texts: How to change Exchange email account settings on 50 iPhones, remotely?

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We have the following situation. A customer of ours got re-branded and has therefore now a new domain name. On the email server (Exchange 2010) we added the new domain and for every user we created a new email address and set it as the primary. (firstname.lastname@newname.com instead of firstname.lastname@oldname.com) The old email address is still in there as an alias.

Now we have the problem that the iPhones didn't get informed of this change. Sending and receiving emails work fine. But then a user presses reply all and the email was sent to the new email address then he get himself on the send to list too.

Is it possible to somehow enforce the change of the email address from the server side? I don't want to touch 50 iPhones to make such a change.


texts:
Friend running MacOS 10.7.5 wanted to update the OS but stick with iPhoto. So, we updated to Mavericks before realizing that she had an “old” version of iPhoto, version 9.1.5, which I figured we could update later. (In hindsight, I should have updated iPhoto when she was still on 10.7.5, but here we are.)

The combination of OS 10.9.5 and iPhoto 9.1.5 shows iPhoto as a non-launchable program. When I look at her App Store > Purchases, it shows iPhoto as “installed” and button is greyed out. So, I figured no problem, I kept all the iPhoto updaters from that era. However, when I run the 9.2.1, 9.3.1 or 9.4 or 9.4.3 updater, they all report that “the version of iPhoto installed on this Mac must be updated through the App Store” — which now is not possible.

I also have the iLife ’11 DVD, so I uninstalled her copy of iPhoto (the app and the receipt files located both in /Library/Receipts and in /var/db/receipts) and installed from iLife ’11.  Installed just fine. However, I’m left with a non-launchable iPhoto, although it’s a slightly newer version 9.2.1.  When I run any of the updaters (9.2.3, 9.3, etc), it gives me the error message “iPhoto 9.1 or later is required to install this update.” which is a bogus message, but probably something that Apple has ceased to care about.

As far as I know, there was never an iPhoto 9.6.1 updater put out by Apple — by that time it was updated via the App Store.

Any ideas on how I an get a runable version of iPhoto on this Mavericks Mac? (Yosemite is not the answer for other reasons I won’t go into). I do have Mavericks installed on a bootable external with an iPhoto that works (not exactly sure which version, but probably either 9.4.3 or 9.6.1). I know I could copy the app, but what support files also need to be copied.  Or is there some way to “trick” the current updaters into working?


texts: Calendar app changes colour of a calendar on its own

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I have 4 private calendars in my iCloud account, and I've been using them for the last 2~3  years with no problem.

I think it was last week when I first saw my blue calendar changing its colour to purple. I don't know who/what did it, but I just changed its colour back to blue and forgot about it.

Well today I checked my calendar and it's purple again. I changed it back to blue, but I get a feeling this might go on if I don't do something about it.

The last time I remember doing anything to my calendar settings was exporting the data at the end of last year. Other than that, I use the app everyday to set appts, change event date/time, delete event, etc.

Do you have any thoughts on what caused it or how to fix the problem for good?


texts: MacBook updated to OS X Yosemite version 10.10 and experiencing problems with hard drive & iPhoto

texts:
I updated my MacBook to OS X Yosemite version 10.10. Everything seems to be fine... apart from:

My WD hard drive won't open now - it appears on screen, allows me to enter the password to unlock and then give me this message:

NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk2s1
at /Volumes/My Passport because the following problem occurred:

/Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) link error; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
the MacFUSE file system is not available (71)

My iPhoto's has a 'no entry' symbol over it and it won't let me access it... does this mean I have lost all of my photos!?!?

Any advice on these 2 things would be much appreciated.
Many thanks


texts: Is there anything special about the "Applications" folder?

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As I've now got a few different Macs in the household, it's become painfully apparent just how much hassle it can be making sure that everything is sync'd properly across multiple systems. Music and other downloaded files as well as documents and photos are easy enough, but when it comes to making sure that installed apps are sync'd, I'm not so sure that it's that easy.

It may be, and I may just be paranoid, but I'd like a second opinion:

Is there anything special about the "Applications" folder that apps have their install path defaulted to, or can apps be installed into a folder (say a Google Drive folder) and sync'd across multiple systems?


texts: Applescript exits return loop before complete

texts:
I have to go through a stack of hard drives & usb keys looking for old quickbook files.  So, I've written an applescript which triggers when a new drive is mounted.  It then searches the drive for qbb or qbo files and copies them to a folder on the main drive.

I have it working almost perfectly but, for the life of me, I cannot get the repeat loop to run past the first item in the list.  So, it grabs qbb files, but not qbo files.  I know it is failing because I trigger it with a USB kye that has dummy qbo and qbb files on it.

I know I am missing something obvious, but keep racking my brain to no avail.

Here is my script.  Can someone please give me sanity check (and solution)?

Thanks!

on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems

   # set the path for the files to be copied too.
   set thePath to ((path to home folder as text) & "00_QBB:")
   if not pathExists(thePath) then
       display dialog "Could not find the path. Files have not been copied."
       return
   end if

   try
       # get name of Loaded Drive
       set loadedDriveName to item 1 of addedItems

       # set paths for source source drive
       set loadedDrive to POSIX path of loadedDriveName

       # create folder, named for Loaded Drive, for inbound copies
       set thePath to thePath & loadedDriveName
       set thePath to POSIX path of thePath
       set makeFolder to "mkdir " & thePath
       # display dialog makeFolder
       do shell script (makeFolder)

       # set search criteria
       set qbFileTypes to {"qbb", "qbo"}

       # lookthrough drive for desired file types to find and copy
       repeat with n from 1 to (count of qbFiletypes)
           set qbCount to (count of qbFiletypes)
           set qbCurrentType to (item n of qbFiletypes)
           # display dialog qbCurrentType & " + " & qbCount
           set grab_qbb to "find " & loadedDrive & " -iname \"*" & qbCurrentType & "*\" -exec cp {} " & thePath & " \\;"
           # display dialog grab_qbb
           do shell script (grab_qbb)
       end repeat

       on error
           display dialog "Could not copy files."
       return
   end try

end adding folder items to

on pathExists(thePath) -- pathExists("path:to:folder: OR :file")
   try
       get thePath as alias
       return true
       on error
       return false
   end try
end pathExists


texts: Where do older versions of apps go when a developer removes them from the App Store

texts: so when a developer removes their older versions of their app from the App Store so that you cannot downgrade to them where do they go? for example if an app requires iOS 10 or later and a developer unticks the older versions of their app so that people on lets say iOS 8 cannot download the latest compatible version, what happens? thanks all :)


texts: Back up iPhone that can not be unlocked--screen is broken/shattered. Need help!

texts: I left my phone on the roof of my car and drove away on a busy road.  It was hit several times and the screen is broken/shattered and glass comes off of it.  It receives calls/text messages, and the button on the top to turn on/off still works.  The screen is just in such bad shape that it won't register the touch of my finger.  I have an appt with Genius bar in a few hours to get a new phone.  I want to save all my pictures and apps off this phone if possible (I never backed up on the computer prior to this) but it prompts me to unlock my phone and I can't do it.  I can't use another iPhone as a guide, because it won't even recognize my finger touching the screen, but the phone still works.  Can I get some ideas on how to back it up?  I am not tech savvy and this is a difficult problem!


texts: Creating a Bootable USB drive for a PC on a Macbook

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I recently had a little mishap on my PC machine and now my HDD is completely cleared.

I have a 32GB USB, a Windows 8.1 full DVD iso, and my macbook pro 2013 with Yosemite on it.

I tried using Bootcamp to install Windows 8.1 on my PC but it doesn't launch so I'm assuming that'd only work on a Macbook (for some odd reason). All I get is the annoying flashing underscore thing.

The steps I took in BCA were I launched it and selected "Create a Windows 7 or Later install disk" and it ran from there.

I checked out this question but it wasn't much help. Some say UNetBootin works others say it doesnt. I don't want to try anything that is not confirmed.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: Office suite with spell check and dropbox sync for iOS?

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I’m looking for an iOS app with spell-check that will allow me to edit Word documents and sync them with Dropbox.
From reviews I’ve read neither Quick Office nor Documents to Go offer this feature.

Does such an app exist?


texts:
We have the following problem:

An iPhone is acting as a Network Access Point under the PAN Bluetooth profile, but it does not respond to DHCP request/discover from our Linux-based system. The PAN connection can be established, but no IP address is assigned.

Steps to Reproduce:
- Activate Bluetooth on iPhone (5C iOS 10.3.2, but also seen in 6S iOS 11.x)
- Activate Bluetooth tethering on iPhone
- Pair our Linux-based system to iPhone via Bluetooth (PAN profile, NAP service)
- Execute dhclient in our Linux-based system.

Expected Results:
- The iPhone assigns an IP address via DHCP to our Linux-based system.

Actual Results:
- The iPhone does not respond to DHCP request/discover from our Linux-based system.

Is there any special handling/protocol in order to get an IP address and establish the PAN communication?


texts: Terminal: Path to Network Drive in Applescript

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I am trying copy a file up to a network drive in AppleScript.

Normally I would do..

do script "mv ~/Desktop/file.txt ~/Folder/file.txt"

What is the correct path to a network drive?  I normally connect with finder by doing:

tell application "Finder"
    open location "smb://user:password@netDrive/MyShare"
end tell

How do I do:

do script "mv ~/Desktop/file.txt smb://user:password@netDrive/MyShare/Folder/file.txt"


texts: Deleted Windows Through DiskUtility, 100GB in "Free Space", Unable to Combine to Main Partition

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I deleted bootcamp with Disk Utility and now have lost 100GB of space that I can't recover.

macbook-pro:~ kevin$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         389.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +389.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            34.6 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US... +4.7 GB     disk2

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Kevin                   999.8 GB   disk3s2

I called apple and they had me wipe the HD clean, and reinstall the OS. It still hasn't fixed the problem, would appreciate some help!

Tried deleting the free space on disk utility but just get this error,

  An internal error has occurred and the disk for one of the specified
  operations could not be found. This may be a temporary issue, try
  again.


texts: Is there an easy way to remove an app from iTunes and all iOS devices?

texts: We have 2 iPhones and 2 iPads synced to iTunes. It seems that to delete an app, I need to delete it from all devices individually and iTunes - i.e. 5 deletes. Is there a better way to do this?


texts: SDXC Card or USB 3 pen drive - which one should I buy, and which one is better

texts:
I have MacBook Air (13", Mid 2013) and my father has MacBook Pro (13", Mid 2012). Both MacBooks have SDXC card slot, and both support/ has USB 3 ports.

We are thinking of moving iPhoto library to portable drive (either SDXC card or USB 3 pen drive) to save space on internal HDD

What is recommended - SDXC Card or USB 3 drive, and for what reason like speed, consistency, etc?

Also, it would be of great help if you can provide which one to buy. For example, if you suggest SDXC card, then which cards (Sandisk, etc) should I look forward to buy. Thanks.


texts:
I’ve got a very odd problem with an old G5 of mine. It's a 2.3GHz Dual-Core G5 with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Sometimes, though not always (about 50/50), when putting the computer to sleep, it wakes up after a couple of seconds. This is really puzzling and I just can’t figure out what the problem is. I've had this computer for many years now, and it started just recently, but I can't pinpoint the exact time.

So far, I can rule out the following potential causes:

Wake for ethernet network administrator access (turned on or off, doesn’t matter)
Any network traffic - the problem can occur when the G5 is not connected to the network
External USB hubs (none connected)
Bluetooth (doesn’t have BT)
Modem (doesn’t have one)
Software (clean installation of OS X: same problem)
Keyboard or Mouse waking it up - the problem can even occur when none are connected and I put it to sleep via SSH
Graphics card/monitor: problem can occur when there is no monitor connected and I put the G5 to sleep via SSH.
Power fluctuations

The logs don’t help me. The Wake event is always 0020, regardless whether it's an intentional wake or not.

When the G5 woke up, I can put it back to sleep and then it will stay in sleep mode. So it’s no big deal but I still would love to know what the problem is.

Edit (21-June-2012): Thank you all for your suggestions and pointers. Unfortunately my G5 recently had a failing power supply, and it won't wake up from that anymore.


texts:
I've recently started having issues with my Mac. I'd create a screenshot on my Macbook, which would land in my iCloud/Desktop folder (I don't know why this changed, but right now instead of saving on my Desktop only it saves in iCloud/Desktop only). The files are saved as "Screenshot 2020-01-14 at 11.08.14.png".

Unfortunately I can't delete these files. Trying to delete them gives me the same sound as if the action was successful, but they still remain. I've had to manually log in to my iCloud account and delete them from there. I tried clicking on "Remove Download" but it doesn't do anything.

I'm on MacOS Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88)


texts: Scrolling does not register each click of the wheel

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Whenever I scroll using my mouse, my computer does not register the small, individual clicks of the scroll wheel. I have to scroll much faster to make anything happen.

I have tried this with two different mice, the Razer Death Adder and Logitech G403, same problem.

Computer specs: iMac, Late 2012, 10.12.1


texts: Will re-purchasing audiobooks on iTunes charge me again?

texts: I have purchased audiobooks on iTunes and can't re-download them. I try in iTunes but it asks if I want to buy it again. Will I be charged again for the books I already paid for?


texts: System preferences crashes when press accounts

texts:
I'm trying to help someone else with their computer, every time I try to access the "Accounts" settings in system preferences, system preferences hangs and then crashes, any idea what's up? The computer is a Macbook 2.4Gz Core Duo, and all the software is up to date.

-Thanks

Edit: This is what comes up in console.

2/18/11 9:25:24 PM  System Preferences[201] NSConcreteMutableAttributedString initWithString:: nil value
2/18/11 9:25:24 PM  System Preferences[201] NSConcreteMutableAttributedString initWithString:: nil value
2/18/11 9:26:37 PM  System Preferences[201] [NSPrefPaneBundle instantiatePrefPaneObject] (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Accounts.prefPane): should only be called once


texts: Spotlight Massive (out of control at 100GB+)

texts:
Macbook Pro, 500GB SSD, Yosemite 10.10.3

Is there a way to determine what folder(s) are giving Spotlight grief? Or some other recommendations to fix spotlight?

Spotlight is killing my drive space at 100GB+. I can reset it, but after a day or so I'm right back to zero space free. The actual size jumps up and down, but trends to expand (+2,-1,+2, etc) until the drive is full.

Spotlight, as per

 du -h -d 1 ./.Spotlight*

Yields:

110G  ./.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2

Resetting with

 sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/[DriveName]

Starts over as expected frees up the 110GB, but after number of hours, it's back to a full HD.


texts: Change Keyboard Layout in Turkish F Keyboard Layout

texts:
I changed the keyboard layout of the Mac to Turkish F keyboard layout. But three keys (x,w,q) are not in their default places. I want to change the layout on my keyboard.

Is this possible?


texts: My calls keep randomly go through Google Voice

texts: So, only sometimes when I call a number, it will reroute me to Google Voice. I don't have the app installed.


texts: I have 2013a installed and the patch from here. The patch should work, but when I navigate to the application, there is a "stop" icon above the app icon which still prevents the patched version from launching. How can I remove this disabled status? For now I can only launch matlab from inside the app content.


texts: Is it possible to arrange the order of movies in iTunes?

texts:
See the two images below:

Is there a way (with meta data somehow) to arrange the movies so they show in the order of their sequal (example: X-Men, X2, Last Stand), instead of arranging them alphabetically by title?


texts:
In iOS 9 my clock alarms repeated for an hour but in iOS 10 only play twice. My iPhone 6plus is so big and heavy it pulls my pants down if I wear it in a belt holster, so I often set it on the table.

I have a critical health condition requiring different medications every 3 hours. If I am out of the room or more important when I am asleep,  I don't always hear the first or second play of the alarm. It repeats but only one time, and when sleeping, that is often not a long enough play.

In iOS 9, it played up to an hour and I found that necessary and extremely useful. When we went from iOS 7 to iOS 8, the same thing happened and a lot of people complained and it was fixed in the first iOS 8 update.

Can you fix it in the iOS 9 update so it repeats many more times. People usually use this to wake them and twice is not enough if you are in a deep sleep then.


texts: iPad auto locks even with auto lock ‘never’

texts: My iPad Air 2 auto locks suddenly without any sign as to why, and the lock screen comes up. I have checked the settings and the auto lock is set to ‘never’ yet it auto locks. What could be the problem and what can be the possible solutions?


texts:
My macbook is very hot, the fan never starts. I tried some softwares like Fan Control 1.2, scmfancontrol 2.4 and Macs Fan Control but each of them is giving me always 0 rpm on the main (right) fan…

Why? What can I do?

The system is a very fresh install of Lion, updated to the last, 10.7.5

Ps: I remember that before going to reinstall it, a manual control on the fan was working...


texts: I'm considering buying a new MacBook Pro after today's refresh, and I am wondering if OS X handles simply pulling a drive out of one MacBook Pro and putting it in another. I know that in the Windows world this is — most of the time — possible, but I have never tried it with OS X. Does the OS handle the sudden change in hardware, or does it 'sh*t bricks' and abort mission? In theory you'd think it could handle it, but anyone with definite experience would be good.


texts: Robust OCR / scanning software recommendations

texts: Ideally I would like smart batch capabilities, emphasis on image correction and tweakable OCR. An example use case: I have photos of textbook pages - the most ideal application ever would adjust for shadows and noise, apply filters to clarify text, differentiate between text and pictures and process separately, deskew and warp to compensate for curved pages, crop correctly, provide tools for OCR adjustment, and compile into a PDF. Correct me if I'm wrong, but all of these tasks are not too difficult from a developer's standpoint. If this software doesn't exist yet, whoever does it best will make millions!


texts: Musical typing stops working - Logic Pro X

texts:
Sometimes (usually after having been working in Logic for an extended period of time) the musical typing keyboard stops working and instead of playing sounds, the keys trigger the functions that they do when the musical typing keyboard is not open (the sounds play if I press the on-screen keyboard with the mouse, the problem occurs when pressing the keys on my physical keyboard). If I restart Logic the problem goes away.

Anyone encountered this problem and know how to fix it without restarting Logic? I'm using Logic Pro X on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4.

I do have a software instrument track selected etc.


texts: Space switching keyboard shortcut behaviour on multiple displays

texts:
Using the Control + Left and Control + Right keyboard shortcuts only works on the monitor where the mouse pointer is located.

If I Command + Tab to an app on a different monitor and try switching spaces, it won't work on the display of the app that I switched to.

Also, try switching spaces on a display then moving the mouse pointer to your other monitor without clicking or selecting anything. Now when you use the keyboard shortcuts to switch, it will switch spaces on the other monitor, even though your focus is not there.

Is there a way to switch spaces only on the monitor that has focus? I'm on the latest Mojave, by the way.


texts: How to safely rid a Macbook Pro's power port of chocolate?

texts: There was a chocolate coin from Christmas at the bottom of my laptop bag which managed to get shoved into the power port and conform to the space and fill it completely. I managed to scrape most of it away with tweezers but I'm afraid attempting to charge it will most definitely cause the residue to melt and harm the computer. Ideas?


texts: Active Directory account locks for no apparent reason

texts:
I've been troubleshooting this problem for two years and it keeps coming back.  Our Mac users authenticate to our Active Directory server which is running Windows Server 2008 Standard.  One of the Mac users in particular has had a recurring problem where she can't log on and causes her AD account to lock before the maximum log-in attempts has been reached.  The problem started again this week and yesterday I reconfigured her networking and Active Directory settings.  This morning I logged on to her computer using her ID and password and had no problems.  When she tried it twenty minutes later, her account was locked.

All Macs have Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and they all have the same network and AD settings, but this particular Mac continues to have a problem.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Kent


texts: How to show all results from a repeat loop in the Script Editor results pane

texts:
I'm querying the ipstack API for data with a list of IPs using a repeat loop and JSON Helper.

I'm looping through a list of IPs, but I can't get the Script Editor to return all the results; I only get the one cityName of the last IP in theListOfips in the results pane, "Tallahassee".

How can I get the Script Editor to show a list of all cities in the result pane, with a carriage return after each?

 set theListOfips to {"104.137.108.23", "107.140.9.50", "146.201.166.248"}

    tell application "JSON Helper"

        repeat with theCurrentValue in theListOfips

            delay 2

            set json to fetch JSON from
   "http://api.ipstack.com/" & theCurrentValue & "?access_key=theAPIkey&fields=city"

            set cityName to city of json

        end repeat

    end tell


texts:
I recently installed windows 8.1 using bootcamp and it worked well for a few days. For some reason when I turned on my computer it switched to the mac partition. When I turned off the computer and tried to switch to windows, I just got a black screen with no cursor or anything, although it didn't look like the computer was completely shut off. Now, I can easily go on to apple, but whenever I try to use windows I keep getting a black screen with no cursor. I tried searching up what the problem was, but I can't find any solutions.Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)


texts: Does an MDM solution require special apple devices

texts:
I want to use an MDM solution to manage Apple devices. Is it possible to use devices that I acquired from different sources like Amazon, used devices from eBay, or my own current device that I am using privately?

Or to put another way, does the usage of an MDM solution (like Apple Business Manager/Apple School Manager) require special Apple devices that are only intended for this kind of purpose?

It would also be nice if someone can point me to an Apple document, that deals with this topic.


texts: Can beta-features be added to the app on the App Store?

texts: We are working on an iOS app which is already on the App Store. We are planning some new features for the app. Can we add these unfinished features in a beta mode? Will Apple allow this?


texts: what is the purpose of MediaCache folder on a Mac

texts:
What is the purpose of /private/var/folders/zg/jjtx0_k94pdc5p5q6gcvf4900000gn/T/MediaCache folder? It looks like some sort of database. I noticed it gets updated while browsing quite often.

Excerpt from one of files looks like elvish.

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texts: How to restore user account from different boot?

texts:
So I did something dumb and now I'm locked out of my Mavericks partition on my MacBook. The dumb thing I did, specifically, was trying to change the user folder using the Directory Utility app, which should have worked but it didn't for some reason, and now I can't log in. Still have a Yosemite partition on the same computer though.

What I want to know is, is there a way, from outside the Mavericks boot, to change the home folder info? I know this info must be in some config file somewhere, however deeply hidden. Failing that, can I create a guest account, or enable root user, or any of that magic from outside the boot?

Oh, and please don't take this opportunity to lecture me about backup drives. The one I was using failed and I'm a student who can't afford another one right now. Life is hard.


texts: M1: Frequent kernel panics on `BNBTrackpadDevice::setPowerState`

texts:
My M1 Air experiences frequent (several times a week) kernel panics due to BNBTrackpadDevice::setPowerState timing out after around 10 seconds. Stack trace is here (Pastebin link, because SE thinks my post is spam without it).
The trackpad in question is an OG Magic Trackpad. A search around the web doesn't find much information on this panic. Is there any solution other than "stop using that trackpad"? I'd buy the current model if I knew it would fix it, but given they run $150, I'd rather not without knowing first.
I'm running Big Sur 11.2.2.


texts: Change default app for magnet links in Safari

texts:
Currently Safari opens magnet links in Bittorrent. I'm moving to Deluge and I want to change the association.

I can't find anything in the preferences of either program to change the association, but I thought that it would be somewhere in com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist. Searching that plist file, I can't find any mention of magnets or bittorrent...

Where is this association recorded and how can I change it?


texts:
I have accidentally unpaired my Apple Watch on my iPhone. I need to pair my watch with the same iPhone again.

(But I think the same problem can probably be faced if one gets a new iPhone with an already paired watch.)

The Apple Watch is fully working. I can open the apps, see my clock-face and so on. But in the menu bar, there is a red strikethrough iPhone icon.

If I open the Apple Watch app on my iPhone and tap on start pairing, my Apple Watch does not show the pairing image as it did first after unboxing it.

Do I need to completely erase my watch or is there somehow an option to start pairing my watch again?

According to my space usage on my iPhone (Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage), I do have a backup on my iPhone. But this is some days ago and I do not want to lose my (activity) data – so erasing my watch is really my last choice.

To put it in a nutshell: How do I pair my iPhone with my watch again without erasing it?


texts:
My problem is that my iPad is not recognized by my MacBook. Other iOS devices are recognised normally by the very same MacBook.
The iPad charges, but nothing else works.

My specifications are the following:

iPad 1st generation (firmware 5.1.1) & jailbroken
MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (firmware 10.9.1)
iTunes 11.1.3

I have tried the following solutions:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3540 (I know, Snow Leopard only, but I still tried)
The iPad is also not recognised in Recovery Mode or DFU Mode
When I try deleting all files on my iPad (Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings), it freezes (spinning weel until "out-of-charge") and nothing happens until I restart using the Home and Power buttons.

It should be noted that the same issue occurs using other Macs or PCs. So my guess would be that the Jailbreak corrupted some essential files for syncing?!

EDIT 1

This is an edit in response to bmike's comment. The System Profiler shows me these settings.

EDIT 2

Kovah mentioned that the version of iTunes could be the issue. I have downgraded my iTunes to version 9.2.1 and did not solve the issue.


texts: I have an iPhone 3G which had a cracked screen. I replaced the digitizer last November and this morning the left third of it stopped responding to touch. What can I do to fix it?


texts: Can I globally change the cmd-Q shortcut to require holding for two seconds, like the option in Chrome?

texts:
Many, many times, I accidentally press ⌘+Q when I meant to close a tab or window, or switch applications. When I saw the option in Google Chrome to require the shortcut to be held, I was overjoyed. Problem is, I use Safari.

So, in short: How can I make the "hold command-Q" shortcut universal across all of my applications (or at least Safari)?


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The Apple Watch app on my iPhone is hopelessly stuck in the process of uninstallling a dozen apps and installing 3. It’s been at it 2 days.

I’ve followed all the suggestions I could find:
- verify Bluetooth connection
- toggle Bluetooth on and off on both
- ensure both are at the most recent OS version
- hard reset both

I noticed something very odd. The watch shows connected (green iPhone icon), and will unlock my Mac, but cannot reach Siri or ping my iPhone, and on the iPhone, Find My iPhone says the watch is offline, and the Watch app says it can't connect to the watch.

Is it possible they're still connected via bluetooth but no longer paired?


texts: If I sign a JAR with a certificate from Comodo, will I still get warnings?

texts:
I have written a piece of software in Java that I would like to sell, however it is currently unsigned. When I first wrote the software it didn't matter too much, but I think OS X has upgraded since then and has gotten more strict as have web browsers and I'm now getting lots of warnings to say the file "is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous" and OS X will not allow the app to run without changing security settings.

From what I can gather the only way to address this is to sign the application, which is fine for Windows however on OS X I'm a bit confused. I've read online that now only certificates issued by Apple are valid, but some companies like DigiCert are still advertising that there code signing certificates work on Mac and pretty much all say that they work with Java. So, if I signed my JAR files with a code signing certificate from Comodo and then used JarBundler to create an app, would it be recognized as 'safe'?


texts:
MBP "13, 10.7 and Safari 5.1

I've noticed something weird: last week, I added a couple of bookmarks to my bookmarks-bar in Safari and the next day (or the next reboot) they weren't there anymore...

Added them again and the same thing happened...

I've disabled bookmark syncing in the "Mail, Contacts, Calendar" settings but the same problem still occurs...

Any ideas how I can further troubleshoot this?


texts: Buy an App on the Mac App Store without having enough HD space

texts:
If you don’t have enough free space on your HD, and you are trying to buy an App in the AppStore, you get a message, that you don’t have enough free space and you can’t buy it.

Since I always struggle with HD space and often don’t want to download the app immediately, I was wondering if there is a way to buy the app, even without enough free memory.

(I know, I know, I should free up more memory … but this is hard on a 256gb SSD :/ )

Thanks!


texts: How can I make a keyboard configuration become default when I hook it up?

texts:
At work, I have a MacBook Pro and a RHEL workstation that share a HP keyboard and mouse via a KVM switch. I do most of my work on the Mac so I prefer to change the modifier keys so they command and alt are in the same positions as an Apple keyboard. Here is a screencast to demonstrate the exact options I change:
http://screencast.com/t/5mYQwMEVzwP0

The problem is, whenever I switch the KVM or disconnect the Mac, I have to usually have to go back into System Preferences to make the change. Is there some way I could automate this?


texts: Jump to the end of agreement in Terminal

texts: How to jump to the end of software license agreement in the Terminal? I want to avoid hitting Enter or Space to read line by line, I just want to jump to the end.


texts: Most apps hang, then crash. Including core apps

texts:
Just yesterday my iphone 5S started playing up. Some apps would hang when they were opened.

Today it's pretty much all of them, even text message (and other built in apps) hangs. If left for a while they eventually crash.

Have restarted the phone, and also done a hard reset (home+power) and issue remains. Also tried google but not come up with much just yet.

Also, I have not done any updates or restores or anything like that recently. phone is about 12mo old. running 8.3

Thanks


texts: How to define keyboard shortcut for "Save to your Music" Functionality for Spotify

texts:
I really love the Spotify app. When I like some songs on Spotify, I'm using "Save to Your Music" to add songs to my Spotify library. But this requires switching applications and using the mouse, so I want to create a shortcut key to do this?

Is there any way to create something similar to this idea which does "Save to Your Music"?


texts:
I recently set a VNC Server on my Mac. It is always running and I have created the rules on my router for the port forwarding (5900).

When I am at home, and I connect to my Mac using its local IP address, I cannot sign in to my account. I am stuck at the login screen and when I enter my password, it says the password is incorrect. I have checked 3 times and I type it correctly. I have even tried to type it connecting the Apple keyboard to my computer but it still does not work.

When I am not at home, I connect to my Mac as usual using my world wide IP address. Everything look normal, but, actually i just cannot control anything on this computer. I do not see the mouse pointer but only the VNC square where the pointer is supposed to be. Also, the keyboard, this time does not work at all.

I have enabled the "can control everything" setting so...
What is happening

Thanks,


texts: "Critical software update required for your Mac" loop after erasing EFI partition

texts:
So I accidentally erased the EFI partition when I was trying to erase my usb and im now stuck in a "Critical software update required for your Mac" loop, Ive already tried: resetting nvram and pram, reinstalling macOS big sur from recovery mode, using a mobile hotspot and updating in safe boot but none of them worked, what can I still do to solve this problem?
I also cannot wipe my disk.
diskutil list internal:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:       Microsoft Basic Data EFI                     313.5 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     369.1 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 503.7 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                622.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.3 GB    disk1s5
   6:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.3 GB    disk1s5s1

I finally got a disk to back up the mac and I was able to clean install big sur and that solved it. Thanks for the help!


texts:
I've failed to produce a document in time - if I send it, the receiver will be able to see the creation and last modification dates.

This is what happens whenever I download files from the web or an usb stick/hard disk: I'm always able to see these metadata.

So, where are these data stored? In the file? What then if I create a text only file: why am I still able to see the creation date?

How can I hide this information NOT from the Finder but from the document itself?

Thanks!


texts: Slow WIFI on iPhone 3GS after update to iOS6

texts:
After updating my iPhone 3GS to iOS6, when I'm on WIFI the network connection appears terribly slow. Loading a webpage in Safari takes ages and opening the update tab in the App store seems to keep loading forever. When I turn off WIFI and try the same on a 3G network, it all is responding a lot faster.

I've checked the WIFI connection itself, and from my laptop that appears all fine. Before the update to iOS6, my iPhone was working fine on that same WIFI connection. What can I do?


texts: How do you automatically separate Camera photos from Safari photos?

texts: I don't like how images downloaded from Safari and photos taken from Camera app are both dumped into the "Camera Roll" folder in Photos app. How do I configure my phone to automatically segregate the two types of images for better organization?


texts: Can I map a function key to a command key combo?

texts: Mission Control has freed up a couple of my function keys, I'd like to try using one of them to activate the application switcher. I've tried the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane, and Spark.app, but no luck. Any other ideas?


texts: Does the iPad Air automatically switch to 4G if Wi-Fi is down?

texts:
My mom has an iPad Air with a T-Mobile data plan.  The iPad Air is configured to use the Wi-Fi in her home.

She recently noticed some pop-up messages on the iPad Air saying that there's no data left on the cellular plan.  She gets 200 MB of data every month from T-Mobile, so I guess she used up all 200 MB this month.  But she never takes the iPad outside the house, so she doesn't know how she ran out of cellular data.  The only thing I can think of is that maybe the Wi-Fi was down and the iPad Air automatically switched to the T-Mobile cellular signal.  She watches movies a lot, so that would certainly use up 200 MB of data pretty quickly.

So does the iPad Air automatically switch to the cellular plan if the Wi-Fi is down?  What if the Wi-Fi router is up but the Comcast internet is down?


texts: How can I keep copies of my iCloud documents in Dropbox?

texts:
More and more of my favorite apps are beginning to include support for document syncing via iCloud.

I like the idea of using iCloud to store my documents, but for several reasons I'm not ready to switch over completely from Dropbox.

Is there some kind of an iCloud-Dropbox bridge or other way of syncing documents between iCloud and either Dropbox directly or the local filesystem of my Mac? Ideally it would work both ways, pulling from iCloud and pushing into it.


texts: Force a link to open in Safari instead of the in-app browser

texts:
I have an issue with QR Readers. I encode a URL within a QR Code. When read by many iPhone App they will open the URL within a WebView within the app.

I want to open a vCard there, which those internal things just won't do - page stays blank but when opened directly in Safari everything works great.

Here is my example:

If you visit vcard.nikb.de in Safari it will bring up a VCard
If you scan the QR below (which opens the site mentioned) it won't open...

So my question is: Is there any way to get out of the WebView and open Safari?


texts: How can I be notified when I get a new connection with netcat?

texts: So basically, when I am listening with netcat (nc -l 1337), how can I be notified when I get a new connection? Rather than looking back and forth at my terminal window.


texts: How I put OSX on a disk with badblocks, while avoiding them?

texts:
My MacMini hdd, some months ago, stopped booting.

Upon inspection, seemly a tiny amount of sectors got corrupted, but in system-related areas, and OSX went bonkers and destroyed half of my data while trying to fix itself, and made the disk entirely unusable.

While the HDD has only 13 sectors "pending", and 0 permanent bad blocks, and 0 reallocated, I couldn't figure how to use it.

I ended grabbing another HDD I had, that has 300+ actually broken blocks, and used that one as my new boot HDD...

And it worked! Except it is obviously in a much worse shape than the original, I've been using it for months, but I am started to get worried it might die suddenly (although so far I don't got even a corrupted data issue!)

I learned that on Linux you can use a command caled "badblocks" to find all... badblocks. And then use mkfs to create the file systems avoiding such bad blocks.

But "badblocks" is slow, and destructive, so before attempting using a Linux tool on OSX HDD, I wanted to know if there is a OSX tool for that: write data on the entire HDD (triggering SMART to reallocate, or decide that some sector was okay after all, for the entire HDD), and then put it back to be used as my main OSX disk (And use the worringly bad one as backup).

And please, don't tell me to buy an HDD, I just can't afford one, if I could, I would not be "wasting" time doing HDD gymnastics like this.


texts:
This icon appeared on my Mac Pro with El Capitan.

It cannot be clicked, nor I can see a name.

Any ideas what it might be? I have the same applications on my Mac Mini and never seen the icon.


texts: Hard drive formatting: error message -69760

texts:
I can't access my TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 Media external hard drive. Now I'm trying to format it but I get this error message:

Erasing "TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 Media" (disk3) and creating "Untitled"
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Unable to write to the last block of the device.: (-69760)
The operation failed ...

How can I resolve this issue?


texts: Some photos in iPhoto showing as grey triangle with exclamation mark

texts: I am unable to view/access some photos - I get a grey triangle with an exclamation mark in it.


texts: Safari, Yosemite: Where is "Reopen all windows from last session" stored?

texts: Title wraps up the whole thing, but to elaborate I have an applescript that deletes Safari's history folder, bookmark folder, and a few other boot cache items, but quitting Safari, running the script, then re-opening Safari I can still choose "Reopen All windows from last session" and get the very last page from the site I was just at - where is this info stored? If my gf catches me looking at porn again I could be in hospital for a month or more!


texts: Assign shortcut for "Look Up" in context menu

texts:
I'm looking for a way to assign a shortcut for the right click button Look Up. So that I can just select some text and call that without using the mouse. Below is the pop-up that shows up when you look something up.

I'm aware of the "Look Up in Dictionary" service and ability to assign a shortcut for that but it's not the same.


texts: ECG App not appearing on Apple Watch (Region: INDIA)

texts:
Recently, Apple launched ECG Feature for India quite recently with the latest generation of WatchOS. I do not seem to have it on my Apple Watch Series 4 even after updating it to the latest version of WatchOS.

How do I go about troubleshooting to get the ECG app?

iPhone is on the latest version of iOS.

Apple Website - https://www.apple.com/in/watchos/feature-availability/#branded-ecg


texts: Why are the stars not visible in iTunes?

texts: I want to rate a Podcast and had a hard time finding the stars which are not displayed in my macOS iTunes. Using Windows I managed to find out where they are. Is this disabled in macOS iTunes or is it just a bug? I already checked the checkbox in the preferences. No change.


texts:
I've formatted my mac, and I've reinstalled Snow Leopard from installation CD. Successively I've accessed to the mac store to download Lion again and install it on top of the fresh Snow Leopard installation, and suprise: the mac store asks me to buy it again.

I'm using the same user profile (Apple ID).


texts: I have an individual apple developer account. I bought it mainly so I could use a few of the advanced APIs (e.g. NetworkExtensions) in an app that I’m testing/developing. There’s another programmer with whom I collaborate. I want him to also have access to the app so I assigned him the “App Manager” role in iTunes Connect. However, I’m unsure about what he has to do afterwards so that he can work on the same app as me. Can he directly fork the project and access the APIs? Does he need certificates?


texts: No more notification for iMessage with Mavericks

texts:
I did the upgrade to Mavericks few days ago. I noticed a problem with my iMessage app : I don't get any notification when I received a new message (neither alert, nor badges on the icon in the Dock).

How can I troubleshoot if this is a problem with my computer or account or perhaps my network connection?


texts:
I had a problem trying to clean the data from my Mac and now I can not start it.
It ran Mavericks. I tried to make a swipe date but did not work and lost the system. I have backups of my personal files more unfortunately I do not have the system.
Is there any way to install Mavericks again through a partition of an external HD?
I already have this HD two images of the maverick acquired in apple store. One is the .dmg extension and the other is in .iso extension that I converted in linux.
Is there any solution?


texts: Questions on Mac OS X from a web developer who is new to Mac

texts:
I'm getting ready to buy a MacBook Pro 15", but would like some help regarding a few things.

I witnessed somebody using a tool that showed all web requests' request headers / content, response headers / content, URL, port, other meta info, etc, sort of like a "Live HTTP Headers" on steroids (I thought it was a stand-alone piece of software, but maybe it's just a browser add-on). Do you know what the tool I'm speaking of is called?
Mac OS X comes with Apache and listens at port 80 by default. This is no good, if you're developing an application (a Django app) and you want it listening on port 80 during development (not using Apache). Can I stop Apache from listening on port 80 or disable it altogether, or is it required for OS X (or some built-in software) to operate?
MOST IMPORTANT: For about 3 days I had a high-res 15" but had to return it due to the fonts being difficult to read. I was able to cope with certain of the apps, but my code editor's text looked blurry no matter the font size, and a couple other apps' fonts did as well. Is there a trick to getting your fonts to look crisp on the high-res display (such as how Windows has ClearType settings, etc), or should I change fonts? I believe I only used Consolas during the 3 days.
Are their any other tools (aside from Firefox add-ons) that you would recommend to a software / web developer who's new to Mac?


texts: macOS catalina, Apache Benchmark (ab) not working, dyld library not loaded

texts:
I just got this error trying to install ab on my Catalina macOS:
brew install homebrew/apache/ab
Error: homebrew/apache was deprecated. This tap is now empty and all its contents were either deleted or migrated.

not sure what to do...
Actually what I want to do is to make ab work:
I found out that ab (apache benchmark tool) is already installed on macOS, but it doesnt' work:
$ab
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ab
Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6


texts:
Can you have multiple Apple ID's on the same iOS device?

My girlfriend and I have both got an iPad and an iPod Classic and may well be getting iPhones at some point, we each have our own apple ID and I was wondering if I could have both Apple IDs logged into one of our iPads to avoid us having to buy Apps twice.

I would have thought that Apple wouldn't allow this, but I just wanted to check as I can do this on my current Android phone (Two Google accounts rather than Apple IDs obviously).


texts: Macbook pro (retina, early 2015) battery charging problem

texts:
I was working with my Apple Macbook pro (retina, early 2015) last night when I suddenly realized that battery is not charging while adapter is plugged in. I searched in the net and found there is a possible solution by resetting SMC. I did but nothing got better and I ran an Apple Diagnostics test and the verdict was reference code PPT002 stating that the battery will need to be replaced soon. On the other hand what confuses me is that battery health information in System Report is Normal. Some screenshots are attached below. Any sort of comments and/or ideas are highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Capturing USB HID keys in OSX, for keyboard?

texts:
I'm trying to find an application that allows me to understand which USB HID codes are being sent when pressing keys on my iMac keyboard?  Is anyone aware of how to do this?

I was going to ask on the Apple Developer forum, however believe you must pay $99 to join it.

Your guidance appreciated.


texts:
Currently trying to use a script (preferably shell) to setup the firmware password on a fresh OSX install. I obviously found this:

http://osxdaily.com/2014/01/06/set-firmware-password-mac/

which would work during a manual install, but we would like to automate this as much as possible. I can't seem to find any documentation on writing a script to setup a (dynamic) firmware password.

My question is:

Is it possible to use a script or program to setup a dynamic firmware password on OSX 10.8/10.9? If so, do you know how? Do you know of any documentation?


texts: I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac?


texts: How can I stop Spaces from taking me to an app's Space when I open a new file?

texts: Let's say I have two spaces with a program open in space one. If I'm actively working in space two and open a file that uses the same program as what's open in space one, I get hucked back into space one. How can I make the default behavior be to open a new window of the program in the space I'm in?


texts: M1: There Was An Error Connecting to the Apple ID Server

texts:
I have a new Mac M1 running big sur, when trying to login to my Apple Music account, or any Apple/iCloud service, I get the following error:
"There was an error connecting to the Apple ID Server"
All other applications can connect to the internet fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?


texts: How to fix an iPod Classic with a bad hard drive?

texts:
I've an iPod Classic 160 GB bought in 2007.

I've never had problems copying songs into it, through iTunes, but from the beginning I never had much success using it as a portable hard drive. Whenever I tried copying large files, or many files, into it, it would hang and reboot after a while.

The same happens when I tried copying videos into it, also through iTunes, to the extension that iTunes complains that it can't read or write to the iPod.

Usually, restoring the iPod returns it to the state that I can copy songs again, but when I increase the usage to videos or large files the trouble starts again.

I'm pretty convinced it has a bad hard drive, but it is not covered by warranty anymore. Fixing it at a local Apple representative would cost as much as buying a new one, and the ifixit howto is pretty much discouraging, besides stating that video iPod use special hard drives and they don't sell them anymore.

I was hoping that mounting the iPod in disk mode and running a check disk would mark the bad sectors and allow me use it as a <160GB iPod, but I can't find what tool would do that on the Mac.

What do you recommend? How should I proceed?


texts: How can I stop NTFS-3g from mounting a particular volume?

texts:
I have NTFS-3g installed and working. I don't want it to mount my Boot Camp partition; I do want it to mount any other NTFS drives I have. How do I do this?

(The mounted volume list in NTFS-3g's System Preferences page is always empty, for whatever reason, so I can't disable it that way. As I recall, this option puts a file on the disk in the root directory. But what should the file's name be? I'm having no luck with google here...)

OS X 10.10.3.


texts:
I'm running macOS High Sierra and have had a bizarre problem for months. When I use Safari to watch videos on YouTube, occasionally changing the time of the video (either with the arrow keys or with my mouse) causes the entire page to freeze, followed by the spinning beach ball. The audio will still play, but the video does not.

After this, all YouTube pages I have open in other tabs are responsive up until I try to resume their videos, at which point the page will freeze. If I try to get to youtube.com in a new tab, it won't load and I will just remain on my current webpage. Some other sites like google.com or anything with an HTML5 player will load content, but freeze the webpage immediately and cause high CPU usage.

At this point, iTunes and Quicktime will be responsive but not play music/videos, and won't reopen when closed. Opening Chrome and trying to get to youtube or google will yield the same result as in Safari. Interestingly, Google does work on Firefox and Youtube pages are accessible and responsive. However, the videos won't play and the "progress circle" on videos will spin forever, and it'll eventually notify me "If playback doesn't begin shortly try restarting your device"; meanwhile, Firefox will cause high CPU usage.

Sure enough, the only way to fix the problems is rebooting the whole system. This only seems to be caused by Safari and on YouTube. I would still like to use Safari, but it's inconvenient to have to reboot every time this happens. I've tried reinstalling macOS, resetting my NVRAM and clearing my cache, but to no avail.


texts: Always open with check is getting ignored

texts:
I'm running into troubles with my mac 10.9.4 because I'm unable to assign default programs for certain file types.

In my example I'm trying to assign .xml files to always be opened with TextEdit. But no matter how often I check that "Always open with" checkbox it will always be ignored. XML-files remain to be opened with Safari no matter what I can do.

I'm pretty new to mac so I have no clue where to look for help regarding this.


texts: Can I run two 4k (3840x2160) displays at 60hz on a Macbook Pro 13" 2015

texts:
I think the title says it all. Can I run two 4k (3840x2160) displays, both at 60hz on a Macbook Pro 13' 2015? I understand they might need to be SST and each connected to a Thunderbolt 2 port. But I cannot get a confirmation whether that setup would work.

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP719?locale=en_US says:

  Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840 by 2160 pixels on up to two external displays, both at millions of colors.
  …
  Support for up to 5120-by-2880 resolution at 60Hz on a single external display (model with AMD Radeon R9 M370X only)

Unfortunately, it does not state at what frequency the two displays can be run.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587 says:

  With OS X Yosemite v10.10.3 and later, most single-stream 4K (3840x2160) > displays are supported at 60Hz operation on the following Mac computers: … MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and later. MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) and later

Unfortunately it does not state whether two displays can be run at 3840 by 2160 at 60hz


texts: What is the spinning circle on IPhone data

texts: Does the spinning circle when accessing data from the internet on an IPhone mean you are using data?  It seems it's always spinning non stop on Facebook.  I am concerned this indicates data usage.


texts: Upgraded to 10.9, but it broke my Windows 8.1 Boot Camp partition!

texts:
I just got Windows 8.1 set up via Boot Camp a couple days ago, and everything was working wonderfully.

Today, I upgraded my Mac to OSX v10.9, as suggested by Apple. Nobody told me it would break my Boot Camp system!

First, my Windows partition didn't even show up in the option-menu at boot, so I tried following the instructions here, which fixed the option-menu, but the system still won't load!

When I tried to boot into Windows, it says it can't find the operating system! So somehow it seems that the 10.9 update is incompatible with previously-existing Boot Camp partitions.

What can I do? I need my Windows partition for work!


texts: Thoughts about recovery MBP that has 2 months old Time Machine copy

texts: I have an MBP late 2011 with High Sierra installed. Two disks are installed inside: an SSD with macOS and apps, and the second disk is a Macintosh HD with a home folder. The last backup of Time Machine was made about two months ago (I was in the process of moving and could not use my Time Machine server during this period). But I actively used my MBP during this time. My Mac didn't boot yesterday. I checked and saw that Drive Utility doesn't recognize my SSD. And now I’m thinking how best to restore my MBP. Can I restore system files using Time Machine and not lose user files in these 2 months? Or maybe I should install a clean OS? I would be grateful for the constructive suggestions


texts: How to delete an administrator account on mac?

texts: I have an administrator account on my mac I don't need, and know the password but cannot delete it.


texts:
Lots of documents, like this one, refer to the "Open Scripting Architecture Reference," which sounds useful to me. But I can't find it anywhere. Googling the title gets lots of non-authoritative links where people have posted old PDFs of what presumably is an earlier version of the same thing.

Where is it?


texts: Locating an app by its bundle identifier from the command line

texts:
I am looking for a way to find an app's location on the system from the command line using its bundle identifier. I can open it like this:

open -b 'com.zerotier.ZeroTierOne'

... where com.zerotier.ZeroTierOne is my bundle ID, but what I want to do is locate where the app is actually installed. I want a command that will return (for example):

/Applications/ZeroTier One.app

in response to a query by identifier 'com.zerotier.ZeroTierOne'.

The "-R" option to open will reveal in finder but I want this to be completely non-interactive and done via a shell script.


texts:
My Mac logged me out and it forces me to login with the Guest account, which for some unknown reason is password protected and I can’t login! I tried restarting it but the issue persists!

Before that happened, it seems like I was logged out from my iCloud account! So I filled in my password and while I was waiting to login, the Mac froze! I restarted it and you know the rest...

What can I do now?

EDIT: I’m now pretty sure that my main account is deleted! I tried resetting my password from terminal in the recovery mode... when prompted to select the account, there was just an empty list!


texts: Install El Capitan OS on a new SSD without USB driver

texts:
I have a hard disk and I would like to install an SSD on my MacBook.
However I don't have any USB driver for installing El Capitan OS.

Is it possible to install the SSD and then install El Capitan OS when I use it for the first time? (install after first turning on the computer)


texts: Pictures appeared in the new Photos app in my new laptop. Where are these files?

texts:
My brand new laptop populated the Photos app with my photos. Problem is I don't know where these files are. Unlike with iTunes, right-clicking and selecting Get Info doesn't show where the original file is.

If I go to the Pictures folder I see an icon for Photo Library. If I click it, it fires up Photos. Again, I see no files.


texts: Apple Force Touch - How do I make it feel like the old tap-to-click?

texts:
I just purchased a new Macbook Pro with Force Touch.

I’m used to the old tap-to-click feature. Force Touch does not feel the same – it requires a much harder press even with “Click” sensitivity set to “light.”

Tap-to-click, is also not working on my Magic Trackpad.

How do I make Apple Force Touch feel like the old tap-to-click?

How do I make tap-to-click work on a Magic Trackpad connected to a Macbook Pro 2015 with Force Touch?


texts: Is there a truly user friendly guide on how to handle iOS Certificates and Provisioning Profiles? – Xcode 7.3 / iOS 9.3

texts:
I'm getting a warning that The provisioning profile "iOSTeam Provisioning Profile: *" is expiring soon. I'm not sure what to do and the Apple documentation, even the Quick Start Guide, is overwhelming and confusing for me.

Some developers say "Just wait until it expires, Xcode will then offer to fix it.", others like Jared Sinclair adamantly oppose doing that. I'd do what he suggests, but I'm not sure how and would likely mess up stuff.

Is there a truly user friendly guide on how to handle iOS Certificates and Provisioning Profiles?


texts: How can I use my Apple bluetooth keyboard for keyboard navigation on my iPad?

texts:
I'm using an Apple bluetooth keyboard with my iPad. Even in Safari, arrow keys, Cmd-arrow for forward and back, Cmd-D for bookmark, etc do not work.  The only useful keyboard navigation is Return, Tab and Shift-Tab.

Are there perhaps some jailbroken apps that provide some sort of keyboard navigation shim?  Perhaps through GUI macros?


texts:
I have my computer (MBP 2015) to turn the backlight on my keyboard off after I haven't used my computer for 10 seconds.

Is there a way how to disable the keyboard backlight after x amount of seconds of not typing?

Even though I know the 2015 MBP has good battery life, I would still like to do this to save a little bit of power.


texts: Why won't my AppleScript run as a Service?

texts:
I have a simple AppleScript that works exactly as expected when run on its own, ether as an app, directly from within ScriptDebugger or Script Editor, or as an element of an Automation from within Automator:

However, when I attempt to run this Automation as a Service, for example by saving it as a Service and running it from the Services menu

nothing happens. The Service fails to run whether I use a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator, or create an application from the script, and use a Launch Application action.

Why won't my AppleScript run as a Service, when it runs perfectly in all other circumstances?


texts: Grapher: Edit or enter data points directly in the graph with the mouse?

texts: Rookie Grapher User. I'm creating 2D piecewise linear curves using Grapher. So far I've only discovered how to enter or edit datapoints via the "Edit Points..." button at the top of the graph. Editing the points using the keyboard is tedious, is it possible to move points in the point set using the mouse, via drag-and-drop? (I'm getting the idea the answer is "no").


texts: Automatically play Spotify when headphones are plugged in

texts:
On my iPod I have activator to automatically open Spotify when I plug in my headphones and I would like to know if I can do a similar thing on OS X.

What I would like is to automatically play Spotify if the application is already open, otherwise, I would like Spotify to open automatically then play the music. I would also like it to stop the music when my headphones are unplugged.

Does anyone know if there is a Application that allows this to happen?


texts: Check if newly released iOS app is worldwide available on the AppStore

texts: I will release my iOS app soon and I read that there is a delay for up to 5 hours until the app is available on the AppStore worldwide. I'm in Austria (Europe), how can I check if the app is already available on the US AppStore? (or better yet if it's available everywhere)


texts:
I googled the same question and found instructions that said press volume up, volume down then hold the power button. The problem I have is it just gets the off button. What I want is more details e.g. how long should I wait, how quick does the button press need to be, any other tricks

Note the photo was taken on an android due to iPhone issues


texts:
I've been using Mac a long time, & none of my new Macs have ever run in a truly new state since the first Migration Assistant back with what we now call Classic Mac OS. Over time ther performance of, what should be snappy Macs, has deteriorated & I put it down to accumulated junk from years of migrations. I think mostly in /Library & ~/Library, but also any of /etc (/private/etc), /opt, /usr, & /var (/private/var).

Can anyone point me to a quality guide to identifying junk in those locations, that safely can, or indeed should, be disposed of?


texts: Reset Snow Leopard user accounts/preference

texts:
My kids completely changed everything in their user account, what is the easiest way to reset everything to default (without reinstalling everything) including:

Name of hard drive
Menu items in Finder
Dock size and items
Size/appearance of things
Even some applications have been moved from their original location


texts: What is causing a black screen while switching spaces on Mountain Lion?

texts: On Lion I used to see the next space wallpaper while pressing Control + → to switch desktops. But on Mountain Lion I see a Black Screen until the transition is complete. Is it just me who is facing this issue or is this the new behaviour in Mountain Lion?


texts: Ive just bought a MacBook, turned it on and every single photo I've took since 2011 has saved onto it and has taken up 70GB of memory, is there a way I can shift all these off my laptop and keep them in iCloud?  I don't need them on my laptop, but unsure if I delete these off my laptop will they take them off my iCloud aswell?


texts: Will an iOS device fall back to 802.11a when 802.11n is unavailable?

texts:
I was told that iOS devices defaults to 802.11a which runs on 5 GHz band when 5 GHz 802.11n is not available. Have anyone experimented with that?

How does negotiation between access points and client devices work?


texts: Why won't an fsck-declared-good volume mount?

texts:
I have a CoreStorage logical (virtual), encrypted volume that will not mount, even though fsck_hfs declares it clean. Does anyone know what the deal is here?

Here is the drive information:

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Discover                959.3 GB   disk4s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk4s3
/dev/disk5 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Discover               +959.0 GB   disk5
                                 Logical Volume on disk4s2
                                 9BB5BE72-0024-46D2-A1BB-69AB51247E06
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

where disk5 is the unlocked, but not mounted virtual volume. Here are the results of fsck_hfs on the unlocked virtual volume:

** /dev/rdisk5
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-305.10.1).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
   The volume name is Discover
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** Checking extended attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** Trimming unused blocks.
** The volume Discover appears to be OK.

I had put in the password for the encryption, and as I would expect, fsck_hfs seems quite able to read the encrypted data, without it being mounted. This is what happens when I try to mount:

% diskutil mount 9BB5BE72-0024-46D2-A1BB-69AB51247E06
disk5 is a CoreStorage Logical Volume which failed to mount
% diskutil mount disk5
disk5 is a CoreStorage Logical Volume which failed to mount

Of course, no clue is given as to why it failed to mount.

I am running the latest El Capitan.


texts: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between Fn and F keys

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for toggling between Function and classic F keys?


texts:
I installed a new 115GB SSD with a clean lion install in my MacBook pro (2010) with the data doubler containing my old seagate hdd.

The install took over five hours, which made me pretty suspicious to begin with.

But now I'm seeing why: every 30 seconds or so, whatever app is using the disk seems to completely freeze.

Examples:

Chrome accessing cache

App store downloading Xcode

Sublime text saving a file

Safari doing anything

Dropbox sync

I've turned off hard drive sleeping, which helped a bit but the benefits appear to be gone. I've also switched te hibernate mode to kill the image and disabled spotlight. The only general solutions google has suggested that I have yet to do are turn on TRIM (which OWC does not recommend for their drive) and add the noatime mount option.

I'm doing a permissions repair now, but I could use more suggestions.

Fs_usage and logs don't show anything that catches the eye.


texts: What are some good data recovery programs to try on an SD card?

texts:
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.

My guess is the files are still in the library but not in the index. I will have a look later today when I go to help him out. However, in case the files are really gone I'll try to recover them from the SD card.

Any suggestions for doing that?


texts: How to restore motherboard firmware on an unresponsive MBP mid-2009?

texts:
My EFI was version 1.7 and I downgraded it to 1.6 by following the instructions in the answer given on How to downgrade EFI firmware back to version 1.6. (I made it to the end of step 4 and heard the "angry beep".)

Now when I power on the laptop the sleep LED lights up, fade to a dim solid light for a few seconds then does several (I think eight) quick flashes before returning to a dim solid light, and then this pattern cycles continually. The screen is off, the keyboard is unresponsive (no caps lock light), the machine makes no beeps or chord sounds and the behaviour is identical with or without the hard drive and/or memory.

(This question is meant as a DIY resource for others that experience something similar in the future and so responses along the lines of "seek AppleCare" or "it can't be fixed" are discouraged. )


texts: What is 10.5.8 (Users) preference file for video?

texts:
If I can find the users preference file for video resolution I can try deleting it.

Hooked up a monitor that doesn't support 1280x900. Just a blank screen and unable to go back to original 1280x1024.

The other users video is fine. Thanks


texts: Configure a separate root folder for Sites directory

texts:
I have re-written this entire post as I realized it originally did not make much sense (That would be a funny comment for a program).

I'm developing a web project in localhost with a very organized and deeply nested directory structure.

My current project directory:

# Absolute path
/Users/Username/Sites/myproject/
# Localhost path
localhost/~Username/myproject/

With PHP files, I can specify includes using the absolute path:

include_once '/Users/Username/Sites/myproject/config/scripts/php/foo.php';

However, with HTML anchor tags, CSS href, and JavaScript src, the absolute path cannot be used. For example:

    The following anchor tag using an absolute path to the file:

    Blog

    Clicking the link causes a 404 error:

    The requested URL /Users/Username/Sites/myproject/blog/ was not found on this server.

With the following example, looking at the URL on the 404 page, I can see that the server attempted to look for the file under the localhost root directory, rather than my machine's root directory:

[http://localhost/Users/Username/Sites/myproject/blog/]

Easy enough, I'll just point the file using an absolute path in the localhost directory:

Blog

Ah! A solution! I actually discovered this solution while making this edit to the post and, though it will work in all my directories no matter how nested, it's going to cause some serious problems down the line. First of all, this method does not work for PHP includes, PHP starts its file searching from the root of the machine, not the web server. This requires absolute paths that start all the way at the /User level, which will need to be changed when I upload this to me 3rd party host. I can think of another, much worse case, where I upload all the files to a 3rd party host, and have to go through and change all the links, to something like:

Blog

Since myproject will be the root folder (www.myproject.com). Sure, changing a few href, src, and php include locations won't be too bad, but I'm going to have to change every path on every file, which will be extremely time consuming and, based on how large this project is, close to impossible. And then when the nightmare comes of having to edit a file or two, change some CSS, etc, I'll download the related files via FTP and then I will have to change all the paths again to work on my local machine. This would be a nightmare.

So, my question is, how can I configure the OSX Apache web server to recognize myproject as the root folder in the sites directory? Is is as simple as editing DocumentRoot in httpd.conf? I'm hesitant to edit that file because if I mess anything up I'm screwed. Even if it is as simple as changing the DocumentRoot, what if I'm working on multiple projects at once? I'm not going to want to go in every time and change DocumentRoot just to get my paths to work. I think it would be pretty cool for each top-level directory in the Sites folder to be its own root folder for any files or directories inside of it, if that makes any sense. Anyway, any advice would help, I'm kind of dead in the water right now.


texts:
When switching applications using Mission Control, the application I select moves to the foreground as expected.

However on occasion, it will then immediately jump back into the background. This is very annoying. I closed all my other applications but that did not help. Please see this gif for a demo:

Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this?


texts: How to stop Skype from being terminated during sleep?

texts:
Recently, when I wake up my MacBook from sleep I often have to restart Skype. It seems that it was terminated somehow.
Any hints on what might be causing this?
Skype version 8.72.0.82
macOS Mojave 10.14.2


texts: Scroll to zoom on a mac with a non-mac usb mouse

texts:
Moving over to a mac from windows and one feature I really enjoyed was being able to map my scroll up and scroll down keys and (+) and (-) respectively.

Then, while in a web browser or picture preview I could hold ctrl and scroll up and down to zoom in and out.

I have been having trouble implementing this for my mac. I tried the better touch tool but can't seem to make it work with that.

I also tried System Preferences->Accessibility->Zoom to change the settings there but it does not increase the size of whatever I am viewing, it just actually zooms in the entire computer screen (which is an unwanted effect).


texts:
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.

Viewing webpages with syriac characters, e. g. Syriac Wikipedia, I get only empty boxes (the default character). I tried all three popular browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Safari), terminal, Libre Office, TextWrangler.

This webpage syriaca.org has a teststring, which renders correctly, but specifies the font in CSS.

If I write a small HTML file with CSS specifying an installed Syriac font, it displays correctly:

<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.syr {
    font-family: "SertoUrhoy", "Serto Urhoy", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    /* font-size: large; */
    font-size: 1.25em;
    line-height: 1em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="syr" dir="rtl">
ܫܠܡܐ
</p>
</body>

Also on syriaca.org a problem on Mac is mentioned:

  Even with Meltho or other fonts installed there is also a known conflict with Apple's default rendering of the ܘ (waw) character when a conflicting Arabic font is installed.

What can I do to solve this Problem? CSS is only a solution for HTML written by myself.


texts: Is it possible to export all my iPhone contacts to my iPad 2?

texts: Does anyone know of a way to export all my contacts from my iPhone straight into my iPad 2 without having to re-type all of them in?


texts:
switching from my iphone 5s to a samsung A6, I am wondering if there is any option to include my notes in my ebooks, transfer them to my android phone, continue to read on that phone and also still having my notes in the ebook.

Would that be possible somehow?


texts: Memory upgrade for imac 27inch mid 2011 2.7GHZ INTEL CORE i5

texts: I have a imac as above, which has 2 x 2gb memory cards installed, I would like to upgrade my memory by putting in 4 new ones each being 4gb making a total of 16gb, but what happens to the memory already on the 2 cards in the mac, if i remove them will I loose all the stored memory in my photos, word etc. ?  please help, als can I have a total of 32gb in this model?


texts: Is it possible to use a single Time Machine backup so that two Macs are always in sync?

texts:
I have a Time Machine and two Macs.  I want both computers to be the same, not back them up separately.

Is it possible to use one as a primary (always backing up from one) and then "downloading" the latest changes onto another?


texts: Can't delete apps that are no longer available in App Store

texts:
I have four apps that are no longer available in the App Store. They're not installed on my phone (which is fine). Every time I connect my iPhone to I get this message in iTunes: "Some of the apps in your iTunes library were not installed on the iPhone because one or more errors occurred."

In iTunes I can search for the app and the icon is grayed out:

Click Install does nothing.

I've searched for these apps on the App Store and they're not there. How do I remove all four of these apps to avoid getting that message when connecting my phone to my computer?


texts: How can I troubleshoot a problem I'm having with Quick Look on my Mac?

texts:
I noticed that recently I can't zoom properly in Quick Look when I preview image files. When I press the space bar, I can zoom normally. After that, I can pan the picture in the Quick Look window. However, after panning the picture, I can't zoom anymore.

I tried this on another MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra just like mine, but it seems like it works normally (i.e. in a Quick Look window you can zoom, pan, and then zoom again). This suggests that my problem arises from something that I installed on my machine.

How would I go about troubleshooting this issue and trying to find out what's preventing me from zooming after panning when previewing pictures with Quick Look?


texts: Holding down the option key isn't allowing me to select Windows/OS X on startup

texts:
I have Windows 7 installed on a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro.

According to Apple's Boot Camp Installation and Setup Guide, pg. 10...

  Select an operating system during startup

  You can select which operating system to use during startup by holding down the Option key.

  This displays icons for all available startup disks and lets you override the default setting for the startup disk that is in Startup Disk preferences (OS X) or the Boot Camp control panel (Windows), without changing that setting.

  1 Restart your Mac and hold down the Option key until disk icons appear onscreen.

  2 Select the startup disk with the operating system you want to use, then click the arrow beneath the icon.

I'm finding that holding down the option key has no effect -- the machine boots into whichever OS was last running.

This is true whether I'm starting from the shut-down condition, or restarting.

I've tried hold down each of the two option keys and I've tried holding down both at once.

I've tried pressing the keys from before the startup chime and just after.

The only way I've been able to control which OS starts up is to restart from the Boot Camp control panel in OS X in either OS.

Any thoughts on how to get the machine to behave as described in the docs?


texts: How to manually upgrade iTunes library to Music.app library on macOS Catalina?

texts:
I have a smaller iTunes library on an internal SSD and larger one on an external drive.

I have upgraded to macOS Catalina.
The smaller music library has been upgraded, the larger one hasn't.

How can I force the second library to upgrade to Music.app library format too?


texts: Mac App Store shows pending update for update that was done

texts:
I'm asking this question here because I am looking outside the box for some solution. I do some back-end things for Macs at our company, and usually answer helpdesk questions when they get stumped. Well, this is stumping me.

We have a user who is running El Capitain on his system. He is a developer, so he does do a lot of things to change his machine, so we anticipate some things may not make sense. He installed a recent security update, which I believe is this one: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

His App Store is still showing that the update is pending. He can't hide it, and he can't run it again. I'm trying to see what this might be.
He is the only user of the machine. The other accounts on it are two local IT tech accounts, and macports. The machine is bound to Windows AD (with his profile as a mobile profile) and is managed by JSS.

We manage configuration policies through JSS, and they are closely monitored. I don't see anything different about his configurations than anyone else's.

I've gone through what I would think would normally flush this out. First I had him remove the com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist from the Library. That didn't do it.

Then the following removals,

rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore
rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.storeagent
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.storeagent.plist
rm ~/Library/Cookies/com.apple.appstore.plist

Also had him re-index Spotlight, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
None of these items have remedied the issue.

With a pending Sierra update we'll be pushing out to users, we reckon that might fix it, too. But I'm wondering if there is something here that we've missed.


texts:
So long story short, my iMac was working perfectly fine and I just decided to restart it because the fan was loud, it made a weird noise and now it keeps taking me back to either reinstall my macos, disk utility, and time machine.

I try clicking my Macintosh HD but it isn't even showing even after running first aid it says that "it has failed, is possible back up data on this volume". I also went on reinstall macos but does not show my Mac HD in there ... Any solutions ?


texts: How does one Copy, Paste and Tab using AppleScript?

texts:
I am looking to automate Copy, Paste, Tab and Left in Microsoft Excel and either Safari or Firefox using Applescript. I have limited experience in coding, and have recently complied a code, but unfortunately it doesn't work as planned...

What I want to happen;

In Browser Copy
In Excel Paste, Left, Copy
In Browser Tab, Paste, Tab x8
Repeat

repeat 50 times

    tell application "Safari" to activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Safari"
            keystroke "c" using command down
        end tell
    end tell

    delay 0.3

    tell application "Microsoft Excel" to activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Microsoft Excel"
            keystroke "v" using command down
            delay 0.3
            key code 123
            keystroke "c" using command down
        end tell
    end tell

    tell application "Safari" to activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Safari"
            keystroke tab
            keystroke "v" using command down
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
            keystroke tab
        end tell
    end tell

    delay 0.3

end repeat


texts: How do i enter my numeric password in iPhone 4 in VoiceOver mode?

texts:
My iPhone 4 is in VoiceOver mode. It`s currently locked and not accepting my passcode which is absolutely correct. And now it's saying iPhone is disabled.

Any solution?


texts: How to set up second screen in iMac 2017 with macOS 10.12.6 Sierra?

texts:
I have a new iMac 4k 21.5" (2017) running under macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and featuring 2 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports for the connection to additional displays.

I'm attempting to connect this Mac to my 6 years old Samsung HD TV (32" 1080p (UE32C)) but with no luck. My TV has 4 HDMI ports, port 1 is connected to Apple TV and works quite well, the rest 3 ports had been used to hook up my Mac over an EZQuest cable.

I supposed that connection process should be trivial, you only have to connect the cable to the mac and to the TV than open system config tool and set up monitor in the screen config section but I failed. I have only got the black screen on the TV and second screen doesn't appear in the macOS config utility.

I would appreciate if someone suggest me where is the root of problem except the broken cable obviously.


texts: Devanagari font in macOS Terminal not rendering properly

texts:
[Setup] -

I have a M1 Mac mini running Big Sur.
I am using Devanagari-QWERTY input method for typing Marathi/Hindi.

[Problem] -

All is well when typing in apps like Pages, Stickies, Safari etc..
But when I type in Terminal app, the rendering is not as expected.

See below images.
What could be the issue and how to fix this?


texts: Mac open file dialog - "search" function - does not show all matching files

texts:
When considering the contents of the /shared directory - and specifically the files whose names begin with driversLicense:

16:12:48/shared $ll driversLicense.*

-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 steve  staff  567710 Aug  1  2011 driversLicense.pdf
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  staff    6476 Aug 27  2013 driversLicense.2013.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 steve  staff  314030 Nov 10  2014 driversLicense.jpg

Then in Finder I type in first few letters - specifically driversLicense: here is the screenshot of the result (I have done this a half dozen times to ensure it were repeatable):

Why is it that "driversLicense.2013.jpg" appears but not "driversLicense.jpg and driversLicense.pdf" ??


texts: Cannot switch focus between monitors when clicking a space in mission control

texts:
I have my Macbook Pro at a desktop station with a monitor and mouse and keyboard. I will generally be working on the monitor and using the Macbook display for reference material and chat. When I am working, with focus on the monitor, I will open mission control and click on a different space on the Macbook screen to look something up. However, the initial click to switch spaces does not switch focus to the Macbook screen, so when I start typing I end up doing random things in the full screen app on my monitor.

Is it possible to change this behavior so that clicking on a different space on the non-focused monitor also switches focus to that monitor? Is this the expected behavior?


texts: Have Reminders use date format set in System Preferences

texts:
Over here, you can see that Reminders is using a different date format from the one I have set in System Preferences.

How do I get it to conform to the date format I have established in System Preferences?


texts:
I've noticed lately that my son's photo's are appearing in my album.  We've both had iPhones and shared my ID for years now so i can only assume something has changed within the software. We both have iPhone 7's.

How can i make it so we can't see each others photos but can still have our own and back them up to the cloud as we used to?


texts: How to diagnose intermittent keyboard lockup and mouse problems

texts:
I have an intermittent problem with my MacBook Pro 15" (November, 2008 vintage). Running OS X 10.6.8.

Two or three days a week, sometimes more, the keyboard will stop working intermittently (no key presses work) and the mouse will select everything as if I have the left mouse button pressed all the time. I get the same behavior from the built-in keyboard and mouse pad and wireless keyboard and magic mouse.

Restarting doesn't usually help. Powering down and waiting 10 minutes usually makes the problem disappear for a few hours.

I assumed it was an overheating problem and installed Fan Control. However, the last time I had the problem, the CPU temperature was only 54 degrees C and the case did not feel hot.

I'd appreciate suggestions on how to diagnose this problem.

This is a company owned laptop and due to a "frugal" employer, I don't have AppleCare.


texts:
I am looking for a phone number in my history. All I know is the area code 808, which will narrow it down immensely, and its having occurred between a month and two months ago.

How can I search the call history for the area code?

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2


texts: Can I remotely control an IPad 9.7 running ios 11.2 with Teamviewer on a MacBook Pro?

texts: My mother has just bought herself a new IPAD 9,7 running IOS 11.2. I would like to set up Teamviewer so that I can control her IPad from my MacBook. So far I can only "view" her IPad when I start a screen recording, but have no control over the ipad itself. Is this functionality available with Teamviewer?


texts: Is there an app that streams music and adds it to your library?

texts:
I generally switch between my 4S and a Windows Phone; however, it isn't practical to have a Spotify paid account and a Zune Pass, although I much prefer the desktop software of the latter. I love the way a Zune Pass lets you download music and adds it to your phone library. Spotify (on ios and windows phone) keeps the music contained to your app and is way too playlist focused for my tastes.

Is there anything for iOS that interfaces with your library?


texts: How to change Google Chrome User-Agent string on iPadOS

texts:
I want to change my user-agent string for a reason, so I want to know; Is there a way to change the Google Chrome user-agent string on iPadOS 14.5.1? chrome://version shows
Google Chrome   90.0.4430.78 (Official Build) stable (64-bit)
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So please can someone answer my question?


texts: New restored iPhone getting "iTunes couldnt not back up the iPhone because the backup session failed"

texts:
I looked everywhere and I can't solve this.

I looked at Error trying to backup both iPhone4 and iPad (1) after 4.3/iTunes/XCode updates and didn't solve my problem

EDIT: I have a used phone (1st gen) that I restored using the restore feature in iTunes. I close iTunes and start again and I get this error.

What can I do?


texts: Get alerted whenever someone uses your Mac?

texts: I have a dedicated Mac Mini in a colocation that I access via Remote Desktop. I trust the colocation provider, but I don't trust my password is secure enough. Without resorting to a more secure password, is there an app that alerts me via E-mail or Push Notification via OS X server whenever the mouse moves on the Mac?


texts: How can I stop macOS re-installing default apps and data I've previously deleted when I update the OS?

texts:
I normally tweak my iMac to the extremest way possible, including normally deleting useless system apps and certain processes and services. I did the same when I was running macOS High Sierra (10.13.0) and as soon as I updated to (10.13.1) all those system apps came back but only with greyed out icons and when being clicked they don't open because I have deleted supporting files and processes so now that these apps have come back, I am suspecting that the processes which I have deleted in the past might have also come back.
So how can I prevent apps and processes getting reinstalled every time a new version of macOS comes out?


texts: Uploading items to iCloud never ending (for weeks)

texts:
Is there a way to relaunch the upload to iCloud Drive?

My Mac has been uploading severals files for weeks.

I already tried to relaunch the Finder without success using killall Finder.


texts:
I upgraded to Mountain Lion a couple of months ago. But only just today did the VIP mailbox show up in Mail. I'd like to get rid of it. But apparently there is no way to get rid of it.

But that seems odd, since it only first showed up today, for no reason I can discover. For some reason it had an "Angieslist" subfolder, but with nothing in it.

Very odd. Annoying too.


texts: How do I determine what is waking my machine up?

texts:
Recently my Macbook Pro has been waking up from sleep at undesirable times (middle of the night) without any user interaction (nobody has touched it).

Is there a log on the machine that records the reason a machine woke from sleep?

Apparently the machine wakes up because:

1/26/14, 1:21:20 AM PST  Wake  Wake [CDNVA] due to EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:99%)

What is [CDNVA] due to EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:99%)?


texts: Connecting 2 iPads with a router without internet

texts: I need to connect two iPads to a network without internet connection. Can I just do it with a simple router? Is there a good type of router to share data without internet?


texts: Force mac to show at least two updates using softwareupdate -l

texts:
Basically I need the command softwareupdate -l to show at least 2 updates. I been downloading older versions of Xcode and Xcode command-line tools and so far I only managed softwareupdate -l to show 1 update required (Xcode command-line tools) and I need at least 2.

MacOS version: 10.15 Beta (19A471t).

Any help would be really appreciated!