texts: Deleting Mail.app downloaded attachments manually properly

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I am helping a friend clear up hard disk space. In order to find the biggest space takers, I used a filesystem exploration utility. To my surprise, I found that nearly 100 GB of the internal hard disk space was being used by mail attachments.

This is quite surprising as, as per Apple's philosophy of "automatic management" and  I thought the Mail app could "intelligently manage" the attachments which were downloaded to the device. Through some digging in the Mail.app preferences, I found the "Download Attachments" option (which is per-account). Again, somewhat surprisingly, this is set to "All" by default. I set this to "None" so that attachments would only be downloaded when they were needed, which would most likely reduce the amount of disk space used.

However, there is the issue of dealing with the 100 GB of attachments already on the drive – changing the aforementioned setting does not remove attachments which have already been downloaded from the disk. Thus, I am tasked with the issue of removing these attachments in the safe way.

I want to remove these attachments preferably manually. I know there are third-party apps (such as CleanMyMac) which take care of email attachments, but I don't want to install a third-party app to do this.

One of the mail things I want to avoid is deleting the attachments from the mail server. Most of the articles found by Googling show how to delete attachments using Mail.app's "Message > Remove Attachments" menu bar option, which seemingly removes the attachment from the server, not just from the disk. This is not what I am after.

I found some useful information about how to go about doing this from this article: Go to ~/Library/Mail/V*/***/YourMailbox.mbox/B92.../Data/, search for all the folders named Attachments in this Data folder, and delete them – they will only be deleted from the disk and not from the server. I am hesitant to do this because I do not know if anything has changed with the latest macOS version(s) and whether this may have unaffected side effects.

As Apple seemingly does not have any articles explaining how to remove attachments from the internal disk (which seems like a huge oversight), is there a "proper," somewhat "cleaner" way to remove the attachments just from the disk?


texts: Used iPhone 5 - What do I need to do to register as the new iPhone owner, have warranty, etc

texts: Buying a used iPhone 5. What should be my next steps to register as the new iPhone owner in Apple's eyes, have warranty, etc.


texts: How do I sync my iPhone to my new Windows computer?

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(My iPhone syncs fine with a bunch of other computers.)

iTunes won't run after installation.

I Download 64 bit iTunes from https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

The installation on Windows 7 Enterprise goes without a glitch.

When I run it it says "Apple Application Support was not found. Apple Application Support is required to run iTuners. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again. Error 2 (Windows error 2)" (I get this message twice, with one minor variation. The advice does not help.)

I found articles on the net (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2151777?start=0&tstart=0) which says to use WinRAR to unpack the installer and then install the components one by one.

Download and install WinRAR.
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe icon and choose "Open with WinRAR".
Once the EXE is opened in WinRAR, double-click AppleApplicationSupport.msi and when the installer window is open choose "Repair".

iTunes now starts fine.

I connect my iPhone 4S. Nothing happens. It is not charging. iTunes does not discover it.

There is a message about "USB Hub Power exceeded." This happens regardless if I connect it directly or through any of my three (3) different externally powered USB hubs.

I had this before for USB Memory sticks as well, but re-installing drivers helped.

What do I do now?


texts: OSX 10.9 - Two finger click for middle click?

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I just got a new macbook (OSX 10.9), I used one previously (also recent OSX version) where I had 2-finger click to act as a middle click in firefox (open new tab, close tab, etc). I also had right click turned on (clicking on bottom right of the trackpad).

I downloaded BetterTouchTool, but the option for "Two Finger Click" is not there. I tried disabling Mac built-in two finger commands to get it to appear but no luck - three/four/five finger click is there, but not 2.

Any ideas?


texts: macOS High Sierra Turkish Keyboard Issue

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I started to use a Mac mini with Turkish keyboard. However, macOS High Sierra has only Turkish Q and Turkish Q Legacy keyboard options. If I remember correctly almost one year ago I was using a MacBook in a virtual machine and when I chose to Turkish QWERTY PC option, every key was working as I expected. This option was removed now I think. And some keys and combination of keys don't work or represent totally different charters or symbols.

I tried to change my location but it didn't help me at all.

How can I fix this annoying issue?


texts:
I naturally think of sketches like SMSs - you have a sequence of the old ones lying around you can peruse.

The other model of online messaging is snapchat, where your messages disappear after sending.

I've got a couple of sketches from a friend I'd like to replay - I'm wondering if this is possible, or I'm just thinking in the 'wrong model'.

My question is: Is there a way to replay old sketches on my Apple Watch?


texts: I am doing a uni course which is called iPhone Software Engineering and it says that I need a mac that is able to run latest version of 'Xcode' for app developement and current SWIFT and the Apple iOS SDK will be used. So far I have done many programming languages using windows and this is the only course that requires a mac so I need suggestions to buy a cheap mac that will only be good for programming purposes. I don't need any good graphics and all that. Since I am low on budget I would be happy if my mac could fulfill my course requirements.


texts: How to activate mod_rewrite on MacOSX Lion

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I tried to activate the mod_rewrite module in the httpd.conf, but I do not succeed to make it work.
I'm running Lion, and my goal is to do URL rewriting in ~USER/Sites/mysite

Can someone help me please?


texts:
Is this possible to click on the button "detailed" using AppleScript (Google chrome)

for="7cd6f428-1are-41f2-9054-c452d7fe242-view-selector-e5f5de50-634a-45bc-bf30-98e2a64676cc">Detailed

I would usually use this for a click

 "document.getElementsByName('clasenamehere')[0].click();"

but in this situation I'm not sure how to proceed

update : I updated my reply as I didn't realised the code was hided by askdifferent text editor

that what I usually use :

tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell tab 4 of window 1 to set myClickingbutton to execute javascript "document.getElementById('Clasenamehere').click();
"
end tell


texts: Mac mini with intermittent wifi connnectivity problems

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Mac mini (2.4 core 2 duo, 10.6.8) has served well for years. Now it seems to be having wifi connectivity problems with no rhyme or reason to their appearance. Several other devices (laptops, phones) on the same wifi network can all connect and use the network with no issues. Sometimes connectivity is dropped altogether and later re-establishes. More often it just becomes impossibly slow:

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=292 ttl=64 time=2.807 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=293 ttl=64 time=3.668 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=294 ttl=64 time=3.047 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=295 ttl=64 time=2.845 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=296 ttl=64 time=452.096 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=297 ttl=64 time=204.045 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=298 ttl=64 time=496.942 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=299 ttl=64 time=534.443 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=300 ttl=64 time=74.985 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 301
Request timeout for icmp_seq 302
Request timeout for icmp_seq 303
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=302 ttl=64 time=2390.534 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=303 ttl=64 time=1390.854 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=304 ttl=64 time=393.798 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=306 ttl=64 time=21.682 ms

Above, 10.0.1.1 is our router. From another device, during the same time window, I see much more consistent ping times.

I tried to log all the wifi activity (sudo ./airportd debug +AllUserland +AllDriver +AllVendor; sudo ./airportd logger), and during the outage above there were no log messages seen. Wifi was "connected" but no data was flowing. The other issues (when the connection drops completely) I have not yet reproduced while debug logging.

Is there some other way I can investigate this problem, or should I just give up, assume the interface is dying, and buy a USB wifi dongle?


texts: Can I create fonts drawn as outlined in Word 16 for Mac?

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I'm trying to make some colouring in pages for my daughter, and want to make a large letter per page for her to colour in.

On Windows I could select a letter, choose font and there's an outline option that I can check.

I can't see this on Microsoft Word for Mac - 16.23 - Office 365 Subscription.

Is anyone aware of ways to achieve this?


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Recently time zone was changed in Turkey. It was UTC + 2, now opting out of DST, time zone is permanently UTC + 3. All iOS devices updated correctly.

However, on my Apple Watch, it asked for 'There is an updated Time Zone Settings, click OK to apply' or similar and I accidentally said no. Now it shows the wrong time.

How can apply the updated time zone settings?

I have tried restarting, updating to watchOS 3.0.1, airplane mode on/off, nothing seems to be working.

Any ideas?


texts: Changing file metadata from CLI that will show in Finder

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Finder has columns you can sort files by: Name, Size, Kind, Date, Comment, etc. These are shown as headers when Finder is in "List" mode, with respective file properties shown below.

If I Cmd+I a file, and change Comments to FOO, mdls shows FOO and Finder shows FOO.
If I set Comments to BAR from Terminal, mdls shows "BAR", but Finder still shows "FOO"!

How can I change the "Comment" field from Terminal so the change propagates to Finder?

$ xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment "BAR" test.txt
$ mdls test.txt
kMDItemFinderComment = "BAR"

Update: I noticed that when using Finder / AppleScript, Comment is set to a Binary Property List containing the value. So maybe it's possible to circumvent AppleScript and increase performance?

<?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">
<string>My comment</string>
</plist>

I tried editing the property list and feeding it back to xattr. However, xattr gives the error message Odd-length string even if the file size of hex is in fact an even number. Anyone?

xattr -p com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment a | xxd -r -p | plutil -convert xml1 -o plist -
nano plist
cat plist | plutil -convert binary1 -o - - | xxd -p -c 999 -u > hex
xattr -w -x com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment hex test.txt


texts: How to make an Apple Script use its local directory?

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I am trying to bundle a .jar executable into an application using the solution provided here: How to create a .app folder from an executable .jar?. I deduced that main.script inside Contents -> Resources -> Scripts is using the computer's global directories, not the application's local directory. Thus, it fails. I found a proposed solution on this page: Wrong working directory, if bash script is opened via double-click. Unfortunately, even this code does not seem to function as intended. For demonstration, I have placed the .jar in the same folder as the script. Here is is the AppleScript code I am trying to use:
do shell script "DIR=$( cd \"$( dirname \"${BASH_SOURCE[0]}\" )\" && pwd )
cd \"${DIR}\"

java -jar execute.jar"

Note that the Bash quotation marks are escaped; here is the raw code:
DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )
cd "${DIR}"

java -jar execute.jar

The first line ought to find the directory of the script, the second ought to navigate to that directory, and the third ought to find and run "execute.jar." As I've said, it doesn't. I would troubleshoot more if I knew enough Bash—this is the most in-depth I've ever gone. I verified all three lines independently, which means that the DIR definition is picking its directory off of a freshly-opened Bash/Terminal, independent of the script.
Isn't this sort of like "the chicken or the egg?" The DIR function gives the current directory, which is then used to set the current directory with cd?


texts: OSX 10.7 Apache can't do file uploads to local server

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I have Apache running on another machine on the local network but am unable to do certain things that I can on the live server - namely perform file uploads.

Wordpress tells me this may be because Apache doesn't have permissions to write to the website directories - does anyone know how to fix this?

The website folder is shared on the network also so I can't really go around chmoding it incase I break access for someone else.

Any help appreciated


texts: FaceTime calls keep disconnecting the moment I answer

texts: I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra Version 10.13. So did my friend. We called each other on FaceTime. It took several attempts to establish a FaceTime connection. The first few times the call disconnected immediately when I hit the answer button. It didn't use to be this way before the upgrade. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?


texts: What would cause a CLI utility to ignore arguments except when invoked directly?

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Okay, so this just happened:

iMac:bin nreilingh$ tree --version
.
|____tree
iMac:bin nreilingh$ which tree
/usr/local/bin/tree
iMac:bin nreilingh$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/tree
lrwxr-xr-x  1 nreilingh  admin  29 Oct 14 22:02 /usr/local/bin/tree -> ../Cellar/tree/1.7.0/bin/tree
iMac:bin nreilingh$ pwd
/usr/local/Cellar/tree/1.7.0/bin
iMac:bin nreilingh$ ./tree --version
tree v1.7.0 (c) 1996 - 2014 by Steve Baker, Thomas Moore, Francesc Rocher, Florian Sesser, Kyosuke Tokoro

I installed tree via homebrew, and whenever I invoke it, it ignores command line arguments. When I execute the binary directly, it doesn't. How is this possible?


texts: I want to create a new calendar "on my mac" but the item is missing in calendar.app v. 8

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I have migrated to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Sometimes I use an 'on my mac' calendar. I just wanted to create one for one of my projects, but I can only see "Exchange", "google" and "iCloud" but I don't want any of those, just a local one.

The menu item is not there anymore. What setting am I missing?


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For some reason, I cannot update my MacBook Pro (13', 2017) running Big Sur (11.1). Every time I try using the Software Update tool I get that it is "Unable to check for updates". If I try updating from the App Store (whose icon indicates that there is 1 pending update), a blank window shows up.

As an alternative, I have tried running on the terminal and it identifies there is an update pending
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* Label: macOS Big Sur 11.2.2-20D80
    Title: macOS Big Sur 11.2.2, Version: 11.2.2, Size: 3173800K, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,

However, running with flags -i -a results in no action. Rebooting does not do the job. I have also tried resetting the NVRAM, to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: What is the standard location for the "recent files" information that each app seems to store?

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The app in question is called RStudio.  When I am using it, if I want to look at a file that I have looked at recently, I can click:  File...Recent Files...and a menu of the last 5 or 6 files used shows up.

I want to sync this activity across devices using Dropbox, but I need to know which directory/file to add to my syncList to do so.  Any ideas?


texts: MacBook Air number pad keyboard alternative?

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Is there any way to set the keyboard on a MacBook Air laptop so that I can toggle between normal keys and a number pad?

Seems a little ridiculous to use the mouse for calculator entry and while the number row is adequate for normal typing, it seems like there should be a way to add this functionality.

(FWIW: late 2012 i7 Intel MBAir, OSX Sierra)

per Tom's Comment, as of 12/29/2016 according to their website, "Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment" & just last week there was an update released for Ukulele. Here is an old website with some additional suggestions for how to cross this bridge.


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I just bought a refurbished Macbook Pro (Retina, early 2013). It seems to be overheating and shutting down without the fans ever coming on. I first noticed the problem while trying to download a game.

After reading some other answers here, I have downloaded iStat Menus (which helped me confirm that the problem was overheating), I tried resetting the SMC and running the Mac Hardware Diagnostic (no problems reported).

I can use iStat to manually turn on the fans to resolve the problem, but since this is a "new" computer I'd like it to work right out of the box. Even with the fans cranked up to 100% the CPU die is at ~75°C while just downloading a game.

Is there anything else I can try to resolve this issue?


texts: iPad is iCloud locked to a defunct address

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I was gifted an iPad from a restaurant owner. This iPad was provided to the restaurant and used to relay orders from a third party service who would deliver their food outside their normal delivery range.

The third-party company that provided the iPad is now defunct, and the iCloud email address has been out of use for long enough to bounce emails back to me immediately.

I am aware of the concept of circumventing iCloud activation lock and that is not what I am looking for. I am looking to have Apple verify that the current account is defunct and to legitimately remove the account from the iPad.

What steps do I take to have Apple review and potentially remove an iCloud account from my iDevice?


texts: What is the md5/sha1 checksum for Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS 4.3 SDK final?

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I downloaded the iOS SDK file xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3__final.dmg from the Apple developer site but I'm not sure about its integrity.

Could anyone provide me the md5 or sha1 checksum for it?


texts: I have 2 iPads. Should they both have the same id?

texts: I got a new iPad and gave my daughter the old one. She is unable to get on it using the password and ID I gave her. So I changed the password on mine -she still can't use that password- is it different on all devices and I forgot it?


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Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes?

You know, that what you might click and add in TimeMachine Settings > Options ...

Can't find anything in ~/Library/Preferences.
But settings are per user and not system-wide?!

System Command / Library seems to be named com.apple.prefs.backup


texts: How to find which of several numbers for the same contact I sent a message to

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For a contact with several phone numbers, how do I find which number I sent a message to?

I am trying to find which of the contact's numbers to try next, because I'm not getting a reply.

The techniques given in these two answers no longer work, or don't work for me:

One contact with several numbers - sent messages
How to find the phone number text message sent from?

Specifically, I have tried the following:

view the message thread
tap the (i) icon top right
tap either the contact name or the '>' beside it

This doesn't help, because all the contact's numbers are listed in blue and none are tagged with 'Recent'.

I'm using iOS 11.2.6 on an iPhone SE.


texts: How does the quality of the LED-backlit screen of a MacBook or a 27" Cinema Display degrade over time?

texts: The quality of my PowerBook and 20" Cinema Display screens has degraded over time, they became noticeably yellowish and darker due to the wear of the backlight (I assume). Neither of those screens is LED-backlit. I'm wondering, how do the LED-backlit screens used in current Apple products degrade over time? Do they similarly become yellowish, give less light, ...? How long does it take for the effect to become obvious, or what's the expected life time of these screens?


texts: DefaultKeyBinding.dict - old-style NeXT format vs XML plist format

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DefaultKeyBinding.dict

The ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file lets you define your own key bindings in Mac OS X. It can be in one of two formats: old-style NeXT format (example) or modern-style XML plist format (example).

Rebinding ⌘+⌫

I wanted to rebind command-backspace (⌘+⌫) to deleteWordBackward:, and I got some help over in this AskDifferent thread. It was suggested that I use this as my DefaultKeyBinding.dict file:

/* my keybindings */
{
"@\U007F" = "deleteWordBackward:"; /* delete backwards one word */
}

This advice worked (thanks, guys!), but I already have a working DefaultKeybinding.dict in the XML format, so I wanted to try to get it working that way. I first added just this text near the bottom of my existing file:

<key>@\U007F</key>
<string>deleteWordBackward:</string>

And I also tried creating a brand-new XML-formatted file with just the  ⌘+⌫ entry:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>@\U007F</key>
    <string>deleteWordBackward:</string>
</dict>
</plist>

But neither files worked. The apparent situation, then, is that you can rebind ⌘+⌫ only in the old-style NeXT format, and not in the XML plist format. My questions are:

Is this accurate, or should the syntax change somehow when I'm switching to XML format?
Will I regret moving the rest of my DefaultKeyBinding.dict file over to the old syntax? It wouldn't be much work to do so - it's only one or two dozen entries - but I'm not sure if the old style is deprecated or ill-advised for some other reason.

Edit: Original DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Someone requested information on my original file in the comments, so I figure I might as well include the whole thing here.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key></key>
    <string>complete:</string>
    <key>^ </key>
    <string>setMark:</string>
    <key>^a</key>
    <string>moveToBeginningOfLine:</string>
    <key>^e</key>
    <string>moveToEndOfLine:</string>
    <key>^j</key>
    <string>setMark:</string>
    <key>^v</key>
    <string>pageDown:</string>
    <key>^w</key>
    <string>deleteToMark:</string>
    <key>^x</key>
    <dict>
        <key>^m</key>
        <string>selectToMark:</string>
        <key>^x</key>
        <string>swapWithMark:</string>
    </dict>
    <key>~</key>
    <string>deleteWordBackward:</string>
    <key>~&lt;</key>
    <string>moveToBeginningOfDocument:</string>
    <key>~&gt;</key>
    <string>moveToEndOfDocument:</string>
    <key>~^h</key>
    <string>deleteWordBackward:</string>
    <key>~b</key>
    <string>moveWordBackward:</string>
    <key>~d</key>
    <string>deleteWordForward:</string>
    <key>~f</key>
    <string>moveWordForward:</string>
    <key>~n</key>
    <string>scrollLineDown:</string>
    <key>~p</key>
    <string>scrollLineUp:</string>
    <key>~v</key>
    <string>pageUp:</string>
    <key>~</key>
    <string>deleteWordBackward:</string>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: Can I find out which iOS apps are no longer available in the App Store?

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I have hundreds of apps installed on my iOS device. I've noticed that some of those apps do not appear to be in the App Store any longer.

Is there a way to quickly identify which apps I have installed, that are no longer available in the App Store? I'd like to be able to decide which ones I feel like keeping, in an effort to tidy up my device.

(Other than manually searching the store for each one, of course.)


texts:
I need to type a leftwards arrow, an example as follows:

Is this possible using the keyboard on macOS Mojave?


texts: WhatsApp Web not working on macOS Mojave 10.14.2

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WhatsApp Web used to work all right. It works fine on my other 2012 MacBook, but not working on my Late 2013 MacBook. When attempting to open the Web app, the QR code continues to load indefinitely.

I have tried with Firefox, Chrome & Safari but the issue persists. I have also tried in Private browsing mode, thinking maybe it's a cache issue but no luck.

How can I salvage this?


texts: How to quickly switch between two versions of a file

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In more detail, I need to have a simple command or something else that I can trigger that will switch a certain file between two versions. The two file versions will not change, just need to switch which one of them is "active" and accessible by other programs. The file needs to stay in its current location, with the same name, just some of the contents need to be adjusted.
Is there a quick way to do this?


texts: Macbook Air OS X 10.8.4 Trackpad Pinch Zoom not working in Firefox 23.0.1

texts:
I recently updated my OS X to 10.8.4 and updated Firefox to 23.0.1
Now the pinch zoom feature on my trackpad does not work. It works fine in Safari. Will appreciate any suggestions to solve this problem.


texts:
Does anyone know of a calendar app that could handle a bunch of iCal events, each dependent on their timing for the placing of the final one, so that the final date could be copied and moved and all the others would stay the same distance apart?
For example I might have an irregularly recurring event which is a concert. Two days before that I need to hold a rehearsal and book a hall three weeks before the rehearsal. Five days before the rehearsal I need to have all the music notated and send it out to the performers. At least a fortnight before that, on the nearest Monday afternoon, I need my calendar app to invite my performers to take part and then report back to me whether or not they are available. I then have to start notating music to suit the line-up I can get. I need to allow 50 hours of free time to do this task, so it needs to slot in with spare time I have from other events I might be managing.

Having spent hours setting all that up once I wouldn't want to do it again. I would like an app that can take all that and call it one event which can be kept in a library and assigned with the final event to any date of my choosing. It would then work out everything else backwards and tell me when I need to do all the tasks on my calendar.

Does anything like that exist?


texts: Which device uses "Mobile Safari UIWebView" as the browser name?

texts:
In looking at the browser name from our internal web stats I see "Mobile Safari UIWebView".

What device does that represent?

We record "mobile safari" separately (and is used 5 or 6 times more).


texts: Is there a way to have AppleScript output displayed in the menubar?

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Before reading further:
I know about butler and similar programs.  I am looking for a BUILT-IN way to do this without a third party app.

Anyway, I wrote an AppleScript that runs a shell command.  I want to display that output in the menubar at the top... without Butler how can I do this?


texts:
I can't get this reversed thing to work:

Tell application "Finder" to set the sort direction of the modification date column to reversed


texts: Videos from Shared Album Not Appearing in iPhoto

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A friend recently shared an album with me on Photostream. The album contains videos only. I clicked on the invitation and was able to successfully view the videos within the album on my iPhone.

On my Mac however, although the album did appear in the Family and Friends Photos section of iPhoto, it was empty.

This FAQ, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT20278, states "Can photos and videos be saved or downloaded from a shared album? Yes. After photos are shared, anyone who can view the shared album can download and keep them permanently. Videos can only be downloaded to a Mac or PC."

Based on that, you would think this would work. Any ideas? OSX 10.8.5.

Thanks!


texts: Time machine: exclude items causes long "calculating full size of backup..." delay

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The preferences of Time Machine crash when I click options. This is what I did:

I have a new hard disk to back up. I connected the hard disk to my iMac (Mac OS 10.9.2) I accept the invitation to dedicate the disc to Time Machine. I open the preferences, click Option and I try to exclude some items from back ups. I select some files and I click Save. The circle with colors moving appears meaning that is thinking, but it never ends.

I force Quit Applications and select Preferences. I put Time Machine off. I re start the computer. I open again the Preferences > Time Machine. But when I click to option it gets stuck again. I see the files that I excluded from back up and the sentence "calculating size of full backup..." But the circle with colors never ends.

What can I do?


texts: Why is it quicker to search on google app compared to web browser on smartphones

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When you do a google search , the time taken for the results and the webpages of the result to load is much faster on Google search app compared to web browser for smartphones. What is the explaination behind this ??

Google app

Web Browser


texts: Can you use an APFS-formatted Mac with a pre-APFS Apple Time Capsule?

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I'm thinking of upgrading to macOS High Sierra, however I'm a bit cautious with the APFS, also because it just came out.

Are you able to use Time Machine on a Mac with APFS-formatted disks with an Apple Time Capsule that uses an HDD an older file system (HFS+)

My guess is it won't work so you have to also manually convert the Apple Time Capsule to APFS.


texts: Why is Java consuming 100% CPU on my machine?

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I have an iMac (early 2010) running 10.7.2 but the problem has been seen on 10.6.x also. The symptom is simple, one of my 2 cores is sitting at 100% utilization with the Java process responsible  for the excessive usage.

What have I done to troubleshoot?

Reboot - The java process simply restarts and the same condition is seen.
Kill the Java process - As with a reboot.
Uninstall and reinstall Java - Soon after installing Java the CPU is back at 100%.
Using ps "process id" I can see that it is launchd spawning the process and that the command used to start the process is:

java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /tmp/ics29586

The ics29586 file is an 11mb binary file.
Deleted the ics29586 file - File is recreated at next process restart and same condition is seen
Created a new user account, rebooted and logged in as the new user - Same condition is seen.
Played with Java settings and restarted the process after each change - Same condition seen.
Complete machine rebuild - Soon after installing Java the CPU is back at 100%.

So, has anyone either got the the answer for what is causing it and how to fix it, or some advice on ways of further troubleshooting the issue?

In response to some of the comments asking for more info:

I'm not running crashplan.
I couldn't work out how to get Activity Monitor to show me open files, but googling suggested LSOF was a good match for what you wanted to know. It showed no open files:

Deep-Desk:LaunchAgents photo$ sudo lsof -c java
Deep-Desk:LaunchAgents photo$

There are 220 ports open for the Java process at present
The only file of interest in either the LaunchDaemons or LaunchAgents folders is:

-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   568B 10 Mar  2011 com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

Everything else is either com.apple or has a date well after the problem first manifested. By way of a test I have renamed the com.microsoft file to old.com.microsoft but it made no difference. I also moved the file completely out the LaunchDaemons directory and that made no difference either, the process still respawns, hangs around not doing much for a few minutes, then goes out of control and consumes all the CPU on 1 core.


texts: Copy an iPhone's disk contents (filesystem) to a computer

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I like to get a clear view at how an iPhone's file system. Especially in the case of damaged data.

Apart from using a professional (and costly) data recovery service, what other ways do exist to transfer (dump) the disk data from an iPhone to a computer.

In particular, what options are there when the disk data is damaged to the point that it can't boot iOS any more, i.e. when the iPhone is in recovery mode but can not reboot, even with a tool such as iRecovery).

I am not looking into breaking into someone else's data here. Assume that I know the iPhone locking password (I understand that this user-settable code is not the actual encryption key, but I hope that there is a way to get to the key when knowing the password).

I am quite proficient with low level disk formats (partitions, HFS, etc.), for instance, I've written a disk editor (iBored), that's why I like to look at what's actually stored on the disk.


texts: How can I completely uninstall Xcode in macOS Mojave 10.14?

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After upgrading to macOS Mojave 10.14, Xcode was no longer updating correctly and my build process was reporting that stdlib.h was missing. Thus, I attempted to uninstall it so I could reinstall it after.

However, after removing it via the (x) button displayed on the Xcode app icon in Launchpad, the app was still in /Applications directory. So I deleted it from there as well.

However, the Mac App Store is still showing the option to update Xcode as if it were installed (and clicking the button resulted in a loading animation being displayed for half a second and then the update button again). I have also removed all the various folder listed here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/53575585/1824538

as well as followed the instructions to empty the Mac App Store cache provided here:

How to fix / Reset App Store app on Mac OSX - El Capitan

and here:

How to remove deleted app from OS X update list?

So far, nothing has changed the fact that the Mac App Store thinks I should update instead of install.

Is there anything else to do to get the Mac App Store to reinstall Xcode?

If it's easier, I'd be content with installing LLVM via Homebrew without messing things up. I don't really need Xcode itself, only the build tools.

xcode-select --install behaves similarly to the Mac App Store (namely claiming the tools are already installed or producing a non-working installation if I remove the CommandLineTools directories in the different Libraries).

EDIT: after some more back-and-forth I managed to get the Command Line Tools working via xcode-select --install. However, I'm still left with the update notification for Xcode in the Mac App Store.


texts: Mac Backups - 5xMac's with a synchronized catalog?

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I'm looking for a free or if not cheap solution to a situation we find ourselves in. Currently we have 5 designers all doing artwork throughout the day and then periodically, or when the mood takes them, burning it to DVD-R then running it through an ancient X11 Disc Catalog app we have. The problem is each person does it "their own way" and the disc numbers get mixed up from time to time and lost etc.

I'm looking for a collaborative solution where perhaps they backup to a central server, however I don't really want a "spare" Mac just sitting there doing nothing. If for instance everyone kept their work in a specific folder on their Mac that was polled or similar in a sort of Server->Client relationship?

I don't really know what it is I'm after, so some ideas or suggestions would be great! Too many people are getting bogged down burning DVD's etc at the moment!


texts: Why can other users see my files in MY user folder?

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This is a screenshot of my private folders/files inside my user folder, but seen from a different user on my MacBook. Several folders are basically openly accessable for everybody, even when created inside my very own /user space.

My questions are:

Why is it like this ?
How can I prevent other users from accessing my files (unless i move them inside protected folders)


texts:
If I press CMD then the start menu repeatedly flies open.

It is really annoying, so I need to stop this.

How do I disable the windows key in Parallels 14??


texts: Prevent iPhone from trying to send text message after leaving airplane mode

texts: I accidentally sent a text and before it could fully send, I put my phone into airplane mode. The text is "stuck" and is neither sent NOR saying failed to deliver. What do I do? How do I not send it? If I block the person while still in airplane mode, will it send the text?


texts: Something prevented updates from being installed, but the app's name is blank

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Has anyone seen this?

So basically I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else, or if my computer might be infected with malware or something.


texts: Sharing Mac hard drive over the Internet to a PC

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Similar question to this, but my other computer is a PC. (PC seeing external hard drive from the Mac over the Internet.)

My external is formatted exFAT. Neither the Mac nor the PC have issues using it. When I connect it to the PC, the Mac can read/write on the external HDD over the Internet. However, when I connect it to the Mac, the PC can identify it (through Network) but the access is denied. The message is

  \192.168.xx.xx\HDD is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. The parameter is incorrect.

At the first time to try, it asked me to log in to the Mac, which worked, and has never shown up again. I can see the hard drive in question in the folder as "share", but double-clicking does not let me in, instead I get the above error message. One weird thing is the Property window for the hard drive (gotten from the right-click menu on the PC) shows it is NTFS, which is wrong.

I've also tried mapping the drive to a drive letter. I tried to map it from the PC by assigning Z: drive with \192.168.xx.xx\HDD, then Z: drive is shown as a network drive with right capacity size (XXX GB free of 931 GB). But again, when I click it, it fails to get in. "Z:\ is not accessible, The parameter is incorrect."

I have no problem accessing the Mac's user directory from the PC, so I also tried to map the drive to a folder in the user directory of the Mac (\Users\myuserID\) by running ln -s \Volumes\HDD HDD on the command line, but this trick doesn't work for me.

I don't think Sharepoint is necessary, since my Mac is on Mountain Lion. The PC is running Windows 7.

So, now, I don't know what to do. Any suggestion?


texts: iPhone calendar alerts are not muted when vibrate switch is on

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I leave my iPhone in vibrate mode all the time.  The switch still works (when I switch it the iPhone shows the ringer on/off notice).

This morning it started alerting me for calendar alerts with both vibration and audible chimes. Note that I'm NOT talking about clock/timer alarms.

I've rebooted the iPhone, and it's still alerting me both ways.

What else should I check?


texts: OS X El Capitan Installer.app has crippled my Mac Mini

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Mac Mini (Mid-2011), 16GB SSD, 16GB RAM, El Capitan (v10.11.6)

The Mac ran fine until I upgraded to Sierra. The latest Mac OS conflicted with most of the specialized apps I use every day, So I immediately returned to El Capitan.

Activity monitor shows that two "Installer/Installer.app" items are always running and are they major users of all of my available memory. Consequently, all my others apps become unresponsive.  I run Disk Utility, and the Installer.app show up there as .dmg files; but I cannot erase, delete, or unmount them. None of my 3rd party app can remove the installers.

My Mac Mini, which should be running super-fast (as it used to), now runs dreadfully and disgustingly slow. I a truly upset with Apple for this kind of garbage. To get their help: $$$.


texts: VLC on windows 8.1 can't open files on iMac

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I have an iMac running Mavericks. My music files (mp3) are stored on this machine. I also have a windows 8.1 laptop running VLC media player. I can access files on the iMac from the windows machine over my local home network using windows explorer with no problem. However VLC running on my windows 8.1 machine cannot access the files on my imac: I get an error saying "VLC cannot access the MRL."

Using VLC I can access and play music files stored on any of my windows machines, so it is not a problem with vlc getting through the firewall on my windows 8.1 machine. It seems the iMac is refusing access to VLC, though it allows access to windows explorer, ping etc.

How can I open these files?

Update: I tried different music apps running on my windows 8.1 machine besides VLC. Boom.exe and MPC-HC were not able to play the files stored on the imac (though they could both see and select them) but windows media player could see and successfully play the files.


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is it possible to create (and put in the dock) a custom terminal window?

What I mean with "custom":

it should have a different name (eg. "myTerminal");
it should automatically start running a certain command (I'll ask if this is possible in another question);

Any help is appreciated.


texts: Can a Mac's airport card run 802.11 N, G, B or A only?

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Occasionally it's nice to hard code a wired connection network port to not auto negotiate and force things to be 100 half duplex even though a higher speed is configured and negotiable on the switch.

Can I similarly force airport software and thus the hardware to only run one flavor of 802.11? Can I use the airport command to prefer a higher / lower channel rather than join by signal strength? Might alternative drivers be available or some developer testing tool to exert this level of control over the WiFi chipsets in Macs.

I want to force this on the mac end for cases where I can't control the base stations or want to test a specific channel of a simultaneous dual band router that is live with other traffic.

mac:bin mike$ airport --scan
                            SSID BSSID             RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group)
                     na ala hele 00:26:36:9c:32:23 -59  2       Y  US WPA(PSK/TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP)
                     na ala hele 00:26:bb:79:23:1f -59  2       Y  US WPA(PSK/TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP)
                fast na ala hele 00:26:bb:79:23:20 -74  149,+1  Y  US WPA(PSK/TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP)
mac:bin mike$ airport --getinfo
     agrCtlRSSI: -75
     agrExtRSSI: 0
    agrCtlNoise: -86
    agrExtNoise: 0
          state: running
        op mode: station
     lastTxRate: 81
        maxRate: 300
lastAssocStatus: 0
    802.11 auth: open
      link auth: wpa2-psk
          BSSID: 00:26:bb:79:23:20
           SSID: fast na ala hele
            MCS: 4
        channel: 149,1
mac:bin mike$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/airport
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  89 Sep 13 11:40 /usr/local/bin/airport -> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport


texts: How can I change the tags in the context menu?

texts: I can't find any way to edit the tags within the context menu which appears when you double-tap on a file in Finder. Is there a way to choose which ones appear? An example of what I mean is below:


texts: How can I transfer or link my Clash of Clans account to an Android device, from iOS?

texts: How do I retrieve my Game Center username and password from my iPhone to my Android, so I can restore the progress of my Clash of Clans app?


texts: Why won't my iPad sync photos ("not enough memory") when it's half empty?

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When I try to sync my iPad, it aborts on the last step, indicating that it can't be synced, becuase "not enough memory is available":

But I have LOTS of room:

And it all fit before - I actually have about 8GB of photos that all fit with  ~20GB to spare until today.   The above image is after I set it to only sync the last 20 photo projects (I'm using aperture) to see if space was really an issue, and it's clearly not.

However, photos do seem to be a part of the problem:   if i turn off photo sync, it works, but if I reduce the photos being synced (sunk? syunk?) to a de minimis number, it doesn't.

The catalyst for the problem is pretty likely either the new version of itunes or of OSX, as both were upgraded just before the problem manifested.  Any help?  I miss my pictures.


texts: does a 7mm 2.5" inch SSHD fit a Mac mini 9.5mm HDD area without any additional work?

texts:
I have a Mac mini (Mac Mini 5,1 Mid 2011 , 2.3GHz intel Core i5, 4GB RAM) model that has a stock HDD (Toshiba MK5065GSX 500 GB SATA III 5400 RPM).

The HDD has a SMART issue and I have ordered Seagate's ST500LM000 (500 GB laptop thin SSHD).
The only thing I am worried now is that Toshiba HDD had 9.5mm size while the SSHD has 7mm thickness. Would new SSHD be compatible and inserted without any extra stuff,effort and adjustment OR should I stick to a 9.5mm drive only ?


texts: Is there an app to ping IP's periodically to check latency?

texts:
I'm sure I came across a really nice app that would ping a list of sites or IP addresses every x mins/hours and send alerts when it could not ping.

But I can't find the app back, anyone know of any good ones?


texts: AirDrop fails to transfer files from MacBook Pro to iPhone

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I am unable to transfer a music file from my MacBook Pro (2015 model A 1398) to my iPhone 5s. Here are the messages shown on both the MacBook Pro and the iPhone:

macOS:

iOS:

I have turned on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Both devices (iPhone and MacBook Pro) are able to detect each other through AirDrop. But when I attempt to transfer the file from MacBook Pro to iPhone by clicking on the iPhone, it shows failed.

There is no problem transferring files (images, music) using AirDrop from iPhone to MacBook Pro.

How to resolve this one-way failure issue?


texts:
Yesterday I could play music and actually hear something, but as of today, my MacBook Pro speakers aren't producing any sound at all.

Here is what I tried:

rebooting (a cold reboot too) several times
internal/external speakers
PRAM reset
Reinstall iTunes
Using headphones

There is no red light in the headphone jack.

The only thing I did was updating my iTunes to the new 10.5.3 version. But I doubt this is the cause because other programs aren't reproducing any sound too. So, no sound at all on my MacBook Pro (mid 2011). Any idea or hits to get the sound back?

EDIT
And to make it even more weird, the mail-app is making sound when sending and receiving mails. But iTunes, QuickTime, VLC, Safari,... These apps aren't making any sound at all!


texts: Removing locked items from Users/Login Items on OSX 10.7.3?

texts:
My laptop was distributed by corporate IT. I have two items in my Login Items which cannot be hidden or removed. See screen shot...

Inside the /Library/Managed Preferences/juba/loginwindow.plist file I see reference to these two items. It is searching for a server which is of course not found unless I am connected to the corporate network. I work remotely and do not regularly connect to that network.

How can I remove these items?


texts: Can the Time Capsule serve an Apple TV without a powered on Mac?

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We have an Apple TV (3rd gen) and a 2 TB Time Capsule on which we know how to store movies already. One can use the Time Capsule and simply add movies stored on it into the iTunes library.

However, how could we use the Apple TV to play media content from the Time Capsule without having to run iTunes on the Mac?

NB: we want to cut out the middle man, so suggesting to use iTunes on another OS doesn't really answer the question :)


texts:
I replaced the hard drive on my Macbook Air. When I press the option key while powering on it takes me to a screen where I select a WiFi network and nothing else is on the screen. I connect to WiFi and then nothing happens. There Are no other options. What should i do?

I have also tried the same procedure with the old disk, but the same strange thing happens.

It connects to the WiFi network but that's all.


texts:
I am new to OS X. Yesterday I set up my email accounts in Mail. It immediately synchronised my emails from my inbox. However, since then I don't get my mails, although I see them through webmail.
I heard Mail in Mavericks had problems with IMAP, so I tried to install Thunderbird and Postbox as well with the same result which means I can see the emails I received before yesterday, but none of the new ones.
I even tried rebooting but that did not help either.

What is the problem and how can I solve it?

UPDATE:
I do not use gmail, my account is hosted by a private provider.


texts: How can I transfer annotations from a PDF to another in iPad?

texts:
I know there are a lot of ipad/pdf questions out there, but one of the things I don't see explicitly answered is the ability to transfer/merge pdf annotations from a pdf to an update pdf (only pages added).

Seems like a unpopular use-case for pdf annotation, but this is the case with alot of legal related documents. The court allows for access to the pdf, of course the lawyers need to take notes on the pdf, exhibits are added, then the court sends lawyers an email to download an updated pdf.

Anyone know of any ipad software that can store the annotations outside the pdf or even better merge the annotations to an updated file? Pages are just added to the end of the pdf file.


texts: I am trying to copy a file to /usr/lib, but permissions are denied. SIP is disabled. When trying to copy via terminal, getting "Read-only file system".


texts: Parallels can't open/update although my Mac has an Internet connection

texts:
I tried to update Parallels but I could not activate it because it says there is no Internet connection. I have an Internet connection on my Mac, but I cannot even open Parallels.
Anyone have any suggestions?


texts: MacBook Pro not filling the entire screen of external display

texts:
I recently bought an LG 22MP68VQ, but when I connect it
MacBook Pro (13 inch, 2016) + Big Sur OS + USB Connector + VGA Cable.
But it's working fine when I am connecting an HP + Windows + VGA cable.
Any solution


texts: What's the best way to remotely access an iPad mini?

texts: This summer I purchased an iPad mini for my Grandmother. I would like to be able to somehow connect to the iPad to do things like update software, apps, and walk her through questions she may have. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do this? She does have her own Apple ID.


texts: How to sync contacts between iCloud and Gmail with Mavericks

texts:
The question is not about enabling the new two-way gmail syncing on Mavericks, or how to activate the iCloud one. What I'm trying to do is just to sync the two.

Manually I could from time to time erase all the gmail contacts and copy all the contacts I have on iCloud. But is there an automated way to do it ?


texts: Change location of macOS Notification Center alerts?

texts:
Is it possible to change where macOS Notification Center alerts appear on the screen?

They currently appear at the top right of the screen with the menu bar:

Alerts appearing in the top right tend to cover up work I'm doing more often than not. They cover up browser tabs, toolbar icons, and window titles.

I would prefer, say, the bottom right corner of the screen.

If moving the alerts is not possible, is it possible to change the screen on which they appear?


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I have a few .mp4 files that I have added to iTunes.
Some are classified as Home Movies and other are My Movies.
I was wondering if there is any way to change this maybe by converting to a certain file type. I was also wondering how does iTunes determine this.


texts: Can I upgrade from 10.8 to 10.9 with a bootable usb installer?

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I've got a working bootable mavericks thumb drive, but I haven't the installer from Mac App store...

Can I upgrade from mountain lion to mavericks doing the installation from usb drive or  must I do a clean install?

Can I boot from usb drive and upgrade, or when I boot from usb I'm forced to format and do a clean installation?


texts: Can I wake up iPhone by double tapping the screen?

texts: Can I wake up an iPhone/iPad by double tapping the screen without hacking/installing Cydia?


texts: Can I have a Slideshow thats NOT fullscreen on Mac?

texts: Is there something thats not key note or quicktime that will let me just select a bunch of pictures and play them in a window that choose the size of? I don't want to convert them to video files as the selection would change daily. Something like preview, but doesn't only play in full screen? Desktop user. Thanks :)


texts:
Is there is an app for iPad that will emulate basic CD deck functionality using iTunes tracks? All the DJ software I've seen (or bought) seems to include mixer/deck/additional features I don't require (I have a vinyl-based DJ set-up and just need an additional player for music I only have digital copies of).

To clarify - I'm looking for a software version of something like this. I just need basic cue/jog controls and a speed control.

Update: please see this video for an overview of the sort of thing I'm looking for (NB. basic bpm adjustment and cueing controls is really all I need - hotstarts and looping would be great but I can live without them.)


texts: Parallels Desktop: Run windows application with command line arguments

texts:
I'm running on MacOS with Sierra and I have a Windows VM running on Parallels 12.

I want to run an application that is installed on the Windows VM and I want to run it with arguments, in the same way that I can do it on Windows with cmd.

An example: I have an app in Windows VM called bestApp.exe that need two arguments like "bestApp.exe -r "C:\PathFolder\"

Looking on internet I found something here. The answer is quite old and I'm interested on the second approach but seems that I need the Pro version of Parallels to try it.

My question is: how I can run my app, on Windows-Parallels, from Mac with arguments? That approach is valid and, also, it is the only one?

EDIT: I found that I can open a Windows app from Mac running the "open" command on terminal but if I use "--args" to pass arguments it doesn't work...

Example. "open myApp.exe --args -blabla" open my app on VM but without arguments


texts: How do I associate the right Contact Card under Users & Groups to my own profile?

texts:
Just got a Mac for the first time...

Under System Preferences > Users & Groups, I have a user profile set as the Admin.

My Full Name and Apple ID are shown correctly. However, when I click on the "Open" button next to "Contacts Card", it thinks that this user profile is associated to the contact card of another member of the family. How do I change that to my own Contact Card?

The consequences of this wrong profile is that whenever I install a new software and I get asked for my name, it keeps putting the name of the family member by default. I also had to go back into my Mail, Contacts & Calendars settings where the full name field was filled out with the family member's name although the accounts were set up correctly.


texts: restore replacement iphone 5 from damaged iphone 5

texts: I received a replacement iphone 5 which I'm trying to restore within itunes. I'd like to restore it from my damaged, identical iphone 5; however, I don't remember the password which iTunes requires for further steps. I've tried all my usual passwords and nothing works. I'm running out of tries before it locks me out.


texts: Is it safe to eject an SSD running your OS while the computer is asleep?

texts: I have macOS Sierra installed on a external SanDisk SSD. I use it for school & work related stuff. I plug it into my MacBook Pro via USB and I boot into instead of the actual HDD that is installed in the laptop. At the end of the day I pack up my stuff and go home. What I do is turn off the laptop and then unplug the SSD. This is getting quite annoying and I was wondering if it was okay to put the macbook to sleep and then disconnect the SSD. Once home I would plug back the SSD again and wake the macbook. Would that cause any errors?


texts: Is there a way to make AirPods connect to AppleTV without having to go deep into AppleTV's menus?

texts:
My AirPods have been paired to my AppleTV long time ago.  But typically, I use them with my iPhone or iPad.

Every once in a while, usually at night, I want to watch a show on AppleTV using my AirPods.  However, the process of having to go deep into AppleTV's menus just to get the AirPods connected is a cumbersome process.

I asked Siri for help, but she had no idea what I was talking about when I used the Siri Remote to say "Hey Siri, connect to my AirPods".  And I did this when the AirPods are in my ear and have already played me the "I am ON" DING sound.

So, the question becomes:

Can I use any automated way to get the AirPods to connect to my AppleTV as "lazily" as possible?


texts: Detect the TV Show, Season and Episode from a mp4 file in applescript

texts:
Assuming I have an MP4/M4V file of a TV show. The file has the necessary metadata so it can be imported into iTunes and you'll see the all the relevant information.  Using AppleScript, one can extract that information using iTunes.

How would one obtain the show name, season and episode of that file using AppleScript without having to import it into iTunes first?

In essence, I have an incoming folder where I can "drop" my movies and tv shows and I'd like to use the script to organize the files without human intervention so that files will follow a naming convention so they are easier to find in the future.


texts: What are the differences between these two Apple TV models?

texts:
I have some Visa points which I am considering spending on an Apple TV.

According to my bank's website, Apple TV model they offer is MD199C/A. This seems to correspond to what Apple calls the Order Number (which is not the same as what Apple calls the Model Number).

Using Mactracker, I found that the latest 3rd Generation Apple TV's Order Number is MD199LL/A, which is a bit different from what the bank's website is saying, although quite similar.

Does anyone know if the Apple TV with the Order Number MD199C/A is the latest, 3rd generation model? What is the difference between MD199C/A and MD199LL/A, if any?

Many thanks in advance.


texts:
I am trying to install a server that needs to use the port 3052 and it's not working. I have a feeling another process has that port. I see:

% netstat -anv | grep 3052
udp4       0      0  *.3052          *.*          196724   9216    335      0

So what does this mean? Does some process have UDP port 3052 taken, and how do I find out what it is?


texts: My Windows 7 Lenovo laptop won't detect my iPhone 4S but it will charge it?

texts:
For the last 5 months my iPhone 4S won't connect to my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop or iTunes. It will charge in 2 of my USB ports, and I've tried 3 different cables.

I've tried following tips off Apple support and also from Google but still no joy.


texts: Viewing pictures on iPad from Mac server gallery-style

texts:
I have a Mac Mini server hosting a few folders of photos. I have an iPad on which I would like to view these photos. So far I have not found an elegant way to do so.

I'm open to using any combination of client / server solution but I do have some requirements:

The pictures should be accessed directly from the server. No manual downloading or syncing back and forth.
The client app on the iPad should be designed to work well with pictures. There are literally thousands of File browser / file manager / file viewer apps on the iPad supporting every protocol under the sun, however I haven't seen a single one that delivers a consistently good user experience when it comes to viewing photos, specifically:

Photos should be displayed in a thumbnail grid with reasonable speed
Going to the next and previous photos at a reasonable speed should not trigger a loading screen (ie. needs to be prefetched)
Large photos should not crash the app

Client should be a native iPad app or webapp with touch support

These don't seem like unreasonable requirements for a photo viewing app, in fact they pretty much seem like pre-requisites for anything displaying photos but maddeningly nothing I've come across seems to do the job. Many great apps exist for online services like Picasa, Flickr, and the now defunct MobileMe gallery, however I'm not interested in hosting these photos in the cloud due to privacy, cost, speed, and storage space concerns. It also seems silly: Why do I have to put my pictures on the internet just to see them on my iPad?

In order to meet the points in requirement 2. above, I'm thinking I can't simply share these over FTP/SMB/WebDAV/etc. I would need something intelligent running server-side that can on-the-fly send over thumbnail-size and iPad resolution images.

To that, end DLNA seems like a good fit. I have found a pretty decent DLNA server for the Mac, but I've yet to come across a well-made DLNA client for iPad. I've tried so many, but they all seem more focused on video not photos. Every iPad DLNA client I've tested has failed the 3 points under requirement 2. :(

See comments below on which apps I have already tried.


texts:
I just downloaded several themes that I want to use. They are in /Library/Application Support/Keynote/Themes/ but I don't see them in the Theme Chooser screen.

Does anyone know what else I should be doing to install them?

Thanks!


texts:
How do you remove MariaDB and NGINX from Mac via terminal?

I am just trying to run Apache2 on localhost:8080 but I get the NGINX welcome page.


texts: In iMovie 10, how do you trim the middle of background audio?

texts:
I'm using iMovie 10.1.12 on Mac Mojave.  I have set an audio clip for some background music.  I was wondering if I could remove the middle of part of that clip.  I left clicked where I wanted to begin deleting, held the mouse down and slid the selector the right where I wanted to delete.  Then I right clicked and selected "Delete."  However, this is what happened

So when I play my movie, now there is a big silent gap where the Delete section was gone.  I don't want that.  I want the audio to seamlessly continue without a blank clip.  How do I (if possible) edit my audio so the deleted section disappears, but the rest of the audio continues to play?


texts: This container can’t be split, because the resulting containers would be too small

texts:
I understand this question has been asked before, but my situation is a bit different. I have done the usual, I've tried

diskutil cs list

then

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 370GiB

(from an original volume size of 402GiB). It gave me the error

Error: -69521: Your APFS Container resize request is below the APFS-system-imposed minimal container size (perhaps caused by APFS Snapshot usage by Time Machine),

which was interesting because I have never used Time Machine and I erased all 'snapshots', not that there were any, on my disk already using

tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999999999.

Why is it that I keep getting this error? What am I missing? I want to use the free space from resizing on my Boot Camp partition to give it some breathing space, it's almost full. I'll be doing that using partition wizard later, but before I even think about doing that, I have to solve the problem here first.

I'm on Catalina build 19A582a for those wondering, on an Early 2015 MacBook Pro 13".


texts: Newly created alias should be activated constantly

texts:
I add an alias to `~/.bashrc and activate it.

    # add some helpful aliases
    alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto'

Activate it

source .bashrc

It work well on current bash.

    $ l.
    ls: --color=auto: No such file or directory
    .   .cups   .python_history  ...

Unfortunately, it refuses to work when I quit and restart the bash

    $ l.
    -bash: l.: command not found

It has to be activated manually again.

  $ source .bashrc
  # then it works
    $ l.
    ls: --color=auto: No such file or directory
    .   .cups   .python_history  ...

What's the problem with my configuration?


texts: How do I set my external monitor so that my gestures won't activate spaces on the external?

texts:
I'm working with the new 13" MacBook Pro and have just set up my external monitor.  I am looking to accomplish two things:

1) How can I change the external monitor settings so that they do not respond to the gestures used for spaces?  That is, I want my laptop to respond to spaces while the external remains on a single screen.

2) Slightly related: is there a way to set up two independent sets of spaces between the laptop screen and the external monitor?  Again, having separate control of these two sets would be key.


texts: First Aid found corruption for repair but First Aid from Recovery did not solve the issue

texts:
I am trying to solve this problem on my Macbook Pro 2012, running Sierra 10.12.1. I've run First Aid from Recovery and did not find any corruption, everything was fine. I've run it again from my OS and I still get the problem as follow:

Verifying storage system
Checking volume
disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Logical Volume Group 04B93861-2D39-432E-A393-50AD1CE83BFE on 1 device
disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 55E94947-EFBC-473A-A314-5EBEFF0A949A
Load and verify F9FAD274-A819-4CDC-9F05-F519DA8DBED2
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
Load and verify Segment Cleaning
The volume 04B93861-2D39-432E-A393-50AD1CE83BFE appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0.
Verifying file system.
Using live mode.
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
**Incorrect block count for file processing-3.2.3-macosx.zip.f0fd203b-064b-4fd7-bce4-89d8c693971e**
**(It should be 6452 instead of 28451)
Incorrect block count for file USB_LUCA.zip.40b230dc-a016-4312-afcd-c1a087fcd8a2
(It should be 4630 instead of 530384)**
Checking multi-linked files.
**Incorrect number of file hard links**
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
**Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks**
Checking volume information.
**Invalid volume free block count**
**(It should be 19383016 instead of 9221304)**
*The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.*
File system check exit code is 8.
Operation successful.

Anyone had the same issue?


texts:
I have been reading on this, and so far the option I found is:

Garmin/XGPS external Bluetooth GPS receiver

And that is it. Are there any other alternatives?

I’m curious if an Android or iPhone could be used to share its GPS. I should have gotten a Wi-Fi + cellular iPad, but thats a different story.


texts: Homebrew services - how to stream its log?

texts:
If I run command line service like mongod , my terminal window will continue to show its log output. If i run it as a homebrew service, which is what mongodb itself recommends for mac, brew services start mongodb-community, I won't get any log output.

How do i continually stream the log? For mongod, or other homebrew services?


texts: Does iCloud web mail not have an "organize by conversation" feature?

texts: I'm trying to use iCloud email in the web interface. I'm not used to all the emails in a thread/chain/conversation appearing separately in the inbox. I don't see a setting to control that. Does it have one?


texts: Target Display Mode -- Pressing command-F2 does nothing

texts:
I would like to avail myself of the target display mode.  I have a brand new MacBook Pro Retnia, and I'd like to use it as a display for my Mac Pro (also brand new).  I followed the instructions on this page, and nothing happened when I pressed command F2.  Then I started scouring the forums.  I found several threads with the same problem, and I tried all the suggestions.  I checked my preferences to see if the keyboard assignments were messed up.  I tried restarting both computers in various orders.  I tried using internal and external keyboards on both computers.  I tried adding the fn key to the key command.  I spent a couple hours on this, but sadly, nothing worked.

So I'm really hoping that someone here has some idea what's going on.  This experience has really been disheartening.  I just bought these computers this year, and they failed at something so basic.  At this point, I would be satisfied just to see an error message telling me why cmd-F2 doesn't work.  I mean, if I try to eject a disk that has files that are currently in use, it will tell me why it can't eject right now.  But with this, I'm completely in the dark.  It's so frustrating!


texts: Disk Utility will not repair permissions

texts:
I have tried to repair permissions multiple times using Disk Utility.app and also using the command-line diskutil.  I always get the same output, so apparently it's not fixing the problem.  I've also tried running it from the Recovery partition, and get the same result.

$ diskutil repairPermissions /
Started verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 yosemite
Permissions differ on "tmp"; should be drwxrwxrwt ; they are lrwxrwxrwt
Repaired "tmp"
Permissions differ on "Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Safari.help/Contents/Resources/index.html"; should be lrwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x
Repaired "Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Safari.help/Contents/Resources/index.html"
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired
Permissions differ on "Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariForWebKitDevelopment"; should be -rwxr-xr-x ; they are lrwxr-xr-x
Repaired "Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariForWebKitDevelopment"
Finished verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 yosemite

The ARDAgent issue can be ignored, according to Apple.
The other three problems are all related to symlinks, and it seems to me like the current perms are correct.  Why does Disk Utility think there is a problem?

I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5.


texts: How to restore Dock Icon Badges after killall Dock?

texts:
I need to run killall Dock in a script I use regularly, in order for it to work.

Unfortunately all the badges in the Dock disappears when Dock is killed, and don't reappear until they're modified individually by the the application in question. So if the Mail application for example has 123 unread emails as the badge, the badge disappears until I read an email or receive a new one.

How can I restore the badges for all apps at the same time though, in my script?


texts: Is there a good command-line ID3 tool for OS X?

texts:
Anyone know of a command-line* ID3 tool, with support for ID3v2, that you can get working on Mac OS X with reasonable effort? It should support both reading and writing tags.

(* I want to be able to call it e.g. from some Python scripts, so a GUI tool won't do.)

The id3tool utility is otherwise good, but doesn't support ID3v2 (and thus doesn't play that well with iTunes). I had to compile it from source, but that was pretty straightforward on a Mac with Xcode & developer tools (including, notably, a C compiler). Anyway, I'd especially like something with similar command-line options as id3tool. Here's an example of tagging one file:

id3tool -t "Song Title" -r Artist -a "Album Name" -c 2 track-02.mp3


texts: I have a problem with my 2012 Macbook Pro, I'm trying to install a new WD Black 750 GB SATA III 7200 RPM in it. The problem is when I try to reinstall OS X Mountain Lion, it didn't find the drive I just installed. When I try to erase all the data from it and turn it into an OS X extended file format, Disk Utility returns  an error saying that it couldn't format it. I'm really stuck right here, has anyone else encountered the same problem and know how to resolve or get around it? Any answer will be much appreciated. Thank you.


texts: MacBook Pro: Battery icon shows as charging even when not connected to power source

texts:
I have a 13" 2017 MacBook Pro no Touch Bar model. It is not connected to a power source but it still shows as charging. While this is not affecting my Mac's performance or anything, but now I don't get that low battery warning when the charge reaches 5% or low, so it just shuts down at 0% without me realising it.

I tried starting it in Safe Mode, but the issue is present there as well.


texts:
I have a 2009 Macbook Pro that dual-boots Windows 7. It's been working great until one day, I took a 4 hour drive on a hot day with my laptop in the trunk… yeah… So here's what happens:

I start Windows 7 and it takes about 5 - 10 minutes for Windows Explorer to start up, and each time I restart it feels like it takes a little longer.
Once it finally does and I can click around,
Although the computer is only launching a few (known) startup processes, and nothing graphically intensive at all, the GPU and both cores shoot up to 75C and stay there for a while.

If I close the laptop and let it rest for a while, and reopen it, it can decide to be anywhere between 45C and 65C, even while effectively idling.

On the Mac OS side of the drive, the temperature does not shoot up this high unless I am pushing the computer with movies or serious number crunching.

I am 85-90% sure there is no virus on the Windows side. All that said, I'm worried Windows will get to a point where it simply won't start. And I don't understand why the computer heats up for no apparent reason. I haven't messed with the BIOS or overclocked anything. So I have three questions:

Q1 - Any idea why the computer overheats for no reason when I start Windows?

Q2 - Any idea why Windows Explorer takes longer and longer to start up?

Q3 - If I transfer my partition to VMWare, do you think I will have the same problem, or will the magic of Apple protect me?


texts: Outlook 2016 email and events not showing in Spotlight preview

texts: I am running Outlook 2016 on Yosemite.  I noticed that the Spotlight indexed Outlook files, such as mail and events, are not showing in the Spotlight preview.  Please see screenshot.  Anyone seen this as well, or know how to possibly fix this?  Thanks in advance...


texts:
I'm searching for self-hosted webinar software. The software must be ready to organize webinar services and be fully independent, without any dependencies on Google Hangouts or other servers. It does not matter if it is free or paid.

Thanks.


texts:
I was recently gifted an old Mid 2010 Macbook Pro with the following specs listed here:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.66-aluminum-15-mid-2010-unibody-specs.html

I would like to do a few things to it, but I have never owned an apple computer before and I know there are some restrictions on the hardware i can purchase to upgrade it.

These are the things I want to do

1) Upgrade Ram: Currently it has 2x2GB of RAM in it. This model is rated for up to 8GB but I have been reading online and it seems some people have been able to successfully install 16GB of RAM, so i am confused. Does anyone have a definitive statement on whether or not this Macbook Pro will work with 16GB of RAM? If it does accept 16GB total which RAM should i buy for a Macbook Pro like this? If it only accepts 8GB total which RAM should i buy? And I know the clock speed must be 1066Hz for this Macbook Pro, but can i use DDR3, or DDR4 RAM? Does the DDR type matter?

2) Install Secondary Hard Drive: I am not 100% so i need someone to inform me but i believe there is space in this Macbook Pro for a second hard drive. Does the CD Drive need to be removed in order for a second Hard Drive to be put in? Or is there simply space inside it for a second hard drive but not installed by Apple? Either way I would like to install an SSD into it and install the Operating System onto that SSD. Which SSD can i look to buy that is compatible with this  Pro?

3) Fresh install of Mac OSX: As it currently stands my friend who gave this laptop to me didn't erase his data. I am uncomfortable with this and want a fresh start. How do I do a fresh install of Mac OSX Mavericks (or should i wait for Yosemite?). Where can i buy a Disk/USB for it (or make a disk/USB for it) to do a clean install and how do i format a Macbook Pros hard drive and install fresh? Should this be done at an apple store?

4) Higher Screen Resolution: This is my lowest priority and I don't think it is possible to do without major invasive changes to the Macbook Pro but i want to know if it is possible. Currently the Max Resolution on the Device is 1440x900, i would like to know if it is possible to replace the LCD with one that is 1920x1080 for high resolution.


texts:
Of course, by holding down on an icon and tap the x lets me uninstall an app. But take a look at this:

Here, the Pandora app is somehow stuck at the "update phase". Tapping it to continue download doesn't work. The progress "circle" will get stuck. So I decided to reinstall it.

  Translation:
  Delete “”
  Deleting “” will also delete all its data.

For some reason it doesn't even show the name of the app. It's just blank.

Tapping delete does nothing. So what do I have to do to fix this problem?

Running iOS 8, not jail broken.


texts:
I've been going along a long audio clip, and using the blade ⌘B on either side of sections of silence, and then deleting the sections of silence.

Is there a way to automate this?

Delete sections of silence from the audio clip, leaving it as multiple discontiguous clips (but that all have at least some sound)?


texts: Dynamically change opening app according to file folder

texts:
When I double-click, for example, a pdf file which is in the Desktop folder, I'd like it to be opened with Acrobat Reader.

However, if the file is in any other folder, e.g. Downloads, I'd like it to be opened with Preview.

Is that possible? Perhaps through an Automator script?


texts: How would applications on the iPhone adapt to a bigger iPhone screen?

texts:
A lot of rumours are going around about Apple and the iPhone 6, one if which is that the iPhone 6 could have a bigger (6 inch) screen.

Being an iOS developer I know that most apps on the iStore use images and sometimes custom controls which are perfectly optimised to display correctly on current screen sizes of the iPhone.

If Apple decides launch an iPhone with a bigger screen size surely application images would start to pixelate, and controls would stretch out of proportion.

My question is, how does Apple handle bigger screen sizes to keep apps from pixelating and stretching out of proportion and displaying incorrectly on devices?

Thanks


texts: Using a font that came with a Mac App Store app in other apps

texts:
I'm sort of generally curious about this, since pre-Mac App Store apps one could simply open the font file from within the app's package contents and install it through Font Book to allow use outside that particular app.

When I use Add Fonts from within Font Book to add the fonts, I get the following 2 "serious errors":

  Corrupt font name
  - Font basic parsability
  - System Validation

Now, is this something I'm just not supposed to be doing? As in, am I breaking a rule here? I'm not using these fonts for publication or commercial use - I just want them available throughout the system.


texts: What does the new command on the f4-key do?

texts:
I used to have a dashboard icon, which opened the dashboard when clicked on my keyboard.

But now there is another image, which does nothing when clicked.

What is it supposed to do?

How to I fix it?

How do I alternative assign it to dashboard again?

Image:

Also what does the key with an upward arrow and a line do?

And what does the one with a crossed box do?

Image 2:


texts: How long does Apple provide support and updates for a specific iOS version?

texts:
Does Apple list any guidelines for how long a consumer might expect to be supported with the version of iOS that ships with Apple hardware at the time of purchase?

On computer OS there seems to be a n-2 support pattern. You can buy AppleCare for 3 years of software support (in most cases) and the previous 2 versions get routine and prompt security updates along with the latest shipping OS.

On iOS there seems to be an n-1 support pattern. You can buy AppleCare for 2 years of software support and security updates seem to be released for the two most recent versions.

Has anyone seen an Apple document or compelling evidence that there is a policy in place for this when considering iOS deployment planning?


texts: How to download an MP3 to an iPod Touch?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to download free music from the internet to itunes on the iphone/ipad without using a mac/pc?

I have a new (4gen) iPod Touch.  There's an MP3 on the web that I want to download so I can listen to it when there's no wifi available.

I can figure out how to play it, but I can't figure out how to download it (i.e., save it for future listening).  It seems like iTunes is the only way to download audio or video, and it only has a preset list of things that can be downloaded (and a poor search feature!).

Do I need to download it on my Mac, and then sync, just to download an MP3?


texts: macOS High Sierra (10.13) Upgrade Fails With Endless Kernel Panic Loop

texts:
Preface: I am now able to reboot from an external live backup I had of my previous macOS Sierra (10.12) install. So I am recovering from that and am not completely “panicked” about this… But this is baffling and annoying so sharing to help others if possible.

Subject says it all and here is what happened: I have Mac mini (Late 2012; 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5) with 16GB of memory. Internal disk is a plain hard disk drive; not an SSD. I downloaded macOS High Sierra (10.13) from the app store. Once it downloaded, I double-clicked the installer and let it do what it usually does as I have done in the past while doing major OS updates.

I ran some errands and took a nap—this stuff takes time—and then when I check my system I see a message along the lines of “macOS cannot be installed on this system.” Strange. I reboot and I get the black startup screen with the Apple logo, but then after a moment or so the typical command line messages that come up with a kernel panic pop up. Then the OS goes the multi language “Your machine has crashed, press space to restart.” Okay, I do that… And then it does the same thing again: Kernel panic-like messages over the standard Apple screen saying no OS found and then the “press space” message.

This is baffling to me. I have no modded my system. This is a stock Mac mini with upgraded RAM. My external disks are just basic external USB 3.0 drives. Utterly nothing strange here. Why would this install fail this badly?

FWIW, when I just rebooted into the macOS Sierra (10.12) external disk this is all I see on my main hard drive:

macOS Install Data
private
Recovered Items
Users

FWIW, I have a MacBook Air (2013) running macOS 10.12 (Sierra) that is all SSD and has 4GB of RAM and you know what? Copied the installer over from my Mac Mini (2012), ran the installer, waited and everything is fine. Upgraded that machine without issue.


texts: To solve this extra window bug in Yosemite?

texts:
I have got this kind of glossy window on top of other windows regularly in OSX Yosemite 10.10.2, two times per month approximately.
You cannot press anything there.
It blocks the user interface completely.
To restart the system fixes the problem temporarily.
The window stays there although you switch a program.

I do not understand the cause of it, but I have produced it in Macbook Air 2013-mid and the newest Macbook Air so probably the problem is in the software.

I do not know if some programs can interact for this bug.
Used applications at the time of appearance of such a bug

Preview
Texpad
Microsoft Outlook 2013
Google Chrome
Finder
sometimes Terminal
Mail passively open sometimes
Dropbox (in continuous overflow, never managing perfect syncing)
BitTorrent Sync (however, this bug appeared much before this program so not causing the problem)

How can you solve this bug in Yosemite?


texts: Prioritise spotlight search results in El Capitan

texts: It seems this feature has been scrapped for el capitan. I'm a designer so I want all images to appear at the top of the search results. Anyone worked out a hack for this?


texts: Reset display brightness to factory defaults

texts:
A family member played with the display resolution and brightness settings. Fixing the resolution was easy, but it seems there's no way to restore default brightness. It's not a big deal (I just selected a brightness which is ok for me now) but I was wondering if in High Sierra there's a way to restore all the display settings to the factory defaults.

PS I'd prefer a solution which doesn't force me to reset all System Preferences to their factory defaults, just the display ones.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)


texts: Uninstalled macOS Sierra installer but corresponding disk space(~4.88GB) not freed

texts: I had downloaded macOS Sierra(~4.88GB) from App Store to create a bootable for a friend on my Macbook Air. After doing that successfully, I deleted the macOS Sierra Installer app from Applications directory. But my Drive size was not freed by 4.88GBs instead deleting it freed only 1GB. Are there any residual files I need to remove manually?


texts:
Is there a way to send an SMS via Applescript/Automator in either of these scenarios:

When a low printer ink alert occurs ("Cyan is at or below 10%)
With the periodic status of ink levels ("Cyan=10%, Magenta=50%, etc. every hour)

I'm building an automated photo printing station with multiple printers and it would be helpful to incorporate this flow to keep an eye on ink levels.

Thanks!


texts: How do I reduce iPhone data usage on my cell phone plan

texts: I have an iphone 5 as does my daughter on the same family plan.  I keep getting a charge for added data space.  how can we reduce the amount of data so that I can reduce my bill.  If I clear out all pictures, videos, messages and emails..will that help?


texts:
I use fish shell, it's has option "suggests commands", so it is works like in the next screenshot.

Examle:
You type command git status. In the next time when you type just g or git fish give you hint (like in the next screenshot), so you can press ctrl+F and you are getting full command git status(like tab arrow in other terminals).

But when I use tmux, this option doesn't work correct. There are no hint like in first screenshot. For examle: when I type git, it should be give me hint git status(like in first screenshot), but there are no any hint, I just see what I type. But when I press ctrl+F I get full command git status

In ubuntu it's works fine.


texts: How can I sync a particular music folder to iPhone?

texts: I want to sync the music folder on my system with iPhone. The folder does not contain any sub folders and only contains mp3 files. I want my iPhone music library to get synced with this particular folder like if I add/delete any song the change should be reflected on my iPhone when I sync it.


texts: Application to launch specific applications, windows, and tabs

texts:
I am a programmer. I'd like to improve my workflow by being able to have a "saved workspace". When I start my computer, or whenever I'm ready to resume a project, I want to launch a specific set of browser tabs, terminal windows, text editor, etc. and when finished, "save" the state of my tabs/windows so I can resume again later.

My current workflow is to never close any windows and never shut down my computer.

I don't know of an application like this but I would really like to find (or build) one.


texts: How can I enter safe mode with the built in keyboard broken?

texts:
Recently I noticed that my mac’s storage is almost full. It showed that “System” took up more than 200 GB. I thought that was ridiculous and googled for a bit.

I found that one solution is to boot my mac in safe mode. Apparently after booting in safe mode “System” will take up a sensible amount of storage.

The problem is, the built in keyboard on my mac is broken (the power button is still ok). I once took it to an Apple Store and they said that one of the wires/connector thingys disconnected or something like that.

So I connected a wireless keyboard via USB (in case you don’t know what I’m talking about, I plug a little USB stick into my mac and the keyboard talks to that via infrared or something like that) and tried to press the shift key with that keyboard.

However, safe mode just won’t boot this way. The progress bar always stuck at 100% and it just wouldn’t show the login screen. I later learned that apparently you can’t boot in safe mode when accessories are connected.

So how can I boot my mac in safe mode?

Note that these options are not available:

fixing my mac’s built-in keyboard
buying a new mac

Side note: I do a lot of iOS development on my mac and uses git for all my projects (20+ repos). For the developers out there, is it true that those files take up a lot of space and are classified as “System”?


texts: How can I reset all settings for the system preferences in Mac OS X? I'm using lion.


texts: How can I provide useful feedback to Mac Photos software designers?

texts:
I have been experiencing a number of issues since migrating from iPhoto to Photos, and I would like to provide useful input/feedback to the Apple software designers.

What would the best way to do that?


texts: How do I open a URL with a custom scheme in Yosemite with cron and open?

texts:
I had a cron job that ran every morning at 10:30 to call into our daily status meeting on Go2Meeting. After I upgraded to Yosemite it stopped working, and I figured out that it was because

open -g citrixonline://blahblahblah

now sees the URL as a file name, and not a URL with a custom scheme. Can I get open to treat this like a URL again?


texts:
I own AirPods and connect to by my iMac (for video conference) and iPhone (for phone calls).

How do I get the AirPods to switch to the device that I want to use?

I can't turn bluetooth off on the iMac because then the mouse stops working. If I select AirPods on the iPhone when I am on a call nothing happens. But if I restart the computer then I can use it on the iPhone while the computer is not on bluetooth.


texts: how to navigate system dialogue boxes never touching the mouse?

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I often open files, mess with them and then close them, not wanting to save. The system dialogue prompt always asks me if I want to save and this is annoying. I want this nag to end as quickly as possible, but my keyboard arrows won't change highlighted field (I's on cancel by default). Tab is ok, but still too slow. How do I
A: quit a close a document (without saving) without touching the mouse?
or
B: disable the "do you want to save" dialogue completely without touching the mouse?

A fix for either scenario would make my life more streamlined.


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I have a 2012 MacBook Pro 13" with a 500 gb SSD

the SSD is about 1 year old and it was performing excellent, but now i dont know

Sometimes when i turn off the Mac and turn it on again im experiencing the Prohibitory sign on boot, i usually wait and sometimes the apple logo reappears or flashes a few times and then prohibitory sign appears again, sometimes i wait a few seconds and then it boots as normal

I have performed a Hardware test and it doesnt show any problem. I have reinstalled the OS a few times, SMART status is OK and i checked the disk with First aid on Disk Utility

Altough it always boots up, the prohibitory sign is making me nervous because im about to sell the MacBook and i dont want anything  to spoil my selling, i want to sell an excellent product.

The RAM is also in good shape so it is not that.

I checked SATA cable to see if something was loose, but nothing.

Any other suggestion?

EDIT 1

Also, sometimes it stays black after a wake up and i have to power it off and on to be able to use it


texts: How to stop multiple iDevices from sharing iCloud-sync'ed information?

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Wife just got a iPad mini, we already have an iPad and an iPhone. Now all 3 are linked together -- they share Contacts, Notes, Reminders, etc.  We want to unlink all of them.

I know there has got to be an easy way but just can't figure it out.

Do we need all different AppleIDs or different accounts? And if so how we do that and then assign/change the different devices to the different IDs?


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Hi!
I was hoping someone could help with my issue. Basically my Locations has changed on my Mac. I can't remember exactly what it was before, possibly my name but now it is showing bazooka. I think this was because I was playing around when I changed from bash to zsh and unfortunately do not know how to revert it. It means my terminal has become funky and I don't have permissions to open text-files/make changes.
Would really appreciate some help as I can only thing of restoring my Mac to factory settings may be a resolution.
Thanks!
Second Edit:
After changing the name in Sharing, I am still seeing 'Bazooka'


texts: What is this Vertical bar of Inverted Colours on my Screen?

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I was cleaning my Macbook Air at the weekend and think I might have damaged the screen. A vertical bar of inverted colours appeared on the left-hand side (the right was fine initially) but then both sides of the screen displayed as shown in the image.

After about an hour of doing nothing, the bar on the left-hand side returned to normal but the right-hand side bar has been there since.

I’ve tried:

Pressing around the screen (does nothing)
Cleaning it again (gently
and with no cleaning fluid)
Connecting it to an external monitor
(output is fine which suggests the GPU is fine)

Any ideas what has happened? It’s a 6-year-old machine but I’ve never had any issues with it until the weekend.

Does the screen need to be replaced?

Edit: Spontaneously started working again :)


texts: My book western digital not recognized on windows after time machine backup

texts: I have an MY BOOK from western digital I used it once for TIME MACHINE BACKUP, now under windows the hard drive is not recognized and theres no way to format it since it not recognized by windows, but it is recognized by mac, how can I format it in mac so it will be recognized in windows once again?


texts: Is there a quick way to “flatten” an image in iOS

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I use the ‘markup’ extension in iOS Photos to ‘black out’ sensitive information in screenshots, occasionally. Unfortunately, this leaves the “revert” button, meaning that said sensitive information is sitting archived in my iCloud Photos indefinitely.

I've got the messy solution of texting myself the modified image, deleting the original, deleting it again from Recently Deleted Photos, and then re-saving it from the text-message I sent myself … but that's no fun.

What's the quickest way to turn a modified photo into a flattened copy of itself?


texts: iTunes - Sorting issue. Song names that start with 'the' or 'a'

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I'm sorry guys if this is an easy fix. But I really couldn't find any useful info about this anywhere. iTunes ignores the 'the' and 'a' in the song names and sorts them this way. as you can see in the screenshot. This makes it extremely hard for me to crosscheck my folders with the iTunes.
Any help is appreciated. thank you


texts: drag folder shortcut to the left side of the dock

texts: Hi I wanted to drag my folder shortcut to the left side of my dock where all the applications are. the folder I have is just a folder with other apps in it from the same manufacturer because I dont want my dock to be very long I did it that way but is there a way to drag a folder to the left side of the dock or maybe an app that does the same thing.


texts: 10.8.2 Finder windows: number of files in folder?

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I just upgraded to 10.8. Finder windows used to show me how many files were in a folder; where is that info now? Apple didn't get rid of it completely, did they?

Please tell me I don't have to manually count files now!


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I purchased Macbook Air 13 in late 2012. It is advertised as having 7 hour battery life. After a few months of use, with maximum charge it gives me only 2 hours.

Is this normal?


texts: How can I better sort and set wifi network preferences on Mac?

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The Advanced section of the Wifi - Network Preferences allows for dragging and dropping of known wifi networks in order to set a priority order for joining networks. (Networks higher in the list will be joined first, when multiple are available.)

By default, newly joined networks are added to the end of the list. My problem is that I have hundreds of known networks and the list cannot be searched, nor can the window be made larger to allow for more effective scrolling.

I was wondering if there exists a better method, or perhaps a third-party app, that would give a better UI to search and re-sort known wifi networks. Let me know if this question would be better suited for Software Recs SE.


texts: iPhone 8 randomly turns off and on, 100% to 0% back to 100% in a minute

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I have a iPhone 8, iOS 13.3, and today it's been turning off and on randomly. I've seen posts about this, but none with my exact problem - it seems to be in two modes:

Mode 1: doesn't charge at all no matter what, or at least, indicate that it's charging

Mode 2: charges normally

The thing is, I could switch from one mode to another by just forcing a restart, and when that happens, the charging I did in Mode 1 is shown on Mode 2....and then it restarts back in Mode 1 again after some use. I can go from 100% to 0% back to 100% in just a minute by just restarting (unplugged), which is super perplexing.

I'm guessing it's a software issue, but I've been living in a really humid area for awhile so I'm not sure. Any idea what's happening? Thanks!