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My Macbook was slow, and then i've want to make it faster, it is a Macbook Pro from 2011 or 2012, can't remember it. I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO.

Firstly what i did, was to take out the old hard-drive, and then i placed the new SSD in it, i made a bootable thumb-drive, with Yosemite 10.10, and then i tryed to boot it from the USB, but i could't install it, because the hard drive didn't show up, because it wasn't formatted. I did that, by taking the old hard drive, inside the Macbook, and used a hard drive dockingstation, to format it, via. disk utility. The hard drive, can only be installed from, the dockingstation, without any issues. I did that, and boot up the Macbook, a Apple logo with a spinning wheel under it, and nothing happens. I tryed everything, used Carbon Copy Cloner, i tryed to make a bootable thumb drive, with diskmakerx.

In recovery, when the SSD is in the dockingstation, i was able to install Mountain Lion, from there, i could boot up fine, no issues. After i place the SSD with a succesfull Mountain Lion, inside the computer, i wasn't able to boot up again, only a Apple logo and a spinning wheel, under it.

I used 4 weeks to make the computer work, i searched all arround Google, Apple.com, and other sites. But i couldn't find any solution.

Please help me :(


texts: Is there any way to take a picture remotely on an ipod?

texts: My ipod was stolen, and using icloud I was able to track it.  I used the "Lock" function, but I'm wondering if it would have been possible to take a picture using the front camera.


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I am on a MacBook Pro 13 running latest Sierra. I have an external Seagate solid state hard drive that was working and out of the blue stopped working. The only thing on it was my Adobe Lightroom images/videos. Not the LR DB files. I'm sure you have all heard this woe before, so I won't dwell on that. And yes, I back up to the cloud. AWS S3 specifically. Though I am traveling South East Asia for the last year, and staying in cheap hostels. So good internet is hard to come by sometimes. I can't back it up after every export. While most of it is backed up, there is some that is not.

Moving on. The symptoms seems to change every time I plug it in. The first sign was it ejected on it's own. I plugged it in again, and it wouldn't mount. Disk Utility recognized it, so did the command line diskutil list but it wouldn't mount. I rebooted and it worked for a second. Then I could only get to it from the command line. Then trying to frantically back up to my local what was not backed up to the cloud, it all failed. Basically just a cp -R [directory] [local-directory] command.

After some more frantic unplugging and re-plugging plus some command line manual mounts, I finally got it to where the Disk Utility would be able to run first aid on it. It failed. I don't recall the error. So I put it in a freezer. After a few hours I tried again. It is not any better. It still will not mount. Now Disk Utility sees it, but with no partition. I can't even give me information about how much space is used on it.

I have also tried it from a Windows machine. It did not mount. I have tried other cables. No success. As well as tried my other USB port. I also have another working external hard drive exactly like the one giving me issues. It works on all cables and USB ports.

I do have Docker running with a Ubuntu container, I'm trying to think of a way to see if I can try to get to the USB from there. I also have a USB that I have thought about running a live Ubuntu on there to see if I can mount and retrieve the data or fix the HDD that way. But if it will not mount, I doubt these will work.

Can anyone else think of any other tricks I can try myself to see if I can repair this or at least retrieve the data without paying for a service or software? If not, those suggestions are also welcome.

Update

I made the mistake in original post that it was a Solid State Drive. This is my mistake, it is actually a spinning disk hard drive. I bought them long ago and have been traveling with them for so long I just forgot. Question is updated to reflect this.
Now diskutil list does not show it at all. The Disk Utility app also does not see it.
Based on suggestion from @Allen I seeked out the USB to SATA cable. I did not quite find it, as my options are extremely limited where I am at. Though a local expat on a facebook group was able to help me with a empty 2.5 casing that I was able to extract the drive from original casing and put it in his blank case. It now mounts. Though it has the "click of death" sound to it. And data is not really reachable. While I can ls the directories and Adobe Lightroom does not have the exclamation mark when it can not reach the actual external files. Right clicking on the images and clicking on "Show in Finder" or any other variation of trying to get to the files through Finder or terminal, I have no success. It usually hangs and I get the spinning wheel. Since Adobe Lightroom imports these images into directories named by date, I am going to send the drive off to a data recovery service and ask to recover just unbacked up directories i.e. dates. Next time I will make harder efforts to backup and probably get an actual SSD.

I think this can be closed, due to my low reputation points I can not close this myself.


texts: Easiest way to migrate aliases from bash to zsh

texts: I want to start using zsh as recommended by Apple for Mac OS Catalina. How do I migrate my aliases that I have defined in the ~/.bash_profile to the new shell?


texts: Question about printer repairing permissions

texts:
Tried installing printer driver software. There was some message, that might have been about "software for the printer was installed incorrectly", then asked if I want to repair the thing, I agreed and it started repairing permissions. In the end it still didn't properly work.

The question I have is - what does repairing permissions mean in this context? I read articles and definitions and don't get it in this context. Did it mean the installer simply moved the driver under Mac's command or something?
Normal Mac thing, nothing to worry about?


texts: Why does iTunes→IOS sync copied items not correspond to what has actually changed?

texts:
Recently, I edited an MP3 file that was in iTunes.  Cut almost sixty seconds off the end of it, and changed some tags.  iTunes did not recognize the change in duration until I exited and relaunched.  However, after that, in two or three syncs, the duration on the iPad did not change, and listening showed that the noise at the end was still there.  The only way I found to fix it was to tell iTunes to NOT sync that song, sync, and then sync again with the song checked.

Conversely, every time I sync iPhone or iPad, at least two or three dozen songs that have never been changed are re-copied.  These are not purchased songs, but imported from CD.

What might be causing this discrepancy?  It's not permissions—I periodically chmod -R a+w ~\Music\iTunes because a couple of times long ago a different error was caused by some unknown action causing a permissions error in the library.

MacOS, iTunes, and IOS are all the latest versions, and this has been happening over several versions of each.


texts: How to reset LAN ethernet adapter after switching the network

texts:
I have MacBook Pro 2017. I have the very same docker hub at work and at home (moshi). Both have LAN cables attached. However, I can use only one of them: for example, when I make my work LAN working, I can't simply go home and have it home LAN working - and vice versa.

Is there a way to reset LAN adapter? I tried to disable/enable it with ifconfig; however I am not sure which adapter is one for the LAN cable? I am not getting any IP address, and I was expecting something like 169.x.x.x

EDIT: what I do now is to plug off the docker hub and then plug it on. I don't know why this matters on osx.


texts: How do I install "R" on OS X using homebrew?

texts:
How do I install "R" on OS X? Ideally using Homebrew?

There seems to be very little information online.


texts: How can I prevent java processes from stealing focus?

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Has anyone else noticed that command line java applications in OS X create GUI processes that steal focus (ie, groovy, maven sub processes)? I'm finding it extremely annoying; probably because I've been living with it for 6-8 months since I think OS X 10.6.

How can I prevent java processes from doing this in OS X?


texts: I am leaving on a camping trip tomorrow. I have an iPhone 6 from my employer. I would like to use the phone for GPS (vis Google Maps) over the weekend, but do not want to receive a single notification for a phone call, text message, calendar invite or email (I am using the Good app). Is there any way to put my phone on airplane mode but keep GPS on? Thanks in advance.


texts: Reveal all favourites in new tab page on macOS Safari

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MacOS Safari just updated itself to 13.0

Now when I open a new tab it shows me only two rows from my favourites.

View > Show favourites bar... shows me all of my favourites.

How do I get the new tab page to show me a grid of all of my favourites, as it did before the update?


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After updating Mountain Lion to Mavericks xQuartz and MacPorts throws errors about insufficient permissions. (xQuartz and MacPorts are the latest version)

I noticed:

$ sudo mkdir /opt/tmp
mkdir: /opt/tmp: Permission denied

I am on Administrator Account.

sudo port install htop
Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix.

I can't even uninstall MacPorts with the command from here

%% sudo rm -rf \
/opt/local \
/Applications/DarwinPorts \
/Applications/MacPorts \
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
/Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
/Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
/Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
/Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
~/.macports


texts: How to import Live Photos, in full resolution jpg form, from an iPhone 6s to a Windows computer?

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I've researched this, but can't find the exact answer I'm looking for. My wife has an iPhone 6s and has taken many pictures that are apparently "Live Photos". I tried importing her pictures in to Windows for her to use, but some have the .mov extension, while others are in the traditional .jpg form. She really wants the pictures as full resolution pictures, but I am having trouble getting them for her. Is there a way to batch export all of the pictures she wants into full resolution photos? She has hundreds of them, so doing one at a time would take forever. I tried importing them with a Google program called "Picasa" but most of them are .mov files.

Any help would be appreciated. She is worried she'll have to live with the short movie files.


texts: Where does Thunderbird, on OSX, store its offline folders?

texts:
I marked my Sent folder to be used in offline mode, and asked the messages to be downloaded. I saw the status bar show my messages being downloaded.

But I can't figure out where the messages were stored.

My profile folder doesn't have any new files, nor any that start with the word Sent:

~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/l5z5ge4s.default/Mail# ls -l Local\ Folder
# Nothing here named Sent.msf, or Sent.sbd

Where should I look for my downloaded messages?


texts:
My mom bought a HP Photosmart 5520. Unfortunately, this printer is not compatible with her OS X 10.5.8 system.

Is there a possibility we can get this working?


texts: How do I transfer iTunes on a PC to my new iPhone 6?

texts: When I connect my iPhone 6 to my PC in order to transfer my music, I am told that the I need the newest edition of iTunes. When I try to download the newest edition of iTunes, I am told that the update is for Windows7 or higher. (I have Windows XP.) Microsoft no longer offers support for Windows XP. How else can I get my music from my PC to my iPhone 6?


texts: Resizing without DESTROYING the second partition of a disk

texts:
I have a disk that was partitioned in two. The first partition was 1.8TB and is called TIME MACHINE. The second one was 1.2 TB and I call it TOSHIBA 1.2TB.

I would like to reduce the first partition to 1.2 TB and increase the second one to 1.8 TB.

I have managed to reduce the first one from 1.8 to 1.2, but disk utility will not let me increase the second one. Notice the gray space below the first partition. How do I increase the lower partition?

The TIME MACHINE partition was originally encrypted but I had to remove the encryption in order to test something. When I type diskutil list on terminal I get this for that disk:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS TIME MACHINE            1.2 TB     disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS TOSHIBA 1.2TB           1.2 TB     disk2s4

If possible I would like to delete this boot partition (because this is an external disk that I don't use to boot) and increase this toshiba partition to 1.8 TB.


texts: Is it possible to send project from iMovie 10.1 to Final Cut Pro 7.0?

texts:
I'm unsure because the "Send movie to Final Cut Pro" option is missing from the File menu whatever project I try to open.

Is there something I need to do to have this option?


texts: List and define SMB shares from command-line

texts:
In MacOS, is it possible to list and/or define SMB shares at the command-line?
On a Linux machine with Samba, I can use the testparm command and the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
On Windows it would be the net share ... command.
On Mac, I only know the "System Preferences" > "Sharing" GUI. But to check or set these shares on multiple machines, I would like to be able to do it through SSH sessions and the command-line.
Is this possible?


texts: Bluetooth headset prevents YouTube videos from playing. How do I fix this?

texts:
I'm reading this similar issue over on Ask Ubuntu, and I have the same problem. I have a new Bluetooth headset that I can listen with on my Mac OS 10.14.6, but occasionally, YouTube videos will load whatever frame I navigate to, but will completely refuse to play.

These are the headphones I bought. This is fixed both when I completely disable Bluetooth (though then my 3mm jack headphones don't work), and when I simply disconnect the Bluetooth headphones.

Is there any sort of advanced configuration for Bluetooth in Mac OS? The settings I'm seeing don't seem to be capable of fixing this.

Here are the Audio MIDI Setup options:


texts: Do iCloud enabled iOS apps require consent from the user?

texts: I'm developing an Android app that needs to store the user preferences somewhere in the cloud. If I enable the Google Drive's AppFolder in order to store the user's data, the user needs to give consent by authorizing access to their Google Drive account. I currently don't have my iOS device at hand and can't recall whether I needed to do the same thing when working with iCloud.


texts: Is it possible to play one song through speakers, and another through headphones/earbuds?

texts:
I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to play one song on speakers, yet a different song through headphones, using a Mac.  I use songs as examples for any given audio.  The way I assume this would work is by having some kind of external device that plugs into the aux port on the Mac, that in turn would have multiple inputs for the aux jack for your speakers and also the headphones/earbud jack, and then you could set your web browser playing YouTube to the speakers and your iTunes to the headphones, or something along those lines.

Has anyone heard of anything that would enable you to listen to one song on headphones while the rest of the room listens to another, without interference between the two?


texts: How to unregister an iPad from Lightspeed Systems MDM?

texts:
So I bought a iPad generation 5 from a school and it had Lightspeed Systems on it I went to the school the admin and everyone else that could remove it and they said “We can’t do anything for you because it’s no longer in our control.”

When I go to settings and try to erase all content and settings, I am blocked by the MDM.

How do I proceed?


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I don't really know what it is called but it was an issue for me.

So here is what I was doing:

Created Directory with content and have it open in finder
Open a terminal and go to the same directory.
In finder I delete the folder, it goes to the trash.
Recreated folder in finder, with the same name, different content.
Do a ls in the terminal, which prints out the old directory's content.

Is this normal? Do I really have to cd .. on the terminal and enter the "new" directory? (If I cd .. I end up in Trash, not the directory's initial location)

I guess it is a soft link directory, but shouldn't the terminal know that the directory it is currently in doesn't exist anymore and cd .. until it reaches a existing directory? (At step 3)

Is there a reason why it should still point to the old directory?


texts: Accented characters: hold and select has stopped working

texts:
Somehow my "press and hold" for accented characters has ceased to function.

How can I re-enable that?

Example of how it used to work is in How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?


texts: How to store proxy credentials on macOS so they are used by system services?

texts:
I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.6 behind a corporate NTLM proxy. My browser and other applications are using the system proxy settings, in which I have saved my username and password for authenticating with the proxy. This is working fine.

There is a persistent problem with system services that try to access information on the internet and don't see to have access to the proxy credentials in my user account. I see the following popup every couple of minutes, and whatever I do (updating my credentials in System Preferences, or pressing "Not Now"), the popup keeps coming up again and again:

The text in the popup reads:

  Proxy Authentication Required

  Enter the password for the HTTP proxy http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy in System Preferences.

What can I do to stop this popup from appearing?

Things I have tried so far:

Updated my credentials in System Preferences (Network > Advanced > Proxy)
Copied the credentials entries from my login keychain to the System keychain, since I read a recommendation for that in a blog post or forum question.

None of these has worked, I get this popup every couple of minutes, and there does not seem to be a pattern to when it shows up.

Update 1:

As soon as I enter my credentials by clicking the System Preferences button in the above dialog (which I can force by e.g. opening Safari and starting to type a URL in the location box), two records are created in the login keychain, both with identical content:

  @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (username)    Internet Password     Today, 09:10    --    login

Both records look identical, with the same name and attributes. Both show that the application that requested this is AuthBrokerAgent:

Update 2:

I've also tried this suggestion: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23848961#message23848961, copying the authentication entries from the login keychain to the system keychain and then rebooting, but it did not fix it. In fact, the dreaded "Proxy Authentication Required" box showed up again while typing this...

Update 3:

I've used Wireshark to take a look at the traffic between my machine and our proxy:

The proxy returns with a 407 Proxy Authentication Required and Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM, which is in line with my expectation, since our proxy uses NTLM.
Some examples I've seen in the traffic (e.g. iCloud) then send back an NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE response.
The proxy comes back with an NTLMSSP_CHALLENGE request
The service responds with NTLMSSP_AUTH and my username, which it must have gotten from somewhere.
The proxy finally responds with a 200 Connection established

To me, this shows that in general the proxy authentication works fine, if the system can get the username and proxy from somewhere. The question remains how/where to store the username/password so that all system services can find it. Some system services (I assume) don't have any means to find the proxy credentials where I'm currently storing them.


texts: How to make and transfer secure (encrypted) ZIP files from Mac to PC

texts:
I'm trying to send my tax info securely through email or a web file transfer service like yousendit.com, dropbox.com or google drive, and created an encrypted folder containing the many image files of my business expenses and tax stuff using the command line (using "Terminal" app) as follows:

$Barbaras-MacBook-Air:~ barbara$ zip -er
/Users/barbara/Desktop/taxes2017.zip /Users/barbara/Desktop/BARB\'S\
STUFF/Taxes/Taxes\ Tax\ Year\ 2017-copy/\__Tax\ Docs\ assembled\ 2017/
Enter password:
Verify password:

Note that "zip -er" stands for "zip", "encrypted" and "recursive" which is used to get all the folder contents if zip/encrypting a folder as opposed to a file which is just "zip -e", and that I've used "\" to escape unix problem characters. This worked, creating the zip file, and when clicking on it I get a pop up with an "Archive Utility" window: "Please enter password for ".DS_Store".  Password:  [______] [<--text box].

I found the file was too large to email - like 42 mb, so I carved it down removing unnecessary content, but it was still closer to 40 mb.  So I uploaded to dropbox.com, then found they only allowed viewing of folder not transfer, which is a problem because it means it will be unzipped in the cloud which is not what I want.  (I want truly secure files to be viewed only by receiving party to whom I give password.)

I uploaded the file to google drive and did a last minute check that is was password protected and found to my amazement it unzipped without requiring a password - every file and folder visible there!  In shock I went back and checked my file on my mac and confirmed that I wasn't crazy and that it was still password protected there. (If this makes you nervous, perhaps you can check if google drive opens your mac-command-line-encrypted zip files too).

I'm using mavericks OS X (v. 10.9.5) on my macbook air (fall 2012). The machine is too old to update to the newest OSX Sierra per apple support, but could update Yosemite or El Capitan, but not desirable or possible since I have little working hard drive space left in my machine - hovering around 7 GB - so I don't have space for it. Otherwise I've installed all updates to mavericks.

I decided to test if I could test if the encrypted file would remain encrypted in a PC environment which is where it would likely end up, and found again to my amazement that it was at least still encrypted (thats good) but that it couldn't be unzipped:

Compressed (zipped) Folders Error
Windows cannot open the folder.
The Compressed (zipped) Folder 'F:\taxes2017.zip' is invalid
[OK]

Note that no option to enter a password is offered, just a flat out failure.
This means even if I put the unix/ osx encrypted zip file on a flash drive my accountant can't open it as his end, at least if he's using my son's same PC operating system, which is Microsoft Windows 10 Home version 10.0.14393 Build 14393 on an HP Pavilion Notebook, an x64-paced PC.

I'm wondering:

Are mac command-line-encrypted files easily viewed without passwords by file transfer services besides google drive, and if there's a more advanced or secure way to encrypt, zip and transfer files over the internet to individual desktop end users.
How come encryption wasn't unencryptable in a PC environment, and how do others do physical transfer by flash drive of encrypted files between environments?
Can I transfer a truly secure file via file sharing site like google drive, where no one in the chain can open the file except the recipient I give the password to by phone or other means?
Is there another zip and/or password protection method - or one of each - whether apple-based or third party - that is not undone by third parties and be unzipped in a windows environment with its password? I haven't tried the disk image method in disk utilities yet - maybe you can spare another hour or two of effort if it will not work in your experience.


texts: USB HDD can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found

texts:
When I try to access my 2Tb Transcend StoreJet External Hard Drive in Finder, I always get the following error:

However, 16Gb USB Flash Drive can be accessed without any problems.

I cannot also see any obvious reasons for that looking at disk info:

Running First Aid with Disk Utility and restarting Finder didn't solve the issue.
masOS version is High Sierra 10.13.2. Also there is no problem to access this HDD_2Tb drive on Windows OS.

Here is the output from Terminal:

# ls -lt /Volumes/
total 320
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      wheel          1 Dec 13 19:21 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root      wheel         96 Oct 23 22:40 Preboot
drwxrwxrwx  1 _unknown  _unknown  131072 Jan  1  1980 HDD_2Tb
drwxrwxrwx  1 _unknown  _unknown   32768 Jan  1  1980 USB_16Gb

Any suggestions are welcome.


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Is ipfw available in Mountain Lion? The reason for asking is that they introduced pf in Lion, but kept ipfw, however there is a chance that ipfw would eventually be removed.

I found this: Can I use ipfw on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion), but that was asked before releasing Mountain Lion and there is no answer.


texts: What does deliver higher transfer speed for Timemachine backup to ubuntu? NFS or AppleTalk (netatalk)?

texts:
I want to do Time Machine backups to an ubuntu server. It is a hosted remote machine, not in my LAN.

So far, I have found two approaches to realize the connection between the computer and the backup server: netatalk or NFS. Question is: which of these approaches would deliver higher transfer speed?

I will communicate with the ubuntu server within a ssh tunnel.


texts:
I am a Jira superuser, my company runs Jira and I am looking for a way to use it on the go.
Unfortunately, none of the mobile Jira app I have been using seems to work with our setup.

Does anyone have recommendations?


texts: Disable phone number synchronisation across multiple phones

texts:
In thehousehold i live in we use multiple phones on the same account.

Now the problem is, that when one device texts/writes an email it uses a different phones number/email /account information.

Is there a way to disable this, appart from using different apple accounts.


texts: Outlook: How to move all mail from a certain recipient into Junk

texts: How can I force Outlook to move all incoming messages with certain recipient to the Junk folder?


texts: I am looking for a way to zip a fcpx bundle with an Automator service. Automator won't accept a bundle as an input for a service (zip, rename and copy to two different locations for backup purposes), neither as a file or directory. Any ideas?


texts: Automator rename finder item date and time

texts:
I want to use automator to create a project folder with a Automator service, but i like to add the month and year (with two decimals) not the day, month and whole year.

want i can creatie is item_29022014 but i like to create a file named: 'item_0214' where the first two numbers (02) are the month and the last two numbers (14) are the last to numbers of the current year(2014).

Can i download some add-on for automator? Or do i need a custom script for this?


texts: Whenever I have a sprite frame, and I open it in Preview app, I can't see the exact edges of the image because the background of an image is transparent. Therefore, I can't see if there is any padding around it. Is it possible to turn on image borders in Preview app?


texts: What is the initial contents of /usr/local on macOS 10.13?

texts:
I'd like to reset /usr/local to whatever it would be if I reformatted my mac and reinstalled macOS 10.13

Is that state documented? If there was content there is there a way to reset it back to it's original state?


texts: MacBook Pro - How to resume APFS decryption process?

texts:
I was decrypting a drive from Recovery menu and I restarted machine because it was taking a lot of time but now the decryption has been Paused at 42%.

I listed all available options using diskutil apfs and there isn't any option to resume/revert decryption process. I also tried to verify/repair disk option but it is still paused.

I found this command but it is for other file system.

diskutil cs revert /Volumes/title_drive -passphrase

As this file system is new so I was not able to find any helpful material on any site.

Please tell me, how can I resume the decryption process.


texts:
I own a iMac 2007 (Mid).

I've realised that whenever i try to boot onto internet recovery, it doesn't. It boots onto OS X Utilities. I wiped my drive to re-install OS X but i currently don't have a install disc. I'll be getting a install disc in 1 month because the shipping got delayed due to the weather.

I want to use a faster way to somehow install OS X on my iMac. I thought of using Internet Recovery but it doesn't boot into Internet Recovery. I can't wait 1 month. Does my iMac not support Internet Recovery or it's just not working? It can't  be the key's because i have 2 apple keyboard's and tested the keys.

Can anyone help me out?

This question also relates to the problem : Installing Mac OS X Mountain lion Apple iD Error


texts: Record video in 16:9 aspect ratio on the iPad running iOS 11

texts: How can I record a video on iOS with an aspect radio of 16:9? I am using the iPad 9.7" 2017 model. I am running iOS 11.


texts: Making a bootable USB Drive from an .iso

texts:
I have a copy of the Windows XP install disk on my computer in the form of an .iso. I'm trying to install it to a partition using a bootable USB. I need to be able to make a bootable USB under Lion. How would I do this?

The USB is 4GB

EDIT: Got my VM working and I'm using a windows utility to make my USB drive bootable. I'll see how it works and post here when I'm done.

Also forgot to mention, according to Apple's Website my mac can handle XP. They just don't provide the software with lion to do so.

EDIT 2: Managed to get started, but not enough. Using my Windows XP VM and a program called "rufus" I made a bootable USB. Then using rEFIt I booted it up. But I got the following screen:


texts: MBP occasionally doesn't wake up until after forced reboot showing a message of an unknown problem

texts:
Last 4 days, I encountered this problem twice. I'm using my Retina Macbook Pro 13" (OS X : El-Capitan) with a Thunderbolt Display (+ third party mouse and keyboard plugged into the TBD) since about two weeks now.

I tried waking it up by opening the lid, no display (absolutely, not even a black screen), unresponsive keyboard, I tried turning it on using the power button, I had to press it (and hold it) many times before it responded (finally), showing a message in multiple languages in the likes of Your computer was shut down because of a problem, and when I logged on this dialog box appeared:

("shut down" instead of "restarted", this picture was found on web)

Everything works just fine after the occurence of this SCARY problem.

I use two (famous) software that that require disabled SIP: SwitchResX and Karabiner.

EDIT 1:

what  syslog | grep shutdown  had to say about the issue :

Sep 29 17:54:40 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3
Sep 29 17:54:40 localhost locationd[89] <Error>: locationd was started after an unclean shutdown


texts: Whole family uses same AppleID - can I block them from receiving my iMessages?

texts: The whole family uses the same Apple ID. I have been told this is not good. Now, my kids and wife are receiving all my iMessages. Is there a way to stop this without having access to their devices?  Long story short, separation and ugly divorce under way.


texts: New iPhone 8 asking for App Store password for someone else's account

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I have an iPhone 8 that was set up from an iPhone 7 backup.

Every few minutes I get a popup asking for an App Store password, except the account it's specifying is an account that belongs to a family member.

Similar questions say that this can happen when an app was installed using a different App Store ID. So to fix this, I uninstalled every installed app.

I'm still getting the popup. Is there any way to fix this?


texts: iTunes tracks are not playing or downloading from Purchased

texts: After purchasing a new iMac computer, I naturally opened up iTunes and began to download my purchased music onto the machine. The process went smoothly enough, but I noticed that a few songs from an album that I had bought a few weeks ago weren't downloading correctly. The song would download, then iTunes would say "There was an error downloading the song", then I would have to redownload it from Purchased, which worked. But some of the songs, even though they downloaded fine after the second try, just simply won't play when I click on them. What I mean is that they show up in my Music Library, but they won't play when I double-click them, instead, the song will briefly show up in the Now Playing bar, then disappear as iTunes skips to the next song. Any advice? This might just be an isolated incident.


texts: Why is russian beta testing software on my Mac?

texts: Yesterday I discovered that there is a piece of software called "Ассистент обратной связи" in the /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications Directory of my Mac (OS X Mavericks). What's the deal with this application? Is is legit? Why does it have a Russian title?


texts: Failing to install the package "Pygments" with brew

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I'm try to use the minted package in latex to display code in latex document. I get an error message "you must have pygmentize installed" to use this package. So I tried to install the package Pygments with brew

I typed the following line brew install Pygments but get the following message

==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

By the way, the if I type pip3 install pygments I get
Requirement already satisfied: pygments in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (2.3.1) which means that pip3 has installed on the machine but homebrew doesn't know where it is

What am I doing wrong?


texts:
It's possible to copy and paste animated GIF to macOS notes app. And it stores them as animated GIFs as they can be previewed with the animation. However, when you copy one from notes it just copies the image in different format which is not animated. How can I copy animated GIF from macOS notes and paste it to another app?

Update:
When I try to paste it into Mail app and then send it, it just sends as plain image (not animated one). If I google the gif in a browser and press Copy Image and then paste it into the Mail app everything works fine.


texts: Safe to charge macbook with USB Type A to USB Type C cable?

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If I take use a USB Type A to USB Type C cable, (like this) and plug it into a wall converter similar to the ones that come with iPhone charger (basically just a little box that plugs into a wall and has a female USB Type A port), will it be safe to plug the USB Type C end into my new MacBook pro to keep the battery from dying?

I just need it to maintain the battery level and I want to make sure it's not going to damage the overall life of the batter.


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I've found myself depending more and more on the Mail app's ability to pull down mail from the servers immediately upon their arrival, and for the most part it works flawlessly.

Every now and then, however, the app will freeze and I won't know about it until I feel I haven't received new mail in a sufficient amount of time. Then re-launching the app, I find it's frozen. After a few seconds, it force closes, and I can re-open it.

Re-opening it after a freeze shows me several e-mails that I'd received and interacted with at the approximate time of its last freeze, even if they're not present in Gmail anymore.

Running iOS 5.0.1 (jailbroken), but it did it just as much back when I ran stock iOS.

Any idea what causes this?


texts: Sometimes, I install apps for iPhone on my iPad and they are too small and doesn't fit the screen. Is there any option to resize them so they have either no black space around or just on one side?


texts: External monitor stays black after "locking" (or sleeping)

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I have a Mac Book Pro (latest 2017 touchbar model) which I am using in clamshell mode. Meaning: its lid is closed, and I work with two external monitors.

Both monitors are a bit older; they have DVI ports which connect via DVI/HDMI cable. Monitor 1 is then connected via a Kensington USB-C dock, Monitor 2 is connected via a StarTech HDMI<->USB-C adapter.

My problem: as soon as I lock my screen ... Monitor 2 will stay black. Meaning: I come back, I log into the system ... Monitor 1 works just as before. But Monitor 2 stays black. Although MacOs somehow still thinks the monitor is "there": when I turn to "displays" and look at "arrangement" - it shows all monitors. And windows that I "left" on the desktop space on monitor 2 won't show up on the other monitor.

I guess this might be caused by the chain of hardware I am using - but still it is extremely annoying to come back and find that monitor to be useless (I have to restart MacOs in order to get it back working).

Any ideas how to overcome / debug this issue are welcome.

( edit: same thing happens when I "sleep" instead of lock )


texts: What is proper way to get rid of quarantined files after ClamXav scan?

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I used ClamXav to scan my iMac for viruses. Now that I have them quarantined (19 files) do I just put them in the trash? Or is there a different method to making sure these are gone and won't be a problem anymore?

I have attached a pic. Are these just all email/spam/phish?


texts: I wrote a small tool as a cmd tool. Where should it be placed? Which paths are automatically scanned for searching an app? I want to avoid absolute path, because I have to track it on every system.


texts: How to open an external hard drive when its detected by Disk Utility but not in Finder?

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I have a microSD card that is working on my dashcam. But not mac. (latest Big Sur)
It's seeable in the Disk Utility but not in Finder.
What should I do?

Update:
aab-MacBook-Pro-2:~ myname$ diskutil list disk2
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *63.0 GB    disk2
   1:               Windows_NTFS                         62.9 GB    disk2s1
aab-MacBook-Pro-2:~ myname$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 7655/255/63 [122978304 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: 07    2  10   9 - 1023 254  63 [     32768 -  122945536] HPFS/QNX/AUX
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused


texts: Permanently mapping a network drive on MacBook Pro?

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THE QUESTIONS:

How can I make my MacBook Pro automatically mount a network share when it wakes up?
How can I make sure that when it is mounted it is mapped to the same path (/Volumes...)

MY SETUP:

I have a MacBook Pro running the latest OS X, and I also have a NAS in the house. From Finder I connected the NAS to my MacBook, and it shows up in the shared drives on the Finder bar together with all the other links (like Desktop, All my files...etc.). I also have a password saved in my keychain, so I do not have to type it in.

THE PROBLEM IN DETAIL:

This network share is not mounted automatically, i.e. I have to click on the link in Finder to get it mounted (on /Volumes/...), otherwise other programs do not see it. When my MacBook sleeps it will be automatically dismounted though but not mounted again when I wake the computer up. Even worse, after manual mounting with a click in Finder, the path at /Volumes will be a different one, so some programs lose the path.

WHY IT IS ANNOYING:

A prime example is Adobe Lightroom (LR):  I keep lots of photos on the NAS share, and LR add these photos to its database found on the MacBook's local drive. But it does not copy the files over from the network share just links to each of them and generates a (much smaller size) thumbnails. Now when the MacBook wakes up, and I go to LR, the drive does not exist, it is not mounted. I have to go to finder, click and mount it, then back to LR where now I can see it. But sometimes the mounting associates the share with a new path, so the old share show lost links in the database, and I have to re-add the photos to LR, under the new path, just to lose it again next time when the Mac sleeps.

This must be an issue for others too, anybody figured it out?


texts: How to prevent calendar alerts from becoming Drafts (???) in Mail.app?

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I don't know the rhyme or reason to it yet, but random calendar event notifications in Lion turn into drafts in my Mail.app drafts folder. I usually find these when I wake the machine up after it's been idle for some time.

Why would an alert become a draft in Mail.app at all? It makes no sense.

The calendar items are from a shared Google calendar. The draft is marked "no recipients", and just has the basic info from the calendar entry. The subject is like this:

"Alert - Piano lesson"

and the body is like this:

"September 5, 2012 1:45 PM : Piano lesson"

My wife enters those in HER gmail account calendar but I subscribe to it.

Any ideas?


texts: Mounting a disk as though it were an external disk

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Here's the setup:
We have a corporate Time Capsule (or series of them, rather) with encrypted backups in the server closet.  My Mac currently backs up to that.
I've just completed encrypting an internal disk using TrueCrypt, and set it up using a .sh executable that launches at login.  For the curious, it reads:
/Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS/TrueCrypt --mount -v /dev/rdisk1s2 and rdisk1s2 is an internal disk on my mac, so as long as the password is correctly supplied, it should be available at all times.  So far so good.  When it mounts, it appears to the OS as though it were a .dmg.

And that's where things get hairy: I'd like to make sure my encrypted volume gets backed up to the Time Capsule.  However, because Time Machine doesn't 'like' mounted disk images (apparently because it wants to preserve some vital assumptions regarding the availability of this disk...) it doesn't recognize the disk to back up.

So the question at this point is: How does one go about 'tricking' Time Machine into thinking the disk is back-up-able?

Thus the title: How does one go about referencing a mounted disk to make it appear to the OS as though it was internal?


texts: How do I restore learned spelling from a backup?

texts: I have an old backup of my user Library and need to restore its previous learned spelling values. Where do I find it within that old backup library?


texts: Is it possible to configure what is shown in control center

texts:
I like the new control center in iOS7.

I would like to know if there is possible to set up what should be available in it?
One thing is which toggle settings to show at the top row, like turn on/off mobile data (not flight mode, as I want to be able to call and receive calls).
Another thing is to specify which apps to be accessible at the bottom row.


texts: Java Plugin for Chrome on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2

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I'm trying to use webex in Chrome.  To click on webex links, I need the java plugin.  However, it appears that a recent OS X Mountain Lion update removed the java plugin from my computer.

When I try to install the java plugin in chrome, I see the following error:

Chrome does not support Java 7. Java 7 runs only on 64-bit browsers and Chrome is a 32-bit browser.

If you download Java 7, you will not be able to run Java content in Chrome and will need to use a 64-bit browser (such as Safari or Firefox) to run Java content within a browser. Additionally, installing Java 7 will disable the ability to use Apple Java 6 on your system.

Fine, so I try to download the Java 6 plugin instead, but it appears that Oracle has no Java 6 plugin.

What gives?  How do I install the java plugin for Chrome?


texts: How to fix mounting problem with external drive?

texts:
I have a USB external hard drive with AC adapter that works fine with an Ubuntu machine. But when I plug it into my MacBook Air it lists one partition on the finder, and does not mount the other.

Even though it is listed on the finder, it shows that there are no files on the drive (even though there are).

Tried both USB ports with the same result.

Disk Utility does not see it.

How to fix?

OSX 10.7.5


texts: Is this possible to print a Pages document on Windows?

texts: I know it's a bit weird, but I received a Pages document. I'm currently on a Windows machine. Can I have some kind of preview/quicklook of the document or print it?


texts:
I recently reset my iPhone and I'm trying to synchronize my photo gallery to the iphone. Everything works fine when I try to import the photo from iphone but, it seems only the photo taken until last week are copied from Photo to iPhone. So, my iPhoto has 3500 photos but on the iphone, after the synchronization, I can see only 3000 (more or less) photo.

What's wrong? I'm not using iCloud to sync the photo. Before the reset of the mobile, everything worked fine.

It's basically excluding pictures taken during last 7 days.


texts: How can I use the "signature" function in Preview on Mac Mini with no camera?

texts:
I have a Mac Mini with no attached camera. I would like to use the feature of Preview that allows you to insert a signature. This relies on taking an image of your signature using an isight/facetime/webcam. I do not have on.

I do have a MacBook pro on which I use the signature function. Is there a way to copy a file from the the MacBook Pro to the Mac Mini to enable this function on the Mini?


texts: How does Time Machine encrypt backups to network disk?

texts:
I see other questions regarding encrypting Time Machine backups to external disks, like this one:

If I encrypt a Time Machine backup disk, is the entire disk encrypted or just the Backups.backupdb directory?

There it says the entire disk is encrypted.

But for a network disk, I find it hard to believe that Time Machine can encrypt the disk. For example, is remote encryption of an entire disk possible via SMB?

Of course, Time Machine still supports encryption to a network drive, so then what exactly is it doing?


texts:
How can i change StarDict dictionary language?

I want to set it to English.


texts: Keyboard Shortcuts in Tooltips in macOS Calculator

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Is there something that can be done so that the tooltip text indicates the keyboard shortcut associated with each button in the macOS calculator? It's frustrating to have to look it up online every time.

Currently, the tooltip text contains only a description of the button, not its shortcut.

I'm on Calculator Version 10.14 (123) on Catalina 10.15.1.


texts: Tell iOS *which* WiFI BSSID to join when there are multiple

texts:
Imagine you're at a hotel with a poorly-designed wireless network, but you happen to have a network analyzer with you. You discover that they have tons of access points with the same name, but far-and-away the strongest ones are:

Channel 1 @ -60 dBm
Channel 6 @ -65 dBm
Channel 1 @ -65 dBm

Obviously, the best one to connect to is the Channel 6 one...

But a naive algorithm is likely to pick Channel 1.

How do I convince iOS to connect to the Channel 6 one and not the Channel 1 one?


texts: Do I need to reset my iPhone before restoring a backup of a different phone?  Eg swapping phones with partner. I have done both backups but not sure if I need to restore each phone first


texts: Why max inode count became 2^32-1 on my hdd after update to OS X 10.12 Sierra

texts:
After upgrade from OS X 10.10 Yosemite to 10.12 Sierra i noticed that % of used inodes became 0% instead of 99%.

As far as i understand max number of inodes became 2^32-1 but i can't google anything about it.

Is there any information from Apple? I tried to contact apple support but no luck.


texts: Can't connect Mac to Mac via Finder over LAN

texts:
I'm having trouble getting one Mac on my home LAN to talk to another - let's call them Red and Blue. Red can't connect via Finder (under Shared) to Blue. But Red can open a Screen Sharing session to Blue. Blue can open a Screen Sharing session to Red, and connect to Red via Finder.
Both Red and Blue are using WiFi, connected to the same router. Both are running OSX Leopard, 10.5.8.

I have a third Mac I'll call Orange. Orange can connect via Screen Share or Finder to both Red and Blue.

What could be causing Red to have these issues connecting to Blue?


texts: Where are tex /mactex binaries after brew install mactex

texts:
As can be seen: mactex was installed successfully:

==> Installing Cask mactex
==> Running installer for mactex; your password may be necessary.
==> Package installers may write to any location; options such as --appdir are ignored.
Password:

==> installer: Package name is MacTeX-2017
==> installer: Upgrading at base path /
==> installer: The upgrade was successful.
  mactex was successfully installed!

Where is it however..

21:22:37/hw6 $which tex
21:23:35/hw6 $which mactex


texts: iOS 8 Family Sharing on, but not showing shared purchases

texts:
After my wife and I upgraded our devices to iOS 8, I turned on a family sharing account so we could use those features.

It's on, and shows up on both of our phones as being part of a family. I also see the shared reminders and calendar. Also, her devices show up in my Find my iPhone.

What doesn't show up is purchases. If I go to iTunes or to the App Store, under purchased, I do not see her, nor any area for family purchases. It looks as it always has.

We have two totally separate iTunes accounts, always have.

Also, as a note - I have gone through everything on Apple's support page (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5449) and no changes. Basically, it notes to make sure you are logged into the right accounts, everyone is set up to share, and the apps support it.


texts: Can Time Machine back up to an external HD connected to another Mac?

texts: Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up to an external hard drive connected to a Mac on same wifi network?


texts:
Somewhere between every one and ten minutes, my MacBook Pro prompts the shut down dialog box or even starts to sleep.

This is what I get in the console. It really looks as if I've pressed the hardware "off" button:

19/05/16 21:14:43.345 networkd[194]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupComplete:proxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=2 "(null)" UserInfo={kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey=8}
19/05/16 21:14:44.736 networkd[194]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupComplete:proxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=2 "(null)" UserInfo={kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey=8}
19/05/16 21:14:45.670 networkd[194]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupComplete:proxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=2 "(null)" UserInfo={kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey=8}
19/05/16 21:14:55.473 AirPlayUIAgent[324]: 2016-05-19 09:14:55.472717 PM [AirPlayUIAgent] BecomingInactive: NSWorkspaceWillSleepNotification
19/05/16 21:14:57.075 locationd[87]: Location icon should now be in state 'Inactive'
19/05/16 21:14:57.000 kernel[0]: PM response took 112 ms (56, powerd)
19/05/16 21:14:57.829 sharingd[321]: 21:14:57.828 : Starting AirDrop server for user 501 on wake
19/05/16 21:14:57.924 WindowServer[211]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
19/05/16 21:14:57.939 WindowServer[211]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x0(0)[inf, inf, 0, 0] shield 0x0(0), dev [1440,900]
19/05/16 21:14:57.940 WindowServer[211]: CGXDisplayDidWakeNotification [876819909845]: posting kCGSDisplayDidWake
19/05/16 21:14:57.941 WindowServer[211]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.
19/05/16 21:14:57.000 kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to 34:31:c4:8a:fd:2d
19/05/16 21:14:57.000 kernel[0]: en1: channel changed to 13
19/05/16 21:14:58.837 networkd[194]: -[NETProxyLookup url] invalid URL scheme '5223'

If I use this Mac in Target Disk Mode with another computer it works just fine. So it's certainly not an hard drive problem or a software problem.


texts: Mavericks+: (Desktop Wallpaper) How can I use both the Apple Desktop Pictures and a local folder?

texts:
I enjoy the built in wallpapers that are shipped with Mavericks, but I also want to supplant those with the wallpapers that I have within my user folder.

In System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver, the option only appears to be EITHER the Apple -> Desktop Pictures OR Folders -> My local wallpaper folder.

Does anyone know of a way to blend the two and have both sets cycle through?


texts: How to find out which process eats up memory?

texts:
My MacBook Pro has 8G RAM. Recently memory leak offen happened. Page outs and swap used kept increasing. The last time it used ~8G swap space.

But in Activity Monitor, I can't find any process has a large value in 'Real Mem', 'Private Mem' nor 'Shared Mem' column.

I checked the %MEM column in output of 'ps -ev', all processes occupied less than 1% of memory. The full output is put in this gist: https://gist.github.com/aleung/4760556

What the way to diagnose OSX memory leak issue?


texts: I can't find the contact after I saved them on my IPhone 5S, I have searched for the name after I saved the number but couldn't find it, I don't know how to solve this issue I can't even find it in the Apps like Whats App.. It sounds like the contacts disappear?


texts: App to sync local folder with Amazon S3 service storage?

texts:
I have an account with Amazon S3 service storage. I also have the Transmit app which allow me to sync any local folder with Amazon S3. It works fine but I want this to be done in a scheduled way (let's say every day at 10PM). As far a I see Transmit can not do this.

I try with Automator + Calendar. I works, but in this way you don't get any notification if the sync fails.

Looking for something similar to Chronosync app.


texts:
I would like to know how many antennas are inside an iPhone 7 for the 4G connection?

Is it possible to have multiple antennas on an iPhone to make the received signal stronger and give better data throughput?

Thanks


texts: Will signing in to iMessage on another device send an email to the Apple ID notifying of this?

texts:
I was told I could monitor my 13 year old daughter's messages on an old iPhone through Wi-Fi. I was told to set up message on the phone with her Apple ID and password.

My question is will Apple send her an email asking her to allow the messages to be sent to my phone? I know they send one telling her someone accessed her account. If they only send one saying someone signed into her account that's ok.


texts: Access Fast User Switching from a script in Big Sur

texts:
In macOS Mojave, I found that you could make an Automator app that allowed fast user switching by a hot key.  The command run was
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -switchToUserID `id -u XXXXXX`

With the Automator App, I could assign a hot key which would then run the command easily without any mouse interaction.
I'm now setting up a Big Sur computer and trying switch to a different user by a hot key. The script above does not work now and gives a no such file error. I'm wondering if there is another way to switch to a userid or a different command to use in order to do this?


texts: How to Undo More than Once in Excel for Mac?

texts:
I am using Excel for Mac version 16.28 and don't see how I would be able to Undo (Command Z) more than once as after undoing once a second undo will just undo the first undo and I have the state I started out with.

This doesn't seem to be an issue for other people.

Is there a setting to allow a deeper undo-redo chain in Excel for Mac?


texts: I tried syncing my iPod Touch, but the recently purchased/acquired apps were not sent to iTunes. Then I tried to update the iPod and got a message that before updating, I should move the apps to the iTunes library (the implication was that they would be erased if not in the iTunes library). That seems like a lot of work just to update my iPod, especially since I don't know of any actual benefits resulting from the update. What benefits will I get from updating my iPod Touch?


texts: Misconfigured Certificate for Apple Developer Downloads?

texts:
Since this morning, I've been trying to download the new Xcode 9 beta 3 from the Apple Developer portal.

When I click the "Download" button, I am seeing a security warning saying the site identity could not be verified due to non matching host name in the certificate (the exact phrase is different across browsers).

Viewing the certificate details shows that the CN is "a248.e.akamai.net".

It looks like a misconfiguration in Apple's server.

Is anyone else seeing this on Apple Developer portal today?

Can I trust the download anyway (since I was redirected from a trusted page, and since Xcode is verified again when installed on the mac)?


texts:
Whenever my MBP 9.1 is in sleep mode and plugged in and I unplug the charger, machine turns on and stays on for about 2 minutes and then gets to sleep again.

Is there something I can change so when it's in sleep mode and I unplug or plug charger, stays at that state and doesn't hibernate or hybrid sleep or whatever it's name is given by Apple?

I basically want to disable hibernate altogether by automatic means.

My OS X version is 10.9.4.

Thanks.


texts: Time Machine cannot find external toshiba hard drive after OS X 10.9.2 update

texts:
I used my Toshiba Canvio USB 3.0 external hard drive without any problems for the past year.  Today, I received a system alert:

  Backup failed. The backup disk "Time Machine Backups" is not available

Other Mavericks OS users with similar issues. from apple.com forums

My Console output is below:

4/24/14 10:26:52.131 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.hidden.daemon[579]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
4/24/14 10:26:52.131 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.hidden.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/24/14 10:26:52.189 PM ReportCrash[559]: Saved crash report for Hidden[579] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Hidden_2014-04-24-222652_MYMBPr.crash
4/24/14 10:26:53.515 PM com.apple.backupd[530]: Starting manual backup
4/24/14 10:26:53.515 PM com.apple.backupd[530]: Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
4/24/14 10:26:53.518 PM com.apple.backupd[530]: Backup failed with error 18: The backup disk could not be found.
4/24/14 10:26:53.704 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[193]: (com.hp.help.tocgenerator) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/24/14 10:26:54.553 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[193]: (com.hp.help.tocgenerator) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/24/14 10:27:02.352 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.hidden.daemon[588]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
4/24/14 10:27:02.352 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.hidden.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/24/14 10:27:02.408 PM ReportCrash[559]: Saved crash report for Hidden[588] version ??? to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Hidden_2014-04-24-222702_MYMBPr.crash
4/24/14 10:27:04.790 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[193]: (com.hp.help.tocgenerator) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/24/14 10:27:06.125 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[193]: (com.hp.help.tocgenerator) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
4/24/14 10:27:12.565 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.hidden.daemon[591]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5

My Disk Utility shows the Toshiba External USB 3.0 Media hard drive as plugged in but it is greyed out. It shows S.M.A.R.T. Status: Not Supported, Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table and Write Status: Read/Write.

Any ideas?


texts:
The problem is that when I type in Chinese, the program crashes. It happens in every program (Chrome, TextEdit, Line).

It started shortly after I added Simplified Chinese. I since removed it and also Traditional Chinese and readded, but the problem remains.

Here is the stack trace:

http://pastebin.com/raw/h0RsGM6k


texts: Executing files directly from read/write WebDAV server

texts:
I’m using the Finder’s built-in Connect to Server... feature and use it for connecting to a read/write WebDAV server. Everything is working except executing files hosted on the server. I tried mounting the server using the mount_webdav Terminal command, and got the same result as using the Finder. Running ls -laF /Volumes/webdav results in:

drwx------  1 myname  staff    2048 Mar 15 14:09 ./
drwxrwxrwt  4 root    admin     170 Mar 15 09:25 ../
-rwx------  ...
drwx------  ...
-rwx------  ...
drwx------  ...
...

Which makes me assume that files should be executable. However, executing a bash script from the server in Terminal results in:

bash: /Volumes/webdav/test.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

I just want to be able to execute these files without having to move them to a physical disk. What am I overlooking?

EDIT: per request of @patrix, here are the commands i used:

mkdir /Volumes/webdav
mount_webdav -i -s https://example.com/program/ /Volumes/webdav/
chmod +x /Volumes/webdav/test.sh
head /Volumes/webdav/test.sh
/Volumes/webdav/test.sh

and the output was:

#mount_webdav
Username: ‹username›
Password:
# head
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/tex
cd /tmp/tex
cp -RX /Volumes/webdav/tex/* .
xelatex report.tex
open report.pdf
# exec
bash: /Volumes/webdav/test.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied


texts: How to change NTP server in airport express?

texts: Is it possible to change NTP server in AirportExpress? Is there any other way to control this device than Airpot Utility?


texts: Is there an alternative to apple's standard wireless bluetooth trackpad? I.e., an aftermarket version of the same basic thing?

texts:
I have had continuing problems with apple's bluetooth wireless trackpad. the first one had strange performance problems -- I got a friendly apple agent to exchange it for me.  The new one was better, but after a while its front rubber feet (which act as its press-to-click switch) stop clicking correctly...  I want to replace this!

SO, Can you identify another wireless trackpad that works just like apple's?   By logitech or some other third party company?  I haven't found one.

A bonus question: If you recommend wireless alternatives for apple's bluetooth keyboard, that would be handy too -- mine works OK but I'm not a huge fan, could use a better keyboard (since I know there are some serious keyboard nerds out there that know the various mechanical switches used, etc.)  For the record I have no problem with considering the "broken into two sections" ergo style keyboards...


texts: After market upgrade of the new MacPro (late 2013) CPU?

texts:
I was thinking, anybody having there hands on a new MacPro (the late 2013), would it be possible -in time- to swap the CPU from a new MacPro?

Its the CPU soldered to the motherboard?

Looking forward for your thoughts.


texts: Make accidentally opening an app on the Dock more difficult

texts:
I always open a program accidentally by clicking too fast within the Dock.

I thought that maybe I am the only one having this problem, but my spouse recently got a Mac and keeps complaining about the same issue.

This is especially annoying if you have programs who need some loading time like Photoshop or Office.

Is there any way to configure macOS to open programs only with a double click from the Dock?


texts: Can I use AppleScript to delete files on NAS listed in a file?

texts:
I am cleaning up my iTunes folders. I realized that there are more than 3k of files which are actually not in iTunes. I identified them and I have all of them inside a text file called "untitled.txt" in the format below.

/Volumes/Multimedia/Music/ITunes Media/Kiko/Come On Up/Come On Up.mp3
/Volumes/Multimedia/Music/ITunes Media/Kiko/Traxxxx/Traxxxx.mp3

The files are sitting on my NAS so my question would be what would the script look like and will it read the NAS file format (I think it is ext4).


texts: How to get Automator to "Copy Finder Items" and only keep one copy?

texts:
I've build a short Automator workflow.

It does a "Get Specified Finder Items" from directory "sourcesfiles".

Then does a "Copy Finder Items" to directory "targetdir".  The "Replace Existing Files" is unchecked.

I have a cron job set up to run it every 2 minutes.  It runs and works.  It copies the "sourcefiles" directory to the "targetdir/sourcefiles".

However, when the files are deleted from the "sourcefiles" directory, it copies an empty directory to "targetdir" ... that is, the backed up files in "targetdir" get deleted.

I tried checking the "Copy Finder Items > Replace Existing Files" checkbox.  But then it created a new copy every time.  I end up with this ...

targetdir/sourcefiles

targetdir/sourcefiles copy

targetdir/sourcefiles copy 2

targetdir/sourcefiles copy 3

targetdir/sourcefiles copy 4

... and so on.

QUESTION: How can I make automator make one copy of the newest file, but not delete the backup when the original file gets deleted?


texts: IPod Classic sees no files and freezes Itunes

texts:
First of all, I know it's 2021 already and I have to be absolutely mad to still use IPod Classic, but well - I just really like it.
So the problem:
My 6th Generation IPod Classic lost all the files and freezes ITunes when connected. I was trying to upload a new music into it, ITunes froze and all the data went gone. I've quickly realised that it still shows 60GB of 160 empty, so my assumpiton is that the files are still there, but corrupted.
I've read few articles about how to restore it's data but failed miserably:
When I try to connect it into my computer (Windows 10) ITunes instantly freeze so I am unable to use any of it's functions.
I've switched IPod into Disc Mode, and tried to get some info about the disc state, but my computer cannot access it through This Computer (Properties - Tools - Check for errors).
What I am trying to achieve now its to simply format it, I am absolutely reconciled with losing all the data from it.
I know that the device is extremely old in terms of electronics, but this bad boy has a huge sentimental value for me, so I will be extremely glad for any help or info of how to fix it.


texts:
Is it possible to set two independent columns in Apple pages, so that the text in the left column continues in the left column of the next page and not in the right column. And the text of the right column continues in the right column of the next one.

What I'm trying to do is to have some text and its translation, side by side.


texts: Dual-Boot OS X Snow Leopard on MacBook Pro

texts: Is it possible to dual-boot Snow Leopard on a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Sierra? I have the DMG file so maybe I can make a bootable flashdrive?


texts: Installing GarageBand on OS X Mountain Lion?

texts: I've recently downgraded to 10.8.5 as I had been having trouble getting Mavericks to work with my TASCAM US-1641 audio interface. I tried to reinstall GarageBand and try out my interface again only to find that the version of GarageBand in the App Store is only for Mavericks. Is there any way to download an old version? Which version would I need for Mountain Lion? Any help would be appreciated!


texts: My Books app in my ipad pro deletes/disappears my pdfs. I am on IOS 12.2 and it is was updated a couple weeks back without issue

texts:
What did happen is that I was reading one of the PDFs and the next time I opened it, the Book app was frozen.  So, I shut off the ipad.  When I turned it back on, I realized that I went from 130 PDFs to 4 losing nearly everything.  Luckily, about 105 of the PDFs were on my iphone.  So, I quickly bought more iCloud storage and transferred that there and then those PDFs were now back to my ipad, but I did lose 25 or so documents.  I would really like to get these back and I do not know which ones I lost.

I tried all kinds of remedies I found on the web - including one that worked after an IOS update that zapped my PDFs a couple months back (no IOS update this time):

http://blog.irarott.com/blog/2018/01/17/restoring-missing-pdfs-in-ibooks/

There have been a few other ideas tossed around, like deleting the Books app and reinstalling it - that failed too.

Oh - and today my 105 documents became 95.

Very trumping irritating!

I am pretty bearish on a solution as many people appear to have this problem and have posted about it with some solutions that worked for them, but none of which worke for me on this cut.

Not sure why such a monumental bug is so difficult for Apple to handle.

PS:  Another thing worth mentioning is that when I re-downloaded one of the missing PDFs (Actually, the one that was frozen), the document ended up in the correct folder in my collection and when I opened it, it was on the page I was last looking at - so Book still has some kind of memory of the PDF - I just hope that it can eventually make all the missing PDFs - reappear.  It is very scary to me that I cannot trust the Book app - or even iCloud - after all, the 105 documents that became 95 today were theoretically on iCloud!


texts: Does anyone know how to copy your Stickies between computers when the target computer is running macOS Sierra?  Articles I've seen say you only need to copy the file ~/Library/StickiesDatabase from your old computer to your new one but I did that but my Stickies aren't appearing on the new computer, even after I restart it.


texts: Can I Upgrade My Mid 2009 15 Inch Macbook Pro past it's maximum memory limit to 16gb?

texts: I have a 15 inch macbook pro (mid 2009 1.8ghz core 2 duo) and I want to upgrade the memory. It currently has 4gb (2x2gb) and the maximum Apples says will work is 8gb. I am wondering if I could get away with 16gb (2x8gb). I know this is possible on certain other macbooks, I am just wondering if it will work on my model.


texts:
I want to create a script that takes the current file selection and moves it to an already existing folder. I will then duplicate this code for 9 other folders and assign them all keyboard shortcuts.

My application is rather specific and unfortunately I need to use Finder to quickly monitor audio samples rather the Terminal. (I am wading thru thousands of audio samples, deleting and sorting them into sub folders).

The idea is very simple:

tell application "Finder"
    move selection to alias "Users:Jordan:Desktop:0"
end tell

This code works; however, it then proceeds to move the parent folder of the target file into the destination folder. This action makes the script counterproductive and useless. I tried the same idea in automator to no avail either.  I have made long scripts to try and stop the tell from moving the folder too, but nothing has worked.

It's beyond me why such a simple function can be so buggy and difficult and why no matter how many variables I employee to make the selection static, or how many conditionals or delays I add, the script still moves the file in folder A to folder B THEN the folder A into folder B.

How do I move file in folder A into folder B without moving folder A into it as well?


texts: I can't use the iPhoto library as desktop backgrounds on Mavericks

texts:
Since updating to Mavericks, I can no longer select my iPhoto library (9.4.3) as source for the desktop background. In the left hand list, the iPhoto entry is present, but no folders and if I select the "root" iPhoto entry, only the default wallpaper will show.

I have rebooted several times without solving the problem.
The screensaver will find the library just fine.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what to do?

Edit:
I added a screenshot of how it looks


texts:
I'd like to make backup of some specific console logs.

How do I find the location of a specific Console log file on my Mac to copy as back up?


texts: Failed to install ghostscript, during Imagemagick installation

texts:
I'm kinda new to those CLI installations so I don't know exactly what I'm doing I'm just following the installation steps of the guide:

I want to install Imagemagick on my Mac 10.5.8:

I typed ´sudo port install imagemagick´ and I got this error in return:

localhost:~ giorgio$ sudo port install imagemagick
--->  Computing dependencies for imagemagick
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ghostscript liblzma urw-fonts webp
--->  Building ghostscript
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install ghostscript
Log for ghostscript is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_print_ghostscript/ghostscript/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ghostscript liblzma urw-fonts webp
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I've also tried to look inside the main.log file, but I couldn't understand anything with my knowledges!
I've pasted it here with the hope that you can help me:
http://pastebin.com/YeAGJQkF

Thanks in advance!
Giorgio


texts: Can I back up WhatsApp to iCloud completely?

texts: I backed up my WhatsApp to iCloud  but its not shown in the storage distribution on iCloud (only says 9.53 MB messages while its taking 11 gb from my iPhone storage) is there a way I can completely back up WhatsApp to iCloud and have it take no space from my phone storage or less at lease ?


texts: Spaces in Mavericks: apps do not remember their space

texts:
I've switched to Mavericks and i wonder if the behaviour i'm seeing is a bug or a "feature".

It used to be that whenever you created spaces you could assign apps to a specific space, say Mail.app to space #2. In 10.8 that functionality was lost, but apps seem to 'remember' the space they were closed in. So if i opened Mail.app, dragged it to space #2, switched back to space #1 and open Mail.app again it would still open in space #2.

Unfortunately this seems to be broken in Mavericks. If i try the same thing the app simply opens in the space where i'm currently in, so i need to drag the app to the correct space again. Very frustrating.

Does anyone know a solution to this problem or should i try to file it as a bug with Apple?


texts:
I have the Kindle reader app for iPad and was just wondering the following:

What does a download link look like for an .azk/.azw file?
Where do the files get stored on the iPad once they are downloaded?


texts: Does the iPad (2012, 3rd generation) have the most pixels of any tablet's display?

texts:
I have heard this as a factoid from somewhere, and I'd like verification of it before I use it as a factual piece of information.

The new iPad (2012, 3rd generation) has a super high pixel count. Does this make for the highest resolution of comparable tablets on the market (i.e., those with similarly sized screens)?


texts: What makes an app unique from POV of options -> assign to desktop?

texts:
What is the set of things that differentiate one application from another from the point of view of right-click on dock icon -> Options -> Assign To (All Desktops / This Desktop / None)?

I've experimented and haven't been able to hit on a combination of actual binary name / Info.plist values / PkgInfo string that will make Mac OS X workspaces think a duplicated application is different from the original for purposes of automatic desktop assignment.


texts: Turning Caps-Lock into Control is not permanent on MacBook Pro Retina

texts:
I want to act my caps-lock key as control-key.
I'm going to preferences ⇒ keyboard ⇒ modifier keys... and say that caps lock should be acting as control.

This is working fine until I put the MacBookPro to sleep for longer time. When I open the lid again, the caps-lock is again working as caps lock.

Not believing that Apple is fixing this quick I'm posting this here in hope that someone knows how to work around this problem.


texts: How to AirPrint to a printer that does not have WiFi?

texts:
My mother has a Samsung printer that works perfectly fine... except that it's not network enabled (it doesn't have WiFi). She wants to print to it using her iPad. Is there any way to do this?

(The most obvious way would be to look for a AirPrint enabled print server, but as odd as it sounds, I haven't been able to find one anywhere. Does such a thing exist?)


texts: Deleted Macintosh HD. Need to create a new partition/ partition table

texts:
I was trying to install El Capitan. I went to erase Macintosh HD in recovery> disk utility as I wanted to do a clean install. It then deleted the Macintosh partition then gave me an error code saying it couldn't delete the disk image or something like that.

After that I go to partion my fusion drive and the partition button does nothing. I am now left with just the 'Fusion Drive', nothing else in terms of partitions. I tried to check the disk but that button didn't work either. After some research I think disk utility must have deleted the partition table?

Basically I need to create a new partition in my Fusion Drive hard drive. However disk utility is not letting me. I have gone into the properties of the fusion drive and it says 'Writeable: No'.

I think my only option is to create a partition using the terminal in recovery but I don't know how to do that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: How to make MBP use USB Ethernet first and when disconnected, use WI-FI?

texts:
The Wi-Fi where I work is spotty at times and spotty in certain locations (like where my cube is :-(  ).  I won't get into why it's still like this after months of complaining but I want to use the USB Ethernet at my desk since it's more reliable and then fail over to Wi-Fi if I unplug the USB to go to meetings or something.

I found this link on the apple stackexchange site but it's not doing what I think it should be doing, which is connect in the order specified in System Preferences.  It appears that it's connecting to both and using both sources (Wi-Fi more than USB).

In this screenshot, we can see my System Preferences.  USB is first, Wi-Fi is second.

In this screenshot, we can see via iStat Menus that both interfaces are receiving traffic, although, most traffic has been going thru Wi-Fi even though I've been plugged into USB for about the past 45 min to 1 hr.  Hopefully there's a way to connect strictly via USB when I'm at my desk and Wi-Fi when I move around.


texts:
Hi so I can't currently create a minimum reproducible example but I am missing texts that I know I sent and appear in the search on the iMessage app but aren't in chat.db

My python code below

import sqlite3
import pandas as pd

db = 'chatCopy.db'
conn = sqlite3.connect(db)
c = conn.cursor()

cmd1 = 'SELECT * \
            FROM message \
            '

c.execute(cmd1)
messages = pd.DataFrame(c.fetchall(), columns = list(map(lambda x: x[0], c.description)))

messages[messages['text'].apply(lambda x : 'Maybe like Sherlock' in x if x else False)].shape
>>>(0, 68)

Then when searching in iMessage

Finally when going to ~/Library/Messages/Archive/ the messages do exist.  (This is what I assume the messages app is actually searching.)

I have somewhat noticed that this is only happening with older messages although I cannot confirm that this only happens to older messages.


texts:
While trying to run a MATLAB script, I am getting the following error:

Compiling minFunc files...
Building with 'Xcode with Clang'.
Error using mex
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer), missing
xcrun at: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcrun

On searching further, I got the following solution to install command-line-tools using the command:

xcode-select --install

but it is giving me:

xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

On running brew config I got the following information:

HOMEBREW_VERSION: >=1.7.1 (shallow or no git repository)
ORIGIN: (none)
HEAD: (none)
Last commit: never
Core tap ORIGIN: (none)
Core tap HEAD: (none)
Core tap last commit: never
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_LOGS: /Users/swastik/Library/Logs/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS_THIS_RUN: 1
CPU: octa-core 64-bit haswell
Homebrew Ruby: 2.3.7 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/bin/ruby
Clang: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer), missing xcrun at: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcrun
N/A
Git: N/A
Curl: 7.54.0 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 10.13.6-x86_64
CLT: 10.1.0.0.1.1539992718
Xcode: dunno

How to solve this problem?


texts: I upgraded to Lion. Where's my TRIM support?

texts: I upgraded to Lion a couple of weeks ago, looking forward to the promised TRIM support on my 2009 MacBook Pro. It seems that the upgrade hasn't enabled it. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing so in the disk manager. Am I missing something?


texts:
I was wondering,

is it possible to allow for simple latex formatting on iMessage?
At least for just greek letters, it shouldn't be too different from the emoticons support.


texts: Why can't I left click on my Macbook Pro?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, Late 2012) running OS X El Capitan (10.11.13).

What works:

Secondary click with two fingers
Feel/sound of trackpad click (no noticeable change in the feel of the trackpad)
Three/four-finger swipes/gestures

What doesn’t work:

Primary (i.e. left) click
One finger tapping to click

What I’ve tried:

Toggling System Preferences Trackpad settings
Rebooting
Toggling Bluetooth even though it’s normally off and I don’t own a bluetooth mouse (Can't click with trackpad or mouse (OS X 10.9, MacBook Pro))
Using a USB mechanical mouse (right click worked, left click didn’t)
Switching the Primary mouse button with the USB mechanical mouse connected (Secondary click on the left button worked, Primary click on the right button didn’t)
Reset SMC and PRAM (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reset-macs-smc-pram/)
Apple Hardware Test (No results found, could not click “Perform extended testing”)
Booting in Safe Mode
Checking Battery Health ("Condition: Normal” according to System Report; some people have had trouble with their battery bulging)
Laying my Macbook Pro on its side and tapping underneath the trackpad area (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3097419?start=15&tstart=0)

I’m confused.

I’ve used the Accessibility Options Shortcut (Fn-⌘-⌥-F5) to turn on mouse keys, which I’ve been using for the past week. As fun as it is to toggle mouse keys on and off, I’d really like to get the clicking working. Please help. I will be happy if this has a stupid easy answer.


texts: Advisability of using a OneDrive folder mounted on external drive for Time Machine?

texts:
I want to use a OneDrive folder as the location to which Time Machine backs-up my internal drive. I'm pretty sure that Time Machine can't back-up to a cloud drive that is mounted on the volume that it is backing-up because it creates a loop (that is why I would mount the cloud drive on an external drive that Time Machine is not backing-up).

If my internal drive fails then:

get a new drive.
do a fresh install of OS X.
attach any external drive.
install OneDrive and mount the OneDrive cloud drive on this external drive.
point Time Machine at the OneDrive folder.
tell Time Machine to restore.
done.

I can rest safely knowing that is how it would work? Or, am I about to make a devastating mistake that leaves me with no Time Machine protection?


texts:
The former owner of my iPhone gets a notification every time I receive a text message.

I did "Reset All Content and Settings"
I am signed in under iCloud (and did sign out the previous owner.)
Under Messages > Send & Receive only my phone number and my iCloud-email are listed.

What else could it be?

It's an iPhone6.


texts: How can I prevent my Mac from periodically whooshing at me?

texts:
Seemingly randomly throughout the day, my mac will "whoosh" at me.  I set up Messages, but whenever I switch to Messages after the whoosh, I don't have any new messages and usually my buddies are set to Away status anyway.

Notification center is empty with "No new notifications."

I don't have the mail client set up or running, so it can't be that.  I do use Reminders and sometimes put things in the calendar, but I don't think those are whooshing at me.

What is whooshing at me and how do I make it stop?


texts:
I would like to change the filename of a lot of files by adding a random suffix to the existing filenames.

I have tried to change this code (changes the filename instead of adding a suffix) but with no succes.

#!/bin/bash

chars=( {a..z} {A..Z} {0..9} )

function rand_string {
    local c=$1 ret=
    while((c--)); do
        ret+=${chars[$((RANDOM%${#chars[@]}))]}
    done
    printf '%s\n' "$ret"
}

for file in ~/Desktop/test/*; do
    ext=$(echo ${file} | sed 's,^.*(\.[^\.]*$),\1,')
    mv "$file" ~/Desktop/test/"$file$(rand_string 10)"${ext}
done

A command line or automator solution would be preferable


texts: I have a Macbook Pro 2012 that continues to beach ball after I erased the hard drive and upgraded to macOS Sierra 10.12 , why is still beach balling?

texts: My original OS is 10.10.5. I had trouble with really bad beach balling. I ran an Malware bytes scan, everything is good. I ran disk permissions in Disk Utility with a total of two repairs and verified after each repair. Verified a total of three times. Prior to verifiying it a third time I received a cksum error on both repairs. I erased the hard drive anyways because it was still beach balling and it went from 10.10.5 to 10.8. I ran an upgrade that took at least 12 hours to complete. It rebooted and it stilled continued to beach ball after the upgrade install. SMART status is verified so I'm assuming the hard drive is good.


texts: How to tell is a damaged iPad Air is repairable

texts:
I was given an iPad Air (model A1474) which seems to had a tough life. The screen and LCD matrix are broken and I would like to know if it is still alive before replacing these broken parts.

How should I proceed? I connected the iPad to a PC with iTunes via USB connection but got no response.

Is there any other way to tell if the iPad is salvageable and can be repaired?


texts: Is the MacPort version of XQuartz severly outdated or what?

texts:
At https://www.xquartz.org/ the current version of XQuartz is listed as 2.7.11 but in MacPort it looks like this

$ port search xquartz
xorg-server @1.20.5 (x11, devel)
    The X.org / Xquartz X server.

xorg-server-1.18 @1.18.4 (x11, devel)
    The X.org / Xquartz X server.

xorg-server-devel @1.20.4 (x11, devel)
    The X.org / Xquartz X server.

Found 3 ports.

The xquartz.org version is released 2016 so it is not like MP haven't had time to update. Am I missing something? Exactly what should I install if I want to run X11-applications using a SSH tunnel?


texts: While looking at the activity monitor it occurred to me that I've a Mac Cleanse Helper process visible in the Energy tab. I might have installed this program in past but I got rid of it. How can I completely remove all the related files from the system?


texts: Any way to turn off the Catalina login after wake?

texts: So I get that Catalina was supposed to be more secure and protect your privacy yadda yadda but my computer is at home behind a locked door and a doorman, I don't need to enter my login password every time the Mac wakes up from sleep. The Security and Privacy setting to require login after sleep or screen saver is turned off and indeed when I interrupt the screen saver it gets me back to the computer, but if I leave it for too long and the screen saver goes to black and the computer sleeps, it always requires a login when woken up. This was never the case prior to Catalina. Is there anything I can do to disable it? The interwebs have failed me in my search.


texts: Late 2011 iMac wont boot after Mavericks install

texts:
I am not very tech savvy so please answer in lamans terms.

I recently updated my iMac to Mavericks via App Store. Few days later I was using iTunes and system kept playing up. Following day I couldn't get past the boot screen.

I just get the Apple logo and a loading sign.

Tried safe mode, but loading bar just disappears about 1/4 way
through.
Tried recovery mode. Checked and reapired permission etc. Was saying
a bunch of file routes could not be recognised but said repaired
fine. Next try, same info displayed.
Tried reinstalling Mavericks but no luck. In fact on a couple of
occasions it wouldn't let me do that, just kept saying try again.
Then did internet recover and tried to revert back to Lion but
wouldn't allow it cos Mavericks is on system.

Now instead of Apple grey screen on load up I get the logo and some text comes up with a bunch of numbers and says something about "panic".

I do not have any of my OS on time machine as far as I am aware. Really would prefer not to erase my HD cos then it means losing a bunch of programmes. And dont yet have photos and that backed up onto Ext HD.


texts: Is there a firewall on an iPad on iOS 10, and is it configurable?

texts:
I have an iPad Air 2. I've been using a comic book reader called Bookman for years. It allows importing books over FTP on a set port (2121). It has worked for years without an issue, but ever since I updated to iOS 10.0.2, I keep getting "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server" trying to connect to the iPad's IP.

A ping to the iPad's IP works, and connecting to another app that uses port 80 works. I verified it's not a client side issue, by trying from several machines. At this point, I think something in iOS is blocking the port.

Is there a firewall, or any other configurable part that I can allow traffic through?


texts: How to determine what macport (if any) containing an specific file?

texts:
For some reason looking for an macport package what containing an specific file, in this case looking for the file:

sapi/embed/php_embed.h (probably should be somewhere in the `/opt/local/include/...`)

and some php package should contains it.

I have installed the php55 macport but it doesn't contains the above file.

Unfortunately the port contents portname show only the content of already installed packages.

Is possible to show (or find somewhere) what files containing some macport packages without installing them - e.g. how to find what package i need to install to get the sapi/embed/php_embed.h file?


texts: You can crop photos in the Photo app, like "square", "3:2" etc. but are those in inches? Or just ratio? How do I crop a photo in x-inch by y-inch on iPad?


texts: What iOS apps allow free calling to the UK?

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I travel a lot, so often rely on WiFi for calling. On the iPhone, I use MagicJack to get completely free calls over WiFi/VoIP to US numbers. I'm looking for a similar app to enable me to call UK numbers for free on the iPhone. Does anyone know of one?

Note:

I'm talking only about apps that allow completely free calling to regular chargeable numbers - primarily landlines but ideally also mobiles - the Apple app stores are full of apps that allow "cheap" calling.
Suspicious apps that require credit card numbers upfront, etc., aren't as interesting.


texts: iPhone - "Edit User Dictionary" is missing

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Initially I had 5 keyboards

English
Spanish
Emoji
Japanese (Ten Key)
Japanese (Romaji)

I added a couple words to my User Dictionary. Later I realized that I do not use the two Japanese ones very much, so I removed them. After doing that, the "Edit User Dictionary..." option completely disappeared from my Keyboard Settings menu. When I put Japanese (Romaji) back on, the option reappears.

I tried deleting the few words I had entered and removing the unwanted keyboard again, still the option does not appear. I am thinking the dictionary database may have been built to correspond only with the keyboards I had when I initially edited the dictionary, and now it won't rebuild or something.

Anyone else seen this?

Thanks!
Thomas


texts: Some voice memos not playing on phone or itunes

texts: I have a bunch of voice memos, all under ten minutes long.  I frequently have trouble syncing them to iTunes--at the moment one in particular won't play on my phone (although it's listed with the correct title and duration) and it's not syncing to the correct playlist.  It appears in iTunes under my phone, but won't play.  Generally, I change all the Voice Memos to the type "Music" and add an artist.  Yesterday it played fine, both on iTunes and on my phone.  I haven't made any changes since then so I have no idea what's different. Using an iPhone 6 and iTunes 12.6


texts:
Since upgrading to Sierra, every reboot OSX asks me to set up Siri then says "setting up mac".

How do I stop this?  It seems to be blowing away my KeyRepeat settings in NSGlobalDomain


texts: How to start Internet Recovery Mode of El Capitan with multiple OS installed?

texts:
Thank you for your time. Here is my problem:

A) Goal

Start into Mac OS X El Capitan internet recovery mode and temporarily disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) to use (X11 functions of) Wineskin.

B) Situation

I've got two systems on my 2011 MacBook Pro as partitions:

Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8; this is the default startup disk and the "factory set" OS (actually Lion) of the computer.
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6; apparently without a recovery partition...
I access this OS via the startup manager ([Opt key] at Mac chime).

C) Problem

To boot into (internet) recovery mode I normally would press [(Opt +) Cmd + R] at the Mac chime and then disable SIP from the Terminal (csrutil).

As of the system configuration above, if I do this, it starts into internet recovery mode of Snow Leopard, where I cannot change the status of SIP because the csrutil command does not exist yet in this OS, of course.

But my intention is to start into internet recovery mode of El Capitan, not Snow Leopard.
How can I achieve this with this configuration?

D) What I've tried so far

Enter the startup manager ([Opt] at chime), choose El Capitan and then hit [Cmd + R].
= Does not start any recovery mode.
Change the default start up disk to El Capitan and hit [(Opt +) Cmd + R] at the chime.
= Starts into Snow Leopard recovery mode...
Create a recovery partition this way.
= Does not work; Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.4 seems broken.

E) Additional Questions

Those don't have to be answered necessarily, but if you do: Many thanks!

I'd like to avoid reinstalling El Capitan to create a recovery partition since I believe in a simpler solution. But as a last straw, I'd do that of course. Would this be advisable?
If I installed El Capitan on an external drive, could I disable SIP from there (or its recovery partition) or would I run into the same problem?
Could I disable SIP via Firewire Disk Mode; that is from another computer (in this case OS X Sierra)?
Could I start into El Capitan recovery mode from verbose mode?
I'm probably mistaken, but does the EFI partitions which I see in terminal (diskutil list) have anything to do with the recovery mode? If yes, could I start into that (from verbose)?
Out of curiosity: Why didn't create El Capitan no recovery partition in the first place? (There is none when I do "diskutil list" in Terminal, only a "Boot OS X", but that's probably something about Snow Leopard...)

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards Jeremy


texts: Summary of Apple Specfic terminal commands

texts: Where can i find such a good list? I tried googling, but they just cover the linux basics (cd, ls, rm, sed, etc.). What are the Apple specific tools for changing settings, volumes, bundles, plists etc?


texts: Comparing Apple's aluminum keyboards, wired compact vs wireless

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I never thought I would replace my old Apple Extended II, but after getting a Wired Keyboard with my Mac I found it to be a great alternative - and with all those Eject and volume keys...

But it's big. Big enough that I'm always hitting the right side of it when I'm gaming. Wide enough that I want to try something else. So I got the Apple Wireless Keyboard. It uses someone else's mechanism for the keys, and they are harder to push and mushy. My typo rate soared so I returned it.

So, I'm thinking of getting the Compact Wired version. Has anyone reading this used the Compact Wired, current Apple Wired AND the Wireless versions and can compare them? Is the Compact Wired's mechanism the same as the one in the larger wired, or the wireless? It's this one:


texts:
I have a Logitech C615 web cam with a built-in microphone. I want to use a headset with earplugs and a microphone for more private conversations. There are phone out and mic in plugs on my Mac Mini.

However, I can not turn the sound off on the web cam. I can mute it, but the headset mic will not work.

Is there a way to turn off the sound on the web cam, or do I need to buy another one without the mic?


texts: Can I unlock an iCloud ipod that I bought and no code

texts: i need to buy new ipod 5th gen. I keep seeing that many of them are iCloud locked. Can this lock be removed and how do I do it?


texts: can new Macbook of apple supports simultaneous charging & data transfer through usb type C port?

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does macbook has capability to handle both charging of laptop & data transfer simultaneously. i have the hub which has three type c connectors 1.) dedicated charger port connected to charger 2.)downstream port of that hub is used for data transfer 3) Type C port which can be connected to Macbook.

i will take care of all CC signals & D+,D- and other signals. I want to know whether apple permits both simultaneous charging & data transfer.


texts: How to create the app icon on current screen?

texts:
When installing a new app, and even though i have space left in my home screen, why does it create a new screen and create the icon there?

Is there any configuration to, when installing a new app, the icon be created to fill the space in already created screens?