texts: What happens when I reset the call statistics on an iPhone?

texts: I have an iPhone 4. Under Settings > General > Usage, there is a button to "Reset Statistics". After reading the manual, I'm not clear on one point: if I reset the statistics, will the entry under "Call Time: Lifetime" also be reset?


texts: How can I undo nvram recovery-boot-mode=unused if I don't know firmware password?

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While trying to get into recovery mode, I used this:

sudo nvram recovery-boot-mode=unused

... hoping it'd take me directly to recovery mode. Instead, it prompts me for the firmware password. Which I don't know. And I can't clear NVRAM without the firmware password. So, I'm stuck in a reboot loop.

Yes, I'm an idiot. How do I get myself out of this mess?


texts: Battery Not Charging and Light Not Showing Up Again

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I just have got a Macbook Pro Retina 2014. The charger is new and 85 Watt.
I have two issues. When I first connected the charger, there was 54% charge on the laptop and for only 1 second the green light of the magsafe turned on. I have seen no more light [orange/green] after that ever.

And, the pc is not receiving any charge when the power cable is connected.  I have different brightness set for battery/power. When I connect the adapter, the brightness changes, the charging sign in the battery shows. But, no change in percentage and It says, "Battery Is Not Charging".

I have tried all the other answers to the similar questions including SMC reset but nothing worked. It seems to me the connection is okay [as brightness changes]. But somehow laptop doesnt take the charge. Not sure what to do. And, do not know why the green light turned only once and never again in the MagSafe.


texts: Time Machine attempts to inherit backup from wrong Mac

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Most people seem to want to get their new Mac to inherit their old Mac's backup. I seem to have the opposite problem.

I have a person who used Migration Assistant to move from a Mac mini to a laptop. I wiped and repurposed the mini, and used Time Machine to make a fresh backup image of it on an AFP server running FreeNAS 9.2. What's curious is, when the laptop creates a new Time Machine backup on the same server, I'm asked if I want to inherit the new backup image made by the mini.

Clearly there's still something in the migrated system on the laptop left over from the Mac mini that's causing it to associate itself with the mini's backup. I've confirmed that the value of com.apple.backupd.HostUUID in the com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist file of the mini's backup matches the mini's hardware UUID from system_profiler SPHardwareDataType, which differs from the laptop's hardware UUID.

Any ideas why Time Machine thinks it's still installed on the older Mac?


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On the 2016 MacBook Pro with touch bar, most Apple applications allow you to customize the touch bar. It's also possible to change the control strip in the System Preferences.

However, I can't find a way to change the touch screen buttons that are displayed on the lock screen. I would like to add the backward/forward media buttons besides the play button.

Does anybody know how (or: whether) this is possible?


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I'm trying to DBAN -- or otherwise wipe -- my old 2009 Mac OS X 10.6 Mac mini.  The CD drive on the Mac is broken, so I have been trying to do it with a bootable USB.  No matter what I try, I cannot get the USB drive to show in Startup Manager.

This is what I've got so far:

DBAN 2.3 iso downloaded
UNetbootin to make the bootable image
The Cruzer pen-drive is formatted HFS+ with GUID Partition map -- DiskUtil reports the non-EFI, DBAN partition as bootable.
I've tried various key combinations to reset NVRAM,
I've follow apple.com advice on how to set legacy insecure behavior on NVRAM

... but still I can only see the Macintosh HD as boot drive. I have tried Command, Shift, Option and Period but nothing happens.

I started with the USB drive formatted FAT32, MBR Partition table and moved on from there.

Edit: I originally thought this was a 2011 Mac Mini, I was looking in the wrong place for the year. It turns out that it being from 2009 was vitally important,


texts: In Mail.app, what does Synchronize actually do?  How is it different than "Get New Mail?"


texts: In El Capitan, how can I prevent the Mac bluetooth mouse from from 'carrying' its scroll between different elements on a single page?

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Let's say there's a web page that can be scrolled through and within that page there's also a box that can be scrolled through. Currently, if I do one scroll on the mouse while the cursor is in the main page and then move the cursor into the smaller scrollable part of the page while the larger part is scrolling, the large part will stop scrolling and the smaller part will start scrolling.

Or if I just start scrolling in the main part of the page, move the cursor to, say, the desktop, and then quickly cursor back to it, the scroll will start, stop when I leave, and then scroll a little more when I get back.

How can I stop this behavior? I'd like all scrolling to end as soon as I leave the element in which I started scrolling. It's annoying for work because I'll scroll, get to where I want, then move to another element, and then that element scrolls using the scroll I started elsewhere. This seems like a design flaw to me.


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I've got the virus scanner from Sophos installed on my Mac with on-access-scan enabled.

The on-access-scan delays the dictionary pop-up for several seconds for every first prompt after boot up.

You can prompt the dictionary pop-up by using either ctrl+⌘+D or three fingers double-tab.

I can choose to disable on-access-scan for /Applications/Dictionary.app in the SophosAV preferences. However, this does not solve the problem. What should I do?


texts: Dead backlight on iMac, LCD and all else OK

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The screen on my (desktop, not laptop) iMac is not working .. the backlight only works sporadically.

If I hold a flashlight up to the dead screen, I can see the pixels; the video is working, just not the backlight.

I've connected a second display (it is mirrored; both show the same desktop), so I can still use the computer.

The interesting thing is that if the computer "sleeps", upon being woken up, the iMac's display works briefly for a fraction of a second, then it goes dark again.

According to a sticker on the back of the panel, it uses CFL compact fluorescent lamps (not LEDs). The inverter is located on the mainboard (underneath the CD drive); the wires are soldered to that board.. the other ends are soldered directly to the CFL lamps.. but there are connectors in the middle of each wire.

BTW, the capacitors on the inverter board look OK, I don't see any burn marks, or broken wires, or bad solder connections on that board.

Does this sound like a problem w/ the inverter board, or with the connectors in the middle of the wires that go to the lamps?

EDIT: this is a 2008 iMac 20" 2.66/2x2g/320/wm/wk


texts: Does free iWork iOS entitle older devices?

texts: I wonder whether old iOS devices would become entitled to install a free copy of iWork after purchasing a new device.


texts: Airpod pros microphone intermittently does not connect on Macbook Pro and causes headphone disconnect

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Odd issue that only seems to affect my Airpod Pros on Macbook Pro (2019, 16 inch).  I have used, without issue, other bluetooth headphones with microphone on this computer, and used the airpod pros on other mac laptops and iphone.
The behaviour is like this, but it only happens sometimes, and I haven't found consistent reproduction steps

Connect airpod pros to laptop.  This always works, at least in appearances.
Attempt to use something that needs the microphone (Zoom, the 'sound'->input system pane, it doesn't seem to matter)
The system hangs for a few seconds, sound input reverts back to laptop microphone, and the airpod pros disconnect.

It doesn't always happen, and toggling bluetooth on and off sometimes helps (next time it connects fine) - I've tried different combinations of apps, upgraded to Big Sur (happened before and still happens after upgrade)
Any advice to help track down the problem and solve will be appreciated and upvoted.


texts: Accessing ancient iOS app(s) no longer available on the App Store?

texts:
There is an iOS app that got removed from the App Store around 2012. It was a freeware game. I would like to study the game's design.

First of all, if I were to find a copy of the game IPA file Online, would that be considered piracy?

Secondly, assuming such activity is not illegal, are there any libraries of ancient app IPA files?


texts: New Snow Leopard ... "Select All" won't Trash

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Just ran Snow Leopard on my 10.4 Tiger iMac6.1 desktop.  All has gone swimmingly.  But now ... the way I work, I have several icons, photos, on desktop when I'm finished and I Trash them.

Clicking Edit, "Select All" highlights all, and when I drag all into Trash, it doesn't Trash.  I can individually select an icon, click and drag, into Trash.
But "Select All" doesn't work.

Ideas?


texts: El Capitan and old Photoshop to bootable partition

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I have a working copy of Photoshop CS3 on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I would like to put it and an older OS on a bootable partition so I can use the CS3 occasionally and not have to pay monthly fees to Adobe. I am getting a new Mac soon, probably a MacBook Pro, and will want to use the partition with it since the CS3 will not run with newer systems.

I have the DVD's for CS3 and an install DVD for OS 10.5 from the 2011 machine. How do I make sure it is bootable and this system works? Can I use Time Machine to move the CS3 from the 2011 machine or should I use the install disk? Since the OS disk came with a specific laptop, will it work with a new machine as a bootable partition?


texts: AppleScript - Get every desktop including hidden Mission Control desktops

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I'm trying to write a simple script that will change my desktop background on all of my desktops/workspaces at once. Right now I have this:

tell application "System Events"
    tell every desktop
        set picture to "image.png"
    end tell
end tell

This will change the wallpaper on both of my monitors for the desktop that is visible, but doesn't change the wallpaper on all of the 'hidden' desktops in Mission Control (Desktops 2-4 for example). Is there some way to modify this to enact on all desktops?


texts: Setting and getting the system-wide default newline character

texts: Is there a system-wide way to configure the default newline character? If so, is there a way to query what this character is?


texts: Change to Chrome behavior for pinching to zoom in PDFs

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Recently, I've found that when using the pinch-to-zoom motion with the trackpad while reading a PDF in Chrome, I no longer get the preferred behavior: Chrome's zoom ticking up discretely by 25% or so. Instead, I get a continuous "screen-zoom" effect (similar to holding Control and scrolling), inside the Chrome window (as opposed to the actual screen-zoom, which is independent of the application). Chrome's usual zoom controls still work, but I have to access them either by keyboard shortcut or clicking the respective buttons.

There are several down-sides: the resolution does not update, so my zoomed-in PDF is unnecessarily grainy, and I cannot use horizontal scrolling to navigate, only vertical. Further, the zoom happens wherever the cursor is, rather than centered in the page. Finally, there is a fixed upper bound to how far I can zoom in. This is all rather strange and unwieldily; how can I recover the original behavior?

I am using OSX 10.9.5, and the most recent version of Chrome. All four "Scroll and Zoom" options under Trackpad in System Preferences are active. If I deactivate 'Pinch to zoom', instead of recovering the old behavior, nothing happens when I pinch.

Thanks for your help!


texts: Why Gigabit Ethernet Direct Connect is not default at Macs?

texts:
Trying to connect two Macintoshs with a Ethernet cable (capable of Gigabit speed, of course) will not automatically set a gigabit connection. Instead of this, a 100MB connection is established. Does anybody knows why? After a thousand searchs at google, and trying with a bunch of machines, I still on limbo.  Both ports are capable and set to Gigabit speed, imho. Thanks for any advice, answering or any way I should/could improve this question.

Both Macs tested are:
Both iMac (late 2011+), iMac + MacPro (Late 2009+)
All machines running Yosemite full updated.


texts:
I am looking for a picture privacy app supporting the following features:

Unlimited number of "vaults" (note: only one vault is bad, one real vault plus one fake vault is bad as well, only an unlimited number really allows to hide vaults and to use the app with several groups of people)
Folder support per vault
Full screen mode
Picture zoom
Picture slideshow and manual forward/backward with low decoding delay
Mass upload
Great, well designed, visually appealing user interface

Do you have any idea or recommendation?

Thanks!


texts: how to change the default size of a quick look in finder?

texts:
I use the quick look option (by pressing space when highlight a file in finder).
The quick look opens a preview of the file.
I would like to enlarge the size of this preview window. How can I do that?


texts: OS X El Capitan keeps changing the auto hide Dock feature

texts:
Up until recently I have had no issue with the Dock. I always leave it showing and don't have auto-hide enabled. Now whenever I switch program from Chrome to Skype or Terminal to System Preferences the Dock hides, even though I have never changed the setting to turn it on.

So far I've tried to fix this by right-clicking on the Dock separator and click Turn Hiding Off but it just changes back to Turn Hiding On once I switch programs.
I've also gone into System Preferences and selected "Automatically hide and show the Dock".
I've also killed the dock to restart it which was suggested here.

I think I've run out of options to fix this. I'm not even sure why or how it started.


texts:
I have a big problem with my mac book pro 15" - maverick.
Yesterday I was using my mac normally and I shutdown it normally. Today, I turn on and everything is fine until when I have to insert my password. I insert it and then I can see the desktop and I can move the mouse but nothing works, I can't click anywhere and the dock doesn't appear. After a while the mouse convert itself in the "circular rainbow" (sorry but i've no idea about the name of that ).
I tried to fix with the disk utility recovering the permission but nothing changed.
Any idea of what happened?
EDIT: I tried to create a new user and it don't stuck. So it's a problem of the user.


texts: Hide certain files/folders from "All My Files"

texts: How can I hide certain files or folders from "All my files" I'm developing a website with 100s of icons and now they making this section in finder quite redundant.


texts: How to get the iPod Nano 5th gen battery health

texts:
Is there any way I can get the battery health of an iPod, specifically a 5th gen Nano?
I've done a little bit of googling and I don't think there is a way, but I though I could give it a try here.

I would like to buy a used iPod Nano (5th gen), but I am worried that the battery might not last very long, so I was wondering if there is any way I could check that (other than playing a song over and over again).

Thanks


texts: I would like to wipe my entire hard drive and reinstall Lion from scratch. I try to use the Lion Recovery tool but it does not wipe the disk so I still have all my installed programs that I don't want. I do not want to delete them by hand just want to do a clean install of the OS.


texts: Is it possible to download data from a lost iPod?

texts:
My daughter's iPod has been (hmmm) taken ^^.

I can see it in the "Find my iPhone" app, but before I cancel or wipe it, is it possible to download the content from there?

The content is mainly pictures taken on the iPod (the rest of course is in the App Store).


texts:
[retina MacBook Pro 15", Late 2013, OS X 10.11.4]

I always keep Activity Monitor running, and just noticed that CPU usage was up significantly. The process maspushagent (owned by me) has now been running at ~123% CPU for close to an hour now. The requisite googling doesn't turn up anything useful. What does this do, and will it quit any time soon, or should I kill/reboot/?


texts:
I am running windows 8.1 on macbook pro retina.

When i trying to hibernate it is giving me an error A device attached to the system is not functioning.(31)

Any thoughts what it could be related to?

BTW do not have any devices plugged to any port.


texts: Chrome 59.0.3071.115 suddenly drains battery (approx 1% every 5min)

texts:
A month ago I noticed that my new macbook pro 2015 battery drains in a few hours (2-4). I started testing which app is suddenly consuming its battery and found out it was Chrome.

When it is open (current version is 59.0.3071.115), battery drops in front of your eyes. Like 1% in 5 minutes.

Nothing unusual happens on my side. I use Chrome just like I have been using it for the past 8 months on this machine (sometimes have 10 tabs open at the same time). But the bottom line is that the same behaviour with Chrome did not drain battery 2 months ago, and it started 1 month ago and is still draining it.

I am using macbook on battery and only recharge when I am around 5%. So macbook was not connected to the power all the time (in case someone may think that constant connection to the power could have damaged the battery).

Anyone experiencing the same issue? any cure to it?

I switched to Safari in the meantime to recuperate things.


texts: How to enable Chrome's "continue where you left off" for OS X El Capitan?

texts:
I need Chrome to restore last session tabs after closing its whole window.
Simple "continue where you left off" does not work when I close Chrome's window.

I was looking for the resolution but all I got is useless answers provided by apple fanboys "that is the proper way - closing window does not mean closing a program". Sincerly, I don't accept it.

How to achieve proper behaviour of "continue where you left off"?


texts: Can you see notification messages again once you tapped on the messages?

texts:
If you use messaging services like WeChat, you get messages notification when you receive it. Then if you tap on them, it would get you to the app where the received message is on the top screen page.

However, I would like to see messages on the notification center again that I already tapped on. This is because sometimes my friends in WeChat retract or delete the messages, and once I land on the app, I can't see what they write in their messages.

But as long as the messages are still in the notification center, I can read it. Is it possible to see these messages again in iPhone (iOS 10)?


texts: Can I use Steam in macOS Catalina or am I stuffed?

texts:
There is a lot of conflicting information online about being able to use Steam in MacOS Catalina.

Can someone confirm if Steam will work on Catalina and if so what I must do to get it to work?

Or must I stay on Mojave to keep playing my games?


texts:
Since upgrading to macOS 10.15, the mail app is no longer able to open a message by its URL.

For instance, the URL message:%3CCAEkAa-anCn=ZE21kpFw-oKaXEVsGE0SuuNtyUT8qyZndoPMuaQ@mail.gmail.com%3E which launched the corresponding message is now causing Mail app to show the following message:

The operation couldn’t be completed. (MCMailErrorDomain error 1030.)

Mail was unable to open the URL “message:%3CCAEkAa-anCn=ZE21kpFw-oKaXEVsGE0SuuNtyUT8qyZndoPMuaQ@mail.gmail.com%3E”.


texts: Can I configure the modem on my G5 to only allow calls from certain numbers to ring through?

texts:
This is a weird question, I know, but... I have an alarm system which I can call into and send commands to, I.E. to arm/disarm/listen to the ambient noise. However, for this to work obviously it has to pick up the line, which prevents me from using voicemail for anyone who calls me.

Instead of getting a separate phone line, I was wondering, if I plug my G5 into the phone line and plug this device's telephone line in to the telephone line out of my G5, is there any way the G5 could only tell the alarm system the phone is ringing for certain caller ID numbers?


texts: Boot Camp 6 update won't install on Windows 10

texts:
Using Apple Software Update gets an installer error when trying to update Boot Camp from 5.1 to 6.0 on a MacBook Pro retina laptop running Windows 10. Also tried downloading the Boot Camp drivers directly from Boot Camp Assistant and get the same errors (see screenshot).

The first error is an installer error; if I click Close the program, then I see and empty error message.

Any idea how to resolve this?


texts:
I'm on PC with Microsoft Windows Vista.  iTunes was stuck for forced it to close.  When I reopened iTunes all 5000 of my songs were unchecked.

How do I put the check mark back on all of them?


texts: Cannot install 64-bit iTunes (v10.5) on Vista

texts:
I've tried upgrading iTunes, un-installing and reinstalling. Removing all Apple software from my machine. Running the installer with administrative rights. Installing Quicktime independently of iTunes. I've searched everywhere I can about this error I'm experiencing and I still haven't resolved the issue. I've even been through Apple's support article.

Acording to the statistics found under my System in the Control Panel, I am in fact running on a 64-bit OS. Below is the error I'm faced with during installation. Clicking OK cancels the installation wizard.


texts: Remove "Creative Cloud Files" from Finder sidebar?

texts:
I've used Activity Monitor to close every process with the Creative Cloud icon.

I've deleted the Creative Cloud Files directory itself, and deleted it from the trash.

I've gone to the "Extensions" preference pane and turned off "Core Sync."

I've quit Finder and restarted it.

And yet the "Creative Cloud Files" icon still shows up in my Finder sidebar, even though the original can't be found.

How can I eliminate this zombie icon once and for all?


texts: Stop the continuous pop-up "problem connecting to the server"

texts:
My WDMyCloud died and my Mac (Catalina) is continually looking to connect to it.

I get the following message:

I have tried the usual and there is nothing in the login items.

I have run the console and managed to find the following, which appears with the pop up message.

It references the NetAuthSysAgent.app, but I cannot see how Time machine is still using this disk. I have removed the disk from Time machine, so any recommendations welcome as the pop up is sending me crazy!


texts: Can I shorten the typing needed to `cd` into some well know directories

texts:
I find myself opening a terminal and then CD'ing a lot into the same directory the path of which is very long.

This means I am cd'ing a lot and using the tab to speed things up a lot.

IT would be great if I could have some sort of link to this directory and then just cd to that so that I would be in the deep nested directory quickly.

Is this possible?


texts:
Apple talks about the M7 and M8 motion coprocessors for the iPhone pedometer and other operations.

My question is Why do we need a motion coprocessor? Surely this is just digital signal processing that the massively powerful primary processor can handle?


texts:
I'm trying to connect my Virtual Machine (Windows 10) only to a VPN IPsec server.

I can successfully connect to that VPN (IPSec) through MacOS. I could connect Mac to the VPN and then share the connection with guest. However, my whole system would be connected to the VPN. I'm trying to connect only guest to the VPN.

When I try to connect to the VPN on the Windows VM, however, this happens:

I have contacted Parallels, and they sent me these steps, which I have followed correctly (I think):

  Please perform the following steps,

  1) Open Configuration Editor and create a new Network Adapter using
  "Add" button 2) Set Bridged mode for one of them and Host-only for the
  other.

  Connect to VPN from Windows, using these steps:

  1) Open the Windows Control Panel -> Network Connections. 2) Click
  'Create a new connection' link on the left-hand side of the window. 3)
  Click Next, then choose 'Connect to the network at my workplace' from
  the list and click Next. 4) On the Network Connection page of the
  wizard, choose the 'Virtual Private Network connection' and click
  Next. 5) Enter a name for the new VPN connection in the 'Company Name'
  field and click Next. 6) In the 'Public Network' window: If you choose
  'Automatically dial this initial connection' as default option, the
  VPN connection will always be initiated even when the computer has not
  been connected to Internet yet. If you choose 'Do not dial the initial
  connection', Internet connection will be established before the new
  VPN connection is initiated. Choose one of these options and click
  Next. 7) Enter the name or IP address of the VPN remote access server
  to connect to, and click Next. 8) In the "Connection Availability"
  window you will see two options: 'My Use Only' ensures that Windows
  makes the new connection available only to the currently logged on
  user. 'Anyone's use' option makes the connection available to anyone.
  Choose one of the options and click Next. 9) Click Finish. The new VPN
  connection information has been saved.

  On Mac side use Internet Sharing in System Preferences to share
  Host-guest adapter connection with Mac network interface. Note:
  Firewall should be disabled on Windows side.

Any suggestion?


texts:
I'm paying $10/month for LTE data for my Apple Watch series 4 on Verizon. That gives me 15GB of hotspot data on it and unlimited data for use from the watch.

However, my usage always shows 0 bytes. I'm always out of hotspot data so I would love to slurp that 15GB on my laptop, but I can't find any method of using my Apple Watch as a hotspot. For that matter, it looks like as long as my iPhone is around, I never actually use the LTE data on my watch, or it's such a tiny amount of data that it never reaches .01 GB.

How can I make use of my LTE data plan on my Apple Watch?


texts: I can't enter passwords in Safari 11.1 on macOS 10.13 High Sierra because the last character gets removed

texts:
I installed a brand new 10.13 a few days ago. I downloaded it from the App Store and I installed all updates. I'm runnning Safari Version 11.1 (13605.1.33.1.4).

Somehow I managed to log into Google, but I can't log into any other website. Safari does the following when entering text into password fields  – on every other webpage except for Google:

the first character is entered
after that, it looks like the last character is removed after keyup
this happens when using the internal or an external keyboard

Normal fields like text, textarea etc. work fine, though.

Here's a gif showing the problem – no Backspace or Shift+Del is pressed. This happens just in Safari  – Chrome and Firefox work fine:

I have the following settings:

autofill: don't store passwords and credit card information
no extensions are installed
Adobe Acrobat plug-in is installed

I tried to change the settings and to disable the Arcobat plug-in, but nothing changed.

It seems that macOS’ autocorrection kicks in. I noticed this behavior in a password-field that could be switched to plaintext: Characters get replaced with emojis. For example:

()

… was turned into:

☮


texts: How to connect a YPG-625 keyboard to a modern Mac

texts: I'm trying to connect Yamaha's YPG-625 musical keyboard to a Mac, but it seems like there are only USB-MIDI drivers for Mac OS 10.1.5-10.4.0. Is there a way to connect it to a system with OS X El Capitan?


texts: What is "about://(null) It's working!!!" on my iPad?

texts: Screenshot today. It popped up about six times in a row.


texts: Global volume limiter for iPhone 8 and iPad Mini 4

texts:
I have an iPhone 8 running IOS 13.5 and an iPad Mini 4 also running IOS 13.5.

Is there a way to

limit the global volume of these devices ("global" means the limit applies to all apps and all usage circumstances), and
prevent the physical side buttons from changing the limit?

Thanks!


texts: Can I extract application data from an iOS device?

texts: I have a third party application on my iPad (Stanza) which has some data that I'm interested in doing some analysis of on my Mac (read statuses). Is there any way to get the data that the application has stored?


texts:
I am capable of provisioning multiple Access Point Name (APN) on a single SIM card. One APN points to a private enterprise network and the other points to a public APN -Internet.
Apps that use the private APN should either use per-app VPN or always on VPN.
MDM management is setup across the internet connection.
How can I setup my iPad to use both APNs on one SIM? I have solved the problem on Android but cannot find any resource to solve this issue on iOS.
Any ideas?


texts: What is the difference between the variant language dictionaries in OS X?

texts:
How can I see some or all of the individual word differences between the built-in dictionaries. I'm curious and inspired by this question where the UK typically adds the suffix -ise and USA typically spells it -ize.

It would be nice to to see the differences between these variants from the list of languages/dictionaries available in Mac OS X.

Australian English
British English
Canadian English
U.S. English

In originally asking this question, I thought that the spelling was controlled by the Language tab in the Language & Text preference pane, but have since learned that there is a Spelling option under the Text tab of the same preference pane (is that new in Snow Leopard?). From here it appears that other dictionaries can be easily imported (in aff or dic file format) which would lead me to believe that the spelling dictionaries are a standard format that may be read by other tools. However, the /Library/Spelling folder doesn't have any files.

As a bonus, it would be great to know how the language variants under the Language tab are used and why the variants there don't match up to the spelling dictionary.


texts: I want to install Windows 7 on an external drive

texts:
I've read two articles about booting Windows from external drives as opposed to a stock Bootcamp install. Here are the links:

http://kevtg-compuproductive.tumblr.com/

http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html

The latter of the two seems more difficult, plus I do not have an external hard drive with USB 3 compatibility, so I think I would use the other one. Though I could just buy a new external drive...

Has anyone tried these methods? I want to make sure they're legitimate before I try them.

Thanks! :)


texts: Pictures folder on iMac has a 4 GB Photo Library

texts:
In my Home directory on my iMac I have a Pictures folder. In it is a 4 GB Photo Library named Photos Library.photoslibrary. I have iCloud Photo Library turned on, and it has been on for more than a year.

Why do I have this 4 GB photo library on my iMac? Shouldn't all photos be in iCloud? Can I delete it or should I just leave it?


texts: Can I lock iCloud System Preference pane?

texts:
Here is the scenario. Say I have a Mac that I have to leave in a semi publicly accessible location and which I need to be awake at all times (i.e. it has to be accessible and not asleep/locked). I want to have this Mac logged in to my iCloud account, but only for the point of Find my Mac. So if it walks away, I can at least wipe/lock it, if not actually track it down.

But alas, while I want this one iCloud feature, I don't want any others. I can leave them unchecked of course. But I want to prevent someone who might steal this computer, from being able to access my contacts, calendars and photo stream just by checkin a few checkboxes. But unfortunately there is no padlock on the bottom of the iCloud System Preferences pane.

Is there any solution to this?


texts: Get rid of annoying Proxy acceptance popup windows

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I have just started to use proxy. It is set up system wide (Wifi - Advanced - Proxy). But macOS keeps me asking to allow using proxies by different apps.

Like that

It is really annoying, because I have a lot of applications installed. Furthermore it seems that some apps are requesting permissions again and again.

Please suggest, how suppress this window and allow all by default.


texts: Is it possible to use Apple's Earbuds/Headphones for audio in Quicktime?

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When I plug in my Apple earbuds to record audio, much like I do on my iPhone for video blogs, I can use the earbuds microphone to record crisper audio than the internal mic. I want to do the same on my Mac.

When I open Quicktime and I select an audio input (whether I'm doing a screen recording or audio recording), it only allows me to select the internal microphone, whether they're plugged in or not.

I tested to see if it was picking up my earbuds and if I had the speakers on, and take a screenshot. The internal audio mic picks up the noise every time.


texts: On Pages, how do I ignore an autocorrect suggestion? I use the esc key to ignore the suggestion, but as soon as I press space bar it changes the word anyway.


texts: Time Capsule - Home made - OpenWrt router with usb disk acting as airport wireless device

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I want to remove the need of connecting my Time Machine USB disk directly to my MacBook. I don't need any other functionality which Apple Time Capsule offers.

Is it possible to use my router with a connected USB disk (already working with Time Machine) and installed OpenWRT as network Time Capsule?
Can I use a Samba share as Time Capsule disk?


texts: Including apps on the PerApp VPN section on iPadOS

texts: My company iPad supports per app VPN. So far only the VMWare Browser and Tableau (both installed from our company's App Catalog) are taking advantage of this.  There are a couple of apps I would like to use that require VPN. Is there a way I can add any app to this list?


texts: To sync AudioMemos timestamps with your calendar?

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I am trying to find a way how I can sync the timestamps of my recordings to my calendar so I know when I have recorded things.
I am using the application AudioMemos at the moment.

How can I sync AudioMemos' recordings to my calendar?


texts: Why won't my Mac Mini with boot camp Windows 7 boot if I plug in a thunderbolt disk drive

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I have been using a previous generation mac mini server as a Windows 7 machine for the past two years without any issues. It was set up with boot camp and Windows 7 professional loaded on the internal SSD.
I would like to add to the amount of disk available by using a OWC Mercury elite pro Dual Thunderbolt disk that internally stripes two 3 TB drives making a 6 TB partition.
The machine boots fine with just a Mac monitor plugged in the thunderbolt.
What I insert the disk into the thunderbolt chain and attempt to boot the machine the boot sequence finds the Windows 7 partition on the SSD and then the screen goes black with only a single blinking underscore in the upper left corner.
The Machine and drive functions fine when plugged in using USB3.
I have critical reasons for wanting to use thunderbolt instead of USB3.


texts:
Month ago two things happened to my Macbook pro mid 2012 with El Captain, it fell down and I spilled around 50 ml of water on the keyboard and touchpad and immidiately wiped it out.
I don't remeber how much time passed after this accidents till the moment when my mac started to work extremly slow(1 to 3 days maybe). Almost any click provokes pinwheel.
I ran extended Apple hardware test and it didn`t find any problem. Does it mean that water spill did'nt damage my mac?
What should I do in this situation?
I would like to go to service ceneter but I have extremly limited budget right now.

Also there no overheating or noisy fan. But I remeber that once it didn't go sleep. Is it possible that hdd cable is damaged?


texts: Multiple languages and Emoji button on iOS keyboard

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I'm using German and English keyboard on my iPhone and want to insert emojis easily. The problem is when you have 2 languages and emoji, it only jumps to the next keyboard. This is very annoying.

Is there a possibility to have a language button (German/English/…) and a emoji button?


texts: Aliases in Alfred: Keyword -> Open a specific folder in finder

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I would like to define aliases (keywords) in Alfred so that by typing keyboard followed by RET, it opens a pre-specified folder in Finder.

For example: p1 could be an alias for "project_1" that lives under:

/Users/josh/code/projects/project_1

so when I open Alfred and type p1, Alfred opens the above path directly in Finder.

Is this possible with Alfred? How?


texts: Corrupted .mp4 File from iPhone 4 Weather Balloon Launch

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We recently launched a weather balloon into space which used an Apple iPhone 4 as a camera. In any case, though, we have about 8 minutes of corrupted video footage in the form of an .mp4 file (the last 8 minutes of footage, that is. The other ~4-5 hours were completely intact). We believe there must be a way to salvage some video from this file. As such, we would like to ask if anyone can help us salvage this video file. Thank you very much for your time, advice, and/or help.

http://www.mediafire.com/?o00mz0ke2his991


texts: Is there a way to make a portable iOS backup?

texts:
I'm travelling and will probably get a new iPad (actually an iPad Pro - woo hoo) while I'm away. Is there a way to backup my current iPad, take the backup with me, and then when I'm near a laptop or family computer restore my current iPad backup to the new iPad?

And for those of you that are going to suggest iCloud backup, my iPad chokes everytime I try to do an iCloud backup and never completes.

Any ideas?

Thanx in advance for your help!


texts: How can I make my Xcode 8.0 Support iOS 10.2

texts: It is really difficult to download 5GB+ Xcode file each time iOS gets updated. Do we have any other option to make to new iOS support in our current version of Xcode without upgrading the version?


texts:
For the first time in a long while I am to a location without any 4G or LTE - only 3G. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I am failing to coax my iPhone 11 even as close as to receive/send any data over it including switching voice and data on the phone’s secondary line (the one with a plan for roaming) to 3G. Text messages seem to go fine.
Here are my current data configuration:

Is there anything possibly wrong with the configurations that might be a quick fix? Is this a known issue?


texts: I found my old Mac G5 with Tiger and started it, but forgot the password. Then I tried to crack it using the single-user mode. But then, after I start it, mostly every time, there is a kernel panic. How do I fix it? What do I need to reset? Thanks.


texts:
I try to kill a buggy application without success.

I tried the Force Quit… feature in the Apple menu but it doesn't work.

In order to find the PID I tried the following command from the Terminal but it doesn't match anything:

ps aux | grep -i MyApplicationName

The only way to effectively kill it is to restart the system. Sometimes I need to force restart because the buggy application is preventing the system to restart.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.5 on a Retina 13' MacBook (late 2013)


texts: What features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's 'whats-my-name' service?

texts:
Upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) enabled Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service on my Mac; I would like to disable this (for security policy reasons) but wonder if some feature (perhaps something new with Yosemite) will be lost if I do so.

What, if any, features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service?


texts: El Capitan get current desktop name from bash

texts: I am trying to write a bash script that needs some identifier of the current active desktop (I want my emacs-clients to connect to different servers depending on the active desktop). I have searched around and I can't seem to find a command that will get this information. Does such a thing exist?


texts: Macbook Pro (mojave) can't connect to new router

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my landlord set up a new router and provided me a new password. However, i am unable to connect to the internet.

After typing in the password, I get an error that says 'The wifi network requires a WPA2 password' and "Invalid password"

Initially, I thought that I should have used the security key instead, but that also returns the same error.

I the went to open network preference -> advanced, and created a new preferred network. However, this also returns the same error ('The wifi network requires a WPA2 password' and "Invalid password")

Can anyone point me to suggestions on how to fix this?


texts: Can't send mail using Mail.app since update to Mavericks

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One morning Mail on my Mac was working perfectly. At noon, I upgraded to Mavericks, then I could not send mails anymore!

I could read my mails but not send them (though I changed nothing in the configuration). I get the message: "authentication failed"!

My SMTP servers (two of these university based) are ok… So either:

The new version of Mail is no longer pleased with the server credentials (though I checked these)
The new version of Mail sends wrong information (password), but since these are still here I am wondering if there is some encoding fancy in the protocol that is not working anymore (yes there are accented characters in these informations!)

What I can I do? Can I downgrade and load an earlier version of the Mail app?


texts: AirPlay Music From AirPort Express Dropping Out

texts:
My AirPlay music keeps disconnecting. Here's my gear:

AirPort Extreme 2013
AirPort Express 2012
MacBook Air 2013
iPhone 4S

And my setup:

Extreme is in the living room
Express is in the adjacent kids bedroom
Express connected to Extreme over WiFi - it does not extend the Extreme's WiFi network

My problems are:

The Express' AirPlay icon occassionally disappears from my iPhone
When the icon does appear, and I start streaming music to it, the music will stop playing anywhere from 15-30 minutes later. This happens if I stream from my iPhone or MacBook

What can I try to prevent the AirPlay music from dropping out?


texts: Apple TV (headless) + Home Sharing + Remote stops playback after one song

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I have the following setup:

iMac (2013) with iTunes (11) and Home Sharing enabled
Apple TV (3rd gen) with Home Sharing enabled, no HDMI connected only optical digital out to my DAC
iPhone 4 with Apple Remote app
All devices are on the same wireless network (Jensen Air:Link something, might be replaced soon)

The problem: I connect to the Apple TV with the Remote app on the iPhone. After a short period, I can access my music library (located on the iMac) and play songs from it. It will play fine for a song (or two), and then it just stops.

(Remote app will typically display the song after the one that was just played, as if it was playing (the pause symbol is displayed) but there will be no "progress" indicator. Pressing pause does not have an effect. Skipping back/forth will change the song title/icon in Remote app, but nothing is played. After clicking around in Remote app, trying to restart the playback, sometimes playback starts again, sometimes the app terminates (I haven't found any patterns for what works here yet, it seems somewhat random). After restarting the Remote app and/or playing around in it for a while, I can make the playback restart, but it stops again and the process repeats.)

I've read about various ports that need to be opened in the firewall etc., but I don't think any of these apply, as everything works fine for a while. AirPlay to the same Apple TV also works (for a while). There's no firewall enabled between any of the devices on the local wifi network.

I'm starting to think this could be a problem with the Apple TV running without a TV/screen connected on the HDMI port, and that some kind of "screen blanker" or power save mode is triggered.

Now, the questions: Does anyone know how to make the Apple TV run problem-free in headless mode (no TV/screen)? Is this even supported? Or would I be better off buying an AirPort Express and connect that to the DAC?


texts: Brightness up/F2 button stopped working on my 2014 rMBP

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Sometime in the last week or two, the F2 button stopped working.. F1 (decrease screen brightness) still works, but not F2.

Is there any kind of fix for this, or is the button broken for good?


texts: Prevent automount for new and unknown devices and volumes

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For all of my known devices that I do not want mounted, I have a fstab entry that prevents them from being mounted automatically. What I want is either of the following.

All new and unknown devices (i.e. their UUID's won't be known ahead of time prior to plugging them in) should be treated as if noauto was set in its mounting options.
A way to treat fstab like a whitelist (e.g. to only mount certain devices and nothing else).

Why do I want this behaviour? I dunno.

This is technically a question for UNIX in general, but I am asking it here in case of any quirks specific to macOS.


texts: Safe not to eject Timemachine USB drive?

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I have an external 1TB USB drive (mechanical, not flash) dedicated as a Time Machine backup. It is completely handled by MacOS/Time Machine.
Is it safe to unplug it at any time, including while a backup is running? I am aware how this stuff works generally (missing cached data, corrupting internal file systems data structures, journaling etc.), but would like to know if Time Machine is - together with journaling - robust in this regard for devices dedicated to it.
It would be acceptable to lose the currently running backup; I just want to avoid corrupting the filesystem or the Time Machine state on it so much that I have to reformat.
EDIT: Someone mentioned the "Golden Rule" of always ejecting. This question specifically asks whether this Golden Rule is relevant to Time Machine-managed devices, or whether Apple has gone out of its way to make a Time-machine-managed device immune to the usual problems of unplugging during use.


texts: Dock disappearing when using the Show Recents menu item?

texts: I just discovered that if I Turn Hiding On and right click on the iTunes app in my dock and press Show Recents, then my dock will no longer appear when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen until I log out and back in. I have the latest version of Lion and I was wondering if this was only me.


texts: MPB gives mechanical popping sound when it gets CPU heavy load

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I'm using my 16' MBP (I bought it december 2019) for development (.NET Core). I experience that when I compile the code (the machine has 6 CPUs, htop shows 12 threads, so the compile can use up to 12 threads) I hear a 1-2 pop sound from the hardware. In the last a few months I could isolate when it happens.
During development the CPU temperature (CPU PECI) somewhere between 70-80 degree Celsius. When it compiles it goes above 95+ degree Celsius in 1-2 seconds and that is when the popping sound happens. Only 1-2 pop only.
Here is the strange thing. If I keep up the temperature above 90 (I run multiple compile or just run tests) then there is no popping sound. But, if there are a few minutes between compiles, so the CPU can cool back down and it gets a load again (another full compile) the 1-2 pops sound comes back.
My assumption is that some parts around CPU dilate due to temperature and makes this pop sound. I can't decide whether it is good or bad. My mechanical engineering background says that it is not a good sound because there are some mechanical stress in the system.
I used multiple MBPs in the last a few years, all of them were the 15' models with the butterfly keyboard, the last one was the heavy player with 8 CPUs (16 threads) and none of them did this sound or similar.
Has anyone experienced this?


texts: iTunes: fix 2000 tracks that the database no longer recognizes correctly

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Over the past few years, iTunes has repeatedly tried to 'organize' my library, copying tracks from one place to another. When it then came back and scanned for files again, suddenly I had three copies of hundreds of songs.

A couple of days ago I deleted a stack of folders containing redundant songs, so I can return to a clean no-copy library in the Music folder.

I now have 2000 'dead tracks'. I have tried Bring Out Yer Dead and PowerTunes but neither have helped in fixing any more than one track at a time. It is amazing to me that it doesn't work when the vast majority of my collection is named Artist - Title. Why is this so difficult for these programs to find?

Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks guys!


texts: How do I recover a deleted file from an iPod Touch running OS 4.1?


texts: How smoothly does Xcode 10.1 run on 2017 MacBook Pro base model (8 GB RAM/128 GB SSD)?

texts:
I am planning to buy a 2017 MacBook Pro base model (8 GB RAM/128 GB SSD) for iOS app development and I am on a budget.

I would appreciate if I get answer to the following questions before I decide to purchase:

Does current version of Xcode (10.1) and iOS Simulator run smoothly without lag on this Mac? or do I need more RAM and SSD and more powerful CPU?
How fast the 128 GB SSD fills with Xcode project files if I use the machine only for app development purpose?
Can I move old Xcode project files to an external disk in order to free up space on internal drive (and copy old Xcode project files back to internal drive as needed)?
Can I directly save and run Xcode project files from external disk without using the internal drive?


texts: Is there a way to filter photos on iPhone by "camera type" or camera model?

texts:
I often "AirDrop" photos to my iPhone (SE) from my Nikon camera which produce large photo file formats. I now have an unreasonable amount of photos that I want to delete.
I was thinking 2 ways:

Use the file size of the photos to batch select and delete (but it doesn't seem to be an option in iOS14)
Use metadata of the photos on my iPhone to batch select the ones bearing the metadata "camera type" "Nikon" and deleting them.

Both of those options seems to be lacking.
Would there be a work around to do specifically this? Is there a way to use a mac app that could do that or even a terminal command (once the iPhone is hooked to my Mac Mojave 10.14.5?)
A free option would be the best.


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I am using a a MBP 13 mid-2010 (MC375LL/A) with the following characteristics

MacBookPro 7,1
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz
RAM: 8Gb (2x4Gb in replacement of the 2x2Gb)
HDD: WD Blue 500Go 5400trs/min (in replacement of 320Go)
GPU: Nvidia 320M 256Mo
OSX: Maverick 10.9.1

Use: office software applications + Multimedia + scientific computing and development (one raeson for changing the RAM)

Since the middle of december 2013, the MBP crashes many times a day. It stops by many differents ways:

black, white, blue, orange or green screen and freezes (I need to hold power button to shutdown);
come back to logon screen;
reboot (black text on gray brackground screen);
screen with many multicolor lines;
just freeze (I need to hold power button to shutdown);

These problems happen with battery (i need to change it (670 cycles)) but also with magsafe. When the MBP crashs, I am not doing special thing (sometimes just on website, sometimes on youtube watching video...) but it is very randomly.

Sometimes I can obtain a Kernel Panic but sometimes not.

You can find at the following link the last kernel panic I obtained here

So I am looking for one solution to deal with this problem.

Thank you in advance


texts: Apple Watch pinged a phone that is not mine. Why, how do I replicate, and how do I avoid?

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This morning I used my Apple Watch to locate my iPhone.  Swipe up, tap the phone icon, and somewhere in the caverns of my couch a phone chimes.  After flipping cushions and digging through crevices, I disassembled the entire couch with a sawzall and found my wife's phone.  (Which made me question whether my hearing was off, so I pressed the button again, and it chimed again.) Her phone repeatedly responding to my watch.  I picked up her phone and started rummaging around again for mine.  Decided to try pinging it again, and my phone finally did beep, in the kitchen.

Why was my watch, paired only to my phone, able to make another phone beep?
While it was inconvenient at the moment and a little worrisome, being able to locate multiple phones in a household with the watch would be could be convenient if I knew how to control it.  How can I specify from the watch, which phone to locate?


texts: Better understanding Family Sharing (Can I share app from OSX to my iOS device?)

texts:
I'm trying to figure out (for the first time) Family Sharing feature. So far I've added family members and everything seems to work fine except one thing.

I've bought from App Store Tweetbot for OSX. Is it possible to share cross-platform applications? I would like to install it on my iPad. Is it possible? Or can I share only between OSX to OSX and iOS to iOS?

Does Tweetbot (or any other app) bought for OSX is something completely different than Tweetbot for iOS? Thanks for your help.


texts: How do I remove the hostname from the bash prompt in Terminal?

texts:
My prompt in Terminal currently looks like:

Dzulhelmis-MacBook-Pro:~ myusername$

I want it to be as short as possible, maybe at least no hostname there. How do I change my bash prompt?


texts: Disable mounting Internal Macintosh HD at boot

texts: My iMac (mid-2010 model, Snow Leopard) has a problem with S.M.A.R.T status: Failing and it has become read-only. Because I didn't want to waste money on the repair, I bought an external HD, so the internal HD is now unnecessary. How can I disable mounting the internal Macintosh HD at boot?


texts: Is there an iPad/iPhone app that can handle editing large (~10000 line) text files?

texts:
I'm looking for an iPad/iPhone app that can handle editing large (~10000 line) text files. I would like this app to be able to access a particular Dropbox file quickly, and after editing have the file be updated on Dropbox.

Finally, I would be happy if it only allows me to edit the first few lines, or to add to the top of a particular file. (I currently have a cronjob which does this -- I edit a particular blank text file, and the cronjob adds it to the top of the larger file, but would like a more direct solution.)


texts: iPhone, is Reset Network settings necessary after a Carrier profile install?

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My phone carrier requested an update of the Carrier Profile (Delete + Install).

They suggested also to perform a Reset Network settings after the profile installation.

Is it really necessary?

I don't mind doing a reset-network, but among the things the reset does, all Wi-Fi passwords are deleted as well, which is annoying.


texts: Mac Mini - black pixels show up as purple

texts: Has anyone encountered this problem: It's a mac mini. It's connected to a tv via a HDMI cable, both of which work fine with other computers. However, when connected to the HISENSE tv, at native resolution, all black pixels come out as purple. If I switch to scaled resolutions, the colour is fine - but of course the resolution is now off. Any ideas? Thanks


texts: Would Apple still take its 30% cut if I collect donations for charities in an app I develop?

texts:
I know that selling things without going through App Store In-App Purchases etc. is not allowed widely. Even apps like Dropbox historically had problems with it and even they use in-app purchases for Dropbox upgrades today.

If I'd develop an app that people donate charities using an online payment system (like Balanced or Stripe), would Apple still take my app down because I'm not going through in-app puchases?


texts: Is it possible to use `Ctrl-M` as enter in the login screen

texts:
I am using Ctrl-m (^M) as globally (in termial and all hte other apps) to do enter. I have setup this keybinding using Karabiner.
Is it possible to use Ctrl-M as enter in the login page? After a reboot on the login page I had to press enter after entering my password. On the login page, the system does not recognize Ctrl+m as enter. But after the login, when I do log screen, now Ctrl-m is recognized as enter.


texts: How to read Google Play Magazines on iPad iOS 8?

texts:
I'm a long time Android user and have several magazine subscriptions on Google Play Newsstand.

I have a new iPad and installed the Google Play Newsstand App, expecting to be able to read my magazines. But to my dismay, the iOS app does not support "magazines"!!?

The only way I've found so far to read the magazines is via the Google Play website in the Chrome browser (as I would do on my desktop PC), however, the experience on iOS is not good (and inconvenient)! (The text is too small and "zoom" does not work properly, full screen mode does not work, does not remember page, "breaks" if left open in a tab for a period of time (maybe the "session" closes?), etc.)

So, is there a better way to read my Google Play Magazines on iPad iOS 8?


texts: Problems exporting PDF from Pages and uploading to Jobvite

texts:
I created my resume in Pages 5.2.2 and converted it to a PDF using the "Export to PDF" feature.

Overall, everything seems to work fine. However, I am having problems applying to jobs on Jobvite. When I upload my resume using the "Upload Resume" dialog, it appears to upload, but then the file input changes to "No file selected." and the site freezes. The dialog still says "Uploading" and I see these errors in my web console:

SyntaxError: unterminated string literal UploadOverlay.aspx:17
ReferenceError: init is not defined UploadOverlay.aspx:1

I thought the problem was on their end, so I emailed them about it and they said the problem may be caused because I renamed the PDF after I exported it. I was careful to export the PDF again and not rename it, but when I tried uploading it, the same thing happened. I told them about it and they said they would look into it, but I haven't heard anything from them since then. That was 3 weeks ago.

I reported the problem to Apple using the "Provide Pages Feedback" feature, but they said they would not be able to reply directly to me.

I used to make my resume in LibreOffice and it worked fine. I can continue to use LibreOffice for now, but I like Pages a lot more (apart from this bug).

Does anyone know why this is happening or what can be done about it?


texts:
I have read the 'man atrun' page and ran the sudo command to enable at.

I did successfully create a scheduled job, but it does not execute the job at my scheduled time. I only have an at.deny and cron.deny file in /var/at. If I access /var/at/jobs, I can see the job I just created as an executable file. I then double-click the job and it then runs the job I scheduled in Terminal.

Do I need an at.allow file?

I am running High Sierra (10.13).


texts: How do i fix my movie downloading problems?

texts: I bought some tv show episodes and a couple movies on iTunes, but when I try to download them on my iPhone 3GS it downloaded one movie then says "You can download past purchases on this device with just one apple ID every 90 days." What do I do?


texts: macOS, can Do Not Disturb be enabled for just an hour, etc.?

texts:
By default, DND disables itself the following day.  But it would be much more useful to be able to just set it for say an hour.  As far as I can tell on macOS this is not possible.

Is there a way to turn on DND for just a short window of time such as 1 hour etc.?

I found at least one commercial app that allows this functionality, but it seems like this should be basic core functionality in the OS.  Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?  If there is no other option than a 3rd party app I'd consider it, but I would prefer a native solution.

To be clear, this is specifically about macOS, not iOS.


texts:
Safari 8 supports the unofficial APNG extension to the standardized PNG format.

Most popular image editors (on any platform) do not support APNG (yet). Plugins are mostly available for Windows software only. Searching Macupdate returned nil as well.

How can I generate an APNG from a series of still PNGs (not from a video file) on OS X? (Although I understand the file structure, I’m hesitant to do it manually.)


texts: Syntax error: No operation specified when trying to resize Ubuntu VM

texts:
I'm trying to expand the hard drive of my Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox from my Macbook Air terminal. But when I type in

VBoxManage modifyhd <uuid>|~/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vdi --resize 20000

I get this output:

Usage:

VBoxManage modifyhd         <uuid|filename>
                            [--type normal|writethrough|immutable|shareable|
                                    readonly|multiattach]
                            [--autoreset on|off]
                            [--property <name=[value]>]
                            [--compact]
                            [--resize <megabytes>|--resizebyte <bytes>]

Syntax error: No operation specified

But I specified the operation though, so I'm a bit confused.


texts: Bootcamps Assistant Says There Is Not Enough Storage Space (39/42) To Partition Drive

texts:
Although there is far more than 42 GB available.
I've done my research (not tech-literate) and one solution is deleting time machine drives which apparently factors into Bootcamp Assistant's space calculation.
I recently updated to Big Sur, but have no idea how to get rid of Time Machine Back Up Drives or whether that is the issue at all.
Would appreciate any insight.


texts: How to remove flashlight from iPhone X lock screen?

texts: The iPhone X lock screen has two default buttons, one is Camera and other is flashlight. Is there any way to remove/customize the flashlight shortcut? I could not find any solution for it anywhere.


texts:
If I edit something on a file under Preview and want to mark something, for example, then everything I paint becomes a circle or a straight line. How can I get it so that I can draw how I want and without changing the preview?
Catalina, 10.15.7


texts: How does macOS know when to Automatically Adjust Brightness?

texts:
I understand the "Automatically Adjust Brightness" feature, when enabled, is designed automatically to raise or lower the brightness of e.g. the Macbook's screen depending on whether the surrounding environment is dark or well-lit.

I am curious what sensor onboard the Macbook laptop is used to detect the amount of light in the room.

A cursory experiment caused my Macbook's screen to dim when I covered the webcam, even though the webcan was not on, and the green light wasn't lit. Is the Macbook's webcam constantly sensing light levels? I was under the impression that the webcam was wired to prevent the webcam from capturing without illuminating the green LED.

If there is some other sensor positioned close to the webcam just for sensing light levels, what is it?


texts: Need to update Make on Catalina, other brew related answers are out of date

texts:
I am trying to run make using a script given to me by my new employer. The script relies on a feature present in gnu make v4.2+, and of course the only installed version is 3.8.

I used brew to install 4.3, but it's installed as gmake not make, and that breaks the script, which I could modify, but I'm still new here and our devops guy will likely have something nasty to say when he gets back.

The other mac machines in our office are not yet upgraded to Catalina, so nobody else has this problem yet. Brew used to have a feature where it would hack something to make this work, but it's gone now. That also means all the other stack exchange answers no longer apply, because Apple broke things in Catalina.

Does anyone know what I can do now? I have enough linux experience to get by in a terminal, but I've never so much as looked at MacOS until this morning.

In the link I posted, a user provided this simple fix:

for gnuutil in /usr/local/opt/**/libexec/gnubin/*; do
ln -s $gnuutil /usr/local/gnubin/
done
echo "Add /usr/local/gnubin to /etc/paths"

I assumed this was a shell script, ran it, and it spat out:

ln: /usr/local/gnubin/: No such file or directory

Does anyone know how to achieve upgrading the built in make to 4.3?

Or is there a way to replace the built in make with the version installed by brew?

MacOS version:                    Catalina 10.15.2
out of the box make version:      3.81
brew installed  make version:     4.3


texts: Error 'The application “Messages” can’t be opened.' after clicking on notification.

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Messages is open and working, but not the active application. I get a text, the top right hand notification comes in. I want to go to the Messages app so I click the notification and get this error.

The application “Messages” can’t be opened.

But then I just click on Messages in the dock and it works fine?


texts: Use proxy in iOS to to use Apps outside the U.S

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I live outside the US and would like to use some Apps that only work in US territory.

Example: Square (to accept credit card payments), Paypal mobile, Hulu, etc...

Is there a way to make iOS believe that it´s in the US?


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I have a 13" MacBook Pro early 2011 model. It will not boot from any Linux USB boot disks I have created. I know these disks are working on later models as I have tried with 2012 Retina 15" booting and working fine.

I have tried using rEFInd and various Linux distros but none will be detected on the 2011 model. I found this post:

Can I boot Linux (any distro?) from USB on a MacBook Air that has no hard drive?

However I am not sure where I can get the EFI drivers as the ones on the apple site are .pkg format and doesnt seem to be anything I can extract to copy to /efi/boot?


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I'm a very new Mac user. I just bought a MacBook Pro and I'd like to use the Time Machine backup. Unfortunately, it seems like I can only keep my laptop mobile by using an Airport router. I was hoping that I could backup to a HDD shared by my Window 7 desktop.

Is this pie in the sky? Is there a backup alternative that I could use that would give me the functionality I'm looking for?

Additional Information

I'm not looking to back up files per se. My documents, pictures, etc, are backed up on mirrored externals on my PC. I'm looking for a backup that will allow me to restore my applications and their settings should the Mac ever crash - installing and configuring a system is the most time consuming part of rebuilding a machine.


texts: What to do when having I/O (kernel panic) errors with Samsung 830 SSD on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro?

texts:
I am trying to upgrade my mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro with a Samsung 830 SSD but I am experiencing a lot of issues.

The issues starts at installation time, when I sometimes get a kernel panic when I try to setup the system with the SSD in pace of the original HDD.
If the installation succeeds, the game is not over. I can still reproduce I/O errors running BlackMagic Disk Test Speed.
I never tried to go on since I feel that the system is unreliable for day to day usage.

I did both PRAM and SMC reset, but none of them seems to be effective. My Mac and the SSD firmware are updated to the latest versions available.

I also tried to replace the original SATA cable (Which works fine with the original HDD) with another SATA cable coming from another Mac but I get the same error again.

I exclude RAM issues too. I tested with different RAM banks (All of them working perfectly) and the SSD problem is still there.

The very same SSD is working properly on a Windows machine and on another Mac, so I would exclude a disk failure and I guess that there is something wrong with my Mac. The SSD also works perfectly when used in a USB box.

Do you have any suggestion on what should I do next?


texts: Do I have to enroll an Apple Developer Program when working for a client?

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The problem: I cannot see certificates section in client's member center.

Disclaimer: I am new to iOS platform so please bear it in mind.

My client has set up an Apple Developer account at https://developer.apple.com/membercenter/ . His account is paid and valid (he already published something). He has also an iTunes Connect account at https://itunesconnect.apple.com/.

I have only iTunes Connect account. (Didn't pay $100 for my own Developer Program).

Next, the client added me to his Apple Developer account and granted me a "team admin" role. But I still can see only 2 sections at https://developer.apple.com/membercenter: SDKs and Bug Reporting.

Do I have to buy a Developer Program for myself to generate certificates?
Or there can be other reasons for this problem?


texts: controlling a machine with usb boot or target mode

texts:
I need to change some preferences on a mac of which statup disk I can't control due to video issue (I don't see the desktop and so on ), I can use an usb disk to boot or launch it as target disk.... but can I operate on hits preferences?
thanks for now


texts: Is it possible to cluster multiple Xservers in to one logical machine?

texts: I have (3) 2009 2.26 Xserves and I am wondering if it is possible to tie them together so it acts as one computer?


texts: Lap time data uploaded from my Apple Watch doesn't match the lap times listed on my iPhone

texts:
I uploaded my health data from my Apple Watch to keep track of my lap times.       But the lap times recorded in the XML file that I uploaded are consistently shorter than the ones listed on my watch.

For example, here's what I uploaded for one lap.

        date: '2020-02-04 18:54:54 -0800'
    duration: '0.5025173644224803'
durationUnit: 'min'
        type: 'HKWorkoutEventTypeLap'

but the actual lap time was more like 40 seconds.

Worse, the error ratio isn't constant, so that my uploaded lap time data really has no correlation with my actual data. This is very strange because the duration, kilocals, etc for the entire workout are exactly correct.    Could anybody advise please?


texts:
I have my Mac and iPhone linked so I can
 send and receive SMS via iMessage on the Mac. Is there a way, for instance a script, that I can use to send a predetermined response whenever an SMS comes in from a specific Cell number?


texts: Apple Mail - block incoming mail at certain hours

texts:
The question kind of speaks for itself. I want to find a handy way to block new mail from coming in, to avoid distractions.

I was thinking of creating a cronjob that enables and disables firewall rules on my MacBook a few times a day, but maybe there are other ways?

I could also block the traffic on the router, but the idea is that while mail is blocked on the computer, I don't want to block it on mobile devices.

What do you think would be the best solution?

Even better would be if we could send and out of office or other gentile reminder that we only answer mail 2 times a day during 12-13h and 16-17h for example.

But this is not so important, more like an experiment.

Update: I want to find a solution that can be applied company wide. So all desktops cannot receive new email during certain hours.


texts: How to fix FDISK_partition scheme after repartitioning a larger space for bootcamp

texts:
I have a Mac that is running Mojave, and yesterday I was trying to repartition the disk so I could get more space on my Windows partition for bootcamp.
In the process, the Windows folder only appeared for me to boot up. So I decided to install gdisk. In the process, I specified h for hybrid recovery command and used 2, 3, 4 for GPT partition numbers. When it asked to specify a hex code, I used ac for partition 2, 07 for partition 3, and 07 for partition 4. I then told it to set the bootable flag for partition 3. It then asked me if I wanted to change partition 4 to EE so I said yes. I have data on partition 2 I would like to recover, if that is still possible.
Now, I cannot boot into either Mac or Windows. And the ability to use gdisk has disappeared. Thanks for your help.


texts: Would an app, featuring only a Webview component, get approved for the AppStore?

texts:
I am not a mobile app developer, but we do feature responsive design in our website which works very well across all mobile browsers.

So if I were to make an app that only contains a fullscreen WebView component that loads the website, would that app be approved to get on the Appstore?


texts: Why can carriers limit unlocked iPhone hotspot/tethering?

texts:
The answers here and here explain that carriers can tell an iPhone whether to allow tethering or use as a hotspot.
My question is why, on an unlocked phone, can they do that?
Has Apple simply colluded with a cellular service consortium to respect their wishes?
Or are there a means by which a cellular data provider can detect that data are being served to and from a different device through the iPhone bearing its SIM card?  (While possible without any countermeasures, AFAIK it would be trivial for the iPhone to obscure the fact that it is tethering.)


texts: Run script before every Time Machine backup?

texts:
I would like to be able to run a bash script just before Time Machine runs, every time
This script generates some content to be written on a file which needs to be backed up by TM.

I have looked around, but surprisingly no one seemed to have asked this before. Any idea?


texts: Can I delete /System folders in Time Machine backups to save space?

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I've had my Time Machine backup volume (sparsebundle) for a couple of years now and it's become quite large.
Since it is very easy to delete old backups of certain directories in the GUI I was wondering if it is safe to just delete all backups of for example /System/ and a lot of subfolders of /Library/ because those files get replaced on every OSX upgrade and I won't ever go back to an old operating system anyway. Is that safe to do? There is nothing on the internet about that.
Or is /System/ usually excluded anyway? That would kind of make sense, right?

Any thoughts on that? Thank you!


texts: variable USB3 / bluetooth interference with an MBP

texts: I've got: a hengedock, a late 2013 retina MBP, a USB3 hub, and a USB3 backup disk, and a bluetooth trackpad. Sometimes, it all works great. Sometimes, the pad goes on strike. At worst, it even disconnects. The situation got a little better when I maximized the distance from the mbp to the hub and disk, but it's still unpredictable. What could cause the fluctuations?


texts: What's a good way to wipe a hard drive for resale?

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I'm selling my MacBook and would like to wipe the hard drive in such a way that the current data can't be easily recovered after I reinstall OS X.

Can you recommend a free tool to help me do this?

Maybe I should mention it's an Air model, so something that's safe to use on an SSD.


texts: How to make iPhoto library back into bundle

texts:
I recently recovered from a disk failure and while most of my files are ok, I'm having trouble with my iPhoto library.

While it appears that the data fro the iPhoto library is intact in the recovered files, the library now appears as a folder rather than a bundle.  As a result, iPhoto will not recognize or open the library.

Is there any way to make it back into a bundle either from the GUI or via the Terminal?


texts: The file system shows there is a user, "_mysql", that I cannot "su" as root. What is basically going on so I can get mysqld running again

texts:
The following shell command sequence makes me realize I don't understand something very basic about how user and group accounts works on MacOS:

/tmp$ whoami
jondoe
/tmp$ cd /usr/local/mysql/data
/usr/local/mysql/data$ ls -l | grep mydatabase
drwxrwxrwx 55 _mysql  _mysql 1760 Jun 24 2019 mydatabase
/usr/local/mysql/data$ su
Password:
/usr/local/mysql/data# su xxxx
su: unknown login: xxxx
/usr/local/mysql/data# su _mysql
/usr/local/mysql/data# whoami
root
/usr/local/mysql/data#

summary: The file system shows that the mysql installation created a user account and group account both called: "_mysql". Yet, when I am root, and "su" that account, I remain the root user.
why do I care? I ran my database fine using El Capitan. Then, I upgraded to Catalina, and now I'm having trouble (I think permission) with running mysqld. And, as a general "best practice", I think you are suppose to minimize the number of things running as root on your machine, yet _mysql and root sort of look like the same account. Of course, I really just want my db running again and understanding the _mysql could lead to this.


texts: 0% GPU Usage on iMac 2019 with Radeon Pro 560x, help!

texts:
Ever since I bought my iMac, the GPU has always been at 0% usage. Till now, I thought it was a software bug since Macs aren't great with GPUs, but when I found out about Intel Power Gadget - which also said 0% - I became worried. I'm using an iMac 2019 21.5 inch with a Core i5, 8gb ram, and a Radeon Pro 560x, running on the latest. I've never had any real issues with graphics performance but fixing this might speed things up.

Activity monitor says 0% usage across all programs, filtered by GPU top usage. Not sure what GPU time means, however.

IPG says the same, with a requested graphics at 1.1ghz but with an actual GPU clock at 0.
What should I do? Thanks in advance!


texts: How can I systemwide check if a keyboard shortcut is in use or has been registered?

texts:
How can I query OS X to know if an application has registered a shortcut?

I could inspect every app I have or that is running at least with KeyCue and go through the Keyboard Shortcuts section of System Preferences, but there must be some other method using the shell.


texts: Can I set Hide Sidebar as default in Preview

texts:
Preview has become rather annoying. I found a post to Hide Sidebar https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/213395/19086

Even worse, if I select Full Screen mode I get Sidebar plus 2 pages side by side (which actually makes the document smaller and harder to read). Can I stop this?


texts: Compatibility of oldish iPhones, Apple's policy, future perspective

texts:
I'm shopping for a used iPhone. I would not use it as a personal phone, just as a device to explore Apple's apps, for professional reasons.

I wonder what older models are still compatible with recently launched apps developed for new devices.

Is there some official road map about support from Apple and back compatibility policy?  How far back in iPhone version can I safely go to buy a cheap device that will last at least one year?


texts: iCloud settings on Mac book shows that Dropbox is storing its file inside iCloud when that isn't actually happening

texts:
I was running through my settings when i stumbled upon this. I'm curious what is actually stored inside iCloud (by Dropbox), because the files inside Dropbox are obviously not (my Dropbox folder is much bigger than iCloud capacity)

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We would like to test and debug problems with our website when it is viewed using the latest iPad Pro. Our development environment is entirely Windows.

We've got very close to being able to debug the iPad using this webkit adapter on a Windows 10 machine but it is far from ideal. As a result we are considering investing in a Mac purely for debugging purposes.

Before we splash out on an expensive piece of kit please can I check that a MacBook is suitable for debugging an iPad Pro and if so would a MacBook Air do the job or would it need to be a MacBook Pro?


texts: Can I Reinstall Application Loader Without Xcode?

texts:
I just became an Apple Developer about an hour ago. On another question I was advised that I could use Application Loader to submit my Unity 3D puzzle apps to the Mac App Store. I read that it was included in Xcode. I have the latest version of Xcode installed but I cannot get it to work. When I log in it says that I don't have the proper contracts signed in iTunes Connect.

I decided to try and open Application Loader from the Applications folder. It had the white symbol of an invalid application. When I clicked it the message said that it was either corrupted or was incomplete. I deleted the application since it was worthless.

After more research this documentation said that I could download it in iTunes Connect. I don't have a My Apps icon in my iTunes Connect account.

I'm an Apple Developer so I don't understand what contracts I have to sign at this point. I'm thinking that the problem was with the Application Loader application. I cannot find a link where I can download the dmg file to reinstall this. I could not find where I could reinstall Xcode which includes Application Loader from what I have read. I'm concerned about uninstalling Xcode since I have started an online course using it.

Can I install Application Loader by itself?


texts: Why are my top-row keyboard buttons not working on Mac Lion?

texts:
A kid tampered with System Preferences on my Mac Air running Lion, and now, none of the top-row keyboard buttons work. For instance, altering screen brightness, toggling the dashboard, and altering volume don't work.

There does seem to be some mismatch though. For instance, pressing the eject button now takes me to the dashboard.

How can I restore the default functionalities of the top-row keyboard buttons?


texts: How can I prevent line numbers from appearing in .bash_history?

texts:
Recently, line numbers have started to appear in my .bash_history file. Where before, for example I might have had just

rm -rf *

I now have entries like

#1565909296
rm -rf *

How do I prevent those line limbers (or timestamps, or whatever they are) from accumulating in my .bash_history file?

These numbers seem to have nothing to do with any of my settings (and in any case started to appear without any adjustments to theses settings having been made):

$ grep -i 'hist' .bash* .profile
.bash_profile:export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace:ignoredups
.bash_profile:#export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
.bash_profile:#export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:ignorespace:ignoredups
.bash_profile:export HISTSIZE=10000
.bash_profile:export HISTFILESIZE=500000
.bash_profile:SHELL_SESSION_HISTORY=0
.bash_profile:export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%y-%m-%d-%T   '


texts: iPad mini Wi-Fi - can I use in UK and Australia?

texts: I want to buy an iPad mini Wi-Fi for my sister whilst she is in UK travelling. She will then go back to Australia. Will it work there if she has downloaded apps in UK? Can she change her account to Australian store once home months later? It is only the Wi-Fi version I am looking at and not the the latest retina display one.


texts: Can DVI displays and thunderbolt ports be expected to wake the monitors every time from sleep?

texts:
I've got a 15-inch MBP Retina. I am using both Thunderbolt ports to drive two third-party monitors via DVI.

Sometimes (at least 3-4 times a week) after the display goes to sleep when I walk away from my desk, when I return one of the monitors won't come back up. OSX acts like it thinks the monitor is still active - it appears in the arrangement dialog and windows are still positioned over there. But the monitor itself says it is not receiving a signal.

The only way I've found to fix this problem is to disconnect both Thunderbolt ports and reconnect them. Just reseating the one with the issue does not fix it.

Is there a way to prevent this, or at the very least, fix it without having to constantly unplug-replug both monitors?


texts: Google Chrome display corrupted over VNC

texts:
Over VNC, everything looks great except Google Chrome, which is completely messed up (image below). Chrome is fine if I'm using the machine directly instead.

This is a brand-new Mac Mini (Yosemite 10.10.5), literally just set it up and enabled VNC access. It's done one OS update and reboot.

How can I fix it?

Here's the screenshot:


texts: I love OS X Lion's feature to preview some files without opening them. Is there a way to register new file extension? For example, Drupal module extension ".module", which is a text file.


texts: Recurring Volume damage + Time Machine issues

texts:
This may take some explaining, so please bear with me.

Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 High Sierra 10.13.5
4 HDs & a boot SSD installed.

Related to Add Recovery Partition to APFS drive? & peripherally to Mac Pro with permanently mounted Time Machine. Local snaps any benefit?
At the point this started I had done nothing [I am aware of] to any of the drives. I was about to investigate switching off local snapshots but hadn't actually done anything.

Out of the blue, Time Machine starts to give errors every time a backup is started...

I ran Disk Utility across all the drives & volumes.
The boot drive, a Samsung 1TB 840 Evo SSD came up clean, but there were 57 snapshots stretching back a few weeks. [I spent some time trying to thin those, but in the end gave up.]

2 of the drives gave this error -

Volume [name] on disk3s2 has 0 bytes of trailing loader space and
it needs 134,217,728
Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting.

This was on 2 out of 3 almost identical Toshiba drives, all 3GB -
2x DT01ABA300 &
1x DT01ACA300
Both the ABA drives gave the same error including that very specific 134,217,728 bytes.
The ACA 3TB & another 4TB Toshiba came up clean.

Steps taken so far to solve this...

There was an entire episode of trying to 'fix' the snapshots on the boot drive which you can read about on MicroMat's forum but is now irrelevant, I think. The drive itself passed all tests.

I sacrificed the Time Machine drive [an ABA] to give me room to move data without losing it.
Boot drive clones were done using Carbon Copy Cloner.
The 3TB HDs were done using Paragon Hard Disk Manager, because it's supposed to handle Boot Camp partitions better.
I reformatted the SSD & the 2 erroring 3TB drives, in such a way that each set of volumes ended up on a different physical drive [this becomes very relevant.]
So, what was the 'clean' time machine drive became a multi-volume data drive instead & the 'dirty' drive became a clean Time Machine drive.

I also cloned the boot drive to HFS+, reformatted the SSD as APFS & cloned back - thinking this way I wouldn't be carrying any snapshot or container data.

Afterwards, all drives check clean.
This was the point at which I re-installed High Sierra over the top of the existing boot drive to regain a Recovery Partition. Re: Add Recovery Partition to APFS drive?

24 hours later...
Time Machine errors again.
It had completed the first full backup & presumably several incremental overnight. The boot drive shows 16 snapshots.
Two of my 3TB drives display the exact same error as before.

but this is the puzzling part.
The erroring 3TBs are not the same two drives as before... nor do they contain the same volumes as before. Previously, the two ABA's errored, containing Time Machine & '4 volumes' respectively.
Now one ABA & one ACA are erroring, the '4 volumes' are now on one ABA when they used to be on the other, but the ACA was never touched. Time Machine is now on one of the previously erroring ABA's but has no errors.

The boot SSD comes up clean.

I'm completely out of ideas.
Other than these obvious underlying errors, I'm not seeing the machine misbehave at all.
Please let me know what diskutil commands might be useful in diagnosing this, or any other steps I could take to triage.

Late edit:
I uninstalled BitDefender & Time Machine appears to be behaving again.
I'm still monitoring.
...& failed again 2 hours later :/


texts:
I had previously asked this as part of another question, but I realized it would be better if I kept them separate:

I have newer messages on one hard drive, and older messages on a Time Machine backup. How can I merge them?


texts: Mavericks: Can I create a second screen with keyboard shortcut like spaces allowed?

texts:
I upgrade some time ago but need spaces for the first time today.

At the moment I can use Ctrl+← to get to the widgets pane, but I find I can't  use either Ctrl+→ or Ctrl+[number] to get to another space (let alone create a new one).

I've checked my shortcuts and even under there I've only got the option for Switch to desktop 1.

Where am I going wrong?


texts:
I want to play songs on my Apple TV from my iPhone5 running 8.1. After about three songs, it stops playing (tested three times). Is there any possible explanation for this?

My question is: Why does my iPhone5 playing songs through my Apple TV times out after three songs?

--

EDIT:
Router: Netcomm NB9WMAXX

Terminology: I'm calling it 'timing out'. Perhaps a more correct term would be 'arbitrarily stopping' - except that we can repeat the behaviour multiple times at roughly the same time period.

Error: seeing no error on either device

Library: Stored on iphone

Network usage: Nothing else was using the network at this time


texts: Time Machine - multiple backup destinations for a "separate weekly"

texts:
I have a client that I'm setting up Time Machine to backup his Macbook Pro.  He's running OSX Mountain Lion, but soon to upgrade to Mavericks.

It has been backing up using Time Machine and an external USB drive.

He wants to add a 2nd USB drive to get a weekly backup that he'll store offsite.

We've setup the 2nd drive and had Time Machine point to that 2nd drive and it is creating an initial backup now to it.

My questions:

If he unplugs the 2nd drive after the initial backup and then takes it home, when he plugs it back in next week does it backup what has been changed since today's initial backup to it?  Meaning, does Time Machine base the backup off of the destination media in conjunction with the source?  Or will it only backup what hasn't been backed up in the last hour (assuming the 1st external drive is plugged in this whole week and Time Machine has been backing up as normal to it)?
Will Time Machine treat each external backup drive as 2 independent backups, each with their own "sync" with the source hard disk?

Basically, what I want to make sure happens is:

EXTERNAL DRIVE #1 = NORMAL backups....daily/hourly/weekly/etc. always plugged in.
EXTERNAL DRIVE #2 = WEEKLY/DR backups....only plugged in once a week (or less) and backs up everything since the last time it was plugged in...regardless of what the backups for EXTERNAL DRIVE #1 have been doing.

Thank you.


texts: Copy directory structure and symlink files (alternative to `cp -as`)

texts:
I'm looking for how to recursively copy a directory structure and then fill the copy with symlinks to the corresponding files from the source directory. This has a simple solution in Linux in the form of cp -as, but cp seems to lack the s option on macOS Mojave.
The underlying goal is to automate the process of making applications that do not reside in /Applications show up in Launchpad.
What would be an elegant, preferrably future proof, alternative to this on macOS?
From doing brew search cp I get the impression that Homebrew does not have an alternative version of cp.

Update
Additional information
I'm currently running this regularly, but I want to improve it by making it recursive:
ln -s /<Source app directory>/*.app /Applications

It also has to preserve the directory structure because:

Subdirectories are used to manage sets of applications that are to be excluded from backup, without having to manually change Time Machine settings every time I add a new application. For instance, games are large and do not need to be backed up. Same goes for versions of Xcode.

A mere symlink to a subdirectory does not include its linked target's applications in Launchpad.

A symlinked directory would prevent creating a real directory with the same name. That prevents the source and destination directories from being organised identically.


texts: Open iTerm2 SSH session in new window instead of new tab

texts: Now that I figured out how to set iTerm2 as the ssh:// URL handler, I'd like iTerm2 to respond to an ssh URL by opening a new window instead of opening a new tab in an existing window. Is this possible?


texts: Should I create APFS encrypted disk image on hard disk drives?

texts: I'm about to create an encrypted sparse disk image on my HFS+ formatted hard drive, but then I wondered if APFS's drawbacks on HDDs will mean anything in this case, since the hardware is anyway on HFS+. Since the disk image is in software, I think APFS should do faster logical copying and decrypting because it's newer but I don't really know how this works.


texts: Dump dom of url from command line with safari?

texts:
The following command will dump the dom for a web page using Google Chrome:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome  --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://example.com

I'm wondering if something similar is possible for Safari.
I can do this with AppleScript but I'd prefer the solution for Safari to be "headless" (see --headless option in command above), so I think an AppleScript will not achieve what I'm looking for.
** UPDATE **
Selenium driver has a headless mode for other browsers. But it doesn't look like there is such a mode for safari: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58314435


texts: MacOS Mojave beta has limited display scaling on MacBook 12

texts: Everything looks larger on my MacBook 12 after the latest Mojave update. It allows you to scale up the display to only one level (used to go up and down two levels). Has anyone noticed that? Any fixes yet?


texts: How to get long movie clips from iCloud to Google Drive

texts: What is the easiest way of getting large movies (20 minutes) from my iPhone/iCloud to my Google Drive account for work?


texts: 'Mail can't connect to the account' keeps appearing

texts:
So I've configured my mail using a profile. I have setup 3 mail accounts, but each time I launch Mail, it asks me for the passwords of all those accounts. The first time I thought: maybe that's a bug in Mail when mail accounts are configured using profiles. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case: it prompts me to enter the password for all 3 accounts, and it doesn't stop. When I enter it, it just asks me for the passwords of the other accounts, and then it asks for the first one again, etc., etc.

When I go to the Preferences, I can see that the passwords are indeed not entered. It can only connect to one(!) SMTP server (that's what Connection Doctor says).

What is causing this and how can it be solved?


texts: Pair two Bluetooth 5 headphones on iPhone/iPad?

texts:
In iOS 13 it’s now possible to use an “audio sharing” feature with a second set of AirPods.

But I think I’ve also heard, vaguely, that it’s possible to connect TWO headphones to an iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth 5.

Is this correct? Has anyone been able to do this?


texts:
I am considering adding HomeKit devices to a few rooms in a house, and assuming the HomeKit Home is shared with the family, that presents an issue with access.

It would be best not to allow everyone to control every device. For example, would it be possible to configure the Home to that John and Jane can both control living room devices, but only John can control the lights in his office? Thanks!


texts: How can I use iTunes with an email address that isn't actually an email address?


texts: MacOS 10.14 Mojave public beta captive portal Wi-Fi issue

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I can not connect to a public Wi-Fi hotspot that does not require a password but instead shows a captive portal pop-up window.  The pop-up opens blank with the error "The web page couldn't be loaded" (like this) This is with Mojave Public Beta (18A314K) on a 2017 15" MBP.

I did see this page but the solution there did not work for me.

Specifically - When I go to http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html in Safari (v. 12.0, 14606.1.20.40.3), I just see text in the upper left corner of the webpage saying "Success" (minus the quotes) in an otherwise plain white background. If I open a new tab and try browsing, nothing loads saying there's no internet connection. If I open Chrome (v. 67.0.3396.99 64-bit), I also get no internet connection.

How can I tell if I'm getting a valid IP address or if this is a bug in my build that I could work around?


texts: Hangouts Chrome extension no longer rings for calls or plays audio alerts for messages

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Whenever I receive a call or a text message in Google Hangouts, the notification appears in the upper-right corner of the screen, but there is never any audio to accompany the notification (even when the Hangouts-extension window is the active window).

My computer would previously ring for calls and play "dings" for messages. I have no idea what happened to stop this from occurring.

I've ensured that my system volume is at the maximum setting and that audio is enabled in the settings of the Hangouts extension, as you can see in this screenshot:

I've also ensured that "Play sound for notifications" is checked at System Preferences → Notifications → Google Chrome.

I've tried:

Restarting computer
Uninstalling and reinstalling the Hangouts extension from the Chrome Web Store
Clearing cookies/cache in Chrome
Logging out of my Google account and logging back in
Changing "Autoplay policy" to "No user gesture is required." at chrome://flags

OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.

Google Chrome version 66.0.3359.170 (64-bit).

Google Hangouts version 2018.123.418.2.


texts: How to setup a Mac for kiosk mode video presentation?

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My situation is: 2 iMacs (Lion), one displays a slide show and the other one a video.

If a user comes to the iMac and wants to play the video again, he should be able to play the video with one click (mice or keyboard). It should only play the video and disable every other feature/software on the Mac.

I could imagine theres already a software like that, and if you want to come out of that "presentation"-mode you have to press a special keyboard shortcut to do that.