texts: It wakes up the Mac to Leave an Android device connected via USB and Android Studio running

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It does not on Windows, but on OS X, it wakes up the computer from sleep. If Android Studio is not running it does not wake up.

Steps to reproduce

Connect an Android device (I used a Nexus 7 2013).
Run Android Studio
Click the Apple icon in the status bar, and then click "Sleep".

The computer wakes up automatically a few seconds later. The only walkaround is disconnecting the device or quitting Android Studio. Is there any better solution to this?


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This is an unusual problem.

It had been two weeks since I had been on Catalina when something strange started happening. I will get to the strange bit at the end but the main problem is as follows.

Main Issue

My wifi would automatically disconnect, then periodically reattempt reconnection. As it would keep trying to reconnect the UI would being lagging. Eventually the computer becomes unusable. The UI literally freezes, barely responding at all.

Lagging symptoms

Massive Delay when moving the mouse pointer, feels like I'm dragging a heavy object.
Force Touch trackpad clicks are out of sync, and there is delay in the haptic feedback.
General Slowlness and beachballs galore when trying to do anything, even shutdown.

Other issues

The more you try to reconnect the more the UI lags
The wifi pane in Network settings stops responding and the text on the  buttons turns into this:

from <Localizeable.string> (something similar)

What Have I tried to do so far?

I have turned off ipv6 via

networksetup -setv6off WiFi

Have tried deleting the configuration files in

/System/Library/LaunchAgents/

Repeatedly zapping SMC NVRAM
Resetting to Factory OS (Yosemite). Although this stage is difficult as the recovery keeps giving me the error -2002F. But after repeated attempts I can get it to download and do the reformat.
Downgrading to Mojave (I'm Currently on Mojave) but the issue is still present.
Changing WiFi Bands etc

OTHER INFO
Strangely this lag also happens sometimes within recovery. Like recovery has a wifi connection and once in a while the recovery would also struggle to get the connection and cause the mouse pointer/UI to lag.
Preceding this problem I had tried to change the computers preferred DNS service to Cloudflare or smoother I don't remember but the problem started right after that. could be related I don't know

STRANGE PART

The strangest part in all this is that this problem somewhat reduces in frequency if I move to another room in the house, my office in my house is right next to a big building with lots of homes and routers. This building also has a mobile tower on top of it.

How can moving to another location cause my laptop to not freeze so much.

SYSTEM SPECS

LAPTOP: MBPr 13 inch early 2015 Base Model

  Boot ROM Version: 189.0.0.0.0
  SMC Version (system): 2.28f7
  Serial Number (system):   C02Q4DR0FVH3

PHONE : iphone6s


texts: On Yosemite, how can I audit the safety of an executable?

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I would like to audit an executable binary from an untrusted source, and ultimately maintain whether it is safe to run it.
My main interest is to establish, in a safe fashion, whether said binary tries to manipulate system resources, do some sort of privilege escalation or modify anything else which might compromise integrity or safety of the system.

I have looked into sandbox-exec but could not find any current documentation on the available options.

What is a good and reliable method of establishing that an executable is safe?
Is sandbox-exec the right tool?
Is there a place which offers up to date and comprehensive documentation on OSX sandboxing?
What could be alternative strategies?


texts: How to identify if my Mac is running slow or is just over the hill?

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I have a 3 year old 15" 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP that I upgraded to 4 GB of RAM about a year ago.

Before I made the switch to Apple I used to feel the need to upgrade my Windows based laptops every 3 years, that's about when they started to feel sluggish.  After paying double what I would pay for a Windows machine, I'd hoped I might be able to squeeze a bit more life out of my Mac, maybe 4 years.  But it's coming up to its 3rd birthday and it's starting to feel a little sluggish at times.  In fairness, it is mainly when using apps like iPhone 11 and Final Cut Pro X.

I replaced the 250GB drive in it with a 500 GB 7200 RPM hard drive about 18 months ago, so I sometimes wonder if that could have introduced a problem that might be causing it to run slow.

So my question is: is there a way to test the HD, RAM or other things to see if there's a problem with my setup that could be easily fixed, or am I just expecting to much of my machine?

Anthony


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Now that iOS 11 supports HEIC images as first-class citizens, I'm wondering if there's any way to convert existing JPEG images from the camera to the new format?

My wife's iPhone 6 is stuffed to the gills, and the vast majority of it is photos. Upgrading them in-place would save many gigs.


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I set up my LAN about a year ago and have had no problems with it previously.  I use Viasat for a satellite connection.  (Cable won't service this place.)  The connection comes in from the dish and connects to the Viasat router.  From there, it goes to a Soekris dox running an older version of pfSense.  This box has been running stably for this past year.  (And, yes, I'll be updating it soon.)  On the LAN side of this firewall is the house LAN, with a DISH TV Hopper and Joey, two MacMinis and two iMacs.  (Maybe a printer or two as well.)

Tonight we came home and the clock on the stove and microwave were blinking 12:00 and the computers were off.  Power failure.  We have a standby generator that is tested weekly, but we don't know if power was off long enough for the generator to kick on or not.  We just know we got home and could tell there had been a power failure.

So we set the clocks, make sure the DISH Hopper is working (and it's recording a program and doing fine).  Then my wife boots her iMac.  It connects to the internet without problem.  I boot one MacMini before I go upstairs, then I boot my iMac.

My wife's iMac connects to the internet.  My Mac Mini connects.  The DISH Hopper connects.  They have no problem reaching anything they need to.  When I turn on wifi for my iPad and go through the LAN wifi, I can connect to the internet without trouble.  (The iPad goes through an Airport Time Capsule hub, then through the firewall, then through the Viasat router.  In fact, everything in the house goes through the firewall, then the Viasat router.)

So I've tested everything in the house and it all connects to the internet without a problem.  (And, other than the iPad, they all connect, through hardwired ethernet cables, to a switch that has a hardwired connection to the firewall, which has a wired connection to the Viasat router and, from there, it's coax to the Viasat dish.)

Up until this power outage, the iMac in question never had trouble connecting to the internet.  The only thing that's different now is that last night I installed Mojave on this computer, but it worked fine when I rebooted it.  Now, it can connect to or see everything on my LAN, but nothing beyond the Viasat Router.

How is it this one iMac can't see anything beyond the LAN when it's never been a problem before and all the other systems on the LAN can see the entire internet?  And, of course, what can I do to fix it?


texts: Disk Utility cannot detect a good portion of my storage space

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While trying to set up Boot Camp, I received an error shortly after the process finished. Checking Disk Utility on both the software and Terminal, I was left with the space I set for my Boot Camp partition as unusable. I tried to delete/unmount/format/erase that partition but after multiple failed attempts I ended up just losing access to that space entirely. This happened twice, going from 500GB of usuable space to 250GB to 112GB. Below are screenshots from Terminal and the Disk Utility.

Below is the output from the command gpt -r show /dev/disk0.

How do I salvage this situation?


texts: Is there a way to get a current (15 minute delayed) stock quote into Numbers?

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I know about STOCK and STOCKH but both of those are only good for the close of the previous day.
Is there a way to get the current stock price, which would probably imply a 15 minute delayed price, in Numbers?


texts: What to do about broken WiFi on iPhone 4S after iOS 7 update?

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Several iPhone 4S owners have noticed a problem with their WiFi not working after upgrading to iOS 7.

It appears to be both a software problem (our phones have been working for nearly two years with WiFi being just fine before the upgrade) and hardware problem (it gets partially better when the iPhone is chilled (physically).

My particular symptoms:

iPhone boots off spontaneously.
Diagnostics showing several panics with a debugger message of "WDT timeout" or "panic" listing kernel_task as the panicked task.
WiFi switch is disabled and set to "Off", can only be enabled by refridgerating the iPhone and rebooting (possibly needing to reset network settings).
When WiFi can be enabled, it repeatedly drops the signal.
If the iPhone isn't cool, Settings freezes up in the WiFi settings and, to a lesser amount, in the Cellular settings.
Once the iPhone warms up, the problems begin anew.

So the question is what can we practically do now? Is there any use calling Apple support (for out of warranty devices), should we take it in to an Apple store (for a not-too-expensive repair), should we take it to a local phone reapir shop (is this the type of thing they can repair and what does that usually cost/how long does it take), is there any reason to expect a software fix, or need we basically resort to exchanging our phones in for new ones?


texts: Install MacOS (Snow Leopard) on a clean hard drive, from windows pc, from iso or whatever else

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Problem:
A friend have a MacOS computer. The hard disk inside started ticking (probably stuck heads). Hard disk was unusable.
He bought an empty hard disk but when he replaced it, it was giving a folder with a question mark icon (missing OS I suppose).
He brought me the empty hard disk asking me to reinstall OS on it. I never used Apple products.
I usually do this kind of stuff for windows and I prepare a bootable usb drive with the Windows OS on it. Plug the usb in the computer and install windows.
How to install MacOS on a clean & virgin hard drive so he can put the hard disk back on the Macbook and use it?
tl;dr: I need from Windows to install from an ISO or whatever, the Snow Leopard OS on a clean and new Hard disk, and put it back on a mac computer with the OS on it so it can start.
EDIT IT IS AN iMac 27'' from 2009 and it was mounting Snow Leopard 10.6


texts: Randomly got the "Get a tour of your new Macbook Air" on a 6 year old Macbook Pro

texts: I was playing a game and out of the blue, I got a notification saying "Take a tour of your new Macbook Air." and when clicking it, it took me to the tour page in Safari. The weird thing is that this Mac wasn't factory reset recently, and is a 6-year-old Macbook Pro. On the website, it said that it was a Mac with an M1 Chip. I think it may be because Somebody in my family bought a Macbook Air recently, but it's not an M1 Mac. I'm not looking for a solution, but I'm just wondering if anybody knows why this happened or if this has happened to anybody else..


texts: "Open Link Behind Mail" in Mail.app not working

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When on my Mac I right click on a link in mail and select "Open Link Behind Mail" nothing happens.

I tried opening Console and seeing if there was an error message when I did it again, but I didn't notice anything new. (I looked in "SYSTEM LOG QUERIES > All Messages")

This was working a few months ago. I am using Mail 8.2 (2070.6) and OS X 10.10.2 (14C109)


texts: How to add notes to iCloud via sending an email

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I use a lot of notes apps on my iPad IOS 7, and I like the option of adding a note via sending the note to a custom email address instead of opening the app and adding the note manually (Like evernote for example).

Still, I couldn't find such functionality regarding iCloud Notes ! I have iCloud Notes syncing my notes from two sources

(1) from my iDevices and (2) from my gmail notes folder
In Gmail, I tried sending an email to myself; forwarding; and auto labeling them, that did move the emails to notes folder but they did not sync to iCloud.

I have searched pages and pages of google and noooo clue. Does anyone have any idea or a workaround to apply this on iCloud notes ?


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Somehow in the past 24 hours, I have only a basic menu for the Apple Menu and my early 2011 MBP running Yosemite 10.10.1 also always starts up in the Simple Finder. I especially miss the Recent Items in the Apple Menu. No idea what happened.

When I login as a different user the Apple menu is "normal". How do I repair the broken user  Apple menu? Both user accounts I have are admin accounts. I tried turning off Parental Controls for the affected user account but Simple Finder persists


texts: How do I save the data from apps no longer supported by iOS 11?

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I have a lot of apps that no longer work in iOS 11, similar to Little Eden's question: How do I bulk delete incompatible apps in iOS 11, but my issue is not so much being able to bulk delete these apps (but that would be nice), it's the fact that many some of them contain data I can no longer access.

How do I retrieve this data? I don't mean encrypted data or anything fancy like that. I mean apps that contained data like word documents, excel spreadhseets, and PDFs.


texts: Is there open source or free software to use my touchpad as absolute touch?

texts: I'm running OS X Yosemite, and don't want to spend money on a Wacom tablet. Is there free software or code that can disable the acceleration of the touchpad so I can write effectively with a stylus?


texts: Is there a way to share a Photos album (regular or 'smart') via Dropbox?  I know that I can copy the album to DB, but I'd rather create a symlink (or similar) so the photographs aren't duplicated on my HDD.


texts: Observing what Spotlight's mdworker is indexing for diagnostic purposes

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There has been a history of people reporting mdworker processes taking up lots of CPU time on older machines, but apart from vague suggestions to just re-create the entire Spotlight index, I could not find any diagnosis information.
My (modern) machine has no performance issues, I would just like to understand the reason for the "Service exited due to SIGKILL" messages that flood my system logs:
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.00000000-0300-0000-0000-000000000000[6763]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[141]

Are there any logs I could use to find out what is actually going wrong; i.e. whether the indexing processes are stuck at a certain file? Is there a way to increase the messages' verbosity?
A bit of system information: This is happening on an iMac running Catalina (10.15.6), with just a few hundred GB of files. For testing purposes, I limited Spotlight categories (through System settings) to apps and contacts only, but that did not seem to make any difference. The machine has no directories where files might change constantly, no directories with excessive numbers of files and, as far as I know, no totally unusual file formats on it.


texts: In general order of most scans, which websites have scans of Apple 2 documentation and magazines?

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I've done some searching and found various websites.
For example, http://www.apple-iigs.info/ has a lot of scans.
After listening to the Open Apple podcast, I think it would be helpful to have a definitive place (ie here) with a list of websites with Apple 2 scans.


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What would be a simple way to show some text "floating in space" on osx.

The text should have a transparent background and I want to pick a color, a font, and some message (with newlines maybe) with the text appearing in front of all other windows.

I mainly want this so I can flexibly and quickly capture screenshots/screencasts with easy text overlays. (Not all tools have any text support, or if they do, it can be inflexible.)


texts: Getting rid of the annoying Photoshop CS6 timeline

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Every time I open Photoshop, here it is, the annoying and obtuse timeline box. I hide it. I create my own workspace and save it. But every time I run Photoshop CS6 the timeline window is there. I close it, and open a file. Every time a file opens, the $&&%#$ window is back.

How do I get rid of this disgusting window?

thanks.


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I have a folder on my Computer, "Markdown Source" with a folder action applied to it through Automator. The folder action applies a shell script, and then writes output to a different folder, "Markdown Output" (no bonus points for guessing what the script might be).

The problem is that sometimes when I save a file to the "Markdown Source" the script runs, and creates the file in "Markdown Output", but sometimes it does not. This problem seems to happen most frequently if I re-add a file to the folder than has previously been in the folder but was subsequently moved elsewhere.

Does anyone know if there is a way to change how often Folder Actions look for new input, to manually force Folder Actions to run, or some other way to be sure that all the items in my Markdown Source directory get processed?


texts: iMac issues: indicates hard disk needs replacing and can't get through AHT, should I do any other tests?

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I have a long out of warranty/AppleCare iMac12,2 that meets me with an Apple logo and progress bar on boot, and after a few minutes simply shuts off w/o booting to the system. I did try running Apple Hardware Test, and it simply freezes 3 minutes and 27 minutes into the test, every time I run it.
Booting in recovery and running Disk Utility on the volume gave me the message: "Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk.Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
From this point I did try booting in single user and running fsck and it met me with an error that it could not verify the disk and did not proceed beyond this point.
Obviously the hard disk needs replacing. Should I be OK just replacing the hard disk or should I be running other tests to make sure that there are no other issues with the computer prior to replacing the disk?
Thanks!


texts: How to access older iPhone auto-backups / restore lost Safari cards?

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Recently I've lost all my open Safari cards on my iPhone. Since i want to move my data to a new model anyway, I was just disabling wifi every time I plugged it to the charger in order to not let it auto-backup. I did not turn off the backup function, because I was too scared of the iThreat, threatening they'll delete all my iCloud files, backups, photos, etc. if i cancel anything iCloud-related. So sadly, that one time I forgot to turn off the wifi, and it did back up automatically. Since I've tried doing a computer backup many times before on many different PC's and cables, changing settings, including replacing the whole charging port, I couldn't do it, so iCloud backups are the only ones I could make. Now, as you might have guessed, the latest backup doesn't contain any of those lost 48 open cards, and the latest backup i did manually is almost half-year old.
Is there any way I can get access to the older AUTOMATIC iCloud backup? If not, how do I get my cards back? They couldn't just disappear without the trace of I didn't physically press 'delete' button right??


texts: System Preferences locked After Username Change

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i have a problem with my MacBook Air.
I recently changed the username and now if I want to unlock 'users and groups' or If I want to make changes that require the administrator information (username and password) the system doesn't recognize me.
What should I do? is it possible to create a new administrator account to replace the old one without losing all my files?

EDIT: I can't even create a new user account.


texts: Change Mac Keyboard Identifier after keyboard replacement

texts: I replaced my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) keyboard. The U.S keyboard layout is mapped incorrectly now. It seems to be a problem with the keyboard identifier ID (maybe its Bundle ID). It looks like to be Japanese now but I need to change it back to english (I can't achieve this by changing input source and keyboard layout).


texts: Boot drive (SSD) going read-only randomly

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I've got a mid-2010 MBP running OS X 10.8.4. I've got a Sandisk SSD as my boot drive in my Super Bay and a 1.5TB hard disk in my HD bay. (I realize I could get better SSD performance if I swapped those, but the HD is too tall.)

When I boot my computer, everything seems fine. But after varying amounts of usage time, the SSD goes unwritable until I reboot. It's extremely weird. I can't touch to create new files anywhere (I get an error message like "touch: test.txt: Invalid argument"), I can't save anything, and applications like Mail, which depend on disk access start crashing without error messages. The Console and logs don't seem to be revealing anything unusual. Disk Utility doesn't start and diskutil hangs. If I manage to run out my main memory, I get the "Boot disk is full, kill an application" message. But even more weirdly, for apps that don't need to save anything, the computer seems to work fine. Rebooting restores everything to normal temporarily.

I'm not sure if it's related, but I also have these sporadic periods of 10-20 seconds of spinning rainbow ball, where kernel_task is my highest CPU user and seems to block ALL other activity. Disk transfers, network transfers, and all else seem to come to a temporary halt until whatever it is its doing finishes. I can usually still Cmd+Tab to Activity Monitor during these seizures.

I brought it to the Apple Store today, and their diagnostics couldn't find anything unsually. They successfully repaired permissions in Safe Mode, but the problem still exists. The tech there said that it seems as though the kernel can continue writing to disk in this state, but nothing in user mode.

Anybody have any idea whatsoever what might be causing this? My only other option will be to reinstall the OS, but I'm trying to make that my last resort.


texts: Keeping battery charged at certain level

texts: I keep my MBA 2013 plugged in most of the time. AFAIK for a long term it is better to keep modern battery around 40%. I have seen that some other laptop manufacturers added feature to their drivers to prevent battery charging over certain level. Is there anything similar available for mac?


texts: How to find local trends on Twitter for iPhone?

texts: I think we can all agree that the "# Discover" button in the official Twitter for iPhone app is a big waste of screen space. I never really rely on Twitter to "Discover" anything other than that which is said by those who I follow. But if there was one thing I did want to discover, it would be local trends. Is there any way to access this information in Twitter for iPhone? Is there another app that better serves this information?


texts: How do I stop messages appearing on the homescreen of my iPad2?

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How do I stop iMessages from appearing automatically on my home screen?
Does anyone have any ideas?


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Sometimes I install a formula with Brew, and I get a series of warnings and notifications.   At some point later, I want to go back and read what problems the installation found.

Does brew automatically keep track of these installation logs?  If not, is there any way I could instruct it (perhaps with a parameter) to always record the installation log on a file?


texts: How to make each monitor act as a separate desktop instead of all changing together?

texts: So I have my laptop hooked up with two external monitors. Let's say I have a browser, code editor, and terminal open in each screen. If on my laptop I change from my code editor to the browser, it changes all screens to the browser. The behavior I want, is for it to change the app only on the current screen, and leave the other two screens as they were. Is there a way to do this?


texts: I had recently messed up my $PATH variable so I thought if fixing it by removing the /etc/paths but I found out online solutions to fix the $PATH variable  by just editing the ~/.bash_profile so I moved the /etc/paths to the trash but then I accidentally emptied the trash so now its gone so now should I worry about some critical system apps to stop working if yes how should I fix this?


texts: Why does my wifi internet access fail shortly after connecting to a LAN without internet access?

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I have a working wireless connection to an access point with an internet connection (where my IP is 172.17.30.137). Over this wireless connection I am able to ping internet addresses (e.g. 4.2.2.1) as well as other machines on the wifi network (e.g. 172.17.30.1). I leave those ping processes running in the background. Now I plug in an ethernet cable, which goes to a LAN on which there is a DHCP server but no internet access. That DHCP server assigns my ethernet adapter an IP (10.35.1.100) and I am now also able to ping addresses on that LAN (e.g. 10.35.1.1). All three pings run concurrently for a few seconds to a few minutes, when suddenly the ping to 4.2.2.1 does this:

64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=1629 ttl=55 time=8.376 ms
64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=1630 ttl=55 time=14.247 ms
64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=1631 ttl=55 time=18.024 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1632
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1633
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1634
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1635
ping: sendto: No route to host

It stays that way, with me having no internet access, until I unplug the ethernet cable. While this is going on I still have access to 172.17.30.x and 10.35.1.x. When I unplug the ethernet cable the ping to 10.35.1.1 starts timing out and the ping to 4.2.2.1 starts working again within a couple of seconds.

What causes this? How can I fix it? Would it be helpful if I include copies of my routing table at various points in the process? How do I get that?


texts: My external hard drive has been formatted. No backup on Time Machine. How can I recover my files?

texts: I lent my hard drive to a friend and he has formatted it as he couldn't get his PC to recognise it. I have no Time Machine backUp. Is there any way of recovering this data?


texts: How to Use Cancel Button in Osascript to Stop Running Script

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Here is my basic script:

#!/bin/bash

osascript  -e 'tell application id "com.apple.systemevents"'
-e 'display dialog "Do you want to continue?" & return & return &
 " Please wait..." buttons {"Cancel", "Okay"} default button
2 cancel button "Cancel"' -e 'end tell' -e 'if button returned is "Cancel" then'
-e '<blah blah kill this script>' -e 'end if'

-- other bash stuff here

I need the script to stop if the user clicks the "Cancel" button. As it is now the script waits until the user clicks either button and then proceeds to run the bash code. How can I kill the script?

This to be able to run on Mac OS 10.6 through 10.10, no third-party add-ons.


texts: Can I run two non-thunderbolt displays from a thunderbolt RAID device?

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It seems like this question has been asked a million times, but after a few hours of reading similar questions, I have not been able to find a clear answer.

I have a mid-2012 Macbook Air running OS X 10.9. I want to run dual 24" 1920x1200 monitors and the built-in 11" screen.

Can I use a thunderbolt RAID device (i.e. Promise Pegasus R4 or anything else with two thunderbolt ports out) to drive two monitors?

Will this work:

MBA -> RAID -> 2x miniDP to DVI adaptors -> 2x 24" screens


texts: Growl Notifications for Stack Exchange websites?

texts:
I'm looking for a way to get Growl notifications for new questions on the Stack Exchange websites, matching some pre-defined tags.

I've tried SENotify, but it didn't work for me. Any alternative?


texts: Is paid Apple Developer Program subscription required to distribute test IPA file?

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I am building an Ionic app, and I want to distribute it to a few people in my organization.

Ionic Cordova iOS build command runs successfully. Now i need to generate the IPA file to install the app on iOS devices.

When I am running Product → Archive in Xcode Menu, it gives code signing error.

My queries are:

How to get the IPA file? Does it need paid subscription to the Apple Developer Program?
Best solution to distribute to app to a limited number of people?
Getting signing error?

Code Signing Error: app has conflicting provisioning settings. app is automatically signed for development, but a conflicting code signing identity iPhone Distribution has been manually specified.

Set the code signing identity value to "iPhone Developer" in the build settings editor, or switch to manual signing in the project editor.

Code Signing Error: Code signing is required for product type 'Application' in SDK 'iOS 12.1'


texts: Myriad of (relatively minor) issues on my rMBP in the last few days

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Not sure how to generalize this, but my rMBP 15" 2014 has started having several weird issues in the past few days:

Typing freezes (briefly) in Notes
Searching “Keychain” from spotlight returns some results but NOT “Keychain Access”
Xcode stops building files because “too many open files on system”, fixed by restart
Mail autocomplete doesn’t work -> Restart Mail, freezes on open -> Restart again, same -> Open Internet Accounts in System Prefs, freezes -> Restart computer, works
Beachball opening folder from Dock -> Downloads (about 10 seconds)

None of these issues seems to stay for long. For example, if I search Spotlight for "Keychain" now, it returns the correct result.

More info, I'm running 10.10.1, 16gb RAM, my 500gb hard drive is about 2/5 free. I clean installed Yosemite about 6 months ago too.

Does anyone know this might be? Hardware issue, like failing motherboard or something? Or (hopefully) some kind of software bug?


texts: “replace all” and “replace in selector” are grayed out in Pages.app

texts: When using text replacement, “replace all” and “replace in selector” are grayed out and I can’t click on them. How do I get the ability to click on them?


texts: I really love FIGlet, and use it frequently in my code and emails. It's really easy to install through the terminal in Linux, but I can't figure out how to install it on a Mac (OS X Yosemite 10.10.3). Does anyone know how to install FIGlet straight for Mac so I can run it from the terminal?


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I am trying to install a few software packages on my Mac os X 10.6.8. The packages are the python libraries:

networkx (graph library)
matplotlib (visuzlization)

It seems that with matpotlib I also need numpy and scipy. Anyway, what is the easiest way to install packages with a mac? I have used pip, and easy install. They both seem to install everything correctly, but nothing works after I install. It appears during upgrades that the latest version does not override the previous version of the package as it should.

In the past I have used Ubuntu seamlessly, and now my mac has been giving me some trouble with installation. All help is greatly appreciated!


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In Mac OS, when you have your login screen configured to show a list of users (as opposed to a username/password text box combo), each user is accompanied by a large circular image.  This is alternately known as a 'User Picture' or a 'Login Picture'.  All users have such an image even if they are the generic gray silhouette image.

Furthermore, when you enable network users to log into your mac, and have the login screen configured to show a list of users, the User Pic that accompanies the 'Other...' user is a special login picture, which is a gray silhouette of three individuals, like so:

I would like to change this image so that I can have a more fun picture for the students in my school to click on when they want to login with their network account.  I do not know how to do this.

One idea I had, and it was admittedly something of a brute force idea, was to find that image on the hard drive and replace it with a picture of my choice.  The image seems to be this one:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Content/Resources/Everyone.icns

However, overwriting that file with a normal image had no effect on the login screen, so I am thinking that either, 1. that isn't really the file being used, or 2. it is the correct file but something else needs to change in addition to over writing it with a different image.

To clarify: I am solid on changing the user picture for normal users and I have a script in place already to do so. I do not need help with that.  It is the 'Everyone' image, or the gray silhouette of three heads, that accompanies the 'Other...' prompt on the login screen that I would like to change.

The "Bounty Goal" is to replace the 'everyone' image on the login screen with one of my choosing.  This is not the same thing as providing a login pic for an individual who has signed in by clicking on the Other link.  Thanks in advance for solving this!!


texts: TimeMachine backup to shared windows drive via SMB?

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I am trying to figure out how to reliably back up my 2013 MacBook pro to my Windows 7 desktop, living on the same network. The Windows machine is hardwired and the MacBook is connected via WiFi.

The windows PC has a shared folder, named "MBP-TimeMachine".
I created a TimeMachine.sparsebundle disk image on my MacBook Pro and copied it over to the "MBP-TimeMachine" directory.
Using the app AutoMounter, I have my MacBook successfully connecting to my Windows share on login.

I can get the image mounted, and time machine detects it, but when I begin backup, it gets to ~400-500mb backed up before the image just randomly unmounts and I'm not sure why?

Any tips on why the image seems to unmount? Is there a better/easier/more reliable way to accomplish this?

EDIT: this is the guide I followed for configuring the network share / image. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/


texts: When in Fullscreen OSX Yosemite won't hide the dock

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I don't have "auto hide" enable for dock. In all previous version dock, it will hide if I enter in full screen mode for VLC player or for chrome. Now that's no longer the case.

If I enable "auto hide", then it hides it but that's not what I am looking for as I like to see dock all the time except full screen mode.


texts: How to put MacBook to sleep using only an attached Windows keyboard?

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I have a new MacBook Pro that I leave plugged in and closed because I use an external display, keyboard, and mouse.
My monitor, keyboard, and mouse are also used by my PC.
When I'm finished with work, I'd like to be able to easily sleep the Mac so that my monitor can automatically switch over to my home PC.
Apple docs say:

Option–Command–Power button* or Option–Command–Media Eject : Put your Mac to sleep

But my Windows keyboard doesn't have a "Media Eject" or "Power" button on it.
What are my other options for easily putting my Mac to sleep?
I already know I could use the mouse to click Apple > Sleep. And I could open the lid and use the power button. But I'd prefer a keyboard command.


texts: Does Exchange enable MDM automatically on iOS?

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My employer recommended that I sign into our corporate email (Google hosted) via Exchange in the Mail app. I found out later that by doing so, I automatically enabled MDM or allowed them to set policies on my phone. (We learned this when another employee lost their iPhone and our IT department helped to lock it with their console.)

I did not install any profile or certificate and those tabs are empty/missing in my settings. Nothing stood out in the signin flow either (I certainly wouldn't have pressed "Allow your employer to access X" buttons.)

Does using Exchange automatically enroll you in an MDM policy? Is there a way to opt out or continue using Exchange w/o giving up my rights?


texts:
On iOS 7, there is a feature under Cellular in Settings called: Use Cellular Data For:. This lists all of the apps I have on my iPhone 4 with individual On/Off Switches to disable or enable cellular data. So, I disable it on several of my apps, one of which being Music. When I open my Music app, it tells me…

  Cellular Data is Turned Off for "Music"
  You can turn on cellular data for this app in Settings.

This alert does not occur once, but every time I clear the Music app from my multitasking and re-open it. Is there a way to dismiss this alert once and forever?

The alert looks something like this, but for Music:


texts: coconutBattery indicates iPhone 6 problem

texts: My iPhone 6 with ios 11.2.1 seems to lose charge too quickly. I connected my iPhone to my iMac and ran the app coconutBattery. the app reports the charge on my phone and the charge capacity. It also reports the design capacity. There is a bar graph which shows a red bar indicating charge current is at 42%. It seems even when my phone is completely charged, it reports full charge capacity is 819 mAh whereas design capacity is 1810 mAh or 42% as reported. This would explain why iPhone discharges so quickly. My question is, is there anything I can do to fix this?  I have included the coconutBattery window.


texts: How can I remove stickers from the lid of my MacBook Pro?

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I've got a MacBook Pro with Retina display and I've got a ton of stickers on it. Is there a method for removing the stickers from the back without damaging the finish and without leaving sticky residue on the laptop?

Is this something I can get help with from the Genius Bar?


texts: How can I mount an OS X shared folder from Linux with smbmount?

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I've tried searching this question in multiple ways, but it always seems to turn up results for mounting from OS X either from the Finder or from command line. However, what I'm trying to do is mount a shared folder that is on an OS X host using smbmount (or mount.cifs / mount.smbfs) on a Linux box (specifically, a ReadyNAS).

The general command like this results in an error:

mount.cifs //192.168.1.2/SVNbackup /mnt/SVNbackup -o user=bobtheuser,nounix,sec=ntlmssp,noperm,rw

...and I'm getting back

mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

After some digging, I seem to find that I can list the shares on the OS X box by disabling signing, e.g.

smbclient //192.168.1.2 -o user=bobtheuser --signing=off

This works by reporting the shares, but still errors when it gets to the bottom reporting something about NT disconnection. As well, I don't believe there is a signing option on the smbmount command anyway. I have read some pages which suggest it might have something to do with NetBIOS over TCP/IP, but I don't see how that gets enabled in OS X and I already do have a workgroup and "become NetBIOS server" enabled on machines in my network.

Does anyone know how to make this work? Thanks!


texts: Notification from FaceTime won't disappear!

texts:
I have a notification on my MacBook that won't disappear.

My FaceTime app has a notification that wont disappear without me going into settings and clicking the badge icon. I want to delete the notification, not disable the badge icon, yet nothing works.

I've tried deleting all the recent and missed calls on my app and restarting it. It's not found in the Notification Center on the right (which opens when you click the 3 bars icon in the top right corner of the Menu Bar).

What do I do?


texts: Seagate External HD (GoFlex) Crashes Macs

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Situation: My most important external Hard drive is crashing my computers. It had my time machine backups and random files stored. I've tried it on my iMac and Macbook Pro. It may be worth noting I installed Parallels recently.

Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? I was about to open it up. The fact that it shuts the computers down makes me think it isn't necessarily a read/write failure?

Specs:

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 9ZF2N5-502

iMac
3.4GHz Intel Core i7
4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Software  OS X 10.8.5 (12F2560)

Tried so far:
-Using the closest port to the power.
-Changing USB cables


texts:
I recently picked up a used Macbook Pro with Lion installed.

There are no other accounts in the native Mail app except my new Gmail one.

However, when I send an email, the "Reply-to" address that the recipient sees is the email address of the previous owner.

I cannot find a way to remove this email address, it is not in the settings of my sole Gmail account.  It seems to be registered somewhere in the account info of the Mac.


texts: Mail starts on every boot in macOS Catalina

texts:
Every time I boot my iMac (19,1) into macOS Catalina, the Mail.app is open and waiting on the desktop.

The 'Open at Login' option appears to be bugged. Upon first start/restart of Mail, it's not set. If I click it, it gets a tick. From then on when I click it, it remains ticked and will not set to off.

How can I fix this and stop Mail opening on startup?


texts: If I buy a Mac that was shipped before Mavericks was released, will it have Mavericks preinstalled?

texts:
What should I expect if I purchase a Mac soon after the new OS was released?

I'm looking to know what will be pre-installed and how that might affect me as a consumer.


texts: How to easily delete duplicates from iTunes

texts:
Over the years I've accumulated a fairly large iTunes library, with a number of duplicates (for instance, I have compilation CDs which have some songs I already had from the original CD, etc.).

Is there a good script that would let me automatically delete all the duplicates?

And no, I don't want the dysfunctional iTunes duplicate finder of which I am aware. To illustrate why not, check out this screenshot of two songs it thinks are duplicates (note the differences in length).


texts: Stop server(?) from asking for re-authentication when re-mounting an SMB?

texts:
I am working within a medium sized organisation, mix of Macs/Windows machines etc, with a variety of shared drives with access control via a central active directory/LDAP login (I don't know all the specifics).

I mount a shared drive (which I have permission to access) via ⌘/cmdK then:

  smb://server_name/orgdata/biostats

It prompts for my password (or used to before I saved it in the keychain) then mounts. It works great.

PROBLEM: I take my MacBook Pro home, change location from work to roaming, then come back to work the next day, change my location from roaming back to work. Then try to mount the SMB again and I get.

Unfortunately it will just reject my user name/password over and over.

I have to reboot before I can remount the drive.

I can also see that my list of 'volumes' occasionally gets out of wack.

QUESTION: Is there a way around this? A better way to mount the SMB? A server setting I should ask IT to change so I don't get this odd authentication clash (if that's what it is).

Dupe? Likely related to this issue mac fails to reconnect to SMB share after coming back from suspend but that is unanswered.


texts: Internet Sharing not working with my BeagleBone Black

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Running Mavericks on a 15" MBP. I have a BeagleBone Black running Debian Wheezy. I have connected the two with an ethernet cable. I have a working wifi connection from the MBP. So I turn on Internet Sharing to "share my connection from WiFi to computers using ethernet".

When I run ifup eth0 on the BeagleBone Black, I see the following output:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

[ 3916.877981] net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)
[ 3916.886430] net eth0: phy found : id is : 0x7c0f1
[ 3916.891796] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
[ 3916.896888] net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1
[ 3916.906939] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Listening on LPF/eth0/c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4
Sending on   LPF/eth0/c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
[ 3918.891594] libphy: 4a101000.mdio:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full
[ 3918.899032] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Watching the output from Console on my MBP though, I can see it doing something

1/7/14 12:05:00.590 PM bootpd[18547]: DHCP DISCOVER [bridge100]: 1,c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4 <arm>
1/7/14 12:05:00.590 PM bootpd[18547]: OFFER sent arm 192.168.2.9 pktsize 300
1/7/14 12:05:00.590 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000651 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:00.590 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000005 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:03.873 PM configd[16]: inet_set_autoaddr(en0, 1) failed, Resource busy (16)
1/7/14 12:05:04.137 PM bootpd[18547]: DHCP DISCOVER [bridge100]: 1,c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4 <arm>
1/7/14 12:05:04.137 PM bootpd[18547]: OFFER sent arm 192.168.2.9 pktsize 300
1/7/14 12:05:04.137 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000519 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:04.137 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000002 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:10.296 PM bootpd[18547]: DHCP DISCOVER [bridge100]: 1,c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4 <arm>
1/7/14 12:05:10.297 PM bootpd[18547]: OFFER sent arm 192.168.2.9 pktsize 300
1/7/14 12:05:10.297 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.001206 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:10.298 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000007 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:24.813 PM bootpd[18547]: DHCP DISCOVER [bridge100]: 1,c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4 <arm>
1/7/14 12:05:24.814 PM bootpd[18547]: OFFER sent arm 192.168.2.9 pktsize 300
1/7/14 12:05:24.814 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000829 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:24.814 PM bootpd[18547]: service time 0.000004 seconds
1/7/14 12:05:32.405 PM bootpd[18547]: DHCP DISCOVER [bridge100]: 1,c8:a0:30:ac:1f:f4 <arm>
...

I don't know where to go from here. I do know that if I plug the BBB directly into my Netgear router, then it successfully fetches an IP address via DHCP. So I don't know if the problem is entirely on the Apple Internet Sharing side, but it's at least part of the problem, because the BBB, Just Works(tm) otherwise.


texts:
I just updated to Mojave, and I am really enjoying Dark mode. Today I opened Pages for the first time. When opening Pages I see a splash screen that says what is new with Pages and Dark mode is listed, but for some reason Pages is not showing in dark mode.

Anyone have this issue, and have been able to resolve it?


texts: How to remove old iOS device backup (mobile backup) files in macOS Catalina

texts:
Before migrating to macOS Catalina, if I had old iOS device backups, I was able to remove them via the Preference window of the iTunes app. Now, the iTunes app is gone.

The backup files still reside in ~/Library/Application Support/MoibleSync and are eating up a huge amount of disk space (200GB+ in my case, since I have multiple devices).

In macOS Catalina, where can I access the UI which allows me to see available device backups, so that I can safely and selectively remove them?


texts: Can I reset Notification Centre badge counter for Messages?

texts:
The new Messages beta app (based on iChat) is stuck with one incoming message.
Can I somehow reset the badge?


texts: Can I power on my old MacBook with a no-lights battery?

texts:
I've let my MacBook's battery go far too long past its life because it lives at a desk and never moves. It's a MacBook Pro 4,1.
On MacBook Pro 3, i was always able to boot without battery, but this one will not boot after SMC reset with or without battery installed.

Pressing the battery's charge checker button does not light up any LEDs now. Previously it would rapidly blink the first LED , indicating it needs replacement.

Is there any way to boot? (I'm aware it will run at lower clock speed)


texts: Why macOS dictation commands (select sentence, etc.) doesn't work with Microsoft Office for Mac?

texts:
Dictation and dictation commands work fine for all other applications. However, when I try to use them in Microsoft Word or OneNote the literal text like select sentence is typed out, rather than the command being run.

What is the reason behind this behaviour?


texts:
I am new to the Apple "eco system" and I am trying to setup my environment variables for local development.

Here is what I have in my ~/.bash_profile (simplified for brevity):

export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$DEV_CLI:$PATH"
export DEV_CLI="/path/to/cli/$BRANCH_NAME/bin"
export BRANCH_NAME=dev

What I want here is to have my dev cli accessible from any point in the terminal. The crucial thing here is I want to change the BRANCH_NAME on different occasions.

Currently my solution works only if I do source ~/.bash_profile in every terminal tab/window I use.

So let's say that I open new terminal and do:

echo $DEV_CLI - it will be printed,
echo $PATH - the path for the cli will be missing there
source ~/.bash_profile
echo $PATH - all variables set in the path will be shown (cli path including)

I am running on Mac High Seirra.

Any help explanation will be deeply appreciated!


texts: Transfer photos from friends windows 10 pc to my iphone

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I am wanting to get photos that a friend has on their computer to transfer across to my iPhone. My friend does not use apple products and does not have iTunes, and I don't want to set up iTunes on their computer or wipe my existing information.

any suggestions?


texts: How Should I Correct the Owners and Permissions in an OS X User Folder?

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My issue is that I've seriously busted all of the owners and permissions on my user folder and subfolders and it's causing lots of issues using lots of applications.

The initial cause was that I had renamed a user by following the Apple support instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428

After the new user was set up, Mozy backup wouldn't backup any more and lots of my applications couldn't update themselves automatically. The application usually started working again if I deleted the offending program and reinstalled it. I thought it was because the permissions were wrong and I found some places where GetInfo indicated that permissions were referencing the old user. Sometimes the dialog just said "Fetching" for the username and never updated to anything else.

I ran Onyx "fix permissions" and Disk Utility "Repair Permissions" with no results. With "Repair Permissions", it keeps throwing some info warnings about unexpected ACLs, but the info I could find online didn't think those would be causing issues like this.

I tried to recursively run some command line scripts on the user folders (both logged in as root and using sudo). chmod got lots of errors about the owner of the files being wrong. chown after that gave me other errors (I can't remember exactly what they were). In a fit of panic, I right-clicked the entire user folder and chose to apply it's permissions to all children.

From what I can tell, when I did that, I set everything to Read&Write for that user and Read-Only for "everyone" and "staff". Now, I'm worse off than before. Firefox crashed and it can't even update it's own settings so it brings up the "Do you want to restore these tabs" every single time it launches, even after repeatedly saying "Start New Session".

Basically, everything in my user folder is broken with regards to owner and permissions and I need to know what they are supposed to be. Who is the owner of the files in each directory supposed to be (Downloads, Applications, etc.) and what should the permissions be? Given those permissions and owners, what is the best way to go about setting those all right?

I saw a question similar to this at Resetting user permissions to their default mode but it only addresses permissions, not owners, which has been an issue already.

I'm not sure if reinstalling the OS over the copy I have right now would fix anything and I'm close to calling Apple Support if I can't figure anything out in the next few days. Thanks for any help.


texts: Change of IP / Configure AirPort Extreme

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Earlier today our IP Address changed due to misconfiguration caused by our ISP. I'm trying to ensure our IP won't change again. So I spoke with our ISP and they assigned us a static IP (we were supposed to already have one).

I'm trying to ensure everything will work once I change the AirPort IP settings. We're currently running DHCP, but I believe we would need to switch to static, correct?

Our network is configured as follows:

Internet >-ethernet-> AirPort Extreme >-wifi-> Time Capsule

We have 6 iMacs that connect through wifi to our AirPort Extreme

Our Mac Mini Server connects through ethernet to our AirPort Extreme

Our Mac Mini Server serves example.com for File Sharing and other services outside of the office

Our Time Capsule connects through wifi to our Mac Mini Server

It would also be great to know exactly where each number needs to go:

Static IP: 11.111.111.111

Gateway: 22.222.222.222

Subnet Mask: 333.333.333.333

Primary DNS: 44.444.44.44

Secondary DNS: 55.555.55.55


texts:
I would like to stop others from using Nmap to scanning my Mac.
How can I do that ?


texts: Problem with my applescript to export keynote files to powerpoint

texts:
I've a big problem with an export applescript. I would like to export many keynote files to powerpoint files. I found this script below, but there is an error that tells that the menu item "Exporter..." ("Export..." in English, my version is in french) doesn't exist.
When I change "Exporter..." by "Fermer", it works very well!!!?

May you help me?

below the script I've written:

set thisFile to "/Users/kyou83/Documents/pépépé.key"
tell application "System Events"
    tell application "Keynote"
        activate
        open thisFile
    end tell
    tell process "Keynote"
        click menu item "Exporter..." of menu of menu bar item "Fichier" of menu bar 1
    end tell
end tell

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
And here the error description

error "Erreur dans System Events : Il est impossible d’obtenir menu item \"Exporter...\" of menu of menu bar item \"Partage\" of menu bar 1 of process \"Keynote\"." number -1728 from menu item "Exporter..." of menu of menu bar item "Partage" of menu bar 1 of process "Keynote"


texts: Xcode 4.6 not installing on my Mountain Lion

texts: I am updating my Xcode 4.5.x to Xcode 4.6 directly from Mac App Store. But I am unable to update it. First it downloads the new Xcode. After downloading, it starts installing. But while installing it gets stuck at 2 minutes and the installation time counter changes abruptly between 2 minutes to 17 minutes. After some time, the installation stops and the Xcode 4.6 download starts again. This process is repeating since last night. Anyone else having the same issue. I have updated my Xcode from App Store previously also, but never had any issues.


texts:
I'm looking for an FTP client with the following requirements.

File/Folder sync
Sftp/SSH tunnelling
Outstanding AppleScript support
Runs on Lion

The GUI interface is not overly important as it won't be the main interface used, however (and this is subjective) a better interface would be a bonus.


texts: Make iOS 6 device (iPod Touch) DLNA renderer

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We got an unused, semi-broken iPod Touch lying around. I would like to make it a DLNA renderer, so i can stream music TO the iPod, which is connected to the Audio-Amp. People often get the terminology for DLNA wrong, a DLNA Client is NOT what i am looking for. It is quite difficult to search for an App on iOS that actually receives DLNA streams: At least i couldnt find one.

I want the iPod to appear on my Network as a renderer and be able to play music using DLNA on it. AirPlay is not an alternative since i don't use other iOS devices.

And no, this is not a duplicate to my question...
Can I stream music from my laptop to my iPod Touch over wifi?
...since there is no DLNA solution mentioned.

AirPlayer seems to be a DLNA Renderer but needs iOS 7.


texts:
Apple belatedly decided they don't like something about my email address, but won't tell me what.

I just bought a new Mac for work and my employer paid for it so I set up a new Apple ID with my work email address rather than use my own. It seems you can't buy anything from Apple without using an Apple ID. That all went fine as far as can tell, Mac arrived, I switched it on and all works as expected but is a bit insistent about requiring my Apple ID for various things.

So I need to verify my Apple ID; they send an email with a code number; I type in code number…
"This email address is not valid for use as an Apple ID"

No explanation, and no instruction what to do about this. I'm stumped.

Anywhere I try to access my Apple account I am told I can't get in until I've verified my ID, but can't because my email address is somehow not valid.

I have checked that I don't have the work email address associated with my personal Apple ID, so that's not confusing anything.


texts: I signed up for a developer account for my son under my name because he is not of age yet and because he wants to make his own apps. But itunesconnect won't let me input my bank account info, ect. for the paid contract necessary for him to set up the iap because I already put in my own information for my own account. What should I do?


texts: Increase fade in/out from/to black time in iMovie 10.1.4?

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Is it possible to increase the length of time that the fade in/out from/to black takes when editing a video in iMovie (added using the Settings pop-up menu in the video timeline(?) panel at the bottom of the iMovie window (apologies if I'm not using the correct terminology))?

(I have to say that I don't find the iMovie interface particularly intuitive and that it seems to be a little fiddly to try to change effects once you have added them to a video. I tried searching, but I couldn't find anything in the Help about this.)


texts: Restoring Time Machine backup made on a previous OS X version

texts:
My macbook pro, running OS X Lion (10.7.5) got stolen last night. Luckily they didn't take my external drive, where I have a Time Machine back up of all my data, which is extremely important to me (mostly, unfinished music productions projects in Ableton)

Since new MacBooks ship with OS X Yosemite, would I able to restore my Time Machine backup on a new laptop?


texts:
I currently have an iPad mini 2 WiFi/Verizon. It is a 16GB model.

I want to upgrade to a 128GB model and use my existing SIM card. Do I have to buy a Verizon model, or can I buy a so-called "WiFi-only" model and use my SIM?

Thanks all.


texts: How does ICloud drive manage a local copy when the local drive is too small?

texts:
My MacBook has a 250 GB SSD and I have a 500GB iCloud Drive. The total size of files stored in iCloud is currently about 100 GB, which by default maintains an identical copy of all files in both locations without any user control. The local copy is hidden in ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents.

What files will be removed from the local copy, when the iCloud Drive file size begins to exceed 250 GB?


texts: AirPods choppy/unreliable when connected to Mac, but not iPhone

texts:
Problem
In my apartment, when using the AirPods with my Mac, the audio is significantly choppy, fluttery and unreliable. There are frequently small "pops" when listening to music. The issue is not present when using the AirPods with my iPhone.
The Apple Stack Exchange question you are reading now, is actually an update to my question on the same topic that was posted and resolved here previously. I had this very same issue while on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. We found out that the culprit was a bug introduced in that particular macOS version, and the problem went away with 10.12.5.
I am now on 10.12.6 and having a quite identical problem. But I'm not confident that the OS is at fault this time.
The reason is that I recently swapped my AirPods for a new pair, via an unrelated Apple support ticket. The new ones arrived via mail and I was instructed to pair them with my original case.
The new pair of AirPods seem significantly more prone to skipping, stuttering and losing connection. I did not have this problem with my original AirPods, which I also used with 10.12.6 without problems (at least that I am cognizant of).
Possible explanation
I think I have found what's causing the skipping (albeit not the root cause), and it seems to be my iPhone Bluetooth signalling with its environment. Whenever that happens, there is a glitch/pop on the Mac ←→ AirPod connection. When I disable Bluetooth on the iPhone, the problems go away.
I haven't changed anything in my environment except swapping the AirPods. No microwave in the background etc.
I am quite confident that the reason is Bluetooth interaction from the iPhone. I am just not sure how to proceed, because the weird thing is that the problems started just when I replaced the AirPods for a new pair.
Some plausible root causes are:

The new AirPods are in fact defect or come from a batch that are not as 'good' with Bluetooth.
macOS 10.12.6 introduced a bug similar to the one in macOS 10.12.4, but I didn't realize it until much later (not that likely IMO, knowing how sensitive I am to audio quality).
The pairing process whereby new AirPod buds were paired with an original case didn't go exactly right, and there is a firmware or software problem somewhere.

What I have tried

'Hard Reset' of the AirPods according to these instructions;
Resetting the iPhone Network Settings after "Forgetting this device" (the AirPods) as part of the AirPod 'Hard Reset'.
Resetting the Mac Bluetooth Module according to these instructions.


texts: Is there is a way to bookmark all of my tabs at once without having to go one by one while in Chrome for iOS?


texts: App store says I have recently updated High Sierra but appears I'm still on Mavericks?

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Yesterday I downloaded and thought I installed Sierra after being told of the available update, spending more than an hour downloading and then restarting.

I had to resign in to a few apps, e.g. Google back up and sync so it looks like something did change.

Before I made the update, if I navigated to Apple menu > About this Mac I would see the exact same screen that I see now, here it is:

10.9.5 appears to be Mavericks. From Google search:

Under Apple menu > App store > Updates, I see that Sierra was installed recently:

Am I actually on Sierra right now or am I still on Mavericks?


texts: step counter, how do I add steps to the dashboard?

texts: I closed the step counter by accident and now I can only see floors and miles. I cannot find the page where I can re-open the step counter to add to dashboard.


texts: iPhone Email client includes wrong Original Message in body of reply

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I'm using an iPhone 6, running iOS 9.2.1. Recently, I experienced an issue with my iPhone email client. I hit "Reply All" on an Email A, composed my reply message, and hit "Send," but the email that was sent had some very incorrect information.

The subject line in my reply email was correct: "Re: Subject A," and the sent message included the reply text that I had composed, but the Original Message (the text that is automatically included below my signature when I reply to an email) that the email client included in the reply was NOT Email A. It was a bizarre combination of Email A and a separate message, Email B, which happened to be the most recent email I had received. To illustrate, here is what the situation looked like:

EMAIL A

From: Person A
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 12:00 PM (Date/Time A)
To: Me
Subject: Subject A

"Message Text A"

PERSON A's SIGNATURE

EMAIL B

(Completely unrelated to Email A)
From: Person B
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 12:10 PM (Date/Time B)
To: Me
Subject: Subject B

"Message Text B"

PERSON B's SIGNATURE

EMAIL C

(My email in reply to Email A—this should have only included data from Email A)
From: Me
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 12:15 PM (Date/Time C)
To: Person A
Subject: Re: Subject A
"Message Text C"
MY SIGNATURE
[Auto-populated reply header:] On Jun 1, 2016, at 12:10 PM (Date/Time B), Person A wrote:
"Message Text B"

I'm baffled by what could have caused this. As you can imagine, this caused some miscommunication, including some severe privacy concerns, and I cannot have this happen again.

It seems like when the email client was preparing Email C for me to enter my reply, it may have somehow linked Email B to Email A. Any ideas on what could have caused this, or what may have happened?


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I've read multiple messages on the subject, but I wondered if anyone had first hand experience (or genuine knowledge one way or another), if it is possible to more than one Apple Developer account?

As far as I know, you can create one for each Apple ID that you have, but I have not been able to find anything that suggests this is not possible (or breaches any rules). Are Apple likely to be bothered as long as you pay the $99/year for each Developer Account?

There is a link here that seems to suggest that it is possible

Would appreciate any comments on the subject.

Thanks.


texts: Replacement for iPod.app on old iPhone 3G with large buttons for play/pause and prev/next track

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I've dedicated my old iPhone 3G as a Bluetooth audio player.  It works great except for controlling the audio.  I find that the previous and next buttons are too close to the play/pause button on both the lock screen and in iTunes.  I often jump to the next song when I just wanted to pause the current song.

Are there any iOS 4.2.1 apps out there to fit my needs?  I found Big Button Music Player, which is the type of thing I'm looking for, but the current version requires iOS 5 or greater.

Any recommendations for apps to play the music I already have on my phone, and provide a UI with larger buttons?


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Big Sur now provides me with a media player icon in the menu bar.
However, I am unable to toggle playback while listening to a station on TuneIn.com.
Does anyone experience a similar problem and knows a solution?
In the below screenshot, clicking the pause button does not pause playback.


texts: I got the app Baby Story for my iPod Touch a while ago, and then decided I didn't like it and deleted it. Part of the reason I got rid of it was because it would pop up random messages with things like, "Your baby is hungary!" The app appears to be completely deleted, and I can't find any reference to it on the iPod anywhere, but I'll still get random notifications with things like, "Your baby is sick." Is there a way, short of reformatting the iPod, to stop these messages?


texts: Installing nova client: PIP Permission Denied even as root

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I'm trying to install nova client on OS X 10.12.3

I tried to install with sudo pip install python-novaclient.

I wan't to access openstack server from OS X

Installing collected packages: requests, six, PrettyTable, Babel, oslo.i18n, iso8601, funcsigs, pyparsing, monotonic, netifaces, netaddr, wrapt, debtcollector, oslo.utils, simplejson, msgpack-python, oslo.serialization, positional, stevedore, keystoneauth1, python-novaclient
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber
    ensure_dir(destdir)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/requests'


texts: How to change path in Finder by entering the path manually?

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It seems that by default there is no way to enter a whole path in the Finder, so instead one should traverse through all the tree to get somewhere deep in the filesystem. Is there anyway to overcome this problem? If there is no GUI for it in the Finder maybe launching it from the command line with the path? Something like:

  $ finder /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/


texts: Need to show my Mac desktop (no remote control, preferably free) to multiple PC clients

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On the PC, I used a free TightVNC server for screeencasting. Students connected to it from the class PCs with a free viewer app and saw my demonstrations in a window, but could not do anything on my desktop.

I am able to connect from a PC to macOS's built-in VNC server if I supply a password (VNC viewers may control screen with password) in System preferences. However in this case, after connecting and entering this password, I am presented with the normal Mac login screen, after which I am controlling my Mac. I need a view-only connection.

If the password box is unchecked, TightVNC Viewer fails to connect, saying No security types supported. Server sent security types, but we do not support any of theirs.

TigerVNC does not have a server for macOS, only viewer.
RealVNC is paid and seems to use the cloud to connect clients to their VNC server, which I'd rather do without, after all, we're on the same LAN in class.
VineServer (osxvnc) seems to be abandoned and anyway crashes immediately upon start.


texts: OS X 10.9: Deleting Keyboard Input Sources

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This is really similar to:
How to remove or disable a default keyboard layout?
However, I am new here and have no ability to comment or make remarks towards this to voice further problems.

In OS X 10.9, I need to remove input sources in System Preferences > Language and Region > Keyboard Preferences > Input Source.

To be clear, I want these gone completely; if I were to click the add button then I want there to be nothing but the basic English layout available.

**Edit:
The solution can be as dangerous as editing near-/root-level files in the OS as long as there's a possible solutions

If no possible solution can be found can anyone recommend third-party software or a way to lock system preferences?**


texts: How to flush the DNS cache of Safari on macOS Mojave without restarting the system?

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I've experimenting with configuring dnsmasq on macOS for Apache vhosts instead of creating entries in /etc/resolver/<domain> for each domain. In my case, I configured dnsmasq to resolve .dev to localhost.

Since Safari had previously visited foo.dev, it kept requesting that page, although dig resolved foo.dev to localhost.

It didn't help to clear Safari's web cache and flush the system's DNS cache:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

It was first after a reboot that Safari properly visited the localhost instance of foo.dev (vhost).

So, is Safari mantaining its own DNS cache - and if so, how can it be flushed without restarting the system?


texts: Can iTunes songs be transferred from one account to another account?

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My son, who's now an adult, has been using my iTunes account (I don't use iTunes) that I created for him many years ago and he's accrued a large legal iTunes library.

He will be leaving home in the near future.
The problem is how can I transfer everything he's purchased into his own iTunes account?

He plans on creating his own iTunes account before leaving.
Is it even possible to transfer these thousands of songs from my account to his?

Note : This is all Windows PC based.


texts: How do I convert 120FPS video from the iPhone 5s to 60FPS?

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When I shoot 120FPS video on the iPhone 5s, I can easily export it as a 30FPS video, slowed down four times. But I want to export it as a 60FPS video, slowed down twice.

Ideally, I'd like to do this without transcoding the video (because that reduces quality and increases file size), but merely having an app change the fields in the header to say that rather than playing for 1 minute at 120FPS, this video should play for 2 minutes at 60FPS.

I'm looking for:

A Mac app, but if that's not possible, an iPhone app will do.
A less expensive ($20) or free app.
A GUI app, rather than a command line one.

I have iMovie 10, iPhoto 11, Picasa and Lightroom 5, but none of them seem to have this function. iMovie 10 can only export a 30FPS video, not a 60FPS one.

Is there any software that does this?


texts: Hostname incorrectly shown in Terminal and scutil HostName is not set

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Today I started the Terminal and the prompt showed:

flos-ipad: mareek$

Now I'm confused because this is not the Hostname of my MacBook Pro.
Furthermore my name isn't "Flo" and I don't own an iPad. The Username "mareek" is correct for the user I'm logged in to.

I tried

$ scutil --get HostName
HostName: not set
$ scutil --get LocalHostName
Macbook-Pro-2
$ scutil --get ComputerName
Macbook-Pro

I wonder why the Hostname isn't set, and where the "flos-ipad" comes from?
Any ideas?

Thank you

EDIT: I actually found the solution. Link - Stackexchange /close


texts: How to Uninstall Python 3.6 safely and let 3.9 remain installed on my Mac big Sur especially the carshes

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Recently my Mac got updated to Big Sur and Pycharm and Python idle have stopped working : both crash. I have read Google but want a sure shot way to uninstall 3.6 and have only 3.9 remain installed. Also will the application programs I created with 3.6 be destroyed on removing 3.6? Or extended to 3.9?
Another
I won’t like to reinstall Mac or something just need a working procedure for the same. My Mac has many apps loaded on it
Error stacktrace:
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
Reason: image not found
Hoping for early reply
Please keep in mind I dont have a great understanding of Apple products so hoping for educative answers to solve my problems


texts: Force Photos.app to accept GPS coordinates & not "correct" them

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I often need to tweak the GPS coordinates of images I take with my iPhone. Since I work on a MBP laptop, I do it there. A workflow: use a map app to find the precise location of the photo. Enter those coordinates into the location field in the Get Info box of the image. Watch Photos.app decide what I "meant" and move the coordinates to what it thinks is the closest place. This is often a what it thinks a city's coordinates are when I feed it a location inside that city.
The question then is how I make it stop doing this. I can move the pin, of course, or just use something like exiftool to edit the image's data directly, but it seems like this should be doable within Photos.
Then again...


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I'm trying to use the built-in Apache server in MacOS mojave.

In my browser, accessing http://localhost/~myusername/mypage.html (in case of user dir) or http://localhost/mypage.html (in case of default dir) both throw the same error in the browser:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /mysite/ on this server.

I' trying to make both the default dir /Library/WebServer/Documents and an user dir ~/myusername/Sitesworks.
I tried 2 solutions:

I tried to add a vhost in /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/
</VirtualHost>

I tried to add a myusername.conf file in /etc/apache2/users with the following content

<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Is there a guide to understanding permission errors on Mojave using Apple shipped Apache?

EDIT: It looks like the accepted answer here solved the reading permission for me.
From the answer:

  Load the module mod_userdir in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
  At the end of the httpd.conf make sure to load httpd-userdir.conf
  In httpd-userdir.conf include a local file in /etc/apache2/users/<username>.conf
  Put a directory section into that file, containing the rules for the directory where your webserver files are located:

  <Directory "/Users/<myusername>/Sites/">
      AllowOverride All
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      Require all granted
  </Directory>

Writing access to files is still a problem: Apache cannot edit a file if the ownership is mine (the admin user). I'm still wondering if there is a proper way to fix the permission without messing up each directory permissions every new project.

This is the script I'm using for testing write permission:

<?php
    echo 'Current script owner: ' . get_current_user();
    echo 'Current user:' . system('whoami');
    $current = file_get_contents('people.txt');
    $current .= "John Smith\n";
    file_put_contents($file, $current);

I get the error:

  Warning: file_put_contents(people.txt): failed to open stream:
  Permission denied


texts: Is Transmit Power Control technology implemented in iPads?

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Transmit Power Control (TPC) is a mechanism used by Wi-Fi emitters to lower signal power in order to reduce interference with other wireless networks (and, in mobile devices, save battery).

Is this algorithm implemented in any model of iPad?


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Keynote uses the ►ll, ►►, and ◄◄ keys to play/pause, go to previous slide, and next slide, respectively. This causes the keys to no longer control iTunes.

Is there any way to stop Keynote from handling these keys so that iTunes can respond to them? If I am working on a slideshow, I frequently use pause to stop music, which of course starts the slide show, which is what I am trying to avoid.


texts: Ringer and message alerts does not always working. Volume up in settings and silencer is off. Help. I have tried shutting it down.


texts: Japanese songs's names are in English in the iTunes stores. May I change the names to Japanese?

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I notice a lot of Japanese songs' names in the iTunes stores are in English. For example, I see songs by Hikaru Utada, Miyuki Nakajima, and Kiroro appear as English. Meanwhile, I know somehow the songs can be purchased/downloaded with names in Japanese, in Japanese music Apple music store.
I tried settings -> my name -> iTunes & App Store -> Apple ID -> view Apple ID -> then change country to Japan. However, when I go to iTunes stores, those Japanese songs' names are still in English. Can anyone tell me what I should do to let the names appear in Japanese instead of English?


texts:
What is the proper way to install Chromium (not chrome!) on Mac OS X?

Stable builds are a must, beta builds or nightlies are nice to have.


texts: Dropbox + Mac Mini Server = Syncing Issues

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In our office, we use Dropbox business as a cloud; All of our files exist on a Mac Mini Server we use inside the office as a local repository for all of our Dropbox files. We then have Dropbox sync all of the files to and from the server. From there all of our macs selective sync files from Dropbox.

The issue? The Mac Mini Server seems to stop syncing randomly and then our files are scattered between Dropbox and the Mac Mini Server. Which makes it not a viable solution.

Does anyone know how to resolve these issues or what may be causing them?


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

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


texts:
I have an iPhone 3g and I'm trying to downgrade it from 4.2.1 to 3.1.3.

I downgraded it successfully and use redsn0w to boot it.  It is factory unlocked by itunes, but it seems like it's not getting any signal though.  Is it because that I have a baseband of 06.15.00?  But how do I downgrade it if that's the issue?

Thanks guys!


texts: How to Disable iMessage on iPad and MacBook?

texts: I need to disable iMessage from my MacBook and iPad.  No matter how many times I utilize the Apple ID and password request in iMessage on my MacBook and iPad, I find it open and running almost everytime I log on.  I share these devices with someone and have told him I only want messages on my iphone. How can I take care of this once and for all? please and thank you?


texts: I can't check or uncheck items in Security & Privacy > Accessibility on macOS Catalina

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Since I installed macOS Catalina I can no longer check or uncheck some items that appear under Security & Privacy > Accessibility. First I click on padlock button on the lower left side of the screen to allow me to do the changes, but when I click on one of the items nothing happens.

One of this item that won't change is org.chromium.chromoting.me2me.sh.


texts: Does mdfind allow wildcard searches on filename?

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I'm trying to figure out how to perform wildcard searches for filenames with mdfind on OsX? I tried: mdfind -name "*.pdf" but it didn't work.

EDIT: I want to be able to find names like "test*.pdf"


texts: Will my warranty be valid in other countries if I buy an iPad in Korea?

texts: I will be in Korea for 5 months, I'm about to buy an iPad 2 there and I'll be back in London or France in September. I would like to know if my warranty will be valid in England or in France in case something happens because there are no Apple Stores in Korea, but only retailers.


texts: iCloud lock - how to interpret the number of asterisks present

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I forgot my pin to my phone so I hooked it to my computer to do an update/restore.

When the update/restore was done, my phone is now icloud locked and I'm getting this screen:

I can't remember what email I used for this but my question is:

can "t*****@m*****.com" only be equal to something like

tjones@mjones.com (i.e., 5 characters where the asterisks are representing the number of characters)?

Or can it be:

tjohnson123214@mjohnson25345342343@co.uk

(i.e., (1) are the asterisks only a place-holder for any length of text? And (2) must it end in .com or was apple being lazy in how they designed this screen?)

Note this was updated to iOS 9.1 and the phone is an iPhone 4s.


texts: Changed Fullname and Account name but not Home directory, now blank "Admin" page

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This morning i changed the Full name and Account name on my account but not home directory name. Now, everytime an admin feature is needed, it just shows up as a blank login page. When i try to right click in "User & groups" for advanced options, nothing happens.
Im still able to login into the computer but it shows a totatlly different name from what i changed it to. Do i have to reinstall mac??
Also, ANY info i put into the blank admin field comes up incorrect.


texts: The keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro 3,1 stopped working. How to solve this problem?

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The keyboard and trackpad on my macbook pro 3.1 stopped working after having frozen the operating system and reboot.

On my Mac I have Windows installed BootCamp and neither does the keyboard and trackpad.

However, I work a keyboard and mouse connect via USB external. You do not know if it really is a problem hardware or software.


texts: Hotkeys (COMMAND-V ....) don't honor Dvorak layout

texts: I'm on 10.9 Mavericks and I am using the Dvorak keyboard layout. However every time I go to paste something using the COMMAND-V shortcut it doesn't do anything, I discovered hitting the physical V key which is K on Dvorak it works. What's going on here? The shortcut keys seem to honor QWERTY layout instead of Dvorak, I don't even have QWERTY enabled as a selection on my account, the system-wide default is Dvorak. How can I fix this? It's really annoying.


texts: How do I stop my iPad from wrongly auto correcting my name?

texts: When I set up my iPad last year I entered my name correctly. The iPad wrongly autocorrected it to Alien. Now anyone who gets an email from me is informed its from Alien. Irritating. I don't want to turn off autocorrect though as its useful.


texts: How do I install Windows on separate disk using GPT/EFI and BootCamp?

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I have a Late 2012 27 inches iMac with an internal HDD (that has a Macintosh HD partition, an EFI partition and a Recovery partition) and an SSD.

I installed Windows 10 on using BootCamp Assistant; the SSD has only the BOOTCAMP partition (relabeled by me as "Windows" to make it look better) and the EFI partition. Even if Windows might seem to be installed as EFI (EFI partition, GPT scheme etc...), I mounted the EFI and found out that there is no boot loader on it. I then searched on the Internet, and on some sites they say Bootcamp uses "MBR Hybrid", in the sense the drive appears as GPT but behaves as MBR on the Windows side.

I have intention to install Ubuntu and a custom EFI bootloader (rEFInd) on my Mac, so - to simplify things a little - how do I make sure Windows is ACTUALLY installed as EFI on my second internal volume? Also, I'd like to know if doing so compromises in any way how the BootCamp Support Software (aka BCA Drivers) works.


texts: Using an iMac as a display for PC laptop in dual mointor configuration

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My goal is to have two large monitors for my PC laptop without having to purchase new monitors. My current setup is a late 2013 27” iMac with a 27” Thunderbolt Display. For work I was given a Lenovo T480 which has a Thunderbolt 3 port on it.

I want to know if I’ll be able to use my iMac in Target Display Mode as one Monitor, plus my Thunderbolt Display as the second monitor? I can use the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter from the laptop to the iMac, but will it recognize the Thunderbolt Display as the second one? It’s about $100 of cables and adapters to try this so I wanted to ask first.

Anyone tried this?


texts: How to allow a group to access a folder?

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I want to allow the _www group to write to a folder.

I clicked on the folder to go to the "Get Info".

At the bottom there is a "Sharing & Permissions" section with a "+" to add users. However it does not show any of the system groups such as _www.

Is there a way to enable showing hidden users and group in the GUI?
Or do I have to do it via command-line instead?
It seems the GUI allows to set permissions for several users and group, which I like, while the command I believe only allow 1 owner and 1 group?


texts: How to upgrade a 2009 MacBook Pro from 10.11.6 to 10.12?

texts: I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6 "El Capitan". Can I upgrade to macOS "Sierra" 10.12, and if so, how? I can't find it on the App Store.


texts: Why does fan increase slowly its speed at boot and system is so slow?

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I am given a MacBookAir5,2 [A1466 (EMC 2559)] that is very slow. To give you an idea, a sequence of:

Power on
Log in and loading the desktop
Power off from the menu

takes around 10 minutes.

The MacBookAir runs quite cool. With $ top I see around ~10% of CPU usage after logging in and ~25% of RAM and sysctl hw.cpufrequency returns 1,800,000,000 without the commas, which I suppose is good. Also, I noticed that fan speed is always at (almost?) full speed.
So, after searching around I did a PVRAM/NVRAM reset and an SMC reset.

PVRAM/NVRAM reset seems to be successful since I get the "double restart".

But I question the SMC reset. The steps of the procedure are:

Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected. (I shut it down having MagSafe plugged in)
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time. (I did this, holding them down for <1, ~5 and ~10 second(s).)
Press the power button to turn on the computer. (Now, this does NOT work. I have to unplug MagSafe in order for power button to turn on the MacBookAir.)
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC. (It does not change states to me.)

The strange thing is that when I turn it on, the gray screen appears with the "loading" icon. Then, after let's say 10 seconds I can listen to the fan increasing its rotation slowly from its minimum speed to -I guess- the maximum. This increase is quite slow and takes around 10 seconds.

Should the next step be delivering it to a proper technician or there is something else I can do?


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I have two Mac book Pros (10.7) at home, and no current back up plan at all. Since I expect the older one to start having problems shortly, I decided I should get my act together and set something up.

I would like to use Time Machine, as I have heard that it works really well. I do not want to have to hook up an external drive to my laptops on a regular basis to perform backups (more than likely it just would not happen). I want to have it fully automated, kind of a set it and forget it. I currently have a Ubuntu Server running with plenty of space that I could use to backup to, but Time Machine does not seem to allow this.

Can I use Time Machine to backup to a Ubuntu File Server? I figure once I have that setup I can find an online back up solution to back up that box.


texts: Apple Watch no longer displays temperature

texts: Since I installed the most recent Apple Watch software version (early April, 2016) the temperature no longer appears on the watch face (-- appears), yet when I press the temperature (on the Apple Watch), it successfully loads the weather channel data.  Why does the temperature no longer appear on the watch face?


texts: I can't update my iMovie - it always says "These apps cannot be accepted by your Apple ID" anyone knows why?


texts: Are there any utilities out there that allow you to manually define available screen area?

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I have a spare 27 inch monitor that I'd like to use in vertical mode as a side monitor, but it's way too tall - are there any tools out there that allow you to manually define the effective usable area of the display (as if the screen was actually a different size)?

I'm guessing this would have to be done by the GPU, if it's even possible?

Here's a screenshot of what I'm after:


texts: How can I back up a computer with PGP whole disk encryption enabled?

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My mac has PGP whole disk encryption (WDE) installed.  I would like to back up my entire drive.  However, the backup must also be encrypted (although not necessarily with PGP WDE).  I need to be able to completely restore the computer (system files, etc.) from this backup.

The only instructions I have found for backing up such a drive are for Windows: HOW TO: Create Backup Images of Whole Disk Encrypted Drives or files.

I am on Snow Leopard so an encrypted File Vault backup is not an option for me.  Is there any way to create a byte-for-byte image of my disk?


texts: Can't delete iTunes Library in Finder nor in Terminal

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In Finder I get the unexpected error occured (code 50).

In Terminal I get:

 rm iTunes\ Library.itl
 rm: iTunes Library.itl: Invalid argument

See also:

charlesspencer$ ls -l iTunes\ Library.itl
-rw-r--rw-@ 1 charlesspencer  staff  17222095 Sep 28 06:21 iTunes Library.itl .

How can I manage to delete these files?


texts: Change iPhone language from Chinese to English

texts: I bought a second hand iPhone 4, and I cannot create an Apple ID since the language appearing is Chinese. How do I change it to English?


texts: Can Facebook Messenger spy on me to the degree many sites are claiming?

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Its going around now that Facebook is attempting to shift its Messaging users from using the main Facebook app to the Facebook Messenger app. Many sites have posted stories (though admittedly dated) about the app's Terms of Service and its alleged capabilities.

Many of the permissions the app asks for strike me as technically impossible given iOS's sandboxing, but I'm not an iOS developer and can't speak to that with certainty.

Here's what the HuffingtonPost lists:

  Allows the app to change the state of network connectivity

  Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This
  may result in unexpected charges or calls. Malicious apps may cost you
  money by making calls without your confirmation.

  Allows the app to send SMS messages. This may result in unexpected
  charges. Malicious apps may cost you money by sending messages without
  your confirmation.

  Allows the app to record audio with microphone. This permission allows
  the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation.

  Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This
  permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your
  confirmation.

  Allows the app to read you phone's call log, including data about
  incoming and outgoing calls. This permission allows apps to save your
  call log data, and malicious apps may share call log data without your
  knowledge.

  Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone,
  including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or
  communicated in other ways with specific individuals.

  Allows the app to read personal profile information stored on your
  device, such as your name and contact information. This means the app
  can identify you and may send your profile information to others.

  Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This
  permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device
  IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a
  call.

  Allows the app to get a list of accounts known by the phone. This may
  include any accounts created by applications you have installed.

"The Insidiousness of Facebook Messenger's Mobile App Terms of Service" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-fiorella/the-insidiousness-of-face_b_4365645.html#

It seems to me that there wouldn't even be APIs available for most of these actions.

Is it possible for Facebook Messenger to spy on me to this degree?


texts:
I have a 2nd-gen 13" MacBook Pro; basically the last version without a retina screen.

My "B" key no longer functions as a "B" key; instead it launches iTunes. Occasionally, if I hit a different key immediately beforehand, I can get it to actually insert a "b" into whatever I'm typing, but it usually takes a few tries.  "esc" appears to have similar behaviour.

This only began happening recently, within the past couple of days. It may have coincided with a recent OS upgrade to High Sierra, but I haven't been paying too close attention. I don't believe I made any other major system changes.

This happens both on the built-in laptop keyboard and a USB keyboard.
I can type "b" as part of my password in the login screen before I am logged in.
I have quit every visibly running app and the problem persists.
I have turned it off and on again.
I have reinstalled the OS from recovery mode.
I do not somehow mistakenly have the "b" key set to anything in the keyboard shortcuts settings.
My keyboard is set to US in "Input Sources".
Here is a video showing the phenomenon.

What else can be done to diagnose this issue? What log files should I be looking at? What configuration options am I missing? Is there anything I can do, short of backing everything up, wiping the hard disk, and starting over?


texts: Migration Assistant using a Time Machine backup... files and apps missing?

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Have a 2015 MacBook that I've backed up to an external HD via Time Machine, running Catalina. And a newer MacBook Air also running Catalina.
On initial setup of the new machine, I used Migration Assistant to transfer everything from the TM backup, including all files, apps and settings.
It seems like it brought over some settings... for example, it knows about my various Internet accounts that I had logged into on the old machine... but I don't see any of my apps, or any of my files (except stuff in iCloud).
I made sure to check the boxes in Migration Assistant for apps and files... it even estimated it would take like hundreds of gigs, but the new machine is still mostly free space. There's only one account on the new machine in "Users and Groups" in settings and in /Users... it's the account from my old machine.
I've tried it twice now, the second time I blew away the account on the new machine but got the same results... am I missing something? The only thing weird about the TM backup is that there's backups for two different Macs on the same device... but I'm definitely choosing the correct one and definitely asking it transfer everything...
Thanks in advance for any advice, pointers, or questions!


texts: MacBook Pro Won't Boot. No Video. No Chime

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I have a 2010ish MacBook Pro that was working fine this morning. I installed a new version of the Dropbox client and rebooted. It now won't boot up. No video, no chime. It does, however, hit the SuperDrive.

Any suggestion how to troubleshoot? I can't get into safe mode or single-user mode or anything.