texts: WWAN won't connect; "more than one interface matches usbmodem"

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TL;DR: Network device is listed twice with the same hardware port name, so the internal method that's supposed to return a pointer to a network device by its name fails. This is why nothing related to this device works. How do I delete or rename the duplicate entry?

ORIGINAL POST: I have a system running OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 and I've come across a problem that I can't find anything on the Internet about.

I'm trying to connect to the Internet through an Ericsson H5321gw WWAN modem.

Initially, the device was only recognized as a USB device, not as a WWAN device, though. After patching the Info.plist in CellPhoneHelper.kext and IOSerialFamily.kext, the device is correctly being recognized as a WWAN device, the WWAN icon appears in the top bar and upon clicking the icon, the carrier is being recognized correctly as well. However, the device won't connect to the Internet.

Upon inspection of the system logs, I think I've found the problem but I need a hint on how to solve it.

The correct commands are being executed through the modem script:

20:58:13 ccl: Apple Base Script.ccl Version 3.3
20:58:13 ccl: CCLWrite: AT\13
...
20:58:13 ccl: Waiting for connection
20:58:14 ccl: Connection established
20:58:17 ccl: CCLExit: 0
20:58:17 pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cu.usbmodem

but then the console is spammed with countless instances of

20:58:17 com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice: more than one interface matches usbmodem
...
20:58:21 com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice: more than one interface matches usbmodem

which culminates in:

20:58:21 symptomsd: nw_interface_create_with_name netutil_ifname_to_ifindex(ppp0) failed
20:58:21 symptomsd: -[NWInterface initWithInterfaceName:] nw_interface_create_with_name(ppp0) failed
20:58:21 pppd: Connection terminated.

upon which the WWAN modem disconnects again.

Issuing ls /dev | grep usbmodem lists two files each (tty. and cu.) for two devices, one named usbmodem and the other one named usbmodem5/usbmodem11/etc, with the number changing upon restarting the system.

The problem seems obvious - the WWAN connection is established but the connection of ppp0 and usbmodem fails because there's more than one device matching the string usbmodem.
I've found the code generating the error message in SCNetworkInterface but I don't want to fiddle around with recompiling system files (I wouldn't even know how). Deleting / renaming the files in /dev hasn't solved the problem, the error message remains the same.

Is there any way to cut this ambiguity of string matching out of the system so that the connection won't fail?

UPDATE: The duplicate file names seem to not be the cause, but the symptom of the problem.

I tried different values for the interface mapping in the CellPhoneHelper.kext, however nothing has worked so far. Either the WWAN card is stuck on "Initializing..." with networksetup -listallhardwareports listing no "usbmodem" devices at all or it looks like this

Hardware Port: H5321 gw
Device: usbmodem
Ethernet Address: N/A

Hardware Port: H5321 gw
Device: usbmodem
Ethernet Address: N/A

Hardware Port: PCI Serial Adapter (22)
Device: pci-serial22
Ethernet Address: N/A

Hardware Port: H5321 gw
Device: wwan
Ethernet Address: N/A

Hardware Port: Ethernet
Device: en0
Ethernet Address: 28:d2:44:05:79:1c

Hardware Port: H5321 gw
Device: en1
Ethernet Address: 02:15:e0:ec:01:00

Hardware Port: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Device: en2
Ethernet Address: 00:87:23:7a:44:9d

Hardware Port: Bluetooth PAN
Device: en3
Ethernet Address: f4:b7:e2:e8:4f:78

so somehow there's two entries going by the hardware port name usbmodem and I have no idea how to fix this, but I hope any of you might help me.

Using one of the usual fix approaches like deleting the network configuration files or issuing networksetup -detectnewhardware hasn't changed anything, either.

Queries relating to any details on the device (networksetup -listallnetworkservices for example) trigger the same "more than one device matches" log message in the console.


texts: With hardlinks, does it matter which is which?

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If I make replace duplicate files with hardlinks within my home (~) directory, I'm thinking it is completely irrelevant which of two files gets replaced.

Is this true, or is there some asymmetry that I am not aware of?


texts: How to force OS X Notes application to lose formatting when I paste text from clipboard?

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While I do find Notes.app very useful, especially due to the iCloud integration with iOS counterpart apps, I am very annoyed about the text formatting used by the application.

I just want to be able to copy text from web pages and paste it as plain text in this application.

Is there any way to obtain this? Maybe some Clipboard manager that can work in background, or even another application that I can use to obtain this.

While I would like to keep bold and hyperlinks, I do not want to keep any fonts or sizes when I paste the text.

Note: the solution should be transparent — not requiring me to use extra steps for pasting, ⌘V only.


texts: How do I restore iOS safari history/determine when it was cleared?

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I need to either: restore a deleted iOS Safari history; or,
find the date/time that the Safari history file was cleared.  Can anyone direct me to simple directions to do either/both of these tasks?


texts: How can I add tags or groups in Apple Contacts?

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I have people in my address book, but I want to organize them by topic.

Like Work or Office or Friends or well, you get it.

How can I do that on the desktop? I'm assuming its using the group feature, but I can't figure out how to add someone to a group.

How can I do that on my iPhone? Is that even possible?


texts: Why is the speaker next to the camera magnetized when my laptop is off?

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I'm on a mid 2010 15 inch mbp. I just noticed that, even after my computer has been off for a few days, coins are sticking to the back of the display - in the exact area of the speaker next to the built in camera (is that a speaker or a mike?)

I assumed that once my computer's been off for a long time, any type of magnetic fields will be long gone (and definitely not strong enough to move nearby coins!). Is it possible for this to occur, or should i look into some sort of problem (ie, the speaker/mike and/or camera staying on after my laptop has been powered off or put to sleep)


texts: Can I extend my Airport Extreme's wireless network with a third-party repeater?

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I recently purchase an Airport Extreme (the new tower looking one that supports 802.11ac). I finally, after days of headaches, figured out how to use it as my wireless router with AT&T U-Verse. AT&T supplies a hybrid modem/router/voIP box that I had to partially disable via the settings in order for my Airport to handle the DHCP assignments.

Now that the Airport is working fine, I have this second box, a TP-LINK TL-WA801ND, that I have tried to configure as a Universal Repeater. However every time upon setting it up that way, it just gets lost on the network, and doesn't appear to be working.

I'm guessing from what I read that Apple still does not support third-party devices? Can or can't I extend my existing wireless network with third-party gear?


texts: On the iPhone, can I let YouTube run in the background and play the audio while I use other apps?

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For example, if there is some live stream, or some videos that I can just listen to, and then I'd like to use other apps such as Gmail or Facebook, can I go to those apps without YouTube interrupting the video?

Currently YouTube stops playing the video when I go to another app.


texts: ios Mail app shows Welcome to Mail screen even though I have already set up and have been using my account

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I have an iPhone 4S currently running ios7.0.4.  I have been using the built in Mail app since I bought my phone years ago and it has always worked fine.  I have two accounts set up in the app.  Recently (within the past month, maybe two) when I open the app, I am met with the Welcome/set-up screen that lists the different account types that you can set up (iCloud, Exchange, Google, etc.) even though I already have my accounts set up and they were working that morning.  If I double-tap the home button and swipe up to close the app, and tap the app again to re-open it, it loads both accounts like normal.

This wouldn't really be too big of an issue because it has a quick fix, however because it doesn't recognize that a mail account is set up, it also does not alert me when I receive a new email.  So I have to manually check my emails every hour to make sure I don't miss anything.

While the mail app is being weird and showing me the welcome screen, I can open up the mail settings and still see both accounts that I have, and notification settings are all as they should be.

Either I don't know how to phrase the questions properly to get hits on Google, or no one else has ever had this issue. Has anyone heard of this, or have any suggestions?


texts: Why are the insert options grayed out when I open a PDF?

texts: in Preview, I opened up a PDF containing an image. I need to combine it with a portion of another such PDF. When opened, it was locked, so I duplicated it. However, the insert sub-options remain grayed out, so I can't add a page. Is there a way?


texts: I have an iPhone 4s, and at the moment, my phone is going through alot of issues. I haven't been able to charge my phone, due to the phone not responding or not reacting to the cable. My phone also will not turn on or attempt to charge. The Battery sign comes up but not the charging sign. Is it a battery problem?


texts: How do I stop or limit Safari Reader from joining multiple pages into a single article?

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I'm developing the site suttacentral.net. We've had a report from an iOS user that when Safari reader is used on our site, it joins a large amount of pages into one "article". The site is for Buddhist discourses, one per page, so one collection can contain over a thousand pages.

I have no familiarity with Reader, so I couldn't say why it's doing this. Each page has "prev/next" links, so perhaps it's using that. Or else, since the discourses are numbered sequentially, perhaps it reads the incremented URL as the next page in an article.

So how do we stop this? It would be fine to either not join any pages, or at least to limit it to a sane number.


texts: How can I stop Time Machine from backing up on battery when "Backup while on battery power" is UNCHECKED?

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Hopefully the title explains everything. I just noticed that Time Machine is currently backing up, although the preference to "Backup while on battery power" is clearly unchecked.
How can I fix this?


texts: Macbook pro with latest opp system upgrade

texts: Not wanting my documents on iCloud as they about fill my 5gb quota,I tried to drag the folder to my desktop from the applications window iCloud heading on the left hand side, POOF and the folder was gone not to be seen again, Can any one please tell this old fool how to get the folder back and out of iCloud forever, many thanks :-)


texts: Load clash of clans village asking me to update - state of village

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Recently clash of clans updated. When I logged into a another game centre account it asked me "Do you want to replace it? if yes type confirm."

Will I lose my other village if I type confirm ?


texts: Can't run postfix on Mountain Lion due to missing system_user_maps.db

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When I start postfix, I see in /var/log/system.log the following error:

error: open database /etc/postfix/system_user_maps.db: No such file or directory

How should this file be created so that postfix can start properly?

I tried doing touch on this file, but I get the error

postfix/cleanup[871]: warning: hash:/etc/postfix/system_user_maps is unavailable. open database /etc/postfix/system_user_maps.db: Inappropriate file type or format`

Is there a postmap command that sets this up?


texts: How do I add a menu extra to the menu bar?

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From the terminal window I frequent run this command to strip formatting from copied text.

pbpaste|pbcopy

How can I wrap this up in something so I can have a menu button to click that will do the same thing?


texts: Secondary (right) click doesn't work after disconnecting mouse

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Whenever I disconnect a mouse (a generic cheapo Lenovo branded one) and reconnect it, I lose the ability to right click using the mouse. I have to resort to using CTRL+Left click. I have tried it with a different mouse (non Apple) and experienced the same problem. I also tried switching the secondary button to Left just to make sure it wasn't something specific with the L/R button. When I do that, the secondary click doesn't work even if it is the left button.

The only way I have solved this is to do a full restart. I suspect logging out and back in may fix this.

I think this is a driver issue somewhere. Any Ideas?

I am running Yosemite with all the latest patches. I've had this problem since Mavericks (my first OSX).


texts: Change home directory from recovery mode MacOS

texts: I moved my Mac home directory (Big Sur) and now I can't sign into the computer due to an error. Is there a way to change things back to the original home directory from recovery or another way? I do not have another account on the machine.


texts: PHP 7.4 crashing with apparent XCode problem?

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I'm wondering if the php that comes with OSX is now "Codesigned" and thus stopping the "brew" version from working? I have the latest XCode command line installed, and also XCode GUI.
Is this a permissions problem?

I'm trying to move my php7.3 to php7.4 on my mac. OSX 10.15.5, but as soon as I do, httpd starts crashing.
The original link that works in httpd.conf is here;

LoadModule php7_module /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

The one that doesn't work is here. Installed with 'brew install php'

LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

The errors it throws if enabled are here.

[Thu Jun 11 13:16:24.447072 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../lib in /usr/local/opt/openexr/lib/libIlmImf-2_5.25.dylib being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path (Codesign main executable with Library Validation to allow @ paths)
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../lib in /usr/local/opt/ilmbase/lib/libImath-2_5.25.dylib being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path (Codesign main executable with Library Validation to allow @ paths)
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../lib in /usr/local/opt/ilmbase/lib/libHalf-2_5.25.dylib being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path (Codesign main executable with Library Validation to allow @ paths)
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../lib in /usr/local/opt/ilmbase/lib/libIexMath-2_5.25.dylib being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path (Codesign main executable with Library Validation to allow @ paths)
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../lib in /usr/local/opt/ilmbase/lib/libIex-2_5.25.dylib being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path (Codesign main executable with Library Validation to allow @ paths)
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path/../lib in /usr/local/opt/ilmbase/lib/libIlmThread-2_5.25.dylib being ignored in restricted program because of @executable_path (Codesign main executable with Library Validation to allow @ paths)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:25.303223 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3447 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:30.599238 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3444 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:35.885151 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3445 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:42.251005 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3466 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:46.542013 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3446 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:47.615009 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3468 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Jun 11 13:17:51.828696 2020] [core:notice] [pid 3440] AH00052: child pid 3469 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)


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I have a MacBook Pro 2020 13-inch with the 10th gen i5 CPU (about a month old).
My laptop froze, the screen turned black and the fans went 100% for a sec. After restarting, it stated that it was because of the following problem:
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff801002b6be):
"Possible memory corruption: pmap_pv_remove(0xffffff804f5eea80, 0x700007bc9000, 0x6c11, 0x8010000376e95066, 0xffffff9244933b14, 0xffffff9244933ad0):
pv not on hash, head: 0xffffff806adf7080, 0x29d4355cd000, priors:
1"@/AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-6153.121.2/osfmk/i386/pmap_internal.h:979
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Skype Helper (Re

The log continues for a bit longer, but I think the most important parts are there. For context, I had some programs opens and was Skyping.
I tried googling a bit and saw that this is an issue with some older MacBooks. They mention reseating the RAM sticks, but that is not an option with the 2020 model (of course). They mention that some part of the RAM could be corrupted.
Now my question:
Given that my MacBook is now 1 month old, should I be worried? It has not happened since, but does this point to a bigger issue? Or is this just a one-time thing or a software problem.


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I want to speed read on I pad. I have Kindle app and iBooks installed. In order to do that I need to split the screen by two vertical lines so as per image.

Is there any software I can use for that can split the screen like that?


texts: "Specks" on photos - possible to repair?

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I have several specks on the photos from my iPhone 5 64GB:

and here zoomed in

These are not on the lens as they are not blurred, so I assume they are on the sensor or faulty pixels on the sensor.

My question is if this is a repairable for a price which makes sense for an iPhone 5 64 GB. Any experiences?


texts: My headphones are a bit damaged it seems and the left has higher volume than the right. It isn't my ears, the song or the device :). Is there a program to change just one speaker's volume? Lion allows you to set the balance, but I don't think this is the same thing - it would lead to the sound shifting into the left speaker, effectively reducing the stereo effect. Windows 7 can do this, but I'm not quite that desperate.


texts: What is "useful location-related information" that "Frequent Locations" setting provides?

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The Frequent Locations setting explains itself quite vaguely:

I see the service polling my current location often*  but I don't see any concrete benefits having this option turned on. In another question it seems it can give you a daily estimate / driving instructions to your workplace (or similar daily-visited location) via the notification centre—is that all?

*) the location services icon briefly toggles in the status bar and no other app has the violet icon in settings


texts: can .webloc file icon show a useful web page preview?

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Assuming Finder --> View --> View Options --> Show Icon Preview is enabled, is it possible for a .webloc file icon to show a preview of the referenced web-page?

I think the browser would have to do this, when I drag from the browser URL box to the desktop.  But so far, with multiple popular browsers, I see nothing but not-very-informative standard icons.  For example, the Safari compass.

Does any popular browser support this, say,  through a preference setting or an add-in?

Motivation:  I can now sort through a bunch of TextEdit files by putting them in a folder, view them as icons, and using the Finder option to increase the icon size until enough is visible -- document "shape" and larger text. Why not .weblocs?

Obviously, the browser-created .webloc file name should be useful, but often it is not, and --when I'm collecting a bunch of .webloc files for reference use-- it is a bit of a pain to have to edit the name of each.

Obviously the icon content would be a snapshot at the time of collecting the .webloc.  I assume there is no way to see the current content.  OK by me.  Thinking about the potential for just a minute, this possibility seems at minimum creepy ... to very undesirable, unless completely under user control.  Well, anyway, the kinds of reference pages I want to collect and sort through generally don't change much.

TIA


texts: I always forget keyboard shortcuts to scripts I write (or sometimes the keyboard shortcuts I use don't work in a certain application). I'm looking for a service that I can remedy this by allowing me to use a certain hotkey, which brings up a window which allows me to write the first part of the name of one of my scripts (say, get_date, which just returns today's date in mm-dd-yy format), and it allows me to then invoke it for the functionality I need. I can't seem to find this, and I'm getting ready to embark on writing my own if I can't find one. Anyone know where to find something that I can use to do this?


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I have tto check a path like "volume1:FTPRoot:StenRoot:Stnp00:A12:B38:f000031913". Is there an easy place where I can paste this to unsure me that this path is valid ?

PS / I can follow it manually, but I want to automate this...


texts: MacBook Pro built-in speakers not working

texts: The built-in speakers are not working. The output shows a digital device only and when you hit the up volume key it shows 0.


texts: FaceTime “poor connection” never resumes

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I FaceTime every other week or so with my parents. We talk for 1-4 hours when we do. Most times, 1 to 3 times throughout the call, the image will freeze, go blurry, and give me the error “Poor Connection, the video will resume automatically when the connection improves” but the video never resumes, even though if I hang up and call back, the video is fine. Is there a way to fix this so that I don’t have to hang up and call back to get the video back?

I usually use a MacBook Air, but it also happens on my iPhone 6s. My parents are usually using either an iPhone 6s Plus or an iPhone 7.


texts: VPN (PPTP) disconnects in OS X El Capitan (after update)

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OS X - 10.11.4 El Capitan
Macbook pro Retina Mid 2015
VPN type is PPTP, automatic encryption, All traffic over VPN.

When connecting to a VPN server, the system mentions that the connection could not be established. The connection was working before the update.
Here is the log from the console:

29-03-16 13:21:17,116 nesessionmanager[1014]: NESMLegacySession[VPN (PPTP):F5CF80F6-DB7E-4039-BC09-AD38FE019991]: Received a start command from SystemUIServer[1477]
29-03-16 13:21:17,116 nesessionmanager[1014]: NESMLegacySession[VPN (PPTP):F5CF80F6-DB7E-4039-BC09-AD38FE019991]: status changed to connecting
29-03-16 13:21:17,123 pppd[2023]: NetworkExtension is the controller
29-03-16 13:21:17,123 pppd[2023]: NetworkExtension is the controller
29-03-16 13:21:17,140 pppd[2023]: publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
29-03-16 13:21:17,140 pppd[2023]: publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
29-03-16 13:21:17,140 pppd[2023]: pppd 2.4.2 (Apple version 809.40.5) started by lukevanenkhuizen, uid 501
29-03-16 13:21:17,140 pppd[2023]: pptp_get_router_address
29-03-16 13:21:17,140 pppd[2023]: pptp_get_router_address 192.168.10.254 from dict 1
29-03-16 13:21:17,141 pppd[2023]: PPTP connecting to server '95.97.141.150' (95.97.141.150)...
29-03-16 13:21:30,495 CalendarAgent[304]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.coredav] [Refusing to parse response to PROPPATCH because of content-type: [text/plain; charset="utf-8"].]
29-03-16 13:21:30,580 CalendarAgent[304]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.coredav] [Refusing to parse response to PROPPATCH because of content-type: [text/plain; charset="utf-8"].]
29-03-16 13:21:32,249 pppd[2023]: PPTP connect errno = 60 Operation timed out
29-03-16 13:21:32,250 nesessionmanager[1014]: NESMLegacySession[VPN (PPTP):F5CF80F6-DB7E-4039-BC09-AD38FE019991]: status changed to disconnecting
29-03-16 13:21:32,252 nesessionmanager[1014]: NESMLegacySession[VPN (PPTP):F5CF80F6-DB7E-4039-BC09-AD38FE019991]: status changed to disconnected, last stop reason None
29-03-16 13:21:32,319 UserNotificationCenter[2026]: *** WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSWindow is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.
29-03-16 13:21:35,000 syslogd[48]: ASL Sender Statistics

What does this mean? Any help would be highly appreciated!


texts: How can I override the default "Work" travel time start location in Calendar.app on macOS?

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I have both my work and home locations on my contacts card in Contacts. However, I'm working from home now far more than I used to. My work hours have remained the same however, so most of my calendar events during the day need to start from home rather than work.
Calendar.app defaults to using the "Start of Day" and "End of Day" to determine your location (or a previous event within the 3 hours preceding). This means that any events during the day always default to give my travel time from my work location, not my home location. I've noticed this even includes holidays - eg. tomorrow is Labor Day in the USA, I'll be home, but Calendar is setting Work as the start location, and not letting me override it.
How can I override that start location with one that I set?
I know I can go into the event and edit it on my phone using the iOS calendar, but that seems a little clunky when I'm at my computer I want to use the computer.
Info on the defaults I mention above from comes this Apple guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/calendar/add-location-and-travel-time-to-events-icl43600/mac
I'm on 10.15.6 (Catalina)


texts: Where can I look up purchase/activation date for Apple products?

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I can't remember exactly when it was I bought my iPhone.  I thought that perhaps I could look it up via Apple somehow.

I'm aware of the Check Your Service and Support Coverage page, but that's not presenting me with the activation date—only the status of my warranty and such.


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How can I recover the apachectl on my OSX?

I deleted it, somehow, and now the command apachectl doesn't exist anymore.


texts: Moving vast distances and keeping app store purchases

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It looks like I will be moving shortly (From Australia to America) and I am wondering if it is possible for me to keep my app store purchases when I get a new phone in the USA.

I currently have a 'few' apps that are paid for ( maybe $200+ worth ) from throughout the years, spread across my phone and a few ipads.

Last time I was in the USA I found great difficulty with installing apps on my ipad  (even though they had been previously purchased) due to not being able to connect to the australian tunes store. But that was a short visit.

I plan on doing a full backup/restore of my old phone to my new one once I have landed.

On top of trying to keep my paid purchases I would also like to keep my data from said apps if possible.

I believe that I will not have the same issues with my mac in regards to updates for apps but the apps themselves should be ok.


texts: MacBook 13" Mid 2012 shuts down with 20% with new battery

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I have this problem with my MacBook: when I turn it on, the battery reports 0%.
After replacing the battery, I've the same problem.
New battery  has 4 cycles and 100% of charge capacity.

I have already tried SMC reset.

Is it a possible High Sierra problem? Has anyone solved it?


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I'm still stuck on iOS 7 because iTunes and the blessed updaters don't work.

iTunes will start the download, but always drops the connection before finishing. It appears to be incapable of resuming an interrupted download.

I rely on an unlimited mobile data plan from a carrier that doesn't push OTA updates, so my device will only self-update over a WiFi connection that I don't really have. Routing the connection by LTE => iPad => USB tethering to Mac => internet sharing => WiFi device-to-device network => back to iPad sort-of works occasionally. Indeed it's how I got iOS 7, but it's way too flaky now.

Is there any possibility of using a sane, stable HTTP client to get the file?


texts: How to apply a bash script just to one user account?

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Generally speaking I manage my MAC OS X High Sierra and Mojave systems using very basic script(s) that I remotely send and apply to the entire Mac OS X system, that means all these script(s) are applied to all the users of the system.  But now I have an harder challange.  Each of my MAC OS X system has 3 user accounts. :(Admin Account) User1 (Admin Account) User2 and (Local Standard Account) User3.

Generally speaking if I want to send a script that only apply to the (Local Standard Account) User3 how can I do it? I was thinking with the The principle of least privilege.  I know for sure that (Local Standard Account) User3 is not an admin.  So, how can I tell at the beginning of the script to look and execute the script only to the (Local Standard Account) User3?

Of course (Local Standard Account) User3 (username) always change.  I have more than 400 Mac OS X systems that I manage.  Instead (Admin Account) User1 (Admin Account) User2 are always the same username.

All my MAC OS X systems have an agent installed.  This is how I am able to execute scripts on my systems.  Every time the script run thanks to the agent, it runs as ROOT.

Let's do an example scenario.

I want to create a simple text file and place this text file on the desktop of 3 Mac OS X system but just inside the (Local Standard Account) User3 Desktop

Hostname: tsmith-mac
Username: administrator
Username: administrator_backup
Username: tsmith

Hostname: jreed-mac
Username: administrator
Username: administrator_backup
Username: jreed

Hostname: fmontana-mac
Username: administrator
Username: administrator_backup
Username: fmontana


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I cannot set any timezone on my Mac. If I go to Date & Time and pick any location I always get empty timezone.

Running:  sudo systemsetup -listtimezones
returns
Time Zones:
When I try to set timezone from command line I go info about invalid timezone.
What is interesting:
/etc/localtime -> /var/db/timezone/zoneinfo/Europe/Warsaw
Still time is not correct for Warsaw timezone.
I tried set automatically and not - nothing helps. (I did reboot laptop)
I suspect there is some cache for timezones which is corrupted, but I don't know how to rebuild it.
System Version: macOS 10.15.6 (19G2021)
Kernel Version: Darwin 19.6.0


texts: In mail.app, get list of Previous Recipients for just one of my many email accounts

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I use mail.app to interact with about a dozen different email accounts, which I use for different purposes. I need to create a list of the Previous Recipients of just on of those email accounts. A forum I was admin for crashed, and we lost the member database.  Luckily, to join they had to email the admin account, and I then sent them a welcome email.  We have restarted it at a new location.  I'd like to notify people who were activated before. Recipients is better than senders so I don't inadvertently invite all the spammers to join!

Since recipient auto-complete functions properly, mail.app must have access to senders/recipients directly and I just want to access that information for a specific single email account - the forum admin account and not my personal or other special purpose accounts.

Buscar웃 provided an AppleScript that solves this for Senders instead of Previous Recipients, but I've never used Applescript so my attempts to modify it were unsuccessful.  See In mail.app, get list of recipients for just one of the many email accounts.


texts: Getting file path of latest added file in a folder - Mac OS 10.9

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As learned from google and sister stack sites, this is the working solution I've come up with for getting the path of latest added file in a folder. But this is not giving the accurate result. I'm using Mavericks (OS 10.9)

set myFolder to "/Users/lawsome/folder"
tell application "Finder" to set latestFile to the last item of (sort files of (POSIX file myFolder as alias) by creation date) as alias
            set latestpath to POSIX path of latestFile
set latestpath to POSIX path of latestFile

Finally, Jose Alban's answer in here@askdiff gives an accurate sorted list using the mdls terminal command. How can I get the file path of last entry in this list.

Or any way to get the desired path.


texts: Will superdrive work on Macbook Air with Ubuntu?

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I have a Macbook Air on which I am considering installing Ubuntu 14.  I bought the Mac mainly because of the great hardware.  I got a live copy of Ubuntu working from a USB stick and I am now just testing to see if everything works.  My Soulmate bluetooth device works fine.  My external Western Digital USB harddrive works fine.  My Apple Superdrive does not seem to work.  I figured this might be because I have not actually installed and added the third party support.

Anyone get their Superdrive working under Ubuntu on a Macbook Air?


texts: What are the most convenient keyboard/keyboard layout for programming?

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I do a bit of Objective-C, Matlab and Python, and start to get tired of the keyboard I use (AZERTY). It is far from being optimal as one need to press ALT+SHIFT+( to get [ for example. I think of buying a new keyboard for programming and QWERTY keyboards seem to be an obvious choice (my guess is that these language/environment were developed with such keyboards).

Which keyboard/keyboard layout allow a direct access to programming keys, such as [, { or | for example?


texts: AppleScript to copy images that names are multiple of 30 to another folder

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I have a folder with hundreds of pictures like this:
Montana_1.jpg, Montana_2.jpg, …, Montana_4500.jpg

I only want to use the pictures where the name is multiple of 30. I was wondering if an AppleScript would

Open the folder containing the pictures.
Copy only the pictures that are multiple of 30 like
Montana_30.jpg, Montana_60.jpg, …, Montana_120.jpg.
Move to another folder.

Another way could be to delete any picture that is not multiple of 30.


texts: How do I change the gateway of a specific connection using the Mac terminal?

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My goal is to be able to change all of the following for a specific device: IP address, netmask, and gateway. So far, I've gathered that I should be able to use ifconfig con0 10.8.0.14 netmask 255.255.255.252, but when I try to do ifconfig con0 gateway 10.8.0.1, it gets pretty upset and tells me that gateway is a bad argument.

Thoughts?


texts: Does iOS 6 or any other iOS OS have drivers or kernel modules for an HP printer?

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I want to print via USB, but iOS does not mention the interface when I connect directly to my non-Wi-Fi printer.

REALIZE: I do not want to print wirelessly I want to do so via USB, but iOS apparently does not have drivers/kernel extendablr modules to support printing like this, such as with Lion.

Any workarounds? Any device drivers?

I will write one myself if there is no program to help with this.


texts: MacBook Running Really Slow, Activity Monitor Reports HUGE VM

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My MacBook is running really really slow at the moment, I have quit loads of processes (but activity monitor only reported about 10% cpu usage anyway).

I had just noticed I have a VM Size of 250GB!

Could this be the problem? Why would it ever be that big?


texts: What causes a random giant mouse cursor?

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After upgrading my late 2012 Mac Mini from Yosemite to Sierra I notice a weird occurrence - briefly when moving the mouse it suddenly jumps to about 10x the normal size for just a tiny moment.

A timed screen capture from Skitch shows this happening:

What on earth could be causing this?


texts: Apple Safari Mac OS X 10.10.2 will not open

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I recently tried to download the Aldi photo upload program, although half way through the download Safari quit and now it won’t turn back on. I keep getting a error messages, but it never goes past reopening safari and back to the error messages. I have been onto Console and found the below details of the errors, can anyone help? I don't have another browser on the laptop

25/03/2015 21:33:43.335 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.ReportCrash[991]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash
25/03/2015 21:33:43.798 CoreServicesUIAgent[239]: unexpected message <OS_xpc_error: <error: 0x7fff7de6bc60> { count = 1, contents =
   "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff7de6bf70> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}>
25/03/2015 21:33:43.800 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.CBCE8120-BBE6-481F-9F96-7A071CADEAB0[989]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
25/03/2015 21:33:43.800 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.WebKit.Networking.39FE4ACC-E1FF-4C76-81AE-3C1C5FC3F852[988]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
25/03/2015 21:33:43.807 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Safari.9404[985]) Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11
25/03/2015 21:33:43.955 ReportCrash[991]: Saved crash report for Safari[985] version 8.0.3 (10600.3.18) to /Users/andrewpope/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Safari_2015-03-25-213343_Andrews-MacBook-Pro.crash
25/03/2015 21:33:44.103 Problem Reporter[992]: Failed to connect (_imageWell) outlet from (ProblemReportWindowController) to (NSImageView): missing setter or instance variable


texts: What is the 1k that shows up where LTE would be?

texts: It shows up sometimes and I lose my 4g and go straight to that and have no connection, how do I get rid of it?


texts: Boot Camp flash drive not showing on boot for late 2009 iMac

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I already installed Windows 10, using the Boot Camp Assistant, on my MBPr (late 2013) without any problem. However, it is a "new" model, everything went fine.

But, now I am trying on an iMac (late 2009) and the process is a little bit harder.

The Optical Drive was replaced by a SSD, so I needed to change the Boot Camp Assistant to accept ISO images]1. Now, the Boot Camp Assistant creates the Windows USB flash drive installer.

But, on boot, the flash drive is not visible. If I just wait, the message "no bootable device" appears, so I guess it went looking for the Optical Drive – so I restart one more time, pressing ALT so I can select the flash drive and... It is not there! (Just some "EFI something")

If I insert the flash drive on my MBPr, it can find it and Boot as it should be, so the 'problem' is just on iMac.

Ps: I am using a Windows 10 ISO, that theoretically has no drivers for this iMac – but I think that this is not the answer for the flash drive do not appear.


texts: MacBook Pro displays Apple Logo and Prohibitory Symbol

texts: My  MacBook Pro 15" displays the  Prohibitory Symbol on start-up. What can I do to fix it?


texts: External Monitor not detected after upgrade to Mojave 10.14.5

texts: I have a MacBook Air 13-inch, 2018. I updated the software to Mojave 10.14.5 and the laptop has stopped recognizing the external monitor after the update. Is there a way out of this mess?


texts: Does Skype running in the background use more battery life than other background running iPhone apps?

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I have noticed that I can receive skype calls and messages on my iPhone for a while now. Does Skype simply stay sign-ed in until I restart my iPhone and does it use the same amount of battery as other apps with notifications WHEN running in the background.

i.e. if I have Facebook with notifications and Skype with notifications running in the background, do these apps/notifications use the same amount of battery?


texts: How to mirror one folder to another using rsync 3.x?

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I have compiled rsync 3.0.9 just because the one included in Mavericks is so old.

Anyway, I am trying to mirror a folder in my main HDD in another HDD. I don't think it matters but both are connected via SATA and both are formatted as HFS (case-insentive and journaled).

I ran:

rsync -ahv --delete --exclude="my-exclude-file.txt" --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 --progress /sources/ /destination/

and it doesn't skip the m4a/mp3 files it has processed already!

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Thanks a lot :)


texts: 1900 dates keeps changing to 2000 in Excel

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In Excel -- for the Mac (Office 2019).  I need to copy info from a csv including dates of birth in the 1900s.  Whenever I copy entries from the original file, the dates change to 2000s.  How do I prevent that from happening.
I've tried changing them manually.  It didn't work.  I tried changing the column to text and it didn't work.
I've hired experts and they haven't helped.
Please could someone help me.  I'm working with seriously ill people and I need to get information to medical professionals urgently now and I need the correct Date of Birth.
Thanks


texts: How can I reduce media playback volume while on a call?

texts: How do I mute my media while on a phone call? I’d like to watch videos while I’m on the phone, but they are so loud, I can’t hear the person on the other end, and if I simply turn the volume down, it also turns the call volume down. Please help


texts: tata photon plus not working after upgrading OS X Yosemite?

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i upgraded my macbook air to OS X Yosemite and my tata photon plus huawei modem model no. EC156 not working with my mac. its getting installed well but when i tries to connect, it shows connection terminated. I have tries all the possible things explained in the forum earlier but i think those were only for tata photon 3g not for tata photon plus.
Please help?


texts: Music, Podcasts, and Movies disappeared from my iPhone

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Sometime yesterday, and I'm unsure of what could be the cause, all my media disappeared from my iPhone SE, running iOS 9.3.2 (64GB). There is nothing in my Music app on the phone except for downloadable songs I had purchased (but they're not local on my phone anymore), the movies I had transferred from the computer to the Videos app disappeared, all my podcast downloads had disappeared (they show up as saved, just the download for them is gone), my audiobook is gone from iBooks but other items there appear okay. Photos and Voice Memos apps also appear okay.

Checking in Settings, I don't appear to have recovered what should have been a couple GB of storage from the disappearance. And when viewing a breakdown of usage by app, it appears like Videos, Music, and Podcasts completely disappeared from the list, even though I did download about 5MB of data back to the Podcasts app.

I tried rebooting, no luck there. My first thought to fix this would be to connect to iTunes and have it sync and re-download all my content to the phone, but if that doesn't fix it or if I t leaves a couple ghost GB of data on my phone, that'll be concerning. And then I'm worried if I sync it, iTunes will back my phone up and then if I need to do a restore, I won't have a good backup to restore from (unless I can back up the backup and my iTunes library too?).

Anybody ever heard of this? What should I do?

Update: Tried poking around a little with iFunBox to see what's on the phone. Going to the raw file storage and then podcasts, there still are a few files that show up there, but not as many as there should be and not as many as show up on my iPad when I view the iPad through iFunBox. When going to the iTunes content and then Music, both on the iPad and on the iPHone, it shows a lot of folders with short file names, most of those have an MP3 when viewing in the iPad, but they all seem empty on the iPhone.

Is there a way I can back up my iTunes library and iPhone backup and then try a sync?


texts: How should I do my first Time Machine backups?

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I am new to Macs and was wondering how to create a restore partition (which I read about in one of the answers) in order to do my first backup.

Also, should the first backup be kept separate, in case you need to restore to the original condition of your system, and then do another backup which is then used to do hourly/daily backups/whenever backups upon? Thank you for your help.


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I'm not too sure if this is the right title but anyway... I have an old macbook early 2009 that I bought through my school and purchased the digital software as well- I have no disks and I don't know how to link anything to my name? Is that even possible if someone else set it up? So my old laptop has great programs to use on it but I now have a new 2014 macbook pro mid range and I would only like to transfer some of the applications, but from my research- correct me if I'm wrong, large applications like adobe acrobat pro have files throughout the computer and can't just be copied over. I don't want all the applications so a time machine transfer is out of the question. What can I do?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Metadata Rejection; Guideline 2.1 - Information Needed

texts: My iOS App received a metadata rejection because I made a mistake in the review information for In App Purchases. Made the necessary correction and submitted an appeal to the App Review board. Has been a week but still no response. What is the correct course of action to get the app passed through the review? Should I re-submit the build using "Submit for review" button?


texts: All calendar entries lost across iPhone 4, iPad, MacBook Air after iPhone upgraded to iOS 7. Help?

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My husband has lost all his calendar entries after upgrading to iOS 7 on his iPhone earlier today. He deleted 3 football calendars from his iPhone as they were duplicated.  Everything was fine.  Now everything is gone, including on iCloud.

He has no back up elsewhere.

Any ideas?


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I have an implemented microphone in my headphones (earbuds), Microphone doesn't work at all..

After searching for sometime i found out its a known problem, Bootcamp doesn't recognize external microhphones

I tried this microphone on OS X using same laptop ( and it works perfectly )
I'm using Macbook Air 2013

However i solved it by using Parallels Desktop 9 as an alternative virtual machine than bootcamp and it works good, But thats not the solution I'm looking for, I want to get this external mic to work in bootcamp windows 7


texts: Macbook battery bar showing as red; battery % jumps around; battery condition normal; out of US charging

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I've been in Europe since 7/5. I've been charging my 2015 macbook pro (purchased in the US) in the UK from 7/5-7/11 and in Italy from 7/11-current. I use a power adapter (not a converter) since the US prongs don't fit in the outlets in the UK or Italy. I don't use a converter, and the European outlets are all 220v, but this should be compatible with a macbook.

Today, I just noticed that my battery % has been jumping up and down a bit. I also noticed that the battery bar is red despite having over 20%. I have never seen this happen before, so I'm wondering if my battery got damaged somehow.

The information in System Information is shown below, and it states that my battery is functioning normally. Any ideas what may be happening?

Battery Information:

  Model Information:
  Serial Number:    ---
  Manufacturer: DP
  Device Name:  ---
  Pack Lot Code:    0
  PCB Lot Code: 0
  Firmware Version: 702
  Hardware Revision:    1
  Cell Revision:    3224
  Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   1130
  Fully Charged:    No
  Charging: No
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   4598
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  837
  Condition:    Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    -1275
  Voltage (mV): 10962

System Power Settings:

  AC Power:
  System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 1
  Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):   10
  Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    10
  Wake on AC Change:    No
  Wake on Clamshell Open:   Yes
  Wake on LAN:  No
  AutoPowerOff Delay:   28800
  AutoPowerOff Enabled: 1
  DarkWakeBackgroundTasks:  1
  Display Sleep Uses Dim:   Yes
  GPUSwitch:    2
  Hibernate Mode:   3
  High Standby Delay:   86400
  PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep:   0
  ProximityDarkWake:    1
  Standby Battery Threshold:    50
  Standby Delay:    10800
  Standby Enabled:  1
  TCPKeepAlivePref: 1
  Battery Power:
  System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 1
  Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):   10
  Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    2
  Wake on AC Change:    No
  Wake on Clamshell Open:   Yes
  AutoPowerOff Delay:   28800
  AutoPowerOff Enabled: 1
  Current Power Source: Yes
  DarkWakeBackgroundTasks:  0
  Display Sleep Uses Dim:   Yes
  GPUSwitch:    2
  Hibernate Mode:   3
  High Standby Delay:   86400
  ProximityDarkWake:    0
  Reduce Brightness:    Yes
  Standby Battery Threshold:    50
  Standby Delay:    10800
  Standby Enabled:  1
  TCPKeepAlivePref: 1

Hardware Configuration:

  UPS Installed:    No

AC Charger Information:

  Connected:    No
  Charging: No


texts: Macbook pro doesn't go to sleep after left inactive

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In Energy Saver settings (System Preferences -> Hardware section) the Mac is set to sleep after 15 minutes, but nothing happens.

Mac drains battery and automatically turns off when battery is low.

If I type pmset -g assertions in terminal, I get this:

3/31/14 5:46:52 AM EDT
Assertion status system-wide:
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
PreventSystemSleep             0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
InternalPreventDisplaySleep    0
ExternalMedia                  0
UserIsActive                   0
ApplePushServiceTask           0
BackgroundTask                 0

Listed by owning process:
  pid 251(coreaudiod): [0x0000000100000d01] 00:17:27 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,1:0'.noidlesleep"
  pid 251(coreaudiod): [0x0000000100000929] 01:11:47 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'BoomEngine:0'.noidlesleep"
  pid 269(helpd): [0x0000000c00000159] 02:37:33 BackgroundTask named:     "com.apple.helpd.sdmbuilding"

Kernel Assertions: None

How should I read this? Why PreventUserIdleSystemSleep is set to one?
How I can set up Mac go to sleep after certain time of inactivity?


texts: Mix n match RAM memory in iMac with (potentially) an empty slot remaining

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I'm experienced with Windows, not so much with Mac. I've just been given a 27" iMac (it's a mid 2011 model) by someone who no longer needs it. It has 4 memory slots and presently two are occupied with 2Gb modules each (4Gb total RAM).

Another friend has offered me a 4Gb module and a 2Gb module. I've checked the specs and they are compatible with this model iMac.

Is it an option to put each of these in the 2 remaining slots, so that 3 slots have 2GB and 1 slot has 4Gb?

While this question: Is using mid 2012 MacBook Pro RAM in mid 2011 iMac 27" an option? is similar, it does not address the following question I have:

And if one of these is bad memory, can I only use one? By this I mean 2 slots have the original 2Gb modules, one slot has either the 2 or 4Gb module, and the last slot is empty.


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"All My Files" in Finder of Lion has stopped working.

I suspect that this has happened after installing Path Finder 5.7.8.


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I just ran this command and saw that Safari was modified.

$ codesign --verify -vv /Applications/Safari.app/
--validated:/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariForWebKitDevelopment
/Applications/Safari.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
file modified: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
file modified: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ServicesMenu.strings

My questions are:

Is there any way to see what exactly was changed?
Why Safari could have been modified? (I didn't do it and I don't suspect a virus to change translations)

I'm running Safari 7.0.5 on OS X 10.9.4


texts: Phone calls from sons phone showing up on my phone

texts: How do I stop my sons phone calls from showing up on my phone?


texts: Can't mount NFS share in Big Sur - crash with NFSv4, rpc error with v3

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I have an NFS mount that worked in prior versions of macOS (I'm currently on 11.2.1 Big Sur), being served from a Raspberry Pi.
I can see the mount on the remote server with showmount:
$ showmount -e 10.0.100.119
Exports list on 10.0.100.119:
/mnt/ssd/shared-nfs                 *

And rpcbind seems to show all the ports configured correctly:
$ rpcinfo -p 10.0.100.119
   program vers proto   port
    100000    4   tcp    111  rpcbind
    100000    3   tcp    111  rpcbind
    100000    2   tcp    111  rpcbind
    100000    4   udp    111  rpcbind
    100000    3   udp    111  rpcbind
    100000    2   udp    111  rpcbind
    100005    1   udp  54106  mountd
    100005    1   tcp  47295  mountd
    100005    2   udp  57827  mountd
    100005    2   tcp  49259  mountd
    100005    3   udp  54143  mountd
    100005    3   tcp  50115  mountd
    100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
    100003    4   tcp   2049  nfs
    100227    3   tcp   2049  nfs_acl
    100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
    100227    3   udp   2049  nfs_acl
    100021    1   udp  44848  nlockmgr
    100021    3   udp  44848  nlockmgr
    100021    4   udp  44848  nlockmgr
    100021    1   tcp  40361  nlockmgr
    100021    3   tcp  40361  nlockmgr
    100021    4   tcp  40361  nlockmgr

If I go into the Finder, press Command+K, and connect to nfs://10.0.100.119:/mnt/ssd/shared-nfs, it gives an error in Console.app:

nfs: STAT(NSM) rpc service is not available, unable to mount with current lock mode.

If I connect explicitly with NFSv4, with nfs://vers=4,10.0.100.119:/mnt/ssd/shared-nfs, Console.app shows ReportCrash Saved crash report for mount_nfs[60875] version 150.40.3, and if I view it, some of the relevant lines are:
Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [60875]

VM Regions Near 0x20:
-->
    __TEXT                      10f907000-10f913000    [   48K] r-x/r-x SM=COW  /sbin/mount_nfs

Application Specific Information:
dyld3 mode

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   mount_nfs                       0x000000010f90c1da 0x10f907000 + 20954
1   libdyld.dylib                   0x00007fff204ca621 start + 1

I was also trying to mount the thing via the CLI (e.g. mount -t nfs -o vers=4 10.0.100.119:/mnt/sshd/shared-nfs /Volumes/share), but couldn't find any way to do it that didn't result in an error :(


texts: How to run Say "something" in background in AppleScript

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I would like to have AppleScript code like this:

row 1
say "some long text here"
row 3

When it starts to speak text, it same time continues to row 3.

I create my scripts in AppleScript Editor and i don't know enough about process control on OS X to understand backgrounding yet.


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I've loaded the kindle app onto my IPad3.  I've made notes and highlights within that app, and I've given plenty opportunity for those to sync with Amazon...so that I can download those notes onto my kindle app on my PC.

But the only thing about this kindle-app-on-IPad that syncs successfully is the "furthest page read."  All my notes and highlights are not syncing.  How do I resolve this?

Now for a segue from my question...

I'm noticing a pattern here.  The IPad...

Can't sync OneNote correctly
Can't sync ITunes correctly
Can't sync its own Calendar correctly
and now it can't sync the Kindle correctly

In short, I don't think the IPad is a proper "connected" device.  I'm at a point where I would recommend a Galaxy or Windows tablet to others...

Update
I went to the Genius bar at the Apple store.  These various problems are mostly resoled.  See separate links above for the answers.


texts: Download OS update only once for all home computers

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I want to upgrade all my home computers (4 macbooks running 10.8) to the new Mavericks OS.

I have a download cap, so i dont want to download it 4 times. How can i download it once and install it on all computers?


texts: Internet Sharing: Using the MacBook Pro as a Wifi Modem with its Ethernet Connection for the iPhone, connectivity issues

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I am endeavoring to use the MacBook Pro to broadcast its Ethernet Internet connection as WiFi, in order to access this connection through my iPhone.

I have made the following configurations:

I have configured the Internet sharing network to employ WEP pass phrases et al.

In my Network Preferences, I have configured the Wifi to have a manually configured IPv4 Protocol with 192.168.1.1 being the Router, a DNS name server, a class C Subnet mask.

In my iPhone device, I have configured it as a Static IP configuration for the Wifi, with 10.1.1.1 being the MBP's IP and 10.1.1.2 being the iPhone's IP, with a class C Subnet Mask with a DNS name server, 10.1.1.1. being the router and local.lan for the Search Domains field.

The issue is: There is no Internet connectivity in the iPhone device. The device reports "Check if you have Internet Connectivity and try again"

iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1
MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.4

Any insights into how this can be resolved?


texts: Record Notability Notes with AirPods Pro to iPad Pro (and/or Mac)?

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I live in a studio apartment with my boyfriend who often works really late. He gets home at 3am and needs to get quality rest. The problem is I need to attend all of my online classes in-person at 8 am in the morning. I really want to be able to record the lectures on Notability (so that I can play them back later in a way the is connected the the timing of the note modifying) while using Notability on my iPad Pro.
I’m viewing the lecture on my MacBook, but if it makes the solution easier I can also enter the lecture (Zoom) on my iPad Pro.


texts: I have made a decision to install Mac OS from scratch so I have erased the disk part.(by cmd-r beginning of OS). Now, I'm using Windows(bootcamp). Is there any way to install Mac OS via USB stick and downloading, writing it into the USB on Windows?


texts: What is the 13th extra key on the new MacBook Air (vs. the new MacBook Pro)?

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The new M1 MacBook Pro has "65 (U.S.) or 66 (ISO) keys" plus a Touch Bar.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/
The new M1 MacBook Air has no Touch Bar, but instead has 13 more keys, "78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 function keys".
https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/
So 12 of the 13 additional keys are accounted for by the extra 12 function keys (instead of the Touch Bar).
What is the 13th additional key (that is not one of the 12 function keys) that is on the new M1 MacBook Air but not on the new M1 MacBook Pro?
P.S. An acceptable Answer would include giving support/documentation for the conclusion that Apple's claim (that the new M1 MacBook Pro has only "65 (U.S.) or 66 (ISO) keys") is an error, that new M1 MacBook Pro actually has 66 (U.S.) or 67 (ISO) keys, and that the only difference in keys is the 12 function keys.


texts: How to organize/receive emails on one account while sending from another

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I have had a Yahoo account for a number of years and recently got a Gmail account. Since my Yahoo account has all my emails since forever saved into folders that are helpful for me to keep organized, I have set up my Gmail to forward all emails Gmail receives to my Yahoo account, so that I can continue to use the Yahoo system while giving people my new Gmail address.

So, in my Mail app I use Yahoo. But I would like the emails that I send to appear as being sent from my Gmail address.

I have tried adding the Gmail account and then setting Gmail as the default account. That didn't work. I have also tried clicking on Yahoo in the settings and then going to the outgoing server setting and entering in smtp.gmail.com. That didn't work either. I also tried deleting my Yahoo account and re-adding it, in case the order that the accounts were added had anything to do with it.

Any advice on how I can continue to use Yahoo to organize my emails, but have them send AUTOMATICALLY from my Gmail address?

Thank you very much! :)


texts: I have a old MB, which has Snow Leopard 10.6 Installed onto it. How can I fix the overheating and that fan noise? Whenever i open a large file or like install Windows 7 from Bootcamp, it would overheat and make some wind noises from the fan. It's a preety fast mac, i installed new RAM and just newly installed SL onto it. Can someone help me?


texts: How can I bring a window to frontmost without focusing it using Applescript in OS X 10.8

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I want to bring a window (QuickTime for example) to frontmost, without focusing it. I can do it in OS X 10.7 using the following code in Applescript.

tell application "System Events"
    set visible of process "QuickTime Player" to true
end tell

This is a Python equivalent.

from ScriptingBridge import *
process = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier_('com.apple.systemevents').processes().objectWithName_('QuickTime Player')
process.setVisible_(True)

But it does not work after I upgraded to OS X 10.8. Is there any way to make it work?


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I am a little bit confused. I want to use an iPad with Sidecar and OneNote on a MacBook Pro. Everything is working fine, but if I select "Text mode" under drawing, I am not able to control my cursor with the Apple Pencil, instead the pencil is drawing lines which can only be erased by selecting a pen under "Draw" in OneNote.

I simply need to control the cursor with the Apple Pencil. Is that possible?


texts: How to screen capture high-quality for printing for 300 DPI?

texts: On the Mac I am aware of how to do a screen capture, but it creates a 72 DPI image. We need a much higher quality image because it's for printing on a color laser printer. We need to be able to print this out high-quality so it looks good on a 11 x 17 inch paper. Thanks!


texts: File contents remains in terminal after exiting Vim?

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I'm using the stock terminal with zsh and vim. After I exit vim, the file contents remains in the terminal. Ideally, only the previous history would be in the terminal when I exit vim (such as the behavior I've seen with linux/bash).

How can I accomplish that?

Update

I'm running os x Yosemite 10.10.1

I tried glenn jackman's suggestion below, but still no dice.

Additional information:

echo $TERM produces ansi

I also tried in bash with the same results.

I also tried removing .vimrc completely with the same results.


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I started with Leopard OSX, then upgraded to Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion.

Now Mountain Lion is unleashed. Is it recommended to make a fresh install or upgrading is just fine?

Does OSX suffer from bad performance over multiple OS upgrading processes?


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When I run

rsync -avz --exclude-from=exc ~/ /Volumes/Backup/home/

I get the message

sending incremental file list
./
.DS_Store
...<snip>... (lots of files)....
End of list of files

sent 72,625,409 bytes  received 16,434 bytes  1,793,625.75 bytes/sec
total size is 28,049,731,319  speedup is 386.14
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
(code 23) at main.c(1249) [sender=3.1.2]

What should I do to avoid this error message?


texts: Ethernet LAN speed too slow on one machine

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I have a LAN that has 4 Macs and a router / switch to connect them all.

My Ethernet LAN speed on my iMac is pathetically slow. I additionally have a MacMini, MacBook and G4 in my LAN, they all go way faster. For measuring I used a 220GB file to copy from one machine to another. While between the MacMini and MacBook this estimates to take about an hour, when copying to my iMac this measures at about 15 hours.

I then unplugged the cable from the iMac and plugged it into the MacBook to check if it might be a cable, and the speed was fine. So the cables seem to be fine.

I then connected the MacBook directly to my iMac bypassing the router and the speed was fine too, so the iMac port seems to be fine.

So, I’m thinking it’s something in the settings. On the iMac, I have two partitions, one running 10.11.6 and one running 10.6.8. On both systems I got the same results. When looking at network Utility, it shows Gigabit.

I reset the router and switch, restarted the iMac and am out of ideas right now.


texts: I am having trouble decoding a .ecm file on my computer.  This is my first Mac so I'm new to the different operating systems.  I'm on a MacBook Pro, Snow Leopard I believe, I know I haven't upgraded to Lion.  10.6.8 seems to be the current version.  I have the cmdpack downloaded from Neill Corlett, just not sure how to use it really.  Any help you can give would be much appreciated.  Thanks.


texts: No web tab on the OS X Lion Server interface

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I just installed Mac OS X Lion Server and it doesn't have the Web tab in the services pane. This looked like it was supposed to come standard.

How else can I access the Web part of the server?


texts: will Airline Power Adapter work in a car lighter as well?

texts: Trying to see if I would buy this accessory with a new MacBook Air 11'', does anyone know if the Airline Power Adapter work exactly as a charger that we normally use in the car?


texts: TimeMachine inconsistant with backed up data. How do I access earlier data from the backup - they ARE there, Time Machine just doesn't show them

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This is a bit difficult,. I will try to explain in detail, please excuse if it get's a little long.

Outlook 2011 crashed, and I was advised to reinstall. That was a mistake, all my local folders in which I had a lot of mails sorted by projects and other criteria disappeared.

Luckily I had a Timemachine backup on our network connected Timecapsule.

I found the backup, which was a .dmg file and copied it to an external USB harddisk and brought everything home, hoping to be able to reconstruct the missing bits.

Well. I doubleclick the .dmg file and up pops a disk image with the wellknown Backups.backupdb folder on it.

In this folder, I see everything … backups all the way back to Nov 22 2012

Wohoooo …. I start TimeMachine. And nothing happens. Nothing at all. It doesn't launch.

I check the settings, and Time Machine ask if I want to use the "new" disk as my backup target, and I can select if i want to replace the old target or use both. I select "Use both".

Since I'm at home and not on the business network, TimeMachine cannot access the TimeCapsule and makes a backup to the external usb HD.

I let it run, and again truies to launch TimeMachine, and whoa … there it is with stars and galaxies and all … except, it only goes back 5 minutes. It will not go back to the date I want/need.

Looking at the USB harddisk, I still have only one file there … Peters backup.dmg … doubleclicking this file results in a disk image on the desktop called Time Machine Backups.

This disk image contains the Backups.backupdb folder and yes … there it is. All of it. backup folders back to Nov 22 2012 with the most recent being just 5 minutes old …

And still, when I launch TimeMachine all I can access is the latest backup.


texts: On my iPad, how can I tell if a website is secure on Safari?

texts: Does the web address have to be in green, or is it secure if it's in black?


texts: How to stop a Mac app from launching at startup?

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How can I stop an app from launching at startup when:

right click on the app on the dock > options > open at login is not ticked.
the app is not on the login items list (System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items)


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There are two WIFIs at work. One official and one for guests (which is also used to connect to for privat devices like iPhones). I have the same Apple ID and keychain access configured on my private iPhone and the MacBook.

There is a order of WIFIs in the settings to which the device will connect to first. I want to connect the iPhone to the guest WIFI, but the MacBook to the official WIFI. The order of the WIFIs is also synced and changing one will always effect the other one.

Is there a way to disable sync of the order or of a specific WIFI?


texts: File Sharing Mac-PC results in Permission Changed and Locked Files

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Recently I decided to recycle one of my old Macs into a home-file-sharing-server.

The Mac running Yosemite is connected to a router with Ethernet and is running PLEX server. A hard drive is also mounted.
Everything workes fine. I can access the Mac with ARD, start and control downloads with remote Transmission, and Manage my Plex server... everything from work.

Sometimes I download from another Mac on my local network, aiming my server as a destination folder... never had a problem.

But when my wife tries the same from her computer, everything changes.

I Shared two folders. Created her an account and Added her account to the sharing permissions of theses two folders.
So far so good, she can mount those two folders on her PC running W$7.
She can open uTorrent. She can select my shared folders as destination folder for her downloads (after login-in).

But when she creates a new folder into the Shared ones, the Permissions are changing. With Cmd-I, I can see that I'm not even present in the permissions lists (red Wrong-way sign). I have to add myself into the permissions list on my own computer.
Then comes the downloaded files. This one is always lock (lock box checked) and lock icon.

The result is that Plex cannot add the freshly downloaded files and that I have to interfere into a normally automated process which is pointless.

Don't need to add that I am using the "Apply these settings to all content" options... But its not working for New files. I'm using SMB setting for her to access my folders

I have look for answers but can't find one matching my needs.

Please give me a hint if you can,

Regards,

Quentin


texts: How do I get Siri to ignore a particular contact that shares someone else's name?

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I have two people in my contacts with the same first name (let's call them John). One person, John Appleseed, I talk to all the time. The other one, John Doe, I haven't spoken to in years.

When I tell Siri something like "Where is John?" or "Text John What's up?", I'm frequently asked "Which one? John Appleseed, or John Doe?"

Other than deleting the unfortunate person who shares the same first name as someone I talk to all the time, how can I teach Siri that "John" always refers to John Appleseed?


texts: How do I configure CURL to use the same root certificates as Safari?

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It seems that CURL on OS X (10.10) is broken because it does not contain the same set of root SSL certificates as Safari.

Due to this it seems that there is a high chance for your to be unable to use curl with some HTTPS sites.

I observed that there is a guide on getting a list of certificates from
http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem but this seems bad for two reasons:

You are forced to get the certificates using HTTP instead of HTTPS so with minimal effort someone could give you a wrong list of certificates.
These may get outdated and I would prefer to use the same set of root certificates as the rest of the OS.

What steps can be taken to get curl to match Safari when accessing web certificates?


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I have an iphone 4s, and it will not unlock, using my normal pin. I took it to a computer store, but they want 60$/hr for a 4hour minimum of work. This is more than I can afford.

Is there any other way to get this phone unlocked? I do not want to do a factory reset, there are pictures, and phone numbers, that I do not want to loose. I looked around on other sites, and those sites look sketchy.

I don't want to jail-brake the phone, I just want to get my files, and be able to use it again.


texts: How to stop apps from opening my browser

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I have installed few apps that after they auto update, they open up my browser on their maker's web site. It's very annoying and I don't know how to stop it. Viber is probably the worst, updates without permission and I have no idea how to stop it from opening their website.

Is it possible to block apps from opening Chrome/Safari or whatever my browser is?


texts: How to access user installed menubar icons with the keyboard?

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I understand that Ctrl + F8 can be used to access the built-in Apple menu and Ctrl + F2 can be used to access program menus (e.g. this existing answer).

However, I have a bunch of user-installed items in the menu bar (e.g. Better Touch Tool, Caffeine, Alfred, Dropbox, etc.) and neither of the above key combinations allow access to these items.

How can I access the user-installed items in the menu bar using the keyboard?


texts: I want to change my cellphone number but I am not sure if that will erase the entire contents of my iPhone. Will it?


texts: Can I change the behavior of ⌘^D to define highlighted word an not the one under cursor?

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Keyboard shortcuts are about NOT using the mouse. When I select a word and press Command+Control+D, I want the selected word defined NOT whatever word may appear under my cursor.
If no word is under the cursor, it works great. Can I make the definition popover just ignore the mouse cursor?


texts: iOS6 has loaded someone totally different's details

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I did an Over The Air update on my iPhone 4S this morning to IOS6. But it has showed me someone elses phone number after the update.

When I send an iMessage to my wife, it comes from this random persons phone number. When I try to facetime, it comes from this other number. But "Phone" shows the correct phone number:

^ This is the FaceTime setup. That is not my phone number. I have never seen that number in my life before.

^ This is the Phone set up. That is my phone number.

What's going on? How can I change this? Has someone else got my phone number and is getting my wifes messages?


texts: Deleting an app’s data from the iOS Keychain, or resetting the Keychain entirely

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I installed an app that stores a persistent identifier in the iOS keychain, even after uninstalling and reinstalling it. This really bugs me. Is there a way to delete said app's data from the Keychain, or worst-case resetting the entire iOS Keychain, without resetting the device completely?

Note: I'm not talking about the iCloud Keychain, but the on-device keychain that apps can store small bits of data in.


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I tried to google my question without any answer that works...

I have an id_dsa private key, but "lost" my public one.

When I generate a new public one with ssh-keygen -yf .ssh/id_dsa > .ssh/id_dsa.pub, ssh starts asking me for password instead of passphrase.

It might be related to xattr on that file? If yes, didn't find how to set proper xattr on id_dsa.pub.

Any idea how to regenerate my public key ? (excepted generate a new keypair ^^)

Thanks for the time you spent reading me ;-)

[edit]

hope this will help

output of ssh -v someserver

OpenSSH_7.3p1, LibreSSL 2.4.1
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/***/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/***/.ssh/config line 53: Applying options for aliasname
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to ftp.some-server.com [213.186.some.ip] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/***/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.3
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.0p1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.0p1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: Authenticating to ftp.some-server.com:22 as 'aliasname'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: ecdh-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-rsa
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: aes128-ctr MAC: umac-64@openssh.com compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: aes128-ctr MAC: umac-64@openssh.com compression: none
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ssh-rsa SHA256:**********************
debug1: Host 'ftp.some-server.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/***/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug1: rekey after 4294967296 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: rekey after 4294967296 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Skipping ssh-dss key /Users/***/.ssh/id_dsa - not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/***/.ssh/github_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/***/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/***/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/***/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Next authentication method: password


texts: Will I ever lose the apps that I've bought?

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Say I've bought an app for $0.99. If I delete it, and then I require that app again, do I need to pay another $0.99?

(OK, I really don't want to waste $0.99 just to try it…)


texts: What video resolutions does late-2015 iMac 5K support on external monitors?

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I've got a Core i5 3.2GHz iMac with AMD R9 M390 2Gb. I decided to connect my old HP LP3065 monitor, but to my surprise it would only show either 1280x800 or 1024x640, though it supposed to be up to 2560x1600.

Could the problem be with graphics card, cable, or old monitor?


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In the last few days I've had a sudden flash of gray in the background. I'm on MacOS 10.7.5. I'm not able to provide a screenshot because it only happens for a split second, but here is a more or less accurate mock-up:

It happens on average 1 time per hour, though it's not regular. Sometimes 5 mins pass till the next flash of gray. It covers multi-monitors and it also happens if my external monitor is not connected.

Any ideas?


texts: iTunes Doesn't Won't Let Me Use An Alias Folder To Save iOS Backups in macOS Sierra?

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So in El Capitan (and probably earlier), I was able to go to Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup and copy that folder to an external hard drive, delete the old folder on my internal drive, and use terminal to create an alias folder of the one on my external hard drive to place where the folder went on my internal drive (ln -s /Volumes/INSERT HARD DRIVE NAME HERE/MobileSync/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup). The alias folder had the same name ("Backup") as the "real" one and so, as long as I had my external drive connected while I was trying to run iOS device backups, it worked. iOS device backups were saved to the external hard drive instead of internal SSD.

However, in Sierra, this doesn't work. Even if I do it the other way of highlighting the "Backup" folder on the external drive, pressing ⌘-L, and manually moving the alias folder to where it would go on my internal drive, it still doesn't work. Everything in Finder looks just like it did in El Capitan, however I get "iTunes could not backup the iPhone because an error occurred" when I try to backup my iPhone.

I am running the latest version of Sierra, the latest version of iTunes, and my iPhone is running the latest version of iOS. I've restarted both my Mac and iPhone and even tried backing-up a family member's iPhone, but to no avail.


texts: Does OS X scale the resolution of my screen?

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I'm using an Early 2015 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display and it has a native screen resolution of 2560 by1600 pixels, the default setting says "looks like 1280x800", and it seems like every program thinks this is my resolution I've set it to the "More space" option, which says "looks like 1650x1050", for now.

This is still a problem for me, everything looks far too big for what I need. Is there any way to make the 2560x1600 display to look like "real 2560x1600"? Or is this just a thing OS X does?

PS: I've tried this in OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra.


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I have a local account and a network account on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). I am running Yosemite 10.10.3.

I mainly do my work on my local account and then when necessary I log onto my network account.

I wish to share my users/localusername/work/ folder and all the subfolders with users/networkusername/work/.

When I follow the directions given i.e. go to system preferences/sharing select the folder I wish to share and then the user and permissions read/write, all seems ok except that a number of subfolders (not all) are completely missing.

It is also doesn't work in reverse. If I do something in the networkusername/work  it is not updated in the localusername/work.

Any hints or suggestions?


texts: USB-C charger only delivery direct power to Macbook even if battery is not full

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I have a USB-C charger 87W which I use for my MacBook Pro 15-inch (2018). It only delivers power to my MacBook but doesn't charge the battery (shows a black icon at the top right-hand corner) even if the battery is not full.

What does this mean in electrical terms (the charger is not providing enough watts? The voltage is wrong?) and what can I do to make the charger charge the battery (eg change the USB-C cable? Change the part that connects to a wall socket? Buy a new charger?)


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I'm French excuse me for my English.

I've noticed, since I've updated my iPhone 6 to  iOS 10 that I'm always out of storage.
This is very strange for various reasons and here are some :

I used to have faaaaaaar more apps (now I only have just a little more than one screen) - starting from home.
I have 0 pictures/videos.
No big app (Spotify, Slack, Tinder, Piano Tiles...)
I used to have instagram, facebook and messenger but since I have this problem, I'm obliged to use Friendly.
when I delete an app, I see the storage counter in Settings going from (eg.) 134,7Mb to 0Mb in 2 minutes.
When I count the storage taken by my apps, it's not equal to what is written in the settings (see my screenshot).

As an unfortunate coincidence, the iPhone 7 just came out, that leads me to conclude that Apple damage its old stars (the iPhone 6 in my case) to make us buy the new one.

Why doesn't apple allow us to clean apps cache ?
Why, when I delete an Apple's app, since it is allowed, and then redownload it, the download is not long because... it's instantaneous ? The app is not really erased ?

Does anyone have the same problem or know how to avoid it ? Thanks

PS : notice the photos app telling that I have 133 and something...mb. I have 0 picture and even deleted the screenshots !

PS2 : I have this iPhone since a little more than a year and it was an iPhone I was given in an Apple Store (Opera) after my other iPhone had a problem. And guess what, this précédent iPhone was, this one too, an exchange!


texts: Lately I've been working on videography, but I've been using iMovie on my MacBook Pro, and its about 8 years old, and I know for sure there's an update for the iMovie, but when I go to app store it says theres no updates?


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With the introduction of Mountain Lion, Preview acts up whenever I need to save a file.  It does this regardless of whether I use File > Save or Command+S.  The logs tell the same story:

10/20/12 10:54:48.700 PM Preview[56917]: RVS:__54-[NSRemoteSavePanel _runOrderingOperationWithContext:]_block_invoke_0319 : Timeout occured while waiting for the window

Right after Preview stops responding, this log shows up and I can use Preview normally again.  This also occurs when I try to Move to...  from the window menu.

I have all of Mountain Lion's latest updates. Is this a bug just like this and is Apple aware of it?  Is anyone else experiencing these issues and are there known workarounds (besides quitting and re-opening Preview [although it does save your work and annotations right before, because of Auto Save...?] or using Skitch).


texts: I want to restore a device I previously selected to 'Forget Device' on Bluetooth

texts: I have Apple Nano 7th generation.  I turned on Bluetooth and a device was recognized. I selected Forget this Device.  I now want to restore the device. How can I do this?


texts: How can I export my iPhoto library so I can import it on another computer?

texts: I want to export my iPhoto library so that I can import it onto another computer and still keep the Events I've organized etc. How can I do this?


texts: Automatically close Chrome tabs (for certain websites)

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On our family mac, each child has a separate account, which is very nice.

The kids use Chrome for their browser, because the parental controls work so well (much better than the OS X built-in ones!), but the parental control mode doesn't allow extensions, and some of the websites they leave open (ChoreMonster, Mathletics) really peg the CPU.  If these sites are left open (on the kids' users) then when my wife or I try to log in to our user, our brand new mac is unbearably slow.

Is there an OS X-based way to shut down tabs for certain sites whenever it switches away from that user, or when the browser is idle for a long time?  A way that doesn't require a Chrome extension?

Automator, perhaps?


texts: How can I manually change my dropbox folder location when it won't show in the chooser

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When trying to choose a dropbox folder location, the folder I want to use is not visible in the file chooser dialog. I can see the folder in finder and terminal. I recently copied my home folder to a new disk but Dropbox has kept the original path to Users/me/dropbox

Has anyone done this manually? Is it enough to change ~/.dropbox/info.json?

folder permissions are :

drwxr-xr-x@ 86 myusername  staff  2924 29 Jun 19:43 foldername

ls -le:

drwxr-xr-x@ 86 myname  staff  2924 29 Jun 19:43 foldername
 0: group:everyone deny delete


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Why do the Browsers like Firefox and Chrome on OSX consume more and more power over time.

If reset and reopen same pages they power consumption is way less, but again it will grow over time.

My question is why the power consumption goes up over time, and it is back down after restarting browser while opening same pages ?


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I was considering purchasing a new Mac Mini as a way of upgrading my 2007 iMac.  If this is not possible, I'll probably just purchase a new iMac.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: White streaks (image retention) on the sides of iPhone 5S screen?

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Not sure why this happened, but I had a conversation for 50 minutes and then realised some weird white streaks on the screen after I hung up. The streaks are now gone (gladly), it seems like the screen was overheating or something ??

What is the cause of this anomaly ?

EDIT

This seems to happen every time I make a phone call ! The white streaks appear and start fading over time. Am I the only one with this problem ?

**EDIT 2 **

Still have this problem but no permanent marks as of now. It's just a weird phenomenon that happens every time I receive a call.

Example of this (recreation) :


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I'd just like to know how to add multiple lines in my autotyper.

Currently, all that it can do is repeat the same lines over and over again, which is "NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE".

I'd like to find out how to add multiple different lines of text, then for the lines to repeat.

Here is my current code:

tell application "System Events"
delay 1
set textToType to "NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE"
    repeat
        delay 5
        keystroke textToType
        keystroke return
    end repeat
end tell


texts: Apple watch always displays the wrong high temperature

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I'm having trouble understanding the Apple watch high and low temperature values. They are never correct.

In Nyc, the high is going to be 81 today. However when I looked this morning it said 72 degrees.  When I scroll forward I get time travel to update the weather values. Somewhat.

Right now as I scroll the low value for the day is 57. But as I scroll the high value keeps changing.

Is this a bug?  What is the frame of reference? (High in the past hour, past day, etc)


texts: Command+Click does not work in Google Scholar + Firefox

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For example, see this page:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=cancer&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=

When I do command+click on the article titles, Firefox does neither open a link nor open a tab. In any other browsers, it works well. When I do right click and manually choose "Open Link in New Tab", it works well.

Is this only my problem, potentially a problem of one of my extensions?

Firefox 21.0, OS X Mountain Lion


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable hidden files in Finder?

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Is there an easy way to show and then hide and then show and then hide (as in toggle) “hidden” files in macOS High Sierra?

I’ve found I can use the following terminal commands to show them:

 defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

and then use these terminal commands to hide them:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

killall Finder

but this is clumsy!

I then came across Onyx which allows me to do this at will, but unless I want to keep it open, it’s not a good option because it takes forever to launch!

I did check the list of keyboard shortcuts at this Apple website in the hope it may be that simple, but no go.

What is the absolute easiest way to enable/disable this option? If there's no keyboard shortcut, what's the next best option?


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I have a MacBook Pro with SSD drive.  I am concerned that leaving it on (closing the lid when not in use) will wear out the SSD drive quicker than fully shutting the system off.  The boot up time is really not too big of a deal considering that when I'm away from the computer it's usually for many hours at a time. The way it is right now the unit is up instantly when I turn on the power button.

Which mode will best prolong the life of the SSD drive?


texts: How can I undo "always allow" in keychain item

texts: By mistake, I clicked on "always allow" on a file in my keychain on the Mac. How do I undo this and restrict access? I tried to correct it by clicking on Access Control. There I selected "confirm before allowing access" but it didn't work. I can still see the password for that file without entering a password.


texts: How does the OS X font fallback system work?

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I'm trying to design a font containing symbols for internal use in our organisation.

I've created a font using this tutorial, and I've assigned a symbol to the unicode position 0xF600. This lies within the 'Private use area', and doesn't appear to have any fonts which are supplying it.

I've created my font and installed it. I've tried with the font in either ~/Library/Fonts or /System/Library/Fonts.

If I insert this character () in TextEdit or any system text box I get either a box or some kind of mark contained within a box. Either way, not my character.

If I manually set the font to my font, the character is displayed.

However, I notice that other characters don't work like this. If I'm using Helvetica, and I insert a Chinese character, the symbol is taken from a different font which can display that glyph. So clearly there's a mechanism to fallback to a font which contains the character.

Are some fonts blessed by the system? How would I get my font to be the fallback?

EDIT: I've tried clearing the font cache with sudo atsutil databases -remove, didn't affect it.

EDIT 2: After poking around a bit and doing some reading, there's a font called LastResort.ttf that is the final fallback for all the unicode characters, there must be a precedence set somewhere in the system, so that that is always last. I wonder where that is...


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So, I just installed windows 10, upgraded from a copy of windows 7. After the upgrade, the trackpad didn't work, the volume worked for a little bit and now it is gone. The other keys that control screen brightness, key backlights, etc. do not work also.

It seems the support drivers did not install when I installed windows 7. I upgraded to windows 10 without knowing this.

I've tried to download the windows 10 drivers from bootcamp, but it only downloads the windows 7 drivers. At first I didn't know this and when I went to install them, it said that I needed to revert back to windows 7 to install the drivers.

Is this my only option? To revert back to windows 7 and then reinstall windows 10? Is there anyone who knows or can upload the windows 10 support drivers?

If it helps, my bootcamp version is 6.0.1. Thanks in advance.


texts: zsh can't see and doesn't load the ~/.zshrc startup file

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After upgrading to Catalina and encountering the zsh upgrade reminder when launching Terminal, I've decided to switch to zsh.
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

However, I'm having trouble getting Terminal/zsh to recognize the .zshrc startup file located in my home folder. ~/zshrc isn't loaded on launch, and executing source ~/.zshrc returns source: no such file or directory.
The file only contains one line, an alias tying python to python3.


texts: Rsyncd: unable to bind any inbound sockets on port 873

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I'm running OS X El Capitan.

I want to run rsync in daemon mode but I'm unable to do it. Here is the error from /var/log/system./log:

rsyncd[1329]: unable to bind any inbound sockets on port 873
rsyncd[1329]: rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-47/rsync/socket.c(477) [receiver=2.6.9]

Any advice?


texts: When running a command from terminal, how can I know the full path of the command?

texts: Assuming I'm writing in Terminal: 'ctags', how can I know the full path of the command 'ctags?


texts: Big Sur "sleep" does not lock screen (when slept via keyboard shortcut)

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EDIT: corrected keyboard shortcut to say ⏻ rather than ⏏
I put my computer to sleep using cmd+opt+⏻ whenever I leave my desk.
For years, this has reliably locked the screen of the computer.
But ever since I upgraded to macOS 11 Big Sur: sleeping the computer does not lock the screen. I return to my computer later (minutes or hours), wake it up with the keyboard, and find that the computer is ready-to-use; no lock screen is presented.
Specifically, sleeping via keyboard shortcut does not lock it. Whereas sleeping by selecting "Sleep" with the mouse in the Apple menu seems to work.
My settings are the same as always:

I'm using a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15" Mid-2014) on 11.1 Big Sur.
I have all the latest updates:

Is anybody else experiencing this? For my part, this is a security regression that has reduced my trust in macOS.


texts: When the apple store replaces a battery in a 13in retina MacBook Pro, do they replace the top case and keyboard/trackpad assembly too?

texts: I ask because I have a key missing and my keyboard and would like them both fixed at the same time.


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I have the file Rprofile.site in /Macintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/

Searching 'Rprofile.site' in Spotlight does not find the file, and I have to manually go to the folder containing the file.

I'm on a Mac book pro using 10.8.2

Is there a way I can find the file using Spotlight?


texts: How to access the Menu Mnemonics of an X11 Program within macOS

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With the kind assistance of X11 Quartz background app I have an X11 app Dia diagramming tool running.

It is enticing to see those mnemonics apparently (?) available to use. I have a serious beef with macOS for not helping those of us who are keyboardists to have an option to work in that manner.

So, is it possible to access those mnemonics? I have tried various combinations of Option, Control, Control + Option, with/without Command plus the given letter.


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In Fluid.app's Userscripts section, you can write custom Javascript to modify the embedded site. Cool! My Fluid app's embedded site has the jQuery library loaded. I'd like to reference and use that jQuery library  from within my Userscripts… but it seems that it's not available to the Userscript.

How can I reference the already loaded jQuery library from within my Userscripts?


texts: How to fix VirtualBox that can't open since Mountain Lion upgrade?

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I've a lot of softwares on my Mac, so, I've forgot to check some of them before upgrading MacOS to Mountain Lion (from Lion)

Since Mountain Lion, VirtualBox throw this message when I try to open it:

  You can't open the application "VirtualBox.app" because it is not supported on the type of Mac

What is the better (not the simpler but really the better) way to update VirtualBox without breaking anything?

Can I install the latest version over the old one?
Or must I uninstall completely the old one and reinstall it form scratch?

Or anything else?

Which are the problems I can expect?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[EDIT] in reply to the comment:

The VirtualBox.app details declare version: 4.1.8

For the Mac, it's a

15 inch, Late 2011

Processor  2.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory  8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics  AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB
Software  OS X 10.8 (12A269)


texts: Is there a way to use TouchID for iTunes and App store only?

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I previously asked this question for iOS 7.  I am on iOS 8 now and in the Settings for Touch ID, there is a specific toggle for Use Touch ID for iTunes & App Store.

I turn it on - it tells me that I need to create a passcode (in case Touch ID isn't available).  After that, it makes me enter the passcode to unlock the phone.

Is there a way to use Touch ID exclusively for the iTunes and App Store and also not having a passcode on the device?


texts: Is it possible to disable a specific key in OSX?

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It appears my left shift key is permanently down on my MBP. All keys trigger capital letters, and numbers print out the symbols, I have to hold down esc when booting to prevent it from booting into safe mode...

I have taken the key off and cleaned underneath but that hasn't helped matters. If I open the visual keyboard I can see that the right shift responds to my presses but the left one does not, which leads me to think it is the one that is bust.

Is there any way for me to disable this key? I can make do with just using the right hand shift, obviously the laptop is practically un-usable with shift always being on...