texts: Visual studio Code maxs out my CPUs even when its just open

texts: I have been learning python using VScode. I've noticed recently that as soon as I start VScode my CPUs get maxed out and my whole computer is sluggish. When I run the activity monitor I see as many as 5 rg processes running and up to 4 'Code Helper' processes. These processes use up to 125% of CPUs. When I quit VScode, the Activity Monitor still reports a lot of cpu percentage for 'Code Helper', and continues reporting that for over 20 minutes after I quit VScode. Does anyone have any idea why VScode is using so much cpu time?  I'm using the latest VScode on my iMac running High Sierra 10.13.5 and VScode version 1.24.1


texts: How can i speed up the animation of hiding the menu bar?

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I recently installed OS X El Capitan and figured out I could hide the menu bar. But it would be nice if i could accelerate the animation. For hiding the dock menu I use these defaults. I wondered whether I can do this for the menu bar?

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 10;

How can I get there anyway behind how I can change this in the future for other things? Is there anywhere documentation of adjusting defaults?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Log out or sign out of Apple's Bug Reporter AKA Radar?

texts: I accidentally signed into Radar with the wrong account and I can't find the log out or sign out button in order to switch accounts. Is there any alternative besides clearing my cache?


texts: How can I save videos from iCloud Drive or Google Drive to photos on my iPhone?

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in the past I’ve been able to click a video in iCloud drive, and the option to ‘save to camera roll’ has been there. From there, I can use the instagram app and it will find the video stored in my photos/videos on the phone.

Now this option isn’t there. I can’t find a way to save the mp4 files to my phone at all. It’s not a huge file (35MB) but sending it to myself by email hasn’t worked.

Clicking 'open with instagram’ on the video in iCloud Drive does nothing, the menu goes away but it doesn’t open. If I click ‘open with winzip’ it will open in that app and allow me to play, but again gives me no option to save.

I managed this two weeks ago several times and it let me save it. What can I do???


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When I put my macbook in sleep mode, most of the time it will awake right away. I don't think that there is a software preventing it from going into sleep mode. Instead my guess is that it registers even the smallest mouse movement and assumes I'm back to work.
The only way to get it into sleep mode is to take the mouse from the desk right after I clicked on "Sleep" and disable the blutooth mouse. But this can't be the correct solution. I was working with a windows pc before and there it was not problem to click on sleep and then moving the mouse without waking up the computer.
In other questions I've read that it's possible to disallow blutooth devices to wake up the computer but this would be an awkward solution for me as I'm using a blutooth mouse and keyboard and have the lid closed the whole time.
In some Q&A's people were suggesting to execute pmset -g which results in sleep  1 with no additional notices on this line.
My ideal solution would be: Only wake up when I press a mouse/keyboard button and completely ignore mouse movement when it comes to sleep mode. Is this possible?


texts: ALT+CMD+SPACE Suddenly works differently

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It used to be that ALT+CMD+SPACE opened up new finder window. And without making any update to my mac, it started opening up finder in search mode.
What could have changed? How to turn it back?


texts: When I send a text in iMessage sometimes some of the writing goes orange and the rest is normal black.  Its not certain words that change to orange its really random and doesn't happen with every iMessage.  Have looked in settings but cant find anything I have changed or selected.  I am using iOS 10.2 on an iPhone 7.


texts: Share wifi connection from macbook to airport express

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I'm trying to do the following setup:

Internet modem/router -> (wifi)  -> Macbook -> (ethernet) -> Airport express ->(wifi) ->  various devices.

Is it possible to share internet from a MB to an airport express through ethernet?

My MB is a MacbookPro retina from Mid 2012

As to why i'm doing this: I don't have access to the internet modem ( can't plug anything to it), so i'm trying to spread wifi to the rest of my apartment any ways I can. Any other ideas are welcome


texts: Is it possible to only see contacts with phone numbers?

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I recently started syncing my iPad and iPhone with iCloud. I selected to merge my contact list into iCloud from both devices. The problem is that, while I use my iPad for my email, I don't use it at all on my iPhone. Now, if I want to call a contact, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I need a way to only view phone numbers, not email address-only contacts.

I know that Android has the option to only view contacts with phone numbers (well, at least in CyanogenMod). I'd like to know if I can do the same thing on the iPhone? I am not using a Mac, and certainly don't have OS X Lion, so I'm only using iCloud on my iPad and iPhone.


texts: Will the new lightning EarPods work with iPad?

texts: The new iPhone 7 has no headphone jack, meaning that Apple has to release EarPods with a lightning connector. Will these new EarPods work with older devices? I'm assuming yes, since I'm pretty sure all the lightning cable has always included optional audio output, but I'm not sure.


texts: Run multiple instances of El Capitan on a single Apple laptop?

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Is it possible to simultaneously run two instances of El Capitan on a single Apple laptop?

Assume that I'm willing to purchase the best MacBook available as of November 2015, with the largest capacity SSD drive and maxed out memory.

There are a few pre-existing questions on this topic but most of them discuss situations where the user is trying to (a) run a parallel Windows installation or (b) have an alternate OS installation that's selectable on a separate volume at boot-time, but isn't running concurrently with the first OS installation.

Ideally, in the configuration I'm describing, the two OS installations will:

run simultaneously,
see each other on the "network," presumably via some sort of local loop or other internal mechanism,
share a common ethernet adapter, keyboard, mouse, video output, sound card, etc.
allow for some kind of shortcut key to easily "flip" back and forth between the two running installations,
allow for a dual-monitor setup.. meaning when viewing OS-installation-1, both monitors will be dedicated to that installation as is typical in a dual monitor setup. When I flip to OS-installation-2, both monitors are then dedicated to that installation. I'm not counting the built-in laptop display as a monitor. I'm talking about two external Thunderbolt monitors.

If this scenario is feasible but you feel that no current Apple MacBook has the specs to support it, could it be accomplished using the (new) Mac Pro?

Would I be better off waiting for Apple to release a laptop that supports Thunderbolt 3 in order to drive two monitors? If so, will said laptops be available next year?

Sorry for the naive nature of this question. Any advice appreciated.


texts: Recording audio (book) and creating useable chapters to send via email using Garageband. Help!

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My son has learning disabilities, he is in college, and there was no audiobook available for one of his textbooks.  I have spent hours recording the book for him, creating chapters as I went along.  I imported the file into i-Tunes, and have run into two problems.

The chapters I marked in GarageBand do not show up in iTunes, so I cannot simply go to Chapter 3, for instance - I have to listen/scroll along to find where a specific chapter begins.  Is there a way to fix this, so that he can go directly to a certain chapter?
The file is too large to send via email, so I need to figure out one of two options:    Can the file be broken into chapters and sent individually? This could resolve the problem above... Or, secondly, is there a way for me to share it using iTunes store (or would that be violating copyright to share it on iTunes?)   Or, can anyone come up with another way to accomplish this?

He is far from home and we will not see him before the end of his year, so we need to be able to do this via email or web... I can send him the file in hard copy - either a thumb drive or disc - but will chapters be visible there?  I suspect not, given that we'd be copying from iTunes, where they are not visible...

I was planning to send this to him today, so I'm hoping someone will have some ideas that can help me...


texts: Is there a way to control ringer volume with siri?

texts: I can't get siri to change the ringer volume. When I ask "increase the ringer volume" (or anything similar) I get the answer "You don't seem to be playing anything at the moment".


texts: ExFAT thumb drive not recognized in Mac OS Big Sur

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I'm using my first Mac ever, a recently acquired Macbook Air with the M1 chip. It has the latest version of Big Sur (11.3 (20E232)).
I was having issues with my existing thumb drives, most of them formatted with NTFS. When connected to the macbook nothing would pop up, and I couldn't see the drive even on the disk utility. Nothing, not even grayed out.
After digging a bit on google I noticed that I needed some third party software to make it work with NTFS, but there was an alternative to format it with ExFAT. Tried that, no luck. No matter what block size I choose, it won't pop up when connected to the mac.
I bought a new thumb drive that says it works right out of the box, a sandisk ultra dual drive usb type-c. Tried connecting it and again: nothing pops up. Tried on my windows machine and it works right away. It was formatted as ExFat already so I'm a little puzzle on how to resolve this.
If I go to the system report, under Hardware -> USB I see there's a device connected:

Do I need to do anything else to make it appear?
diskutil list
me@MacBook-Air ~ % diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC                         524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         245.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery                         5.4 GB     disk0s3

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +245.1 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.4 GB    disk3s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.4 GB    disk3s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 310.5 MB   disk3s2
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.1 GB     disk3s3
   5:                APFS Volume Data                    180.1 GB   disk3s5
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk3s6

system_profiler SPUSBDataType
me@MacBook-Air ~ % system_profiler SPUSBDataType
USB:

    USB 3.1 Bus:

      Host Controller Driver: AppleT8103USBXHCI

    USB 3.1 Bus:

      Host Controller Driver: AppleT8103USBXHCI

         SanDisk 3.2Gen1:

          Product ID: 0x5595
          Vendor ID: 0x0781  (SanDisk Corporation)
          Version: 1.00
          Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Speed: Up to 5 Gb/s
          Manufacturer:  USB
          Location ID: 0x01200000 / 1
          Current Available (mA): 900
          Current Required (mA): 896
          Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

me@MacBook-Air ~ %


texts: Wi-Fi range issue with new MBA 13 and Netgear WNR 2200 router

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Loving the new MBA 13 (my first Mac), but running into a frustrating wi-fi issue.

The MBA wi-fi flies when the machine is in the same room as the NetGear WNR2200 router, but it slows down considerably as I move it through our (smallish) house, and it pretty much crawls to a stop just 10 yards or so away from the router.

Original post
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1195289

Plus it does not connect automatically when wakes up.
Found lot's of articles with suggestions reseting from firmware to operating system but non of them worked.


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At the zsh, I enter which emacs and get /usr/local/bin/emacs.

In my /Applications folder, I have an application called Emacs.  When I click get info it says that it resides at /Applications.

So that all makes me think I have two different installs.

But then I moved the one in /Applications to the Trash and then tried running emacs and /usr/local/bin/emacs from the command line.  Both times, I was met with zsh: command not found: emacs.

So that makes it seem like there is only one install.

What am I missing here?


texts:
Not sure if this is an implementation bug or iCloud clogged up.

On one mac I have uploaded a folder. I know upload is finished because when I log into icloud.com I can see the files and download them. Yet on another mac the files show like this:

They cannot be opened, dragged or downloaded. The Get Info shows as if the file is on the hard drive with all the correct meta.

Has anyone come across this, or know of a solution?

As a side note, some older files that I uploaded a week ago show correctly now. Is it really taking this long to sync?


texts: Does HiDPI (Retina) technology utilize GPU resources?

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As I understand it should, but I can't find any explicit statement. This is important for me because I'm trying to understand which MacBook should I use - with external GPU or not. Still I can assume that the answer to the question is yes because Apple sells 15-inch with external GPU while 13-inch without it.

UPDATE:
In discussion bellow I found that my original question was wrong (also the wrong term was used - external, I meant discrete). I believed that OS resolution is an absolute setting for all applications. Now I assume that some functions work with native resolution, so it's obvious why they work slower on higher resolution.

Example of scaling to native resolution: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devicePixelRatio


texts:
I have a 2009 unibody Macbook Pro 13". Last year I took out the optical drive, replaced it with the original hard drive and installed a 256GB SSD in its place. I then setup Win7 on a small (75GB) partition.

The Windows partition is now full so I bought another 256GB SSD with the intention of dedicating the whole drive to Bootcamp.

So now it looks like I have two options:

Clone the Bootcamp partition to the new SSD and swap them out
Run Boot Camp assistant and install a fresh Windows 7 system on the SSD.

I'm not sure if the first method will work - I worry the system will detect the hardware has changed and grumble/break if I do this. Also, Apple Disk utility can't work with NTFS format drives and there is a plethora of cloning utilities to choose from.

The problem with method 2 is that Bootcamp will only setup Windows from the CD drive installed in the bay and of course that's where my new SSD lives. I don't think my MBP can boot from USB so my original plan to create a bootable thumbdrive will almost certainly fail.

I would really appreciate your comments and suggestions.


texts: How do I sync iCloud iWork documents with Lion?

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I have been using my iPad with Numbers and would like to be able to just open them up on my Mac with Lion. I can not figure out how to connect/sync to iCloud documents. I have checked iCloud documents for syncing, but my documents don't appear on my Mac.
I have even set up my mobile documents folder on the desktop. I can drag files to the iCloud that way, but then I can not open them from that folder. Frustrating.


texts:
I know this has been asked many times (Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook that lack eject keys?) but the hotkey combination does not work on my MacBook Air that has no eject button running 10.7.

So, what hotkey combination can I use to lock the screen?


texts: Is there a way to run a Keynote presentation in a window instead of fullscreen?  I changed the resolution to one smaller than my display, and it displays it centered.  I need it in the upper left corner of the screen to record it with Camtasia.


texts: OS X El Capitan: Change the direction of text

texts:
I remember I used to change the direction of text using keyboard shortcuts (like Command-Control-Right Arrow), but it doesn't work anymore.
How can I re-enable it?
I found this page about this topic from Apple, but none of these work.


texts: iPhone still has 90% battery but telling me it has degraded and should be serviced

texts:
My iPhone is not brand new (it's an X), but certainly not old enough to present any problems.

My battery is at a healthy 90% after a couple almost a couple years of use (bought in Jan 2018 if I'm not wrong).

And not long ago it was even more (like 93%).

But now when I go to battery, it tells me it needs service and that is has "significantly degraded". I've seen this is somewhat common with batteries that are under 80%.

Should I replace mine? I've contacted apple and they told me to schedule sometime in a store.


texts: Legit email is consistently going to junk folder despite NOT being marked as junk

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I've had this problem for years, all the way back to Lion at least.

I consistently have various emails coming into Apple Mail, that get moved to the junk folder.  These emails are not marked as Junk, i.e. Mail does not think they are junk mail, does not highlight them in brown, etc.  They cannot be marked as "Not Junk" because Mail already thinks they aren't junk, despite moving them to the junk folder.  I can mark them as junk if I want and they highlight in brown as they should, but of course they're not junk so... don't want to do that.  I have to manually move them to my inbox every time.

This happens with many accounts coming into Mail, including multiple GMail accounts, multiple accounts using my own personal domain, and my Apple-issued me.com account.  So it's not a GMail or 3rd party server thing.

I'm using IMAP for all accounts.  Junk filtering is enabled, "trust junk headers in messages" is disabled.  This has driven me nuts for years and I'm finally sick enough of it to post a question here.  It requires me to carefully scour my junk folder constantly - rendering the whole point of junk filtering moot.

How can I get valid mail to stop going to junk without setting custom rules for every single sender?


texts: Route (MacBook Air) audio output through (Dell) LCD Monitor speakers

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My Dell LCD monitor has a "speaker power" socket in the back. This suggests it has its own internal speakers behind the LCD panel.

However, it doesn't have any audio input. So I suppose the only way must be through the data cable, which in my case is Thunderbolt -> DVI.

But OPT+click on the volume Icon in OSX's system tray doesn't list any corresponding audio output.

Is there any way to get audio outputting through the monitor?


texts: What is maximum distance iPhone's TrueDepth Camera can measure?

texts: Is there range limit to iPhone true depth camera? I searched for this for a day, but couldn't find any useful info. The appropriate minimum range is 150 mm but what is the maximum distance that iPhone's TrueDepth camera can measure with useable accuracy?


texts: Can not access network with Mac OS X 10.10.5 Proxifier info sf_connect_out xx allready connected

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After I left for a while, the Mac locked screen. When I got back and logged in again, the Proxifier's connections area shows this info:

Lots of apps on my Mac including Chrome, Safari, Evernote, Twitter etc. can not access the network anymore. Anyone know how to solve this?


texts: Cannot debug C code on vscode on macOS big Sur

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Hi I have been trying to debug C code on macOS using vscode. I followed all the steps given here https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-clang-mac. but still when I start debugging a terminal windows appears but it shows this and gets stuck:

My tasks.json file on vscode:

My launch.json file on vscode:


texts: Airplay mirroring with extended desktop: how to choose which apps end up on Apple TV?

texts: I use my Macbook hooked up to a TV via HDMI for most of my work, and want to use Airplay mirroring from my Mac to extend my desktop and play online videos full screen on my Apple TV while also being able to do work on my computer that won't end up on the screen. It seems to me that using airplay mirroring with the "desktop extension" option is the best way to do this. However, whenever I turn it on, all of my apps end up on the TV screen and my desktop ends up completely blank. Is there a way to choose which desktop is the one that goes on to the TV?


texts: Zoom and center selected portion of screen on MacOS

texts:
The presenter in the video at https://developer.apple.com/wwdc18/407 does something fabulous with zoom on MacOS that I cannot figure out. He selects a portion of the screen (similar to the way you can select a portion of the screen to take a screenshot) and then zooms and centers on that selected area.

He does this several times. The first time is at about 13:35, though the selecting action can be difficult to see. It is much clearer when he does this at 17:22.

I've spent a good deal of time on Google to no avail. I can find no third-party software that adds this functionality to the system, either.

Is this a Mojave thing?


texts: Change directory last opened date every time you `cd` in Terminal

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I use a Recent Smart folder, that depends on last opened date of the folder. It works fine when you browsing the Finder, but it doesn't register change when I use cd command in a Terminal.

Is there a way to change last opened date of the folder every time I cd to it in a terminal?


texts: How to search for empty emails in Apple mail?

texts: How can I filter email messages with no content in Apple mail?


texts: Is it possible to use Python while in Recovery Mode?

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Is it possible to access a Python terminal while in Recovery Mode?

$ /Volumes/macOS/usr/bin/python

python: posix_spawn:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python:
No such file or directory

$ /Volumes/macOS/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python

dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python
  Referenced from: /Volumes/macOS/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6


texts: How do I disable a password for already purchased apps

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I used to be able to re-download apps that were in my purchased folder without my Apple ID password but when I got my new I phone 6 it started asking me for a password. I have researched this but only found ways to turn the password off for free apps. Any help is appreciated.

Note: I don't want to jailbreak my device because it broke my last one.


texts: Chrome not showing as retina on mountain lion

texts: I have a recently purchased rMBP. The Google Chrome browser is displaying as retina when launched from the image it comes packaged in, but when I move the executable to my applications directory it becomes pixelated. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue?


texts: PostScript Driver issues: "ERROR: invalid font" - where to find font download (Softfont) options?

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I'm having a problem with some documents printing on my Dell C2665dnf Color MFP on macOS 10.13.x and beyond (ie, including 10.14 Mojave betas).

Sometimes a document only prints out:

ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: xshow

STACK:
[6.1116 13.4376 12.2276 13.4376 6.1116 12.2276 0.0 ]
(!"#$%&')

This appears to be a font issue from both the error and some searching. The example from Xerox for a Phaser 8560 & 7335:

This clearly appears to be the same issue from the explanation and the answer is to set "PostScript Pass-through: Disabled" and enable "Download as Softfont" for TrueType Font and "Bitmap" for TrueType Font Download Option... But of course these options do not appear to be available on macOS.

I've looked in both System Preferences -> Printers & Scanners AND in CUPS (Manage Printers & Edit Configuration File) with no luck at finding such a setting yet for macOS.

Any idea of how to make a similar setting change to force font downloading for PostScript printers in macOS?


texts: IPhone SE and getting phone call through a dongle

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I can't get phone calls through my dongle and headphones.  The dongle charges my phone so I guess it works.  I can play music from my phone through the dongle to my headphones, so I guess the headphones work.

I thinking I am missing a setting.  Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Jim


texts: How do I create a read-only access for wiki server?

texts:
I would like to create a new user account for the wiki server but with read only access to the content.

The admin guide says that it can be done but it doesn't say how! Do you happen to know?


texts: How to quit iPhoto in the middle of importing photos

texts: I plugged my iPhone into my Mac and it started importing photos from iPhone. It's been two days and I need to shut down my Mac. How do I stop importing the photos?


texts: 24" imac from 2008 as a monitor for macbook pro

texts: The iMac does only have a mini displayport output. And it does it not have target mode, but if I upgrade my iMac's OS to X Yosemite, will target mode come with it? If so, Will I at that point be able to use thunderbolt-connection or something to get my iMac to work as a second monitor for my macbook pro?


texts: I am using iphone 6 and my battery Max capacity is 1118 mAH and design capacity is 1751?

texts:
I am using iphone 6 ios 9.3.3 my battery Max capacity is 1118 mAH and design capacity is 1751 ?

Why its Max capacity is is not 1751 what to do to fix it.


texts: Photos.app: Unique smart album criteria for identifying iOS screenshots?

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Looking for a way to automatically collect iOS screenshots and add them to the Screeenshots album, but with high accuracy (trying to avoid false positives).

It's fairly simple to track down the various device resolutions, and that the camera was iPhone/iPad/iPod, etc. However, that doesn't really narrow it down, as those also include photos taken from the device, as well as wallpapers. Maybe in a future Photos.app update, these will update automatically. Just wondering if anyone can guess at the metadata criteria Apple uses, or if they simply place that image in the Screenshots folder by default.

I highly doubt it, I wonder if you can pass in regex as a filename pattern. That would make it a lot easier.


texts: Why can´t I transfer app scores from an iPod to an iPhone?

texts:
I have an iPod running on iOS 5 and and iPhone running on iOS10. I backed up my iPhone to my computer (Mac OS) using iTunes. I made sure that the apps were on the Mobile Applications folder. I then connected the iPhone to the computer, opened iTunes and found the apps I wanted to install. A "Will Install" notice appeared next to the apps and I synced the iPhone. When the syncing was finished, the apps were installed on the iPhone, but the game progress was lost. Why are the games scored not transfered to the iPhone? Can they be transfered though iCloud?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Edit - In response to @fsb: This happens with all the games on the iPhone (Bravesmart, Cut the Rope, Where´s My Water, Angry Birds, etc.).  As for contacting the developers, I have not done so thus far.


texts: Manually adding books to Nook App on iPad

texts:
I need to "side load" a number of eBooks (mostly epub and PDF) into the Nook App on my iPad and iPhone.  This is something I am able to do with my dedicated Nook eReader like the Nook HD or the Glowlight (not the Samsung tablets). To add books, you simply connected it with a USB cable which then made the Nook look like a USB storage device to the Mac (or Windows machine) and you simply copied the files over.
For the record, I use Calibre to manage my personal library and to handle the file syncing to the Nook device.  As long as the device appeared as USB storage, it would handle (copy) it.

...calibre can directly connect to all the major (and most of the minor) e-book reading devices, smarthphones, tablets, etc. In addition, using the Connect to folder function you can use it with any e-book reader that exports itself as a USB disk.

 Source:  Calibre FAQ
This isn't possible on an iOS device as it doesn't show up as a USB storage device.  How can I manually add my personal eBooks to my Nook App on my iPad, iPod, and/or iPhone?


texts: Can't gain write access to secondary hard drive root-level folder

texts:
I have a second hard drive installed on my Mac. On its several root-level folders there's only one I can't get write access to.

I've tried right-clicking it, select "Get Info", unlock it, click the plus sign, select my name, change my name, & everyone to "Read only to "Read & Write", click the gear icon, "Make Me the owner" & "Apply to enclosed items."

Even after repeating those steps I still can't rename or delete this folder. How can I gain write access to it?


texts: Disabling Mission Control (OR making plist changes take effect immediately)

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EDIT: I have just realized that what I'm talking about isn't a default feature in Lion. I probably added the commands via an article like this (scroll down to "Gestures and keyboard shortcuts"). So this question is more about how to make plist changes take effect immediately from Terminal.

I have spent about 4 hours looking for and developing a solution for a quick way to disable / enable Mission Control. My present line of thinking is:

I can disable the shortcuts to Mission Control, which would give me the same effect.

Oh look, I can disable the shortcuts via ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist! Let's see how I can modify that...

Darn it, the defaults command doesn't let me go deep enough into the sub-dictionaries to do what I want. But wait, I found /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy! Now to write a script...

The script works (it changes the settings in the .plist file), but the changes aren't taking effect.

My questions:

Is there a better way to do this?
What command can I add to my script to make my changes take effect immediately? You can see I have killall Dock in the script, and I've tried killall Finder and killall SystemUIServer, but none of those seem to work.

Hopefully this is the best place to ask this... I know this is OS-X-specific, but it's also highly technical.


texts:
I'm using Remote Desktop app on the full screen and when I get my mouse too close to the bottom of the screen (in orders to interact with remote system), the Dock is shown.

The mouse pointer (annotated below) is not even close to the Dock edge or icons and the bar is already showing up.

So there is no way I can access the bottom icons on the remote machine.

How do I change Dock behaviour, so it's not so aggressive when it comes to appearing? Or disable it in the full-screen mode completely?


texts: How to change encrypted volume password on command line?

texts:
Disk util shows the encrypted disk I am using for time machine with the following info:

But the Menu entry "file -> Change Password" is greyed out. Tried to turn to the command line, I found this instructions, and the first part works nicely:
> diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group DDE89BDF-9537-45FF-A786-697E828EB040
    =========================================================
    Name:         egmac2.bak
    Status:       Online
    Size:         2000021315584 B (2.0 TB)
    Free Space:   9392128 B (9.4 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume DFEAFE30-FF0B-417B-B845-7C0A283FB4D4
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk2s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     2000021315584 B (2.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 0A741FD9-F957-4188-B1D9-233145A76ABF
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        High Level Queries:      Fully Secure
        |                        Passphrase Required
        |                        Accepts New Users
        |                        Has Visible Users
        |                        Has Volume Key
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 253049D8-C1A5-41B1-A9C5-788AA41E0157
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk3
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          1999659597824 B (2.0 TB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               egmac2.bak
            Volume Name:           egmac2.bak
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

But then:
> diskutil cs passwd 253049D8-C1A5-41B1-A9C5-788AA41E0157 -oldpassphrase whatever -newpassphrase whattheheck
diskutil: did not recognize coreStorage verb "passwd"; type "diskutil coreStorage" for a list


texts: Help with old iPhoto Library. Can't show package content

texts:
I finally managed to decrypt an old backup of an iPhoto Library.
The result was a file without an extension (maybe I removed it back then?) and the following header:
./._iPhoto Library

Now I have no idea how to open that library. Photos.app won't open it (start with option + shift, choose library), the iPhoto Library Updater won't either.
It was definitely a library that you could open as folder (right click, show package content), I think from iPhoto 11.
Is there a way to tell macOS that this is a package file? Or even a folder instead of a file?


texts: Will Apple service an iPhone previously repaired by a third-party?

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If an iPhone previously had its screen/battery/camera repaired by a third-party but it works fine afterwards, will Apple service the iPhone?
For example, let's say that my iPhone battery went bad so I went to a cheaper third-party store to have it replaced (likely with a non-OEM battery). I use it for a few months but it degrades much faster than an OEM battery. Can I take it to Apple and pay them the money to replace the battery with their own OEM part?
I understand a third-party repair will void the warranty on an iPhone, but I have not been able to find any definite information about whether they void all future repairs/servicing from Apple.
The reason I am asking about this is because of an article on the Verge published in March 2019 linked here. Here are some snippets (my emphasis added):

iPhones with third-party batteries are now eligible to be repaired at Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASP), according to internal Apple documents reportedly obtained by MacRumors and French outlet iGen. Before, Apple policies stated that customers were ineligible to receive any kind of repair service if their iPhones were previously repaired with any non-original, third-party components, meaning you’d be taking a big risk by replacing an iPhone battery yourself.

Batteries are the latest third-party components to be accepted by Apple’s rigid repair policy, as the company changed its policy to accept iPhones with third-party displays for repair in 2017.

So this article suggests (without a source) that only recently an iPhone with a third-party battery or screen replacement is eligible for repairs. Is there any more information, perhaps directly from Apple, about what is allowed for servicing?


texts:
Does Thunderbolt 1 provide USB (3.0) functionality? Or in other words: Is Thunderbolt 1 compatible with USB (3.0)?

I have a MacBook Pro 13'', Early 2011 (MacBookPro8,1) and a Laptop Docking Station (Sabrent DS-RICA), which only has a USB 3.0 B input. I would like to connect the two, but not directly via USB since said MPB has only USB 2.0 and I'm getting hard delays on the external screen via such a USB 2.0 connection.

So I'm thinking about connecting said docking station to the Thunderbolt 1 port of my MBP via an Thunderbolt 1 to USB 3.0 adapter (e.g. this pricy thing). But I'm not sure if this will do the job, because I've heard that Thunderbolt 1 does not transmit data in a way for a USB device to understand, even with this adapter... Now I'd like to check that info with the knowledge of this great community, thanks!


texts: I have my iphone 4s set up to backup on the cloud and i have paid for extra storage place on the cloud i plug my phone up at night and have it connected to the wifi to backup when i sleep but it doesnt work i  then get notification that my phone has not backed up in 12 weeks...what should i check i am paying for extra space and yet nothing is getting backed up. Even when i am connected to my wifi and do a backup now it doesnt back up apparently...


texts: Unintentionally remapped keys on a MacBook Air (2012)

texts: One day my MacBook Air mysteriously remapped the 'U', 'I' and 'O' keys to all be the alt/option key. I've no idea what triggered this, I took it to the apple shop and it seems to stay that way when they did the hardware test. Does anyone know why this could be, and hopefully recommend a way of fixing it?


texts: VPN on demand: if VPN server is not reachable the entire device network connection is cut off from public internet

texts:
I have a configuration profile for VPN on demand if the VPN server is down then internet is not getting connected.
I have enabled on demand VPN connection using below lines in my mobileconfig profile
<key>OnDemandEnabled</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>OnDemandMatchDomainsAlways</key>
<array>
    <string>*</string>
</array>
<key>OnDemandMatchDomainsNever</key>
<array/>
<key>OnDemandMatchDomainsOnRetry</key>
<array/>
<key>OnDemandRules</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>Action</key>
        <string>Connect</string>
    </dict>
</array>

On-Demand VPN is establishing as expected in iOS 6 & 7. Whereas when the VPN server is down, on-demand still tries to establish connection and it fails, hence the user is not able to reach the internet. I want to disable VPN connection when the VPN server is down, hence user can use the internet. I tried the following On-Demand rule to connect VPN when I able to reach a service of my VPN server else disconnect VPN.
Approach 1:
<key>OnDemandRules</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>URLStringProbe</key>
        <string>http://myserverip/openvpn/server</string>
        <key>Action</key>
        <string>Connect</string>
    </dict>
 </array>

Approach 2
 <key>OnDemandRules</key>
<array>
<dict>
   <key>RequiredURLStringProbe</key>
   <string>https://host.domain.com/nonexistent_url</string>
   <key>DomainAction</key>
   <string>ConnectIfNeeded</string>
 </dict>
 </array>

I tried both the approaches they neither connect the VPN nor Disconnect the VPN
I referred the following links

http://www.derman.com/blogs/Example-iOS-VPN-OnDemand-Rules.

http://jelockwood.blogspot.in/2014/03/how-to-do-vpn-on-demand-for-ios-at-zero.html

apple key reference document

Steps to Reproduce:

Configure you device VPN connection using OpenVPN client app with OpenVPN
server(Certificate based authentication)

Make sure you have a working VPN connection using OpenVPN server

Configure a VPN on demand for any internet connection using wild card filter(*)

Now shut your OpenVPN server down thats it.the internet connection of device will go down

Expected Results:
if OpenVPN server is not reachable then the device should not try to reach it again and again Instead after sometime it should stop trying and connect with public internet
Actual Results:
Device's internet connection is cut off
Version:
I tried in both iOS 6 and 7
I want to disable VPN or On-Demand feature in iOS 6 & 7 when VPN server is down.
Here is a link that has configuration profile(dummy) of mine.
Here is a link that has ipcu console log when connection fails


texts: Why is there no menu bar in Keynote for iOS?

texts:
Keynote for iOS doesn't show a menu bar, only buttons.

Is there a possibility to show a menu bar ?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.


texts:
I have my iOS 6 phone synced with iCloud. I had a storage shortage on iCloud so I deleted pictures from my phone, however this does not solve the problem - my phone still complains that it doesn't have enough space on iCloud.

Sure enough, I checked the "Next Backup Size" (it's 5.6GB, I am on the free tier), the Camera Roll takes 4.2GB of this.

How do I clear up the next backup size? The photos are NOT available on my phone to begin with, so I'm not sure how to proceed.


texts: How is swap on mid-2013 MacBook Air w/ PCIe SSD?

texts:
There appears to be confusing and incomplete information about the PCIe SSDs in mid-2013 MacBook Air 11" and 13" (especially the 128GB models), where a different queue depth may result in different speed test results. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-review-13inch/8

In simple terms, how how much slower is swap on the 128GB PCIe SSD compared to the main memory on the 4GB LDDR3 in the mid-2013 MacBook Air 11" and 13"?  What about 256GB?

I cannot really find any comprehensive comparison on the topic specific to the proprietary SSDs used by Apple in mid-2013 MacBook Air, especially comparison between 128GB and 256GB models.  A good answer would include methodology through which it's derived.


texts: "Installation requires downloading important content..." error message preventing me installing macOS Big Sur

texts:
My device is a late 2013 Macbook Pro and just a week ago I had been running macOS Big Sur.
I wanted to pass on my device to someone else so I followed the steps in the below links to make sure all of my data was erased and the device is set back to factory settings:

What to do before you sell, give away or trade in your Mac
How to erase a disk for Mac

The device is now running OS X 10.9.5 as expected. However, when I download macOS Big Sur from the App Store and try to install it, a message appears saying I cannot continue (see below image). The message says:
Installation of macOS could not continue

Installation requires downloading important content.
The content can't be downloaded at this time.
Try again later.

I have tried and checked the following:

Checked Apple System Status and everything is fine.
Restarted the device via Safe Mode and issue still presents itself.
Restarted the device and used both CMD+R and CMD+ALT+R modes to install but same issue returns.
Erased and formatted the HD to AFPS, reinstalled OS X, same issue. Since then, I've reformatted via the recommended option (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)).
I have a good strong connection via Wi-Fi.

Though some of the above may work for others, it hasn't worked for me. I've probably tried erasing my HD and reinstalling OS X about 6 times now.
I don't know where I may have gone wrong, I made sure I followed each step specifically and carefully. I've been able to install macOS Big Sur just a week ago, and now, after following Apple's official guide to essentially 'factory reset' my device, it is not installing.

...

Update

As suggested in comments and responses, I upgraded from Mavericks to Catalina (through El Capitan then High Sierra then Mojave).
Now in Catalina, it gives a new error message of "Update not found" when trying to update to macOS Big Sur, and shows that it is currently running the latest macOS (see below screenshots).
I have tried to update via Internet Recovery mode, but that returns the original error message of "Installation of macOS could not continue".


texts: Not sure when this started, but heading/compass on 2 iPhones (6 and X) is way off for some reason. Magnetic north  is off by 10-40°, depending on how much moving around I do. True north mostly works, but is also off. There is a difference between the two devices of 5-30°  No electromagnetic interference that I can trace nearby.    What could possibly cause this? The GPS signal on the X is also quite bad and takes very long to lock. I did the sim eject-reboot routine, to no effect


texts: iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker

texts: I have notices that sound only comes out of one speaker on the bottom of my phone. Is it playing in mono or is the other "speaker" actually a microphone?


texts: Workaround for wrong HID usage descriptor sent by Bluetooth Gamepad?

texts:
I am investigating an incompatibility of some Bluetooth Gamepads with OSX:
I have a Bluetooth Gamepad (NES30 Pro). The problem is that if I connect it over bluetooth, it does not work properly under OSX. I already have found the cause and have informed the manufacturer, and they promised to look into fixing that. However meanwhile I would like to find a workaround.

The cause of the problem is that the Gamepad does not send a proper HID usage descriptor when it is connected via Bluetooth. The Gamepad should send a HID usage descriptor that signals that it is a gamepad. However it sends a HID usage descriptor that signals that it is a compound device of Keyboard, Mouse and Gamepad at the same time.

For illustration, this is a screenshot of the Windows device manager, showing that the Gamepad acts as several device types at once.

Windows and Linux simply create 3 devices, one keyboard device, one mouse device and one gamepad device. However OSX creates just one device which contains all the functionality at once, which most programmes fail to recognize as a Gamepad. So far the only App that could show me that position data of the Analog axes and of the gamepad buttons is indeed transmitted is the HID explorer app by apple (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/HID_Explorer/HID_Explorer.zip)

Now I am looking for a workaround on OSX. Some Linux systems have a problem as well with the wron HID usage descriptor. However they usually can fix it by setting a udev rule that specifically tells the system to treat the device as gamepad/joystick, for example like that:

# 8Bitdo SFC30 GamePad Bluetooth mode(START)
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="8Bitdo SFC30 GamePad", MODE="0666", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}="1"

Of course OSX does not have udev. Does anybody know how to tell/force OSX to treat an input device as a joystick/gamepad? Or maybe how to create a virtual gamepad device which takes its input from the axes/buttons of the keyboard/mouse/gamepad compound device? Or any other ideas how to tackle that problem?

Note: I am especially interested in using the analog sticks. So just mapping them to keyboard buttons is not an option. (The gamepad already has a special mode to do that on its own. However then the analog sticks of course do not work.)


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro with an SSD drive installed. The laptop runs OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition. Something weird was going on however. The drive itself is 512GB, but the only partitions I could see in OSX where a 170GB Macintosh HD and a 90GB BOOTCAMP.

When booting in Windows, I saw there was about 200GB of 'unused' space. I created a partition in Windows and formatted it. All good.

After rebooting, however, my Macintosh HD disappeared and the Windows partition boots, but doesn't get to the login screen (instead it goes to recovery mode).

My feeling is that Windows replaced the GUID partition map with an MBR one, which essentially makes partitions unmountable. OS X still recognizes the partition layout, however, as can be seen in the screenshot below:

Is there any way to recover the original partition map?


texts: Convert an already recorded stereo track to mono in Garageband

texts:
I have a guitar track that I accidentally recorded in stereo.  I can't find anywhere in garageband to change it to mono after the fact.  Is this possible?

Panning the guitar track to the right silences the track, but if it's panned all the way to the left it's full.

Any ideas?


texts:
macOS High Sierra appears to treat font smoothing and antialiasing differently in PDF documents in Preview. Text is more blurry and less crisp.

I turned off "Use LCD Font Smoothing When Available" in the System Preferences with no difference.

Is it possible to revert to the way macOS Sierra used to handle PDF text?


texts: What are the keys corresponding to the shortcut?

texts: I'm trying to figure out how to use my Apple keyboard at times instead of the mouse. What keys do I press for the following shortcut?


texts: 3 linux server guests on parallels using a shared network all retain the same ip address

texts:
All three guests are getting the same ip address, while i believe they should all be getting one each. I've tried numerous things and at times they do get different ips but when i restart a guest they tend to get it back.
Is there an error in the implementation? This error existed on 14 and now i am on 16 and still there.
Do note, that all three instances are sourced from the same linux (ubuntu) template but I have changed the hostname on all three of them and changed their mac addresses.
Here are a couple of images:

You can see they all have the same ip address! All running!
In the bottom one i tried to target them by port ( using ssh -p j@14.211.0.3 ) but that did not work either. However, when I made that edit and restarted I did manage to get three ips for all three of them, until I restarted them, then they were back.
Also have tried to use: sudo dhclient -r; sudo dhclient; and something happened but did not stick.
When I switched the adapater to not shared but towards the WIFI directly, they all got the same WIFI ip, 192.168.0.202 or something.

Am I going to have to switch to VirtualBox for this?


texts: How to convert Windows Phone Living Image to Live Photo?

texts:
I am in the process of porting all my media to iCloud so it’s easily accessible via my iPhone and iPad.  I used to have a Windows Phone, which took essentially the same thing as Live Photos but were called Living Images.  I’d like to move these to iCloud and have them show up as Live Photos.
I used a Lumia 830 with Windows Phone 8.1, and the Living Images essentially had a .jpg for the photo and a .mp4 which contained the 0.6s video just prior to the photo.  I tried copying the .jpg and .mp4 to iCloud, and while they showed up, the showed up as two separate files.  I then used ffmpeg to move the video to a mov container, and copied that over, which also showed up as a separate file.
What is iCloud/iOS looking for to associate a .jpg and .mov as a Live Photo?
It doesn’t seem to be the same base name plus .jpg/.mov.  Perhaps some metadata in either or both of the files?  Do the videos need to be some exact encoding? (Both the Live Photos and Living Images used AVC for the video codec).
Are there any Apple documents that detail Live Photos?
Here’s a link to some technical details about Living Photos:
https://windowsphone.stackexchange.com/a/12159
Edit:
I found some more information.  First, a blog post from Cellebrite (yeah, that Cellebrite...) led me to some more info.
https://www.cellebrite.com/en/blog/how-to-confirm-apple-live-photos-in-cellebrite-blacklight/
This pointed me to the ContentIdentifier field in the metadata, which is a matching UUID for the .jpg/.mov pair.
And this led to a few more links:
https://github.com/LimitPoint/LivePhoto
https://www.limit-point.com/blog/2018/live-photos/
I am going to try using exiftool to try to write a UUID to the proper metadata tags to see if I can get this to work.
I'm still a bit unsure if the slight video encoding differences will matter, and the docs above say that there should be a timestamp in the metadata for where in the video the still is located.  In living images that I have, the video is just prior to the still image, which is different to real living photos. I'm not sure that timestamp matters all that much unless you're editing a live photo.


texts: How can I copy a working Mac Os X Tiger 10.4 install to my new HDD without destroying the Mac Os 9 installed?

texts:
I am restoring an ancient PowerPc iMac and I have a very peculiar situation.
The iMac has a new ssd drive where Mac Os 9 is installed and works perfectly.
I would like to install also 10.4 Tiger but the original install disks are long gone and burning a bootable disc seems impossible (I tried anything).
The old 20GB hdd contains a perfectly working Tiger install and I could connect that HDD via USB because I have an adapter.

Is there any method that would allow me to end in a situation where I have both working and bootable operating systems on the new ssd?

Maybe copying the old disk to a partition on the new one?


texts: How do I copy mp3s and then edit the ID3 tags of the copies without altering the tags on the originals?

texts:
I made a playlist for my brother, using tracks (.mp3) that I have on my Macbook and usually listen to with iTunes. I want to put these tracks onto a USB stick to give to him. I don't have the USB stick yet but I thought I'd get the tracks ready to put onto the stick, by copying them all into a separate folder on Finder and editing the ID3 tags so that their "album" field contains the name of the playlist and their track numbers match their positions within the playlist. I thought this would be simple enough (I grew up with Windows), so just made a new folder (under "Documents") and copied them out of iTunes into here. I then realized that it's impossible to edit ID3 tags through Finder. After overcoming my initial frustration with this, I thought that instead of downloading some third-party software I'd just copy these files into iTunes and edit their ID3 tags there. I made a new playlist within iTunes, dragged the files from the folder in Documents into this playlist and edited all the ID3 tags appropriately. When I was done I deleted the mp3s out of the folder in Documents and dragged the edited tracks from iTunes into this folder to replace them. This meant that I had exactly what I wanted (the tracks with the new ID3 tags) in the folder in Documents.
However, I then realized that something hadn't worked as I'd expected. I thought I'd duplicated the files that had initially been in my iTunes when I'd copied them into the folder in Documents, and then had added these new (but identical) files into iTunes, which I'd then edited (meaning that their ID3 tags were no longer identical to the originals). However, it turns out that somehow iTunes, presumably recognising the files to be identical, had somehow merged them? Either that or it had never actually duplicated them in the first place? I'm really not sure how it works. Either way, the end result is that the original files have disappeared from my iTunes and from my computer; now I only have the ones with the new ID3 tags. I tried to "undo" what I'd done in iTunes, but it was impossible (the editing of the ID3 tags didn't appear in the list of actions that could be undone, for some reason).
My questions are thus: firstly, is there a way to revert the files' ID3 tags to what they were before, other than manually? (It will be really annoying to have to go and look up the album titles and track numbers for each track and edit them manually.) And secondly, what did I do wrong? How do I achieve my simple goal of copying (i.e. duplicating) a group of mp3s and editing the ID3 tags of the copies without changing the originals?


texts: Application to periodically update desktop with new images from Flickr tag search?

texts: Are there any applications I can use to periodically download new images from a Flickr tag search and update my desktop picture (preferably with support for multiple monitors)?


texts: Full screen application causes screen saver to not start (Lion)

texts:
When I am in a Full Screen application mode, the screen saver doesn't start. So I have to shift to another screen that doesn't show a full screen app. There the screen saver starts!

This naturally happens only in Lion.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  iPad doesn’t rotate anymore

I have a problem with my iPhone 4S. Its gyroscope doesn't work. But not at all. Sometimes it sets in vertical position and sometimes in horizontal. I read about it on the Apple's website and they suggest to make a back up and restore the initial settings. I've done this. At first everything was OK, gyroscope used to work. But then I started to restore all programs and at some moment I noticed that the gyroscope doesn't work again.

Maybe some app is the reason but I don't know which one. I hope the problem is in the software not in the hardware but...What I need to do? Maybe you faced the same problem?


texts: How to send Data block to secure Enclave Processesor

texts:
How to send data block to Secure Enclave processor to use its AES engine  for encrypting/decrypting data using its Hardware  keys.
SE don't share keys to anyone.
So I think the only way to decrypt or encrypt data by sending it to SE


texts: Where can I find statistics on download amount on OSX?

texts:
I'd like to buy a mobile broadband service, but there's a limit in gigabyte per month I can download.

Before i buy, it would be great to know what i currently consume, bandwidth wise. Is this statisti available anywhere on a vanilla OS X system? Should I get an additional application?


texts: Why my iPhone vibrates for several seconds everyday at 12 O'Clock?

texts:
I am not sure if I am the only one who is facing this problem, but interesting thing is that my Iphone 5S(IOS 10.x.x) vibrates everyday 12 O'clock for several seconds and there is no way I can stop it. It is really annoying at work place. I checked if I have any alarm for 12 O'Clock, but I did not find one.

Any clue does it happen and how to stop it? Thank you in advance!


texts: Prompt when sending text message as SMS instead of iMessage?

texts:
Is there a way I can get Messages to prompt when it wants to send a message as SMS rather than an iMessage ?

I hate noticing that when a message fails to send, its sent as SMS instead of imessage, which I get charged for. This happens when I activate the SEND AS SMS option.

However I would still want to send a message as SMS if necessary (emergency etc). Is there an option/app/tweak that can help me accomplish that?


texts: Cannot Access Existing Recovery Partition - Early 2011 MacBook Pro

texts:
I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro. I need to access the recovery partition for several reasons, such as turning off "SIP". Until now, every time I pressed
CMD+R during booting, it went directly to the internet recovery mode. That has never been a problem for me until now.
As you can see from this picture the partition exists :

However, not only it doesn't start with CMD+R. It also doesn't show as an option when I press opt . So I went in disk utility, run first aid and got the following output :

So I followed the instructions, went to (internet) recovery mode once again, and tried to fix it. Now this is the interesting part, according to the disk utility on internet recovery mode, there are no problems.

However, when I tried to mount the recovery partition (disk0s3) it failed. I also tried to reset the PRAM, but nothing changed.

I'm trying everything I can that doesn't involve reinstalling the OS, as last time I did that it took forever to copy my backup. However, I'm running out of ideas at this point.

If you have any suggestion and if you think you know what might be causing this, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Fastest way to delete all Timemachine Backups for a machine

texts:
What is the recommended way to get rid of a whole TimeMachine archive (aka Backups.backupdb)?

Using Disk Utility to erase the whole disk is not an option.

I moved everything to the Trash, but "preparing to empty trash" was counting files to delete forever. I cancelled at -100,000 files.

So what's the recommended way to delete huge amounts of files?


texts:
I have an iMac (Intel 21.5" late 2013, 21.5 core i5). This morning, I replaced my hard disk with an SSD drive and used not a right adhesive tape to put the display screen back. At first, I was very happy as my iMac was much faster and even more quiet than before! After few hours of working with my iMac, the attack LED ( not the iMac) fell down from my desk on the floor.  I attached both display data cable and the display power cable, here are the symptoms:

The iMac LED it all black.
I connected the iMac to my external LCD monitors and it works fine, i can login and work with it fine
The Fan is constantly running. Why is that?
My iMac seems to be very slow compare to the incident. What could be the reason.

I suspect that either my mac’s display is damages or one or both of the two cables: display data cable and the display power cable are broken.

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Applescript to set Track Comment to Rating

texts:
I'm trying to develop an applescript that sets the comment tag to the track's rating.  i.e., if it's a 3 star track, I want the comment to say "3 Star".

tell application "iTunes"
  set theTrack to (item 1 of (get selection))
  set comment of theTrack to theRating
end tell

This isn't working for me.  Any Ideas?


texts: Cloud download icon gray and cannot re-download purchased app

texts: Why can't I download this purchased app on iOS 12.3.1?


texts: How can I rename screenshot files added to my Screenshot folder?

texts:
I've designated a folder to receive screen shots I receive from the default Mac screenshot command. How can I elicit a prompt that will let me rename every screenshot I take?

Thank you


texts: Running an app off an external hard drive

texts:
Can I download DaVinci Resolve to an external hard drive and work from/off it?

My computer has a limited storage space, so I can not download it straight to my computer. Ideally, i'd like to download it to my external hard drive and work off it. Can this be done?


texts:
I have recordings which last many hours.
I want to focus on some points of the recording.

iTunes is not accurate for it.

Is there something in the settings for iTunes to allow for more precise playback timeline?

Does the mini player has a longer time axis.
I do not know how to customize it at the moment.

Alternatively What is a good program for playing long audio records when you need to focus on some instance during the recording?


texts: Is it a way to offer subscription as In-App purchase but for service and not for content?

texts: I want to sell my app as a service where customers could pay for using it for a period of time. Is it possible? Where could I read more about it?


texts: Using iPad as a shared drawing board in a Skype meeting

texts:
I use Skype daily for work meetings. My collaborators work in different places around the world and this is the only way to stay connected and work together with them. We are theoretical physicists.

Sometimes, we need to use a drawing board to explain some concept and discuss about mathematics. Does there exist a way to use our iPad Pro as a shared drawing board?

I am looking for a solution which allows me to live share my iPad screen while using Skype on my Mac, so that I can use any drawing app such as Notability. All my collaborators should be able to see what I write during the Skype call.

Any suggestion?


texts: What is the keyboard shortcut to maximize a window on OSX? I'd like to know the shortcut that is equivalent to double clicking on the window title. I do not want to make the window full screen.


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I simply want to delete the bulk if not all of several hundred photos I have uploaded from my camera, to free up space as it is already full.
However I cannot find how to delete them unless I do it one by one which requires at least three different actions and would take forever!
Someone said highlight first and then delete, but I cannot find any control to highlight them!
I went to the nearest Apple shop today. It is 125 kms from where I live. Apparently it does not open until 9.30 am and at 9.10 there are already 30-40 people patently waiting outside!
I do not have time for this, and returned to pay $6 for parking my car!

I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW HOW TO DELETE GROUPS OF PHOTOS. The photos I want are already transferred to my PC, so even it they are deleted from Cloud it does not matter, but at present when I go travelling I will not be able to download photos as I take them.


texts: Force new instances of an app to open on the current monitor

texts: Major downside to my multiple monitor setup - too often I try to open an app, or a new instance of it, and it opens on another monitor on the opposite side of my setup, so I end up spending a lot of time dragging windows around.  Is there a way to force apps to open on the monitor I'm currently focused on?


texts: Configure WLAN as metered or tethered in macOS

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MacOS seems to assume a WLAN connection to be free of charge if and only if it is not a tethered iPhone connection. So it will run all background update and maintenance processes via that WLAN connection. As my WLAN is in fact a small box with LTE access (payed by volume) I would like to configure the connection as if it were a tethered mobile connection, which it really is.

The answers to the similiar question Managing Metered Connections on OSX all recommend some third party tools, how can I solve it solely with built-in functionality and tools (macOS Sierra, if it helps)?


texts: Lion Mail "Show Format Bar' button missing

texts: In Lion Mail there is supposed to be a "show format bar" button at top right of a new mail window. It is not there for me. How can I get it to show?


texts: How can i get Apple HealthKit data if iphone is crashed or permanently dead?

texts:
What if i does not backup my Apple healthkit data, And one day my iphone is crashed or permanently dead. So how can i get my old HealthKit data?
Is any other option from where can i get my old HealthKit data? Or Backup is compulsory to get old Data?


texts: The Apple logo on my MacBook was never ever lighted up since I purchased it over a year ago. I was under the impression that some models are made this way, but on checking out how to turn it on, I'm learning that perhaps all models come with the lighted function and the common challenge lies in turning the light off. How could this be? I had placed a white Apple sticker that came with it on the cover, but now I'm feeling that I might have gotten a defective unit....what do you think?


texts: How can I troubleshoot apps which won't quit and force me to reboot?

texts:
I've been having this problem a lot and it's becoming extremely irritating.

So, I force quit an app (mostly Chrome, Steam and uTorrent) that isn't responding and open it again (this is also the situation when I force quit an app that is bouncing and won't open), it bounces for a long time again, so I force quit again, it keeps bouncing for a while and then 'quits'.

But, you can't open it, and when you right click it, it has the same options it would have if it were open. It appears in the force quit menu, but won't quit. It doesn't appear in activity monitor anywhere. Now, I know an obvious solution is to hardware shutdown, but my macbook pro is under a monitor stand and I would have to move a lot of hardware every time it happens.


texts: Can I use a Seagate SSHD in my iMac and if so, how do I load OSX (High Sierra) onto it

texts: I'm looking to upgrade my iMac 14.2 (late 2013) by swapping out the existing HDD with a Seagate SSHD Hybrid drive, along with adding another 8Gb memory. I've done a similar upgrade on my daughter's iMac (same model) but used a SSD and it works great with major enhancement in speed. I would like to use a SSHD to save some money. Is there anything I need to do differently when installing a CLEAN version of High Sierra (I have already downloaded to a USB drive from the Apple APP store) onto the SSHD Hybrid?


texts:
I'm trying to convert HelveticaCY.dfont to a ttf font. The MacOS softs that I used didn't work well so I tried Fondu which gave me this files :
HelveticaCY-10.bdf
HelveticaCY-12.bdf
HelveticaCY.dfont
HelveticaCYBold-10.bdf
HelveticaCYBold-12.bdf
HelveticaCYBold.ttf
HelveticaCYBoldItalic-10.bdf
HelveticaCYBoldItalic-12.bdf
HelveticaCYBoldOblique.ttf
HelveticaCYItalic-10.bdf
HelveticaCYItalic-12.bdf
HelveticaCYOblique.ttf
HelveticaCYPlain.ttf

Unfortunately, the *.ttf files doesn't contain the special chars (such as é, è ...). My guess is that this chars are in the *.bdf files but I have no idea of how convert it to a ttf file...
EDIT
As suggested, I used the Helvetica.dfont file. Here's the result : on the left, when I open the ttf file, on the right, when I use quick preview...

No accent on both side...


texts: can't hear FaceTime on Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2015

texts:
I can't hear people when they FaceTime me, of course at first I thought they had muted themselves but actually the call works perfectly on my iPhone 7.

I guess this is a problem with the FaceTime app on my laptop, but I don't find any sound settings in its preferences.


texts: Does File Vault store unencrypted data even if encryption is enabled in File Vault?

texts:
I noticed that a new File Vault 2 Backup volume first is backed up to, than encypted (for a few hours).

So the first backup is unencrypted??? I already didn't like that about a new install of lion.


texts: Mobile Device Management and Configuration Profiles

texts:
I have two questions about Mobile Device Management Server and Configuration Profiles.
We are using a Third Party MDM server where we are registering our devices to have control of the apps that are running on our organization

When we deliver the Configuration Profile over the MDM server on a freshly restored device we are seeing that some apps are not being hidden (like Facebook, Whatsapp and some others). They only hide if we reinstall or update that apps, there are some kind of configuration that we can made to block these apps?

The second question is about the icon arrangement before we uninstall the Configuration Profile. Once the profile was removed we notice that the icons are rearranged in a new order that doesn't like the old arrangement (before the blocking). There ara some action that we can do to keep the order of the icons?

Thanks!


texts: Applescript to open all files in a folder and convert to PDF with Preview

texts:
I've written an AppleScript to do as the title describes. It is supposed to go to a given folder, open each of the files one at a time in preview, click "file" on the menu bar, then click "Export as PDF...", then click enter to accept the dialog that will open. Repeat until there's no more files left to automate.

tell application "Finder"
    set fl to files of folder POSIX file "/Users/username/Desktop/Folder" as alias list
end tell
repeat with f in fl
    tell application "Preview"
        open f
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "Preview"
            click menu item "Export as PDF..." of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
        end tell
        keystroke return
    end tell
end repeat

I get the following error when it runs, it opens the file in Preview and stops.
Any ideas?

The error isn't very descriptive.


texts: move a file, replacing existing (if any), ideally by putting existing in the trash

texts:
I am trying to find a way to automatically (without user intervention) move a file from A to B, replacing B if it exists, ideally by putting the existing copy of B into the appropriate Trash folder.

This will be done in a shell script. Eventually A and B will beed to be $VARIABLES like this:

/usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
tell application "Finder"
    move POSIX file "$SOURCE" to POSIX file “$DEST" with replacing
end tell
EOT

but I can’t even get this to work without variables, such as this:

/usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
tell application "Finder"
    move POSIX file "/Users/luomat/Desktop/1.txt" to POSIX file "/Users/luomat/Desktop/2.txt" with replacing
end tell
EOT

I took that syntax pretty much directly from Stackoverflow 14058061 but I get this result:

24:132: execution error: Finder got an error: AppleEvent handler failed. (-10000)

I also came across a MacTech article which suggested using replacing true so I tried:

/usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
tell application "Finder"
    move POSIX file "/Users/luomat/Desktop/1.txt" to POSIX file "/Users/luomat/Desktop/2.txt" replacing true
end tell
EOT

but it still says:

24:132: execution error: Finder got an error: AppleEvent handler failed. (-10000)

Please note that stackoverflow #12708195 I am not trying to prompt the user to do this, but ideally would like it to happen ‘automagically’ as the kids say.

So… what am I doing wrong and/or missing?  Trying to Google for information on error code (-10000) pretty much tells me that it means “AppleScript failed” which isn’t all that helpful.


texts: Website that uses iPhoto or Photos library as the database

texts:
I've begun creating a centralised iPhoto library of all the family photos and was hoping to share it with my family members in a well presented way rather than just sending them the raw images.

My current process is:
- Scan the image
- Add a rough date to the meta of the image in iPhoto
- Use facial recognition in iPhoto to group / tag images by who they are

The last two steps are fairly pointless if I am just providing raw files. Ideally I would like to create a website, that allows me to display the images from the iPhoto library in the following ways:
- by album
- by recently added
- by facially recognised people
- by date

I can't find anyone who has done this before and I can't find anyone who is pulling content straight from iPhoto onto a website. Any ideas of how I could do this, has anyone done this before, does anyone have any alternatives that would enable me to still achieve display options in the above 4 ways?

Worth noting that I have considered just uploading them all to Facebook and making the album private but their privacy policy doesn't excite me when the images in this photo repository include photos of myself naked as a child


texts: "Save as ..." in Microsoft Office always brings up "Documents" folder in Finder

texts: "Save as ..." ignores the location of the current file and ignores the last save location. This means I have to navigate back to the original files source folder every time I want to save a different version of the file in Excel.


texts: How to completely silence the other party in a call on iOS

texts:
Is there a way to completely silence the person on the other end of the call in iOS?

It appears that lowering the volume while a call is in progress doesn't silence the speaker completely, unlike when a call is not in progress.

Is there a way to silence the other party completely in the call?


texts: What does iOS Settings → General → Usage indicate?

texts:
In the image below, iOS shows some figures next to the app name.

I am not sure what this means. Does this indicate network used or disk space used by my app?

The problem is my app is not saving any data on phone. It is just using the internet and saving all data on internet only, but then this count is still increasing…


texts: Automatically forward "Starred in Gmail" messages to OmniFocus

texts:
Summary: I would like to create some sort of an automated process where any messages that I 'star' in Gmail (aka 'flag' when using Gmail via IMAP) will automatically be added to OmniFocus, and then "unstarred" on Gmail and moved to another specific label called "OmniFocus".

I am quite sure that this is possible with Google Scripts but I cannot figure out how to get it to work.  I would like that solution because it would not require me to run anything else on my own Mac.

Also: I have an account with http://www.spootnik.net which means that I can add things to my OmniFocus Inbox by sending email to a specific email address.

My idea for a Google Script would go something like this:

every ¿15? minutes or so, check for flagged messages in Gmail, and if found:
forward to my Super Secret Spootnik Email Address
Add label 'OmniFocus' to message
unstar/unflag message in Gmail

Unfortunately I don't know to make this work in Google Scripts, so I'm wondering if someone else might know and be able to explain it to others who might want to do something similar.

Alternatively

While I would prefer Google Scripts, I do have a Mac which is usually on 24/7 anyway, so if that is the only way to do this, that would also be an option. Unfortunately I have even less of an idea how to do that. (I assume Mail.app + AppleScript?)


texts: Apple Watch, keep calendar-details during entire meeting

texts:
I mostly use the "modules" watch face since I can have my next meeting in the middle. However I noticed now that the current appointment I have will disappear and show the the next appointment before the current one has actually ended. This is a big problem for me since it is very important I always know when my current meeting ends so I can close it in the right time.

See the image below, the "J4" meeting will be removed from the watch face before 10:50. I want it to stay until 10:50 or at least 10:45. Is that possible?


texts: How do I display file names in an encoding other than UTF-8?

texts: I have a couple of files/directories that are named in GBK. I think because finder assumes UTF-8 encoding, all of those file names are displayed as gibberish. How do I make Finder display their file names properly?


texts:
Can't seem to install eyeD3, any ideas?

matts-MacBook-Pro:~ matt$ sudo pip install eye3D

Downloading/unpacking eye3D
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement eye3D
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for eye3D
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/matt/Library/Logs/pip.log

For info:

matts-MacBook-Pro:~ matt$ python --version
Python 2.7.8

matts-MacBook-Pro:~ matt$ pip --version
pip 1.5.6 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)


texts: How to improve IO performance of Drobo Gen 2?

texts:
I'm running a Late 2012 Mac mini Server, with macOS Sierra. This particular server has a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM and SSD internal drives. The server is mostly idle, and is used as a Time Machine server for 2 users.
I have two Drobo Gen 2 external drives attached via daisy-chain Firewire 800 port. The Drobo I tested with has 4 X 7,200 RPM Seagate drives (ST2000DM001).
I ran DiskMark from the App Store and the results were consistent with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test:

Sequential Read (MB/s): 10
Sequential Write (MB/s): 9.2
Random Read (MB/s): 0.3
Random Write (MB/s): 1.0

Do these numbers seem low? What steps could I take to improve the drive's IO performance?
FYI, the same tool used to measure the performance of the internal SSD drive clocks around 450 MB/s both Read and Write.


texts: How can I search for meeting invites in Microsoft Outlook for Mac

texts:
I occasionally want to search through my Outlook inbox for emails containing Outlook calendar meeting invites (and updates).  There is no obvious search option for this, even under the advanced search options.

I do see that it is possible to set up a rule for new incoming mail ("Kind" is "Meeting Request"), but that doesn't help me search through existing mail, nor does it help if my intent isn't one of the rule trigger options.  There does not appear to be an analogous "kind" option for email search.

How can I search through existing mail messages for meeting invites and updates?


texts: Problems with OS X update and 'enable journaling'

texts:
I was wondering if anybody has had a similar issue to this before; i attempted to update my OS from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, and when told to 'enable journaling' on my hard disk, i did just that, and within minutes the computer crashed with this error:

panic(cpu caller 0x3044262): "jnl: transaction too big (1569280 >= 1572352 bytes,
    bufsize 4096, tr 0x8b4cfac bp 0x57e8fcf0)"
    @/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/bsd/vfs/vfs_journal.c:2481

Ever since it has been throwing the same error literally on startup, just as the musical note hits with the apple symbol. when i try to boot from a boot disk or go in to safe mode, it hangs on a little longer but always ends the same. I can get into single-user mode but the commands are strictly read-only. Any attempt to mount -uw results in the same error message and the computer locking up again.

I've also noticed "jnl: unknown-dev: journal start/end pointers reset!" appearing when i go into single-user mode. Once in single-user mode my hard drive is exactly how i left it, with all the files in the right place, but i just cant use them.

I've tried using fsck -fy on the root but it says the disk is fine!

Any help would be much appreciated!


texts: macOS: Keyboard shortcut for switching between two apps in split-view

texts:
This has been asked in the past, but the last time this question was asked was in 2015 and I hope things have changed in the meanwhile.

I'm essentially using two (different) apps side-by-side in macOS split-view, and I would like to switch between those two apps using a keyboard shortcut.

Is there any way to achieve this? Or any way to program such a shortcut?


texts: How to propagate Wi-Fi packets to other interfaces on a router

texts:
I have two computers connected to an ethernet/wifi dlink router:

Laptop: Connected via Wi-Fi

Desktop: Connected via ethernet

My understanding is that the desktop computer will never see any packets exchanged via Wi-Fi between the laptop and the router which means, I suppose, that the desktop computer cannot sniff any FTP passwords that I use to connect using the laptop (without SSL)

Is it possible to set up the router to send copies of Wi-Fi packets to the ethernet interface?


texts: How do you view more than 20 podcasts in the iTunes app on the iPhone?

texts:
When viewing a podcasts on the iPod app on the iPhone, there's an option below to "Get more episodes". When you click on that, iTunes app is launched, and you're shown the latest 20 episodes.

Is there a way to view more than the last 20 episodes? I want to download even older ones.


texts: How do I find my IP Address from the command line?

texts: I know you can do ifconfig | grep inet, but that shows you several IPv4 addresses. How do I get the specific one for SSHing et al?


texts: Sharing a iPhoto Library between users on the same computer

texts: I tried to share my iPhoto library with putting it into my sharing folder. I changed the permissions, so the other users can use it. Now they can use it, but if they add new photos, i cannot edit them. They were displayed, but if I try to edit the, there is only a black screen instead of the picture.


texts: Screen sharing turned off, but appears as "enabled"

texts:
I used this command to disable screen sharing:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist

But when I try to confirm if it's disabled using the following, I get "enabled"

[[ -f /etc/com.apple.screensharing.agent.launchd ]] && echo 'enabled' || echo 'disabled'

Am I misunderstanding something? I would like to turn screen sharing off, and confirm that it is off.


texts:
I have two partitions, one for boot.

Now I've enabled full disk encryption, looks like the one for boot is encrypted. But what about the other one? I'm not sure if it's also encrypted.

How can I verify that?


texts: Completely disable autocomplete in Mac Mail

texts:
I use mail 8.2 on OS X 10.10.  Due to new corporate policy at my office, no autocompletion is allowed in e-mail clients (except maybe for address fetching from the corporate address book via exchange: it's not clear).

Is it possible to disable either autocompletion entirely, or the addition of people to the autocompletion list?


texts: My AppleTV is in standby and still connects to Apple servers. Why and how to switch off?

texts:
I use OpenWrt as router software and see this while AppleTV is in standby since weeks:

DuckDuckGo finds

17.57.144.53 is an IP address operated by Apple
Port 5223 Details: Port used by Apple to maintain a persistent connection to APNs and receive push notifications. Some Apple applications that use this port: MobileMe, FaceTime, Game Center, APNs.

Just saying 1.2 MB is a lot traffic.
Why this behavior and how to switch off?


texts: Can't control volume from connected computer when in Target Display Mode

texts:
I frequently hook up my MacBook Pro to my iMac in Target Display Mode, and use my iMac's speakers.

The big drawback with this setup is that the volume control is grayed out in the menu bar of the MacBook Pro, and its volume media keys do not function.

But, according to this Apple support article, it shouldn't be this way:

  Display options

  You can control the brightness of your iMac display while it's in
  Target Display Mode from a connected Mac. Use the Displays pane of
  System Preferences on the connected Mac, or use the brightness keys on
  the keyboard of the connected Mac. To hear audio from a connected Mac
  using the built-in speakers of your iMac, select the iMac from the
  Sound pane of System Preferences. You can also use the sound and media
  keys on the keyboard of the connected Mac to adjust volume and control
  playback of iTunes and other media.

For what it's worth, I cannot control neither the display nor the volume from my MBP.

Instead, I usually have to change volume by using the volume keys on my iMac keyboard. I guess other workarounds are possible too, but they all involve the inpracticality of not being able to use the native volume keys where I'm typing.

Can this issue be resolved somehow?

N.B.: I'm using Thunderbolt 1.

N.B. 2: I've tested this a bit further. After a reboot and reconnection, I could actually use the volume controls; but not the display controls. Either way, since this problem is frequently occurring – what can I do about it?


texts: How to selectively enable autocorrect based on language?

texts:
My (bilingual) mom just recently bought an iPad.  When typing in Korean, her native language, she became irritated by the autocorrect feature -- it would often suggest incorrect spelling corrections, forcing her to pause typing to press the 'x' button to cancel it.  However, because she's not proficient in English, she found the autocorrect feature very useful when typing in English.

We found a way to completely disable autocorrect, but couldn't find a way to selectively enable it based on the keyboard language.  Is there a way to do this, or something similar?  Alternatively, is there a way to configure the settings so that the autocorrect suggestions do not automatically take effect after hitting the spacebar?

(If it matters, she has an iPad 3 (I think.  I'm pretty new to Apple too))


texts:
I have to install my OS again from scratch but the mouse/trackpad doesn't work in Recovery mode (I can't access a session to edit anything as the computer has no OS at all right now).

I managed to moved through the MacOS Utilities windows using cmd + F5 (voice control) and using Control + Cmd + arrows. The problem is that when I want to Reinstall a new copy of macOS after selecting the disc to use it pops a new window to fill the ID and Password of my Apple account, but I cannot access to this window using the commands shown before as it is not the currently selected window, so its impossible to write them.

What can I do?

I have a Macbook Pro 2008, in which I want to install el Capitan OSX


texts: MacBook Air charger doesn't light up but is charging

texts: Okay so my MacBook Air is charging but the charger doesn't light up like you know that red light? How to fix this? Is it broken?


texts: Why does the MacBook Air have five pins on the charger?

texts:
I just got a MacBook Air and noticed the charger has 5 (i.e., an odd number) pins. Shouldn't there be a pair number, one for positive, one for negative charge?

I thought about it being ground, but the charger does not have a ground plug. (Note: the cord does, nevermind)


texts: Can I get back Snow-Leopard-like application hiding (Cmd-H) in Lion?

texts:
Till Mac OS X Snow Leopard, pressing ⌘+H while using an application did two things...

The application hid itself from view.
The application placed itself at the end of the ⌘+⇥ switcher.

The 2nd point was very useful, because when I hid an app, I knew I wasn't going to use it for some time. Sending it to the end of the switcher helped me focus on the apps I was using more.

However, in Lion, even though ⌘+H hides the app, it only moves it to the next position in the switcher. This is equivalent to ⌘+⇥ing between 2 apps, except that the app is now also hidden from view. IMO, this breaks a fundamental feature of the switcher and the app-hiding concept. I have no idea why this was done.

Does anyone have clues on how, if at all, this could be fixed? Or maybe places I should start looking? I just hope there's a preference buried in some plist file somewhere...


texts: Time Capsule showing monitor icon in Finder sidebar

texts:
Normally my Time Capsule is seen in the Finder sidebar under "Shared" with an icon of a disk drive by the name of the Time Capsule. Now it keeps showing a monitor icon by the name of the Time Capsule, and when I click on it, it will change back to the disk drive icon.

I don't see any problems when I open Airport Utility and check the Time Capsule setup.  Anyone know why this is happening?

I'm using Mavericks, and a 3rd-gen Time Capsule


texts:
we have been using messages.app for communication in the office, but we often find that the client doesn't stay logged in.  We have it set to auto-start at user login, we have it set to login when users resume activity, but many times, users still end up logged out.  They don't realize it, and others in the office are trying to send them messages.

Is anyone aware of a way to force messages to stay logged in?


texts:
Yesterday I installed the drivers for my printer (Epson Stylus 1500) on my Mac. During the setup I chose to connect over WiFi (the printer had already successfully been setup for WiFi printing from my Windows computer). After the installation I tested this by printing a test page and everything worked as expected.

Today I wanted to print a PDF file and following message was given in the printer status window:

  The printer is not connected.

And on the document it keeps saying:

  Printing - Searching for printer.

I can still print over WiFi from my Windows computer but my Mac doesn't seem to find the printer anymore. Is there any solution to this?

Info:

Mac version: OS X 10.9.5
Printer: Epson Stylus 1500


texts: System Formatter Failed While Erasing External Hard Drive Mac

texts:
I have been trying to erase my external Hard Drive "My Passport", however there was a problem and then the Hard Drive disappeared from the Desktop and could't be found. Only Disk Utility would see it but it would't mount it. I tried erasing it and partitioning it, however nothing helped and i'd always get this error: "System Formatter Failed".

I found a few links that worked on previous version of OS X, eg. Link 1, or Link 2. None of those worked, I always would get the error message and could never mount the drive.


texts: Issue with Python packages on BigSur beta but only from the shell

texts:
Since I am running the BigSur beta, I can't use Qt from python anymore; the viewer opens and closes instantly.
I have this in the console:
Sandbox: logd_helper(207) deny(1) file-read-data /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyQt5/QtGui.abi3.so

running python as root doesn't make an difference
but even numpy has a problem:
Sandbox: logd_helper(207) deny(1) file-read-data /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/numpy/.dylibs/libgcc_s.1.dylib

this problem may be related to this issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62587131/macos-big-sur-python-ctypes-find-library-does-not-find-libraries-ssl-corefou
What is weird is that if I run the script from the IDE PyCharm, everything runs well, but not from the shell. How comes is this happening?


texts: Exists such thing as mozrepl for Safari?

texts:
Looking for an Safari extension (or plugin) what acts as mozrepl, what works like a charm. :)

Exists such thing?

If not, is possible somewhat easily control Safari from external scripts (perl, python, bash)? With control mean:

GET urls (mean http GET method) - Via safari (e.g. the Safari will send the auth, session cookies, referere and so on).
get source of the page (after the Safari renders all ajax calls and such)
POST via Safari (for example using AJAX - but initieted from teh external script)
etc...
in short like: "mozrepl" :)

Seems, here is nothing comparable yet. I didn't delete the question, is someone found such thing - please add an answer.

Ps: i know, how to use curl or like tools, but this isn't helps for e.g. grabbing a content of pages, where Safari managing the session authentication, cookies, referrers , user-agent strings and so on. Everything is rev-engineerable, but it is much easier to use a tool like mozrepl as doing the fullstack rev-engineering for getting scriptable web-sessions...)


texts: Are you using a Sharp PN-K321 at 60Hz with a Late 2013 Mac Pro?

texts:
According to Apple's KBase article on "Using 4K displays", the Sharp PN-K321 monitor is supported at 60Hz in MST mode if you're connected via mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort.

I've ordered a StarTech mDP-DP cable as Amazon's comments indicate that it works well (or well enough), just wondering if anyone has any experience with this or similar products.

Namely, do you have problems waking the Mac Pro from sleep?  Does the display properly wake up?  Do you notice any flickering or lag using Photoshop or any other 2D or 3D applications?

The Pro is already updated to OS X 10.9.3; haven't checked yet whether the Sharp display is on the latest firmware (v11301118).


texts: VPN client software for macOS which allows for split tunnelling incoming SSH connections

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As @bmike explained in Cannot connect to Mac (Big Sur) running SSH server while connected to VPN a VPN client allowing for split tunnelling is required in order to connect to a host via SSH which has an VPN client running. The PIA client offers this feature but requires application bundles to be added to the list of applications exempt from VPN. Unfortunately sshd is a mere binary, not an application bundle.
Are there VPN clients for macOS which would allow me to configure split tunnelling for incoming SSH connections?


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I need a way to securely wipe guest accounts accounts off of my machine. On OSX, guests are automatically deleted on logout, with this deletion being done using the "RM" command. I need a way to alter this to either the secure form of "RM" (RM -p I believe?) or to use "SRM" instead.

Alternatively, workarounds would be highly helpful. Currently, I believe it may be possible to replace "RM" with "SRM" on a system level, albeit I am unsure if it is plausible or possible. Other workarounds I have considered is manually deleting the files (it should be possible to run a script on logout that does this?) or, on startup, find a way to potentially write over the HDD sectors with 0's and 1's.

In summation....

Is it possible (and if so, how) to delete guest account data securely?

Note I am tagging this under OSX, UNIX, and LINUX because I feel that an answer would be valid for all platforms of this type. This was also Xposted on Stack Overflow


texts: MacBook charging extremely slowly, after using 3rd party USB-C charger

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I have a 16" 2019 MacBook Pro.
A few days ago, I didn't have my MacBook charger on hand. After a quick internet research of whether or not it works, I borrowed my wife's DELL XPS charger (USB-C, 130W I believe). My MacBook charged fine with it.
A few days later, I noticed that my MacBook is charging very slowly (with my Apple 96W charger). I reset the SMC, rebooted, tried a different wall outlet, installed all system upgrades. No luck. Charge speed is around 1% point every 20 minutes with all apps closed. When I run a computing intense task (having a lot of Google Chrome tabs open, or compiling code), the battery discharges.
I checked the battery status with coconutBattery, but things seem to look normal. The only thing that seems off is that charging wattage. I'd expect that to be somewhat close to my 96 watt maximum.
See the attached screen shot. Note that this is with all apps closed.
Are my issues due to my charger experiment a few days ago? Is this just coincidence and my Apple charger went bad?


texts: Bootable drive for MacBook Air without CD/DVD drive?

texts: I'm considering getting a MacBook Air. Since it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, how can you deal with issues that would otherwise call for a bootable install disk?


texts: Can I have my iPhone navigate through my car's stereo?

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Is there an iPhone navigation/GPS app that will announce the turn-by-turn directions through a car's stereo via bluetooth?

I already have my iPhone synced with my car via bluetooth for calls, so I'm wondering if any of the navigation apps can also take advantage of the connection?

I'd rather not have to buy a separate iPhone car kit or a FM transmitter.


texts: How can I get a Fluid.app SSB to go back using a two finger swipe?

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When using Firefox and Safari, I have become accustomed to using a two-finger gesture to go backwards or forwards.

It's a drag that I can't get this to work on my Fluid.app SSBs.

Does anyone know a way?


texts: Changing Input Language in iOS 9 with External Keyboard

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When using an external keyboard, is there a new key combination to change the input language? It used to be ⌘-cmd+space, but since iOS 9 that combination has been assigned to Spotlight Search, same as OS X.

My external keyboard has a  key that also invokes Spotlight Search starting with iOS 9, since I suppose it's a simple macro for ⌘-cmd+space.


texts: Hidden Python- and R-files: Safe to delete?

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I am running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 on a 2020 MacBook Pro. I do a bit of programming in R and Python, and in my home directory I saw a bunch of hidden files:

There are files related to .python_history, .r, .rstudio-desktop, .jupyter, ipython etc. I'm not sure why they are placed here - is it safe to delete these files?


texts: Is there a web browser I can use safely on Mac OS 10.5.8?

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Sometime in 2012, Adobe Flash asked me to update it. I tried, but it didn't work because my browsers (firefox and chrome) didn't support the newest flash. I tried to update my browsers, but neither firefox nor chrome supports mac os 10.5.8 anymore. Safari keeps telling me to update flash too. I know that using an older version of flash can be a security hazard, so I really want to update.

My question: Are there any browsers (perhaps a firefox variant) I can use more safely now than the browsers that shipped with 10.5.8?