texts: I need to examine an 82.7 GB (!) text file. What can open it?

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We recently had a meltdown of a Tomcat server, that produced an 82.7 GB "catalina.out" log file, which I saved for forensic analysis.

What macOS editors can open monster text files without consuming 80 GB of RAM or causing 15 minute freezes?


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Is it possible to install one of the latest software on a old iPad or iPod? The device still works good. But because there is old software on it, I can't do anything with it.

Is it recommended, or do you recommend to do something else with the iPad/iPod?

I have an iPod Touch 3 and an iPad 1.


texts: How do I command Automator to convert the multiple images from PNG to ICNS once at all? (Solved)

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I use OS X Mountain 10.8.2.

I used Automator and added AppleScript, copying the command from the old app's developer at the Iconoodle - Convenient ICNS to PNG image conversion  (Iconoodle isn't supported by OS X 10.8 by being a PPC app). I saved the workflow as an application. I selected the images and dropped them into the application, but the images weren't converted to ICNS. I also copied from the question Convert image to .icns file AppleScript Obj-C from StackoverFlow and it didn't work either.

I'm really frustrated with it. I want to use Automator to convert the multiple images from PNG to ICNS once at all. It's very annoying to convert each image to ICNS in the icon editor applications, one for one. The Preview.app doesn't want to convert the image in format PNG to ICNS because it has only one page, it can convert it to ICNS only if the icon has many pages.

Do you know to make it?

Thank you for your attention, help and patience!


texts: Is it necessary to give my debit card details to update the macbook?

texts: when i am trying to update my version to Mac os high sierra. mac asks me to review my account in apple store. for reviewing my account i need to give my debit card details. Is it necessary to give that?


texts: How to force iMessage on iPhone to download messages stuck on Apple's servers?

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I have iMessage on my Mac and iPhone.

I treat iMessage on my phone as the primary tool. Mac iMessage is convenient to send messages occasionally, but my Mac is not always connected to the internet.

A message has been delivered to my Mac, and after several hours it has not appeared on my phone. I have tried logging out of iMessage. Turning iMessage off. restarting by holding down home and power. waiting ten minutes and reconnecting.

Can't make it budge. I have had an ongoing conversation since then.


texts: Restoring an accidentally deleted iMessage thread using my iPad?

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I have the full iMessage thread on my iPad, but accidentally deleted it off of my iPhone.

How can I transfer the full thread to my iPhone?


texts: Troubleshoot launchd/launchctl issue where application won't load

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I'm trying to load a LaunchAgent in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and although, from command line, it "appears" to load. However, if I try to load it again it says it's "already loaded".

But a process for the application isn't running. ps -e | grep mongo shows nothing (well it shows this grep command).

Anyone know how to troubleshoot these kinds of problems?

Only thing I can find is in /var/log/system.log:

Feb  9 13:15:26 imac com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[130] (homebrew.mxcl.mongodb): Ignored this key: UserName

I'm assuming it's ignoring the UserName because it's being launched from my User directory: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist. And as per docs this is to be expected.

I can launch the application just fine from Terminal:

/usr/local/bin/mongod

Here's the LaunchAgent plist:

<?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>homebrew.mxcl.mongodb</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/mongod</string>
    <string>run</string>
    <string>--config</string>
    <string>/usr/local/etc/mongod.conf</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <false/>
  <key>UserName</key>
  <string>meltemi</string>
  <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
  <string>/usr/local</string>
  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
  <string>/usr/local/var/log/mongodb/output.log</string>
  <key>StandardOutPath</key>
  <string>/usr/local/var/log/mongodb/output.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: Charger cable vs Lighting to USB Camera Adapter

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My iPad came with the normal Lightning -> USB Type A Male charger cable.
I want to connect it to my Roland piano and the piano's manual mentions the need for a camera connection kit - so apparently I need this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD821ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter

Now these cables (charger and the above adapter) look very similar to me (both have USB Type A at one end, although one is male and the other is female).

Do they have different wiring/chips?


texts: Why won't my iPad 2 let me turn bluetooth on?

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This issue is about an interstate family member's iPad 2, so I'm afraid my knowledge of the issue and ability to troubleshoot are rather limited, but I'd appreciate any general help available.

The iPad is (or was) connected to an Apple bluetooth keyboard. It has been working up until today when, apparently, each time the bluetooth is turned on in the settings, it immediately reverts to being off. Is there a known or common reason for this to occur? Is there any solution?

I thought that it might be a power-saving thing, but apparently the iPad had near to full charge, and I can't think of much else.


texts: Error when trying to move Photos Library

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Can't find a likely looking existing question so here goes:
I just updated to Yosemite and successfully (??  well -- it seems to work ) migrated my iPhoto library to Photos.  Now however, I would like to move the iPhoto library to another external drive.
It is already on an external but I got a new one that I want dedicated to photos only).

So I thought I should quit Photos and copy the library to the brand new pristine drive.  It looks like it's doing a major copy with a progress bar and all, and clanks and grinds for a long time then about halfway through it keels on an error,

  The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in “Photos
  Library” can't be read or written (Error code -36)

and I wind up with nothing on the new disk.

So my question really what is wrong with the Photos library to begin with and how do I fix it?


texts: Moving iTunes library from Macs with different OS

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I recently bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my old MacBook.

The old MacBook has my entire iTunes library on it and is currently running Snow Leopard.

The new MBP is running Mavericks.

How can I move the entire library to the new MacBook?

I tried the instructions on the support site, but they do not make sense to me because the folder names are not called the same thing in both OS's.

Any suggestions?

Thanks


texts:
Aquamacs freezes upon re-start. If I delete .emacs.d/SessionDesktop.el before restarting, all works fine.

What is the issue there? How can I avoid this (save for deleting SessionDesktop.el everytime).

Thanks.


texts: How to trim many files using adobe photoshop

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I have 300 png files. I want to trim each of them. But for this I need open each file and make changes (even if I make script for trimming and save it will be long to open each file and do trimming). Is there already made solution or some advice how to do it better and quickly.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Macbook Pro 2017 - battery replaced but not charging

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i have replaced the battery of my macbook late 2016-2017, but i cannot let it charge. It keeps showing this when i turn it on

Even if i plug the charger, it keeps showing the same icon and won't charge.
I have tried the smc procedure but won't work...


texts: How can my Mac still be falling asleep with Caffeinate?

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After long-running problems where my Mac mini (Late 2012 unibody) won't wake up from sleep, I started running caffeinate -s. But even this doesn't fix it. My Mac claims to still be running, flickering lights on my external hard drive, etc., but the monitor is asleep and says there is no signal.

My only options are to hard-boot, or weirdly to turn the hard drive off and on. This brings the monitor back awake "the Mac will shortly restart".

What can be going on? Is something sleeping and failing to wake? Is my Mac just dying? Is my DP-based monitor trying to be too smart? It's a Dell U2715H.


texts: El Capitan sidebar preferences not sticking

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I had a hard drive failure and am temporarily using a machine which can only be brought up to El Capitan.
I have a sidebar problem that is driving me crazy. The configuration of the sidebar favorites is "stuck". If I make a change (such as reordering the list or deleting a folder), after a logout, the sidebar configuration reverts to one I made a long time ago.
I have tried trashing the Finder and Sidebar preferences, quitting the Finder, logging out and restarting with no joy.
I looked in com.apple.sidebar.plist and compared it to the file I have on my Yosemite machine and it is quite limited. Specifically, it is missing an entry called "favoriteItems" which has a child "CustomListItems" that seems to hold the info needed to make the sidebar look the way I want.
I have actually been having a lot of strange "things not sticking" issues on this machine - most seem to be solved, but this one isn't. I checked the permissions on my ~/library and ~/library/preferences files and I do have rw privileges
Is the sidebar favorites configuration stored differently on El Capitan vs. Yosemite?


texts: Keyboard lag, lost keystrokes, and high fan speed in Filevault's EFI pre-boot unlock/login screen (MacBook Pro 2017)

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I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) with macOS 10.15.4 and FileVault enabled.

When I boot the machine, the Filevault's pre-boot unlock screen appears as normal, prompting me for my password.

Now, while the system remains on this screen, and all the way until the correct password is recognized, the following symptoms occur:

Built-in fans start spinning at top speed within seconds from boot (which, I assume, indicate high CPU use).
Built-in keyboard very noticeably lags: key inputs are buffered before actually appearing in the password text field and some of them are disregarded altogether.

Now, this presents a very practical problem: sometimes it takes me more than 10 attempts to actually get my password to be recognized.
Even worse, with each mangled password the screen almost seem to work slower and slower, all very reminiscent of high-CPU-load situations.

I usually type my password fairly quickly, but any other password prompt within the OS takes it without a hiccup. And even when I slow down, lost keystrokes are still a problem and are hard to detect in a password field, where actual characters are not shown.

The problem repeats itself between macOS installations, and is definitely not caused by system still booting up in the background: as I said, the apparent high CPU load always continues until the password is recognized and stops immediately after.

What exactly does Filevault do on that screen? Is it some sort of deterrence against hacking attempts? Can this behavior be tweaked?


texts: Apple Remote Control options does not appear on Advanced Security Preferences panel

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As you see here, I can't access any Apple Remote Control on my security preferences
so I'm not able to pair my Apple Remote again. I'm using High Sierra updated. Funny thing it was working previously on the same Mac w/ same config. Any ideas? Thanks!


texts: Power suply Watts and charging time - Apple iphone

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I understand that a device only draws as much current as it needs. So assuming the power supply and the device have the same voltage (5V), using a power supply able to provide more amperage (= more watts) will not change anything.

However if the power supply can't provide enough current (nominal current of the device), that will either overheat the supply and/or the voltage in the circuit will drop.

Also regarding the voltage it is important that it be the same.

If that of the power supply is higher than the device, the current in the circuit will be too high (assuming the power supply can supply this new level of amperage) with a risk of frying the device.
if that of the power supply is lower, then the device might not be working properly as not enough current circulates inside.

My question is regarding the statement that new iphones can be charged with both the 5W and 12W charger, the charging time being faster with the latter.

How comes? To me either the 5W matches the device's inputs and the 12W shouldn't change anything, that is, it works but not faster. Or the 12W is the correct one but then it would mean that with the 5W the power provided is too low and we are in the case explained at the top where the power supply rating is below the device requirements, which can create issues.

The only explanation I can think of is that the circuit in iphone is more complex and somewhat intelligent with variable internal resistances to regulate the amperage and adapt to the power supply specs. Would that be correct?


texts:
Is there a native dictionary on OSX?

I would like to be able to click on a word (in any open window), and get its meaning in a quick popup windows.


texts:
MacOS Sierra 10.12.5 early 2015 MacBook pro 13inch
Transcend 1TB

Keep doing this since 2015 when I bought both. Every time it is disconnected improperly it hangs a long time upon trying to remount it because the system keeps checking the fs:

$ sudo lsof | grep disk2
fsck_msdo 2084             root    3u      CHR               1,6 0xcf04928000     1153 /dev/rdisk2s1

Tried force mounting, unmounting, eject, OS restarting, killing fs_check process, but every time it restarts the filesystem check.

Is it necessary? How can I disable it?

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 Transcend               1.0 TB     disk2s1


texts: Can an iOS 7 device (iPad 2 for instance) be synchronized with a PPC Mac with OSX 10.5.8 and the latest iTunes for it, which I believe is iTunes 10.6.3?


texts: Can an iOS app be released as a public beta?

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I'm wondering if there is an equivalent in the iOS App Store to Google Play's beta testing program Early Access.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/google-plays-beta-testing-program-early-access-opens-to-more-developers/

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7003180?hl=en

We are currently testing our app with a handful of users and a few small groups via Testflight, but it's unclear to me if we can scale up the testing without just releasing the app to everyone.


texts: Shutdown without and close all windows from terminal

texts: If I shutdown/reboot from Menu I get an option of saving state of open windows or not, but if I issue a command from terminal say shutdown -h now it will shutdown remembering all open windows, how can I shutdown without remembering any of the open windows just like the Menu option from terminal ?


texts: How to unsubscribe from subscriptions in Find Friends App

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Recently within Find Friends App I have created a subscription like this:

And now I would like to remove that subscription because subscribed person is notified every time when I arrive to selected location;)

Where is the place I can preview my subscriptions and If I wish, unsubscribe from it?

Thank you;)


texts: How do I download Xcode 4.4 without using the App Store?

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Following an upgrade to Mountain Lion, Xcode 4.3 no longer functions. I need 4.4.

Download link

I've not been able to get a link for Xcode 4.4, has anyone else found it?

Reasons for not using the App Store in this case

I don't own a Mac, so I can't copy from one to another.

The Mac where Xcode 4.4 is required is corporate. The upgrade to the OS was volume licensed, performed without the App Store – IT provided the installer to me.

I don't have a corporate credit card (or PayPal) to use with this Mac.  I'll not enter my personal credit card information in an account on a corporate Mac.

I read about "None" being a payment option for free apps, however it's not available on my machine.


texts: How to avoid external display going off after I unplug a MacBook from the AC Power?

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When I have my MacBook Pro 10.10 connected to the AC Power my external display connected through HDMI works fine.

As soon I disconnect the MacBook from the AC Power and start running on battery, my external display turns off, even the MacBook is not sleeping.

How to avoid external display go off after I unplug my MacBook from the AC Power?

I unplug the power connector and external display goes off immediately if I have the lid closed.
The laptop is still awake, I can test that because it responded to the ping.
I plug in the power connector and the external display turns on immediately, but the screen is locked, so I have to type my password.


texts: Did Mavericks solve the Safari Airplay delay?

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I have a first gen Airport Express (from 2008) and use it with Mountain Lion.
The connection chain looks as follows:

MacBook Pro -> WiFi (802.11n) -> Airport Express (receives Internet via DSL cable) -> Regular solid state amp

It works fine in the following situations:

Spotify
iTunes
Quicktime video or audio
Youtube using the HTML5 trial on Safari
Chrome
Vimeo on Safari

However, there's a huge sync difference (to be exact: 2 seconds) between audio and video when I use:

VLC
Youtube, Vimeo (or any other video site) on Safari using anything but HTML5
Youtube, Vimeo (or any other video site) on Firefox

A work around for VLC is to delay the video channel by 2 seconds to make the audio/video line-up again.
But the browser is not as easily fixed.

From reading around on discussion forums this seems to be a Mountain Lion issue.
Does Mavericks solve the audio/video sync problem when playing videos in Safari (or any other browser)?

For completeness I tried out the rather strange suggestion of Wheat Williams of connecting my MacBook Pro directly to the Airport Express using an Ethernet cable.

There was no difference at all compared to connecting through WiFi. The delay on VLC (if uncorrected) and on Firefox remained. This means that the connections speed is not the bottleneck.


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Image Capture doesn't recognize iPhone 4S. I'm using OS X Mavericks and iPhone 4S 64 GB with latest iOS 7.1.2

iTunes detects the phone and can perform a backup. iPhoto and Image Capture do not see the phone at all.

I'm using an original Apple cable and the phone is not modded in any way.


texts: Safe way to cancel shrinking hard drive partition

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I thought it would be a good idea to create another partition on my hard drive to use as a backup. I opened disk utility and configured the internal hard drive to split half between the OS partition and the backup partition and hit go. Then it started shrinking the OS partition.

Now, several hours later, I am wondering if it will ever stop. I opened activity monitor and I can see that diskmanagementd process is reading and writing like crazy, but it is only transferring about 3 MB/s. According to my calculations (I have about 500 GB of data on it), it would take me 45 days to complete the shrinking of the drive.

Is there a safe way of cancelling the process? Will I corrupt my disk and / or data by just killing the disk utility process?


texts: How can I make FaceTime appear in the iOS with an iPhone bought in UAE and used in another country?


texts:
I was reading up on the update and it seems that most changes are for either iPad2 or iPhone 4 (e.g. the personal hotspot).

Is there anything in this update for the iPhone 3GS?  Any performance improvements? Any reason to install it?


texts: Determining OS X version from Time Machine backup

texts: I have Time Machine backups from my iMac Early 2008 (20"). Can I determine from those backups what OS X version was running on the machine at the time of latest backup?


texts:
I just imported a huge music library to iTunes.

This library contains plenty tracks that are already in my library, but the info is in a different language, my question is, is there a way to have the file info multilingual, so I'll be able to merge the files while keeping the info in both languages?


texts: If I buy a Wifi and Cellular iPad Mini, could I cut down my mobile SIM card and use its cellular data with the iPad?


texts: Macbook will only boot into recovery, how to copy files onto other hard drive and boot from it?

texts: My Macbook Pro will only boot into recovery after upgrading Disk Utility from the App Store. In the Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, my disk can't be checked for errors and it cannot unmount. (I believe it also recognizes the existence of the filesystem but cannot verify it or something similar) I have taken the hard drive out of my device and used a disk enclosure and can view my files. How can I copy these files to another HD/SSD and boot from it (successfully) into macOS? I have a file encryptor that encrypts some of my files so I'd need all my app/file data to remain when I copy the files and boot the drive.


texts: How do I make Messages.app override a contact's buddy icon?

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I have a Jabber account configured in Messages. When other people on the server change their buddy icons, the changes are pushed to my machine. I want to override their icons and force Messages to display an icon for them that I select.

From the buddy list, right-clicking on a contact brings up the context menu option "Show Contact Card". This launches Contacts.  But I have a custom image set for them and Messages is not displaying it.

I recall iChat having an option to specify using a custom image rather than the pushed image, but I can't find anything here.

This is for Messages version 7.0.1 (3314) on OS X 10.8.2 (12C60).


texts: Reopen PDF in Preview on the same page when modified externally

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In Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks when a PDF document opened in Preview is modified by an external application, Preview automatically reopens the new version with the same page displayed as before.

After updating to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite this behavior changed, and each time a PDF is modified externally, Preview reopens it on the first page. This is quite annoying to me, since I work with many LaTeX documents, which I recompile often to verify how changes in LaTeX code render in the PDF.

The question is, can I bring back the previous behavior of reopening PDF on the same page in Preview or I'm forced to change my default PDF viewer to other application?

Note that the option "Start on the last viewed page" in Preview preferences is enabled. However it seems to work only when Preview is closed and then reopened. It does not work when the PDF file is changed.


texts:
The iPhone 12 now ships with a USB-C to Lightning cable. Is it safe to plug this into a USB-C charger on one end and an old iPhone, like an iPhone 5, on the other end? Obviously the iPhone 5 would have no idea that something like USB-C exist. So would it cause damage, or would it charge at slow USB-A speed, or would it use the maximum charging power that the iPhone can handle?
Would it also be Ok if the charger is high powered, like a 90 Watt charger used to charge a MacBook?


texts: Hardware problem, graphic card cannot be initialized after 10.12.6 update

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I updated my iMac to 10.12.6. As soon as iMac restarted after the update was finished, the screen went off.

I tried to connect it from another mac using screen-share, and I was successful. I noticed that system is running normally except for the screen which is off. Using screen-share, I can access internet, connect bluetooth devices, print… etc, but the screen is off.

System report shows me "No information found." under Graphic/Display.

I can't run system restore, because screen never goes on during the boot cycle.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hardware Overview

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB


texts: Terminal not responding to "which", "type", etc. commands

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I tried to look for the full path of the TextEdit app in the terminal using the command which and whereis but the terminal doesn't respond. it just skips to the next line like there was no command:

Last login: Thu Sep 17 21:30:51 on ttys000
Tomass-MacBook-Pro:~ SOLANOT$ which textedit
Tomass-MacBook-Pro:~ SOLANOT$

This also happens with type and whereis but not with commands such as ls or cd. What is causing this? I've read that some users experience total loss of commands response, including ls, etc.


texts: Is there a way or a tweak to make Siri execute shell commands

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Indeed I have a home automation system, I would like to integrate a voice control system and for that I need to be able to call shell commands like curl.

I have seen many Siri tweaks but none of them allowing to assign a voice command like :
turn on the light
To a specific shell command


texts: How can I remap the right mouse button to the left mouse button?

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My googling abilities have failed me and I can't figure out how to remap the mouse buttons.

My 3 year old niece is having trouble using the mouse on the computer because she is right clicking by accident. Since she is so little I thought it would be nice to just remap them until she gets older. Is this possible?

Computer: 13" 2010 Macbook Pro with OSX 10.8


texts: Is retina text in a non-retina OS X Application possible?

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Is it possible to have a pre-retina Application have good retina text. As in MenuBar text, and textbox and textfields and other text locations as long as the original developer used native OS X text handling API's.

For applications that do their own graphics and text rendering we know that there is a difference when trying to run on a Retina display as noted by the MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis (see AnandTech comparison picture below).

The example of Non-retina Google Chrome vs Safari is noted to be a worse case caused by Google doing their own thing for rending text / graphics in the Application. Does this imply that if your not doing your own text rendering you get retina text for free?


texts: How do iOS devices perform on-device machine learning on photos while most of the photos are uploaded to iCloud?

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When iCloud photo is enabled, all photos are uploaded to iCloud and only a low-resolution copy is saved on the phone for browsing, the high res photo is download on-demand if the user clicks it.
Photos app will perform on-device machine learning when the device is not in use and is charging(typically while you’re sleeping) to detect faces in your photo library so that you have “people albums”. This is just one case that the app is using ML to achieve.
What confuses me is that the low res images are just not good enough to perform ML on, especially for face detection. So how can it analyze those low-res photos and giving the correct prediction?
I have two guesses:

Don’t care low or high res, just analyze what is on the device. (I don’t really believe this is the case as the face detection is too accurate to be believed that they were a result of ML on 480p photos)

On-demand loading, download the original photo from iCloud while the ML algorithm is running, and delete the original photo from the device when it is done. (Isn’t this a bandwidth waste for iCloud servers?)

Edit 1:
I’m interested in how will it handle the case when I manually added some photo to one person(this action causes the model to change, well, eventually change after it learns the new photos that weren’t detected previously), all photos must be analyzed again using the new model. At this time, most high-resolution images (let's say 199GB/200GB) are in iCloud only, so will the system pull them one by one to perform ML using the new model again? What if I “edit” the ML regularly? (by adding an un-detected photo to people album but not all at once) If so, this could be a huge drain to the iCloud servers... don’t forget some people do have more than 1TB of photos in iCloud.
Edit 2:
Don't take me wrong, I'm purely interested in how this whole thing works because to me it is done very nicely. And to be clear, I completely trust Apple on the "on-device" promise, and this is exactly why I asked this question to get an understanding of the technical details that make it both respecting privacy and giving accurate results.


texts: How to fix iPhone SE only taking low resolution photographs

texts:
Ever since iOS 11 or 12 (whichever the mid-2017 iOS upgrade was), my 64GB iPhone SE camera’s functionality has been diminished:

The camera no longer focuses very well (e.g., taking a photograph of a 8.5"×11" page of 12pt text results in mostly unreadable blur, even in bright lighting conditions.)
The camera's resolution has been nerfed, with resolution maxing out at about 1150 pixels by 1530pixels, or around 15% of the nominal 12MP resolution. Back in 2017, the camera took pictures that were 3000 pixels by 4000 pixels

I have:

I am using the rear-camera, not the front-facing camera
Restarted the phone
Cleaned the camera lens; and had my iPhone repair friend clean the camera inside the case
Hard reset the phone
Factory reset the phone
Insured that HDR and Live Photo are disabled
Tested with camera Flash set to Off, On, and Auto
Tested by replacing the camera with a brand new camera at my local iPhone repair shop which produced identical results (opted to keep original camera in light of this).
Under Settings > Photos I have Keep Originals checked
Under Settings > Camera I have tried Keep Normal Photo checked, and unchecked, and neither setting affects the problem
Under Settings > Camera I have tried Record Slo-Mo at both 1080p and 720p, and neither setting affects the problem
Under Settings > Messages Low Quality Image Mode is off
I only use the native Camera app, and have no other camera applications installed.
The current battery health is fine, and is not triggering reduced performance.

I do not use, and have never used iCloud, so I suspect this is not an issue of having used too much iCloud storage.

How do get normal functionality back on my iPhone SE camera?


texts: Using Time Machine with a already used NTFS disk

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I have just updated to Mountain Lion 10.8.2; I have done a clean install.
Now after I have installed all my apps and configure them I would like to create a Time Machine backup; so I could have the image of a fresh clean mac :D

The problem here is that I have only one external HDD (1Tb, NTFS formatted and MacFuse installed, so there's no problem in read/write the volume) and half the disk is used with my docs, pics, music, etc.

Is it possible to create a Time Machine backup without erasing the previous contents ?

Will Time Machine save the backup just as easy as copying a disk image to the HDD without erasing my files? Or will it reformat the disk?

Greetings and thanks for the help :D


texts: Poor Diablo III: Reaper of Souls performance on a rMBP late 2013

texts:
I just got a new rMBP (with dedicated video-card) and as a test I decided to run Diablo III: Reaper of Souls on Ultra settings.  It looks absolutely gorgeous but its 10-17 fps frame-rate is very disappointing.

Are there any settings I can adjust to improve this performance? In Windows it can be "tuned" to max performance or battery saving; is there a similar setting in OS X?

Right now it's on AC power (plugged on the wall), Activity Monitor is reporting that the video-card is being used for D3, is there anything else that I'm forgetting to check?


texts:
I am currently a thousand miles away from home and will be for 2 months more. Today, another bad thing appended on my Weekend, locking myself out of my mobile, since I wrote the PIN wrongly 3 times. However, tomorrow I will have to go to work, how am I going to wake up?!

I went to Calendar and set up an event with a message with sound, but this does only make a very short sound and pops up a screen notification. These two are unlikely to wake me up.

How to tell my laptop to behave like an alarm clock?

I am not worried at all for energy consumption at the moment and I have my laptop charging.


texts: iMessage and FaceTime not working with Apple ID any more

texts:
My iMessage and FaceTime suddenly stopped working with my Apple ID on my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.9.5) during my vacation at NYC.

Even on my iPhone (iOS 10.3.3) I can now only use iMessage and FaceTime with my phone number, but not with my Apple ID independent from my location.

Everytime I try to activate iMessage and FaceTime on my MacBook and my iPhone following error is shown:

  An error occurred during activation

I've checked my Date & Time settings and the current location to be true, reset NVRAM and checked all my settings, but there is no solution in sight. I also deleted my Apple ID accounts from all my Apple devices and reconnected them after a reboot of each device, like recommended by Apple and several other webpages.

Does anyone know a possible solution, or has similar problems?

I don't want to update my Mac or iPhone. The solutions provided to the question Messages won't let me sign in to iMessage suggesting to clear NVRAM and to delete the keychain don't work for me, and iMessage and FaceTime do work but only with my phone number.


texts: How to trigger sysdiagnose if my Volume Down button is broken?

texts:
I need to trigger sysdiagnose on my old iPhone 5S. However it looks like its physical VolumeDown button does not work, neither for volume nor for any combinations.

How can I trigger sysdiagnose without pressing Volume Down?


texts:
I just got a replacement for my 4S. Before, I did an iCloud backup and thought I could just restore from that. But with the new phone, it says there's no backup to restore from available.

Any ideas?


texts: I'd like to know if an iPod classic is a better investment than an iPod touch? I am really more into music than apps and games. If you have some other suggestions about great-sounding mp3 players I'd like to hear it.


texts:
On macOS, why is the output of log stream different to log show?
Specifically:

log stream --predicate  '(process == "smtpd") || (process == "smtp")' --debug

In this case --debug also shows info level messages (from man log)
It shows incoming connection entries such as:

2019-03-04 10:55:25.537313+0000 0x34491f   Info        0x0                  40392  smtpd: connect from unknown[192.168.1.115]

But:

log show --debug --info --start "2019-03-04 10:55:24" --end "2019-03-04 10:55:27"

Does not show any such message, nor any Info level message for that matter. This is making it very hard to diagnose postfix issues on macOS.


texts:
Was wondering whether it's possible to sync non-iOS5 devices (in this case iPhone 3G) with iCloud? In particular I'd be interested in syncing contacts.

I know syncing iCloud e-mail won't be much of a problem, as it can be configured as a standard IMAP account, but what about the contacts? Does contacts syncing go via some standard protocol that iPhone 3G with appropriate settings could use?


texts: Is there a hot key to refresh a browser that is in the background?

texts:
I want to have a key combo to refresh active window in Google Chrome, which normally would be Cmd + R. Keep in mind that (a) I am using two screens, (b) Google Chrome is not presently active window.

Is it even possible?

I am trying to bind this script https://gist.github.com/51b459e5e93210f37e24 with hot-key. What I did is: created a service using Automator (no input, any application). Using services hot key, I've set cmd+r. However, that doesn't do anything.

My expected result is: cmd+r does what it should already do in the present app + executes my apple-script.


texts: How can I Open Multiple Customized Terminal Shells?

texts:
How can I customized Terminal so that when I open the application it opens several shell tabs?
If possible I would like to also have it run a different environment script for each tab.

Example: Run this command source bin/activate which is a Python virtualenv setup command.


texts: How are the three modes of the MacBook Pro usb-c charger being used?

texts:
I'm trying to figure out what usb-c charging hubs would be useful to charge my MacBook Pro. The specs for the charger that is included (61W) says: Output: 20.3V - 3A (USB PD) or 9V - 3A (USP PD) or 5.2V - 2.4A.

How are these different charging-modes being used? I'm mostly interested in the 20.3V - 3A one.


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011. I'm thinking if to upgrade to Sierra. Right now I have Mavericks.

If I backup my current system using the time machine, when I will restore from the backup, it will be back again Mavericks?


texts:
I'm having two printing problems.

I can't print out of my yahoo email at all. Gmail email prints fine.
When I print out of Photos, only the center one third of the page.

Thanks!


texts: Force iCloud Music Library to update based on info in my Mac iTunes Library?

texts:
Something went wrong with my iCloud Music Library this morning.  I now have a few thousand songs with incorrect metadata.

I have a backup of my Mac's iTunes Music Library, and the backup is correct.  When I restore the backup, my library is correct again for a few minutes, until iCloud Music Library syncs and replaces the correct metadata with its incorrect metadata, presumably because iCML sees that its own info is more recent than my backup.  ARGH!

NOTES:

The only library I care about is my Mac's iTunes library.  I use iCloud Music Library for Apple Music downloads on my Mac, but I've turned it off on all of my other devices (an iPhone and an iPad).  I've also deleted all music from my iPhone and iPad in order to make it easier to fix this problem.

How do I force iCloud Music Library to sync its metadata with the correct info in my Mac iTunes Library?


texts: Intellipoint software on OS X Mavericks not recognizing Intellimouse

texts:
I just upgraded my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 system to Mavericks, complete with the latest software updates, and I can't get Intellipoint working with my mouse (MS Intellimouse Optical USB).  Prior to the OS upgrade, I was running an older version of the Intellipoint software (sorry, not sure which version); it required running System Preferences in 32-bit mode to change settings.  After updating to Mavericks, I found that the Intellipoint features no longer worked, and checking System Preferences, I could not open the Intellipoint Prefs pane.

So I downloaded and installed the latest (8.2.0 v.305) Intellipoint software for OS X.  The preference pane works, but it doesn't see my mouse.  The Buttons tab shows a picture of a USB device being plugged into a USB port, and the Device Info button says "No Microsoft mouse devices found".

Based on a similar question I found for Mountain Lion, I have confirmed that 'MicrosoftMouseHelper' is in my startup items and is currently running.  The mouse functions, but using the standard OS X mouse settings; I prefer the way the mouse behaves when using the Intellipoint drivers and my settings within that.  Any ideas for getting the Intellipoint software to recognize the mouse?


texts: Country code switches after trying to connect to a router

texts:
I have a 13-inch MacBook Air (late 2015) on Mojave 10.14.6.
Whenever I boot up the laptop, it starts with the correct country code (CA), (below is my diagnostic info before attempting to connect to the network)

While attempting to connect to the network, the country code remains CA. Despite this, my laptop then fails to connect to the network, and the country code switches from CA to X0. After doing a scan, there are no routers in the area with the X0 country code, but there is one with the US code.

I have not been able to connect to the network since. The problem seemingly came out of nowhere as there were no issues yesterday.


texts:
edit: I don't use this feature, don't need nor want it running in the background.

Is there a way to deactivate the service?

I've seen so far this command:

killall -9 com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond

But wouldn't like having to remember doing so manually.


texts: I have decided to turn my two page document in Pages to just one page. I cannot seem to delete the second page. It is the flyer template.


texts: Find out if account is disabled using terminal

texts: I need to find out if account is disabled using terminal on Catalina but without using pwpolicy. Is there a way to do it?


texts: network computers renamed after Yosemite install

texts:
Yosemite install (from Mavericks) has automatically changed the names of my network computers as shown in the Finder sidebar. For example, my name IMac now displays as my name iMac(2). My two additional Mac Airs are displaying the same problem.

I have tried changing the computer names in System Preferences (sharing/computer name/edit) to no effect with or without rebooting.

How can I return to the original computer names?


texts: Watched screen recording but it's not saved to the desktop

texts:
I was screen recording. After stopping the record, I watched it then exited. This usually automatically saves to desktop, but I can't find it anywhere.
I have looked for it in the autosave information and nothing was there. I also tried recording again and it did automatically save to desktop but somehow that first video didn't. Any thoughts on where it could be?


texts: Move Dock to another screen edge when unplugging monitor

texts:
When I exclusively use my laptop screen I prefer to have the Dock on the left edge, but when I plug in my external monitor I'd like to move the Dock to it instead.

Since my external screen is to the right of the laptop, the Dock will only appear on it if configured to appear on the bottom or right edge of the screen. As long as it's set to the left edge it remains on the laptop screen.

How do I accomplish this automatically whenever the external screen is (dis-)connected?

The solution mentioned here has nasty side-effects like unminimizing all my windows after killing the Dock:

defaults write com.apple.Dock orientation -string bottom
killall Dock


texts: How do i quickly silence all notifications except for ringer on an iPhone 6?

texts: Sometimes I'm on call for work overnight and would like to know a quick way that I can silence all notifications except for the call ringer.  The closest thing I see is allowing calls from everyone on do not disturb but that will allow messages to ring as well.


texts: Can I bulk move local messages and folders to a server?

texts:
I'm helping a friend migrate his email off of a Macbook and onto an imap server. I've created an imap account on a server to hold the emails.

Is there a way to bulk-copy the contents of local folders ("On My Mac") to the imap server? My friend has folders within folders. Something like this:

House

message
message
message
Plumbing

message
message
Bills

message

message

Electrical

message
message

Vacation

message
message
Schedules

message
message

Jokes

message
message

and so forth. Probably around 50 top-level folders and I have no idea how many subfolders. 2G of email total.

I want to bulk-copy the entire lot to a server so he can access them from his iPad instead. Let's assume he won't be accessing the local folders on his Mac once we get this figured out.

Can this be done, or are we doomed to create the folders one by one and then copy the individual emails?

More information as I experimented:

The server is Dovecot

I was transferring folders to the server by simply dragging them within Mail.app. This worked fine in most cases.

Some piece of software in the chain doesn't like dots in folder names, so the folder "Dr.Who" got changed to "Dr" with the subfolder " Who" and then errors occurred. After I spent some time searching for folders with '.' in their names, and renaming them, things went better.

Sometimes when I dragged a folder that contained both messages and subfolders, it went smoothly. Sometimes the top-level folder would be empty and would not allow messages to be stored in it. When that happened, I could look around and find the folder named "folder (Messages)" which contained the missing messages. I would then be able to recombine the two folders and rename and I'd be good.

Mail.app really needs a "sort folders alphabetically" function. I found that I could do this manually by quitting Mail, deleting .mboxCache.plist, and restarting Mail.

The imap-upload tool would have been perfect for my needs if it had worked. I might look into debugging it.

I'll leave the question open for a while to see if anybody finds a real answer.

One more data point: as an experiment, I tried creating the subfolder "Dr. Who" from Thunderbird instead of Mail.app. It created the folder "Dr" with the subfolder " Who". I believe Mail.app uses dots as subfolder specifiers when talking to an IMAP server, but uses slashes for folders on the local system. Thus, a folder name with a dot in it is perfectly acceptable for a local folder, it causes issues when pushed to an IMAP server.


texts: both my iMacs turn off/reboot while in sleep

texts:
This issue is driving me crazy.

I have a late 2014 retina iMac and a mid 2017 retina iMac. I updated both to 10.13.4 at the same time and now both of them reboot or turn off while in sleep exactly 3 hours after in sleep mode. If they reboot, they freeze on the login screen and the screen stays on forever

Here is what I tried so far:

1.

Shut down

Disconnect all external devices

Reset the System Management Controller (SMC)

Reset the nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM)

Then use safeboot (SHIFT at Startup)

Then reboot normally with devices disconnected.

2.

Erased Macintosh HD completely and reinstalled fresh macOS (without restoring Time Machine backup or any other stuff, so basically untouched system).

Nothing helped so far. Seriously, Apple....
I'm confident this is a software related issue, since both my machines produce exactly the same symptom.


texts: How can I create a shortcut to restore my MBP screen to a specific brightness?

texts:
I've recently calibrated my MBP's display and my LG 5K 27" display at home.

When I'm on the go, at school for example, I would like to be able to raise or lower my screen brightness without screwing up the calibration. It was kind of a PITA to get both displays to perfectly match in brightness.

I'd like to be able to sort of bookmark my current brightness so that I can later restore it.


texts: macOS Terminal command to test Internet speed

texts:
Anyone know what command can I use to check my Internet speed in the Terminal app?

May be I can use curl command and add some IP addresses, like the to check our IP and Country location via curl ipinfo.io command?


texts: Is it possible to toggle the trackball as a scroll wheel using Karabiner?

texts:
Is it possible to configure Karabiner (formerly keyremap4macbook) such that clicking the 3rd or 4th mouse button (on a trackball mouse) will toggle using the pointer to scroll?

Ideally I would like to be able to click the 3rd mouse button, after which moving the trackball will scroll (a webpage or whatever else is on screen), and will return to moving the cursor after the 3rd mouse button is pressed a second time.

I know it is possible to use the trackball as a scroll wheel while a key or mouse button is held down (see this answer), but that is not what I'm looking for.  Thanks!

Edit: This is basically a request for a Mac version of the accepted answer to Remedy for a no scroll wheel trackball? which is only applicable to Linux.


texts: What's a free or cheap text-to-speech program that is available for commercial use?

texts: As I said in my previous question, I want to use an excerpt of a text-to-speech voice in a song. Where can I find a free or cheap service that'll let me do this without breaking their terms of use?


texts: unable to listen to voice mails on iPhone right away - greyed out

texts: My wife and I have iPhone 6 pluses with latest IOS software. Phones are Verizon service. She gets voice mails right away but is not able to listen to them right away. The play button is greyed out. Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution or something we can check?


texts: Order of phone number types when adding a new contact

texts:
Whenever I'm adding a new contact (iOS 9.3.4, German) and tap "add phone number", the default phone number type is "Home Fax" which is probably the least useful default imaginable. Is it possible to set the default to "Mobile"?

The weird default values continue when I tap the entry to change the type - the list that pops up is ordered "Home Fax, Radio (??), Home Phone, Mobile Phone, ..."  - I would prefer a different order like "Mobile, Home, Work, Work Fax, Home Fax, ..." or something similar, but I can't find a way to change that order.


texts: Cannot import AVCHD into final cut pro x

texts:
I have a folder called "from camera" that contains an AVCHD component.
I recorded my videos using a SONY-X70.

I cannot import my media into fcpx. When i use the media importer in FCPX it tells me no importable files as describe in the pictures.

How can I import media into FCPX ..AVCHD

all help is appreciated


texts: Completely Disable Safari Only Mode in Lion

texts:
I'm wondering if there is a way to completely disable Safari Only mode so users cannot access it at all. I administer a network here at this business and we have internet filters on all/most of the computers here. The problem is that Safari Only mode would pose an obvious loop hole in that. I really need to be able to completely disable that before upgrading the computers to Lion. I would secure the internet at the network but I don't want to workers taking work computers home with them without filters.

I'm very willing to go beyond "settings" if I need to. Is there a good way to more or less "delete" this feature from Lion?

I've heard that if the Recovery Partition fails to load that Safari Only mode will also not work, but I think the Recovery Partition is read only, and I don't think I can change that.

Thank you!


texts: Why do macOS application-specific keyboard shortcuts involving modifiers: ⌥, ⇧ not work with latest Chrome?

texts:
macOS configured per-application keyboard shortcuts including at least ⌥+⇧ (Option+Shift) are broken.

Occurs with Google Chrome version:
69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

And macOS Mojave, version:
10.14 (18A391)

And the previous version of macOS, 10.13.

Problem:
When you configure an application-specific macOS keyboard shortcut for Google Chrome that includes holding the keys ⌥ and ⇧, and pressing any other key, it doesn't work. It may also work for keyboard shortcuts for other modifiers, but I haven't checked.

Steps to reproduce:

Go to the "Keyboard" preferences pane in System Preferences, then click on the "Shortcuts" tab
Select "App Shortcuts" from the left window pane
Click the "+" button to add a new app shortcut
Select "Google Chrome" as the Application, and "Select Next Tab" as the Menu Title, and press ⌥+⇧+K as the keyboard shortcut
Click "Add" to save the application-specific shortcut
Open Chrome and notice that not only does it not work, it actually prints a "" symbol if you have focus on any text field

This probably happens because Chrome is likely ignoring keyboard shortcuts and interpreting keypresses as Unicode shortcuts.

Is this a bug in Google Chrome?

Do you also see this behaviour?


texts: Should I stop using my Mac while the hard disk is being cloned?

texts:
As one of my backup solutions, I use an app (SuperDuper!, if it makes any difference) to make a clone of my Mac at the same time every evening. Sometimes I am still working at that time. What I want to know is: should I stop using my Mac while the clone is in progress? Why or why not?

Intuitively it seems that if a file is being modified while it is being copied to the clone drive that could affect the integrity of the backup. However, it would be good to have a definitive answer from someone who knows.

Thanks for reading.


texts: How can I redirect the output of screen to a file?

texts:
I'm trying to capture data from a Serial Port by opening 'screen' from the terminal. It works, I see the data coming but I can't figure out how to save it to a file.

I tried to redirect the output of screen by adding > file.txt to the command line that opens screen, something like this:

screen /dev/tty.Airconsole-1 > file.txt

But it didn't work, it creates an empty file but I still see the data on the screen window.

Ideally I would like to redirect to both, I mean keep it in the window and at the same time feeding the file, probably by using the tee command.


texts: Mail.App, Rules, Regular Expression or content search, Base64

texts:
Will the Mail.App (on Mojave) search within the base64 encoded parts of a message with mail rules? It looks like it only searches the text.

I'm not looking for it to decode the base64, rather just search for some raw base64 snippets provided by my rule within the base64 encoded sections.

My goal is to test whether some specific words have been included inside a base64 encoded html email.

It looks like Mail.app skips base64 encoded sections when searching emails via the rules.


texts: Are 3rd Party Mac Chargers ok for using as spare parts to repair an original charger?

texts:
My original Macbook Air charger (5 years old) still works great, but the cord after the power block is torn up and all the sheathing is almost off. The bottom point (including the brick) work great and have no issues.

I was wondering if I could order a 3rd party charger and change out the top section of that? Is it safe?

Most of the questions similar to this are moreso about the entire charger, and the answers say how unreliable and unsafe the power module is. Since this isn't being replaced, do the same problems exist?

I do have to find a charger that supports this changeability though.

(This might get marked as duplicate, but I haven't found an answer and this question is slightly different)


texts: In iOS 10, how can I make notifications appear center screen?

texts:
I use Reminders a lot, and every time I get one it appears at the top of my screen. The trouble is if I haven't used my phone for a few hours, there are sometimes many notifications all queued up that begin to appear one after another as soon as I use my phone again.  But in that moment I am trying to quickly access something on my phone, and the annoying reminder at the top of the screen gets in the way of me trying to tap on something towards the top. This inevitably results in me launching the Reminders or Calendar apps instead of the thing I was trying to tap on.

Is there any way to make reminders appear in the center of the screen, instead of at the top? This has driven me crazy for years and I've never been able to find a solution.


texts: What are the best apps for rescuing deleted data on flash drives?

texts: I'm searching for an app to rescue my deleted data on my flash memory. They happily deleted with a Windows virus. What's your recommendation for this case?


texts: Is it possible to connect automatically to a server on login without an opened window?

texts:
I know how to have the connection established at login, but I don't know if it's possible that the Finder doesn't open a window of the server root...

I've tried the "Hide" checkbox, but this doesn't help. (I'm on Snow Leopard)


texts: Restoring iPhone backup from iTunes taking too long

texts:
I got a new iPhone today to replace my broken one and I am trying to restore the backup from iTunes. I had around 50 GB of content in my old iPhone.

The remaining time to finish the backup started in 2 hours, and is steadily increasing (to about 27 hours at the time of this post).

Is there something wrong with my system?

I am recovering an iOS 9.3.2 backup to an iPhone 6 (64 GB) on a Mac running macOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) on a 2013 iMac. I am using the lightning cable to restore the backup, and not over Wi-Fi.


texts: How to make inactive when I close application window by Command + W

texts:
When I open an Excel file from Finder and close the Excel window by Command+W. The active window remain Excel.

Is there a way to make Finder active window when I close Excel?

If I close the Excel window by Command+Q, the Finder become active but I prefer to keep Excel in memory.


texts: How do I loop the last action in the Automator app?

texts: How do I loop the last action in the Automator app, instead of looping the entire workflow?


texts: How do I save podcasts to the new Apple podcasts app?

texts:
This seems like one of those dumb questions, where the answer is, "that happens automatically, silly!"

But as far as I can tell, while my podcast subscription shows the last 10 or so episodes, they don't seem to be saved on the device.

I came to this conclusion when one stopped playing as soon as the buffer ran out after losing signal, and the others all became unplayable (greyed out).

Is there some way to save episodes on-device int he Apple app?

If not, is there an app that can (which also handles subscriptions and works with the device-wide audio UI, so headphone controls work, etc.)?


texts: Chrome MBA 2013, causing audio cracking, all flash videos!

texts:
I recently purchased a MBA 2013, 13 inch. Used it for a week; was great with Chrome. I suspect after I tried installing some Quicktime plugins to watch an Apple Keynote, my audio started going downhill from there. This resulted in using Safari for the last week, but I cant take it anymore. Need to fix Chrome back.

I've tried
- installing flash again,
- disabling/enabling different chrome://plugins

- install, reinstalling chrome using these long patch of commands

rm -r /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/
rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashReporter/Google\ Chrome*
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome*
rm ~/Library/Preferences/Google\ Chrome*
rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.google.Chrome*
rm -r ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.google.Chrome.savedState/
rm ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/Actives/com.google.Chrome
rm ~/Library/Google/Google\ Chrome*
rm -r ~/Library/Speech/Speakable\ Items/Application\ Speakable\ Items/Google\ Chrome/

I am willing to do anything really, except re-install a fresh copy of Mountain Lion.
I thank everyone in advanced!


texts: Why does my USB hub hide a directly attached drive from the boot menu? (post-Filevault)

texts:
I recently enabled FileVault on both my mid-2012 Retina MacBook Pro and my external USB drive containing a Carbon Copy Cloner backup.

My external drive is attached directly to the MBP. I also have a powered USB hub attached to the MBP's other USB port (no drives are attached to the hub).

Since enabling FileVault, I've noticed a peculiar behavior on the boot menu (holding option at startup):

If I leave the hub attached during startup, the CCC drive doesn't show up in the boot menu.
If I leave the hub unplugged during startup, the CCC drive shows up.
Swapping the USB ports for the drive and hub changes nothing.

Any ideas what the cause of this might be?

(Side note: I've also noticed that both the internal recovery partition and CCC's recovery partition are missing from the menu. But that's apparently normal from what I've researched.)


texts: hidden accounts: why change home directory location and select UniqueID less than 500?

texts:
I am reading this post from TechRepublic on how to create a hidden admin account on macOS which recommends to

set User ID to be less than 500
change home directory, e.g. to /var/username

Is this supposed to improve security?  If so, how?
After all, it seems to me that any user can ls /Users and ls /var, and at least see which users have their home directories there (though access would be denied).

PARTIAL ANSWER
The reason to set a User ID <500 is that the command:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool TRUE
has the effect that the account will not be listed on the login page.
However, there is another way to achieve this as explained in this other article:

If your version of OS X is Yosemite or later, then you have additional approaches available to you for hiding the user account. Instead of being forced to use a User ID value under 500, you can use any ID you want and then set a special attribute for the user account that will hide it:

sudo dscl . create /Users/USERNAME IsHidden 1
That being said, as explained again from the same source, "hidden" accounts can always be listed with
dscl . list /Users

and doesn't require to sudo.  So this looks like an instance of "security through obscurity".
As for moving the home directory, the same source says:

Now the following commands will create and assign the user’s home folder, which by default is in the /Users directory, but since this is a hidden account we are putting it in the hidden /var directory: (...)

In light of what I have read, it seems to be a way to obscure the path to the home directory to place it in the (not so much) less obvious location /var.  Again, security through obscurity?


texts: Can I get bootcamp to use existing free space on physical disk?

texts:
When I installed my Macbook Pro, I had a 1Tb drive. When I formatted and partitioned the drive, I assigned 800Gb for OSX and left 200Gb free. I intended the free 200Gb to hold a Windows installation at a later date.

Well, the later date has come, and Boot Camp Assistant wants to partition my drive with 780Gb for OSX and 20Gb for Windows. Clearly it's planning to resize my logical OSX partition down and create a new partition for Windows 7.

Is there some way to get Boot Camp Assistant to instead use the free space on the drive I reserved for this purpose? Perhaps use Disk Utility to format that free space for Windows 7 before running Boot Camp Assistant? If so, what sort of file system should I create?

Some more details: from running diskutil, I see that my disk0 is a 1TB drive partitioned into a 200MB EFI partition, an 800GB LVM partition, a 650MB recovery partition, and 200GB of unused space. The 800GB LVM partition is a physical volume containing a single 800GB logical volume mounted as disk1. Clearly, Boot Camp Assistant is trying to repartition this LVM physical volume rather than the actual disk0.


texts: I want to see all requests to local network that some app(broadlink E-Control) is doing. I want to see how the app communicate with other devices. P.S:I can modify this network and it's on ios not on macos.


texts: Keyboard remapping SHIFT_L to '(' and holding SHIFT_L to normal SHIFT_L)

texts:
If I just pressed SHIFT_L (i.e. left shift button), I want it to type ( & if I am using SHIFT_L for a combination to work it like normal SHIFT_L.

Eg:

(typed key) ==> (expectation)
SHIFT_L     ==> (
SHIFT_L + e ==> E

How can I achieve this?


texts: I ordered an iPhone X from the US. Now I am using it in Myanmar, but I cannot sign in to Apple ID. It asks for an address, phone number and Zip Code in the United States. However I do not have those. What do I need to do to set this up?


texts: Resolving host...: Internet doesn't work (Chrome and Safari)

texts:
My MacBook sometimes can't connect to the internet. Chrome displays "Resolving host" but a web page doesn't appear. Safari also doesn't work. Interestingly, sometimes Google seems to work as the only web page (also auto complete in Google). After some time (or sometimes when I call "dscacheutil -flushcache") it works for a few minutes and then the issue occurs again.

Other devices always work so it has to be related to my MacBook. I'm using two DNS servers pointing to 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4. When the issue is present Ping doesn't work (ping: cannot resolve www.google.com: Unknown host) and Lookup doesn't work too (www.google.com -> The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 2.))

A few month ago I had the same issue. At the time I had to delete some files in the LaunchDeamons-folder but I can't remember which ones...

Anything I could try?

Update: If I add a second "Location" (in the Network preferences) I can simply switch to the other location and I'm back in the Internet... pretty tedious solution...


texts: How to connect to SMB network drive only when on network?

texts:
I use an SMB network drive as a Time Machine backup from a Macbook on my home network.

What is the correct way of "lazily" connecting to that network drive so that it automatically connects when I'm on the network, but muting / hiding any errors when I'm away from my network?

I've added the drive to login items but then I repeatedly receive errors like this:


texts: How to make iOS stop asking about the same wifi

texts:
I spend a lot of time in a location with a secured wifi.  I don't have access to it and never will.

IOS 8 badgers me constantly to join that WiFi network.   Anytime I wake the iPad I have to tell it 1-2 times.  No. No. No. No. No.  How do I get iOS to stop asking about that particular network, without turning off "ask to join networks" altogether?

As you know there are several ways a notification can occur.  Badges, banners and alerts.   The "WiFi helper" always uses an Alert, which is the most intrusive one.  You know what I mean.  Is there any way to convince iOS to alert you to WiFis with a banner?  (Like my Android does?)

I know I can turn off "Ask to join networks" altogether.   I don't want to do that.  I want the feature, I just want it to behave less lamely.   Did they fix it in iOS 9 or 10?  I am reluctant to upgrade because this iPad 3 is already sluggish and freezes a lot on iOS 8.


texts: Finder sidebar showing duplicate and/or previously mounted mounts

texts:
This issue can be cleared by a restart, but that does not solve the problem. I had tried the following so far:

Reinstall the system multiple times (preserving applications and data)
Booting up in safe mode
Transfering the system partition into another mac, reinstalling the system, then transfer it back, and reinstalling the system (not for solving this problem, but because there was some issue with the butterfly keyboard)
Resetting the Finder preference

This issue does not come up in other user accounts. It seems to appear after one day where, because the Time Machine sparse image mount from a smb share froze and I cannot force quit Finder, I mounted a memory drive over /volumes and launched (another copy of) Finder through the command line. Finder works normally, but since then I have this problem.


texts: Script (tie-able to a keystroke) that slows down the mouse for fine movements? Or app that does this?

texts: Sometimes when doing graphics work one needs to briefly slow down the mouse movement to make fine pixel-by-pixel movements. One can chance this setting in System Preferences: Mouse, but it then becomes too slow for regular size movements amount the screen. Does AppleScript or any other program allow you to switch this mouse speed quicker than using System Preferences? (Ideally this'd be in a way that could be tied to a keystroke through some method.)


texts: How can I download software onto multiple Macs at the same time?

texts: I'm downloading several software on a number of iMacs (all of the same software). I was wondering if there was a way to use a program to be able to download everything simultaneously on all of these different iMacs (17 of them) and configure the same preferences on all of them?


texts:
I was trying to set up the grooved - a music player daemon. It works over dbus which I installed through Homebrew.

In the caveats of the dbus formula it says:

To start dbus: brew services start dbus

When I try to run this exact command I get

/Users/user/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.dbus.plist: Operation not permitted
==> Successfully started `dbus` (label: homebrew.mxcl.dbus)

Running the same command with sudo works just fine. But I don't think this can be the solution to this. Also I want to use dbus to communicate with grooved using my user account and not root.

I tried loading and starting plist files by hand. Making sure they are in the right location (/Users/user/Library/LaunchAgents) with the right permissions/ownership:

.rw-------      user staff  homebrew.mxcl.dbus.plist
.rw-r--r--      user staff  local.grooved.plist

It's the same. I can't use launchctl with my non-root user.

Interstingly using the new commands things work:

$ launchctl bootstrap gui/501 ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.dbus.plist
$ launchctl kickstart gui/501/homebrew.mxcl.dbus
$ launchctl bootout gui/501 ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.dbus.plist

I don't need to run these as root. But grooved can't see the dbus:

Error creating dbus service: Could not get session bus: dbus: couldn't determine address of session bus

If somebody could point me into the right direction where the problem could be...
It can't all be a bug in grooved because launchctl doesn't seem to work correctly for me.

This is El Capitan 10.11.6


texts:
I am considering the Apple TV.
The problem is, all the promotions about Apple TV have been very US-centric, so I'm afraid of buying a useless device (I already have a Chromecast).

Is there a matrix that shows which content providers and features are available per country?


texts: How can I hide an app from the dock while keeping it in the menu bar?

texts:
There's a messaging app I often use that includes both a menu bar icon (to hide/show the window, as well as indicate how many unread messages there are) as well as the app itself which resides in the dock/launchpad.

I want to know if there's a way to hide the app from my dock when the app is running so that I can simply use the menu bar to see if I have any new messages and thus save dock space. I know that this is possible as some of my other apps already do this (e.g. LastPass for Mac), but is there a way to do this manually, e.g. through the Terminal? I am currently on MacOS Catalina Beta (although I assume the solution should also work for earlier versions too).


texts: Fan speed at maxium and kernel_task at more than 300% after changing the display assembly

texts:
I recently replaced my MacBook Pro's (mid-2012) display assembly. After the first boot, my fan speed is at maximum and kernel_task is at more than 300% which is affecting the responsiveness of the OS. I read somewhere that disconnecting the iSight camera cable can solve this problem and yes, it really does.

Is there a solution to this problem without disconnecting the iSight cable?

Battery status is "service battery". Control key is not working.


texts:
When I go to the iCloud screen on my iPhone I get a "Verification Failed. There was an error connecting to iCloud."

What can I do to resolve this?


texts: macOS: Security & Privacy preference pane in System Preferences is greyed out

texts: Security & Privacy preference pane in System Preferences app is greyed out.  I read there should be a lock icon I can click on to unlock this setting, but I do not see the lock icon. How can I access the pane?


texts:
My boyfriend died in a violent hit and run.
All of his photos are on his macbook pro laptop. His iphone is locked with a pin code and his computer is locked with a password or a recovery key. His mobile has been disconnected by the phone company already. I have a death certificate.
I am able to access his icloud account and his ipad, but I don't have his computer password or the recovery key. The computer was protected by filevault.
Is there anything that can be done?


texts: Will storage space be lost when I update to iOS 10?

texts:
My iPhone 5S (16GB model) has 1.9 GB available of a total capacity of 12.1 GB. I see that the iOS 10 update requires 1.4 GB. But I am assuming I will get much of that back. Can anyone give me a specific amount?

Edit: My iPhone is currently running iOS 8.1.3.


texts: How do I stop my iPhone camera automatically recording my location when I take photos?

texts: I already know I can go into my iPhone’s Privacy settings and select what apps can use my camera. My question is not about stopping apps from using my camera. It is about not allowing photos and videos taken by any app to also capture my location when taking them. How do I do this?


texts:
$ which xar
/usr/bin/xar

It's in /usr/bin. Does that mean it's preinstalled on mac?


texts: What are the command(s) to script a daily time sync?

texts:
I'm experiencing clock drift on my Mac Mini of 1-2 minutes every day.  Like questioner here, I get relief if I open Date & Time from preferences every day or two.  It doesn't stop the drift, just corrects the time back to normal.  This tells me that the time server configured (or at least the one that's consulted when I use the UI to update time) is an accurate time server and is still alive, but there's some other force at work to drag time away from that.  Unusual here is that while most systems lose time, I'm gaining time each day [and it's been a gain since I first observed this problem].

This problem persists since before I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks when Mavericks was released.

This problem persists since installing a fresh "coin battery" (yes the box is 4-5 years old, so a dying battery could've been part of the problem).  It's not unheard of for a new battery to not have charge, but that seems unlikely.

This problem persists even after resetting the NTP.conf settings per the article above.

Basically I'm mystified, and even though I'm inclined to fix the root problem, in the meantime I'm losing big chunks of climactic action in the broadcast TV my EyeTV app is recording for us, and I'd like to at least apply a band-aid to keep my recordings on schedule while I continue to pick away at the root problem.

So while the hardware [mobo, battery] might be the ultimate root cause, I'm not ready to toss the box quite yet - it's still otherwise a workhorse.

Can someone explain to me in simple terms what command(s) I should embed in a daily script (to be wired into my crontab or whatever is currently the best task scheduler in Mavericks)?  If this was a Windows box I'd run something approximately like "w32tm.exe /resync" or "w32tm.exe /config /update".  Can anyone help me come up with an equivalent or appropriate command I should have Mavericks run every day for me?  Thanks!


texts:
I use a tool called variety which sets automatic wallpaper to my Linux machines via various websites like deviantart, wallpapers.net, flickr etc.

Is there such tool for MacOSX?


texts: I need to block the app. Which domain names does it use? Can I use content restriction like Safari? Can I block the IP addresses in my router?


texts: How can I export only my notes from the Notes app and import to another Mac?

texts:
Rather than set up iCloud sync, I’d like to export / import notes.

Is there a way to export all my notes written in the Notes app in any format so that I can import them to another Mac?


texts: How do you send a photo from your photo files? The enter key does not act as a submit key

texts:
How do you send a photo from my photo files?
The enter key does not act as a submit key


texts:
I Had a word document which I'm unsure where it was stored. It said my desktop but I believe it was also in my icloud somewhere. I saved my work and then emailed it to myself, after emailing the work I turned off the icloud which in turn deleted everything on my desktop.
All I have is a textedit file whenever I attempt to click the document.

I'm unsure on whether the work is completely gone or still able to be recovered.
Time machine was not activated due to the macbook being new. Microsoft word didn't appear to do any backups or recover old files, there's nothing. It does show the file in recent but will not open or allow recovery.
I have checked my icloud in the advanced section to try and recover files.. there is nothing there.
In textedit I have tried to the 'revert' method which did not work.
I've followed multiple youtube tutorials and website searches to see if I can recover the work and still can't it's all dead ends.

Would a piece of software be able to take the short code from textedit and aid my recovery or is the work completely lost? This work has a deadline so I need to know whether it's worth trying to save or just restart.

Thanks in advance


texts: How to make Safari remember my password for sites where autocomplete=off?

texts:
Safari will remember my password on most sites, if I ask it to.  However, some "high-security" sites disable this functionality.  I want to override their override, and have Safari remember my password on that site -- even though the site doesn't want me to.

These "high-security" sites specify autocomplete=off in the HTML.  Most browsers will honor this and decline to remember your password, in that case.  For some browsers, like Firefox, folks have discovered ways to change this aspect of browser behavior and force the browser to remember your password, even on a site that uses autocomplete=off.  I know how to do it on Firefox, but that doesn't work on Safari. Yes, I do understand the security implications of doing this.

How do I make Safari remember my password for sites where autocomplete=off?

References:

http://randosity.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/stupid-security-measures-autocompleteoff/
http://www.howtogeek.com/62980/how-to-force-your-browser-to-remember-passwords/
http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2010/06/10/safari-extension-autocomplete/


texts: Is it possible to copy 'rich text' formatting on iPhone?

texts: If I copy text from Safari or another app, is it generally copied in rich text format, or plain text format? And if rich text, is there any way to paste it formatted, or see the HTML source of the copied text?


texts: Mac OS X Messages and Facetime Started Failing

texts:
Couple of months ago sending messages and making FaceTime calls started to fail from my Mac. I never found the energy to look into this but after upgrading to Yosemite and still seeing the failures I gave up and spent some time on this.

They both started failing at the same time so I think they are somehow connected. I've gone through most of the solutions that the interwebs offer like resetting my timezone and cleaning up the ~/Library/Messages.

Today I checked the message from console as what happens when I try to send a message or initiate a Facetime call.

When I try a FaceTime call then it fails immediately and I see this in the log

FaceTime(10788) deny mach-lookup com.apple.awdd

The full log is at https://gist.github.com/toomasr/1a92803e630f34eb4fb3

And when I try to send a message I get a red exclamation mark immediately (in less than a second) and see the lines in the log

21/10/14 14:40:35,703 imagent[240]: [Warning] Request to send message: IMMessageItem[outgoing: YES sender=(null); service=iMessage; handle=secretEmailAddressThatIChanged@gmail.com; unformatted=(null); country=(null); roomName='(null)'; flags=100005; subject='<< Message Not Loggable >>' text='<< Message Not Loggable >>' messageID: 47 GUID:'F563CCF5-3A9C-4C89-9F8F-167D0131949E' date:'435584435.000000' date-delivered:'0.000000' date-read:'0.000000' date-played:'0.000000' transfer guids: '(null)' empty: NO finished: YES sent: NO read: NO delivered: NO audio: NO played: NO from-me: YES DD results: NO DD Scanned: YES Downgraded: NO emote: NO expirable: NO expire-state: 0 error: 0] to chat: IMDChat: 0x7fed82c76520 GUID: iMessage;-;secretEmailAddressThatIChanged@gmail.com Style: - State: 3 Participants: (
    "[IMDHandle: <secretEmailAddressThatIChanged@gmail.com:(null):(null)>]"
)  Room Name: (null)  Display Name: (null)  Identifier: secretEmailAddressThatIChanged@gmail.com  Unread count: 0  Row ID: 3  Group ID: 9B5305DB-4938-49A0-9129-F3313E82B731  from NIL ID  fromAccount: IDSAccount: 0x7fed82d216e0 [Service: com.apple.madrid  User: myEmailAddress@gmail.com  ID: B7B7962F-E5DE-4991-BB89-F4498794132A  Type: Apple ID  Active: YES  Registration Status: Registered]

Not sure how to move on with this. Any ideas are welcome!


texts: How to restore backups manually from Time Machine?

texts: I bought a new Mac a few days ago. I did a clean install, so I can start blank. Now I want to restore some files back from Time Machine to the new Mac. Is there a way to get the Time Machine interface so I can travel through my old backups using TM on my new Mac?


texts: Unable to use new apple id in app store on iPhone 4 IOS 7.1.2

texts:
My parents just gave me their old iPhone 4 and I cannot get my Apple ID to work correctly.here is what I did:

Reset all content and settings
Selected English, United States, wifi, enabled location, and set up as new iPhone
Signed in with my Apple ID (that I had just created during last reset) ([username].icloud.com)
Agreed to terms and conditions
Clicked use iCloud, and declined find my iPhone
Set passcode
7 clicked set up keychain later
Attempted to download app (Bible gateway)
Clicked sign in with Apple ID
A message that says "This Apple Id has not yet been used in iTunes store. Tap review to sign in, then review your account information." Pops up (I clicked review)
I agreed to terms of conditions
Entered password and security question
Another red message said "this email address i is not available for use as an apple I'd. You may already have an Apple ID associated with this address. Please try again or sign in using your existing apple Id. New password must not have been used in the past year."
Then I tried [username]@mac.com
Popup message says "email is already an apple I'd. Tap continue to sign in..." Etc
Clicked use existing apple I'd
Entered username and password
Said it was already an apple I'd
Hit back
Hit next again and filled out billing info
Hot next and red message said email address is already an apple Id

I don't know what to do anymore. Help me please!


texts: When I click F3 I cannot see the open windows

texts: When I click F3 on my macbook to view all open windows some or all of the windows disappear or show as a small white line. This can be seen in the screenshot attached. Any ideas if this is normal or how to fix it?


texts: How to make Apple Mail automatic forward (with rule) keep html format?

texts:
I use the Mail application (v 5.3) under Mac OSX 10.7

I have created a rule to automate mail forwarding to my team, based on the sender email address.

It works, BUT the forwarded messages are in plain text: Mail seems to lose the html formatting. Images are kept as attachments, and are displayed at the end of the mail.

That looks unprofessional, and it is really annoying when messages contains links, which people now have to copy/paste to open (and I know nobody will).

The recipients all use different mail systems: Mac, Windows or Linux, with a local client or through an webmail such as gmail. The problem really comes from Mail.app, not from the readers' client.

If I forward a mail myself (ie: not using a "rule"), the formatting is preserved, and everybody can read a well formatted mail.

There are very few options in the Mail preferences that seem able to make any change.

In the "composing" tab:

"message format" is "rich text"
under "responding" section, I have tried to check "Use the same message format as the original message" (without any effect for my concern)
in the same section, "when quoting text in forwards:" -> any of the two options has no effect on my problem.

I have, of course, googled the question. If I found some topics (like https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1455763?start=0&tstart=0), I found no solution.

Until recently, I've had a Mac OSX 10.5 system, and I had the same problem. But I thought it was an old and unresolved bug, nobody wanting to work on such a specific and outdated problem. Now my system is almost up to date, I really wonder: is it a bug, or a configuration error?


texts: hide files With certain extension when mounting a directory

texts:
When working on a remote Linux desktop, I am often finding myself mounting the remote folder to look up the outputs on my mac:

umount -f /Volumes/somename
mkdir /Volumes/somename
sshfs -o volname=somename -o follow_symlinks -o allow_other,defer_permissions me@server.name:/remote/path/ /Volumes/somename/

However, the (nested) directory includes aside of the results I want to look up (*.pdf) also a lot of files that I am not interested in (*.root). I would like to be able to hide those from views with finder completely - is it even possible to do?

I don't care about any files with *.root on my laptop so if there is a config that I could change system-wide that would be the simplest thing. But perhaps there is a way to do it when mounting the drive, to speed its loading time a little?


texts: Time Machine can't back up to an attached external USB drive

texts:
Mac "A" (iMac, macOS 10.14) has an attached USB hard disk "EXT" (3TB, GUID, macOS Extended, Journaled). Mac "A" can use Time Machine successfully to back up to external drives shared from other current-OS Macs. Disk "EXT" is shared and other current-OS Macs can use Time Machine to successfully back up to it on the network.

BUT, Mac A can't use Time Machine successfully to back up to its own attached external hard disk "EXT". When preparing to encrypt and backup, this error dialog consistently appears:

  There was an error preparing the Time Machine backup disk "EXT". POSIX
  reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Invalid argument.

I've tried reformatting the drive. Disk Utility shows no disk issues on "EXT". Finder and apps can access the disk without issue.

Any ideas what the problem is?


texts: Detecting theft of data - folder / files transfered from MacBook to USB

texts:
I know this is similar to another question posted here a while ago:

Did someone copy files from my Mac?

but the problem is slightly different and the answers don't help in my case.

I need to know with a 100% certainty whether data from a MacBook laptop has been copied onto a USB key. I suspect that sensitive folders and files were copied. The question is would forensics be able to know whether copies were made and exactly what folders and files were copied?Assume also that the time it was done for appx. 1 month ago.

Surely there must be some sort of way to know what files / folder and how large it was was copied?


texts: Mounting an AFP network volume eventually freezes my Yosemite System

texts:
Ever since I upgraded to 10.10.2 shortly after boot my whole system becomes unusable.  Any app that interacts with the volume freezes up such as Finder.  Killing the Finder process does not fix the issue.  This happens when I mount my Synology NAS as an AFP volume.  Before 10.10.2 I could mount the same volume as AFP without issue.

After my system is up for a little while I see this repeated over and over in my system log

5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:    GetReconnectToken failed 32 /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  doing reconnect on /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/Scotts Stuff
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP ReplayPendingReqs: replaying slot 45 with reqID 64312 afpCmd 72 on so 0xffffff80469103d8
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP ReplayPendingReqs: replaying slot 46 with reqID 64313 afpCmd 72 on so 0xffffff80469103d8
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
5/3/15 10:29:14.000 AM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 81 error 32 reqID 5797 flags 0x9 afpCmd 0x40 so 0xffffff80469103d8

My current work around is to mount it as SMB.  When mounted as SMB I don't have any issues.   However I would prefer to mount as AFP because sometimes I get some weird issues with iTunes when using SMB as my iTunes library is on my network storage device.


texts:
I am using an iPad first generation. I am not able to download any apps from the App Store as they are no longer supported on iOS 5.1.1.

They ask me to update iOS but I can not see any software update available for my iPad.

What do I do?


texts: What does Finder (10.12) and IP Scanner require to run?

texts:
I am working on creating a macOS 10.12 Live USB, and need to know what /System/Library/Frameworks/ frameworks Finder and IP Scanner requires (and how do I install them/track all of their files down)?

I'm making a macOS 10.12 Live creator based on dosdude1's macOS Sierra Patcher, with a few changes (such as what gets moved onto the installer). Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Downloads hang indefinitely around 55-60% after restoring from backup on new iPhone

texts:
My situation is I have been using iPhone 6s Plus for around a year. I just got my iPhone 7 Plus today. The phones are on the same carrier (Verizon Wireless) with different phone numbers.

I have iCloud configured on both to sync everything and store backups in iCloud. I told my new iPhone 7 Plus to restore from a backup of my 6s Plus taken yesterday. Although some apps installed okay, now all of my active downloads have been "stuck" around 60% through the completion wheel and won't progress any further. The exact percentage where each app gets stuck is precisely the same, down to the pixel.

Rebooting the iPhone briefly resolves the problem, but I get a pop-up saying that not all my iCloud data could be restored shortly after rebooting. Then after a few apps are done downloading, the stalling resumes.

I know it's not my Internet connection because the browser on the phone is very fast and responsive on WiFi (and on 4G) and I get speeds around 25-30 Mbps with under 100 ms pings on both WiFi and 4G.

When this problem is occurring, installing new apps from the App Store just causes them to show the "empty" download progress wheel and the app never makes any download progress, no matter how long I wait (tried waiting 2 hours for a 10 MB app and nothing, but I could stream music at 320 kbps on Spotify no problem while staring at the lack of download progress).

Force quitting the App Store doesn't help.

Toggling WiFi / airplane mode doesn't help.

So this is really annoying... is anyone else having this issue? Is it something with Apple's servers, or if not, why are all of my downloads just hanging indefinitely until I reboot the phone? Could it be an issue with the phone itself?

This phone does NOT have the "hissgate" problem (tested with a CPU-intensive benchmark that made the phone quite hot).


texts: Boot screen hangup after upgrade from El Capitan to Sierra

texts:
I have a late-2011 15" MBP. Yesterday I decided to upgrade from El Capitan to Sierra.

As it turns out, that was not a good idea: the Installation worked, but now after the first reboot, the machine won't boot any more. It'll get stuck on the boot screen (with the Apple logo) with the progress indicator completely finished.

I've tried

Waiting 8 hours to see whether it'd move after all
Booting into the recovery console and re-running the Sierra install
Booting into the recovery console and running Disk Utility's first aid (which says did not encounter any problems)
Booting into safe mode (no Change, boot gets stuck)
Resetting the NVRAM
Resetting the SMC

How can I further diagnose the problem?

Because my last full backup is a week old and I didn't make one before I ran the upgrade (I know I know) it would be very painful to format the HDD, or restore the backup.

Does MacOS have a boot log somewhere that I can look at from the recovery console?

Edit: so I discovered verbose mode and managed to find out what the system apparently is getting hung up on:

SmartBattery: finished polling type 2
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 4
SmartBattery: finished polling type 2

This discussion seems to hint that the problem could be an incompatible kernel extension that the installer didn't recognize as problematic.

I've started removing third party kexts, but so far without luck. It also seems weird that the problem is unchanged in safe mode...


texts: Is there a way to use the IPad 2018 with both a midi controller and audio out?

texts:
The iPad Pro 2018 has a single USB-C port. I have a dongle (USB-C => Audio) that lets me use headphones, I have a dongle (USB-C => USB-A) that lets me plug in a MIDI Keyboard.

What I want is to be able to do both.

Devices like this ought to be ideal but this one only lets power through the USB-C port.

There are also a number of large hubs, but they often have poor ratings related to the audio output quality.

Any recommendations?


texts: Safari 6: Open and close tabs with middle click?

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On Lion I installed an extension which game me the ability to use middle click to open and close tabs, and I used Better Touch Tool (BTT) to use a 3 finger tap to act as a middle click.

Since using Mountain Lion DP4, and subsequently the final release with Safari 6, I am only able to open tabs with a middle click, and I have to use keyboard shortcuts or by clicking on the tab close X.

Is there anything which will give me middle click to close a tab which works on Safari 6 under Mountain Lion available now?


texts: How to change arrow keys to scrub not skip iTunes tracks?

texts: I need to know what text to enter into System Prefs / Keyboard / Shortcuts / App Shortcuts, but I can't find the command names in the iTunes menu bar, nor by hovering any of the UI for tooltips.


texts: Whenever I delete something on my mac, the storage gets reallocated to Other instead of my mac. I deleted windows, games on steam, and space gets reallocated to Other. How do I recover the space consumed by Other?


texts: Where in iOS 9 Beta 5 is the iTunes Store App?

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Iam a verified developer and have downloaded the latest iOS 9 Beta 5 from https://developer.apple.com/ios/download/.
But my other colleague has same version 9.0 (13A4325c) but he has the iTunes Store app but mine doesn't have a word of mention about the iTunes Store app.

Has it been marinated into Music or is this a bug??


texts: How do I connect a device with a lighting connect to an iPad Pro that has a USB-C connector?

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I have a device that was connected to an iPhone through a iOS Lighting Cable. The iPad Pro has a USB C connector.

How do I connect my device with a lighting connector to an iPad Pro that has a USB-C connector?

I've seen a few adapters but they claim only to support charging or audio but not data.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KY4W9BF


texts: How can I set 4 x 6 as the default printer setting?

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I'm working on a photo booth web app that's going to run at a kiosk, and I'm trying to figure out how users can make a 4 x 6 printout of their photo.

When the user requests a printout, PHP resizes the photo and moves it into a folder being watched by Automator. When Automator sees a new photo is runs a "Print Images" action, but the action doesn't have an option to change the paper size, so it prints at the default US Letter. It seems this could easily be accomplished by setting the default paper size to 4 x 6 in the Print & Scan options, but that doesn't seem to be a choice:

Is there any way to add custom options to this list? Of course another way to accomplish this would be fine, too.


texts: Can I create a Desktop Shortcut/Alias to a Folder from the Terminal?

texts: I'd like to create a desktop shortcut to a specific folder, buried deep within ~/Library/. Library is Hidden by default in Lion, and I'd like to keep it that way, for a variety of reasons. Is there a one-step, command line action I can use, to create a desktop shortcut to a given path? I'd like to avoid solutions that involve unhiding the Library, creating the Alias using Finder, and rehiding it. I know how to do that, but for my purposes, a single line that can be pasted into Terminal and be done with it would be preferable.


texts: Is there a way to have Stickies (or an equivalent) on the Desktop in Catalina?

texts: I'd like to be able to Show Desktop (via Mission Control) and have access to notes. It seems Stickies can float on top of everything, but otherwise are treated as normal windows. Is there a way to accomplish this, possibly with 3rd party software?


texts: CMD-Z reopens last tab instead of undoing

texts: This is unbelievably annoying, since when I code online, there is no means of undoing, and thus retrieving the text I deleted.


texts: How to fix iPhone that displays artists out of order in the music App?

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This seems like it might be related to my switch to iTunes Match. My Music App displays the artists out of order. Other lists, like Songs and Albums, are sorted correctly. At the start of the list they are sorted correctly, after scrolling down a bit then the headers that separate the letters are in the wrong spot, and by the time I get to the bottom of the list they are no longer sorted correctly. Additionally "Various Artists" appears multiple times (10 - 15 times).

My iPhone 4 is out of warranty, so I can't log an online incident.