texts: Change default fullscreen new window behavior

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I keep many apps open full-screen to maximize screen real estate on my laptop. If I have some full-screen app open and create a new window, I more often than not want that window to not go fullscreen. Yet the current behavior is that a new window will open as a tab of the current window.

Is it possible to make new windows actually create new windows on an existing Desktop, not fullscreen spaces, or new tabs of existing windows? If this is not possible in general, this mostly applies, in my case, to Terminal, so I would appreciate specific fixes as well.


texts: How do I prevent nginx from auto-loading using homebrew?

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I'm using Mac High Sierra.  I install nginx with homebrw a while back, but I can't remember how to permanently stop it from running when my computer boots.  I have this file

localhost:mydir davea$ ls /Library/LaunchDaemons/*nginx*
/Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist

but even though "sudo brew services stop nginx", stops it, I don't want to have to keep running that every time I restart my machine.


texts: How do I keep the new line/line break/end of line in a file consistent across mac and windows

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I use DropBox on both a windows and a mac.

Whenever I add lines to a .txt file on my mac and sync it with DropBox to my windows, the "new lines" are skrewed up when reading the file on my windows, and vice verse.

My mac insists to use it own form of new lines even so that the file was created with a different type of new lines. The end result is a file with mixed new line types.

I know that new lines are different on windows and mac os x (and on linux for that matter) and I know that this is the problem.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

I would expect textedit in OS X to detect the type of new line used and stick with it.

Is there anyway that I can accomplish that ?


texts: Safari displays wrong color according to Digital Color Meter

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I have the following HTML snippet open in Safari. Digital Color Meter reports the color as #FEDC53.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Broken Colors?</title>
</head>
<body style="background-color: #FFDD44">
Hello, World!
</body>
</html>

Is Safari displaying the incorrect color? Or is Digital Color Meter displaying reading the wrong color? How do I find out? How do I fix this?

Comparative true FFDD44 swatch, with sRGB profile embedded.


texts: How to open applications in fullscreen via Terminal

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I just created a script to open my most-used apps, but I have two questions about it.

The code of the script is the following:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hi $(whoami)"
echo "Openning your default apps..."
open -a Mail
open -a Wunderlist
open -a Reminders
open -a Notes
open -a Pocket
open -a Safari
echo "Do you want social networks? [y|n]"
read social
if [[ $social == "y" ]]; then
    open -a Telegram
    open -a Safari http://web.whatsapp.com
    open -a TweetDeck
fi
echo "Do you want to listen some music? [y|n]"
read music
if [[ $music == "y" ]]; then
    open -a iTunes
fi
echo "Have a nice day $(whoami)! :D"

So here come the questions:

How can I open those apps in fullscreen by default? iTunes have memory and open in fullscreen mode, but the others don't.
How can I keep Terminal in foreground while the other apps are being open?


texts: What's the purpose of Mac firmware standalone updates still offered by Apple online?

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I'm learning Mac troubleshooting and have stumbled upon this article several times, which very clearly explains that you can download and install these updates from macOS itself:
About EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Mac computers (no longer updated since Published Date: 25 September 2017)

Just for the sake of knowledge, what's the purpose of these updates?

These are older versions of the firmware, and you can't use them to update your firmware as you'll obviously have a later update, neither to downgrade the firmware. Neither to install the firmware if your Mac fails and upgrade (for that purpose there's an installation CD you can use).

In what scenario would you use these?


texts: Installed "El Capitan"on my MacBook Air and now my computer doesn't recognize my printer

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I had Mavericks on my MacBook Air previously. After installing "El Capitan", my printer isn't recognized anymore (it was before the upgrade). I added my printer to the "list of printers" again, but it still wouldn't print.

Need help with an easy to understand solution.


texts: Restoring/Forwarding offline emails from Mac Mail

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A long time ago I started using Mac Mail instead of my web-based Yahoo email. Then I deleted all my emails from my web-based Yahoo account and kept them on Mac Mail. Now that I've stopped using Mac Mail and I'm back to using web-based Yahoo, I want to know if there's any way I can restore/forward these offline emails stored on my Mac Mail back into Yahoo. There are a lot of emails, so forwarding one by one is not an option.

Someone help?

Thank you!!


texts: Automator action to adjust volume on audio files

texts: I am looking for an Automator action (or an app with Automator support) that can adjust the volume on audio files (something like set to 150% of input file volume), preferably free.


texts: How to disable "Eject device before disconnecting or turning it off." finder notification

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I have an external mic with storage built-in, and every time I unplug it (or turn the monitor off, which cuts power to the mic) I get an notification shown in the screenshot: Disk not ejected properly. It is an 'Alert' style notification because it persists until I clear it. I don't want to eject the device every time I turn off the monitor or unplug it. I don't even use the storage on it. I don't care about corruption like this answer.
Can I disable this alert some how, or make it less obtrusive? I used to okay with it in the previous macOS, but in Big Sur this notification is more annoying to clear away.


texts: What happens when you disable launch daemon?

texts:
Recent versions of macOS have a new syntax for launchctl which seems to favor Terminal commands over manually editing plist files.  I'm trying to understand how this works, and the interaction between plist files and these commands.  Let's look at sshd as an example.  Here we see it's disabled in the system domain:
% launchctl print-disabled system
disabled services = {
...
    "com.openssh.sshd" => true

Trying to get more info by name doesn't work:
% launchctl print system/com.openssh.sshd
Could not find service "com.openssh.sshd" in domain for system

Oddly enough, enabling the service requires two commands with different target names.  I don't know why launchctl bootstrap system/com.openssh.sshd doesn't work.  The man page doesn't mention any differences in syntax between these two commands:
% sudo launchctl enable system/com.openssh.sshd
% sudo launchctl bootstrap system /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist

At this point SSH is working, but it still shows as "Off" in System Preferences > Sharing.  The print command now works, showing lots of details about the service.  And it shows that it's enabled here:
% launchctl print-disabled system
disabled services = {
    "com.openssh.sshd" => false

But the plist still says it's disabled:
% head -n 6 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <true/>

Apparently something is overriding the disabled key in the plist.  Where is it?


texts: Show/emphasize only certain types of files in finder

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I use TeX a lot and it generates lots of auxiliary files that I am generally not interested in opening, and they clutter up my folders.  Is there any way to make Finder automatically hide/gray-out files with certain extensions in Compact List or Column views, either for a specific folder or for all folders?

Alternatively, if this is not possible, can I customize the "view by file type" option to separate into my own categories based on file extension (e.g., category 1 would contain .tex and .pdf files, category 2 would contain .sty and .bib, and so on) and have them listed alphabetized by category?


texts: This Apple support article, MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory, says that the maximum memory on a MacBook Pro 13-inch is 8 GB. Is that a hard limit? Why could I not install a 16 GB memory stick in there? Would it work, but only for the first 8 GB? Is there any way around the limit?


texts: I need to compress a PDF to 5 mb (at most, but best exactly)

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Is there any way to compress a PDF (with the preview / iOS default software) to a certain size in mb (in my case as close as possible under or equal 5 mb)? The actual size right now is (6 scanned pages) 8.8 mb.

If i just use the "normal way" (meaning: finder, export using quarz-filter, compress pdf) i get a far too small and therefore unreadable PDF.

Anyone knowing a good work around?

Thanks for help!


texts: Disable Confirmation Dialogs in Finder for iCloud Drive

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Is it possible to disable the confirmation dialog when moving/removing/deleting a file from iCloud Drive? The constant barrage of dialogs is incredibly irritating - I understand that removing the file from iCloud Drive will result in the file being removed from all of my iCloud Devices.

There is no Finder preference that I could find, and a Google search has not yielded anything.


texts:
Would it be possible For example would it be possible for me to code a very simple repeat code but say If I just typed STOP that it would end the program here is my beginning code for the repeat.

set x to 1

repeat while x is 1
    tell application "Finder"
       activate
       make new Finder window
    end tell
end repeat

and so for example if STOP is entered set x to 2 or something?

Thank you


texts: The 3rd party RSS Feed alternatives to Safari that I've found are cumbersome...in my opinion. Any simple, and good looking ones out there? (using NetNewsWire and it looks/feels bloated). Perhaps there's a Safari Extension?


texts:
My firewall asked me for a connection from lsboxd (module com.apple.ls.boxd, ) to one another computer in my network to the port tcp 548. What does it do? I found that it is a part of sandbox technology of a OS X, but what is it more specifically? I found it in my launchctl list output:

com.apple.LaunchServices.lsboxd


texts: Installing Applications on Mac through Network

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I need to install an application to number of Macs. Is there any way i can do it over the network or any other advise on this.

Thanks


texts: iMac 10,1 allegedly does not support nvram, and takes longer than usual to boot. What could be the issue?

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Command+Option+P+R does nothing, and executing nvram -xp and nvram -c returns the same nvram is not supported on this system
This is on a clean install of Yosemite (installation of El Cap and above fails every time), on a SATA internal SSD.
Edit: The underlying issue I'm trying to fix is slow boot times. Yosemite is installed on an SSD, yet it still takes about 2 minutes and 20 seconds to boot up. I've recorded a video of it booting up in verbose mode, but I've yet to decide whether to upload that or try to get a text dump of the console.
Edit 2: Watch the iMac boot in real-time, with verbose output: https://streamable.com/9fa6h6
Edit 3: Output of ioreg -p IODeviceTree https://pastebin.com/BGJvkYea
Edit 4: Boot ROM is IM101.00CC.B00 and SMC version (system) is 1.53f13. There is nothing in /System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware Updates/.
Any chance that something like this (https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/adxdb0/the_bodgers_guide_to_getting_nvram_working/) can fix it, partially or otherwise?


texts:
I'm trying to display the time zone that an image was taken in in the Photos app for Mac. I've seen screenshots of this being done but I can't seem to figure it out myself.

What is a way to do so?


texts: Cannot copy a large file; space available

texts:
Trying to copy (drag and drop) an ISO file from SSD1/MacOS Extended to SSD2/FAT32 (two physically different and internal SATA drives):

ISO file size: 4.7 GB
Space available on SSD2 partition: 20 GB

Error message:

  "The item "*.iso" can't be copied because it is too large for the
  volume's format"

Tried to copy on a USB memory stick (10 GB available): same message.

From the command line:

cp /Users/me/file.iso /Volumes/Untitled/
cp: /Volumes/Untitled/file.iso: File too large

Copying on the USB stick, same error but after trying for ten minutes (i.e. it thought the space was available, but it was not).

Everything works when coping a smaller file (40 MB).

What is wrong? I have the impression that the issue is not related to the space available on the destination drive, but to the size of the file being copied.

System details:

MacBook Pro 17" 2009
OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 (the latest one I can use)


texts:
How can I exclude words from searches in iOS App Store?

An example query could be like this:

monopoly -bingo

would avoid matches with bingo from turning up in results when searching for monopoly.

This doesn't work. Is there a way to make this work?


texts: Can corrupted MacBook1,1 graphics be fixed?

texts:
Can the graphics on this 2008 MacBook1,1 be fixed? I believe the OS version is Leopard with all Leopard updates installed. Everything looks fine through entering your password at the login screen, then the wallpaper appears, and the mouse, but all the graphics are corrupted after that, like so:

It is very hot here right now, could this be overheating damage? I tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM, next I will try some kind of restore with the Leopard DVD...


texts: Is there a way to create a notification in the Notification Center with a clickable link?

texts:
I can create a notification in Applescript via

display notification "Notification Text" with title "Title goes here" subtitle "subtitle goes here

However is there a way when I click on the notification it will take me to a url?  I tried setting the notification text to something like "https://apple.stackexchange.com/" however that didn't work.


texts: Easiest way to get path of currently-opened file in Adobe Acrobat?

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When viewing a file in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI on OSX Yosemite, I sometimes want to send the file to another application. To create an action in KeyboardMaestro, I need to get the path of the currently-open file from Acrobat. How can I get the path?

A way to send the value to the clipboard would be enough; getting a value I can manipulate in AppleScript would be even better.


texts: Homebrew: SHA1 Mismatch Even After Update

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Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Lion)
Homebrew 0.9.2

Fresh install of Homebrew. No program will install on its own—the expected hash signature never matches the actual one, for whatever reason.

The only answer I have found online is to do brew update beforehand. I did this, and deleted the previously-downloaded package, but it doesn’t seem to have any effect:

 $ brew update
 Already up-to-date.
 $ brew install sshfs
 ==> Installing sshfs dependency: autoconf
 ==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
 ######################################################################## 100.0%
 Error: SHA1 mismatch
 Expected: 562471cbcb0dd0fa42a76665acf0dbb68479b78a
 Actual: 304f244353d8b7694914ff42fa87f31608728aed
 Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
 (To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)

What’s going on?

Edit: If I download a package manually, and put it into /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ with the same filename that Homebrew expects, and then try to install, it works fine. But if I let Homebrew try to fetch the file itself, the download ends prematurely after only a few kilobytes which corrupts the file and causes the hashes not to match.


texts: I recently had my screen replaced on my I phone 5c from a vender in our local mall. The screen had been previously cracked for about 6 mnths and functioned fine until I dropped the phone after being outside in freezing weather for a few hours. At any rate now it is acting all hay wire like my touch screen doesn't always work properly... I press one thing I get another... Especially if the phone is cold or my hands are hot then the touch screen doesn't work at all... My question is should I be heading back to the mall and asking some questions about my repair? I was reading previous post on calibrating touch screen and I tried a couple ideas... It mentioned something about it being in the front panel which I just had replaced so I'm wondering if I got a faulty repair or if it's something else entirely?


texts: How can I make sure that the title of a Terminal tab/window is identical to the command I typed

texts:
I noticed that for aliases etc the title of a Terminal tab/window often isn't the same as the command I typed. This is sometimes confusing, especially for long-running processes with similar names.

So how can I configure bash/Terminal in a way which ensures that the window title always reflects the command as typed?

Examples:

When I type python -m SimpleHTTPServer and press Return in a Terminal window, the tab of that Terminal window should show "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" immediately.
When I type flushdns, which is my alias for sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder;sudo killall mDNSResponderHelper;sudo dscacheutil -flushcache and press Return in a Terminal window, the tab of that Terminal window should show "flushdns" immediately.

What I tried:

I tried modifying PS4 to run a command. This works, however it also prints a lot of other garbage, like getting the current git branch and other commands I put in my PS1. If there's a way for PS4 to only run scripts and not output anything (not even line breaks) I'm fine with that too as a solution.

I also tried the various options under Preferences > Profiles > Tab, but it does not allow showing the literal command I just entered.


texts: Can I use Thunderbolt to mini display port?

texts: I have a 2011 27" IMac running OS X 10.6.8 with a mini display port and would like to purchase a 13.3" MacBook pro with Thunderbolt and use the IMac as an external display.  Can I do this with a mini display port cable and will the two screens mirror or will I be able to view separate windows on each monitor like mail on the MACBook and a browser on the IMAC?  Also, I will run Windows 7 in Parallels or with boot camp on the MacBook and wonder if that will still allow me to use the IMac as an external monitor?


texts: Start Quicktime Player recording while in Split View mode

texts: I have two apps side by side in Split View mode and would like to record that. Is there a way to start a QuickTime Player recording while being in Split View mode with two apps ?


texts: Why is my iPhone 4S showing so much "Other" data in iOS 7?

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I've upgraded to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4s, cleared photos, cleared and turned off Photo Stream, deleted large apps, books, etc… and this is the 4th time I've installed iOS and started from scratch since the release of the new OS update, and yet I still get minimum of ~10GB of this "Other" data on my phone which doesn't let me include the data and files I want to have on my phone.

Any ideas or suggestions?


texts: Identify notification/alert sound I did not recognise

texts:
My MacBook Pro just made a notification/alert noise that I did not recognise.

I am familiar with all of the sounds that are available as alert sounds under the sounds effects pane in System Preferences, so I am unsure what this was trying to notify me about. I only had Google Chrome open and all tabs I had open did not have any sound-playing components to them (no YouTube, no autoplay ads, etc). It was a longer sound maybe 2–2.5 seconds.

Is there a site that details all the notifications sounds so that I may be able to figure it out?


texts: OSX keyboard shortcut for pushing button with underlined character

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Is it possible on OSX to push buttons that have an underlined character? In Windows you can hold in ALT and push the key that is underlined on the button.

Example:

On Windwos I can hit the "Replace"-button by hitting ALT+p, the "Replace all"-button by hitting ALT+a, etc.

How can I achieve this on a mac?


texts: iTerm not showing colors for directories/folders

texts:
I have tried solutions in various places (including here but there are still no color in my iTerm.

I have these lines in my .bash_profile:

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=cxfxdxdxhxegedabagacad

And if I do ls, it gives me everything in the same color:

any help? Thanks!

BTW, I am using https://github.com/nightsense/vimspectr for the shell but even I removed it, the terminal still has no color.


texts: How to sync my iTunes library to my iPhone while still using iCloud Music Library for Apple Music?

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Is it possible for me to keep iCloud Music Library turned on so I can actually use Apple Music (save tracks and playlists to the My Music playlist) while also maintaining the ability to sync any music I acquire the old-fashioned way (downloads, CDs, etc) and add to my iTunes library?

It's so damn annoying to have to turn on and off iCloud Music Library just to be able to sync music to my phone while using Apple Music.


texts: Can a singe Dropbox'ed 1Password db be shared between 1Password v4 & v3?

texts: I share my 1Password db on Dropbox across a number of machines.  If I upgrade some machines to 1Password 4, will the 1Password db no longer work with 1Password 3 instances.  Caveat: One of the machines can no longer support OS upgrade beyond Lion.


texts: Only 3 FPS on Mac mini, boot camp, windows 7

texts:
Using the GPU test tool from FurMark i get only 3 FPS.

In normal use I notice it when playing fullscreen videos: When the video pans horizontal i get these stripes across the picture.

My setup is like this:

Mac mini 2011 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5/ 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-10600)/500 GB HD/Intel HD 3000/Thunderbolt
OS: windows 7
Tv: Panasonic G10 50" plasma
Tv and computer are connected with an 2 meter HDMI cable

I've tried to change the HDMI cable - did not change anything.

What can I try?


texts: System Info says my Documents folder is 170GB when Finder says it's only 8GB!

texts:
Today I got a warning that my disk was running out of space, and up popped the System Information Recommendations window.  It claims my Documents folder is 170GB in size as you can see here:

But checking via Finder, the folder is only 8GB in size:

Not sure what's going on here.  In case it's relevant, my Documents folder is also synced to my Google Drive via Google Backup & Sync.  Does Google maybe store "versions" hidden somewhere or something on my drive?  I've enabled invisible items and nothing significant showed up in the Documents folder, so I'm stumped.  Not sure if the 170GB number is even real or not.


texts: Is there a simple MacOS Bluetooth Toggle Shell Command?

texts:
I have found this answer that shows how to toggle WiFi using a keyboard shortcut: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/194372/406298.
I have created a new Action in the automater app to run the shell command provided in the answer:
networksetup -getairportpower en1 | grep "On" && networksetup -setairportpower en1 off || networksetup -setairportpower en1 on

Then, I have added the Actions shortcut in the keyboard's Touchbar to toggle WiFi from the Touchbar.
This works great as a quick WiFi toggle from the touchbar. However, I would like to do the same for Blutooth. Is there a similar simple shell command to toggle Bluetooth?
Thank you in advance.


texts: Is there any way to upgrade my jailbroken iPad to a higher jailbreakable iOS?

texts:
I have a jailbroken fourth-generation iPad running iOS 6.1.3.  I'd like to upgrade it to some higher iOS, but not the latest iOS (10.3.3 or 11), since no jailbreak exists for that.  My question is, is there anyway I can upgrade my iPad to an iOS for which a jailbreak exists?

I think the short answer to my question is "blobs".  In the old days there was just SHSH blobs, but now the terminology is more complicated, like SHSH2, ApTicket, and TSS.  In any case, how do I check if I have the right kind of blobs  to do the kind of upgrade I want?  Are they still saved in Cydia like in the old days, or what?


texts:
I uninstalled Keynote app from Applications, since I am unable to update it because of the error

I empty trash and try to reinstall it again. I am getting the same error. And its still showing UPDATE option, not GET option.
I am getting this problem with this version of mac(v10.12.5), previous versions I updated successfully with my appleid.
Any help on this..


texts: How to restore file permissions after wrong chown

texts:
All the files whether system files or drive are owned by root:wheel. What should I do?

Currently my Mac only opens in recovery mode.

I use mac OS Catalina

I stuck with recovery terminal what is the default ownership for all these files

first I command this wrong command chown -R _www:_www /
 and destroyed my mac then i command on recovery terminal
chown -R root /
which made things worse i think

I reinstalled Mac now I am stuck here. The old password doesn't work. Does Mac have a default name and password or what


texts: Moving Files From Dropbox App to Music App

texts: Recently my laptop was put out of commission. Since then I've downloaded some music into my iPad's Dropbox app. I would like to move this from Dropbox to the Music app, but I'm not sure of a way to do it without my laptop. Any help would be great.


texts: Mac operating system from disc at startup

texts:
Hello everyone and thank you in advance.

I have just downloaded Linux Ubuntu and put it on a disk. What i want to do is to hold C during the Mac startup so that I can choose to boot my mac through the CD with the Linux Ubuntu operating system. However, I am worried about what will happen when I run my Mac through this CD and I have some questions

How do I change back between operating systems?
Will the startup commands work the same?
What will happen if I turn my computer off and eject the disk? Will
my Mac just launch normally?
Any other information about booting from a disk that may be relevant

I understand this might seem stupid but please answer if you have any idea of how this whole "boot through CD thing works"! Thank you


texts:
Is there a reference of keyboard shortcuts for System 4, so I can use a Macintosh SE with a keyboard and no mouse?

I found a Macintosh SE and a keyboard on the street several years ago. It didn't have any cables, so the only thing I could do with the Mac was use another power cable and turn it on. Yesterday, my ADB cable arrived, so I can use the keyboard, but I still don't have a compatible mouse. According to my Googling, the Macintosh SE runs System 4 and Finder 5.2.

Is there a reference of keyboard shortcuts for System 4, so I can play around with the system?


texts: Can I hide the new messages notification in the Mail icon for only one of my email accounts?

texts:
Basically I would like to have two email accounts setup on my iPhone 4, one my personal account and one for work.

However for the work account, I'd like to not have it's unread message count included in the number of unread messages displayed as a part of the Mail app's icon (the number in the red circle).

Is this possible to do?


texts: How do I get into boot options with a non-mac keyboard?

texts:
I boot my mac mini, hold down alt on my non-mac keyboard, but it does not go to boot options.

How do I get to boot options with a non-mac keyboard then?


texts: iPod nano 7th generation app development

texts: What programming language does the iPod nano 7th generation use? I would like to develop an app for my own iPod nano 7th generation.


texts:
Is there a good alternative to Autodesk's 3D modeling software 3ds Max that works on a Mac?

I like 3ds Max because it's very powerful and easy to use for someone who is not an expert in 3D modeling.

I tried Blender, but it was really hard to understand and control, and I found its commands to be very counter-intuitive.


texts:
When selecting the Apple on the top bar and then 'Shut Down' or 'Restart', Finder won't show the alert that asks you to confirm that you want to restart or shut down the computer (the one with the timer). Spotlight not working, and no dots under active apps...

I tried relaunching Finder but that didn't work.

Any ideas?


texts: Can not edit or add a user account on Mavericks Server App

texts:
I'm having a problem with the Server app on my Mac Mini.

I had to renew my Domain Name and DNS is now working well. But i can not edit existing user accounts or add new user accounts to my Server. The the + and - buttons to add or remove users are greyed out and it is not possible for me to edit something under this Service. And under the Server app it is not possible to add a Network user.

What might be causing this problem?


texts: How do I open two/multiple fullscreen views simultaneously in 10.7 Lion?

texts:
When I open two Lion-supported-fullscreen apps in dual-monitor mode, one monitor shows one app while the other monitor shows a "fabric" pattern/texture. The other fullscreen app is available by swipe or Mission Control as another view, but I'd prefer to have the two fullscreen apps up simultaneously (and no cloth pattern texture on the other screen). Is there a way to customize my setup natively or with apps to accommodate?

Moreover, is there a way to disable the second screen's "fabric" pattern/texture altogether (showing the desktop or other apps in that view)?


texts: How to make continuity and handoff working [iPhone 5S; iOS 8.1][Macbook pro mid 2012]

texts:
I could not find proper steps to use both continuity and handoff with voice calls. I managed to do the following till now and I was able to make calls from Macbook but not receive calls that came to my iPhone. Here are the steps I did,

In Macbook pro:

Enabled the "Allow handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices"
in Settings->General.
I ensured both my Mac and iPhone are using the
same iCloud account.

In iPhone:

Settings->FaceTime, I have enabled 'iPhone Cellar Calls'.
Settings->General, I have enabled Handoff & suggested apps

I tried to pair iPhone bluetooth and my MBP. But I am unable to do so. I could see my iPhone in the list of devices in MBP, but when I pair, I get the message 'Make sure network access is enabled'.

What else I should do to get continuity and handoff to work? If I am correct I should be able to,

Make calls from Mac [Possible as of now]
Receive calls that I get form iPhone in Mac Use

Device Information:

iPhone 5S Gold, AT&T. iOS 8.1 (12B411)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). OS X 10.10 (14A389)

I am unable to get the below feature working, [Receive calls]

Unable to pair iPhone,

Unable to send text messages,


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Background

As a terminal junkie, I've started messing around with a combination of mpd (Music Player Daemon) and a player, ncmpcpp (NCurses Media Player Client C++).

I installed these via Homebrew - a simple brew install mpd ncmpcpp. A bit of configuration later, and the apps are running quite nicely. The effect is actually rather impressive:

The problem I run into is when I want to run mpd automatically instead of having it launch in my terminal. It comes with a launchd plist, so I install that, and it appears to work - The problem is that whatever I'm playing, be that an MP3, streaming audio from a server, or whatever, the audio stutters every 5 seconds

This absolutely does not happen when mpd is invoked directly from the command line, only when it's fired off via launchd.

Here's what the plist looks like:

<!--homebrew.mxcl.mpd.plist-->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>homebrew.mxcl.mpd</string>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Interactive</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/opt/mpd/bin/mpd</string>
        <string>--no-daemon</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/usr/local</string>
</dict>

The ProcessType interactive was added by me in an attempt to force launchd to give the daemon higher priority, to no effect.

Debugging?

If we dtruss the process, there is a huge blast of identical gettimeofday messages correlated with every stutter. It looks like this:

gettimeofday(0x10A03FD40, 0x0, 0x1000)       = 1428698761 0

Things I've already eliminated

CPU / Disk IO

The system is relatively quiet - during the stutters, mpd is not even on the top 25 for memory or CPU usage, and load is well below 1.0

Incorrect environment causing bad config settings to be loaded

My mpd config is the one being loaded from ~/.mpdconf - same as it is when I run it by hand.

This appears to be a symptom of the way launchd chooses to handle the process.

The ultimate question

Why is the daemon so misbehaved when run under launchd, but not when run via terminal?

Bonus question:

What about the way launchd kicks off processes could be making this behavior manifest?


texts: Where can I learn about programming my Jail broken iOS device?

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I'd like to do some R&D pushing the boundaries of iOS devices. Is there a how-to guide or private API documentation?

Is there a Stack Exchange site for this?


texts: How can I get the list of input sources shown when switching between input sources?

texts:
I cannot get it to show on another MacBook.

I'm expecting the list to be shown when I press Control+Space.


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I understand that the way to disable rootless is through the Recovery Partition. However, I have a remote, headless Mac with an attached bootable clone drive that I access via Screen Sharing. Can I either:

a) Boot into the recovery partition using the command line?

or

b) Boot into the clone and change the rootless status of the HD from there?


texts: Macintosh HD icon on desktop - make it open finder in desktop with toolbar?

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When I double click not the Macintosh HD icon on my desktop, it opens a window like so:

I would like it to open a window like so:

This is on a 2019 mbp running Mojave 10.14.6.

It is a recent update from a ~2016 mbap, where I have had that icon functioning in that desired way for many years. Also, that icon has functioned that way on my iMac at home for the past 7 years, and that's how it functions on my new home iMac (one week old).

I've no idea why I can't get that icon on my new (work) mbp to function that way. Could it be to do with not having admin rights? I had admin rights on the 3 other machines I refer to (previous work mbp, two home imacs) whereas I don't on my new work mbp.


texts: How to copy my files from "On my ipad" to my Mac?

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In the finder, when I connect my iPad PRO 2020 (up to date) to my iMac (10.15.6) I can see the folders and files of differents apps, but not the "On my ipad" folder.
Is there a (simple) way to see it (and access it) in the finder or in the terminal ?
Thanks.


texts: Two different USB 3 HDD docks - disk partitioned on one not usable on the other

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I have two different 3TB SATA hard disks:

a Toshiba DT01ACA300
a Seagate ST3000DM001.

I also have access to two different USB 3 HDD docks:

a Connectland DOCK-CNL-YJK3519-V3+ES
a Focus SATA + IDE dock (exact model name unknown)

It turns out that if I partition a disk on the Connectland dock as GPT with one HFS+ volume, the disk would become unusable when I plug it onto the Focus dock; OS X Yosemite would complain that the disk cannot be read and suggest that I initialize it.

Same thing the other way around: if I partition a disk on the Focus dock, the disk would be unusable on the Connectland dock, and OS X Yosemite would complain that the disk cannot be read and suggest that I initialize it.

This happens to both Seagate and Toshiba disks.

In both cases, the disk would be recognized as a 3TB disk. I can also use the full capacity of the disk, provided that I put the disk on the dock where it was partitioned and formatted - i.e. if I partitioned and formatted a disk on the Connectland dock, I would have to keep using it on the Connectland dock.

What's going on? How is this even possible? How am I even supposed to shop for a new dock reliably if my dock dies?


texts: Finding and Renaming Mislabeled Duplicates

texts:
I inadvertently formatted a Time Machine backup external hard drive.  I was able to recover many of the files, but not the names of those files.

All of the recovered files have generic names like "file01010101.doc", which is not helpful.  In order to know which files are duplicates, I need to compare the recovered files the originals I have on my machine, and have them renamed accordingly.  Then, any files that still have a generic name must be unique and not a duplicate.

Question:  How do I do this automatically?  Is there a program, bash script, or Automator action that can do duplicate file finding and renaming?  There's almost 500,000 files, so doing this manually is not practical.


texts: Today I was checking running processes and found a process running as root from this location, I am on osx maverics. I wanted to know what kind of process might be that's running from /var folder that too as root user.


texts: Books or Info about Mac OS X under the hood

texts:
Can somebody point me in the direction of books, sites, articles, ... to learn everything about Mac OS X "under the hood"? In other words to learn more about the kernel, the system.

ps.: About Snow Leopard of course


texts: macOS - Route Table/Removing %utun0-1 loopback link

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I installed some VPN software in the past and decided to inspect my routing table to see if there was anything leftover. Upon inspection, running netstat -rn | grep utun returns the following:
fe80::XXXX:XXX:XXXX:XXXX%utun0   link#15          UHLI           lo0
fe80::XXXX:XXXX:XXX:XXXX%utun1   link#16          UHLI           lo0

I've read posts on how to remove utun0 using sudo route delete -inet6 -ifscope utun0 -net, but customizing that for lo0 doesn't work with these table entries.
How would you remove the leftovers above?
PS: I asked this is Stackoverflow and not sure if appropriate community - please excuse the duplicate post.


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Does anyone know if there are any RDP connection managers similar to Terminals or Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager for the Mac? I'm aware of Royal TSX but $35 seems a bit steep for an RDP client.

CoRD is my current go-to but it does not allow for organization of connections within folders and is just a big long list. It also ends up always being fuzzy if I don't do full screen with it.


texts: Sometimes right-clicking on magic mouse does not work

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I'm using Mac and magic mouse.
Left-clicking on the mouse always works. But sometimes, when I right click on the magic mouse, it just does not work. So I have to right click again or again and again.
It was not very very harmful, but now I'm making videos and recording screens, everything needs to be perfect. So I'm wondering why sometimes my right-clicking does not work. Is it the way I right-click wrong?
Has anyone experienced the same problem?


texts: Increase timeout on MacBook Touch-ID log-in?

texts:
I'd like to log in to my MacBook Pro using my fingerprint more. If I don't use it for a while I have to re-enter the password. Is this timeout configurable?

Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, on a MacBook Pro, 2016.


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I am starting to learn Cuda programming for scientific computing (in particular computational quantum chemistry) and I would like to test my programs on a decent Cuda-enabled GPU. The Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB integrated in my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) does not meet exactly my expectations. Recently Nvidia announced the GTX 1080 for a decent prize.

According to come websites it is possible to connect an external GPU to a MacBook via Thunderbolt. I would like to know if somebody already tested this option and if there is some difficulties/problems one should be aware of.

In addition I saw that there are some website that already sell a chassis with with a GPU. The chassis is quite expensive... Is a chassis really necessary or the GPU could be connected directly to the MacBook without any additional component (Thunderbold cable excluded, obviously)?


texts: Free solution for multiple-source audio mixing

texts:
I'm looking to do live broadcasts of video games, which require mixing together the game audio as well as microphone audio.

In the case of an actual game system being used, I have external hardware that can mix the console audio, and my microphone. However, in the case of a game being played on the computer itself, I have a problem.

When specifying the audio source, I can only choose 'computer audio', or my microphone.

I believe some means to accomplishing this are Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro or Ambrosia's Wiretap Anywhere, but each of these have a cost associated that is a bit more than I'm able to pay at the moment (and in the case of Wiretap Anywhere, MUCH more than I'm able to pay).

Is there some sort of audio mixing software that will allow me to create a virtual device consisting of my computer audio (or a specific application(s') audio) and my microphone audio, as one input device, suitable for using in another application?


texts: How do I automatically enable Personal Hotspot when my Bluetooth device is in range? (Similar to Tasker for Android)

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I use a spare smartphone with no SIM card as a navigation tool in my car.
This works fine with offline maps, but I can't use things like Waze. I also have an iPhone which I carry around with me, which does have a SIM card.

I wanted to know if there was a way to have the iPhone automatically start its Personal Hotspot tethering when it sees the other phone is in range via Bluetooth.

This would allow data access to the SIM-free smartphone only while I was in my car, which would be a perfect solution similar to what the Tasker app on Android can do. Perhaps something like the Workflow app would help?


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Can anyone tell me why this does not work?

test:~ test$ echo 123 | su root
su: Sorry

Thanks


texts: How do I easily delete characters in a TextEdit document which I did not type?

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I have typed a 2 page document using Apple's TextEdit on a Mid 2007 iMac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. After closing in RTF format and later reopening, I saw many characters (backslashes, etc.) that I didn't type in.

How do I correct that easily (Help section didn't help)?


texts: Does the Mac mini come with a keyboard or mouse?

texts: If I bought a Mac mini, would I be able to find the mouse or keyboard in the same box as what the Mac mini came in?


texts: how to create a dot file for default mac settings

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Background

I have a habit of creating new user profiles on my mac that serves different needs (ie recruiting, software development etc). I'm always thinking of ways to make creating a new user less expensive, one is saving all sorts of setting files and saving them in dropbox (ie alfred settings, slate settings, bash_profile, vimrc etc etc).

I also have many settings that I have to issue mac commands for (like this one):

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Documents/Screenshots
killall SystemUIServer

How can I save these in a "dot file", and simply have the system read them on load (ie like ~/.bash_profile)?


texts: Mac Pro 2013 Blank Displays And Can't Hard Reset

texts:
I have a Mac Pro, Late 2013 (Trashcan) with Dual D700 Graphics and I recently installed Windows 10 using Bootcamp.
In Windows I went into the AMD FirePro Control Panel and clicked "Enable 10-bit Colour".
Windows restarted and now I just get a blank screen. I tried connecting to different displays using either the HDMI or Thunderbolt but always blank. I've rebooted several times. I've tried Command + R on startup but no such luch.
What have I done? Can I fix this?


texts: What is the software different between Apple Lisa and first Macintosh?

texts: Lisa is released before Macintosh, but LOTS of books mention that the development of Macintosh involve a lot of effort and innovation. So, what are the Apple Lisa and Macintosh software major different? Also, is this the Lisa is the first Apple desktop using a mouse? Thanks.


texts: Trouble using tmutil associate disk with High Sierra

texts:
I am using the latest High Sierra (10.13.4) on an iMac, which I had been backing up just fine to an external USB drive connected by USB cable to the iMac. However, a day ago,  I inadvertently got this backup to work with a new hard drive rather than the iMac, and now I need to get it to work again with the two years of backups on that USB drive.

Time Machine does not recognize the backups on this drive as being associated with the iMac: with the option key I can select the USB drive as having the backups but these cannot be read or incremented by Time Machine. I want to use tmutil to restore that association.

What I know is that I do have the USB backup drive connected and usable, with many gigabytes of space (but not the terabyte needed for a completely new backup) and I can see everything on it with Finder and with Terminal. But somehow  the command for tmutil is not working.  Whatever I try, I just get the response

"A local volume mount point and a snapshot volume path are required."

Here are   examples I have been trying, for backups of the entire iMac, the volume named the usual “Macintosh HD”, to a USB drive labeled "4TB Seagate"

$ sudo tmutil associatedisk [-a] / /Volumes/4TB\ Seagate/Backups.backupdb/Bruce’s\ iMac/2018-05-11-061933/Macintosh\ HD

$ sudo tmutil associatedisk [-a] / “/Volumes/4TB\ Seagate/Backups.backupdb/Bruce’s\ iMac/Latest/Macintosh\ HD”

$ sudo tmutil associatedisk [-a] "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" “/Volumes/4TB Seagate/Backups.backupdb/Bruce’s iMac/2018-05-11-061933/Macintosh HD”

I cannot get the command tmutil inherit backup to work either


texts: Can the Apple T2 chip be used as a TPM to enable BitLocker?

texts:
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro, with the Apple T2 Security Chip. I have installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp, and that is working well. I would like to turn on BitLocker in W10 and take advantage of that encryption, but when I try to enable BitLocker, Windows returns the error This device can't use a Trusted Platform Module. Is there any known way to use the T2 chip as a TPM for the purpose of enabling BitLocker?

(I do realize one can enable BitLocker without a TPM - I am not trying to solve that problem. This is about using the T2 chip.)


texts: How can I erase the data from my Macbook without losing my recent OS?

texts: I'm going to sell my Macbook Pro and want to remove all of the data before doing so. I have the OS Lion installed but my machine came with Snow Leopard. How can I remove everything and restore it to basically just the OS without losing Lion? I want to sell the machine with Lion. Thanks.


texts: Font smoothing on external display working badly. (rMBP)

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I have attached two external monitors to my retina MacBook Pro:

24" Dell 1920x1200 with HDMI->DVI
19" Samsung 1280x1024 with Thunderbolt->VGA

While non-retina enabled apps look just fine (e.g. Blender) and seem to be pixel exact (monitors working correctly), all OS X rendered fonts seem to lack font smoothing or seem to have bad font smoothing. The funny thing is, that there seem to be two different kinds of font smoothing:

A black on white font with just black and white (font smoothing on the internal):

and some with color (font smoothing on the external monitor):

There is also some text smoothed with color on the internal, and folder names on the desktop are smoothed in black/white on both displays. The folder font on the external display still looks bad, though.

Short question: how can I improve this behaviour, e.g., get the font on the external monitor to smooth in black/white like Blender does it?

blender:

same font size finder:

Blender also always seems to get the straight lines in a font aligned with pixel lines. The problem is still there when working with the lid closed. I already tried to read

defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing

to get the current setting but it tells me it the setting does not exist.


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I have a 2013 27" iMac running 10.15.3 and for some recent over the past couple weeks if I leave my computer idle for several hours (usually 12+) when I get back to my desktop none of my web browsers will load ANY page (Safari, Chrome, Brave - same results). The odd part is if I have Messages open or Find My Friends, those apps work fine and load new data. If I open Terminal I can PING a URL and get a perfect response back.

If I try to restart my computer I will get messages that an app is no responding and although the mouse / keyboard continue to work the computer will appear non responsive to new apps opening or closing. I am on a wifi connection but always a strong signal.

I have run a diagnostics check (hold D during startup) and it reported back no issues. I ran a disk utility scan - also no issues. I checked for malware and antivirus - also clear. Nothing jumps out in the console logs. The only way for me to get the web browsers to work is to force restart the whole mac which is very frustrating.

Any thoughts on what could be happening?

Thank you


texts: Is there any way to rename app name in lauchpad?

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I have 3 eclipses installed on my mac eclipse jee, eclipse for android and eclipse for php.
all three eclipses are cooming in launchpad with the name eclipse.
Is there any way i can rename app name like
eclipse jee, eclipse php, eclipse android in launchapad?


texts: iOS app store submission - including a screenshot that isn't a screenshot of the app

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Along with the screenshots of my app, I'd like to include a screenshot that shows what my app delivers e.g. an SMS message (picture is just for reference):

One of the features of the app is to send SMS messages in a specific format, and I'd like to show this by including a screenshot of the iOS messaging app. - By doing this, would I risk getting rejected from the app store?


texts:
I am trying to install macOS Sierra from the Mac App Store and can’t get through.

I get a

  AMD-Action:authenticate:SP

error message.

What does this mean?


texts: External monitor showing greenish shadow

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I've got a macbook pro 2011 and am using a mini-display to dvi adapter to hook up a ViewSonic monitor (Viewsonic VX2450WM-LED 24-Inch).  Problem is this greenish shadow showing up for certain hues of white, I'm not sure what it is or how to fix it.

I've tried multiple mini display to dvi adapters and DVI cables with no change.  As far as I know DVI is the best I can do on this monitor, and I've tried all the display color settings possible (including calibrating) and nothing gets rid of the hue.
Any idea what causes this?


texts: AppleScript: How to write to text file in specific location (signaled by specific character)?

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I have a .txt file saved on my computer. I want my Automator application to add a bit of text to the .txt file (the text will be entered by the user). I already know how to append text or prepend text in AppleScript. However, I want the text to be inserted into a specific location.

For example, this is the contents of my .txt file entitled My Fruit Log.txt. This is what the .txt file looks like before the text is written to the file:

You can see where exactly I want the text to be saved in the file in this image:

Is what I want to do clear? I want the text to be written on the line directly above the first blank line found in the file. Note: It is not necessarily the second line from the top where I want the text to be written. Depending on what text has already been written to the file, the text might be saved on a lower line. For example:

The location where I want the text to be written must be at least the second line from the top, but it may also be as further down as the seventh line from the top. So, the most reliable way to articulate where I want to write the text is "on the line before the first instance of a blank line in the document."

Can this be accomplished in AppleScript?


texts: Finding cause of "Path not allowed in target domain" error

texts:
This error just started showing up in my log in the last few days. The only software installed, or update recently was the addition of a Wacom tablet. Everything appears to be working properly but I would like to pin down the cause of this new error if possible.

I tried uninstalling the Wacom software but the error persists. Don't know how good the uninstaller is or what settings/permissions etc., are. It possibly didn't revert.

It is also possible that the error is not related to the Wacom and that concerns me more.

How do I dig deeper into what the service is trying to do that is failing?
What path is not allowed, etc?

  Aug 10 08:44:52 MacBook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.SecurityAgent.195): Path not allowed in target domain: type = uid, path = /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AccountsDaemon.framework/XPCServices/DataclassOwnersManager.xpc/Contents/MacOS/DataclassOwnersManager error = 1: Operation not permitted, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/MachServices/SecurityAgent.bundle


texts: How do I exclude a single day from/preemptively snooze a daily alarm?

texts: I have an alarm that goes off every day at 8. Sometimes I wake up earlier on my own accord, go out early and I don't need the alarm any more -- at 8, I'm already in the metro and I don't want it to sound (especially since my alarm of choice is a siren). Is there a way to preemptively snooze it? Right now, I disable the alarm, but this is sub-optimal: I need to remember to reenable it after 8. This happens often enough that I have a second daily alarm at 11, reminding me to restore the morning one.


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If I am currently on email "A" and I right click on another email within the same account (email "B"), and "Mark as unread," the message shows it is marked as unread for a split second, then marks as read once the reading pane switched to that email (not my intention, this just happens - the switching that is).

In Snow Leopard, I was able to click on any email in the message list, and mark as whatever, while not having to switch to that email in order for the mark as unread to stick.


texts: Connecting Asus ZenScreen MBC16 to Mid-2015 MacBook Pro

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I bought this nifty Asus ZenScreen to have a second monitor on the go. What could go wrong, right? Well, everything it seems. I am running High Sierra (10.13.6). The ZenScreen takes USB-C input with only one port. The first attempt was to connect via the USB side by downloading the DisplayLink UserAgent 4.3.1 driver. It seems that Apple doesn't want us to do that for some reason? I can connect and it will display a picture- but only a static one. As in, if I have a video playing, only a still image appears, and clicking in that extended desktop will only update to that next snapshot. (A video of this can be provided if need be.)
Next, I tried HDMI to USB-C. And learned that HDMI does not provide power.
Third, I purchased the seemingly overpriced Thunderbolt Cable and USB-C adapter, as the internet informed me that Thunderbolt does in fact provide power. Still no avail.
Now I have a lovely paperweight and several cords that I don't need to boot. Any thoughts?


texts: Copy Date Modified from Finder into Google Docs Spreadsheet

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I'm on a Mac, looking at a list of files in Finder. I can copy the filename into a Google Spreadsheet by selecting all, copying, and pasting directly into the spreadsheet.

The next column over in Finder is "Date Modified". I would like to get that copied into the spreadsheet as well. How can I accomplish that?


texts: Sync specific photo album between devices

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I don't want to sync all all my iPhone photos on my MacBook because it's going to use too much space.

However, I do want to sync specific albums. Let's say I'd want to sync Favorites and Test.

How can I do that?

I didn't sync my iPhone with my mac for a long time because I'm afraid some of the photos will be deleted either from my iPhone or from my MacBook.


texts: remote desktop from iMac 5k and Windows 10 1080p into Windows 10 virtual machine resolution problems

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I work from home a couple days a week. At home, I have an iMac 5k and use Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.2.3 on the iMac to remote into my company workstation which is a Windows 10 virtual machine. I utilize the "optimize for retina display" setting within microsoft remote desktop.

I also commute into the office other days of the week and work off a Windows 10 machine at the office thats set to 1080p (so much lower resolution than the iMac's 5k).

Problem: when I remote in from home on my iMac with the above retina setting enabled, the remote Windows 10 machine looks good - it renders in high DPI and text is sharp etc. However when I remote in from my office machine, which is running at 1080p the remote Windows 10 machine looks funky - task bar icons are stretched out, text is fuzzy in Outlook, word, excel etc.

I suspect the problem is my initial remote desktop session is optimized for my 5k display, then because I disconnect from my session (rather than logging off) and remote in from my office with the lower 1080p display, the remote Windows machine isn't "downgrading" its resolution to accommodate the 1080p display.

The only solution I've found is to log off my session, remote back in (which creates a new session) and then the remote desktop renders better under my native resolution (1080p or 5k depending on where I'm working that day).

I'm wondering if there is a way to reset the display without a log off/log on? Maybe a powershell or cmd script that I can execute after login to make it refresh, or some command line parameters to mstsc.exe


texts: How accurate is the GPS chip in the iPhone 4?

texts:
I was just wondering what the published accuracy of the GPS chip in the iPhone 4 was...?

I also understand that increased accuracy can be had if the hardware has WAAS capabilities. It is this true? Does the chip the iPhone 4 have WAAS capabilities? How accurate are chips with WAAS?


texts:
This happens sometimes and all i can do to fix it is reboot.
Any idea why this happens?


texts:
The following bug is something that started occurring today...

Whenever I try to connect to any WIFI network (routers, mobile hotspots), I can see my iPod tries to connect, but instantly loses connection. When I try to do this manually, it connects but immediately shows a screen with address http://www.apple.com, the title of the screen is "Log In" and the screen contains:

<TITLE>Success</TITLE>Success

The only thing I can do is press Cancel in the right top corner...
My ipod runs on iOS version 6.0.1.


texts: decrypt external hard drive mac os catalina

texts: I've got a LaCie 2TB external  SSD drive that i would like to decrypt. I tried the method found online of right clicking the drive in finder however there is no option to decrypt the drive there, I tried using the "diskutil cs revert" command in terminal and that didn't work either. I also tried doing it using disk utility itself and the option to decrypt wasn't there either. I'm running macOS catalina 10.15.4


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I like the force click feature to look up the definition of a word but I can't enable it on my system. Apple documentation and the Force Click Not Working on Macbook post say the Force Click feature should be enabled through the dropdown menu from:
System Preferences > Trackpad > Look up data & detectors > Force Click with one finger dropdown menu
On my macOS Catalina system the force click drop down menu isn't there. How do I add it back?


texts: how to find files with .j or .jp extension

texts:
I have some image files that have a messed up extension. The files are of the following format:
"filename."
"filename.j"
"filename.jp"

I need to find all these files which are in several folders and rename all of them to .jpg.

Anyone can show me a quick way to look for all these files?
Also once I find them how can I rename all of them to .jpg in batch?


texts: Why can't I resize my existing partition?

texts:
I just finished downloading my copy of Lion and wanted to install it on a new second partition. I freed up just over 50 GBs from my hard drive and am now stuck trying to shrink my existing partition. I'm using the Disk Utility, but am continually getting:

  Partition failed

  Partition failed with the error:

  The partition cannot be resized. Try
  reducing the amount of change in the
  size of the partition.

I've tried just resizing by 1 gigabyte and it still fails. Any free tools to fix this? Thanks.


texts: How to add colors for Charts in Numbers v6

texts:
Numbers 6.2.1 limits you to six colors for a Chart, which is a problem when creating a donut chart with more than six segments. Is there a way to add colors if needed?

I've found this question being answered for earlier versions of Numbers, but  it's unclear how to do it in v6.


texts: Is it possible to trigger a script when drive is ejected from the Finder?

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I'd like to run a script (removing non-OSX .* files) on a USB drive whenever that drive is ejected - is there a way to trigger a script automatically when a drive is ejected from the Finder?

To clarify: I'm looking for a way of triggering a given script before the umount command runs, i.e. immediately before the drive is ejected. I'm aiming to delete .* files and run dot_clean before a FAT drive ejects, getting rid of OSX-only invisible files that confuse Windows systems.


texts:
I have got a JIS keyboard layout recently, I always swap between windows using command + ` , now I have no idea how to do it.
Here is the layouts of two found on the internet.

JIS and US keyboard layout


texts: IPhone File Server & Client to Create Proxy Alternative to Personal Hotspot Tethering

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Assumptions:

I have the latest iPhone with unlimited fast Internet through my cellular network provider.
I have a new Mac.
My iPhone prevents me from using my wireless data using my Mac when I set up a personal hotspot.
I have no other Internet connection.

Technique that needs improvement:

First I set up an ad-hoc network using my Mac and connect to it using my iPhone. Then I use the GoodReader app to run a server (this is a GoodReader feature) on my iPhone to which I can connect over my ad-hoc network by doing Go > Connect to Server... in Finder on my Mac. Once mounted, I can manipulate files in the GoodReader app storage just like a local folder on my Mac. From the Good Reader app I can then upload my files to Dropbox which syncs with my online storage and have access to the files online.

What I Want:

I want to find an app for my iPhone that will run a file server of some sort to which I can connect with my Mac. I want that app to then transfer files to an online file server (preferably using SFTP), automatically (or with minimal manual help). In essence this would have the effect of me being able to upload files over SFTP to a remote location using a Mac that is offline with an iPhone that is online. I'm basically looking for an alternative to tethering. The Mac -> GoodReader -> Dropbox -> Internet example proves this is possible but it has too many manual steps. I want something more streamlined.

Do you know of any apps or techniques that can work for me?


texts:
I need free alternative of Excel in Mac Os. I know that there is Open Office, but I am not sure if it is even supported anymore.

Any ideas?


texts: Free app for tracking data usage per app

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I have a user that I want to monitor as he has a specific app which downloads a lot of updates. However the user will not pay for apps and its difficult to procure it over official channels.

Ergo i'm looking for a free app that can do this. I was surprised by how difficult it was to find one in the App Store, especially when this level of granularity is native on Android and can be tracked over custom time periods.

I dont believe the Cellular Data setting

Does anyone have any recommendations?


texts: Once I’ve lost Icon data stored in Resource Fork saving to NTFS, can those files be repaired?

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How can I repair the Icon in Resource Fork from a folder copied to a NTFS disk?

I recently backed up my dying SSD onto a NTFS drive using an older Snow Leopard Machine and almost all my data was saved. But all the folders lost their associated icons in this process. Some icon creators distribute their work in this way, assigning icons to folders and no contents in them.

I still have a file inside each folder named "Icon?" or "IconˆM" (when using the tab to complete its name in the terminal). This file is 0 bytes in size every time.

Is it possible to recover all these icons from all these folders containing the "Icon?" file?


texts: Is it possible for an AppleScript application's "Quit" button to override (i.e., cancel) an open dialog?

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To witness the issue to which I refer, follow these steps:

Create an AppleScript that simply contains one display dialog dialog.
Save this script as an .app file.
Run the .app file.

If you right-click the file's Dock icon, then left-click Quit, as depicted in the following screenshot:

you will observe that nothing happens. That is, the application remains open.

The keyboard shortcut, ⌘ command + Q, is similarly futile.

The only way to quit this application (excluding clicking "Force Quit" in Activity Monitor.app) is to click a button in the application's active dialog.

Is it possible to make an AppleScript application's inherent "Quit" function quit out of the application, even if the application is currently displaying a dialog when the "Quit" function is called?

Note: The display alert dialog and the choose from list dialog behave in the same domineering manner as the display dialog dialog.


texts: This iPhone cannot be used to create another Apple ID

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I have been an Android user for the past few years, and recently switched to an iPhone. I was given a used iPhone 6 by someone. But when I try to create an Apple ID, I get an error message stating, This iPhone cannot be used to create an Apple ID and prompts me to the website even after I reset the iPhone completely and removed all the previous accounts and settings.

Why does Apple not allow creating multiple IDs from an iPhone?


texts: How do I mount a jailbroken iPhone as a volume in Lion?

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In Snow Leopard I was using this utility (it uses MacFuse) to mount my iPhone as a volume upon its connection. Worked very well, and I could browse my jailbroken iPhone's files easily and drag/drop over themes like on a normal HD.

Since OS X Lion, it doesn't appear to be working. Are there any un-obtrusive tweaks to achieve this again? Or does anyone know how to get the MacFuse filesystem working on OS X Lion?


texts: Episode description not showing in iTunes or on the Apple TV

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I have added descriptions to my episodes using Subler and for some reason neither iTunes or the Apple TV shows it correctly.

iTunes shows it in the episode list but not on the info page.

The Apple TV doesn't show it all.

This is what it looks like in Subler

I guess this is because of the 255 character limit that iTunes have for the "short" description but if I copy the text from Subler into the description editor in iTunes for the episode and hit OK, it works as it should since iTunes then takes the description and truncates it to 255 characters.

Can I somehow automate this process for multiple files?


texts: Preview (like most Mac apps) can print to PDFs, and even has a shortcut for this functionality via a menu option Export as PDF.... I have a scanned document in .tiff format that I'd like to convert to a PDF, but using the option above yields a PDF with large margins around the image file. Is there a reason why this is happening? More importantly, is there a way to suppress these margins?


texts: Is there a way I can make a row float on top of everything else. So, no matter how many rows you add, the row will always be visible?


texts: Account with parental controls enabled breaks proxy use

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I have a MacBook Air running Mojave (10.14.2). My router is running a proxy using Squid that works fine on the Mac's administrator account and a user account. When the user account has Parental Controls enabled the proxy fails and no sites are reachable.

This is a known problem first reported in 2008 where Parental Controls runs the httpsproxyd daemon which interferes with external proxy operation. The solution was to either disable httpsproxyd or httpd, as described here.

MacWorld's MacOS X Hints

Summary: Run "sudo chmod a-x /usr/sbin/httpd"
Result on my machine: Error "chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/bin/httpd: Operation not permitted"

Apple discussion forum

Summary: Run "sudo chmod a-x /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Versions/A/Resources /httpsproxyd"
Result on my machine: File "httpsproxyd" does not exist in that location or anywhere else.

As both these approaches fail I'm looking for any other approaches to resolving this conflict where an account with Parental Controls enabled has issues using a proxy.

A related issue regarding how the Parental Controls interfere with HTTP/HTTPS traffic was also asked here earlier in 2017 but was unanswered. I'm including the link as it may provide additional details relating to this problem.


texts: If I buy an iPhone 6 in Germany, will it work in the U.S.?

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I know this works the other way around because I have my old 5 here in Germany right now and removing my U.S. sim card and putting in a pre-paid German sim card worked just fine.

I'm due for an upgrade and my phone is basically on its way out. I'm considering buying a new iPhone 6 here in Germany. When I'm back in the U.S., if I put my old U.S. (verizon) sim card in, will the phone work as usual?


texts: Is fast user switching in Lion disabling the network connection for the accounts that aren't active?

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With 10.6, I routinely had two accounts logged into the Mac while I was working - my personal and my work account. I switched between them as needed and this worked fine. For example, if I had an IM client running under the work user and switched to my personal user and then back again to the work user, everything was ok. The work user's IM client stayed connected the whole time.

With 10.7, it looks like switching to another account renders the network connection inactive for the account that is no longer in use. When I switch back to the work account now, the IM client has to reconnect and the VPN attempts to reconnect.

Is this new behavior documented somewhere and is it configurable?


texts:
I have followed the suggestion in this answer How do you update the default version of Nano on MacOS without using the homebrew package manager?

I have macOS High Sierra.
After the installation I have tried:

$ nano -V

And the output is:

GNU nano version 2.0.6 (compiled 19:06:01, Oct  6 2017)
 Email: nano@nano-editor.org    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
 Compiled options: --disable-nls --enable-color --enable-extra --enable-multibuffer --enable-nanorc --enable-utf8

So I have tried to see where nano is located:

$ which nano

and the output is

/usr/local/bin/nano

Checking the path:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

I don't understand, if the first path is where nano is installed, why the new version is not available.


texts: Why would my iPhone 6 be stuck in a dead battery boot loop?

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Okay, so I have a problem. My iPhone 6 died (it runs a non-jailbroken version of iOS, I used it as a test device for development applications, but I didn't do anything crazy with the firmware of the phone). I plugged the phone in and got an Apple logo, and then it died again. It's on a loop.

What it looks like is happening is, when the phone is charging, it's above 5% battery, so it turns on. However, for some odd reason, the phone doesn't turn on all the way when it boots up; instead, it just shuts off again.

Then the phone goes back to "charging from dead" again. It's in an infinite loop.

Why would this suddenly happen? It's an unjailbroken iPhone 6 running the latest iOS (non-beta, iOS 8.4). How would I fix this?


texts: Internal HD not mounted after upgrade: Encrypted: ERROR -69808

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I am asking for help on getting back into my MacBook Pro. I finally allowed a software update. I was a bit careless and didn't check what was updating. The account refuses my password, so I hold down command-R to boot in recovery mode.

I open a terminal and if I type:

diskutil APFS list

I get the following output (abbreviated):

Volume disk2s1
---------------------
APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s1 (No specific role)
Name:                      Mackintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
Mount Point:               Not Mounted
Capacity Consumed:         73577095168 B (73.6 GB)
Encrypted:                 ERROR -69808

Attempting to repair fails:

diskutil repairvolume disk2s1
Started file system repair on disk2s1 Macintosh HD
Repairing file system
Volume is already unmounted
Performing fsck_apfs -y -x /dev/rdisk2s1
error: mount_apfs exit status 73
File system check exit code is 78
Restoring the original state found as unmounted
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 78

Running fsck_apfs -n -d /dev/rdisk2s1 gives
mount_apfs: mount: Input/output error
error: mount_apfs exit status 73

Any ideas how to recover the data?


texts:
So I'm considering updating to Yosemite, but I have a 2011, low end MBP, and Im a bit afraid that its going to be slow. If I do upgrade, is there anyway that I can revert back to mavericks? I've seen a bunch of things online, but that was only for the developer previews, which rely on the Mavericks installer still being on the app store, which I don't think it is.

Thanks.


texts: How does iOS and apps deal with low to no disk storage?

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I was trying to determine why all apps were crashing on a phone when I looked at the storage and saw it was completely at-capacity. I tried restarting and exiting all background tasks to no avail. The entire 32GB of storage was shown as being used, and as soon as we deleted an app that took up a sizeable chunk of disk, everything started working again. And many people have the same issue.
This, however, goes against my intuition as to memory management coming from a computer science background — iOS does not swap pages to the disk, so we wouldn't need to reserve space on disk for this. In addition, it's not an issue with RAM as exiting all running background apps didn't change anything, nor did restarting the phone.
I understand that the kernel would kill processes if it were an affair with RAM contention and resident pages in RAM getting too high, but that's not the case here. So my question is then, if there is no swapping to disk, and it's not a RAM affair, what is the most likely cause for apps to all completely crash like this without even starting up? I'm assuming they're not all trying to write to disk on startup...


texts: How to access MacBook mail preview files after the email is closed?

texts: I am using MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 and recently I closed an email account using the Exchange servers. Despite the email account is closed all my email can be previewed in mail. I would like to retrieve all preview data that is stored somewhere on my MacBook. Does anyone know where these preview files are stored?


texts: MacOS High Sierra: how can I merge 2 partitions into one?

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Well, I've got a little problem with my SSD.

I had Windows installed through the bootcamp, when macOS offered me a High Sierra update. I've updated. But when I wanted to remove Windows, I could not do it. I had to delete it via the Disk Utility. And then I ran into a problem: I had 2 containers on one internal physical disk.

But how do I unite them now, so that the empty merged with the system without loss of information?

Here is my diskutil list:


texts:
I have a AirPort Extreme 802.11n (5th Generation) connected to a Zyxel VMG1312-B30A modem. My ISP is Deutsche Telekom with VDSL.

For quite some time I was able to use native IPv6. But this stopped working for me and I don't know why. I am unable to set IPv6 mode on the Airport to Automatic or even Manually! I tried both Airport Utility on the Mac and iOS.

I'm getting a IPv6 Relay Error. Strange thing, with other hardware it works just fine.

Did this change with a firmware update? What can I do to get this working again?


texts: This "new" functionality almost makes me regret buying a new Macbook. How on earth do I turn off the menu showing when the mouse hits the top? It's so incredibly annoying... I went full screen for a reason.


texts: Can I use multiple Twitter accounts on Safari?

texts: I'd like to know if I can switch between multiple Twitter accounts using Safari? (Like on iOS.)


texts:
After using Image Capture to copy all my photos and movies from my iPhone to my Mac, and deleting from the iPhone, I find I have one stubborn remaining file listed in Image Capture. It has a usual name, IMG_0155.MOV, but the size shows as 0.

There is indeed such a movie copied to my Mac, with a normal size of 93 MB. The movie plays normally in Preview.app on the Mac.

I cannot select the file in Image Capture, so I cannot click the Delete button (red circle with slash).

Is there some way to get rid of this glitchy ghost file?


texts: Designate files/folders as read-only in iCloud Drive

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I just recently started using iCloud Drive.
I would like to designate one folder, called archive, as read-only.
Its files must be protected from change, and I want to make sure I don't accidentally alter or delete them.
Is this at all possible, "natively"?
And, if not, is there a third-party tool or hack that you guys can recommend?


texts: Startup sound is gone - how do I get it back?

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I've seen many questions regarding the startup sound being BACK. I have a different experience.
I have a Mac Mini (Late 2014) and it always DID have a startup sound (right after pressing the power button). Unfortunately that sound is gone since I updated to Big Sur.
I checked System Preferences -> Sound. But the checkbox for "play sound on startup" is checked. I even tried unchecking and rechecking it. But to no avail. Sound works fine for other things so it's not the speaker being broken.
So how do I get the sound back?


texts: How to remove SophosEndpoint "phantom" user?

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I recently migrated from a 2017 Macbook Pro to a 2019 Macbook Pro (both running Catalina) using Migration Assistant, and ever since then I've had this "phantom" SophosEndpoint user stuck on the log in screen:

I have since uninstalled Sophos (manually, their automated uninstaller didn't work), but this user is still there.

I've checked the Users folder, and nothing related to Sophos exists:

pmaiorana@pm-mbp-2019 ~ % ls -l /Users
total 0
drwxrwxrwt  14 root       wheel   448 Oct 22 16:19 Shared
drwxr-xr-x@ 55 pmaiorana  staff  1760 Oct 22 16:23 pmaiorana

And there's nothing in the users panel in System Preferences:

What can I do to remove it?


texts: A friend has a iPhone 6 iOS 10.x and we cannot find the photos app. She has activated iCloud storage for photos in settings but we cannot find how to see the albums. I am an Androd user and have zero iOS knowledge.


texts: How to sync iPhone Voice Memos to the Mac via USB without using iCloud?

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I have no interest in iCloud for syncing sizeable data like Voice Memos. It is quickest for me to just connect my iPhone to my Mac via the USB cable and do my syncing that way.

Many changes have occurred in recent times, with iTunes now completely replaced on the Mac.

On Catalina 10.15.2 and iOS 13.3, this is what it currently looks like:

There are many Voice memos on my iPhone:

But on my macOS Finder I do not see a mention anywhere of Voice Memos being present on my iPhone:

Similarly, in my Mac's Music.app there is simply nothing showing up as detected on my iPhone:

As for Voice Memos.app, there appears to be no connection to the iOS counterpart whatsoever, it is empty:

Has Apple abandoned USB transfer functionality between the iPhone and the Mac?

How can I do this? Do we now have to use third party tools like AnyTrans despite these both being Apple devices?


texts:
How Can I Lock my MacBook Pro 2015 screen?

In MacBook Pro 2014 it works with ControlCommandQ, but it doesn't work in MacBook Pro 2015.


texts: How to upload large mobi file to iPad/iPhone

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I have a 63mb mobi format book.

Normally I get mobi books to my iPad/iPhone via the email share setting in Calibre. However the size of the book is too big to do that.

How else I do open up the mobi file? Any way to get iTunes to sync it to iBooks? or to use iCloud? I've got the file in Dropbox, but when I try to open the file in Kindle, it does not show up. iBooks is not given as an option.


texts: Display contrast change when playing media

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I have a weird issue with my MacBook Pro that I bought about 3 weeks ago.

I noticed that when I start playing VLC player or even when opening up certain websites that the color saturation seems to automatically change on the machine. I don't think that this is related to the "automatically adjust brightness" in the system preferences because I disabled that and the issue remains.

Does anyone know why the color saturation seems to change when I start playing media? For example, the grey at the top of windows seems to change to a very pale blue.


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I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with a touch bar, and without prior warning it is now refusing to turn on. Pressing the Touch ID button does nothing: no chime, no screen activity, no computer noise, no Caps Lock LED. Resetting the SMC has no effect.

Is there any kind of diagnosis I can perform before bringing it to the Apple Store? Is there some secret key combination that will make it tell me where it's failing? Can I somehow connect it to a second computer and use that to perform a diagnosis?

Guides freely available through Google don't say very much beyond these steps that I've already taken.

I guess my real question is:

  What will Apple itself do before starting to dissemble it? Can I do that myself?


texts: Automator service does not work from Finder

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I have an Automator service that accepts multiple pdf files, converts them to pngs while converting a white background to transparent, and then uses a Quartz filter to invert the color of the png file.

To test the workflow, I added the Get Selected Finder Items action to pass the pdfs to the service. Everything works exactly as expected in this case.

However, when I remove this action, and then use the service from the Finder services, it does not work. All of the variables point to the correct files, but the bash script does not write any files, which can thus not be passed to the Quartz action.

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

[EDIT] I have added the warnings. I think this goes wrong because when running the workflow from Automator I cannot provide input the second way.

[EDIT 2] @boris42 pointed out that I did not add the requirement for the transparent background to my question, so I added it now.


texts: Hide files/icons on the desktop but not in finder

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Not sure if something like this exists in OSX. I would like to display a cheatsheet on my desktop as a wallpaper and to make it visible at all times I would like to hide all the icons/files/folders scattered on my desktop as I'm accessing them only from within the Finder anyway. So my question is if it is possible to hide everything on the desktop and show the wallpaper only but use the Desktop folder as normal and see all the files and folders when in Finder view?
Using OSX Mountain Lion.


texts: How to change Font size for PDF in iPad running iOS 9?

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I have iPad mini 2 running iOS 9. I'm transferring my PDFs to the iPad via iTunes.

I swear that I didn't find any option to increase font size in iBooks, not even in iBooks settings.


texts: Microsoft Publisher is an excellent piece of software on Windows. Does a Mac equivalent of Microsoft Publisher exist in its own entity ?


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I'm looking for a finance app that will connect to my banks so I can see My balance at the end of every day, week, month.  I would like to see how it rises and falls just so I can keep a better eye on my money.  Are there any dashboards or apps like this?

If there is an app that syncs with an iOS app that would be great


texts:
My problem is i'm trying to run a .command file in OS Mojave.

It tells me when attempting to run it

  The file "Rev PLATE-140.command" could not be executed because you do not have appropriate access privileges. To view or change access privileges, select the file in the Finder and choose File > Get Info

When trying this it leads me no where. Found a workaround from Google which tells me to run a script in terminal that says

chmod u+x /Users/Fatimawahab/Desktop/script.command

So I enter chmod u+x /Users/UnorthodoxKilla/Desktop/Rev Plate-140.comman but when doing this I get this return in termial:

Last login: Sat Mar 28 22:48:01 on ttys000
Unorthodox-MacBook-Pro:~ unorthodoxkilla$ chmod -x /Users/unorthodoxkilla/Desktop/Rev PLATE-140.command
chmod: /Users/unorthodoxkilla/Desktop/Rev: No such file or directory
chmod: PLATE-140.command: No such file or directory
Unorthodox-MacBook-Pro:~ unorthodoxkilla$ chmod -x /Users/unorthodoxkilla/Desktop/Rev PLATE-140.command
chmod: /Users/unorthodoxkilla/Desktop/Rev: No such file or directory
chmod: PLATE-140.command: No such file or directory
Unorthodox-MacBook-Pro:~ unorthodoxkilla$

How can I get around this

P.s. I am not techhy with code so please keep it simple for a noob like me.


texts: Are former employees able to remotely wipe my Macbooks after they left the company?

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Here is a small introduction to my Situation:

For the sake of an example, I'm running a small IT firm developing really nice banana Software solely on MacBooks. My employees, mainly lazy monkeys, are allowed to link iCloud with their private Apple ID. One day, one of my employees decides to leave my Company, though refuses to deauthorize his iCloud account.

Since my IT admin doesn't think that deauthorizing the iCloud account is necessary, he simply wipes the MacBook and calls it a day.
Sceptical me does a little Research and finds the following link:

What to do if I sold my MacBook Air and didn't disable iCloud

One Comment states:

  This is not entirely true. If you do not remove your iCloud account
  from your old device, it will remain with that device. Our company
  sold our fleet of Mac Air's and a few had iCloud set up. These
  machines were all wiped and re-imaged, then sold. The new users never
  set up iCloud so that account is blank. HOWEVER, we still had access
  to those sold machines via iCloud! We could wipe and/or lock at-will,
  even after removing that device from your iCloud account. Annoying and
  potentially dangerous. You have to have the new user create a new
  iCloud account and request approval from the old user to proceed.
  Ridiculous! We ran around in circles with this problem when a few of
  our employees noticed they could track their old Mac's after sold.
  Oops. Now we know disassociating before sale is imperative.

So here is my question:

Is my former employee still able to remotely wipe the MacBook?


texts: Apple Mail: Save Disk Space or only load some Mails

texts:
I have a DiskSpace Problem on my SSD on my Macbook. So my Question is, is there any possibility to download only a few Mails (like on iOS - the first 200 Mails) or does have anybody of you out there a great Solution to prevent Apple Mail to download all my 19.000+ Google Mails and 5.000 iCloud Mails?

I would like to use the "native" Apple Mail Client.

What also would be a Idea (but i found nothing to solve this Problem) to redirect the mail to my Mailbox on my (uberspace.de) Account where i'm able to use qmail.

So it should be a nice Solution to help People with the same Problem here.

(btw yeah i'm searching for a long time for an "awesome" Solution ;)


texts: I have `/usr/bin/env` in my "Macintosh HD" but not in the recovery partition. Is this normal?

texts:
I'm working on a MacBook Air, that's currently booting to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. It also has an Ubuntu 16.04 partition, that I am currently trying to reach.

I was trying reinstall rEFInd, which due to SIP is done from the recovery partition. It failed because;

-bash: ./refind-install: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Which was thrown by the #!/usr/bin/env bash at the top of the install script.

I had a look and indeed there is no /usr/bin/env in my recovery partition.  There is one on the main partition. This is the terminal in the recovery partition:

[-bash-3.2# ls /usr/bin/env
ls: /usr/bin/env: No such file or directory
[-bash-3.2# ls /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/bin/env
/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/bin/env

Now the end goal it to reinstall rEFInd (I had it before, but updating macOS changed the boot order so it no longer boots correctly), but my question right now is: Is it normal to not have /usr/bin/env in the recovery partition?

The fact that the rEFInd script expects it to be there makes me wonder if I have broken something.


texts:
I have created a plist file to replace an xinetd process that I used successfully in Windows (Cygwin) and Linux to stream an imapd connection from a remote server via ssh on a port on the localhost.

The plutil command says my configuration is OK. launchctl load path-to-plist runs without errors.

When I run launchctl list the agent does not display.  When I try to connect to the port on the localhost, I get connection refused.

Here is my plist file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
            <string>com.my.ssh_tunnel</string>
        <key>Program</key>
            <string>/usr/bin/ssh</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
            <array>
                    <string>-F /Users/userx/.ssh/config</string>
                    <string>dname /usr/sbin/imapd</string>
            </array>
        <key>Sockets</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Listeners</key>
                <dict>
                    <key>SockServiceName</key>
                        <string>dname-imapd</string>
                    <key>SockType</key>
                        <string>stream</string>
                    <key>SockProtocol</key>
                        <string>TCP</string>
                </dict>
            </dict>
        <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
            <dict>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Wait</key>
                <false/>
            </dict>
        <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
            <dict>
                <key>SSH_AUTH_SOCK</key>
                    <string>/Users/userx/.ssh-agent.sock</string>
            </dict>
    </dict>
</plist>

I have added a line to /etc/services for dname-imapd and an unassigned port (49022).  Ultimately I will be using this in conjunction with ssh-agent (to make this work 'passwordless') and Thunderbird to retrieve mail from a very locked down system.

There are essentially two questions here.  One, how do I know my agent is being loaded (and how do I confirm that)?  Two, is my plist actually correct?

Here's my original xinetd config:

service imapssh
{
        disable         = no
        type            = UNLISTED
        port            = 2208
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        server          = /usr/bin/ssh
        server_args     = dname /usr/sbin/imapd
        user            = userx
}

Thanks for any help.  This is driving me a little crazy.

This is on an El Capitan Macbook Pro.

Also, I've tried a straight ssh tunnel but that doesn't really work (before anyone suggests it).  Unless someone knows how to make it work like inetd and spawn every time the mail client connects to the port.


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On my Macbook Air A1466 the shift key seems to be constantly pressed, even during boot so it only boots into safe mode because of this.

The issue exists both before and after replacing the keyboard with a brand new one!

This is what I've tried:

Reinstalled MacOS
Replaced the whole keyboard (painful process)
Reset NVRAM (alt + cmd + p + r) during startup
Hooked up an external keyboard (this one works fine, but shift is still held down)
Tried Keyremapper: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ which helps WITHIN the OS, but not during boot

Any ideas?

PS: This is not a duplicate of Shift key damaged how to disable it at boot?. There it's simply a keyboard hardware issue, which is not the case here since the keyboard has been replaced.


texts: How to change bash version with homebrew

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I have used homebrew to install the newest version of bash on my local system. I have added a symbolic link from: /usr/local/bin/bash to /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash and added the line: /usr/local/bin/bash to /etc/shells

When I load my terminal I am still getting the older version of bash, also when i execute the command: /etc/local/Cellar/bash/4.2.20/bin/bash my prompt changes to bash-4.2$ but when i do bash --version it still says I am in version 3.2. Does anyone know what step I am missing?


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I just purchased Canon MG3600 printer/scanner for use on OS X El Capitan.

I am unable to get my Mac to open the install CD for the printer. "No application available".

It will print and copy with scanner controls but not scan to computer. No computer control of scanner.  Any help? thanks


texts: MacOS Catalina not able to download from the AppStore

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First of all I went through all the similar questions in order to check if it matches with any existing question but it doesn't so I am raising this one.

Here is the problem:
I can see MacOS Catalina update available in the App Store when I am clicking on the Download button, it is stuck on calculating and the Launch Pad is showing downloading 45 Kb or sometimes some other size in KB of 8.09 GB and it is not progressing at all.

Things which I have tried and didn't worked out for me:

Cancelling the download, deleting it from the launch pad, trying again.
Deleting the default files from the Library for Software Update and restart.
Trying logging in from different apple ID, and verifying logging in from the same on the browser.

Some useful information:

Internet is working flawlessly around 50 Mbps
Other files are getting downloaded and installed properly from the App Store.
Device Information:

a. MacBook Pro 13-inch early 2015

b. MacOS Sierra

c. 84 GB space available

Please let me know for any possible solution, also I am not very keen to update to Catalina, I am fine with Mojave as well, when I tried to download Mojave from the AppStore link, the application opened and the installer was showing 15 minutes left from the initial mark and it never moved further beyond that.


texts: Should there be a hardlink from `/Users/Users` pointing to `/Users`?

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This is was my /Users directory looks like. That Users link doesn't seem quite right..

matt@viking Users $ pwd
/Users

matt@viking Users $ ls -lA
total 8
-rw-r--r--   1 root   wheel      0 22 Aug  2015 .localized
drwxr-xr-x+ 11 Guest  _guest   374 11 Nov 18:40 Guest
drwxrwxrwt   5 root   wheel    170 12 Nov 06:42 Shared
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   admin      6 12 Nov 23:10 Users -> /Users
drwxr-xr-x+ 14 dave   staff    476  2 May 21:59 dave
drwxr-xr-x+ 87 matt   staff   2958  2 May 22:09 matt

matt@viking Users $

You can then of course go on to do silly things like this..

matt@viking Users $ cd Users/Users/Users/Users/Users/Users

matt@viking Users $ pwd
/Users/Users/Users/Users/Users/Users/Users

matt@viking Users $ ls -lA
total 8
-rw-r--r--   1 root   wheel      0 22 Aug  2015 .localized
drwxr-xr-x+ 11 Guest  _guest   374 11 Nov 18:40 Guest
drwxrwxrwt   5 root   wheel    170 12 Nov 06:42 Shared
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   admin      6 12 Nov 23:10 Users -> /Users
drwxr-xr-x+ 14 dave   staff    476  2 May 21:59 dave
drwxr-xr-x+ 87 matt   staff   2958  2 May 22:09 matt

matt@viking Users $

It doesn't seem like the Users link should be there, there's a good chance I created it myself by accident; I just can't help but think some service or other might be relying on it being there.

Can I just delete it?


texts: Raid two external hard-drives with read/write support on Windows & OS X

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I have a USB 3 HDD enclosure that currently has two 1TB drives in it. I am looking at buying another external USB 3 HDD drive (not an enclosure). I am currently running the external enclosure with the drives formatted as HSF+. I am wanting to set up a 2nd external drive using exFat and raid them.

I am assuming to merge the two external drives into a RAID configuration I will need some sort of software RAID. Is there any cross-platform software raid packages I can install on Windows 7/8 and OS X so that I can access the data across both platforms? I dual boot my MacBook with Windows and it is really a pain that each time I need a file from my external drive, I have to reboot into OS X, copy it to my Windows partition then reboot back in to Windows.

If this is not achievable with multiple external HDD's, can you recommend a set up that I could use that would provide multi-platform RAID support? Would this be achievable only with a single external enclosure using hardware RAID?

Thanks for the help!


texts: What are the great iPhone apps to discover new music?

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Back in the days I used Last.fm suggestions  but they are way too generic and aren't useful to me anymore.  I switched to RYM and its recommendation engine is much nicer, however I'm also looking for some iPhone apps that would allow me to discover awesome new music on the go.

I'm looking for these features:

an easy way to browse through artists and albums;
a wide range of non-mainstream artists;
a recommendation engine and/or a smart “similar artists” engine;
track previews (at least 30 sec.);
no limitations on total preview play count;
no need to subscribe to any paid service;
ideally, reviews for selected albums;
some kind of bookmarking to store my findings.

I don't care for the price if the app meets my needs.
What does AppStore have to offer?

Please, post one app per answer.