texts: Cannot change TimeMachine locking passphrase because of newline character

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I accenditally used a passphrase that contains a newline character for one of my TM volumes. So my passphrase contains e.g.

MYPASSPHRASE

Although it should be (without the trailing newline)

MYPASSPHRASE

My problem is that I need to copy/paste the passphrase from a text editor because typing it does not work (which is not convenient nor secure)

I already tried to change the password using DiskUtility (File menu > Change password...) or using the terminal with this:

pss=$(echo -e -n 'MYPASSPHRASE\n')
diskutil cs passwd 12345678-ABCD-FEDC-7654-ABCDEF1234 -oldpassphrase $pss -newpassphrase MYNEWPASSPHRASE

I also tried the -stdinpassphrase option but with no luck in any case:

Error: -69725: Unable to change the Core Storage passphrase

Does someone has a lead on how to change this "corrupted" passphrase or do I need to copy the content of my backup to a new volume as a last chance option ?


texts: MBP w/ OS X 10.8.3 Performing Quite Slowly Lately

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My MBP (2.66 GHz i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) is about two or so years old. It's been running like a champ for most of its life. However, within the past few months, I've noticed a considerable degradation in the speed and responsiveness of the computer as a whole.

I figured this might be a disk problem - so I ran the disk utility and it produced no noticeable improvement after a repair. Then I figured it might be a RAM usage problem - and I monitor and purge my RAM as often as I can (although I've not had to do this in the past). I figured it may be a problem with the system files, so I reinstalled OS X.

After all of that, the computer is still pretty slow. When I have only Chrome and iTunes running (with a handful of non-intensive small programs in addition), the computer will still operate at a snail's pace and use up almost all of its 4GB of RAM.

I'm seemingly out of options to attempt to improve the performance of my computer to the level that it was about a year ago. Any help?


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I have an iPod and iPad which I sync with my Mac.
My wife has has an iPod, iPhone  and iPad which she syncs with her Mac.

These are all associated with the same Apple ID.

I am planning to buy an iPhone, basically to replace my iPod.

I understand there is a limit to the number of devices, although I have not been able to discover the devices associated with my Apple ID.

http://support.apple.com/en-au/ht4627 has instructions which I have followed.

There are 3 computer authorisations listed, but there seems to be no Manage Devices on the Account Information screen.

NOTE We do not use automatic downloads or iTunes Match. I am only interested in apps


texts:
Today I encountered a problem with the screen-saver, in which it couldn't be deactivated in order to return to normal work. Normally, hitting escape will deactivate the screen-saver, but this did not work. I could see the mouse pointer over top of the screen-saver, however.

I use hot-corners to activate the screen-saver, and I could still use those to re-activate the screen-saver, but then the escape key brought me back to the screen-saver "underneath", instead of the normal desktop. I could also activate mission control/spaces, and it looked normal, but choosing a desktop just brought me back to the screen-saver.

So, a summary of strategies I tried to get the screensaver "unstuck":

hitting escape
moving the mouse
re-activating and de-activating the screensaver via its hot corner
activating mission control with a hotkey and choosing a desktop
hitting cmd-opt-escape to try the force quit dialog

How can the screensaver be deactivated without shutting down the machine? I'm running MacOS 10.13.4.


texts: Is there a dashboard widget that has extended Unicode characters?

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I've been looking for a decent Unicode widget that allows access to some of the weirder characters like ✓ and ✗.

Does such a beast exist? I've tried a few and all of them seem kind of limited... Also, Apple's built-in character viewer doesn't indicate anything like HTML escape code or even Unicode number, I'd use that otherwise.

These ones I've tried:

Characterpal
Entitiy lookup
Asciitable


texts: How to set Finder to show all files in search including hidden and Library files?

texts: When I unistall an application I want to check for all remaining files on computer. Searching them with Finder doesn't show any protected file, for instance from Library, and also hidden files are never included in search. Can this be controlled or changed?


texts: Are Associate Links in an iOS App against the App Store Review Guidelines?

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Our iOS app is a (free) utility app that offers a kind of "private" social network for tennis clubs.

For monetization purposes, we have considered adding Amazon affiliate links in a native way to the app, i.e. not showing banners but instead adding helpful links triggered by native buttons in the app.
Example: When creating a tennis court booking, we have a button that says "Already bought tennis balls? We recommend: [button that triggers an affiliate link]".

However, in section 3.1.1 (In-App Purchase) of the App Store it says:

  If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, [..], you must use in-app purchase. [..] Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

(emphasis mine)

Does the above scenario violate the App Store Review Guidelines in this or another section?


texts: How to only import JPG on iPad when shooting in RAW+JPEG

texts: I shoot in RAW+JPEG mode. When I import photo to the iPad using the camera connection kit, it imports both versions of each file. Is there a way to only import the JPG version?


texts: Can Apple Remote Desktop control the current session without turning on the screen?

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Sometimes I leave work open on my iMac and need to use Screen Sharing from my Macbook to make a few changes. This works great except when my wife and baby are sleeping in that bedroom.

I understand that using Apple Remote Desktop it's possible to open a session as a different user with a 'virtual display', showing nothing on the hardware display and (I assume) not waking it if asleep.

That's almost what I want, except that I want to control the existing logged-in session. If it weren't an iMac I could just physically turn the monitor off when I leave.

Can Apple Remote Desktop control the existing session without turning the screen on? If not, is there another tool that can?


texts: Adobe Creative Cloud: Mac App Alternatives?

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A couple of days ago Adobe announced that its Creative Suite Software is to be rebranded as Creative Cloud, the development of its creative suit line will come to an end.

Whilst Adobe CS6 will still be supported and available for purchase, all future products will be provided through the subscription-only Creative Cloud service. However even with discounts, Adobe's software was out of the price range for many students and entry-level professionals.

However I see a problem in that alot of people don't always have guaranteed income. If income runs short one month and they can't make the subscription payment, their access to the software that provides their livelihood is cut off. Whilst other won't want to be tied to a subscription service or use the cloud.

So therefore my question is:

What are the best Mac App alternatives which are cheaper (or perhaps free), that provide the same or similar core functionality in each of Adobe's products to make your very own Creative Suite ?

Edit:

Perhaps one app per answer with a link to the Mac App Store, and brief description.


texts:
I've tried following bookmarklets:

  javascript:document.body.style.width='50%';

or

  javascript:document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].width='50%';

They both work in console, but not in bookmarklet. What is the reason?

They both work fine as Chrome's bookmarklets.

Also, this bookmarklet works fine (on HTML5 videos):

  javascript:document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate=2.5


texts: Can I safely delete three icloud drive (archive) folders that take almost 80GB of storage?

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I know there's already a similar question about this, but the answer "If you don't need their contents, you can delete both of them." is not clear to me because I need the contents, just not three copies of them. So I guess the question is: are these folders like old backups? Is that the reason there is many of them: they are backups from different times?

Here is my situation:

The first screenshot is of the three folders I'd like to delete. The second one is the "true location" of the data on icloud.

Thanks in advance


texts: Many 0.1 -6 mb + disk images on running "diskutil list"under "Recovery HD". Is it normal?

texts: There are about 10 of 7 of them and are images extremely small.Is it the requirement of system or the leftovers after formatting disks having other OSes?


texts: Is it possible to make more font styles available to the Preview App?

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I need to use the Gill Sans Light font, but Preview can only see the standard Gill Sans.

Is there anyway at all to force the Preview app to see more options for this particular font?

Thanks for any help I can get.


texts: Pausing downloads in iTunes on Windows platform

texts: I have used many iterations of iTunes to download videos on Windows platform . However , only one iteration of iTunes the pause option did what it said , it paused the video to the point where I downloaded and restarts downloading where I left off ; something like the downthemall addon on Firefox . Now is that a feature or a bug of iTunes software on Windows platform or this is how every downloads using iTunes is supposed to work. I often have to download large files ; and restarting from the initial position is a havoc .


texts: Is it okay to uninstall the old versions of iWork/iLife after their respective upgrades that come with OSX Mavericks?

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I noticed after upgrading to OSX Mavericks that shiny, new versions of many iWork and iLife apps had appeared. Yet, the old versions remained installed. All the new versions seem capable of opening (and in the case of iPhoto, upgrading) old version ('09, etc) documents/libraries. They also seem capable of saving in these older formats.

Is there any reason to keep them? Or should I simply drag the old versions to the trash?

If uninstalling is the right choice, is there anything that needs to be done other than dragging to the trash?

Is it possible to remove the old versions, but retain the templates and other data specific to the old versions? The new templates are stellar, but being able to keep the old ones (e.g., in Pages) would be a nice bonus–double the templates.

Lastly, is there any impact on iCloud in doing so?

Any other thoughts between the versions, and keeping vs/upgrading? I have Time Machine backups, anyway, so I can always go back (presumably) and restore them should I need the old versions in the future.

Thanks!


texts: Scanning a QR code into a browser text input?

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I have a bit of an edge use-case of QR codes. I would like to be able to scan a QR code via a phones camera and have that value pasted into a browser text input.

Is this possible given any current apps or API's?


texts: How to show split view spotlight results without clicking

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I just upgraded to Big Sur.
Something I don't like is that Spotlight doesn't show BIG RESULTS for dictionary definitions and calculator, unless you click on them.
It used to be that the answer to the calculation was automatically displayed largely in a panel on the right half of the results.
Similarly for the dictionary, in fact Spotlight now doesn't show me the word's pronunciation, etymology, alternative definitions, etc, unless I click on the result physically with my mouse (maybe there is also a hidden keyboard shortcut for it)
How can I make it present the results as it used to in Catalina, without me having to do any additional action other than search?


texts: How do I enable logging for ssh log in attempts?

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I have enabled remote logins via SSH on my Mac. But how do I enable logging of all log in attempts? And where is the log?

My /etc/sshd_config has this content:

# Logging
SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV


texts: Remap Home and End Keys to beginning and end of line in Mountain Lion

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Possible Duplicate:
  Remap “Home” and “End” to beginning and end of line

I've recently gotten a mac and during my coding sessions, I'm really missing the usage of home/end to go to the front/end of each line.  There are various answers to this which talk about creating a .dict file in the Library folder (eg the below) but these don't seem to work in Mountain Lion.

Would someone mind confirming if this should be working, or whether a new method is needed in the new OS?

Remap "Home" and "End" to beginning and end of line

I can't tell if I'm performing the fix incorrectly or the older answer no longer applies on Mountain Lion.


texts: According to the update in the App Store, the Amazon app now supports login via Touch ID. Has anyone figured out how to use it?


texts: An image editor with an API (preferably python-oriented)

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Is there an image editor for OS X (e.g. Preview) that can be operated programmatically, preferably with python, or that has a built-in programming language, like MS Word has VBA built-in (at least on Windows systems)?

I'd like to be able to do the following with code:

Open an image in the image editor,
Use the editor to save the image to some arbitrary location in the file system.

It is essential for me to save the file via the editor, since when the editor saves a file it does more than simply save it: it also writes meta info, which I am interested in.

macOS Sierra Version 10.12.4


texts: Macbook Air 2017 display turning off and on while using built in keyboard and mouse

texts: My macbook air was working fine until recently I used a Thunderbolt cable to mirror my Mac on my tv. From then on my Macbook's display started turning off then randomly on using the built in keyboard or trackpad and gets backs on by pressing any key. it only happens when i use my built in keyboard or trackpad but not when i use my USB mouse and keyboard. Please help me solve this. I have a Macbook air 2017 running macOS Catalina 10.15.4.


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I have an old Late 2007 MacBook, it has been working until few days ago. Suddenly the backlighting of the display stopped working.

Basically I turn on the computer and the screen is almost dark.

If I point a lamp in front of the display, I can see the interface behind, however even at maximum brightness it's still dark.

I've contacted Apple support but they told me that there are no replacements of a machine that old.

I'm quite comfortable at opening it and try to fix by myself but I don't know what parts i need. What could be the issue?


texts: Unable to update or download apps on iPhone 6 - process hangs

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When I attempt to update any app on my iPhone 6, the little process circle that appears after you click "update," just continues to swirl, remaining in that state as long as I let it. I have to quit the app store app or reboot my phone to get it back to the update button (even if I try pressing the swirly circle, it does not change).
I've tried a hard reset, tried deleting any recently added apps. Some apps I'm unable to delete, because they appear to be in a transitional state (partially greyed out, like they're downloading or updating) and, I cannot see any third party apps when I go into settings, manage storage - it loads all the native apps, then appears to be in the process of loading the rest, but never continues. It shows i have 2.5gb available memory, so I should be able to at least update some apps, unless that figure is not correctly representing everything on my phone.
I'm running iOS 9.0 and am extremely apprehensive about updating, because my phone was bricked for two days when i updated it to 9.0. I have an iPad air 2,which i had no trouble updating to 9.0, and am experiencing no issues with now - I'm able to update and download apps fine. And yes, I did log out of the iTunes app store, then back in, but it made no difference. I've not connected it to iTunes on my computer, because I'm currently servicing my pc.
Any ideas? I've tried everything i can think of.


texts: Can't access old iTunes purchases after changing email address

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I made my account around 2006, and have changed my email address a couple of times. Now I can't download past purchases or even listen to the songs I purchased without my iPad prompting me to enter my old address and password for those songs.

When I went onto the Apple website and put "forgot password" for my "old accounts", of course it told me that those accounts did not exist. Of course they didn't, because they were never separate accounts like Apple claims.

What can I do about this?


texts: Can't find login items in users and groups

texts: So I've read all the posts on here and looked in every recommended folder for my start up programs and can't find a single one, I'm definitely the administrator on my laptop so I don't know what to do besides go to Apple. I have a macbook pro mid 2010 with Yosemite. Thanks in advance for any input.


texts: I want to know IP address of my friend .It's possible without software? Could you tell me what I do and how to do


texts: I powered on my Early 2011 MacBook Pro this morning and it will not boot past the grey screen. It gets past the Apple logo and spinner and then just hangs at a solid grey screen. I tried booting from the recovery partition and a USB backup of Mountain Lion and both lead me to a solid royal blue screen. I've also tried resetting the PRAM and still get a grey screen. Is there anything I can do to fix this?


texts: Skip first terminal beep and to display ambiguous filename expansions

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Pressing TAB in the terminal (and in fact some surprise places in OS X's GUI!) either completes the only filename with the prefix provided to the immediate left of TAB, and when there are several such names (or no such names!) the terminal simply beeps. In the latter case, pressing TAB again either beeps again (because there are no such names at all), or displays a list of the choices.

It seems as though this behaviour introduces ambiguity whereas it seems like the entire point is to prevent ambiguity. I would like to remove the beep that happens when many files with the same prefix exist. It just seems like extra effort and it makes me feel like I did something wrong until I realize that I haven't.

How do I change the behaviour of terminal's TAB completion, specifically to only beep if no such file exist and show possibilities otherwise?


texts: Weird issue with applications not responding on Macbook

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I have a MacBook Pro 2017 15 inch with macOS Catalina. It's up to date and I have freed up more disk space.

Anyway, my issue is weird and I haven't been able to fix it nor find anyone who's had it. Basically, sometimes, whenever I perform any one of a set of actions, the application will freeze, ill get the spinning wheel, and the application does not respond ("Application is not responding"), I try force-quitting and that fixes the freeze, but then it will happen again if I do the action again. I have noticed the issue on XD, Chrome, Safari and Finder.

So, the actions are for example: cmd+c on Chrome, cmd+r on Chrome, trying to select a image from finder in Chrome, trying to edit text or cmd+c on XD, trying to delete or move a file to another folder on Finder, highlighting text on System Information, trying to open a link in new tab on Safari.

And when there is an issue with one of them, (e.g. try to copy on chrome and chrome freezes), then if I go onto XD and try to edit text I will also get the freeze. However, weirdly, some actions like cmd+c dont cause issue on Slack, however attaching/selecting a file from "Your computer" (through Finder) does cause the Not responding issue. And so, what's weird is that then I have to try and restart and force-quit all applications, and re-launch Finder etc., it is an arduous task to try and fix it. But when it is fixed then all applications will work, until randomly it starts freezing each application when doing those actions I mentioned before.

Note that the issue may also happen on other applications and with other actions, but those are the only ones I've noticed so far.

This issue is extremely annoying, and has been frustrating me for months now, with no fix yet! Lately, it's been happening more frequently and is harder to fix (as in I have to do many restarts, many shut downs, sometimes SMC resets etc. to make the issue go away)

PLEASE HELP!


texts: How do I deactivate a broken iphone 4s and switch to an old iphone 4s a friend gave me?

texts: I recently broke my iPhone 4s and am not due for an update for another year. My friend is going to let me use her old iPhone 4s. How do I deactivate my broken phone so that my friends phone will now be usable as mine? My carrier is Verizon


texts: Does Apple take apps off the store if they crash a lot

texts: I have at least a few iOS apps that tend to crash a lot from the most simple and easy to reproduce functions of the app. I'm curious if any devs have had experience with this, and have found that their apps are eventually removed due to this. I mean, Apple gets tons of crash reports all the time, and surely they'd notice their mistake fairly quickly, and pull the app from the store, right? The question is: Will Apple eventually remove an app that has been crashing on a large number of user's devices, even if it passed review?


texts: Why is adding adding sites to /etc/hosts not blocking them on BigSur?

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On macOS Big Sur I added the settings below to my /etc/hosts my ISP has IPV6 support so normally browsing to major sites that support IPV6 should probably happen on IPV6.
127.0.0.1 cnn.com
::1 cnn.com

In a terminal window I can see that ping is using the /etc/host
 ping cnn.com
PING cnn.com (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.120 ms
--- cnn.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.036/0.091/0.120/0.039 ms

and ipv6
ping6 cnn.com
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) ::1 --> ::1
16 bytes from ::1, icmp_seq=0 hlim=64 time=0.061 ms
16 bytes from ::1, icmp_seq=1 hlim=64 time=0.157 ms
16 bytes from ::1, icmp_seq=2 hlim=64 time=0.156 ms
16 bytes from ::1, icmp_seq=3 hlim=64 time=0.159 ms
16 bytes from ::1, icmp_seq=4 hlim=64 time=0.136 ms
--- cnn.com ping6 statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.061/0.134/0.159/0.037 ms

However from the browser cnn.com still loads up in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. I tried all the following suggestion form this site and others on the internet but still cnn.com still shown up in the browsers.

Shut down all programs and restart the machine
Flush the DNS cache using sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
checked that firefox was not using DNS over HTTP
Flushed the DNS cache in chrome using chrome://net-internals

How do I block cnn.com on macOS Big Sur using /etc/hosts for the whole system?


texts: Macbook pro with windows 10 audio driver install

texts:
Have installed windows 10 from ISO on macbook pro, but can't get audio drivers to work from boot camp - no MacOS installed.
Downloaded following bootcamp versions and extracted audio drivers without success.
Device manager shows "High def audio controller" - device cannot start.
Everything else is fine.

Mac:
Macbook pro core i5 13" Mid-2012

Bootcamps tried:

5.1.5621

5.1.5722

5.1.5769 (latest)

Am new to Macs so any advice welcome TQ


texts: FileVault is off, but still prompts for boot password

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I have an iMac running Mavericks that was previously administered by the user, and it still requires a FileVault password when the system is rebooted, however FileVault is off.  At some point FileVault was turned off as well as the OS updated from 10.6.8 to 10.9.  What order all that was done in, no one knows, so I don't know if that had something to do with it.  To make sure that the GUI wasn't lying to me, I ran a diskutil cs list and got the following:

+-> Logical Volume Family 6E9BE6ED-BE68-41F1-A186-144D5A75B625
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |

How do I turn off the prompt at boot?


texts: Automatically download software update over a specific network

texts: I want my mac to automatically download updates for me only if I am connected to a specific WiFi network. Is this possible with a script? If so, how?


texts: What is the relationship between `launchctl limit` and `ulimit`?

texts:
There is not any ulimit configuration in system startup files/ shell startup scripts.

ulimit -a shows:

-u: processes                       1064
-n: file descriptors                256

launchctl limit shows:

maxproc     2048           2048
maxfiles    2048           2048

I vaguely remember that launchctl's limits should match with a shell's ulimit output, I might be wrong.

Is there any relationship between the lauchctl's limits and ulimit?


texts: iOS network connectivity on a local, isolated network with no DNS server

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I have a problem with configuring my iPad to work on a local, isolated Wi-Fi network that does not have a DNS server on it.  The problem is in how to convince the iPad that it is actually connected to the network.

My regular Wi-Fi access point is supplying addresses in the 165.156 block, and the iPad happily connects to it with DHCP and sees the outside world. However I need to connect my iPad to a local device with an IP address of 192.168.10.11 that is hardwired into my network, so I want my iPad to talk on the 192.168 block - but I do not want to change my WiFi AP configuration (because among other things this is test case for a clients network), nor do I want to Jailbreak my iPad.

So I manually set the iPad to a static IP of 192.168.10.12, for the connected SSID of my Wi-Fi network. When I do this (using a 3rd party network utility on the iPad) I can ping 192.168.10.11 from the iPad, and I thought all was good and happy.

However with this configuration the Wi-Fi icon on the iPad is not displayed. From what I understand this means that even though I am connected to a network of sorts, the iPad disagrees with me, and that this because the SCNetworkReachability system can't find what it needs to determine connectivity.

But a commercial program I will be using on the iPad uses the Reachability system to determine network availability, and without iOS saying that there is a network that commercial program will not communicate with the hardwired device. Hence I somehow need to beat the iPad into submission and convince it that there is network connectivity.

From Reachability

  IMPORTANT: Reachability must use DNS to resolve the host name before
  it can determine the Reachability of that host, and this may take time
  on certain network connections. Because of this, the API will return
  NotReachable until name resolution has completed. This delay may be
  visible in the interface on some networks.

It seems that I need to add some sort of DNS information to keep the iPad happy. However ultimately this all needs to run on an isolated network which will have static IP addresses and will not have a DNS server of any sort.  Thus there will be no external connectivity.

So my question comes down to:

What sort of DNS configuration (and where), is needed in the iPad to convince the SCNetworkReachability system that all is well with the network, even though there is no DNS server in the system?

Update

As per my comment to Triniq's answer, I do not have control over the target network and will not be able to install any DNS server systems.  I am looking for an iPad only solution.


texts: Keyboard Shortcut: How to move cursor to the next capital letter of word written in camelCase in macOS & Xcode

texts:
I'm able to move the cursor using ⌥ + → (Alt + →) to the end of a word. However, if the word is camelCase, I want to move the cursor to the next capital letter.

How do I do that?


texts: Can I turn off IPv4 and just use IPv6 on my Mac?

texts: Im really just curious to try IPv6 and see what happens. Is it possible to turn on IPv6 and to turn off IPv4 on my Mac?  If it is possible, how can I do it?


texts: Apple Mail App :: "Erase Junk Mail" is greyed out

texts: I'm running OS X El Capitan, and have 3 Gmail accounts signed into it. For some reason, the Erase Junk Mail menu option is greyed out. How can I use this option?


texts: Is it possible to mirror my MacBookPro's screen to my iMac?

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Both are using the latest Mojave. And I'd like to have the iMac just as the display output of my MacBook Pro. Is that possible?

A very stupid solution is to use TeamViewer, however the display effect is quite bad.

Model of the Macs:

MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2016
iMac iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)


texts: Installed Firefox Beta and now Bing is default search engine in location bar

texts:
I updated from Firefox 31 to Firefox Beta (32) and when I now do a search in the location bar (the big one to the left) I get results from Bing.

How do I change this back to Google?


texts: Installing OS X Yosemite from compressed DMG file in VMware Fusion

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I would like to install OS X Yosemite in VMware Fusion 7.0.

If I select the DMG file my university is providing, VMware is unable to boot from the DMG file.

The image is a compressed DMG.

Properties:
    Encrypted: false
    Kernel Compatible: true
    Checksummed: true
    Software License Agreement: false
    Partitioned: false
    Compressed: true

Is there a way to make VMware Fusion boot from a compressed DMG?

I tried to convert to DMG to "uncompressed" or ISO with no improvement. I always get:

EFI VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive (IDE 1.0) ... unsuccessful

In the VMware log file I only see:

2015-08-12T09:44:42.586+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: CDROM: Connecting sata0:1 to '/Users/corti/Downloads/Yosemite (uncompressed).dmg'. type=2 remote=0
2015-08-12T09:44:42.587+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: CDROM: Checking initial physical media state...
2015-08-12T09:44:42.587+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: CDROM:  initial physical CDROM state is 1 (sense)


texts: The keychain password changes automatically without changing account password

texts:
We have several Macbooks and regularly the keychain passwords have changed without the user changing the account password.  This causes problems because the applications no longer work.
What causes that keychain password to change?


texts: Is there a modern browser for iOS 10.3.3 capable of supporting ES6+ Javascript?

texts:
I have some iPads I'd like my staff to use. However, these are 4th generation iPads, so the latest iOS I'm able to install on them is v10.3.3. However, the website they need to access requires a more modern browser than the built-in Safari.

We tried downloading the Chrome app, but it seems the Chrome app is using the Safari engine.

Is there any way to use a modern browser (one that supports ES6+ Javascript) on iOS 10.3.3?


texts: I brought a second hand I phone 5s tha is registered for beta updates

texts: Is it possible to go to normal updates or do I need to keep using the updates also how do I update when it wasn't done on my Apple ID


texts: Synology: Time Machine backup keeps stopping without errors

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EDIT: It appears this may not in fact be a Synology issue, as I'm now experiencing the same behaviour trying to run a Time Machine backup to a newly-formatted local USB drive.
I just bought a Synology DS220j mostly to replace my dying Airport Extreme, which I was using for Time Machine backups from my MacBook Pro (10.14.6). So far, I've been unable to complete a single TM backup to the Synology.
The main problem is that the backup always stops after backing up only a few tens or hundreds of megabytes, usually with no errors in the Time Machine preferences pane or in the Console, but very occasionally with a "Could not complete backup" notification.
I've tried doing a new backup from scratch, and I've tried seeding a backup from my last good sparsebundle file on my previous backup disk (after fsck-ing it for errors). I've tried over SMB, and I've tried over AFP (which I've now turned off again, as I know it's deprecated and generally doesn't play too well with Synology).
Currently, I'm running a cron job on my Mac that runs 'tmutil startbackup' every 5 minutes. This is my second attempt at that—the first time, it nearly got to the end after a couple of days, but then the "amount remaining to backup" just kept increasing faster than it was backing up, so that backup never finished either. (I don't think that's a Synology problem, though—seems to be a known issue when using TM with a NAS, though I don't know how to solve that either.)
Can anyone suggest anything to make this less painful, and preferably, Just Work?


texts:
Had thought this camera spec would be easy to find online, but it seems FOV / field of view just isn't mentioned these days for macbook cameras?

Does anyone know what the touchbar macbook camera's FOV is? (Also Official link if that exists)


texts: What special about Apple AirPort Extreme?

texts:
I considering to replace my old wifi router and purchase AirPort Extreme.
Why airport extreme feature that make it price is higher than common router WIFI?

it is faster transfer data?
Better WIFI range?
etc...


texts: How can you change the phone Nr. from showing up on iMessage? I'd rather have it changed to my email or Apple ID instead.


texts: How to keep a MS Word installation working after exchanging HDD without license key at hand?

texts:
I changed the HDD of a Macbook with OS X Yosemite by taking the HDD out of the computer and making a byte-by-byte copy with dd on Linux. Now MS Word refuses to start saying the copy isn't licensed. It seems to calculate a checksum over the license key and hardware serial numbers and fail due to the change of the HDD.

I have both HDDs at hand and could restore the old installation by putting in the old HDD. How can I prepare MS Word (license) to survive the HDD change?


texts: Display emoji faces for correct & wrong commands in terminals

texts:
I want to customize my terminal to display emoji faces, showing sad face for wrong command and happy face for right command that I enter. Is there any way that I can do this using my terminal bash.

Here is my PS1 from .bash_profile

export PS1="[\[\e[1;32m\]\@\[\e[m\]] [\[\e[1;34m\]\u\[\e[m\]➡ \[\e[1;31m\]\W\[\e[m\]]\$ "


texts: Why does touch bar sometimes ignore first touch?

texts:
Every once in awhile the touch bar registers, reacts by highlighting the virtual button pressed, but ignores the actual button press on my touch bar. This is most noticeable on the lock screen button I’ve added.

Touching it a second time always works fine, as if the touch bar has now gotten focus.

Has anyone else experienced this, fixed it, or been able to reproduce it consistently enough to file a bug report?


texts:
I wonder if there is someway of sharing the screen on my macbook pro (which stands on the right of my iMac) to the iMac, so that I can use the same keyboard and mouse for both computers.
I believe there was someway of doing this between windows and linux a few years ago using a kind of SSH-tunnel, but cannot find the application or what its called.

Any help?


texts: Where I can buy an original OS X Leopard PPC disc for my iMac G4?

texts:
I've a wonderful iMac G4 with 2 GB of RAM so I can install/upgrade from Panther to Leopard  but I cannot officially buy from Apple site!

Is there a possibility somewhere to buy an original disk?


texts: How can I get a high-quality screen capture on a mac?

texts:
⌘ + Shift + 3

The screen capture shortcut on the Mac is one of the most useful tools I know. It grabs the screen and neatly places a .png file onto your desktop.

But is this the highest quality screen capture you can get? Is it possible to get a higher resolution screen capture? Are there any ways to tinker with the settings of this command?


texts: Dock Icons behaving like they'd be locked, but they are not?

texts:
I just noticed a weird behavior on my dock. The icons seem like if they'd be locked but in fact they are not. For instance when I try to move the icons around, I can take them and move them up. While I'm holding the touchpad, the icon moves with my cursor (that's not the case if the dock would be truly locked), but there won't open any spaces on where I'd like to move the icons to.

I also tried the commands

defaults com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool FALSE
killall Dock

But in fact this doesn't change anything. Is there some additional flag which prevents adding new icons to the dock? I also tried some commands from this list here with no success: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2279

Actually executing defaults read com.apple.dock contents-immutableresults in "0". I'm also able to remove icons to the dock, but not add new ones.

Thx for any hint


texts: Macbook photo storage for digital art, strategies?

texts:
My wife is a digital artist and has a Macbook pro, iPhone, and iPad, and I am constantly having to clear disk space from the Macbook due to all of the selfies, snaps, cat pictures, and legitimate photos that she takes constantly.  I know I am not alone; these days, cameras are ubiquitous and the Apple product family has some of the best camera hardware and software, and the platform is widely used for digital art.

Her Macbook has 256GB of storage, which is always nearly full; I run a cleaner on it periodically, and have her delete silly pictures she doesn't need, but we shouldn't have to deal with this - non-mac laptops can ship with far more space, and even the current (2017) most expensive Macbook only has 512GB of storage.  If I could tape a 1T usb stick inside the case, I would.

I am looking for strategies to deal with this, other than enabling photo compression/resizing on the macbook (she needs to edit her legit photos).

Her usage pattern is a single Photos library that is replicated with her iCloud account, which is fed with images from all of her devices.

iCloud clearly isn't cutting it, as it's an "all or nothing" proposition - I can't segment the library and only replicate certain types of pictures/directories to her other devices.

I am open to anything, and willing to pay for a solution if one exists.  I have a large NAS in the home, but she frequently works on-the-go.


texts: Transfer software license/registration keys to a new Mac

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Where does OS X store license/registration keys for apps? Is there any way these can be moved over to a new Mac?

[Context: I did a clean install upgrade from OS X Mavericks to Yosemite. I would like to transfer the license keys of specific apps from my previous installation (which was backed up using a disk cloner) to the new one.]


texts:
For my research I have a number of text (txt or doc) files. These have a large quantity of newspaper clippings in them.

I'd like to split these text files. Each clipping starts with

  document X of Y

I know of the split command line tool - is there some way to use split to divide the large text file into the Y number of files as indicated in the larger single (doc or txt) file generated by LexisNexis?


texts: Shrew Soft VPN on Mac not letting me SSH to servers inside the VPN

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I am trying to use a VPN from work so I can do my work on my MBP. I have installed Shrew Soft and set up the VPN, and I am able to connect to it receiving the messages below. However I am still unable to SSH to any of the servers on the VPN getting errors like the ones below…

SSH Error:

macbook-pro:~ andre$ ssh root@prismweb5
ssh: Could not resolve hostname prismweb5: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

VPN Messages:

config loaded for site 'andre test'
attached to key daemon ...
peer configured
iskamp proposal configured
esp proposal configured
client configured
local id configured
remote id configured
pre-shared key configured
bringing up tunnel ...
network device configured
tunnel enabled

I am assuming that my traffic isn't being routed through the VPN, but since I am using a third party client, I'm not sure how to make sure. Has anyone else had any issues like this with Shrew Soft on Mac? If so, what did you do to resolve it?


texts: What are alternative browsers for OS 10.3.9? Where find download/install files?

texts: Too many major websites are using features that in-effect are "walking away from" my old OS 10.3.9 and Firefox 2. (That is, my favorite browser, and its available plugins and extensions, are starting to no longer render some common websites properly, or at all.)  I would like to experiment with alternative browsers but do not know which ones have archived "antique" versions that can be downloaded and installed on such an old Mac.  Any advice (apart from "Upgrade to 10.4...")?  My machine is a PowerPC "iMac" -- the version with the white half-sphere base and the moderately thick flat-screen on a "stalk" -- sort of like the movie "Wall-E" but with a rounded body.


texts: Cannot drag an app from Launchpad to trash

texts:
I recently had an app called ZipCloud appear in my Launchpad applications - overtime I drag it to trash, it simply goes back. How do I delete it?

The page http://support.zipcloud.com/question/110/how-do-i-uninstall-zip-cloud says to drag to trash

Why do some things not go into trash?


texts:
My 11,3 rMBP has been freezing of late (with shutdown cause of -128) but this is only in OSX, Bootcamp & Safe mode runs also fail.Diagnostics report a healthy system. Cleared the PRRAM/SMC (multiple times) & did full format/re-installs of osx. issue still occured

Is this likely hardware related??


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Suddenly all the browsers begin to open all links in a new tab. Even when the link is deliberately intended to leave me at the same page (say, uncollapsing some text).

I tried Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the behaviour is the same. I also tried to close (and even to kill) and then reopen every single browser, but still no luck. After reboot this behaviour disappears until the next time. But I'd like to avoid rebooting. I cannot reliably reproduce this issue, but it occurs from time to time and annoys a lot.

Any clue on how to cure this?
P.S I use MacOS 10.13.3


texts: Finder search does not work properly for Tibetan unicode after Yosemite upgrade

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I have seen Finder is giving some issues. For me, it is working fine as long as I use Latin characters. Since I work with Tibetan, I was used to search for text. When updating to Yosemite, it stopped working properly. I have checked with various friends and all have the same issue: Yosemite indexing has changed from Mavericks.

So here is a description: letters of the alphabet are still indexed (like ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་), but when they are combined (like རྒ་), Spotlight is the blue, giving no answer. Again, this used to work very well before.

I have tried reindexing, following Apple's suggestion, but no success. It seems to be related to the indexing method itself.

Any advice? This is a big issue as we are used to search with Finder — a feature that is normally powerful in OSX.


texts: Is it possible to have different font sizes for editing and message actually sent?

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Recently I switched from Thunderbird and so far really love native Mail.app which is quite lightweight to my surprise!

However the transition seems a bit hard as the size of the font while editing messages is too small for me... Can I have two different font sizes - one for editing and other for actual font size with which messages are sent?

EDIT: My os is 10.6.8, but if you know the solution for 10.7.x, please share it as well :)


texts: iPad Pencil touch triggers immediate screen movement instead of a click

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On our new iPads using Pencil, whenever our users touch the browser window, the screen starts to scroll/move. But what we expect is that it triggers a click the same way as if you had used your finger.

The Pencils sensitivity is just to high, you have to be pretty fast and precise to get a click. That's totally annoying.

Is there a trick (maybe CSS) to have the screen movement on delay and not immediate?


texts: How to remove Calendar event without the sender's notification

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Today I got an event request from a "fake ray ban" scammer/seller for my iCloud calendar. The calendar is shared/synced with my iPhone via iCloud.

Unfortunately, when I pressed delete, the calendar popup told me that deleting the event means also I'll decline it and the sender will be notified.

I want to remove the event without notifying the sender, because the event is sent to many other generated email addresses and I don't want confirm my address by declining the event.

This is a very serious Calendar privacy problem. If there isn't an simple solution it is enough reason for me stopping using Apple's calendar.

So, how do I remove the event from my notebook's calendar, my iCloud-synced iPhone's calendar, without notifying the sender?


texts: I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 9, but now "0:00" appears sometimes in the text message window. Am I doing something to cause that to appear?


texts: Preventing iCloud out of space pop-ups on 128gb iPhone 6s

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Is it possible to prevent the iCloud out of space pop-ups from appearing on my iPhone?

It pops up every other time I use my phone. I have basically the default+$5 20GB iCloud plan,  but don't plan to upgrade.

I don't think it's a good usage of iCloud to backup all 128gb of my iPhone... (I'm actually about 90% capacity - obsessive video/photos)


texts: Headless Mac Mini can display 2560x1440 after being plugged into, then unplugged from an external monitor, but only goes up to 1920x1080 after restart

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I am using a Late 2012 Mac Mini exclusively through Screen Sharing on my MacBook (Both on 10.13.4). The only way I could get the Mac Mini to full resolution was to:

Close connection from my MacBook to the Mac Mini on MacOS's native Screen Sharing utility
Plug Mini DisplayPort adapter into Mac Mini (leading to an Apple Thunderbolt Display)
Immediately unplug it
Log back in on MacBook

When I restart the Mac Mini, the display immediately returns to 1280x1024. The highest I can get it to is 1920x1080, and that's while holding ⌥ (Alt/Option) in Display Settings. Is there a way I can get it to 2560x1440 without having to arbitrarily plug it into/unplug it from the display?


texts: Is it possible to track of battery consumption by all installed app on ios device?

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I would like to track the battery usage of all insatalled and system applications in iOS devices.

I hope it would look like this:

Is it possible to do this, if it is possible how to estimate the battery usage by all apps?


texts: How do I merge the 8 GB of "free space" on Macintosh HD under Logical volume group into Macintosh HD?

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I did some partitioning using bootcamp 6.0 to install windows that left a 8 GB of free space with cannot be restored normally, How do I get it back? The diskutils cs list shows:

Last login: Sat Jul 29 16:51:28 on ttys000
AssASSiNxGAs-MacBook-Air:~ AssASSiNxgA$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group F57AE880-8554-4F18-B1FC-6291360C2257
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         120368205824 B (120.4 GB)
    Free Space:   8019730432 B (8.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 1A135E2C-54E5-4AA4-9FFA-3444B0E81A47
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     120368205824 B (120.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 87ABD6CD-2981-4971-9724-4D7F3CBC95AC
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume FD192884-33A4-43CB-86A6-9CE4E58B3B92
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          111996153856 B (112.0 GB)
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
AssASSiNxGAs-MacBook-Air:~ AssASSiNxgA$

My Disk Utility looks like this:


texts: Canceled Mac OS Big Sur update still takes 8 GB of space

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I recently downloaded the installer for Mac OS Big Sur, to update my MBP from Catalina. After the download finished, and before I clicked "Install", I had about 35 GB of space left on my machine.
However, a little after clicking continue, I clicked cancel (the round "X" button). And now the installer will not accept clicking install again, saying it required 8 more GB's. I checked my storage again, and it shows about 26 GB left. So over 8 GB taken like this!
I assume these are temp install files for Big Sur, and if so, how can I remove them and resume installation of Big Sur?


texts: AppleScript: if selection empty, select all

texts:
I've made many AppleScript module for TextWrangler but this time I face a "stupid" problem:
The idea: if nothing is selected in the text, set the selection to all the text.
I've made many tests, without any succes. Here is the last one:

tell application "TextWrangler"
    set my_selection to (get selection)
    set nb_mot to count words of (my_selection)

    if nb_mot < 1 then
        tell application "System Events"
            keystroke "a" using command down
            display dialog "Select all"
            delay 1
        end tell
        set my_selection to (get selection)

        delay 2
        set nb_new_mot to count words of (my_selection)
        display dialog "After select all " & nb_new_mot
    end if

    set var_1 to (replace "(" using "(" searching in my_selection options {search mode:literal, starting at top:false, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false})
end tell

When I select a part of the text, it's okay. When nothing is selected, I enter the if block, but this give me an empty selection.

Any idea how I can grab only the selected text when there is something and perform a select all and copy that if no text is selected?


texts: How can I remove a paused app for my iphone 4?

texts: I want to delete that camera 360 app after I paused it but when I long pressed the app, yes the X mark was there but it is not deleting. What should I do? Please help me. I'm new in using an iphone. And another thing, I'm still not jailbreaking it. Thank you


texts: Why Safari is consuming so much battery?

texts:
From last 2-3 weeks I started noticing that my iPhone is consuming more battery than usual, around two to three times more.  When I looked at battery consumption details I found out that Safari is consuming too much battery. And this is happening consistently from last 2-3 weeks when I don't even use safari very much. As an example take a look at image attached, for 12 minutes of screen time it consumed 73% of battery. Why?

iOS version: 9.2.1

Phone: iPhone 6

Safari: latest available version


texts: iPad - how can I limit access to only specific apps?

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I want to restrict access on an iPad so it is only able to run specific apps (in this case, a folder of children's apps) and prohibit access to things like Settings, Gmail, full YouTube, etc.  It's unclear to me if the built-in Restrictions feature can apply to any app that is installed or if it is only limited to a set of native apps and functionality.

Ultimately, is there any native functionality in iOS where I can lock the device down to only access specific apps, either by individual app or by a folder even?  Or do I need to search for a 3rd party parental control tool or something?


texts: Charging Magic Mouse 2 when the device is turned off…

texts:
Simple question.

Can I turn off my Magic Mouse 2 when I'm charging it's battery through the cable?


texts: How do I list iTunes apps by the account that purchased it?

texts: I've got more than one person downloading apps to my iTunes, and so I'd like to list all apps purchased by one account (meaning the same email address). How can I separate apps like this? I can't seem to find any columns that I can add to the Apps tab to sort apps in this way.


texts: Shell command or series of commands similar to the Automator action "Get Link URLs from Webpages"

texts:
I have a long list of URLs. Contained within each of these webpages, there are links I need to extract. The Automator action Get Link URLs from Webpages is a very useful action for this task. Unfortunately Automator itself does not handle heavy workloads very well and very often either crashes or hangs indefinitely. How might I go about this using Bash via the Mac OS X Terminal app?

Edit - this is the current script as it stands right now.

#!/bin/bash

echo "Enter up to 3 words"
read -p "" v1 v2 v3

web="$HOME/web.txt"
tmp="$HOME/tmp.txt"
err="$HOME/err.txt"
fin="$HOME/fin.txt"
arc="$HOME/arc.txt"

n="$(awk 'END {print NR}' "$web")"
echo "Processing $n URLs..."

grep 'http' "$web" | \
while read -r url; do
    lynx -nonumbers -hiddenlinks=merge -dump -listonly "$url" 2>>"$err" | awk '!a[$0]++' >> "$tmp"
    sleep 1
    n=$((n-1))
    [[ $n -gt 0 ]] &&  echo "$n URLs left to process..." || echo "Processing Completed!"
done

grep -e "$v1" -e "$v2" -e "$v3" "$tmp" | sort -u | cat > "$fin"
cat "$fin" >> "$arc"

for r in "Results This Session"; do echo "$(cat "$fin" | wc -l)" "$r"; done
for a in "URL's Archived"; do echo "$(cat "$arc" | wc -l)" "$a"; done

I added read -p to the beginning of the script. Are there limitations on the number of variables that can be used like this? I've successfully used up to 9 in testing. And is there a more practical way to write this? I tried read -p "" {v1..v9} which didn't work. I added a couple for loops at the end to indicate how much data was processed.

Current issues

sometimes I get an error

sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.

however when add LS_ALL=C to the script it doesn't seem correct this.


texts: "The file name is not valid" error when trying to use "Get Group from Matched Text"

texts:
I have a shortcut which is invoked via an action sheet when sharing a URL.

When invoked, it eventually gets the HTML of the webpage via:

Accepts URLs
Get contents of [URL]
Make HTML from [Contents of URL]

The HTML at this stage is something like this:

Click here

Match Click here in [HTML from Rich Text]
Get [Group At Index] [1] in [Matches]
Show [Text] in Quick Look

Step 5 is inserted for debugging purposes. However, instead of showing me the URL it was able to parse, it shows me a page saying:

  The file name is not valid

To debug the issue, I tried removing steps 1-3, and replacing it with text:

Text

Click here

Match Click here in [HTML from Rich Text]
Get [Group At Index] [1] in [Matches]
Show [Text] in Quick Look

Now Quick Look suddenly does work. I.e. it shows me:

  http://www.example.com

What is going on here, and why can I only get it to work with static text and not an action sheet?


texts: iOS mount point in macOS - Is there any way to access the iOS files in macOS directly?

texts:
In the past I was able to use iOS devices as USB drives.

(It may have been on Windows only, and/or the devices may have had iOS < 9)

At present my iPods / iPads / iPhones do not appear in my Mac's:

Desktop
/Volumes

The complicated guides to trick-mount iOS devices, such as this one from lifewire, that mounted devices on desktop do not work. (with iTunes 12 on macOS High Sierra)

Similarly, the devices do not appear in the /Volumes folder anymore, neither in Finder nor Terminal. (The only volume I see there is my SSD - the system drive volume)

I have set my system volume to show all files - using a Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Is there any way to access the iOS files in macOS directly?


texts: What is the most efficient order to install Mac OS with Boot Camp and large application suites?

texts:
I’ve been using Macs for a long time. In the past to optimize performance and save wear and tear on the disks it was recommended that when building a Mac OS image you should install the OS followed by applications in the order you most frequently used them. For me this has always been OS followed by Adobe suite, then Microsoft Office suite.

Even though disks have gotten faster, fragmentation isn’t as important a factor as it once was and several of my machines now use SSD drives, I still follow this rule out of habit.

Does this have any effect on modern Macs and how does Boot Camp, Windows and Windows applications come into play? I rarely use Windows or Windows apps where on the disk should they be? The beginning or later on the disk?


texts: I am suddenly unable to download or open any files.  It says "failed" in my downloads folder for everything I try to do.  I don't have any blocks on, no firewalls on, updates have been done and nothing has helped.  Any suggestions?


texts: How to change temperature in Today's Summary part from F to C in Notification Center

texts: I'm using Mac OS (El Capitan) and in Notification center, Today's Summary part it shows weather information. I want to change from F to C here. My weather widget is already in C and working fine.


texts:
With the advances in iOS 14.1, I've started minimalizing my iPhone's interface.
As you can see in the screenshot, I've applied simple white outlined icons on a black wallpaper.
The icons front shortcuts to open the respective apps, not a perfect solution but I do like the look.
You can see in the attached screenshot, that I've circled (in red) the empty Dock at the bottom of the screen, which would typically hold apps, to which one wants access across all subsequent screens.
Does anyway exist for me to make the color of the circled area identical to the color of the background?
Doing so would give me the final minimalist polish I want and I could then pull some of the apps I always want at finger/thumb into it while maintaining the aesthetic.
I think Steve Jobs would have smiled at the kind of minimalist design one can implement with iOS 14.1.
I could also imagine a black icons on white background rather than the current white on black version.
(If you saw my apartment my interest in this would become very clear ;-)
Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated.


texts: Syncing iOS photos to MacBook - Photo Stream behaviour?

texts:
I have upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5 and my MacBook to Lion, so "enjoying" the Photo Stream goodness now.

I have plugged my iPhone in and see that all the photos I have taken have been synchronised to my laptop via Photo Stream already.

Does this mean I do not need to sync them again? I thought Photo Stream was only a temp location and will get removed after some time?

So I think selecting "Photo Stream" in iPhoto shows the temp store, but they are also saved into a Event where they will remain even after being removed from Photo Stream.

Are my assumptions correct, or does it work differently?


texts: Can software cause the home button to stop working on iOS?

texts:
I have a new (2 months) iPhone 5 and it just froze in the "settings" app. Everything on the phone is controlled with the round button at the bottom, when I press it nothing happens anymore.

Can this be a software problem?


texts: Embed live camera in Keynote presentation

texts:
In these times where we give plenty of presentations from home over video conference, by sharing our screens, I am looking for a way to embed a view of my live FaceTime camera in my Keynote presentation.
I vaguely remember being able to make a Quicktime movie with a live camera feed using Quartz Composer, but I have not been able to replicate that, nor have I found any info about that, so do I misremember?
The best I have found so far is to open PhotoBooth side by side with Keynote, and to move from slide to slide like this. People watching my screen then see both my slide and me. But I can't go into presentation mode, because then the live video feed is hidden.
Perhaps if I could have a floating window with a live camera view?
Any better suggestion to achieve this effect of having the speaker face live on the shared screen while going through slides?


texts: Macbook Pro USB 3.0 ExpressCard snail slow

texts:
I have an old MacBookPro3,1 to which I've added an ExpressCard/34 USB 3.0 adapter. The card is recognised by OS X out of the box, but when I connect a device to it I can't talk to it unless I wait forever. It's like the transfer rate is snail slow rather than not being able to communicate.

I'm running OS X 10.11.4 (15E65). The card is described like this:

  Type: USB eXtensible Host Controller
  Driver Installed: Yes
  MSI:  Yes
  Bus:  PCI
  Vendor ID:    0x1912
  Device ID:    0x0015
  Subsystem Vendor ID:  0xffff
  Subsystem ID: 0xffff
  Revision ID:  0x0002
  Link Width:   x1
  Link Speed:   2.5 GT/s

This card works fine on my Linux laptop. It also works fine on the Mac when booted into Ubuntu. It feels like I shouldn't need any 3rd party .kext on OS X.

What else can I try to get this to work?


texts:
FinePrint is a program that allows you to print multiple pages of a document's printout per physical sheet by shrinking the printouts, and merge several documents' printout into a single print job.

Is there an equivalent for OS X?

I asked this question on superuser three years ago: https://superuser.com/questions/17466/mac-equivalent-of-fineprints-ability-to-merge-print-jobs . w00t's answer of AppleScripting plus PDFLab sounded too complex. siva's answer of using the layout configuration doesn't address how to merge printouts together. My answer of using preview wasn't too bad, but it seems to be a little fiddly. You'd have to save each printout to a separate PDF, and then manually merge each document into a single document. By contrast, with FinePrint, each new printout is merged by default into a FinePrint file that you're working on.

Are there any better alternatives?


texts: Finder doesn't show "Open With" menu, just "Fetching..."

texts:
When I rightclick a file in Finder and hover over "Open With" (e.g. I have .mp3 files associated with VLC but sometimes want to open them with Audacity or iTunes, and then use "Open With"; or want to use LibreOffice for a spreadsheet file instead of Numbers), the "Open With" menu doesn't open and just shows, greyed-out: "Fetching..." and the menu with different apps doesn't appear, even when I wait for minutes. How can this be fixed?

P.S. I searched for previous posts about this problem and could only find "Fetching..." Behavior in Finder "Open With" Menu in Yosemite but that is more about Finder taking a few seconds delay for the pop-up menu to appear, while mine doesn't appear at all.


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Here is something I've been trying to get to work on an off for a very long time.  I have a ton of music and I like to cycle through things I haven't heard in a long time.  I also like to listen to albums beginning to end primarily.

Here is my latest setup
iTunes 12.2 on Windows 7

Iphone 5S,  IOS 8.4

I add music to my phone with a standard playlist "iPhone playlist".  I manually add and remove songs when I sync the phone to the computer.  In between syncs I'd like another smart playlist to only include the songs I haven't played yet.

So I attempt to do this:

Playlist is iPhone playlist

Last played is not in the last 60 days

live updating is checked

This works on the PC, but the smart playlist is never updated on the phone once a song is playyed.

Any advice?

updated:  I may not have explained it clearly.  Try this example:
1- in iTunes, add new standard playlist called "Temp"
2- add three songs to temp that haven't been played in a few months
3- next add a new smart playlist called "Temp not played"
4 - add this criteria to the "Temp not played" playlist
     a-  playlist is temp
     b - last played is not in last 30 days
5-  both playlists should now contain three songs
6-  sync these two new playlists to your phone and disconnect the phone from your computer
7-  on the phone, listen to playlist "Temp not played"
8 - when finished, does "Temp not played" still contain the three songs (even though you just played them)

That's what is not working for me.  "Temp not played" is never updated until I sync with the computer.  Other smart playlists work fine.  Say for example you created a list of no plays.  Once the song is played it disappears from the smart playlist immediately on the phone.

I think the problem is when the criteria for a smart playlist contains the "Playlist is xxx" criteria.

Thanks


texts: How to enable virtual keyboard on macOS Catalina login?

texts:
I can not login and work on my mac. macOS seems to switch keyboard layouts on login for me on macOS Catalina.

After I log in, my keyboard layout changes to the correct one.
I need the keyboard shortcut to activate the virtual keyboard on login.

An alternate solution would be the keyboard shortcut to switch users by typing the new username. This way I can see which keyboard layout is selected in order to find the correct keyboard shortcut for my password chars.


texts: Change login info in Screen Sharing recents list

texts:
Running Big Sur 11.2.1 on my laptop, I have a Mac Mini I connect to via Screen Sharing -- it is in the Recents list.  However, the Mini's login changed, and I can't update it:

Changing it when logging in doesn't do it (it works for that login, but next time it reverts to the old values).
I've looked at the .vncloc file in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSharing/Data/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing but there's nothing in there about login info.
I've deleted the .vncloc file, but when I enter the address of the mini (it's at a fixed IP), it presents me with the old credentials again.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Does letting services like PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Mysql run all the time eat up battery life and system resources?

texts: I'm a web developer and so I tend to run a lot of server applications on my machine to make local development easier.  Right now I use foreman to start the up as needed per project.  I do this in the belief that having them run all the time is just eating up resources since I don't always need them.  However I'm wondering if that is really the case or am I just being paranoid. Because having them run all the time would make things slightly easier.


texts: How can I control my iPhone from my computer if my bottom part of the screen is unresponsive and I can't set my phone up?


texts: Apple keyboard remap keypad comma to dot?

texts:
Is there any way to change the key mapping of the apple keyboard?

As programmer I find annoying there's a comma instead a dot in numeric keypad. I would remap this key to have dot ...


texts: Is there a way to force "low power" graphics?

texts:
Is there a plist or hidden config to set my graphics/energy preference to "Always use low power/ integrated graphics"?

Seems like energy saver preferences only allow choosing between:

Smart auto graphics switching
Always use high-powered graphics


texts: When did this option in the WiFi network selection appear?

texts:
I don't recall seeing this option before in the WiFi network selection. Is it configurable?

OS X version 10.13.4


texts: Where can I find a replacement screen for my 13" MBP?

texts:
I have purchased Macbook Pro 13 inch, and it was shipped by DHL, but when I received it, the screen was damaged. So, I want to buy a new one.
Where I can find it? Because I want to buy and install it.


texts: Why does SystemUIServer try to talk to my router via UDP port 192?

texts: I captured the request but it didn't tell me anything. There were 4 bytes of data transmitted and the value was 08010310.


texts: iStat Menus: show only CPU icon in menu bar

texts:
I am having trouble finding a way for iStat Menus to show only CPU icon in the menu bar. In iStat Menus settings I have only CPU&GPU enabled:

Moreover, I have disabled all active items for everything except CPU&GPU. Like this:

However, I still see every iStat icon in the menu bar:

Any ideas? I am on macOS 10.13.6, iStat Menus 6.21.


texts: Does anyone have a Thunderbolt Display connected to a desktop PC?

texts: I am building a desktop designed to run Linux (Ubuntu). I want to save money by using the two Apple Thunderbolt Displays I already own. I have not had much success finding a straight forward answer to whether or not I can simply hook up the displays to a Thunderbolt expansion card on the motherboard. Anybody ever seen it work successfully?


texts: Why does my DNS server not update when I switch networks?

texts:
When I switch WiFi networks, the DNS setting does not update. So, if the old and new DNS for the WiFi don't match, I have to open network preferences/advanced/DNS and clear the previous entry. That allows the auto-DNS setting from DHCP to come through, but then one gets stuck, and I have to do it again next time.

So, I can fix the issue when it occurs, but it's annoying and sometimes I forget and I lose minutes before I remember why nothing is working. I just don't know why it is stuck. I can't say for certain that it sticks every time since many networks use 192.168.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or something, and so I might migrate networks and it's fine because it's matching or maybe it's not stuck every time, but it's definitely most of the time and I suspect it's consistent.

I'm just not even sure where to start looking. resolv.conf is being auto-generated (though I haven't remembered to check before clearing the previous entry whether this is before or after I clear the stuck entry).

This is a 2019 MacBook Pro 13". Currently on Catalina (10.15.1), though I had the same problem on the previous MacOS version as well.


texts: iPhone 7 can't hear caller and caller can't hear me

texts:
I tried to do the new update (iOS 11.2 I believe) on my iPhone 7. that was when it basically went kaput. it first wouldn't go to "sleep" when I would hold it to my ear to talk. so I did a hard reset on it. wouldn't come back on until it died and I plugged it in the next day. made a call to my husband, he couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear him, even when it was on speaker. so I did a hare reset again; same thing. it wouldn't come back on for a few hours. I've connected it to iTunes but it won't do anything that I haven't already tried.
NOW I can't hear any phone calls and they can't hear me even when it's on speaker. the volume works fine and music plays just fine as well. I tried to voice memo app but it won't even say its recording.
I don't want to have to do another hard reset on my phone and risk having it not come back on permanently.
what do I do from here?


texts: Is it possible to set Magic Trackpad option via Terminal?

texts:
Is it possible to set the magic trackpad options with the menu topics:

Point click,
scroll & zoom,
etc.

by using the Terminal?


texts:
Is there any way to determine if a non jail broken iPhone is bugged?, is it even possible to bug a non jail broken iPhone?

Thanks


texts: I can't trash files anymore, but only delete them directly

texts:
When I want to delete a file in Finder or in the Desktop a popup appears and it says it will be deleted immediately, and I need to confirm.

The trash is always empty, and I can't use it anymore.

What's going on with Snow Leopard and not having a working trash can?


texts: Are there any car chargers that will turn my iPod off when the car is turned off?

texts: My car has an auxiliary input, which I connect my iPod to with a stereo patch cable.  The problem is when I get out of my car I forget that the iPod is still playing and when I come back I'm not at the spot I left off.  Is there an iPod car charger/adapter that will turn my iPod off when my car is turned off?  It would be nice if it turned iPod back on when I started it up again, but that's not a must-have feature.


texts: Macbook Pro charging port isolation paint dried out

texts: Macbook Pro model A1278 charging port isolation paint dried out. Now it is naked, just  magnets. Could this be a problem for computer


texts: I cannot see any of my calendars or calendar events. If I click on Preferences the app gives me the spinning ball of death. Running on macOS Catalina, and my calendar usually contains both iCloud calendars and Google calendars.


texts: Why I can browse my Photo library (camera roll) in iOS 14.3 with Wish mobile app with no permission?

texts:
I have an iPhone with iOS 14.3. According to Apple, I can control access by mobile apps to my Photo libraries. Apparently it works with WhatsApp, Skype Adobe and other apps. I have set the access of all apps to my photo gallery as NONE in Apple iOS Settings -> Privacy -> Photos.
I had installed Wish app version 4.33.2 (Dev Context Logic Inc.) to make online purchases. Recently I have had to contact Wish support and I need to upload an image from my mobile photos. When I click "Upload button", 3 options were available, i.e., "Photo Library", "Take Photo" and "Browse". I selected "Photo Library".
I was expecting a dialogue to ask permission to my photo library, but surprisingly, it didn't ask and I could view all my photo available to upload. I immediately checked list of apps that has requested access to Photos in my mobile privacy settings, but I cannot see the name of Wish mobile app listed there. I went to Apple settings and checked the Wish mobile app settings where I can only see Siri, Notifications, Mobile Data (in Allowed Wish to access area) and Language options.
I then checked the option to "Take Photo", so I got a pop up asking permission to Camera, which I had not given. I also checked the 3rd option, i.e. "Browse" and I was able to access browse with Files app into my phone storage, OneDrive and iCloud drive. Amazing!
I am unable to understand how the Wish mobile app accessed the mobile photos without first requesting the access.


texts: Are there any reasons to turn off MacBook Pro instead of just sleeping it?

texts:
I do not completely turn off my MacBook Pro and I only sleep it.

Are there any limitations to consider when doing this for several months in a row?


texts:
I need to configure a Mac Mini and OS X for use in exhibitions so that it:

boots when power switches on (or wake on LAN)
starts Safari in full-screen mode
suppresses closing Safari and/or showing its menu (or only after password input)

How is this possible?


texts: Can't login in Mac App Store or iCloud - login loading forever

texts:
After updating to latest developer release for OS X El Capitan, I can't login in Mac App Store or OS X iCloud settings. If I try incorrect password, a message is shown that the password is not correct. When I try my real password, the loading icon just spins forever.

I already tried to remove Network settings plist file and some other things found on forums. System log file shows a lot of these few messages, especially when doing something with iCloud login.

SOSAccountThisDeviceCanSyncWithCircle sync with device failure: Error Domain=com.apple.security.sos.error Code=1035 "Account identity not set"

and

01/10/15 00:11:52,599 storeaccountd[591]: XPC error for connection com.apple.backupd.sandbox.xpc: Connection invalid

and

01/10/15 00:11:52,931 sandboxd[226]: ([591]) storeaccountd(591) deny mach-lookup com.apple.backupd.sandbox.xpc

Unfortunately I do not have backup of my previous installation. Also I can't update to latest El Capitan version, because App Store login is not working.


texts: OS X Mavericks seems to be corrupting my sleep image

texts:
I've been running Mavericks and there seems to be some issue with sleeping.  If I run the battery down to zero, the laptop automatically hibernates as usual.  When I turn the laptop on, it boots, then immediately restarts - losing the sleep data in the process.

There don't seem to be any other issues, no kernel panics or anything like that.  Indeed there are no error messages of any kind, save for the obvious fact that it's just done a normal reboot.  Most applications deal with it gracefully, opening as if they crashed, but services like Python close and if the program doesn't handle it properly, data gets lost.

I'm wondering if it's a battery issue?  I had issues with an old battery (since replaced) where OS X would just die at low battery instead of hibernating, but even then it didn't reboot after turning on.  However, this has only started since I upgrade.

Any suggestions?

I have a mid 2009 13" Macbook, OS X 10.9, 4GB RAM and a 256GB Crucial M4 SSD.


texts: macbook air early 2008 (original) 13inch: 45 W magsafe charger

texts:
here
Apple has two slightly different adapters called magsafe L 45W: the first one is recommended for my model, but then on the store they only sell the 2nd one: will this be fully compatible with my laptop?

where (besides amazon) will it be possible to buy just the cord that goes from charger to laptop?


texts: cannot cancel failed Mac App Store update

texts:
I accidentally deleted Pages.app on my mac with sudo rm -rf /Applications/Pages.app and clicked on the update button to update Pages.app in the Mac App Store. The update was downloaded successful but the installation hang forever because the app was removed, and I cannot find a way to cancel the failed update (or installation, to be more specific)

I tried to 1) clear MAS cache in ~/Library/Caches, 2) sign out in MAS, 3) sign in the another account in MAS, all of which didn't work.

How do I fix this? TIA!


texts: My MacBook Pro, gets stuck at boot screen and the graphics look weird

texts: I have a 2011 MacBook Pro i7 and I have upgraded the memory to 8 GB and the HD to an SSD 500GB. The other day I had it running for 3 days non-stop and when I tried to use it it was frozen. I reset it and when it went to the boot screen the graphics looked funny like 16bit color mode, and it got stuck after a couple of seconds. I removed the hard drive and I noticed that I can access all the files and I backed them up. I downloaded Yosemite and I tried to install it from an USB stick but after loading for a while the screen turned gray and it froze. I'm a bit baffled as what might be the problem? Do you think it's the hardrive or is the hardware failing? I'm attaching screenshots of the bootup srceens.


texts: Remote Desktop Connection from Windows to Mac

texts:
I have a Mac Mini I use occasionally. I use RealVNC to connect to it remotely, from my Windows computer. VNC works well, but it lacks a few useful features. The two main features I'm missing is the ability to match the Mac's resolution to that of my PC screen, and the ability to transfer files between both computers.
Is there a simple way to install an RDP server on the Mac (it can be a paid solution)? Or perhaps there is another solution?
Thank you.


texts: How to run iPython Notebook as a service

texts:
What would be the best "standard" way to create a launchd script to run python notebook?

I would like the service to start at login and an easy to start-stop-restart the server from a terminal.


texts: How do I Change my old iPod Apple ID to my new Current ID to match the one on my iPhone?

texts: About 2 almost 3 years ago I purchased an iPod touch 5. My phone and my iPod both have 2 different Apple ID's (same as 2 different email addresses). The email address used for my iPod is an email I no longer use and I'm not sure if I deactivated it or not. Anyway when I go to Settings> iCloud> it still tells me that same old email address.


texts: Why doesn't a stripped/cracked MagSafe power cable shock?

texts:
Behold, the fate of all (poorly handled) MagSafe power cables:

Why doesn't this shock me?  I've read that MagSafe cables are low voltage, but I don't even get a tingle.  Is there any danger of shock, arcing, and/or fire from a MagSafe cable in this condition?  If so, is a strip of electrical tape over the exposed wire a sufficient 'fix'?

Bonus question: what is the source of the green and yellow discoloration?


texts: Make Merge Files the default behavior in (High Sierra) Finder when moving folders?

texts:
MacOS notoriously deletes whole duplicate folders when you are moving folders. That is, if you have a file structure:

Folder1
└── Photos
    ├── Bright\ Selfie.jpg
    ├── Indiana\ Dunes\ at\ Sunset.JPG
    └── Me\ &\ Mom\ (2).jpg
Folder2
└── Photos
    ├── 8-9-1942.jpg
    ├── 8-9-1942.psd
    └── 8334455046_81356161e5_b.jpg

And we drag Folder2/Photos into Folder1, you'll get a window that says:

And if you select Replace thinking, "Surely, it will sensibly merge my two folders," it will happily delete ALL of the files in Folder1/Photos. Interestingly, Cmd-Z doesn't updo the action either.

Folder1
└── Photos
    ├── 8-9-1942.jpg
    ├── 8-9-1942.psd
    └── 8334455046_81356161e5_b.jpg
Folder2

However, if you hold down Option/Alt while you drag-and-drop, you'll get a different alert:

And when you Merge, Finder only makes copies of your files, not moves them (which is the usual use of Opt-Drag-Drop):

Folder1
└── Photos
    ├── 8-9-1942.jpg
    ├── 8-9-1942.psd
    ├── 8334455046_81356161e5_b.jpg
    ├── Bright\ Selfie.jpg
    ├── Indiana\ Dunes\ at\ Sunset.JPG
    └── Me\ &\ Mom\ (2).jpg
Folder2
└── Photos
    ├── 8-9-1942.jpg
    ├── 8-9-1942.psd
    └── 8334455046_81356161e5_b.jpg

And if any of the files within these folders share a name, fogitaboutit. Finder simple "can't" merge these folders.

So two questions:

How do I actually move folders, merging any duplicate folders in Finder?
How do I make this the default behavior for Finder?

And yes, I know that there are options to cp, mv, ditto, and tar that do this sensibly on the command line.


texts: Change "focus switch" behaviour in OS X Yosemite

texts:
So, this is a small and very annoying gripe I have with Yosemite:
Whenever I close a window, say a Chrome window, it automatically switches focus to the next open Chrome window, regardless of the last active window I was in before closing the Chrome window. So if for example I'm closing a window in the background, I completely lose focus of where I was before.

Any way to rectify this annoyance?


texts: Lion won't give out DHCP addresses with Internet Sharing

texts: Lion doesn't seem to be giving out DHCP addresses when I turn on Internet Sharing. My firewall is off, I create a shared network with no security sharing ethernet->wifi. In Network Preferences the Wifi connection shows as yellow, with a self-assigned IP, and any device I try to connect (e.g., iPad) doesn't get an address. Help!


texts: How do I run a terminal command for different values

texts:
How do I have to label i such that the do command is repeated for all values of i.

E.g.

if i =2:
cd /Users/xxx/zTree; wine explorer /desktop=1,640x480 zleaf.exe /language english /name lab1
cd /Users/xxx/zTree; wine explorer /desktop=2,640x480 zleaf.exe /language english /name lab2

But somehow this does not work, where is my mistake?

display dialog "how many leafs?" default answer ""

set i to the text returned of result as integer
repeat while i > 0
  tell application "Terminal"
    do script "cd /Users/xxx/zTree; wine explorer /desktop=$i,640x480 zleaf.exe /language english /name lab$i"
    set i to i - 1
    activate
  end tell
end repeat


texts: Where can I get the image of the installation disc that came installed (mountain lion)?

texts: If I open the App Store, I can see the OS X Mountain Lion with a price and not "installed" or something like that. I don't want to pay for the OS that is already installed by default. Isn't there a way to download the image, an utility to create it or something like that?


texts: fullscreen youtube video on external display / avoid changing desktops

texts:
I'd like to entertain my 2 y.o. with cartoons while I' trying to work. The problem is that when I change desktops and use mission control it affects second display too.
How can I fix fullscreen youtube video to one display?
It's getting even worse with fullscreen quick time - the main display is blank...
So, is it possible to dedicate one display for entertainment while keeping the other for regular use?


texts: How can I repair hdd using Disk Utility if First Aid options (Repair, Verify) are all greyed out?

texts:
Would really appreciate any help in fixing an external drive so can use with my Mac again.
I had a power loss & when computer rebooted it was unable to see the attached Freecom 320Gig Hdd (FAT32 formatted) in Finder, but could see it listed in Disk Utility. This had happened a few times before, but I was always able to either eject/remount it or repair and remount using Disk Utility, however this time when I click First Aid (for both entire drive or just the partition) all options like Repair and Verify are greyed out and cannot be clicked and I am basically stuck there. This was the case both for normal Disk Utility or using it from the restart-up/install option on rebooting, and was also the case when I tried to use the drive with a different Mac, so it seems to be a problem with the drive, not the particular mac. Strangely, the drive works fine with my wife’s PC, can even watch the videos on it, but it cannot mount or eject with any Macs. Any ideas on how to fix? The content on my drive is not that valuable, but I want to understand and fix the problem in case ever happens on a more valuable drive in the future. Thanks very much to anyone who can help!


texts: Get MacBopok Pro to just SLEEP the normal way

texts:
I've read practically every question and answer I can find that mention the pmset command, after I discovered it was behind the most frustrating thing about my new MacBook Pro.
I say MY MacBook Pro, it actually belongs to my employer - that may have a bearing later on, I'll come back to that.

I've used Macs for 20 years, and I've owned three Powerbooks/MacBooks in that time. I'm used to just closing the lid (power lead plugged in or not) and coming back to it and just resuming what I was doing.

This new machine keeps shutting down when it's in sleep mode. I open the lid and get the big white apple log on a black background and have to log in and wait while it attempts to restore my windows.

Sure, Apple have made a good fist of getting applications back up and running again, but many of the applications I use clearly don't get a chance to save their state before the computer turns itself off. They go back to the state they were in the last time the app was launched, not the last time it was being used. I have to re-open projects, move windows back where they were, restore documents that have emergency backups etc.

I just want the old sleep routine back. I've used pmset to turn hibernate mode to 0, which is what everyone says to do but it doesn't work. It's obviously to do with the EU energy saving law, so I figured it might be the standbydelay setting so I've turned that off too. I've messed about with all the settings, turning everything off to just get the thing to sleep normally and that's whether it's plugged in, or on battery. I'm prepared to take the modest hit on battery life. I'm on battery at the moment and here are my current settings:

standbydelay         0
standby              0
halfdim              1
hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
powernap             0
gpuswitch            2
disksleep            3600
sleep                5
autopoweroffdelay    0
hibernatemode        0
autopoweroff         0
ttyskeepawake        1
displaysleep         5
tcpkeepalive         1
acwake               0
lidwake              1

One possible wrinkle I'm vaguely aware of is that FileVault is enabled. Like I said, it's a work computer so I'm not permitted to disable FileVault. I understand this may have some bearing on my options but I'm not sure exactly what.

I have resorted to playing streams overnight with the volume all the way down just to stop me having to start all over again in the morning but that's not really an option when on battery power.

What on Earth do I need to do to get normal sleep operations the like of which I've been used to for a fifth of a century?


texts: Move existing USB Time Machine backup to OS X Server Time Machine

texts: How can I move an exiting OS X (10.10.1) USB Time Machine backup history to an OS X (10.10.1) Server (version 4) Time Machine service?


texts: Is there a way to stop Mail from automatically selecting messages? For example when I delete a message, it will immediately select the next one and mark it read. Then if I don't want to read the message yet, I need to mark it as unread.


texts: Problems while installing Python 3 on El Capitan

texts:
I'm using homebrew as my package manager. While installing python3 with brew install python3 I am getting the following error

class RegexFlag(enum.IntFlag):
AttributeError: module 'enum' has no attribute 'IntFlag'

I've tried the steps outlined in homebrew Troubleshooting but the problem still exists. Any pointers would be helpful.


texts: Accessing dictionary keys using defaults

texts:
How do I use defaults to access a specific field in a dictionary? I've tried doing this

$ defaults read -app Terminal "Window Settings.Pro"

but it doesn't work. Accessing "Window Settings" on its own does work though, and Pro is a key in that dictionary.


texts: How do I dual-booting Ubuntu on a Macbook pro?

texts: How would you dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 on a MacBook Pro with the following specs: 13", 750GB hard drive, Intel Core-i7 processor, with 8GB RAM.


texts: I forgot what my Apple ID was, but I remember my password. How can I find my e-mail?

texts:
So I remembered an older account that I had with apple and I remember the password. I remember there being a lot of games I liked and would like those back without having to pay again.

Can someone help?


texts:
How can i unlock a Partition that has been created and encrypted using Apples Disk Utility on a linux machine?
There are 2 formats one can encrypt Volumes with Disk Utility :

CoreStorage encrypted Volume
apfs encrypted Container

I'm interested in both methods, if there are such.


texts: When does encryption actually happen in MacOS/OS X encrypted volumes?

texts:
I've noticed a sort-of lazy/post encryption strategy in MacOS/OS X with FileVault enabled and in encrypted Time Machine backups, and I'm curious when actual encryption happens.

When I copy videos from unencrypted external USB 3 volumes to my FileVault encrypted volume, my write speeds are 100+MB/s. However, I don't think my macbook (Intel Core i7-4980) is capable of encrypting that fast on-the-fly.
When I complete a time machine backup, a lengthy "encrypting..." step happens, but continues seamlessly after un-mounting/re-mounting. This is more obvious when encryption is happening, but is the data exposed until encryption is complete?

When does the actual encryption happen? Is there a period of time where my files are vulnerable unencrypted?


texts: Siri crashing due to “DYLD, [0x4] Symbol Missing”

texts:
Out of all of the problems I’ve had, this one has been the most stubborn.
When I first installed Catalina, it seemed to work mostly fine except for one thing: Siri wouldn’t open. It would try over and over, generating thousands of crash reports if I left it long enough, all saying the same thing:
Termination Reason:   DYLD, [0x4] Symbol Missing
Dyld Error Message:
symbol '_OBJC_CLASS_$_SiriUIDismissalOptions' not found, expected in '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriUI.framework/Versions/A/SiriUI', needed by '/System/Library/CoreServices/Siri.app/Contents/MacOS/Siri'

I first tried to reinstall macOS, but to no avail.
Some googling of the issue told me that it was a dependency issue - but I can’t find anyone else with a similar issue that didn’t fix it by reinstalling.
I reinstalled again. Nothing. I tried replacing the file SiriUI it wanted a symbol from with a known working version from Mojave from a time machine backup. That still didn’t work.
How can I fix this, when neither a reinstall or known working file did? Is there any way to add the symbol to the file, or make it visible to the Siri app if it’s already there?


texts: OSX and installing Windows applications with Wine

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First time post here, so I do hope this goes in the right place.

I'm having a problem installing and running a Windows application on OSX. I've Googled quite a lot and tried various apps, but now I'm using Wine on OSX 10.9.5

To keep this question simple, Wine appears to have worked and the Windows install shield ran without (I think) any problem.

There's now a .lnk file on my desktop. If I run this using Wine, nothing appears to happen. If I look in the lnk file I see a typical path -

\Program Files\ and then name of application.

I cannot seem to find this path anywhere in OSX. I wanted to locate the executable and run it directly in Wine.

All I really want to do is run this Windows app, it's a simple enough program and really just a one off for me, so was trying to avoid heavyweight or expensive VM solutions.

I would really appreciate just any help on locating the \Program Files\ path, or another easy way of running a Windows application on OSX. I'm not very technical in this area so really am stuck!

Thank you for any help


texts: Retina Macbook pro freezes when Notification centre is triggered

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Okay, so this is a really weird error. Every so often when I trigger the notification centre using the two finger swipe, the machine will freeze. The notification centre can't be dismissed and any action I try to do after that just doesn't work. I can select some things like in the status bar and can even choose to go to login screen but the action does not complete, i.e I can only see a blank screen after that and not the login window.

This is irritating because it does not happen every time and is completely random as far as I can tell.

The only thing I can do after this happens is restart. I'm completely at a loss as to what might cause this as this does not seem to be a common error. A Google search hasn't revealed much.

This has been happening for quite some time and I don't recall installing any specific app after which this started happening. Maybe Better Touch Tool but there's no real connection I can make out.

Retina Macbook Pro on Mountain Lion with all available updates applied.


texts: 3-finger swipe left/right is slow to register

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For many years I used an app called MagicPrefs to enable 3 finger swiping between desktops (I think long ago it was not built in to the OS). That app was deprecated recently, and I was happy to find that the 3 finger swipe is supported natively in MacOS now. However, it behaves in a way that bothers me slightly. Compare the left/right version of this swipe to the up version.
Swipe up very slowly with 3 fingers: the moment your fingers start moving, the animation for "expose" (or whatever it's called) begins.
Swipe left/right very slowly with 3 fingers: your fingers move for some distance with zero output, until eventually the swipe is registered and the desktop begins switching.
Is it possible to remove that delay, i.e. the "distance with zero output" described above?


texts: What does "Initialize" mean? I have just connected my micro-SD card to my Mac, this just shows up

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The micro-sd card is used as the storage of my dashcam. It works fine before. But today when I connected it to my Mac, as usual, there is a popup saying:

It seems my sd-card has broken. But what does "Initialize..." meaning? If I click it, what would happen?

Will I lose all my data?

Thanks,


texts: Use spotlight (or Alfred) to open an existing chrome tab

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I want to easily jump to gmail as one of many (many, many) open tabs in Chrome.

If I could just type "gmail" into Spotlight and it would take me to that tab in Chrome, that would work great for me. Or if there was a way to get gmail in the top-level Cmd+Tab list, that'd work too. Anyone know a way to do this?

On Windows, I made gmail its own "app", because Chrome lets you do that in Windows. That means that Alt+Tab can bring you directly to gmail, ignoring other Chrome windows. Unfortunately, Chrome for Mac doesn't allow making web pages into apps, so that route doesn't work. (I used https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/app-launcher-for-gmail/mlbjackfgfafcnpfaanflcjoknkhofnh for a time, and it worked ok [but didn't have my Chrome extensions, like Boomerang], but lately it's been busted.)

I use Vimium and its Vomnibar is like spotlight, but you have to first focus chrome and then be on a page on which you haven't disabled Vimium (e.g. I disable Vimium for google docs and similar rich apps), so it's not ideal either.


texts: I downloaded macOS 10.13.1 Beta 2 two times but it isn't installing

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Last night, I wanted to upgrade my system, so I downloaded macOS 10.13.1 Beta 2, but after downloading 2 GB files, it didn't do anything. I waited 10 mins but it was still the same, on App Store it just says "Update".

So I downloaded it again with press Update button, and it downloaded 2 GB again. But still it is just saying "Update". It didn't restart, didn't open the installer or anything.

What should I do?


texts: I'm trying to install UNetBootin for a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). However, I got this message when I tried to open it. Could anyone be able to tell me what I can do to force its opening?


texts: What ways can I purchase a newspaper subscription for viewing on an iPad?

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I understand there's a Newsstand app. I am wondering, however, if I were to purchase a newspaper subscription through the Nook or Kindle systems, will I be able to read them in the standard iPad (iPad 3, iOS 6) apps for each publisher?

One reason for concern is that years ago, I found that some things I'd purchased on the Nook -- public domain books at least -- we're invisible to the Nook Windows app. ( Newspaper edition purchases may too have been unreachable).


texts: Scratch on MacBook Pro LCD screen (not the glass)

texts: I was replacing a rather broken piece of glass on my macbook pro 13" and got impatient toward the end, managing to slip and scratch the LCD screen itself.  Before I cover it up with the new piece of glass, I'd like to try to at least reduce the visibility of that scratch, if not repair it.  Is there anything that will work on the LCD screen itself (all the tips I've come across are for the glass)?