texts: Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air, Early 2015

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The issue:
I have an issue with an MacBook Air that I need to install Windows 7 on. The problem is that this MacBook model does not support Windows 7 in Boot Camp. So I thought that I should instead install Windows without Boot Camp on the Mac hard drive. The problem is that when I boot the Windows 7 installation disk by pressing "Alt" at start up and choosing "EFI Boot" the loading screen freezes at "Windows is loading files..." just before it should start up. Also, the second before it freezes some tiny colorful lines appear in the upper right corner of the screen.
The DVD that I am installing from is working good on other PCs and on an older MacBook Air.

I need to run Windows 7 on this one and visualization nor an another Windows version is not an option in this case.

What else that I have tried:
I have tried with installing Windows 10 and then using the setup.exe file on the DVD to install Windows 7 but it freezes at a black screen in the first restart of the installation process.
Also, I have tried with starting the installation DVD from rEFInd but that gives the same result as with the original Apple boot loader, where you press "Alt" at start up.
Contacting Apple support does not give any assistance on how to install Windows 7 as it is not supported any more and they do not know any technical reason to why it isn't possible.  An internet search for the issue probably gave more information then they provided in an hour on the phone.
In addition I have tried to boot the installer from both a external USB DVD reader and an USB flash drive.

My questions is:
Is there any technical reason to why Apple choose to not support Windows 7?
Is it possible to install Windows 7 in an another way?
Any other ideas or suggestions (that is not running a PC instead or using visualization or an another Windows version)?

EDIT:
Found this answer that says it is possible to do but it is also the only answer that I found which says that it is possible.


texts: I have a collection of free fonts that I want to install on my Mac. But it is too tedious to double click every one of them and then click "Install font". Is there a quick way to do this? Like a certain context menu to "install all the fonts selected" or a terminal command.


texts: MacOSX El Capitan - After using command line to create a new user, why won't the user appear in the login screen on bootup?

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Using sudo dscl to create new users with and without admin privileges. The newly created users for some reason are not in the login screen on bootup and using the input entries for users do not login into the account.

Commands I used:

sudo dscl . -create /Users/username

sudo dscl . -create /Users/username UserShell /bin/bash

sudo dscl . -create /Users/username RealName "John Smith"

sudo dscl . -create /Users/username UniqueID 1001

sudo dscl . -create /Users/username PrimaryGroupID 1000

sudo dscl . -create /Users/username NFSHomeDirectory /Local/Users/username

sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/username password

sudo dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership username

After using the commands the user is created in the users & groups yet they do not appear or are active in the login screen. My filevault is disabled and changing primary groups has not worked.
I assumed that it may be because despite the fact that NFSHomeDirectory
creates the home directory, the newly created user's home directory isn't created.

I currently have MacOSX El Capitan (10.11.6) and every attempt has failed. I would greatly appreciate some help since I put these commands into a C++ script to automate my user creation.


texts: Create El Capitan installer thumb drive from Catalina

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I recently got a 2019 MacBook Pro from work, and a couple of mid 2009 MacBook Pros from a yard sale. I have mostly been using Windows and Linux for the past 20 years.

I'd like to make a El Capitan installer thumb drive, from the 2019 laptop, for the 2009 laptops. I've been following the instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

When I open the InstallMacOSX.dmg I see the InstallMacOSX.pkg, but when I launch that, I'm told

  This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

I had previously tried creating the thumb drive from the one working 2009 laptop but got a similar error.

What could I be doing wrong? What else should I try?


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I have Mac book pro 15 inch 2015 mid El Capitan OS with a Mag safe 2 85 W but i still not working no light no charging the problem I'm from morocco and there is no apple center and nearest seller is 1500 km away  so i try to fix it myself the pin intput is 230 V but when i check the connector i found 3 V i think it should be between 16-18 V , also the adapter make noise since it failed its like "tak tuk tuk" ....
I already tried:
rest SMC :shift ctrl option power for 10 second
I check electronic lines and all is Ok .
Sorry for my language .


texts: Remove preferences and application support files from already uninstalled apps

texts: I want to remove preferences and application support files from already uninstalled apps.  I have app cleaner to remove those files when I delete the application, but that only works for stuff after I installed App Cleaner.  Any automated system for programs removed before I installed App Cleaner?


texts: Weird bar in the bottom-left. What is that?

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Sometimes, when I hit a combination of keys (I have not figured out which one) a weird bar in the bottom-left of a screen appears. I cannot get rid of it in any way. The screencast: https://youtu.be/CdXVgth_sTk

The only way I have figured out of removing it is via: killall Dock.

What is the bar in question? How do you trigger it, how do you get rid of it, how to use it?


texts: Reset NVRAM, PRAM, and SMC, all in one go from the terminal?

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I'd like to run some code, go away and have a coffee and come back to a MacBook with the NVRAM, PRAM and SMC all reset (rather than doing them manually with yoga postures to press all the keys, waiting around for various signals that it worked etc).

Is there a quick and easy terminal script I can run?

I have a bad mac keyboard which could 'unpress' or double press at any time so I would think the reset was performed when in fact it had not. I want to alleviate that doubt


texts: I have recently bought a new Mac which contains Yosemite. Unfortunately i have problems with some of the programs I'm trying to run so i want to downgrade back to mavericks. i have constructed a USB flash drive that consists of Mavericks, however every time i select to boot from the Mavericks install USB a circle with a line through it appears on the screen. is there ways past this?


texts: Hide doesn't work (intermittently) on Microsoft Office applications

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I find it SO annoying when Command + h doesn't hide an application.  Somehow Microsoft's developers seemed to find a way to break that functionality on most Office apps.  Anyone know why this is?  I've seen this behavior across many different versions, but currently I am on 10.9.3 on OS, and Office 2011.

To clarify, this is not every time, but about half the time that hide fails to hide an app.


texts: Notification Center "Tweet sent" bird whistle plays through iMac internal speakers instead of selected output device

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Tweeting through Notification Centre share buttons plays "Tweet sent" bird whistle through my iMac's internal speakers. This only happened when I re-enabled the option to select internal speakers themselves by unplugging the speakers, installing more RAM, restarting the computer and plugging the speakers back in.

Before this, Mountain Lion played all sounds through my headphones; the selected audio output device in System Preferences.app > Sound. Now all sounds are being played through the output device as they always did—except for the "Tweet sent" sound—definitely not what I want.

How can I get it so the "Tweet sent" sound plays through my headphones again?

This also applies to other system/alert sounds it seems, such as the set alert sound, emptying the trash.


texts: How should I prep a laptop for a return?

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I'm returning a Macbook Air I purchased last week at an Apple Store (not because I don't like it, I just need a bit more screen real estate) and I want to make sure I put it in an acceptable state. I'd like to remove all the data that I've put on it in the last week but I don't want to go overboard.

Should I format the drive and return it with no OS? Format and reinstall the OS? Leave it as-is and trust Apple refurb to not look at my data?


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I have a JBOD with a couple of disks in that are mirrored using Disk Utility and have a single partition formatted as HFS+.  The purpose of this drive is to hold an iTunes library (sharing to AppleTV) and a couple of directories to share to other Macs around the house.

I’ve previously used one “fileshare” user to share everything around, but would like to have some segregation between the folders being shared to other Macs such that “my” stuff is private to me, and I can’t readily see what other people have on their shares.

I thought this would be easy, but preliminary investigations suggest not—both of my current users seem to think they own the directories.
As my “admin” user, I do a ls on the JBOD and get the following:

$ ls -l
total 0
drwx------  20 admin  staff  680  1 Jun 15:07 Ben
drwx------  13 admin  staff  442  8 Mar 20:31 Faye
drwx------  12 admin  staff  408  8 Mar 20:32 Misc Videos
drwxr-xr-x   7 admin  staff  238 10 Apr 11:34 iTunes

As my “fileshare” user, I do the same:

$ ls -l
total 0
drwx------  20 fileshare  staff  680 Jun  1 15:07 Ben
drwx------  13 fileshare  staff  442 Mar  8 20:31 Faye
drwx------  12 fileshare  staff  408 Mar  8 20:32 Misc Videos
drwxr-xr-x   7 fileshare  staff  238 Apr 10 11:34 iTunes

Looking in the Finder “Get Info” details, each user believes that the various directories belong to them and that “everyone” else has “No Access”.

When looking in the Sharing Preferences, each user believes they are sharing the directories:

System Stats:

Mac: Mac Pro, mid-2009
OS: Mavericks, 10.9.5 (regular client OS X, no Server installed)
JBOD: Hornettek Enterprise 4X II Quad-bay 20 TB Capacity
USB 3 card: Inateck 4 Ports PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion Card for Mac Pro

The reason I’m “stuck” on Mavericks is that the USB 3 card causes kernel panics on Yosemite.

I know that usually for removable drives you want everyone to access everything, because you might remove the drive and put it into another computer where an owner can't be found, but in this case the JBOD is (to me) seen as an “internal” disk. (As an aside, my internal drive bays are full, hence buying the JBOD)

How can I set permissions on this file system such that only one user owns them and only that user can share them?

Do I need to, in some way, tell OS X to treat this like an internal drive? How might I achieve this?


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On my Mac terminal, I typed

cat /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

and I do a dig

dig www.facebook.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> www.facebook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29630
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.facebook.com.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com.   1261    IN  CNAME   star.c10r.facebook.com.
star.c10r.facebook.com. 2   IN  A   31.13.70.1

Seems fine, but when I ping

PING www.facebook.com (193.107.16.114): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 193.107.16.114: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=584.127 ms

It use a Russian's IP address of 193.107.16.114, and I don't have this entry in my /etc/hosts/

Any idea?

Update: Look like problem solved when I edit/save the /etc/hosts/ file again, but definitely I don't have those strange IP 193.107.16.114 on my file, so I suspect due to any malware?


texts: How to remotely change slides out of order when displayed on an iPad?

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For a psychology experiment a friend of mine is looking for a possibility to show phrases on an iPad screen which can be controlled from outside. (Laptop, second iPad)

There will be around 100 Phrases (probably on slides). And the it should be possible to make the iPad jump to any slide but without interacting with it.

Any ideas how this could be achieved?


texts: How do I hit Scroll Lock on my keyboard in Windows?

texts: Somehow, I appear to have Scroll Lock on, which 99% of the time is irrelevant, with the 1% of the time being in Microsoft Excel.  As the keyboard on my MBP (Model 9,2) doesn't acknowledge the existence of this key (or a couple others I often want to use, e.g. Pause, Insert); how can I un-Scroll Lock my keyboard?


texts: How to determine which traffic goes over the PPTP VPN?

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I setup a PPTP VPN on mac os x lion, on the advanced tab I do not have the send all traffic over VPN connection checked. I only want traffic to a specific server connected to go through the vpn, everything else should not be sent over the vpn.

Where do I look to find out which IP addresses will be included for traffic over the vpn and which ones will not?


texts: Keyboard shortcuts with square brackets (swiss keyboard)

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IntelliJ has some keyboard shortcuts that use square brackets. On my swiss keyboard I type square brackets with option+5 and option+6.
IntelliJ now for example has the keyboard shortcut: shift+cmd+[
I am unable to use that keyboard shortcut. I tried it by pressing shift+cmd+option+5.
How do I do that?


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I was saving some hand-written note in iPhone Notes (suppose I had drawn "hello world, how are you?"). The default name suggested for the particular note was the start of the document ("hello world"). This suggested that Notes was able to convert handwriting to text, and comes with an OCR feature.
This was also strongly seconded when I included an image at the top of the note. The image was actually a screenshot of a browser page, and when I was trying to save it, the suggested name was the URL of the page, again indicating that OCR was performed.
However, I couldn't find how to convert handwritten notes/images to text in Notes, despite Notes supporting that. Is there any way to do it, or has this feature purposely been not provided?
PS - I know I can install third party apps to achieve the same. I just wondered how to do this using Notes.


texts: Can I delete my iPhoto themes folder (/Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Themes)?

texts: I have no interest in ever using them, although I do use iPhoto to store my photos. Will deleting the entire Themes folder mess anything up?


texts: Upgrading OSX on a three partition hard without losing bootcamp

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I have a three-partition hard drive on my MacBook pro mid 2009:

1) Snow leopard (10.6.8) on Macintosh HD with 175GB free

2) DATA on a FAT32 partition

3) Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition with 85GB free

I have installed windows from within the OS X, following the Bootcamp instruction, then I have created the third partition and did some "recovery" on windows side to have all three partitions working properly.

Now after some years, I want to upgrade Snow Leopard to new OS X (El Captain).
I downloaded the new OS X from App Store, and tried to upgrade, it started the upgrade process but then it failed saying that it cannot upgrade on this partition. It suggested to change the size of Macintosh HD by at least 128 MB, and re partition it, so that it would fix the errors, and the new os x would install. So, I shrank the macintosh HD partition by 1.5 GB, and repartitioned. Still no good.

So, not that my Snow Leopard is upgraded, but also my Bootcamp startup option is also gone now. Bootcamp options does not appear in the Startup Disks menu, nor when I hold OPTIONS key on system boot.

a) how to get bootcamp startup disk back?

b) how to upgrade to el captain, maintaining three partitions, and the windows installation?

Thank you so much

edit:
Some details:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            274.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Untitled                24.9 GB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data DATA                    299.4 GB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                150.8 GB   disk0s5

.

sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   536157600      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   536567240      262144
   536829384    48673336      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   585502720      262144
   585764864   584828928      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1170593792   294553600      5  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1465147392        1743
  1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

.

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  536157600] HFS+
 3: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 536829384 -   48673336] HFS+
 4: 0B 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 585764864 -  584828928] Win95 FAT-32


texts: Finder - search in specific subfolders across the whole drive

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I am trying to find a way how to search in specific subfolders through the whole drive on my mac. I will try to explain what I need exactly;
I have a folder with images called "Photos", which includes subfolders; each of these subfolders has a date as a name and includes at least 2 another subfolders called ORIGINALS and EDITS. Images in "originals" and "edits" folder have matching names.
When I search using command+F in "Photos" folder, my results are duplicated and I want to be able to include only files from "edits" folder.
Is this possible to achieve?
Thanks


texts: Why is wc -c printing spaces before the number?

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command:

echo "test" | wc -c

results (7 leading spaces):

"       5"

I tested this on my linux box and I don't get the space in front of the five. is this a bug or expected behavior?


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Upon opening "Disk Utility" from the Recovery window, a prompt asks if I want to revert to a working state. How far back does a working state go? Does this mean I will lose files from my desktop?

Also, I do not see a "Macintosh HD" listing, just disk0s2 and disk1s2.

What do I do next?!


texts: How often does Google Notifier check for email?

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I just installed Google Notifier (Mac), and I noticed that it's a bit delayed in when it reports an email has arrived.

It seems that it polls the server every X minutes instead of using push technology. How often does Google Notifier check for mail, and is there any way to modify it?


texts: How to update macOS to latest release of current version?

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I am on Catalina 10.15.3 and do not want to move to Big Sur just yet. Software Update does have the option to update to Big Sur but I am unable to determine how to do just a minor point update.  How do I install the latest update of Catalina?
Update From a comment by @jefe2000 I am trying the command line version and it seems promising.
$/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* Label: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update-
    Title: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update, Version:  , Size: 5099042K, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,

But what is the actual label?  I was unable to get this to work and have created a separate question for it.  Unable to install an update via the softwareupdate command line tool


texts: exFAT-formatted external drive loses folders

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I have an exFAT-formatted 3TB USB drive connected to an iMac running 10.10.3.  The system lost power and when it came back up, the drive wouldn't mount.  I tried Repair Disk in Disk Utility, and it didn't complete successfully -- I didn't note the error message but it was essentially "recover any files you can from backups and reformat".

I connected the drive to a Windows machine, which saw some files, at least, but complained that the disk needed to be repaired.  I let the disk repair tool run and it said it completed successfully.  I hooked it back up to the Mac, and while almost everything is fine, there are a few subfolders missing.  Critically, I think a few folders whose contents may have been being accessed during the power failure are just totally gone.

The disk passes Verify in Disk Utility as well as Windows verification tools.  I ran recuva on the Windows box and while it turned up a large number of recoverable files, they were all files I had deleted ages ago on the Mac. There were even more unrecoverable files, but they were also from the distant past.  None of the files in the folders that were accessed during the power cut were listed at all.

Now, I have backups of much of the data, and a lot of it was rips of DVDs we still have on the shelf, so if I can't fix this I'm only losing a few of my evenings babysitting Handbrake.  But I'd really like to make sure this never happens again while e.g. viewing our family photos.  Is this a known issue?  Is there anything I can do to recover the missing folders?


texts: iTunes 11 won't allow iPod content delete

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can’t delete music from iTunes

My wife has a Windows laptop (I know) and since installing iTunes 11, she can't access the content on her iPod (click wheel) when it's connected. iTunes reads the iPod, but will not allow her to add or delete. How can she delete content from her iPod to make room for new?


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I recently updated to macOS High Sierra recently and noticed that sometimes there is a red bar/background over the right side of the menu bar, near time and Siri icons. This happens only on the secondary displays and also not on all workspaces.

It goes away if I make an app full screen and back to normal. I noticed this a few times on Sierra also but that was very rare and the bar used to be white instead of red. Is this a bug in Metal/Metal 2?

PS: The secondary display is connected via VGA.


texts: How can I edit a long URL in the Safari browser on my iPad 2?

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I'd like to be able to edit a long url in the Safari browser on my iPad 2 running iOS 8.1.1. I can select it, but I can't scroll through it to add or delete something on the end. I generally copy/paste it into Notes, do the edit, then paste it back into the browser window, but that's a number of steps and becomes tedious.

Is there a way to do that type of edit inside the browser window?


texts: Preview hangs when opening any image or pdf

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Recently Preview has started hanging for me whenever I open any pdf or image. I keep getting the spinning balloon of death and am unable to do anything in Preview, so I have to force-quit the application. Is there something I can do about this?

Crash report is here.


texts: can't download Xcode 9.3, disk is full in fact it is not

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I want to update my xcode from xcode 9.2 to 9.3. but in the App store when I press update button, it shows the alert like the picture above.

even though in fact I have a lot of space

it is only xcode, when I update the itunes, it can update smoothly.

what should I do? really need your help :(


texts: Favicons not showing in Safari 5.1.1 on OSX Lion?

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Since upgrading to Safari 5.1.1 none of the websites I am visiting is displaying Favicons. I had a look in ~/Library/Safari/Icons to try and reset these but noticed that the file/folder doesn't exist, so the problem is not related to the caching.

This was working fine in a clean install of Lion before upgrading to 10.7.2. Even installing Glims and setting the icons to display in the tab headers did not fix the problem.

Is anyone aware of a fix for this, or whether this is a known bug?


texts: Can the 13ʺ MacBook Pro satisfactorily drive two Thunderbolt displays?

texts: The new 13ʺ Retina MacBook Pros have 2 Thunderbolt ports, and Apple appears to indicate you can plug in and use 2 Thunderbolt displays with them, but is the video performance satisfactory when doing so? I'm not planning on doing anything that graphically intensive, but I wanted to make sure that the performance was still fine. (Also, I'll be using the MBP in clamshell mode, so I'll only be driving 2 TB displays, not 2 TB displays and the laptop screen.)


texts: Handoff renders two-factor authencation worthless?

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I noticed that when I enabled two-factor authentication for my Apple ID and have handoff turned on, the code pops up on the mac where I'm seeking the two factor. Seems like it renders the two-factor worthless. Isn't the point it have it go to another device, separate from the login device?

I guess the obvious solution is to not have handoff on the mac?


texts:
I've written a bunch of services for my own use that I use frequently, but recently it's getting tougher.

I installed some apps (such as Skim.app, apptivate) that introduce their own services (eg. Open URL in Skim) which I don't need/use. These services clutter up my services list though (Skim alone add about 4 services to the list you get when you right click a Finder item).

Is there a way of removing these services from the list? I've tried looking for them in ~/Library/services but they aren't there. Where should I look?


texts:
I am searching for a way to start multiple, pre-defined applications via apple's remote control. Is this at all possible with Mavericks?

I have a special user account on my iMac that is used for watching films via Plex and DVB-T via EyeTv. While I can close all these applications via remote-control as soon as they are running, I have not found a way to start them.

Is there a third-party app that allows such a functionality? I already tried RemoteBuddy but it was much too complex for my needs.


texts:
How can I set sharing and permission on Mac os x to be -rwx for all?
When I create file or folder it is read and write for me but for all others it is Read only. If there is more files just copied from USB to some unlocked folder, automatical it is read only for all other users. Because we share files it is annoying. So please help.


texts: iOS Camera Roll and Photo Stream workflow

texts:
When I take a photo on my iPhone it is added to both the Camera Roll and Photo Stream.  I can then upload the photo into "permanent" storage in Mac iPhoto either from Photo Stream or Camera Roll (during a sync).

Is there any difference in the photo stored in Camera Roll or Photo Stream?
Photo Stream automatically reduces the resolution when it transfers a photo to an iOS device.  Does this down resolution process only apply to photos transferred to a different iOS device, i.e. a photo taken on the iPhone is full resolution on the original iPhone but would be down sampled if Photo Stream transferred it to a different iPhone?
Is there any easy way to delete multiple photos from Camera Roll and Photo Stream on an iOS device?  One at a time isn't exactly practical for the hundreds of photos I might take on a long trip.


texts: Why have symbolic links between files in folders at same depth?

texts:
I noticed that in macOS, the /usr/local/Cellar folder contains binaries installed using Homebrew, and that /usr/local/opt has symbolic links to a bunch of those binaries. I haven't used symbolic links much, but as I understand it, the purpose of them is to create a link in a convenient location to a file/folder that acts as a copy of that file/folder, without having to move that file/folder from its original location.

So my questions are:

Am I correct in my understanding of symbolic links there?
If so, why would you create symbolic links in one folder (/usr/local/opt) to binaries in another folder (/usr/local/Cellar) that is at a similar location/depth in the file structure? Under what circumstances would you use these symbolic links where you couldn't just use the binaries?


texts:
When I open my keychain access, it is empty. I can't see anything in it. However, I know that all of my stuff is still working (websites don't prompt me to log in, I join wifi networks, Xcode still see my developer certs), etc.

I suspect that this happened when I changed my account password. As I understand it, if I change the password in the Accounts pref pane, my keychain passwords should update automatically.

So I suspected that maybe if I locked my keychain items in Keychain access, and then unlocked them, that 1. I would be prompted for my password, and 2. I might be able to see my stuff again. Neither one happened.

Any thoughts on what I might do to rectify this? I have backups of all of the important stuff (secrets, etc), but I'd really like to try fixing it if I can.

Update 8/21/2013

I tried restoring from a TimeMachine backup, and I'm seeing the same thing. Here is a screen shot:

I know that it looks like a virgin Keychain, but as I indicated earlier, everything is still working. All my certs are still in Xcode Organzier, I am periodically prompted to unlock the login keychain, especially after a reboot.

This is very strange indeed.


texts:
A friend of mine just got her GMail account hacked because of a weak password. The attacker still has control of her account. She was using Mail.app to read her emails.

I would like to find a solution to get all the contacts sorted by usage (number of message sent from/to a person), which does not involve typing commands inside a terminal. I have a working solution based on grep and sort on files found in ~/Library/Mail/V2/... but I don't feel like sending her a script..


texts: Add group from directory service to Mac’s admin group

texts:
I have been searching the entire web for a couple of days now, but could not find a solution to the following problem: We would like to add a group from a directory service (LDAP) to the Mac’s admin group.
What we ultimately want to achieve is to be able to give admin rights on the mac dynamically by moving users to a certain group on the LDAP server.
I have found this 10 year old article (https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/adding-groups-from-your-directory-service-to-your-macs-admin-group/) that seems to describe a solution to the same problem, but I could not get it to work on Big Sur.
Any ideas would be very appreciated :)


texts: MBP SSD upgrade - which settings to change?

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After replacing the harddisk drive in MacBook Pro  with a Solid State Disk I am wondering which settings I should change and how.

Thinking of things that are supposed to protect the SSD like

enabling TRIM support
disabling suspend to disk
disabling the shock sensor (if no standard harddrive is used anymore - does that make sense at all?)

Update:
Swapping the harddrive with a SSD was just the best decision - totally different, much better experience, almost like a new, much faster MacBook Pro.


texts: How can I extract locally stored Notes from iOS without enabling the cloud?

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A family member has been using an iPhone since around 2012 and regularly uses the Notes feature to store various things to remember. At some point, syncing of notes was no longer supported by Apple as they decided that everything should be on iCloud. Said family member does not want anything on the cloud.

A few upgrades of the OS later and we're now in a situation that they have these multiple notes on the device, but are ONLY accessible on the device. Though I presume they're all getting backed up as part of the phone's backup process on iTunes, I'm imagining that they're stored in some binary format (PostgreSQL?) and not easily extracted if they decide one day to switch to Android. The only way out, it appears, is to COPY every note to either an email or to an iCloud note which neither is very appealing.

Is there any way to do this? Preferably, it would be ideal if the notes would sync with their laptop's Notes application like it used to a few years ago, but I'm assuming that Apple won't change that back.


texts: change or deactivate iOS 9 newsfeed on the search screen

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I have an iPhone 5 and just updated to iOS 9 (all german).

What I really do not like is the content of the newsfeed that is presented to me on the search screen. How can I change what content is presented to me (no more news from spiegel.de or focus.de please!) or if that is not possible, how can I completely disable news on that search screen but keep all the rest of the proactive search features on that search screen?

It appears in the US locale, the solution is to disable the news app from contributing to spotlight search but this app (and the switch for it) does not exist in iOS 9 that detects a german locale.


texts: iOS9 how to change back to ALL CAPITAL keyboard?

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After using Apple iPhone keyboard for close to 4 years, I'm quite proficient with typing on the keyboard, almost touch typing, while relying on autocorrect.

The new lowercase keyboard totally throws me off.

How can I get my iPhone with iOS9 to go back to default keyboard where all characters are capitalized?


texts: Today I started my Mac (iMac) and when I tried to search in finder or spotlight it produce no results. I think its related to the search cache. I guess it gets corrupted. If this is the case How can I regenerate the cache or fix this issue.


texts: I dropped my iphone and now it smells weird

texts: My iphone 5 fell around 40ft down a stairwell, the screen got smashed and the touchscreen hardware appears to have partially popped out. The phone still works, but it has a very strong smell. Should I be concerned?


texts: Is there a way to completely disable Dock?

texts: I want the Dock completely gone.  I haven't used it in the past three releases of OS X (10.5 to present).  I want it completely gone, and LaunchBar there instead.  Is there a way to kill the Dock so that it does not load or run?


texts: Should I worry that TimeMachine is making many backups during one night without me using my computer?

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When I want TimeMachine to backup my computer, I usually plug my external hard drive before going to bed.
Unfortunately, I am already in the position where new backups are replacing old ones on the drive.
So I am quite worried when I see that TimeMachine is creating many different snapshots during the night.

Are these identical backups going to affect the oldest ones on my drive?

Or since they are identical, TimeMachine does not remove an old snapshot everytime it creates a new one?

I am a bit confused and would like to know if I need to change my backing up routine, like doing it at the same time as I am behind the computer, to be able to unplug the drive right after?

Thanks.


texts: I removed the battery icon from the menu bar. How do I add it back?

texts:
My menu bar looks like this:

As you can see the battery icon is missing because I accidentally removed it by CMD+Click+Dragging it off of the menu bar. Also, the customize toolbar button is not clickable.


texts: How to enable Siri to Speak and write Tamil In Mac book and iPhone 7

texts: I have downloaded a software linguist. This software is able to translate the in writing. Can Siri be linked to this software to read and write Tamil?


texts: Mail.app Assumes Google is the Desired Service for a Self-Hosted Domain

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I am migrating from Google Apps for Domains to a self-hosted service. After removing my Google account from Mail, and attempting to add my self-hosted account, Mail and System Preferences always default to Google as the provider for my email. DNS records have been switched (mail flow works fine from my self-hosted service).

Every time I attempt to add a new account, it assumes I want the Google account it discovers and not my personal email.

I have uninstalled Gmail from the Google Apps for Domains control panel, but this has not helped (yet). I have also removed my preferences folder for Mail.app, but this does not help either.

I cannot delete or rename this Google account; other services are attached to it.

Any suggestions?

I had previously thought that by changing the passwords to differ after uninstalling Gmail, it was working. However, while it lets you add a different IMAP account, the type is still "Google IMAP", which causes issues when trying to setup the accounts properly (most notably because I also have a self-hosted CalDAV account).

After further testing, I have found that any IMAP account I attempt to create is set as a "Google IMAP" account once I provide the self-hosted domain (meaning, even if I create it with fictitious information and later supply the domain only when I have to). How can I address this?


texts: How do I record the iPad screen with a Netflix video playback in progress?

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I am looking for a way to video record my iPad's screen while a Netflix video playback is in progress.

Is it possible to do while using the Netflix iPadOS app? Or do I have to use Chrome browser?


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I wanted to upgrade the memory on an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), which had 2x4GB chips. I bought 4x4GB chips (I only needed 2, but bought so many to use in other machines).
None of the 4 chips worked - as in, swapping them out one by one, making sure they were well seated, the 2 original chips worked fine, but with the 4 new ones, the machine would not boot at all.
The original chips, made by "SK hynix", have a sticker that says:

4GB 1Rx8 PC3L - 14900S - 13 - 13 - B4
HMT451S6BFR8A - RD NA AA  1638

The new ones, made by "Komputer Bay", have a sticker that says:

4GB PC3-14900 DDR3
2RX8 NON ECC 1.35V

The seller (on Amazon) states these new chips are made for this model of iMac. Is the seller wrong? Or could I have been given 4 defective chips?
Here is the link to the Amazon page, which states "..for Apple iMac 275K (Late 2015)". Thanks to @monomeeth for that - it is possible I was sent the incorrect type.
Thanks!


texts: kernel_task is using 90% CPU, what could be the cause?

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I have a 13" MBP late 2009, 2.53 GHz, 4 GB RAM, and on OS X 10.8.3. As soon as I boot up the fans start going at the highest rpm and like I mentioned the kernel_task is always at around 90% when no apps are being run. I read somewhere that I should try safe boot and see the effect but there is none.
Any ideas as to what is causing it?

Thanks


texts: is there anyway to get categories assigned in Photos.app to certain photo programatically?

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You can browse your photos by categories, which are somehow applied using AI and some object detection algorithms to your library photos in the background, e.g "snow" to see all photos with snow, or "bike" to see all photos containing bike.
Is there any option to tell to Photos.app via applescript / swift / whatever API to get this info programmatically?
it is done offline on the device according to:

Photos is enabled by powerful machine learning to deliver unique
features like Memories, Search Suggestions, and For You. Photos
analyzes every photo in a user’s photo library using on-device machine
learning that delivers a personalized experience for each user. And
this analysis is designed from the ground up with privacy in mind,
with all of the processing done on device—and the results of this
analysis are not shared with anyone, not even Apple.

source: https://www.apple.com/ios/photos/pdf/Photos_Tech_Brief_Sept_2019.pdf


texts: How can I make allow users with older versions of iOS to download an older version of my app

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I've updated my app and due to some of the functions I'm releasing it has to be for iOS 10 and up.  I understand that there is a way for users that have not upgraded to iOS 10 to be able to get the older version of my app but I haven't been able to figure out how to enable that in the app store.  I just tested on a device and currently if you have iOS 9 it will tell you that you can't get the app because it is only supported on iOS 10.  No option to download the previous version.

According to the redit article below Apple enabled the behavior I want.  I just don't know how to turn it on for my app.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1mjw36/people_with_old_ios_devices_you_can_now_install/


texts: Move desktop item to system tray (dock)?

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Windows user switching over to Mac here.

I have downloaded an application, the link to which is currently on my desktop. It is actually a *.app file, which I'm assuming is a shortcut to the file? I want to get the shortcut onto the tray of icons at the bottom of the screen. I'm familiar with linux/unix. Is there a way to mv the file from the desktop where it is to the tray of icons at the bottom? I'm not sure what the path is.

Previously, I tried dragging it onto the tray, then deleting it from the desktop, but when I tried to then run it from the tray, it said it was in the trash.


texts: Unlock MacOs with fingertips doesn't work on Big Sur

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I'm trying to unlock my Mac with Touch ID. During the initialisation process, I configured my fingertip correctly but when I try to unlock my Mac it doesn't detect it.
If I go in "System Preferences" under the menu "Touch ID" this is what I see:

Then I decided to check the "Unlocking your Mac" option, I fill the password but if I open "Touch ID" for the second time "Unlocking your Mac" is still unchecked.
Why? What can I do?


texts: OS X Server leaves some unwanted open ports after removal

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I am currently running OS X Version 10.9.5 (Mavericks).
In the past I installed OS X server and had to sign some certificates so that users could authenticate with the VPN function (which is what I mostly used the server for), and later I removed OS X server from the OS.

However, upon further inspection some months later, I noticed that there were still traces of those certificates and/or services were still running unnoticed. I did an nmap scan against my machine to reassure myself that my observations were indeed correct. And correct they were. Here's the scan:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=B3vbG8q6

So I looked around the web for some answers... came across a few that said I should remove the certificates from my Keychain Access, which I tried. That didn't work, got the same exact nmap scan result.

Then I thought that maybe there was a process (or processes) running that related to those open ports. In terminal I did:

  sudo lsof -i :625

and

  sudo lsof -i :636

and same with ports 749 and 3659 to get the processes that were associated with them.

Then I did:

  sudo kill -9 PID

but it became apparent that those were persistent processes after conducting another nmap scan and further lsof -i commands, only to find myself looking at different numbers under PID :/

My desired result is for the mmap scan to not show any traces of there being a server on my system, or even a server installed in the past. I've looked everywhere and the very few clues that I've found didn't get me what I need.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


texts: Can I get 2560x1440 resolution on external monitor?

texts:
I have a mid-2015 MacBook Pro running High Sierra. I normally use it as a desktop computer in clamshell mode with an external monitor.

I just replaced my 24-inch external monitor with a 32-inch monitor. The new monitor is an Acer EB321HQU-B, which is supposed to support up to 2560x1440 resolution.

According to the technical specifications my Mac is supposed to support

  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.

and

  Support for 3840-by-2160 resolution at 30Hz

I have the new monitor connected via a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.

But the best I can get is 1920x1080, which is the same as my old monitor. In Display preferences, the only options I see in Scaled are 1600x900, 1080p, 1080i, and 720p, whether I select 60Hz or 30Hz. So I can't show any more on the screen, it's just all scaled up 33%.

Is there some way I can take advantage of the new monitor?


texts: Can I use external graphic card with MacBook Pro?

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I have a MacBook Pro Retina display late 2013.

processor  = 2ghz Intel core i7
memory     = 8GB
os         = Mavericks 10.9.2
graphic    = 1GB Intel graphic card

Can I use any external graphic card as we use an external hard disk?


texts: I accidently overcharged my iPhone 5c and it stopped working. What should I do?

texts: For the first time, I left my iPhone 5c charging all night for about 4 hours. In the morning when I unplugged it, it had turned off when it was on when I left it for charging. I tried to turn it on, but the screen won't hitch. At first I thought it got stuck, but it seemed like the battery had been damaged because it won't buzz at all. What should I do?


texts: Application similar to MS Paint to do graphical work on Mac

texts:
This is going to sound silly to someone who does this everyday.. but I am confused about something.

What do people use to do similar things like with MS Paint (not Paint.net), e.g. stuff like making rage comics and meme's or other such silly things. The only graphics application I found for my Mac is GIMP


texts: Mac Mini locked through Find My iPhone, can't unlock it

texts:
So my friend locked his Mac with his iPhone using Find My iPhone.
Unfortunately there seems to be no way of unlocking it.

I have provided a picture of it below:

I really hope someone here knows what to do. I appreciate all the help!


texts: Screen glitches after installing ATI Radeon HD on my old Mac Pro

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I decided to try and upgrade my old 2009 Mac Pro and update it based on the various guides that I've seen online. I figured the best 1st step would be to make sure that I flash it from 4.1 to 5.1, and if that works, I can purchase the rest of the hardware and do the upgrade.

The first time I tried doing this, it didn't work and supposedly it was due to me having a non-Apple graphics card. So I went and bought an ATI Radeon HD 4870. After installing it on the computer, it won't boot properly and when the main screen loads, it's all scrambled.

However, if I boot into recovery or safe mode- It'll work fine and the screen will be normal. Any Ideas?


texts: What is causing the high system CPU load under Mountain Lion?

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I recently began to see some odd behavior on my MacBook Pro on Mountain Lion. I noticed the fans coming up and applications behaving sluggish. I checked the
ActivityMonitor (see below) and the results kept me puzzled: Although I list all processes, only very few show up that cause medium CPU usage, still the system CPU is at close to 70%.

I've wondered about this behavior quite a while ago already and then - just as now - the problem just went away after about 10-15 minutes of lagging and fanning.

What can cause these symptoms? Why isn't the "thing" causing the CPU load showing up in the process list? How can I diagnose the issue in more detail?

UPDATE: I seem to could have hunted it down to Skype causing the trouble. I've notice it running on 100% CPU and quit it. Now it seems to hang in some kind of error state according to ps. Unfortunately I cannot kill it :(.

$ ps -xo pid,ppid,stat,command | grep Skype
85267   185 ?E   (Skype)
79202   339 R+   grep Skype
$ kill -9 85267
$ ps -xo pid,ppid,stat,command | grep Skype
85267   185 ?E   (Skype)
79220   339 R+   grep Skype


texts: Sudo giving dyld problem. Help for a beginner

texts:
I am new to using a macbook terminal. Initially when I used the terminal for working on Raspberry Pi everything was great. But now when I try to use the terminal and type
 sudo
 it keeps giving a dyld message. And also rejects my commands. The message is :

dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid

Password:

what do I do? And why has this message started appearing all of a sudden?
Can anyone give a step by step guide on stopping this
Thanks a lot:)


texts: Yosemite upgrade–continuous slow screen redraw

texts:
I recently upgraded to Yosemite, and now my laptop has the following issue:

Each and every window (the AppStore, Chrome, etc) seems to be continuously and very slowly redrawn, to the point where I can see the screen go white, and then slowly be drawn back in from the bottom to the top.

The only time when I every encountered a similar issue was when, on Ubuntu, I upgraded and lost support for my graphics card. However, I have no idea how to navigate this issue on OS X.


texts: Data storage location? Difference between server and physical device

texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, all the DATA saved into services like iCloud email, Gmail email, DropBox, iCloud Drive, etc.  Do they actually take physical space storage inside each iOS or OS X device? Or they are just a mirror of their server? Example iCloud email service I do know that is a part of the 5GB but does it also take space inside the physical device? When there is no WIFI or Cellular connection at all, emails are still in the devices.

Do you also recommend a nice reading article about this topic?

Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.


texts: Can't start mac because startup disk is missing

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First off, I apologize if this is kind of jumbled. I am just extremely stressed because of this.
Long story short, i fell asleep with my mac playing Netflix. When I wake up i have to plug it in because it died and when i plugged it in, it would only load bootcamp. I go to select the startup disk and Macintosh HD is gone. Any ideas on how to fix this?

It is important that I recover my data. I have an old time machine backup if that would help in any way. Is there a way to use it or an external drive to somehow get the files if they still exist?


texts:
https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

command:

git clone https://github.com/unconed/TermKit.git --recursive

Prompt:

fatal: https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

command:

node nodekit.js

Prompt:

node.js:134
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
Error: Cannot find module 'socket.io-node'
at Function._resolveFilename (module.js:320:11)
....


texts:
This is really two questions... If a process is run with nice (/usr/bin/nice in the default OS X Mountain Lion installation) will it run processes in equivalent time compared to that process being run without nice? Does the answer change if the system is heavily loaded vs. almost no other user processes?

What I am hoping is that I can keep Handbrake translating my large collection of videos to H.264/Universal preset for Apple TV, while incurring little to no performance penalty to my other tasks such as Xcode. So can Handbrake be started (can any GUI program be started) with nice?

If it matters (don't think it does) the machine is a MacBookPro6,1, 2.66GHz i7 with 8GB RAM. RAM is often fully used according to iStat Menus but that's the maximum for this machine.


texts:
If I brew --config, I see

#...
Java: 1.8.0_60

which is what my my OS X Java Control Panel reported until I recently updated. Now the control panel reports the new version

  Java 8 Update 65

but brew --config continues to report the old one.

Why do these two versions of Java differ? I haven't explicitly installed a different Java with Homebrew, and had always thought that Homebrew was reporting the version of he one Java I'm aware of: the one I installed when Java notified be of an update.


texts: Do Apple TVs work only with Apple routers?

texts:
Can one in principle get Apple TV to join/extend a wireless network even if that wireless network is from a non-Apple wifi router?

Edit:

By that I mean: Can one control an Apple TV from a Macbook if the network that the Macbook has joined is not broadcast by an Apple router?


texts: Why do m4r ring tones show up in Library in Finder, but do not show up in iTunes?

texts: I downloaded some ring tones from Zedge in m4r format directly into the Tones folder in Finder; but when I go to sync in iTunes, they don't show up when I click my phone tab. What am I doing wrong?


texts: Apple Hardware Test gives no issues, but MacBook 8,1 fails to load after login

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This MacBook fails to finish logging in after boot ... diagnosis was a "bad harddrive cable", but after replacing that, no change. For reference, an independent, Apple-certified repair center did a "long" diagnostic after the "Genius" (term used only due to branding) bar said the hard drive was bad.

The laptop boots to a login prompt. After successful login, a progress bar that looks like a firmware update or system check takes a long time to complete (>15 min), and then the computer shuts off. I'd like to reclaim the current OS install, and avoid reformatting/reinstalling.

How can I diagnose what is wrong, without being able to login? AHT "long" test shows no problems.

Bonus points: how can I run the same diagnostics the Apple-Certified repair center did, so I can see the error codes, etc...

Update:
Disk Utility in repair mode failed to verify or repair the disk.
Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map


texts: MacBook does not mount, does not boot, does not read drive

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When i press alt on my MacBook during startup, it only shows a disk that i used to have Windows installed (which is now empty). I erased that disk when i was last logged in on OS X. Then i tried to delete this partition and make the disk again as it was when i bought it 128GB.

There was an error. I thought that restart would be a good idea and that's what i did. Then what I wrote on first line happened. I just want some important files back; or reinstall OS X but keep old files.

Here are some photos I took. Recovery HD and Windows disks are empty, but I don't care about them.

Here is the result of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0:


texts: Can I invert my Mac screen colors without affecting an ext display?

texts:
I want to connect an external display to my MBPro running 10.11.2 for hosting karaoke.

I want to invert my Mac display without inverting the external display. I had planned to avoid video mirroring and drag the video window to the external display, but I'm told that won't do the trick.


texts: Can I sell Snow Leopard DVD? Does the license transfer?

texts:
I am selling an old MacBook. The MacBook came with Leopard. I also bought Snow Leopard on DVD. I believe it would be legal for me to sell the MacBook with Snow Leopard installed, provided I included the install media. But now my question:

Can I sell the Snow Leopard DVD separately? Will the license transfer with the media?

I am considering selling the Snow Leopard DVD since (as Apple no longer sell this) I should get a good ebay price.

Does anyone know if this is legal? Are we even allowed to resell licenses / and or OS X Media.

I'd welcome informed opinion on this - preferably with a link to Apple's terms on conditions which make it clear.


texts: EasyFind doesn't search inside .def files

texts: EasyFind doesn't search inside files with the extension .def. Why is this? Is there a way to change this behavior?


texts:
I am a mobile app dev, so asking something as basic as this is a tad embarrassing, but I just don't seem to understand what I need to do to have my Reading List sync between my Apple devices. I have the sync over Wi-Fi setup on each device, have done this while cabled to my MacBook pro, done a sync, am powered, on the same Wifi, even prayed to the moon, but no syncing being done.

I have searched for a clear set of instructions, but with Apple changing the layout of Settings so often, all I have found are hopelessly out-of-date.

Pointers, tips, incantations are welcome! thanks.


texts: iPhone asks to trust computer each time when tethering hotspot is on

texts:
When tethering hotspot is on, and I connect with my laptop via USB (in order to tether), I get asked each time to trust the computer which is annoying.

Latest iOS 13.2 17B84 ;  Mac OS Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88) .


texts: How long does it take to convert a cdr to an iso?

texts:
I ran the command

sudo dd if=/dev/disk# of=/Volumes/Path/To.iso

at about 6am this morning. It's now almost 2pm and the command is still running. The cdr input image is about 300GBs.

I have a Late 2012 Mac Mini Server, 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB. And I'm running up to date Mojave.

This seems really really slow to me.

I first tried using hdutil but it kept throwing an error.


texts: Siri & speech-to-text not picking up voice on iPhone X

texts:
on my iPhone X, Siri and Dictation don't work at all. This has been like that for a bit and I haven't bothered trying to fix it until now.
The UI comes up, the waveform is there, but it looks like it's not picking up any, or not enough, audio from the mic. A common cause seems to be simply a blocked mic. But I can record voice memos (they sound fine, not muffled or anything) and make phone calls etc without issues.
I've just now tried to toggle Siri off/on, but cannot set it up because it won't pass the onboarding where you say "Hey Siri" a few times.
What else could the cause be?


texts: Any free and reliable app to display Markdown documents in macOS?

texts:
Sometimes we add a file readme.txt in our folder for notes or things to know about.

Using Markdown, it is pretty easy to make it into a nicely formatted document. Can we write a README.md and can use any free and reliable app and use the Mac to read it?

(So far I know Atom has a Markdown-preview which can be activated by using the keyboard shortcut Control + Shift + M, but if there is a one click preview app, it'd be the best. There is a Quick Look plug-in, but I am wondering if I should alter my OS? If there is a trustworthy app that can do it, it'd be best).


texts: Can't mount or repair Transcend 1TB external HD

texts:
I have a Transcend 1TB external hard drive. The hard drive shows up in Disk Utility but when I click on Mount, the LED of the drive blinks for 2 seconds.  And then nothing happens.  When I clicked on Repair I got this message:

Repairing file system.
Invalid content in journal
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid node structure
The volume HD1 could not be verified completely.
Invalid content in journal
File system check exit code is 8.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.

I don't think that's the problem but my hard drive was almost full and I clicked on backup. And I think the problem happen at this moment.

I tried another USB cable, and on Windows but without success.

Any idea that involves not losing my data is very welcome :)

OS : El Capitan 10.11.6
MacBook Pro (late 2008)


texts:
I've seen on the Apple support site, that my Macbook Pro (late 2008) will support up to 4GB at 1066Mhz is this the actual maximums or will I be able to install say 8GB 1333Mhz memory?

Also I have different memory that appear identical:

http://www.dabs.com/products/kta-2gb-ddr3-1066-module-65L8.html?refs=4294946774
http://www.dabs.com/products/2gb-ddr3-1066-module-6DLP.html?refs=4294946774

Is either of these RAM suitable? the specs seem to match the listing on the Apple support site?


texts: Unable to set up iCloud email on mail.app after accidentally deleting the ~/Library/Mail/ folder

texts:
I accidentally deleted the Mail folder (at /Library) that contained a few sub-folders including one called V2. I did that hoping to do a fresh configuration of my iCloud and Live accounts.

However, when I tried reopening mail.app, it wouldn't restore the said folder. It does prompt me to configure a mailbox which I do, selecting iCloud in my System Preferences window but the mailbox still doesn't appear! The preferences menu option of mail.app is also disabled. Please advise if anything can be done to get it back to normal without a system reinstall!

Here are some screenshots to illustrate the problem:

This is the first screen I get when opening Mail.app

Then I select the first option to set up my iCloud account

On the next screen, I check the Mail option and hit Add Account

After all this, my ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder still looks like this (no mailbox created)

And the Preferences menu option in Mail.app is still disabled

Here's a Console dump:


texts: Find a specific word within a specific folder on a cloud drive?

texts:
I send out monthly wine cases to my clients, and we never send the same wine twice (until the vintage changes).

I need to be able to search through all the existing tasting sheet docs to make sure that I haven't sent, for example, Chateau Haut Brion (if only!) previously.

In pc, I could just go straight to the folder, in this case Wine Club Tasting Sheets, and search that folder and instantly I would find that I did send the specific wine in August 2019 (as an example). I cannot for the life of me see how I do this within Finder/Spotlight or 3rd party app Easy Find.


texts: What is the radius of the windows on BigSur?

texts:
I read Apple's What's New in macOS about BigSur, and they have mentioned about an increase in the window radius, but they have not mentioned anywhere about what the radius is.

Throughout macOS 11, windows adopt visual touches that recall iOS interfaces. For example, windows integrate the sidebar, toolbar, and content areas, use an increased corner radius, and display lightweight controls.

In the past, the windows on macOS had a radius of around 7px. In BigSur, it is very clear that the radius of the corners has increased, but what is the exact radius of the windows?


texts: How to upload the full-resolution pictures taken by Instagram to Flickr?

texts:
When Instagram takes a pictures, it send a lower resolution version to Flickr, but saves the full resolution in the Camera Roll. Right now, I am:

Taking picture and letting Instagram send the lower resolution version to Flickr, so something is available online right away.
Later on, transfer the pictures to my Mac (through iCloud or sync), and replace one by one the pictures on Flickr with the full resolution version I have locally.

This last step is time consuming and error prone. Ideally, I'd like Instagram to upload the full resolution picture for me when over wifi. But short of that, what would you do to streamline this process? Maybe "there is an app for that"?

As a side-note, you might wonder why I am using Instagram, and not taking pictures with the Camera app or the Flickr app:

I like to enter a title right away, just after taking the picture (so the Camera app wouldn't cut it).
I like the fact that the version of the picture sent right away is lower resolution, not to kill my limited mobile quota (so the Flickr app wouldn't cut it).
(I also like the square format: IMHO, it makes framing simpler, and creates pictures that just looks better for online viewing.)


texts: Annotation of a PDF file in my Dropbox in iPad and keep it the last version in Dropbox

texts:
I have a folder in my Dropbox that I keep my eBooks in it. I want to find an app for the iPad that can do these to me:

Let me open a PDFs file from my Dropbox
Let me annotate on that file
Annotation getting applied to the Dropbox version of my file, instead of creating a local copy that its changes does not affect the Dropbox version

In my PC, when I open a PDFs file from my Dropbox and make Some highlights, when I press the save button in acrobat reader, the Dropbox version is instantly gets updated and whenever I open my Dropbox folder I have the latest version of the file. I need similar functionality in my iPad.

What iPad app has this functionality?


texts:
I'm looking for a battery efficient satellite navigation app for use on my bike. The problem is that GPS apps are a huge drain on the battery. My iPhone 6S lasts just under 3 hours when running Google Maps.

Years ago, I remember some app that had the feature of dimming the screen in between navigation instructions. I've checked Apple Maps, Google Maps and Waze and these do not appear to have the feature I describe.

Does anyone know of a good GPS/Sat Nav app that is gentle on the battery?


texts: How can I get rid of a stuck folder in the Finder's toolbar?

texts:
I was trying to reorganize my desktop and had a folder dragging into another folder.

When I did this, the folder just got stuck in the toolbar and didn't copy over to the new location...

It's not a clickable button as if it were a favorites in the toolbar itself.

When I try to drag and drop it away from the toolbar, it doesn't work.

I then right clicked and went into "Customize Toolbar" and it wasn't in any of the lists for me to take it off.

Obviously its a 'favorites' feature, but how do I get the thing to get off all my finder toolbars now?


texts: My /User directory permissions always changes… should I be worried?

texts:
I've noticed that my /Users directory on OSX always gets changed to "rwxrwxrwx"

I'm not sure how this is being changed? Only just started happening

Could it be malware or such?


texts: Image Capture on mac won't delete photos/videos off iPhone

texts:
My iPhone is running of of space so I connected it to my mac, ran Image Capture, chosen the ~40ish biggest videos on my phone (sort by size), click delete, app shows "Deleting...", then it disappears (no error) and videos are still there - both on screen and on the phone. Nothing happened.

What's the issue?
MacOS 10.14.7,
Macbook pro 15" 2019,
iPhone XS iOS 13.3.1

Thanks


texts: I dropped my iPad 2 and the LCD broke so I can't see what's happening. Is there a way I can see my iPad screen on my computer so I can make a backup of the files in specific apps. I know that you can mirror iOS 8 or higher devices using the lightning adapter but since this is the iPad 2, it's still using the 30 pin connector.


texts: Problems sending images from my iPhone from one GMail account to another

texts: I recently came across a problem where I used to be able to send myself a photo from one Gmail account onto another Gmail account now I keep getting message undelivered. I deleted my Gmail account on my iPhone and set it up again still the same results. My iPhone is running on iOS 4.2.1.


texts:
Is there some elegant way to edit the brightness / contrast of a batch of images?

I need to be able to see a real time preview of the effect of the brightness / contrast change on at least one of the images, and get the same edit to apply to the rest of the batch.


texts: How to send text messages to non apple devices from an iPad?

texts:
i just bought my iPad mini for 2 weeks or more which has been jail broken. So since I'm using a weekly prepaid data plan, I need to renew the data plan again and again for every week. Hence I wanna know if I can use iMessages in order to apply my data plan again which I need to send it to '28882'.

Is that possible to use iMessages, or if it does not allow me to do so, do you have any idea how to send text messages as if 'normal messages' to especially non-apple devices?

Any idea what other apps do I need to use?


texts:
This problem has been bothering me since I switch to Snow Leopard.  When I use applications that have some floating windows (Maya 2011, Adobe After Effects), Spaces seems to bring the floating windows along for the ride.  The main application window stays in it's appropriate space.  When using an app like Maya, this could be 5-10 windows.  A workaround is to click the desktop twice and then jump to a new space, but that is getting old. This was never a problem in Leopard.

Thanks,
Mark


texts: What does the spinning circle next to the network indicators on iOS mean?

texts:
I recently got an iPhone and at first I had problems connecting to the wifi. After a while, I got it to work. Now I noticed a small circle next to the wifi icon that spins when I am going down through a timeline on Facebook or Tumblr.

Does this indicator mean that it is just loading? Or is it using the cellular network?


texts: Can I prevent macOS from asking for keyboard type every time?

texts: I use a lot of keyboards and I flash their firmware often. Every time macOS recognizes a new keyboard, it'd ask me to press the keys next to the shifts to identify the layout. It can be annoying if you get asked more than a handful times a day. The thing is, I always use ANSI keyboards. Is there a way to shut it up? Thanks!


texts: Disabling wifi password sync between Apple TV and iPhone

texts:
I'm in an environment with a wireless network that has a different WPA key for each user. My Apple TV and my phone have different passwords, but they seem to insist on syncing between themselves. The end result is I have to keep re-entering passwords on one or the other device. Both devices are on the same Apple ID.
I've looked through all the settings and can't find anything, but is there any way to stop this password sharing between devices?


texts: Add and remove custom words from the Gboard iOS keyboard dictionary

texts:
How do I add and remove custom words from the Gboard iOS keyboard's dictionary? This is the keyboard app made by Google for iOS devices.

It seems like it learns custom words after I manually type them out a few times, but how many times must they be typed out? And is pressing a space after the word necessary to register it as a word? Since I'll often go to Safari and type a custom word and hit Enter.

And removing custom words, the only way to do this seems to be to wait until Gboard auto-corrects a word I type to a custom word that I want to delete, then if I backspace and re-write the word, then after a few times of this, it will learn to remove that word. But otherwise, there doesn't seem to be any way to manually remove a custom word. Please let me know if I'm wrong.

Edit: One thing I realized is that custom words will not be added to Gboard's dictionary if they are typed into fields with autocorrect disabled, such as Safari's address bar, which is where I type most of my custom words.


texts: Is cellular phone functionality in an iPad theoretically possible?

texts: Is it theoretically possible that with the existing hardware in a cellular iPad model that software for the device could enable it to become a large iPhone (make phone calls + send receive texts through cellular system)?  or is there a hardware limitation that would prevent this.  For this question, assume a GSM carrier (i.e. T-mobile) and an iPad Air with cellular


texts: I have vertical lines showing up on my 2.16 GHz 2 GB RAM Core 2 Duo iMac. Any idea what's going on and what I need to do to fix it? My computer is also freezing frequently.


texts: Disk Is Full Error When Copying Large Folders Onto Empty HDD

texts:
Bought myself a brand new Seagate HDD (formatted in exFAT). I tried copying over a bunch of folders to back up (160 GB worth) and I am met with the below error message. This is strange, because there is absolutely nothing on the HDD. I tried reformatting it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) thinking it would help since that format is optimized for Mac OS, but unfortunately, I am met with the same error message. How can I get around this? By the way this is on Big Sur.
It seems to be an issue with my Macbook itself, since I cannot copy large folders after trying a separate HDD.


texts: can't shrink the system partition in order to clone and swap disk

texts:
I wanted to swap my 1TB old iMac HDD to a 1TB SSD but apparently it's not that easy with diskutil under mojave recovery system.
From a disk to disk it's impossible since the disc is complaining to not be Apple_HFS so I needed to point to the container partition of the system disk but then the container is complaining that there is not enough space on the destination disk (since it's an ssd I guess that the total size vary a little with an HDD). Problem is that I can't get the system partition to shrink even if there is only 170G occupied.

Should I apply this technique or is the problem somewhere else?
Thanks in advance for all the help.

Side question: How can I make a image of a partition of its content and not the whole block size partition ? I read that diskutility is now using a block scheme and not a file-present scheme to backup.

to be completed this is the partition scheme which I can't totally interpretate with certainty, as you can see there is a VM partition don't know why it's there nor did I tried to access it. And I guess that the disk5 is the timemachine backup at that moment.


texts: Does Xcode 4 run "stable" on OS X 10.7 DP?

texts: and will Apple accept software built in this environment for iTunes AppStore and Mac AppStore?


texts: How do I remove the ".local" suffix from my computer's hostname?

texts:
I used to have a Mac hostname as simply "macpro" under Snow Leopard. After doing a clean installation of Lion, then a migration to restore my files, it's now called "Georges-Mac-Pro".

What is the current recommended way to change the hostname (preferably to something that does not include ".local")? From some googling, it appears that $ hostname macpro won't stick permanently.


texts: Need some help please, my iMac (A1224, OS X EL CAPITAN) wont boot up, for some reason ⌘ Command R doesn't work, which leaves me with single user mode. I tried fsck but I'm getting the error below, I only have moderate IT skills so any help would be great.


texts: Invoke QuickLook in Open/Save dialogue windows

texts:
A handy tip I discovered by accident.

Highlight any file in an Open/Save window, press the space bar and voila! there is your file in all it's glory.


texts:
I have a feeling this is a new bug in macOS, but could also be to do with some misconfiguration  on my machine. As this worked until recently. I'm on macOS 10.15.7 (19H2).
I use the Finder's Connect to Server feature to VNC to client machines. In the past this use to be able to resolve aliases defined in my ~/.ssh/config e.g. vnc://myalias. This no longer appears to work and I need to use the full remote host uri i.e. vnc://username@x.x.x.x.
The ~/.ssh/config appears to be valid, I can ssh myalias fine from the command line, just not via the Finder. Also applications such as VSCode and Transmit which both integrate in some way with the ~/.ssh/config also seem to behave as expected.
I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same or knows how I can go about debugging the issue? Maybe get at some of the Finder logs?
Thanks


texts: A Strange effect on iPhone6 and iPhone6+ when I Swipe Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left on Home button twice

texts:
Here is image of that strange effect.

Is Apple is going to implement some new feature or a bug.?


texts: Is there an app (like Spotlight) that can index external drives and return search results when the drive is not connected?

texts:
I have multiple external drives, some with photo, app and video resources, some with client files and some with backup data dating back to 1988. I also have a number of BluRay backup disks with raw video footage and stock footage. Is there an existing app that can index each drive/disk when I mount it, then store a searchable index on my Mac HD? What I want is to search for, say, 'John Smith logo' and have the app give results for 'Drive G' or 'DISK 21'. I can then mount the indicated drive and retrieve the file, and not have to spend half an hour searching every time.
Spotlight, I believe, only stores the index on the drive in question, so cannot search unconnected drives.


texts: How do I download my photostream photosto my laptop

texts: I was able to download my camera roll but not my photo stream. how do I download my photo stream?


texts:
Given the US government's rollback on internet users' privacy with ISPs, what is the best way to protect your privacy when using Apple devices online? Not just within macOS and iOS, but also when using third party apps online?

I've read some articles that suggest installing software on browsers, but that's only for computers. How can I protect my online activity from prying eyes regardless of whether it's in a browser or other app, or whether it's on a Mac or iDevice?


texts: Macbook Air screen turns yellow/orange when video is in fullscreen.

texts: So I noticed recently that when I try to watch YouTube videos or Netflix in full screen on my Macbook Air, the whole screen will wash out with orange and yellow and I can't see anything, but it's perfectly fine if I don't watch it in fullscreen. And on Netflix if I use subtitles, it's normal when someone is talking, but when the text disappears the screen gets an orange tint again. I've tried calibrating the colors through the display section of system preferences but it always tells me that there is an error. I've searched for someone who is having a similar problem but haven't found anyone. Please help! Thank you.


texts:
I have El Capital 10.11.6 and I do not wish to upgrade, however I need to clarify whether this means I cannot download and experiment with ARKit?

The latest Xcode version that is compatible with El Capitan is 8.2.1 but when trying to download ARKit, it suggests using Xcode 9.x so I wonder if this is just a suggestion or absolute requirement?

In other words, the fact that I would like to remain in El Capitan and Xcode 8.2.1 definitely means that I can never download and use ARKit. Correct?


texts: Apple magic mouse only works on surfaces that are slightly reflective after 10.8.2 update

texts: My magic mouse suddenly stopped tracking on the mousepad I have been using for a month now. Everything about the mouse works (gestures, clicking, etc) except tracking. Strangely enough, the mouse tracks perfectly on my MacBook Pro's surface. I have checked the battery contacts, optics, and have replaced the batteries, to no avail. This issue only appeared after I updated to 10.8.2. The mouse only has issues tracking with non-reflective surfaces, everything else works as smoothly as before. Any help is much appreciated!


texts: Does installing Wireshark via homebrew provide a graphical interface?

texts:
I installed wireshark using homebrew with the command brew install wireshark. Everything seems to install fine and I can use dumpcap to capture packets but now I want to view them. Using a text editor like vi doesn't format some of the output very well due to an abundance of unreadable characters.

It looks like there should be a Wireshark.app to view the trace files with, however, I do not see how to start it.

Any ideas?


texts: How to create custom Automator tasks for distribution -- OS X 10.10

texts:
Problem

I would like to make custom tasks for Automator to send to friends who are learning or even just to make new Automator apps easer to write without having to repeat the same tasks over and over.
For example:
run shell command (uptime) -> speak text -> copy to clipboard

Would it be at all possible to make a task called Uptime and use one task instead of three?

Any help would be appreciated :)


texts: Firefox problems when remapping Copy to ctrl-c

texts: I remapped Copy to ctrl-c via Preference>Keyboard>Shortcuts and it works pretty good. But when I have the find dialog open in Firefox, when I try and Copy I actually end up toggling "Match Case". I don't care if I have a shortcut for "Match Case", could someone please help me keep my Copy functionality while the Find dialog is open?


texts: Remap touch bar control keys, e.g., Siri

texts:
I'd like to customize what the keys in my Macbook Pro's touch bar do. For instance, I have no interest in Siri but I'd be great to have the Siri key be the hotkey for iterm2 for instance.

Is there a way to customize the action for the "system" part of the touch bar's keys?


texts: Is the memory reported in Activity Monitor accurate?

texts:
I've been relying on activity monitor to check my performance problems and what it relates to. I recently installed CleanMyMac and noticed that the memory reported by it is way different than the activity monitor:

Am I calculating the memory wrong? Or there is something I'm not accounting for? I expect to have 4.00 - 2.91 = 1.09 GB of free memory, instead CleanMyMac reports only 27.5 free memory. Is there anything I am not considering in Activity Monitor?


texts: Click a button on floating window using AppleScript

texts:
I'm having issues getting an AppleScript to run for an app called AutoRate. The script below was originally made for version 1.5.5. I've already tried to mess with AppleScript to get it to run on 1.6, but because I've never really used AppleScript before I'm not getting anywhere. The picture shows 1.6 on top and 1.5.5 on the bottom. The 2nd photo shows the hierarchy for 1.6. Any help is appreciated.

tell application "AutoRate"
    activate
    -- Hide app
     tell application "System Events" to key code 4 using {command down}
    -- Press 'begin rating'
     tell button "Begin" of window 2 "main" to perform action
    -- Try to quit afterwards
     quit
end tell


texts: Crashed and now only white light blinking

texts: I plugged an iPhone into my MacBook Pro with iTunes open. After a moment, my MacBook got stuck and shut down by itself. Then, I tried to open the MacBook Pro again. But, nothing is happening except few things like the white light is blinking and fan is running. I tried a couple of times; nothing happens. How can I fix it? What is the problem?


texts: CCC reporting physical problem with a drive volume even though the drive is working

texts:
I'm trying to create a read-only disk image archive of a High Sierra installation to later clone to other hard drives. I have tested the source drive and it is fine. No failed sectors or other indicators of a failing drive. I used DriveDx to perform these tests.

However, when I start the archive in CCC 3.5.7 on an early 2008 MacBook running Lion, I am greeted with

  CCC has detected a physical problem with one of your volumes.

  The backup task is still running, and CCC will copy as many files as possible. Please note:

  The first error occurred while trying to access:

  "/Volumes/Macintosh HD [Source]/.PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware/0A988266-8955-4100-BFD3-A3DA35DA92BB.sandbox/Root/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Info.plist"
  CCC will make two attempts to back up damaged files
  Physical errors may cause the backup task to take longer than normal.
  You can stop the backup task at any time. CCC will pick up where it left off the next time you run this task.

  Please click on the "?" button below to learn more about resolving media errors.

Why am I receiving this error? Will it affect future drive restores from this image archive?


texts: Network TimeMachine backup errors - System keychain problem?

texts:
I've been using Time Machine to backup my MacBook Pro to my local OS X Server for years, but I recently started getting errors when attempting to backup. When running either an automatic or manual backup, I receive notification that the system couldn't complete the backup. After examining Console logs I'm seeing the following error from the NetAuthSysAgent process:

ERROR: AFP_OpenSession - Login failed with 80

Additionally, the com.apple.backupd process is reporting an authentication error, and hints at System keychain problems:

Authentication error (80) - the correct user or password info may not exist in the System.keychain or the server may no longer allow access for this user.

I've confirmed that a keychain item exists in the System keychain for this connection, and that the keychain item should be functional (its type is Time Machine Password, it contains the correct password; Access Control for the item is always allowed for NetAuthSysAgent).

I've tried to remove the backup disk and re-add it through the TimeMachine System Preference. This seems to add the correct item into the System keychain, but the system still won't perform backup.

I've attempted to set the correct destination manually by performing the following command (trying the server's DNS name, IP address, and mDNS name without success):

sudo tmutil setdestination -p afp://USER@SERVER/TimeMachine

Each time that command runs, I can confirm that the correct Keychain Item is being created in the System keychain (but the system continues to provide the error mentioned above).

Lastly, manually connecting to the network share that hosts my Time Machine backup works normally, and my account has "Full Control" of files in this share.

How can I get my network Time Machine backups to work again?


texts: On a Mac, how to see a list of notifications that came from Google Chrome?

texts: Google Chrome can let a webpage show notifications as a system notification (of the OS).  Is there a way to see a list of the past notifications?


texts:
I changed my Apple ID password.

I can log successfully into my Apple account using my new password online.

I can download songs from iTunes using my new password.
But When I go into App Store, and select "Updates". I click on Update tab for App, I get prompted for my Apple ID Password. I enter my new password, click OK, the "UPDATE" tab flashes from "INSTALLING" back to "UPDATE". Update  does not complete!

This happens on both my iPhone and iPad and I can't get past it.

How can I fix this?


texts: iMac runs from external SSD. How do I use Time Machine to back up the external SSD to the internal HDD?

texts:
I am using an external SSD as my iMac boot drive, and that is terrific. I want to back that up using Time Machine and have the back up on my old internal HDD in the iMac.

How do I do it?


texts: Delete all apps from iTunes that aren't on my iPhone

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Automated/Simple Deletion of Apps from iTunes Library

Is there a way to auto-delete apps from iTunes that aren't on my iPhone? I have about 200 of them and don't want to do it manually.

Thanks,
Kevin


texts: Is it possible to use a touchscreen monitor on a Mac Mini?

texts: How would I go about interacting with my late 2012 Mac Mini via a touchscreen?


texts: Does anybody know of any non-USB chargers for iPhone (lightning connector)? I need a charger that can only plug into an AC outlet and not have any type of USB connector.


texts: Mac File Upload Dialog Disables Allowed Files

texts:
So a few of my mac users are having an issue where when using Mac Safari or Chrome (latest versions) when they try to use our upload features then in some cases allowed files such as pdf, xls, png, etc display as gray and are disabled not allowing them to upload.
When I try to reproduce this issue on a tester Mac with the same versions and everything I can not reproduce the issue and everything works as expected.
My question is; is there some setting or something they might need to check/uncheck that could be the culprit as to why on their macs they are getting these files grayed out and disabled in the file upload dialogs from the browsers? I'm not a mac guy so I'm a bit lost.


texts:
How can I remove offensive emojis from my keyboard.  I do not want to remove them all, only those I find offensive.

I could also see someone using this to reduce the volume or make it easier to prefer or select a subset of emoji.

Can I visually suppress or remove one or more emoji?


texts: irritating window locations after a closed clam

texts:
I switch back and forth, frequently, between 'closed clam' with a large monitor and 'just the laptop monitor' with a Retina MBP.

Whenever I switch, all my windows appear in unhelpful locations sticking off the edges of the visible screen. This happens in both directions.

I currently run Yosemite.

Is there a way to make them recenter?


texts:
I am trying to format a USB drive, however I am faced with the following error:

sh-3.2# diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/disk3
Forced unmount of all volumes on disk3 was successful
sh-3.2# diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ MacOS /dev/disk3
Started erase on disk3
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device
sh-3.2# lsof | grep disk3
sh-3.2#

Could someone help me to figure out what to do to resolve this issue?

EDIT 2:

# fdisk -f boothfs /dev/disk3
Disk: /dev/disk3    geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
sh-3.2# fdisk -i -a boothfs /dev/disk3
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

    -----------------------------------------------------
    ------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
    -----------------------------------------------------

Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y

sh-3.2#
sh-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 7887C476-CBE0-4D10-B95A-5C79F83B20D7
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *1.0 TB     disk3

sh-3.2#

EDIT 3 (In CentOS 7)

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc
mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
/dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
 Warning: could not erase sector 2: Attempt to write block to filesystem resulted in short write
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
61054976 inodes, 244190646 blocks
12209532 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=2392850432
7453 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
        102400000, 214990848
Allocating group tables: done
Warning: could not read block 0: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block to filesystem resulted in short write
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:    0/7453
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.


texts: How to secure Mac laptop while it is running processes such as wget, or some local node.js apps?

texts: I would like my computer to continue running processes until they're done. I typically just keep my laptop on, but if I leave turn it off. How can I leave though and secure it (like log off or something) while still keeping the code running? Does the code automatically continue running?


texts: Shut down system without superuser permission

texts:
The following command causes an immediate system sleep

pmset sleepnow

Trying to shutdown system with pmset

$ pmset shutdown
Usage: pmset <options>
See pmset(1) for details: 'man pmset'

Experiment with shutdown command

$ shutdown -h now
shutdown: NOT super-user
$ sudo shutdown -h now
Password:

So each time to shutdown system, I should enter a password to use the superuser.

Could it be possible to shut down with ‘pmset’?


texts: updating two identical machines results in two different Darwin kernel versions reported

texts:
I have two identical Mac Minis and I updated each with all available updates. This caused both machines to go from OS X 10.9.2 to OS X 10.9.4.
However, uname -a reports different kernel versions for each machine:

On machine oaxaca:

Darwin oaxaca.local 13.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

On machine morelia:

Darwin morelia 13.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.3.0: Tue Jun  3 21:27:35 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.110.17~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Why does morelia have a higher kernel version (13.3.0) than oaxaca (13.1.0)? On oaxaca when I open App Store and click Updates, I am told that no updates are available, so it's not clear to me how to get oaxaca to show the same kernel version.


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I have a MacBook Pro, and I want to keep its battery healthy for as long as possible.

I've heard many "myths" about all these, one of them being that the battery will get "hurt" if I plug in the MacBook when its battery is high enough (higher than 75%), let it until it reach 100%, then unplug it.

Is that true? Also, is it good to let the MacBook battery go to 0 then plug it?


texts: Where can we find Apple Technical White Papers?

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I've been able to locate a few technical papers using Google, but they're mostly hosted by various (sometimes shady) websites. Is there an official repository of recent (High Sierra or Mojave) white papers available on the internet?

https://kryptera.se/assets/uploads/2014/10/WP_FileVault2.pdf
https://webobjects.cdw.com/webobjects/media/pdf/CDWCA/CA_Evaluating_And_Deploy_White_Paper.pdf
https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Publications/sp/800-179/rev-1/draft/documents/sp800-179r1-draft.pdf
http://m.softchoice.com/cms/brands/apple/pdf/OSX_Lion_ActiveDirectory.pdf


texts: Can't get 1680x1050 resolution with Macbook Pro ~2009 and Snow Leopard

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I have a Late 2009 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (with all updates installed).

I have started my move from Windows to OS X as my everyday computing platform and I am trying to connect my external Samsung Monitor (that was used with Windows) to Macbook Pro using the mini DisplayPort to VGA connector.

For the life of me, I can't get OS X to set the monitor's native resolution of 1680x1050 setup. When the external display is auto-detected, the resolution is set up as 800x600.

I have tried using two different mini DisplayPort to VGA connectors and separate VGA cable to rule out the connector/cable issue. The monitors work fine as I have been using them with Windows 8 and they work perfectly fine (all autodectected).

My monitor's native resolution is 1680x1050 at 60Hz.


texts: Using AppleScript to find information about images in Pages documents

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I'm trying to extract information about images placed into a Pages ('09 v 4.3) document. The following script is my attempt:

tell application "Pages"
    tell front document
        repeat with pg in pages
            tell pg
                set im to images
                repeat with i in im
                    tell i
                        get image data
                    end tell
                end repeat
            end tell
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

While it doesn't produce errors, and finds every image, it doesn't return any data either and I don't know why it doesn't:

get every image of item 1 of every page of document 1
        --> {image 1 of foreground layer of page 1 of document id 14126328}
get image data of image 1 of foreground layer of page 1 of document id 14126328
get every image of item 2 of every page of document 1
        --> {image 1 of foreground layer of page 2 of document id 14126328}
get image data of image 1 of foreground layer of page 2 of document id 14126328
get every image of item 4 of every page of document 1
    --> {image 1 of foreground layer of page 4 of document id 14126328}
get image data of image 1 of foreground layer of page 4 of document id 14126328
...


texts: Volume icon in menu bar disappear randomly in Big Sur

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Since I updated to Big Sur, my volume icon disappear and I always have to go on Preferences to display it again. I don't know what's the reason.
Is there a solution to that ? Is there a terminal command to make it appear again next time ?


texts: Zoom in on photo in Quick Look on macOS Mojave

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In versions of macOS before macOS Mojave (10.14), one could press the Alt/Option key when viewing an image in Quick Look to zoom in to the "actual size" of the photo.

When the macOS Mojave beta came out, it seemed as though that feature was removed. I asked a question about it on here, and it turned out that the shortcut key was changed to Control.

In the last few beta versions of macOS Mojave as well as the public release, unfortunately, this does not seem to be working anymore. I tried all combinations of modifier keys that I could think up of, but nothing seems to work.

Is there any other new shortcut for zooming an image in Quick Look on macOS Mojave?


texts: How do I speed up new Terminal tab loading time?

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How can i speed up the terminal startup in Lion?

I'm not referring to the startup of the Terminal application, but to the startup terminal windows, like when i open a new tab.

I don't have anything in my .bash_profile file and i run rm -rf  /private/var/log/asl/*.asl every 4 hours (which clear those files that usually make terminal slow ).

Currently, when i open a new tab, it takes 3-4 seconds until i can run something.


texts: importing a book from to iPhotos back into iPhotos

texts: I created a book in iphotos. Then i exported it as a pdf file to desktop. I deleted it from iPhotos. I now want to add more pages to the book. Can I take it back to iPhotos and complete the book and how?


texts: Duplex Scanning in OSX with non-duplex scanner with document feeder

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How can I scan a large double sided document with my scanner's document feeder? The scanner only can scan one side of the page. However, I am bulk scanning all my bills and tax forms and have several that are 10+ pages with text on both sides of the page.

Is there any stock software that will scan one side, prompt for you to flip the pages, scan the other side, and them output a single PDF file? Otherwise, I would need software to simply combine the two PDF files and properly order the pages.