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I have installed a fresh copy of Outlook for Mac v15.9 twice now and after a few days of use the ribbon disappears from all of the windows (main window, email window, etc). When I select View > Ribbon in hopes that it will turn it back on, nothing happens.

How can I get this crazy ribbon back so I am no longer using the menu to send and reply to emails?


texts: I'm sure there's a simple solution but almost daily, when I'm online or working on other programs. A humming sound will begin and gradually get louder. It only stops when I shut the laptop. Thoughts?


texts: Encrypt Documents folder without using Filevault in Catalina

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I have a 2012 Mac Mini running Catalina (10.15.7) that has been suffering Bluetooth issues for the last month or so leading me to try most things on the Internet that I could find to fix a disconnecting keyboard / mouse  and crackling sound.
The Mini has one SSD (boot and user space - APFS) and one HDD (old, clunky, Journaled / Encrypted) for file backups and odd files.  I do not really want to move the whole Documents folder here (some of the VMs really suffer on the tin disk) so the using System Prefs to move the home folders article may not be a solution in my case.
After many frustrating days, I found a note that Filevault could be the issue and in my case turning this off does seem to have solved my drops over the lat few days but at the cost of leaving my main data unencrypted if the disk is removed from the Mac (user and disk passwords are complex but still an acknowledged weak point in this).
For most of my files this is not an issue but for others (work related / bank etc) this is not good practise and kind of goes against my instincts.  The only way around this I could think of is:

Encrypt the second disk in the Mac using 'Mac OS Extended' format rather than APFS
Create a symbolic link in Documents to a folder on this encrypted disk
Store any 'sensitive' documents in here but away from the normal folder structure.

I did wonder about using VeraCrypt but never used it and could not work out if I could encrypt the Documents folder or hard disk as most fo the instructions are for Windows.
Can anyone think of another way?


texts: Remove devices associated with iCloud account

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I'm trying to remove my MacBook Pro from being associated with my iCloud account however, when I try to remove the account a dialogue prompts me to make sure that I would like to remove it. For some reason, it lists my device several times and doesn't actually delete the account. I would like to remove any association of my Internet Accounts from my iCloud account and remove the numerous of 'Daniel's MacBook Pro' from my iCloud account.

I have attached screenshot of what I'm prompted with showing the number of 'Daniel MacBook Pro' on the dialogue. Is there a way I can manually remove my MacBook Pro from being associated with my account and, in a sense, start afresh.


texts:
My mac tries to connect to an old NFS that I used at an old job. I tried everything and looked at every related question asked on this forum.

At the time I had it set on auto connect. But since I quit there, it still tries to connect to it. So every time my mac reboots, I get an error that the server "can't be found". It's really getting annoying. I tries the Disky Utility, removing it from my server list cmd+k. It did not help


texts: How can you verify when a drive was last formatted?

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I'm trying to determine the date a drive on a MacBook was last formatted. I used to be able check the inode birth time of the root volume, but it appears a recent MacOS update may have changed this behaviour because I'm now seeing Jan 1 2020 anytime I check via
stat -f "Access (atime): %Sa%nModify (mtime): %Sm%nChange (ctime): %Sc%nBirth  (Btime): %SB" /
Access (atime): Jan  1 03:00:00 2020
Modify (mtime): Jan  1 03:00:00 2020
Change (ctime): Jan  1 03:00:00 2020
Birth  (Btime): Jan  1 03:00:00 2020

I'm aware I can simply check the software installation dates, but that doesn't necessarily indicate if the drive was actually formatted or not.


texts: Is there any way to tell my iPhone to use a different mic than my AirPods?

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I use my AirPods for streaming on YouTube. I don’t own a computer only an iPad and iphone. A friend bought me a usb mic not thinking that I don’t own a computer. So I bought a usb to lightning adapter. The mic has power but the sound comes from my AirPods not the mic.

I only have wired and wireless AirPods and both have built in mics.

I want sound in from the wired mic and sound out to the AirPods over Bluetooth.

Can I split the audio and use the better mic for recording?


texts: My Apple computer is about 6 years old.  The original and current apple password is 5 letters, all lower case, plus one digit.  It opens my computer and I consider it my apple password.  Unfortunately, when on my iPhone or iPad, and I am asked for my "apple password" it does not and cannot work (it doesn't fit password requirements). If I try to create a new password, for my iPhone and iPad, I cannot make it happen, no matter what instructions I have followed in the support information. My husband who has all the Apple gadgets and computer, has tried but is unable to assist me.


texts: Keyboard shortcuts for "Straighten" in iPhoto?

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If you've used iPhoto for photo retouching, you probably know the Straighten functionality.

My question is, are there any keyboard shortcuts for rotating the photo, or is mouse & the slider the only way? Any other useful tips regarding this are of course also welcome.

It can be somewhat slow and awkward to do this with mouse/trackpad for each photo (especially if your mouse is not the most accurate one, like my Logitech bluetooth mouse). In iPhoto '09 they made matters worse by removing the small buttons next to the slider that you could click to rotate by one step (0.1 degrees).


texts: Apache can not work properly after restart

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I use macOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G2021). After I restart my laptop, suddenly I can not access my localhost port 80(Apache2). I tried out any command when I am find out it/googling but still doesn't work.
Most command of apachectl and httpd will return killed like below:
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl configtest
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 92:  1636 Killed: 9               $HTTPD -t
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl -k stop
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 92:  1373 Killed: 9               $HTTPD "$@"
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl -k start
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 92:  1377 Killed: 9               $HTTPD "$@"
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl -S
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 92:  1643 Killed: 9               $HTTPD "$@"

Pangeran:~ yaskur$ httpd -S
Killed: 9
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ httpd -k start
httpd: illegal option -- k
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ httpd -t
Killed: 9
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ httpd -X
Killed: 9

I can run any command with -k arg but without it, I can start, stop, restart(but still can't be accessed).
the command that I know if its worked only:
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.41 (Unix)
Server built:   Jun  5 2020 23:42:06
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ apachectl status
Go to http://localhost:80/server-status in the web browser of your choice.
Note that mod_status must be enabled for this to work.
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl stop
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl start
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl restart
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl graceful

start|restart worked with empty return but the server still unavailable.
the Apache is already on launchctl list
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo launchctl list | grep apache
-   -9  org.apache.httpd

but even I unload it still nothing different.
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
Pangeran:~ yaskur$ sudo apachectl configtest
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 92:  1593 Killed: 9               $HTTPD -t

How to solve it or trace the problem again?


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Is there a way to send messages from an iPhone (iOS 7.0.3) to a Mac (OS X Mavericks) to show on the screen?

For example, imagine I’m in the kitchen and I want to send a message that will show on the iMac’s screen to my son, who is upstairs in his room. Is there a way to do that?


texts: Glass panel compability for iMac 21.5'' late-2012 (A1418 - EMC 2544)

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Do 21.5'' iMacs from other years use the same glass panel than the A1418 of late-2012 ?

Not only the screen diagonal 21.5'' must be same, but also the height, width, thickness, and width of the black frame.
It would be to replace a broken panel, whilst the LCD is undamaged.


texts: In Mac, how to do `tail -f --pid` to terminate after process exit like Linux?

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tail command in current Linux has --pid option to terminate after certain process id, while tail under MAC OSX doesn't have the same option.
e.g. tail -f --pid=<process_pid> can terminate tail mode if process_pid terminated.
So how can we get the same result as Linux tail -f --pid?


texts: Apple ID disabled and unlock email sent to strange address

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My iPad Pro was locked during New Year’s Eve. I've tried to change the password but my Apple ID is disabled. I went to the website to change my password and filled the requested information. An email was sent to my email but I don’t recognize that email — I don't even know an email server that starts with ‘@m’. When I was setting up the iPad it didn't ask me for an email. I was surprised because on my iPhone I had to use my Gmail.

My Apple ID is disabled. The only way to enable it is to reset my password. A link wasn’t sent to my email that I used to set the iPad up, but I didn’t use any email I use iCloud mail.


texts: Diagnosing possible failing drive to see if it's worth reinstalling macOS

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Here's what I'm working with:

MacBook Pro 8,1 (13-inch, early 2011), High Sierra 10.13.6
drive is not original to the MBP, it's a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 500GB, but was swapped out when the machine was near brand-new, so pretty damn old

Issues:

one user account (non-admin) no longer appears on login screen
admin account has missing-keychain errors
running extremely slowly, application icons don't load into Dock or Finder
"Can't open System Preferences because the app may be damaged or incomplete" (after long delay)

Actions taken:

Booted into safe mode, still running badly, no real difference
Tried to run Apple diagnostics (booting while holding down D)
Unable to run diagnostics DEC500
Attempting to run Diagnostics from Apple Recovery
Tried booting while holding down Cmd+S, I thought I was going to
get a to a commpand prompt and try "fsck -fy" to fix file system issues,
which I suspected because of the missing user account and keychains

Instead it went to a "starting internet recovery" screen then to Apple Hardware Test 3A222

Ran the basic test, result was:
Alert! Apple Hardware Test has detected an error.
4xxx/4/40000005: "Battery"

Ran the extended test, results was:
Same result but with a 8 downward-pointing caret characters and an apple character before "Battery"

Seems likely the battery error is a red herring; found tons of posts on forums saying that you may this error with any 3rd party battery at any time
(this battery is 3rd-party, replaced September 2018)
Booted in install/recovery mode with Cmd+R and ran Disk Utility > First Aid on volume.

  First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume.
    error: (oid 0x117225) om: btn:oinvalid o_cksum (0x2ceae87d1d98eca3)
    Object map is invalid.
    The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely
    FIle system check exit code is 8
    Restoring original state found as mounted.
    File system verify or repair failed.
    Operation filed.

Removed drive, attached to another Mac via USB/external enclosure

Disk Utility sees the drive but no volumes under it
Mount button is disabled
First Aid says "Problems were found with the partition map that might prevent booting"

shows up like this from diskutil list command:

  /dev/disk2 (external, physical):
     #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
     0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk2
     1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
     2: 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC               511.9 GB   disk2s2

tried running mounts from Terminal:

   mount /dev/disk2s2
   ount: /dev/disk2s2: unknown special file or file system.

   sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2s2 /mnt (after creating /mnt)
   mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.

currently trying ddrescue to create an image and see if that can be mounted with any of the previously-attempted means, just to recover some data.

What could be the issue here?  I'm trying to evaluate given all of this, whether I might try to reinstall the OS on this drive, or write it off as too old/definitely failing.

Is it at all possible that the issue with the partition table that seems to have screwed this all up was a random glitch that may be solved by an erase and OS reinstall?


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I recently got hold of an iPad and was wondering if it is possible to have home screen dividers like if I want to label first row of the home-screen as email, second row as blog posts similar to

Any help?


texts: When I'm texting, sometimes the receiver's email shows up

texts: Whenever I start a text, my contacts list shows email addresses instead of phone numbers.  Not always but very often. Sometimes a contact will be that way, then next time it won't.


texts: I've tried coding it in different ways, but no matter what I do it will not type "22.com".


texts: Problems with the key combination "$~1" in my DefaultKeyBinding.dict

texts:
I have the next DefaultKeyBinding.dict in ~/Library/KeyBindings:

/*
    Key Modifiers
    ^ : Ctrl
    $ : Shift
    ~ : Option (Alt)
    @ : Command (Apple)
    # : Numeric Keypad
*/
{
    "$~1" = ("insertText:", "‖");
}

But when I press the key combination "$~1" (shift+alt+1) I get a little one "ı" and not a double bar "‖". Any solution?


texts: How can I see a list of events in one specific calendar?

texts:
Using the built-in OS X calendar application. I've got events broken down by general, school, friends, concerts, etc.

How can I, for instance, see just my concert listings? I don't mean go to the menu bar and turn off all the other calendars, which in and of itself is an awful interface having to individually click on each button.  I mean I want to open a separate window with a list showing the date, and event, in chronological order.  So I can see what my concert itinerary is for the year.  (Or any other event, just using concerts as an example.)

For bonus points -- is this doable in iOS with the built-in iOS calendar app?


texts: MacBook Pro Trackpad Suddenly Stopped Working Completely

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The trackpad on my Macbook Pro of 2 years has suddenly stopped working out of blue.

The trackpad doesn't move, respond to any gestures nor do any clicks work. This is really frustrating as I used gestures a lot to navigate around my laptop, and even though I use a bluetooth mouse it makes using my laptop unnecessarily laborious.

Does anyone know what may be causing the problem, and any solutions?


texts:
It seems that when multiple monitors are attached to a MacBook Pro (Retina), OSX splits up the VRAM for the monitors. Even when a screen is captured by e.g. a game, performance degrades very steep. The only thing that helps is to put the MBP in clamshell mode and remove one of the 2 attached displays to get back to reasonable performance.

The thing I don't understand is, why does the OS not allocate all resources to the captured display by default when it's captured? What's the reasoning behind this?


texts:
I just downloaded a temperature monitor app for my macbook pro. It tells me the following temperatures. I was wondering which ones I should take extra note of and what temperatures of those I should be worried about if it surpasses? Thanks for any enlightenment!

Battery                   91 F
Battery Position 2        91 F
Battery Position 3        90 F
CPU A Proximity          113 F
CPU A Temperature Diode  120 F
Left Palm Rest            86 F
Main Heatsink 2          111 F
Northbridge Chip         133 F
Northbridge Chip         120 F
Northibridge Position 1  106 F
Smart Disk Hitachi        91 F


texts: I am having iPad mini 4 . As everyone knows that it comes without earphone. Can I use my Samsung S5 earphone for the iPad? Please suggest me either I have to purchage only Apple earphone only? Thanks


texts: Is there a way to start speaking a word using macOS text to speech by hovering over it and pressing a shortcut?

texts: I want it to speak the word without selecting it, just hovering over it + a shortcut. Or by pressing a shortcut after using the lookup feature in Mac.


texts: Tether Mac's Wifi connection to phone over Bluetooth

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I'm staying in a rather upmarket hotel, yet for some reason the Wifi is £7 per device per day. I got it for my Macbook, and I'm wondering if there is a way for me to share the connection to my iPod.

Normally, I'd just use internet sharing over Bluetooth, however there are certain restrictions on this network, which are causing a problem. In order for it to work, the following requirements must be met:

All requests from device go through Macbook
Device is not assigned it's own IP address
Device must not be visible on the network (all requests must appear as though they're from the Mac)

I'm considering several options, one of which is a local proxy through my Mac, however as far as I know it's not possible to set proxy settings over Bluetooth tethering, only Wifi.

I'm a pretty experienced server admin, so if anyone has any OSS packages or similar that have to be built from source, please do mention as I'm more than able to do it.


texts: On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup?

texts:
In addition to whatever files I may choose to exclude, what files does the system exclude by rule or classification?

It might make sense not to backup Trash or Caches, but I'm looking for a way to tell what files are skipped "behind the scenes." Knowing if the system maintains an exclusion list or exclusion pattern would be very helpful in managing larger groups of macs.


texts: Can I copy by highlighting and paste by middle click on Mac OS X?

texts:
I was using Linux for the last couple of years and I find it extremely useful to copy text by highlighting it as well as to paste by clicking a middle mouse button.

I'm using a Mac now and I wonder if I can achieve such behaviour on Mac OS X.


texts: Can I find out who is tracking my iPhone?

texts: I received 3 emails from Apple that my phone was tracked using Find My iPhone. It gave the dates and times.  Can I find out who is tracking me using Find My iPhone ?


texts: How do I edit an info.plist file inside of a kext file?

texts:
I wanted to know if there were alternate ways to edit an info.plist file that is inside of a kext file. From a Google search I saw, it seemed like it's not something you can easily edit.

Mid-2010 MacBook Pros have an issue related to the GPU that causes frequent GPU panic crashes. Someone on the Mac Rumors forums posted a solution which involved editing a plist inside of a kext file. This is their solution.

I specifically need to edit the info.plist file for the AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext file which is located in /System/Library/Extensions.

I was wondering if it would be possible to edit the plist without needing to disable SIP? Thanks in advance for the help.


texts: MacBook Pro web browser windows cropped after resuming from sleep bug

texts:
I've been seeing this bug most recently in Yosemite 10.10.4 (14E46). It was in prior versions but I wasn't keeping track.

When I resume from sleep my browser windows are cropped in both Firefox and Chrome. Pretty much only the top left corner of the browser window is the view. I can resize the window but the scrollbars remain on this little ~640x480ish view.

The attached screenshot illustrates the issue. If I refresh the window the page resumes and consumes the full window size.

One way to get the window back to normal is to refresh, but I have to do that for every tab that is cropped (and not all windows/tabs are cropped). If I show and hide the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox all windows are fixed.

Any ideas? I can't find any other reports of this bug, but it's happened on two different MacBook Pros of mine. The most recent is: (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M)


texts: My app was rejected citing 11.3 (In-app purchase)

texts:
I created an app that lets users store items in the app. There is an amazon button next to each item. When the user clicks the amazon button, the app finds the item on amazon and, if found, opens the amazon page for the item WITH-IN the app.

Apple rejected the app citing 11.3 in-app purchase reasons.

would it help if the amazon page for the item opened in safari and not with-in the app?


texts: recombine iMovie clips from miniDV without volume problems between them?

texts:
I am using iMovie to import miniDV videos. The tapes are pretty old (~20 years) and there are numerous errors on them. As a result, iMovie creates lots of individual clips. When I try to recombine them, iMovie makes the volume fade in and fade out between each clip, and it's horrible. Is there any way to get iMovie to get the sound to line up?

I've also tried using QuickTime Player to record the video. That works pretty well for most of my video, but not for all of my video.


texts: My iMac automatically/mysteriously powers off when on standby. How can I make it not power off?

texts:
Our iMac randomly powers off while on standby. I put it to sleep, come back, and it is powered off. I need to reboot it, which is a long process.

The iMac is at the newest operating system and it is really annoying that I put it on standby, and it shuts down. I look in system preferences, but I did find setting associated with it shutting down when on standby, but they were already off, so there is no reason for it to.

When logging back in, a message said, "Your mac restarted because of a problem..." I could not get the rest of the message.

How can I make the iMac no longer automatically shut down when I put it in standby and have it remain in standby?


texts: Upgrading to 10.7.5 broke copy/paste system wide

texts: I upgraded to 10.7.5 through software update, and it appears doing so broke the paste command. I can cut (and perhaps copy) text out of fields, but when I try to paste, the Edit menu lights up, but nothing happens. This occurs either when I hit Command ⌘ + V or when I choose Edit menu -> Paste.


texts: Unable to connect mac from remote using telnet

texts:
I am trying to use my mac as proxy using charles proxy. To do that, I had my mac and android device in same network and manually set the mac ip as proxy in the android device settings at port 8888.

Now I am unable to connect to internet through the android device. Upon pondering i noticed that my mac was refusing connections from any remote device through telnet, while it was connecting if I try to connect from the same machine (i.e telnet localhost 8888).

Also my mac can be connected using ssh from other device in same network and the firewall is disabled. What can be that is preventing the machine to not accept inbound connections from remote machines?


texts: Can you unzip an IPA package without either changing the extension or having admin rights?

texts:
A colleague who I admin for has just asked me why, when he wants to unzip an IPA file, the GUI archive manager asks for an admin password when he tries to decompress an IPA that he has downloaded (his user is not an admin, so someone from ops has to come over if he wants to do this). His work around is to change the extension to zip first, then he is able to unzip the package without an admin password.

I haven't seen this before, and from a cursory google I see a couple of other similar posts recommending this workaround in the answers:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5160863/how-to-re-sign-the-ipa-file

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16975049/change-app-version-with-only-ipa-file-provided-no-xcode/16975145

Is there a way (other than using the command line unzip util) for a non admin user to unzip an ipa file? Do they have to be in a particular group for this to be allowed?


texts: Magic keyboard problems when connected to iMac

texts:
When using my bluetooth Apple keyboard about 3 letters won't recognize on my iMac Desktop. When I type "K" for example I get nothing.

I know it's not the keyboard because I've connected it to my phone and all the numbers and letters work fine, it's only when I connect it to my computer that I have the problem.

When testing with a random keyboard all characters work just fine on my computer.

What else can I try to troubleshoot this?


texts: MacBook pro 15 inch 2019 screen flickers with purple horizontal lines when iPhone is near my MacBook screen

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When i bring my iPhone near my MacBook pro screen, the screen flickers with horizontal lines. I have tested the flickering with iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. All the devices are up to date with the latest software. I noticed that the flickering is not happening when I keep the device at aeroplane mode.
Has anyone encountered this issue?


texts: Screen recording option is missing from Security&Privacy

texts:
oday I was trying to test teamviewer and found out that my option to disable/enable screen recording is missing. (see picture)

I have tried to reboot and not help. googling around did not come up with any useful info either.

My OS : 10.14.6

Anyone please help?


texts: Sound effect to confirm text is copied to clipboard

texts: How do you set a sound effect to confirm text is copied to clipboard? I am looking for my mac to make a ding whenever I copy something.


texts: How can I lock specific windows (NOT the entire application) to specific Spaces in Lion?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can Spaces be configured by project, rather than by application?

I have a dual-display setup (27" iMac and a 30" Dell monitor) and I like to be able to have diferent types of work going on, in different Spaces on the machine.

This means I would like to have web browsers for work related stuff in one Space, browsers for personal stuff in another, and browsers for maybe some other project, in yet another Space.

I can easily assign an entire APPLICATION to a specific Space, and make new windows open in that space.  This is not what I want.  I want different windows of the SAME application, to "pin" to specific Spaces.  I can't find any way to do that.

I'm open to paid apps that provide this functionality, but major bonus points if you can come up with a free solution that's either baked-into the OS already, or maybe just uses some AppleScript or Terminal wizardry to accomplish the result.

I'm aware of this thread but it didn't have a real solution either:

Can Spaces be configured by project, rather than by application?


texts: Google Chrome Helper Using Up Too Much Memory

texts: Google Chrome Helper is appearing in Activity Monitor a dozen times and overall using a ton of memory.  How do I curtail this?  Most advice columns say to go to my plugins and check "Play on click", but Google updated the browser and this option is no longer available.  What can I do?


texts: Auto complete on iMac- edit list of replacements

texts: I once mis-typed my email address into the message part of an e-mail.  Now, whenever I type my correct email into the message part, it automatically corrects to the wrong version.  Is there anyway to edit the auto complete list to correct this?


texts:
Sometimes when I double click a downloaded .pls file to launch a music stream in iTunes, the music is REALLY squelchy.  It literally hurts my ears.  If you have ever heard an old Telephony modem, it sound very similar to that but at one constant pitch.

If I stop and restart it usually fixes the problem (by double-clicking the same .pls file) , but I want to know why it does it in the first place.

At present I do not have a recording of the issue, but I will add when I can reproduce it.

OS - Yosemite
Macbook Air

Using the same network (Wifi included) my Linux and Android systems never exhibit this.  Only the iTunes on the Macbook Air.

I believe I have the answer.  If I pause the player, it works fine.  If I stop the player unintentionally, by closing the lid for example, the issue presents itself.  Seems like a buffer issue with iTunes I don't know!?

I can consistently repeat this.


texts: Export from Mac Photos app while keeping date created data?

texts:
I have some photos taken in 2012 and when I export them as originals to a folder they have a creation date of July 2016. Running an EXIF detailer showed the images to have been taken in 2012, so why does Photos export them and add another date to it?

I tried exporting my whole album from 2009-2016 and noticed some pictures taken in years prior to 2016 to appear in July or other months of this year as well.

I would really appreciate if someone can shed some light on this issue.


texts: Connecting an external hard drive to my MacBook Air

texts: How do I connect an external hard drive to my MacBook Air? And once it is connected, how do I find it to see what is on my external hard drive? Very new to Apple products.


texts: I want to know when I should reset the SMC on a Mac. I have a very quirky G5 and was wondering if resetting the SMC would fix some of its problems.


texts: How do I list the plugged memory sticks on Mac OS

texts:
How can I list all the currently memory devices on MacOS X?
I need to do this by command, because I have an Java application that needs this information.

Thanks


texts: Why aren't the section titles of man pages completely greppable?

texts:
This was tested in El Capitan and in a colleague's High Sierra, in the standard Terminal (bash).

user@hostname ~ $ man ls | grep "BU"
BUGS
user@hostname ~ $ man ls | grep "BUG"
user@hostname ~ $
user@hostname ~ $ man ls | grep "IEEE"
     files in order to be compatible with the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'')
     The ls utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

To clarify: "BUGS" is a section title in that (and various other) manpages. For section titles, grepping only seems to work for the first 2 characters; this is consistent across a few different section titles we tried. For the rest of the content, grep seems to work as expected.

I ssh'd into a non-BSD flavored Linux box (Amazon Linux) and it does not appear to exhibit the same behavior.

What's going on here?


texts: I created three Apple IDs on my iPhone. I have signed out of all three IDs one by one. However now I am not able to create a new Apple ID on my iPhone.


texts: Enabling/disabling applications based on a "profile" in Mac OS X?

texts:
Is there a tool built-in or third party that allows me to turn start up or shut down applications based on setting that I choose for a give time? For example, I usually run Dropbox, Google Drive, and a backup manager on start up. However, if I go to a coffee shop to work, I would like to preserve battery and bandwidth, so I would turn off non-essential Dropbox and Google drive.

So instead of manually turn off and on applications, is there a tool that allows me to do that just by selecting a "profile"?


texts: How to change back to my Apple ID for updates in App Store

texts:
On my iPod 5G, I previously signed in on with fathers Apple ID. Now I have my own Apple ID and I can't change the iPod to use to mine.

Now when I download apps it shows mine but when I update it it shows my Dad's Apple ID.

How can I get my iPod to only use my Apple ID?


texts: Application network traffic filtered, when screen is locked?

texts:
I observe that network traffic for applications seems to be blocked, or perhaps queued, when the screen is locked, on my MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Mac Mini.

The most obvious example I have seen: when running the native MacOS Spotify client, and unlocking the screen after being away for a few days, the client becomes animated - it shows every song I've played on other clients while I've been away from the Mac console, at a high rate, flipping from one to the next, one per second, or so.

This leads me to guess that the Mac caches that traffic, until the screen is unlocked?

What is happening, here?

How can I disable this behavior, and allow the apps I'm running to get network traffic when the screen is locked?


texts: Would it be bad for Mac to use older printer drivers not meant for that OS?

texts:
I have old printer and in Canon website, there are drivers, latest for OS Lion, not for El Capitan.

Would it be dangerous to try and install drivers meant for Lion? Or would the issue just be if it works or not?
I'm just wondering if there is more to dividing drivers by OS than incompatibility or would it cause security risk?


texts: Why can't I install macOS Big Sur on my system?

texts:
I have tried installing macOS Big Sur on my system but I am getting the following error message:

I have tried disabling Gatekeeper but it makes no difference.


texts: CPU and RAM usage statistics for iPhone/iOS (similar to Activity Monitor)?

texts:
Is there any (preferably free) way to view CPU and RAM usage by process (e.g. app) on iPhone without jailbreaking the device?
Activity Monitor on macOS displays

Process Name
% CPU (per core I believe)
CPU Time
Threads

and some other CPU statistics, as well as these RAM statistics:

Process Name
Memory (GB)
Threads

It would be great to know how to view similar statistics on iPhone.


texts: Remove a single event from Calendar subscription

texts: I am subscribed to Apple's holiday calendar, which is very useful. However, some holidays are not of interest for me - is there a way to delete selected events manually while keeping the rest of the subscription?


texts: Can you get viruses on iPhone from downloaded app?

texts: I downloaded an app for downloading things from the internet, mainly gaming videos off of YouTube. At first everything was working fine, but I got this generic you've won popup and accidentally pressed the only option on the screen (you've won) is it possible for that app to infect my phone with malware from that popup?


texts: How to automatically paste today's date with keyboard shortcut?

texts:
I am on El Capitan OS X.

I want to be able to hit some keyboard shortcut and then have today's date be automatically outputted.

Example:

When I press Option + D, "2016_06_13" is pasted into the text field.

The date would be automatically calculated based on my time zone.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this universally. So in Finder, Safari, TextEdit, etc. — not just exclusive to one program.

Having this shortcut would streamline my workflow.

Is this possible?


texts: Is there any Keychain extension for Chrome?

texts:
I am using 1Password, but it's not free and I'm thinking about migrating to free OS app - Keychain. Is there anything similar to 1Password extension but for Kechain? I want to use the Keychain only for logins in Chrome and often using many logins to the single page.

I like the way 1Password works. I simply click on the icon and select the username. The extension automatically fills in login details and logs me in. Can I do the same on Chrome with Apple Keychain?

Thanks for help.


texts: How extract apps from a iTunes backup file?

texts:
I have recently restored my iPhone using the IPSW file but before this, I had made a full backup of my iPhone using iTunes.

Now when I restore the backup, it just brings icons of my app and needs to be downloaded and besides that, I had many files inside one of my file explorer apps(in my case it was 'offline' downloader and file explorer).

My question is how can I retrieve those files and apps? is it possible?

My OS is windows 10 and my Itunes is Version 12.10.3.1


texts: My MacBook Pro freezes if nothing is moving on the screen

texts:
My MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) started freezing every time I boot it.

I've tried resetting the NVRAM and SMC, and have even reformatted it.

After doing that, I noticed that if I kept moving the mouse (trackpad or external mouse), my computer would no longer freeze. However, if I stopped moving the mouse, then the computer would freeze again.

The computer doesn't have this behavior if I start it in Safe Mode.

How might I troubleshoot this further?

Edit: When I was trying to copy the log from Console, I had to move the cursor or the computer would freeze. But after I open Safari, I could stop with no issue. I shift tabbed on Console and then the Mac froze again!

Edit 2: After some test, I figured out new strange behaviors. If something is moving on my screen, no freeze.

I was on Youtube, and I played a video > no freeze during the entire video. I stopped the video > freeze after 2s.

I tried something else: I launched another video then I minimized the window > freeze after 2s, but I could still hear the sound.

It's like the computer's freezing only if nothing is moving on the screen.


texts:
Trying to turn on my kids' iPad which has been off for a few months.

Tried several of my 'usual' passcodes, but iPad became 'disabled' before I could try them all.

Now it's "iPad is disabled, connect to iTunes"

Connecting to iTunes via hold-home-and-plug-in-USB pops up iTunes with "Restore" or "Update".

Do NOT want to lose all data, there are probably photos on there that are not backed up.

Is there ANYTHING I can do?

I'm not even sure which version of iOS is on there, but it's 8.something...

If I could just get a few more attempts to enter PIN, I would figure it out eventually.

Can I jailbreak it in this condition? Somehow pull the data before Restoring/Updating?

HELP!


texts: How do I get OS X 10.11.6 to return my free space?

texts:
I've cleared quite a bit of my user files off my Mac, and have restarted. The disk utility shows this:

but a df -h in the terminal as I clear never changes from 89 GB free, and when I try to restore some things from Time Machine, the 'not enough space' message reflects the df results, which should be wrong, instead of the disk utility display.

I only have the one volume on my hard drive.

This isn't the same question as the proposed duplicated, at all. I am not suggesting that anything is eating my disk space. I'm also not saying that restarting it changes anything. I'm stating that the disk util says I have 300 GB free, which is likely the case given what I deleted, and the OS says ~90 GB free, an amount that did not change as I was deleting things and did not change when restarting the system...so basically the freed space was not given back.


texts: How to listen to iMac G3 audio files with no extension on a recent device?

texts:
I have several files from my ancient iMac G3 that have no file extensions. They were from a text program that also recorded voice, and read text. It came with the computer, but that was 2 computers ago, and I have no idea the program name, or file extensions.

Each file had an audio track in it of my daughter as a child, and I would like to be able to convert them, or at least hear them. How can I listen to those audio files ?


texts: Growl does not pass on Tweets to Notification Center

texts:
I've recently switched to Mountain Lion, which means that I now have Notification Center.

I'm using the Twitter app by Twitter, and on my previous system I used Growl to display tweets. Now, however, nothing is showing up. Notification center does not seem to care much for regular tweets (without mentions), and suddenly Growl doesn't show them either.

A difference with my previous setup is that I downloaded the newest version of Growl now - it has evolved out of a prefpane and is now an app. I did confirm that it worked, though, as a Colloquy (IRC) mention did show up.

In the preferences of Twitter I did set 'Tweets' to show via Growl.


texts: Music files showing up on iPhone, but not in iTunes library. How to get rid of them

texts:
In iTunes, in "On This iPhone" I have all of my music files deleted, but on my iPhone in the "Music" app it shows a bunch of my old music albums and files, opening an album it has the "Download from Cloud" icon to the right, so it is not really on the iPhone.

How can I get rid of all these old albums/files cluttering my iPhone Music app? I will never want to download them from the cloud, and they are still there even after I tried restoring my phone.

Thank you.


texts: When accessing my Windows DFS share on my Mac machine, it shows empty folder

texts:
I have a domain server mydomain.com and a DFS server which is part of mydomain.com. DFS server has a share with namespace //mydomain.com/Datashare, which points to a TestData folder inside the machine. TestData has few files 1.txt,2.txt.
When i access my DFS share on a windows machine it mounts the share and shows the folder TestData with files 1.txt and 2.txt.
When I access same share on my Mac machine it mounts the share and dispalys TestData folder. however it does not show any file inside this folder.
Someone discuss a solution of setting same search domain on Mac machine as AD sets on windows but that solution does not work for me.


texts: Why can't some songs be played with Music?

texts:
I would like to know why some songs in Apple Music can't get played in an album or in a list and can be played individually.

I will show how I see some albums:


texts: How can I activate buttons with just the keyboard?

texts: Many user interface (UI) elements or dialog boxes have buttons. I would like to be able to activate a button with just the keyboard, without the mouse. How can I do this?


texts: How can I change the title of a Safari shortcut or app on iOS?

texts:
I would like to be able to change the title of a shortcut (especially web shortcuts set as icons). Is this possible?

For example, I have a Safari shortcut for Facebook. As an icon, it's labeled "Facebook". Can I change that to "m.facebook" or something else?

If so, how?


texts: Is it possible to replace a whole keyboard on a MacBook?

texts:
I have a German keyboard-layout at my MacBook Air. Is it possible to replace every key to have a English keyboard?

  Is the structure and the size of the keys the same in every country?

I want to switch to the English keyboard in the system preferences and also have the keys from the English one!


texts: Why would 2 sticks of 2GB RAM not work together, but work individually in my Macbook?

texts:
I have an older Macbook, specifically this model, and when I am upgrading the standard 1GB that it came with. I bought DDR2 667 PNY Memory - 2 X 2GB. According to those specs, my unit can manage 4GB. I called Apple just to verify and they told me the same thing.

When I put both sticks into the unit, the machine doesn't boot up.

When I take out one, and put in the old 512MB, it boots up fine and when I get into OS X it tells me I have 2.5GB of RAM (which is right).

I have tried both sticks in both slots (all the possible combinations with the two original 512MB sticks). All combinations work (i.e. 2GB A with 512MB A, 2GB A with 512MB B, 2GB B & 512MB A and 2GB B & 512MB B), except with the 2 x 2GB.

Why is that?

I can't remember with certainty, but I think just the 2GB stick alone (with nothing in the other slot) does NOT work.

I am running memtest now on one of the sticks, to see if there is anything wrong with the actual sticks, so will update this once I have those results (could be a few hours though).

Any thoughts on what may be causing this and how I can fix it?

P.S. The PNY sticks are brand new.


texts: Where to view photo and movie metadata on iOS

texts:
I noticed today when a friend emailed me a movie he shot on his iPhone XR that the quality was only 568 x 320. While trying to get to the bottom of that mystery, I asked my friend to check the video details on the phone, prior to being sent. Neither of us could find a way to view the video information on the phone.
Is there a way to view media information (like file size, dimensions, data taken etc) for photos and movies shot on iPhones?


texts: How do I save a text file with a Ruby (.rb) file extension?

texts:
I am new to Ruby and am trying to learn from a book. However, I have one problem – it says I should save a file so that it ends with .rb but my Mac only lets me use .rtf so that's what I used. But the next thing I needed to do was open it in Terminal and the command cd /Users/username/ruby didn't work for me. I'm guessing the reason for this is because I didn't use .rb it didn't work.

So my question is: What should I use for writing Ruby in the end of that command, or for saving with the .rb extension?


texts: How can I request a status update on an apple bug report?

texts:
So I was reading the FAQ for Apple's bug reporter site and I came across this:

To request a status on an existing issue, please update your report directly via the
Apple Bug Reporter requesting a status update and we will provide you with any
available information.

I got curious about this, and I went back to bugreport.apple.com to look at one of my pending bug reports and I didn't see any way of explicitly asking for a status update. I feel that I'm missing something obvious, because I expect the FAQ to be correct, but so far I haven't got the faintest. Any help?


texts: If I create a Game Center account, will I lose my Clash of Clans village?

texts: I don't have a Game Center account and I play clash of clans. If I create an account, will I lose my village?


texts: How do I change user password on non-AD Windows Server from a Mac?

texts:
I have a Windows server (Win 2003) not using AD, just a simple local file server.

My Mac clients can log in fine to the server using SMB in the Connect To Server window on the Mac, and they can access files fine, but I can't find any way of changing their server password from their Mac.

A few years ago, we would go into the Mac's Terminal and type:

smbpasswd -r <serverIPaddress> -U <username>

the server would ask for the current password, then allow the user to specify a new password. But with the last few versions of Mac OS X (Leopard & Snow Leopard?) this doesn't seem to work anymore - and now with Lion smbpasswd isn't even included!

Is there some other technique to change the user's server password on the Mac?


texts: Transferring file creation dates to an Asustor NAS

texts:
I have just purchased a new Asustor 7004T network attached storage device, which I had hoped to use as an archive for the massive quantity of files I have spread across multiple computers and external hard drives. The problem is, I have many of these files meticulously organized by "date created", and recently learned, to my utter disbelief, that my device (and apparently NASes in general) does not preserve the creation date of any file transferred to it. For example, if I take three files dated 9/24/2008, 7/31/2011, and 1/6/2014, and simultaneously migrate them over to the NAS on 11/15/2015, they all end up with the timestamp of 11/15/2015. This is nothing short of a disaster for me, and I am flabbergasted (and frankly outraged) that a top-of-the-line, $1,000+ device expressly made for storing and backing up files was designed without a data storage capability possessed by any $5 2GB flash drive.

I am desperate for a way to circumvent this fatal (for me) flaw of the Asustor NAS. I would be eternally grateful to anyone who could recommend a means of copying files to an NAS that leaves the creation date intact, without potentially corrupting any data or otherwise compromising the security of my files.

Some key information: my computer is a 2012 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.9.5. I am a 1988 model human being compatible with most Web Browsers and proficient with a handful of basic applications such as Microsoft Word, with the capacity to comprehend and follow simple step-by-step instructions as far as more technical tasks are concerned. In other words, if your solution is any more complex than downloading and installing an app, you should probably take a "for dummies" approach in explaining it to me. I would also appreciate any input from users of a particular method who found it to be buggy, ineffective, or otherwise problematic, for Murphy's Law is an ever-present specter in my life, and I would thank you to inform me of all the pros and cons of a particular solution before I risk implementing it.

Thank you in advance to all who contribute their help. I have not been able to find any other sites or forums where someone has asked about this issue in regard to a Mac or Asustor device, and hope that this thread will prove helpful to other users of those systems who share my predicament (I cannot imagine I am the only one).


texts: Why does iOS remove aps from folders upon update?

texts:
Has anyone else seen the issue where apps are removed from their folders when you do a mass update from the App Store? I've seen it with my iPhone 4 and my original iPad. It only seems to happen when it's the most inconvenient lol...like updating 20+ apps at once. I don't think it's a jailbreak issue; I don't even have Winterboard installed on either device.

I just wanna know if anyone else has seen this behavior, or knows why it happens.

Thanks!


texts: Files disappeared after Mavericks upgrade

texts: I upgrade my iMac to Mavericks last night and now I can't see any of my files.  None of the applications I use showed up (i.e. Photoshop and Lightroom), my desktop doesn't have any of my files, none of my iMovie projects show up.  If I do a search for them I can see them but I don't know where they are located. It says Desktop but my Desktop is blank. Its like I'm starting with a brand new computer and have to set everything up again.


texts: SD CARD saying read only after I tried to delete files from the card

texts: I have a 1 GB SD card that I have been using with my zoom H4n recorder. I literally recorded onto the card, inserted it into my Mac OS x computer, pulled the recordings, and when I tried to delete the files, the card switched to read only. This has happened to two of the exact same 1 GB cards, and now I have no way of using them anymore. Does anybody know what the problem is, and how I can fix this? I appreciate any help! Thank you.


texts:
I am somehow unable to restore my iMac from 2011.

Someone gifted me the iMac but had his HDD removed. I thus reinstalled a new HDD.

After the chime I press Option+Command+R and the network restore process starts.

When the bar reaches 100% I see the Apple logo for a few seconds with a spinner underneath it, after that the screen turns white and stays this way. Sometimes when I try to reboot after an attempted network restore the screen even stays black after the chime and nothing happens.

What could cause this behavior?

PS: I would try to boot from a USB-stick but I don't have any other Mac to create a bootable volume.

I don't know if tis helps but the fan is spinning at full speed and the upper left back of the iMac gets pretty hot


texts: Recommended malware/virus scanner for mac?

texts:
I have been searching for a good virus/malware scanner for my mac. But I'm scared that I might download some trashy software because all the stuff I find on google just turn out to be ads.
Do you have any recommendations?


texts: Prepending section/subsection numbers to headings in Pages

texts:
I would like to make a document where each paragraph of text with a "section" paragraph style is prepended with a level-one number (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.) and each paragraph of text with a "subsection" paragraph style is prepended with a level-two number (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, etc.). Here is the layout I am looking for:

1 Introduction

1.1 First note
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

1.2 Second note
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

2. Body

2.1 First argument
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

The main reason I'd like this is so that the numbers update automatically if I add in a section or subsection.

This is possible using "styles" in Microsoft Word (home tab to the right). Is something like this also possible using the paragraph styles from Pages?


texts: VLC Player Staying On Top Of The Opened Applications On Desktop

texts: I want my VLC player not to minimize while I am on the windows of other applications. Whenever I click another window the VLC player window will go behind the my currently clicked window but I want it to resist being on top.


texts:
I'm trying to set up a phonegap project and while trying to add a platform it outputs the following error:

Error: The command "android" failed. Make sure you have the latest Android SDK installed, and the "android" command (inside the tools/ folder) is added to your path.

I've tried what I've read here: How do I set environment variables on OS X?

and wrote the following in the .profile file:

export PATH=/users/ophir/android-sdks/tools

while it did add the android command to my path and I was able to run it and get a response, I started noticing that a simple "ls" command suddenly didn't work - until I removed what I have done.

how can I add another path to the PATH variable? how does it all work on OS X anyhow?

thanks


texts: When MDM certificates expire, can I still use my iPhone?

texts:
My dad gave me an old iPhone 7 from his employer. When the MDM certificates expire, will  I still be able to use my phone?

I asked him to un-enroll my phone, but he couldn’t find it in his system.


texts: Which wireless controller is more compatible with Macs: Xbox 360 or PS3?

texts:
I want to buy a gaming controller to play games like GTA3 from the App Store. Which controller will be most compatible with Mac OS X and games on Macs?

Especially it will be useful to know if you have any experience with setting up either PS3 or Xbox controller for Mac.

Update: I'm especially interested in correct functioning of the analog controls (joysticks).


texts: iPad virtual keyboard text entry: Can I disable the automatic upper-casing that takes place after I end a sentence?

texts: When using the iPad to type a note, for instance, every time I type a period, the iPad assumes I want to start the next word with a capital letter.  It also assumes I want to start typing with a capital letter in some text fields on web forms.  Is there any way to turn off the automatic SHIFT that is taking place, so there are only capital letters where I explicitly want them to be?


texts: MAC OS Mojave: Why do the icon texts display unnormally (squeeze and crowd)?

texts: After I upgrade my MacBook Pro from 10.8 to 10.14, I found the icon texts display unnormally. They are too crowd. Anybody have any solution towards this problem?


texts:
I have an iCloud account for my iPhone.   My computer is Linux.  I have in hand a Google Takeout of about 600 photos.  How can I import them into iCloud?  I would like to preserve the metadata that is now in [photo].jpg.json files.

There are also a handful of videos.  Importing those too "would be nice."


texts: Apple Error reporting suddenly turned off. OSX 10.9.4

texts:
So I was using my mac and usually when a game or application crashes it would produce an error report that will then allow me to either submit or not to apple.

Yesterday this stopped happening, some of my application have crashed and there have been absolutely no error reports whatsoever. I'm not entirely sure what has changed. Is there a way to check that error reporting is actually on? and if not, how do I turn it on?

Thanks!

Euden


texts: How to recover this damaged CoreStorage PV records?

texts:
I have played something following https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/2wzlxc/a_corestorage_primer_aka_why_you_cant_manipulate/ ,like:

hdiutil attach -nomount ram://$[2048*1024]
diskutil cs removeDisk

After reboot, one of the PV record is missing:

$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 55723AF5-6C77-4010-848D-95AD20D74899
    =========================================================
    Name:         FusionDrive
    Status:       Offline
    Size:         1644054888448 B (1.6 TB)
    Free Space:   -none-
    |
    +-< Physical Volume E4E1EDD1-E102-49C4-89A2-604BF05A7025
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   (No properties)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 41771492-81C3-4F80-8B5A-EBF21613DB29
        ----------------------------------------------------
        Index:    1
        Disk:     disk1s2
        Status:   Checking
        Size:     1644054888448 B (1.6 TB)

I believe the missing one is disk0s4, but

$ diskutil cs info disk0s4
disk0s4 is not a CoreStorage disk

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            160.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS                         41.6 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         1.6 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                356.0 GB   disk1s4

How can I re-create a Core Storage record to let disk0s4 become a Physical Volume (PV) with UUID=E4E1EDD1-E102-49C4-89A2-604BF05A7025 ?


texts:
I have a Mid 2012 Model Macbook Pro, nearly 3 years old, and my computer has recently become extremely, stupidly slow. It's becoming hard to perform simple tasks on the computer, like opening a Google Chrome Page, opening any app on my computer or even switching to a different application via the dock. I use this computer for school, however much of my classmates (who have the same model computer) aren't having the same problem as I am.

Usually, it takes about half an hour for my computer to start up and log in, and another half an hour to get everything set up on my desktop (as in loading up desktop, dock, menu bar and letting the computer speed up and stabilise). Below is an image of my Activity Monitor:

I have nothing on my desktop as of now. My Downloads folder is rather full, and I still have 200 GB of storage out of my 500GB remaining. I can't figure as to why it is this slow, and I know it's not because of my internet connection because I have a second Macbook Air laptop (relatively new) that runs at beautiful speeds.

What should I do about this?

Specifications:
Macbook Pro (13 Inch, Mid 2012)
Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Storage: 500GB total, 200GB remaining


texts: Auval and Auvaltool not working through SSH

texts:
I was successfully validating audio unit plugins with OSX 10.11 over SSH. On my new machine which runs OSX 10.14 (Mojave) everything works fine until I try to validate a plugin from an SSH connection. I use the same command in the same directory both in local and over SSH.

/usr/bin/auvaltool -v aumf MyPl Loco

The thing is, using SSH, auval do not detect my plugins (/usr/bin/auvaltool -a), but only Apple default ones. When doing the same on the screen sharing, my plugins are in the output.

This does not seems to come from $PATH.
This does not seems to come from permission (I have tried a chmod 777 on every .component)
This does not seems to come from group/user (I have tried to chown it to diferent user)
This does not seems to come from administration (I have tried to sudo it)

So my question is, do you know any SSH security limitation that can break my execution of auval and auvaltool ? What can be different on SSH that could make some execution behaviour changes ?

Thanks.

EDIT: How to reproduce ?

Install any non-apple AU plugin.
Launch a terminal and:

"auval -a" will output the previously installed plugin.
"ssh localhost" will connect to you machine through SSH
"auval -a" will NOT output the previously installed plugin.


texts:
I recently bought hardware that apparently does not support Mac.
When connecting it to my Windows VirtualMachine the installer pops up and the device is ready to be used. However, that does not happen on my Mac (Mac Mini Late 2012, macOS 10.11.2).
I checked for available drivers for the hardware that I could install on my Mac to make it run but they do not offer any.

Is there any application or 3rd party software that allows me to run Windows-only hardware on my Mac?

Thanks in advance!


texts:
My new work has just given me a MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 to use as a development machine. It has PHP 5.6 installed and when I ran curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.1 (as recommended by many online guides), it installed PHP 7.1 in a separate directory while leaving PHP 5.6 intact.

I have a few issues:

PHP 7.1 will not run by default
The Non Thread Safe version was installed
When I run PHP 7.1 directly, it takes 5 seconds to start (I timed it), while PHP 5.6 starts instantly

One site recommended adding the new PHP directory to the start of the PATH environment variable, but that seems like a band-aid solution.

How can I update the existing PHP 5.6 version to PHP 7.1 (Thread Safe), and have it respond instantly when run?


texts: Safari SSH Tunneling Troubleshooting Diagnostics

texts:
What diagnostics / troubleshooting can be performed to meet the goal?

Goal: tunnel through a remote router, with port 22 enabled for SSH access via SSH.  Asus RT68U Router outfitted with Merlin Firmware

Background:

ssh tunnel setup from terminal: ssh -D 3000 -N user@mydomain.fqdn.com
proxy setup:

Note: username / pw is accepted by router on the WAN side.

Observations:

Tunnel failure indicated: Safari does not return any webpages when proxy is engaged.
Terminal indicates:

channel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited:
channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited:
channel 4: open failed: administratively prohibited:
channel 5: open failed: administratively prohibited:

The litmus test is www.whatismyip.com should return the FQDN's WAN IP address.

What diagnostic tests can be performed to determine corrective action?  Any diagnostic questions to advance the effort is appreciated: thank you.

Is it possible that having identical subnets 192.168.1.X at both ends is problematic?

SSH Implementations?

ipkg list_installed | grep ssh

openssh-sftp-server - 5.9p1-1 - sftp-server only from a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools.

  ls /etc/dropbear/

returns:

  dropbear_dss_host_key    dropbear_ecdsa_host_key
  dropbear_rsa_host_key

Attempt to find sshd_config:

  cd /; find . | grep sshd_config

does not return anything

Attempted to install 'full' OpenSSH server:

ipkg install openssh-server

returned errors:

  Configuring portmap /opt/sbin/portmap: can't resolve symbol
  '__register_frame_info' postinst script returned status 1 ERROR:
  portmap.postinst returned 1 Nothing to be done An error ocurred,
  return value: 4. Collected errors: Cannot find package openssh-server.
  Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'


texts: Why won't my MacBook Pro connect to Wi-Fi networks that use a sign-in page (captive portal)?

texts:
Some wi-fi networks require viewing and agreeing to terms before Internet access is allowed.  When my MBP connects to such a network, it attempts to redirect and isn't able to connect. I tried all browsers. However, it works when I boot up Windows on my Mac. Why does it do this? I don't think my /etc/hosts file is messed up. Could anyone give me some insight?

I am using Lion 10.7.2.


texts: Saving mail attachments to external drive

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I want to save certain incoming mail attachments to an external drive, not a whole folder or even a whole email.
I want to set up a rule in Mail that will automatically select certain regular attachments I receive and file them in a designated folder on a connected external drive, deleting them from Mail.
Clearly, Apple Mail's rules exclude any such capability and only allow filing in another Mail folder.
Can anybody suggest a simple way of accomplishing this?


texts: Unable to mount Time Capsule / AFP-SMB sharing keeps loading

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I'm getting a strange behavior for my Time Capsule (the "tower" model) since I upgraded my home LAN. The problem is that I can no longer browse the content of my Time Capsule using AFP or SMB because the Finder keeps loading. I don't get asked for the password because it's saved in the keychain. I also tried to manually mount Time Capsule using Terminal and mount or mount_afp but nothing changed.

This is the new setup of my home LAN:

All the connections are made using Gigabit Ethernet and Cat5e/Cat6 cables.
Since I connected my MBP and my Windows PC using Ethernet, the Time Capsule is not mounted properly anymore. But if I turn on AirPort and connect to the WiFi network, my Time Capsule works very well.
The only workaround I figured out is that I need to connect the switch directly to the Time Capsule, instead of the Router, to get it working again. So I thought the Router is blocking/not redirecting AFP/SMB traffic to the Time Capsule, in some ways...

I also tried to ping the Time Capsule from the MBP and it pings correctly using TC's IP address and Bonjour .local name. I checked all the possible settings:

TC shows up in AirPort Utility and Disk Sharing option is enabled
Firewall on my MBP is active but AFP and SMB connections are allowed
File Sharing options on my MBP are enabled

And finally, IPs in the entire network are automatically assigned using DHCP reservations, TC is in bridged mode (just a network hard drive) and modem too (internet connection through PPPoE is managed by the router); my MBP runs Yosemite 10.10.5.
Can anyone help me with this weird situation?
Thank you so much!

UPDATE:

The modem is my ISP fiber modem (Telecom Italia)
The router is a TP-Link Archer D7 modem router which manages almost everything: PPPoE connection, DHCP server, NAT, WiFi 5GHz-only AP, DDNS active, Firewall disabled, Port Forwarding active, IPv6 disabled
DHCP range is 192.168.1.101 to 192.168.1.210, subnet is 255.255.255.0, router is 192.168.1.100
TP-Link router has 192.168.1.100 IP
Computers have 192.168.1.1xx-like IPs: my MBP has 192.168.1.101 IP, 255.255.255.0 subnet and 192.168.1.100 as router
Other network devices, like the TC, Smart TV and Printer, have 192.168.1.2xx-like IPs: my TC has 192.168.1.201 IP, 255.255.255.0 subnet and 192.168.1.100 as router
The iPhone, which has the same configuration of a computer but 192.168.1.105 IP, can connect to the TC without any problems

Furthermore, using the Console app on the MBP, I figured out that the MBP correctly authenticate with the TC but it is unable to mount it as it keeps requesting reconnect tokens.
Hope this other information can help you and me to solve this problem!


texts:
I am running macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta in a virtual machine on Parallels Desktop for Mac version 15.0.0.

I installed the Beta on top of Mojave what was working well within the VM. Unfortunately, after installing Catalina Beta, I cannot drag any windows.

When I click on the title bar of a window and drag, the window moves a few pixels and stops. If I repeat, I can barely make progress, progressively moving the window a few pixels at a time. Obviously inching along a few pixels at a time is unworkable and renders Catalina Beta useless.

This problem affects windows in all apps: the Finder, the "About this Mac" window, the Feedback Assistant window, and so on.

Any workarounds or fixes?


texts: How to make Safari warn me with a pop-up window before closing a tab?

texts:
Whether it is Chrome, Firefox or Safari, I always encounter this problem. I stream this video and let it loads for like 30 minutes so I can watch. Meanwhile, I navigate through my 10 other tabs. At some point I want to check how's the progress on the streaming video download. But all of a sudden, I accidentally click on the little cross that's hidden to close on the video tab and al the download is lost!

I'm using Safari, so I need a fix for this browser, maybe Chrome too. I noticed that if I'm on Safari and the page is a form and I accidentally close the tab, it warns me if I'm sure I want to close the tab. I wish it could do the same for any tab.

Does anyone know a trick or extension that would help?


texts: I usually run dwm inside Xquartz on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. But is there a way to boot into Safe Mode (or a console), then startx or xinit, skipping Aqua? I'd like to boot directly into X11.


texts: How to repair broken HDMI port on MacBook

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). I'm happy with it but recently I started having problems connecting my external screen via HDMI.
Since a few days ago, I can't make it work anymore at all and I found the problem: Looking into the HDMI connector at my MacBook, I can see that one of the silver wires of the connector is "bent away", i.e. instead of being flat and aligned with all the others, it's bent toward the rear end of the connector. No wonder the screen doesn't work.
I believe the HDMI port is botched for good, because if I somehow managed to move those connectors down, plugging in the cable would just move them out of place again.
Hence: Is it possible to swap the HDMI port by myself? I have no problem opening the MacBook and if it's just a tedious task, I can do it.
If that port is properly mounted to the mainboard and cannot be swapped by itself, how much would a swap roughly be at an AppleStore (Germany)?
Here's a photo:


texts: Finder hangs hard when accessing some files on NAS via SMB

texts:
I have a new Synology NAS that I'm accessing over SMB3 (AFP is completely disabled on the NAS). When accessing some files on the NAS, Finder, as well as any app that tries to show an Open/Save dialog and some apps that don't, hangs hard. Relaunching doesn't work, force quitting all the apps doesn't work. It takes a full reboot without reopening windows to fix the problem.

One fairly reliable way to cause this is to add a large video file on the NAS to VLC's queue. I also saw it when accessing a .sparsebundle disk image on the NAS. And sometimes it happens without either of those.

Here's a spindump of Finder (Raw GitHub Gist; 11 MB) while this is going on. I can't make much of it, except that maybe an awful lot of calls took the entire duration of the sample. But even that might be meaningless for all I know.

Can anyone make heads or tails of this?

Setup details:

15″ 2019 MacBookPro15,1
macOS 10.15.4
Synology DS1618+ connected to router via both Ethernet ports using Link
Aggregation
Router running DD-WRT
Mac connected to router via ethernet as well.
Synology set to disallow SMB versions lower than 2. Connection seems to be correctly using SMB3.


texts: can i repair a failing disk on macbook pro for free?

texts:
My macbook pro early 2011 says its drive is failing its S.M.A.R.T. test. It said to repair disk in recovery mode. I've attempted it twice. It doesn't seem to change the situation.
      Could the recent installation of MacPilot  and making changes to settings be causing a problem or causing the appearance of a mock problem?


texts: Emacsify OSX throughout: word-forward (⌥ + F) and word-backward (⌥ + B) instead of 'special characters'?

texts:
Yes, the OSX already supports ⌥+← and ⌥+→ for moving the cursor word-backward and word-forward, but reaching for arrow keys is annoying. So, why not rather have ⌥+B and ⌥+F do this? I mean, not once have I (intentionally) wrote the integral sign ∫ with ⌥+B (apart from now).

In short, I'd rather have Emacs-like behavior (not just, say, ^+F for character-forward) throughout the OSX.

Related question: Stop using Mac keyboard Option as a modifier to character


texts: Cannot write to SMB Share with Terminal OS X 10.8

texts:
I am trying to copy some files from my local drive to a SMB share I have set up on my home network using Terminal, but I keep getting this error:

fchmod failed: Permission denied

The share is set up on a Freenas server and the folder permissions is set to 777. I can copy the files ok with Finder so I don't know why its not working in Terminal.


texts: Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable?

texts:
Please Search Prior To Posting!

There are many applications already listed.  In all likelihood, this includes the one you are thinking of. Please check the existing answers to avoid duplicates, and the resulting cleanup it necessitates.

To search, use the search box in the upper-right corner. To search the answers of the current question, use inquestion:this. For example:

inquestion:this Evernote

If it hasn't already been posted, please follow a few simple rules when adding it as an answer.

Rules

Limit to one application per answer.
Add a short description of the application.
Add a link to the website in the name of the application if possible (no direct downloads).
Use ## [appName](link) for citing the application name.
Only Mac OS X (not iOS, OS 9, compatible, etc) applications. All versions of OS X are accepted, but if the application requires a specific version please note.


texts: What is a good indestructible iPad case for toddlers?

texts: Does anyone know of any iPad cases that are so indestructible, that you would entrust a 3-year-old with an iPad?


texts: Remote control mac using ARD or teamviewer with password lock?

texts:
I'm going to leave my main iMac in the office for a few days but I also need to access it remotely.

Currently I noticed I can only remotely access the mac with ARD or teamviewer if the iMac account wasn't locked.

How can I access the iMac remotely whilst still guaranteeing security to prevent unauthorized access from other sources.

TeamViewer requires password to connect, so that's safe, but requires the iMac up and running and not locked.


texts: Disable opening 'new file' when opening app

texts:
In Catalina, but also in the previous MacOS, when I open applications such as Word, Excel, etc, or most applications, a new file is opened automatically by default.

Is there a way to disable this? I would like to just open the application without opening a new file.


texts: iPhone Contact Reverts to Old Data After Edit

texts:
I have several iDevices that I use: iPad, iPhone and an iPod, all of which sync contacts with iCloud.  I am experiencing the phenomenon where I update a contact on my iPhone and instead of syncing the new data to iCloud where the other devices can pick it up, the phone is pulling the old data down from iCloud and over-writing the updates I just made.

Any ideas what the problem could be?


texts: Is it possible to put in consitently readable notes with a stylus on an iPad

texts:
I have an iPad and I'd lovely to be able to use it for brainstorming and proper, detailed annotation of PDFs, but I find my attempts look like a child's fingerpainting:

(The word I attempted to write was 'interesting')

Is there any cure? Or am I doomed to be kept using the printer and the pen?


texts: Can ISPs monitor apps that one uses on iOS?

texts: Is it possible for an ISP to identify what iOS app I use based on network traffic?


texts: Standard (ISO 8601) week number in Calendar.app?

texts:
Is there a way to have Calendar.app display its week numbers using the standard ISO 8061 week definition?

The standard says a week starts on Monday, and the first Thursday of the year defines the first week. So at the end of 2015, the standard week of 2015-12-28 to 2016-01-03 is Week 53. In contrast, Calendar.app in Yosemite & Mountain Lion shows Week 1.

I'm wondering:

What definition of week is Apple using? Perhaps simply the First of January is always Week 1?
Is there any way to change this default behavior to show standard weeks?


texts: iOS 10: Control Center for Music- Music Won't Play

texts:
Before you say it, yes. I know that the control center in iOS 10 is divided into two panels. But whenever I try to play music from YouTube on Safari (being specific there), I click on the play button, but the music will not play on the control center while I'm in another app.

It seemed to be working fine yesterday! I shut off my tablet and restarted it as well. I closed the tab of YouTube and reopened it, but it's not working.

Does anyone have an answer for this?


texts: iOS 10 people album: How to change the name of a person

texts: I added a name for a person in the people album, but  there was a typo. Now it says Davr instead of Dave. It bugs the heck out of me. How can I change the name?


texts: MacBook Pro OS X Yosemite having trouble dragging files using trackpad

texts:
I used to drag files easily from one location to another in Finder on my old MacBook Pro with an older operating system. (using thumb and one finger on trackpad). Now I have to work really hard at it, and usually it opens the window i'm attempting to select, instead of letting me select and move it. After trying 4 or 5 times (and wearing out my arm muscles), I can get it. I'm sure there's a simpler way.

I tried to find preferences for this kind of thing, but under apple preferences, mouse, there is nothing (since I use a trackpad and not a mouse), and under trackpad it doesn't give choices for setting taps for dragging, or anything else related.

Any ideas?


texts: Create a partition on SD card for ext4 filesystem

texts:
I've got an SD card and want to create a partition on it for the ext4 fs.
The partition must start after 1MB. This 1MB will be used for a bootloader (u-boot).
I'm doing this on OS X Yosemite.

Here's what I do and get:

macbook@terminalx:cubie $ diskutil partitionDisk disk3 2 "Free Space" "%noformat%" 1M "Free Space" "%noformat%" R
Started partitioning on disk3
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for the disks to reappear
Finished partitioning on disk3
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 GB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1

The result is not what I expect at all. In my mind it must be something like two partitions with no format. First is 1MB and the second is all left free space on the SD card.

How can I achieve this?

Thank you.


texts: How to record the screen of an OpenGL application without stuttering?

texts:
I'm currently recording videos of my screen using QuckTime Player and a MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2010) in a resolution of 640x480. The application I'm recording is called Synthesia (it is a game like Guitar Hero for piano) and is based on OpenGL.

Somehow all videos I record do have a subtile stuttering which I think is annoying (see an example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEBAKQ4-Zcg).

Is there a program that will do a better job at recording my screen than QuckTime Player, or is it just my MacBook Pro that is not powerful enough?


texts: Routing Bluetooth audio in and out of headphone/mic jack on iPhone

texts:
I would like to be able to route the audio from a Bluetooth headset out of the headphone/mic jack on an iPhone.  That is, to be able to send the mic input from the Bluetooth device out the jack and receive audio input from the same jack and route to the Bluetooth headphone.

Basically, the iPhone would receive the Bluetooth output, convert to analog and send it to the jack while simultaneously receiving input from the jack and converting to output for Bluetooth.

Is this physically possible on the iPhone hardware?


texts: How do you change which program Google Chrome invokes on a Mac?

texts:
I am not sure if this is handled differently on a Mac or on a PC. If I click on some links on Google Chrome, it automatically starts an app. This is probably is some setting inside of Google Chrome instead of on the Mac, because if it is a different user profile on the same Google Chrome, it'd ask what to do.
How'd you change which default program to use or unset it so it'd ask you every time?


texts: Check system logs for "Service Battery" entry

texts:
I would like to find evidence of when the "Service Battery" warning has been  activated. I knoow the console.app exists, but I'm not sure how to query it for what I am looking for.

Why I want to do this? I took my macbook pro for a screen repair at an Apple store. Upon return, I noticed this warning, which I did not see prior to the repair. I would like to know if this warning was first shown around the repair time.


texts: MacBook Pro Late 2011 doesn't upgrade further than 10.13.1

texts:
In the App Store > Updates it showed the 10.13.4 update, I did that but About this Mac still shows me 10.13.1.

I would like to download the newest XCode but that reqiures at least 10.13.2
So I went to the Apple download page where it says I should upgrade it in the App store instead of installing it from scrap.
I tried through terminal, it downloaded and installed it, then it said I need to restart and wanted the password. After I typed in the password, the computer shut down and restarted. In the Terminal it said Session restarted, and the MacBook still runs on 10.13.1.
I have 210GB of free storage at the moment.

What could it be? Which further information can I provide to be more precise?
Is it not possible with my model? Is there an older version of XCode I could download?
I am thankful for any tip.


texts: Way to fix picture dates (in the future) taken on WhatsApp in iPhone?

texts:
In the last few days (prob. after updating to iOS 10) some pictures I take keep having dates in the future. (See screenshot below.)

EDIT 1: All pictures before and after the faulty ones - even by a matter of seconds - have the correct time and place. In the image below, you can see at the top pictures taken this morning with the proper location (blurred out) and the right times.

EDIT 2: all pictures having this issue were taken within WhatsApp, but at least the last picture taken in the app had the correct date and time, but no location. (The app is allowed to use my location when it's in use.)

Any idea why this is happening or how to fix this?


texts: Restoring to previous state: concerns with Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine conflict

texts:
One week ago I experienced an odd and catastrophic failure of my MacBook Pro. The details of the failure are not important, and the relevant parts have been replaced, among them a new HDD. Side note: I've said it countless times - Apple Care is the only extended warranty worth having. My machine failed six days (!!!) before my three-year warranty expired. Not only did Apple replace everything quickly, but they increased my HDD from the stock 250 GB to 500 (I suspect that this was partially due to my complaint that the authorized repair center, not an Apple store, was marginally incompetent as they ignored the work order completely at first, and set about fixing something that wasn't problematic).

Here is my scenario: I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my MBP every other week, and Time Machine for the hourly backups. Several directories are excluded from TM, which include fairly standard exclusions (e.g., Trash, Downloads) and some non-standard ones (e.g., the applications folder, since I can easily restore these with either the clone, DVDs, or the App Store). When I got the MBP back, it had 10.5.8 installed, which is what was on the machine when I bought it (late 2008 model; the install discs for my MBP are in another city and state, which I can access in two weeks if needed). I used CCC to erase and clone to the new HDD, which went off without a hitch. My major concern is restoring the files from TM to the HDD, which are current to the machine's failure date (TM files are about two weeks newer than the clone).

I have scoured the help manuals for TM and CCC, but could not find an adequate, representative case such as mine. Now that the HDD has been cloned, do I need to use the Time Machine system restore procedure over the backup? I am concerned about whether or not it will overwrite the directories that conflict between the clone and the TM backups. Alternatively, should I boot from the clone and restore files from TM to it, then erase the internal HDD (again) to re-restore from the clone?

Ultimately, I am wondering whether it is safe to use a non-standard Time Machine backup to restore newer files over a clone. So, if a clone directory has five subdirectories, all but one of which are on the TM backup, will TM overwrite the parent directory and leave me with only those four subdirectories? Or, will TM leave the unique subdirectory alone and simply restore the other four that it contains?

Let me know if you have had this specific scenario or one very similar to it. I can leave things as-is and restore files as I find them missing, but I'd rather just get to the previous state. This should be totally possible, as these two backups (plus dropbox, forgot to mention) represent 100% of the machine's previous state.


texts: Bluetooth corruption on 2013 Macbook Pro

texts:
I have an Early 2013 Macbook Pro. OS Version is 10.9. I'm using a trackpad connected to the bluetooth.  All of the sudden, and at random times, my trackpad will lose its connection and will not reconnect.  When this happens, I pull up the Bluetooth preferences and I see:

<< do not localize >...
Name not available

Bluetooth will not turn off at all. Nothing can connect to bluetooth once this happens.  I have to do a hard reboot of my laptop to get bluetooth working again. This tends to work for a few hours, sometimes an entire day, but at random, bluetooth seems to go corrupt again.

Anyone else having a problem similar to this? Any hints on fixing it?  Also, is there some way I can force a reset of just bluetooth? Maybe by the command line?


texts: Unified Inbox in Mail does not display all emails

texts:
I have 4 different email accounts in Mail; therefore, there are 4 different inboxes.

When I select the unified Inbox, I should see all emails listed from all accounts. But I don't.

What could be preventing seeing all email in unified inbox? 3 email accounts are POP; 1 is MobileMe IMAP. When I control-click on unified Inbox, all email accounts are in the drop-down list. One of the POP accounts shows nothing in large box below that.

(Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with Mail version equivalent for Snow Leopard.)


texts: Apple TV works with my iPhone but not with my PC on the same wireless network

texts:
I have:

Windows 7 PC with latest version of iTunes connected to my network (wired). Windows Firewall is turned off.
Apple TV (2nd generation) connected to my network (wireless)
iPhone connected to my network (wireless)

I am able to AirPlay from my iPhone to the Apple TV, but it does not work from my PC.

In the Apple TV menu under Computers, I can see my computer's library but when I try to connect, it takes a while and then it fails. I don't see the Apple TV from iTunes on the PC. (I don't see the iPhone either under sharing but I don't know if it should show up there or not).

I don't think it's a router issue otherwise it wouldn't work with the iPhone either.

I have reinstalled iTunes on the PC and rebooted all devices (router, PC, Apple TV).

What do you think could be the problem?


texts:
I am in the process of downloading iOS9 for my iPhone5S on iTunes. This is taking 90 minutes. I also have an iPad and my wife has an iPhone4 and an iPad (she syncs these to her MacBook).

Is there any way of using the single download to update the 4 devices.


texts: How do I change permissions of folders on a hard drive from a booted USB drive

texts:
I am trying to save my files on my Hard Drive that has a crashed OS. I created a Bootable USB with Ubuntu and successfully booted.

I can see my folders, but I can't actually open them because I don't have permission.

I tried to do this:

sudo chmod 777 -R Pictures

Where Pictures is the name of the folder I want to change permissions to.

All I want to be able to do is to copy the folders & files from my Hard Drive to my USB drive.

How do I do that?


texts:
Is there an app for Mac that can distribute a single video encoding job to several thread to utilize the full potential of the system?

I used an application called iFlicks to do video encoding, and as far as I know, it's single-threaded, so even though it can use all my CPU time, it cannot squeeze the best performance out of my system.

I am using a 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Also, I knew that there were multithreaded ffmpeg implementation, but I can't figure out how to use that. If anyone could help, it's much appreciated.


texts: What is the maximum wattage an iPhone X will support for wireless charging?

texts:
The existing chargers on the market are all either 5W or 7.5W for their charging capacity.

While higher capacity chargers dont exist on the market, what is the theoretical maximum that an iPhone X can handle for wireless charging?


texts: Connect 2 external Monitors with Belkin's Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD

texts:
I need a little help here,

I have attached my MacBook Air Mid 2013, to an Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD.
On the product page it says that one can connect two monitors. The only condition is that one needs to be an Thunderbolt display. So far so good.

I attached one monitor with HDMI to the dock and another using the mini display port (which is compatible to Thunderbolt).
Unfortunately just the one with Mini-DP is working. If I disconnect the Mini-DP Monitor HDMI starts working.

Is there any advice why this is not working?

AND

Is there any option to make it work?

OSX 10.9.4 @ MacBook Air Mid 2013
Mini-DP Monitor: 2560x1080
HDMI-Monitor: 1920x1080


texts: I'm trying to update my sisters iPhone 5 to the new iOS update but it's asking for the passcode to do the update. We have tried the passcode to unlock the phone and all the other passcode she can remember but we're still unable to update. Last time we had to use iTunes and then reinstall everything but that took forever to do. Is there anyway of resetting it? I've tried checking the restrictions thing - it's already turned off as well.


texts: Update (new) password for iCloud account

texts: Today I decided to change the password of my iCloud account. I did so from the browser of my Mac. Then I thought I had to update it also on all my devices but surprisingly I did not have to. Is this normal?


texts: Rename application so I can search for it with spotlight

texts:
Is there a way to rename an application so I can search for it with Spotlight?

I don't see a rename option there.


texts: Is it possible to get a summary of tomorrow in the Notification Centre with iOS 10?

texts: A widget I like(d) oddly much in the Notification Centre is the Tomorrow Summary, because it was a good finishing round-up to the Calendar widget. When upgrading to macOS Sierra a while back, the new update did not affect this widget. However, upgrading to iOS 10, I cannot seem to find this widget anymore. Has it been removed? Is it possible to somehow get a summary like this to show up in the Notification Centre?


texts: How to get info about System Device Profiles (MDM) on MacOS?

texts:
I need to get information about System Device Profiles (MDM or enrollment), such as Details: Description, control the computer, Allows and other.
But I need to get it from some FileInfo in order to write these info to my .txt file.
I found the right information in /Library/Application Support/com.Apple.TCC/MDMOverrides.plist . But in new system Mac version these info is SIP protected, that's why I need to restart the PC in Recovery Mode and write the next console command: csrutil disable . I need to find an easier solution, which is approached with any version of system.
I can also find the necessary information in System Preferences/Profiles in Details, so does it mean that the information is opened? Where can I find it?
It can be no path in Privacy Preferences Policy Control.
I have also known about console commands such as profiles list or profiles show/, but it isn't full info.
I really need to read the full info about all Mobile Device Management profiles from some file in order to write in my own file and send to server, or something like this.


texts: How do i undelete my iPhone iTunes songs?

texts:
I recently did a sync from my new MacBookPro with the idea being that it would place my songs from my iPhone onto it, not delete it or more specifically sync it with what was on MacBookPro, which was nothing, because its new.
Did I basically just lose all those songs for good?


texts:
Is there a way to have Limechat "stickily" joined into a network+room(s)?

My laptop sleeps, and it takes the connection with it. I need to go through the motions of "Connect" to the network and then "Join" a room 12 times an hour.

I'd like to "Join and forget..." where connection stability does not dictate access to the room.


texts: How to draw onto a shape that I just drew in Preview.app?

texts: When drawing using draw tool, if I hover over a shape or image it turns into the hand tool and then I can't draw. How do I fix this?


texts: Any way to add Lion full-screen feature for TaskPaper by AppleScript?

texts: I am using TaskPaper and, unlike most Mountain Lion apps, it appears that there is no way to make it go full screen. Would it be possible to use an AppleScript to make it go full screen in the same way other apps can? If so, how would I do that?


texts: What is the default setting for ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification)?

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According to a few old articles, ECN has been partially enabled around 10.11 El Capitan.

Common instructions to enable ECN fully are

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.ecn_negotiate_in=1
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.ecn_initiate_out=1

  To make it persistent, add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.inet.tcp.ecn_initiate_out=1
net.inet.tcp.ecn_negotiate_in=1

However, I see this:

$ sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.ecn_initiate_out=1
net.inet.tcp.ecn_initiate_out: 2 -> 1

which says that the default value of ecn_initiate_out is 2, not the expected 0. What does this default value mean? What is the default ECN behavior of macos 10.14 and 10.15?

ecn_negotiate_in defaults to 1 in 10.14.


texts: disable temporary autoconf inet6 address

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My OS X machine gets assigned two public IP addresses from Android 7.1.1:

% ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 8c:29:XX:XX:XX:XX
    inet6 fe80::8e29:XXff:feXX:XXXX%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
    inet 192.168.43.163 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.43.255
    inet6 2607:fb90:4bYY:YYYY:8e29:XXff:feXX:XXXX prefixlen 64 autoconf
    inet6 2607:fb90:4bYY:YYYY:d427:13ba:ZZZZ:ZZZZ prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active

The problem I've encountered is that the temporary one may change with sleep/wake, whereas the permanent one still has the prefix that is not guaranteed to stay the same (it depends on ME).

I want to use the non-temporary address for ssh, or, at least, extend the time during which the temporary address stays the same (e.g., let's say, to get it automatically hardcoded until the /64 prefix gets reassigned upstream).  How?!

As a sidenote, I'm trying to make it easier to identify my ssh connections from within the cloud, as well as make my ssh connections not break between short sleeps; it seems there's an ssh_config(5) option called BindAddress, and it does appear to work (ssh -oBindAddress=2607:fb90:4b61:7474:8e29:XXff:feXX:XXXX …), but I'd prefer to have this configured without hardcoding the prefix that's still temporary in nature.  E.g., the solution I'm looking for likely involves system preferences; it's OK if it's not exclusive to ssh.


texts: Some contacts are missing in iOS Contacts

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How can I get back (some) missing contacts?  Some contacts are missing in my iPhone's Contacts app.   They are available in my OS X's addressbook, both are linked by iCloud. Strangely, the contact name and information is appearing, when I receive a call or have a missed call. I don't have Facebook linked with my iOS contacts.

iPhone 5s with iOS 7.0.4
MacBook with OS X 10.8.5


texts: Mac keyboard shortcut to press the replace button

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut on a Mac that can press the replace button? See image.


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I'm looking for a good FPS (read like COD4) on Mac OS X Lion. I'm particular about this point as some of the old games don't install or even don't run at all even when copied from a previous install due to the missing rosetta layer in Lion.

I already own all the steam play FPSs on steam, Modern Combat domination, Uberstrike and Red Crucible 2.

Are there other gems you could recommend. I know they are not all on the App Store and on Steam. And actually good mods for HL2, or Quake 3 would be welcome.

I don't feel like paying for COD4 a 4th time I already bought it twice due to a lost installation key and once more on steam when I till had a windows computer. Mainly as the current price is 6 times superior to what I paid on steam.


texts: Mount RAM Disk at boot with a specific path?

texts: I'd love to mount a RAM Disk in OSX Lion on boot.  I know how to write the launchd stuff to do it when I want, but is it possible to mount a RAM Disk onto a certain path, so that it would be cleared on boot?


texts: How to prove that the policy banner is showing up before the user credentials

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I set up the classic company policy banner that a user must read and accept before is prompting to log in with the credentials.
The Security Department is asking me if there is a command line in terminal that I can run and the output of the command must show as proof that the policy banner is really showing up before the user log in.
Banner Path: /etc/banner
Do you have any idea how to do it?