texts: How do I remove the default margins when printing (when "Page Setup" options don't work)

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I'm trying to print a web page that I've created with a custom paper size of 4.5x10.25 inches. I want the page to be printed right to the edge of the paper, with no margins at all.

I've been reading for a few hours and the best thing I can find is to use Mac's Page Setup dialog to create a custom paper size and custom margins, which I've done and set to the default for all of my printers. (Hopefully I'm able to post links to images --> http://i.imgur.com/kVbOZLk.png). No matter what I do though I can't get the margins to go away. There's always always always a .75 inch margin when I print and when I print preview (Again, hoping I can post links to images --> http://i.imgur.com/cxlVS8o.png).

Things I've tried:

I've read that the margins are only visible in print preview and printing the page will remove them. This didn't work.
I've tried tricking the system by setting my margins to 0.01 inches
I've tried adjusting the website to not be exactly the size of the page (I made it smaller) and the margins were still there.
I've set "print.print_extra_margin" to 0 in Firefox's about:config page.
I've tried a different printer.
I've tried a co-worker's machine running a newer version of OSX.
I've made absolutely sure that my page size it set correctly.

I'm using OSX 10.6.8 with Firefox v21.0.

The closest I can come to this is using Google Chrome, where there is a specific option for "none" in margins and the Chrome preview looks okay, but I'm not able to specify paper size unless I click "Print using system dialog" which gives me the same problems as above.

How do I remove the margins and just fit to the exact size of the page?


texts: How to Set, Use iOS 10.2 Parental Controls on iPhone 7 Plus

texts: i want to be safe from my child use my iPhone, what i have to do? To restrict my device running on iOS 10.2?


texts: Pages: Long table pasted into page-layout document is truncated

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I'm pasting a long table (created in Numbers) into a page layout document in Pages 8.2.
The results look sort of like this (sorry for blurring out the text):

I have not been able to make the table show up on multiple pages or set margins for it.
If I'm using the Word Processing layout, and paste the table, it is similarly poor, but, if, using that layout, I insert a table within pages and then paste in the contents, it works nicely, spanning multiple pages as it should. Doing the same in page-layout mode doesn't work; I've also tried copying that nice table and pasting it to no avail.


texts: Open a file with spaces in the name in Terminal

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How do you open a file which has spaces in the filename using Terminal on Mac?

I've seen some pages that say type: "open FileName" and it works for files that are one worded. But I would like to open a picture that is named: "Test Subject.jpg".

I've already tried: "open Test Subject.jpeg" and "open TestSubject.jpeg" but none will open it.

How can I open a picture or video on Terminal if there is more than one word in the "FileName" e.g. Test Subject.jpeg?


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I would like to know how to permanently disable the Alt key. I have a problem where by the computer is acting like the Alt is pressed down. Every time I type I get strange characters.

I have tried going into the keyboard preferences and disabling the Option key but that don't seem to be working. I disabled the Alt in the past this way and it worked. When I open the keyboard viewer it's showing the Alt as being pressed down.

This is a 2011 Macbook Air. I can't afford a repair at the moment.


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I manage 6 devices: (2x MBPs, 2x Mac Minis, 2x MB), devices are a mix of 10.8 and 10.10. Adding or updating software on each computer has become tedious and I've been recommended to use Apple Remote Desktop.

Ideally I'd like to be able to use Apple Remote Desktop to manage the devices at our office which are on the same network, but also be able to connect to laptops when they are out of the office in case I need to share the screen etc.

My only concern is, is Apple Remote Desktop safe / secure? - Is there a danger of someone else being able to access the machines via Apple Remote Desktop?


texts: Did I expose myself to information-theft via possible malware on iPad by opening an e-mail in Safari?

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I received an email from cdhhospitals.org/upload.htm and opened it. I immediately was redirected to a waiting screen. I immediately closed the Safari app.

I tried to track this site down and the search states that this site may damage your computer.

Did I expose myself to information-theft or anything alike?


texts: How to skip Safari's "Do you want to allow this page to open X" dialog?

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I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any setting or installed anything other than software updates, but today I've started getting this dialog when I clicked a magnet link:

How do I get rid of this dialog? I've clicked okay once, but then I've clicked another magnet link and got the same dialog again. Why did it suddenly start and how do I get rid of Safari constantly asking about it?

I'm on macOS 10.12.2/Safari 10.0.2


texts: MacBook Pro connected to Dell monitor display issue

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I have rather a strange issue when I try to connect a dell monitor to MacBook Pro.
Firstly the Dell monitor won't detect the signal from MacBook if I connect it immediately after the laptop is booted. It takes a while (I didn't measure how long) for the monitor to detect the signal from MacBook after lot of attempts.

This is not the end of the problem. If I want to log in back after my MacBook goes to sleep mode, then it won't wake up. I have to disconnect it from the Dell monitor in order to log in back, worst of all sometimes I need to force shutdown the MacBook to log in back.

I am using a DVI connector from Monoprice to connect the Dell monitor to my MacBook.

What could be the issue? Any help is appreciated.


texts: Tool to quickly hide/blur/redact text in screenshot?

texts: I’ve captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on Stack Overflow, actually), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is there a tool to quickly do this?


texts: Is it possible to have more waypoints in Maps.app on OSX?

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Is it possible to have waypoints, or multiple destinations, when getting route directions in the Maps.app on OSX Mavericks?

I would like to change the route like one can by dragging the route in Google Maps, or by adding a waypoint of a city I want the route to go through.

Is this accomplishable?


texts: Is there a way to queue up the next song on my iPhone?

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Is there a way to pick which song should play after the current song finishes?

I often browse my music library while listening, and I'll want to play a specific song, but not stop the current song in the middle. Is there a way to queue up a song to start after the current one?


texts: USB-C to HDMI adapter connect with DisplayPort

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I have a Macbook Pro 13" 2017 ( no touch bar ) and an external display Dell2214H

I bought an USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter but did not notice that Dell2214H only has DisplayPort. That so, I have to buy another HDMI to DisplayPort adapter, but the display does not work when I connect to my MBP.

I'm not sure it is because of the setup ( USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter -> HDMI cab -> DisplayPort adapter -> external Display ) does not work or not.

There is no USB-C to DisplayPort in Apple site, maybe MBP 2017 cannot output to DisplayPort?
What should I do next to make my Dell display work?

Note:

I tried my MBP with USB-C VGA Multiport Adapter and it works correctly. But the display quality is not really good, that why I want to make it work with DisplayPort
I checked the version of Adapter driver, it is the latest version ( 2.33 ) already.
Dell2214H display


texts: Is there a way to fine tune which folders inside a source are included as local files in spotify?

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I have installed spotify on my mac quite some time ago, and I'm very happy with it, except for one thing: the local files feature. When I select iTunes as a source of local files, it also includes podcasts, which I don't want in spotify.

This is because in my music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ folder, there's a folder called 'podcasts'. So now my question is, do I need to go through all my artist's directories and add them as sources, or is there a way to exclude certain subdirectories of a source?

Or is there a way to move the podcasts directory out of my music directory, and make iTunes look somewhere else for podcasts?

thx in advance.


texts: How do I transfer video to iPad and password protect it?

texts: Is there a way to transfer videos to iPad but at the same time password protect it?  Or password protect a folder so that only people with a password can go into that folder?


texts: Getting prompted for verification code but where do I put it in?

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I am using an old iPad -- it's an iPad 2 model MC990LL/A
-- running iOS 9.3.5
I noticed when I go to settings --> iCloud and tap the top part where my name and ID is, I get this:

Account Details Unavailable
If you are signing in to iCloud on another device or at iCloud.com, you can get a verification code while offline.

I tap "Get verification code" and it sends one -- but where do I put it in? I saw the answers that said to tack it onto the end of your password but there's no password prompt!
I wanted to add my iPad to my list of trusted devices (my phone and computer are there) but there does not seem to be a way to do it.
Any help appreciated.
ETA: The help offere by bmike was great; as it happened turning it off and on again a couple of times did the trick after I reset the settings. (Not a full restore). But dang, the back compatibility is starting to go...


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I have purchased an album in iTunes, but it still shows the price in the store. Does this mean that the next time I want to redownload the music I'll need to pay for it again?

I have experienced purchased apps with iTunes, and I didn't need to repurchase the items. But for the music album, I'm not sure about the rules of purchase.


texts: How do I type the prime and double prime characters on OS X?

texts: When typing in feet and inches, the prime ′ and double prime ″ symbols are used, e.g. 5′ 5″. How do I type these characters?


texts: Keyboard doesn't work on selecting boot disk macOS

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I'm using macOS 10.12.1 on mac mini 2012 with Plume 84 keyboard attached to back of it. When I try to boot into bootcamp disk(by holding option key while booting procedure), it doesn’t work.

keyboard is plugged into the back of the computer directly. It's connected on rightmost port.
Win 10 is installed on bootcamp section
I tried rEFInd, selecting disk screen appeared but keyboard didn't allow me to select disk. I pressed the arrow key but focus didn't move.
BOOTCAMP disk isn't appeared on 'boot disk' section in Preferences app.
Other keyboard(Tesoro M7) does work which uses PS2 cable with usb converter. It even worked when plugged into USB Hub.

Since the other keyboard worked, I think it would be the matter of Plume 84 keyboard itself. But I doubt if that's something possible happen, and would appreciate if anyone can give me explanation how this happened. Also, if there's some way I can use this keyboard to be recognized while booting procedure, I would be grateful if you enlighten me. Any suggestion are appreciated as well.

Apology if this post is duplicate one. Every solution I googled didn't work.


texts: Block device from accessing the Internet, but not Wi-Fi

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I have an Apple Airport and I would like to find out how to configure devices that can access the home network but be blocked from accessing the Internet.

I know how to block a device from accessing Wi-Fi completely, but all I want is to limit a device from accessing the Internet. I still want the device to be able to connect to other computers, the file server, the printer, etc. on the local network.

I am hoping for a router-based solution, such as discussed here.

Is this possible with Airport?


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Google Chrome and other apps are not opening, they just bounce and then stop without giving me any error message.

I also re-downloaded Google Chrome and still not opening.

Recently I installed windows 8 via bootcamp and I had to delete lots of useless files I maybe deleted an important file by accident.

Here is a screenshot of the files that won't get deleted from my trash.(possibly important)

Please help me with this problem. And if it requires terminal I'm fine with it.
I'm running OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.1 MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)


texts: Lost Wi-Fi after running USB to Ethernet driver

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I recently bought a USB to Ethernet dongle, and I ran the package script and restarted the computer, only to find that I had the infamous ‘Wi-Fi: no hardware installed’ issue. I've tried:

Reset NVRAM
Reset SMC
Moved and renamed /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

Ran the AHT, and entered recovery mode.

On attempt 3, after it didn't work, I undid it.
On attempt 4, I found no hardware issues, and when I clicked the link, I could connect to Wi-Fi.

MacBook Pro 12,1, Insignia USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapter


texts: What happens to existing free users if an App gets moved from free to paid?

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Hey I have a free app in iTunesconnect that's being downloaded about 100 times a week. Mostly no user responses, no support requests or anything so I thought (I know this is selfish) I can make some free money by making the app worth $.99 so maybe some "accidental" buyers are too lazy to refund it.

Now the thing is: I still want users who downloaded the app for free continue using the app for free - is that possible as the transaction is already on their iCloud account? Or will they be asked to buy the app as soon as they try to install it on a new device?


texts: Mac say storage is full but it't not. iCloud drive takes 60 GB but I can't find any files

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I hope this is the correct forum for this question and if not, I apologize.
Is it reasonable to have so little free space despite restoring mac? I have only Xcode and Mozilla installed, no movies, no music, no photos etc. Why do I have 30 GB of "other"
and 61 GB of "documents"?
Looking at the screenshot below, we see that the folder "iCloud Drive (Archive)" has a size of 61.02 GB, but it's subfolders are of sizes 8 KB and 1.5 MB respectively. I'm not the smartest dude in the world but I'm pretty sure that 8 KB + 1.5 MB does not equal 61.02 GB.
I've tried looking for these so called documents and bloat stuff everywhere but I can't find any. Has anyone ever had this problem and how did you solve it?


texts: Why aren't my profile and bashrc files hidden?

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I've been following tutorials to edit .profile, .bashrc and .bash_profile and I discovered that my computer has profile, bashrc and .bash_profile files instead.
i.e. Only the .bash_profile file is hidden.

However, I've been able to follow these tutorials just fine, I just edit my profile file instead of .profile, and bashrc instead of .bashrc.

Is there a reason why these files are not hidden for me? And does it actually matter?

The thing I am confused about is that .profile and profile are two different files (from my understanding - e.g. I can use the touch command to create .profile and profile, then when I use the ls command to view these files, they are separate files.

So shouldn't there be an error from the terminal/bash initialisation program that's looking for .profile and .bashrc, since I only have profile and bashrc?


texts: Macbook Pro 15" Late 2011 - Swap HDD with SSD - Fan always 2000 rpm

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I installed a HDD+SSD setup on this MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011.

At first I installed the SSD where the Superdrive was with an optical bay HDD caddy, but then I saw in System Informations -> SATA that while the speed link was 6 Gigabit, the negotiated speed was 3 Gigabit.

So I swapped the location of the HDD and SSD putting the HDD in the caddy. I was getting much better performances (booting Sierra in 18 seconds, instead of 30 seconds when it was in the Superdrive location).

The problem is, as soon as I make the smallest action (like opening Finder), the fans start going at 2000 RPM (which seems to be the minimum speed on this machine) and you can always hear them in background.

When I leave the MBP alone for 10 minutes, it becomes quiet again (you can't hear anything) but as soon as I start the simplest application, there go the fans at 2000 RPM.

That's strange because my other MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) is always quiet while I work, you start hearing the fans only under load.

What I already tried:

Resetting NVRAM and SMC
Using all popular fan control programs
Checking the temperatures (always very low)

Sierra is a clean installation. What am I missing?

One thing that I like in Macs is that you never hear the fans while you work. I'd like it to be like that.


texts: Why can't you see what you downloaded today for attachments?

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I upgraded to Mail 6.2 and noticed they appeared to do away with the "Today" option when I am searching to place an attachment with an email?

Is there something I have to check to make this appear again?


texts: How do I open two tabs in a split pane in iTerm?

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I have a split pane iTerm window

I would like to have two tabs in the right "pane", (as opposed to total of three panes) but cannot figure out how to do this.

I lucked into this yesterday, for the first time ever and loved it, but can't seem to remember how it was done.

Anyone know the process for adding tabs to the right half pane?


texts: MacBook shut down at 20% battery with no warning?

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My 2013 13" MacBook Retina (OS X 10.10.3, Yosemite) shuts down when I have about 20 minutes of battery left. Not sleep, full shut down. It does this with no warning at all.

I seem to remember earlier Mac laptops giving me a low battery warning at around 20% and then putting the machine to sleep (hibernation?) when it gets real low... but never a full shut down.

Does my battery need to be recalibrated? Does the system inaccurately think it has some juice left? Worth mentioning, when I plug it back in and boot it back up, it claims to be at about 15%.

Update: I've done the recalibration thing a couple of times now, but still no difference in performance. What's frustrating is that I never get the low battery warning and the machine doesn't sleep; it shuts down. I've done tons of Googling around and everything I find says exactly what Buscar웃SD suggests below. The one weird thing that I found on Apple's site is this:

  "If your portable Mac has a built-in battery, you don’t need to
  calibrate the battery."

Can't say I've ever heard that before.


texts: BootCamp Assistant won't start Windows installation after partitioning is done

texts: I am trying to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro (15-inc Mid 2015 model, OS: Mojave) using BootCamp Assistant. After setting my desired partition size, BootCamp downloads the necessary Windows drivers. However, after the download finishes, it doesn't ask me to restart or lanuch any  Windows installer whatsoever. I can see the partition is created on my desktop but pressing the Option Key while my Mac boots only shows me the Mac OSX partition. How can I fix this and install Windows 10 properly?


texts: Can I use Siri on Mac to trigger stuff on IFTTT?

texts: I'm using IFTTT with Google Assistant on my Android and it works like a charm, I was wondering if anyone knows a way I could use Siri on my Mac along with IFTTT?


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Is there a way to move tab using the tab number in Google Chrome ?

something like this :

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set activeIndex to get active tab index of window 1
    tell window 1
        set TheTab to move tab 3 after third tab
    end tell
    set active tab index of window 1 to activeIndex
end tell

obviously the code is not valid


texts: Music player sometimes skips all songs and won't play

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I have a problem on my iPhone 5s (running iOS 10).

Sometimes my music player doesn't play music and just skips all of my songs, but after I reset my iPhone, it works well again.

At first I thought this was just a regular crash, but as this problem became more frequent, it's become annoying to me.

Is this a bug on iOS 10 or does my iPhone have a problem?


texts: Can finder move to next item with same starting letter like windows explorer will?

texts: On windows inside a folder if there are multiple files with same starting character, if I press the character again it selects another file. How to do this on mac?


texts: LaunchAgents zip/tar not working in plist?

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I created the plist for a  'custom' backup agent (via LaunchAgent). The (zip) program is called, but I keep getting a 'zip error: Nothing to do!' in my logs.
I assume it has something todo with permissions. I did add sh and zip to my Full Disk Access security settings. But it did not help.
On a side-note, when I move the zip command in a shell (sh) script, it works.
I would like to know why using the zip command directly doesn't?
Running the command for the terminal works also without issues, like so:
/usr/bin/zip /Users/username/Backup/test.zip /Users/username/Documents/*.pdf

LaunchAgent script:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.myuser.DailyBackup</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/usr/bin/zip</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/username/Backup/test.zip</string>
        <string>/Users/username/Documents/*.pdf</string>
    </array>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/my.backup.log</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/my.backup.err</string>
    <key>Debug</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>10</integer>
</dict>
</plist>


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I have a 2016 MacBook Pro with macOS 10.12 Sierra. I can hit cmd+space and type a word that I would like to look up in the dictionary. If the word is Danish (my native language) it shows me the Danish definitions—that is fine. When I look up a English word, it shows me the translation from English to Dutch, which is really annoying.
Does anybody have a solution to that?
The dictionary works fine, if I just right click a word, and look it up.

I have the following dictionaries enables under the dictionary preferences:

And the following Language and Region settings under system preferences:

And lastly, my keyboard input language is Danish.

Update
I don't know what happen but suddenly the spotlight dictionary works again. After reindexing spotlight several times, disable and enable definitions in spotlight preferences several times I gave up, and disabled it for good. However, yesterday I enabled spotlight definitions again to state my point to a friend and it works. Strange, but nice.


texts: MacBook does not sleep when lid is closed while connected to an external monitor

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I am trying to disable the "clam shell" mode of my MacBook (13" early 2011 Unibody) running macOS High Sierra. I want the computer to sleep when the lid is closed even when it is connected to power and an external monitor.

After disabling SIP I was able to edit the com.apple.Boot.plist file and add Kernel Flags iog=0x0as I have done in previous version of macOS, but the setting doesn't appear to work in High Sierra.

Also
sudo nvram boot-args=iog=0x0 from (recovery mode) terminal writes the entry, but also has no effect.

Is there any way to achieve lid close > sleep with external monitor and AC power in High Sierra?


texts: Cannot compile C code after installing xcode

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When I installed Xcode on Snow Leopard, gcc was not in my path. I manually added /Developer/bin to get gcc. However, I wrote a simple C program to include stdlib.h and stdio.h and print a string, but I get linker errors.

I think this is because I don't have my include path configured. Can anyone tell me why this was not done automatically and how I can get my C compiler set up?


texts: iMac won't boot. No keyboard recognition

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I know that there are a lot of people that ask for help when their iMacs won't boot, but in all sites they tell you to use keyboard commands to reset NVRAM or something like that.

This case is different, after an installing an update for El Capitan and restarting, my iMAC wont boot at all. Only the background led screen comes up. None of the keyboard commands work. It seems that it doesnt recognize the keyboard.

Is there anything to do? Or should I take it directly to apple center?

Thanks.


texts: How do the sleep sensors in latest Mac laptops work?

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On older Mac laptops, placing a magnet near the steep sensors sleeps the Mac.  However, on newer Macs, putting magnets on the sleep sensors won't sleep Mac, such as closing the lid does.

How do sleep sensors work then? I did many tests with different laptops (12", 13" 2016/2017) etc.. I know where the sensors are, but they won't sleep the Mac, not even putting a magnet on each sensor.


texts: Using a SuperDrive temporarily for one time installations?

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Does Apple (or any oter company) have such a service which would let you temporarily use a SuperDrive (or other external DVD Drive)? I have a MacBook Air and in order to install boot camp, I need an external DVD drive. Paying $80 for a one-time use of a DVD drive sounds absurd. For that reason, I was wondering if Apple or any other company has some kind of service which allows you to bring in your laptop and use a SuperDrive for one time installations. I wouldn't even mind paying for such a service as long as it's significantly lower than the $80 for a SuperDrive.

Any other ideas besides buying a cheaper alternative of the SuperDrive?


texts: Shift scroll doesn't horizontally scroll with any external mouse

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I used to use Shift+scroll to scroll horizontally in the past. However, when I tried this on my MacBook running macOS Catalina, it didn't seem to work. I tried this with multiple external mouses—the result is only a horizontal scroll, irrespective of whether the shift key is held down. I tried this in Safari as well as some other apps.

I did some quick research, and it seems as shift-scrolling should scroll horizontally, as seen here, here, and here.

Could this possibly have been a removed feature in Catalina? If so, what are my options for getting it back?


texts: How can I activate Mac speech without pressing a key?

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I just bought a microphone to test built in mac speech. On the speech preference, I can choose which keyboard key to make mac to listen to my voice.

Is it possible to make my mac to listen continuously without pressing a key?

I know that I can make mac listen to me without a voice command (ex: mac, [command]), but i don't like it..


texts: Samsung 860 EVO not recognized as solid state drive

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iMac 2019 running Mojave does not recognize Samsung 860 EVO as being a solid state drive. Drive is attached via Thunderbolt 3 and installed Ineo USB C enclosure. Disk utility info recognizes the drive as Samsung 860 EVO but indicates it is not a solid state drive.

Is this bug in OS are is there another explanation?


texts: Can I force Safari to show the toolbar in login windows?

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When I buy something on a website, Safari often opens a popup window for payment (e.g. for logging into PayPal).

This popup doesn't have a toolbar, which means my password manager extension (1Password) is not visible and I can't autofill anything. In the menu bar, there's no command View->Toolbar. How can I get the toolbar to show up?


texts: Bootcamp to generate Windows 10 USB key - Needs NTFS partition

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I am trying to use Bootcamp to generate a Windows 10 USB key (64GB).
I use Diskutil to initialize the key as MS-DOS FAT with MBR.
The Bootcamp Assistant selecting the three options on the dialog box.
It all works fine, but when I use the key to boot and finish the installation it tells me it cannot install Windows on that partition and that it needs an NTFS partition instead.

Thing is, the partition was reformatted by Bootcamp Assistant itself before copying the WindowsSupport software to it:

Macbookpro-2:~ silvano$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macbook HD              499.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macbook HD             +499.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 69E26A69-CF3B-4E39-B7F9-BC8154952589
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *63.2 GB    disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              63.2 GB    disk2s1

Below is the current state of my partitions. Partition 4 is where I am trying to install. I boot from EFI and it says it has an MBR, whereas he wants GPT.

Macbookpro-2:~ silvano$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macbook HD              451.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         48.0 GB    disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macbook HD             +451.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 69E26A69-CF3B-4E39-B7F9-BC8154952589
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              16.0 GB    disk2s1

Any tips welcome.

MBP 2013, Sierra 10.12.6

Silvano


texts: Can't see keychain passwords on another mac

texts:
I am syncing one of my keychains over Google Drive. Unfortunately things which I add on Snow Leopard I am unable to see on Mountain Lion.

Is it some common issue, which could be easily fixed?
Or can I fix it at least as make it visible on Mountain Lion?

I am syncing the keychains over Google Drive. I've considered the problem could be in the way Google Drive is syncing that, but it also happens when I copy it over Samba and replace the keychain on another machine.


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Had a user come back from summer break and boot his iMac. Jamf shows that it last checked-in early June. It boots to the recovery partition and Disk Utility shows the drive as empty. It may have had a power surge?  The only reasonable explanation I have is that it was on and received the 10.13.6 update and was erased. Usually an update will never wipe the drive first.

Any thoughts?


texts: Switching Organizations in Apple Developer Center

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I have my own iOS Developer account and recently I got invited to join a team. I accepted, but now I can't switch back to my personal account to develop apps for myself. Every time I log in it has the Organization set to that team.

How can I switch back to my own developer center area??


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I'm trying to determine what Apple's Firewall considers essential services. Apple's Firewall has the following settings available:

A search of Apple's site does not reveal a support document on the topic: http://www.google.com/search?q=firewall+"essential+services"+site:apple.com.

What are the services Apple's Firewall considers essential? And which of those services will be allowed to receive incoming connections, and make outbound connections?


texts:
I regularly operate a Mac Mini (10.9.2) from my 13" MacBook (10.6.8) and edit audio and video using Audacity and iMovie. I just got a new(er) 13" MacBook Pro (10.11.3) and am trying to do the same tasks.

The issue is that while Screen Sharing from my MBP (10.11.3) my keystroke-mouse controls (ie: "⌘-wheel up" to zoom in) in Audacity don't work, while on my 13" (10.6.8) they work as if I'm sitting at the Mini itself.


texts: USB Device (Camera) Was Connected, but I choose to "Do Not Do Anything", Cannot Get It To Show Now

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I connected my cannon Vixia HF R70 Camera to my mac.  I am running Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina on a Mac Book Air)
It is a standard USB A connector cable.  I was prompted with a window on what I want to do, and one of the options was "Do not ever ask what to do/do nothing".  By mistake I clicked that, and now whenever I connect my camera it does not show.
Things I have done to try fixing:
Have tried different USB ports, rebooting.
Ensuring my finder is configured to display all external drives and devices
I have gone into About My Mac -> System Report -> USB Devices Inside of this I DO see my Cannon camera.
Thus, whenever I connect the computer recognizes it but does not show it.
Can somebody help advise please? Thank you.


texts: How to switch between fullscreen applications in OSX (Mavericks)

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I use a lot of different spaces for my fullscreen applications to get me focus on the different tasks I have to do. For example, I have a space with my mail app, subversion app, safari and so on.

To switch between my active apps I use ⌘ + tab all the time. Even though the icon of my fullscreen apps appears when tabbing and the menubar getting active, I don't see the app. Only when I go to Mission Control and click the app it will switch to the fullscreen window.

Is there a setting or a shortcut to achieve this without using the mouse?


texts: iPhone calendar "+" button to add events grayed out

texts: In my iPhone calendar, the "+" sign is grayed out and will not allow me to add an event.  I have tried going to calendars in iCloud (Settings, iCloud, turn on Calendars) and calendars was on, so I turned it off, waited a few seconds, and turned it back on; no success.  I closed all programs and rebooted the phone and still was not able to add an event into calendar,  also went to Settings, Mail, Contact, Calendar and all is on there as well.


texts: El Capitan Finder is not automatically scrolling anymore

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I have the following problem since El Capitan:
My Finder is in column-view and I have a large number of files listed. So many that I have to scroll up and down. If I open a new file, it appears in alphabetical order at the position of N (new file). When I rename the file, it moves out of the Finder-window and I have to scroll up or down in order to fill the file.
In Yosemite Finder automatically scrolled with my renamed folder to its new position and I could fill it right away.
Can I reactivate this feature in El Capitan?
I hope you can follow my description of my problem ;)
Thank you for your help!


texts: Spotlight Search System Error (Spotlight Subsystem CoreParsec : com.apple.parsecd)

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I'm seeing a few (4 errors) Spotlight Error Messages in my MacOS System Logs sequentially when I just start spotlight (quick search) without doing any search?  Is this related to some problem caused by a security keychain removal?
NOTE: I have a multi-monitor setup on a laptop MacBookPro11,3 Mac OS Version 10.15.6 (19G73)
(Spotlight Search Error) System Log Error Messages:
no file handle for : Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 UserInfo={NSFilePath=, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fe42e427fd0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}
Most likely Subsystem Problem: Spotlight / CoreParsec : com.apple.parsecd
Process Bugs PID named causing by:
Spotlight, parsecd, DeviceManagment, corebrightnessd, nsurlsessiond
Possible Subsystem Bugs in:
com.apple.parsecd
com.apple.CFNetwork
com.apple.dmd
com.apple.AmbientDisplayAgent
com.apple.CoreBrightness.DisplayMacOS

Additional Spotlight Search Error / System Logs
key=DisplayServicesLinearBrightness value=0.2343892
CoreParsec: Please use member accessors on PARBag, do not access rawBag dictionary
com.apple.parsecd: sending bag with version: <private> to client: <private>
BagDebug:Bag is already present so returning existing value
Successfully fetched policies
com.apple.parsecd: sending bag with version: <private> to client: <private>
com.apple.dmd : Successfully fetched policies

Let me know what ideas you have!
Thanks!

Asher<
:)


texts: How to add apps or files to the Finder toolbar in 10.9 Mavericks?

texts: In previous versions of OS X, I could drag an application or any file onto the Finder toolbar, creating a persistent shortcut that works in all Finder windows.  It's no longer working in Mavericks.


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We are facing an issue with iPhone due to activation lock.

The device was used by an ex-employee of the company.

The email address that was used for this device no longer exists because it looks like 'employeename@company.com'. So we can't use the forgot password or reset password options.

Is there any solution to use this device?


texts: Why different Bluetooth headsets pair in different ways on iPhone?

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I used to pair my Bluetooth headset to my iPhone in the "standard" way using the Settings app. The pairing goes like the following:

Open Settings → Bluetooth, and turn on the headset:

Wait for the headset to appear, and tap on its button:

The headset is connected:

Recently I got a new Bluetooth headset, and I found that it pairs in a different way, which goes like the following:

Open Settings → Bluetooth, turn on the headset, and a "Bluetooth Pairing Request" dialog pops up automatically:

Tap on the "Pair" button, and the headset is connected:

I think the second way of pairing is a little more convenient. What makes the pairing procedures for the two headsets different? Is the new headset using some kind of advanced Bluetooth technology?


texts: Pop-up windows that disappear mysteriously

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It's been a while since, every now and then, I see a pop-up window appearing for a few milliseconds, that then disappears. I don't even have the time of reading what it says.

Any idea on what could that be?


texts: Can I withhold number with an iPhone 5s?

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I need to join a client's conference call today but I'm likely to be out of the office. I don't have a company phone but don't want to share my personal mobile number. Is there a way I can withhold my number so they don't get my personal mobile number?

I've been looking in the Settings/Cellular and Settings/Network but can't see anything promising.


texts:
Past few days my internet has been automatically getting a Self-Assigned IP on en0. I heard it does this when it can't retrieve a DHCP Server from the ISP.

I've tried these solutions below.

Deleted com.apple.alf.plist
Deleted NetworkInterface.plist
Reset Ethernet Configurations

When I connect to my ISP to get the Router, Subnet and IP settings does it take the system's Mac Address? because changing the last digits of my Mac Address always did the trick but not anymore.

I connected the same Ethernet wire to another MacBook and it connected successfully.


texts:
First of all, apologies for my ignorance on the subject. All of this ffmpeg and automation is new for me and sometimes I cannot see even evident things.

I am learning command lines to encode videos (I use FFMPEG to change settings of the video, watermark, all this sort of things to improve my workflow)

Now I am trying to transform those command lines in to Applescript droplets apps to make life easier. Last night I managed to turn my first one in an Applescript app droplet but I am missing the progress which I can see when I use the command shell.

I.E.

I can see frames per second, how much inside de video ... this sort of info

I would like to know if there is a way to modify / add something on this script to see similar progress, either tell terminal to open while executing the script or a detailed progress bar pop up.

This is the scrip I am currently starting with

for f in "$@"
do

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i "$f" -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/Library/Fonts/Tahoma.ttf: text='Central Text':\ x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h-line_h)/2: fontsize=100: fontcolor=white@0.2" -s 720x406 -c:v libx264 -b:v 1400k -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:a 192k "${f%.*}_watermarked.mov"
done


texts: What happens if I attempt to send an invitation from the Calendar app to an email address that doesn't have an associated Apple ID?

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If I have a standard IMAP mail account set as my default on an iOS device and I then attempt to send somebody an invetation from the Calendar app, what happens if the recipient doesn't have an Apple ID - how will the invitation appear to them?

No documentation that I could find online makes reference to this situation; the only things I could find were concerning sending invitations to existing Apple IDs (at which point a notification is generated on the device itself), or about using Exchange Accounts - which again works differently. My assumption was that Apple must send an email of some kind to the invitee, but I want to get it tested.


texts:
I am unable to archive from an Xcode project. The build is failing with the following error:

How do I resolve it?


texts: This might seem like an odd request: There are some classic and early OSX apps which I really enjoyed using and I would like to revive. Is there an emulator which can run the versions of MacOSX Tiger created to run on computers with PPC architecture?


texts: Anyone have any experience installing Corsair CM3X4GSD1066 memory on a Macbook Pro mid 2009?

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Is the memory compatible for use in the mid-2009 aluminum unibody MBP?

Reference: http://www.corsair.com/products/valueselect/default.aspx#notebook

The specification is compatible, but from my research, there are at least two conflicting user reviews on this matter:

Amazon product page, which said that it is compatible, but failed after five months.
newegg product page which says that it is not compatible, however it does not specify the MBP in detail.

Sorry I can't provide links for newegg & amazon page, don't have enough rep.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Getting logs from Apple or iPhone when someone looks up someone's location

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Details:
Someone close to me and that I trusted logged into my iPhone and turned on Share my Location with their phone.  On iMessages I see the note that says
iMessage with 3*******78
You started sharing your location.
10/28/18, 11:48 AM

Questions:
Can I find out how many times, dates/times this person accessed my location?  And if so where would this information be located..  with Apple, associated to Apple ID/Account, on the users iPhone that looked up the location, and/or on the iPhone where the location was shared from?

I have seen my AppleID data from https://privacy.apple.com but it doesn't have  anything in regards to "Share my Location" feature of iPhone.
At this question, it mentions that an arrow at top turns purple when someone is viewing your location and grey if someone viewed it in last 24 hours. So I am thinking it is looking at a log to determine the color to display. And if so, how many log entries are kept and can I get the information from the log?

I am thinking maybe this log would be on my phone and if so how do I get to it? I need this for court and do not have a lot of time before the dates come up. I have a meeting on the 12th with my lawyer to call Apple Legal Dept but I fear anyone in legal will need to research to provide answer.


texts: My Macbook Pro M1 suddenly isn't showing the correct resolutions anymore

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I've installed Steam, Parallels and OBS on my Macbook Pro M1, OSX Big Sur 11.3.1. I was doing a live, and also used SwitchResX for a moment. Then, after rebooting it, the resolution was suddenly messed up. On Settings > Displays, the resolutions listed are:
1600x100
1920x1200
1024x640
1280x800

In that order, which makes no sense. Notice the image below, where the largest resolution listed is 1280x800, while the "default" is 1920x1800:

Which isn't even the right ratio.
In an attempt to solve the issue, I've reinstalled the OS, but nothing changed.

How can I troubleshoot this issue?


texts: MacBook chargers turns green, then red, and then stops charger

texts:
I have been using a MacBook charger for about 6 months, and now I tried to use another one which I have used before with this MacBook.

Now, the battery is low enough that the MacBook can’t start, but only display the battery icon on the screen.

When connecting it to the power, the charger led turns green, then red (signaling that it is charging) and finally, turns off (after about 15 seconds).

I tried cooling down the MacBook and the charger, and after that I tried recharging. It did work for a longer time, but then the behavior explained above appeared again.

Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

The other charger does work. This charger stops working once the MacBook is started (or woke up from sleep).


texts: How can I read Xcode documentations in browser instead of documentation viewer?

texts: Is there any way that I can view documentations in browser instead of the default documentation viewer?


texts: Has Apple implemented some automatic form of "fix permissions"?

texts:
I've put things in /Users/Shared that I want my wife and I to have full access to, no matter which of us creates/reads/edits.  I've tried to ensure this by setting group to rwx.  Now, we're both in the same group, but just to be sure, I put the group sticky bit on, making it rws.  Both of these were done recursively.  But when I looked at it today, the sticky bit was not on anything.

Has Apple added another nanny feature to "protect" us from ourselves?  Our could this have been done by an installer that asked for an admin password?

Can I prevent it with an ACL?


texts: How do I roll back my iOS version? The 12.2 update has broken my WiFi

texts:
When I updated my iPhone 8 to 12.2 (16E227), it broke the WiFi and now apps like YouTube can't connect and often times I can't even load apple.com in Safari. When I restart the phone then it works for about a minute. When I turn airplane mode on and off, it works for about a minute.

However my iPad with iOS 9.3.5 works flawlessly. My Samsung laptop works flawlessly. Also when I turn WiFi off on my iPhone and use cell data, it also works.


texts: Panic Coda 2.5.1 SFTP No longer connects "Could not connect to server _____. Failed to open file"

texts:
Since upgrading to Yosemite, I'm unable to connect via SFTP to any site.

It allows me to open a terminal and connect... so the credentials are good.

I have reinstalled Coda (including removing the Library files and using "app delete" to remove all references - then re-installing)
I have performed a "repair permissions" from the disk utility
I have added new sites to the site manager, and they all fail

Any ideas or suggestions?

here is a screenshot:


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro middle 2010. I had Mountain Lion till yesterday when I decided that today I would have "upgraded" to Mavericks.

With Mountain Lion everything worked fine until 5am tonight when I last used the wifi on that operating system.

So I backed up few files that I really needed and made a clean installation of the operating system. Everything went exceptionally fine and In a matter of an hour I found myself logging in into Mavericks.

Everything else works fine (as far as I can tell) but downloads and everything that it has to do with the internet connection is very very slow. The symptoms are:

Downloads started from browser often don't start on a lot of websites (Minecraft.com, Utorrent.com, etc). They are shown as they going with 0Kb/s for an hour or so). This happens with both wifi and ethernet connection.
YouTube videos refuse to load (the page loads, but the video stream is stopped at the beginning and doesn't go any further, ever) with wifi and loads very slowly with the ethernet connection.
Minecraft updates or dropbox synchronization are very very slow (takes hours to update few files or download the recent snapshot) even with a 7MB/s connection.
Speedtest.net says I have a download speed of 5Mbps and a ping of 72ms.
The Stack Overflow chat works very badly. Messages are synchronized slowly within long periods of time and messages sent by me are shown 2 times or shown in green (which means they were not really sent).
The Wi-Fi connection doesn't give me any error messages, and generally no particular messages are shown at all.
In Safari downloads start but they don't go faster than 2Kb/s.

In the meantime here's the status of uTorrent:

And here's the status detected by Speedtest.com:

I've never had any of such problem earlier. I can recognize that there's a 5% chance that these problems are something else related, but to be realistic, I'm pretty sure that it is Mavericks or something linked to it.

How do I fix these problems?


texts: iPhone 11 plays random music without prompting, what's going on?

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My wife's iPhone 11 running iOS 13.3.1 seems to randomly start playing stuff from the music app. We don't have Pandora or anything like it on there. The music seems to play in random situations; I haven't been able to isolate what's going on. We restarted, turned off the handoff in settings, I turned off bluetooth. Whether headphones are connected doesn't seem to matter.

I looked up the phenomenon on the 'net and found some vague answers, but there's simply not a lot of helpful information. Anyone else see anything like this?


texts: How to remove iCloud account from used iPhone?

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I bought an iPhone 4s used and the previous owner did not clear their iCloud account. I need to reset phone, but can't turn off "Find my Phone" because of iCloud password!

How can delete iCloud without a password?


texts: Why does preview change the ctime of a pdf, and how can I disable it?

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When I open a file in Preview, preview updates the ctime of the file. This seems to only happen once however, and as far as I can tell, nothing other than the ctime is changing. This is very frustrating because it's messing with scripts that are checking for modification to the file, even when no modification is happening.

Below is an example of what I'm seeing. I create a new pdf file called test.pdf, everything looks good. Then I open it with Preview, do nothing, and close preview. Now the file has an updated access and change time, but not modified. As far as I can tell, everything else about the file is identical, it's as if the ctime was touched for no reason. This effect seems to be cached in some sense, because if I open it again, only the access time is updated.

$ stat -x test.pdf
  File: "test.pdf"
  Size: 47737        FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: ~~~  Gid: ~~~
Device: 1,3   Inode: 3220039    Links: 1
Access: Wed Jun 17 11:02:24 2015
Modify: Wed Jun 17 11:02:24 2015
Change: Wed Jun 17 11:02:24 2015
$ open test.pdf
$ stat -x test.pdf
  File: "test.pdf"
  Size: 47737        FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: ~~~  Gid: ~~~
Device: 1,3   Inode: 3220039    Links: 1
Access: Wed Jun 17 11:02:39 2015
Modify: Wed Jun 17 11:02:24 2015
Change: Wed Jun 17 11:02:39 2015
$ open test.pdf
$ stat -x test.pdf
  File: "test.pdf"
  Size: 47737        FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: ~~~  Gid: ~~~
Device: 1,3   Inode: 3220039    Links: 1
Access: Wed Jun 17 11:02:53 2015
Modify: Wed Jun 17 11:02:24 2015
Change: Wed Jun 17 11:02:39 2015

Is there any way to prevent preview from doing this, other than the naive copy the file first, and just look at the copy?


texts:
Since I updated to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.2) all pictogram fonts (Zapf Dingbats, Webdings et al.) seem to be broken.
The application I have tested are below.
TextEdit
Zapf Dingbats and Webdings do not show up in the font menu. You can select it by selecting  :

Format > Show Fonts…

OmniGraffle
Selecting either Zapf Dingbats or Webdings has no effect.
Pixelmator
Selecting either Zapf Dingbats or Webdings has no effect.
BBEdit
It seems to work in BBEdit (and TextWrangler), these both have Cocoa text handling.
I have tested this on a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro running 10.7.2.
Firstly, can someone confirm this is an issue for them and not just an artefact of the way I have installed Lion.
Secondly, any solutions?
Update
I forgot to add that all front look fine in Font Book
Update 2
Unfortunately Chris' idea is no good (for my specific issue) as the character I require is the lighting bolt.


texts: iMessage User "is not registered with iMessage"

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Recently bought an iPhone 5 & iPad Mini.  Today tried to message a non-iphone user and got a red name icon in the addressee box that came up as "...is not registered with iMessage" that came up" with an option to "Remove".  Did a little web search and discovered that the Mini iMessage" option page in Settings does not show a toggle for "Send as SMS". My new and older iPhones do have that option and don't show the error message..even when I turn that toggle off.  I called Apple Help and was told that there is a fix for it, but that I would have to purchase a three month version of Apple Care for them to address it.  I really love my new Mini, but at $600+ if they won't fix a basic function, it's headed right back to the store.
Any help would be appreciated
Thank you


texts: How to stop a key on my Macbook Air keyboard showing the character accent menu?

texts: For no apparent reason, one of the keys on my Macbook Air keyboard (the "l" key) shows the character accent pop-up menu. This happens when I tap the key normally, not when holding down the key. Could this be some odd setting that got changed? Or is it likely a hardware problem?


texts:
I bought a refurbished iPhone that has the Cydia icon on it. Does that mean it is already jailbroken? If so, can I just go ahead and use the apps? Do I have to jailbreak to use it?
Also the iPhone is used on my Tmobile provider and I was told not to update the iOS on iTunes or it will get locked to ATT and I will not be able to use it.


texts: Increase space between two directories from “ls”

texts:
I recently switched to Mac from Ubuntu and I've still had a quite a lot to figure out.

For iTerm2, how to adjust the space between files/directories? The following screenshot shows what it looks like after I did "ls". As you can see, the two directories "mathematica" and "python" are very close;


texts:
I am planning to buy a MacBook Pro (2018) from Singapore for use in India. I want to know if my MacBook will be eligible for the keyboard repair program in India. If yes, how will I have to register the notebook for the keyboard repair program? (i.e. registration to be done in India or Singapore?)

The keyboard repair program as announced by Apple is supposedly "global". However, I am still not sure about the coverage in India since there is no webpage for the keyboard repair program under the /in/ sub-website (while there is one on the /sg/ website).


texts: Apple ID with iCloud email vs non-Apple email, any differences in capabilities?

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I'm about to create a new account with Apple's cloud services. AFAIK there are two ways to go:

Create a 'full' new iCloud account from an Apple device, thus creating a new email address ending in @icloud.com at the same time.
'Just' create an Apple ID using a non-Apple email address I already have, i.e. a GMail or Outlook or other existing email.

An @icloud.com email gives me native integration with the Apple mail & calendar & contacts clients on macOS and iOS, and generally uses push data for synchronization.

Both options might require migrating some existing emails or data, depending on the situation.

My question is, beyond the native Mail, Calendar & Contacts app integrations, are there any other differences between an @icloud.com Apple ID and a 'non-Apple mail' Apple ID? Any gotchas down the road, like some security or health related synch services not working with non-iCloud accounts, or less cloud space, or...?


texts: Is it possible to limit the size of an APFS volume?

texts:
My understanding is that with APFS, volumes exist inside containers, and the volumes all grow as much as needed, as long as there is space in the container.
But I want to limit the space for the volumes. I have a 2TB disk with two volumes - one for Time Machine and one for general storage. I don't want the Time Machine volume to take the entire physical disk. Sadly, there is no way (in macOS 11 Big Sur) to delete Time Machine snapshots, so I need to limit its space by limiting the size of the volume.


texts: Reopen Swift 2.0 migration tool in Xcode 7

texts:
I just opened a Swift project on the new Xcode 7.

I didn't really look on what button I clicked and closed the migration tools without migrating anything.

Any idea how I could reopen it?


texts:
I've a MacBook w/ the following specs:

Very annoyingly, CommandControlQ locks the screen. I can't even remap it to anything else; trying to do so in Keyboard locks the screen instead of registering the key combination.

Is there a way to get rid of this shortcut?


texts: Why my application icons wiggle when I press ALT key in Launchpad?

texts:
I tried Launchpad first time today and went through the common modifier keys & their combinations to see if some hidden options appear.

When I pressed ⌥ ALT all the apps started wiggling. What does it mean?


texts: Mac Pro (10.11.5) can't log in, doesn't display screens

texts:
I have an old Mac Pro tower (2009; firmware 5,1). I just updated to the latest El Capitan OS X 10.11.5 from 10.11.4. Since the upgrade, the computer has not been displaying screens (I have an Nvidia Quadro K1200 graphics card). However, if I use screen sharing from a different computer I can see the log in screen. However, if I try to log in, I can not. If I type in an incorrect password, the little typing window immediately bounces left/right. If I type the correct password, the typing window disappears, to be replaced by this spinning wheel (shown here in very low quality):

This spinning wheel usually means a successful login. It spins for about 5 seconds and then gets replaced by the login window again.

Any thoughts or suggestions?


texts: How to: Create a playlist with full albums for which one (or more) of its contained tracks has a 5 star rating?

texts:
I am looking for a tool/script/javascript to run within windows against my iTunes database that will produce a playlist of "all albums for which I have given five stars to any one song."

I can easily get a play list of my 5 star songs (been there, done that) but now I want one that pulls in the remainder of each album that has a 5 star song.  Odds are, if I liked one song, I should listen to the rest of the album again and may find others I like as well.

I saw something like this a few months ago, but can't find the site.

http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2005/itunes-javascripts/ provides some useful scripts, but not quite what I'm looking for.

Any help out there?

Thanks!


texts: How to mirror a selected area/window in primary display to second display

texts: I want to project only a selected area or an application window to the external monitor. Is there any software that can do that kind of thing?


texts: rMBP kernel_task spikes when connecting more than one external monitor

texts:
When connecting a second external monitor kernel_task spikes to 600%+. This makes the computer unusable.

Before Yosemite, this worked fine with 3 monitors.

Here are the specifics:

When I connect one monitor to either DP or HDMI things work fine.
When I connect a second monitor with either DP or HDMI kernel_task spikes.
When I disconnect either the DP or HDMI sometimes the kernel_task rapidly returns to normal levels.
When I disconnect all monitors the kernel_task rapid returns to normal levels. (In Activity Monitor goto View > Update Frequency > Very Often and as soon as you disconnect the monitors, you will get lots of rapid updates to the UI).
Occasionally when plugging in two monitors it works (DP or HDMI) but the 3rd causes an immediate spike. After this happens, all monitors must be removed for it to return to normal. Sometimes removing all but one will fix it.
Sometimes when I plug all 3 in it takes 3 mins+ for it to occur.

What I have tried:

Resetting NVRAM.
Resetting SMC.
Attempting the above scenario with power adapter plugged in and running on battery.
Disabling "Automatic Graphics Switching" in Energy Saver.
Using integrated graphics by using sudo pmset -c gpuswitch 0

NOTE: When trying some of these things sometimes it takes 1min to happen.

System config:

I am running a MacBook Pro Retina 2.7Ghz i7 (Macbook10,1 / Mid 2012) running Yosemite 10.10.1.

I have 3 external monitors (Dell 2415H) with 2 connected by Display Port and 1 with the HDMI.

I think the issue has to do with power management. Whenever my CPU hits 58 degrees it seems to occur. I just left my 3 monitors plugged in for 5+ mins and it didn't happen. But when I started searching using Chrome it immediately happened.

Looks like a good fix here: http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259


texts: How to turn off screensaver automatically when "do not disturb“ is on?

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When I perform a task in "do not disturb" mode, I don't want also to be disturbed by a screensaver.

Can I automatically turn off the screensaver together with "do not disturb"? I.e. to configure it or to automate it by catching an event and triggering an action.

I know about Caffeine and similar apps, but it bothers me to configure both if only one button should be enough. Also some apps (and TV mirroring) start "do not disturb"“ automatically and I want the benefit of not being disturbed by a screensaver as well.


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Does anyone know what maximum resolution (NUMBERxNUMBER) OS X Mountain Lion supports? What happens is that when I use my full 2880x1800 everything looks small. is there a way to use my full 2880x1800 without having everything look small?

P.S. to use my full 2880x1800 i am using Display Menu

EDIT: I just noticed how stupid this question was, thanks for the help anyways.


texts: Equivalents for genisoimage and qemu-img on Ubuntu

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How do I achieve the same result on OS X 10.9 as I do on Ubuntu with commands:

$ genisoimage -output init.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data

and

$ qemu-img convert -O raw disk.img disk.img.raw


texts: What are typical use of using different 'network locations'

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Usually I'm just using the "Automatic" location in System preferences->Network with my home and work wifi networks configured.

I was wondering what would be the advantage to configure different locations ... What is it useful for ?


texts: WPA2 Enterprise TTLS PAP connection for iPad

texts: I can't connect to my university's enterprise wireless using my iPad. It uses WPA2 Enterprise with TTLS and PAP. When I enter my username and password it asks me to accept a certificate which is not verified, when I click accept it tells me that the username or password is incorrect (though they are correct). What should I do to fix this?


texts: What is a good processor speed for FCP 6 real-time playback?

texts: I currently have a 2.2GHz dual-core macbook pro (2007) and it doesn't seem to work very well with HDV 720p real-time playback. I am looking into buying a new iMac this or next year. What would be a good processor speed for rendering and real-time playback in FCP 6 or 7? They currently have quad-core 2.5, 2.7, and 3.1 GHz.


texts: No bootable device — Insert boot disk and press any key on imac 2008 early and ssd drive

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I have been research for 2 weeks for my problem.But there was no result.
i have imac " early 2008"
I bought it second hand,When I bought this, it had both Windows 7 and MacOs .
i want to install windows 7 again so i was delete the Windows drive by bootcamp and then i tried to reinstall Windows with external DVD rom and windows sp1 64bit dvd disk. After specifying the amount of Windows space in bootcamp and restart computer automately, this error was displayed with this message :
"iMac error: "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
i tried USB.
i tried another windows installation disk.
i tried efi boot ( Which was frozen ).
i tried convert mbr/gpt to gpt .
i tried create uefi usb windowse 7 boot by rufus software.
my imac is Upgraded, it had ssd single hard drive.it's dvd-rom faulty and I use external DVD-ROM


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I have gone to an electronics store and have tried on Bose and Beats headphones, both of them have a pretty annoying sound delay which is insanely apparent and anyone who says it’s imperceptible must be deaf.

While listening to music it doesn’t matter and for videos it wouldn’t be that bad, for phone calls especially slower or international VOIP which already have the delay, it is absolutely horrible.

I noticed that the more expensive the receiver - the lesser is the sound delay, I also noticed that it is some sort of low power garbage which causes that delay to happen.

Example: streaming Bluetooth music to my PC one time is super snappy almost perfectly in sync without any perceived delay, some other time there’s like a half a second delay (distance would be irrelevant) although I am tempted to try to force high power by moving too far from the receiver, and then seeing if that has forced high power low latency

Example 2: I have these cheap $25 bluetooth earphones for running, they have a really bad half a second delay.

Considering radio waves travel with the speed of light, I am very tempted to deposit a log of blame on the “low power” protocols and inability to force high power low latency protocols for this issue.

Low power protocol is fine for synchronizing irrelevant garbage to/from your watch, music, file transfers, I strongly disagree how it is being used for media and calls.

That said, I wonder how is the delay on AirPods in comparison to latest (2k17/18) Bose. Bose delay isn’t that bad, but still would add an annoying delay for phone calls.


texts: Bridge Wifi to Ethernet port on Mac, same IPs as rest of network

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I've got a point of sale terminal/pinpad connecting to the internet through the ethernet port on my Mac mini, which has internet sharing turned on. It works... but it takes almost 5 minutes for my POS software to talk to the terminal. It used to work perfectly and then a few days ago it just started taking it's sweet A$$ time. Nothing changed. No bloody idea. I digress.

I feel like if the pinpad was on the same network than it would fix the issue.

Tried creating a bridge via terminal. Pinpad didn't get an address, but it's using DHCP so maybe that's the issue.

Tried creating a bridge through system preferences but that killed the internet to the Mac and still didn't give access to the pinpad.

The Ethernet connection in Network Preferences is yellow and says "self-assigned IP"

Please help! Thanks a bunch.


texts: Problem with applications not resuming where left off after low-battery sleep/hibernate on Lion

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I am having problems with applications re-launching from scratch, rather than continuing where they left off, when resuming my Mac (alumimum MacBook, fall 2008) after its battery runs low. This results in losing any unsaved work and very slow resume times. How can I prevent this?

This problem only appeared during the past few months after I upgraded to Lion. I am now running Lion (10.7.3)

In the past (Snow Leopard), after the battery ran low/out, the computer would keep track of the state of all open applications and the computer was plugged in and resumed (power key). No data was lost and I was able to get right back to work.

But now, when the battery runs out, most/all of the previously running programs relaunch from scratch. For browsers (Chrome/Firefox) this means bringing up an error page and asking if I'd like to restore the session. Microsoft Office products splash screens re-appear and I am prompted to recover files from backups. Terminal starts a new session with old results greyed out. LyX attempts to load backup files. MATLAB splash screen re-appears and I lose all unsaved data. Etc.

Visually the resume process is also different: Rather than showing a greyed out version of the desktop as I left it with a progress bar, I now get a generic login screen with the grey tweed background. However, it does not behave as though I had manually forced a power off since a) rEFIt doesn't prompt for Mac vs Windows and b) All applications that were previously running start again, rather than only the default login set.

Additional information:

pmset -g custom shows that all power modes are using the default hibernatemode 3 where the system state is both written to disk and kept in memory as long as the battery power allows.
Battery is in the "Replace Soon condition"
Harddisk is fairly full 27/285GB free
4GB of RAM

My best guess is that my battery runs out before OS X has a chance to finish saving the full memory image to disk. I often run lots of memory intensive programs and use all of the system memory (4GB) plus ~8GB of swap. How can I tell if this is the problem? And if it is, what can I change so that OS X has enough time to save a full memory image before the battery runs out?

Any thoughts on how to enable a robust sleep when the battery runs out?


texts: What extra features does the iOS YouTube application have over the HTML one?

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I also asked the same question for Android but I found that Android Browser has a bug that crashes when uploading big files, so you need the native app: What extra features has the Android YouTube application over the HTML one?

It seems that iOS 5 still provides the native YouTube app, but it seems it is obsolete:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/200686/youtube_mobile_site_trumps_dedicated_app.html
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/youtube-iphone-mobile-html5/


texts: How do I change iPhone language to Lithuanian?

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I was asked to translate my iOS app to Lithuanian language. I did it, but now I would like to see the result, and...

cannot change language of my iPhone to Lithuanian. Why?

There is no such lanaguage on my list, and I am confused.


texts: Cron job running (?) and output file is being logged every night at 1:35am, but there is nothing listed in crontab -l

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I recall creating a cron job that runs a shell script that deletes files that are 45+ days old. When I was editing crontab -e I set it to also output a log to a date stamped log file to ~/Logs.

I want to remove this job, and now I cannot find it. Nothing shows up under crontab -l and I also checked launchctl list (as I wasn't sure if I made it a launchd job) but couldn't find anything there.

I know that the script name is remove_old_clips.sh so I tried various ways to find and fgrep for the string 'remove_old_clips' inside every file on the computer to see if I could locate where the job was being performed.

Nothing is located in /usr/lib/cron/tabs/ either.

If I know the name of the script, and I know where it is being logged to, how can I find what is automatically running this task every night at 1:35am?


texts: Connecting a Dell U2412M to a 2013 Retina MacBook Pro using DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort

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I recently got a Dell U2412M monitor. I'm attempting to connect it to my 2013 Retina MacBook Pro using a DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable. I repeatedly get a "Entering Power Saving Mode" dialog on the monitor. The only time I've been able to successfully connect to the monitor is if I unplug the monitor completely, turn off the computer and turn them on in sync (even this only works 30% of the time). However, connecting it using a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter works as expected.

Is there a way to force the computer to detect the display using the terminal? I've tried using apps from the App Store that bring back the old Detect Displays option, but those don't work either.

There are posts regarding this on other sites, but none provide a solution. Since the DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable are the most convenient to use, so I wanted to see if anyone here has solved a similar issue, before giving up and using DVI.


texts: Apple Update server names - iOS devices & tvOS devices

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For a few years now, our Net Admin has blocked WiFi access to Apple servers which provide updates to iOS devices. We do this to minimize traffic to our users' devices when new updates are released, (we prefer they use their own home networks,) and more importantly, to keep our carted iPad fleet from updating until we have tested updates against installed apps, etc.

At one point, our AppleTVs were also blocked from tvOS updates through the same method, but with tvOS 13 and Apple TV4s, it seems as if new servers are in use which are not blocked and the ATV4s are being updated. We use our ATVs for AirPlay Conference Room display mode with PIN only. I realize now that I can turn off automatic updating, but it doesn't help at the moment.

This is a roadblock for us because after the update is done, the ATV requires clicking a Continue button on a What's New screen with a remote. Until this button is pressed, AirPlay Conference Room mode is unavailable: the ATV does not appear in the list of AirPlay devices on a macOS or iOS device. From early experiences with missing (stolen) ATV  remotes, we do not provide a remote in any ATV location. This means I must go around to every ATV4 (and we have many of them) just to click a button to make it useful.

Can anybody please either let me know what the new tvOS Update server addresses might be, or point me in the right direction? I've done a fair amount of searching, but have found nothing definitive.

Additional information 12/11/2019:

Even though I manually disabled auto-update on the ATV4s, with the release of 13.3 yesterday, the ATV4 pops up a notice that an update is available, necessitating yet another remote button click to make the device useable.

The need to find the tvOS update server is now even more crucial than ever.


texts:
Does Mac OS X, and any Mac application, handles Fn+Enter differently from Enter?
As optional question, does any application handles Fn+Return differently from Return?


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If I set an event to repeat every day, is it possible to auto-increment a number at the end of its name?

E.g. every day at 21:00 I'd like an alert which says "Day #" where # is the number of days since the event started.


texts: How to delete Bingo Bash data game from iPad

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I downloaded Bingo Bash, which links to their server. Whenever I delete it and re-install it back, it will come back to the level that I was last playing.

How can I totally remove all the game data and play it from the start? And I also mistakenly connected with my Facebook account. Now when I play with my iPad, the same level also happens in my Facebook account - I'd like to disconnect this, and start the game from scratch.


texts: How can I use Audio Midi Setup utility to create a multi-output device with multiple AirPlay speakers?

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Reposted from What is the difference between an "aggregate" and a "multi-output" device?

I am setting up a multi-output device using Audio Midi Setup utility, but I have an Apple TV and three different sets of speakers connected to different AirPort Express stations in different rooms of my house, instead of just the Mac and the Apple TV. How can I make all four (ATV + AEX + AEX + AEX) be part of a single device to receive audio together in sync?


texts: iCloud problem: "iCloud storage is full" message

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I need help for this iCloud problem: I had no available space left, (of my 50GB plan) so, to keep using iCloud, I deleted some files. After that, instead fixing the problem, the system keep saying that "iCloud storage is full", or "there is no available space left on iCloud". I tried to deleted more files, also my iPhone backup of ~7GB, but iCloud seems not to detect I have done free space, and keep saying that there is no more storage. Has anyone had this issue? Does anyone know how to solve this?
Thank you and sorry for my English mistakes because it's not my first language.


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In my quest to get working internet at our cottage I installed a 5-band cell booster, which took our average reception from 1 bar to 3. We now have steady connections for voice and data on the phones.
However, when I use the hotspot feature to connect my laptop, it drops continually. This appears to be timed: it happens every 5 minutes or so. I can easily reconnect, but only after unlocking the phone.
Is this typical behavior?


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One of the new featuers in macOS Sierra are tabs in more apps, including Mail.

How do I use tabs in Mac Mail? Clicking "View", "Show tab bar" displays a bar with one tab, but I can't find a way to open a new tab.


texts: How do I make applications open on the primary display and not the active display?

texts: I love the improvements that Apple made to multiple displays in Mavericks, but there is one thing that really gets on my nerves.  If I'm using an application on my secondary display, and I use spotlight to open a new application, I want it to open on my primary display, not the display that was just active.  Unfortunately, the only way that I know of to fix this is to disable separate spaces for each display, which I use very frequently.  Is there any way that I can force all of my applications to open on the primary display (the one with the menu bar in the Displays preference pane)?


texts: Can two HomeKit homes share one Philip Hue Bridge?

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I have one Hue Bridge V2 (the square HomeKit-enabled one) and it's all working fine in HomeKit.
Today I installed two more lights and I want to share them with my roommate. But the problem is that the lights only show up in my home in the Home app, instead of showing up in my roommate's home.
Is it possible to assign lights from one Hue Bridge to two or more different HomeKit homes?


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In iOS10, by pulling on the Home Screen, I could search for an app. How do I do this in iOS11?

When I pull down from the Home screen, I see a message "Earlier Today" only. If I scroll down, nothing happens. If I scroll up, I see the Camera.app.

If I have a new message, that shows above the "Earlier Today" message.

Thanks for any help.

This is beta 2.

Edit... Adding a screenshot:

If I press Home, I see all my first page icons. If I then scroll up, I see the Control Panel. I can't seem to get a screenshot of this. It shows icons for brightness, and mini images of my open apps. I don't see a search option.


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After upgrading macOS to 10.15.4 on my Macbook Pro 2018, an HDR option shows up for my 4K BenQ PD3220U display. It is even pre-selected.

I can tell that the display is definitely in HDR mode. Unfortunately it does not look very good. The fonts are weird, as if they aren't antialiased. It is especially noticeable in black-on-white text.

Is there a way to improve the HDR mode?

The display is connected through USB-C. Changing resolution to Default for display does not help. I have used this display in HDR mode with ChromeCast Ultra so I know how good HDR can look.


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I have Plex Media Server on a Mac Pro serving video to Plex Home Theater on a Mac Mini.
All file formats play just fine except for HEVC h.265 files.

I always get the "Please Wait" message for a couple of seconds when starting the file or when trying to skip back or forward. The timecodes are messed up and the progress bar does not accurately reflect the true position of the play head. The file will play fine if I just let it play through but the skipping back and forth creates a problem.

I am trying to figure this out and wonder if anyone else has had this issue.


texts: iCloud Sync with Outlook works only one way

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I just tried syncing my office PC's calendar to my iCloud account to get the calendar entries on my phone. After installing the iCloud panel for Windows and activating calendar sync Office got my personal calendars, but iCloud still does not know about the appointments I got in my Outlook calendar.

Is there something I missed?


texts: How can I get my MacBook Pro's sound back?

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Sound isn't playing on startup or any other time.

I'm not seeing the red glow from the headphone jack that I've seen mentioned in certain cases of this failure. Though I have noticed an awful lot of cases that at least sound like mine (sudden blanket audio failure.)

Any thoughts on how to move forward with this one? (Am currently working through this troubleshooting checklist: http://www.hightechdad.com/2011/02/10/no-output-audio-devices-suddenly-on-your-apple-macbook-macbook-pro-or-macbook-air-try-these-7-fixes/) Please let me know if this isn't the appropriate stack for this.


texts: OSX Yosemite change sound output while headphones plugged in

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I've a problem which is my headphones' jack is broken into my computer. I can't hear any voice neither from headphones nor from internal speakers.

What I need is, to hear some sound from internal speakers while my headphones' jack is broken in my computer.

Thanks in advance..


texts: Compatibility-breaking changes in High Sierra and iOS 11?

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I remember back in Yosemite and iOS 8, upgrading iCloud to use iCloud Drive would break iCloud's functionality on any devices running earlier OSes. Are there any features in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 that would similarly break compatibility with earlier OSes?

I'm specifically wondering about features such as iMessage in iCloud, the HEIF file format for photos, and HEVC encoding for videos - these all seem like they would make irreversible changes to my data. Will devices not running High Sierra and iOS 11 still work with my iMessages, photos, and videos?


texts: Samba Share is mounted and shows indexing enabled, but why doesn't work?

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I am running macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 (17G65).

I enabled indexing on samba share by using sudo mdutil -i on command. The result:

$ sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/e\$/
/Volumes/e$:
    Indexing enabled.

I did find the indexing cache location: /var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/smb%3A%2F%2Fadministrator@ip%2Fe$/ and /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/smb%3A%2F%2Fadministrator@ip%2Fe$/.

But after three hours, I still can not find anything from the samba share via Spotlight and tag mdfind commands.

For example:

[/Volumes/e$]$ tag -a test test

# after three hours .........

[/Volumes/e$]$ tag -f test              # nothing returns
[/Volumes/e$]$ mdfind tag:test          # nothing returns


texts: Add heading to Google Docs document from iPhone

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quite a straightforward question. I started to really like Google Docs and the fact I can edit them from iPhone from the mobile site.

However, I would like to add headings to the documents while editing on iPhone. It is not possible through any drop-menu, but isn't there some sort of hack?


texts: Prevent Keychain from copying an internet password to my login keychain

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I find that my passwords are being copied from my "bank" keychain into the login keychain every time I allow Safari to autofill the fields. How can I prevent that?

I have created a separate keychain called "bank" to store my sensitive financial account passwords. I use a different keychain password and set it to lock automatically after 5 minutes.


texts: How to install a fresh copy of Mojave on a Macbook Air?

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When I do the Option + Command + R, I am presented with several options.  One of those options is to reinstall Mojave from an already existing image.  I don't want to use that image, rather, I want to install from a new image.

For some reason I cannot log in to the laptop.  Is there a way to load an image onto a USB drive, pop it into the USB port, and install from it using the Option + Command + R method?


texts: With lid closed, Macbook still occasionally wakes from sleep

texts: I've written some logging software in Electron which runs on macOS. I handle the suspend and resume events to stop and start recording automatically when the device is closed/suspended. I've noticed that even with the lid closed, it still wakes up occasionally and records some data. Does anybody know what could be causing this?


texts: Batch update the birthdays in my iPhone contacts

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Years ago when I got my first iPhone, AT&T transferred all of the contacts from my old phone. My old phone didn't have a birthday field in the contacts. Instead of leaving the field empty on the iPhone, AT&T's system set them all to Jan 1, 2000.

Is there a way to update these with a script? Export them to a CSV, find-and-replace, and reimport?

Update - This is what my Contacts app looks like. The middle section is an Exchange server, which contains Contacts. However, those contacts appear unrelated to Exchange. The Exchange directory is the "All Work" group above it, and the "Work Global Address List" below.

Using AppleScript, "Address Book" is automatically changed to "Contacts" and only those 3 contacts from the Contacts subgroup above are selected:

tell application "Address Book"`
  set thePeople to every person
    repeat with thePerson in thePeople
      return the name of thePerson
  end repeat
end tell


texts: Error of no file bundle1.o found on Mac Catalina

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Facing no file error on bundle1.o on running make on a repo
clang: error: no such file or directory: '/usr/lib/bundle1.o'

system MacOs catalina
version 10.15.3
Already tried installing developer tools with
xcode-select --install
which says
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

Also tried
softwareupdate -i

On running a system wide search I found that bundle1.o file does exist in diff locations  but cant be copied and no smlink is getting created for it under /usr/lib
/System/Volumes/Data/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/lib/bundle1.o
/System/Volumes/Data/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/lib/bundle1.o

no luck so far


texts: I duplicate a file in photos app mac and it references the same file

texts: I duplicate a file in photos app for mac and it references the same file rather than export a new file. I use a referenced library.


texts: Getting 'module' object has no attribute 'bindtextdomain' launching meld

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I just did

 brew uninstall meld
 brew install meld

Trying to use meld continues to give same error:

15:46:50/config $!8420
meld config.bernoulli.py config.py
Couldn't bind the translation domain. Some translations won't work.
'module' object has no attribute 'bindtextdomain'
/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
/usr/local/Cellar/meld/1.8.6/libexec/bin/meld:155: GtkWarning: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/meld/1.8.6/libexec/bin/meld", line 155, in <module>
    gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append_search_path'


texts: Can I activate an iPhone without an Apple ID?

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I've been issued an iPhone and I can't seem to use it without an Apple ID.

Can I activate my phone without creating an Apple ID in the process?


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When I browse the Mac App Store, the buy button of the Xcode app is shown as "installed" so that I can't buy it. But I can't find it in my Applications folder either.

How can I locate the app? Or how can I change the "installed" button to "buy" button?


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I would like to recover some unallocated (?) disk space on an external hard drive /dev/disk2 is 1TB but I only see a 250GB partition. Here is a terminal screenshot and a Disk Utility one.

Is there any way I could add the remaining 750 GB to the existing partition disk2s2 or create a new disk2s3?


texts: My Launchpad doesn't create a db file and keeps resetting its layout

texts: Whenever I move around icons in Launchpad, then log out and back in, the layout resets to factory defaults. And for some reason, Launchpad doesn't create it's db file. Why?


texts: iOS - Bluetooth not auto connecting to previously paired device

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My iOS devices do not auto-connect (auto-pair) to a Bluetooth audio receiver device. However this works as expected on Android and OS X Yosemite. Thus I do not think it is the Bluetooth receiver that needs to be reset. What am I doing wrong? How do I correct this?

I have a little-known bluetooth stereo system receiver: BeeWi bbr100.
http://www.bee-wi.com/bluetooth-stereo-music-receiver-bbr100-beewi,us,4,BBR100-A 1.cfm

Steps on all devices tested are:

Turn on Bluetooth
Select and pair beewi bbr100 device (never paired until now)
Works fine, plays music.
Turn off Bluetooth
Turn on Bluetooth
iOS Does not automatically pair it, says 'not connected'. On Android and MacBook Air, it connects automatically.

Summary of my testing:

iPad Mini iOS 8.1.2 - No
iPhone 4S iOS 7.0.5 - No
Nexus 5 Android Lollipop - Yes
MacBook Air OS X Yosemite - Yes

I have gone through the Apple troubleshooting guide and already performed the following steps:

Reset network settings.
Log out of iCloud.
Performed a hard reboot.
Reset the Bluetooth device.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, something I don't understand, or something broken?


texts: Can I reset firmware password via Find My Mac?

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I would like to find out if I can set a new firmware password via Find My Mac? I already have my MacBook added but the firmware lock is active and I have no idea what it is, I've tried all combinations but they haven't worked.

If I choose to lock it using Find My Mac, will I be asked to create a new key or does that activate and expect me to enter the one it believes is already there?


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I'm studying the IA-32 assembly language and I'm operating on macOS Catalina 10.15.13. Right now I'm using vim as my editor and nasm for compiling the source.

Is there a software for debugging the assembly code? I need to see the registry status and values (with flags).

It doesn't matter if software have a Gui (it can be a console disassembler).
It shouldn't be a complete IDE (ex. Xcode, Clion, etc..)
With this software I need to see the memory status, the registry values (EAX,EBX,ECX,EIP etc..) and the flags (OF,ZR,PF,CF,etc...).


texts: Conditionally map keys depending on the application being used

texts:
Here is my need on keyboard mapping:

When using Terminal, exchange the use of alt and cmd (map one to the other)
Otherwise, restore the default mapping on these two keys

How to achieve this?


texts: How to find out what the Wi-Fi password is, of the network that I'm connected to, without the admin password?

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I logged on to a Wi-Fi network on my friend's computer and they forgot their admin password. They want me to find out the password, but I can't get into the keychain. But I am still connected to the network, that they want to connect to on another computer. I heard there was a way to do it in the terminal but I can't find it. What is the command line? All i know is that there is a command line in terminal that allows you to view the password of the wifi network you are currently connected to.
Thanks in advance.


texts: Unable to open Seagate HDD in MacBook Air running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Using Paragon NTFS for Mac)

texts: Please advise on how to open the HDD again. This previously worked fine and also HDD works on Windows 10. I am using Paragon NTFS for Mac to read the HDD.


texts: iTunes now takes up 100% of CPU since updating to 11.3

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UPDATE:
The issue seems to be at least related to what konqui mentioned in the Comments since I do have a large library of podcasts. However, if this was merely related to re-indexing then one would expect things to go back to normal but this doesn't seem to be the case.
Basically, now everything (related to podcasts, at least) takes about 100 times longer than it should take. For instance, after clicking on the podcasts tab itself, it takes 10 seconds (with CPU at 100%) and just refreshing podcasts has taken up to 30 minutes.

Since updating iTunes to Version 11.3, it quickly takes up 100% of the CPU and stops responding every time I try to open it.
I've tried:

Waiting for it to sort itself out on its own
Force Quitting (and then re-starting iTunes)
Re-starting my computer entirely (MBP, running Version 10.9.4) and then trying both previous approaches.

Has anyone heard of this issue before? Should I uninstall 11.3? And, if so, how do I do this?
Again, this problem has only started happening since updating to Version 11.3 two days ago.
Another strange thing is that iTunes does not appear to be totally frozen--for a few seconds the "(not responding)" will occasionally disappear and then reappear. Plus, in those few seconds that it starts to respond again, its status will change (for instance, now it says it is "Processing Album Artwork" and earlier a random podcast started playing). However, this doesn't seem to explain why the % CPU consistently remains at around 100%. [UPDATE: The 100% CPU/"Not Responding"-status may, for some reason, be related to podcasts being refreshed]
Currently, the only Applications I have open are:

Activity Monitor
Google Chrome
iTunes
Finder


texts: MacBook Pro 15 inch (2011) screen has stripes

texts:
My 15 inch MacBook Pro recently has horizontal stripes on the screen.
It looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPt6FHJmtg
It happens randomly and sometimes it gets worse (flickering with horizontal lines,stripes)

Does anyone know what might cause this and how to fix it?

No such issue during the past year...it has just started happening since yesterday.


texts: Cant access firewall in system preferences; firewall tab is greyed out

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I have tried multiple things to rememdy this issue. I have tried enabling and logging in as root, tried to clone the system preferences app and accessing security and privacy from the view menu and nothing seems to work. I have repaired permissions from disk utility, repaired permissions through terminal at utility repair and still nothing. I will say that there was a previous user at my machine which I went through the best approach I could find by saving the previous home folder and creating another. My new user is set to administrator also. I am open to any suggestions here as I am fresh out of ideas.

I also made sure to authenticate via the lock icon in system preferences pane.

Im running:
-3.4ghz i7 imac
-16g ram
-osx mavericks 10.9.5
-local network

Update:
just tried running this in terminal and restarting… also to no avail
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist

Update:
tried toggling socketfilterfw off and then on through terminal but both times terminal output that the firewall was already in the state I was attempting to set it to.
still no solution…

Update:
Im now gearing to wipe and reinstall my os drive. I have run out of things to try and assume that it's a convoluted permissions issue. If anyone has any last-ditch ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks for everyone's help.

Final Update:
I wiped and reinstalled… never got a solution to this one.


texts: What do I do to start my iPad back up if it is powered off and power button doesn't work?

texts: My iPad is powered off and I can't get on it because the power button doesn't work. Is there an alternative way to turn it on?


texts: Identify and tag music from iTunes library under OS X

texts: I'm looking for a tool, preferably free, that would help me identify and correctly tag my itunes music collection.


texts: Apple Mail - Do not apply rules automatically

texts:
As I understand it, active Apple Mail rules automatically get applied when mail comes into the Inbox.

Is there a way to prevent rules from being applied automatically, so that they are only applied when I click the "Apply Rules" menu item (or use the shortcut, cmd-option-L)?


texts: Since yesterday I can't login to iOS developer forum. What's going on?

texts:
Since yesterday I can't login to the iOS developer forums, and I just subscribed 3 weeks ago. This is the error I get:

What's going on?


texts: What is the limiting factor in /dev/zero speed?

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I have installed 4 brand-new SATA hard drives in a mac pro.  My OS is running on a fifth drive (SSD).  I run this command

pv /dev/zero -tpreb | sudo dd of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=512k

for many hours to stress test the new drives.  Right away it maxes out the drive write speed at 170MBps.  I open a second terminal and run the command on the second drive simultaneously, and they both go around 170MBps.  But as I add the third and fourth drives, the speed drops to 135MBps each.  This makes me believe that the read speed of /dev/zero is the limiting factor, but why?
I have 28GB free memory, and my CPU is hardly being used.


texts: How do you change the notification duration in Apple macOS 11 / Big Sur

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How do I change the time of how long a notification stays on the screen in macOS 11 Big Sur?
There's no setting for this in the system preferences.
I macOS Catalina the following command in Terminal worked (followed by a re-login to the system), whereas the number at the end of the command determined the number of seconds the notification stayed on the screen:
defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime -int 2

In earlier versions of macOS the command looked like this:
defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime 2

None of these commands seems to work on macOS 11 Big Sur.