texts: How to uninstall "Munki Managed Software Center.app"?

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How to properly uninstall

mymac:~ meself$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

  /usr/local/munki/munkiwebadmin-config
mymac:~ meself$ locate munki
/Applications/Managed Software Center.app/Contents/Resources/MunkiStatus.app/Contents/Resources/munki.py
/Applications/Managed Software Center.app/Contents/Resources/MunkiStatus.app/Contents/Resources/munki.pyc
/Applications/Managed Software Center.app/Contents/Resources/munki.py
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.googlecode.munki.ManagedSoftwareCenter.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.googlecode.munki.MunkiStatus.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-loginwindow.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.googlecode.munki.logouthelper.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-check.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-install.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.googlecode.munki.managedsoftwareupdate-manualcheck.plist
/private/etc/paths.d/munki
/private/var/db/BootCaches/85073A52-7A3F-4A63-B0B6-C992C2CAFBC6/app.com.googlecode.munki.ManagedSoftwareCenter.playlist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.admin.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.admin.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.app.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.app.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.core.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.core.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.launchd.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.launchd.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.munkiwebadmin-scripts.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.googlecode.munki.munkiwebadmin-scripts.plist
/usr/local/munki
/usr/local/munki/launchapp
/usr/local/munki/logouthelper
/usr/local/munki/makecatalogs
/usr/local/munki/makepkginfo
/usr/local/munki/managedsoftwareupdate
/usr/local/munki/manifestutil
/usr/local/munki/munkiimport
/usr/local/munki/munkilib
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/FoundationPlist.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/FoundationPlist.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/__init__.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/__init__.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/adobeutils.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/adobeutils.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/appleupdates.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/appleupdates.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/fetch.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/fetch.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/gurl.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/gurl.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/iconutils.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/installer.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/installer.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/keychain.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/keychain.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/launchd.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/launchd.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/munkicommon.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/munkicommon.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/munkistatus.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/munkistatus.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/removepackages.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/removepackages.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/updatecheck.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/updatecheck.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/utils.py
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/utils.pyc
/usr/local/munki/munkilib/version.plist
/usr/local/munki/munkiwebadmin-config
/usr/local/munki/postflight
/usr/local/munki/preflight
/usr/local/munki/ptyexec
/usr/local/munki/report_broken_client
/usr/local/munki/supervisor
mymac:~ meself$

The reason to uninstall it is that it is incompatible with Homebrew.


texts: How should I set up my coding environment for PHP, mySQL, and JavaScript development?

texts:
I'm having trouble finding a coding environment that is comfortable and I'm hoping anyone has had the same problem. On my windows box at the office I've found my ideal coding environment that I really dig. VS2010 or Eclipse, Notepad++, WinScp, Fireftp is often everything I need.

On my macbook pro however, I've not yet found that environment that just says "click".

What I'm looking for is a solution that can handle "intellisense" with php, ssh browsing like WinScp and snapping windows over halv the screen like Windows 7.

I've found one solution for the last point, but it had a lot of bugs so it got disabled. For some reason I find Eclipse to be a bit slow on my mac, and I haven't found a nice way of integrating a browser for the remote server via ssh either.

I'm making this community wiki since I'm really looking forward to seeing how everyone sets their environment up. I'm sure there are some gems to be found.

On my mac I mainly do PHP, mySQL, javaScript development.


texts: On iOS 8.4 why when I want to play my playlists do I have to constantly "add next" to play all the songs in that playlist? And where is the "repeat playlist" option that was there before?


texts: MacBook Pro battery does not charge when plugged in unless switched off / sleep

texts:
Hello Apple Stack Exchange!
Apologies if this is a repeat question, perhaps because everything is a repeat answer as well is why I am here.
I am having a problem with my MacBook Pro (A1398, 15”, early 2015, Retina Display) : it charges (perfectly!), but only when I shut it down. But the moment I turn it on, the MagSafe 2’s light shuts down, and the laptop stops charging. However, interestingly, when I disconnect the charger from the wall socket and reconnect it, and charge my laptop, the light of the MagSafe 2 lights up around for 45 seconds, after which it turns off and the battery stops charging.
My battery has never been replaced, and the battery bar says “Service Recommended". It lasts easily more than an hour, a little shy of two, but I am fine with it ; COVID days, I am at home, and a tight schedule makes me hesitant to invest the time to get it replaced. The charger is 60W.
Things I have tried : SMC reset (SHIFT ⇧ + CTRL ^ + Option ⌥ + Power @ Shutdown) for 10 seconds. It does absolutely nothing. If connected, it charges (as shutdown), and boots normally, but resumes to the state of not charging after 45 seconds of it being on.
It would be very good if this issue has a solution (I hope my SMC is not fried, yikes). If not, I am also fine with temporarily bypassing my laptop’s power directly without the battery. It is very nerving to know that your battery will run out in about an hour so I can use my laptop only half the time I can as it needs to charge for the remaining time for me to be able to use it.


texts: What is the maximum version of iOS compatible with the 2nd-generation iPod Touch?

texts: I got an iPod Touch 2nd-gen. (Model # MC086LL) and all the fun games I find in the App Store require iOS 4.3. Is it possible for me to upgrade it to 4.3?


texts: how to make an "archive" button for Mail.app in mac os x mountain lion to work with gmail accounts?

texts:
has anyone tried to build an "archive" button for apple mail to move mails from the Inbox to All Mail in Mail.app (Mountain lion)?

there is this page: http://stl.techinno.nl/archive/
but it wont work with the mail version on mountain lion.

Thanks!


texts: Why an error occurred when I run slmgr command in my Windows 10 Command Prompt?

texts:
I downloaded a fresh copy of Windows 10 ISO file named Win10_2004_English_x64.iso from the official Microsoft website.
I installed it on my MacBook Air via Boot Camp Assitant.
All process was successfully completed and it is running successfully.
but...
When I run slmgr command on Command Prompt It shows me the following error message (screenshot attached):-
Error Message
Error 0x80041002 occurred in connecting to the local registry.
On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run 'slui.exe
0x2a 0x80041002' to display the error text.

When I run slui.exe It opens a popup window and asks for entering product key.
I think the Apple security system prevents me from running that command (correct me if I am wrong).
How to fix this? Why I can't run slmgr command? (It's working perfectly with Virtual Machines like Parallels and VMware and also on other Windows Machines)


texts: Text to PDF without losing/destroying the set tabs

texts:
I tried to print out a huge text file to a PDF file (DIN A4 landscape or A3 landscape). Unfortunately, every way I try, I always lose the formatting of the tabs I used for tabbing some tables with the tabulator key.

The problem seems to be, that PDF does not see the tabs or rather "translates" them to spaces of different width or whatever. Basically all (primitively done) tables are gone after converting to PDF, but in GEdit and TextEdit with a Monotype style font everything looks nice.

I just do not have a clue how to avoid this. Actually, I just want to have a one-to-one translation from a text file to a PDF, without having to work over 60 pages of tabbed tables.


texts: Why Safari is trying to Download web pages even thought I don't want that (iOS 13.3 - iPhone 8)

texts: Sometimes When I use safari to look news, Its trying to Download instead of open normally, I see on screen a dialog box has Download button for ex: index.php. I searched for this problem, but found only similar problem on Mac's Safari, and other users advice Booting Safe Mode and make some steps. But on iPhone there is no option about it. I don't wanna recovery or reset all data, Is there any way to set defaults for safari on iPhone? And is there any information about this issue?


texts: How tell Safari to open new tab instead of a window

texts:
How do I tell Safari to always open links that want a new window in a new tab?

I know I can use cmd-click to do this but that's not what I want.

There has to be a setting somewhere?


texts: A port is requesting an older version of clang - will a newer one work?

texts:
I'm attempting to install neovim.

When I run sudo port install neovim, it proceeds to install clang-3.7. However, port rdeps neovim doesn't show clang-3.7 as a dependency.

So does this mean that neither neovim nor any of its dependencies require clang-3.7? If so, then What's causing the install of clang-3.7?

I have clang-4.0 and clang-5.0 installed. Will these work?


texts: Stolen iPhone: what is the security risk?

texts:
Unfortunately today my iPhone 6 Plus was stolen from my pocket on the streets of Sao Paulo. I did not have cellular data turned on. I had Touch ID and a 4 digit number lock in place.

How much data can an attacker get off the device? Presumably with access to the hardware he can pull off everything, but I understand it is encrypted?

In particular I am concerned about cached emails in the GMail app, and the Apple Keychain, which retains some credit card information and many passwords for internet sites.

About one hour after the phone was stolen, I received numerous password reset requests on my Facebook account. I have changed my master email password and Facebook login.

The iPhone never showed up on "Find my iPhone" and although I have requested a remote erase, I suspect that isn't going to happen.


texts:
iTunes Version 12.9.5.5
If I click the "play" arrow on the song below, iTunes will add every song in the album below it to the current playlist. That's not what I want. I just want to hear the song I selected.
How do I do that?


texts: What are the tools required to develop iOS applications?

texts: What are the tools (hardware/software) required to develop iOS applications? Because I want to learn iPhone application development.


texts: I need to make use of a beta version of Xcode and so I created a second account on my machine, account B. I wish to install the beta Xcode onto account B such that account A is not able to see this application, e.g. through the open with menu, or the launchpad. Is this possible? It seems like applications are visible from all accounts whether in the Applications folder of the original user or not.


texts: I want to downgrade my iPhone from iOS7 to 6.1.3 and I need help.. I keep getting an error 3194 when I do it. I tried everything and doesn't work!!!


texts: Plug in a Thunderbolt 3 device into my Thunderbolt 1 computer

texts:
I found an answer in Is Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 (type C) possible? that appears to solve my problem, but I am not "getting" it.  (I tried to add a comment there, but I don't have enough credits to post there)

I have an late 2013 iMac with Thunderbolt 1 ports. I also have Apple's Thunderbolt 3 > 2 adapter (my wife's iMac is newer than mine, and it allows her to use older devices.)   I have a J5create JCD383 Memory Card Reader/Writer with a Thunderbolt 3 male plug.  I can plug that into my wife's computer, but not mine.   What I'm trying to find is a way to plug that card into my computer, but I'm not finding any devices that will allow me to do it. The explanation on that other site says I have everything I need, but I don't see it.


texts:
On my Mac in System Preferences > Users & Groups I have these two Synology NAS network drives set to mount during login:

Ryan (afp://NAS/Ryan)
Shared (afp://NAS/Shared)

This works perfectly at home but when I get to work and turn on my Mac I get this error:

  There was a problem connecting to the server "NAS".

  The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the
  server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try
  again.

I click OK but this popup appears around five more times before it finally goes away.

Is there a way to avoid this error? For example, only mount these drives if I'm on my home wifi network or using geolocation?


texts: How to transfer Adobe licenses to another Mac

texts:
A Power Mac just died at the office. We also have another one which died a couple of months ago. They both had Adobe software installed on them, and I need to transfer those licensees to other Macs.

Problem is, most of these Macs were transferred from another office, so we don't have any disks or licensing information - except what's on the hard drive. I was told that the IT guy that was here before me managed to transfer licensees just by copying some files. So I scoured the hard drives and managed to find some stuff which resembles licensing information, but I was wondering whether there are any guides on how to do this.

I would at least need the versions of the installed products, and their serial numbers. This information was requested by Adobe when I contacted them. I told them I would need to get that from the hard drives, but they weren't willing to help with that.


texts: Is there a way to 'search' for items on the desktop by typing the first few letters of the file name?

texts:
I am somewhat new to Mac. On my Windows PC if I type the first few letters of a file it will highlight on the desktop (or window). Yet on my new Mac it will only highlight old documents. This makes it quite annoying if I copy a file into a folder full of many other files and want to find it again. Its like I have to wait for the Mac to periodically 'index' its files before I can search in this manner.
Is there a way to have this work properly?
An example of what I mean:

Say I have a .jpg file on my desktop called abc.jpg. If I have no windows or programs open and type the letters 'abc' rapidly then the file abc.jpg becomes highlighted, making it easy to spot amongst the items on the desktop. No problems.
Now, say, I move a new file, xyz.jpg, from a folder on to the desktop. I then try to locate that file by typing 'xyz' only there is no response - though it is present on the desktop alongside abc.jpg the file does not get highlighted as abc.jpg did earlier. It is only after several days that the new file gets 'indexed'(?) and begins to work with this useful feature.


texts: How do I log into my child's OS X account (under parental control) without knowing the password?

texts:
My child (single-digit age) and I share the same Mac Mini. She has an account under parental control. However, she doesn't want to give me her password.

How can I log into her account? Both from (1) she is not logged on; or (2) she is logged on but locked the screen.

Thanks!


texts: On an iPad, can I "markup and reply" to two PDFS in the same email?

texts: If someone sends me an email containing a PDF attachment (or a JPG, or another image format...) I know that, on an iPad, I can markup the attachment and then send the marked-up document in a reply to the sender.  But what if the email contains two PDFs?  Is there a way to mark up the first, return to the original email, mark up the second, then send a reply containing both marked-up documents?


texts: I'm trying to copy and paste a number (tracking number) from a UPS notification into a cell on Numbers.  I want the number to appear with the link hidden but it keeps pasting the entire URL in the cell.  Excel did this for me and I am new to numbers.


texts: Recovery mode behind corporate proxy Sierra

texts:
I just wiped the hard drive on a 2010 mac pro using the recovery mode partition, but now when I try to reinstall (Sierra) I discover that it can't connect to apple because it has to go through the corporate proxy (because reinstalling the OS is obviously something that no-one in a corporate network would ever do…?).

I tried using networksetup in a terminal, but it doesn't seem to have it: I just get

-bash networksetup: command not found

when I try it.

I tried using a hotspot on my phone, but it still didn't connect so plan C is ruled out too.

What are my other options (Apart from doing the sensible thing and installing Linux)?


texts: Is it possible to choose which macOS version to use when reinstalling?

texts:
I have Mountain Lion on my Mac, but I would like to erase all the data and reinstall OS from Mac Utility (Command + R when restart), but as far as I know there is no option to chose which macOS you would like to get...

It is kind of random choice of Mac Utility system...

So, question is there any way to choose OS (for example Catalina)?


texts: Apple ID verification process not accepting my ID and/or password

texts:
I have an iPhone 6 and during the last 2 months I see the Apple ID verification message. After I input my ID and password the iPhone won't accept it. I also get the same message with regard to iTunes sign in, and the same error message appears or an iCloud cannot be accessed. Review your account information in settings message.

Could someone please help me? I really don't know how can I solve this problem and update my application.


texts:
Is there a way to group 2 or more windows so that they act together? If I drag one, they all move. If I hide one, they all hide. If I alt-tab to one, they all come in focus, etc.

These windows might be in different applications


texts: How can I remove pending downloads in iTunes?

texts:
I have an update for the Dexter game on iPhone which is 400MB in size. Since I don't play this game anymore, I deleted the app. But iTunes still wants me to download the update and tells me I have "1 iTunes Download available".

I tried deleting it (pause then right-click-*delete*), but the download keeps coming back.

Is there a way to permanently remove those available downloads?


texts: Is it impossible to delete/move a file named "␀" on mac?

texts:
When I try to move, rename, or delete a file named ␀in Finder, I get this error message:

  The operation can't be completed, because an unexpected error occured (error code -50).

With mv, rm or find -delete in Terminal

 rm: /Library/␀: Invalid argument
 mv: rename /Library/␀ to /tmp/␀: Invalid argument
 find: -delete: unlink(/Library/␀): Invalid argument

Can I move or delete this file in Mac OS X or do I have to use another operating system?

I even tried creating a file with this name in /tmp and it has not gone away since 8 reboots.


texts: How do you get a stack trace of a running process?

texts: On Linux, you can examine /proc/$PID/stack. Is there an equivalent on OSX?


texts: How to share mouse and keyboard via Wi-Fi to Android?

texts:
I use 1keyboard via Bluetooth to share keyboard with my Android phones, but this is less productive than Logitech's Flow where I can switch between devices much faster and more seamlessly.

Is there an app that can help me sharing keyboard and mouse with Android phones?


texts: Import new photos from iPhone into Windows XP

texts:
I'm on Windows XP and wish to plug in my iPhone and have all new photos imported into a folder on the hard disk. New photos I'm simply defining as those that it hasn't imported before.

Simple, eh?

The default Microsoft Image Aquisition tool seems to read all photos rather than just new ones.

Any ideas out there?

If I could see the iPhone photos as a drive letter I would write my own little application in Java, but this doesn't appear possible.

Edit: Found this similar question: here


texts: Magic Mouse continues scrolling inertia when hovering over a different pane

texts:
I just got a Magic Mouse that I'm using with MacBook Pro (15", 2015), macOS Sierra. I've noticed a problem where, if I'm in a window that has multiple areas with scrolling, if I start scrolling in one area, lift up my finger so I'm no longer scrolling but the inertia is still going, and then move my mouse over another area, the scrolling inertia in the first area will stop, and will continue in the new area. I've found this in multiple apps (Discord and Chrome so far), and in the case of Chrome, multiple web pages. One example is Facebook - if I hover over the news feed, make one quick swipe down the mouse so that it starts scrolling, then quickly move my mouse over the chat window, the inertia from that movement will stop in the news feed, but the chat window will scroll down.

This doesn't happen with my trackpad, only with the Magic Mouse. Has anyone else encountered this before? Any idea what to do about it? I know there's a way to disable inertia scrolling via Terminal, but in general I like inertia scrolling, so that would be a last-ditch solution for me.


texts: Manually sync multiple devices through iCloud

texts: We have an iPad and iPhone that I know we can set up to sync through iCloud. We also have several iPods. Will setting up iCloud for the iPad and iPhone affect our ability to manually sync the iPods?


texts: I know i can do it in linux, anything similar in osx?


texts: Erase Data on my stolen phone without password

texts: I’ve lost an iPhone without a passcode and had put it in lost mode at the moment. However, I would like to erase the data too as I do not want the thieves to see the contents on my phone. But when I press ”erase data” on Find iPhone，I was prompted for my iCloud password and phone passcode even though I had no passcode set. I suspect that the thief has probably set a passcode himself. How do I erase the data on my phone this way? Thanks.


texts: Move large files to iPad through Lighting cable

texts:
Is there a simple / clever method to move large video files from a NAS => Mac => Firewire => iPad?  The goal is speed: preference is to avoid Wifi.   Assume that I would like to transfer a 600MB home video of a wedding.
As I understand it, the choices for transferring files are:

lightning (fastest)
wifi
bluetooth


texts: Can I replace characters in AppleScript?

texts:
I'm working on an AppleScript to mount our Active Directory Home Shares and I've come up with the following part that looks at the logged in users "SMBHome:" and it gives me the users home share but the slashes are in the wrong direction "\" and need to change them to "/".

So far the AppleScript is:

set username to do shell script "whoami"

set homepath to do shell script "dscl '/Active Directory/CAMPUS/All Domains/' -read /Users/" & username & " |grep SMBHome:"

When run this gives me an output of

"SMBHome: \\\\server\\share\\username"

I'd love to have the next step replace the back slashes with forward slashes and remove:

"SMBHome: \\"

With a final outcome of:

//server/share/username

Is this possible?

Thank you!


texts: Low display resolution after using external display?

texts:
I've a refurbished late-2008 Macbook Pro running the latest version of Lion. This problem started couple of weeks ago. Whenever I detach an external monitor, the resolution on the laptop display goes haywire and displays one of those 16-color resolution on all the apps. I have to shut down each app and reopen them to regain the original resolution (dashboard continues to show the diminished resolution). If I log off and on, everything is back to normal.

Is my graphics card going bad or the DVI/MiniDisplayPort connector causing problems?


texts:
I bought a LG 49WL95C-W 49"  5120 x 1440, but I can't run it at this resolution with my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) (it's work fine with my iMac 5K.

It's seems that max I can get is 3840 x 1080 (although the screen menu/information display a current resolution of 5120x1440 which is wrong according to MacOs)

I tried HDMI (2.1) and USB-C (same cable than the iMac 5K)
I install a third party software too, but I have the same 3840 x 1080 limit.

According to the computer specs, I should be able to run two monitor at this resolution.

Also, weirdly on system preference, I have two monitor listed (the same one)

What do I do wrong?


texts: How do I remove 3 arrows in a black rectangle on the top right of my iPad screen? This is not an app and does not move.


texts:
How can I let sudo use my existing aliases in my .bash_profile (or .bashrc, .profile …)?
For example I want to be able to use ll instead of ls -laGF as sudo.


texts: Should I be worried about a hardware error if my MacBook Pro is running ok?

texts:
I have recently had some trouble with my MacBook Pro 8.1 (Early 2011). After running tests, installing the old 2x2 GB RAM sticks and basically trying else everything to restore it, it turned out that the SATA cable didn't want to work with my SSD anymore, although with an older mechanical drive it was ok. So I swapped my SATA cable for a new one, installed my 2x4 GB RAM sticks again and it works again like new. Today however, out of curiousity, I ran the Apple Hardware Test again just to see if anything comes up, and I had this error:

Then I checked again using REMBER!

So which is correct?

Should I do something if there are no symptoms? Am I destroying other parts of my Mac if I just do nothing?


texts: Is my hard drive missing if a iMac 2011 purchased at a garage sale boots up with a flashing grey question mark?

texts: I bought a iMac 2011 at a garage sale. But when I boot it up, I get a flashing grey question mark. Disk utility can't find Macintosh HD. Probably owner deleted files and HD? Do I need to install SSD drive to reinstall Sierra?


texts: How to paste graphics image data to folders in finder

texts:
If you right click and copy an image from Safari, Mail, etc. (or command-control-shift-4 to save screenshot to clipboard), certain apps support pasting (e.g., Mail, MS Word, etc.), but I can't paste the image to a folder in finder.
Is there some way to override the default behavior, allowing me to paste to a folder, the aforementioned image data as a file using command-V? I don't really care what the file type is.

REVERTED EDITS TO QUESTION: See accepted answer to original question below.


texts: Is it possible to update Java7 without first uninstalling Java8?

texts:
On my MacBook I've got Java 6 through 8 installed and I happen to need and use them all on a daily basis. Lately it has been bothering me that every time I want to install an update to Java7 I need to first uninstall Java8.

So my question is: is it possible to update an older release of Java (1.7) without having to uninstall the newer one (1.8)?

Trying to run the update without first removing Java 1.8 notifies me that:

You are trying to install Java 7 Update 67,
however Java 8 Update 05 is already installed.
Visit java.com/newerversionexists for more information.

And the link points to a page that doesn't even exist at the moment.


texts: Launching mp3 file from Finder, iTunes first tells me it's "copying" it - to where?

texts:
I download MP3 podcasts when I have Wi-Fi to listen to when I'm offline.

I just download them onto the hard drive. I don't have an iPod or phone or anything else attached to the Mac, either by cable or BlueTooth, etc.

When I doubleclick on the MP3 to listen to it, iTunes starts up and I've noticed there's first a message telling me that it's copying the MP3.

Why? Where is it making this copy? Can I disable it? I don't need two copies.


texts: Installing Ubuntu via Boot Camp on 1st gen Macbook running Lion

texts: Does anyone know if it's possible to install Ubuntu via bootcamp on a first gen Macbook running Lion? I'd prefer not to use Parallels/VMware due to the fact that it's only got 1GB of RAM in it and I'd prefer not to upgrade it.


texts: Examples of apps in the Mac App Store not made with objective-c/c/c++?

texts:
Are there any apps in the store made using mono, ruby or lisp or put together in another alternative way.

Do you know of any?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm already making apps using cocoa/objective-c, and I really love ruby and obscure languages.


texts: Clearing user input - New Remote Connection Window MAC OSX

texts: I was using Terminal.app to to use the ssh command and I opened the "New Remote Connection" window. There is this long text box under the "user" box that displays the ssh ... commands that were entered. How do I clear my input? It just displays all of my server names that were entered? The delete doesn't seem to work?


texts: How can I warp the border between two different sized monitors, so the mouse doesn't get stuck in the larger one?

texts:
When the monitor on one side of the border has a resolution higher than the monitor on the other side, the mouse can only cross over to the other monitor at the part where their edges overlap, as in the configuration below.

This means that when the mouse is not in the overlapping area, for example in the upper area of the right monitor in the image, it can't cross over to the other monitor without moving to the overlapping area.

Is there a way to warp the border, so that the proportional position of the mouse on the departing side is converted to the same proportion on the arriving side?


texts: my Mac Pro was stolen and had Adobe Master suite on it. is there a way to delete that program on the stolen lap top and install it on a new one?

texts: My Mac Pro was stolen...I still have the computer ID..can I delete the adobe CS on that computer so I can install it on a new MAC Pro?  I have the CS on my Mac Desk and I would like to install it on my new Mac Pro?


texts: "ip route get 8.8.8.8" equivalent in Mac?

texts:
In Linux, I use ip route get 8.8.8.8 to determine the route and interface to connect to IP 8.8.8.8.
Since iproute2 is unavailable on Mac, what should I use instead?


texts: I bought a book in the iBookstore to read on my iPad, but the iPad isn't that easy on my eyes. I recently bought a Kindle because my grandson said the e-ink would be better for reading. Is there a way to convert the iBook to a format I can read on my Kindle?


texts: Single-user mode, data recovery, mount usb

texts:
I have a crashed hard drive. I had no luck with a USB to SATA using MacDrive Pro. I can get the drive to drop into shell with single user mode when I boot the drive.

Can I mount a USB drive or something to copy data off?

I tried /usr/sbin/diskutil mount but I got a framework not being available due to single-user mode.

How can I back the data up?


texts: How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote

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In Keynote '09 on the Mac, how can I create a list of bullet points such that:

At first, the bullets are all dimmed or grey
When I click, the next bullet becomes undimmed or black

This is similar to the 'appear' effect, which uncovers bullet points one by one. The difference is that I want the uncovered bullets to be partially visible instead of completely hidden.


texts: How to clear up space on 16GB iPad for iOS upgrade?

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I have an iPad mini 16GB and like to upgrade to iOS 7.0.3. this upgrade wants 1.2GB of free storage. However I only have 0.5 GB at the moment.

The largest amount of data are my photostreams. They are about 3 GB can I trim them down (without losing any pictures permanently)?


texts:
Strangely, I can't find any references to anyone else having this problem. This question is close, but that OP is using a work phone with security profiles that prevent any bluetooth settings changes. My problem is that one—only one—bluetooth device is missing the (i) button, which means I can't forget that device. An unforgettable bluetooth pairing! Has anyone seen anything like this before?

The reason I care, of course, is because I'm having very bad connectivity issues with that one device. The only troubleshooting instructions are to forget and then pair again, but I can't forget!


texts: How can I adjust keyboard backlight on the new M1 MacBook Air?

texts:
The 2020 M1 Macbook Air lacks keys to adjust keyboard brightness and F5 and F6 don’t appear to have any effect.
Is there a way to adjust - especially to turn off - the keyboard backlight?


texts: Is there a simple UI hack to auto-hide the menu, but keep the menubar?

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I never use the menu items but I'd like to put more icons in the menubar itself.

The (application contextual) menu items are useless to me without keyboard navigation, but they take half of the menubar, I'd love to just get rid of them.

I'm wondering if there's a simple hack to get rid of all the menu items except for the apple icon (and maybe the current app name)?

Thanks


texts: How to remove or hide Apple applications from my app folder?

texts:
I've got a lot of Apple applications on my Macbook which I never use (Photos Facetime, iBooks, iMovie, iTunes, etc.). They just clutter up my application folder and I want to get rid of them. This doesn't seem to be as easy as I think it should be though.

When I right-click an application in the applications folder and select "move to trash" it says the applications are needed for the correct working of OSX, which I highly doubt.

In my terminal I went to the Applications folder (/Users/kramer65/Applications), but a simple ls only shows me Chromium Apps.localized.

Does anybody know how I can remove these iApplications, or at least hide them from my Applications view? All tips are welcome!


texts: What other apps have secret debug menus?

texts: I'm aware that Reminders, Disk Utility, and App Store have debug menus. Are there any other apps that have a similar Terminal command for a secret debug menu?


texts: Best/neutral sound quality out of a Mac(Book)? And out of a iOS device? (Current models.)

texts:
Does the headphone jack support digital audio output or not)?

Which is the provides the best sound quality the USB,  Thunderbolt, digital socket or perhaps Mini DisplayPort from the Mac of the Mac? and how does that compare with the output of the iPhone/iPod/iPad?

Please note this is actually two questions in one. I both ask about the output of the Mac(Book)s and iOS devices, respectively. Current models.

[For my question not to sound too subjective, I ask about natural, neutral sound.]

More info: NwAvGuy: Headphone & Amp Impedance (Basically he argues less - near zero - impedance is better.)


texts: A lot of iPhone apps use GPS positioning to provide services. However, the iPod touch does not have GPS capabilities, although it does have WiFi-based location services, if I'm not mistaken. Do location-aware apps work on the iPod touch? If so, how well? I'm not interested in the iPhone right now, but since I live in a city, it would be cool to have a device that would allow me to call up maps and such when I'm walking around.


texts: Change Partition size on internal AFPS drive

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A month or so ago, I added a new partition to my 500 GB SSD drive so I could have MacOS Mojave on a separate partition. After adding the new partition, I was left with two logical volumes that were 450GB and 50GB.

Fast forward to this evening. I went to update for the latest release and I needed more space. I added an unnamed partition and reduced the size of my 450GB partition to 400GB and I'm left with 3 logical partitions. I was thinking I'd resize the empty 50GB partition to zero and up the other 50GB partition to 100GB and I'd be on my merry way...I thought wrong.

I took a look at this article from MacWorld, but it seems to be written to address a scenario for an external drive, not an internal drive.

When I'm done, I'd like to have Macintosh HD sized to 400GB and Mojave beta sized to 100GB.

Here are my questions:

1) How do I nuke an empty partition?

2) How do I resize the Mojave beta partition from 50GB to 100GB?

UPDATE

Progress. I selected the Apple SSD, clicked partition, highlighted the empty partition, and clicked "-", which removed it. I still can't resize the other two partitions. Ideas are greatly appreciated.


texts: In Mac OS X application software development, do you have to use Objective-C when compiling and linking an executable format?

texts:
I mean is Objective-C the only language available, or can you use a standard C compiler/linker that is optimized for the sufficient executable format(Mach-O/PEF)?

My basic question is, can other languages be used to generate the equivalent object, binary, or otherwise shared library file format of code parsed and loaded by Mac OS X-like versions?

(E.g., C, C++, D, etc.?)


texts: Cannot get duplication of screens to work with mini display between iMac & Macbook

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Have an iMac 21", 2.5, Mid 2011 and a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and I just bought a Mini display to connect them through the Thunderbolt. I cannot see that they are connected or the choice to connect it in the screen logo in the menu bar. Command F2 doesn't work.

Any idea whats wrong? how can I get the option to have them connected, not for data, just sound and image?


texts: Format disk with one Windows and one Mac partition

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Can I partition an internal hard disk (in a Mac Pro or Mac Mini) such that it contains one partition usable for Mac OS and one usable for Windows?

I know Boot Camp does that for the boot disk but I wonder if it will work for a second disk as well?

Basically I want the system to start either Windows or Mac and use the second disk for data.


texts: Homebrew Cask download failure. SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

texts:
I am trying to install NetLogo via Homebrew Cask. I run the following command:

brew cask install netlogo

Homebrew starts the download but immediately throws the following error:

==> Downloading https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/6.1.1/NetLogo-6.1.1.dmg
#=#=-#  #
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.
Error: Download failed on Cask 'netlogo' with message: Download failed: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/6.1.1/NetLogo-6.1.1.dmg

I am understanding that it is happening due to expired certificate on the website hosting NetLogo installer.

Is there a way to work around this issue? For example is there an argument that could be passed to brew command to make it ignore the error? or provide a resolution? or can I manually download the DMG and place it in the Homebrew cache directory so that Homebrew skips downloading when running the install command?


texts: Mac drive not showing up on resetpassword screen

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I am trying to reset my admin password using recovery partition. When I type resetpassword in terminal, a window shows up but I don't see my drive in the top box.

Is there a way to fix this? btw, I tried booting into single user mode, but it goes straight to the login page.

EDIT:

I may know why the drive doesn't show up. I checked Disk Utility and saw that the drive is locked. But I need a password to unlock it, which I don't have!


texts: Safari Bookmark That Includes Scroll Position

texts: I'd like to create a Safari bookmark that automatically scrolls to a specific position on the page. The page in question is not under my control, and has no in-page anchors. I have a vague notion of something being done via a bit of Javascript saved inside the bookmark, but don't know if even possible, how to implement.


texts: Why can my Macbook plays sound in Windows but not OS X?

texts:
Awhile back, a pair of headphones I owned broke off inside of the headphone slot on my Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. I followed some instructions suggested by people online which involved using a bit of superglue with a toothpick to get the stuck piece out of the port. Unfortunately this didn't work, and I'm now stuck with the piece of headphone in my MacBook.

Naturally, OS X will not play any sound. When trying to adjust the volume I am presented with the "system problem" icon. (A speaker with an X under it, or something similar). Basically I'm assuming it's detecting an issue with the audio port. So in OS X I'm left with no sound unless I use Bluetooth headphones.

Today, I installed Windows 8.1 using Bootcamp. After installing the Bootcamp Support Software, I was surprised to hear that I could play sound through my MacBook's speakers. I have looked online in the past trying to find a way to override the headphone port in OS X. The general consensus seems to be that it's simply not possible, because the speakers are disabled on a hardware level by the piece of headphone. Obviously this is not true, since Windows is able to play sound.

Any ideas as to why this might be, or how I can actually go about bypassing the broken headphone port? I really appreciate any help that's provided. Thank you!


texts: Improving Cmd-` app window switching - MRU order and/or preview

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Using the Cmd-` shortcut to switch between windows in an application is inefficient for me when there are more than two windows since they are cycled through in a fixed order and there is little visual feedback to show which window has been switched to. Is there a way to change the behavior so that it works more like Cmd-Tab? Specifically, I would like to be able to switch between windows in most recently used order and/or display an icon or preview to show the window being switched to.

I'm using OS X 10.7.5.


texts: How I can make sure my code is keep running?

texts:
hey I am running an optimization model in AMPL. It is huge model and I know it is gonna take a lot to be solved. How I can make sure my model keep running even when the screen become lucked?
I did the following as well,

I installed coffeine and it is in enable mode.

I typed  caffeinate in terminal .

How I can make sure it is keeping running?


texts: My photo app shows two separate sets of the same person, but iOS thinks they are different people, even if the name is the same. Is there any way I can manually "merge" two separate people?


texts: How to recover all stored text message data on old iPhone (A1241) to external drive?

texts:
I managed to import all the photos off an old iPhone 3G I recently rediscovered while going through my junk drawer. I used Image Capture, but now I’d like to get all the texts.

I'd like to use only the terminal, ie. no downloads of third-party software, and I'd like to NOT use iTunes or iCloud. My Mac is running Sierra. Would like to get the notes off too if possible. Is this doable?


texts: Change "ignore ownership on this volume" from the command line for Mac OS X volume

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(This question is a spin-off of another question I asked on this site.)

New images always ignore owner/group

When creating a new disk image from Disk Utility it is automatically mounted. If you then select the volume in Finder and press Cmd-I (for the info window) you will see this at the bottom of the window:

This means that file owners and groups will be ignored on this volume. This is very convenient for external drives being shared between machines with different user accounts on them. For a backup volume it is not a good idea as you would like to retain the owner/group information for the files backed up.

Change this from Finder

To change this, simply uncheck the checkbox and it will remembered after you eject and remount the image.

Change from command line (Terminal)

Instead of mounting the image from Finder, you can also mount it from the command line using this command (assuming the image is called testimage.sparsebundle):

$ hdiutil attach testimage.sparsebundle/

Still, owners are ignored on the volume. Adding the -owners on option is (almost) equivalent to unchecking the checkbox in the image above:

$ hdiutil attach -owners on testimage.sparsebundle/

However, after unmounting and remounting the volume from Finder (or from the command line without the -owners on option), the checkbox is checked again.

Does anybody know how to make this change persistent using a command-line call?


texts: man -k and apropos cannot find pages in section 3 in Catalina

texts:
For example, run apropos printf:

Printf(3o)               - Formatted output functions
Stdlib.Printf(3o)        - no description
gprintf(1), printf(1)    - format and print data
format(ntcl)             - Format a string in the style of sprintf
fwkpfv(1)                - FireWire kprintf viewer
printf(1)                - formatted output
xprintf(5)               - extensible printf

printf(3) is not listed, but man 3 printf can find that man page.

Meanwhile, stderr prints many errors like this one:

makewhatis: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib: Not a directory

What should I do to make apropos and man -k work properly?


texts: Prevent a specific app from accessing the Internet

texts:
I use Microsoft OneNote on my Mac.

How can I can turn off the Internet access to Microsoft OneNote on my Mac?


texts:
I really want to upgrade to Lion, however I have some concerns with upgrading an OS, believe me, upgrading OS is far too scary for me, anyway, I just read on upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion, now I want to understand what I have to do, can I just download Lion from the App Store then just open it, which will install Lion.

The part that gets me, when installing/upgrading, will my files on Snow Leopard be intact, because I have so much to transfer if I were to upgrade. I have no external HDD which I'm thinking of buying soon.

All I need is some piece of advice and explanation what goes on in the installation/upgrading process.

Thanks!

EDIT:

Just upgraded to Lion, everything went well! :-)


texts: How do I stop mail from automatically trash meeting invitations?

texts: Every time I accept a meeting invitation from Mail or Calendar, the invitation email automatically went to Mail's Trash folder.  Is there a way to stop Mail from deleting accepted email invitations?  Most of the times the invitation email contains useful informations, and I really don't want to delete those.


texts: Compressed hidden files are not hidden anymore when uncompressing on Windows

texts:
When I zip hidden files and folder and unzip on a Windows PC, they do not remain hidden. I tried to hide them with dot and also with the command chflags hidden.

Is there anything I can do? It happens only when sending Mac to Windows, Mac to Mac works fine.


texts: I can't access my user on MacBook Pro eventhough I typed the correct password

texts: I turned on my MacBook Pro, typed my user  password, but it restarts instead of logging in. Now I'm stuck with the guest user and don't have a clue about what to do to access my user with all the files and everything I had saved. Someone please help me!


texts: Automatically trigger Automator upon copying to clipboard

texts: Is it possible to trigger workflow for every copying to clipboard? I want to automatically detect URL in clipboard and pass it to shortener service.


texts: Mail.app: open messages in tabs instead of windows?

texts: Is it possible to have Mail.app open and manage messages using tabs instead of windows? Google tells me a plug-in called MailTabs was created for this back in 2011, but it's now defunct, and I can't seem to find any other options. Thanks!


texts:
We recently upgraded from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4S. In general it has been a good experience, however we aren't sure how to turn off 3G and go to the EDGE network on the 4S. It doesn't appear to be an iOS 5 thing since older phones with iOS 5 still retain the ability to turn off 3G and switch to edge. Instead of turning off 3G being an option (which would kick us back to edge) we can only turn off cellular data, but calls don't revert networks.

This is very important when using the iPhone in our area since the 3G and 4G networks are loaded down and very spotty. With the 3GS I could turn off 3G and switch to EDGE and go from 1-2 bars to 5 and go from 4-10 dropped calls a day to 0. With the iPhone 4S and 4G, I still have the spotty service and dropped calls, but no easy workaround.


texts:
I'm having troubles with my iPad. While using my iPad it suddenly froze and later it shut off altogether even though the battery was 90% charged.

When restarting I looked at the screen and there was a small loading icon but no Apple logo. The loading screen just kept going and the iPad won't turn on.

The catch is, I can't use my restart button because the button is broken. This iPad is also old (probably an iPad 2).

What can I do to try and get it to restart?


texts: Apple Magic mouse often loses connection

texts:
I have mac mini late 2011, up to date mac OS X and fully charged batteries. It still loses connection about 10 times per hour. It's really annoying

I've tried to remove Bluetooth.plist file, but it didn't help.

Is it solvable issue?

I use Wi Fi, and bluetooth apple keyboard.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for minimizing Mac OS X windows?

texts: Is there a (hidden) keyboard shortcut for minimizing the frontmost window (that works in most apps)?


texts: Create Custom Drop Down Menus in the Finder Toolbar

texts:
Any Dropbox users out there will recognize the drop down menu that one can add to their Finder toolbar.

Upon discovering that this existed, I immediately wondered if/how I could create my own sort of drop down menu (just as Dropbox did; Finder comes with plenty of native ones as it is). You'll notice a variety of icons beside the Get Info button; these are applications. Given how much clutter they create for me (it gets somewhat annoying to have to expand the Finder window every time I create one), it would be really convenient to be able to create my own drop down menu button, which would contain any applications or files I want to store in my toolbar.

I currently don't know how to code for Mac, so any extremely involved solutions would be a bit difficult. I can work with Applescript and C#, though. Essentially what I'm looking for is an application that allows one to create these drop down menus, or some other (fairly simple) way to create plugins for Finder.

Some quick tech specs:

OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

Side note:

This might be something of interest as far as my question goes. I'm not necessarily looking to create a button (although a drop down menu is technically activated by a button), but I think this explains fairly nicely how I'd like to go about creating the drop down menu.


texts: How to get mp4 files from my PC to my iPad 2

texts:
I have some .m4v videos (I believe this is mp4 format?).  In iTunes (v10.5.0) on my PC (Windows 7 - 64 bit), I did a 'add file to library' and they appear under TV shows under library.

Then I did a sync with my iPad.  They do not seem to appear in my iPad (iPad 2, now running iOS 5).  The rest of the sync seems to go fine (i.e. recent songs are added to iPad, apps are all fine).  There is no error or warning message. Either I'm failing to see them in the iPad (I looked under TV shows and some other places, where should I look?), or they weren't really pushed to the iPad.

Perhaps the format is not supported or some other problem?  Like I said, no warning or error.  Finally, I should mention that in iTunes under "Dave's iPad", they appear under TV Shows.

How can I see my .mp4 files on the iPad?


texts: Is there any reliable, repeatable way to find a folder on MacOS?

texts:
I have a folder full of Logic projects on my local drive. Finder offers no way to get to it. It's a constant frustration. I can get to iCloud, Downloads, Applications -- but not my own files on my own disk drive.

I understand that Apple has strict usability standards, and I respect that, but is there any way to work around them and conveniently access my own files only own computer, other than a keyboard shortcut that I'll forget and have to Google every time? (It doesn't work anyway -- the first time I tried, there was no folder named "Logic" in whatever unknowable scope it's searching in; the second time I told it to open "Logic", it opened Downloads. I can take a joke as well as the next guy, but sometimes I just want to get to my files).

Is it possible to create a link to a folder on the desktop, or something functionally similar? Something I can easily find when I want it, and click on it?

To clarify: I'm coming at this from a Windows/UNIX based expectation that all the folders are in a unified tree that's rooted somewhere, and you use one application (bash, DOS prompt, Windows Explorer, whatever) to navigate that whole tree: Some branches of the tree are on the local disk and "real", others are "virtual", but they all have a chain of parents starting at the same root.

But I'm starting to think I may need to learn a different way of thinking about this stuff in order to use MacOS.

The actual problem I have here is: I shared three Logic projects via iCloud with a pianist. We recorded many takes of his parts at his apartment. Then I needed to copy the projects from iCloud back to my local disk. "Open three projects in Logic and Save As for each one" is a very slow and awkward way to copy three files from one folder to another (or archive, or whatever a "single file" Logic project actually is).


texts: Is it possible to change the default screenshot location in Mac OS 9.2.1 (and, if so, how)?

texts:
I have an indigo 450 MHz iMac G3 DV+ running Mac OS 9.2.1.  I take a lot of screenshots, which Mac OS deposits in the root of the iMac's system drive; I've created a subfolder named "Put Screenshots Here" to put the screenshots in instead of having them cluttering up the drive's root directory, but I still have to manually move them there.  Unlike with the Yosemite-running mid-2007 iMac I'm asking this question from (where moving the screenshots to their folder is as simple as selecting them and dragging them over), Mac OS 9 gives screenshots filenames with sequential numerical designations ("Picture 1", "Picture 2", etc.), using the lowest positive integer not already assigned to a screenshot in the system-drive root; thus, moving the screenshots to a subfolder causes Mac OS 9 to start over from Picture 1 with subsequent screenshots, requiring me to manually rename the new screenshots before moving them.

Is it possible to change the default save location for screenshots in Mac OS 9.2.1?  If so, how do I do so?


texts: Preserve spaces order on monitor unplug on MacBook

texts:
I'm running the latest macOS (10.12.6) and something keeps annoying me a lot with Spaces: if you have an external monitor plugged in and spend some time configuring/customising your spaces placement, when you unplug the monitor, everything is semi-randomized. Semi, because most of the spaces will stay in the same order, but the number of spaces and the location of the spaces will still change.

Here is what I have when the monitor is plugged in:

Monitor

space 1: empty
space 2: app
space 3: app
space 4: empty

mac book screen

space 5-10: app (1 per space)
space 11: empty

When I unplug the monitor, it becomes this:

space 1: apps that was previously on space 5 and 6
space 2-3: ok, same apps as before
space 4-5: empty
space 6: app that was previously on space 7
space 7: app that was previously on space 8
^ repeat up to space 9 / previously space 10
space 10: empty
no more space 11

This is mostly annoying because I use keyboard shortcut to move between spaces, so basically I have a mental mapping of shortcut to app, but then it's all mixed up as soon as I unplug the monitor.

Is there a way to prevent this behaviour?


texts: How do I scan a QR code from an image stored on iOS?

texts:
iOS 11 added the option to scan a QR code with the built-in camera app on an iPhone. However, I couldn’t find an option to scan a QR code from an image saved to my camera roll or otherwise already saved to Files and not something printed or physical external to the phone.

How can I scan a QR code from an image already saved on an iPhone?


texts: Why the app is not on the App Store but it's on iTunes?

texts:
This is really weird, my App Store is set to my country, Portugal and I checked on the iTunes browser using "pt" at URL, and the app I'm looking for it is listed there.

But when I search the app on the App Store in my iPad with iOS 10 it doesn't show up.

I'm not using any type of filter in the App Store, I'm just searching for the app.

By the way the app is AndroMoney.

Thank you!


texts: How do I make function keys work for an external keyboard on MBP with Touch Bar

texts:
I'm completely flustered by not being able to use the single key shortcuts in Chrome's debugger

F8 = play
F10 = step
etc.

I have to reach over to the laptop and press and hold the Fn key and then, with my other hand, I can use the F keys on my standard keyboard.

I tried changing the keyboard settings to force the Touch Bar to display function keys for Chrome.app but this did not solve the problem as it only solved it for the built-in keyboard, not my external keyboard.

I have  Karabiner but it's limited in my version (10.12.x Sierra). I also can't do a macro of one key to multiple.

Is there any way for me to achieve this?


texts: Safari Bookmarks not syncing via iCloud issue

texts:
I am frustrated by this issue that just appeared recently.

No matter what I do, any modification (rearranging, deletion) to the bookmarks are soon reverted.

the bookmarks are now totally out of sync with my iOS devices.

OS X version 10.11.3 (15D21)
Safari Version 9.0.3 (11601.4.4)

Pls see my youtube vid for demo of the issue:
https://youtu.be/ktxo1VVEwBI


texts: New Magic Keyboard types the wrong symbols

texts:
I have bought a new Magic Keyboard in Portugal to replace my previous one as I spilled coffee on it! Now I find many of the keys produce bizarre non matching symbols. What on Earth is going on?

If I try to hit the question mark key all I get is this _
If I want an apostrophe I get - instead
The bracket keys are out of order and I struggle to find what I need.
; is found by hitting a key to the right of L but it marked with a another option.
The key next to that is a ^ yet gives me " or '


texts: Macbook resetting itself when playing a game

texts:
I have a problem with my MacBook Air 2017 and I need help.
I was playing Heart of Iron 4 on my Macbook Air and all of sudden, my Macbook Air restarted itself.
I restarted it and now I have this annoying fan sound running all the time and my battery percentage disappeared, I went through the setting to enable "Show battery percentage" but it keeps disappearing after enabling it.
Can I fix it myself or do I have to go in-store to fix it?


texts: Screenshots won't be saved after System language change

texts:
I have changed the language from my MacOS system and now it won't save the screenshots anymore. Is there a way to fix it?

Thanks.


texts:
Can Apple's Preview app be used to reduce the opacity of an existing image?

I might be asking this wrong. To be clear, I've Googled it extensively but Google seems to think what I want is to remove a solid background from around my image, for example making a the black background/backdrop transparent in an image that's of a car. However, my background is already transparent and what I want is for the car to be at about 90% Opacity.


texts: How should I write the conditional SUMIF if I want to SUM values in column C where column B is IP?


texts: Use `security` to get my login username and password for use in shell scripts / cron

texts:
I'd like to create a cron job that periodically pings an external resource and retrieves some information on my behalf, using my username and password that I logged in to the computer with.
I could hard-code the username and password into the script, but that is a bad practice.
I could use environment variables, but then I have to hard-code the username and password into a different script, which is still a bad practice.
I could create a keychain pair for use with this process, but then when my network password changes every few months, this process is likely to keep running with the wrong password and lock out my account.
My question is:  What parameters can I give to the security command to retrieve the password that I used to log in to the machine?


texts: Chrome Bookmarks vanished after clearing history!

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I recently cleared my history from Google Chrome because of stupid MacKeeper ads, whenever I try to click on any site the new window bars open which was MacKeeper or another ad.
I was sick of it and cleared my history and unfortunately when I reopen my Chrome all my bookmarks have gone. I am so disappointed. I searched everywhere and tried everything but still I am getting these ads and no bookmarks have come back.
They said
"Here's where the Chrome bookmarks and the backup are located:
Macintosh HD/Users/your user name/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks"

I tried to reach there but I didn't find any folder of Chrome or Google in my apps even Chrome is installed in my Mac and working fine.
Please, can any one help me out!
I didn't backup been ages :'(. I hope it is stored here some where.
Using Macbook Pro Yosemite


texts: How to undo a software installation process in Mac Mini with OSX 10.11

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I followed the instructions on this site and installed qbittorent. I run the command:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null

But then I decided that I want to undo everything that this command has done since the system had another torrent program already installed.

Here is the CLI history:

Afterwards, the apple store poped up an update for the Xorg tools.

When I type brew command I get unknown command so I guess homebrew is not installed...

Can anyone explain what exactly this command did and how to undo it?

The reason for asking this is because I pasted the url of the site, from which I copied the command, in virustotal.com and it showed that the site is malicious. So I am worrying that the command might had anything "malicious" to download etc.

EDIT:
Here is the content of /usr/local folder

drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 Cellar
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 Frameworks
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 Homebrew
drwxrwxr-x  9 user admin  306 Feb  4 17:08 bin
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 etc
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 include
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 lib
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 opt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root wheel  102 Jun 13  2017 remotedesktop
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 sbin
drwxrwxr-x  4 user admin  136 Apr 24 11:52 share
drwxrwxr-x  2 user admin   68 Apr 24 11:52 var


texts: Date calculation in AppleScript. Week numbers and their start date

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I want to write an AppleScript that creates projects in OmniFocus where their defer date and due date is set to any weeks' start and end day.

The result should look like this:

weeknumber: day1. month1. year1 - day2. month2. year2

Where weeknumber is replaced with a weeks' week number. day1, month1 and year1 take weeknumbers' week number and parse it to that days' date. So for week number 09 in 2016 that would be 29. 02. 2016. The first week ends (day2 and so forth) end on 06. 02. 2016. So the result for the first week of 2016 would look like this:

09: 29. 02. 2016 - 06. 02. 2016

From the shell it is possible to get the last day of a month like so:

date -v 1d -v 3m -v 16y -v -1d +'%V: %d. %m. %Y'
09: 29. 02. 2016

In AppleScript you can turn any string, e.g.  returned from a shell script (date) into a date object with the syntax:

set lastDayShell to do shell script "date -v 1d -v 3m -v 16y -v -1d +'%V: %d. %m. %Y'"
set lastDay to date lastDayShell

The command to add a new project to OmniFocus is this:

tell application "OmniFocus"
    tell default document
        set weekNumbers to folder "Week Numbers"
        tell weekNumbers
            set project1 to make new project with properties {name:"09: 29. 02. 2016", defer date:firstDay, due date:lastDay, singleton action holder:true}
        end tell
    end tell
end tel

I know all of that. I just can't find a resource that says how to get the first and last day of any week. I want to set the defer date of any weeks' start to the first of the week, and the due date to the last day.


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Seeking some resolution with a Homepod Mini. Recently replaced our 11+ year old router with a Linksys WRT3200 ACM dual-band model, running OpenWRT. After initial setup everything on the network connected immediately, including the Homepod. Unfortunately this didn't last long. Homepod is now showing as unavailable in AirPlay from any iOS device. It shows in the Home app and if touched there will display comnnectivity, settings, etc. but lists "controls are unavailable". The device is clearly on network - it shows as connected from the router interface, responds immediately to ping, and appears as an available AirPlay option from my MacBook - if and only if I am connected to ethernet. Over wifi, it is unavailable.
What's especially maddening is that the two Ikea-branded SONOS speakers we had prior to the Homepod show in AirPlay all the time and work immediately from all our devices. I can stream to our Roku devices via AirPlay as well. I simply can't use the Apple-branded speaker. I can't figure out what the issue might be.
I've tried completely resetting the Homepod. I received a warning on setup that peer-to-peer communication was not available. I'm unclear why, as there's no setting in the router wifi config that makes me think mDNS is unavailable, and I have ensured the mDNSresponder package is installed on the router. The ONLY thing I can think might be an issue is that the Homepod is connected to the 5ghz radio (radio0) whereas the other AirPlay devices are on the 2.5ghz radio (radio1). Signal to noise ratio is consistently solid, it does not appear to be related to weak signal or interference. I've read that AirPlay can have issues crossing between radios in a dual-band setup, but my iPhone is on radio0 and plays through the SONOS speakers on radio1 just fine - and can communicate but can't PLAY to the Homepod also on radio0. If it's a cross-band issue I'd think the reverse would be true.
I don't know if it is an OpenWRT issue or an Apple issue. I'm new to OpenWRT (was running TomatoUSB for years). It's frustrating that this single device seems to be the only one giving me any real trouble. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: iPhone 4 (and 4s) won't take a screen shot. What should I do?

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After owning an iPad for a couple of years, last week I purchased my first iPhone.  I've been well aware of the feature where you press the power button + Home key, and iOS will take a screenshot of the display.

Today I tried to take a screenshot in my iPhone and after numerous attempts it just won't work.  Could this be a problem with the hardware or is there an alternative way of taking a screenshot?


texts: iPad Retrieve a passcode to activate IOS 9

texts: I need a passcode to activate IOS 9. I don't recall acing a passcode. Is there any way I can retrieve an old passcode or set up a new passcode? It has to be 4 digits. I made 1 wrong attempt and may be shut out


texts: How to move a local copy of my mailbox to a new IMAP server?

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My mailbox has just been shut down without notice by my internet provider, because the internet connection had been cancelled some time ago. There is no way I can access it now, the IMAP server refuses the connection.

I just created a Gmail account to use as my new email.

I have a copy of most of my emails on my laptop, in the Mail app. Is there a way I can transfer these old emails to my new mailbox?

I read that there are ways to do an IMAP-to-IMAP copy with third-party software such as Thunderbird, but this is not possible for me as I lost access to the old IMAP server. I hope there is a way to upload the local copy of my old emails to my new mailbox.


texts: Can we map button 4 and 5 of mouse to copy and paste in IPad?

texts: Is there any third party software as there is no such option in accessibility settings.


texts: Hard drive enclosure for 2.5" Sata drive

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I am not an Apple user myself, but trying to solve a problem for a family member.

His Macbook Pro is damaged and not economical to repair, however he would like the data off the hard drive.

Do I need to find a specific type of external hard drive enclosure, or will any standard 2.5" SATA enclosure work?

Thank you!


texts: Where is Diagnostics & Usage Data stored on iOS?

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Since I've installed a few jailbreak tweaks, my iPhone has been crashing fairly regularly and I would like to know exactly what's causing it.

Does anyone know the direct path to where the crash logs/reports are stored on the device (/var/mobile/, for example)? This way I can clear all current logs, to start afresh, and I can extract them for viewing on a bigger screen, etc. Or does anyone know of a more advanced way to interact with and analyse the iPhone's Diagnostics & Usage data, in general?

Thanks


texts: Deleted account still being detected (OS X El Capitan)

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I recently got a Macbook and easily set up my user account (admin), plus a standard and guest account.

One day, I opened the computer and the screen was frozen. After waiting a few mins, I forcefully shut it down by holding the power button. When I turned it on, my account was gone, only the standard and guest accounts were left.

I logged in to the standard account. I could see my admin account on the User list. However, no matter what I tried, I could not access it, it just wouldn't show up on the login screen. I ended up changing the standard account to an admin account and deleting my original admin account completely.

A few days later, I tried to create a new admin account with my name. However, when I put my name in, it said that this name was being used by another user, even though I had completely deleted it before.

Any idea how to solve this?


texts: How to split a video exported from iMovie into multiple shorter videos

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I have several movies that have been exported from iMovie in the mp4 format. I would like to split each of these movies into five segments, ideally without messing with the video quality/compression settings. Is there an easy piece of software that I could use to do this easialy?

By the way, I know I can copy clips into other projects in iMovie and create individual segments that way, but due to complicated timings and the large number of times I need to do this, I would really rather have some piece of software that could do this with less fussiness. Does anyone have any suggestions?


texts: Mac as virtual machine guest: How to use multiple displays?

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I'm working on a test environment for testing Mac software. The plan is to use virtual machines (for example VMWare or Parallels) and install older versions as guest operating system, allowing me to test the software on older versions of OS X as well.

The one problem I have is that neither VMWare nor Parallels seem to work with multiple displays on a OS X Guest (I know they both work with Windows guests).

Is anyone using OS X as guest system, with multiple display support. If so, what is the visualization product and/or workaround?


texts: Prevent Microsoft Office applications to follow desktop (Spaces)

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When I'm working on an office application such as Excel, Word, etc, and I switch to a different desktop (right or left) the application always follows.
The desired behavior, and what happens with most other applications, is that the app should stay in the previous desktop instead of being persistent and showing up again in the middle of the application that I want to switch to.

Any fix for this? I could not find it in the Preferences of Office.
This happened to me in Catalina, Office 2019 and previous versions of them.


texts:
Is there a global hotkey or keyboard shortcut to change ratings in iTunes for the current song?

Some other applications (e.g. Amarok on Linux) have this and I'm missing this functionality from iTunes.


texts: Headphone symbol when headphones not in use

texts: On my iPhone 5s I see a symbol for headphones next to the battery usage symbol. This only appears when the headphones are NOT plugged in. Also I am unable to get a sound notification for mail or messages. I think these are related problems.


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On mac, you can enable a VNC host using screen sharing, and can access it via either screen sharing or a normal VNC client by forwarding port 5900.

How can one set up a second VNC session?  I want this in particular because my desktop (host) and laptop (client) have different screen size and resolution.


texts: Free space in iCloud not less even after having deleted all files in iCloud Drive

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I have moved all the files located at "Documents" and "Desktop" folder to /home/tmp folder. Also I have deleted all the files in icloud.com, but whenever I check the iCloud Storage, it's still the same, not less.

I'm making sure all files on icloud.com and local has been
deleted.

Storage size by local (MacBook):

Storage size by icloud.com :

Any ideas?

I try to contact Apple Support, but their website always come with :

  We’re sorry, there are no solutions available at the moment. Please try again later.


texts: Help with simple Automation to send emails through a web-form through pre-existing list of hyperlinks?

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Goal: automate the sending of a private message, the text of which is stored in clipboard, to multiple users through an online engagement platform.  Here's the setup:

Each person I wish to send the message to has a unique URL in an Excel column.
When the cell with the hyperlink is mouse-clicked, a web browser tab opens up with their profile page.
On that profile page is a "message" button that must be clicked, at which point I have text in a clipboard manager for the subject line and the body of the message itself.
A pre-drafted email copied by way of a clipboard manager. Through keyboard shortcuts, I can select either the subject-line or the email body and (through keyboard shortcuts), then paste the respective text into this web-based "email" utility/private-message thingy.

Any suggestions on how I should go about setting this up?  You folks have been so wonderful helping me with basic automations on here in the past.  Note: I have Keyboard Maestro just downloaded.  I never used it before.  I also have brew, cliclick on here.  My past automations were created in Automator but I'm open to any easy way to accomplish this task.  Note: I don't know code so will need some degree of coaching on this.
Thanks!


texts: mp4 H264 video won't play in iPhone safari

texts: I have a video hosted online, and when I try to open it with Safari, it won't play (I got a crossed paly icon). When I put this video on the iCloud drive and open it with the Files app, it plays without an issue (on the same iPhone). In fact, it's a video recorded by that iPhone, exported from the Mac Photos app, and re-packaged from .mov to .mp4 so more devices should be able to play it. Is there some special format for the videos that mobile Safari can play?


texts: Why can't my MacBook Air run Software Update?

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One of the first things that I tried to do when I got my new MacBook Air out of the box was upgrade iTunes to 10.5 (through Software Update). It downloaded the files (four different updates in total), verified data, then started to write the files, at which point it stopped and said that it couldn’t complete the update.

Since then I’ve also downloaded the .dmg file for the iTunes upgrade and for the Lion 10.7.2 combo.  My .dmgs can't be verified though; I get an invalid checksum error. I’ve downloaded them a bunch of times too just in case they were corrupted.

Then thinking that because it’s a new machine, I can just refresh the OS and start again, I tried the cmd+r boot and tried to just reinstall and it said:

  Can’t install the additional components needed to install Mac OS X.


texts: Mysterious login/password woes after migrating to Catalina

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After migrating to Catalina, login after restart and after change-user feature different users/passwords, please help!
I recently set up my new Airbook laptop with a fresh MacOS 10.15.7 and used the TimeMachine (full backup); at the same time I migrated from HighSierra to Catalina. Everything OK, until I restarted for the first time: my password did no longer work. I tried Recovery Mode, resetpassword, and to my surprise, it listed 3 accounts that were different from the accounts appearing after the restart, that is:
resetpassword: g.f. (my account, I think), root1 and adm;
after_restart: gf, root1 and another_user.
I reset all passwords, and after restart, I still could not log into gf, but I could log into root1. As root1, I could change the password for gf, via "System Preferences"; that possibility is greyed out ever since. I did change-user, clicked on gf (surprisingly I see the default Catalina background image, not the one I set myself), and now I could login with the password I always used before that "first restart after migration".
Only via changing the user (once logged in via root1) and via a login screen that then features the Catalina image, I can currently access my account, and I fear that even this may be disabled after the next restart. When I'm logged in, and I do "su root1", "sudo passwd gf" asks for the Old Password, and entering the password-I-always-used:
passwd: Credentials could not be verified, username or password is invalid. Credentials could not be verified, username or password is invalid.
Trying "sysadminctl -resetPasswordFor gf -newPassword xxxx" fails, too:
sysadminctl[19219:817916] Operation is not permitted without secure token unlock.
Moreover, as gf and as root1, using sysadminctl, I find that "Secure token is ENABLED for user gf". However,
sysadminctl -secureTokenOn gf thepasswordIknow
returns "Operation is not permitted without secure token unlock". Moreover, as root1,
sudo sysadminctl -adminUser root1 -adminPassword - -secureTokenOn gf -password -
returns "Incorrect password for user gf", if I use the thepasswordIknow.
What to do? (Why are there two distinct lists of accounts?)
Please help... I fear this nightmare gets worse and then I cannot access my account any longer.
I'm grateful for any hints
gf


texts: Time Machine backup of an external drive (to another external drive)

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I back up my internal drive to an external backup drive using Time Machine. I would also like to back up a 1TB external drive of mine, to another 1TB external drive of mine.

Is it possible to make Time Machine-styled backups of my external drive to the other external drive?

By Time Machine-style backups, I mean the way that Time Machine makes easy-to-browse "snapshots" on the backup drive, where you can view the source drive at different times by accessing different folders on the backup drive.

I considered two ways to achieve this:

rsync using the --backup option

This moves all deleted files into a separate backup directory wherein it preserves the original file structure. Good, but not exactly the Time Machine styled backups I'm looking for.
This also (to my knowledge) won't work for finding old versions of editing files.

Carbon Copy Cleaner

This has the disadvantage again—all the deleted (and I believe modified files) are moved to a "safety net" directory.

However, neither of them achieve the "browse different snapshots" behavior, à la Time Machine that I'm looking for.

Is there any way to achieve what I'm requesting?

I realize that it's possible with Time Machine itself, but from what I understand, it will only back the external disk up to my main backup disk. I want the external disk to backup to a secondary backup disk, keeping these backups separate from each other, mainly due to space limitations.


texts: Haptic vibration when Siri is ready to listen - Worked in iOS 12 but gone in iOS 13?

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With iOS 11 & 12 on my iPhone 5s, when I held down the home-button to activate Siri, I would get a haptic vibration when Siri was ready to listen for a command.

Now, new phone (iPhone SE), and new iOS, iOS 13.1.2: No haptic feedback after pressing the home-button for Siri. When Siri responds to a command, then I get a haptic shake.

➥ Is this the new normal? Is there a way to activate the haptic-shake-when-listening feature?

The haptic feedback was quite useful when using the iPhone without looking.

I am not using the "Hey Siri" always-listening feature, nor do I want to.


texts: Network Ports Used To Print (Network LPD Printing)

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I have been experimenting with an application that listens to network ports below 1024.

I discovered that when that application is running, an attempt to print to a network printer (set up to print using LPD) will get stuck at "Printing - Connecting to printer". To be clear, the client is running the test application listening to sockets below 1024 and can't send print jobs to an LPD-enabled print server.

I've tried configuring the test application to not listen to ports 631 and 515, but still the print job gets stuck. Killing the test application allows printing to work fine.

My question is: when trying to print to a network print server using LPD, what ports below 1024 have a printing-related process connect to them? I want to "whitelist" them from the test application so printing works while the test application runs.

This is being done on OS X 10.10.3


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Is it possible to bind more than one items to the clipboard on osx? Which would possibly get evoked by different shortcuts?
If it is how can I set it up?

I simply need to have a string always available at my disposal, but would like to keep my clipboard free for other uses.


texts: Adding "local" to the DNS Search Domains has no effect

texts:
I have a Mac Mini (Yosemite) on my local network and it's not running a DNS server at all. When I want to access it over SSH from a Terminal on my Macbook Air (Yosemite), I can type:

$ ssh myserver.local

And that works fine.

But I wanted to avoid having to type the ".local" domain every time, so I added the "local" domain to the Search Domains list in Network Settings (for my Wi-Fi adapter which is the one currently in use in my MBA).

If I then try:

$ ssh myserver

that doesn't work (Could not resolve hostname).

Any idea why?


texts:
I have a test.xlsx file and the file is opened in Numbers app by default

When I go to apple logo->recent items then I see Numbers.app under applications section but I don't see the test.xlsx file either under the documents section or in the Dock context menu for the Numbers app icon in the dock or the Numbers.app's Show Recents option in dock


texts:
When I open Terminal I see the following:

Last login: Wed Feb  8 18:30:05 on ttys029
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 75, in emit
    self.doRollover()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 132, in doRollover
    os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1472, in shutdown
    h.flush()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 740, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
ValueError: I/O operation on closed file
Error in sys.exitfunc:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1472, in shutdown
    h.flush()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 740, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

Everything seems to work but this is ugly and maybe warns of future trouble.  I've installed Python 2.7 on this machine, then removed it to a virtualenv to restore 2.6 as the system default.

Any thoughts on how I can debug this?

EDIT:

My .profile has a call to virtualenvwrapper.sh -- which, as I look it, is located under .../Versions/2.7 of Python.  So maybe I should look for the problem there?


texts: Clearing NVRAM on Yosemite shows password entry

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When I make the ⌘ Cmd+⌥ Opt+P+R it shows a dialog with lock symbol and to proceed I have to give the password but this way I'm not able to proceed with the resetting of the PRAM. How can I reset the PRAM with this kind of obstacle?

I have a 2008 iMac with Yosemite.


texts: Can I customize how file information is displayed in Finder

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There are 3 things I need from Finder for my work: I need finder to be in "Columns" view, I need the window to be relatively small, and I need to be able to see the "date modified" and "file size" in the preview pane.
Since upgrading to Catalina, the icon image in the preview pane has gotten so big that I can't see any of the file information without scrolling - I've cropped the image but you can see how the file information isn't visible. I found out how to get rid of the "more" section underneath, but I still can't see the file information without scrolling.

I've tried going to View > Show View Options > Unclicking "Show Icon Previews", but that doesn't do anything. Basically I'd like for the preview image to be much smaller, or for the file information to show up on top.
Here's an example of how it used to look where all the preview info was compact - this is how I'd like it to look in Catalina:


texts: iMac sleeping even when set to never sleep

texts:
Running 10.7.5, I've got a fairly new iMac (6 months old) 27", set to never sleep, yet when I got in to work this morning it was asleep. How to fix this?

Output from pmset -g in Terminal:

Active Profiles:
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 autorestart    0
 powerbutton    0
 halfdim    1
 panicrestart   157680000
 hibernatefile  /var/vm/sleepimage
 networkoversleep   0
 disksleep  0
 sleep      0 (imposed by 139)
 hibernatemode  0
 ttyskeepawake  1
 displaysleep   15
 womp       1

And the contents of the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration:

<?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>ActivePowerProfiles</key>
    <dict>
        <key>AC Power</key>
        <integer>-1</integer>
    </dict>
    <key>Custom Profile</key>
    <dict>
        <key>AC Power</key>
        <dict>
            <key>Automatic Restart On Power Loss</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>Disk Sleep Timer</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>Display Sleep Timer</key>
            <integer>15</integer>
            <key>Display Sleep Uses Dim</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>Hibernate File</key>
            <string>/var/vm/sleepimage</string>
            <key>Hibernate Mode</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>RestartAfterKernelPanic</key>
            <integer>157680000</integer>
            <key>Sleep On Power Button</key>
            <false/>
            <key>System Sleep Timer</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>TTYSPreventSleep</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>Wake On LAN</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>LastSleepUUID</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Date</key>
        <date>2012-12-06T04:39:59Z</date>
        <key>UUID</key>
        <string>019EBED9-FE31-4B63-8D7A-99F41B6EB618</string>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

As you can see, it has record of going to sleep this morning at 4:39 AM, yet all settings also show it's set to NOT go to sleep. Any ideas what's going on?


texts: How does HealthKit resolve recording of the same activity by multiple sources?

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What happens when more than one "source" registered with HealthKit tracks the same activity?

For example, if I have Human tracking my activity in general, and then use Cyclemeter (which supports HealthKit in version 10.3) to track particular bike ride, both will (I assume) submit the same activity to HealthKit. Presumably it should be possible for HealthKit to recognize that these activities are likely duplicates and at least ask me how to resolve the "duplication" (much as sync conflicts are resolved). In fact, the activities contain enough data that such recognition should generally be possible to perform automatically.

Does HealthKit do this? Does it resolve duplicate recordings of the same activity (either automatically or semi-automatically)?


texts:
Apparently you download it from the Mac App Store, but I don't understand how that would work, because it's not an app.

Can a developer who has installed it explain the process to me?


texts: iPhone iOS 12.0 update will not sign into Apple ID, cannot access App Store or sync contacts from Gmail

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I updated my iPhone to iOS 12 and noticed first that all my contacts no longer syncing from my Gmail account. I also cannot access the App Store.

In Settings I have tried multiple times to sign in with my Apple ID but it just doesn't work.  I have restarted my device multiple times.  There isn't an option under Contacts in the settings to set the default.  I've tried over wifi and over cellular, nothing is working.

What else can I do to try resolving this?


texts: Pressing and holding "e" over end of word that ends in a ":"

texts:
What steps will reproduce the problem?
0. Using RubyMine
1. Use IdeaVim
2. Hold down "e" to auto-repeat end of word
3. Hit a : at end of word
4. See picture! I can pick lots of strange "e" characters.

What is the expected result?
This should not happen. How to turn this off?

Cross reported here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-16003

However, I think this is a Mac issue, as this just happened after the recent upgrade.


texts: how to view how many times a person downloaded an app

texts: I noticed that the iTunes purchase history only shows the first time you downloaded an app, and doesn't show every time, it was redownloaded. Is there a way to view how many times, or the most recent time an app was redownloaded in my account?


texts:
I know that iOS 8 encrypts Bluetooth connections:

https://www.apple.com/br/privacy/docs/iOS_Security_Guide_Oct_2014.pdf
https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht3647

What I don't know is what kind of encryption it uses.  For Airplay, for example, the PDF above says that iOS uses "AES-128 in CTR mode."

What type of encryption does iOS 8 use for Bluetooth?


texts: How do I display unsupported emoji on OS X Yosemite

texts:
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 by default can't display some emoji, for example the "Cloud with rain" emoji: .

How can I view such problematic emoji? Do I need to install a custom font?


texts: Disabled mac os SIP but still can't delete default apps

texts:
I'm using mac os 11.2.1 Big Sur. My question concerns using the Terminal utility to delete Apple default apps protected by SIP. I have disabled System Integrity Protection and confirmed that it is off by typing:
csrutil

Terminal duly returns "disabled" to confirm that SIP is definitely off. I then attempted to delete various Apple default apps, as follows:
sudo rm -rf FaceTime.app/

sudo rm -rf TV.app/

sudo rm -rf Mail.app/

But nothing seems to happen. The apps are still in my Applications folder and launch normally. If I try to delete them manually, I get a beep and the deletion is rejected just as if SIP were still enabled.
Can someone suggest a better way to remove Mail?


texts: How can I troubleshoot an iTunes install problem?

texts:
I'm having a hard time trying to install iTunes on my Windows 7.
After reading some sites like this, this or this, I can`t go further then trying to install, and failing after few seconds, without any meaningful error message.
In some blog I have even found the the command-line switch

iTunes64Setup.exe /l*v c:\log.txt

to generate a log, but it doesn't give me any useful information. And since my wife is getting bored with her iThings that can't be connected to the iTunes, I ask you...
... where can I find more troubleshoot information? Is there some e-mail at Apple that would analyze my .log and help me ?
Edit:

there is no Apple folder in Program Files or Program Files (x86)

there is no Apple software installed in the computer

Edit 2:
The end of the log says:

Property(C): INSTALL_ASUW = 1
Property(C): INSTALL_BONJOUR = 1
=== Log parado: 25/09/2013  21:26:57 ===
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:117]: Note: 1: 1708
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:117]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:117]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:117]: Produto: iTunes -- Falha na instalação.
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:117]: O Windows Installer instalou o produto. Nome do Produto: iTunes. Versão do Produto: 11.1.0.126. Idioma do Produto: 1046. Fabricante: Apple Inc.. Status de erro ou êxito da instalação: 1603.
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:133]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:133]: Cleaning up uninstalled install packages, if any exist
MSI (c) (6C:F8) [21:26:57:133]: MainEngineThread is returning 1603
=== Verbose logging stopped: 25/09/2013  21:26:57 ===

In a free translation: error or exit status of the instalation: 1603


texts: " Item can't be played " whenever I tap on a song

texts: I'm currently using iPhone 6 with iOS9.3.1. Whenever I try to play music I get an error. After I tap on a song I get the error item can't be played.  Also, I have tried restarting my iPhone multiple times but it doesn't seem to work.


texts: Why isn't iPhone Mail working right with Google Apps Email?

texts:
I am having a big problem with my iPhone's Mail App. For some reason, emails are not going to my iPhone. I have all of my settings right and I have IMAP on in settings and this still keeps popping up:

I followed all of the steps on this page for Google Apps users and nothing will work, this used to work and all of a sudden it quit working. I have a lot of emails that are coming to my email account online but my iPhone mail hasn't been working for a while now. (hence the last update at the bottom in my screenshot above, 9/5/11)

Does anyone know what would cause this?


texts: I can't sync photos from my iPhone 3gs to my mac

texts: I can't to sync the photos from the camera roll on my iPhone 3gs to my mac. I have had slight water damage to the phone in the past yet it is still functioning. When I went to see someone about this problem they said it was because of the water damage that it did not work and they would have to fix it but may risk losing data on the phone hence defeating the purpose and being completely counterproductive. When I connect the phone to any windows or mac, it is not recognised by the computer but the charging icon appears on the phone. I have tried all of the options that can be googled but none of them help or are clear enough to make any sense. Could someone write a step-by-step explanation of some options that could fix this problem?


texts:
MBP 13" Early 2015. Currently on Yosemite (10.10.5).

Mostly for Metal, I am interested in now upgrading to El Capitan (10.11.x). I have no interest in moving to macOS Sierra at this time. Apparently Apple is not really a fan of what I'm trying to do and has made it very difficult for me to just upgrade to El Capitan.

I do not have it listed in my "Purchased" tab of the app store. Further, the direct link to download El Capitan from Apple gives me a fun modal:

  This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

Presumably this is because it is for Snow Leopard upgrades.

Anyway, any help on how to install El Capitan is appreciated. Googling has not been helpful.


texts: Is there a Quick Look plugin to preview .epub (ebook) files?


texts:
What is the process name of Time Machine timeline?

I would like to write a script that looks up when it is running so that I can  disable my windows manager (Kwm) when I enter the timeline.


texts: When resuming from hibernate, weird garbage on screen

texts:
For some reason, when returning from an hibernate after i.e. battery drops to 0%, I get this:

Mind that this only happens with a few programs, and reopening them works most of the time, and a full reboot fully solves the issue.

It's a Early 2011 Macbook Pro 13'' (Base model), with RAM upgraded to 8GB 1867mhz and 128GB SSD, running Lion 10.7.3.

Edit:

~ ‹›  $ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1*
AC Power        -1
Currently in use:
 standbydelay   4200
 standby    0
 halfdim    1
 sms        0
 panicrestart   157680000
 hibernatefile  /var/vm/sleepimage
 disksleep  0
 sleep      10
 hibernatemode  0
 ttyskeepawake  1
 displaysleep   2
 acwake     0
 lidwake    0
~ ‹›  $


texts:
I'm trying to install HDF5 and SZIP following http://www.ulmer.org/2014/building-hdf5-for-os-x-mavericks/[this description].

However, I'm wondering where to install it (on mavericks). Google didn't show anything, is there any space recommended as a destination directory? Please indicate for both current user and all users.