                                         Size   Used   Avail    Capacity   iused     ifree       %iused  Mounted on
...
//foobar@Extreme._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TIMACHINE  1.1Ti  764Gi  401Gi    66%        200229312 105076638   66%     /Volumes/TIMACHINE-1


texts: Can anyone suggest strategies for coping with a 200MB/day Internet quota?

texts:
I have a satellite Internet connection (because I have no other choice, that's why :-) which has a quota of 200 MB per day (that is not a typo).

As you can imagine, we can very easily go through that quota and end up severely throttled for the next 24 hours (starting when the quota is exceeded, even if the quota was only minutes from 'rolling over').

I am trying to figure out ways to minimize usage.

My first thought was to use something like GlimmerBlocker on the iMac (which is our media server, so it is already on 24/7), and point all of the other devices to use it as the proxy.

But I am looking for other ideas as well. I do not know of many applications out there which might be of use for this.

Technical details of the network and devices

Our household has 3 Macs (iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook) and 3 iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch [current gen]).

All of the devices except the iMac connect to the network via Wi-Fi.

(There is no 3G coverage, so the iPhone or iPad must use the Wi-Fi network.)

The network is served by an AirPort Extreme 802.11n (3rd generation) which operates in 'bridge mode' connected to the satellite modem (because the modem has to be the router and DHCP server and I cannot access those controls at all).

What are my options?

I have already 'trained' myself and my family members to avoid downloading audio or video files, but even with simple web surfing it is easy to exceed 200 MB per day. A local proxy/filter like GlimmerBlocker can block ads and other cruft we can't afford to download, but that's all I can think of.

Most of the "bandwidth monitoring" apps out there will not help because they do not differentiate between local (LAN) traffic and Internet traffic.

Can anyone think of other solutions to help minimize the pain of this daily quota?


texts: Constant Bluetooth Connection Request Prompts Between Two Macs

texts:
I recently got a 16" MacBook Pro. My wife has a 2019 15" MacBook Pro. They're both running 10.15.1 (Software Update says both Macs are "up to date").

Ever since I got the 16" MBP both MBPs are constantly trying to connect to each other via Bluetooth:

If I ignore the prompt it goes away after two seconds. If I click check "Ignore this device" and click "Cancel" the prompt comes back after two seconds. If I click "Connect" nothing happens on either MBP and the prompt keeps appearing every few seconds.

On my wife's 15" MBP System Preferences > Bluetooth list I clicked the "X" icon next to my 16" MBP's name. After doing this a different Bluetooth device name appears in her Bluetooth list after each prompt on my MBP.

The only way I've discovered to prevent this is to turn off Bluetooth on my 16" MBP.

Any ideas on how to stop these constant Bluetooth Connection Request prompts?


texts: Safari 9.0.3 requires login for every new tab

texts:
Safari 9.0.3 on OS X El Capitan 10.11.3

Issues

I launch Safari > Login to Gmail,ebay or any other site > Login Successful
Open New Tab and if i go to gmail or ebay or the site that i had open in the first tab, it wants me to login again, so login session seems limited to just the original tab
I close Safari launch same website again and it wants me to login again

Above issue is not happening in FireFox or Chrome, in those browser, my gmail session stays persistent b/w browser and even OS restarts


texts: How can I monitor the users that are connected to my ad hoc wifi network?

texts:
I'd just like to see who is connecting to my computers Access Point wifi.

I'm sharing Internet from Ethernet to wifi with a password, etc.


texts: What are the benefits of iPhone jailbreak?

texts:
Some days ago I read a news that said iPhone Jailbreak is legal. So I get 2 question in my mine.

before this news jailbreaking was illegal?(if yes why? "because when we buy something we can do anything we want with that product )(and if no then what was this news for?)
what is the benefits of jailbreaking? (are all iPhone applications was reachable through iTunes app store?)


texts: How can I use ssh -X on macOS Catalina? [Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated]

texts:
How do I get ssh -X working on macOS Catalina (10.15)?
ssh -X linux_host works from another linux machine.
On a fresh install of macOS Catalina, I have installed MacPorts and xorg_server. However, ssh -X linux_host gives the following error message:
Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated

In attempt to get this working, I changed my ~/.ssh/config file to
Protocol 2
Host *
    ForwardAgent yes
    ForwardX11 yes
    XAuthLocation /opt/local/bin/xauth

however this seems to make no difference.
Please note that ssh -Y works but is less secure than ssh -X.


texts: 2007 Imac with 10.5.8 Leopard with mini-DVI port to HDTV not working

texts:
I'm trying to hook up my IMAC mini-DVI port to my Samsung HDTV.  I have a (mini-DVI port to HDMI) adaptor plugged into a 15' HDMI cable.  This plugs into the TV's (DVI/HDMI) port.

I also have a 15' audio cable plugged into the MAC's headphone port then to the TV's (PC/DVI) audio port.  Nothing works, video or sound.  TV says no signals detected.  MAC doesn't know it's connected. Does anyone have the slightest idea as to what the problem is? Do I somehow have to activate the mini-DVI port?


texts: Will iphone 5s convert text emoticons in SMS? Text emoticon for Rose emoji

texts:
I don't have iphone myself and that is why I ask this question. Also I don't have a smartphone and don't think that my cellphone is able to send Unicode SMS.

I would like to know whether iphone 5s automatically converts text emoticons to emoji pictures in SMS. If it does, then what text emoticon will be converted to "Rose emoji" (http://emojipedia.org/rose/).

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons)
lists several strings for Rose:

@};-
@}->--
@}‑;‑'‑‑‑
@>‑‑>‑‑

Will one of this strings be converted to "Rose emoji" if sent via SMS to Iphone 5s?

Thank you.


texts:
How much MBs take an average iPhone SE Photo? I want to compare it with iPhone 5 file size.

The max storage for iPhone 5 was 64 GB, for iPhone SE its 128 GB. If the average file size are double as large as for iPhone 5 than it mean near the same amount of photos can be stored.


texts: iOS can’t add some widgets to home screen

texts:
I have downloaded iOS 14 and really like the new widgets, but I can’t add some widgets to my home screen. For example, Nord VPN is has a widget to quickly connect/disconnect to the VPN. I can add this widget to the view to the left of the first home screen(screenshot below).
I cannot figure out how to add this widget to my home screen.
I can add the default iOS apps like weather and calendar to my home screen just fine.
(Also the Pacer app also has this same issue.)


texts: How to share geolocation tags in photo streams?

texts:
I have made over 3000 pictures during my last trip, mostly with the iPhone.

I then shared them as a photo album in iCloud with my family, but neither of us can figure out how to enable geolocation data. It obviously would be quite handy to know which picture is taken where, and display the map like photos can for unshared pictures.

How is that done?


texts: MacBook Pro 2015 install app on external drive including a cloud storage drive

texts:
I would like to install MS Office 2016 on my MacBook Pro but there's not enough space. I thought of installing it on an external USB drive. However, I got an error message that "Microsoft Office 2016 can't be installed on this disk. OS X isn't installed.", and hence I couldn't install it.
Is there anyhow to overcome this situation?
I have one more question which is, is it possible to consider a cloud storage drive like Google Drive as a kind of USB and install an app on it?


texts: How to create several partitions on an external hard, recognizable by both windows and mac?

texts:
I have an external hard drive, which already has a bootable partition for a Snow Leopard installation disk, and a bootable partition for Mavericks, both created with Mac OS X and working fine in Windows and Mac.

I want to create one NTFS partition and one FAT32 partition on this external hard as well but cannot.

If I create it in GUID, for the sum of sizes of FAT32 and NTFS partition I get one unallocated partition in Windows. If I do it in Windows, it shows on the Mac but the content are not there.

Inspecting the hard in a partitioning tool in Windows shows that there is a 200MB hidden partition on the hard drive as well (type: primary), so I guess the problem is with the maximum 4 primary partitions limitation of MBR.

Any suggestions?


texts: shmmax and shmall values in /etc/sysctl.conf are not loaded on reboot

texts:
I'm running OSX 10.8.4 and I would like to add a factor of 10 to the default shmmax and shmall values. My /etc/sysctl.conf contains the following settings:

kern.sysv.shmmax=41943040
kern.sysv.shmmin=1
kern.sysv.shmmni=32
kern.sysv.shmseg=8
kern.sysv.shmall=10240

However when I reboot and run sysctl -a | grep kern.sysv.shm I see that the values are not being set:

kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304
kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
kern.sysv.shmall: 1024

It seems the only way to be sure these are set is to run sysctl like so:

sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=10240
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=41943040

However I would like to automatically set these values on reboot if possible.

Am I missing some configuration step?

Also - Not sure if this matters, but I have installed postgres via homebrew.


texts: Decrease font size of all Menu Items in El Capitan

texts: I have a 27" external monitor. The 1080p fonts are oversized: I know how to decrease them in individual apps - but what about the OS/X top menu bar? Note: i have already chosen the highest available display resolutions - nothing more to do in that sector.


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Objective is to determine the last password change time for all the user accounts in macOS (Catalina).

sudo dscl . -read Users/swastibhushandeb accountPolicyData

Output:

<dict>
    <key>creationTime</key>
    <real>1570887333.512722</real>
    <key>failedLoginCount</key>
    <integer>0</integer>
    <key>failedLoginTimestamp</key>
    <integer>0</integer>
    <key>passwordLastSetTime</key>
    <real>1570887334.500102</real>
</dict>
</plist>

date -r can be used to convert the epoch time stamps to human readable format as:

date -r 1570887334

How can the above be wrapped in a  bash script/one liner code?Thanks in advance.


texts: XCode Server not sending email notifications to committers whether the build has passed or not

texts:
I have set a bot with post integration "Periodic Email report" but no reports are arriving at specified email address. I have the following set-up on my local macbook pro. I also have the macOS Server 5.4 running locally

please note that my command line "mail" command is sending mail fine - it is only that Bot's Post Integration step from which no emails are arriving  , please let me know how to troubleshoot and if there are any logs ?


texts: renaming hdpim.db on my macbook Pro to update PS

texts: Trying to update Adobe PS but get the error message 105. I have tried renaming hdpim.db to old_hdpim.db.  any ideas please.


texts: How to uninstall Java 1.8 under OS X 10.10 Yosemite?

texts:
There are a few answers on old questions about the same issue under Lion / Mountain Lion. Now with Java 1.8 and OS X 10.10 I wonder if anything has changed? Would be great to have exact removal steps.

It really is asked too much, for Oracle to provide a proper uninstaller?


texts: Where to does macOS's iTunes save iPhone's back data?

texts:
I have done a backup of data from my iPhone to my macOS.

And I don't know where iTunes saved it to on my computer. No notification, no pop ups, just nothing. Just latest backup time. How can I know where my data is on my computer?


texts: Wireless Magic Keyboard with windows PC not connected after restarting Windows

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After restring windows the connected keyboard does not work on my PC (Dell Laptop).

I have installed the bootcamp driver. What could be the cause of this? On my Mac with bootcamp I do not have the issue (same type of keyboard).

How does it work with Bootcamp but not with a Windows PC? What part is apple installing that we are missing on a PC if we install the Bootcamp drivers?


texts: Is a 16-day Apple Beta Review time normal?

texts:
I've submitted an iOS beta Testflight build for external testing on Jan 9th and it went into review that same day and has not changed status since. Normally it's only a few days as our previous beta took 2 days and it was a few days before. However, it's been over 2 weeks and counting so far.

I submitted an expedited beta review on the 21st (3 days ago) out of desperation to get our latest beta to our customers to test and it's like our app has been put into a void and forgotten about.

There is no way to contact our review team, so I'm not sure what's going on or if its some kind of fall back from the "holiday rush". Has anyone else been experiencing these long app beta review times? AppReviewTimes.com is reporting an impressive 2 days for full app reviews.


texts: Download large file to selected location

texts:
I was given the http://some_url/file.rar address of a very large file (8 GB). I want to download it directly to my external HDD. I haven't found any way to do this other than opening a terminal and typing these commands:

cd /Volumes/ExternalDisk
curl http://some_url/file.rar > file.rar

So the good old Unix solved my problem. But is it possible that OS X hasn't got such a capability?

I know I can type the URL in Safari and then option-click, but I need to change the default download directory. Similar approach with Firefox.

Another possibility I found is to create an Automator script made of two steps:

select URL
download to...

It works, but is not a built-in solution as requires the user make the script and package it in an app.

Is there a better a more Mac-style way to do this (without using external applications)? To see such a feature in the Finder would be nice.


texts: Unnecessary option when decrypting HDD before booting

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I've just performed a clean install of OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 on my new hard drive. Before installing i formatted the disk as an encrypted drive. When i start up my machine now i get to select between my account and button showing a question mark stating update required before the actual booting starts. I assume this is for decrypting the drive. When selecting my personal account the machine boots right into the operating system without a detour. When selecting the question mark i get prompted to select my personal account after the process of booting is finished.

I am certain that this unnecessary second option is due to the encryption of the hard drive as it first showed after restarting during the installation process when no user account had yet been created. However i have no idea how to get rid of it. Help therefore is appreciated.


texts: How to change keyboard layout to specific language with hotkey in macOS?

texts:
How can I change my keyboard layout to English with Caps Lock and change layout to Russian with Shift+Caps Lock?

An old version of Punto Switcher could do this on Windows.


texts: Why is Firefox randomly reopening itself after quitting?

texts:
I've had a strange problem that's been bugging me for awhile.  It seems that every couple times I quit Firefox, it will reopen itself automatically.  Basically:

I'll hit cmdq
Firefox will shut down
the little 'open' light underneath its icon in the dock will disappear
suddenly the FF icon will start bouncing and it will open back up

Usually when this happens, my previous session will appear to be loading but all the tabs will stay blank.  However, this is not always the case, sometimes my tabs will load.  Another thing I just noticed is that after it reopens, Firefox is 'hidden' (like when you click 'Hide Firefox' from the main menu) until I click on it.

If I quit FF a second time, it stays closed.  The next time I open FF, my original session will be restored and everything works normally.

This has happened on two different Macs for me, and my wife has occasionally seen this behavior as well.  Any ideas on what might be happening, and has anyone else had this happen?


texts: Short-circuit power outlet with two macbook chargers and one cable

texts: So if I connect the two converters for a MacBook (with a USB-c cable between) to two power outlets. What will happen? See the picture.


texts: Writing to plist file multiple preferences same time

texts:
I need to write about 50 preferences to a .plist file. Is there any way to write just once to plist file? My current code has 50 defaults write lines.

do shell script "defaults write testing.testing mypref " & "Kjlk"
do shell script "defaults write testing.testing otherpref " & "something"
do shell script "defaults write testing.testing thirdpref " & "whateva"
...