texts: Why are Safari and Chrome not throwing warnings after removing the root certificates

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Certificates issued by DigiNotar have been blacklisted today by Mozilla. Viewing websites with certificates issued by DigiNotar with a nightly build of Firefox will render warnings.

Instead of waiting for an update, for the certificates to be revoked on my own system, I removed the root certificates from my Keychain but Chrome still validates the website certificates and Safari isn't throwing any warnings.

Am i missing something?

Certificates removed:

DigiNotar Root CA
Staat der Nederlanden Root CA
Staat der Nederlanden
Root CA - G2

Website tested: https://as.digid.nl/

Here's an alternate test site that shows the problem in Chrome 13.0.782.218: http://auth.pass.nl

I have deleted the DigiNotar root CA from my Keychain. Chrome has been restarted. But Chrome still says this site is valid and lists the DigiNotar root CA as the authority on the SSL for the site.


texts: Safari - menu to show live tabs open in open windows

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I often have five or six Safari (and Chrome) windows open, each containing several tabs. I often lose track of where a live tab is when I want to return to it.

I can use the Safari window menu option from the main menu to list the names of the active/front tabs in all the open windows, but this doesn’t help me if the tab I’m after is not active/at the front of its window.

Is there an AppleScript or extension that expands on the 'window' menu to list ALL tabs within a window as a child menu item / drop-down?

This would save me minutes of frustration everyday. I’d love a similar solution for Chrome! I've come across https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ for Firefox which looks good but I’d prefer that the tree or list is available from the main menu and not within the browser viewport.


texts: Do three finger navigation gestures work in System Preferences?

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I've been playing around with a lot of different settings, and I'm not sure if one of the changes I made causes three finger gestures to not work in the System Preferences application, or if they never worked in the app to begin with.

When you navigate through the application and the forward or back buttons are enabled, does using the three finger swipe advance you forward or backward?


texts: Mac OS X downloads do not begin, other app store downloads normal

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I just acquired a mid-2014 Macbook Pro that's been reconditioned. It booted up in El Capitan, so my first order of business after the initial sign-in and setup was to attempt to upgrade the OS to Mojave, or less preferably, to Catalina. Mojave first because some of my audio software still uses a few 32 bit plugins which have not as yet been up-written to 64 bit.
The problem: When I go to the app store (via any path, internal or external) signed in to the Store or not, and click the Download button for either Mojave or Catalina, no download happens. For Mojave, the Download button changes to dark grey and says "Downloading", the 'spinner' spins for 20 seconds and stops. A status bar underneath shows the progress dot stuck at the beginning, with no movement, even overnight. For Catalina, the Download button changes to dark grey, but still says "Download", not "Downloading", the 'spinner' spins for four seconds and disappears, but no progress bar is displayed, and nothing else happens, at least not within the coming hour.
Here's the catch: downloads of other apps from the Store to this machine work normally, as evidenced by my quick and successful downloads of Battery Health 2, and an attempt at downloading LastPass password manager (which I then declined until the OS is upgraded - but it was ready to work.)
What have I tried..? Sign out of Store, close Store, reboot computer, sign back in to Store, try again. Did this with sequence variations several times. Tested using two external page links direct to the Store's Mojave and Catalina pages, same result. Copy-pasted a forum-suggested line of code into Terminal to reset the Store, but system rejected part of the code as an unknown reference. Have read every forum suggestion I can find on this, but none of the previous questions or answers seem to address this situation exactly, in that only the OS downloads won't start, but others are okay.
According to the applications chart this Mid-2014 Macbook Pro is clearly eligible for all OS up through Catalina. My two other Mac computers on this network (one also running El Capitan) interact normally with the Store.
Suggestions? Thanks.


texts: Should activity monitor be using non-trivial CPU %?

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I noticed my Mac Mini was thrashing the fac despite not really running much, in the process of trying to figure out why I was surprised to see Activity Monitor itself bouncing around 8-12% CPU.

Is this expected?


texts: Why Does A New Mac Pro Only Support a Single Internal Drive?

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Every graphic-heavy application I have used has recommended storing files it uses on a separate disk from the boot disk (preferably an SSD), however with the new MP this isn't an option. The only way to utilise a second drive is as an external drive.

I'm assuming this isn't a problem in terms of performance, and from what I've read MPs are very performant, but why is this? Why can a Mac Pro get away with a single drive when most apps recommend using separate drives for boot and resources?


texts: How do I know which message is from which person when their initials are the same?

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This is a really dumb question, but unless I add a picture to a person's contact card, how am I supposed to know which person a message came from in a group thread when their initials are the same?  My mom and my sister have the same initials and I don't have pictures of them in my contact cards.  I have them each of them in a group chat in Messages.app on my iMac.  Their nicknames are shown in the "To:" at the top and in the selected conversation in the panel on the left, but when they each send messages, the message bubbles all come from a gray circle with first & last initial.  How am I supposed to know which one of them sent a message in the group chat?

Hovering only shows the time a message was sent.  I've search the menus, the preferences, and google and nothing shows me how to differentiate the two without adding a photo to their contact cards.  I've tried resizing, double-clicking the thread to open in a new window...  Is there a way to show their full or even just their first name instead of their initials where the message bubbles are?


texts: In Mountain Lion there is a "tweet sheet" when sharing from either notification center or an app. The default hotkey for "send tweet" is CMDShiftD. I'd like to use something like CMDRETURN. Is there a way to remap this?


texts: iOS: Type occasional straight quotes with smart quotes turned on

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The question Type straight quotes (",') when smart quotes is turned on answers this quite well for macOS, but the solution (using a text replacement with the straight quote as the replacement phrase) does not appear to work in iOS:

I like to use the typographically correct smart quotes, but when I need to edit text in a markup or programming language, it’s frequently the case that I need to enter straight single and double quotes.

These text replacements pictured (and more such as exactly the ones mentioned in the macOS solution above) don’t get replaced at all if they contain quotes (either straight or curly) in the shortcut. On the other hand, if I use a text replacement like the ^^s at the bottom here:

I get a ‘ character, even though the replacement’s phrase is the ' character. (Note that the examples above that one also beginning with double-carets, such as ^^1 → ¹, ^^9 → ⁹, etc., work just fine—I used them in this sentence to type those superscript digits.)

I’m looking for a way to set a global hotkey to toggle smart quotes, a macro to insert a single or double straight quote, or anything easier than my current two methods:

Go to Settings → Keyboard and toggle the smart quotes, type the straight quote, and go back to Settings → Keyboard and toggle them back (this is what I do when I need to only type straight quotes for a period of time); or
Find a single quote or double quote somewhere and copy/paste it. (This is what I do when I must mix the two in ongoing text editing.)

Both are painful. I’d appreciate any trick to make it less so!


texts: Is there an easy way to extract metadata from iTunes? I want to know how much a certain artist has been played (for each track, playcount * track length.)


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As a Windows/Mac/Ubuntu/Fedora user, I have seen many different ways to manage windows. Some of these, like the Windows taskbar and the OS X Dock, are very interesting and highly useful.

One feature that the Windows 7 taskbar has is the ability to drag it around the screen to snap it left, top, right, or down. This is very fun and also practical in many instances.

I've come to like this feature so much that I accidentally did this in Lion - but nothing happened.

Is it possible to drag the Dock around the screen? If so, how?


texts: Finder hiding items under a grey box in list view

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In Mojave, when I open a finder window, I don't see all the requested columns displayed.

For example, the finder should open for the desktop and look like this:

However, I see this:

Which looks like a window within the finder window is not wide enough to display my columns.

So, I resize the window and columns.
I delete all the .DS_Store files on my Mac.
I save the new finder window setting as the default.
Then when I open a new finder window, I have the same problem.

How do I remove this overlay ?


texts: Why does opening an email from Sent mailbox not show the complete thread it belongs to in iOS Mail app?

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I have an email account configured via IMAP in iOS Mail app, with
the Organize by Thread and Complete Threads toggles both turned
on in Mail settings.
Thanks to the latter, when I open an email from the Inbox or Archive
mailboxes, it is shown in the context of its thread, with the preceding
and following emails also being shown above and below the opened one.
However, when I open an email from the Sent mailbox, the thread view
does not activate, and only that singular email is displayed.
Is there a technical reason why Sent is being treated differently
from Inbox and Archive in regards to threading? Is it possible to
enable the thread view for emails opened from Sent, as well?
From my experience, this behavior persists both on iOS 13 and 14.
(Perhaps it dates all the way back to the introduction of the thread
view in Mail?) And, as far as I can tell, it does not seem to be
specific to the email provider.
Unlike iOS, in Mail.app on macOS, viewing an email from the Sent
mailbox does show the full thread it belongs to.


texts: Google has changed appearance using Safari 5.1.1

texts: The way google is presenting as of today is totally different and I can no longer get the image pages so you can scroll the images before selecting one you want to see. Now there are individual boxes that click through. The entire appearance makes it no longer usuable.. Is there I can do to revert back to the way it was previously?  It shows perfectly on Firefox and nothing has changed there.


texts: How to set up a guest's public SSH key inside the DMZ?

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Utilizing the console, how does one check to see if they are inside the DMZ? I believe I am, but need to ensure this before adding a guests public SSH key?

The second part of the question is how to properly add a guest user's ssh key?

If this question seems obtuse, please let me know so I can add additional details.


texts: What could cause swapping when there is no memory spike?

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I had a performance issue recently, which I was able to capture in the Monitor. It looks like there was plenty of free memory, but then suddenly the graph goes red, with no real spiking.
Could this occur when the size of an apps memory pages are nearly as large as free memory?  In my mind, that would lead to green-level memory usage, but would go to red every time said application did its business.
I'd like to avoid having performance hits like these, but I'm more interested in understanding the way the OS works.  Thanks

update: This issue did disappear after a Chrome update and reboot.  The computer + Chrome hadn't been restarted in a while before the issue occurred.


texts:
I bought new macbook and it runs macOS 10.13.6

My text selection isn't working normally.
When I select some text and push the physical key named delete, it often only deletes one character from the end of selection or from the beginning of selection as opposed to removing all selected text (which is what I expect)

Also when I type, it some times write some letters before cursor, not after cursor.

And thirdly when I select text and it does delete the text when I press delete. The blue selection sometimes isn't gone, but the blue strip is over the text that's still left. But only with the length the selection was made.
So when I have an url www.test.com and I select com and press delete the result is www.test. and selection covers st., even thou I expected that the selection is gone.

As a programmer, this is super annoying. I took this problem to maintenance but they were no help. I'm not sure under what conditions it happens, it seems to be quite random. Most often it happens in Chrome browser, and not only inside the pages but also in address bar.

How can I pinpoint what’s changing the key board interpretation?


texts: How to mute sound alert when a key is not recognized?

texts: I'm pressing F16 and it's not bind to anything and it's making a sound, like bip alerting me that the command is not found. How can I mute this sound?


texts: I am using iPhone 7.And total space is 32GB,and i duplicates 5000 photos into 50000.And when i went and see the iPhone storage, it's showing total capacity 32GB,free space 0 and photos part occupied 54GB.I am confused and posting this Question.How is it possible to store 54GB in 32GB device.Please help me.


texts: Are there any cool free 3D games on the OS X platform?

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I've been recently playing Urban Terror, which is a multiplayer FPS game built on Quake 3 engine, and runs across Mac/Linux/Windows. Are there more such games that are

free
run on immersive 3D engine [not a Flash/HTML5 game]
belong to action-adventure/RPG/RTS/[insert your favorite] genre
possibly multi-platform [not must-have but a nice-to-have]

Thanks!


texts: Deleting a Mac Partition on a drive that has bootcamp?

texts:
I have the following setup and am looking for a solution to delete a partition on the drive that has bootcamp. Below is my system setup -

Primary SSD: Contains mac OS Sierra. Bootable - I boot from this drive.

Secondary SSD (in place of Optical Drive): Windows 7 Bootable (100GB) + Empty Mac Partition (130 GB) + Another Empty Mac Partition (26 GB).

I would like to delete the partition that has 26GB and 1) merge it with my Windows 7 Partition OR 2) merge it with my 130GB Partition.

I have tried to merge it with my Windows 7 Partition which is when i created the 26GB partition using Disk Utility. I realized that made my Windows 7 partition unbootable before i could merge the 26GB GB to it. I was able to recover it by recreating the MBR, but now the 26GB partition still remains. Does anybody have any ideas as to how to add this to windows partition? Or if that involves reinstalling windows i could just let go all the hassle and add it back to my 130 GB partition. Either solution works for me. The key thing is I don't want to corrupt my boot config again.

Any advise would be much appreciated.


texts: streaming a full screen app or a screen space on apple TV

texts: I would like to see if there is a possibility of streaming a full screen app or a space onto Apple TV with MacOS mountain lion. The implication of this is that I could stream for example a tech talk on to my TV while I browse on another screen space. I believe that mirroring would just show the stuff that I see on my screen.


texts: How can I make a .command file that I can share without giving permissions on each computer?

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I have a terminal command that I would like to run.

    telnet 169.254.216.127 54326

Ideally I would like to convert this into a .command file and be able to share it with many other mac users without them having to give permissions using sudo...

Is this possible? Can I create an extremely simple app that keeps the terminal window open after it has run?

Any help would be much appreciated.


texts: MZFinance.BadLogin.MacAppStore_message error when signing into Apple ID

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I get the above error message when trying to sign in to my Apple ID when trying to do a fresh install of OSX on my mac mini. It is an old version of OSX (Mavericks).

Seems to be very little info on the web about this error in this situation in particular.


texts: How do I share a post in the Facebook app for iPad?

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My mom uses the Facebook app for iPad and wanted to share a post, such as on the web interface:

How does one share a post within the app?


texts: How to unlock icloud account? at the same time Apple ID had been lock. Both is same ID

texts: How to reset iCloud account? Apple ID and iCloud are the same ID. At the same time both had been block. I go to iforgot.apple.com to reset, reset link had send to iCloud.com, but then iCloud I can't get to reset password.


texts: Is there a limit to the number of USB and Serial to USB devices my Macbook Pro can connect?

texts: I'm curious if there is a limit to the number of usb and serial to usb devices my Mac can connect to. I've got a 2015 Macbook Pro running 10.10.5 and I'm writing a python program to connect to a bunch of serial devices which I have connected to a USB hub. I have four devices on one hub and then two on another. My computer seems to have some weird issues when I connect to all of them and chat with them over serial. Any idea about limits here?


texts: Downloads stack progress bar "stuck" at 100% after completion of downloads

texts: As you can see, the downloads stack's progress indicator is at 100%, and is permanently stuck there even after the completion of all downloads. The only way I can remove the progress bar is by restarting dock (killall Dock) or rebooting. Is there any reason this is occurring and/or any way to prevent it?


texts: Is there a way to scroll the toolbar icons of an application?

texts:
On a 24" display, there is enough space to display all the toolbar icons of my applications.

But on the MacBook 13" display some of them are not displayed.

Is there a way to scroll the tools bar in order to see the entire set of icons?


texts: Can I Use TestFlight Beta Testing for Apps Not Created Using Xcode?

texts:
I just submitted my enrollment application to be an Apple Developer.

I have three Mac 3D Puzzle apps that were created using Unity 5.3.2 that I plan to sign and submit to the Mac App Store after I'm approved as an Apple Developer. I have .app executable files created, not Xcode projects.

I'm new to Xcode. I'm currently taking the iOS Development in Swift course by Plymouth University recommended by Apple. When you create a new Xcode project one of the options is OS X which I'm thinking is for creating Mac apps. I assume the course will cover uploading apps to the iTunes App Store.

On other platforms such as Amazon and the Windows App Store their websites specifically mention that apps submitted will be tested before they are approved. I did not find anything about submitted apps being tested other than the documentation on the What's Included link about the TestFlight Beta Testing program. The text on this link mentions testing for iOS and tvOS apps. When you click the Learn more link it mentions iOS, watchOS and tvOS, not Mac.

The documentation says on the page that displays after Clicking Learn more: "To get your app ready for testers, upload a beta build of your app from Xcode and add the names and email address of people that you’d like to test in iTunes Connect." Is the TestFlight Beta Testing program only for testing apps that are written using Xcode?


texts: Is there a way to get an Airport Extreme to coexist with a second router offering VPN?

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Essentially, I want add VPN functionality to my home-office domain so I can access it from  other locations, and allow the occasional other person to access it this way.

Obviously, the two routers need to be daisy-chained together, only one of them should be the DHCP server, and only one of them should connect to my ISP, and so forth. The key question is whether the AirportExtreme can happily do half of the job it was intended to do.

Has anyone here had experience building such a configuration?

Thanks in advance
Josh


texts: Does iCloud require any telephone land line infrastructure to send messages?

texts:
If all phone lines are down (meaning a local or national phone line outage) and with all cell phone towers being down, is there a way that I could send a iMessage (or an SMS) to other iPhone users by using iCloud Service (your offsite server farm)?

I am trying to figure out if a Cloud-Push Manager could push my message to all receivers, who are registered.

Is Apple's iMessage proprietary text messaging platform a transmission system that allows iMessages to go directly via satellite to those iPhone subscribes? Even if all telephone land lines are down?


texts: 2015 MacBook Pro 13" screen on a 2015 MacBook Air 13"

texts: Can I replace the display in my 2015 MacBook Air 13" for a 2015 MacBook Pro 13" one? Would it work?


texts:
On a particular internal site, whenever I open the Web Inspector in Safari 7, it immediately hangs and then the whole tab crashes. When I close the crashed tab, I then get this message in the Console:

1/22/14 10:54:27.896 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.D50214F7-A6C9-46E5-8F06-71C873A2D4B8[96246]) Exited with code: 1

Unfortunately, I can't share a link or code for the site itself since it's internal, but here are some additional details:

This happens on three different machines running Safari 7 on OS X Mavericks
It persists even if I quit and relaunch Safari 7
It does not happen when I use the inspectors in any other browsers, including Safari 6 (on OS X Lion)
It does not happen when I use Safari 7's Web Inspector on other sites
If I inspect the site in a different browser (e.g. Firefox), there are no reported errors

I did find this question which sounds like it describes the same problem, but there are no other details and the solution there doesn't work for me, hence why I'm posting this as a new question.

UPDATE: Another potential piece of the puzzle – the Web Inspector crashes only when I'm viewing the site off the server, not locally.

I initially thought this was because I'm referencing Pingdom and Google Analytics with protocol-agnostic URLs (which don't resolve locally, so they don't load), e.g.:

//www.google-analytics.com...

So that made me think something in one of those scripts was causing the crash, which would explain why it only occurred on the hosted page (where the paths resolve). But no dice: even if I prefix those URLs with http://, the Web Inspector won't crash when I'm viewing the page locally, only off the server.


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I have a problem with my iMac, that it keeps self assigning IP on WiFi and Ethernet.
So far I've tried to

Renew DHCP lease
Typing the IP/submask/router IP/DNS manually (says I'm connected to the internet, but can't ping anything)
Deleting the files shown below from /library/preferences/SystemConfiguration
Disabling firewall
Running Wireless Diagnostics (no results)
Trying 3rd party USB Ethernet adapter
Trying my mobile's hotspot

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.apple.network.identification.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist

It's worth mentioning, that I can see corresponding MAC-address on my LAN, but can't ping from or to  the machine. All of the other machines in my network do work correctly. I've yet to reinstall the OS as I do not wish to do that if possible.

Edit: I can ping TO the machine

Edit 2: I can ping 1.1.1.1 from the recovery tools terminal. Will further investigate what's the problem with the OS

Edit 3: So I painstakingly backed up the computer and did a fresh install of macOS 10.13.6 and everything seems to be working correctly. I frankly don't have any idea what the problem could've been as I read the log files for hours and didn't find a solution. I tried to disable multiple things with no success.


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I can launch applications from the dock. But when I launch apps from the applications folder, they do not open. Another odd symptom: in Preview with the app closed, in some folders I can open an image by just clicking on it. But in other folders, a jpeg will not open. But, if I launch Preview via the dock I can open up all images. Any ideas?

Update: Restarting in Safe Mode made it worse. After restart, I could not access anything. Any folder or app that I tried to access would cause the screen to "blink".

But I could access items on an external hard drive (Time Machine backup). I ultimately used time machine to restore the computer.


texts: Can CCC clone a Fusion drive and restore it to a new SSD?

texts:
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with a 1TB Fusion drive. The noise of the spinning disk has been increasing lately and I want to replace it with a Crucial MX300 1TB SSD.

Carbon Copy Cloner makes a complete image of my machine nightly. Can I use the latest clone and restore it to the SSD? Is it advised or would the removal of the Fusion drive require a clean install of macOS (Sierra)? I was wondering if the boot files would be different from using a Fusion drive, for example, or if anything would need a change in some settings files.

I seem to remember that the version of OS X Yosemite was a little bit different between my Mini and my MacBook Air and that was due to the Fusion drive (couldn't download OS X on the Mini and boot it from a USB drive on the Air).


texts: Is there a way on a mac to make it so when you click on a python script it runs python filename.py through terminal?


texts: My external ssd disconnects mid-way through boot into the copy I made of my internal ssd

texts: I have a Samsung t7 which I initially bought to install Windows but couldn't due to an error. I just recently found out my SSD always disconnects during boot. After I restart holding the Option key and choosing the ssd boot option, a few seconds into the boot process I see the ssd shutting down or disconnecting. This was the same issue I had while installing Windows as well as a fresh macOS. I tried booting into my sisters Macbook Air 2020 and it worked perfectly fine. I have a 2017 Macbook pro, running Big Sur 11.0.1.


texts:
In Mavericks’ Safari, the “feature” named “Fast Start” begins to load the first result of the search typed in the search bar.

How can I disable such folly ?


texts: Update MacOS on a MacBook with dead battery

texts:
I have a macbook 12'' running sierra that I use occasionally.
The battery died some time ago, showing an X in the status bar.

I want to update to a new version of macOS but the installer shows:

  Your computer is not connected to a power source.
  You must plug in and connect your power adapter before installing.

Obviously the device is connected to the power source (the battery is dead).

I have already done the SMC reset. Didn't help.

So:
Can I convince the updater to install despite the fact that it thinks I am on battery power?
Alternatively:
Can I convince the system to recognize my power connection as an actual power connection?


texts: Reinstall OS X Snow Leopard on a 2011 MacBook Pro

texts:
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro. I decided to erase all contents and reinstall the OS. I used the original installation DVD, but I could not install the OS: after the boot I could only enter Disk Utility. I verified the hard disk and it was OK. I did a hardware test and all tests pass with no error.

When I do an installation of OSX on the hard disk, the Mac hangs for hours. I hear the DVD drive spin up, and after some time it spins down again. After that the computer displays the grey apple screen only.

Because the original installation disk looked scratched I assumed that the DVD may be damaged. I ordered a new installation disk from Apple (Mac OS X Snow Leopard - with a green sticker New version 10.6.3). When I start up from this DVD it only displays the grey Apple screen, I can't even select an installation language or use the Disk Utility; It's as if the DVD is not bootable.

What could be wrong?
What could be my next step?


texts: Is it possible to view/dump metadata found in images using Terminal with built-in command line tools? I'm looking for something like exiftool, but native to macOS Mojave. Does such a command/tool exist?


texts: Messages sent to which number if iCloud message turned on

texts:
I have two phones with different phone numbers (A&B) and I turned on iCloud messages and Text Message Forwarding.
When a message is sent to number A or B, both phones received it. For example, when a message is sent to number A, phone A will automatically forward it to phone B so that both phones appeared to receive the message at the same time.
I want to know whether that message is actually sending to number A or number B in the first place. How can I do this?


texts:
I have never tried any iPhone, but want to research about it.

Apple said that "iPhone 3GS" is  2-time faster than "iPhone 2G" since 3GS' memory is 256 MB eDRAM & thus is twice as big as 3G's (128 MB eDRAM)

In turn, iPhone 4's memory is "512 MB DRAM", so my question is

does iPhone4 run 2-time faster than iPhone 3GS since iPhone4's memory is 2-time bigger than iPhone 3GS's one?

Also, eDRAM and DRAM is almost the same? or they have any difference?


texts: What's the point of airplane mode on a wifi-only iPad?

texts: I know if I toggle Airplane Mode, it will turn wifi and bluetooth on and off-- but I can manually toggle them. On an iPhone or cellular-enabled iPad, airplane mode kills the cell radio. But there's no cell radio in my wifi-only iPad! So what does airplane mode do for me?


texts: How to create a link using Pages online (iCloud)

texts:
I don't see any of the usual text options while editing a Pages doc in iCloud online.

Cmd-L and Cmd-K both don't work.

How can I add a link to text using the iCloud version of Pages?


texts: Apple Pencil 1st generation is not pairing/recognised by 7th generation iPad after installing iPadOS 13.7 update

texts:
My 1st generation Apple Pencil (bought newly) is not showing in 7th generation iPad (bought newly) under Bluetooth devices. This is happening since after iPadOS was updated. The other devices gets easily recognised and shows pairing pop-up but this doesn't happens with Apple Pencil.
I tried all sorts of troubleshooting listed in article, suggested by Apple Support documents etc. but the issue is still unresolved. Before iPadOS updated it was working fine.
What could be going wrong and how do I resolve it?


texts: 2nd Ethernet on MacPro Hangs under extreme traffic

texts:
2013 Mac Pro. Using both built-in ethernet ports for 2 separate networks, one a Storage LAN and one an Internet connection. On heavy disk I/O (Disk First Aid, array to array copies, etc) the Storage LAN interface just stops working after a while. No framing errors are logged, the routing table is unaffected (until the arp cache times out), the interface counters increment when I ping, and there are no logged events, but all ARP entries disappear and packets never leave the interface. The Internet interface (which was lightly loaded) is fine. Weirdly, even unplugging and replugging the cable does not reset the interface, and neither does changing IP, resetting the switch port on the other end, or changing flow control. I used to have to reboot to reset the interface, but now I found that switching from 1Gb to 10G and back clears the problem.

I'm dying here, however, because it is not reproducible reliably, and ChronoSync hangs so bad when the shares disappear that I have to force reboot with the power button (force quit or a kill -9 of the parent ChronoSync process doesn't work), so I imagine some underlying mount process hanging is the culprit here.

High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D47)


texts: For a Macbook Pro, what are some recommend power plan settings for Windows 7 via Bootcamp

texts:
I would like to ask if anyone has some recommendations on some of the specific settings for Window power plans (especially advanced parameters) for a Macbook Pro. For me specifically I have an early 2011 17".

As I understand it, OSX is better able to make use of the battery with specialized code that Windows lacks (or drivers from Apple perhaps?). I'm particularly interested in settings in Windows that make the most of the battery life as well as more generally any info that specifically addresses using Windows 7 with Mac hardware when it comes to power options.

e.g. what is Hybrid Sleep in Windows 7 and what does it do for Mac hardware?
e.g. what quirks to Windows power should be known when using Mac hardware?


texts: How can i choose to boot from the second SSD harddisk for a mid 2011 iMac?

texts:
I am planning to follow the instruction from MacSale to add an additional SSD to a mid-2011 27" iMac (https://youtu.be/eFHvIrdm9So)

It will be placed under the optical drive.

I want to make this drive the boot disk and do a fresh install of macOS to this drive. However the video did not touch on this area.

Based on what I know, I think I can

1) Start up the system after the installation is complete.

2) After chime, I will use Command (⌘) – Option (⌥) – R combination to boot into internet recovery

3) install macOS to the new drive

However I am not sure how to permanently boot from the SSD drive.

In summary, my questions:

a) Is my plan  of 'internet recovery ' going to work?

b) how to permanently boot from the SSD drive?


texts: Is there any free solution to convert a SWF video to an iPhone/iPad compatible format?

texts:
I tried several programs to convert a SWF file to a video format and so far none of them seems to work.

4media Converter
Video xConverter
Pinguin
ffmpegx
Easy WMV

I expect a video in any format that I could play in iOS, like .MOV, .AVI and other. Any ideas?


texts: Any performance gains when disabling secure virtual memory?

texts:
To disable secure virtual memory in 10.7, one does the following:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.virtualMemory DisableEncryptedSwap -boolean yes

However, are there any benefits to disabling secure system memory?  I'm not concerned with security as much as I 'm concerned about system speed.


texts: If setting a system language in iOS doesn't take effect for apps already installed. What else can be done?

texts:
Perhaps, changing the base system's language isn't the way to getting all the apps' language changed the same way.
The case is, an iPad set from factory to Chinese language. In accordance, all apps, including system as user's ones, are set to Chinese.
Despite Apple world's cultural concept that each device belongs exclusively on one person, the iPad was given away.
The new owner is a Spanish speaker who doesn't know a little of Chinese.
Changing the system language to Spanish didn't work out most of the apps retaining Chinese. The language change is only effective to the menues and widgets of iOS itself.
While a clean reinstall does the job for most of apps, the problem stems from the system graded apps, those that being still in Chinese, don't admit a workarround like that, as they cannot be uninstalled.
So, whats the correct (or incorrect) way to go to achieve a language change this complete as though the full system were set Spanish from factory?


texts: Download app update once, install twice/thrice?

texts: I have a very slow internet connection and would like to be able to download app updates (iTunes, Aperture, iWork etc.) just for one machine and be able to update 3 machines offline on home network. Is this possible on Mavericks?


texts: Is Voice Control still present in Siri supported devices?

texts:
I had an iPod touch two years ago, and it had voice control features for simple things like "next song", or "what time is it".

Is this functionality still present in the current version of iPhone, or has it been replaced by Siri (which does not work off-line)?


texts: Bootcamp stuck at partitioning disk, lost half my disk space

texts:
recently I attempted to install windows on a macbook air 13’ mid 2014 256GB using boot camp. It was going well until it got stuck at the partitioning disk step, the blue loading bar was full and my mac was frozen. I restarted the mac using the power button but when I check the storage it says my SSD is only 175GB (I gave windows around 75GB of space in boot camp when trying to install btw) instead of 256GB which is the true size of the disk.

I have already erasing the disk using disk utility and then reinstalling mac os high sierra but that did not help.


texts: What is the difference between backing up and syncing an iPad/iPod/iPhone?

texts: What is the difference between synchronizing an iPad/iPod/iPhone compared to backing it up? Is it not the same thing?


texts: Want to upgrade to Mac OS High Sierra and it shows MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation

texts: Trying to update my MacBook from os El Capitan to High Sierra  on reboot it shows MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation


texts:
Today I've just started getting a warning dialog when I try to run the RSA SecurID app:

This is a Java app I believe. I use it to authenticate when I connect to my company's private network. I've been running Catalina (10.15.3) for some time but this has only just started happening today (after a reboot, FWIW).

Unlike previous Gatekeeper interventions there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to circumvent this warning and run the app, which is problematic as I can't work remotely without it.

UPDATE:

As suggested in the comments below, I downloaded and installed SecurID 4.2.1, and I now get a similar error message:


texts: Different key-maps/bindings for in-built keyboard and Bluetooth keyboard

texts:
I oft have to use a Windows keyboard with my Macbook. I have two different profiles in Karabiner, but I don't want to have to keep switching between them.

How can I have different profiles apply to different keyboards in Karabiner or using some other key remapping system?

Note: If this is technically difficult, perhaps because applications might not be able to distinguish which keyboard sent a particular keystroke, a solution that worked based on detecting if an external monitor is plugged in (using an AppleScript that interacted with Karabiner, maybe) would also be acceptable.


texts: Why don't my keyboard shortcuts work in VMWare Fusion 6?

texts:
I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to create and map a keyboard shortcut for the "Suspend" function, but after looking into Fusion's preferences, I'm only becoming more confused. Things aren't working the way I would expect them to, and even after configuring an application shortcut in System Preferences/Keyboard, it doesn't seem to be accessible.

What am I not getting about this that isn't contained in the horrible documentation?


texts: Time machine backup on another mac in my network

texts:
In my network I have:

a Macbook Pro (running Lion)
an iMac (running Lion)

and I want to use the internal drive of the iMac as a Time Machine "target" for my Macbook Pro.

What I did is

create a sparsebundle on the iMac and mount it
share the mounted volume
connect my MBP to the shared volume on the iMac (with AFP)
tell Time Machine to use that volume to backup

My questions are

is it the best way to achieve what I want to do ?
when backup up, the MBP mount another time machine volume, because apparently it backup on a sparsebundle created in the sparsebundle which is not the simplest solution apparently. I guess this is normal behavior, but is it possible to avoid the intermediate sparsebundle, while at the same time having a control on the backup size in the iMac ?


texts: How to send 'print' key with RDC (Remote Desktop Connection)?

texts:
I use Microsoft's RDC on Mac. I need to click on print key to have some screen capture, but Mac Keyboard doesn't have one.

How do I send print key with Mac through RDC?


texts: How to create "Eternal Night Shift" on macOS Mojave?

texts:
I'm wondering how I could create an eternal NightShift using macOS Mojave 10.14.6?

I've already set Night Shift to end at 9.00am and to start at 9.01am but that portion where macOS starts to pale+brighten up is terrible, especially if I happen to be awake and working during that period in time.


texts: Send current location in Messages app running iOS 12

texts:
In older versions of iOS, the Messages app had an i character in a circle which allowed us to send our current location to the other person. The location could be one-time snapshot of location, or a location updateable for a certain amount of time.

The i-in-circle is gone in current iOS.

Can I send current location in Messages?


texts:
After upgrading to Catalina and the Music App I have two directories:
iTunes and Music

When I launch the app I noticed all my Music has the cloud icon (as I use iTunes Match) so its not downloaded locally. If I download a song it appears under Music/Media and not iTunes/iTunes Media.

I'm in the process of downloading all the songs in my library. Once I do this can I delete the iTunes folder and everything in it (including the iTunes Library file, iTunes Media, etc.)?


texts: How to manually edit locations in iPhoto 9.5 ('11) in a bigger window?

texts:
With the previous versions of iPhoto, I was used to add a location for an album or batch of pictures taken during the same outdoor trip (backcountry skiing or alpinism tour for instance). My camera is not equipped with a GPS chip so I did it manually by placing a tag on the the Google Map tool integrated in iPhoto.

With the latest version of iPhoto 9.5 ('11), the google map tool has been replaced by the not so well finished Apple Maps. Which is OK from my point of view to use when you are within the civilized world, not really usable outside a city…

For me this tool is not usable, because the location edition area is a small thumbnail picture representing a map, on the lower right corner of iPhoto. I can move the tag, no problem, but it is a nightmare to locate it precisely where I want it to be (e.g. on the top of a mountain I climbed) due to the size of the edition area. I tried to edit the tag in the Maps application included in Maverick, but is seems that the tags are not shared between Maps and iPhoto. I also tried to edit the tag in the "Locations" function of iPhoto (in the left side bar), but it appears that the tags cannot be edit / moved in this view.

Here my question: how can I efficiently and manually edit the locations of a batch of pictures in iPhoto 9.5, within a window of the size of the app main window?

And a subsidiary question, in case the first question has no solution now: does a plug-ing exists to ease the location of pictures in iPhoto 9.5?


texts: Is there no "expose" feature (show all tabs) in iterm2 on Big Sur?

texts:
The documentation says that Command ⌘+Option ⌥+E should show all tabs, but I am unable to do that.
https://iterm2.com/documentation/2.1/documentation-one-page.html
Under "Expose Tabs"


texts: Can't enable File Sharing under OSX Lion

texts:
So I've upgraded to Lion, but now I can't enable File Sharing, when I press the checkbox, it simple shows the "correct" symbol and in less than half of a second it removes it again.

This happens the same for the 2 checkboxes under the Options... as well.

What can I do to enable File Sharing again?


texts: How does FeaturePoints.com distribute its iOS app to the public without the App Store

texts:
On featurepoints.com, a free iOS app is offered for direct download.

The download link uses an itms-service URL. (itms-services:///?action=download-manifest&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeaturepoints.com%2Fenroll%2FFeaturePoints.plist)

If you click on the download link, the app is downloaded and installed on your iDevice without using the App Store (the app is installed without entering the iTunes password even if you are logged out of your iTunes account).

Also a Provisioning Profile is installed named "TapGen InHouse" expiring 2014-06-30.

I wonder how this app is distributed to the public and to non-jailbroken iDevices effectively circumventing Apple's review process and the App Store?

The only way (I know of) to distribute an unlimited number of apps without the App Store is the iOS Enterprise Developer programm. However, this program limits distribution to "in-house iOS apps for internal deployment within the company", see Apple's FAQ and other discussions (which I can not link to since I have not enough reputation).


texts: Can I split an internal FUSION Drive (HDD/SSD) into an HFS+ and APFS partition?

texts:
I have a late 2014 27-inch 5K Retina iMac, with a "Fusion Drive" composed of 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD.  This particular Mac has Yosemite (10.10.5) installed.

In order to do some testing of High Sierra, I wanted to create a new HFS+ Journaled partition using 200GB of the available 400GB, and once I install a bootable High Sierra, let High Sierra convert its installed partition to APFS.

Can I do that?  Can the Fusion Drive setup have one Yosemite HFS+ Journaled boot partition, and one High Sierra APFS boot partition?


texts: How to spoof a USB-Ethernet adaptor's MAC address in OS X

texts:
I've recently bought a usb-ethernet adapter (not apple) and I get internet connection. In my university we have to put a specific mac address but I can not change it.

I have tried with

sudo ifconfig en4 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

and with

sudo ifconfig en4 lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

and with both I got the same result. The command doesn't return any error but when I run ifconfig again the mac address is still the same.

I've also tried with Ubuntu and it worked. Do you know how can I do the same in OS X?

In Ubuntu the name of the adapter is eth0 but in OS X it's en4 instead of en0.

The output of sudo ifconfig en4:

en4: flags=8863 mtu 1500
    ether 00:e0:4c:36:21:92
    inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe36:2192%en4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
    nd6 options=1
    media: autoselect (100baseTX )
    status: active

sudo ifconfig en4 ether 10:0B:AD:C0:FF:EE doesn't have any output.

The output of sudo ifconfig en4 again:

en4: flags=8863 mtu 1500
    ether 00:e0:4c:36:21:92
    inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe36:2192%en4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
    inet 192.168.1.38 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    nd6 options=1
    media: autoselect (100baseTX )
    status: active

Answering some questions, yes I have tried with     sudo en4 down/up     and I thing it's not a limitation because I can change it in Ubuntu. If I try to change the mac address of my Wi-Fi I can do it.

I'm using OS x Mavericks and my USB-Ethernet adapter is a Chinese one, the model is AX88772A


texts:
I've already installed macOS Sierra.
But I've also performed a "general" cleaning and I suspect some files were gone.
Now the whole system is slow, some things doesn't behave the way they used to.
Is it possible to download again macOS Sierra from AppStore and simple reinstall it?
I mean, install macOS Sierra over macOS Sierra that is already up and running (not so well...).
Thanks a lot for your help.


texts: I messed up my /.bash_profile and Bash will not recognize most commands

texts:
I was trying to add paths to my ~/.bash_profile and accidentally screwed up the final one right when I closed it. Now, I cannot use a majority of the basic shell commands, like ls, touch, etc. I can still use echo and cd. When I echo my path, I get: “/Users/Forthman/Desktop/paml/bin:??. If I try other commands, I get: -bash: touch: command not found.

My ~/.bash_profile is invisible, and so I cannot directly open it in TextWrangler or TextEdit. How can I fix this?


texts: sudo chown "Operation not permitted" - how to resolve permissions to allow chown by admin or root users?

texts:
As sanity check I was sudo chowning some folders due to having run some commands previously that generated some root owned files in my $HOME. I ended seeing an error in this process that got me curious:

  chown: Library/Caches/com.mailplaneapp.Mailplane3/my@domain.tld/Downloads/151623a0c45f2b4_0.1.pdf: Operation not permitted

ls -l@ Library/Caches/com.mailplaneapp.Mailplane3/my@domain.tld/Downloads/151623a0c45f2b4_0.1.pdf doesn't reveal anything overly remarkable in this regard:

-rw-r--r--@ 1 USERNAME  staff  335080 Aug 17  2018 Library/Caches/com.mailplaneapp.Mailplane3/my@domain.tld/Downloads/151623a0c45f2b4_0.1.pdf
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms       284

I noticed this same thing from other files in this folder. Is there something I can do to strip whatever permissions might be preventing an admin / root user from modifying ownership via chown?


texts: How to export all elements in a iPhone WhatsApp chat?

texts:
I need to export all contents in a WhatsApp chat, going back several months, including lots of audio and other media. This is for legal reasons, thus I absolutely need each and every element in the conversation. WhatsApp is running on a iPhone 5s, the phone is synchronized with iTunes on a Windows PC, and all elements in the chat have never been deleted.

I tried using WhatsApp's "email chat" function, but it skipped several media, probably due to message size limits (the email was exactly 10 MB); unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an option in WhatsApp to split the log into multiple emails.

I have an iTunes backup and I can perform an iCloud backup; however, I don't know how to extract WhatsApp data from them. There seem to be lots of apps out there for extracting this kind of data, but they are not free (and I also don't know if they work as promised); I'd prefer a free solution, but a paid one is ok if it can fulfill my requirements.

I already wrote to WhatsApp support, and I'm waiting for their reply; however, I'm also asking here, maybe someone can help.


texts:
I would like to run two different mongodb databases on my Mac. I installed mongodb with the HomeBrew manager. However I was unable to find a possibility to create new homebrew services. I already created the new config file and new location to store the data.

Cheers


texts:
I'm getting the following pop-up on my 2019 MacBook Pro 13".

USB Accessories Disabled
Unplug the accessory using too much power to re-enable USB devices.

I have tried unplugging all USB and any HDMI for good measure but nothing seems to work.
Am I damaging my laptop by using it while I have this problem? Any advice how I can fix this?


texts:
I'm looking for a good, lightweight email client.

What do you guys recommend?


texts: Does CPU heating to 90 C cause any permanent damage?

texts: I have a MacBook Air 6,2 (2013) with an i7 (1.7 GHz normally). When I was installing Debian on it I completely forgot about the "Turbo Boost" feature — my CPU was clocked at its highest possible value, and consistently reaching 80-90 degrees. I've since clocked it back but I just wanted to make sure it didn't hurt anything.


texts: iPod 2G not allowing sync of supported video

texts:
I have some videos that I would like to copy onto an old iPod Touch 2Gen for my daughter, so that she doesn't have to see the horror of YouTube.  The specs for the device (as taken from here) show that the following are supported video types:

  H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Quicktime shows the following when playing the video:

And iTunes has the following in Get Info:

But when I try to copy the file via iTunes, it says the file is not supported:

How can I found out exactly what is is complaining about, so I can fix it?


texts: Disk Utility not letting me partition my SSD or modify the current ones

texts:
Just yesterday I finally got my hands on a MacBook Pro in which I was planning to install Ubuntu and Windows aside from OS X for studying purposes.
I was barely beginning by partitioning the disk, or at least attempting to do so and found myself not being able to take advantage of most functions of Disk Utility like in the picture below:

I've already tried a couple of tutorials and even tried to apply some solutions to problems that seemed similar, but nothing worked.


texts: How can I synchronize my two Mac Computers?

texts: I have a Macbook and an iMac, generally I work on my Macbook, but sometimes I need that information on my iMac. My OS is Mac OSX Snow Leopard.


texts: How Do I Create a Named Fork and Store Data In It?

texts:
It says here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(file_system)#Apple

...that the HFS+ file system in OSX supports "multiple named forks". How do I create a named fork at command line, and then how do I store data in it? Also, what are the maximum number of bytes I can place in my named fork?


texts: Where is iOS downloaded files in Catalina Mac?

texts:
My brother-in-law asks me to update his iPhone 6s by using my MacBook Pro. And my MacBook Pro has Catalina OS. So there is no iTunes, I use Finder to connect iPhone to my laptop and then I saw below picture:

So I press update and after some next, yes, continue, I saw below picture:

This is so weird because we don't see any progress bar, and we don't know when this update will end! - BIG ISSUE - so after one hour we decide to stop this damn update way and my MacBook Pro has 250GB hard disk. before download, I had 200 GB free and now I have 198.5GB free capacity.
Question: where is the iOS download directory? I wanna delete them.


texts: On brand new Mac running Yosemite, Messages (Version 8.0) not showing video icon at all. No "Video" tab in menu options at the top either.


texts: Nervous Cursor on 2013 MacBook Pro 15" Retina

texts: While I try to get some writing done on my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (first under Mountain Lion and now Mavericks) the cursor will often jump randomly away from where I'm typing to another location in the text. Read somewhere that switching off BlueTooth would help prevent these annoying twitches, but that simply does not seem true: the cursor still jumps unexpectedly especially at higher touch-typing speeds. Is there a known cure for this flaw? It sure plays havoc with productivity. Grrr.


texts:
I checked, this is not a duplicate.

I just installed VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro (macOS HS 10.13.3).

So, Apple created "support software" that allow special hardware to be used in Windows 10. That means the Touch Bar, Fingerprint sensor for Windows Hello, etc.

Can Windows Hello be used in a VM?

Maybe through Windows Support Software?


texts: Automator's "Extract to PDF" does not remember output folder

texts:
I'm trying to create a simple Folder Action with Automator (on macOS Sierra 10.12.2) that watches a folder for PDF files and convert these to TXT files and save it to a subfolder. The problem is that the selected subfolder is not being stored. When I hit save and open the action again, the subfolder is set to its default Desktop.

This is how it looks like when I hit save. When I close Automator, open it again and select this recent action, Save Output to is set to Desktop.


texts: Can you tell if your Mac computer is infested with malware from the CIA?

texts:
On March 23rd 2017, news of the CIA having possibly infesting Mac computers with malware have been released by WikiLeaks.

  "DarkSeaSkies" is "an implant that persists in the EFI firmware of an
  Apple MacBook Air computer" and consists of "DarkMatter", "SeaPea" and
  "NightSkies", respectively EFI, kernel-space and user-space implants.

  Documents on the "Triton" MacOSX malware, its infector "Dark Mallet"
  and its EFI-persistent version "DerStake" are also included in this
  release. While the DerStake1.4 manual released today dates to 2013,
  other Vault 7 documents show that as of 2016 the CIA continues to rely
  on and update these systems and is working on the production of
  DerStarke2.0.

Although these infections surely target very few people, there is still little to no documentation regarding this malware, but I am wondering if there is a way to inspect and diagnose this malware (either with "regular" malware troubleshooting software or through Activity Monitor, Terminal, etc).


texts: Where do Folders Removed from the Finder Sidebar end up?

texts:
I just removed two document folders from my Sidebar in Finder, and now I can't find them! Any ideas on where they could have ended up?

Thanks!

Emma


texts: Any chflag for files in Notification Center?

texts:
I would like to have a list of TODOs in a particular folder (tex files) in the notification centre (the one in the right upper corner which opens from the corner).

Notification Center is the one at the top right

where I want to get notifications of the tasks which I mark in my files.
I want to communicate with the center to get alerts.
I am not sure if this is possible.

Example of tex file

\documentclass{article}
...
% TODO note this for the exam and improve the figure
Lorem ipsun.

Intuitively, it would be great if I can type in terminal

chflags showNotificationCenter TODO **/*.tex

to show TODOs of specific files in the alarm center.

Is there any function to show those Tex-files' TODOs in Notification Center?


texts: Gray Bar in fullscreen mode multidisplay

texts: OSX mavericks added support for having the menu bar available in multidisplay mode, which is nice, but now whenever I try to watch a movie in fullscreen on the other display it seemingly leaves a solid grey bar at the top of the screen which is very annoying. Has anyone had this experience and does anyone know how to get rid of it.


texts:
Is it possible to disable dictation from the command line, so that macOS never asks again if I want to enable it?

I know that many such things can be done using defaults write but couldn't find the right key for dictation. I'm using macOS Mojave 10.14.5.


texts: Can't remove U.S. from the languages and input methods menu

texts:
I wonder if I can remove the U.S. language of the languages list.
Because I use a shortcut to cycle through input methods, and don't want to land on U.S. as ArgenPinYin is already a modified U.S. international keyboard layout, so I don't need the plain U.S.
Is there a way?


texts:
I have a number of eBooks (ePub) either from free sources such as Gutenberg, or purchased elsewhere.

I can open them easily enough on my iMac with eBooks, and I gather that they are in my library (when I try to add one manually, it tells me that it’s already there).

On my iPhone, however, I can’t see them at all.

How do I complete the processes?

I will readily consider a third party app.

I have the latest version of all software. In particular, iTunes 12.7, which is of no help to me at all.


texts:
I frequently want to read academic papers while on the go. They're usually in PDF format, so I sync them to my iPhone with iBooks.

The problem is that most of the papers I want to read are in a two-column format that's extremely difficult to read on the phone's screen - I have to zoom in on a column, scroll down, then scroll up to the top of the next column and repeat.

Is there any software that will "flatten" out the PDF? I love Instapaper for web-based information; something that could turn a two-column PDF into a long stream of text and images would be great.


texts:
I am considering this answer with GNU time which I installed by brew.

data.txt

hello
amigo
this line 3
and here we go 4
and 5 is here

Code in BSD time

time eval $(echo sed $(for i in 1 2 3 5; do echo "-e ${i}p"; done) -n data.txt )
hello
amigo
this line 3
and 5 is her

real    0m0.008s
user    0m0.003s
sys 0m0.005s

Code in GNU time

$ gtime eval $(echo sed $(for i in 1 2 3 5; do echo "-e ${i}p"; done) -n data.txt )
gtime: cannot run eval: No such file or directory
Command exited with non-zero status 127
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed ?%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1228800maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+93minor)pagefaults 0swaps

and with quotes

gtime eval '$(echo gsed $(for i in 1 2 3 5; do echo "-e ${i}p"; done) -n data.txt )'
gtime: cannot run eval: No such file or directory
Command exited with non-zero status 127
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1196032maxresident)k
7inputs+0outputs (0major+91minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Based on Matthieu's comment, the gtime is looking for a eval bin but it is built-in bash command. Command which eval gives nothing.

Why GNU time cannot run eval?


texts: How to programmatically construct the name of application used to open directories?

texts: This Emacs LISP script reveal-in-finder.el allows one to quickly open a directory in Finder from an Emacs buffer which has the directory opened in it in dired mode.  But on my computer, I uses Path Finder instead of the standard Finder.  If I run open /path/to/dir on command line, it opens the directory dir in Path Finder rather than Finder.  Any idea how I can modify reveal-in-finder.el to open directories in Path Finder?


texts: Yosemite with exchange server : Inbox email is not updated with the latest message

texts:
I have tried this on both Outlook for Mac 2011 and native Mail app on Yosemite.

The issue is all folders of email i.e Sent will be updated with the latest email but not on inbox.

I can only download the latest email if I empty the cache or re-create the account.


texts: Does Mac App Store provide an email support channel?

texts:
I want to know if there's any email support specific for Mac App Store.

Anyone have the idea?


texts: “Copy URL to Clipboard.app is not available as a HTTP browser” in El Capitan

texts:
I came across “Copy URL to Clipboard.app” (or “CUTC” for short) in How to access a clicked URL in a URL handler application created in Automator and have been using it for some time now. However, it seems to have stopped working in OS X 10.11, and I have no idea what to do to make it work.

What I've tried

I downloaded the pre-compiled app and moved it to /Applications/ and then launched it manually to clear the quarantine message (“Are you sure you want to open this file downloaded from the Internet?”)
I went to System Preferences » General and clicked the dropdown for “Default Web Browser" but CUTC does not appear as one of the available browsers.
I rebooted my Mac just to make sure. It still did not appear.
I tried https://github.com/kerma/defaultbrowser to set my default browser from Terminal:

% defaultbrowser -set Copy\ URL\ to\ Clipboard

Copy URL to Clipboard is not available as a HTTP browser

(It also listed all available HTTP browsers, which made it clear that OS X did not consider CUTC to be able to receive http/https links, as opposed to some sort of simple syntax error trying to use the defaultbrowser command.)
I re-compiled the app from source in Xcode, and tried using that instead, but had the same results as with the pre-compiled version.

I have no idea where to go from here. I am not a programmer and have no idea what needs to be done for an app to register itself as able to receive http/https links.

The Problem I Am Trying to Solve

I have used CUTC as my default browser in the past so that I could process URLs using shell scripts before handing them to another browser.

If there is another app out there which is capable of receiving http/https links clicked on from other apps (mail, Tweetbot, etc), I would be equally happy to try that.


texts: I can't find any Quick Look cache data in macOS Mojave beta

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I'm using macOS Mojave beta and I'm trying to find out where Quick Look cache data is stored.

As of High Sierra, I found the Terminal command to open the path of Quick Look cache data:

open $TMPDIR/../C/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache/

This is what it looks like:

But when running Mojave beta, my Mac doesn't have any files in that path (I haven't cleared the cache at all and checked with qlmanage -r enable), I frequently used Quick Look though.

Quick Look works fine but I'd like to know why my Mac doesn't store cache data.

UPDATE

This is the output of command:

sudo lsof -c quicklookd

But I don't see anything in the directory via Finder.

/private/var/folders/ff/3m1y9syj5cd_vhjpgy0yy5c00000gn/C/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache/

If I tried it through Terminal. It says the issue in terms of permission. I have completely no idea what this permission comes from:

~ (166) $cd /private/var/folders/ff/3m1y9syj5cd_vhjpgy0yy5c00000gn/C/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache
cd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Operation not permitted

/private/var/folders/ff/3m1y9syj5cd_vhjpgy0yy5c00000gn/C (171) $ls -l | grep quicklook
ls: com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache: Operation not permitted


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I know that how to maximize windows has been discussed in several places. I have a more specific question here:

Why, when I hit option + maximize\zoom (green button in the top left) do browsers not work the same as other windows? e.g. they don't fully maximize.

Other desktop native apps that I've tried (Spotify, Slack, Terminal\iTerm are examples) go fullscreen when I hit option+maximize. However, Google Chrome and Safari do not. Interestingly, Firefox does.

I really would prefer to not switch back to Firefox, but this has annoyed me for years. Does anyone know how to change the option maximize in Google Chrome?

Versions:

Google Chrome 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit)
Safari 9.1.2 (10601.7.7)
OS X 10.10.5


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After upgrading to Catalina, Wine no longer works at all. When I attempt to launch my "Wine Stable" app, I get the following message:

  “Wine Stable.app” needs to be updated. The developer of this app needs
  to update it to work with this version of macOS. Contact the developer
  for more information.

From the winehq.org forum, it appears my only option is to revert back to Mojave or to find another Mac somewhere, neither of which are options I would really like to pursue.

Does anyone have any other options?


texts: Is there a way to prevent messages (iMessage or SMS) from getting deleted from an iOS device running version 11.2.6?


texts: How to Determine What's Using Filling GPU's Video Memory?

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I have a system with integrated graphics to which OS X has assigned 1.5gb (out of 16gb) of RAM, however iStat Menus is currently reporting this at around 95% full, even though I'm not currently running anything that should be making much of a demand of the GPU.

Of course it's possible there's something I'm not aware of that has been using the GPU, but only restarting has completely cleared it. I was playing Civilisation V yesterday, but even while playing it didn't fill my video memory, and that was over 10 hours ago (my computer hasn't been asleep since then, as I'm still running through a large initial backup of a huge volume).

I'm just wondering if there's an easy way to determine what's using up all this video memory, similar to using Activity Monitor to track main memory? If it happens again I'd like to figure out what's at fault so I can avoid the problem in future and/or report any memory leaks or similar issues.


texts: Is it possible to be always connected to a VPN without prompting for a UN/PW?

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Is it possible to install some configuration profile on an iOS Device that will always have the user connected to a VPN without having them input his/her username/password each time one tries to connect?

In other words, our current setup has users connecting to a VPN via the "Settings" App on the iPad (using IPSec).  With this setup, our users are prompted for his/her password each time he/she tries to connect to the VPN.

We are trying to avoid prompting for a UN/PW and having our users go to the Settings app in the first place, so is there any way to force a VPN connection, and therefore always stay connected via the iPhone Configuration Utility?


texts: How do I remove the 802.1X settings in Mountain Lion

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I made a stupid 802.1X settings file some time ago to test some things. Now I am unable to remove it, even though I think I have deleted the file.

The picture below shows the 802.1X profile to the bottom right. How do I delete this profile? I've tried removing the ethernet with the minus sign in the left menu, but once I try to make a new ethernet profile, that 802.1X setting shows up as the standard.

Here is the picture of the 802.1X settings:


texts: Migrate Google Authenticator to new iPhone 7

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Just got a new iPhone 7, but when it restored it lost all my Google Authenticator two factor auth codes. I still have them all in my old phone, how can I port them to my new iPhone 7?

This is quite frustrating.


texts: Where is Finder looking up the “localized” version of certain directory names?

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I have two directories that have different names in Finder vs Terminal / "ls".
In Finder, the directory is called "Docker". If you drag-and-drop it into the Terminal, as I have just been doing in the screenshot below, the name becomes "com.docker.docker". It is still highlighted.

So in Terminal / "ls", the "Docker" directory is called "com.docker.docker":
$ ls -dlOe@ Library/Containers/com.docker.docker
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 patrick  staff  - 160 Dec 15 17:22 Library/Containers/com.docker.docker
        com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem  61

Finder shows the Terminal / "ls" name in the "get Info" dialog as well:

One side-effect of this "localization" that can be seen in the above screenshot as well, is that now it is possible to have more than one directory with the same name side-by-side inside the same parent directory.
By using an Apple specific API, you can also get at the name that is shown in Finder:
$ /usr/bin/python -c "from Foundation import NSFileManager; print(NSFileManager.defaultManager().displayNameAtPath_('/Users/patrick/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker'))"
Docker

However, what I wonder, is where that information, e.g. the name "Docker" for the directory normally called "com.docker.docker", is actually stored on disk? And how can such a directory be created?
Apparently, macOS has a feature called "Directory Name Localization". An there are two kinds of it. One is the names of the "standard" folders in users home directories, e.g. "Pictures", "Movies", "Documents" etc. Those will most likely somehow be stored in a system database or config value. I do not know it but am not keen to know either. What I would like to know, though, is in what mechanisms might be at play in my particular case here. This is a standard Docker installation on macOS 11.1 . And apparently the second kind of directory name localization is in use here. With this, it seems, arbitrary directory names in the system can be "localized" as well. However, in this case, there is no "*.localized" directory inside the directory with the "localized" name ("com.docker.docker" / a.k.a. "Docker"), as described here.
My original question has been closed as a duplicate of this one. I was not fast enough to adapt it form "why" to "how", as I was quickly able to answer the "why" part myself. The "how" part seems to be more difficult though. And I would be really glad if anybody could answer it to me.


texts: DaisyDisk scans my Mac's HD blazing fast compared to, say, du. I'm wondering what's the trick. I suspect it wouldn't be so fast on non-Mac filesystems, but I haven't tried. Any clues?


texts: Can't remove LDAP account from Internet Accounts

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The goal: Remove LDAP Contacts account from list of the Internet Accounts.

The problem: Removed LDAP account reappears in the Accounts list in 5 seconds after deletion.

Current OS: macOS 10.13 High Sierra

Steps:

System Preferences -> Internet Accounts
Select the LDAP Account
Press "-" button
Press "Remove From All" button on the pop-up dialog window "Do you want to remove the LDAP account “ldap.hostname.com” from all your computers using iCloud Keychain?"
Account removed from the list
After 5 second appears in the list.


texts: iOS 11: How do I replace the emoji keyboard button with a punctuation menu without third-party tools?

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I have no idea how anyone types quickly on the default iOS 11 keyboard considering you have to bring up a full different keyboard to type punctuation. My previous phone was a Google Nexus 4 and the default keyboard there had a punctuation button which you can hold down for a dropdown menu to select common punctuation marks.

I can't figure out why the devs thought it was a good idea to prioritize emojis over punctuation. How do I fix this without downloading a third-party keyboard or tool?


texts: Reduce colors from Millions to Thousands

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I was trying to run a Keynote presentation on a secondary display and Keynote told me that I didn't have enough video RAM and either needed to reduce the resolution or number of colors from Millions to Thousands.  I know how to change the resolution, but how do I change the number of colors?

Thanks!


texts: Best approach to offsite backups with Time Machine and USB Disks

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What is the best approach to using multiple USB disks and Time Machine to achieve a backup methodology with one drive being used for current backups and one stored offsite and updated periodically?

I've considered swapping the disks periodically but that would mean that the drive that comes "in" from being offsite would be missing incremental backups for whatever period it was offsite.

Is it better to simply backup to one disk and periodically clone it to the disk that is going offsite?  That seems simple but creates a window during which both disks are onsite.


texts: I just got my iPhone stolen and the first thing they did was shut it off. I have a new iPhone and I noticed you have to slide it to power off. Yes, I had no idea. I owned my last phone three weeks. My question is, if it requires you to slide it could an app or something be made to be able to require a password beforehand?


texts: Does using a brightness reducing app save battery?

texts: I installed the app Brightness Slider on my MacBook because the lowest brightness setting in the System Prefs isn't low enough at times. When I choose a brightness setting below what the System Prefs allows, does the laptop in any way actually consume less power? Or is it using up the same amount of power?


texts: Spotlight finds Notes via magnifying glass, but not via Finder "Find" or mdfind

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I discovered that Spotlight can find my Notes if I just use the magnifying class icon in the main menu bar, but not if I open a Finder window and use command-F.

I've always assumed these were just two different ways of getting at Spotlight, using the same underlying data and engine. Is that completely wrong?

I was looking for something I wrote recently, and didn't remember whether it was text, a WP document, email, a note, or something else. So I opened a Finder window, hit command-F, switched to "Contents", and typed in a few words. Got lots of stuff, but not the file I wanted.

I tried many alternate words and phrases, limiting the search to my user area, limiting modification dates, etc. etc. -- nothing.

Then I opened Notes and did a search there. Instantly found the right note.

So I copied a short phrase out, pasted it into the magnifying glass's searchbox. It found it just fine. Then I did command-F from a finder window again, and pasted it as a "Contents" search. Not found. I then reproduced the same problem with a different note and different search words.

I checked a bunch of things:

I tried words not in the first paragraph of the note, in case Spotlight considers that the "Name" rather than "Contents". No difference.
It doesn't matter whether I limit to my user area or not.
Nothing relevant is excluded via System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy.
I wasn't trying to search for partial words.
I fiddled with mdfind, and it couldn't find the notes either.
The notes in question are not locked.

So, anybody know what the deal is with Find and Notes?

This is on a MacBookPro running High Sierra (10.13.6). Notes is Version 4.5 (876.1). It's syncing to my iCloud account, and that's the default for new notes.


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How do I get out of the "continuous pages" mode?

It annoys me like hell! I want to see whole pages with a bit of space around them.

Is this another thing that iWork 13 can't do?

Just a one pixel line separating different pages in image below.


texts: How to delete Grammarly extension from Safari?

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When I try to delete Grammarly extension from Safari, it says:

The “Grammarly for Safari” extension is part of the “Grammarly for Safari” application.
To uninstall “Grammarly for Safari”, you must remove the “Grammarly for Safari” application.

And when I try to delete it from the Finder, it says:

The item “Grammarly for Safari” can’t be moved to the Trash because some of its extensions are in use.

How do I break this deadlock?
MacOS: High Seirra 10.13.6; Safari: 12.0.3; Grammarly: 9.4


texts: Import .ACO color palette for Mac (for use with Keynote, Omnigraffle etc)

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I want to use my ACO color palettes from Photoshop to be available in Keynote, Omingraffle etc.

Is there any tool out there to export ACO files to whatever format that is needed to load that palette into Mac OSX system wide color palette?

Cannot find anything on the web that helps...

Thank you!


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ALL,

My project is located on GitHub which recently switched to using TLS1.2, which is incompatible with the OpenSSL version OSX 10.8 ships with.

So I tried to build Git from sources.

I downloaded the archive, unpack it and created config.mak file where I put following:

NO_GETTEXT=Yes
NO_OPENSSL=Yes

The build finished successfully, but when I tried to run it I still received:

MyMac:dbhandler igorkorot$ /Users/igorkorot/git-2.17.0/git pull
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/oneeyeman1/dbhandler.git/': error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version

Is there an easy way to check what version of OpenSSL will be linked if I remove the line NO_OPENSSL=YES from the config.mak file? I will try to remove that line and do make clean && make after that. I did update whatever the notification was suggesting, but don't know if OpenSSL was part of the update.

I just need the latest version of the library. Hopefully there is still one available for OSX 10.8.

The machine is old and I don't want to install anything extra (homebrew or such) unless absolutely necessary.

TIA!


texts: How do you prevent CodeRunner from prefixing its console output with [00m[00m[00m[00m[00m?

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There seems to be a connection between CodeRunner's console output and your actual terminal prompt script, that is, if such prompt code is sourced from e.g. ~/.bash_profile (which CodeRunner reads by default).

I have a pretty fancy (read: great) terminal prompt (screenshot|code) that seems to mess up CodeRunner's console output, leading to garbled [00m[00m[00m[00m[00m characters at the start everytime I run some code, even though it's error-free and regardless of language). I'm reluctant to change my prompt for the sake of getting rid of these annoying characters.

If I turn off Invoke bash in login mode when running code in CodeRunner's Advanced prefs, I'm seeing bash: source: No such file or directory instead…

So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, trying to get a clean console in CodeRunner…

How can this be fixed? (I've tried contacting the developer about this but I'm receiving no answer.)


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Is it possible to query the current user's Apple ID from the command line? I want to create an AppleScript (run-only) app that will run only for a specific user (or at least for a user signed in with a specific AppleID), but I can't find any command (or third-party utility) that will do this.

Does something like this exist?


texts: Wrong resolution after startup on external display behind thunderbolt dock

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I'm using a late 2016 MacBook Pro with Mac OS 11.1
For a long time, I think since upgrading to Mojave I'm having this annoying problem:
After a reboot, the external display isn't recognized properly and the resolution is down to 1920x1080. System preferences won't let me choose any other / higher settings.
I have to shut the monitor off and on again or deattach and reattach the physical connection.
The monitor is attached via DisplayPort through an OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock (2017 version),
This is what I have tried so far:

reset PRAM (several times)
boot in "safe" mode

but…
when connected directly with an USB-C-to-HDMI adapter and an HDMI-cable, the resolution persists and the display is correctly recognized after startup.
so could this be a problem with the dock or with Mac OS?
this is the situation after reboot

this is the situation after reconnecting the monitor


texts: How can I chart non-numeric data in Numbers

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I have a Numbers table with dates and non-numerical values (None, Rarely, Occasionally, Sometimes, Most, All). I want to chart these values on a timeline like in the mock-up below (ignore the errors).
I have the feeling I need to enumerate these values, chart the enumeration, but keep the values for the y-axis. I could be wrong though and there is a way to non-numerically chart this.
How can I accomplish this elegantly in Numbers?


texts: Can I build a smart playlist populated by songs I’ve loved within the last x weeks?

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I have a smart playlist that basically features the songs I’ve “loved” (❤) within the last two weeks. To make this playlist work it would mean that I’d need to know when that song was “loved”.

Is this even tracked by iTunes? If not, is there a workaround?

Thank you!


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High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) was released in the mid-2000s, contemporaneous with the Apple Cinema Display line of external monitors:

23", 30" Apple Cinema Display
24", 27" Apple LED Cinema Display
Apple Thunderbolt Display

Did any of the above monitors support HDCP?
Can a connected macOS system display be queried to determine if it supports HDCP?
This is relevant as many of the adapters needed to connect these monitors to a modern USB-C / Thunderbolt Mac have "HDCP on" and "HDCP off" versions of the same adapter. Which should be used?
How can you determine if an Apple external monitor supports HDCP?


texts:
What is the OS X modifier key symbol that looks like the control icon (^) but with the addition of a line over it?

Symbol:


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I have an iMac 27" 2015 with dead display. When I boot the iMac, I hear the chimes and after minutes I try to rock the volume up to hear some and play the music. It works and giving the sounds. When I open (Teardown) the display, I see all green indicator except the Display. It's red led.
I wonder if I buy a thunderbolt to hdmi will connect it to external monitor on the boot process. Because I need to diagnose the imac if anything else is damage. And at the final I need to work with External monitor. Is it possible to use external monitor as a primary on iMac with dead display?


texts: Prevent admin/Jamf Pro from accessing/deleting 2nd partition

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The company I work for wants to install Jamf Pro on my "work" Macbook.

I want to create a 2nd partition on my Macintosh HD (with its own Mac OS version) for personal use.

If Jamf Pro is installed on the 1st partition, will/can it have access to the 2nd partition?

I guess if Jamf Pro is given admin rights, it can do whatever it wants, even delete the 2nd partition from within the 1st one, so my question is can I protect my 2nd partition in some way, before Jamf Pro is installed on the 1st one, so that it has no way of deleting/acccessing the 2nd partition ?

Thanks


texts: To discontinue line in many lines in Xcode

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I have the following code, but I do not want it to continue to many lines. I want everything in one line.

How can you prevent this from happening?


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I am running the most current iTunes  11.14 version and am trying to sync my contacts on my computer to my iPhone 4s.

From everything that I have read, I'm told to find the "info" button and select from my choices.

For some odd reason, my version of iTunes does not have or show the "info" button next to Summary and Apps, etc.

Where is that little critter and if it's not on this version, how do I sync my contacts from my Mac to my phone?


texts: Change Whatsapp-for-Mac notification sound

texts: I'm here to ask you if is possible to change Whatsapp for Mac Notification sound. I tried to find any not-sound in library folder and into Whatsapp's Package contents without no result. Could you help me solving this trouble? Thanks in advance.


texts:
I have some old devices in storage on their sides. They are otherwise completely normal - well ventilated, etc, etc. except that they could only fit when they are on their sides. After being reminded of them by a certain comment, I wondered if they were OK.

So: Is is safe to store an iMac on its side, assuming every other aspect of its storage is normal and safe?


texts:
When opening terminal, this line shows every time:

-bash: :wq: command not found

How can I stop it from appearing every time Terminal opens ?


texts: MacBook Air won't get IP from Tenda 11n DHCP server

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I have just experience this weird problem.
My MacBook Air would not get issues an IP address by a WiFi router make Tenda model 11n. It would only say that it got a self assigned IP address and had no Internet connection.

It would show up in wireless connections by MAC address.
It would not show up in DHCP client list whatsoever.

I have tried rebooting both laptop and the router, I've tried changing WiFi channel, tried static IP, but nothing worked.


texts: Transfer progress on Clash of Clans from iPad to iPad Mini Ai3

texts: My son has Clash of Clans progress on an iPad1 with my Apple ID that we want to transfer to a iPad Mini 3 with a new Family Apple ID. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?


texts: What does iPhone new contacts "outside of specific account" mean?

texts:
In iPhone Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Contacts, there is a message:

    New contacts created outside of a specific account will be added to this account.

What does that specific account referring to?


texts: MBP 15" early 2011 shuts down after login without power cord

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Update #1:

  I uninstalled gfxcardstatus. Now the only times it shuts down instantly
  are when I initially log in (tried on user with Filevault and one
  without), and when I log out from one user and log into another.  I've unplugged while logged in, I've put it to sleep and
  come back, I've logged out and back in (as same user), and it stays on. It always
  shuts down if I log in from a fresh reboot.

I've seen issues where the MBP shuts down after login, and where the MBA shuts down without power, but this is just a little different.

The computer works fine when plugged in. No issues. The problem comes up when it's unplugged. This started just after I updated to 10.10.4, although I don't know whether it's related.

Start computer with or without battery, get to login screen.
Can maintain this state for minutes at a time plugged in or on battery on login screen.
When I log in, the computer's immediate action is to shut down. Screen just goes dark -- no warnings, no nothing.

Any ideas? SMC reset did not help. Magsafe light looks yellow or green as is appropriate to charging situation. No other weird behaviors or warning signs.

System information -> power shows nothing weird:

Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh):   5955
Fully Charged:    No
Charging: Yes
Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   6547
Health Information:
Cycle Count:  143
Condition:    Normal
Battery Installed:    Yes
Amperage (mA):    1337
Voltage (mV): 12468

I get no notification of any kind after it starts again as is described by this question.


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I have videos taken with Photo on my iPhone

How do I delete them on OS X

I followed this question Deleting photos

Imported to Photos.app, highlight them all and chose delete. I then get a prompt saying they will be deleted from all my devices and confirmed. They are deleted from my Mac but they come back every time I attach my iPhone again i.e. they are not deleted from the device even though OS X says they should be.


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In answers to When does Messages message via iMessage vs. SMS? I learned that if a contact is set up such that they have received iMessages from me, there still may be a way to force a new message I'm composing to go via SMS. I might want to do this if I suspect they are not connected to the internet but I need them to receive the current message quickly.

Question: How can I ensure or force a message I'm composing to go via SMS on my iPhone 6 in iOS 12?

Comments from 2016 (but no answers) to Force outgoing SMS instead of iMessage from an iPhone 6S+ to a specific contact who uses iPhone/iMessage? seem to say this can't be done, but that was three years ago.
This answer from 2014 points to answers about how to modify the receiving phone's situation. Here I'm asking about forcing SMS on a single, current message on the sender's phone.


texts: How to choose an option in some windows with keyboard?

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For example, when I close an app with some changes without saving ir before. A window asks me if I want to save or not.

In Windows I can choose between these options with Tab but in Mac does not work.

EDIT: To save the document It's obviously that I can press Enter but I want to know how can I choose the other options.

PS: sorry for my english, I'm from Argentina

EDIT2: I found the answer here but I don't know how to mark as 'Answered': How to set it up to switch between tabs using TAB key on Macbook?


texts: How can I record a video of my screen, without any noticeable compression?

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So I have a client who wanted us to design them a screensaver... In PowerPoint... "The client's always right!"

I have created it and need to record the animated output into a .mov file, for import into a screensaver creator program. My dilemma is this...

When choosing to Export as Movie from Powerpoint, it exports without animation - which isn't very helpful
When using QuickTime Player to record the screen, it records it - but has noticeable compression artefacts throughout the animation

I'm fine to purchase a copy of something like ScreenFlow, but I'm wondering if anyone can point me to any alternative/better solutions, before I cough up £70 on Screenflow... The Powerpoint is only 30 seconds long, so I'm not fussed about file size without any compression.

Thanks!


texts: If I uninstall mysql with brew, does it drop the databases too?

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I want to cleanup my system and uninstall mysql. If I do so with:

brew uninstall mysql

will the databases also been deleted? I don't want to leave them on the harddisk.


texts: Applescript Editor's compiler erratic behaviour

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I've just come across some bizarre behaviour in the Applescript Editor (Snow Leopard - 10.6.8) that I was wondering if anyone knows how to get around it.

Basically, one second a statement will compile and run ok, but as soon as I change the code and revert to the original text it fails to compile again.

For example, the following screenshot shows the code compiled and run ok with the results shown at the bottom.

Now, I copied the line to a new window and the code no longer compiles! The leading spacing matters not, I did it so it is visible. The quotes it complains about are fine. Re-entering them makes no difference. Other times is replaced the test application process with <<class pcap>>.

It gets worse. After googling to figure out what is going on, I saw someone suggest using brackets. I did and it worked! I made some change it broke again!

Anyone know what is going on?

EDIT:
Applescript Editor ver: 2.3
Applescript ver: 2.1.2

Please not bother suggesting I upgrade the OS. My old 2008 macbook is slow enough as it is. :(


texts: iPhone 5 sign into iCloud nuisance message

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My iPhone 5 keeps displaying "sign into icloud" by entering my password. I do not know my password or the email address I have for this. I want to clear this from my phone as its there constantly and is stopping me using my phone properly as it interupts an stops me writing texts as it pops up. I have never signed into iCloud and don't want to.

How do I get rid of this message?


texts:
How can I remove each class on Safari, only for specific text ?

I know this script bellow would remove every class named  :

  sortable itemDescription

tell application "Safari Technology Preview" to ¬
    do JavaScript ¬
        "document.querySelectorAll(\"[class=\\\"sortable itemDescription\\\"]\").forEach(el => el.remove());" in current tab of window 1

But can I add an if statement to only remove the class if the text is, in this exemple :

  "(unwanted") :

<td class="sortable itemDescription">

                                    (unwanted)

                            </td>


texts: Cycle between the last two windows (similar to CMD+TAB)

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I generally have two screens but I'm stuck with just a laptop for a while.

Is there a way to cycle between the last two apps you're using? CommandTab would cycle between all open apps. I'd like just between the last two.

A workaround I have is to maximize the screen of the two applications I'm using, and Control→ or Control← to cycle between the Desktops but is there something easier that happens in the same Desktop?


texts: missing /usr/bin/gnutar on Mavericks (MacPorts)

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MacPorts is complaining about missing /usr/bin/gnutar on Mavericks

:info:extract sh: /usr/bin/gnutar: No such file or directory

gnutar is indeed not there anymore.

As suggested here I tried to change the tar command in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf:

tar_command=/usr/bin/tar -0

with no effect.

Any suggestion? Did I configure tar_command in the wrong file? Is there another workaround?


texts: Apps seem running on the Dock, but not on the App switcher

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Some apps are always running on Mac and I can see them on Dock. (For example, iTunes, Evernote, etc.)

I've set the option 'reopen windows when logging back in', so the apps automatically runs again when I turned on or reboot my MacBook Air.

I can see them highlighted with blue indicator on the Dock. When I press Command+Tab to switch between apps, however, I can't see them in the App switcher.

I think the App switcher misbehaving not the Dock. Because the apps are apparently running when look into the Activity monitor.

Is there any way to fix it?


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anyone know a fix to stop this from happening?  Apple says known issue......  1st pic shows settings in Music and phone in iPhone Finder.  I sync all playlists to Phone.  The next 2 pics show what they should be and when they disappear after a few days - not sure what triggers the disappearing.  iOS 14.0.1, Catalina 10.15.7, sync via cable from finder.
Update - so I called Apple again you try for a remedy. Now I’m told that to stop my imported playlist from disappearing I need to be signed in to Music Home Sharing and have an Apple Music account while syncing so that my iPhone will recognize that it’s actually my music and my playlists that I’m syncing over from my computer. Humm - always worked previously w/o all that mumbo jumbo.
2nd UPDATE - 11/13/20 - yesterday when i had the music app up on the phone and got in the car, the phone connected too bluetooth as usual.  I happened to glance down while i opened the music app and right then i saw the music playlists disappear while the phone was connecting to bluetooth.  So now - is it an apple issue or the Toyota Landcruiser???


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My Macbook runs El Capitan, 11.5. This morning, it failed to connect to my home network - which has been working for years. I'm now getting the

  Cannot join wifi network X “please move closer”

message. My other devices still connect. I have tried from this question to connect manually and it chucks the following error:

  com.apple.wifi.apple80211API.error error -3905

I have also:

deleted my network preferences etc
reset PRAM
reset SMC
changed modem channel

Tethering to my phone still works, but that's not through WIFI. Any suggestions?


texts: What's the shortcut to switch between app documents in a Spanish keyboard?

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I know the shortcut to switch between app documents (or Finder windows) is Cmd+~, but in the Spanish keyboard to get a tilde you can't use a single key, you need to press Alt+Ñ.

I've tried pressing Cmd+Alt+Ñ but it doesn't work.

So how do I execute this shortcut with a Spanish keyboard layout?


texts: Web Sharing (Apache) won't turn on in Lion

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I'm unable to enable web sharing via System Preferences > Sharing.  When I click it to turn it on the light turns yellow but then goes back to gray.

I did some Googling and found that many people solved this problem by removing changes in their httpd.conf.  This is my ls /etc/apache2/*.conf*:

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
/etc/apache2/httpd_ACSServer.conf
/etc/apache2/httpd_devicemanagement.conf
/etc/apache2/httpd_podcastlibrary.conf
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.default

I tried replacing httpd.conf with httpd.conf.default but it didn't fix the problem.


texts: Why does "Recent Places" not include most recent places

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I have seen others asking about this but have never seen a good answer.

The idea of Recent Places or Recent Items is a good one, and is found in many contexts, operating systems, and softwares. However, in OS X it seems that usually a recently accessed file or folder is not in the list.

I have found this an annoyance since converting to Mac in February 2009. The problem has persisted through Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion.

Why is this so? It is really hit or miss whether something is there.

As a workaround, it would be nice to know what you have to do to "get something in the list." As an example, does it have to be done in Finder? Or does it have to change the metadata? Or what?

If I knew the workaround, it might be easy enough to always "do that thing" so that the expected entry in Recent Places is created.


texts: iPhone 7 has magnetic area next to flashlight

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I put my phone down on a table before where I had some nails on and has stuck to my phone.
Does anyone with an iPhone 7 and if so can they see if their phone has a magnet next to the flashlight on the back of the device?