texts: How to Recover Old Version of File in El Capitan without Backups?

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I know there are many softwares about recovering deleted files. I did not have version control in order in one system, and the file was replaced by an empty file.

I would like to understand if there is any chances of restoring the file. It is .tex file of some hundreds of lines.
I had it in BitTorrentSync but it does not store old versions.
This complication was caused either by TextMate 2beta when running compilation in non-TeX document; BitTorrentSync (has been unstable in 2.x but weak evidence). The file got empty with 50kB total size as a complication.

In the compilation, I had in place the option --shell-escape with XeLaTeX which allows to run Python inside LaTeX document.

View

In TextMate, you see the corrupted file

In doing vim file.tex, I see corrupted file

Last login: Wed Apr  6 21:41:50 on ttys000

MacBook-Air-3:~ masi$ vim   /Users/masi/BitTorrentSync/diseases/1.4.2016.tex

Clinical infectious disease - David Sch...
Mandel

Herpes virus infection % = Herpesviridae
\begin{itemize}
"~/BitTorrentSync/InfectiousDiseases/1.4.2016.tex" 1909L, 50380C

which indicates that something has went very bad wrong, most probably in the compilation of TextMate.

How to Restore an Old Version of a File in El Capitan?


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I've just compiled pure-ftpd (v1.33) using

./configure --with-pam --with-puredb

on my Mac mini Lion and pure-ftpd works fine but I can't access it

because of the authentication problem.

/usr/local/bin/pure-pw useradd root -u 0 -g 0 /private/var/root

tells me to give non-root uid and gid.

I want the ftp server to provide a root access, how can I achieve that?

BTW, interestingly on my Leopard Mac mini, I had compiled the same program 2 years ago and on it the pure-ftpd does accept the root user! (i.e. when I login the directory listed is /private/var/root and I do rwx rights to every folder on harddisk)

So I'm sure there must be a way to achieve this. I've browsed the /configuration-file/pure-ftpd.conf file and couldn't see something like 'AllowRoot' anyway I don't remember arranging any conf file on the Mac mini Leopard.

The last thing I want to note is that the root password I enter on ftp is different than the one on the OS's user root. A bit puzzling really.

Any suggestion is appreciated, thanks.


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After entering my password to update apps on the MacAppStore, I get the spinning cog and have to Force-quit the AppStore app. This also happens with Xcode.

I've tried logging into a new user account, but that also will not let me log in.

I'm able to log into all accounts on another computer.

I'm on OSX 10.11.x

Has anyone else seen this? I could not find relevant questions.

Thanks


texts: Will renaming my Windows partition from BOOTCAMP break anything?

texts: I've installed Windows 7 via BootCamp. I'd like to rename the partition from BOOTCAMP to something a little easier on the eyes. Will renaming my Windows partition from "BOOTCAMP" to "Windows" break anything? (Should I do it from the Windows side or the Mac side?)


texts: Menu bar shows that macOS Sierra very frequently uses location services to check the time zone even though Setting Time Zone is disabled

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Ever since upgrading to macOS Sierra, I have been able to keep track of when programs use my location because the menu bar displays an icon whenever an app requests this information. I have noticed that about once per hour, the location services icon appears for a few seconds, and when I click on it it says "Apps requesting location: Setting Time Zone"

I've tried disabling automatic time zone detection in System Preferences (Under the Privacy > Location Services options), and this does not prevent this from happening. Here is what this setting looks like on my computer, note that the "Time Zone" box is already unchecked:

I looked at the list of other programs that have recently requested my location, and nothing unusual appears:

What is causing this, and is there any way to disable it? If this cannot be turned off, then is there a way to prevent it from appearing in the menu bar?


texts: How to fix "The system was unable to unclock your login keychain" on a non-admin user account whose password changed by admin?

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Users on the system

User A (admin)
User B (standard user)

Scenario:

User B forgets their password
User A changes User B password as admin

Result: when User B logins with new password a prompt "The system was unable to unlock your login keychain" appears giving 3 options

Continue with login: Choosing this option logins work but a series of prompt ( `X wants to use "login" keychain. Please enter the keychain password...) appear pretty much slowing down any operation by 90% (it's an old macbook and it becomes unusable)
Change keychain password
Create new keychain

Which option should User B choose between 2 and 3 should to disable this prompt permanently and resolves keychain issues without losing any data?


texts: iCloud, keychain problems on MacBook Air

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My friend has an iPad. I have never used an iPad, but am trying to help her set things up better -- so it's clearly a case of the blind leading the blind.

We couldn't install Dropbox on the iPad because there's not enough storage. We think that's because there are too many photos stored on the iPad.  I tried to put some of them in iCloud and then download them on the Mac.  That step didn't work.  We got an error message about the keychain.  I'm nervous about doing anything to the keychain -- might that result in my friend losing stored passwords, or something else?

Please make your instructions detailed, clear and idiot-proof -- thank you!!


texts: One mini displayport on Radeon HD5870 not working after an OS reinstall; why? (Mac Pro)

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I've searched in every way I can think, and read forums until my eyes bug out, and have yet to run into my situation, so here goes. I have a very nice Mac Pro that I purchased pre-owned (8 cores, 32GB of RAM, super clean, inside and out). It was loaded with OS 10.8.2, placed on a SSD system/boot drive. In order to "clean house," I did a fresh install with the disks that came with, which ran 10.5.6.

The reinstall went great, and cleared some space, but I found that my second of two mini-displayport monitors (Dell P2210s) was not working. I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and it STILL isn't showing up. I know that the monitors and cables are good, because they work when I plug them into the right-most mini-displayport output on the ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card installed in the unit.

Needless to say, both monitors worked fine when I received the unit. I can see the "Detect Display" button on my "Preferences"/"Display" menu, but that does no good. I've reset my SRAM, tried hot-swapping and cold-swapping the monitor in the left-most output, and have had no results. My next step is to try using a DVI-D cable and see if it recognizes, but has anyone out there ever heard of a displayport output just going kablooey for no other reason than having done a fresh install of the OS?

The bottom line is that the right mini-displayport output on the video card works great, and the left one does not, anymore.

I tried unplugging the power cables from the video card and re-plugging them, but, just to clarify, everything worked just fine, out of the box--both monitors were immediately recognized, and easily configured. There were no shocks, no traumas, no dropped CPU, nothing that would be an obvious cause to the problem.

Thanks in advance for any help; I'll post here if I come up with a solution...


texts: How can I get my 13" MacBook Pro to detect the NVMe m.2 drive that I installed?

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Today I installed a Samsung 970 Evo 1TB on my 13" mid 2014 MacBook Pro. I used an adapter that is not the small sintech one that everyone else seems to be using but is a different sintech similar one with a full length pcb.

Once I went into the system recovery mode (Command + R), and went into Disk Utility to detect and recover my backup onto the new SSD, but it didn't show up.

Things I have tried:

Moving SSD around in adapter.
Moving the adapter around.
Adjusting both connections.
Using the Apple provided screw and different combinations of pressure.

I might be, but hopefully didn't, mess up the adapter choice or installed it wrong, but I just want to fix soon to dual boot since I only have 128 GB.


texts: Messages app showing unread number after deleted message. Can remove/reset?

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Just what the title says, I deleted a group message in Messages, but it's still showing the unread number from that thread (see screenshot) and I can't bring up the group message because I deleted it.

Short of having someone text in that group again to make it reappear, anyone know how I can fully delete the thread, or clear the unread number?


texts: How to get OSX to pick the strongest wifi signal with identical SSIDs?

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I have a Netgear wireless router in one room, and a TP-Link powerline adaptor with wifi in another room. I'm using a 2014 MacBook Pro with Yosemite 10.10.1

Previously I had separate SSIDs for each of the wireless access points, which meant that I needed to manually change the wifi network when moving around the house.

The advice at How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points? is to set the same SSID on both wifi APs, and the laptop should automatically pick the one with the strongest signal:

  Give both APs the same SSID, security type and wireless security
  passphrase... A client will scan all channels looking for APs publishing the SSID it wants, and will pick whichever one suits its needs best (usually that means whichever one shows the highest signal strength).

So I set identical SSID, security and password on both wifi APs. Unfortunately, OSX Mavericks isn't automatically switching between the networks when moving around the house.

While located near the TP-Link powerline adaptor, I connect to the network, as shown by the bolded first line in the Wifi Explorer window (this is the expected behaviour as that is the strongest network):

But when moving closer to the Netgear wifi router, Yosemite doesn't disconnect from the TP-Link access point and connect to the Netgear access point (even though that network is much stronger):

(I left the laptop on overnight and it hadn't changed after 12 hours, so it's not related to timing)

Is there anything I need to do in Mavericks to select the strongest network automatically?
Do I need to ensure that all properties are identical between the access points? eg Channel, Width and Mode are different - does that matter?

Edit: as per an answer at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/144832/84752 I changed:

sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport prefs joinMode=Strongest

but this has no effect when moving between rooms. I'm not sure whether that suggestion only applies to Airport products (given the name of the command).


texts: How to show iOS screen on a projector like Steve Jobs did on his keynotes?

texts: How to show iOS screen on projector like Jobs did? Too many people ask me how to do this... They also want iPhone frame image like exactly Jobs did. (the iPhone frame image is optional)


texts: Where is the file containing the list of browser extensions for Safari in macOS 10.15+?

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Ever since macOS 10.15, Apple now bans conventional Safari extensions, and now they must be loaded via an actual application in the applications folder.
That being said, I have a hard time finding a file that contains the list of these extensions (to my knowledge there used to be a safari.extensions.plist file somewhere that listed all of them). I heard that this file is stored in a container instead of the typical library files ever since the 10.15 update, but I'm not too sure on this.
Does such a file of list of extensions still exist on Mac, and, if so, where would I find it?


texts: Siri's voice on macOS Sierra is not natural

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One thing I've noticed while using Siri on macOS Sierra is that Siri's voice is not natural (not even close to natural, it sounds like the default system voice of my Mac). How can I get Siri on macOS to sound as high-quality and natural as Siri on iOS?

I have downloaded Samantha voice for Mac before. I even tried deleting Samantha's voice and redownloading it, but Siri's voice is still like a robot!

When I change Siri's voice to Male (or any other accent or language) and then revert it back to Female, the voice gets better (still not the Siri I have on my iPhone), but then again after a few moments, it's back to default system voice.

What is going wrong here?


texts: How to determine what is causing Mac Pro to automatically log out and where to find logs of logout events?

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For the last week or so, I've been coming in to the office every morning to find my Mac Pro has logged itself out.

Mac Pro Late 2013
macOS Catalina Version 10.15.3 (19D76)

I have been randomly trying to disable/uninstall things that I thought might be causing the issue but so far no luck.

This morning, I thought that I had finally nailed it as when the screen came  up, it was just asking for the password as opposed to username and password as it has started doing since it started logging itself out. Turns out I had started working on a Microsoft Word document which I hadn't saved when I left for the day so that stopped the logout process in its tracks and I was greeted with:

All of the usual suspects are not the issue. E.g. I do NOT have 'automatically log out after x minutes' set. I do not have any energy saver settings that would log me out:

The user account settings also don't seem to have anything that would cause a logout:

In security and privacy, the "Require password after sleep or screen saver" is set to "immediately", and "Disable automatic login" is checked.

Most frustratingly about this whole endeavor is that after searching and grepping for longer than I'd care to admin, I absolutely can NOT find logs indicating who or what is causing the logout. Console.app is not helpful; searching though /var/log/ and /private/var/log both as regular user and root (via sudo -i) for things like "log out", "logged out", "logout" along with many variations thereof have yielded no help.

It seems like there should be a straightforward term and/or location where this info would be logged and I'm hoping I just can't figure out what it is.

I'm also certain that this is a logout and not a sleep/wake deal because the last 3 or so mornings when it has happened, all of the applications I had opened when I left for the day are closed and gone.

There have been no notable new software installations of note; but there was an OS update within the last week or so. Unfortunately I can not for sure be certain if this issue started immediately after running that update.

Where can I find out what is causing my machine to log itself out sometime between when I leave around 5pm EST and when I get back in the next morning around 9am EST? There should be logs that detail this basic info shouldn't there? In addition to where I might look, what would be good search terms to use to find these types of events? Obviously "logout, login, logged-out" etc. aren't doing the job (NB: grepping for these terms with case-sensitivity off).

More screenshots of searching for logout etc not helping:

And checking for software updates leads to nothing being available:

| => softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
No new software available.

Update:  just had a logout in the middle of the day: login[6335]: DEAD_PROCESS: 6335 ttys000


texts: How to sync audiobooks using iTunes Match/iCloud from macOS to iOS 11?

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I have a couple of audio books on my MacBook which I want to listen to on a Road Trip. I imported the files in iTunes and then changed the media type to "Audiobook".

Now they show up as an audiobook, but it seems they won't get uploaded to the iCloud.

Q: Do I have to label the files as normal Music files with the genre "Audiobook" to be able to listen to them on the go, or is there a way to upload audio books to iCloud?

How does the iCloud in general handle audiobooks by the way? It seems in earlier versions of OS X and iOS I could just upload the files via iTunes Match.


texts: Websharing and Remote Login not working over local network

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Someone gave me their old mac mini which is running OSX 10.6.  I decided to use it a home.

I went to network preferences, then clicked on Sharing.

I checked Web Sharing and Remote Login.

Under Web Sharing, it says the mac mini personal website is available at the address

http://192.168.0.110/~johncomputer/

So I opened up Safari on the mac mini and typed in that address, and I see a simple webpage that I created just minutes ago.  So that's fine.

I then went to my android phone which is on the same network.  I opened up chrome browser and typed in the http://192.168.0.110/~johncomputer/ and the web page showed up which is great.

So then I turned off the monitor connected to my mac mini, WITHOUT turning off the mac mini (so i left the mac mini as is).   Then i went back to my android phone and pressed refresh on the chrome browser.  Now Chrome browser says it could not connect to 192.168.0.110.

I turned on the mac mini monitor again and took a look at the Sharing settings, and it shows everything up and running.  In the Mac Mini safari, i typed in the http://192.168.0.110/~johncomputer/ and the web page still showed up.  I edited the web page, then refreshed the browser again, and i see the changes.  So clearly the webserver is up and running.

But my android phone sitll can't connect to 192.168.0.110.  I went to other cmputers in my house, and none of them can connect to 192.168.0.110.

All my devices/computers are able to connect with each other and with the internet.  They just can't seem to see the webpage at 192.168.0.110.

I also can't seem to use ssh to login to 192.168.0.110, even though the mac mini says it's on.

How do i correct this problem?


texts: Macbook Pro (Late 2010) slow after installing Mavericks

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I've recently updated my 15-inch, Mid 2010 Macbook Pro to Mavericks. Since then, it's been running incredibly slow and tends to hang while using programs such as FireFox or Excel.

If I look at the activity monitor, the only task taking up a large amount of resources is kernal_task.

I've verified the hard drive through disk utility, and it said that the drive is fine. Here's the hardware overview, if that helps:

  Hardware Overview:

  Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier:   MacBookPro6,2

  Processor Name: Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed:    2.53 GHz

  Number of Processors:   1

  Total Number of Cores:  2

  L2 Cache (per Core):    256 KB

  L3 Cache:   3 MB

  Memory: 4 GB

  Processor Interconnect Speed:   4.8 GT/s

  Boot ROM Version:   MBP61.0057.B0C

Does anyone know what could be causing this?


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I have been delaying switching to iPhoto on OSX. A quick experiment had shown that the overhead (actual storage / bare file storage) is too high, although I do not have a concrete number to mention at this time.

Now that I have an iPad, I am stumped by how to get my photos onto the iPad by a simple file copy. Do you have an opinion one way or the other? Did you for instance find a decent way to get your photo library onto the iPad without first handing the photos to iPhoto? Or did you find that the overhead of iPhoto is tolerable in the long run?


texts: New internal hard drive not spinning on MacBook Pro A1278 13", Mid-2012

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The Hitachi 5K750-500 initially installed in the MacBook A1278 13", Mid-2012 failed. I bought a new hard drive (Seagate ST500LT012) but it was not detected by the Disk Utility.

I found that the hard drive is not spinning when installed in the MacBook. When I plug this same drive on a PC it works well and I can hear the disk rotation. I tried two other hard drives on the MacBook and I can hear the disk rotation.

Do you have an idea what's going on and what I can do?

Edit: I tried two more hard drives. Here's a summary:

Seagate ST500LT012 (SATA 3): Not even spinning a second.
Western Digital WD5000LPVX (SATA 3): Spinning for a minute then stops. Not detected in Disk Utility.
Seagate ST9750420AS (SATA 2): Spinning, detected.
Original Drive Hitachi 5K750-500 (SATA 2): Was working before being faulty.

Is this SATA 2 / SATA 3 related?

Edit 2 : Fixed by replacing the "always faulty on the Mid-2012 MacBook" SATA cable.


texts: How to disable the No SIM Card Installed warning in iPad when using it without SIM?

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I have not managed to find a way to disable the warning No Sim Card Installed while using iPad Air without sim-card. I disabled using Mobile data in all parts of settings. I have done this now in three generation of iPads unsuccessfully. The notice window looks like this

How can you disable the warning No Sim Card in iPads?


texts: Why is chrome rendering web pages so bad?

texts: Since updating to the latest version, chrome is rendering pages completely wrong. Browsing the web I haven't found people with the same problem. I'm attaching a screenshot for people to better understand what I mean (I attached a GDocs one since it is one of the worst cases). The chrome I'm using is 29.0.1547.57 installed on OSX 10.8.4.


texts: Quit Safari app automatically after closing tabs

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I come at macs from a windows perspective and it bothers me that Safari stays open after I've closed all tabs. I don't like needing to then go and either quit from the top bar or cmd-click-quit the app in the dock.

I've seen that there's a way in the terminal to close the app, but that's just as much work as closing it manually. I want it to automatically close when there are no open tabs.

Is there a way to switch Safari's settings so when no tabs are open, the app quits?


texts: Can I sync drafts to gMail from iPhone mail?

texts: I have gmail set up via exchange. My drafts aren't syncing back to the server. Should they be? Is there a setting somewhere?


texts: Partition Size Limit for BootCamp for new Mac Pro Machine?

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I'm looking at an 8TB Mac Pro machine for business. I have found 4 year old articles stating there is a 2.2tb size limit on Boot Camp.

There is no current data.

Called and spoke with a senior advisor who could find no documentation. Was told to just buy and try it or reach out to the community....

Has anyone put more than 2.2tb on the windows side of a machine with a larger hard drive?

Will be running windows10.


texts: How do I setup a cron job on OSX to launch a website in safari every 4 hours? I'm looking to have it open on top of every window. It's basically a reminder for staff.


texts: recover data from FFFFF partition inside an external drive

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A few weeks ago, I deleted my Linux partition of my Mac because I was running out of space.
After that, I couldn't boot my OS anymore. Because I depend on my computer to work, I decided to backup my whole volume as it was to an external drive and format my Mac.
Now with my Mac working, once I mount my volume backup from the external drive, I can see something like below:
bash-3.2$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     74.4 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 325.8 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                613.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 MB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.1 GB    disk1s5
   6:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.1 GB    disk1s5s1

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS Seagate Expansi         1.0 TB     disk2s1

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +251.0 GB   disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               220.8 GB   disk3s2
                    (free space)                         30.0 GB    -

My question is: Is there any way of getting my data that was once in Macintosh HD ? How can I do that ??


texts: Can I re-install OS X on an encrypted drive without the password?

texts: I don't know my password to my Mac OS X account and it has file encrypt enabled on drive. If I reinstall Mac OS X, will it require a password to do so?


texts: Apple TV can't always be detected by Mac & iPhone

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I have both a Mac and iPhone: the AirPlay icon to stream video and music to AppleTV randomly appears and disappears on both of them.

I think it is a network issue, but I don't know how to solve it, since it might work perfectly one day and the next no device can find the AppleTV.


texts: Windows 8 RP says no network adapter found under boot camp in the new Retina MBP. Can anyone help me get the driver for the network adapter?

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http://www.anandtech.com/show/6008/windows-8-on-the-retina-display-macbook-pro

"The problem is Apple doesn't provide a Boot Camp driver set for the Retina MacBook Pro yet. I had to use the Broadcom wireless driver from my SNB MacBook Pro to get WiFi working under Windows."


texts: Cannot restore iTunes backup - not enough space!

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I am trying to restore an iTunes backup of my daughter's iPhone SE that was made via iTunes on a Mac.

The Mac runs macOS 10.14.1 and iPhone is running iOS 12.1

When I click "Restore Backup" it starts a progress bar, counts down for about five minutes and then says "Not enough space on iPhone".

This seems bizarre to me - surely the backup is some sort of snapshot of the contents of the exact same phone, so how can it now be too large to fit back into the phone?

Apple Support simply suggest Restore iPhone (i.e. erase everything) and hope that the backup works then - obviously since the backup has already failed, I am reluctant to double down on it.

Is there any way to find out how much extra space is actually needed?


texts: Is there perhaps an RSS feed or some other method of being notified of new AppleTv titles as they become available?


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I seem to be using a lot of hire cars recently, so I'm looking for an easy way to connect an iPhone 4 to a car audio system, with minimum fuss and rewiring.

I had a Griffin iTrip years and years ago, for a 2nd/3rd Generation iPod. It was fiddly to setup and needed retuning every hour or so. I'm sure the former problem is better now, but do they still lose the signal over time?

If so, are there any decent alternatives?


texts: Do not let the viewer go to the first page systematically

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I edit tex files with Emacs under Mac OS X 10.10.1, compile tex pdf and view it with Preview.

The problem is that each time the code is modified and re-compiled, the viewer systematically goes to the first page of the pdf. Ideally, I want to stay in the same page as before, where is probably the modification.

Does anyone know how to achieve this? Will changing to another viewer do the trick?

PS: I used to do this under Ubuntu with evince and okular, that worked fine.


texts: Is there a way to access Mac OS default wallpaper with resolution for portrait mode monitor?

texts: I'm currently using a secondary 24" monitor (widescreen) in portrait mode (rotated 90 degrees to be vertical). Is there a way to have the default Mac OS wallpaper adjust to maintain the image resolution quality?


texts: How can I check if an iPhone is new or refurbished based on its serial number?

texts:
I want to make sure that the replacement iPhone I am being given is new, not refurbished.

Given the serial number, is there any way to tell if an iPhone is new or has been refurbished?


texts: How to stop being asked the same Firewall related question each time iTunes launches

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Possible Duplicate:
  Always Asked to Configure Firewall for iTunes

Every time I open iTunes (version 10.6) I'm asked "Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?"

If I reply 'allow', iTunes works normally. (Except that I'm asked the same question again next time I launch iTunes.) If I choose 'deny' I get a similar dialog box asking me to attend to my Firewall settings the next time I open iTunes.

I've already added it to the list of apps which, under Firewall settings, are allowed to accept incoming network connections. I've tried removing and adding it again to no avail.

How can I stop this dialog box holding up the launch of iTunes?


texts: Youtube video won't play with Firefox but will with Safari!

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What can I do to solve this problem ?

On the same iMac, there are several accounts. For one of them, Youtube videos won't play in Firefox, but will with Safari. For the other accounts, Firefox and Safari can play Youtube videos!?

Any hint where I can search to solve the issue ?

EDIT : I'm sorry. I can not flag anything because this long lasting (several months) problem has been solved, and I don't know how! I didn't change anything. This must be a side effect of something I did. Probably on my Admin Account. The mystery stays forever...


texts: Copying text from a file using Quick Look?

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Anyone know of a way to simply select and copy text from a file open in Quick Look?

Our project managers really enjoy sending out change requests as attached .doc files, and I'd really love to be able to hit spacebar, copy the text, and paste the text into my preferred editor without having to fire up Word (or Office alternative).


texts: Make standard keyboard and function keys to work

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I have this keyboard https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboards/natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000/b2m-00012 and am running Sierra on my Mac.

How can I make all the function keys (F1, F2, F3 ....) work?
They are not responding.

This is my config:

Update, looks like the drivers are installed

Thanks


texts:
I'd like to be able to track information relating to how I use email. I'm basically after a better way to visualise when my inbox is going out of control, and I'd historically like to know how much email I deal with.

At the moment I have a spreadsheet with daily tallies of ‘messages in inbox’, ‘total for today’, ‘trashed today’, etc., that I often forget to update since it's a manual process.

I've attempted to AppleScript mail in the past but generally have found it's flaky trying to deal with smart mailboxes. (Haven't tried using accessibility scripting, though.) E.g., something like this (assuming I have a smart mailbox called "Unread"), doesn't work:

tell application "Mail" to get every mailbox whose name is "Unread"

Is anyone aware of software, or know a workable technique, for tracking mail behaviour over time? The more automated the better of course. TL;DR version: How can I get the number of messages in a smart mailbox?


texts: Can't find application seen in storage management

texts:
Question above. I have deleted "Rocket League" from my applications folder and deleted the entire trash.

I downloaded the app via Steam. I checked all the folders people said the app was downloaded in and saw a tiny directory inside /Users/<name>/Library/Application Support but definitely was not 8GB.

Clicking "Delete..." or "Show in Finder" in the Storage Management app does nothing.

What should I do?


texts:
After updating my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5.0.1 from 4.3 on Sunday Evening, and letting it finish syncing, I tried playing my music in the morning. I thought it was great that it held the last song I was playing, but it never actually played it. I hit Play, the play logo appears on the status bar. The Pause button switches back to Play on the iPod Controls screen. I can hit Next or Previous, and it does the same thing. One about 1 out of every 20 songs, it will play a song, although all the tags are matched up to a different song.

I tried Resyncing, with a cable and over Wifi for the past couple of nights, but the same thing keeps happening. I am running iTunes 10.5.1 on a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.8


texts:
I tried to reply to this thread - MacBook Pro detects external monitor but shows black screen.

Unfortunately I don't have reputation to do so...

If you are having troubles with a black display it could be that your Mac has onboard graphics and a dedicated graphics card.

The full issue I had was a 2018 MacBook 15inch using two hdmi to usb-c connectors, only one display would ever have an image, the other was black.

As soon as I turned off Automatic Graphics switching (Apple Icon > System Preferences > Energy Saver > Tick Box for Automatic Graphics Switching) the problem immediately ceased.

Hope this may help some others with the same issue as me.

Edit:
Ensure you do this for the relevant mode of use. You can change this setting for both using battery and being connected to power


texts:
Why does Spotlight want to search Google for Chrome rather than launch the app Chrome?

For some reason, searching for Chrome in Spotlight yields numerous suggestions (a Google search for "Chrome", the definition of "chrome", the Wikipedia entry for "Google Chrome") but none of them is the Chrome app on my computer—why doesn't the app show up?

GIF:

Image:


texts: Can I change the behavior of the Home and End keys on an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad?

texts:
I just bought an "Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad", then I connected it to my Macbook Pro running Lion.

But the home and end key under the F14 key doesn't work as I expected. Say in "Pages", the home key doesn't bring the cursor to the beginning of the line, while the end key takes you to the bottom of the page.

Does anyone know how to re-map the home/end key?


texts: macOS 10.12.6 Sierra keychain has stopped saving passwords, how to repair?

texts:
Within the last few weeks I have noticed that my system has stopped or cannot save passwords. Outlook, iCloud, and other GUI apps ask for them every single time. Attached is a picture from SequelPro when attempting to save a password.

How can I diagnose / repair the Keychain?


texts:
I have iTunes 11.0.2.

For the first time ever I have downloaded some MP4s from YouTube - the ones that say share with anyone and everyone if you can, so I thought I would.

I was able to upload or add them to the library in iTunes, and they play fine there.

But when I go to sync them to my iPod, it is like the MP4s don't exist and the nothing happens when I click the apply button to sync, even though the MP4s are all checked.

Does anyone know how I can sync these MP4s to my iPod from iTunes?


texts:
I have had my iPad on iOS 5.0.1 for a while, and restored it a couple of months ago, wiping all the content. Today I put some music back on (this is iOS 5.1.1 now) and while the music player works, as soon as I close it the music stops (I say 'stops' rather than 'pauses' because using the play button in the multitasking tray starts the song from the beginning as if the Music app hadn't been running.

This does not happen when playing music from other apps such as Dropbox.

Any ideas?


texts: In Preview App (PDF) why is text entering in some fields but others it won't?

texts: I am trying to enter text in PDFs with the Preview app. Ins some fields the text enters, no problem. In others I get the text enter box but when I type nothing happens. Why is this? I can put text there by using Markup and creating my own text box but it is tedious. I would like to enter right into the box.


texts:
Currently my iMac has 10.5.8 Mac Os X installed.

I want to install 10.6.6 over 10.5.8 (iMac (intel Dual core)).

Do I have to do the following ??

Visit Apple Store.
Buy 10.6 OS X for USD $29.00
Simply insert installation disk in the computer and follow and execute install instructions.
All the existing applications (including FinalCutExpress) will continue to work as usual.

Please confirm.

Thanks..


texts:
I'm not using a Caps Lock key at all, so I've come up with the idea to use it as a way to change the input source.
Problem: keyboard settings want me to hit two keys for a shortcut to register.
Question: is there a way to use only one key?


texts: Two computers to one new one using time machine

texts: I want to transfer both my computers info to the new one.  I did it, but it came out in two different places.  Can I merger the two?


texts:
I recently ran Boot Camp Assistant to remove the Windows partition from my 2017 MacBook Pro, but during the partitioning step I quit Boot Camp Assistant. After restarting the computer the next time, I got a flashing drive icon and macOS was no longer booting.
My only option at this point was Internet recovery. I tried running Disk Utility, unfortunately First Aid seems to be unable to fix the problem:

Looks like the APFS Container got corrupted.
diskutil apfs list
|
+-- Container ERROR -69808
|   ======================
|   APFS Container Reference:     disk1
|   Size (Capacity Ceiling):      ERROR -69620
|   Capacity In Use By Volumes:   ERROR -69620
|   Capacity Not Allocated:       ERROR -69620
|   |
|   +-< Physical Store disk0s2 2881B334-866B-4DC7-98F9-2DB0B583B353
|   |   -----------------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
|   |   Size:                       451000901632 B (451.0 GB)
|   |
|   +-> No Volumes

Next, I tried diskutil repairVolume on the APFS Volume, but again, no luck:
diskutil repairVolume disk0s2
Started file system repair on disk0s2
Repairing storage system
Performing fsck_apfs -y -x /dev/disk0s2
warning: nx_block_count is 122061322, while device block count is 110107642
error: object (oid 0x1): o_cksum (0x50eca9de0b97f54e) is invalid for object
Checking the container superblock
Storage system check exit code is 8
Error: -69716: Storage system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8

GPT partitions:
Password:
     start       size  index  contents
         0          1         PMBR
         1          1         Pri GPT header
         2          4         Pri GPT table
         6      76800      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     76806  110107642      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 110184448   11953680
 122138128          4         Sec GPT table
 122138132          1         Sec GPT header

Also, recovery tools like iBoysoft do see the APFS volumes and all the files after I provide the encryption password, so the volumes seems to be OK:

Is there any way I can re-build the partitions/APFS container so the disk will boot again? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Note: currently I am running a fresh install of Catalina on an external HDD.


texts: iPad DEP asking for credentials - Cisco Meraki MDM

texts:
I have been using Cisco Meraki for my MDM and it has been working great. I just bought a bunch of new iPads and am setting up DEP for the first time.  I have done all the steps required: Added the order to my Apple DEP account, pushed them to my Cisco Meraki MDM and assigned settings.

Now on the iPad during initial setup I get to a step that says that my organization is going to automatically setup this iPad (which is good).  The next step asks for credentials in a Username and Password.  I have tried my organization ones, my MDM ones but do not know what this password would be for.

Watching this YouTube video, the iPad here does not have this step. I have done everything the same in this video.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Adding some photos from the iPad setup:

After "Setup iPad as New iPad"

The blanked out bits are my organization name.


texts: macOS Preview: Bug in PDF highlights that displays an additional offset highlight

texts:
I update from OSX El Capitan to macOS Sierra yesterday. Now when I open PDFs containing highlights there are 'double highlights', ie. the original highlight and an additional highlight which is offset slightly. This only happens for some highlights.

See example in picture below. This page should contain 4 highlights (the title of the figure, the p1 and p2 in lower graph, and part of the third last paragraph), but 7 highlights are displayed. Only the last three highlights have "doppelgängers". These additional highlights are offset (down and to the left).

Update: Quick Look displays the highlights correctly. See screenshot below.

Any suggestions how to fix this?


texts: OS X 10.8.3: how do I get it to remember my finder windows when I reboot?

texts: I've looked all over for this, but with "windows" being a major OS name, it's pretty hard to search for this issue. :(


texts: Unwanted 'Favourites' folder in Photos App

texts:
When viewing a photo I clicked on the heart icon in the iPad photo app by mistake and a Favourites folder was created.
Although the photo was deleted from the Favourites folder, the empty folder remains. Has anyone any idea how to remove the empty Favourites folder.
Very annoying to have it there with nothing inside it and no obvious way to remove it.


texts: Is there a reason why OS X Mavericks Server is running Postgresql?

texts: I recently installed OS X Mavericks Server on my computer to use for Xcode continuous integration. I now see that the postgresql database is running via the Activity Monitor, and some investigation shows that it was started by Server.app, which is running Python, which started Postgres. I know that postgres is small and doesn't take up much resources, but I am just curious: Is there a reason why Server.app is running the database? I don't see a postgres service to turn on or off (which to be honest would be a great service to run via the server app).


texts: Trying to get Hadoop to work; "connection refused" in Hadoop and in Telnet

texts:
I was trying to get Hadoop working in standalone mode on my MBP (OS 10.9.5), but I kept getting "connection refused" errors. I found that telnet localhost 9000 gives the same error, which is what I was told to try as a diagnostic. The same thing happens if I try 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, or if I try ftp instead of telnet. However ping localhost and ssh localhost work fine.

I had messed around a while ago with setting up an Apache server, and I'm concerned I might have broken something. At some point, I had apparently added the line:

127.0.0.1    test.local

to /etc/hosts. I also had modified httpd.conf to use the folder ~/test as my DocumentRoot, and had changed to extra/httpd-vhosts.conf as well.

I restored the original httpd* files from the /etc/apache2/original folder, and I restored the /etc/hosts file to its original state. apachectl configtest gives me:

httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using <username>.local for ServerName
Syntax OK

So what do I do? How can I get my computer to stop refusing the connection? I don't know much about networking or servers.

For completeness, here's the original telnet error:

$ ssh localhost
$ telnet localhost 9000
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
Trying fe80::1...
telnet: connect to address fe80::1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

and my /etc/hosts file:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

and the Hadoop error which uses the same "connection refused" language as telnet:

java.net.ConnectException: Call From <username>.local/<ip> to localhost:9000 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see:  http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused

Following the link in the error (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused), I read the following:

  If the application or cluster is not working, and this message appears in the log, then it is more serious.

  Check the hostname the client using is correct
  Check the IP address the client is trying to talk to for the hostname is correct.
  Make sure the destination address in the exception isn't 0.0.0.0 -this means that you haven't actually configured the client with the real address for that
  service, and instead it is picking up the server-side property telling it to listen on every port for connections.
  Check that there isn't an entry for your hostname mapped to 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts (Ubuntu is notorious for this)
  Check the port the client is trying to talk to using matches that the server is offering a service on.
  On the server, try a telnet localhost <port> to see if the port is open there.
  On the client, try a telnet <server> <port> to see if the port is accessible remotely.

  None of these are Hadoop problems, they are host, network and firewall configuration issues. As it is your cluster, only you can find out and track down the problem.

and indeed I fail on the second-to-last step, which apparently should work; hence this question.


texts: Load .bash_profile automatically on Terminal.app startup?

texts:
I have seen various questions that ask something similar. They suggest changing .bash_profile to .profile. However this doesn't work either.
I have aliases setup up in .bash_profile. I would like these to be available automatically every time I open Terminal.app. Instead, I currently have to run the file manually each time I open Terminal.

Please advise on how this can be run automatically each time terminal starts.


texts: Mavericks won't install on brand new SSD drive

texts:
Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 6,2
Had 10.9.1 installed on an SSD drive which failed.
Got a replacement drive (same brand, model)
Have a USB bootable thumb drive with 10.9.0 installation files on it
Mac boots from USB and install starts
It sees the new drive (formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled)
I set the date via Terminal so that isn't the issue
Goes through the preparing to install routine, and then eventually fails with the following error:

  An error occurred while preparing the installation.  Try running this
  application again.

Saw previous posts which said date was incorrect; but date has been set correctly.
I've confirmed the files exist on the USB drive.
After it fails and I go to Disk Utility, the SSD drive is suddenly not visible.
Anyone have a clue?


texts: Why isn't my system producing an audible system beep in iTerm2 or Terminal?

texts:
I want to be able to hear the system beep. Normally, this can be done by running any of the following commands in OSX:

echo -e "\a"
printf "\a"
tput bel

Running these commands in the standard Terminal app (Version 2.6.1 [361.1]) produces no visible or audible effect.

Running these commands in the iTerm2 app (Build 3.0.15) produces a small, golden bell next to the tab name at the top of the window, but produces no sound. If I enable the "Flash visual bell" setting, I get the small, golden bell plus a larger bell icon over the whole terminal window, as shown here:

The profile I use has what appear to be the correct settings:

For comparison, say "hello world" makes the computer speak "hello world" audibly -- my speakers are not muted.

Note that this question is similar, but asks for the special case of enabling sound in certain situations but not others.


texts: Get cell value by address string in Numbers

texts: In Numbers 3.5.2 I manage to get a cell address sting (I compute it based on some data). Now when I have it, how can I get the value behind that address without copying the result of my function to the another cell and adding = before it?


texts: List & documentation for Open Directory properties

texts:
Anyone know where I can find documentation on the various properties available for directory services on the Mac?

man dscl only tells me that I can -create or -read a record. It doesn't tell me how to create them; what properties are available and the options can be set on each. I know a few (RealName, UniqueID, PrimaryGroupID, UserShell) but where can I find documentation on all of them?


texts: Move album from iTunes on PC to Macbook wirelessly

texts:
I have just used iTunes to import a CD on my desktop Windows 7 PC.

I'd actually like the CD on my Macbook Pro's (El Capitan) iTunes library; I've been using iTunes' Music Sharing to access it in the past.

How can I "wirelessly import" this CD from my PC's iTunes onto my Macbook's?

The two iTunes libraries use different iTunes accounts.


texts: Triple boot OS-X Catalina10.15.5, Kali-Linux 2020-2, Ubuntu 20.04 on MacBook Pro

texts:
This question is the next event of this post.
https://superuser.com/questions/1561735/need-help-booting-into-mac-os-lost-during-triple-boot-mac-os-win-10-ubuntu-20?noredirect=1#comment2377602_1561735
After going through the nightmare for a couple of days to retrieve my Mac partition, finally, I succeeded. But during that process, something happened with my ubuntu and it started taking 2-3min to boot(earlier hardly 15sec). So I decided to do a fresh install and hence, normalized all my partitions.
Now I want to do a triple boot as mentioned in the title. And I don't want to mess things up anymore. so, Can someone please guide me out in this regard? I was able to find a few posts involving windows but not sure whether I can apply the same in my case.
Installing Ubuntu on Mac with macOS and Windows already installed
How can I triple boot MacOS Catalina , Ubuntu 18.04, and Windows 10
My Plan:

I want to make 15GB Linux-swap, 65GB Ubuntu, and 50GB Kali.
I want to make the Ubuntu default as I'll be using it more often.
I want to access the other two OS's from the Ubuntu grub screen when needed.

My Mac-book pro is the early-2015 Model and this is the current condition of my disk.
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     84.7 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 126.6 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.6 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk1s5
$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
        start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  489825072      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  490234712          7
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  490234751] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

This is my boot partition
$ ls /Volumes/EFI/EFI
APPLE   refind  tools
$ ls refind
BOOT.CSV        icons-backup        refind.conf-sample
drivers_x64     keys            refind_x64.efi
icons           refind.conf
$ ls tools
gptsync_x64.efi


texts: Is there a way to make Safari open a dark blank page?

texts:
I have Safari set to open a blank page when I open a new tab. I like it better than what it is normally set to, but unfortunately I work late a lot and the giant white area on the screen bothers my eyes a considerable deal. Does anybody know a way to make the blank page darker so that it's easier on the eyes?

Just for reference, here's the blank page I'm talking about: http://cl.ly/image/1l1P47351D1o


texts: A single keyboard shortcut to toggle between different shortcuts

texts:
I'll start from my end goal so it will be clearer - I have a mouse with buttons that can be assigned to output keyboard shortcuts. I'm using Divvy and I want to use it so that whenever I click that button a different Divvy shortcut will be used. So for example:

1st click - Center window
2nd click - Align to the left
3rd click - Align to the right
4th click - Center
5th click - left .... and so on

What piece of software am I missing to map between what I'll use with the mouse and the cyclic shortcuts to be used with Divvy?


texts: Is there a command line utility to perform common Wi-Fi operations?

texts: I would like to manage my Mac's Wi-Fi on the command line, but there are lots of different built-in Mac utilities that need to be called (airport, ipconfig, networksetup, netstat, security), with various options. I'd like a simple way to do the most common operations. Is there anything like that out there?


texts: Switch between fullscreen apps, wrap around?

texts: I have multiple full screen applications running on my Mac. I use three finger swipe to scroll through them. When they are in order I have to move from app 1 to app n by swiping n times. Is there a way to wrap them around so that when i swipe beyond app n, I can reach app 1?


texts: How can I list my open network ports with netstat?

texts:
I would like to list my open network ports in Terminal with built in commands. As what I know, netstat is the command to use. But I'm struggling to get any useful information out of it.

How can I list my open ports with netstat? Any specific flags that helps me in this case?


texts: How do I stop an AppleScript script that is stuck in an endless loop without restarting my Mac?

texts:
I stupidly ran an AppleScript script on my Mac running macOS Mojave and the script is running in an endless loop. I thought something obvious like pressing the Esc key would end the program. However, neither the Esc key or anything like CTRL + Z etc works.

How can I interrupt the loop and end the script using a hotkey or similar method?

I tried to click the program but it won't let me unless the loop of the keystrokes stop.

NOTE: I need to save my work so I can't shut it down.


texts:
My MacBook pro 2017 15 inch touchbar model stopped turning the backlight of the touchbar. The functionality is still there as it still works when touched. I have tried factory resetting, smc reset, nvram reset but it had no effect on the display.

Any more things to try would be greatly helpful as I am out of options and the warranty has expired a month ago.


texts: Notification Center on iOS 6 is not removing deleted emails

texts:
After upgrading to iOS 6 on my 4S i'm seeing that after I delete an email in the mail app itself, it was SUPPOSED to remove it from notification center.

Now even after i've deleted messages without reading them from the mail app, they are STILL in notification center and I have to clear them OR I wait until another email comes in to clear out the ones that were already previously deleted from the mail app which removes them from the notification center.

If I open them, then they go away from the notification center.

I shouldn't need to open emails to remove them from the notification center.

Then, when I click the previously deleted email within notification center that is no longer in the mail app, it just leads me to the start screen in Mail that shows my inboxes and accounts. It doesn't do anything. It doesn't open anything because the email was deleted.

Why is this happening? Is anyone else having the same problem?


texts: what is the Update from iMac OS X 10.6.8

texts:
When I go into my Apple Software Updates on my OS X 10.6.8 computer to update to OS X 10.9, the computer tells me that I do not have any new updates.

How can I upgrade to OS X 10.9 if it does not give me that option?

Operating system of my iMac
  Model Name:   iMac
  Model Identifier: iMac10,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:  3.06 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache: 3 MB
  Memory:   4 GB
  Bus Speed:    1.07 GHz


texts: Why won't my secondhand iPad let me activate an Apple ID?

texts:
On the settings under iCloud, if I try and log in on the ID I created this morning, it says that the maximum number of ID's have been activated on this device. When I try and create a new account underneath, it says that this device is not eligible for one.

How can I resolve this?


texts: Does AppleCare care if I've modded my machine?

texts:
I have a 15" MacBook Pro whose SuperDrive I have removed and added a ssd. It's been running well like this everyday for 30 months.

I was using it the other day, and the video started to freak out with a bunch of lines on the screen printer the computer crashed and now it won't boot. When I turn it on I got a bunch of video artifacts and then the machine stops.

Seems like a pretty cut and dry hardware failure to me. I'd like to take it in to Apple to have them replace the logic board, but I'm worried that they'll balk when they see the modifications I've made.

Do you think that it'll be an issue with them, or are they likely to recognize the problem as being unrelated to the changes I've made?


texts: Restore iTunes 12 without losing song ratings

texts:
iTunes has been acting up lately (album cover disappears, glitches when adding ID3-less tracks), and I want to erase my Library and re-add manually my music to iTunes. I know some data is written in the ID3 tag of the song (Song Name, Album Name, etc), but not my personal ratings.

How can I erase and re-add my albums to iTunes without losing data such as Lyrics or Ratings (Stars/Hearts)?


texts: How to undo this - set default finder window size?

texts:
I have set default finder window size using this.
But I don't want this, how can I undo this setting
I have used the following steps to set finder windows size.


texts: I use a program to deal with the contents in sd card on startup. But the problem is that the program always starts before I can see the sd card in the finder.  As a result, the program can't find the contents and can't run correctly. I think whether I can delay the startup time of a specified program in login items preference.


texts: Is there anyway to turn off the dreaded slot machine date picker in iOS?

texts:
The date picker in iOS is awful.  Every time I put something on my calendar it's a "game of chance" if I will notified about it.  Combine that with a touch screen and you have a recipe for scheduling disaster.

I would prefer to select a date from a calendar, or heaven-forbid, type it in using the keyboard!!!!!

Is there any way to turn this thing off?


texts: How can I update an iOS device using iTunes on Mac without backing it up?

texts:
Since Apple's weird rule makes me unable to upgrade my phone via mobile data. I have to use iTunes to upgrade.

I have a lot of traffic so it's not a big deal for me.

I have a Mac with me and I can connect my phone to the Mac. And I have downloaded the latest iOS on my Mac.

But before updating, it says "backing up ..." and it seems to take forever to finish.

So is it possible to update my iOS WITHOUT backing up it first?

My current iOS: 12.1.2
My Mac: 10.14.2 (18C54)
The downloaded iOS version: 12.1.3

Thanks,


texts:
I have a Mac book pro (13 inch late 2013) and I have an old iMac (27 inch mid 2010).

I checked on apple website and it says that the 27 inch Mid 2010 model does support target display mode

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592

It says that target display mode is supported but I need a "mini display to mini display cable"

but when I look at my MBP, it does have any mini display port. it has only 2 thunderbolt ports.

So will I be able to use the old iMac as a external display?


texts: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache = ?Invalid command

texts:
I'm getting the following response when I try and run dscacheutil -flushcache

  ?Invalid command


texts: moving iMovie project to new Mac results in some sounds from same source missing

texts:
I have two Macs, the first running iMovie 10.1.2 and the second running iMovie 10.1.8.  I completely copied the iMovie Library folder from the first machine to the second.  When I opened iMovie on the new machine it showed some progress in recognizing the new library, and then opened my project.  At first, everything looked fine, but then I noticed that some of the sound clips had no sound in them.  I see the green rectangle for the correct duration, but there is no waveform displayed in it, and when I play it there is no sound. When I reveal the source the original clip there is no sound there either.

It seems like roughly half of the sound is missing.  But the thing is, it's all from the same source file.  I compared the imported media file and it's identical to the original.   Furthermore, the sound is present in the actual media file.  I tried deleting the extra directories in the event directory (Analysis Files, CurrentVersion.imovieevent, and Render Files) and it was able to "repair" the event, but the sound is still missing.

How can I get my sound back?!

Edit: I enabled viewing the waveform in the event viewer, and it appears that the sound abruptly ends at 54.7 minutes.


texts: When I upgrade from 10.12 to 10.13 High Sierra - where do incompatible items go?

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Does the upgrade from macOS 10.12 Sierra to macOS 10.13 High Sierra remove any extensions, kernel extensions, Applications or settings that are known to be incompatible or disabled?

I looked briefly at /var/log/install.log and see there are over 20,000 lines of things that were logged during the migration and it looks like a lot of things were moved to /Volumes/whatever/Recovered Items but that directory is now deleted and cleaned up.

Additionally, there appears to be a runtime check of this: Sep 10 16:53:56 MacBook osinstallersetupd[514]: Retrieved package com.apple.pkg.CompatibilityUpdate (http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/47/49/031-75970/fhywgjppj47p6n4udnsqtyszmwfwjt78aj/OSX_10_12_IncompatibleAppList.pkg) package that now has a 404 not found error.

Are there places to look for what was removed from a specific Mac post upgrade if there's not a more comprehensive list of things we can check before an upgrade?


texts: MacOS Mojave stopped showing certain icons in the menu bar

texts: Recently I started up my computer (MBP 2015) and I realized all of the system icons were missing. The time, wifi, keyboard, etc were are missing. However all of the icons that come from programs I have installed still appear. The only system icon that does appear is spotlight. Every once in a while I will see a quick flash and all of the icons will shift left. I have reset my NVRAM, and tried to boot into safe mode but it didn't seem to work. I also tried to backup my computer to wipe it, but I had an unrelated issue with time machine where it said the format of my drive was incorrect, even though I have backed up to the same device before.


texts: Permissions won't let me delete a file on a shared school server

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I'm on OS X Mavericks. When I click on Get Info it doesn't even have a drop down of selections for permissions. It just says read/write but it really won't let me do anything. I can't delete nor edit and save the files. I need to allow permissions to everyone including myself to edit the files, etc.

Is there anything I can do on terminal.app to allow myself more permission than the one given by admin?


texts: iPhone camera app to document wear and tear of items?

texts: I'd like to document the wear and tear of everyday items. For that, the photos taken must be taken from similar distances and angles. Is there an app that helps achieving the right angles and distance, for example by overlaying the live camera image (before shooting) with a semitransparent older image or by using markers on the object? Or is there another way to do this with the regular camera app?


texts: How can I return the temperatures, fan speeds, etc, using Terminal?


texts: I have Cienega on my Mac and did a recent update.  Since the update I'm not able to open in Applications Cienega.  I'm receiving a error message that says  I have Mac OS X 10.6.8. The application requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later.  How do I upgrade?


texts: How can I access my Photostream on Windows?

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I'm trying to swipe a couple photostream pictures onto a borrowed windows laptop, but I can't find any way to do that via the web.

Can I access my photostream in any way other than iTunes? I'd rather not install it on someone else's PC.


texts: How can I isolate macOS 10.14.6 Mojave freezing 1-2 seconds every few minutes except for sound and the mouse?

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Since a week or two I am experiencing a very strange problem on my MacBook Pro running macOS 10.14.6 Mojave. (Build 18G103)
No matter what I'm doing, typing something in a browser or text editor or other application, watching a video on youtube or in VLC, every few minutes the whole system become non-responsive for like 1 or 2 seconds.
When the machine is "stunned":

The keyboard does not respond to typing in any app

video playback stops no matter which app or browser

mouse clicks don't register

cursor movement does work and respond

any sound that is playing, keeps on playing normally.
When I was typing something, the letters don't appear, but after 1-2 sec when the system continues, the letters still appear as if they were cached somehow.

This persists across reboots, activity monitor shows no fancy stuff taking CPU in the background. I did not recently install any particular new software myself, other than just updates. It makes no difference if I have multiple apps running or only the one I'm using.
Is there any way to find out what application or process is causing these short freezes, and preferably get rid of them?


texts: How to change the background of an DMG Software License Agreement dialog?

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When I create my own dmg-images, I always attach a software license agreement to them. When I opened the flattened image, I always got the Jaguar "X" in the background of the agreement dialog, where I have to confirm to the SLA before the image will be mounted. I believe that since Lion, apple removed that, so the eula-dialog is clean.

Is it possible to set a custom image into the SLA-Dialog on Lion or later OS X?


texts: How can I restrict Mac sharing services to a specific network/adapter?

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I want is to set up a Mac to connect to multiple networks. So far, so good. However, I only want to grant AFP access to users on ONE of the networks, but not the other. How can I accomplish this on (non-server) Mac OS X?

This is probably an issue that comes up quite a bit in IT - you want to use the same machine as a world-facing web server and as an internal AFP (or whatever) server, but I haven't really been able to find a way to do it.


texts: M1 MacBook Air screensaver can't be disabled

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Two problems: on both my login and my wife's login on this M1 MacBook Air:

The screensaver cuts in even when delay is set to 'Never'; and
What is the correct keystroke to clear the screensaver and get back to work? Currently I have to press the power button and reboot. Logging out and back in does not stop the screensaver.
I will try to flag #1 as a bug, but does anyone else know the keystroke in the meantime?
It might be caused by having two logins...


texts: Google Sheets link to cell in same sheet not working in iOS

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I am working on a shopping list spreadsheet and I want to have links near the top of the spreadsheet to quickly jump the main category sections or store names (e.g. Frozen, Bread, Dairy or Walmart, Costco, Aldi...).
I have many rows of items and trying to scroll through them to find what I want will be very cumbersome without some sort of ability to quickly get around using links. I can get it to work on my PC by right clicking on the cell I want to link to, click on "Get link to this cell", then going to the cell where I want to put the hyperlink and ctrl+K where I paste in that link with the name to display.
On an iPhone, when I click on the link cell in the updated spreadsheet, a black scroll menu pops up and I thought tapping on "Open link" would work, but it doesn't.


texts: What license is needed to use Apple hardware in a movie?

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I want to enter a short film in a NZ student film competition.

I want to include a scene where a girl works on an Apple MacBook. Is it okay to show the Apple branding/logo in the film?

The fact it is an Apple computer is not important to the movie, it could be any laptop. Should I just keep the logo off the screen, or is it not OK to even show the white edge?

I'd really appreciate helpful links to the Apple website or other reliable sources.


texts: Can Safari on an iPad be controlled with gestures?

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On the Desktop version of Safari, you can navigate back and forward with a swipe gesture on the trackpad. Setting up other gestures (close tab, new tab, next/previous tab) is trivial with an app like BetterTouchTool.

I find myself trying to use these gestures, especially the swipes for back and forward, on my iPad (third generation).
Is there any way to enable gestures for Safari on the iPad?

I realize that the answer is probably no; Apple isn't much for hidden features/preferences in iOS and there are no BTT equivalents. So, I'm willing to explore alternatives. Are there any other web browsers for iPad, preferably as similar to Safari as possible, that support gestures?


texts: Why does Python's readline.read_history_file not work from a script, but work interactively?

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I asked over on Stack Overflow, but this seems a problem specific to Mac OS X as the error does not happen on other OS (ubuntu for example).

https://stackoverflow.com/q/42637680/447830 repeated below:

So. I own the file named ~/.osc_history, as shown below:

$ w
17:53  up  3:15, 5 users, load averages: 1.30 1.17 1.10
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
kyma     console  -                14:39    3:14 -
kyma     s001     -                17:20       - w

$ ls -l ~/.osc_history
-rw-r--r--  1 kyma  staff  13 Mar  6 17:41 /Users/kyma/.osc_history

$ ls -lO ~/.osc_history
-rw-r--r--  1 kyma  staff  - 13 Mar  6 17:41 /Users/kyma/.osc_history

The header in the file is correct:

$ cat ~/.osc_history
_HiStOrY_V2_

From the interactive prompt, the following code runs fine:

$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 19:40:32)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os.path
>>> import readline
>>> histfile = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".osc_history")
>>> histfile
'/Users/kyma/.osc_history'
>>> readline.read_history_file(histfile)
>>> ^D

However, when I attempt to run the following, which I've called "yeuch.py"...

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import readline                 # Command line history
import os.path

histfile = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".osc_history")
if not os.path.isfile(histfile):     # If there's no history file...
    empty = open(histfile, "a")      # ... create an ALMOST empty one...
    empty.write("_HiStOrY_V2_\n")    # ... with the special header line
    empty.close()
readline.read_history_file(histfile) # Read history from previous sessions
readline.set_history_length(1000)    # Default length was -1 (infinite)

...I see:

$ python yeuch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yeuch.py", line 14, in <module>
    readline.read_history_file(histfile) # Read history from previous sessions
IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

What the heck's going on? (I hope I'm not overlooking some stupid typo multiple times and am not a readline code expert enough to spot the error myself.)


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I am using my iPhone to listen to audio books. When the iPhone stays on, I can stop listenting and when I restart it remembers which file I was last listening to, and where in that file I was. However, whenever I turn off the iPhone, it forgets where in an audio file I stopped listening; I have to manually fast forward to where I was.

Is there a way to get the media player to remember where in a file I was when turning off the iphone, or is there a different player software that could do that for me?


texts: Would reformatting my Mac and restoring the latest Time Machine backup be likely to improve its stability?

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My MacBook Air used to be rock solid, but it has grown increasingly unstable over the past year. For example, this afternoon I can't switch to my other user account. I select the account from the fast user switching menu and nothing happens.

Part of me wants to just start over, reinstall and reconfigure OS X and all of my applications from scratch. It would probably solve a lot of problems. But I have so much work invested in my current configuration. It would take days or weeks to fully rebuild.

I'm thinking the next best option would be to wipe the drive and restore my latest Time Machine backup. I know that Time Machine doesn't back up everything -- caches, log files, etc. -- so maybe restoring from backup would have a "rejuvenating" effect. Or it could just be a complete waste of time.

In general, is reformatting and restoring from Time Machine a good way to get a Mac running like new? Or is it merely "worth a shot"?


texts: Bluetooth headset: why do I have to either re-pair every time

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I'm using a "Energy BT Sport" headset. Pairing is pretty easy.

Obviously I'm not always using the headset, I'm frequently switching between headset and speakers depending the circumstance I'm in.

The problem is that everytime I want to use the headset, I turn it on and my MBP automatically connects back to it, but audio doesn't output anywhere. The whole sound system seems to have problems because in that period the sound keys are not very responsive and if I'm watching a video (whether youtube or VLC) it freezes a bit.

So everytime I want to put back my BT headset I have to choose between:

A. Remove the device from BT settings and pair again. An incredible waste of time and very frustrating.

or

B. Tell MBP to disconnect and after an important lag it disconnects and then snap connects back and I have to click disconnect for the second time (it always works like this) and then after the lag it disconnects and then I can manually click connect and that's when it works.

Is anyone else having the same issue? Any fix?


texts: Can't lock Profile Manager devices outside of server WiFi network

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I've got a few devices enrolled in my server's Profile Manager service. To test that this works on an outside WiFi network, I opened ports 443 and 1640 on our firewall (and ignored the others, as our firewall does not block outbound traffic), but when trying to send a Lock command to the test device (an iPhone connected through 4G LTE, no WiFi network), the command just stalls in Profile Manager, listed as "pending".

The interesting thing is, I can connect to my server's public IP in Safari on that iPhone and connect through HTTPS. However, when I try to access anything in a sub-directory, such as /mydevices/, I get a 503 error (Service Temporarily Unavailable).

I had thought DNS might be at the heart of the issue, but if I can connect directly through my public IP, I wouldn't think that would be an issue.

Can anyone offer any hints as to how I can tackle this issue and allow Profile Manager to do its job for devices on other networks? Thank you!


texts: Packaging a self-made service with dependancies — possible?

texts:
So I wrote a small service (a couple of services, really) which basically lets a user capture its screen (full screen or an area) and then make edits if necessary and then it uploads it directly to imgur and gives the user a direct image link.

I wrote it for myself but people at my workplace got interested and asked me to install it for them. Since my service has a couple of dependancies I basically had to borrow their Macbooks for like 15 minutes to install everything.

I wonder if it's possible to somehow pack everything so that I can hand it to other people who want to use it.

What my app consists of and what it requires:

A package from brew called imgur-screenshot (also available directly from github afaik)
A number of automator services that I wrote
A free image editor — Skitch
A config file for imgur-screenshot placed in ~/.config/imgur-screnshot/
Doing a couple of quick tweaks in system settings like assigning hotkeys to these automator services

I wonder just how much of these things I can bundle together and send as an archive or something to people who're not developers so that can do the installation in a couple of clicks. Also, how should I handle putting the config file into a hidden folder?


texts: Screen hanging after choosing to Fix Disk Image - restore to previous working state

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I believe I've gotten myself into a bit of a mess. I went to wipe my disks ready to handover my iMac. I wiped the disks, then accidentally restarted the machine.
Got the "?" folder appear. Restarted and got it into internet recovery mode, which finished then booted into Recovery mode. It then appeared that this caused issues to my disks which now appear red in the disk utility window.
It asked me to "restore to a previous working state", I hit fix. Now its been hanging like (see image) for at least 5-6hrs. Does it generally take this long?
Any help would be greatly appreciated


texts: Start XQuartz automatically on X11 app launch

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Before switcthing to Mac OSX 10.8 everytime I launch application which uses x11 it was starting x11 automatically.

After switching to XQuartz and 10.8 it does not work anymore and I have to launch XQuartz manually.

How to launch XQuartz on demand?


texts: All hearted songs in the Music library somehow have been dehearted

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Having deselected and then reselected the sync library button in the Music app on my iPhone (I've wanted to fix a sync problem with the library on my Mac) a few hours ago, I've just realized that all songs I've hearted have been dehearted. Only the songs in one of my playlists somehow have retained their heart symbol.
Is there a way to retrieve these hearts or at least view them?
I don't know if it's relevant, but I don't have any songs from Apple Music in my library. I've just recently gained access to it through a family account, and with it also the sync problems I've tried to solve... So the disappearing hearts might also be connected to Apple Music.


texts: Why does airdrop work with my Macbook, but not iMac?

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I have a 2011 Macbook Pro (Retina), and a 2011 iMac.  Both are running macOS 10.12.6.  I'm trying to share files between my iPad Mini 2 (retina) running iOS 10.3 using the app Groovebox.

Airdrop works perfectly fine between the iPad and Macbook, no issues at all, it "just works".  But between the iPad and iMac doesn't work at all and I can't figure out why.

I've tried, in no particular order:

Rebooting iMac
Rebooting iPad
Quit & relaunch iOS App
Deactivate/reactivate Bluetooth and Wifi on iPad
Deactivate/Reactivate Wifi on iMac
Deactivate the iMac Ethernet Service leaving only Wifi running
Disconnect the physical ethernet cable from the iMac
Open Finder on iMac and open AirDrop window

I'm out of ideas on why this refuses to work.  The iMac just doesn't appear to the iPad at all, only the MBP shows up.

EDIT:  I'm wondering if it could actually be the same issue asked in this question?  I seem to recall that my iMac didn't support Bluetooth LE but I could be wrong.


texts: For iTerm2, how do I make the working directory appear in the window title?

texts:
I recently switched to iTerm2 from the default Terminal app and have a usability issue.

On Terminal, the working directory you are in shows up on the title bar along with the process and pixel size.  For example, when you click on Window to switch between different Terminal sessions, you'd see: working_directory - process - pixel_size.

On iTerm2, unfortunately only the process shows in the title bar.  So if I'm working in multiple iTerm2 windows on different directories, I can't easily differentiate which is which when I click on Window to choose one.  I know I can easily switch between iTerm2 windows once I select one, but I'd like to identify exactly which window I want right away.  (By the way, I use Witch, and Command-tabbing doesn't help either because here again only the process shows up on the list).

Any suggestions?  I looked through all the preferences and didn't see anything.  Creating profiles isn't exactly what I'm after--I'd just like to see the current working directory in iTerm2 window titles.


texts: How to make Spotlight ONLY index certain file types?

texts:
I use my mac for development, and create/delete so many (big) files that I ended up turning Spotlight off, since it was taking so much time indexing these files.

I think it would be fine if I would only allow Spotlight to index pdf and doc documents, is this possible?


texts: How do I transfer a Photos project from one mac to another?

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I created two photo books on one Mac, but that Mac is getting a little constrained on space (this has now actually become more important, because I can not update to El Capitan because there is not enough space). Eventhough I've set Photos to "optimize storage", its library is almost 50 GB and I suspect my two photo albums are partly to blame. Regardless, I'd rather move these projects to the Mac that contains the full ibrary for safe keeping.

Is there any way to do this? I can't find any "export" option, or some such.

I asked the same question over on the Apple support community, and the answer was it can't be done. The same answer is given to a similar question on here, but for iPhoto (How do I move an iPhoto '11 book project from one mac to another).

However, when I open up the library using "Show package contents" I can actually see what appears to be all the data associated with the projects in resources/projects. I've tried copying one of those directories into the target Photos library, but as soon as Photos is started, the copied directory is removed. It seems that if only I could set the right metadata somewhere, this should work.


texts: how to stop iphoto from organising photos (physically relocating)?

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Many years ago I considered ditching picasa for iPhoto but stuck with it as I didn't want my pics being physically rearranged on the disk (Picasa is rightly okay with your pictures being where you want to store them)

Is there a way to prevent iPhoto from doing this?


texts: Scilab Error: Need to install legacy Java SE 6 runtime

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Scilab v6.0.2 is downloaded from the official website and installed, but it cannot be opened with the error:

  To open "this Java application" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.

I follow instructions in "More info" and on the Internet to download Java from Apple, but Java cannot be installed because "A newer version of this package is already installed", shown below:

My MacOS is Catalina v.10.15.3.
How can I escape this loop?

Thanks for the help in advance.


texts: Why does a MacBook throttle without a battery?

texts:
According to this posted answer, a MacBook Pro will throttle because otherwise its power consumption might exceed the amount supplied by the AC adapter.

However, from my experience, my 2012 MacBook Pro has never gone over perhaps 50W of energy usage, as shown with iStat Menus. My power adapter is an 85W MagSafe adaptor. Because of this, it seems like even without throttling the power consumption never would exceed the amount used.

So why would this MacBook throttle if I took out the battery, as suggested by the answer above, even though the power adapter can supply enough power to sustain peak performance?


texts: Can i extract from my iPhone browser the history older than 8 days ago?

texts:
It looks like that the data older than 7 days are automatically wiped from the iphone.

What's the database that stores that data, in case one exist, so that by jailbreaking my iphone i can have direct access to it and hopefully, extract the data i need?

If i did this yesterday, i would not have had this problem... :(


texts: How can I find out which generation my iPod belongs to?

texts: I have a iPod Classic 160 Gb. I have forgotten the generation. Is there any way by which I can find out the generation of the iPod?


texts: Unable to increase partition size with subsequent blocking partition

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I can't make my main Macintosh HD partition bigger. It's limited by the partition in the middle, which seems to be frozen, I can't move it down to make space for my main partition. Also I can't seem to delete it. The format of disk0s4 is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Some background, I created a partition to experiment with bootcamp to use windows. Once done I deleted that new partition, it became a no-man's land that neither partition can claim.

As a seperate issue, boot camp assistant has been giving me this error:

Anyone has any ideas? Much appreciated!

The closest problem I've found is here, this is a FAT partition.
Unable to increase Macintosh HD partition size with data in a subsequent partition


texts: Where can I download/update to OS 10.10?

texts:
I am looking to update to OS 10.10. I am currently on 10.9.5.
Both the appstore and macupdate.com seem to only have 10.10.1-.5, all of which require already having 10.10 (which, as stated, I am looking for).

I need this update so that I can install a program required for work.

Thanks!


texts: Automatic Switching to Headphones with a Multi-Output Device

texts:
I have a minor issue on macOS 10.14.6. I have two DisplayPort monitors plugged into my Mac. I have configured a Multi-Output Device as shown below in the Audio MIDI setup app, such that audio is sent to both monitor's speakers at the same time.

However, when I plug in my headphones with this setup, the automatic switchover of audio output to the headphones no longer happens -- I need to manually switch to the headphones (which then work). I know the jack sense functionality is working, because the 'Alerts and Sounds' play through the headphones, just not the audio of my apps, like Spotify.

Any ideas how this can be made to work? A minor issue, I know. But surely it is possible!

Thanks in advance for any input.


texts: `networkSetup -createBond` returning "devices: no devices" - no longer working in Catalina?

texts:
It used to be very simple to create network interface bonds not long ago via:
### Find out which interfaces are active (plugged in):
$ for i in $(ifconfig -lu); do if ifconfig $i | grep -q "status: active" ; then echo $i; fi; done

### Get friendly names and interface associations with:
$ networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder

### Create bond with desired interfaces:
$ sudo networkSetup -createBond bond0 "Ethernet 1" "USB 10/100/1000 LAN" "USB3.0 5K Graphic Docking"

But now I'm finding that this no longer works with Catalina. Unfortunately some names within the  System Preferences > Network > (Gear) > Manage Virtual Interfaces > click pencil on bond > list of interfaces to associate are not clear enough to indicate which ones are associated with the short device name, eg:

Is there a way to get networkSetup -createBond to actually work insetad of just creating the bond with no devices?:
$ sudo networkSetup -createBond bond0 "Ethernet 1" "USB 10/100/1000 LAN" "USB3.0 5K Graphic Docking"
bond created:
interface name: bond0
{
    user-defined-name: bond0
    devices: no devices
}


texts: Does iCloud push the "keyboard shortcuts phrases" between the iOS and macOS devices?


texts: With my MacBook (MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) it occurs that, without me wanting it, an item is attached to my cursor and dragged. I am not able to replicate it when I want so when I called Apple they could not really help. Have some of you the same problem? Can you replicate it? Have you a solution?


texts:
So, I'm very new to Apple products and am feeling a bit naive about it all - so, forgive me if this sounds a bit stupid!

I am thinking about purchasing a used iPod touch 5th gen 64gb and I am wondering how a factory reset is done and if I can do it myself or if I would need to take it to a store. As well as how much does a reset do? Does it remove the previous user's junk?


texts:
I have this AppleScript to quit all apps and then shut down:
tell application "System Events" to set quitapps to name of every application process whose visible is true and name is not "Finder"
repeat with closeall in quitapps
    quit application closeall
end repeat

tell application "Finder"
    shut down
end tell

return input
end run

Problem is when I restart after shutting down with this app the computer keeps shutting down in a loop. I had to start in Safe Mode, delete the AppleScript app I made, shut down and log back in normally to fix the problem. Obviously there's something wrong with my script which is causing the loop but I don't know what it is, need help!


texts: Keyboard shortcuts for non-menued items (iTunes 11)?

texts:
I'd like to have keyboard shortcuts for the horizontal menu bar in iTunes 11.

This one:

Is there a way (maybe using Automator or Terminal?) to create shortcuts for items not in a menu?


texts: Connecting Thunderbolt 2 Mac to Thunderbolt 3 Display, what is the maximum resolution@100hz , will USB 3.0 work?

texts:
I own a MacBook Pro 15" 2015 with a Thunderbolt 2 port.
I have recently bought a Samsung cj791 Thunderbolt 3 monitor
(3440 x 1440 @ 100Hz; 85W Power Delivery)
I plan on connecting the monitor to my Mac using: a) A Thunderbolt 3 male to Thunderbolt 2 female adapter and b) a regular Thunderbolt 2 cable
These are my questions:

Will this work at all (I have read it didn't before High Sierra)?
Will I be able to go up to the full 100Hz this way at the full resolution? (Another post said TB 2 works with 4K @ 60HZ which is the same data rate - a little more even)
I have read connecting 2.0 USB peripherals through the monitor is possible, does TB 2 also support USB 3.0 throughput?

Thanks.


texts: I can't change my skype status to online

texts:
After installing Lion, I have had trouble setting my status to Online.  It will stay on Away.  I can changed it to the other values, but it will not stay in "Online".

I contacted Skype about it and their answer was to uninstall, delete the ~/Developer/Application Support/Skype directory, and reinstall.  I believe that worked once, but it is now doing it again.

Has anyone else had this problem and come up with a solution?

As of Sep 28, 2011, I am using Skype 5.3.0.1093.


texts: It's possible to restore data deleted one month ago?

texts:
I ask if it's possible to resore some pictures taked last month an deleted from my iPad.
More precisely, when I taked the pictures I wasn't connected to the internet.


texts:
I am looking for a nice volume mixer for OS-X Yosemite+ for per-application audio control, I would also like per application sound output control.
I don't mind buying if it's a nice product with long term support.


texts:
I want to kill process that runs at some port. In ubuntu I used fuser -k 8000/tcp. What is the Mac OS way?

I found out this way:

lsof -i tcp:8000
kill -9

But it's very long. I need one short command like fuser

Thanx


texts: How does one remove FUSE from a MacBook?

texts: How do you remove FUSE? I have FUSE on my MacBook Pro (don't remember why I needed it or installed it) and when I installed Mojave Beta I keep getting this message upon startup. As there doesn't seem to be a compatible version yet, how do I get rid of it? Thx.


texts: Are there reliable VNC client to access from Windows 10 connecting to macOS Sierra?

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I want to remote access my MacBook Pro running Sierra from my Windows 10 PC.

I followed these steps from the Apple site but it does not work.

Both RealVNC and the VNC app for the Chrome browser result in connection timeout errors. Both computers are on the same network and I have tried providing port 5900 with no success.

Any to make these more reliable or change software to achieve a solid connection?


texts: What should I look for to replace the iSight camera on a 2010 13" Macbook Pro with a modern retina style FaceTime HD camera?

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Given that I have a 13" 2010 Macbook Pro with the old low-res iSight camera, is it possible to upgrade that camera to a modern FaceTime HD camera like the kind in the modern retina Macbook Pro.

I'm curious if I should look for a particular part number or maybe this is just not supported and someone can save me the effort now before I go down a costly path of purchasing parts that could never work together.

How would you do this?


texts: AppleTV “Watch Now” doesn't recognize purchased content in library

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Approximately two days ago Apple TV’s Watch Now screen stopped letting me watch the next episode of a show that I own and am watching. Instead it takes me to the rent/buy interface. I can watch the next episode by going to Library and finding the episode, but that is irritating.
This happens across all places I try to use AppleTV, my mac, iPhone, and the Apple TV app on my Roku.
I've tried logging out of my account and back on, but that does not help.
I've tried removing the series from watch now, but when I watch an episode through the library, it returns to watch now (which is what I would like to happen) but only shows a purchase next episode option when it is selected (which is not what I would like to happen)


texts: Are there any good TouchID enabled banking apps

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Recently my online savings bank (CapitalOne 360, formerly ING Direct) forced me to change my credentials and now doesn't allow me to use a simple x-digit passcode to open my iPhone app.

I have to type in my strong web password every time - this is stupid; my iPhone is secured with a strong password/TouchID and I shouldn't have to type in my entire website password every time (for access through the web makes sense because anyone could try to access my account from anywhere and TouchID hasn't been introduced on Macs).  So either I have to make my web-password insecure enough so I can remember it every time, or I have to look it up .. every time I use the App!

Looked around and don't see many options - does anyone know of a good bank or credit union (US-based) that has a decent iOS app with TouchID functionality?

Note: thought about using 1password browser/safari plugin, but features like check-deposit don't exist on the mobile site, and require the app.

I am willing to move my account to whatever bank takes my iPhone banking seriously.


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How can I remove the duplicated menu items?

They show duplicated in the Dashboard Dictionary widget as well, so I guess they get manifested from some general setting. I am new to Mac, thank you.


texts: Eclipse STS re creates folders every time it is opened, may be due to file permissions

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Ok, i have asked this question two times in stackoverflow two times, here and here.

I haven't gotten an answer, but after rethinking the problem i think it may be because of files / folders permissions, ok this is what it is happening.

Environment: eclipse STS 3.8.2 which run over java 1.8 and the SO is macOs Sierra.

when i open the IDE for first time it creates a folder in my home user called .eclipse and inside a folder with the name org.springsource.sts_3.8.2.RELEASE_562342862_macosx_cocoa_x86_64. The IDE uses this folder to save configuration, plug-ins and so on, ok latter when i close the IDE and open it again, the IDE creates a new folder like the first but it changes the name like this org.springsource.sts_3.8.2.RELEASE_562342586_macosx_cocoa_x86_64 and saves the configuration there, so all the previous configuration it is lost.

This leads to have a fresh environment every time i open the IDE, so every plug-in installed it is lost. I have tried to copy and paste the content of one folder to another but the IDE ignores the files in there.


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Starting an avd from the AVD Manager (Nexus5 API22 on OSX Yosemite 10.10.5)

Error trace:

  dyld: Library not loaded:
  /tmp/darwin-x86_64-clang-3.5/lib/libc++.1.dylib   Referenced from:
  /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/24.4.1_1/tools/emulator   Reason: image
  not found


texts: Change keyboard shortcut for hard refresh in Google Chrome for macOS

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I'm used to using F5 to refresh a webpage in browser. On  Mac, I found a way to change the keyboard shortcut for refreshing. Under System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts, I added Google Chrome.app with the Menu Title set to Reload This Page and the Keyboard Shortcut set to F5.

This all went very well, however I would also like to be able to do a hard reload by using Control + F5. I have googled for ages but unable to find a working Menu Title for hard refresh.

Does anyone know how to change the keyboard shortcut for a hard reload, or what the Menu Title for it is?


texts: Migration from 12" MB to 2020 MBA (Intel) Fail

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I am trying to migrate my data from my old MacBook (12-inch Retina Mid 2017) to a new Apple MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020).  I am using the USB port on an Apple AV Adapter on the MB connected using this Amazon cable and the drive never shows up when using Apple Migration Assistant on the new MBA.
I have reseated the cables multiple times and used multiple Apple and non Apple adapters and it doesnt work.  Has anyone successfully completed this migration using USB cables and if so, what cables did you use?
I'd love to use the Apple Thunderbolt yet the MB only has one port and it's USB-C, so I need an adapter for power during the transfer.
Thanks for any assistance.