texts: How to invoke navigation on Google maps using Siri?

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At the risk of getting a big NO,

Is there a way to use SIRI to invoke navigation on Google maps as opposed to the default Apple maps?

I have tried "Navigate to Chicago using Google maps", but Siri just treated "Chicago using Google maps" as the location itself.


texts: Is it possible to create shortcuts for VLC using Automator?

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I see here that Automator can be used to create commands that then can be triggered globally.

I have no idea how to use Automator but see that it has some options for involving applications... Can a "service" be created for VLC that will then be bound to keystroke triggers?

What I want are simple commands like pause/play, back and forward that could be used with shortcuts no matter what other window application is on top.


texts: Iterm2 - Export a single profile's settings for distribution to others

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I've been getting used to working with Iterm2 over the past few weeks. I have a very specific profile configuration requirement for a legacy business application. The configuration for the profile requires a special font as well as keybinding and color changes.

I've been able to encapsulate all of these changes into a discrete Iterm2 profile. However, I'd like to export the settings for this profile and distribute them to end-users.

I know that it's possible to export a .plist file with all of the Iterm preferences, but I'd like this to be separate so that other people can import without impacting other potentially extant profiles.

Are there any clean options for this?


texts: MacMini 2018 is slow to wake after sleep

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I have Mac mini 2018 with Mojave 10.14.3 and external display LG 27UK600 connected via hdmi 2.0 cable. When i put my mac to sleep, then wake it after  5 minutes, it takes like 60 seconds to wake it up. When i press any key on the keyboard monitor is kinda wakes up, but then goes black again, only after this it actually wakes up, but mac itself is awaken very quick.

What might be a culprit here?


texts: I’m running iOS 11.1 public beta. There’s a strange bar which appears under my keyboard, regardless of where I’m typing. The attached screenshot shows an example. What is this? It doesn’t seem to do anything.


texts: How to mount HFS+ rEFInd partition as boot in Arch Linux

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I am currently trying to set up dual boot on my Mac. I installed rEFInd to its own partition (512MB), formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". I wanted to use the same partition as my boot partition under linux. But every time I pacstrap my system, I get an error message stating that "/mnt/boot is mounted as read-only". It's probably because it can only read the mounted partition based on the filesystem I used.
I read that installing it on the existing EFI partition has caused some problems for other people so I wanted to go and take the "safe route".

I want to use rEFInd to start my OS', I do not really care if it shows up on the Startup Manager provided by Apple. I just want to be able to boot into OS X if something happens and goes horribly wrong :)

Is using FAT32 as the formatting a good idea? It would allow me to mount is as rw and make it usable as my boot partition. Or how do you guys have installed rEFInd on your systems?


texts: Purchasing an iMac: when is the entry-level model insufficient?

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We're looking at iMacs for my girlfriend, and I was wondering: would the entry-level model be sufficient?

When looking at Windows desktops, I tend to suggest a model a few levels above an entry-level desktop. This usually means the PC can be used longer and it will feel like a fast desktop for a while longer.

Is the same true for an iMac? When is the basic model insufficient? Naturally, this is not a $300 PC, so I would think that even the basic model is a very capable machine. However, for only a few hundred dollars above the entry-level model, CPU speeds are doubled, among other improvements.

Again, this is for my girlfriend, and she really only uses it for internet, the occasional movie and listening to music.


texts: Will I be able to use an unlocked AT&T iPhone 3GS with European carriers?

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Moving to Austria in two weeks. I have an iPhone 3GS that has been unlocked by AT&T.

Will I be able to use my iPhone 3GS with European carrier sim cards once I get there?


texts: Using Iphone as bluetooth replacement for mac

texts: I have a late 2011 mac book pro with bluetooth 2.1 which works terribly with my speakers. Is there anyway I can use my Iphone 5s with bluetooth 4.0 as a sort of replacement. Through USB, WIFI or Bluetooth?


texts: Mac not connecting to Internet, but Safari is connecting to Internet

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Have this weird wireless network, once the mac connected to the network, everything except safari shows offline (Skype, Spotify, Dropbox and other apps) an even when I ping google.com or ping 8.8.8.8 all results in timeout.

But for some weird reason safari can still browse internet for known domains, and soon as I try to resolve an unknown domain, it can't find that host.

Pretty sure this is an DNS issue, but none of the other devices in the network has this issue. I tried flushing DNS of the mac, and using google DNSs but no luck

Can't even reset the mac to factory settings without a internet connection at this point


texts: Big Sur Beta 5 clean reinstall stuck on macOS Update Assistant

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I’m running a macOS Big Sur Beta installer from Recovery after erasing my drive on Mac mini 2014, and after running a Reinstall macOS utility for over an hour, this Update Assistant appeared. The progress bar is not moving, wireless keyboard and trackpad disconnected, I can’t find any information on this utility on the web.
I’m aware of various rebooting methods, instead, I’d like to find out if anyone is familiar with the said assistant and possible reasons for its appearance on my screen.


texts: Is it possible to restore from Time Machine backup if there is no OS installed on main drive

texts: The question title says it all, really. I upgraded my SSD and now I don't have a disk to boot from except OS X Recovery. I have both Internet connection and a USB drive from which I can install a clean copy but I would prefer not doing so unless it is necessary because that usually takes a lot of time. When I try restoring from a Time Machine backup it says "Searching for Time Machine backups..." although my backup drive is connected.


texts: How do people find out hidden UserDefaults

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Quite often I come across these online posts about these hidden tricks that, usually entered it Terminal, access the user defaults system and overwrites/creates new defaults which are not normally changed by the system GUI.

What I'm wondering is how do folks "figure out" these so-called "hidden" tricks?

Did Apple document all the usable preferences for their software?
Did these people know people that work for apple and therefor built these tricks?
Are these people just nuts and spend all their day punching in random defaults looking to see if any of them do anything?


texts: How does finder show a pc computer name but I can't ping it?

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I have a MBP running 10.6.  This is my first mac.

In finder, it sees the windows 7 machines and windows home server just find.  I can click on those computers and see their shares.  If I open up terminal and try to ping the computer name, it doesn't resolve.  I have had to add the computers to the host file.  I don't understand why finder appears to associate the name with the correct server from the terminal doesn't.  Can somebody explain it or explain how I can get the same behavior from terminal?


texts: Is my 13" rMBP capable of running a 4k monitor at 2560x1440 scaled resolution?

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I have a late 2013 13" rMBP and a 4k monitor (3840x2160) that's running at 60Hz over mini display port. Right now it uses a scaled 1920x1080 resolution so everything is displayed at 2x HDPI (retina mode), which seems to be default.

Everything is a bit big for my liking, however, and on the flip side 3840x2160 is far too small, so I was hoping to go for around 2560x1440 for a happy medium.

As System Preferences seemingly doesn't permit this, I downloaded SwitchResX, created a custom resolution ("scaled" mode and 2560x1440 resolution) and selected "save", rebooted, but it still won't show up in System Preferences.

What am I doing wrong? Is my computer not capable of displaying that resolution (I realize it has to scale it up to 5120x2880 first)?


texts: 3 days ago I submitted app for review, and it still waits for apple's review. Now there is a WWDC in Cupertino. Is it mean that Apple stopped reviewing apps while conference?


texts: Will MacBook (Mid 2010) work with 1333MHz RAM instead of 1066MHz RAM?

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I've a MacBook White (Mid 2010, 13-inch) with 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. I want to upgrade it to 4GB RAM. I'm looking for 1066MHz RAM in local stores but couldn't find one. Instead everywhere I can find the 1333MHz DDR3 RAM only. So before buying RAM, I want to be sure if 1333MHz RAM will work on my MB White without any troubling issues. So please give me an expert's advice. Will 1333MHz RAM work on my MB White Mid-2010 model? Or I'll just continue using my MB with 2GB RAM?

1066MHz RAM is not available in my city and making order from Amazon (or similar sites) is not possible for me as these websites do not provide services in my country.

My MB White (Mid 2010, 13-inch) specifications--

Processor- 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory- 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics- NVIDIA GeForce 320M

OS- OS X Yosemite 10.10

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion


texts: Paste the current date-time in OmniOutliner

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While writing in OmniOutliner, I would like to insert the current date or current date-with-time.

Is there such a feature as "Now" in OmniOutliner 5.4.1 for macOS?


texts: How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying?

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How do I find out how much disk space a program such as Skype occupies?

My SSD is getting full, and I want to see what can be deleted.


texts: Does "Disable and Delete" delete photos from your Apple devices after 30 days? or will they only be deleted in iCloud.com?

texts: Does "Disable and Delete" delete photos from your Apple devices after 30 days?. I mean, if iCloud Photos remains turned on in iPhone, for example after the 30 days, will the photos be deleted?


texts: How can I make Finder display correct 'today' date?

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'All my files' shows 'today' as three days ago - even though I've done all kinds of work since then.

Any fixes?


texts: Securing VGA Output Plus Audio From An iPad

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As part of a retrofitting project for my church, I purchased a variety of equipment.  The minister has a recent model iPad with Lightning port.  I purchased a Lightning to HDMI adapter to get sound and video.  The church's overhead projector, for which there is no budget to replace right now, only handles a VGA input or composite input.  I purchased a Belkin HDMI to VGA adapter that has a 3.5 mm output so I could patch into the audio system's soundboard.

When I hooked this up to my iPad, it initially wanted to work.  It didn't though.  Nothing would play through the lash-up of cables.  I've tested the cables individually for the roles they play and they work.  Together they cannot get me VGA video and sound to run to a mixing board.

Is there a way to accomplish this through cabling?  Am I missing something or is this a dead end?


texts: How can I edit contacts at Skype iPad version?

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It just seems nonsense that you can't edit contacts at Skype iPad version, I know less is more, but perhaps too less is actually less.

So how can you edit contacts at Skype iPad version?


texts: google calendar in today view in ipad (iOS 14) is displaying "unable to load"

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Since the upgrade to iOS 14 my work iPad has been showing "unable to load", in the google calendar widget in today view.
Has this widget been broken in iOS 14?, or is it miss-configured. I have searched the setting, but can not get it to work.
How can I get a calendar of upcoming events on my home screen, and lock window?


texts: How do I remove a dmg from a bootable USB flash drive?

texts: I created a bootable flash drive using the instructions on Ubuntu's website using OS X 10.6, but it was for the wrong version of Ubuntu. Now, I want to remove the dmg from the flash drive, but diskutil isn't letting me remove it.


texts: Accidentally deleted everything from a directory on my Macbook using terminal

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I accidentally did a rm -rf * on a wrong directory on my macbook terminal. It appears that the rm command operates just like on a Linux system, where it's irreversible.

But I did back up my Mac to my external HDD so I can restore it using Time Machine, but I wanted to see if anyone knows of another, preferably quicker way to get all of my files back in the directory I used the above command in?


texts: iMac 27“ Mid 2011 - Can‘t reinstall macOS

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I‘m trying to reinstall macOS Sierra on my Mid 2011 iMac. I have a single 1 TB HDD and single partition called „OS X Base System“ that takes up 999.35 GB‘s. When I try to partition the Base Volume I get the following error

This volume has 1.56 GB used space. You can not remove the first volume on the disk. This volume can not be split because the resulting
volumes would be too small.

Also when just try to reinstall the OS the disk is greyed out and when hovering on it, it says

This disk is locked.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How to search files from command line under OS X?

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It seems that Apple doesn't want us to use locate, at it is making it so hard to setup.

If there a way to use finder database from the command line? Maybe I can make an alias.

I would appreciate solutions that would not require system reconfiguration, just because I don't want to repeat the process each time I upgrade the system of switch computers.


texts: Disk Utility App on Mac cannot do FirstAid on my SD card

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While I was using my Olympus E-M5 mark 2, suddenly it shows me a message "card error". Thus I connect the SD card to my mac, which also shows a message "The Disk You Inserted Was Not Readable by This Computer". After researching how to fix a broken SD card, I decided to use the First Aid function on Disk Utility App on Mac to find the problem. However, that function also shows a message "First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume. Click Done to continue." with the detailed message:
======================================================
"Running First Aid on “” (disk2s1)
Repairing file system.
Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_msdos -y /dev/rdisk2s1
** /dev/rdisk2s1
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 819fb0
File system check exit code is 8.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
File system verify or repair failed. : (-69845)
Operation failed…
==========================================
Please help me identify what the details say because I have no idea. Does it mean that my SD card of beyond repair and I cannot download 8GB of pictures on the card?


texts: Can I download apps from the US app store if I'm using a different store?

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Can I download apps from the US apps Store even if I'm currently using the italian store ?

For example, I would like to download Spotify, which is not available in the Italian store:

Should I change credit card? Or can I use the same one?


texts: PDFs missing from iBooks on iPad after restore

texts: After a complete restore of my iPad 2 from iTunes, all my PDF books not from the iTunes Store were gone.  I just saw them for seconds and then disappeared.   How can I get them back?


texts: Need menu bar app to show output of Terminal command every 60s

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I need a menu-bar app* which will show me the output of a terminal command, and run that Terminal command every 60s or so.

Or I need a menu-bar app which will read the contents of a file, and update whenever that file is updated.

(The output would be no more than 3 or 4 digits)

Are there any such apps?

* neither the Dock nor the Desktop are workable alternatives. Needs to be the menu bar.

Update 2014-06-16: The answer from Jun 9 '12 at 2:15 did not end up working for me after all, so I'm still looking for a solution.

2020-04-04

I forgot all about having asked this question. For the past several years I have been using TextBar which is the perfect solution that I had always been looking for.

See also:

TextBar Puts Your Text into the Menu Bar - MacStories


texts: Apple Configurator refreshes as soon as it finished

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I've got several iPads which I manage with Configurator. Since the 9.2 update when I plug in an iPad and refresh it, as soon as Configurator finishes refreshing the device, it starts over.

The process is basically:

Check iOS
Wipe device and reinstall
Install apps
Go to 1 and repeat.


texts: OSX slow netwerk setup after sleep when wired (wireless is fast)?

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When my mapro6,1 awakes from sleep it takes like 20-30 seconds before the network (and therefor Internet) is working, when i use WiFi its almost instant.

Any ideas?

Thanks!


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I like the fact that I can use Google's built in PDF viewer instead of a separate application (Adobe Acrobat). Normally I would open a Finder Window with the PDF and drag it to a tab on Google Chrome but this process becomes two steps if the PDF is to be downloaded first.

I tried changing the default application for PDF using "Get Info" > "Open with", but it does not seem to work properly. I still have to drag a file to a Chrome Tab. I would like to ideally double click to open as well as drag to the Chrome icon in the dock.


texts: Time Machine doesn't backup folders with same name as user

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Let's say my OS X user's folder is called Attila and I have a folder with the same name in a folder, e.g. ~/Xcode/Attila/. Now, if I do a Time Machine backup, the ~/Xcode/Attila/ folder won't be copied.

Why is it? Is there a workaround to fix this?

(OS X version: 10.8.3)

EDIT

tmutil removeexclusion doesn't seem to work in this case:

EDIT 2

Might not be relevant, but my user account was migrated from a Time Machine backup.


texts: My phone was knocked out of my hand and fell screen side on the ground. I have an off-brand case and my screen will not show anything except for a flash when I press the home button. My phone is currently not connected to an iCloud account and My lock button is broken, how to get my contacts off of my phone?


texts: Can I connect two 34" LG 34UM95-P to a Retina Macbook Pro 13?

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I have a Macbook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013 with Intel Iris Graphics. I'd like to get two LG 34UM95-P 34" 3440x1440 screens for it.

Unfortunately, LG writes that it the only compatible Mac is the 2014 new Mac Pro.

Currently I have two 27" displays with 2560x1440 resolution connected, and occasionally open the lid for a total of 9.13M pixels (at the highest interpolated resolution). But two of the LG screens would be 9.9M pixels, and over external connections as well.

I've found reports that the screen works with recent Macbook Pros, but…

I only found ones that cover the Macbook Pro 15" with discrete graphics (and sometimes emphasize that fact)
I want to connect two of the screens, not just one

Apple's tech specs mention:

  Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on up to two external displays, both at millions of colors

Unfortunately, the 34" screens have ~20% more pixels than that.

Will I be able to use two of these screens with the computer I have?


texts: Mac OS Big Sur | kernal_task usage is 500% when connected to external monitor

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I'm facing a system lag issue whenever I connect to my external monitor, even though there is no user process.
I have already gone through some of the answers in the stack exchange and did two things as of now.

I have disabled the automatic graphics switching.
I have disabled "Display have separate space"
There is no software update pending

as mentioned in this link CPU usage is too high with Yosemite and an external monitor
But the problem, even after those two changes I can see kernal_task is more than 500% and I'm not able to use Macbook pro at all.
Previously it was once or twice an occurrence, now it is happening every time I connect to an external monitor.

Activity Monitor

I have also taken a spin-dump ( 5MB ) and system diagnostics ( 200+ MB ). So I dunno how to share this here. Let me know if any of you need it for analysis.


texts: Read only access to app store on ios devices

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I restricted the iOS devices of my kids so they cannot install apps. This was necessary because it's not possible to revoke permissions given via family sharing.

Now the app store icon is fully gone. I'd like to get them some kind of read access to the app store.

Any ideas?


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Some time ago, I had a bookmark on my iPhone for a WebApp I believe to be called "Sparkie". It was a web app that would display electric arcs for every finger that tapped the screen, and would draw lines in-between multiple fingers. It goes without saying that it appears I've lost the bookmark.

In my attempts to search for it, I have found Matt Gemmell's Multi-Finger Test app, but I am not able to deploy it to my iPad because I am not a paying iOS developer.

Anyone out there know of the WebApp I'm searching for?


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I have a household with an iMac that has 1 account that automatically logs on, and 1 iTunes account.

The itunes account has 2 different libraries, although the only difference is some of the (non-DRM) music.

There is an iPad shared by many people, and a phone used by one person.

What is the easiest way to sync things like music between all machines while keeping things like notes on the phone private, but still being able to back them up to the iMac?

Would prefer not to use iCloud if possible, as it looks complicated for the people I am setting it up for.


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I have a bunch of Philips Hue lamps at home and decided to take the new Home app for a spin after installing iOS 10 on my iPhone 6s.

The lamps connected without problem and are fully controllable but when I look at the automation tab the app just informs me that I can make an Apple TV the center of my home. I can find no way to actually create an automation.

First I thought that this was an issue with my Apple TV (4th gen) but while looking around in the setting I was able to reset my home from the Apple TV so some form of connection must have been made.

Maybe related to this is that there is no settings available for Home on the iPhone.

I have tried multiple times to reset my Philips Hue Bridge and reconnect it to the phone but the result is always the same.

Any tips?

What I see (in Swedish):

What I expected:


texts: Does the iOS App Store share information with developers that can identify specific users of their apps?

texts: Can the developer access information from the iOS App Store that uniquely identifies single users - or do they just get aggregate information?


texts: Set Spotify as the source for song titles instead of iTunes

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A lot of applications say something to the effect of "get the current song title from iTunes for your status", so is there any way to have those pull from Spotify instead of iTunes?

I'm willing to jump through a few hoops, and I'm a software developer so I don't mind some hacks, but I would love to be able to have those apps pull from my Spotify playlist instead of iTunes (who even downloads music anymore? Savages! :p )


texts: Is there a way to either save/copy/or email an entire iMessage conversation?

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Is there a one (or a simple) step process to either email myself, or cut/copy, an entire (like year long) iMessage conversation without having to buy an app/software or to go through and keep marking post groupings through "more" so I can send to my email?

I read about finding a hidden library folder in the question pertaining to the bulk download of pictures in iMessage. This did not really help.

Also, when I log into iMessage from my Macbook, my iPhone messages that predated the purchase do not show up. Even assuming it did, however, I still want to move the conversation out of iMessage so I can paste it into a word doc for posterity.


texts: I'm trying to register a new App ID inside iTunes connect web site, but when I've filled out the details and hit continue, it just comes up "Loading" and stays like that, any ideas?


texts: Is there such thing as a SuperDrive enclosure?

texts: The OWC Data Doubler allows you to remove the SuperDrive of a MacBook or MacBook Pro and install a secondary drive. This leaves you with two drives in your Mac laptop, and a SuperDrive sitting on your desk. Is there any sort of SuperDrive enclosure that would allow you to put a SuperDrive inside of it, and then plug into your computer via USB?


texts: MacOS - Where is Terminal themes/profiles utilized by Terminal.app on disk?

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I know i can export a profile, i can then use it, but if I modify it, i have to export it again, to have a proper backup.

I'd rather have a symlink to the actual file in use by terminal rather than an exported version of it I have to constantly re-export when i wish to backup my system.

However, I can not find the location where Terminal uses the imported themes. Where does it put them?

Anyone?


texts: Can I manually sync/refresh data from iCloud

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I have a MacBook Air with the Xcode app that I use to add data to an array in one of the files.
The file is saved to the desktop.
I also have a MacBook Pro with the Xcode app that I use to add data and code throughout.
The file is also saved to the desktop.
I can't understand why or when the iCloud is syncing because sometimes I add the data to the MacBook Air and then when I open the file on the MacBook Pro I can see it update/refresh.
Sometimes I close the file on the MacBook Pro and open it up again so it can refresh the new data from iCloud.
The problem is that sometimes I can't do anything to update/sync/refresh the data to appear on the file on the MacBook Pro.
It changes from day to day and because I haven't been able to figure out why this happens, I want to know if there's a way to manually refresh the data from iCloud so it syncs to my MacBook Pro when I want it to.
Please advise if there's a way to do this.
Thanks ✌


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Sometimes when I plug my HDMI cable in, the macbook freezes.
It's 15inch retina, early 2013, recently clean installed macOS High Sierra.

I've resetted the NVRAM and the SMC, many times, problem is occasionally there.
And no, I won't replace the HDMI cable as it was working just fine with all previous versions of macOS/OSX.

On a quora thread I've read that possibly the automatic graphics card switching might be the reason, which can be found in Settings/Energy Saver. This might make sense, as this issue happens when I take my laptop off my desk (unplug charger and HDMI), and then plug it back in.


texts:
I can close google chrome with following bash command:

kill -9 $(ps -x | grep "Google Chrome" | awk "{print $1}")

It closes all instances of google chrome.
But I need command that close all the instances of google chrome except first, because music is playing there and I don't want to stop it.

I use word instance to express new google chrome window which opens after I press super N.


texts: How do I check if user is not allowed to change password via Terminal

texts: How do I check if the user cannot change password via Terminal? I know you can do pwpolicy -u username -getpolicy and look for canModifyPasswordforSelf=0 but I can't use pwpolicy for this. Any ideas?


texts: There is a bluetooth audio delay on my Mid 2014 Mac on Mojave

texts: Whenever I connect my bluetooth earbuds to my Mac, there is a noticeable audio lag when watching videos. How do I solve this. I use my earbuds with my Android phone and they work perfectly.


texts: How to mimic CTRL-d in Linux on Mac terminal

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If I want to move a folder or file at some relative location, in Linux I use for example:

mv ../../<CTRL-d>

And that gives me a listing of files/folders at ../../ so I can quickly (using the TAB command as well) continue to build mv command path.

How do I emulate this same capability in Mac terminal?

I tried configuring stty eol, but that did not work.

I know I can first use ls to build the path, but I am looking for CTRL-d equivalent


texts: Opening a website on iPad also opens other random websites

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I use a website called UkuTabs which tells me the chords for songs.

Every-time I go to the website on my iPad, it always pops up with this random scam website which tells you that you will earn a lot of money. Even if I click cancel, it will take me there anyways. It won't even let me tap the back button. I don't know if this is a virus, but it never happens on my phone or computer.


texts: PHP Version 7.3.22 to be removed in future macOS

texts:
I just attempted to load a new development page without having created the httpdconf entry, & got the PHPinfo page with the following in the header...
PHP Version 7.3.22-(to be removed in future macOS)
Does this mean Apple are intending to remove PHP from a future version of macOS? Or is it simply flagging that this version of PHP will be replaced?


texts: Kindle not connecting to iPhone Wifi hotspot

texts: Im trying to connect my Kindle HD to my personal hotspot on my iPhone.  I keep getting an authentication problem. How do I fix it?


texts:
I've tried to install two TTF fonts, but they don't show up in FontBook.

Message in Console is:

Sandbox: FontValidator(897) deny(1) file-read-metadata /


texts:
My Python app is using scipy which apparently needs libgfortran. After a recent brew update/upgrade, my Python app fails to run due to a libgfortran dependency issue:

dlopen(<snip>/scipy-0.14.0-py2.7-macosx-10.10-intel.egg/scipy/linalg/_fblas.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/gcc/4.9/libgfortran.3.dylib

I have gcc 4.9 installed, but there is no fortran library or anything matching /usr/local/lib/gcc/4.9/fort. There are tons of other libs in /usr/local/lib/gcc/4.9/

I successfully installed gcc 4.9 through homebrew, however I could not get gfortran installed:

➜  ~  brew install gfortran
Error: No available formula for gfortran
GNU Fortran is now provided as part of GCC, and can be installed with:
  brew install gcc
➜  ~  brew install gcc
Warning: gcc-5.1.0 already installed
➜  ~  brew install homebrew/versions/gcc49
Warning: homebrew/versions/gcc49-4.9.2_1 already installed
➜  ~  brew install homebrew/versions/gcc49 gfortran
Error: No available formula for gfortran
GNU Fortran is now provided as part of GCC, and can be installed with:
  brew install gcc
➜  ~  brew install gcc gfortran
Error: No available formula for gfortran
GNU Fortran is now provided as part of GCC, and can be installed with:
  brew install gcc


texts: Why isn't new (erased/formatted) SSD showing anymore in Disk Utility (and can't install OS on it)?

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I just replaced the SSD in my MacBook Air (early 2015). I erased/formatted it in the Disk Utility (choosing APFS as desired format and GUID partition scheme) and then tried to restore my Time Machine back-up. Looked like it was going well and gave me circa 1 1/2 hours until all restored. Countdown continued. Fine.

But then instead I got prohibitory (circle with bar through it) symbol. Reading round, maybe too late an OS for my Mac? Or some other issue?

But when I try reinstalling the version previously on my Mac (using command + R on start-up), it gives me the option to agree to installing El Capitan, but I now can’t see the new SSD to install it to. Likewise, when I go into Disk Utility, I can’t see any internal drive anymore although it was showing up before I formatted it. (And I can’t see an option to ‘View > Show all devices’ referenced in various other threads.)

Any help (and STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS!) appreciated. Just want to get my old stuff onto a larger drive and get on with my work!

Thank you.


texts: How to use an Apple ID when using hdesetup?

texts: In setting up FileVault in System Preferences>Security & Privacy, there is an option to use your Apple ID as a method to de-crypt the HD, once its been encrypted. The command-line equivalent is fdesetup, and on consulting its man page, I could not see the equivalent in its switches/options. Maybe I'm not quite understanding the implications of the terminology used in the man page, but I could not see how to do it. Does anyone know if specifying Apple ID decryption can be done via fdesetup?


texts: Using Partitioned External Harddrive with Bootcamp

texts: I tried connecting my external harddrive to my computer while booted in Bootcamp, but it wouldn't recognize the drive. I'm pretty sure this is because it was formatted for Mac computers. If I partition part of the drive and format it in exFat, will I be able to use that formatted partition within Bootcamp?


texts: How to activate lost mode on iCloud for iPhone that cannot be located?

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I lost my phone in a taxi just after landing at an airport. My phone was in airplane mode and I cannot locate it with iCloud. On iCloud help pages, it says I can turn on the lost mode.

I tried:

Locate my phone, wait for it to fail. No menu appeared to ask if I wanted to lock it
Go in Settings -> my iPhone. I clicked on "lost your phone ? ...? " which did nothing but bring me to a help page

Is that normal ? I'm using Ubuntu/Chrome if it can help.


texts: How do I get the actual ip address of a printer in OSX Yosemite

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I need to know the ip address of my printer from OSX to be able to configure it in my daughters Windows laptop. I tried the solution suggested in How do you get a printer's IP in lion? but I only get: dnssd://AL-CX11-08F61E._printer._tcp.local./auto, and I cannot ping AL-CX11-08F61E._printer._tcp.local. because it does not resolve. Still, I can print. How do I get the actual IP address?

Edit: why doesn't it resolve from the commandline, but still OSX can print?


texts: Extending extending network using airport express

texts:
I know that this has been discussed before but this is a slightly different scenario.

I live in a very elongated apartment and the signal is very bad in one end. I have a D-Link 655 (or something close) and I want to extend my wireless network using a Airport Express and a "powerline" (Ethernet over main power cables).

So to make it clear, the D-Link 655 will be used as wifi access point in one end and I want to use the powerline to be able to use the airport express as an extender and repeater in the other end.

Will this work provided the powerline provides a internet connection to the other end of the apartment?

Secondly, if all this works, using the Airport Express as an Airplay unit as well as an extender shouldn't be a problem right?


texts: Can't email Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 documents via Google Mail (Gmail)

texts: When I try to email a Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 document via Google Mail, I receive the following error.


texts: What's the name of my sound card driver's file?

texts: I want to run fuser to determine what process is using my sound card, but I don't know what file to use. I ran fuser on /System/Library/Extensions while playing a YouTube video, but did not see any process IDs.


texts:
I have observed that the screen on my MacBook Pro turns off a few seconds after I activate lock screen.

Is there any way to keep the screen of my MacBook Pro on for an unlimited duration of time after I lock the screen? Or at least an hour as a workaround.


texts: Changing OS X's Apache settings to replicate Ubuntu's Apache environment

texts:
I've been using an Ubuntu distro for a few years now and I greatly prefer the default Apache2 settings on Ubuntu compared to OS X. This post aims to provide instructions on how to convert the few settings I want from 'mac-style' to 'ubuntu-style'.

I'm trying to change the default behaviour of Apache on OS X to be similar to Ubuntu, including both the apache user / group and work directory. The information I have found so far on this points to the following:

Apache on Ubuntu runs under www-data, on Mac under _www
Apache on Ubuntu uses /var/www, on Mac /Library/Webserver/Documents

I got this information on Mac from /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.

My questions:

Do I need to delete the _www user / group, before making the new www-data user and group, or can I simply change the former? How do I do the correct one without breaking everything?
I believe I can simply change the line in httpd.conf to change the root directory for files, and create the /var/www/ folder also. But in order to do this in the right way, I'll need the right permissions, so (1) needs to be done first.

The end goal:

To have a www-data user running Apache (like Ubuntu has) rather than _www, and also have my root directory under /var/www (like Ubuntu has) rather than /Library/Webserver/Documents, and for any PHP extensions via PECL or otherwise not to be affected by this change.

How can I set this up correctly so that "it just works", and won't interfere with anything like extensions / other modifications in the future?

I'm running OS X 10.9.4, Apache/2.2.26.


texts: Mac OS Catalina, uneven battery drain in AirPods

texts:
I have noticed something about my AirPods, and I want you to help me understand if this problem is due to AirPods or Mac OS.

Initially, my AirPods were charged to 100%. But After a few hours of usage, I noticed that the left one was at 27% and the right one was at 9%, this got me wondering what causes it, because it's a brand new pair of AirPods.

So, I went into Settings -> Bluetooth -> AirPods (clicked the "Options" button) here:

that brought me to this screen:

The "Microphone:" setting has 3 options:

I noticed that when I set it to "Automatically Switch AirPods", it only uses the right AirPod's microphone, I checked it by going into the Sounds settings here:

and then when I tapped on my left AirPod, the "Input level:" bar didn't budge, and it only moved, when I tapped on the right AirPod.

Could someone with AirPods and a Mac do the same test and confirm this for me? I'm trying to understand if going to Apple to fix this problem is going to be a waste of time for me or not, this could be a Mac OS issue after all.


texts: Bluetooth connection instability with Magic Mouse on El Capitan

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I'm using a ~3 year old Apple Magic Mouse (1st generation, removable AA batteries, part number: MB829LL/A), and it has started to give me brief disconnection warnings, but always automatically reconnects in .5 to 3 seconds or so. Here's a syslog snippet on gist.github.com. Clues so far:

Started after upgrading to Yosemite / El Capitan (I only ran Yosemite for a week or so before upgrading to El Capitan)
Only happens in cafes or on campus, i.e., where there are other devices around.
Usually only ever disconnects as soon as I use the mouse after not using it for a few minutes. I.e., usually the mouse sits for several minutes and doesn't have any issues when I start to use it again; sometimes it has this disconnect aneurysm while actively using it.

Things I've tried so far:

Removing the mouse, restarting, and pairing with it again via the Bluetooth PreferencePane.
Ensuring the batteries are fresh / completely charged.

Based on #3 and what I gather from the logs, I'm guessing it's going into some sort of sleep / standby mode, and not always waking properly. Perhaps there's some OS X system setting that will let me turn this off or increase the period of time that counts as sleep-worthy inactivity?


texts: Why does iterating over a list in applescript with `repeat with … in` fail with error code `-1731` part way through the list?

texts:
I have this script for ensuring that every track in a given smart playlist is both shufflable and bookmarkable.

The script is inteded to be launched via launchd.

All of this is set up fine except that the script exhibits strange behavior. When you run it, some of them succeed but the majority seem to fail due to error code -1731. Subsequent runs the same behavior happens until you have no more shufflable and bookmarkable tracks.

I would expect that if the code errors on the first run it would keep erroring but that's not what happens.

What's happening here?


texts:
Upgraded on 2018/03/28

After restart macOS, Safari/Google Chrome cannot play embedded videos.

But...

In macOS I opened Finder and located a mp4 file, press space to quick view the content. I got a blank window with a loading icon. (This video can be played in this way yesterday.)

I use ctrl+click and select Open with, use QuickTime to play it. But QuickTime responded an error said The document "xxxx" could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (-101).

Original question

Safari/Google Chrome cannot play embedded videos in website. I can see the 1st frame of the video and I can drag the progress bar to move the timeframe, it shows the frames. But when I clicked play button the video does not get played.

In Google Chrome I have tried:

Disabling the hardware acceleration.
Disabling the Ad Blocker.
Clearing the browser data.
Disabling the QUIC protocol.

In Safari I have tried:

Allowed auto play for videos with sounds

The websites in question are not using Flash, just HTML5 video.

I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 with Google Chrome 66.0.3359.45 (beta-64bit) and Safari 11.0.3.


texts: How to skip system hotkeys when using terminal emacs?

texts:
I like to run GNU emacs in a Terminal window under Mac OS X 10.6.4.

Unfortunately, whenever I hit a hot key for emacs I often "trip" on an OS X system hot key.

For instance, when I hit ⌃ + space in emacs, I end up opening Spotlight.

Is there a way to "skip" system level hot keys when I use emacs under Terminal.app?

I hate to have to manually deactivate all system hot keys and re-enable them whenever I use emacs.


texts: rEFIt menu takes around 10 seconds to even show up

texts:
I'm using a macbook pro 8,1. I've installed rEFIt so that I can dual boot with Ubuntu. This is all "working" except that each time I turn on my laptop, it takes ten or fifteen seconds to even get to the rEFIt menu for me to select an OS.

At this point, I have done nothing special except to make Ubuntu the default OS and reduce the wait time in the rEFIt menu from 20 to 5 seconds.

How can I reduce this lag between startup and OS selection?


texts: How to make Outlook to go to the next unread email when deleting emails

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When deleting emails in Apple Mail it will automagically move the focus to the next unread email, basically it moves the focus up one line.

When deleting emails in Outlook for Mac it keeps the focus on the same line, so once the email is deleted the previous read email takes focus. And it does not matter if I press delete or backspace key, it still shows the previous read email.

How can I setup Outlook to move the focus to the next unread email when deleting emails?


texts: How can I create custom right-click context menu items in macOS?

texts:
I've been a native windows'er up until this year and have finally made the jump to OS X. I've found my workflow (web developer) has increased substantially and I love the general performance and snappiness of my OSX.

However, I very much miss a few features of windows, one of them being how easy it was to create a new text file. Just right-click->new->text file.

I'd really like to add a "New File" option right under "New Folder" in the right click menu, and just have it make a new file in the selected folder or finder window. On top of that, it'd be really killer to have an "open terminal here" option that would open a terminal window already cd'd into the current working directory.

How can I customize the macOS Finder context menu? I want to add the menu items:

"New File"
"Open Terminal Here"
etc.

I've searched a bit for these but haven't found anything of substance; I could set up a hacky hotkey workaround but that's suboptimal, in my experience. So any recommendations are more than welcome!


texts: Home sharing on iPhone: "You don't have permission to access the requested resource "

texts:
I've configured Home sharing to work just fine on my iPad and Apple TV, however for some reason on my phone I get an error pop up saying "You don't have permission to access the requested resource" when trying to play a song.

I can view my library just fine, but I cannot play any songs.

I've set iTunes to share my entire library which seems fine on the other advices.

I've restarted both my phone and PC, and also signed out of home sharing on my phone and signed in again, and also disabled and re-enabled home sharing on my PC.

Running the latest version of both iOS and iTunes.

Thanks!


texts: How can I share AppStore 1Password Pro on my MacBook?

texts:
The information on 1Password regarding using/sharing the application one purchased in AppStore is that it is possible. You are given a rundown on how to install on your other device. But it doesn't work because the menus that are mentioned don't exist in the Mac version.
Originally I bought the 1Password Pro App on my iPhone (7) and would like to synchronise the password information via Dropbox on my MacBook Pro. I never received a licence nor secret code by e-mail.
Is there someone who had/has this same problem? When replying please keep it simple as I'm not a computer genius


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For the past few weeks my Mac App Store hasn't been loading correctly. Occasionally it does, but i'd say this has only been once or twice in the last month.

Here's a link of what it looks like:

Alternatively, anyone now how I can install Yosemite without going into the App Store?


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I have a software called Daisy Disk and it says I only have 70 GB left in my drive. However in Finder I see 131 GB available.

How is this 60 GB difference possible?


texts: Safari 10.1 doesn’t display the page correctly:

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Safari 10.1 doesn’t display the page correctly in part that the picture and title that supposed  to be on the middle and display properly on Fair Fox and  Chrome displayed on the side of the screen.

I find a similar question on Apple Communities:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/31621999#31621999

The suggested solution is to Restore Standard Fonts:

  Try Applications > Font Book > File > Restore Standard Fonts

But I could not find where in  Applications > the Font Book  File located.

How do I  find it or use it in another solution to fix formatting issues in Safari 10.1?

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  -webkit-flex-direction: row;
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.left-pics p,
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{
  display: -ms-flexbox;
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}

.left-pics img,
.right-pics img
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{
  padding:2px;
}

@media (max-width:960px) {
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  -webkit-flex-direction: column;
  -ms-flex-direction: column;
  flex-direction: column;
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   }


texts: Having 2 Application folders in macOS Catalina

texts:
I just installed Macos Catalina. After the update I did a check on what's new and I found something new which is a double / redundant "Applications" folder. Usually the old Application folder is located in Disk / Users / Applications, but now there is also an Application folder in Disk / System / Volumes / Data / Applications.

My question is: can I deleted the old Application folder? Because it's consuming my hard disk. And if I delete the old application folder, can it disrupt the app's performance?


texts: Lion Preview window stuck as always on top

texts:
After accidentally pressing some wrong keys, it seems my Preview window is stuck in 'Always on Top' mode.  I can't figure out how to undo this.  Is anyone aware of what might have happened?

edit: Well I just closed the document and re-opened it, and it seems to be behaving normally now.  Still curious as to what happened though.


texts: How do I preserve file paths after cloning a failing external drive?

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I have a failing external drive with Mac backups as well as my iTunes library, Photos library, and other application files. I purchased a replacement drive recently and am ready to clone the files over to the new drive.

How do I make sure that, after cloning the drive, my applications will read their files from the new drive without me manually having to re-specify the file locations? I.E. not having to manually update the file locations of every song in my iTunes library, or similar actions for other applications.

I'm assuming it's something simple like: making sure the name of the partition on the new drive is the same as the partition of the old drive.


texts: Can you add 6channel audio files to iTunes? If not, has apple devised a way to down mix them?

texts:
Today I downloaded a soundtrack composed of 19 tracks.
Their format is FLAC (24bit depth and 96kHz sampling).

In order to add them to my iTunes library and eventually to my iPod, I converted the files to ALAC (24 bit 48kHz) which is the maximum my 7th gen iPod classic can handle.

Problem is, iTunes won't let me import those converted files into the library.
I noticed those files have 6 audio channels.
I think that is the problem, and I've started looking for an answer.
Internet wasn't very clear, unfortunately.

My question is : is there a way to import those files to iTunes?
Is there a way to down mix the files to 2 channel audio or similar, so iTunes can handle them?

(I hope such a conversion wouldn't distort the audio)
I usually use XLD to convert my audio files, and there's no option for down mixing.


texts:
When I try to install the application "USB Network Gate" I get message "Administrator of this Mac Disabled Your User Account from Accessing USB Network Gate. If your require further assistance, please contact your local/network administrator."

I'm logged in as user "admin" and "Allow user to administer this computer" is checked in my account.

I'm trying to install the app from a downloaded .dmg file. I've had no issues installing other applications.

How can I install this application?


texts: Can I pair and use two microphones with my iPhone 6+?

texts: I want to connect two bluetooth microphones to my iPhone 6+ to record a conversation during a walk/hike.  I know the iPhone can handle up to 7 connections, but can only output sound to one device at a time (unless a splitter is used).  Can there be two inputs via bluetooth?


texts: Make light-grey text darker on Mac (white background)

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I have a MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra with a white desktop background.

My problem is that any light-grey text (e.g. the words "Answers for your Apple questions" under the Ask Different logo at top left) is so light I cannot read it.

What can I do to make any light-grey text a darker color?


texts: Can OSX mail auto-search & complete a mail address?

texts:
In Outlook there is this highly useful feature to automatically search and complete a mail address in the recipient field (To:) with CTRL+K. Even if you never mailed with someone before, it will search for your input in any global address books you're syncing with (like your company's account). When there is only one match, it auto-prefills it, so it saves the hassle of looking someone up, copying their address and only after that pasting it in your mail window

Can OSX mail automatically search and complete a mail address you've never mailed with before, but which is in one of the address books you're syncing with?


texts: What file sharing protocol should I use with an older Mac?

texts:
I understand that Apple has switched to SMB2 as their default file sharing protocol these days, but I have an old Mac at home that I want to share files with, and it can only run OS X 10.6.

OS X 10.6 gives me the option of using AFP, FTP, or SMB (version 1, I believe).  Is there a reason to choose one of these over the others?


texts: Can I avoid iCloud Family sharing if I upgrade to iOS 8?

texts:
Right now, my family and I share an iCloud account for iTunes and App Store.
It works well, but the new iCloud Family sharing would put a limit to six members.
That would not work for us. I really want to try the iOS 8. But will I be able to set up  my personal iCloud and my shared iCloud account for iTunes and the App Store?

Has anybody tried this? How did you work it out to still be able to used the shared iCloud account?


texts: Ping times keep oscillating on Wi-Fi: Boom network load?

texts:
I have a 2012 retina MacBook Pro that lags in a very specific way: I have normal ping times for about 5 seconds and then they spike to 100-300ms more than normal for about 5 seconds, and back and forth. Example:

64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=844 ttl=58 time=5.694 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=845 ttl=58 time=5.508 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=846 ttl=58 time=6.203 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=847 ttl=58 time=6.665 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=848 ttl=58 time=6.074 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=849 ttl=58 time=7.480 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=850 ttl=58 time=54.219 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=851 ttl=58 time=101.125 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=852 ttl=58 time=144.924 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=853 ttl=58 time=188.527 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=854 ttl=58 time=5.604 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=855 ttl=58 time=5.553 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=856 ttl=58 time=9.515 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=857 ttl=58 time=5.364 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=858 ttl=58 time=16.086 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=859 ttl=58 time=8.182 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=860 ttl=58 time=28.378 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=861 ttl=58 time=27.358 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=862 ttl=58 time=73.504 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=863 ttl=58 time=119.722 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=864 ttl=58 time=174.853 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.192.46: icmp_seq=865 ttl=58 time=210.945 ms

And so on. It does this at home and at work, and plugging into ethernet via thunderbolt does not exhibit these behaviors. I don't have corresponding spikes in CPU usage so I'm unsure of how to track this issue down.

Please help!

EDIT:

After doing a binary search of killing apps, I have discovered that killing the Boom 2 app causes the spikes to go away, which is strange because I wouldn't figure that an audio enhancement app would have anything to do with the network. It's not sending or receiving bytes according to Activity Monitor, but merely being active somehow causes ping times to fluctuate in this manner only on wifi. Anybody have an inkling of why this might be the case?


texts: File transfer between iPhone XR & USB flash drive using lightning cable & female-to-female USB connector?

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I know I could get a flash drive with a lightning jack or with both a lightning jack and a USB jack, but is it feasible to transfer files between an iPhone XR running iOS 13.3 and a USB flash drive using a lightning cable and a female-to-female USB connector as follows?

iPhone  lightning to male USB cable  female-to-female USB adaptor USB flash drive


texts: iPhone drawing too much power from USB ports (yes, I believe it's the device). What can I do?

texts:
The issue started a couple of days ago. My Macbook Pro kept restarting.
After some testing I've realized this happens only when my iPhone is plugged in for charging.
I think it's the device fault because it happened on a friend MacBook too, even with different cables.

I've restarted the iPhone and nothing changed, any suggestion?


texts: Possible to monitor URLs an application is connecting to?

texts:
I'm relatively new to the wondrous world of Apple and Mac OS X so please bear with me..

I have an application which I would like to see which URLs it is "connecting" or "communicating" with.
Is that at all possible and if so, I would be very glad to be pointed in the right direction.

Cheers


texts: Prevent iTunes from resetting my music library location

texts:
My iTunes library is located on an network drive, or rather, the music is, and my library file is located on my MacBook.

Library file: /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library
Music: /Volumes/MyVolume/Music

But every now and then when I use the laptop somewhere outside my WiFi network, and then come back, fire up iTunes and play a song  I get a library full of those pesky little exclamation point icons next to my songs. This is because iTunes have guessed that "Oh, he's not at home, let's reset the music files location to /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes." And there are no music there.

How can I prevent iTunes from doing this "smart" guess, and just leave the setting alone?

PS. And MyVolume is auto-mounted on my laptop. But of course, if iTunes is running when opening up the lid of the MacBook, it takes some time for it to mount, and iTunes won't find the path to the music at first.


texts: How to restore OS X after installing Windows in a single boot configuration

texts:
I want to restore OS X after installing Windows in a single boot configuration.
So Windows is occupying the whole disk. Now I want to erase the hard disk and restore Mac OS X Mavericks. How do I do this?


texts: How do I stop iTunes from automatically assigning a hollow star rating to podcasts?

texts:
I’m having a problem with podcasts in iTunes. Here’s how it seems to work:

I listen to a few episodes of a podcast, rating them as I go. (I use the 2-star rating to mark podcasts for deletion once I’ve listened to them. I use higher star ratings for podcasts I want to keep.)
Once I’ve rated a few (I’m not sure how many), iTunes seems to give the podcast’s “album” a default average rating. This is shown via hollow stars, as opposed to the filled stars for user-assigned ratings.
This rating gets assigned to all episodes of that podcast, which means:

Episodes of this podcast no longer show up in my “unrated” smart playlist
If the automatic average rating is two stars, episodes of this podcast show up in my “To delete” list.

Is there any way to stop iTunes doing this auto-rating? Maybe a plist setting or something?


texts:
On linux machines I used to type reset on terminal.

It was like, closing and reopening the terminal!
It is very convenient, because in debugging you wont mix error messages from previous executions.

The command does exists on OSX, however when i scroll up, the previous output is there too!


texts: Why does MacOS incorrectly detect my second 4K external monitor as full HD

texts:
I have two identical external monitors, which are Lenovo ThinkVision 27 inch  4K monitors.

I have them both connected via USB-C to my 2018 MacBook Pro 15 inch, with Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB.

However in display settings, one is shown as:

LEN P27u-10 Display 27-inch (3840 x 2160)

And the other one is:

LEN P27u-10 Display 30,5-inch (1920 x 1080).

Why does it detect wrong display size (30.5 inch) and wrong resolution?


texts:
My iPhone 5c, iOS 10.3.3 used to let me rearrange my apps on my Windows 7 PC through iTunes.
Now I can't seem to be able to get to them on my PC.


texts: iPhone 11 A2111 compatibility with LTE bands in Europe (Portugal)

texts:
Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm visiting the States in a few months and I was thinking of buying the iPhone 11 there. I'm aware that there are 3 models because of network compatibilities.

In the States, they only sell the model A2111, and according to apple's website (iPhone LTE), my country (Portugal) is not supported. After some research, I found from multiple sources(List of LTE networks in Europe, Frequency Check - Portugal) that all the bands used in my Country are actually supported by this model.

What I'm missing? Why would Apple remove the country from the list if it's actually supported?


texts: MacOS Big Sur - how do I disable/ skip verify on opening dmg

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I have 2015 MBA running Catalina that at some stage in the past I managed to configure that when opening my own created dmg files (used for business data storage with encryption security) it no longer goes thru the verify process when opening - just straight to asking for the password.
So I have bought a new MBA and installed Big Sur with clean install. Now I get the verify process each time I try to open my dmg files. Tried sudo defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify TRUE but it does not work. (In fact on my 2015 MBA, this flag is not set anyway).
It is extremely time consuming to have to go thru the verify process every time I want to open (several) of my data dmg files.
In response to a comment, I have set up a service as a work around that executes an automator service using shell script:
hdiutil attach -noverify "$@"
However, I find that I need to run the service twice in order to have the dmg file appear in finder - am I doing something wrong?
Finally - are there any other alternate solutions - given diskimagemounter does NOT verify dmgs when opening in my MBA running Catalina.


texts: Wireless internet provider and a local wifi network?

texts:
I live in a building that has wireless internet.  How do I use it while also having access to my wifi network, which connects my Mac to my other devices (Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, streaming music from my Mac to my Apple TV, etc).

I'm using the latest version of macOS/OSX on a Mac Mini, plus an iPhone and an iPad.  I also own an Apple Airport Extreme, which I'm using to serve my local wifi network.  I also have a 1st gen Airport Express that I haven't used in ages, but it's old enough that the OSX Airport Utility app can't configure it (I think it's from 2006?).

UPDATE:  I answered my own question.  See answer below (tl;dr: I bought a new Airport Express & added it to my setup)


texts: How to set proxy on OS X Terminal permanently?

texts:
For every new session in OS X terminal, I have to make my proxy settings again.  I do this by entering the command

export http_proxy="username:password@ip address:port number"

Is there a way to make these proxy settings once for all?


texts:
Not able to login into my Mac. I have deleted some files earlier today and after that mac never starts and hangs in booting state.

I am to login to SINGLE USER MODE and I deleted the file /.AppleSetupDone and lot of steps I have followed.

Unique thing is I am getting whoami response as 0 and not able to switch to admin user. Strange part is I am getting -sh-3.2# as logged in user and not myself.

Any suggestions??
Macos Mojave
Files deleted - /usr/bin (Not sure exactly, I was following sone instructions)


texts: How to set a folder view as default for all folders in Finder?

texts:
I'd like to get the same folder view for every folder, that means, to have my stuff being sorted always by type and then by name. is that possible with automator?

Till yet, I set my view via cmd+j (List view, sort it by type and name) and set it as "default". It just sets the view as default for this particular folder. But I'd like to set it for all the subfolders too. When I change the folder, the documents are sorted different and not as I set it as default for the previous folder before...

So I tried to make a workflow with Automator, but it doesn't work. Or I just can't handle this program.

First I clicked on "workflow" (is that right or should I have chosen another icon?)
define the automation: "Get Folder Contents" --> "Sort Finder Items" (Type) --> "Sort Finder Items" (name) --> "Repeat for each subfolder found",

That's how it looks: (sry for the german, but the description is in (2))

--> Or is it possible to do it apart from automator?


texts: Where can I find ALL of the memory specs for the Mac Pro?

texts:
I have a Mac Pro (Mid 2012) with stock RAM, and I'm aware of the usual info about what it's using, e.g. DDR3 1333 PC3-10600E SDRAM, but I want to know more. I understand there are specs such as voltage, timing, bandwidth, rank, registration, and chip configurations.

Where can I find this info for the RAM I currently have instlaled in my machine? Is there some kind of software utility for it? Something I can decipher off of the RAM sticker?


texts: Prevent AirPods from opening Mac's Music (iTunes) app?

texts:
How do I prevent my AirPods Pro from launching my Mac's Music App (formerly iTunes) when I squeeze the stem to play?
I wear my AirPods Pro pretty much all day and I'm constantly switching between my  my Mac and my iPhone. If I put the Mac to sleep, and then, forgetting that I'm still connected to my Mac, squeeze the stem to play something on my iPhone, the Music app will launch on my Mac.
I understand what's happening here and I get why it's programmed that way… and I totally understand that it's my fault for forgetting that I'm connected to my Mac and not my iPhone… but it's still annoying. How do I disable this behavior?


texts: Can I tell Mac OSX to lie to an installer about my OSX version?

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I have an old piece of video processing software that is no longer updated for the last couple of years.  The Macbook I have it installed on is running 10.11 Yosemeite.  My new Macbook Pro has 10.14 Mojave.  When I go to install it on this new computer it says that "Mac OS X 10.6 or Later Required."

The software includes drivers for the video capture card, so I certainly don't know for 100% that this software will even work with 10.14, but obviously it was just not in the installers listed of supported OS's yet, so it won't try.

So, I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to create a virtual environment or run in a compatibility mode or flat out lie to the installer about the version that I have installed to get it to try to install.

Thanks for any insight!


texts: Any way to edit metadata of MKV files (without re-encoding)?

texts:
When watching a MKV file from the web in VLC, the title bar (see "#1" in image below) seems to be pulled from metadata, not the filename.

If you open the “Get Info” panel in VLC, you can change the title (“#2”) and then click “Save Metadata” (“#3”), but when the file is re-opened, the old information is shown.

I have not found any other Mac apps which can edit MKV metadata. Several offer to edit mp4 metadata, but that isn’t what I need.


texts: Looking for efficient data recovery software

texts: Deleted a folder (just regular old empty trash) on my MacBook Pro internal SSD that I thought I was backed up, turns out it wasn't. I stopped using the computer as to preserve the blocks where the data is written and booted up an old computer to do recovery. I Don't have any experience with data recovery software, wondering if anyone knows any good applications? Preferably that allow me to preview deleted data before I pay for the application (or if there's a free one that I'm overlooking? But I'm not hopeful about that). Lots of things come up on google but it's hard to differentiate one from another in terms of quality.


texts: Can I use Time Machine to back up data to a Windows shared drive?

texts: How can I do "Time Machine" from my Mac OS X 10.6.4 to my Window share drive? I'd also prefer to encrypt my image, so it's "safe" just in case :-)


texts: iPhone 6S - Not getting Push Notification and Badge icon related to OS Updates

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I bought an iPhone 6S three months back. Earlier I was not aware that I would get push notifications regarding iOS updates. However, later I became aware of this thanks to a friend. Since buying my iPhone, Apple has released 3 updates and I had not received a single notifcation of these.

If I go manually and check for software update, then I can see it. Why are other devices getting notififcations regarding iOS Updates and I'm not? I have formatted my iPhone 3 times and the latest one was done by Apple service and they set it up as new iPhone.

Please help me out regarding this issue.


texts: How to unlock an iPhone which locked to TalkTalk?

texts:
I have an iPhone 6S locked to TalkTalk (a UK network) which was bought from Carphone Warehouse - a retailer so it locks to whatever network of the first sim that is inserted (TalkTalk).

Since TalkTalk sells unlocked mobiles they have no facility of unlocking it.

Note: TalkTalk is a MVNO and uses Vodafone's network.
Note: the device is not iOS activation locked.

How am I perform a carrier service unlock? And who do I go to?


texts: Why iOS on iPhones and iPads automatically end an app (ie Youtube) after idling? Is there a way to stop iOS from ending apps when idling?

texts: It's terribly frustrating to have watched parts of a Youtube video, then have iOS quit it. Unless I wrote down the time-stamp, I would have no idea where I left off. Is there a way to stop iOS from ending apps when idling? Thank you!


texts: Karabiner-Elements: How to re-map caps_lock based on applications

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Objective

This is more about to confirm if this configuration is correct to do remapping with Karabiner-Elements to remap:

caps_lock to left_control if it is in Terminal
caps_lock to left_control if it is in Emacs
caps_lock to left_command otherwise

Appreciate if someone can confirm if this is good enough, or suggest better/correct ways.

Background

Looking for a way to remap keys in Mac Sierra and found Karabiner-Elements for the purpose, but not many examples and documentations about the syntax of karabiner.json. Hence looking for inputs.

Code

"complex_modifications": {
    "parameters": {
        "basic.to_if_alone_timeout_milliseconds": 1000
    },
    "rules": [
        {
            "manipulators": [
                {
                    "description": "Change caps_lock to left_command in Terminal.",
                    "conditions": [
                        {
                            "bundle_identifiers": [
                                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$",
                                "^co\\.zeit\\.hyperterm$",
                                "^co\\.zeit\\.hyper$"
                            ],
                            "type": "frontmost_application_if"
                        }
                    ],
                    "from": {
                        "key_code": "caps_lock",
                        "modifiers": {
                            "optional": [
                                "any"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    "to": [
                        {
                            "key_code": "left_control"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "basic"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "description": "caps_lock to left_control in Emacs",
            "manipulators": [
                {
                    "conditions": [
                        {
                            "bundle_identifiers": [
                                "org\\.gnu\\.Emacs"
                            ],
                            "type": "frontmost_application_if"
                        }
                    ],
                    "from": {
                        "key_code": "caps_lock",
                        "modifiers": {
                            "optional": [
                                "any"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    "to": [
                        {
                            "key_code": "left_control"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "basic"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "description": "caps_lock to left_command otherwise",
            "manipulators": [
                {
                    "from": {
                        "key_code": "caps_lock",
                        "modifiers": {
                            "optional": [
                                "any"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    "to": [
                        {
                            "key_code": "left_command"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "basic"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}


texts:
I have a weird behaviour on my iPhone SE, and I can't decide whether I think it's a hardware or a software fault:

If you unlock the phone, then allow the screen to lock again (from timeout), and then wake it by pressing the home button, then the touch screen doesn't function at all.

You can't enter the passcode, you can't swipe to the camera or the control panel. TouchId works, so you can unlock the phone, but then you can't interact with the screen in any way.
If you wake the phone with the power button instead, it works fine.
Once you've got the screen working, if you lock it by pressing the power button, and then wake it with the home button, then it works fine.
So it's very specifically the sequence "lock from timeout, then wake from power button", which leaves the touch screen inactive.

I can't see how a hardware fault could lead to behaviour so specific.
And I can't imagine how you end up with a software fault that does something like that, to just one handset.
A) Does anyone have any theories about what's going on.
B) Does anyone know if there's some way to fix this other than just getting a repair shop to replace components until it works.

It's a refurb hanset, FWIW, but other than this appears to be in excellent state. The screen seems excellent - full resolution and brightness compared against a genuine original iPhone. (noticeably better than the other refurb handsets I've accrued.)


texts: How do I configure Textmate2 to always show wrap Column line for all files?

texts: I want to show the wrap column line for all files, how can I do this? I checked the .tm_properties file, but I don't see any mention of it in there.


texts: laucnhd and kernel task writing excessively to disk. Clean my mac suggests cleaning apple system logs

texts:
launchd and kernel task are writing excessively to disk (and constantly running) on my mac. I'm running macOS Sierra version 10.12.15. Below are screenshots showing excessively logging.

I used clean my mac 3 to clean out like 30 gigs of systems logs, but they keep coming back. Here's a screenshot showing that a few hours after cleaning out the 30 gig system logs they are back at 6 gigs. Any idea of what's going on? Should I not have cleaned out system logs?


texts: How do I use `log stream` to search ALL existent logs on macOS for strings?

texts:
I need to search all logs on macOS Mojave for "some string".  I was told that the way to do this was to execute:

sudo log stream --source --start'1999-99-99 23:59' | egrep -i "some regex string"

However this isn't doing the trick.  What's the appropriate way to do this?


texts:
After installing Lion, ⌘ + ← doesn't go to the line start and ⌘ + → doesn't go to the line end.

Anyone know how to reconfigure this?


texts:
Is there a way to stick the stickies on Desktop, which doesn't go away when you do "Show Desktop". I don't want them to be above any applications, just over Desktop. I suppose this behaviour is similar to Sticky Notes on Windows.
If its not possible, I would like suggestions for other apps which can do so.


texts: Does an iOS app to convert PDF to grayscale PDF exists?

texts:
As you probably knows AirPrint doesn't have an option for grayscale or B&W printing.

My printer doesn't have a setting to print in grayscale.

Is there any iOS app that converts a PDF to a grayscale PDF?


texts: Normal scrolling in Win 10 Pro installed on Macbook Pro

texts:
I installed a Win 10 Pro on my Macbook Pro. I also installed TRackpad++ and the whole is great! The only strange thing is scrolling. Scrolling is not fluid and stops at end of every page. I cannot do that when you swipe a bigger one and the content is scrolls for longer time and decent amount of content goes away.

I haven't found a solution for getting back this scrolling. Is there any solution for this?


texts: Detecting typing in Messeges app using applescript?

texts:
In the new Messages app, which replaced iChat, you can see when another person is typing:

And i've been scripting around the messages app and was wondering if there was any way to detect when the bubble appears and in which chat through AppleScript. I have studied the script suite and have not found anything pertaining to it, so i may have to fall back to grabbing the packets and scanning for it. Any idea on how to detect this would be great, Thanks!


texts: 3.5mm mic: how to explain my MacBook that it's just a mic and not an headphone set

texts:
Like title, I'm using a Boya M1 lavalier mic with a 3.5 mm plug. When I put it into the jack (that is the same of the headphones), my audio go mute, because computer thinks I'm using a headphone.
Luckily, the mic works as expected, but I can not hear any audio. So if I am in a conference, I cannot hear them.

Is there is a software solution? If not, what hardware solution could I use?


texts: El Captian not showing user account after creating second one

texts: I am using Macbook Pro with El-Captian. I had only one user account in the machine and I created one another. After creating the new one, old user account is not showing in the login screen. It is showing in the Users & Group listing and I have tried a number of things like checking Firevault, creating root user etc. Actually my work files are there in the old account and even I can access the files with root access some of the applications like Vagrant is not working fine. It will be helpful if anyone can suggest me what I need to do now to get access to the old user account. I tried to change login option to Name and Password, but it also not working.


texts: When Terminal forks process, current app loses focus

texts:
While I'm running some program in Terminal (or iTerm2), when the program forks the process, the OS X desktop switches focus from the current application to the forked process. When this happens, the forked process name shows in OS X menu bar.

This is especially annoying while using full screen mode as it causes the  workspace to change when the forked process receives focus.

How can I stop this focus switch from happening? These terminal programs are interrupting the work I'm doing in other applications while they run.


texts: How to add additional "contact me" information to an apple-id

texts:
For Christmas, our kids gave us a second iPad (new) to go along with our old first generation iPad. Since I'll be starting a new job in a new city next monday, I want to get it set up so we can face time using the two iPads on one apple ID. My plan is to add her phone number or email address to the "reachable at" information on the applied.apple.com site, and then change the FaceTime settings on each iPad, so that we have different numbers/emails associate with each.

Alas, when I log into appleid.apple.com site and try to add a new number, I take the code they text me, but the system comes back and tells me it can't make the change right now, and that I should try later.

After multiple attempts, it's clear something's not working. Any thoughts on how to add additional emails/phone numbers to an appleid account?

Thanks

mo


texts:
If I lost my iPhone and suspended the number but iMessage from my laptop, do the iMessages I send from the laptop continue to be sent to my phone?

The people I iMessage are getting the messages as my number--which I suspended. I'm confused because I don't want someone to find my iPhone and have all of my messages and information along with my apple ID.

I have not tried to contact Apple yet but that will be my next step.


texts: Do water blocks that would fit a MacBook Pro cpu socket exist?

texts:
From what I've read, when you buy a water cooling system you match stuff depending on your cpu socket or gpu type. Can that be done for MacBook Pro's?

*Update
I have a rMacBook Pro 13" Early 2015. From just looking at the insides I can see the heatsink has four screws an inch and a half apart from each other. I didn't want to add too many details of my project. It just lends itself to criticism instead of trying to answer a question. What I thought I could do is buy an extra bottom plate and fit a hole for a water cooler and mount it to my cpu.

Picture of logic board: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/AQu64Mt2TOCnRGJ5.huge


texts: AirPlay working with iPad but rarely with iTunes on my mac?

texts:
I don't get why, when I play music with AirPlay from my iPad it always work, but with iTunes on my mac it rarely work. It says after 10 seconds:

The AirPlay device “My Airport Express” cannot be found on your network.

The iPad works perfectly instead.

It worked also on the mac few times (so it should be correctly configured).

thanks


texts: Connecting headset to iPhone's iPod player

texts:
I have a Plantronics ML10 headset and after setting it up through bluetooth it can handle calls. But when I play music with my IPhone, the sound is not coming through the earpiece.

Is there anyway I could "channel" the sound to the earpiece whenever I play songs with the iPhone?


texts: Uninstalling an incompatible color theme

texts:
Today I did a mistake I normally never do - I blindly installed a software on my mac without knowing what I was doing.

I was looking for a dark color scheme and ran into this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT1CqiHqUXI

Went ahead and installed the software from here http://wavespell.deviantart.com/art/Snow-Leopard-Dark-Dock-wK-155508613

Only after installing I realized that it didn't work on Lion.  Everything looks awful.  The uninstall program does not work either.  Is there a way to go back to defaults without having to reinstall the OS?  (All user accounts on this Mac are affected by this change).  Thanks in adv.


texts: how can I create wifi hotspot on windows 7 that can be shared with my macbook?

texts: My USB modem has issues so my Mac doesn't recognize it. I created an ad hoc wifi hotspot  on my Windows 7 laptop with WPA2 encryption and shared the internet. My Macbook Pro sees the wireless network but when I enter the password I get a connection failed warning. I tried connecting also with my iPhone and before I entered the password I got a messag/e that "MyWirelessNetwork" is not connected to the internet. How can I solve this issue


texts: Can someone else see my WhatsApp contacts / chats if I downloaded app using his account?

texts:
I am a new user of iPhone. I got this phone from a friend of mine. He already had WhatsApp installed. I just logged in using my WhatsApp password.

When I was trying to update WhatsApp, I found that this app was downloaded using his account (it asked for an update). I want to know if he can view my contacts and chats?

If yes, then how can I delete that?


texts: Option key boot selector suddenly failing

texts:
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro (12 GB, several hard disks).  On OS X I run Yosemtite, On Bootcamp, Windows 7.  All works fine.  Yesterday I installed a "new" Radeon 5770 to replace the aged (and very slow) Radeon 2600 that came with the system.  Installation was easy and the system came up perfectly.  The one weird glitch is that pressing the Option key during boot up no longer works.  Worked before but not now. Id I do press Option during boot (before or after the chime) the system just hangs and it never comes up.  I have to turn the system off and back on. I use the Option feature frequently as I am a software developer and need to use both Mac and Windows.

Everything else works perfectly. I can boot into any of the four bootable partitions using the System preferences (OS X) or Bootcamp options (Windows).

Ideas?  Suggestions?


texts: What should I do after I lost my MacBook data?

texts: I lost my data on my Mac and now I don't know how to recover it. Do I have to go to a recover shop and pay for the costly recovery?


texts: How can I configure BBEdit to insert 4 spaces (or at least spaces up to the next column which is a multiple of 4)? I've checked "Auto-expand tabs" in the preferences, but it doesn't seem to be doing that.


texts: Can an alias be added to the dock via the command line?

texts:
I found this article but it handles the GUI solution.

I would like to automate the setup of a new machine, and do that I've created Dropbox shares of a number of my common configurations. (I could use a github repo, too)  Other sites have discussed automating pref configs.

I'd like a bash / terminal command to create an alias in the dock.  I presume that the dock is a folder of aliases located somewhere in ~/Library but I can't find it.

Is there any AppleScript solution?

edit: it seems that there is a file, ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist that contains the references.

A Japanese engineer discusses an way to do this C. 2009 (which no longer works).
Another script was designed to add folders to the 'others' area of the Dock – which is alos dated.  The latter, however, along with the new format for the Dock plist, and some dict manipulation tips, gives more clues to creating a modern script.


texts: Disabling Audio on Internal Speakers for High Sierra onwards?

texts:
I have users in my lab that run sound via their speakers.  I would like to disable the ability to do so on all machines in the lab to prevent this, whilst still allowing them to use their headphones.

I have read articles about how to disable all audio (not a totally desirable outcome, but better than the alternative) by deleting the IOAudioFamily.kext file, however, this doesn't seem to work on High Sierra.

Has anyone aware of a solution to this issue?

Thank you for your help.


texts: How does one change the new Catalina 10.5 desk screen/ wallpaper?  It is lonely, barren, ugly. Like a dragon.


texts:
I was wondering if it was possible to block data usage completely when a certain data transfer limit has been reached? Does an app exist for that?

I am aware there are some apps that allow users to view the data usage, but is there an app to prevent completely from using Data when limit is exceeded, automatically?! This would be especially usefull to prevent the extra fees when exceeding my 1GB data usage limit.


texts: Update Dock after defaults write without `killall` restart

texts:
I'm toggling a Mission Control setting with defaults write but the Dock doesn't see the change without restarting via killall Dock. How can I get the Dock to read the updated plist settings without killing it?

The setting is stored in the com.apple.dock plist, this is the command to update it (toggling the boolean):

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-group-apps -bool FALSE

Ideally, I want to use this command to quickly change the setting so I can use both window grouping modes with Mission Control, but restarting the dock is slow and disruptive, usually expanding any application windows minimized into the Dock. Is there some sort of notification/ping I can use to alert the Dock to its new settings?


texts: How to upgrade an iPad to iOS 8 from iOS 7?

texts:
I have an iPad running iOs 7.x

I want to install an app which requires iOs 8.0 or newer. But for compatibility reasons I can't install iOs 9.x yet, as it may break some existing app.

Is there a way to install iOS 8 from iOS 7 ?

P.S. If it's possible I'd rather not to downgrade, that is I would like to install directly iOs 8 instead of installing 9 and then downgrading to 8 somehow.


texts: I recently installed Windows 10 using Bootcamp. When I try to turn up the audio nothing happens. I went into device manager and the High Definition Audio Controller has a triangle with an exclamation mark over it. I tried to update the drivers but it said they were already up to date.


texts: How to auto-create mount points in /Volume with sshfs

texts:
I believe the title says it all, but anyways:
I would like to recreate the OSX behaviour of auto-creating mount points in /Volumes with sshfs mounting remote folders and auto-deleting these mount points. I prefer this to have mount target folders hanging around with no other sense then waiting to get something mounted on it. ;)
Is there a way to achieve this with sshfs?


texts: How does the mv command work with external drives?

texts:
On the same drive I assume it would change something like a FAT table to repoint to the location of files.

Question

When going to a different drive (maybe even partition) does the mv command first copy, then remove the old files - in order to prevent data loss if an exception occured ?


texts: Does anyone know of a solution, from the iPad side of the equation, for this OneNote syncing problem?


texts: How to keep both Mavericks menu bars opaque in two monitor setup

texts: Mavericks shows the menu bar in both monitors when you have two. That's great, but the menu bar in the passive desktop turns translucent, which is a bit annoying. Is there a way to keep both menu bars opaque at all times? Setting the menu bar opaque in the desktop settings affects only the active monitor.


texts: I hope this is not too obvious, but I would like to know if this is possible.  I made an email account without renaming it.  So it has the boring name Exchange.  How can I rename this email account on my iPad without deleting and re adding it?  I would rather not type all that info in again.


texts: Is Find My iPhone Lost Mode not permanent?

texts:
My iPhone was stolen 3 months ago, it was in lost mode and every time I open Find My iPhone application, it appears offline. But today I see in Find My iPhone app my device doesn't appear anymore. It has just disappeared from my the Find My iPhone app.

Could it be the lost mode feature of Find My iPhone is no longer functioning because the device has spent too long in offline mode? Is the lost mode feature not permanent?


texts: iPad: Why missing photos when sync photos and video using iTunes with my Mac

texts:
I have photos around 3021 and 91 videos on my Mac but once I sync with my iPad. The photo collection in iPad only have 2938 photos and 91 photos. My Mac still have 3021, how to I sync all the rest of the photos?

At the moment, if I tried to sync, It has nothing to sync.


texts: New M1 Mac mini - No audio on USB after sleep

texts:
The problem
I have a new M1 Mac mini connected to a Philips monitor, connected via the Thunderbolt (USB C) port.  Whenever the Mac wakes from sleep, the audio is not working and is fixed by toggling the following setting: Audio Midi Setup > Format
I can see that there is an error, but there's no tooltip to explain what it is.

Hardware
Mac
Mac mini M1 with 16Gb and Mac OS 11.1
Monitor
Philips 499P9 with a built-in docking station, featuring:

Audio
Ethernet (which appears as USB Ethernet in Network settings, but won't connect)
Multiple HDMI and USB C inputs
USB B connector for HDMI 1 device
Multiple USB A ports for shared peripherals (keyboard, mouse, headsets, etc.)


texts:
Recently, my HDD went bad in my laptop, so I bought a new HDD and a copy of Snow Leopard.

I put the HDD into the computer, then inserted the installation disk into the DVD drive. I went into Disk utility, then created a partition for Mac OSX extended (journal) then, started the install. It said 29 mins, then I got a install failure saying that it had an error copying over the support files.

What did I do wrong?

Also NOTE: the screen looked glitch-y. Some parts looked wierd on the screen, like a Graphics driver was not installed.


texts: How to set cumulative Screen Time Allowances?

texts:
I am setting up screen time with parental controls for our family.
I would like to grant the following allowance to a user:

All apps and categories: 30mins
Camera app + 15mins
Photos app + 15mins

What happens now is that the "All apps" allowance seems to include camera and photo time – even if the user hasn't touched camera in 30 minutes of usage, access is blocked after this time. So it seems to rather read:

All apps and categories: 30mins
-- of which:
-- Camera app not more than 15mins
-- Photos app not more than 15mins

This is not what I intended. But I also don't want to fully allow Camera and Photos. How can I add time for a specific app "on top" of the general allowance?


texts: How does one interpret Load Average in iStat menus?

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I'm trying to find the actual GPU processor load on my iMac with the M290x. The load average being reported never goes above 5, even when running Cinebench 3d benchmarks. Certainly that doesn't mean only 5% GPU utilization does it?

How do I interpret the Load Average (i assume that it's the reading for the GPU)? I've attached a screen shot.

Running latest Yosemite.


texts: What is the minimum Mac OS Partition size when using Boot Camp on a Macbook Air?

texts: And does it vary with 128GB or 256GB size hard drives?


texts: iPhone stucks on iTunes + USB screen after failed update to lower version than suggested by Apple

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I have an iPhone 4S with 6.0.1 installed on it.
I wanted to update it to 6.1.3 and not 7.x as iTunes suggests.

I downloaded 6.1.3 IPSW file for 4S from apple.com, shiftclicked update/restore in iTunes but I got infamous 3194 message. Same happened with 6.1.0
I tried to find some solution on the internet but of course 99.99999% websites were rambling about cydia hosts entries or whatever which, of course, I didn't have.

So I ran tcpdump to find out what iTunes is asking apple for and apparently some webserver (TSS is it called?) returns status=94 - not eligible.
Before, I downloaded TinyUmbrella (as being one of the 'magic' solutions for 3194) which apparently had this TSS server inbuilt.
I realized that if I run any post query in localhost/tss/ i'll get status=0 (success).
So, I set gs.apple and gs-ns.apple entries to 127.0.0.1 and ran update, it finished faster than it started with error 11. Now iPhone shows iTunes logo and USB cable.
I don't want to use "brand" iTunes restore because it'll "grant me" with ios 7 which I don't want. What can be done?


texts: Can't update iPhone 5S to the last iOS version (Verifying update)

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I am trying to install the latest iOS version (iOS 10.3.1) on my iPhone 5S. I've already downloaded it, I just need to install it. However, when tapping on "Install Now", it keeps saying "verifying update...", and so I cannot proceed further (I need to brutally reset my phone).

Can somebody help me fixing this issue?


texts: Two custom keyboard layouts, both ALMOST working in different ways

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I have been using the Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout for a while, but ran into problems after a poorly-executed tweak of mine which lead to me re-installing version. However, the latest package (marked as beta) does not support KeyBindings that use the control modifier. If I try to modify the Programmer Dovarak bundle with Ukelele, it seems Mac OS X then ceases to recognize it, even after restarts.

I then settled for remaking the Programmer Dvorak layout from Ukelele's built-in Dvorak template. This keyboard layout lets me use the Cocoa text shortcuts (^A ^E ^F etc), but I can't do things like dealing with system dialogs (e.g., do a Software Update and press spacebar. In general, outlined button : spacebar :: solid shaded button : enter). In addition, some apps won't let me use Command- shortcuts. For example, I can't use Command-C, -X, or -N in Mental Case while I'm using my remade Dvorak, but I can't use KeyBindings like ^D if I'm using the official Dvorak. BUT if I use the normal US keyboard, I get no problems; both control- and command- stuff work fine.

So, my main question is: how do I merge the functionalities of these two layouts? Phrased a different way: Why is it that, given the below XML, I run into the phenomena described above?

a GitHub gist for my recreated Programmer Dvorak layout
another gist, posted to save you time from downloading the whole package

Note that the official layout (2nd link above) actually installs itself with a .bundle directory in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ whereas I have my recreated layout simply at $HOME/Library/Keyboard Layouts/name.layout.

If there's any other information that would be helpful, please let me know; I'd be happy to take screenshots or something if necessary.


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My research shows that in macOS Catalina, Apple didn't remove 32bit support from the kernel just disabled it(and that it can be enabled with the sudo nvram boot-args="no32exec=0" command). I also believe they also removed nearly all 32-bit libraries, which as suggested in the earlier mentioned post, I want to copy from Mojave. And there my problem emerges I don't know where I can find those libraries - the Library(both of them) folder was my first bet but it's full of app data, so I'm not really sure where to search for the libraries them selves. I know you'll probably discourage me from performing such a procedure but I would like to try it anyway, so:

Where can I find 32 bit libraries from Mojave?


texts: Permissions error when downloading or quick-looking attachments in mail.app after symlinking Mail Downloads directory

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Awhile back, I symlinked my ~/Library/Mail Downloads directory to ~/Downloads so that my email attachments would be downloaded to the same location that all my other applications download files to.

When I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I noticed that the Mail Downloads folder had been restored.  So I deleted it and recreated the symlink the same way I did for previous versions of OS X.

Now, every time I try to download or quick-look an attachment in mail.app, I see the following error (might not be exact; translating from Spanish):

  Mail was unable to save the attachment "..." to disk.  Make sure that the downloads folder has write permissions.

Some of the fixes I have tried:

Making ~/Downloads world-writable.
Removing the symlink and re-creating the directory.

Making that directory world-writable.

Repairing permissions via Disk Utility.
Changing the location of the Downloads Folder preference for Mail.app to ~/Downloads.

How do I restore the functionality of my Mail Downloads folder (preferably so that it is symlinked to my home Downloads folder)?