texts: Option/speed Q's about best configs to upgrade early 2008 Mac Pro 8-core to SSD

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I'm a first-timer on here.

I too have an early 2008 MacPro 8-core 2.8ghz with 16gbRam and stock Radeon 2600 Vcard. It's fairly well configured, but I'm sure that can improve response for a reasonable purchase, which bring me to this inquiry.

The idea of using a 1tb SSD drive as a Boot drive to boost my Mac's overall response is exciting because this thing is a dog, even on Yosemite. What I don't know is if that will speed things up in general (and hopefully Photoshop) better than maxing my RAM.

My deeper Question here is which option would get me the most speed for the $ by:
1. maxing Ram to 32gb for ~$450
2. swap current SATA3 WD Caviar boot drive for an SSD (about same $)
3. add an SSD to my second Optical bay (about same $)
4. add an SSD to my second fast PCIe slot? (possibly more $$ than it's worth?)

I currently work a lot on 400mb+ Photoshop files. I keep the files on an internal 7200rpm SATA2 RAID-0, and use a 10,000rpm SATA3 disc as a scratch space.

Do you think I would see a stronger performance gain not only in finder ops, but also in Photoshop with the SSD vs double the RAM? Hard to know where my response time bottlenecks are in this box.
Would an SSD on a fast-lane PCIcard be better than on native internal bus to drive bays?

Any wisdom on options I've not considered would be deeply appreciated as I'm trying to save this box as I don't have the funds to buy a cylinder MPro or fast iMac.

My setup stats:

Running Yosemite, + background apps like Sophos, Fonts mgmt app, TimeMachine, DropBox, etc.
RAM: All slots used with 2gb Apple sticks.
Boot drive: 1tb 7.2k rpm WD Caviar SATA3/64cache containing only OS system, iTunes, etc. Only half space used. Kept optimized with DiskWarrior.
Internal 2tb 7.2k rpm Seagate Barracuda SATA2 Raid-0 for the files. Kept less than 70% full and regularly optimized.
150gb 10k rpm WD Velociraptor SATA3 as a dedicated scratch disk for PS.

thank you!  ~ dave


texts: Can a keyboard shortcut force TextEdit windows to close and discard all changes?

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Is there any way I could configure TextEdit to close the window (through keyboard shortcut) without asking me if I want to save an unsaved file?

Can be another script/program configure globally when triggered with a certain shortcut or just a script for TextEdit.

The reason for doing it is that I have a lot of temporary notes in TextEdit's window and I want to close them as fast as possible.


texts:
I can't understand what's taking all my storage as the apps listed don't add up and I don't download videos or music etc.
My iPad says I've used 12.2GB with 209MB available yet when I added everything up my total usage was 8GB. CONFUSED


texts: Is there an app (normal, jailbreak) that will keep my iPhone (3GS, OS 4.x) screen on, indefinitely, when it is plugged in, regardless of what app is running in the foreground?


texts: How do I convert old Pages documents to Pages '13?

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I have a document I created with an old Pages version. When I try to open it in Pages '13, I get the message :

  This document is too old. Please open and save with Pages '09

I don't have Pages '09 and I don't know where that old version of Pages is and if it will run on Mac OS 10.9.

Is there an easy way to convert the document? If there is no easy way, is there a way to at least extract the text from the document?


texts: Screen video capture application OS 10.5.8 (Leopard)

texts: Are there any freeware/shareware application to make a screen videocapture compatible with OSX 10.5.8?


texts: Location of historical 'last' command data (wtmp)

texts:
I can run
last myusername

and it will show all login information

myusername  console                   Fri Feb  5 09:06   still logged in

myusername  console                   Thu Feb  4 17:55 - 18:45  (00:50)

wtmp begins Thu Feb  4 17:50

However, it doesn't show anything older than that. I found that wtmp is saved in /var/log/asl/ but I can't find the exact place the historical login information is saved in. Where would I find the 'last' login info that is older than what is shown in the current 'last' command output?


texts: How to stream my .wmv movies to Apple TV using VLC with MacOS Lion?

texts:
I want to stream videos (several formats) but I don't want to convert it before to Apple format (H264).

Is there any free option that supports subtitle files? How to stream using VLC?


texts: VLC keeps freezing on Mac OS X El Capitan

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I have the latest versions for both El Capitan and VLC, however, ever since I've upgraded to El Capitan, VLC keeps freezing during playback. Generally to solve this: I have to pause, exit fullscreen, play and wait for it to start playing again. Every time it plays again, there is a grey overlap that comes over the video (which eventually goes away).

I was thinking that it may be a temporary thing but this has been happening to me quite often now. Is anyone else facing this? Are there any solutions out there?

It shouldn't be anything hardware related. I have a pretty decent configuration for a MacBook Pro NR.

VLC Version: 2.2.1 64-bit
Mac OS X Version: 10.11.3
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600 MHz
Processor: Intel i5 @ 2.5 GHz


texts: Constant external disk activity when MacBook is in sleep state

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I am using an external 2.5" hard drive (the original MacBook HD, which has been replaced by an SSD) in an Icy Box USB3 enclosure on my MacBook (running OSX Lion). When the MacBook goes to sleep, the activity led of the external hard disk gets on and you can hear a humming sound through the enclosure. This means there is some constant hard drive activity going on if the notebook is at sleep, which I find rather strange.

Does anyone experience a similar behaviour? Anyone know how I could fix this?

Maybe there are some people here that also use Icy Box enclosures for external drives, I'd be very interested if this is related to the enclosure?

Thanks for any hints.


texts: The working copy requires a newer version of Subversion than Xcode supports

texts:
I just installed Xcode 4.6 (I had Xcode 4.5.1). I just opened an existing project and got this message:

  The working copy "path/to/my project" requires a newer version of Subversion than Xcode supports.

I am currently using Cornerstone for svn, and understand that I can probably ignore this message - but since I want to be up-to-date, what do I need to do to resolve this issue?


texts: What would it take to make an iPad support multiple user accounts?

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As a mobile computer, the iPad is very personal, but it also begs to be shared. And that's a problem. I don't want my friends to be able to check my emails or delete my high score when they play with it.

Being based on OS X, iOS could theoretically support multiple user accounts. But adding new users (even if done correctly) wouldn't play nice with iTunes.

So, what about partitioning the hard drive and installing several instances of iOS? Add a screen early in the boot process that allows you to choose the partition, and thus the user.

Itunes would thus be able to sync many users separately on the same device, depending on the chosen partition.

To be clearer: I'm not just asking the question, I want to actually do it. Can anybody suggest means to achieve this?

Continued my research: apparently, it is possible to modify the Boot Rom (cf. Limera1n).


texts: MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2010 - upgrade HDD to SDD with intermittent Prohibitory sign

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Good morning folks,

I can't wrap my head around this one.

I recently upgraded a failing 250 GB HDD to a 1 TB SSD and transitioned the data using a hard drive duplicator.

When starting from a cold start, the computer boots fine and works very well.
However, when starting from a restart, the computer shows the prohibitory sign forcing me to turn off the computer. Since the subsequent start is a cold start, it then works fine again.

Does anyone have any insight as to why a system reboot would cause this behavior?

The OS is Sierra.
SDD was checked and repaired using DiskWarrior.
Apple Hardware Diagnostics reported "No trouble found"

It may help to note that the original HDD was throwing an I/O error in verbose mode and would not boot, but was able to be copied with a duplicator to the new SSD.

Thanks mate!


texts: iPhone how to disable “No speakable content can be found on the screen”

texts: My phone randomly pops up “No speakable content can be found on the screen”. In response to some gesture. How do I disable this feature completely?


texts:
I have a problem that I thought I knew the solution to, but apparently do not.

Somehow, in the past few days, I did something to change the behavior of the tab key and the spacebar when controlling iTunes. The space bar, when pressed in Miniplayer, closes Miniplayer and returns to the full app display, rather than play/pause (space remains play/pause in the full app--it does not return you to Miniplayer when pressed again). The tab key now moves between nearly every control on the screen, where previously it only transferred between text boxes and lists.

The first obvious thought I had was to go to the keyboard control panel/shortcuts and make sure that "Text boxes and lists only" was selected for Tab focus. This setting is correct - the behavior in iTunes acts as though "All controls" is selected, even though it is not.

So, the easy fix isn't working for me, and I need the next idea. Whatchya'll got?


texts: Automatically relaunch a closed application

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I have an application that opens when I login.

Is there a way to relaunch it automatically if it crashes or if I close it inadvertently?
(the application in question is Transmission if there is any solution specific to this app)

In a perfect world, it could even be launched even without me opening a session.

thanks.


texts:
Spotlight does not deliver any result from mail messages (although searching inside Mail.app works)

I tried to re-index the mails with the following result:

$ mdimport -Vp -d 4 -r /System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter
Total processing time spent in importer plug-ins: 0.000000 seconds for 0 files
Top 0 most expensive files for importer plug-ins:

What could be wrong?


texts: I need a 3D CAD system for Mac, but as I am student now, I haven't got the opportunity to buy AutoCAD. So, can you recommend some good 3D CAD software on Mac? I found one - Autodesk Inventor, but when I saw that it is "Free" I don't believe it, as it is Autodesk, or it is really free?


texts: Preview won't remember the last viewed page of PDF

texts:
When I open a PDF file that was viewed days ago, Preview will open the first page.

However, when I close it and open it again right now, it will open the right (last viewed) page.

The option Start on the last viewed page was checked.


texts: AppleScript saved as application doesn't execute whole script when argument is passed

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I save the following AppleScript as application, to open Firefox in full screen and without the menu bar:

tell application "Firefox" to activate
delay 0.8
do shell script "lsappinfo setinfo -app Firefox ApplicationType=UIElement"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Firefox" to set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of last window to true

And execute it as:

open -a "Firefox Full Screen"

This works as expected, Firefox is opened, goes full screen, without the menu bar. The problem is when I try to call open with a URL:

open -a "Firefox Full Screen" "https://google.com"

This still opens Firefox, with the given URL in a new tab, but it doesn't execute the lines after delay 0.8, so it doesn't open in full screen. I don't understand why this happens and how to fix it.

I know those lines are not executed because the system doesn't warn that I need to add the application as an accessibility exception (when I don't have one added/enabled). It always warns if I don't pass the URL (and don't have an exception added/enabled).

EDIT 1

I also tried to execute the following version with open -a "Firefox Full Screen", open -a "Firefox Full Screen" "https://google.com", open -a "Firefox Full Screen" --args "https://google.com" and it's worse given that it doesn't execute the last lines in any case:

on run argv
    tell application "Firefox"
        activate
        repeat with arg in argv
            open location (arg as text)
        end repeat
    end tell
    delay 0.8
    do shell script "lsappinfo setinfo -app Firefox ApplicationType=UIElement"
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Firefox" to set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of last window to true
end run

EDIT 2

It seems the problem is related with https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14419700.


texts:
All I want to do is find out how big email messages are. (Curiously enough, I'm having the same challenge with Gmail, but that's another story.) It's obviously a fundamental datum for cleaning up one's mailbox.
Do any mail clients for iPadOS or web services offer this sorting function that I can manage from my iPad ?


texts: Monitor disk activity per volume without third-party software

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I have many disks/volumes connected to my OS X system.  I want to monitor, in real-time, read/write speed for each volume.

OS 10.9 activity monitor shows only the cumulative numbers for all volumes, and it's not always accurate.

The commercial software iStatMenus will do this with one caveat:  RAID volumes show each disk separately, which is annoying.  Anyway I want to do this without third-party software, possibly in the command-line or a GUI.


texts:
I just downloaded iOS 9, and I get a message from iTunes saying that my backup is corrupted or not compatible with my iPhone.

Do you guys know why I get this? I tried to restart my computer, upgrade Yosemite (I don't want to install El Capitan for now), and restart my iPhone.


texts: macOS Catalina (MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)) restarting after sleep

texts:
Gist - Macbook Pro restarts after sleep
I have the following setup,

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
External Monitor using a HDMI-USBC dongle

I usually keep the Macbook screen open and use two screens for work. However, after I lock the screen (using Shift+Command+Q) and then reopen after sometime, it restarts.
I expect that the Macbook reopen at the login screen instead of restarting.
Help appreciated.


texts: Logitech G Pro headphone mic no longer works on my iMac

texts:
About 4 months ago I bought the Logitech G Pro Headset. I was satisfied with this headset but recently I've had some issues - it wouldn't always work on my Mac.

Maybe it has to do something with using it on my Playstation 4 as well. I used to be able to plug it in or remove and attach the mic and it would work again on my Mac. But now it just completely stops working. It uses the Mac's internal mic when I have the headphones plugged in.

I have tried:

plugging it in and out
restarting my Mac and plugging in and out the attachable mic

I'm certain it hasn't got anything to do with it not being compatible with the Mac as not have I found on multiple sites that it works on the Mac, it also worked for me just fine before.

I'm using an iMac (21.5-inch Late 2012) running on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6).

Can anyone please help me find a fix for this?


texts: How do I add the wifi and bluetooth icon to the menubar programatically (from the command line)?

texts: We have a large number of computers to set up and would like to add the wifi and bluetooth icons to the menubar. How can I turn these settings on via a shell script or command line instruction?


texts: Where is "Create disk image" function in El Capitan/Sierra?

texts: Updated today to Sierra from Yosemite. Can't find disk backup function in new Disk Utility...


texts:
I'm wondering has anyone seen anything like this before? Was using my 2009 Unibody iMac this morning and noticed black, burn-like, marks appear on the screen gradually.

The machine wasn't under heavy usage or anything, however the screen felt extremely hot to touch.

The previous week there was condensation looking areas behind the glass.

Any input appreciated, thanks.


texts:
The man files for dig, delv and host all contain:  "macOS Notice The [dig | delv | host] command does not use the host name and address resolution or the DNS query routing mechanisms used by other processes running on macOS."

I've only found this, apparently, non-authoritative mechanism answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/70583/246634

The dscacheutil man page does not document that one can make an authoritative DNS query using dscacheutil.

How does one make a command line authoritative DNS query using macOS Mojave native host name and address resolution mechanism(s)?


texts: XCode keeps hanging and I have to force quit

texts: I have an iMac running High Sierra and Xcode version 10.1. I've recently started using Xcode a lot and it keeps hanging on me. I'll do something and the beachball appears. I eventually have to force quit Xcode. I'll restart Xcode and repeat the process but it'll work the 2nd time. This has been happening frequently. How do I stop Xcode from hanging so much?


texts: Install OSX on Macbook Air which currently only runs Windows 7

texts:
I have a mac book air, which was formatted a long time ago, and only has windows running on it.

I would like to run Mac OS again instead of windows. Or if that isnt possible, have both OS's.

How can I get Mac OS installed on this machine again?


texts:
I have two Google accounts linked with my iPhone: home and work.

When adding a new contact in the Phone app, where will iOS store the new contact? I'm not given a choice of which Google account it should use.


texts: sharingd wants to use the ".kc328-0" keychain

texts:
I was helping a coworker solve an issue with Xcode and followed these instructions https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24023639/xcode-command-usr-bin-codesign-failed-with-exit-code-1-errsecinternalcomponen

And clicked "lock all keychains"

Now, whenever anyone opens anything air drop around me, I'm getting this popup 3-6 times in a row:

Googling this returns 0 results.

How do I make it stop? Where do I find this password? What is .kc328-0? Help.


texts: How do I transfer iOS apps only from an old computer to a new one?

texts:
I've recently bought a MacBook Pro. I've migrated all the iTunes music across from my old pc to my new mac and have also downloaded more tunes since I bought my computer.

Now I'm trying to sync my iPhone and iPad with the new computer - however if I sync them then I lose all the apps.

so is there a way of just migrating the apps across from the old to the new computer. Both my iPad and iPhone are backed up on iCloud - I thought this meant it would automatically download to the MacBook as well, Does it not?


texts: MBP Retina screen, shows facebook page faded even after closed

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I'm experiencing something a bit odd on retina screen of my MBP 15".

When i stay on facebook homepage for like 10-15 seconds then close it. Then switch to a greyish application, i can definitely see; search box, friend list on right etc. faded on greyish application.

After a minute or so, it totally disappears... I tried to capture its screenshot but it wasnt same on screenshot. So obviously it is hardware-related, not something specifically designed into software.

Do you experience this too?
Should I contact Apple about this?

EDIT: I tried it with other "too white pages" but it didnt result same or it wasnt obvious enough.


texts: Could microsoft remote desktop connection be used to spy?

texts:
I found a Program called Microsoft remote desktop connection on my mac but did not install it myself. Could somebody have been using it to spy on my computer use without my knowledge?
Would I be able to tell if my computer was being remotely accessed through that program while i was using my computer?


texts: Can I use the same cell number as my Android phone with an Apple Watch Series 3?

texts: Title says it all. I know I won’t get the most out of an Apple Watch Series 3 using it with my Android phone, but I wonder if I can at least use the same number with an LTE Apple Watch Series 3? I am on a supported network, so I think this should be possible somehow, but how do I go about it?


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I just want to verify the following holds true for installing kexts in 10.11 via the shell and that there are no other steps missing:

sudo cp -R some.kext (/System)/Library/Extensions/    # Add or remove /System based on location of kext on this and next ones
sudo chown -R root:wheel (/System)/Library/Extensions
# maybe add: `sudo chmod -R 755 (/System)/Library/Extensions/`
sudo touch (/System)/Library/Extensions

As I understand it, it may be useful to also do the following as far as the kext caches go in current OS releases:

# For /System; not sure of location for /Library centric kexts:
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches
sudo kextcache -u / # or /Volumes/"Whatever volume name"

Fix disk permissions

sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs --volume /
# Fix Homebrew folder if you use it:
sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /usr/local

Reboot:

sudo reboot

*NOTE: the process seems to have changed over the last couple years from this (especially with regards to the kext caches) and I would like to receive verification.


texts: WiFi sync with computer connected by cable to the WiFi router?

texts: My computer does not have a WiFi card, so I connect it via LAN cable to my router. My iPhone is connected to the WiFi signal of that router. Is there some kind of magic that will enable me to use WiFi sync with my computer?


texts: Do executables in OS X need to be built in specific way to be used as a service?

texts: Does an OS X executables need to be built in specific way (e.g. no UI, implement certain interfaces) so it can be used as a service?  Does this vary by its language (e.g. Objective C, Java) or its implementation (compiled versus script)?


texts:
Recently I replaced the optical drive to SSD to make a fusion drive in my Macbook Pro 13 inch 2012. The hardware installation was successful and it is recognized in Disk Utility. I made a Sierra bootable drive on my 8GB USB drive with DiskMaker X.

The problem is I can't see the USB drive in the boot manager (press option when power up). I'm sure that the USB port in my mac is working. I can see my Time Machine drive in the boot manager and my USB drive after the boot from the original HDD with sierra.
I can't make a fusion drive when I can't boot from USB. What can I do?


texts: On find my iphone, if my 'pending: Lock Mac' is not there, does that mean it has been locked?

texts:
My mac was stolen and I went on find my iphone to take the next steps :

I tried to locate it, but it was offline (probably because there was no battery at the time it was stolen).
So next, I decided to Lock it. The Lock was 'pending' for another day or so.
After that I decided to erase it. So I pressed erase and then it said erase was 'pending', however the 'lock is pending' was not there.

Both the lock and erase buttons are faded out.

Does this mean my mac has been locked?
If it was locked, would the location have been sent to me right before?
Can I locate/erase it now?
If it has been locked, is it possible for people to access my information?


texts:
I'm using OS X 10.10 and my iTunes (version 12.1.2.x) keeps opening. the only behavior pattern I could observe seemed really bizarre - It would open when I would click in my Firefox window. I retested many times, but I couldn't reproduce this after I removed my headphones.

I checked for anything suspicious in /private/var/log/system.log. I didn't see any odd interactions between Spotify and iTunes (i.e. an event in one that led to an immediate event in the other when looking at timestamps). The only thing sort of suspicious were these logs (there were many of these entries) from iTunes when I wasn't using it at all:

/private/var/log/system.log:Apr 24 11:12:06 ITADMINs-MacBook-Pro-4.local iTunes[8626]: ### PlayQueue::StartPlayingNextInternal: played off the end of the queue
/private/var/log/system.log:Apr 24 11:18:37 ITADMINs-MacBook-Pro-4.local iTunes[8680]: ### PlayQueue::StartPlayingNextInternal: played off the end of the queue

What could be happening?


texts: Warning: "CSUserAgent wants to access data stored in your keychain."

texts:
For my backups I use an encrypted external hard disk. This hard disk has two partitions (names are: Backup, Private).
Today, when connecting the backup I was prompted with the following message:

What does this mean?
Why am I prompted by this after connecting the external disk?

About the hard disk

The hard disk is encrypted using Disk Utility.app.
Both volumes are Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)
In Disk Utility I can see that the volume Private has no owners enabled while Backup has owners enabled.

Background
Maybe the following info helps in answering the question of why I'm prompted with this now. The last time, that I've connected the hard disk, I've done the following:

erase the Backup partition (which required a new password)


texts: Can the default View settings for Spotlight "Show all in Finder" be changed?

texts: When doing a Spotlight search (in OSX 10.14.6), I often click on "Show all in Finder" to see more results.  The resulting Finder winder is always grouped which is not my default Finder window setting and which I rarely want.  I have to go the View menu to unselect "Use Groups" every time.  My regular Finder windows do remember my View settings. Is there any way to change the default View settings for the Finder window produced by Spotlight "Show all in Finder"?


texts: In the past, how long have Up-to-date OS upgrades taken to arrive?

texts:
I've bought a Macbook Pro Retina display before Mountain Lion was released. I have signed up for a copy of Mountain Lion for free, as promised by Apple if you purchase an Apple computer after June 11, 2012. When I finished the application form, the page said to wait till I get an email from Apple.

The problem is I don't know how long to wait. If past is prologue, how long is it before I can expect to get Mountain Lion? It has been three hours, and I still have not received an email.


texts: macbook pro appstore apple id is not editable

texts:
I have bought used macbook pro and now I am trying to install my applications

when I open the playstore I found the old user apple id and it is not editable, how I can remove this and add mine


texts: Why my macbook sometimes plays a chime when booting/rebooting, sometimes it does not?

texts:
I don't observe any specific pattern of this behaviour. Strangely, sometimes when my macbook reboots/boots, it plays a chime sound.

And often in other cases, no chime sound is played.

So what determines whether to play a chime sound?


texts: On Mountain Lion, I have three desktops. What I find is that the sequential left to right order of these desktops keeps changing. Is it doing something based on usage ? and how can I disable this ?


texts: What is the macOS equivalent of Windows certificate store names?

texts:
On Windows, when retrieving information about certificates, they come from named certificate stores, such as "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" or "Trusted Publishers" - what is the equivalent on macOS?
My best guess is types of keychains, e.g. "login" or "System", but those are sufficiently different that I'm not sure. The names also don't seem to come with the certificates (when using SecItemCopyMatching in Swift, for example).
The context of why I need this:  I've been asked to gather data about users' computers (so IT can see aggregate data), and most of the work was done for the Windows side of things before I got here. I'm trying to gather the same certificate data for macOS that is currently gathered for Windows. Most of it is easily obtained from both (e.g. the Subject, the Expiration), but the Windows code has a value called the Certificate Store that I don't readily see an analog for in macOS.


texts:
I change the cover images for the songs in my iTunes library using:

Right Click > Get Info > Artwork > Drag-Drop > OK

and in most cases the artwork updates immediately. On some tracks, though, it doesn't.

I then tried removing the artwork (so nothing should appear in Cover Flow), but the track then keeps the image it had previously.


texts:
My Mac laptop is freezing like age old windows laptop since I have upgrade my mac os to mac os high sierra.

Mac details : Mac book pro retina mid 2012

It just freezes and i am forced to restart my laptop, (it never ever happened before)
Is any one facing this problem, how to fix it ?

Steps done :

Run complete diagnostic test
Reset smc
Reset nvram from this
link


texts:
When I first set up my 1Tb external disk with my AirPort Extreme I partitioned it into two 500Gb disks, one for Backup and one for Media storage but I have no memory of how I did this. I seem to remember being prompted when I first connected the disk.

Now, over a year later the backup partition is filling up but I don't really use the media partition at all. So, i'd like to know if it's possible to re-partition this disk into a 800/200Gb split without wiping the disk and starting my backups over again?


texts: Is there a separate cable for camera in A1707

texts:
Recently I replaced the battery and keyboard in my 15" MacBook Pro A1707. Unfortunately, the built in camera Has now disappeared from the system (System report says there's no connected camera).
I tried different solutions from the web (resetting SMC, PRAM, killing VDCAssistant process) but none of them helped me. Finally I tried to disassemble my mac again to make sure I don't have any cables left unconnected - everything seems to be connected properly.
I'm pretty much sure I couldn't break anything - I unplugged lcd cable right before I started replacement and didn't touch it till the very end.
But maybe there is another (separate) cable connecting top part with lcd to logic board which I somehow didn't notice?


texts: Does iOS Health app send your health data to Apple?

texts: I am wondering if the biometric information collected by Apple's Health app stays local on my iPhone, or if it's being sent to Apple?


texts: Can I import my old podcast MP3s into iTunes?

texts:
The title pretty much says it all.

If I have 25 podcast MP3s, how can I associate them with the podcast in iTunes?


texts:
I having a big question with some icons i change. I managed to move into rootless by restarting and CMD + R to boot into Recovery, then utilities and terminal. On terminal i wrote

  csrutil disable

to disable S.I.P. , after that , regular boot and opened Iconlite.app to change the icons, i changed almost all xd then i repeat the process but this time with

  csrutil enable

this time to get S.I.P. and the system normal. Well, i'd change a lot of them included that HD icons that appears on Boot + OPT/ALL to select in which SO i want to start.
The question is that in my user some icons still being the same BUT on guest user that icons are actually changed, i just wanna know why or how i should get that change on my user as well.
The next image shows what i mean on the Finder, Safari, Calendar are different
**I just forgot and i didn't change the System Preferences icon

Thanks in advance for any answer :)


texts:
One of the keys (keycap) of MacBook Pro keyboard broke.

It's one of the hooks that keeps it in place.

What can I do?


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I want to exchange files between two users on the same mac.

To do so, user one copies the file into ~/Public folder. I double checked that the folder and all files are readable and writable by all users.

If I change to the second user, the folder is empty.

Any ideas what's missing?


texts: Homebrew: how to switch between GCC versions `gcc49` and `gcc`?

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I foolishly uninstalled GCC 4.9 after brew upgradeing to GCC 5. However I need both versions and I need to be able to switch back and forth. I thought I could just do brew switch 4.9.2 but the old version of GCC was installed to the folder Cellar/gcc49/4.9.2 instead of Cellar/gcc/4.9.2, so Homebrew doesn't know where to find the old version.

How can I force Homebrew to install both versions in Cellar/gcc?

That is, I have:

brew list --versions gcc
# gcc 5.1.0
brew list --versions gcc49
# gcc49 4.9.2_1

But I'd like to have:

brew list --versions gcc
# gcc 5.1.0 4.9.2_1


texts: Can I use my Mac keyboard as input to another Apple device?

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Is it possible to use the native keyboard on one Mac, to control the keyboard input of another Apple device, especially another Mac?

And so doing, without having to completely redirect the input device, i.e. disconnecting/connecting a Bluetooth keyboard to switch it between devices.

In my setup, I have a MacBook Pro and an iMac. Ideally, on the MBP, I would like to press a keyboard command or an GUI icon to connect the built-in keyboard as input for the iMac.

Note: Screen sharing is not a viable answer for this question.


texts: How can I listen to DAB+ radio on my iPhone?

texts:
In my home country we have switched off FM radio and done a full transition to DAB+.

So, I'm now in the market for a portable dongle (or similar) that will enable me to listen to DAB through my iPhone.

I have come across the POPyourPHONE product that is compatible with Android devices that support OTG and the Lingo iRis for iPhone 4 (1, 2). However, I haven't yet come across a similar device compatible with modern iPhones.

My iPhone has a Lightning connector, but how the dongle connects to my iPhone is not so critical (i.e. it could connect via Bluetooth or even using Apple's Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter).

The main requirement is that I can use my iPhone to listen to DAB+ radio, preferably with my AirPods. It would be strongly preferable if incoming phone calls were handled OK and that radio could play outside of any dedicated apps.

Can anyone recommend/suggest a product that will meet these needs?


texts: Prevent window autoselect on application launch

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When I am typing in an application (say Terminal), and I want to google something, I open Safari. While safari opens and loads tabs and whatnot, I want to keep typing in terminal to get work done. However, after about a second the Safari window gets automatically selected, and whatever I am in the middle of typing suddenly gets input into safari instead.

So I deal with it and click back on Terminal to keep typing. After another second, Safari reselects itself, and I have the same problem. I click back to Terminal, and it happens a third time.

It's extremely annoying, and can be hazardous, for instance when an alert pops up in the newly launched application and I just happen to hit Enter on my keyboard (expecting it to be input into Terminal), causing the alert to instantly disappear after it pops up, potentially doing unwanted actions on my computer.

I don't know if it happens three times with Safari (it was just an example), but I know it has happened at least three times before with a single application launch.

Is there any way to turn off this feature?


texts: When I put events on my MobileMe calendar, syncing causes numerous duplicates to appear

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Anyone encounter this, or know how to prevent it?

I'm syncing two MacBooks, an iPad and two iPhones.

Each entry appears one to five times once it syncs.


texts: I have given my IPhone 4s to my niece. I have restored the phone to factory settings before giving it to her now we are trying to set it up and it is asking for my log in details for find my iphone. As I have not used the phone for months now I don't know these details and it does not have a forgot password option. Please help! Thank you in advance.


texts: Is that possible to check an iPad's total power-on lifetime since its manufacture?

texts:
I just bought a brand new 2019 iPad Air. But I am afraid it's not a brand new one. I know I could check the model or serial number, but I don't really trust that approach.

I think it's best to check the power-on lifetime if there is a hidden feature in Settings somewhere (or enter some magic numbers in the dial-up panel like what Android devices do).

Thus is it possible to check iPad's total power-on lifetime since its manufacture?


texts: Is there a way to see the invisible formatting in my clipboard and/or create the formatting when piping to pbcopy?

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Is there a way to see the contents of my clipboard in a way that shows me what formatting metadata is included?

Or to get to the question behind the question: is there a way to generate output in a script so that if I pipe the output to pbcopy it will include the formatting?

Specific example: if I write a script that generates a newline-delimited list of names, and then paste it into a table in Confluence, it will just dump the results into a single cell. I'd like to be able to paste it so that the whole column is filled up (with one name per cell).

I can do this by pasting the results into a Google Spreadsheet and then re-copying the column from Google Spreadsheet. For some reason that adds invisible formatting that allows me to paste the cells into Confluence, but when I inspect the clipboard (in Finder's Edit->Show Clipboard, or using pbpaste | hexdump) it seems exactly the same as the output of my script. I've often had this problem with formatting text for the clipboard, and I'd really like to know what tricks there are for viewing and generating this magical invisible formatting.


texts: How does Apple know whom an inactive iPhone belongs to?

texts: I tried to log into my daughter's iMessage on an inactive iPhone. She called Apple because she got an email. They told her it was an iPhone 5c black. How did they know that? Do they know who the owner is? Is there a way to block my old iPhone so Apple can't trace it?


texts: Connecting Macbook to WiFi network breaks internet for everyone

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I have a 2015 Macbook pro, which I bought about 3 months ago.

Some days ago, when I was using it, and connected it to my house's wifi network, everyone's internet connection suddenly dropped (as in they couldn't load anything, but wifi was intact). It didn't just happen in my house, so it makes me think something is wrong with my Mac.

If it helps, it's running Sierra.

I found out that this has happened to other people: http://www.mac-forums.com/internet-networking-and-wireless/183185-macbook-airport-breaks-internet-connection-entire-network.html

But nothing there was helpful.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

IMPORTANT EDIT: I believe I've found the cause of the problem: I'm using the program Parallels to run ubuntu, ** and if the program is not on, I can't lose all my internet connection.**
I've uninstalled the program and now I'm on a bigger problem now: I still can't connect to internet and I can't reinstall the program... help pleas


texts: How can I find out which USB Type C port is supplying power

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I have a MacBook Pro 15" Late 2016 with USB-C ports. I also have a LG 27UD88 monitor that can supply 60W, and a CallDigit Dock that can supply 90 W. But still sometimes the MacBook is at 0% battery, even when working with very low CPU load.

Question: Is there a way to find out from which port the MacBook is supplied with power?

Of course, I could measure the current on the AC side of the power supply, but I'd rather look for a software tool.


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I'm using 2 WiFi networks with my MacBook Air. I need to switch between them sometimes. The problem is one needs completely different settings from the other, and it looks like I can only make settings for the particular WiFi network I am connected to at that moment.

Is there a way to set them separaely for specified network?


texts: Loading a certain legitimate website causes my Mac to crash

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Opening the oneplus 3 website (specifically this page) causes my MBP (mid-2009) to crash regardless of the browser -- I've tried it with the same results on Chrome, Safari and Firefox. It loads and displays correctly, then after a minute or so the computer stops responding, only the mouse can be moved occasionally but nothing can be clicked, and none of the keyboard shortcuts work so only a hard reset helps. I've done it multiple times with the same results, monitoring temperature sensors (nothing overheats) and CPU load (no abnormal spikes). I'm running a reasonably fresh install of El Capitan 10.11.5 and this is the only website I've found that does this. Is anyone else having problems with this site?

Edit: I've attached the pertinent part from the Console log below, it looks like a graphics card bug:

26/06/16 20:18:43,680   Brave Helper[1201]  Couldn't set selectedTextBackgroundColor from default ()
26/06/16 20:18:48,888   Brave Helper[1206]  CGAffineTransformInvert: singular matrix.
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x23 = Video Engine Error (MSPDEC Error)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = Graphics Engine Error (GR Error 5)
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
26/06/16 20:18:56,000   kernel[0]   NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x9 = Graphics Engine Error (GR Error 1)


texts: Syncing address book contacts through iPad and iPhone?

texts: Is there a way to sync Address Book contacts added from an iPad, on iPhone and Mac without having to manually sync with a USB cable and through the Mac?


texts:
I have a very un-orthodox desk setup, I have a 32" LG UltraFina 5k Monitor above another ultra-wide monitor. (never is too much)
LG UltraFine has a built-in WebCam, but 'cos the Monitor is so High the webcam points to my head, LOL.
So I was looking to rotate the Monitor and set the config of the Display to 180º, so the webcam points to my face, but so far I haven't found any software or settings to rotate the webcam...
is that a possibility or am I stock in my odd desk configuration and have to look up for a better setup (please don't agree with me and hope is any other possibility for webcam settings).


texts: Hide Notification Center button from menu bar in High Sierra

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How do I get rid of the Notification Center button in the menu bar in High Sierra?

It's that one in the far right:

I'd like the space it occupies to disappear too. Apparently it used to be possible to hide the icon but the space would remain.

Also, I want to continue using the Notification Center; currently I access it with a gesture on my trackpad.

The answers to Remove the Notification Center icon from the Menu Bar do not work for me in High Sierra.


texts: Does the "messages from iphone" icon only appear in the dock when my messages are opened from my iPhone?

texts:
I was working the other day on my Macbook and this icon popped up. My phone was not with me. Does that mean whoever had my phone just went through my messages? Is it safe to accuse them?

I didn't have my phone the entire 16 hour day. Somewhere around halfway through the day, it popped up.


texts: Use third party bluetooth keyboard or virtual keyboard to login to MacOS

texts: Hi I started to use a third party keyboard with my MacOS. As I remember in the past bluetooth keyboards from third party are not activated on the login screen. I tried this one and it is also not working. The trackpad on the keyboard is not working either. I do have an original Apple bluetooth trackpad that is activated so I am looking for a solution to use my third party keyboard or a virtual keyboard with my Apple trackpad to type in the password.


texts: App that changes network settings, launches apps, etc. when changing network connection

texts: ~5 years ago an enthusiastic coworker was telling me about some awesome app that would do stuff like automatically change your volume, mount network drives, launch apps, etc. when it notices that your location (I guess defined by network IP address) has changed. I was sort of "meh" and ignored him. Now I wish I had that app, but my google searches are not turning up anything.


texts: Third party application cannot write to disk

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I downloaded this application: Donkey Simulator

And after unzipping there should be an executable file but also a folder called "log", and once the application is running, new files are written into this "log" folder.

However this does not happen and they warned about this situation:

  If logs are not being generated you are probably running a version of
  OS X that sandboxes untrusted applications. This prevents the
  simulator writing to disk. To resolve this, move the executable within
  the Applications folder.

Their solution of dragging the app into the Applications folder didn't solve the issue.


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I have been looking at reformatting my Time Machine backup disk as it has been quite a while and it is throwing occasional errors and needs fixing with Disk Utility.

However one thing that I found in Apple's December 2018 post about creating the new disk is that it says "...Make sure "Ignore ownership on this volume" at the bottom of the "Sharing & Permissions"...".

OK so where is it on my current time Machine Disk?

Interestingly it does appear on other physical drives information pages, though obviously not the start up drive...


texts: Can't use Wi-Fi and LAN at the same time

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I have a macbook and a belkin USB-C to Ethernet Adapter. I would like to use Wi-Fi to access the internet, and the LAN cable to connect to a local network. But it doesn't work. Whenever I plug in the LAN cable, I can't access the internet anymore, and no Wi-Fi networks are found. Why is that?

I set the LAN configuration manually:
IP address: 10.0.4.7
netmask: 255.255.255.0
The router field is empty.
I tried changing the network priorities, this doesn't seem to have an effect.


texts: MBA displays the Question mark Folder on booting up

texts: All of a sudden MBA boots displaying question mark folder. I've tried booting from a USB OS X to use disk utility but can't see the Macintosh HD of the Air to fix the disk. Safe mode doesn't seem to work. Any root-cause? Any solution?


texts: I posted a question a while back regarding network mounts.  But I have a more general question. If Lion no longer uses /etc/fstab how are standard mounts in addition to network mounts handled? I would like to be able to customize this.  For instance how is root mounted and such? Also for instance, how is removable media mounted?


texts: Do these messages in the LDAP log on OSX Mavericks Server mean anything?

texts:
Jan 26 06:23:05 server.mydoman.net slapd[329]: => bdb_idl_delete_key: c_get failed: DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK: Locker killed to resolve a deadlock (-30994)
Jan 26 06:23:05 server.mydoman.net slapd[329]: conn=4318 op=3: attribute "entryCSN" index delete failure

I see hundreds of these messages in the LDAP log.  are they significant at all?


texts: RAM freezes and crashes my iMac after upgrade to iMac late 2015

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Recently I purchased 2 RAM carriers from a local supplier:
Micron Memory Upgrade 8GB 1867MHZ DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3L-14900S (8GBx2)
I wanted to upgrade from my current 8GB to 24GB.
However, a few days after installing, I ran into the screen going weird (for a few seconds). Please see the attached picture.
In addition, today the screen went blank for a few seconds, then came back but I couldn't interact with it at all, then I had to manually restart it by pressing the on button. And tonight, my iMac just restarted itself for unknown reason.
I used Memtest86 to scan for errors (for the whole system). After 6 hours, it found nothing, RAM included. I also used Rember software to double check if RAM are working probably, and again, found no errors. Lastly, I used Mac's diagnostics by pressing D when the computer is turning on, and it found no errors.
These issues never occurred during the 6 years I've been using it, only almost right after I installed these 2 pieces of RAM, so I assume the problem is the RAM.
What could possibly be the problem? Is it the RAM? The RAM slots? Any advice is appreciated.


texts: I have a MacBook Air and I lost (forgot) my Admin (root) password

texts: I have lost or forgotten the root password.  is there a way to recover it or reset it?


texts: Cannot compile anything anymore after upgrading to Yosemite

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I noticed after upgrading to Yosemite that none of my upgrades in homebrew would work anymore.

I noticed that it was a problem in general with compiling any kind of C code.

The error I get is:

In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:75:
 /usr/include/sys/stdio.h:39:52: error: expected function body after     function declarator
 int     renameat(int, const char *, int, const char *) __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_10, __IPHONE_8_0);
                                                    ^
 /usr/local/include/Availability.h:159:50: note: expanded from macro '__OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING'
 #define __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(_osx, _ios) __AVAILABILITY_INTERNAL##_osx
                                              ^
 <scratch space>:61:1: note: expanded from here
 __AVAILABILITY_INTERNAL__MAC_10_10

I get this with every C code I try.

I updated XCode to 6.2, and the command line tools as well.

The strange thing is, this is on my mac mini, but my MacBook Pro does not have this issue at all.

Any hints/ideas?


texts: How can messages be scripted whenever I open a specific application?

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Say I want to start Safari on my Mac. Can I create a pop up message that reads, "Use Chrome instead" or some other thing?

I presume it may be possible with Applescript or something, but don't know where to start on teaching myself how to do this.


texts: How do I get into an app from Notification Center on iOS 10?

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In iOS 9 and earlier, you could tap any notification center row to be brought into the app, usually deep-linked to the source of the notification. Swiping on the notification revealed other options.

In iOS 10, 3D touch or long press is used to get those other options, but simply tapping on the notification does not get you into the source app. Is there a way to do this in iOS 10?


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My niece and her grandma both have iPads1. I have a (Windows) computer with Skype installed. If I'm talking to the niece on Skype and her grandma calls her on Facetime, the niece's iPad immediately puts the Skype call on hold, without so much as a by-your-leave. Is there some way to teach Facetime not to be so rude?

As far as I know, everything is the latest version, but this problem has existed through multiple versions. If it matters, the niece uses an iPad 2 with 3G available but not enabled (i.e. nobody has paid for 3G data in months, possibly even years), while grandma has an iPad Mini with no 3G.

1 Well, technically, the niece has my iPad, but I'm resigned to the fact that I ain't ever getting that thing back from her clutches.


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What are some iOS apps that work well for searching, collecting, and consuming media like video (YouTube, Ted talks, and private hosts) and audio (podcasts, NPR, etc)?

The important feature is that it must be a universal way to parse media from the whole web, similar to how google can search the whole web. In other words, not tied to a particular app store or "ecosystem". This might be hard to do technically but I'm looking for an app that will at least take any URL I give it and try to find some media to play. The whole purpose is to keep my media consumption organized not frustrate me by boring quests to find some way of playing a recording I know exists on the web. And it should allow me to download the media for offline consumption.

Bonus points for something that has cloud storage integration and or a text to speech facility for "reading" ebooks, PDFs, and web pages.


texts: Add custom URL schemes to existing applications

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Before bringing up the technical challenge I'm having, let me tl;dr with what I expect the result to be
tl;dr I would like to open both vscode:... and vscode-insiders:... URLs with VSCode Insiders
Background: Let's say I want to install the Visual Studio IntelliCode extension from the marketplace.  If I click "install", it takes me here (vscode:extension/VisualStudioExptTeam.vscodeintellicode).  If I were using VSCode, it would prompt me to open VSCode.  Unfortunately, I do not use VSCode, but instead use VSCode Insiders.
My existing workaround has just been to replace vscode:extension/VisualStudioExptTeam.vscodeintellicode with vscode-insiders:extension/VisualStudioExptTeam.vscodeintellicode, which correctly opens VSCode Insiders and takes me to the extension.
Problem: However, instead of this workaround, I would like vscode: URL schemes to "just work".  After some research, I found that it looks like the URL scheme can be found in Contents/Info.plist in this section
    <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
        <string>Viewer</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>Visual Studio Code - Insiders</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
          <string>vscode-insiders</string>
        </array>
      </dict>
    </array>

So I figured I could just change that to
    <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
        <string>Viewer</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>Visual Studio Code - Insiders</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
          <string>vscode-insiders</string>
          <string>vscode</string>
        </array>
      </dict>
    </array>

And have it work, just like that.  So I made the change, restarted VSCode Insiders, restarted Safari, but still no dice.  What gives?
I'm wondering if there's a command I need to run to re-register the CFBundleURLTypes or something?  It seems like no matter what changes I try to make to the Info.plist, nothing happens.
Thanks for the help, and happy holidays!


texts: App that allows to paste text snippets in any applicaton?

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I'm looking for an OS X application that will allow me to add text snippets, like common text responses to emails or signature postings or whatever standard text phrases I wish to save and resuse.

Something that perhaps runs in the background on the toolbar that allows me to select phrases and insert them when needed.


texts:
My iPhone 5S with 9.1 is displaying 09:41 when it's actually 18:29 local time.

It doesn't seems to be a time channel problem 9:12 is a weird difference (I'm currently in GMT+1).


texts: Where to source replacement internal fans? (For a mid-2011 iMac)

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I'm looking to replace one of the internal fans in my iMac (mid-2011, 21.5" version) - is there anywhere these can be sourced?.

I can't seem to find it online, and only see the part mentioned in passing in some of the iFixit disassembly instructions.

The reason for the replacement is that the fan is noisy, and I wasn't able to remedy it after clearing out the dust with plenty of compressed air.

This is the fan I'm looking to replace:


texts:
I have an Automator app executing an FFMPEG shell script. For some reason the ffmpeg job run twice. Can someone please have a look?
Thanks


texts: What features of Yosemite are beneficial to you?

texts:
This question serves to share and collect the enhancements that make a large difference to how you use your Mac.

Please post one feature per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted. To search answers for this question use inquestion:this (directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page.

The best answers will not only list a feature, but provide details on how to configure that feature, and provide an image of how to use the feature to be more efficient or effective with Yosemite.


texts: Downloading iOS music from iTunes onto iPad without being erased

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My dad bought me ed Sheeran new album on his iTunes so now we want to get it on my iPad. I have my own Apple ID account but I haven't bought any music.

How can I download the album my Dad bought to my iPad without deleting anything on it?


texts: Manually Add Twitter Account in Contacts.app in Mountain Lion

texts:
With Mountain Lion providing integration it is possible to have a contact's twitter username listed as a part of the contact. I don't see any way to manually do this before an account has already been added.

There seems to be two separate social media lists available. The first looks like this.

As you ca see it provides a list of quite a few networks, but no twitter. Once a twitter account has been added a second list seems to become available though, and lists different networks

This second list doesn't become available until an account has already been added. Which causes issues if none of your contact's details match with their twitter account, but you know their account and would like to add it.

Anyone know of a way around this?


texts: Can an old iPad see my iMessages/emails after resetting content and settings?

texts:
I gave my old iPad to an ex, and before doing so, I deleted all content and reset. I think she may be seeing my iMessages and e-mails. Is this possible?

I used to use the Wi-Fi in her apartment for both new iPad, my iPhone, and old iPad she now has. If I use Find my iPhone to list devices from my iPhone, all 3 devices show up, but the old iPad shows offline. Is there a way of checking what devices have access without asking her obviously?


texts:
I usually use several different spaces (desktops?) for various different tasks.

Unfortunately, cocoa emacs 24.1 (9.0), even when using emacsclient (I do a server start in my init.el file) always opens a document or email response in the space emacs was originally started in.

Aquamacs seems better behaved in this respect, but I prefer cocoa emacs.

Is there a way to change this behavior?

Best,

JRV


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My 8-year old child's iPad it logged in with their child's family account under family sharing. I am using a Parental Passcode to restrict access.

It seems that (according to Apple Support, a 'feature' since iOS 12) my child needs to enter their Apple Id password (twice) to initiate app purchase and once again (after parent approval) to finalize installation.

1) Should my child know their Family Account Apple Id password? What problematic settings could their potentially change knowing the password

2) Is this "enter the child Apple Id password 3 times" really a 'feature' as Apple Support claim, or a bug in my (freshly created) child's account?


texts: Notes script to access notes in specific folder?

texts:
I have tested this Notes export script (https://github.com/alexwlchan/notes-export/blob/master/notes-export.scpt). It seems to work, but the issue is that I want to specify a specific Notes folder to export, rather than every single one.

The issue is the main loop clause:

repeat with theNote in notes

"notes" is a Notes field that is a collection of all notes. However, I only want notes in a specific Notes directory. I have no problem specifying the Notes folder by name and having the script confirm that the folder actually exists. Unfortunately, I don't see this documented anywhere.

How do I, in AppleScript, get the list of notes in a specific Note folder? I also need to get the notes's path, since in some cases the Notes directories I am exporting in turn have sub-directories.


texts:
I have an iMac 2017 running on 10.15.7 with 1tb SSD.  Today I saw my storage space taken over by a folder of over 200gb.
Under Macintosh/Volumes there is a folder named after my External HDD.  In there I find folders, USERS, Applications, Library, etc, which are all duplicated folders.  These duplicate folders occupy 239gb and seem to be read-only.  These folders also are displayed in Daisy Disk.
Because of these duplicates, my disk space is almost gone.  When I make a backup on an external disk using Carbon Copy Cloner however, this folder of duplicates is not backed up.  How can I get over this problem?


texts: Does the Preview app have a freehand pen/pencil tool?

texts:
The Preview app has markup / annotate tools like rectangle, oval, line, text, speech bubble, thought bubble.  Is there a pen or pencil tool that lets you draw lines in a freehand way?

(I'm using Preview version 7.0 (826.4) in OS X Mavericks 10.9.5)


texts: Voice/vocals are really hard to hear on my iPod

texts:
I have an iPod Touch (4gen), and I listen to a lot of vocal music and spoken-word audio.

Sometime in the past week or so, voice became really hard to hear.  When I play music, it sounds like it's been turned into an instrumental.  When I play spoken voice, it sounds like the Peanuts teacher.

If I turn up the volume to the max, I can hear the voices fine, but then the low-frequency music is overwhelming, so that's not an option.

Is there some equalizer setting (I didn't think the iPod Touch had these but I could be wrong) that I could have screwed up to make this happen?

UPDATE:

I'm suspecting a hardware issue.  I've not mistreated it, but I've found that with some headphones, if I rotate the plug in just the right way, the vocals come back just fine.  I'm not sure how an audio jack can be plugged in and receive non-vocal sound but not vocal sound, but that's what it sounds like.  I'll take it by an Apple Store and see if they can do anything.  The audio jack is certainly the weakest part of the iPod these days, so it's not entirely surprising that it's the first thing to go.


texts: Is there a way to default ALL new reminders/calendar events to have an alert?

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I like my iPhone, but one thing that REALLY bugs me is that EVERY time I create an event I have to manually set an alert.

(One has to wonder why Apple thinks that I would add an entry into my calendar and NOT want an alert.  At the very least this should be configurable - to do some default.)

I am hoping there is such a setting that I have overlooked.  Is there?


texts: Why doesn't the escape key close the find window in Chrome?

texts: For some reason, Chrome will no longer close my find window when I hit the Escape ⎋ key. Instead, it pulls up some weird kind of autocomplete drop-down. This is incredibly annoying; every time I perform a search, I now need to reach for the mouse immediately afterwards. Anyone know what the problem might be?


texts: How do I install Windows 7 without BootCamp and keep the OS X installation intact?

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Because I already used BootCamp for creating the partition I used for installing Ubuntu, now I am not able to install Windows 7 by using BootCamp.

Here is my disk partiton configuration:

refit (fat)
osx (hfs+)
freespace (here I want to add the NTFS partition)
linux-swap (raw)
linux-ubuntu (ext4)

How can I install Windows 7 on the freespace I do have now on the disk? I do not want to destroy osx partition by mistake.


texts: Cannot upgrade software using a .pkg installer

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I have an iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6. I tried to use Google Earth a few days ago and I got an updated software message. I followed the instructions and downloaded a .pkg file. When I run the file, it appears to run normally as far as I can tell. But when it finishes the installation I get the following screen:

I thought maybe I had a virus so I tried running Malwarebytes. I got another upgrade notice so I downloaded the new version. It turned out to be another .pkg file. I ran it and it too seemed to be working fine but again I get a screen like this:

Can someone explain what is going on? A remnant of the Google Earth failed upgrade is that I keep getting a message on my screen that looks like this:

This banner appears about every hour or so. While it doesn't cause problems it is very aggravating to see this continually popping up. Any help on these issues would be appreciated.

I have looked for answers elsewhere but no luck. I've restarted my machine in several different modes but nothing seems to effect this. Am I doing something wrong, or is my computer screwed up some way. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.


texts: macOS - How do I remove the restart-time update installer?

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I've been having a problem with Security Update 2019-004 10.13.6. When it was time to restart to complete the update, the screen went black and the mouse cursor moved to the top left corner (I could still move it using the mouse). After a while it was obvious it was stuck, and the only way out was to power down using the power button.

I've also tried installing it in Safe Mode, no luck. I also tried Internet Recovery and the problem persisted.

Whether I try to restart or shutdown, same problem.

Surely there's an issue with whatever program or script whose job it is to install the update. I've done quite a bit of "googling" and cannot find where/what it is and how to remove it so that it won't try to execute. If I can't find that, the only way to ever be able to restart/shutdown properly ever again might be a clean install, which I'd rather not do (lots of stuff configured on this iMac...)

The machine is a mid-2011 iMac running High Sierra.

Any ideas?

Thanks!


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This is in El Capitan, but problem likely exists in earlier versions.

It's a very simple question:-

How can I create an automount onto a folder/directory with a space in the name?

I'm using my own map file in /etc, referenced by auto_master. It would appear to be correct since the mounts I specify that do NOT contain a space work perfectly.

Docs say escape with '\', or quote the string and I've oft seen '\040' suggested. Nope, they simply fail or just cause a folder to be created with the '\' etc in the actual name. Hopeless.
And no, I CANNOT change the name of the mountpoints to eliminate the space.

What's the secret trick to doing this?


texts:
My Macbook was running fine today, but then powered off while I was away from it. After this, I can't get it to stay on. It turns on and then stays on for 2-3 minutes, before powering down again.

It's a MacBook 13-inch Mid 2010 model, running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

It's managed to reach my desktop before powering off, so doesn't seem to be a problem with booting.

I've tried taking the battery out and running it from the power cable, but this also didn't do anything.

I've also tried starting in single user and safe mode, neither or which helps.

Any ideas??


texts: iPhone does not show notifications for missed calls

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At some point in the past couple of months, my iPhone 8 has stopped giving me notifications when I miss a call. No notification appears on the lock screen and no badge appears on the phone app signifying a missed call. I'm only able to see that I've missed a call if I open the phone app because it does still show as missed on the Recents tab. Oddly, the phone app does show a badge count when I get a voicemail.

I've seen posts on other sites mentioning this issue with no resolution, but it seemed like if it was wide spread Apple would have fixed it by now, so I'm assuming it's something specific to my phone/settings/etc. I've added the picture below showing my phone notification settings, which all seem to be correct for receiving notifications (sorry it's weirdly large).


texts: Problems using my Airport Extreme Base Station with an external HD as an iTunes library

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I have my entire music collection on an external HD which I connect to my network through a direct USB connection with my Apple base station. I'm finding that iTunes struggles to load the library (43,000 files - some of which are hour long podcasts/mixes etc) and I've also purchased TuneUp to tidy up my music collection, but given that iTunes struggles to load in the first place, this avenue isn't even worth considering right now.

Does anyone have suggestions on how I might improve the setup? What connection between the base station and the external HD would give the best result?

It isn't practical to connect the drive directly to my PC as I'm using a laptop for my main machine, plus I'd like for the setup to work when I'm not at home so my partner can use her iPad or iPhone to browse/play the music.

UPDATE: The iTunes Library is on my machine running Windows 7 as opposed to on the external HD.


texts: MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar usage in Windows 10 Boot Camp

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Has anybody already installed Windows 10 and verified the workings of the Touch Bar with the normal function keys (+ ESC) as promised here?

Question from Abraham: Craig, am I correct in assuming that the Touch Bar becomes a row of visual function keys when using Windows with Boot Camp?
Federighi's answer: You are indeed!


texts: Macbook Pro think 60W adapter is a 12W one, and won't charge anymore

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When charging my Macbook Pro (13 inch, mid 2017, MacOS Catalina 10.15.7) with the 61W USB-C Power Adapter from Apple, sometimes the "battery is not charging" warning start appearing from nowhere draining the battery (from every one of the 4 ports available).
By looking up the charging information (using Istat Menus) it appear that the Macbook think that the 60W charger is in fact a 12W one (and it appear that the intensity is negative i.e not charging):

By unplugging/plugging back the USB-C cable (sometimes several times) all comes back to normal

Why is this happening ? (Sometimes while the battery is full and still plugged, sometimes while charging)
STORY OF THE MACBOOK SO FAR:

The "battery is not charging" issue start happening early this year, but the Macbook had another issue with the logic board as well. After the logic board and battery being replaced, the issue is still here.

SMC reset didn't fix anything.

A full discharge, then a full charge didn't fix anything.

When using the power adapter from Apple and the USB-C cable on another device (unfortunately a phone and not another Macbook), it's charging normally.

When using another power adapter on the macbook, it's charging slowly (but coming from a 12W power adapter and a USB-A to USB-C cable that seems fair enough).


texts: Xcode, Command Line Tools, GCC, and HomeBrew

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I was following a Vuforia & Unity tutorial when I realized that (upon building for iOS) Xcode would not launch.

So, I issued the following commands at the Terminal to find out if I had Xcode installed:

$ xcode-select --version
xcode-select version 2343.

$ xcode-select -p
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

$ xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates.

$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

This all means that the full Xcode package is not installed on my Mac. Right?

If correct, do I necessarily have to download it from the App Store or can I also do it via HomeBrew?


texts: Flush cache of DNS on macOS Sierra & High Sierra

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How to flush the cache of the DNS system on a macOS Sierra or High Sierra Mac?

I have seen discussion of the following, but am not sure if this is the modern approach. And I am not sure what each does exactly.

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder


texts:
Is "Free on iTunes" gone again?
I'm unable to find the "Free on iTunes" link from the iOS app. I have seen no announcements nor news that "Free on iTunes" was going to be removed. How do I locate this link (if it's still available)?


texts: How can I replace the original AppleIntelCPUPowermanagementClient.kext in OS X Lion?

texts:
I was playing around with Coolbook and stupidly enough deleted the two kernel extensions (kexts) without saving them to a backup location.

How can I recover just AppleIntelCPUPowermanagementClient.kext and AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext without reinstalling my OS?

These files exist in /System/Library/Extensions/ and I am running OS X Lion 10.7.3 preferably. I have searched for these on internet downloads, but can't find any and wouldn't want to blindly trust them if I can't tell they are unaltered.


texts: Operating an iPad with broken touch screen

texts: Can I use software from my computer to operate an iPad with a broken touch screen?


texts: Associating skype contacts with address book

texts:
After installation of new Skype version for Mac, each time I search for a contact - it gives me few choices for one person:

the skype contact;
the contact from address book with phone number

Is there a way to merge these two contacts into one? Maybe by adding custom field to address book or by defining same phone number in skype contact entry?

Any guides are much appreciated!


texts: Which cellular carriers worldwide allow FaceTime calls over 3G/4G Networks?

texts: Do any carriers allow for FaceTime video and/or voice calls to pass over normal data channels directly from an iOS device? If not, what alternatives exist short of jail breaking or other gray solutions that would run afoul of the current policies of the cellular carriers? (for example WiFi devices that in turn use 3G / 4G for their connectivity)


texts: Would I be able to use an eGPU on unsupported Macs with an AMD Pascal graphics card?

texts: I want to be able to Metal 2 (for eGPU support) on my MacBook Pro 2011 13" but my Mac isn't on the supported list (2012+). I know that Metal doesn't depend on the CPU. I'm wondering whether Apple bases Metal support on the GPU you are currently running or if they completely block 2011 and older Macs from using Metal. I'm interested in running a RX580 which is compatible with Metal on an eGPU (I know I can't run an eGPU out of the box I would use the eGPU script from eGPU.io)


texts: What does model name means for MacBook Pro?

texts:
From my local Apple reseller I get a model name of MacBook Pro I'm interested in.

MacBook Pro MR942

But US apple.com site doesn't have this model for MacBook Pro of the same configuration.

What does it mean? Fake MacBook?

How to read that model name?

Does Apple have some search engine (some special page or application) where I can type MacBook's model name and get full info about the device?

One:

Two:

Three:


texts:
I want use .bash_profile but I have a bug.

In my file I have :

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_191.jdk/Contents/Home

But When my JAVA_HOME is called by Ionic I have :

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home

I don't know why my JAVA_HOME is not same.

I try to launch . .bash_profile but don't work


texts: Can't locate /.Spotlight-V100 anywhere, spotlight has incomplete results even after index rebuild

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I tried everything I could find on StackExchange and the internet, including the official apple-suggested approach of removing adding and removing the volume to privacy https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716 . This question sums up most of the things I tried Spotlight doesn't show applications also this answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/337782/146629
One thing many tutorials mention is that you should run sudo rm -rf ./Spotlight* or ./Spotlight-V100
However, I don't have it in root and I asked around friends with newest macOS and they did not find it in root either. I would like to give it a last shot and remove that index manually before I give up and try a system restore with Time Machine, but I can't seem to find the indices anywhere. Have they moved in recent versions? Any hints on how to make spotlight work again without system restore?
I'm on 10.15.6 (19G2021)


texts: can I change the iphone 5S text tone swoosh on sending to a more noticable sound

texts: can I change the text tone swoosh on sending to something louder/more noticable on my iphone 5S, if so how? Thanks


texts: Unable to deselect items in migration-assistant

texts: I had created a test user upon installing Mountain Lion, now I want to import my regular user from backup, but only that particular user and no other users nor applications. However in the Migration-Assistent window all check boxes are greyed out for my most recent backup (both for my carbon copy clone and the TimeMachine backup) even though I could change the selection for a much older backup. What can be done to allow me to make a selection instead of needing to import everything ?


texts: How get email account settings from my Macbook Air onto my iPhone 5s?

texts:
I need to get the email account settings from my Macbook Air on to my iPhone 5s.

It was working perfectly until I got a new iPhone 5s. I backed everything up, but my email account for work is not working now, meaning I am out of the loop if I am not near my Mac.


texts: How can I add a path to the PATH environment variable?

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I want to add a path to the PATH environment variable?

I have tried with export PATH=/mypath:$PATH and it works. But the next time I start the Terminal, my new path is not int the PATH environment variable any more.

How can I add a path to the PATHenvironment variable? and it should be there also the next time I start the Terminal.

I have problems with this now again, the trick that worked before doesn't seem to work anymore.

I have tried with:

echo 'export GRADLE_HOME=/Users/jonas/gradle-1.2/' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PATH=GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile

to add two environment variables. Then my ~/.profile-file has this content:

export GRADLE_HOME=/Users/jonas/gradle-1.2/
export PATH=GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

But when I start a new Terminal window and type gradle (the command I added to PATH), I get a message that the command doesn't exists. If I run the command from /Users/jonas/gradle-1.2/bin it works fine!


texts: I have just bought the Beamer app in order to stream videos from my MacBook to my Apple TV, it works great and I am very happy. Previously I was using the AirPlay feature provided by Apple but it often seemed to reduce the video quality and lag. My question is, how the Beamer app works, considering that the Apple TV is quite closed environment, which does not allow third party apps for now? Additionally, if the app relies on the same technology as the AirPlay why the video quality seems better?


texts: Multiple Apple ID accounts – can I delete one safely?

texts: I have two Apple ID accounts and wish to remove one as it causes confusion with password issues. What problems will this cause if I delete this app from my iPhone.


texts: Can't get my MacBook Pro to the "Agree" page on a public wifi hotspot

texts:
I have a recurring problem:

My MacBook Pro recognizes and connects to my building's wifi network (the provider happens to be Natural Wireless).

But it doesn't redirect to their boring terms page that I have to click that "I agree" to in order to access the internet.

I have numerous other devices connected, so they're not down.  Also, my computer's wifi works fine. (I'm connecting with my phone to the hotspot and my computer is connected using the phone's wifi, so I'm sure both work.)

I'm pretty sure the computer (or hotspot) just thinks they already know each other, so it's not redirecting to the agreement.  I think this because the remedy on mobile devices is to "forget" the network, then reconnect.

I've tried that on the computer successfully in the past (removing the network in the "advanced" section of network settings, then re-connecting), but it no longer works.

I also tried hitting both 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.1 - neither helped.


texts: Complete mess with iMessages and SMS messages and different devices.....help

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I wonder if anyone on this amazing site can help. I have an iphone (have had for years). Recently it went automatically to 'blue' imessages as default.  This caused problems as it requires me or the receiver to be in wifi range for messages to be delivered, so I disabled it on my phone. So now all my messages sent are GREEN sms messages via the mobile telephony system (i.e. normal). These are free to me as included in my monthly contract.

Now the challenge - I think that OTHERS' phones are defaulting to iMessage when sending to me, but obviously not arriving with me as I have disabled iMessages.  Instead, it looks to them that the message has been sent to my phone - but the message then delivered to my iPad (which largely resides with my daughter now) as this has iMessage.

So the problem is this: how can I keep iMessage on my iPad (which could be useful sometimes) and NOT deregister my phone number with AppleID (as it may be useful somtimes when travelling to turn iMessagess back on) BUT make any attempt to send me a message to my telephone number go via SMS telephony rather than iMessage. The only solutions I can see would require them to turn off 'iMessage' default, but that is not do-able. At the moment, both sides (them, sending messages which look like they have been safely sent, and me, scratching my head about the lack of response to my SMS texts to some friends) are left in the dark.  It's not even as if the sender realises it hasn't arrived - the message simply goes to my iPad instead.

As I see it, at the moment, Apple has behaved very badly indeed in making the old system incompatible with the new one they are trying to establish, and making it impossible to set a 'first try iMessage then do SMS if there is a contract and the message has not gone to the phone number via Wifi'condition.  They are essentially making life difficult for people to move from iPhones, but in this case I even have an iPhone and simply want others to be able to text me in a way which gets through.
Any ideas? Is anyone else affected by this?


texts: How to get the Column Browser in iTunes 11 on the left side?

texts:
In iTunes 10, I had the Column Browser (the list of Artists/Albums) going down the left side of the main iTunes window.  With the install of iTunes 11, it is back to the top.

I tried going View>Column Browser>.... and the option is not there, and its not in the preferences either. Anyone see a way to get it back on the left side?


texts: AppleScript: Display alert or restart when application terminates/crashes?

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I rely on Dropbox for syncing work files between two computes that are powered on 24/7. For some reason, Dropbox terminates (crashes or quits) after long periods of time, with no explanation. I just find later that the application is no longer running.

Is there a way I can get notified (e.g. via a popup) when a certain application terminates?

I'm thinking there might be a way for AppleScript to do this, but I'm unsure where to begin.


texts: How do I use all four cameras of the iPhone 12 in WhatsApp?

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The iPhone 12 has four cameras; the front camera, a general use one on the back, a wide angle one and a zoom camera.
During video chats placed with the WhatsApp app, only the front camera and the general use one of the back can be accessed.
It is therefore very difficult to show certain things during a call that would require the wide angle or zoom cameras.
Can I use all 4 cameras of the iPhone 12 in WhatsApp, and how? Or is there an app for video chat that supports them all?


texts: Why do multiple instances of the same application occasionally open accidentally?

texts:
This doesn't happen often, but occasionally I will try to switch to an open application (either by clicking its icon in the dock, or by double-clicking on a document that opens in that application), but instead of that application becoming active, a second, independent instance of the same application will launch (so that I will see two copies of the icon when I use cmd-tab to switch applications, two copies in the dock, etc.)

Again, this is rare, but it does happen every now and then, and it drives me nuts. It happened this afternoon with Preview.app.  Usually this situation leads to one or both of the instances becoming non-responsive, requiring me to force quit.  Sometimes that leads to me losing work.

There are a bunch of threads of people who want to have multiple instances of the same application, asking how to make it happen.  I have the opposite question:  Why does this happen, and what (if anything) can I do to prevent it?

Edited to add:  This seems to be more likely to occur if one or more application is experiencing a "spinning beachball".  My suspicion is that the app I'm trying to activate does not respond to a system call, so the system thinks it's not open and tries to open another copy of it.


texts: Need to regularly check windows for changes

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I'm looking for a fast and reliable method to monitor changes in some windows belonging to a application.

After I hit a hotkey I'd like a method to monitor those windows for a change in specific pixels, and if it detect any changes it should trigger an action (more specifically move that window to other coordinates).

I've got a copy of Keyboard Maestro, which could be certainly a help.
Also GrabFS may help.

What's the best way to achieve my goals?


texts: Unicode character U+273F rendered as a cherry blossom in browser but not in applications

texts:
I would like to copy/paste the unicode character U+273F (black florette).

Whenever I see it in my browser it looks like a cherry blossom:

However, whenever I copy/paste it into an app, I get a daisy shape instead of the cherryblossom shape like so:

How can I get unicode character U+273F to be rendered as a cherry blossom shape in various applications (such as Pages, Notes, TextEdit, etc) on my mac?

I've tried using various fonts already installed on my mac, and they don't render the cherry blossom shape. When looking online at the other fonts available to me, they render it in the daisy form. Do I have to shell out money for a special proprietary font just to render this character the way I want?


texts: Display image in original size in Finder's preview column

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Is there a way to see the image in the preview column of the Finder in original size?

Right now the images are stretched to fill the entire width of the column, even if the image is just a small 32x32px icon.

This happens in all View modes of the Finder: as Icons, as Columns.

In Windows 7 if you have opened a folder with small images, then it attempts to keep their original size, so you can have a better view of how that file looks.

Here is a screenshot OS X (left) vs. Windows 7 (right):


texts: After upgrading to macOS Sierra on our Mac desktop, all of our desktop folders were as before but all subfolders were emptied.  Many years of archiving gone?  Anyone know how to retrieve?


texts: Show categories in the sidebar of Outlook?

texts: Is it possible to show Categories in the Navigation Pane (left sidebar) of Outlook 2011? If so, how?


texts: Mac OS X Finder filter image by orientation

texts: How can I filter images by orientation in Finder to show only portrait/vertical images or only landscape/horizontal images?


texts: Get data from iPhone in DFU mode, by having all the passwords

texts:
I have and iPhone 7 in DFU mode, It is blocked during normal use.

The iPhone had iOS 11.4, after it crashed following the instructions I tried to update it to iOS 13, but the update didn't go well.

It is now completely locked in DFU mode

Having all the passwords and a one year old backup, I don't want to lose the data from recent changes.

Can I recover the data from a device in this state?


texts: Is it possible to virtualize PowerPC... FOR a PowerPC? (absolutely not Intel-related)

texts:
As my question states,

Is it possible to virtualize PowerPC... FOR a PowerPC?

Consider that you're using Linux for PPC.  You want to run apps written specifically for Mac OS 7.x through 9.2.2, all of which require PPC (let's say).  Let's also say that you don't want to set up a dual-boot configuration on your PPC Mac because... well, you're lazy.

Emulators like Sheepshaver (for Linux on PPC) are fine for most basic needs, but for more intensive programs like games, complex math software, and pretty much anything that requires the MMU (memory management unit) will simply NOT run.

A PPC virtualizer written FOR the same PPC machine could allow those complex programs access to all the appropriate system resources it needs.... because its ALREADY THERE.  There is nothing to be emulated!

So, even at least hypothetically... is it possible?


texts: Remember window sizes and placement when unplugging and replugging second monitor

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Here’s something that sucks:

Plug in external monitor to laptop (Mac OS X Leopard in my case).
Arrange your windows to have the IDE on one screen and browser on another.
(Etc etc.  Resize, rearrange, fuss, fuss, fuss.)
Unplug monitor to run to a meeting, or whatever.
Goto 1.

I’d like to replace step 2 with “computer remembers exactly how I had it and just puts it back that way”.

(I personally only need a solution for Mac but collecting solutions for other systems here might be useful to others.  I’m sure it’s a common problem.)


texts: Does Google Maps for iOS work without data access or with low intermittent data access

texts:
I am going on a road trip and want to use Google Maps for iOS.

The problem is there will not always be data access along the way.

Will it still work i.e. is the route downloaded when you click start or what should I do?


texts: How to tell if my old Mac supports Sidecar feature in macOS Catalina?

texts: This is a useful feature added to macOS Catalina. But how to tell if older hardware will support this new feature?


texts: MacBook Air occasionally freezes when external monitor is connected

texts:
I bought an ultra wide monitor (LG 29UM58) the other day. To hook it up to my Air, I convert a mini-DP signal to HDMI. With two different cables, I started noticing occasional latency on the signal where the screen freezes for about a second and then it becomes responsive again.

Some more interesting tidbits:

This happens on my laptop screen as well as the external monitor while I'm connected to the display.
I can use the on-screen menu of my monitor while my screen is frozen.
I never had this issue with my previous screen, a 16:9 Full HD monitor with a DVI port.
I tried an AmazonBasics Mini-DP to HDMI cable (maximum resolution of 1920x1080) as well as a Mini-DP to HDMI adapter from an obscure brand together with an HDMI-to-HDMI cable. Both gave the same results.
I'm using macOS Sierra on a 2015 MacBook Air.
My new monitor's native resolution is 2560x1080.
The issue only seems to manifest while I'm moving my mouse, so there seems to be some interplay with mouse input and display output. I haven't seen it happen while I type yet.
I tried reproducing the issue while a video was playing. Most of the time both the pointer and the video froze, but sometimes only the pointer froze. This makes me believe it's not related to the monitor itself or the cable.

How can I find out what's causing the random freezes and fix the issue?


texts: iOS App Store: Unable to download and update apps due to Terms and Conditions loop, even after agreeing

texts:
When I go into the App Store and hit update, or try to download a new game, I get the prompt shown in the image.

I hit OK, and it loads the Terms and Conditions just fine and there is a nice blue accept button that I hit in the top right. However upon doing so it take me back to the App Store where I was before and then after about 1-2 seconds the prompt to accept reappears. Telling me to accept these Terms and Conditions.

I think the issue has something to do with the fact I had to change my region for the App Store recently as prior to that I had no issue with this. I needed an app from a foreign App Store to make travelling on public transport easier. And now I’ve switch back to the United Kingdom’s App Store. All of these apps that need updating were downloaded while I have been on the UK AppStore previously. And even games I’ve never downloaded before give me the prompt.

I also tried changing regions again and back, but to no avail. I’ve tried reading the whole Terms and conditions again and emailing them to myself. And I’m just about out of ideas.


texts: Forgot administrator username and password MacBook Pro

texts:
I got a MacBook Pro and I forgot my administrator username and password and I can't log in into my account. If I use my guest account I can't log in into my iCloud because it is asking me for my administrator credentials.

How can I reset my computer or reset my administrator information?

I have tried to open a new Apple ID but I still need my administrator permission to log in.


texts: Can I create a keyboard shortcut to lock a file in Finder?

texts:
I'm constantly opening Info panes so that I can lock the currently selected files in Finder. Keeping the Info pane open is no longer good enough; it gets cumbersome to manage with multiple desktops and screens.

Can I assign a keyboard shortcut to do this?


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So i had previously used a software where i could paste a list of file names and automate it to copy all those files and paste into destination folder. Unfortunately i am unable to find it.
So the problem i have now is "how can i bulk search and copy files from a folder to destination folder"
So,
I have a folder with around 2000 images.
and i have all these images names in an excel.
So i have already selected few image names on that excel which i can curate in a plaintext too.
But i am unable to find a way search these names and copy those files into another folder.
I really hope there is someone here who can help me find a solution.
Looking forward to all the help and suggestions


texts: Recording System Audio-Out + Built-in Mic While Using Earphones (Notability or other)

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I've been using Notability to record meetings, as the recording is tied to notes, so finding specific information after the meeting is much easier; however, for online meetings (GoogleHangouts, FaceTime etc), I wear earphones so as to not disturb my coworkers.

Does anyone know of any way I could set things up so that Notability records the signal going out to the earphones, as well as the input from the built-in mic?

Alternatively, if using earphones with a built-in mic would offer a solution, I'd certainly be willing to invest.

This feature is incredibly helpful for staying organized, but I haven't been able to figure out a work-around for these online meetings (& > 50% of my meetings are online...).

Thanks in advance for your time & help!


texts: How to make iOS Mail.app recognize Courier's namespace prefix?

texts: I am using a Courier IMAP server which, per default, uses the 'INBOX.' prefix for all folders. On Mac OS X as a client this works just fine. On iOS however, I have to manually configure in the advanced settings an IMAP prefix of "INBOX". How can I make this work automatically? Do I have to configure something on the Courier server, or is this a limitation in iOS?


texts: How to restore iPhone backups without a SIM?

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I have an iPhone 5 with a damaged SIM slot.  How does one restore an iPhone using file backups made from iPhone 5 without having to insert a sim card or using Xcode?  Using the MDBACKUP files or restore from a IPSW file?

Is there a way to convert the last phone MDBACKUP files into an .ipsw and then load this file in iTunes via recovery mode to restore it?

I learned a valuable lesson and that was never use a cable that is not OEM when trying to upgrade. About 6 months ago I was upgrading the iPhone 5 (Sprint) via iTunes. The upgrade failed due to the cable. Now every boot iPhone 5 says insert sim card. (The Hello Screen)

I did make complete backups on computer before the upgrade.
The worst part is that the sim port has damaged pins inside and there is no way even when I'm just using the iPhone on Wi-Fi to have a sim card to be recognized.

I even went as far as adding the IMEI to a developer account for testing and tried that way. Any way using Xcode to figure a way this way or loading the backup files.  IMEI is clean and I was just using this iPhone on WiFi only for a year.

Anyone know if it is possible to restore using the file backups somehow? Is there no way without having to insert a sim? Any way to get to the Apple login screen?


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How can I troubleshoot or fix when macOS Photos app import from a connected iPhone gets stuck on "Preparing to import from..."?
Devices:

iMac Retina 5K 27-inch 2017, macOS Big Sur 11.2.3
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14.4.1

Setup:
iPhone is connected to the iMac with a USB-Lightning Cable
Problem:
Photos app on MacOS import from connected iPhone appears to be stuck on "Preparing to import from" and never makes progress.
Steps to reproduce:

Launch Photos
Unlock iPhone
Connect iPhone to iMac with cable
Click the name of the connected iPhone under "Devices" section of Photos
Photos shows a message: Preparing to import from "Device_Name" where Device_Name is the name of the iPhone
Wait... forever...

Additional Information:

Imports previously used to work between these devices.
The Photos Library has been repaired multiple times by opening Photos while holding Option-Command.
The iPhone successfully synchronizes and backs up via the Finder when connected.
Swapping out cables does not change the behavior.
Restarting the iMac, iPhone, or macOS Photos app does not solve the problem.
iPhone has over 40,000 items (photos, live photos, videos, etc.) and a few hundred are new items since the last import while the others are already imported.

Relevant thread:

Photos 'preparing to import from iPhone' message....


texts: How to automatically add file location while printing

texts: I'd like to print a lot of text documents and I'd like to have a file location on the footer of each page of all documents. Of course I don't want to add them manually, but I'd like to set have them there automatically added just for printing. Is there a way how to achieve this in TextEdit or Pages?