texts: Created volume navigation and structure doesn't behave like a normal directory

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I've created a new volume as my previous encrypted partition was running low on space.
When accessing the new image, it does not have a sidebar and when I enter a subdirectory it opens a brand new window specifically for it and for any further subdirectory. This makes navigation slightly cumbersome.
When using the older encrypted image that I have, it still behaves just like any normal directory would. I tried fixing this issue by matching image parameters from disk utility to my old image but they are all the same, likewise in the  View settings I could not find an option which would make this volume behave like a normal directory. Show sidebar and Show Tab Bar in the View settings for the new disk are greyed out.


texts: How to monitor iphone bandwidth for app testing?

texts:
I'm testing an iphone app someone has developed for me. It seems that some of the files the app downloads are too large.

Is there an app that monitors the network to allow me how much data my app consumes?


texts:
My Mac Pro 3, 1 began rebooting randomly one day and the next it wouldn't come back on. Pushing the power button results in a fan clicking in to life for half a second and then all power is lost. The RAM board LEDs and Diagnostic LEDs OT A and OT B both flash momentarily. When the diagnostic button is pressed on the logic board the Trickle Power LED lights orange.

All my troubleshooting led me to believe the PSU was borked. But when on the phone to Apple support, around a week later, I tried one last time to turn it on and it roared in to life. It stayed on for a few days and I backed everything up. It hadn't been off at all, I updated from 10.10.1 to 10.10.2 and rebooted. No issue. I shut it down.

At 8am the next day I woke up to the computer trying to start, and I remembered that before the initial problems I had set it to wake at that time. But then it clicked off and it's been refusing to start ever since.

Apple support (over the phone) say they don't think it's the PSU as it wouldn't have started working again. What could it be? Could it be the automatic wake?

I have tried removing the memory boards and every other component one by one without any luck.

Notes:

I'm not getting to any screen, grey screen, unhappy mac face etc.

Also, this, from the service manual was why I decided it was a PSU issue in the first place...

"If both overtemp (OT) LEDs come on immediately when the computer is turned on, a faulty
power supply could be one cause of this behavior. Replace power supply."


texts: In my Finder windows I have many aliases that target other folders or documents. At the shell prompt in Terminal, these aliases show up as regular files. How can I get the target of an alias so that, for example, I can "cd" to it or perform other command-line operations on the alias target?


texts: Mouse sticks only when dropping with drag and drop.

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I'm having a problem with dragging and dropping on my Mac. The icon is picked up, but it doesn't let go most of the time; it's almost as though I've still got the button down.

Please note: this only happens with dragging and dropping, not with highlighting text. When I do that, the trackpad releases as you would expect. If it didn't, I'd suspect a hardware error but it just works perfectly for everything else (highlighting text, playing games etc).

What can I do to fix this?


texts: Installing Lion on another MacBook Pro through a bootable DVD but won't show up

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I tried creating a bootable DVD of Lion, which was successful and would load in my MacBook Pro (already running Lion). I inserted the same DVD to another MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, but it comes up as a blank CD... Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Thanks!


texts: I'd like cmd-tab to always take me to the most recent window of the application. Currently it doesn't. Can this be fixed?

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Situation.

This is a Macbook laptop. No external monitors.

I have two "desktops." I have Chrome open in both desktops. And terminal.app open in just Desktop 1.

I'm in Chrome on desktop 1. I cmd-tab to Terminal. I cmd-tab (not holding cmd, just hitting cmd-tab and releasing) and it takes me to chrome in Desktop 2.

My expected result is that it would take me to chrome in desktop 1 because that was the window/app that I was most recently using.

Can this be fixed?

Things I've tried

Turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in mission control settings. Logged out and in, no success.

Is there a fix?

Thanks


texts: After booting correctly, why at some point would function keys get remapped in Macbook Air?

texts:
I have a mid-2011 Macbook Air. Sometime in the recent past, the Function key row (which I used for volume control, brightness control, keyboard backlight control, etc) has stopped working.

By stopped working, I mean it seems like those keys have been remapped. For example, the "increase volume" function key shows the widget screen (with the clock, calculator, etc). Another function key shows the app dashboard.

I fiddled around with all the available keyboard settings in "System Preferences" but got nowhere.

Once, after a reboot, the function key functionality was reinstated, but all too briefly. After a few hours, the errant behavior has resumed.

Any pointers or ideas?


texts:
The Apple Watch Activity app purports to measure what it calls "Active Calories" which it counts towards its "Move" goal. But Apple's definition of such calories is clearly its own, not counting (at least apparently), for example, calories from weight workouts, Pilates, or yoga or 7-minute workouts?

What is the (Apple) definition of "Active Calories"? What does one have to do to generate them?


texts: ITunes Match: syncing smart playlists that reference other playlists

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ITunes tells me I cannot sync a smart playlist that references another playlist, but combining playlists is how I like to shuffle my music. I especially like creating individual playlists with "last played is not in the last" and "limit to" and then combining them. Do I need more cleverly designed rules, or is IMatch not for me? Advice?

I have certainly been disappointed that smart playlists won't live update on the Iphone, but at least I could still combine playlists into "superplaylists."

Imatch won't allow this, and by that I mean, these superplaylists sync to the Iphone through a direct sync (with IMatch turned off), but as soon as I turn Imatch on again, they disappear.


texts: Macbook Pro 16" fried all USB-C ports after using a Samsung 43" monitor

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I'm trying to understand what happened to my MBP because it's a rather weird situation.
I hooked my MBP to a Samsung CJ89 43" monitor directly through USB type C. It worked for a while and then suddenly the built-in screen started flashing and then the connection to the monitor was lost. While connected, the laptop's fans were running hot but I didn't give it a thought, it usually gets hot even without it connected to a monitor since I run a lot of demanding tasks on it.
After this, I realised that the MBP won't charge anymore on any port. The right side ports wouldn't do anything, while the left side ports would still charge my phone, for example.
I used the original USB-C cable from Samsung, not anything cheap, so why did this happen?
I'm mainly asking because I got the laptop fixed but I'm afraid of hooking it back up to the monitor.


texts:
Apple-Mail uses DES-EDE3-CBC and SHA1 for new S/MIME-messages.
Nowadays, both algorithms are considered as VERY WEAK and probably crackable by security agencies ore even large botnets. Is it somehow possible to force Apple Mail to use something more secure like AES-CBC and SHA2?


texts: Why does Safari freeze on YouTube HTML5 videos?

texts:
I'm in YouTube HTML5 trial, and the experience is terrible with Safari.
Every video is lagging severely, and the browser gets unresponsive constantly.

I have zero problems with the Flash version, and Chrome handles HTML5 YouTube just fine.

Activity Monitor says QTKitServer - Safari Web Content grabs more than 100% CPU.
Can I fix this?

I have 17-inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 with 8 GB of RAM.


texts: Has anyone actually gotten AT&T to unlock an iPhone?

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We're going to be moving to Germany in a few weeks, so I visited AT&T today and asked them to unlock our phones.  They unlocked my Android device, but told me that "Apple did not give [them] the tools to unlock iPhones".  I had a little shouting match, but I got nowhere.

I might be able to figure out how to jailbreak and unlock my wife's 3GS (v 4.3.5 8L1, BB  05.16.02 if that matters) but she's really hesitant to "mess with it".  I'd really prefer to be able to go through official channels.

I found plenty of questions here about unlocking iPhones, but nearly all of them seem to be overrun with irrelevant answers about how other networks work.  I get the impression from other web sites that AT&T is a "special case" and flatly refuses to ever unlock any iPhone, for any reason, period.  Is this true?  Would I have better luck talking directly to Apple?  Do I have any recourse, or is this phone going to magically turn into an iPod Touch after our plane ride is over?


texts:
First of all, I was born and raised using a PC so I'm kind of new to Mac. I was hoping if someone can help me out. I'm using Catalina and trying to get the PHP extension mcrypt installed. I've been trying to use homebrew and I'm seriously stuck. I've researched this like crazy and all the forums are years old or using Ubuntu. I realize that mcrypt is deprecated but Laravel requires it so here I am.

I installed PHP 7.4 using homebrew. I had to add a couple of path lines to my ~/.zshrc file because the terminal kept saying PHP was 7.3. I run brew install mcrypt and it downloads and "Pours" into /usr/local/Cellar/mcrypt/2.6.8. I try to update my 7.4 php.ini file with a dynamic library path. So I try adding extension=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.5_2/pecl/20190902/mcrypt.so to the ini for PHP. I restart apache and I get:

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.5_2/pecl/20190902/mcrypt.so' (tried: /usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.5_2/pecl/20190902/mcrypt.so (dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.5_2/pecl/20190902/mcrypt.so, 9): image not found), /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902//usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.5_2/pecl/20190902/mcrypt.so.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902//usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.5_2/pecl/20190902/mcrypt.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0

I have no idea where to go from here. Anyone have a tip?

Thanks!


texts:
How do I turn off the background functions at startup (in my case, Creative Cloud, Evernote, Dropbox, et cetera) that cause my OSX hard drive to run hot, so that they don't cause this problem in the first place?

So far, I've been forced to let them load and then turn them off one by one afterward.


texts: I have a service listening on a port, how do I open the port externally?

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I have a service that is listening on a tcp port, and it is listed with this command:

>netstat -atp tcp | grep -i "listen"
tcp4       0      0  192.168.2.5.8070       *.*                    LISTEN
tcp4       0      0  *.postgresql           *.*                    LISTEN
...and more

but it is not accessible from other computers on the same network, and it is not listed with this command:

>nmap 192.168.2.5
PORT     STATE SERVICE
5432/tcp open  postgresql

(but e.g. PostgreSQL is listed).

I can access the webserver locally on http://192.168.2.5:8060 but not from other computers on the same network. How can I open the port externally?

The Firewall on System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Firewall is Turned Off.


texts: Update required when turn on Mac (Yosemite)

texts: I recently install Yosemite, I then found that every time I turn my computer off and turn it back on, it would ask for my password for an update (Update Required) it would then go through an update with a progression bar and then boot as normal. I have been on the App Store and checked if I require any updates for anything and it just says I am up too date. Any suggestions on how to make this stop or what it is actually doing would be most appreciated.


texts: I cannot rearrange pages of a PDF in Preview

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Trying to learn how to use my camera, I downloaded this PDF manual. Once I opened it in Preview, I noticed that the pages were not in the right order, so I tried moving them in the left-side drawer to reorder them. But Preview wouldn't let me.
I usually have no issue reordering pages of a PDF by dragging them around. But for some reason, I cannot rearrange this document (I can't rotate the pages either).
I checked, and the file isn't locked and I have read and write permissions.
Why can't I reorder the pages of this PDF file?


texts: F5 - MacOS - Error Code, Routing Table Cannot Be Patched

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I've been having issues with connecting to F5 VPN with the newer Macbook Pro with the i9 Processor 15" running the Mojave macOS. It goes through the checks ok and before it connects it disconnects straight away and keeps retrying.

Using another mac machine (Macbook Air) I'm able to connect perfectly fine with the same settings.

I've done a clean install on both machines to replicate to see if it was certificates or any settings but it looks like it could either be a software/hardware issue not being able to write to the routing table. I've contacted the vendor that we use for F5 and the logs say that it's connecting fine but it just drops out on the machine's end.

Looking at the debugging logs I can see that I get an error:

2019-07-16, 15:45:35:000, 853, 853, edge, 48,     Tunnel Server, Connecting state
2019-07-16, 15:45:36:000, 853, 853, edge, 2,    Disconnected state, Error code, Routing table cannot be patched

Has anyone come across this issue using the new Macbook Pro i9?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Gez


texts: Screen sharing stops working after disconnecting for about five minutes

texts: I'm running macOS Mojave on a Mac Mini. Built-in VNC server works perfectly when you connect for the first time after reboot, however if you disconnect from it for more than five minutes you can't connect again - it displays the username that was used for the last session and a spinning wheel. Connecting via ssh and killing screensharingagentd doesn't help, only a reboot does. I've verified all the power saving settings are off. There are two virtual machines with macOS High Sierra and Sierra running on this same Mac Mini and I can connect to them without any issues.


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I recently got an iPhone X and noticed it has the same issues with its speakers at the bottom of the device as my older iPhone 5s.

On both sides of the charging port there are grills for the speakers, however there is no audio coming from the left one. When I place my finger over the right, I can feel it but not on the left.

Since this was on both iPhone X and 5s, I have to wonder if this is poor design or by dumb luck, they both have the same fault. Since my futile attempts at finding anything on this have come up short, could someone please help me.


texts: Single click behaves like double click. Mousedown behaves like single click

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On my macbook, with a mouse plugged in (Microsoft Intellimouse Optical), a single click will sometimes behave like a double click, or pressing the mouse button but not releasing it will behave like a click.  This behavior is sporadic.  Sometimes it will happen with every click for a few clicks.  Sometimes it will be every other click.  Sometimes it behaves normally for a while.

I've been using this mouse with my macbook for weeks without incident until a couple of days ago.  This only happens at home.  I have an identical mouse at work that does not give me any trouble.  I'll work at home with my mouse behaving badly, go to work and have no issues, then come home and the mouse behaves badly again.  At work, my mouse is plugged into a USB hub.  At home, it's plugged directly into the usb port.  I've tried swapping USB ports, but the behavior did not change.  I've tried rebooting.  That didn't help either.

How should I further troubleshoot and resolve this issue?


texts: Is there a good docking solution for Macbook so far?

texts:
I have been looking for a good Macbook docking solution for months

The Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock doesn't seem like a good option based on the reviews on Amazon.com.

I also noticed that there is kickstarter project called ZenDock which is not going to be publicly available till Q2, 2014.

Are there any other good solutions to this problem?


texts: I would like to fax from my Mac running High Sierra

texts: I need to fax a couple of pages from my Mac. My printer doesn't seem to support faxing. I found one online site that will fax from a mac but they wanted a monthly subscription starting at $12.95 a month. Is there another way to fax without going somewhere that will fax for me?


texts: panorama photos on iPhone 6 are too narrow

texts:
I'm trying to take panorama photos with the camera of the iPhone 6s and the resulting files are shorter than what I am seeing when I capture.

The photo I've attached (scaled down because upload-limit) should have an angle of estimated 160 degrees instead of maybe 110 degrees. Basically, the image saved is shorter than the preview indicates on the phone.

But when I open the image in the Mac photo-app it shows only the first part. So to say: The beginning of the desired panorama. The rest (further to the left of what is shown) is somehow gone.

I'm doing it exactly the way it is explained in several youtube-videos: Keeping the arrow as exact as possible over the line while turning the device.

Am I doing something wrong or what troubleshooting approaches work to get a wider panorama photo?


texts: TextEdit key bindings modified in DefaultKeyBinding.dict stopped working

texts:
I have customized text editing bindings in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict but they all stopped working in TextEdit.app when I upgraded to Lion. They still work fine in other Cocoa apps like Safari.

The system default bindings like ^F for moveForward: work as usual.

Has anyone else who uses DefaultKeyBinding.dict noticed this? Is there a way to fix it or any other way of customizing the key bindings in TextEdit?


texts: How to install OS X Yosemite on MacBook (with empty hard drive) from Ubuntu or Windows?

texts:
Every time I search for how to create and install OS X on a MacBook from Windows I get a lot of Hackintosh videos, videos saying to use a Mac to create the installer, or even how to install in VirtualBox which are not what I want to do.

I have a late 2010 MacBook that has no operating system on it. I know I can install and run Yosemite on it, but I don't have a spare Mac to create a USB installer.

I'm currently using Windows and Ubuntu. My MacBook's hard drive is empty and I'd like to be able to create the Yosemite installer on either Windows or Ubuntu to install Yosemite on my Mac.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT:
I purchased a USB installer from eBay. I got it in the mail today and when I tried installing from the USB it dropped at some package file. I now have a Recovery HD drive with Reinstall OS X as an option but after I sign into App Store it says, "This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later". Same problem over and over all day..


texts: When using Numbers app, is there a setting to create a new column when user presses tab?

texts:
When you are navigating in Numbers, pressing the tab key will take you to the next cell to the right and allows you to start typing. Very quick and helpful for data entry. When the user reaches the last column, pressing tab has no effect. In MS Excel, pressing tab in the final column will create a new column and allow the user to continue.

Is it possible to do the same in numbers or is there always a break in workflow to stop and create new columns manually? Same question applies for enter but for rows. In excel, pressing enter in the final row will add a new row and let the user continue.


texts: MacBook Pro 11,3 with dual Dell P2715Q 27" Monitors

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I have two Dell P2715Q 27" external monitors I want to connect to my 15" MacBook Pro 11,3 with OSX 10.10.2 ordered around September 2014. I've tried connecting it as follows:

note: tb = thunderbolt, dp = displayport, mdp = mini displayport

First try

tb 1 -> Dell P2715Q #1 dp in -> Dell P2715Q #1 dp out -> Dell P2715Q #2 mdp in

In this case the two Dell screens will only mirror, and OS X does not seem to recognize that there are actually two displays attached.

Second try

thunderbolt 1 -> Dell P2715Q #1 displayport in
thunderbolt 2 -> Dell P2715Q #2 displayport in

In this case one screen will go on, but the other remains black and says there is no signal.

side note

I also have an older 1920x1200 Dell display I want to use via HDMI for a total of 3 external displays, but I need to get an HDMI cable plus the first two screens working first.


texts: Error installing windows 7 on virtual box

texts:
I'm using Mavericks OS X (10.9.3), I installed virtual box v 4.3.12 and downloaded the windows7 enterprise edition image file for 64 bit (licensed version) it has the file name as English_Windows_7_Professional_SP1_W64_X17-59186.img

When I'm trying to install Windows 7 through virtual box, it shows some error after adding the .img file

Failed to open the optical disk file /Users/Downloads/English_Windows_7_Professional_SP1_W64_X17-59186/English_Windows_7_Professional_SP1_W64_X17-59186.img.

Could not get the storage format of the medium '/Users/Downloads/English_Windows_7_Professional_SP1_W64_X17-59186/English_Windows_7_Professional_SP1_W64_X17-59186.img' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code:    VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:  Medium
Interface:  IMedium {05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac}
Callee: IVirtualBox {fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-a10e-fe7c18bf5554}
Callee RC:  VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)

While adding the virtual disk file, it doesn't show .img file as a supportive file type. Take a look at the screenshot. (in the above case, I selected all type of files)


texts: Apple Macbook Pro Late 2011 freezing screen on startup

texts:
It's been a couple of days since my Macbook Pro (Late 2011) started to freeze its screen on startup.

The first time it happened I was just using my Mac for some Matlab simulations (which I do really often) while listening to music on Spotify. The screen froze, the mouse cursor disappeared, no commands seem to get any answer, but the song kept playing (even advancing to the next one as soon as they finish). I decided to shutdown the Mac by pressing and holding the power button. After that, I tried to turn it on again, but I got the following screen:

(For those who cannot notice any difference between this and the "regular" screen, this one has some dashes and dots, and the loading bar started to get "thinner").

and as soon as the Apple Logo disappear, nothing happens: the Mac get stuck on a gray screen. I waited for hours to see if something happens but nothing changed.

After a couple of hours, I tried to turn it on again, and it worked just fine: I've done everything I usually do, which includes all the activity I was doing before the Mac had the problem for the first time (mainly Matlab simulations, spotify, programming, etc), and turn it off like I usually do.

After some days, I've got the same problem again - this time on startup, and as soon as I managed to turn the Mac on again I decided to reinstall everything, thinking it could be an OS problem. I didn't change the OS version (still on El Captain), just made a clean install.

The Mac was working just fine for the past few days, but today it started all over again, and right now I can't even turn it on.

What I've done so far:
- I changed my SSD (a 240gb Kingston SSD) with a spare Hard Disk that I have: nothing changed.
- Like I said, I've reinstalled the OS, and the only applications I've installed so far are: Spotify, Matlab, Google Chrome, and MacTeX. I've been using all of these applications for a long time, and I never had any kind of problem.
- I ran all disk utility tools before and after reinstalling the OS

My Mac:
MacBook Pro Late 2011 (15-inch). I changed the original HDD for a SSD, and changed the optical drive for the HDD. I use this setup since January 2015. I have 16gb of Ram.


texts: What Internet connection speed do you need to watch iTunes's 4K movies?

texts:
I'm looking for ballpark figures for what 4K movies from iTunes use in terms of network bandwidth.

Is this documented or something that's a known range?


texts: Why does my iMessage say I'm sending from my email instead of my phone number?

texts: I have an iPhone 4. I just updated my phone to the most recent iOS (7.03). My iMessage won't let me send from my phone number, and people are receiving my messages from my email. The phone number is there but is grey and won't let me select it. Why is it disabled? How do I fix this?


texts: Is there a Bowtie theme that looks like a Flurry icon?

texts:
I have a number of Flurry icons on my desktop linked to applications I use frequently. I envision an almost identical looking icon, but instead of an icon and filename, it displays the album art and track name of the currently playing song using Bowtie.

Is there such a theme in existence? If not, what's the easiest way to create one from scratch?

(Info about developing themes for Bowtie can be found here. It's mostly HTML and CSS.)


texts:
I have a very frustrating problem and I need your guys help to fix it.

I bought an imac 5k that I upgraded it's CPU, HDD, RAM.

This is my second one i have upgraded and the second one that keeps restarting randomly, sometimes once a few days, other times once a week or less.

I have put in an I7, EVO SSD and Apple Ram.

I have tried testing it with less and more ram and it still restarts our of the blue.

The only connection between the two imac upgrades is the Thermalpad Arctic( 1,5mm which has a 6 W/mk thermal conductivity, its the best I could find ) I have used to cool the GPU.

I am running multiple flash related software/streamers that are very heavy on the CPU and GPU, and some photoshoping.

It always does restart when in use, but that's because when I am on it/ rather say, my wife is on it, she uses it for work but i don't think it restarts during normal use.

The fans are loud but i did not notice any pattern in which when it does restart, the fans are louder than before. They stay pretty much over 2000 rpm, which is a huge difference than the I5 i had before, doing the same kind of work, but I read that this is normal considering the I7 is much hotter. Thermal paste used was Arctic Silver 5.

What makes it difficult is that it is very hard to monitor the iMac because I am not working on it and sitting there and waiting for the restart to happen is just nuts. I was thinking I could observe the temps but I am sure that is not a feasible way to see if temps are to blame.

I went to library>logs>but couldn't find any readable log about this kernel panic.

Is there a software that logs the temperatures so after it restarts I can compare them to see if heat is to blame?

I have gone through different set of rams, external USBs, OS versions, you name it, nothing seems to solve it.

How to go on and investigate this issue?

Thank you very much!
Dan

LE:
I managed to make it restart. I had the usual amount of work that i topped with 4 4k videos playing at the same time on youtube. Here is a remaining pictures from team viewer at the moment of the restart.
Do you think that's enough ? I read that the values can go over 100 C without any problems.
I am using iStats first one is CPU, GPU-Die, Ram, CPU Fan Rpm


texts: How do I assign a Razer DeathAdder Black Edition key to Mission Control?

texts:
I have purchased a Razer DeathAdder Black Edition mouse, and the latest Mac driver I can find for it is 1.00.  The possible assignments for the side buttons don't seem to have Mission Control buttons available for them (they only have various Expose keys available)

Is there a hack around this?  Or do I just have to do without?  Or exchange for a different Razer mouse with a more developed Mac driver?  Or just use the Mac driver for a different Razer mouse?


texts:
I have a new ipad pro, a midi keyboard and a lightening to usb converter cable.
I connect them, and of course it does not work.

What do i need to make this work?


texts: After trashing com.apple.safari in Mavericks is there something else I can try to reset Safari?

texts:
I have unfortunately picked up a piece of malware that overwrote my Safari homepage and "open new window with" setting in Mavericks. I just reinstalled to a backup image so the malware is gone, but left me with an open question.

In previous OS X versions, I would be able to delete all the Safari-related folders and com.apple.safari.plist-like files under ~/Library and ~/Library/Preferences and that would reset Safari to a minty fresh state. That no longer seems to be the case.

Even though I delete every single file related to Safari in my user library folder, if I set the homepage to google, and delete all those files, it stays as google - a.k.a. does not revert back to Safari's default http://www.apple.com/startpage/

Is there some other 'hidden' place Mavericks stores its settings for Safari?


texts: Should I try to clean the fan ducts at the top and bottom of my five year old iMac? I have seen people say vacuuming or blowing air may mess up the innards.


texts:
I have read several questions (here and elsewhere) that look for applications that can save in a format instead of export in a format.  What is the difference between saving in a format, and exporting in a format?  Is it just that there is an additional dialog box, or does an exported file in some way behave differently?  Is this a style over substance issue?

I have no problem with people wanting things the WAY they want them, I just want to understand if there is a fundamental difference in the function of an exported over the function of a saved file.

Examples:  Pages exports in formats that Open Office saves in.  Pixelmator exports in formats that PhotoShop saves in (so I've been told).


texts: Can I see all locations that a DMG file install files to?

texts: I wonder if there is a way to sort of "unroll" a dmg file and reveal which directories it will install files to?


texts: Apple TV required switching hardware / mobile WiFi router

texts:
I am considering Apple TV for a trips, but usually the hotels' wifis' connections are separated. I came up with using my Vodafone branded Huawei R201 mobile wifi router for that purpose, but I am not sure if that hardware is powerful enough for sending Full HD video from my iPad/iPod/Mac to Apple TV.

Is there some parameter on wifi routers (I am opened to buy another one), which say "Yes, it WILL work"?


texts: How do I silence incoming voice calls on WhatsApp?

texts:
I've been forced by my relatives to install WhatsApp on my iPhone. I use it only for text messages, so I disabled camera, voice, etc. and, what I thought, was all sounds from it in the iPhone settings.

But once in a while, one of my older relatives decides to make a voice call to me. In that case the WhatsApp app starts playing this annoying ringing which I cannot kill, that is very frustrating especially if I'm at work.

Is there a setting (or some other way) to prevent it from ringing the incoming voice calls?

PS. I do not want to silence my phone completely. Just WhatsApp.

Edit: This is how the settings look like in WhatsApp:


texts: Will deleting a device from iCloud remove data from that device?

texts: I bought my sister and iPhone and used my Apple id to help set up her phone. Now I want to delete her phone from my iCloud so she can set up her own Apple id. If I delete her device from my iCloud will it affect or remove any of the data on her phone?


texts: Where does Apple Mail find its suggested contacts?

texts:
I use Apple Mail.app daily, and I've noticed that sometimes it auto-completes email addresses that it shouldn't know about.

For example, if I'm on mac "one", Mail.app knows about email addresses that I've encountered on other machines that I use, but that I'm positive have never "passed through" mac "one". I've checked the contacts in Contacts.app (local and iCloud), as well as all the local mail boxes managed by Mail.app.

On other machines, these email addresses have been seen by other instances of Mail.app, even though their configurations are independent from mac "one".

The only thing that links the macs is my iCloud account, but "Mail sync" is disabled.

I am trying to understand how Mail.app builds its list of known contacts, where it's stored on disk, and how it syncs them between macs.


texts: What are the physical differences between an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 4?

texts:
I'm wondering what physically has changed between the CDMA iPhone 4 / GSM iPhone 4 and the new iPhone 4S.

the placement or number of bands interrupting the metal side case
micro SIM slot location
camera and LED opening / placement
home button
receiver / front camera / proximity sensor placement

Superficially, the buttons on the 4S seem to align with the CDMA model spacing as opposed to the GSM spacing

I ask to know and for the practical application of people that want to reuse a precision case or protective film are going to find differences. I'm looking for first hand knowledge or reports of people taking a micrometer to the shipping hardware and doing a comparison.


texts: In Lion, if I keep pressing a key, why doesn't it repeat?

texts: I don't know if there are any settings to toggle, but I figured out that if I keep pressing a button on my keyboard it doesn't repeat it and displays only one character! Can this be fixed to go back to the previous repeating behavior?


texts: Is it possible to have a variable in the title of an Automator Service file?

texts:
When one right-clicks selected text on a Mac, one is presented with various contextual menu items.  You may notice that some of the item titles contain the selected text.

For example, the Dictionary.app shortcut:

  Look Up "selected text"

Can this level of title adaptability be replicated with a Service created by Automator.app? Or are Service titles completely fixed?


texts: Does Find My Mac stop working after the system has been wiped?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  If Macbook has been wiped, will “find my iPhone” still work?

I lost my Macbook Pro recently. I had activated iCloud on the computer, so Find My Mac is operable.

If the thief wipes the hard drive, and installs a fresh operating system, OSX Lion or Leopard, for example, then will I still be able to locate my device? In particular if the thief installs Leopard (which obviously doesn't support Find my Mac) will Find My Mac still work?


texts:
Is there any way I can make it so one specific app always shows up in the "Open With" menu, in addition to all of the default options?

I want to be able to right-click on a file, and in addition to seeing all of the normal apps that open it, I also want to be able to choose something like BBEdit, so I can also view the raw code.

Maybe the approach should be reversed, is there a way I can tell the system that BBEdit is a valid app to open every file type?

This would be a very handy, time-saving mod.


texts: Hard Disk problems, unsure of how to proceed

texts:
A couple of days ago, I closed the lid on my 2012 MBP running El Capitan with Samsung Pro 830; it had nearly no power left. Power ran out while I was closing the lid, I suspect, so I plugged it in, and it wouldn't come back up. So I powered it on. It wouldn't then boot.

Tried NVRAM and SMC resets; no success.

Startup key combos:
Tried starting up in safe mode; no success.
Tried startup manager; no success.
Tried Diagnostics; no problem reported.
Tried Single user mode; no success.
Tried verbose mode - got EFI error.

Swapped in another disk to try and restore from an SL DVD from my older MBP; no success (apparently you can't install an older version of OSX than that it shipped with).
Put knackered disk back in, tried System Restore - success! This got me into Disk Util for ML (original OS for the 2012 MBP) where I could repair the disk. Diskutil found some problems with the EFI, and it booted into My ElCap OS, everything seemed ok. Ran diskutil again for good measure, no problems reported.

I turned it off so that I could secure the hard disk and the bottom cover of the machine.

It then wouldn't boot again.

I then tried internet recovery and got an error with an exclamation mark over the little globe on the restore screen with an error 'apple.com/support: -2105F'

This was now a little beyond me, and Google wasn't helping, so I phoned Apple. They suggested that I try a new disk, as mine was completely bajanxed.

So then I got my 2010 MBP (also running ElCap) and downloaded the 'Install El Cap' program from App store with a view to creating a local boot USB drive to attempt recovery.

I have borrowed a (120Gb) SSD from work, formatted with a GUID partition type and OSX journaled FS, and plugged in and booted from USB drive.

The install process nearly completes and then fails, not really giving me any error info.

Tried this a few times, same results, reformatting new SSD on second MBP, also via USB El Cap Diskutils. No problems showing on the new SSD.

Internet restore also fails on new SSD (with the same '-2105F' error.)

The only thing I've got going for me right now is that I managed to mount the broken boot disk onto my 2010 MBP and decrypt the volume, figuring that one less obstacle can only help (took 8 1/2 hours, but completed successfully!). I can read the files on this drive, so I haven't lost data per se. Once decrypt was done, I ran repair_packages from terminal on 2010 MBP on the mounted (broken boot) disk - it found some errors and repaired them. fsk_hfs also completed fine with green lights.

The last attempt at El Cap install completed successfully (tried whilst writing this), and it restarted - white screen, with the no entry symbol. The strange thing was that I didn't get the 'traditional' pop up with the 4 choices when trying to install ElCap, just went straight into install.

Wondering whether there was a setting saved somewhere, have now reset NVRAM and SMC again, and trying install. The pop-up menu has now appeared, and am trying again.

Has anyone got any suggestions, as I'm running low. I'm starting to wonder as to whether I've got a hardware problem.

Latest attempt has also failed - 'An error occurred while updating system extension information'.

Edit: So have now successfully installed another copy of ElCap connected via an external drive from my 2010 MBP. It booted fine. I then put the hard disk into the 2012 MBP, and...nothing. So I hooked it externally from the 2012 machine, and it booted. Put my old hard disk (that started the problems) into the external hard disk cradle, and the 2012 machine booted. So I guess it's a hardware issue. AppleCare ran out 6 months ago :(

Edit2: Just to confirm, it was the cable that was the problem. New one fixed the issue.


texts: What is the DeviceInfo folder in my home folder

texts:
Since a few days there is a DeviceInfo folder in my home folder. In it, there is a text file. What is this and where does it come from?

I can delete the folder, but it will reappear after a few days!


texts: Mavericks Notes not compatible with IOS 10 Notes?

texts: 2010 MacBook Pro on Mavericks, Notes are not syncing with Notes on iPhone 5s on ios10. Is there a compatibility problem? I have tried all the usual remedies without success.


texts: An app in iPhone shows in the list of apps sharing documents (list below), but it does not show in the general list (list above)

texts:
I have an iPhone 4s, iOS 7.1.2, plugged to my Pc. iTunes 12.1.2 is running, and I am seeing the apps in my device.

On the right of the main screen there are copies of the icons as shown in the iPhone.

On the left there are two lists of apps. The top list shows all apps. The bottom list shows the apps that can share documents (and clicking on an app one can see the stored documents for it).

I have at least one app (Foxit Reader) that shows in the bottom list and not in the top one, which is unexpected. I do not know if there are other apps in the iPhone that do not show in the top list.

Any idea of the cause, and how to solve it?

I found another problem, which I think is related to this one.
See https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/198927/itunes-backup-not-all-apps-backed-up


texts: Do I need to disable my firmware password to use Migration Assistant?

texts: I'm moving to a new machine from an old machine with a firmware password. I seem to recall reading when I set up the firmware password long ago that the simple migration process will not work from a machine with a firmware password. Is this true in 10.9? If so, what special steps do I need to take to migrate from a machine that has a firmware password?


texts: OS X Server no longer externally available for CalDav after Update from 10.6.8 to 10.11.6

texts:
Weird issue here, after updating my client's OS X Server from 10.6.8 to 10.11.6, I can no longer reach my calendar server externally. My client's router is port forwarding to my server 8443 and 8008 over TCP/UDP, and I've tested those ports and found them to be open. External DNS is resolving to the correct IP, and Port Forwarding is pointing to the server

It all works perfectly internally.

I've heard it could be an Apache problem, but I'm not sure where to start there. I haven't found anything that pops out to me in the logs, but that doesn't mean there isn't something there.

Note:
The whole reason for doing this was to make a smoother transition to a newer server that they purchased, but I need to get them up and running first.


texts: Macbook late-2009 not displaying red color

texts:
Yesterday I realized that that my late-2009 Macbook White (A1342) does not display red colors.
Sometimes it works correctly when I turn on the computer. Then, after a few seconds, red color starts flickering (in large rectangles and lines), then goes out completely.
The screen becomes bluish, and everything that should be red seems black.
I've attached a photo.

It's strange that sometimes it just starts working correctly again after some time, even if I don't touch it.

The computer was turned off for 2-3 days, because I've bought another computer and didn't need the old one. Before that, it was working fine and the display had never got any problem.

I've tried to format the disc and reinstall OS X Yosemite, but it didn't help.

Is this definitely a hardware problem?
Have you ever had the same issue?
Do you have any idea what is causing it?

Maybe, can I repair it by myself? (I'm not afraid of disassembling the machine if it's not hard to repair. E.g if a connector has just got disconnected or something like that.)

Thanks for any help and relevant information!

Update:
I've had it turned on for about ~1 hour and now it works again. Is it probably oxidation of the connector?

Update 2:
I've tried to knock, press, and move the lid in many ways, but couldn't reproduce the problem.

Update 3:
It suddenly happened again! Then I started a program which spins up CPU usage to 100%. Then the display started working fine again in less than a minute! Managed to get it working in this way twice.
Is it probably some kind of oxidation of the connector?


texts:
This question is related to
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/357132/44531

I would like to have a space after the emoj . I've tried in the script below but I'm getting two lines instead of the hoped for single line. And, No I do not want two spaces appear in the zero return code case as I coded up in my original answer.

mac RC=1 $ declare -f highlightExitCode
highlightExitCode ()
{
    exit_code=$?;
    if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ]; then
        echo -en " RC=${exit_code} "'\xf0\x9f\x98\xb1\x0a\x00';
    else
        echo -e "";
    fi
}
mac $ echo $PS1
\u$(highlightExitCode) \$
mac $
mac $ er
-bash: er: command not found
mac RC=127 $
# FYI: I edited out the non-appearing space
#in my terminal output

I'm running macOS 10.10.5.

 mac RC=127
  $ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
mac $

When I try to add a space in the code below, I get a new line added.

mac $ echo $PS1
\u$(highlightExitCode) \$
mac $ declare -f highlightExitCode
highlightExitCode ()
{
    exit_code=$?;
    if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ]; then
        echo -en " RC=${exit_code} "'\xf0\x9f\x98\xb1\x0a\x00'" ";
    else
        echo -e "";
    fi
}
mac $ error
-bash: error: command not found
mac RC=127
  $
mac RC=127
  $
mac RC=127
  $

-------- fyi ------------

actually, when I copy and past here I get a space after the emoj, but the space doesn't appear in my mac terminal.

mac RC=127  $
mac $
mac $
mac $


texts: application for iPhone to read bar codes

texts: I need to read different bar codes, and would be great that I can use my iPhone for that.  Currently I have an application to read QRCodes but I'm looking to read PDF417 too.


texts: Deleting or permanently halting old automator scripts

texts:
How can I delete or stop old automator scripts from starting at startup?

I do not know where they are located and neither do I remember their names. Can I locate them by some sort of extension perhaps?


texts: Install BootCamp drivers in Windows 10 to fix bluetooth and keyboard issues

texts:
I recently installed Windows 10 20H2 along with MacOs on my MacBook Pro, but upon booting Windows I can see the touchbar doesn't work in Windows(doesn't display anything), and Windows isn't detecting the Bluetooth hardware. I downloaded Windows Support software from bootcamp and tried to install it manually in Windows. But I am facing these errors:

Is there anyway I can manually install drivers?? I also checked on Windows Update but there was no driver updates there either.
My mac OS is on Big sur latest version and Windows is on 20H2.
Update 1
If I force install BootCamp.msi by msiexec /i BootCamp.msi I get this error:

Update 2
Turns out the issue was with the pendrive I downloaded the support software on, using a different pendrive solved the issue. However I am surprised with the poor Trackpad support with no additional multi-finger gestures and also the scrolling is inverted. Can I use precision driver instead of Apple's driver?


texts: How to export annotations in iBooks for Mac?

texts:
I've been using iBooks to read .epubs that I've downloaded from the Internet, and made many annotations in them.

How can I export the annotations to another Mac, or share them all at once?


texts:
Problem occurs when pressing the @ and the " keys.  They seem to be mapped to each other, so @ -> " and " -> @.
The system preferences allow modifier keys to be re-mapped but not these two.
Can it be done?


texts: How to present a keynote and start playing itunes music

texts:
When I am in that full-screen mode presenting a keynote, using the iTunes media keys seems to just exit the keynote instead of playing a song from iTunes.

How can I play a song from iTunes whilst staying inside the keynote presenter?


texts: Got water on my laptob and now my screen looks like this (stuck/dead pixels?) but the laptop is still working fine

texts: Title says it all--but basically I wiped the water off and my laptop was fine for a few hours and then the next time I opened my laptop part of my screen was discoloured. I flipped my laptop upside overnight and when I turned my laptop on in the morning, it was all cleared up. However 8 hours later the screen is back to being pixelated. I don't exactly what it is and how to fix it. Should I get a new screen, fix it myself or buy a new laptop.


texts: Which iPhones support the apt-X codec for Bluetooth audio?

texts:
I'm shopping for a new Bluetooth headset for my iPhone 4 and noticed that some headsets support the apt-X codec for "CD-quality sound". Presumably this is better quality than plain old A2DP that I've been using so far.

Which iPhones (if any) support apt-X audio over Bluetooth?


texts: how do I restore the Download stack in the iMac Dock?

texts: Download stack is missing from the iMac Dock. The Download stack was originally present but may have been removed with the High Sierra update. Presently all downloads go directly to the download file and plus be recovered from the Finder application. I have not been able to find guidance on how to solve this problem in the Safari help.


texts: Renew apple developer membership after it expires

texts:
I had an app on the appstore and a few days ago my membership expired. I want to renew it now, but when I click on the renew membership button, it takes me to the apple website with some sort of referral code on top.
How can I proceed to renew my membership?


texts: Disabling startup items that run despite being unchecked on the "login items" list

texts:
I have a number of (background) programs that startup automatically on login even though they have been disabled (unchecked) on the Login Items pane of the Users & Groups System Preferences. Examples include DropBox, ChronoSync Backgrounder, and Boingo.

Q: How can I disable/control these login items that don't respond to the systems preferences settings?
Related sub-questions:

Why do the checkboxes in the login items list not work?
What are all of the places that non-system startup items can be found/controlled?

Current system configuration: MacBook (13in Aluminum, Late 2008), Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50), But this problem existed on Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion.


texts: Safari consuming a lot of juice on rMB 2016 with Mojave

texts:
I hope you're all doing good and staying safe.
To make things short. I've upgraded to Mojave a month ago, since I couldn't push ElCap for longer.
Until last month, my batt life was impeccable (I never let battery go below 60%, never overinflated it, etc etc).
I could get more than an hour without the full batt icon even showing a bit of usage.
So I can know for sure the batt is not the problem. Neither is the computer. I've used my computer on several 10+ hours and the battery life has always been exceptional.
I moved on to Mojave, and now my batt starts draining after less than 30 mins usage.
I knew this might happen, that's why I sticked to ElCap.. but due to security reasons and app compatibility, I had to do the jump. Now I kinda regret it.
Thing is, only thing showing a hug Avg NRG impact is Safari.
I know some might say "it's AVERAGE, not current", yeah, but I have many other apps opened along with safari, and they don't even get to a 10% of what Safari consumes in average.
Any ideas on how to get Safari behaving properly? Or any browser that avg impact doesn't rise 300 and above?
I am also considering downgrading to ElCap, but would like to keep Mojave though.
Thanks in advance for any kind of input! :-)


texts: Which runs hotter, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

texts:
I currently use a 13" Mid 2011 MacBook Air, and the thing I dislike most about it is that it can get very hot. I'm particularly physically sensitive to the heat for some reason, and at its hottest it makes me uncomfortable even to just sit at a desk with my hands on it.

Anyway, I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I'm considering the current 13" Retina MacBook Pro and 13" MacBook Air. I'm wondering: Which one runs hotter? (Under light use? Under heavy use? At max heat?)


texts: On the iPad, how do I tell what version of Mobile Safari I have?

texts: I'd like to know what precise version of Mobile Safari the iPad I'm using has. Is there any way to find out (preferably from the device itself)? There doesn't seem to be any menu in Safari Mobile, and thus none to choose "About" from. If you go to Settings | Safari, you see various useful things, but no "About" or "Version" or similar, which surprised me.


texts: Macbook air booting from external hardrive stuck on startup wifi screen

texts:
I'm moving over my old macbook computer to a 2010 macbook air, I replaced the hard drive in the macbook air prior to this so there is nothing on the hard drive that is currently in my macbook air. I have my hard drive with everything on as an external drive and I am attempting to boot from that drive so I can copy all my files over. However when I boot from it I get stuck on a screen (first) asking for wifi (there is no exit or skip to this screen it is part of the start up) when I select my wifi and enter my password it brings me back to the screen I was previously on asking for my wifi. I have tried booting via a snow lion software cd but I still have the same problem. Is there any way to bypass this screen??

P.S. I have restarted my wifi router, this clearly isn't the problem here.


texts: Using an iMac 27" as an external monitor for a PC

texts:
I have a Dell computer running Windows 10 and it have 3x DisplayPort and 1x vga outputs. I want to connect my iMac Core i5 27-Inch (Late 2013) as an external monitor to the dell pc. Can I buy a Mini DisplayPort -> DisplayPort (Male-Male) and connect the cable between the iMac and the PC and then use Target Mode to start seeing Windows on the iMac?

If that's not possible, is there any way to hook this up? I know of software solutions but I'm trying to do it physically unless I run out of options.


texts:
I have a script monta.sh to mount an external volume:

#!bin/sh
mkdir -p /Volumes/remvol
mount_smbfs //user:password@server/folder /Volumes/remvol

Then I have a com.jo.monta.plist to launch the script after system boot placed in /Library/LaunchDaemons:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.jo.monta</string>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <false/>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>admin</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/admin/scripts/monta.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I've tested the script from the command line and it works, however if I log in after boot the volume is not mounted.

It seems like the plist file doesn't load? what's wrong?


texts: This habit was inherited from windows 7. I normally choose all the files and then right click and get the folder size. But when I do this in Macos, mac open all the file info. Then how can I close those windows at once? Thank you very much.


texts:
I just downloaded Eclipse for OS X. I managed to run it, but I want to put it directly in /Applications:

I don't want to place the eclipse folder, which has inside it the Eclipse.app, inside /Applications, but I want to place a shortcut to Eclipse.app directly into /Applications (so I can run eclipse with one click, as if it was any other app inside /Applications).

Any ideas how to do so? Tried a symlink but doesn't seem to work.


texts: Strange keyboard shortcut icons in Mac OS 10.6.7

texts: Running on Mac OS 10.6.7.  Don't know of any changes that could of happened to make the keyboard shortcuts different.  Tried Googling and found nothing helpful. Anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?


texts: Password reset with Filevault recovery key not working

texts:
My OSX machine somehow said my password was incorrect and I ended up using the recovery key to get in to the password reset step.
When I try to enter a new password and want to save that the fields just wiggle and I cannot continue. It does however somehow store the password because I cannot reset it to that one.

This system is managed using JAMF and as I said it has filevault enabled.

This video (not mine) shows what happens: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/32075/reset-password-issue-never-seen-that-issue-check-this-video

How can I get out of this mess?


texts: Mounting volume while in Recovery Mode keeps rebooting

texts:
My computer crashed while editing a video with Final Cut. I have been unable to boot up since then - the OS crashes immediately after typing my password at the login screen and reboots.

I’ve been going into Recovery Mode now, trying to perform any kind of repair. Unfortunately, whether I mount my APFS volume via Disk Utility or using the Terminal’s ‘diskutil APFS unlockVolume’, I can get it to mount successfully, but then my computer reboots immediately before I am able to perform First Aid or run a ‘fsck_apfs’ command.

I know the simple solution is to reformat and reinstall my OS. For obvious reasons, I’d like to repair things if at all possible before resorting to that.

Is there a different approach I can use to get my drive mounted and attempt a repair, without the machine restarting right away?


texts: iPhone Camera Roll has created .XMP files causing photo import crashes in Windows

texts:
Somehow, my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.2) has created .XMP files for some images on my Camera Roll, and these .XMP files are causing import errors in both Picasa 3.9 and Windows XP Scanner and Camera Wizard.

I have determined that this seems related to a set of 4 iPhone screenshots I took which I then used the Photos app to Edit > Rotate the orientation of these screenshots since for some reason they came out wrong.

Here you can see the 4 tan-background images of a gas mileage app I use:

But for some reason, in Windows XP Scanner and Camera Wizard (Advanced Mode), you can see they show up as duplicate-named .XMP files of 323 bytes each:

They only show up as blank images when in Thumbnails view of Scanner and Camera Wizard (Advanced Mode):

In regular wizard mode, they show up as the correct image, but only every other image:

Google Picasa 3.9 interrupts the import process from the iPhone, as soon as it hits these particular files:

But clearly the files are not exactly duplicate named .XMP files - because the Camera Roll itself shows the correct images (which are obivously larger than the 323 bytes they are claiming to be in Scanner and Camera Wizard), and because you can also see the thumbnails in the regular wizard mode of S.C.W.

What is causing this and how can I best proceed?


texts: "open -j" command does not work for all apps

texts:
I was writing a .sh script for opening a bunch of apps and i was looking for a way to force my apps to launch minimized.

The open command man page usage prompt, (displayed when you run open without args) says:

-j, --hide        Launches the app hidden.

but some apps are still opening in the foreground (i.e. Chrome and Airmail).

I'm running El Capitain (10.11.6) and using zsh.

Do you know why those apps behave like that or if there's another way to accomplish this in bash?

Thanks.


texts: How do I make band names appear on iTunes/Music?

texts:
On the right are songs I've purchased on iTunes itself, and on the left are songs I've bought (yes, I paid for them/supported the bands) from other sources, namely their websites and a code from a tour.

How do I make the bands' names appear (Undercast and Sick Puppies, respectively) below the album names as they do on the right?

Thanks!


texts: In family sharing, can non-organizers make purchases on their own?

texts: In family sharing, can non-organizers make purchases with their own credit card?  And will those purchases be private or shared?


texts:
I am trying to set up a very simple network using a Netgear 5 port Gigabit switch, a Mac Mini, a Seagate Central 4Tb NAS and an Apple TV to serve movies to my Samsung TV.

I followed a guide on WikiHow, connected up all the devices, set the IP of the Mac manually and assumed that would be that.

I am far from expert in this area so as I cannot see anything under "shared" in finder I am now at a loss as to what to try. Is there something I need to do to tell the Mac what is there? I tried "connect to server" but none appear to be there.

The 3 lights on the switch corresponding to the ports connected are green and flash occasionally so they appear to be connected. I do not have an internet router where the devices will be deployed hence the wired solution with switch.


texts:
I am trying to understand how and where Java is installed on my Mac (Mavericks this time) and I found this question and answers:

Need help understanding Oracle's Java on Mac — Stack Overflow

Here is mentioned

  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands. The binaries within that directory are stub applications

What are stub applications? They are not symbolic link?


texts: How to bind Alt-p to up arrow instead of π

texts: Mac binds alt-p and alt-n to π and ˜.  How to make it behave as up and down arrow?


texts: How can I delete a photo on multiple devices without having to delete it manually everywhere?

texts: I'm using Photos for iOS and MacOS to store my photos. When deleting a photo from either device, nothing happens with the photos on the other, not even after syncing. How can I avoid having to manually delete a photo on both devices for it to disappear? I'm not using iCloud sync.


texts: What does "Other Languages" item in iPhone settings mean?

texts:
What does the Other Languages... item found below iPhone Language under Settings app → General → Language & Region mean?

Tapping on the item shows me two sections, namely:

IPHONE LANGUAGES

and

OTHER LANGUAGES

The second section seems to have some overlapping items with those languages listed in first one.

A follow up: When I develop an app or website for iOS, languages of which list should I be aware of?

I am using an iPhone 6 running iOS 12.


texts: Large external storage stops working after being connected for a long time

texts:
I have a 4 TB LaCie RUGGED USB-C external hard drive, and when it's connected to my MacBook Pro (13-inch mid 2014) for a long time without being used, it stops working. I do allow drives to sleep when connected in the settings.

Icon remain on desktop, but trying to open it or ejecting it, causes Finder to hang.
When I unplug it, Finder unblocks
When I plug it in again, it’s working (for a while of course)
The drive is bus powered and does not have an external power source

I use this drive for Time Machine backups, but sometimes Time Machine fails to backup.

I’d like to isolate the issue to know if the Mac is the problem, the cable is the problem or the drive is the problem or I need to change settings.

Can I use a system log or Time Machine log to diagnose what’s happening?


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I've set some shortcuts in iTerm2, but I cannot find how to set MS Windows style cut functionality. I want to select some text (which I am able to) and then cut/past it somewhere else. I want also to delete selected text without copying it.

Simply, I want to set Command + x and Command + backspace shortcuts in iTerm2.

By default Command + x is only copying selected text without removing it.


texts: Why is memory management in macOS more efficient than in Linux?

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I have been a Linux user for four years. Recently, I have been using macOS and I see it has very efficient memory management compared to Linux.

For example, here is a description of the documents/apps I have open on a Mac Mini i5 1.4 GHz 8GB RAM 500 GB HDD @ 5400 RPM:

40 pdfs
Blender
PowerPoint
Photos
iTunes
12 Safari tabs
QuickTime video
Terminal
Maps
Sublime Text
Calendar

With these open the Mac showed 5.91 GB of RAM used.

My question is: What's different about the Mac that on Linux I can't even open half the apps with a machine with the same amount of memory and HD?


texts: I have a 38mm apple watch and I put in on power reserve and no matter what I do it wont get out of it.

texts: I have held the side button, I have held both buttons down. Each for 6 seconds or even to a minute nothing is working. Please help!


texts: Why is this AirPort+TimeCapsule disappearing from the network?

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All was well for months, then suddenly Time Machine reported it hadn't backed up for 20 days because the disk was unavailable. When I cycle the power the Time Capsule is green in AirPort Utility, for a few hours and then it disappears again.

I've tried a hard reset on the backup device.

The AirPort is not creating a network, I'm using a Comcast router instead which the Time Capsule is wired to.

TIA for your assistance.


texts: How to use OS X's terminal to ping an IP using the latency as a stopping condition for a loop?

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What I'd like to do is to ping an IP while the latency is above an specific value. I think an example will help:

Let's suppose I have the following result to the "ping *IP here*" command:

PING *IP here* (*IP here*): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from *IP here*: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=127.238 ms
64 bytes from *IP here*: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=312.762 ms
64 bytes from *IP here*: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=251.475 ms
64 bytes from *IP here*: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=21.174 ms
64 bytes from *IP here*: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=27.953 ms

I'd like a way to make the ping stop after the latency drops below a given value. Let's say 100, so in the example above it'd stop after the 4th result.


texts: Disk Utility shows partition NOT appearing through diskutil list

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HighSierra, 500 GB SSD

Disk Utility shows two partitions that does not appear through diskutil list.
First, the ouput from diskutil list:

sh-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         500.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.1 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume APPLESSD                23.1 GB    disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.4 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk2s4

Now, a screenshot from Disk Utility application with 2 partitions not listed previously:

This last one is OK :

How can I solve this?

Here is the output from gpt:

sh-3.2# gpt -r show /dev/disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  976695384      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  977105024          3
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header


texts: What is the difference between a 2011 i5, and a more recent i5?

texts: I am looking at my daughter's MBP.  It is circa 2010/2011, and has a 2.4 i5. Why are processors today called the same name, but are advertised with slower clock speeds?


texts: Numbers - problems with a formula for "text to columns" behavior

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I have a column with three comma separated RGB values that I want separated into three columns by formula, meaning I want a sheet that lets me paste "0, 0, 0" or "0,0,0", or "255, 255, 255" etc. and the next three columns will contain the isolated values.

I'm not looking for a solution that changes the values one time only like renaming the file to .csv and letting it happen automatically the first time the file is opened.

Basically the number of characters will vary between 1 and 3 for each field, and there may or may not be a space after the comma before the next value.

As a starting point, I tried C2=LEFT($B2,FIND(",",$B2)) but I don't see how to have the result Not include the comma.

I was thinking that I could do something like this (pseudocode):

C2 = Left of comma in B2
D2 = Left of comma in (Right of comma in B2)
E2 = Right of comma in (Right of comma in B2)

Is this possible?

I was hoping to do something similar to the way I separated hex color values but that is simpler because it's always six characters.

Here, the formulas are:

hexR = REPLACE($hexRGB,3,4, )
hexG = REPLACE(REPLACE($hexRGB,1,2,),3,2,)
hexB = REPLACE($hexRGB,1,4,)


texts: How can I use an iPad with a Retina display as an external monitor?

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I have three 23" Samsung LCD monitors, and I've had all three hooked up to my MacBook Pro, for a total of four displays. Problem is, the MacBook Pro's Retina display has totally spoiled me. The Samsungs now look terrible in comparison, so much so that I stick to the single MacBook Pro display as much as possible, until I have to go to multiple monitors for whatever task I'm working on (I'm a Java software engineer).

I got to thinking if it's possible to use an iPad with Retina display as an external monitor. Even better, if I could just buy iPad display replacement parts and use those as external monitors, that'd be rad, but I don't know (a) if it's possible, and (b) what kind of connector they would require.

How can I directly connect two iPads or two standalone iPad Retina displays to my MacBook Pro?


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I am looking for a simple method to change password with a script on macOS 10.12.6 (or newer).

I tried something like

sudo yes "mynewpassword" | sudo passwd myuser

But this is not working, apparently passwd is not reading from stdin.

I wonder if there is a official method to do so, like a command line tool.


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Nearly every time I see updates available on my iPhone (4,  iOS 5.1) whilst browsing the app store, the list of updates is empty even when the badge says there are some.

Selecting update all will successfully do the updates, but I have no idea what was updated without hunting them down as they download.

Is this a common issue? Is there a known fix or workaround?

In the first screenshot is the "loading screen" for want of a better description.  It consists of the the central information nugget, and the spinner in the top bar.  When this completes, the available updates should then show.

However, more often than not, I get the following:

Curious variation in background shading also I just noticed, but the darker screenshot is older, and might be from iOS 5.0.1


texts: iOS' Music app - "Object not available" "This item can't be played"?

texts: After a reset and restore suggested by Apple's support for a completely different problem with my iPhone half of my music library become unplayable with the tracks appearing in gray and tapping them returning an error message "Object not available. This item can't be played".


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When I play a song in Quick Look it sounds oversaturated and distorted. If I open it, it sounds great. What can be happening?

I noticed it with Mp3 at 320 kbps. With WAV and AAC it does not happens. I use a MacBook Air from mid 2011 with OS X 10.9.5.


texts: What happened to the right/control + mouse click option to “Get Album Artwork” in iTunes 12.4?

texts: I’m on Mac OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan) and just upgraded to iTunes 12.4 and if I right/control + mouse click on a track I no longer see “Get Album Artwork” in the list of options. I am 100% positive this used to be the case in earlier (12.3 and lower) versions of iTunes. What gives?


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Two weeks ago, my 13" Macbook Pro was stolen. Is there any way to locate my laptop if and when the thief accesses the internet?

Is there any application or a website similar to this that can give me an alert message if I register my Macbook pro ID number?


texts: How do I disable or turn off Burst Mode photos in iPhone 6s?

texts: Whenever I use the self-timer modes (either 3s, or 10s), my iPhone takes a burst of photos no matter what. Is there a way to disable this?


texts: Cannot create a file with sudo in Apache web directory

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Suddenly the following problem has happened:
I have an Apache web directory at /www. Everything was ok with the permissions, but at some point (I can't realize what caused it), I become unable to create any new files in this directory.

I have tried two methods:

Saving a new file from Sublime
running sudo echo "" > newfile.

But both methods failed. On the other hand I am able to create new files in my home directory (using both mentioned ways) and then to copy or move them to /www. What may be the issue and how to solve it?


texts: Unable to restore the lot space to Container disk0s2

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Here you can see 251.0 GB is disk0 and 169.0 GB is disk0s3. I had erased and deleted disk0s2. Now I want to use all the capacity left in disk0 to disk0s2.

Kindly help.


texts: Can I boot Mac from an external hard drive (internal hard drive+hard drive closure)

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Model: Macbook Pro 2010 mid
OS: OS X 10.9
Hard Drive: WD5000BPKT 500GB

For some reason I need to change my perfectly working internal bootable drive to external bootable drive.

I took out my internal hard drive, put it into closure, and then connected it to mbp with USB. But my mac cannot even recognize my external hard drive. It displays a folder with a question mark with grey background, which means it cannot find executable boot drive. I tried pressing option key during startup and nothing showed. Also, I tried resetting  parameter RAM but still no luck. Any help will be appreciated.


texts: Application to save copies of reduced resolution photos on iPhone?

texts: I am looking for an application that will save a copy of a photo on my camera at a smaller resolution. Can't find anything...thanks!


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I had my previous Mac Mini configured where /Users was a link to a separate volume on my dual disk system. I tried upgrading to Catalina on that machine and discovered that this link caused the upgrade to fail (and there didn't seem to be a clean downgrade path), so I finally got around to transitioning to my new Mac Mini which has a much larger boot drive and all would be well.
Except it turns out that my time machine backups respected the sym link and when I recovered, I see a symlink to a non-existent drive in my root directory. I figure I can still somewhat easily recover the files from the old machine over the network, but I need to rebuild /Users. When I try to delete or rename the symlink, I get a message, Operation not permitted. How do I re-create my Users directory short of doing a clean install which I'd prefer to avoid if possible?
Update The new machine has Catalina Mojave (probably from the backup restore) on it. I tried giving Terminal whole disk access, but the process gets hung on the authorization step, I suspect because I don't have a viable Users directory. I've been able to get the old Mac Mini into a bootable state with Mojave running on it so my next step will be to try to get the new Mac Mini connected with target disk mode (assuming I can find the TB 2 cable which I thought I had on my desk).
Update 2 I didn't have a TB2 cable, I had a Firewire 800 cable. I've ended up reinstalling MacOS de novo on the new machine and I'm doing a migration from the old machine using migration assistant and an ethernet cable to connect them both. I don't know that there is any other possible solution to the problem. MacOS really doesn't like having the Users directory symlinked to another volume.


texts: $PATH doesn't show .bash_profile, only shows /etc/paths

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I have a beautifully set .bash_profile and everything was working well, then I updated to zsh. I installed Visual Studio for Mac, for a while I didn't realise that something was wrong, today I saw that all my paths were gone and I could only see the ones below when I echo:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/share/dotnet:~/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands

It's what I have in /etc/paths and my Visual Studio paths.
Now I tried setting the source, but this only works during the current session, when I close and open my terminal again, it resets back to this broken one.

I looked through my files, I don't have a .profile or a .bashrc either. I even tried turning my Mac off and on again.

my .bash_profile:

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@10/bin:$PATH"
export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/me/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
export PATH=/Users/me/flutter/bin:$PATH
export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

How can I make my Terminal just read .bash_profile?


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I have my dock auto-hiding and when I hover my pointer in the area where the dock would have been it pops up again.

I want it to show when I hit the bottom of the screen with my pointer, not just the area where it would have been. The problem I have is that if I've got a window with the bottom end in that area and try to click or selecting something the dock shows up instead.

So if my dock is 50 pixels high, if my pointer is within 50 px from the bottom the dock will show up. But I want it to show up when I've got the pointer at the last pixel at the bottom of the screen.

Any tips? I haven't found many others, if any, that have the same problem or want the same thing so it feels I'm doing something wrong here... :)

Cheers.


texts: How to make my iPhone 7 faster (at least decent)

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I have iPhone 7, with the latest iOS. It was slower and I thought it was because of many apps. I formatted it and use essential apps but it has not made it faster. Last year I had its battery changed as it was draining the battery too fast.
The claim that Apple is purposely doing the phone slow, seems to be true? What is the way around to make my phone faster as not even the search would show up if I want to find an app.


texts: Selecting which apps are allowed to cancel shutdown

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I find it hard to accept that any app can cancel an otherwise smooth shutdown of my mac.

Is there a setting somewhere that I would be able to approve certain apps, but not others, to the prevent shutdown?

OSX 10.10


texts: How can I merge primary APFS partition with other empty/free space APFS partition?

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I am using MacOS Mojave. Below is the diskutil output

There is 150 GB of free Space. After executing the resize command, I am seeing Error 69519. How do I merge the free space with disk0s2?

MacBook-Pro:~ mac$ sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0
Started APFS operation
Error: -69519: The target disk is too small for this operation, or a gap is required in your partition
map which is missing or too small, which is often caused by an attempt to grow a partition beyond the
beginning of another partition or beyond the end of partition map usable space

I have ran the following steps (disk0s4 is not seen in the image as its deleted and is now free space)

Step 1: Delete the container

sudo diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk0s4

Step 2: Erase the volume

sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" %noformat% /dev/disk0s4

Step 3: Resize the container

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0


texts: Prevent macOS from bringing all windows to front when switching to an app?

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I have 2 windows of Google Chrome open, one on each display. Switching to Google Chrome puts both the windows on top of the rest of the apps on both the displays.

This is annoying as I write using one display, and use the other to view reference material. Switching apps often causes the windows on other display to get inadvertently covered.

I have set displays to have separate Spaces.

Is there any way to prevent macOS from bringing all the app windows to front, or, to prevent the app windows shown on the other display from  switching too?


texts: Restoring window configuration for monitor setups

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I would like to achieve the same effect as is described in this question, which doesn't seem to have a suitable answer.

I develop on a macbook pro. Often I use it on its own, but sometimes I connect it to an external display (of various sizes).

When I connect to an external display, all of my applications move to that display as it is plugged in. I then need to move most of them back on to the smaller (built in) display by hand and resize them to the smaller screen: I generally only have my development environment and terminals running on the larger display.

When I disconnect from the external display, all my Apps move back on to the built in display, but aren't resized.

The behaviour I would like (or a close approximation):

When I connect an external display, the OS remembers the window layout from the last time this display was used and restores it.
When I disconnect the display, the OS remembers the layout I had in the disconnected state and restores that.
When I connect a new display, nothing happens. The OS leaves it to me to move windows on to it that I want to be there.

I note that the OS seems to know connected monitors by name, so it should be possible to have the configuration be specific to the particular monitor that I have plugged in.

If there are no existing Apps that support this, I'd love any leads on the  APIs I should be looking at that will let me develop an App to do this.

I'm currently using Mavericks, but I'll probably upgrade to Yosemite fairly soon.

Thanks.


texts: How can I recover my MS Office 2011 product key?

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I want to use Migration Assistant to transfer my data from a Macbook Pro to a Macbook Air. I'm told that I need my product key for MS Office 2011.

Is there a way to find my product key on my mac?


texts: How to drag folders from Finder into Final Cut without mouse [automator/applescript]

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Hello guys I'm trying to create a Service to do some repetitive tasks that I have to perform every day. Most of the things I figured out how to automate, but there is one move that seems to be impossible: dragging two folders into a Final Cut Pro 7 project.

I tried using Applescript to tell Final Cut the menu commands File/Import/Folder... But apparently the program is not scriptable. Furthermore the parent folder always change, so I can't hardcode the location, although I can tell the current path to the script using automator.

I can't upgrade to Final Cut X for professional reasons, so that's not an option.

Any insight would be appreciated, even to say "You can't do that".


texts: How should I configure VirtualBox to be able to connect to the internet from the guest OS

texts: I am trying to move from VMware Fusion to VirtualBox since Fusion 3.0 is not working since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. VirtualBox is working but I cannot connect to the Internet on my guest OS (Windows XP). I am new to VirtualBox, so any help will be appreciated.


texts: I can't change the Dock's size. I tried deleting the file com.apple.dock.plist from the Preferences folder but it didn't resolve the problem.


texts: I keep getting logged out when I switch users

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I'm running macOS 12.12.3 (Sierra).

I keep getting logged out when I try to switch users, both doing fast user switching and going back to the login menu and then logging in.

It's incredibly frustrating.

What could be a fix?

The only "weird" thing that I have running is QuickRes.

Any idea?


texts: Kernel Task is taking up 1.12 GB in activity monitor

texts: I have an issue where my kernel task is taking over a GB of memory on my activity monitor. My fan seems to be going pretty crazy and is loud. Any ideas?


texts: iPhone/Google contacts switched from Exchange to CardDAV but one way sync only

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Having read the answers to Is it better for iOS to sync Gmail contacts using Exchange ActiveSync or the CardDAV protocol?, I switched off Contacts on the Exchange account, and set up CardDAV following Google instructions. Google is set as the default account on the iPhone. I have nearly instantaneous updates from the iPhone to Google. But I've waited a couple of hours and have yet to see a new contact and an update to an existing contact that I made via web Gmail show up on the phone. Is there a setting I'm missing? Per Google help, I already checked that the Account is on, and that I am using SSL. I'm on iOS 6.0.

Well, seven hours later I have the updates on the phone. Is this the norm?


texts: Phone app uses a single contact's image for all calls

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Since I've updated to iOS 7, there's something that has driven me nearly insane every time I make a phone call. Every time I receive or place a call, the background image for the call (which is supposed to be the contact's image) consistently shows up the same for all calls. This would be fine if it were my wallpaper, but it's actually a picture of someone that I used for their contact photo. I've since deleted the photo from my phone and from the contact, but it still shows up for every phone call I receive.

As you can expect, this is extremely bothering. Is there any way to clear the cache that is used for contact photos on phone calls?


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I want to change the app icon for a pre-installed iOS app. What are my options?

Is there a way I can download an .ipsw file, change the icon of the app in it, then change something to make iTunes think it is newer than the version currently on the device, so it can apply it as an update, so all my data on the device will not be removed? (Which would happen if I applied it by restoring with it.)


texts: Where is the bash profile on iOS, I am jailbroken and can't find the bash profile, I would like to create some aliases and edit it.


texts: Why Will 2012 Mac Pro will work with 2 graphics cards, but not one?

texts: I have a 2012 Mac Pro which must be updated to a Metal compatible card. When I swap the cards, the screen shows nothing and I do not believe it boots. When I put in the original card and the new card however, it works fine and video works from both cards. The problem is, the Mac will not allow a Mojave update with both cards in, and when I remove the original card, I am back to the same issue regardless of which x16 slot I use. What could be the cause of this?


texts:
I have an update iOS 7.1.2 waiting which I cannot install since it tells me that I don't have enough free space. The update is 28.8 MB and I have 1.1 GB free. But the update apparently requires 1.5 GB free to install, which is absolutely ridiculous. I realize that the update itself will not use the 1.5 GB afterwards, but this just reeks of bad design. This means that on my 16 GB iPad (where I already have to economize the space) I have to waste 10% of the disk in order to be able to install updates.

So, is there a way around this issue other than deleting additional apps or data? I have already deleted more than I cared for.


texts: Logic Pro X Keyshortcut settings - can they be saved to iCloud Drive?

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how do I make sure that the Logic Pro X Keyshortcut settings are somehow fetched from the iCloud Drive every time?

I keep switching from machine1 to machine2 to machine3 and I think I've had to keep recreating the shortcuts from scratch about maybe 5-10 times over the course of the past 8 years.

Could Symlinked files somehow help with this?

According to Apple, the personal key command set is at ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Key Commands. Fingers crossed that this can be changed into a symlink.


texts: Can we use two thunderbolt 1 ports as two inputs into a 4k monitor

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I'm wondering if an early 2013 macbook pro retina (so two thunderbolt 1 ports, each supposedly outputting up to 10gbps) can have both thunderbolt ports plugged into a Dell or LG 43 inch 4k monitor as two separate inputs to drive 4k @ 60hz.

Online, it says that these monitors support multiple inputs, so half of the screen can be driven by one computer and the other half by another.  Although thunderbolt 1 alone can't output 4k @ 60hz, I'm wondering if I can use one port to output 4k @ 60hz to the top half (or left half) of the monitor and use the other port for the other half, and thereby put two pieces together.

Has anyone tried this?  Is it even theoretically possible given the data transfer rates with thunderbolt 1 and the data necessary for 4k @ 60hz?

Thanks!


texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge,

I read on a book that Disk Utility can erase a Volume/Partition by using different option of security.

Among these options there is one called: 3 Pass Erase, that writes two passes of random data followed by a single pass of known data to the disk.

According to Apple, this option meets US Department of Energy.  What does the US Department of Energy have to do with secure erasing data? Do they control the security standard? I thought was the Department of Defense that control the standards.

Thank you


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Is there another way to get gpg-agent in? I need GPG2 signing for RVM in order to provision a server.

The message

bash-4.3$ brew install --vd gnupg2
==> Installing dependencies for gnupg2: gpg-agent, dirmngr, libusb, libusb-compat
==> Installing gnupg2 dependency: gpg-agent
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.0.26.tar.bz2

curl: (28) Connection timed out after 5004 milliseconds
Trying a mirror...
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.0.26.tar.bz2

curl: (7) Failed to connect to ftp.mirrorservice.org port 21: Operation timed out
Error: Failed to download resource "gpg-agent"
Download failed: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.0.26.tar.bz2

Unfortunetly nothing too informative...


texts: Running LG UltraFine 5k with additional low DPI screens

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I have the following hardware:

2018 MacBook Pro 13''
LG UltraFine 5k
2 x ThinkVision 1920x1200

Ideally, I would like to connect these 3 screens to my MacBook Pro.

I connected the LG UltraFine 5k on one side of the MacBook Pro, and both ThinkVision screens on the other side.

Currently, I only manage to get a most 2 of the screens running.

Is this a hardware limitation? Or is there a way to get the 3 screens at once.


texts: Can't select Photos library. Click Choose Library, nothing happens

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I have 3 iPhoto Libraries. Have already converted 2 of them. Went back to open the first converted and it would not open. Nothing.

I can select the other two, but when I try and select the 3rd, nothing happens. I click, the button registers the click, but nothing happens.

Here is a screenshot - I click Choose Library and nothing happens.

I can select the other libraries, no problem.


texts: Can a Mac Pro drive more than 2 monitors?

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I have 3 Monitors which I would like to drive off a Mac Pro (that is not bought yet). The Monitors don't have DisplayPort though (and I had not much luck with the $100 adapters).

All 3 have DVI and 2 have HDMI as well (running at 2048x1152).

Would I have to get a configuration with 2x Radeon 5770? Can I use a Mini-DP-HDMI Adapter on it? (I successfully drive one of them on a MacBook Pro, I just don't know if the Mac Pro's 5770 are special)


texts: Eclipse Fails To Launch Complaining of Incompatible Java VM

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I get the following error when trying to launch Eclipse, which I recently tried to install.

"Version 1.6.0_65 of the JVM is not suitable for this product.  Version 1.7 or greater is required."

I'm running Mountain Lion.

I have the most recent 1.8 installed from Oracle, and this is the install I would like Eclipse to be using.  The following image shows the info from the Java Control Panel including the version number and the install path.

Here's is the info on the Apple installed Java VM which is the one Eclipse is currently trying to use.

~> which java
/usr/bin/java
~> java -version
java version "1.6.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)
~> ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  74 Oct 16  2013 /usr/bin/java -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java


texts: Do not display/get event invitations from shared/external calendars in macOS calendar app

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I have 3 Gmail accounts which I added to macOS Mail and Calendar. Everything works fine so far except that I do not only get invitations to events for my personal email accounts but also for shared calendars that I have access to. So let's say under my Gmail account (m@testcompany.com), I have access to some co-workers calendars (t@testcompany.com, ...). So now I do not only get an Invitation in macOS calendar for events to which I am invited to but also to those that my co-workers are.

How can I disable this feature since it really drives me crazy?


texts: Hosting a NTFS drive share from Mavericks to Windows 8

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I have a media server that runs on Mac, and because of this, my drive (which is NTFS) is hosted on the Mac. However, all of my media management is done on my Windows 8 PC that connects to the NTFS drive via an SMB share.

The problem is, when I upgraded from 10.7 to 10.8, Apple seemed to have buggered up the SMB plugins, forcing me to use SMBUP (which works, OK ...)

My question is, if I upgrade my Mac to 10.9, are there any known issues with hosting an SMB share for Windows 8? Ideally, I'd like to remove SMBUP from the picture.

(Almost all the information I've found online, is about how to connect to an SMB share, not how to host one.)


texts: How to connect mini dv camcorder to my 2013 MacBook Air

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I am needing to connect my camcorder, which uses mini dv tapes, to my mac so I can transfer the video to an electronic file, but the only output on the camcorder is an A/v and i'm not sure what connections to use.

I need to know what connectors will connect from a/v to my macbook air.


texts: Outlook 2016: Add exchange account using script / automatic ( OSX > 10.12 )

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Is there a way to add Exchange Account to Outlook using scripts / automatically ?
My scenario is:
  Fresh install of Volume Licence Office 2016.

  Opened Outlook

On opening Outlook, it should get configured to account automatically from a config file or account should be system login credentials ?


texts: Media keys not working for iTunes high Sierra

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I don't know what's happening but, during the day media keys accidentally start/stop working for manage iTunes.
For me helps only rebootthe whole system.
I've googled for solution but any of it not work for me.
(there are no any of extensions like Spotify, Deezer etc on mine).
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.


texts: Work arounds or naming the problem for this message: 'do not have permission to open the application "ECGWorkbench'

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I'm trying open this application: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~lucag/ (It's a research tool might might be great for my work so I really want to access it).
I'm running big sur on a 2014 mac book pro. It has Java 8 (I'm assuming that this is the 'Java Virtual Machine' which is specified in the instructions).
When I try and open the app I get the message: "You do not have permission to open the application "ECGWorkbench'. Contact your computer or network administrator for assistance."
I've tried everything on these two threads: Can't run app because of permission in Big Sur https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/666611?page=3 I've tried opening the app on a mac which hadn't been upgraded to big sur. I can't get hold of a Windows or Linux computer.
I have two questions:
Is there a work around? I'm not a programer so bear with this question but if the app is written in Java and I had the code could I execute it? The folder with the app in had lots of other files.  Or if I installed Linux in a virtual environment on my mac could I then open the Linux version of the app?
If it can't be fixed I'm going to try to contact the developers. The project doesn't seem to be very active so I'm not convinced they'd be interested in updating the app. If I could suggest what amendment they need to make or at least say why it's not working they might be more willing to help me out. Can anyone suggest what I could say to them? Something along the lines of 'I can't open the app because of XYZ, could you change the ABC' would be perfect. The NTL (neural theory of language) project created the app but they are part of the ICSI (international computer science institute) at berkley so I'm assuming they know what code is etc.
Thank you.
Rachel


texts: Repair iTunes (12.9.5) on Mojave (10.14.5)

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A few months ago, I successfully removed iTunes from my machine using the accepted answer for this question: Disabling / Uninstalling iTunes on macOS Mojave
In short, via the command

sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app

However, now I need it back for reasons. Turns out the latest Mojave update (10.14.5) brought iTunes back for it's currently sitting on my Applications folder; only that it won't launch. It will barely show up on the Dock before the OS shuts it down.

From the Console, I'm seeing the following errors every time I attempt to launch iTunes:

Among those, the inability to read/write this pref key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertEventsNotification is the most apparent.

Now, for there's no standalone installer for iTunes 12.9.x, I can't simply  remove and reinstall the program itself. Latest public installer is for iTunes 12.8.2 which won't install unless on "macOS version 10.13.99 or earlier".

I searched online and already turn to Apple Support for a solution and they all agree that a full Mojave reinstall is required to fix this, which I find unreasonable. I hoped that you may know better.


texts: Copy text from quick look in El Capitan or Sierra?

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I used to be able to just quicklook files and copy the text directly from there, removing the need to launch applications to open it which is just awesome, however, it doesn't seem to work since El Capitan. I have tried running the terminal command (defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE) that enables it but it didn't work.

What options exist to customize quick look or replace the default plug in with one that allows text selection?