texts: Can I forcibly change where iTunes keeps my mobile applications?

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For the past few days I've been trying to move my iTunes library to an external hard drive, so that when I get a new PC in the future (as I'm doing right now), it's not a nightmare to get everything onto the new machine.  This, of course, means that it's a nightmare to get it all onto the external drive.

I think I've gotten the music and track info all sorted out, but now for some reason, when I sync my device to my library, it's removing every single application from the device.  On closer inspection, my 'apps' folder in iTunes is completely blank.  I'd like to not have to re-download everything since I had close to 14Gb of apps.

It turns out I'd copied the 'mobile applications' directory from my PC iTunes folder to the new drive without leaving a copy of it behind.  When iTunes looks for the applications, it's still looking in the old location.

I think I can temporarily avoid the problem by copying the app files back to their original location, but I'm wondering if there's a way to manually re-target iTunes's apps folder to a specified location.

EDIT:  So I copied the app files back, and iTunes is still coming up blank when I try to see the apps in my library.  How do I figure out where iTunes is looking for apps?


texts: Replace MacBook Pro screen with Screen from old MacBook

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I have a 13” MacBook Pro mid 2014 as well as a late 2011 MacBook Pro.

My 2014 MacBook Pro screen is broken and I was wondering if I could replace it with the screen from my 2011 MacBook Pro.

Will there be any issues during installation?


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I just got an iPhone from my company. I have to access my work email on this iPhone 4.
However, I can't use Grooveshark as my music service, since it only works on jailbroken iPhones.

How can I jailbreak my phone so that company's server is unaffected? Or would it possibly even be affected in the first place?

How do I un-jailbrake the phone later, so I can return it to my company later unaltered?


texts: How can I record video of the iPhone screen without jailbreaking the phone?

texts: Is it possible to record video of the iPhone screen, and if so how?  I'm talking about video screen capturing, not using a camcorder or any app that requires jailbreaking my phone.


texts: IPhone 6s Apps are not being shown in iTunes on Windows 10

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I have a problem since i installed windows 10, i own an IPhone 6s and on iTunes  Apps are not being shown in the apps tab (I mean the box on the left side where apps and its size are listed, it is just blank as if they were undetected although they are shown on the tabs on the right)

I know this only happens on Windows 10 as i have a Laptop with Windows 7 and it is working properly with the same iTunes version.

This is driving me crazy because sometimes i need to clear some space and do not know which apps to remove apart from guessing ...

Can someone help?


texts: After each restart new iTerm window hangs for 5s on "xcode-build license check" [Apple M1]

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This is really annoying and I'd understand if this was due to a system update,
however after each restart a new iTerm window basically evaluates xcode-build license check for about 5s. Is there a way to turn it off?
I've tried sudo xcodebuild -license accept, but it seems to be unrelated to this issue.
I'm running Big Sur under Apple M1.


texts: How to use default (english) shortcuts on Mac in german language?

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My problem is following: my Mac is localised german and I use an "ABC-Extended" keyboard layout (I do mostly programming and german puts important characters on annoying key combinations).

Anyway I notice App shortcuts are still for german keyboard.  Say in Safari back is <C-Ö> - however in the keyboard layout I need two key presses to achieve ö (<M-u> then <o>).  I manually set it back to the default mapping <C-[> however this is annoying.

Is there anyway to switch to the default shortcuts globally?


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Is there any way to safely jailbreak an iDevice having the iOS 5.0.1 on it? I know a jailbreak is never going to be 100% trustworthy but there's a certain level of acceptance when some experienced users try it and those who are not, can go give it a shot.
Thank you.


texts: Why does Spotlight think "CHROM" matches Chrome, but "CHROME" matches Calendar?

texts:
This behavior has been consistent for months, maybe even years at this point, and I finally decided to make a screen recording of it just to have some verification that it's really happening.  The steps are:

Command-space to open Spotlight search.
Type the letters C, H, R, O, M, E in order with pauses.
For CH, CHR, CHRO, and CHROM Spotlight thinks the best match is Google Chrome...
But as soon as I add the final E, Spotlight thinks the best match is Calendar.
Delete the final E and Chrome comes back to the top of the list...
Re-type the E, and it's Calendar again.

Video evidence:  https://youtu.be/nkWuhXLrN1I

I just can't think of any rational text matching/lookup system in which this behavior makes sense.  What on Earth is Spotlight doing?


texts: After deleting or archiving an email in Mail on iOS 7, is there anyway to undo that action?


texts: iPhone locked for ransom: how to recover if it's offline?

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I'm trying to help a friend who got her iPhone locked for ransom through the "I lost my iPhone" feature.
The screen is locked and says "Dlya polucheniya parolya, napishite na e-mail: helpicloud3@gmail.com".
I got her to change her password and use the "sign out of all browsers" option on AppleID so now she should be the only one with access to it.
I thought that was over, but when she accessed the "Lost my iPhone" page to unlock the phone it said "Device is offline". We checked and the iPhone seems to have WiFi off and says "SIM locked" in the status bar, upper left.

I looked around for a solution, but found nothing. I searched the ransom message over google (https://www.google.it/search?q=Dlya+polucheniya+parolya%2C+napishite+na+e-mail:+helpicloud3%40gmail.com) and found 3 sites: two in Russian (still have to check them) and one in English (http://kilishek.com/index.php/2016/05/14/friday-13-my-apple-id-was-hacked/), where someone describes the same exact ransom happening the same exact day, but he had no problem in recovering the iPhone.

Can someone help me?

Edit:
Problem solved: the iPhone's SIM had the PIN activated and this prevented it from connecting to the cloud.


texts: Is there a good replacement for the Dock?

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What are the best dock replacements?

  It's frustrating to keep track of
  windows in the dock unless they're
  minimized. For instance, I often have
  10-15 separate PDF documents open.
  It's a mess to keep track of them on
  the dock.

-- Harry Gindi


texts: I cannot quit from iTunes, possibly because there is a pop-up that will not cancel, despite dozens of times pressing the cancel button.  I turned off the machine and when I turned it back on, there was iTunes and the stubborn pop-up.  I'm using MacBookAir, bought in December 2019.


texts: What I got with Recovery Disk Assistant?

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Environment:

Mac Mini Mid 2010. Original OS is Snowleopard
Current OS is Yosemite
Tool. Recovery Disk Assistant which is downloaded from Apple website.

Purpose:

Make a recovery Yosemite disk on USB stick

Procedure:

Downloaded Recovery Disk Assistant fro Apple
executed Recovery Disk Assistant on Yosemite

Problem:
  The recovery disk assistant has fixed image and text. There is a Lion photo image, not Yosemite and it said successfully made Lion recovery disk.

So I am wondering whether I got Lion recovery or Yosemite recovery...


texts:
I'd like to measure the temperature in my fridge over a few days and graph the results, since I think the fridge may be starting to fail.

So I'm looking for a cheap device which can run independently on battery power, which logs the temperature and timestamp every few seconds to a file.  I want to plug this in to my Mac and retrieve the data.  I don't particularly need software to generate the graph: I can do this with Numbers, Excel etc.

This "RC-4" unit pictured below is the sort of thing I'm imagining.  However, it doesn't seem to be Mac compatible.

Can anyone recommend a suitable product?

Alternatively, I could set up a Windows installation for this device in VirtualBox, but I wonder if that would handle the USB drivers correctly.  Can anyone offer any experience here?


texts: How can I tell the time with an Apple TV?

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I'd like to tell the time with my Apple TV, so I don't have to use a computer. But I can't seem to find a single clock app or screensaver for Apple TV. Anyone know if one exists?

I'm using an Apple TV 3, with Apple TV Software 6.0.


texts: I've followed the manual in setting up the shared folders on my Windows 7 installation under Parallels version 7.0.15106, but still I can not find my Mac folders in Windows explorer! I have tried both the "Shared Profile" and adding shared folders manually. As I understand it, they should show up under Network in Windows Explorer, right? Well, the only thing showing up there is MyName-WIN7 which contains a Users folder, which in turn contains a folder with my name and a folder called Public. The contents of the folder with my name is the same as in C:\Users\MyName and has nothing to do with anything on the Mac. I have Googled until my eyes turned red for a solution, but everyone just says the same thing - Go to Configure > Sharing, etc. Well I have tried all of that, there must be some setting that's prohibiting my shared Mac folders from showing up in Windows... I have made sure that the "Isolate my Mac" setting is turned off, so that's not it either.


texts: Some strange dynamic desktop stripes issue on Mac OS Mojave

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I have reboot my OS 10.14.6 (18G84) and see some strange stripes, it is not connected to Mac book screen as you can see I opened Downloads and all looks good on the second image I've attached.

What can be a problem?

when I switched to static desktop image this problem disappeared, but it's still there when I switch to dynamic desktop.

Also I've deleted cache in ~/Library/Caches on my MacBook as my Mac was freezing and I also disabled spotlight for SSD. Maybe this somehow affected on the issue.


texts: How to make my workflows run again with Automator Runner after upgrading to Mountain Lion?

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After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I cannot run my workflows with Automator Runner anymore.

The option to do that in the context menu is still there, but nothing happens, no errors, no console logs. Opening them with Automator itself and running them from there still works.

How to make my workflows run with Automator Runner after upgrading to Mountain Lion?


texts: How to stop Automator / other task running in background

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I have a process on my MacBook that triggers when a new file is added to certain folders, like my desktop, it copies the file and places it in another directory that is backed up online.

The problem is I want to stop this copy behavior and really can not find where / what is running it. I think it was automator I created it with (it was a while ago), and I used to see a gear in the taskbar if that helps narrow it down. I no longer see the gear now.

Any suggestions would be very helpful thank you


texts:
Currently I own an MacBookPro. For some reasons, I need to run Windows. So I installed Windows XP using VirtualBox (a free virtual machine). My questions is: Can my Windows XP (which run from my MacBook Pro) install another VM machine, which is VMplayer, then I want to install ubuntu in the VMPlayer?

(Yes, you may ask, why dont I install the Ubuntu (client and server) on my macbook virtualbox? Well, as I said earlier, for some specific reasons.)


texts: MBP Battery Consumption and Charging Speed app?

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I'd like to know if there is an app that shows you how fast (how many Watts) the MBP is consuming and how fast it is charging (Watts and Voltage).

I know that there is the Activity Monitor but it only shows an Energy Impact that doesn't translate to Watts.

The 15" model has a 76Wh battery, and the charger is 87W. Is it correct to say that if I charge a 0% battery MBP while it is turned off it should take a little bit less than 1 hour? Also if I charge that with my smartphone chargers that output 18W at max (QC2 and QC3) is there a way to know if it is charging using the full power (and the voltage/amperage)?


texts: Is it possible to write a plugin to add more info in Finder's Preview Pane?

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I would like to display the DPI and color mode (RGB/CMYK) for JPEG images, is it possible to write a plugin to add more info in Finder's Preview Pane?

Is there an API for developers to do so?


texts: What geographic location is shown in the macOS High Sierra default desktop image?

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Looks like Convict Lake, just off US395 in Mono County...but I'm guessing.

Does anyone know where the fall mountain scene with the lake was photographed?


texts:
so I've been trying to delete a kext file from the Soundflower program. I tried deleting the whole program but it ended up leaving me with just the kext file, and I can't throw it in the bin.
I tried redownloading the program and run the uninstall script again but it ended up just deleting the new files and still leaving the old one behind.


texts: Detect copy/paste done performed in guest OS running in a Virtual Machine on macOS host

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I have copied certain text in CentOS running as a guest in Virtual Machine which in turn is running on macOS host.

Guest: Virtual Machine - Centos v7.5
Host: macOS - High Sierra v10.13/ Windows 10.

The functionality needed is to  detect a txt copy operation from
a file inside the Virtual Machine to paste operation on macOS where presumably this data would then be pasted to a file/website/e-mail. I was just wondering if you can somehow know that and if you can give me an example of such "tool" that can record/spy on the host actions.

Is it possible to detect that some text was copied/moved to a file/e-mail/website in host OS (macOS)?


texts: What's the keyboard shortcut for keyboard layout switch in Mojave?

texts: Shift + Control + Space doesn't seem to work anymore.


texts: How can I convert video and audio files into iPod/iPad playable formats?

texts:
I am quite a non-technical guy when it comes to such stuff and hence looking for "easy" solutions.

On Windows, I had used Red Kawa Videora to convert the various audio and video formats to iPod-playable formats. I think it also has a version which works on Mac.

I would like to know if there is other (possibly better and as much or more user-friendly) software which does the above job of converting various audio and video formats into what Apple products can play. (I guess what works on iPod also works on iPad.)


texts: SQLite Manager 4 : unable to open database file

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I have recently purchased and installed the software SQLite Manager 4, now I am creating new SQLite3 database and whenever I try to create new table with 'xyz' name with any number of column, it gives me error stating "unable to open database file".

No other details is given on that part. I also searched for FAQ and other user manual, but did not succeed.

Please help me on this part.

Thank you.


texts: Transfer iPhone 5 photo library on to a Network Storage Device

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I'm running out of space on my iPhone and would like to transfer my iPhone photos to a NAS and then delete them. I like to view my pictures from NAS via an app.

Can somebody recommend a good NAS and app that can help me achieve that?


texts: Corporate alternatives to DropBox for iPad

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I am currently the only iPad user in a large company, and am loving using it, especially for meetings. I keep a lot of information relevant to meetings on DropBox, such as minutes, reports, spreadsheets and so on, and tend to refer to them a lot. I like the fact that I can easily navigate my own directory tree in DropBox, and view common file formats on there. However, whilst I have permission to use dropbox for the files I use, I find that I am limited in scope with some meetings, as I'm not allowed to place others on servers that don't belong to the company. I end up having to either bring a laptop, or, more commonly, look over somebody else's shoulder.

So, can anyone recommend a solution similar to Dropbox that would work for shares on Windows Server 2003, and allow me to:

Easily navigate a directory tree, possibly with shortcuts to commonly-used folders
View files in MS Office 2003 and 2007 formats and PDFs without lengthy conversion processes
Not have to go through an intermediate "copy to the iPad" step that I might find with, say GoodReader or Quickoffice

I'd ideally lie a solution that works on the company wifi network without further modification of the current server architecture, though I can see that in the future, it may need to work over a secure VPN connection from the field if a few other managers decide to take the plunge, so something that's preferably easy for our system administrators to configure and support. A proxy solution that would work in Linux or Windows is possible.


texts: MagSafe: Where is the charger ID stored?

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I'm about to change my power adapter's cable due to the classic cable fraying.

However, according to this, there's data that gets passed around using the 1-Wire protocol.

I only see 2 wires on there.

Is the cable a "smart" cable with a built-in IC, or are all logic and data pieces in the charger brick itself?


texts:
Mac: MacBook Pro, mid2012, 9,1 Core i7 2.3Ghz, 16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, nVidia 650M, IntelHD 4000
I use several macOS systems incl. the default one - Lion. 2 weeks ago slowdowns began to occur - apps slow to launch (even such lightweight ones as Console), Finder crashes, icons bouncing off the Dock - something that was never the case during the 7 years that I own it. I don't see visual artefacts, graphic mess: I can play video, and do usual stuff but every 2-3 days, at some point Mac becomes really slow and only restart helps. Between these hangs, Mac is fast and robust (as robust as 7 years old machine can be). Every time this happens Lion's Console shows this repeating message:
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: ****  Debug info for *possible* hang in MAIN graphics engine  ****
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0xe535d
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x0
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x0
25/02/2021 11:46:17.000 kernel: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
25/02/2021 11:46:22.000 kernel: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0xe5377 on MAIN ring: called from

No issues with external monitors. I had it repaired 2 weeks ago (an audio speaker).
In the other macOS systems, Console doesn't produce these messages: I don't have this behaviour erupting there but I noticed messages about some "GPU dump" in Mojave. Is the GPU dying?


texts: Accept login policy banner without mouse

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My computer setup currently has three monitors: the 15.4" built-in display of my MacBook pro, a 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display connected by Thunderbolt, and a 10" Mimo Magic Touch display connected to the Thunderbolt Display via USB.  The computer is running a version of OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

My computer also has a user agreement policy banner set to appear at login due to the presence of /Library/Security/PolicyBanner.rtfd.  However, the Mimo monitor appears to be causing issues with the policy banner: namely, the banner is appearing partially off-screen, making the "Accept" button unclickable.  I'm not sure if this is due to the smaller size of the monitor, or the atypical monitor/driver.

Furthermore, the standard accessibility functionality does not appear to work with the policy banner as far as I can tell: I can't use ⇥ to tab to the "Accept" button, nor can I just hit ↩.  I've also tried various combinations of modifier keys with these options.  ⌘+A (the first letter of the "Accept" button) also does not work.

Ultimately, my question is thus: is there a way to accept the policy without using the mouse and clicking on "Accept"?  If not, this seems like an accessibility oversight on Apple's part, as I would imagine this is also a potential problem for users with special accessibility needs.  It would also mean that you can no longer log into your mac with just a keyboard.


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I've moved from Ireland to the UK and am now getting paid in GBP, so I decided i'd move my Apple ID to the UK store (even though I like the Irish top app charts more)
I found that after I move my account to UK and add a UK Card all my previous app purchases on the Mac App store and on the iOS App store are no longer in my 'Purchased' tab.
This is really annoying, I believe I can download any of the old apps i've purchased and a message pops up explaining that I can re download for free, but it's really not a good solution.
Anyone know what else won't work correctly now? will iCloud backups or iMessage mess up too?
This sucks - any fix to this ridiculous problem?

How can apple be so sloppy on this?


texts: How to kill stuck Screen sharing authentication dialogue?

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Sometimes when connecting to a screen sharing machine in Finder, the authentication dialogue hangs indefinitely. The only way I've been able to get rid of it is log out.

So far I've tried killing a number of processes including:

Screen Sharing
Finder
Dock
SystemUIServer

To no avail. Any idea what process this UI is attached to?


texts: How to add Mavericks Message into trusted devices in Facebook?

texts:
One-liner: I've enabled SMS notice for new devices Login, and I got spammed every time I wake my Mac.

Facebook seemed to log devices accessing your account, users will be prompted about remembering that device with the named entered. But when Message logs in Facebook Chat, looks like it ignores that device registering step and go right through.

I want to know if I can log into Facebook somewhere to add the Message app as a known device, or some settings in the Message app that can prevent this issue...

Spamming myself just feels so dumb.


texts:
In OS X Mavericks (10.9) I have discovered a very annoying bug.

To reproduce:

Have an external monitor connected to your Mac
Open two windows of the same application (e.g Chrome), and place one window on your Mac and the other on the external display
Click in the window on your external display to bring focus to it
⌘ Cmd+Tab ⇥ to another app (e.g Code editor)
⌘ Cmd+Tab ⇥ back to the app
Focus is now in the window on your Mac, and not on the external display (where the focus originally was). This means you have to click in the window to bring focus to it again.

Practically this means, I can no longer have a window open on my Mac while working with the same app on the external display. How can I solve this?


texts: How to make macOS archive RAR and unRAR files in Finder with automator and shell script?

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I have rar and unrar installed in /usr/local/bin/. I need:

In Finder: to archive selected files and folders with .rar extension to the same folder. Is it possible to make it through right click and context menu? Or with automator services?
In Finder: Unrar selected archives to the same folder in Finder with context menu.

Is it possible with automator and shell script?


texts: I need to capture a screenshot of Apple TV to send a bug to a developer. How do I take a screenshot in tvOS on the new Apple TV?


texts: Every time I type "tm" in Safari, or an app that uses a Webkit control, it changes it to ™.  How do I stop this from occuring?


texts: Automatically download iTunes Season Pass episodes?

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I have three active iTunes Season Passes for various shows, the first ones I've gotten in years. However, it seems that apparently the episodes don't auto-download anymore? Is that right? And you can't even hit "check for available downloads"? Because that was a big part of the appeal for me, back when I had them for LOST and such: having new episodes automatically added to my library, so I could pull them up on the AppleTV or whatever without having to seek them out.

Currently, the only two ways I know of to get new episodes are to follow the link in the emails each week, or to manually go to the each show's page on iTunes and download the new episode each week.

Is that right? Is there any way, official or third-party, to automatically download (or at least batch-download) the new episodes from an iTunes Season Pass?


texts:
I have a 2nd generation iPod Touch and I can't get it to play any media files. Everything else seems to be working fine on it, it just can't play music or videos.

For instance, when I tap a song in the music app, I see the "Now Playing" view for about 1 second before it goes back to the list. It's as if the song started and ended in .01 seconds. But no music ever starts. Whether I have earphones plugged in or not, nothing plays.

When I trying to play YouTube videos or iTunes Store song previews, I get errors like "This movie could not be played" and "Could not play preview".

So far I've tried a hard restart, resetting all settings, erasing all content and settings, restoring in iTunes (EDIT: w/o restoring from backup), restoring using DFU mode. None of these things have worked. I would appreciate any other suggestions. Thanks!


texts: Does iMessage fallback to SMS on a per message basis?

texts:
As we know, the messages app in the iPhone will detect if the party you are texting to is iMessage compatible or not, and will then send an iMessage instead of an SMS. This is great, and works as advertised with other iPhone users that have data plans.

However, what happens with an iPhone with NO data plan? (bought it unlocked, for example). The ideal situation for me, would be that the message is first tried to be delivered as an iMessage, and after some time it would time out and be delivered as an SMS instead, but I don't think that's the case.

Does anyone has experience with this? Will iMessage fall back to SMS on a per message basis?


texts: Bootcamp stuck at: Please wait while boot camp assistant is removing the partitions it created

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I am trying to install windows 10 as dual boot on my macbook pro 2017, running mac os mojave (10.14) using bootcamp assistant.

It runs normally and then in the end where it removes the temporary partitions it created, it gets stuck, for hours and hours.

I have:

Tried running the process multiple times.
Filevault is not active (never was)
Restarted the system many times (which removes the partitions, including windows one too, maybe because the process didn't complete?

This is the diskutil list dump from terminal:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         340.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED             8.0 GB     disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                152.0 GB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +340.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            63.6 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                508.3 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US... +4.7 GB     disk2

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Boot Camp              +1.2 GB     disk3

The error image looks like this:

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Update:

It got fixed after mac os mojave developer beta 2 update.


texts: My daughter of 18 months loves to play with my iPhone. I'm okay with her randomly rearranging the home screen, resetting highscores and such, but now she's discovered how to make calls from the contacts list, and explaining to work contacts why "I" called on a Sunday night is getting awkward... is there a parental controls setting or somesuch to lock the calling feature while leaving the rest of the phone available to her?


texts: What type of storage does an iPod classic use?

texts: I am interested to know if a newer generation iPod classic uses a standard hard drive or flash memory. Do you know what type of memory an iPod classic uses?


texts: Change Mac settings depending on situation

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I use my mac as a lightweight laptop at college, but when I get home I plug it in to charge and plug in 2 external monitors and use it for more power use. Some things that really annoy me are application specific settings. For example, when I use parallels with just my laptop screen, I want the fullscreen to be OSX fullscreen (Where it goes into a new screen and I can 4-finger swipe between them). However when I'm at home on my triple monitor setup, I want it to use Parallels fullscreen (Where the screen goes fullscreen, but not the OSX way, the window literally takes up the whole screen.

Is there any way I can set up two different setting/config files for Parallels, one for when I'm on the move, and one for when I have external monitors plugged in?


texts: How do I change cellular data DNS servers to OpenDNS?

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I have an iPhone that I want to setup using OpenDNS's FamilySearch DNS servers.  However I'm not sure how to set this up for the Cellular side of data.  Is this possible, and if so how?

iPhone: 5

iOS: 6.1


texts: my iPod touch was stolen and needs locating

texts: somebody stole my iPod touch 5th gen and is to be found nowhere. to my knowledge "find my iPod" in on but is not connected to wifi since the thief does not know my password and can't get in to access wifi and everything else. so is there still someway to locate my iPod and get it back?


texts:
I'm having issues with the video out. When I tried to connect the MacBook to the projector (Christie) via DVI it splashed the macOS desktop for 1 second then a message appeared saying "encrypted" (the projector shows this message not the macbook).

When I use displayport/VGA it works fine.

I did not play any HDCP content (I'm not sure this is even HDCP related).

Anyone with any idea of whats going on? It works fine with Bootcamp Win10.

Below is the link for the DVI input card of the Christie, it is HDCP compliant.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1162034-REG/christie_108_312101_02_dual_link_dvi_input.html

edit: MACOS 10.14, the displayport/DVI adapter is 25 pin which is a digital duallink cable. MacBook Pro 15 Retina mid-2012. Projector is a Christie RPMWU-LED01.


texts: Using a US-bought WiFi iPad in the UK with the AppStore?

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I'm looking to give a WiFi-only iPad to a family member as a gift this Christmas. However, I'm concerned that since I am located in the UK, and the device I purchase will be 'US' configured for the store, etc, I will be unable to configure it to work correctly as a UK iPad, with the correct iTunes store, etc.

Is the iTunes store (app, music, video) related to the device software, the network it's accessing from, or the locale of the iTunes account associated with that device?


texts:
If I open a folder using VSCode, it can read the files in that folder. However, can it read the files outside that folder? I can use the terminal inside VSCode and if I run cd .. command, I can operate files outside that folder.
What I want to know is not about file type, but about range. Is it possible for VSCode or extensions installed in it to read a file outside the working directory and send the content to someone's server?


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I am using an applescript to mount a users home folder. However, when I use a password with a "@" symbol the script fails since the "@" symbol is also the separator between the password and servername? Anyway around this outside of changing the password?

Thanks

Here is the script:

display dialog "Please enter your username" default answer ""
set the user_name to the text returned of the result

display dialog "Please enter your password" default answer "" with hidden answer
set pass_word to the text returned of the result

set server_name to "servername"
set share_name to "sharename"
mount volume "smb://" & user_name & ":" & pass_word & "@" & server_name & "/" & share_name & "/" & user_name


texts: How would I preserve only a certain user account while doing a secure wipe of my MacBook Pro?

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I have a MacBook Pro with a separate user account for work-related stuff.  Suppose I am required by contract to use reasonable means to destroy all copies of data that I had access to while performing the contract.

What is a reasonably secure way to wipe a single account off the machine so it's practically impossible to recover the data from that account?  Is it sufficient to simply delete the account and its contents?  (My laptop has an SSD and I presume the firmware's write optimizations make it more difficult to recover deleted data than on magnetic media.) If not, does it make any difference if I'm using FileVault?  If that still isn't secure enough, then what about deleting the account, doing a full-backup of the remaining account(s), formatting the SSD, and restoring the backup?  Presumably the backup would not include any data from the previously-deleted work account...right?  Or is there some other recommended way to selectively wipe a user account on a Mac laptop?


texts: What debug information is available on iOS

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Is there any logs that would give (for example) some indication of what caused Unable to connect to X errors when trying to connect to a Wifi hotspot, with iOS 7.x?

The seeming lack of information as to the cause of many failures + error messages on this OS doesn't help technical people like myself start the troubleshooting processes anywhere logical.


texts: Mouse not working correctly on Mac login screen

texts:
For some reason when my mac is at the login screen, moving my external USB mouse will cause the cursor to only move up and down. Once I am logged in, the mouse functions normally. Does anyone know the reason/fix?

Steps I have taken:

Reset SMC/NVRAM
Reinstalled OS
Tried another USB Port

Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.3

with iHome wireless USB mouse.

I tested it and mouse works fine without problems on my Windows PC.


texts: Time Machine backups (2 backups at same time)

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I have 2 questions regarding time machine backups:

I have a touch bar MacBook Pro 15'' with 256GB SSD (let call it A) and macOS 10.14.3. Currently I perform a Time Machine backup on an external 1TB HD (let call it B). I use Photos with an external 2TB HD (let call it C) in order to maintain the library on an external HD.

1) It is possible, with Time Machine, to backup an external HD into another external HD? I want to backup the Photo library of the HD (C) into an HD (D) (C and D are same size: 2TB) using Time Machine.

2) It is possible to backup A into the external disk B with Time Machine and also, at the same time, backup C into D with the same Time Machine?


texts: How can I make preferences boxes open in correct display with SecondBar?

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I've just started using SecondBar to provide a menubar for applications that I display in an external monitor. It's a big help, except for one thing: dialog boxes (like Apple Menu -> System Preferences, or Firefox's add-ins) open in the main display.

Is there any way to make dialog boxes open in whichever display the menubar was clicked from? So that if I use the main Mac menu bar for apps in my main display, the dialog opens in the main display, and if I use the SecondBar menu in my external display the dialog opens in the external display?


texts: Software for splitting or trimming MP4 video without transcoding

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I occasionally need to trim an MP4 video or split a clip out of the middle. Up to now I've been using a great app called MPEG Streamclip which has all the features I want:

super light weight, opens instantly
gui for scrubbing through videos
keyboard controls for frame-by-frame, keyframe-by-keyframe, in, out, and trim
batch list so I can set up multiple splits without waiting for each to save
saves clips from MP4s without transcoding

A lot of this functionality was also available in Apple's Quicktime 7 Pro, although not quite as streamlined.

Unfortunately the last update to MPEG Streamclip was in 2012, and each OS update breaks it further. In Mojave the Streamclip GUI is almost useless, and it's 32 bit so 10.15 will kill it entirely. Same for Quicktime 7.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants to trim and split video on a Mac. What are the options for lightweight editors to trim MP4s without transcoding?

Edit to explain how this is not a duplicate of Is there an easy way on a Mac to split an audio file at defined intervals?:
This question is about splitting a video file, not an audio file, at points decided by scrubbing through the video, not on a defined interval. That question currently has no accepted answer, and the answers that were proposed do not apply to this question.


texts:
When there is less than 5% battery left on a mac, the battery indicator goes red and system performance significantly drops - presumably in an attempt to make that remaining 5% last a little longer.

Is there a way to manually trigger this, so that the system performance is low (and battery life longer), even when there is plentiful battery?

This would theoretically be a way of extending the number of hours on a battery beyond the rated amount.


texts: What is the connector used by the MBA's SATA drive?

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I wonder what kind of connector is used in the latest MacBook Air for the SATA drive.

SATA Express?

When I first saw the gumstick SSD drive I thought it was using a SATA Express connector.

But when answering a question yesterday I decided to get a bit more documentation about it and appeared SATA Express along with µSSD is not a released standard yet.

What then?

After looking closely at pictures of the different drives I decided to find out. But my MBA is sealed with those pentalobe screws and none of my screwdrivers can get them to move.

I searched more on the net.

mSATA?

Then I saw on multiple websites references to mSATA in the MBA and decided to follow this lead when I found a source I trusted. Until I saw a side by side image of a standard mSATA SSD next to a MBA one :

Clearly, it's not a duck... They don't look similar. And if some pins were optional the fact that the other side of the SSD has no connectors clearly excludes any compatibility between the 2 connectors:

mini-PCIe?

Now if wee look at the motherboard of the Macbook Air we can clearly see the SSD slot next to PCIe slot and how similar they are, if not suspiciously identical:

(SSD on the left, the would be mini-PCIe on the right).

But as mini-PCIe is supposed to support mSATA and these are clearly not compatible, what is it?

Draft revision or unreleased port?

Now would it be possible Apple is already using an early SATA Express implementation? Knowing their habits of adding draft implementation of standards (Thunderbolt, 802.11n, OpenAL...) it wouldn't be surprising.

But maybe I'm looking too far, is it a custom connector? Ot are they simply using a native functionality of PCIe?

Does anyone knows what connector is used on the MacBook Air?


texts: My partition is using negative space. Should I worry?

texts:
As you can see, according to Disk Utility, I'm using negative space in /dev/disk0s7. This is obviously incorrect, however, I am slightly worried as to what this may mean for the partition's effects on the other parts of the disk. For the sake of completeness, here is the output of diskutil list:

vtc:~ vtcakavsmoace$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS MAIN                    124.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         62.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:                 Linux Swap                         1.0 GB     disk0s5
   6:           Linux Filesystem                         60.0 GB    disk0s6
   7:       Microsoft Basic Data STUFFS                  2.1 GB     disk0s7

gpt:

vtc:~ vtcakavsmoace$ sudo gpt -vvv show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR part: type=175, start=411648, size=243849296
gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR part: type=175, start=244260944, size=1269536
gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR part: type=131, start=245530480, size=121093750
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, start=40, size=409600
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=411648, size=243849296
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=244260944, size=1269536
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, start=245530480, size=121093750
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F, start=487964672, size=1998848
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, start=366624768, size=117145600
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, start=483770368, size=4194304
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640       2008
     411648  243849296      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  244260944    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  245530480  121093750      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  366624230        538
  366624768  117145600      6  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  483770368    4194304      7  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  487964672    1998848      5  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  489963520     271199
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

Should I be worried?


texts: Any issues upgrading a MacBookPro4,1 (Early 2008) to Lion?

texts:
I have a MacBookPro4,1 (Early 2008) with the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
4 GB RAM

I know that this model is supported by Lion but I'd like to know by people who has already performed the upgrade if:

they've noticed a performance degradation after the upgrade
if there are any other gotchas when upgrading


texts: Does hot weather causes Lithium-ion batteries in Apple devices to drain fast?

texts:
I live in a tropical region which sees very hot summers, which we are experiencing currently. I have been observing for some time that the battery on my Apple devices are draining way quicker than they use to.

My recently bought, fully charged iPhones goes from 95% to around 25% charge even if kept unused, put on low power mode and running the latest version of iOS (both iPhone 7 and 1st generation iPhone SE bought under a year ago). I am observing the same with my iPad mini 4 (relatively old) and a recently bought Apple Watch Series 5.

Is there any technical reason and evidence or explanation thereof that would support this theory? Or could there be any other factors at play here?

I have not observed such battery drain pattern just a month or so ago when it didn't used to be as hot. Also, I do not use any kind of air conditioning, so the room temperature is usually higher than normal further aiding with device heating.


texts: iPhone accidentally engages FaceTime during call

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This has happened to me twice recently: I have been on a call when all of a sudden I can hear the other person on loudspeaker, at which point I take the phone away from my face and observe that my face (assumably) has accidentally pressed the FaceTime button.

Is this a known issue and is there a way to prevent this from happening in the future?


texts: How to move Photos Library and associated iPhotos Library to another drive without breaking links?

texts:
I wish to move my Photos Library to a secondary drive, both formatted with APFS. I still have the iPhotos Library from where the pictures were imported.

I'm concerned that when moving the Photos and the iPhotos libraries to a new drive the shared masters will be duplicated and increase storage usage.

Is there a way I can move both libraries and preserve the link between them?


texts:
I am using a Google account on latest iOS, and the Calendar app appears to be adding it's own alerts to all-day events:

Click to enlarge images
Yes, I checked the "default alerts" in Settings:

Click to enlarge images
And even confirmed Google Calendar doesn't have the alerts:

Click to enlarge images
So... what gives? I've also tried deleting the entire Google account from my iPhone and re-adding it. No joy. It's driving me bonkers. Perhaps it's a bug with iOS 9.0.2, or something I'm just not understanding. Is anyone else having this issue/know a fix?


texts: How can I make a Dynamic wallpaper (like the ones in macOS Catalina) in OS X Yosemite

texts: I am running OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) and I want to make a dynamic wallpaper (or use the one from macos mojave), is there an extension or something that allows me to do this sort of thing


texts: I'm trying to understand how Spotlight indexing works - in the documentation here, Apple says that the kernel notifies the Spotlight engine which then attempts to update the metadata store. If this is the case, why does it have to index - presumably it would be up to date if this already happens after every file event?


texts: Cannot install Windows 7 64bit with Bootcamp

texts:
I am having endless issues while trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), i.e. MacBook Pro 10,1.

Firstly, when I try to create the bootable USB, it tells me only 64bit versions of Windows 7 is supported (which the ISO is).  So after a long struggle, I ended up just installing the same ISO in a VM (and verifying that it is indeed 64bit...), and from there using the Microsoft Windows 7 USB Tool to create a bootable install USB.  This is anyway strange since the 10,1 MBP is listed under the 32bit supported section in the Info.plist.

OK, so having the USB, and separately downloaded the support software, I try to continue with the install (the last option).  Now it tells me that it can only install Windows 8...

Any help will be appreciated.  I have never had this much issues on my older MBPs.


texts: Can't launch application as root: secinitd > registration request failed

texts:
I just tried to launch an application as root with

sudo /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator

but it doesn't work anymore. It used to work because I had scripted my own workflow in Yosemite, and now in El Capitan it stopped working somewhere along the update line (currently on 10.11.6). In the Console I get the following:

26/08/16 13:44:04,508 sudo[3205]:    USER : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/USER ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator

26/08/16 13:44:04,521 secinitd[352]: com.apple.secinitd.connection-from.3207: registration request failed: (0x13, 0xd) Incoming message euid does not match xpcd uid (0 != 501).

I tried to do it with the 3rd-party XtraFinder "Launch as Root" function, but that doesn't work either.

SIP is completely disabled; root user is enabled; trying this in my admin space (501).

Does anyone else have the same problem? What could be the reason? Thanks for your help.


texts: Backing up Time Machine sparsebundles to another server

texts:
So, a while ago I backed up a couple of different Macs to my Linux-based fileserver. As a network Time Machine, each Mac has a separate sparsebundle file containing all of its information. I've since changed Macs and formatted various drives since then, so the original installations for the backups are no longer available.

I want to back up these sparsebundles to a ReadyNAS, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about it. There's rsync on the main server, but I've heard that rsync can cause all sorts of permissions issues and it doesn't play nicely with hard links.

Another option is using one of the Macs to transfer the sparsebundle files to the server via AFP (either with the Finder or with an application like SuperDuper or Chronosync). How efficient would this be? Does AFP behave like some other sharing protocols and copy the data via the mediator (in this case, Fileserver -> Mac -> ReadyNAS), or does it copy directly from source to final target? What would be the best tool for this?

If all else fails, I read somewhere else that a last ditch attempt would be to simply grab the contents of the Latest folder out of each sparsebundle, but I'd rather avoid this if at all possible.


texts: Automatically launch Safari with a certain URL the first time the Mac wakes/boots up in a day?

texts:
Is it possible to make my Mac automatically open a website on Safari the very first time it is woken up just once in a day?

So for example, I come to work at 8:30 and wake up / boot up my Mac and Safari automatically opens up on a certain URL.

But then I go for lunch and turn it off / make it sleep and come back an hour later and this time nothing happens. And maybe i have a meeting and come back later and still nothing happens.

Until the next day this process repeats (only opening Safari the very first time)

Sorry, i'm not sure how to even google for this.

I thought maybe "Automator" could do something like this but i think it requires me to manually click on it.

Edit: I've opened a bounty on this same question at SuperUser: Automatically Launch safari with a certain url the first time the mac wakes/boots up in a day? if anyone is interested.

I'm running macOS Sierra (Version 10.12.1) and Safari (Version 10.0.1).


texts: How can I clear metadata (personal data) from an Excel file in Microsoft 365 for macOS?

texts:
I want to make sure that an Excel file I created is purged of all personal and user metadata before passing it on, for confidentiality reasons.

For Windows, there are many guides for removing personal metadata from most Office data files.

Example guide direct from Microsoft:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-by-inspecting-documents-presentations-or-workbooks-356b7b5d-77af-44fe-a07f-9aa4d085966f

I have also found guides for removing metadata from Microsoft Word specifically on MacOS:
https://support.cu-portland.edu/hc/en-us/articles/360011611633-Scrub-metadata-from-Word-documents

In short, most approaches to removing metadata from Office files in Windows involve the use of the built-in Document Inspector, which doesn't seem to exist in the MacOS versions of Office apps.  There does seem to be a way to purge metadata from a Microsoft Word file in MacOS (Tools -> Protect Document -> Check "Remove personal information from this file on save"), but there doesn't seem to be any equivalent for Microsoft Excel.

I am running the latest version (at the time of this posting obviously) of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Excel 16.36 (20041300) for MacOS Catalina 10.15.4.

Note, I wasn't 100% sure where to post this.  I consulted a StackExchange question (https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90919/which-stack-exchange-site-is-best-for-microsoft-excel-questions) which said that I should use the SuperUser stack for Microsoft Office related questions, but since this is an Office question that is specific only to the MacOS version, I decided it would be more appropriate here.  It seems to me, though, that an Office-specific stack might be useful.


texts: Reformatting and restoring just data on Lion

texts:
I have a Time Machine backup but, as I understand it, it backs up everything. I wish to do a reformat to get rid of a lot of useless clutter I have, a lot of which I'm not even sure where it has been installed to!

This includes MacPorts where, when I try the uninstall everything command, the computer just hangs.

Do I need to find my Snow Leopard disk in order to reformat and install Lion?

Is it easy to just pull out my data, such as from iTunes, Aperture and my documents folder from my Time Machine?


texts: iPad app for reading and writing guitar tablature

texts: I'm looking for an iPad app for guitar tabs reading and writing. I'd prefer that one had an auto scroll feature.


texts: Twitter outputs from another audio channel than the rest of the system

texts:
I have a weird condition on my Mac. I am using a 10 channel out sound interface via Firewire, and the output of system is set to be channel 0-1 (naming starting from 0). However, only twitter from safari chooses channel 2-3 for the output. Just weird enough I can play youtube video from a different tab and it works properly, but I get sound from the different channels on my mixer. It is working flawlessly on Chrome. Even more weirdly, sometimes twitter on safari works as expected from channel 0-1. I am not using any type of 3rd party virtual mixers (soundflower etc.), only soundinterface's included software called Saffire Control. How can I solve this issue?
Information about my setup:

Using a Macbook 13" Early 2015.
Focusrite Saffire 6 Firewire Sound Interface
System Notifications -> Out Integrated Speakers
System Audio (content) -> Out Channel 0-1
Music Production Audio (Ableton / Logic etc.) ->  Out Channel 4-5


texts: my son tripped and dropped his MacBook Pro. One corner of the screen is now black - looks like a crack on the inside. Apple told me it would most likely be about $500 to fix. Are there any other solutions?  It works fine, just the screen.


texts: Can I migrate all data from my MacBook to my iMac

texts: How can I migrate all data from my MacBook to my iMac without losing it from the Macbook?


texts: iPhone sending texts to Apple Message, not phones

texts:
My wife has an iPhone. I have an Android phone. I also have a MacBook running Mojave. We've texted with no problem for years. Suddenly, however, we're encountering these periods where my wife will text my phone number and the message will go to my MacBook's Messages app instead of my phone.

I tried disabling my account in Messages but then I didn't receive texts in either place.

What could be causing this? Is it a setting on her phone or my laptop?


texts: How can you delete pics on your phone (while on computer) before syncing?

texts:
Whenever I go to sync my photos to my computer I see all "pocket photos", screenshots no longer needed, and duplicate shots I'd prefer to delete.  However I can't do this from my computer where it would be sooooo much easier.  This is not just because of the UX, but also because you can see the images larger.

I don't want to waste double the space on my phone and computer and have to do double work.  I also don't want to spend my time crouched over my phone inspecting and slowly poking with my finger when I have a full screen, keyboard and mouse interface at my disposal.

[Aside: The conspiracy theorist/negative karma in me believes apple sets this up intentionally so you run out of space faster and need to buy icloud storage or devices with larger and larger storage the next time around.]


texts: Unable to create iOS App Development certificate

texts: I am trying to create a iOS development certificate in the dev center on apple. When I go to create a certificate the "OS App Development" option is greyed out and I am unable to select it. This has noly just  happened, has been fine before. Any one have any clue?


texts: How do I remove Outlook mail from Spotlight?

texts:
I primarily use Mail.app for my Exchange mail account. But I need to keep Outlook around for those rare cases I need it (for instance editing distribution lists on the server).

But this makes Spotlight searches really convoluted. Every mail shows up twice. Is there any way I can disable the content from individual apps from being part of the Spotlight index? Or an obscure setting (I've looked) inside Outlook that disables Spotlight indexing?


texts: Spaces taken up by iBooks is not showing on iCloud?

texts:
I recently deleted iPhone backup on iCloud which was occupying almost 4gb out of my 5gb basic iCloud storage. Since then when I check my iCloud account it shows that iBooks 3.8 data but only showing 1.1gb total on iCloud Drive.

I’m using iPad to read iBooks and All my academic books are stored on iBooks. I’m really worried that Apple may delete my iBook books. This happens to me once. Is this a software issue or what?

Note: also I noticed though I have enough space showing on the iCloud as shown in the image, my WhatsApp backup progress is stucked!


texts: Finding out property list (plist) attributes and/or processes

texts:
Apple’s own web page indicates how to Edit property lists in Terminal on Mac. However is there a way to guess/find out an attribute or a process that I would like to modify but I don’t know the existence of?
In the case of the Dock position, I would have had to:

Figure out that such a plist file exists (in this case com.apple.Dock.plist),
Then I would have had to find the correct key (in this case orientation),
Finally I would have had to find out the possible values (in this case left but right and down would also have been possible).

Then the whole command would have been (or is, in this case): defaults write com.apple.dock orientation left (then in terminal type killall Dock in order for the change to take place).
My questions:

If I would not have known that the dock position on the screen could be modified with the Terminal command defaults write com.apple.dock orientation left, would I have been able to figure it somehow out?
Is there a way to find a plist attribute or process by searching say for keywords?
If yes, how/with what tool?
Is there (or could we figure out) some kind of a step-by-step procedure to do that (preferably in Terminal)?


texts: How to set up Reply from email on Apple Mail?

texts: I'm experiencing trouble with my Apple Mail app. I've multiple mail accounts configured on it and when I'm replying from any of them, app displays correct value in From field. But just after I send it, in the Sent catalogue appears absolute different (other account's) From email address in that message. And people always get my mail from that one account no matter what I set in the From field when writing. Do you have any ideas what is wrong, what should I do? By the way, I'm using Yosemite OS.


texts:
I'm fairly sure I know the answer to this, but wanted to confirm - I was doing work on a customers site, and ran into a Google flag for malware (site includes portions from a site beginning proto... that I can't remember) - I continued and finished what I was doing (just changing a setting) - last I checked, drive-by infections didn't really "work" on macs.

I cleared all of my cache and am about to run a clamXAV scan, but there's no cause for concern here is there? The gist of my question essentially, is whether it is possible for external scripts to operate maliciously (in any way) on my machine without my admin password / choosing to install them (obviously, neither of which I did).


texts: Upgrade to iCloud Drive: "...devices below will not be able to access..."

texts: I'm running Yosemite on a mid-2012 MBP. When I try to upgrade to iCloud Drive on my iPad or my MBP it states that my MBP will not be able to access files on iCloud Drive until I upgrade it to Yosemite. I'm already running Yosemite. Is this a bug?


texts: How to record cycling distance using M9 coprocessor without GPS

texts:
I have an iPhone 6s.  It automatically records steps and walking distance in the Health app using the M9 motion coprocessor with very little battery impact.  How can I record cycling distance like this?  All the apps I find on the App Store for cycling seem to use GPS, which drains the battery quickly.

I should also mention:  After cycling, the Health app shows an increased number of steps, but I have no idea how cycling mileage correlates to step count.


texts: Characters and notification bounce when Terminal loses focus

texts:
OSX 10.11.2
Terminal 2.6.1

I have an intermittent issue that is driving me up the wall. I spend a lot of time in Terminal in full-screen mode on my 2015 11" Macbook Air. I generally have Chrome or Notational Velocity or something else up in one of the "Spaces" nearby and switch back and forth with the four-finger-swipe gesture (enabled in System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Swipe between full screen apps).

Over the last several months, one of the tabs in my Terminal will sporadically start giving me a "bounce" and the red 1 badge to single some kind of alert any time it loses focus. I usually notice it when I'm using a four-finger swipe to go back and forth to another space (which immediately shows a single bounce of the Terminal icon and the badge in the dock).

The terminal acts normal upon return to focus. I don't see any notifications or message other than a few odd characters. It was hard to identify exactly what characters, so I ran cat and then changed focus, and it looks like it's ^[[O^[[I. I thought this kind of looked like some of the sequences to make arrow and special keys behave in Terminal -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Keyboard, but I don't see any with those characters.

I get the same problem when in normal (not full-screen) mode and click on a different icon -- even in the same space -- and Terminal loses focus. Same characters, a bounce, and badge, so I don't think it's related to Mission Control.

I am often running tmux and have SSH connections to a few servers, but I haven't noticed it being exclusive to a tmux or SSH session. For example, currently I have a few Terminal tabs open, and it's happening in a tab running an SSH session (not in tmux), but not happening in another tab running tmux in SSH, and not happening in other tabs open to local directories.

I don't see anything obvious in Console.app and nothing from Terminal. I usually try to include a "WHYT" section to my stackexchange posts, but I can hardly figure out where to start here -- I'm stumped.

Not a major issue, but definitely annoying, and it shows no signs of leaving me alone over the last few months. Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Can Applescript be used to automate a screen recording session on OS X?

texts:
I need to accomplish the following tasks from a script:

Initiate a screen recording (with system audio).
After a set delay, stop the recording.
Save out to a file.
Close the recording.

I've tried a few different approaches here and ran into roadblocks. One thing I've tried for example was a QuickTime script found here.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
    set newScreenRecording to new screen recording
    tell newScreenRecording
        start
        delay 10
        stop
    end tell
    set newDoc to last item of (documents whose name contains "Untitled")
    set f to "" & (path to desktop) & "quicktimeFile"
    export newDoc in f using settings preset "Quicktime Movie"
end tell

This script doesn't error, but it doesn't save anything either.

In the past I've used iShowU HD, but I've ran into significant performance issues there which have caused me to go back to the drawing board.

I'm willing to pay for a third-party application provided that it meets my requirements, so feel free to suggest anything that could get the job done.

Running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.


texts: Calendar gives error for Gmail Account: 403 CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation

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Recently I started getting errors from Calendar.app about my synced Gmail calendars. I haven't made any changes to my Gmail security settings.
Usually if Google needs to be authenticated for macOS apps it pops up a little portal window asking me to sign in. I haven't been able to trigger this window to popup.
It seems that at least one of my calendars is still syncing between Calendar.app and Google Calendar in both directions. All calendars are on the same account.
Just in case this is relevant, I recently (2-ish weeks ago) upgraded a different mac on my apple id to Mojave.
Update:
I have cleared the iCal cache as per google support advice, as well as revoked authorization from google and re-authorized as per this recent thread on google support forum. The issue still remains.
macOS 10.10.5
 The server responded:
“403”
to operation CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation.

Google Support thread for this issue.
Apple Discussion thread for this issue.


texts: iPhone 4 stuck on black screen after Jailbreaking with Cydia

texts:
I have an iPhone 4, jailbroken, and running iOS 7.1.2. I opened the Cydia app, it appeared to be loading something so I waited. Then the screen turned black. I can still hear sounds such as the charging tone when you plug your iPhone in to your PC and things like that. A few posts have recommended doing some Lock Button and Home Button combo but my lock button is broken and doesn't work.

I can't seem to restore because Find My iPhone is enabled and I need to disable it to be able to restore.

Is there any way I can restore this phone and remove Cydia?


texts: Change opt+backspace binding to ctrl+backspace

texts: I have made a ~/Library/Keybindings/ and saved something like this as DefaultKeyBinding.dict. What I would like to do is options + backward_delete with control + backward_delete but I don't know the mapping for this. Can anyone tell me?


texts: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 can't connect to VPN using IKEv2. How to troubleshoot?

texts:
I am trying to setup a VPN connection using IKEv2. I fill in the server address, the remote ID and the user/password. When I click connect it tries to do it but immediately disconnects.

How can I find out what's going on? Where is the log file?
I have configured one as indicated here: Troubleshooting IKEv2 on 10.11 El Capitan but the log file is created but empty.


texts: How can I wirelessly transfer video from iPhone to Mac?

texts:
I took some video on my iPhone and would like to transfer it to my Mac. However, it happens that I don't have my iPhone-to-USB cable with me today, so how I can I do it? If it was a photo I would just get it from my PhotoStream in iPhoto, but it seems videos don't appear there.

This has been asked here, but the accepted answer just says to buy an app. It's also been asked here, but the accepted answer says to email it. This doesn't work, because I get a message saying the video is too long and asking whether I want to select a shorter clip from it. (I do not.)

It seems unlikely to me that there's no way to do this with standard Apple software - so how can I do it without installing anything?

If it makes a difference I'm using Mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro and iOS 6 on an iPhone 5. I have an unlimited data plan.


texts: IPhone iPod app: how do you get out of the iTunes store?

texts:
A question about the built-in iPod app on iPhone. Once you get into the iTunes mode (e.g. after clicking "get more episodes" on a podcast view) it seems you are stuck forever wandering the endless isles of the iTunes store.

When you first open the iPod app, going to "podcasts" shows the podcasts that are downloaded to your phone. But once you've gone into "iTunes mode", clicking "podcasts" now reveals all the podcasts available on iTunes.

How do you get back to the original mode? The only way I've found is exiting the iPod app and opening it again. Is that really the way it's designed (presumably "by Apple in California")?

Am I missing something here?


texts: MacBook Air 11-inch, Mid 2013 screen went grey after the upgrade. No Apple logo and when I connect it to the external screen it still shows grey but I can hear the chime sound when I power it on.


texts: Is there a utility for mac that shows the information of an SSD like the health etc…?

texts: I am wondering if there is a utility for the mac that allows you to see the details of an SSD like the health of the drive, TBW (total bites written), how many running hours etc... In researching for an app of such a kind I found (SSDLife) for windows? It looks like to me that a program like this would be exactly what I would need. The most important information that I need to know about is the TBW (total bites written) on the drive. Because I have heard that once an SSD drive reaches a certain amount of writes it becomes a read only drive, so this information would be invaluable to me.


texts: What SSD models and brands can I get for my Late 2012 MBP (MacBookPro9.1) that Yosemite supports?

texts:
I've read that only the OWC one supports this but then again some people claim it's bogus.

So I was wondering what SSD brand and models I can get to upgrade my Late 2012 MBP that when I upgrade to Yosemite, it won't break as apparently if you have any non-Apple SSD, Yosemite will crash and display gray area due to kext signing.

I rather not get OWC one because even though everyone seems to swear by them, they don't have much review scores on sites like Amazon and rather go to more popular ones like Samsung 840 EVO, not only they are cheaper. But not sure if Samsung 840 EVO can work with kext signing.

Thanks.


texts: How do I decode the contents of Apple System Logs in /var/log/DiagnosticMessages (using the command line)


texts: Text encoding problem with old files not newly created ones

texts:
MBA running 10.13.6
I keep a lot of plaintext Notes in a shared DropBox folder, synced between an iMac (also 10.13.6) and my MBA.
The programs I use to access those notes (The Archive and nvALT) suddenly stopped displaying the notes. nvALT gave a Stopped Responding message in Force Quit. The Archive did not.
I tried opening the notes using other tools, including BBEdit and TextEdit. BBEdit showed a row of upside down question marks. TextEdit showed nothing. But I was still able to open and read those notes on the iMac.
On the MBA, I created a new note in BBEdit and saved it to the shared folder.
Now both The Archive and nvALT were able to display the note content.
So, newly created notes display fine, but old ones do not, on the MBA.
I have no idea how to proceed on the MBA, and would be willing to try anything. I am asking here, rather than from the various app developers, because this seems to be a system-wide problem on my MBA.


texts: So at home ive been a linux user for a while, and frequently use byobu in the terminal. After a little searching I was unable to find anything like it for a mac, which I now have to use at work. I'm curious as to there being any software available to macs that can do this, or has a similar setup.


texts: I made a swap partition to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Air 2011, but now I want to clean all the partitions up. However, I can't delete the "swap partition" in Disk Utility. Can anyone help me?


texts: How to show "time until next scheduled calender" event (in menu bar)

texts: Is there a way to show time remaining until next calendar event? Preferably in the menu menu bar if possible? Maybe some other way to get something similar?


texts: Make an XML iTunes Library working in a NAS server

texts:
I recently bought a QNAP NAS (TS-251) and everything is working fine. I'm now on the iTunes part of my setup and here is my tricky situation.
I have a personal library I'm backuping that I would like for other users to use it. But… in iTunes Library.xml, files locations are absolute from the path of my external hard drive, something like that:

<key>14225</key>
        <dict>
            <key>Track ID</key><integer>14225</integer>
            <key>Size</key><integer>4435969</integer>
            <key>Total Time</key><integer>184398</integer>
            <key>Year</key><integer>1968</integer>
            <key>Date Modified</key><date>2014-09-02T15:50:51Z</date>
            <key>Date Added</key><date>2010-03-02T14:39:54Z</date>
            <key>Bit Rate</key><integer>192</integer>
            <key>Sample Rate</key><integer>44100</integer>
            <key>Play Count</key><integer>2</integer>
            <key>Play Date</key><integer>3491776434</integer>
            <key>Play Date UTC</key><date>2014-08-24T23:53:54Z</date>
            <key>Skip Count</key><integer>2</integer>
            <key>Skip Date</key><date>2014-09-02T15:50:56Z</date>
            <key>Rating</key><integer>100</integer>
            <key>Album Rating</key><integer>100</integer>
            <key>Album Rating Computed</key><true/>
            <key>Persistent ID</key><string>150197A413DBC3FB</string>
            <key>Track Type</key><string>File</string>
            <key>File Folder Count</key><integer>-1</integer>
            <key>Library Folder Count</key><integer>-1</integer>
            <key>Name</key><string>Light My Fire</string>
            <key>Artist</key><string>Jose Feliciano</string>
            <key>Genre</key><string>Latin</string>
            <key>Kind</key><string>Fichier audio MPEG</string>
            <key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/Volumes/EXHD/Music/-/Jose%20Feliciano%20-%20Light%20my%20Fire.mp3</string>
        </dict>

and this line is actually kinda problematic:

<key>Location</key>
<string>file://localhost/Volumes/EXHD/Music/-/Jose%20Feliciano%20-%20Light%20my%20Fire.mp3</string>

As planning for others to pick the iTunes Library.xml directly from the NAS, the file Location path needs to be from the NAS and not from my personal external hard drive.

As I'm backuping my drive every hour via ChronoSync (like TimeMachine in some way), I was thinking about replacing every Location path with the one of the NAS.
Is it possible, and if yes, how can I do it? Because I have 60000+ items in my library, willn't take ages to replace it via an Apple/bash script?
Or maybe you have other suggestions… every help welcomed!

PS: Already tried the iTunes server from QNAP but really not convenient… You have to manage all your library from a poorly developed web interface, and that will be a duplicate from my library.


texts: Dual and triple non-TB monitors on a Mac Mini late 2012 (Macmini6,2)

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I'm trying to find out if I can connect two 27" Dell S2740L 927M9-IPS-LED monitors to a Macmini6,2. One via HDMI and the other via TB or USB 3.0.

The Mac Mini doesn't have a Mini DP that I can see, but from what I've read it seems like TB can act as one? I have the option of TB daisying through a Drobo 5D. The GPU is integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000.

Could the 2nd monitor be connected via TB >> Mini DP >> {VGA or DVI} adapter?

In time, I'd like to add a Wacom Cintiq 22HD touch (DVI) as a 3rd (and the primary) monitor. I'm a bit confused as to how that could work.


texts: I did 60m of yoga yesterday and didn’t realize until the end that I had accidentally specified Indoor Cycle as the activity type.  Looking for a place to edit this in the Activity app on my phone and can’t seem to locate this option.  Any suggestions?


texts: Is there way to force apps to start in specific order at login?

texts:
Like everyone else, I've got a few apps that start automatically when I login. Some of these connect to the Internet. I'm using a VPN consistently, and some of these apps boot up and login before my VPN is running.
Is there a way to specify the starting order of the login apps and delay the start so that the VPN has a chance to connect first?


texts:
I'm trying to connect to my host using SSH key. I've generated a key pair and added public key to authorized keys to the server.

However I'm unable to connect to server using my private key. Every time I connect it asks for the password.

I've tried to run ssh-add my_key_name and it said that it's fine and been added. But it is not working.

Also I've tried to add to my config

Host alias
    HostName host
    User user_name
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

It also is not working. ssh alias working but still asks for password.


texts:
I am using macOS Sierra. Recently, the Mail app started having problems with attachments. On many (but not all) messages, attachments show up, but they are displayed as "Mail Attachment", not as the actual file name. Curiously, sometimes the correct icon shows up. I thought that maybe they needed some time to download, but waiting for hours does not solve it. I tried turning on and off the automatic attachment download and deleting the Mail Downloads directory, but that did not fix it.

This is an Exchange account, which may be part of the problem.

Any idea what could be causing this?


texts:
Is it possible to tell growlmail to stop notifying me on RSS feeds and just show me the new mails I get?

It is getting really disturbing when I get some 30 or more RSS Notifiers when I'm working!


texts: How do you prevent an iPod Classic (and other iPods) from losing ratings on sync

texts:
On a number of occasions I have synced my iPod after several months of ratings only to have all of my meticulously applied stars get erased from the iPod Classic.

I switched from the more convenient Manual mode to Automatic management but it still seems to wipe my ratings. The ideal behavior would be to have iTunes sync the new stars back to my library. Why wouldn't this happen?


texts: Unable to open numbers document stored on iPhone

texts:
I am unable to open a numbers document I have used all the time.
Nothing happens, or I get a blank screen and have to close numbers.
If I try to copy or export the file it states The file does not exist.

The file is stored on the iPhone. I recently upgraded to iOS 11.1.2

I tried opening and copying the file in "Files" app, but the same there.
I tried General | Reset | Reset all settings, but it stil "does not exist"


texts:
Is it possible to move Boot Camp from Macbook Pro Late 2008 w/ Lion to Macbook Pro 2011 w/ Lion?

I have been trying unsuccessfully for several days.

I used WinClone to successfully image my old Bootcamp, and then ran it on my new Macbook, but it errored just before it finished.

The error was similar to this one:

http://roaringapps.com/app:904#post-2927

The command line commands in that article fixed my first problem of Windows not showing up on reboot despite holding the  key, but now when I boot into it, it just blue screens.

So my question is:  Is this even possible?

Is the hardware difference between the two Macbooks causing the blue screen, and the only solution is to re-install from scratch?


texts: Applications from a different user folder appearing in Launchpad

texts: I have an iMac with two different user accounts on it, each with their own Applications folder within the user folder, in addition of course to the system-wide Applications folder. I had a group of applications installed in the system Applications folder that I moved to user A's Applications folder, but they still appear in Launchpad for user B. Is there any way I can change this so that each user only sees their own applications and the system-wide applications? Thanks.


texts: Mcrypt Extension for Mojave's PHP 7.1 not using brew

texts:
I'm using macOS Mojave (10.14.3) and it already has apache2 and php 7.1 which are setup.
I want mcrypt installed but all the info on the internet including this uses brew. I didn't install php using brew so I am looking for a solution to install mcrypt using a non-brew method. Is this possible ?
I have pear - https://jasonmccreary.me/articles/install-pear-pecl-mac-os-x/
I found a solution for Ubuntu's PHP 7.2 : https://lukasmestan.com/install-mcrypt-extension-in-php7-2/


texts: System Preferences keeps coming back to dock after every use following Big Sur update

texts: I don't want System Preferences in my dock (not just because of the annoying red badge that keeps showing, I just don't want it).  I move it to trash, but every time I open System Preferences again, it pins it back to the dock.  I have to 'remove from dock' each time.  Why?  How do I prevent this?


texts:
I wonder if there is a good way to memorize the Option key ⌥.  I almost always think of it as the Shift key, because it looks like a lower level and a higher level (the small hyphen elevated).

Or maybe a way to memorize it better is, what is the shape of this symbol for?  I mean, what does it represent symbol wise?


texts: macOS High Sierra use almost all the hard drive space each time it's upgraded

texts:
I have a 1T drive, and it normally uses 400 GB space. After the system upgrade from 10.13.5 to 10.13.6, the system now tells me the disk is almost full:

The system uses 870GB, almost the double what it used to.

Maybe there are some backup files in here, because sometimes disk space will be the correct size. I think a backup file is deleted at that time.

So what can I do to stop this from happening?


texts:
My MacBook's (Pro 2105) batteries are swollen and there is no AppleStore available here, is it possible to disconnect the battery from the mainboard and use the machine until I find replacement batteries from third-party stores? I don't want them explode!

Here are the pictures of the batteries:


texts: How to connect to a Mac with Apple Remote Desktop over internet with IP address?

texts: I am trying to connect to my friends mac over the internet. His mac is sitting behind his home router. I entered his IP address in the Network scanner and can't see anything. His mac is configured to control remotely in system preferences. I searched online and found that it can done using iCloud back to my Mac. But the catch is it has to be the same iCloud account. Is there any way around this?


texts: Beryllium virus detected on bootcamp partition, cannot resolve

texts: I recently downloaded Avast and I ran a full deep scan on the MacOS. It detected the Beryllium virus on my bootcamp partition. Resolving the problem through Avast is not successful. I then booted up Windows 10 and run a full scan (full and offline modes) using both Avast and Microsoft Defender, however Beryllium was not detected. I then went back to MacOS and did a full scan with Avast and still detected Beryllium. What should I do moving forward?


texts: Boot Camp, Windows install not finding Boot Camp partition

texts:
I got an iMac 27'' Retina 5k (late 2014) and want to install Windows 10 using Boot Camp. I'm running on macOS Mojave 10.14.6.

BCA completes the download of the Windows support file successfully, creates the BC partition and starts up with the initial Windows 10 setup until the setup asks 'Where do you want to install Windows?'. In the list the shown the boot camp partition does not appear (see below) and I terminated the process. I ran diskutil list after my Mac rebooted and could see that BCA created the partition.

A second problem is that the size of the partition created by BCA was about 140 GB greater than I actually selected it to be (selected 240 GB/created 380 GB).

Any help or feedback is appreciated...


texts: Mavericks screen lock occurs immediately instead of after 15 minutes of sleep

texts:
I'm on OSX 10.9 on a late 2013 Macbook Air. iCloud Keychain is disabled, FileVault is turned off, and my Energy Saver settings are all at their defaults. I want to require a password after 15 minutes of sleep or inactivity, which should be straightforward. However, I am getting some strange behavior.

A- With the Require Password <option> hours after sleep or screen saver begins option in the "Security and Privacy" preference pane unchecked, my machine does not ask for a password if I close and immediately open the lid.

B- With the "Require Password <option> hours after sleep or screen saver begins" option in the "Security and Privacy" preference pane checked and the timeout set to 15 minutes, my machine requires a password if I close and immediately open the lid.

I want to be able to wake from sleep without a password if it has been less than 15 minutes since I last used my mac. This should be simple, but for some reason the appropriate setting isn't having the desired effect. Any ideas on how to fix this so the setting works as it should?


texts: Lion iCal calendar event shows up as grey rather than colour of calendar it belongs to

texts:
I have an item in iCal that shows in grey rather than the (blue) colour of the calendar it belongs to.

It also has an interrupted border rather than a flawless border.

What does that mean?

Update: It shows up in the correct colour (blue) on the Web interface.


texts: Can't use any bundle command in TextMate

texts:
Just did a fresh install. I can't seem to run any bundle command. Always get an error like:

Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/Bundle Support.tmbundle/Support/shared/lib/escape.rb:23:in `e_url': private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

Running Textmate 2, latest build on Lion 10.7.4


texts: Are there any public audits of the disk level encryption in Mac OS X Lion?

texts: As a rule, one should never trust closed source cryptography software, but encrypting external drives and Time Machine backups has become quite convenient in Mac OS X Lion.  Is that specific code available anyplace?  Or has anyone audited it seriously?


texts:
My iCloud Photo Library was working great, but I ran out of space and it stopped syncing. Now I’ve bought more space and restarted my devices, but it is still not syncing.

How can I get it to start syncing again? I vaguely remember this happening before and having to do something like deleting all photos from my iPad and doing something on my Mac.

Update: I have tried rebooting into safe mode and it still doesn’t sync.

I am running OS X Yosemite.


texts:
So... prior to Xcode 4, Xcode was always free. Then 4.0 cost $5 for non-developers. Now 4.1 is free. I'm just a little confused with this situation.

4.1 is Lion only (no SL support). Is 4.1 free and 4.0 is still $5? Are the price tags removed for both versions? I just need someone to clear up the situation a little for me.


texts: Spotlight crashes when entering a specific query string

texts:
I have a folder on my mac which I access occasionally, let's say its name is FolderABC.
I usually hit CMD + Space to bring up Spotlight, then type the name into it and it will be the first result.
Recently, Spotlight crashes instead, as soon as I type Folder and before typing any more letters. If I type any other query, it works normally. I can tell it crashes since the Loupe icon briefly disappears from the menu bar (Spotlight restarts immediately) and looking in system.log in Console shows this, whenever the problem occurs:

Oct  4 18:27:21 my-macbook-pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Spotlight[16126]): Service exited due to signal: Illegal instruction: 4 sent by exc handler[0]

I'm currently having Spotlight rebuild its index, but what else could I try?
Specifically, are there any debugging tools available to get a more detailed stack trace of what's causing the app to crash?

My OS version is 10.12.6


texts: Software to balance sound levels and quality for iPhone

texts: Is there software that will balance the sound level of the songs on my iPhone so that all the songs are at the same sound level and quality?


texts: My Macbook Pro crashes every time I change my desktop

texts:
So everytime I change my background on my desktop, I go and delete the image. The next thing I almost always find is that the next time I turn my Macbook on, the whole thing freezes and I always have to safe boot my laptop.

Once I do manage to boot up again, my original background completely disappears and my desktop goes back to the "universe" background

I am getting frustrated with this. I don't know why deleting an image will cause my laptop to do this sort of thing. My Macbook isn't even a year old.

I have OS X 10.8.2

EDIT I just restarted my laptop and now it's even worst. It's quite laggy and my whole wallpaper is now just completely blank white.


texts: Are the iPad 2 30-pin cable and the iPod touch cable different?

texts:
They look the same and get mixed up. My iPad 2 can't charge with the iPod's cable but vice-versa works.

Might this iPad question apply?: Using an iPod charging cable to charge an iPad

Can this behavior be because the iPad 2 30-pin cable and the iPod touch cable are somehow made differently?


texts:
I have my script partially working. I'm using AppleScript to script interactions with Chrome.

set textToSave to "Text"

tell application "Google Chrome"
    execute front window's tab 1 javascript "document.getElementsByName('0.9.7.1.5.0.4.1.3')[0].click();"
    delay 0.1

If I enter a multiple line textToSave for example

" here
blabla

bla"

then I have no text and --> missing value
I need to set a popup field before this script, here is the HTML for it

<select id="PaymentEnSelection" name="0.9.7.1.5.9.4.1.9"> <option selected="selected" value="0">Enabled</option> <option value="1">Disabled</option></select>

and a another one :

<select name="0.9.7.1.9.0.4.1.9.0.2.1.3.7.3.9.3.1"><option value="NoSelectionString">Please select a reason</option>
<option value="0">R1</option>
<option value="1">&amp; Review </option>
<option value="2">Chart</option>
<option value="3">R3</option>


texts: How can I just change the language of Safari in iPhone iOS 9?

texts:
I am using an iPhone with iOS 9 and the language is set to 'English'.

Also Safari's language is set to English. Is there a way to change the language just of Safari?

Thanks for helping.


texts: How will the OSX Lion upgrade affect my Win 7 bootcamp setup?

texts: And what are things to watch out for based on previous upgrades?


texts: MacBook Pro mid 2009 reports "Service Battery" but works ok

texts: I get a message saying "Service Battery", but it continues working ok. How do I service the battery?


texts: How to stop macOS updates from taking over the rEFInd boot manager?

texts:
I have rEFInd installed on the EFI partition of my 2015 MacBook Air. Every time I update macOS, it ends up taking over the bootloader and resetting it to using the macOS operating system. Afterwards, if I hold the option key while booting up my mac, there is no boot option for rEFInd that I can select. The only way I can bring rEFInd back is to boot up into recovery mode, manually mount my system partition with Disk Utility (as it is encrypted using FileVault), then open Terminal and reinstall rEFInd. It's quite a hassle.

Is there any better way to handle macOS updates?

I have read the section of the rEFInd manual named "Recovering from a Coup Using MacOS" but I didn't find any information in there that was pertinent to my situation. Note that I cannot disable System Integrity Protection (which one of the solutions there requires) as I need to keep it enabled for the software development I do on this system.

Below is the output from the command diskutil list disk0.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         121.1 GB   disk0s2

I have Windows, Linux, and macOS 10.15 beta installed to an external drive, so my MacBook's internal drive just has macOS.


texts: I really don't have much experience with Terminal and I believe I may have caused a problem when trying to download and use wine on my Mac. If I try to type in anything I simply get "Command not found". After reading many forum posts I believe this has something to do with my PATH, but again, I don't really know exactly what that means.


texts: Why do I get a plain blue screen when I connect my Mac Mini to an external monitor?

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I have one of the new mac mini's and run multiple users on it.  At any time up to 5 users may be logged in.  I have a keyboard and monitor that I connect to alot of machines so very often the mini has no monitor plugged in.  When I connect my monitor - Dell Monitor, VGA to HDMI adapter that came with mini - I get just a plain blue screen.  It looks like the blue that you see when the mac is switching users.

I've turned off all the energy saver options thinking that it might be going to sleep and not awaking.  Any other ideas as to what might be causing this and how I can prevent it?  Every time I connect my monitor I need to reboot to use the mini.

Update:  I've tried a couple of more things - I turned off the screen saver also, I tried connecting to the machine using LogMeIn (http://logmein.com) all with similar results.  It's as if when a monitor is not attached the mac stops outputting display.  It is still running, I just can't get the display to work.

Update - this what I get when I SSH in and do a top command:

Macintosh-5:~ litmus$ top
Processes: 134 total, 2 running, 132 sleeping, 590 threads             10:39:24
Load Avg: 0.48, 0.46, 0.24  CPU usage: 1.87% user, 4.22% sys, 93.89% idle
SharedLibs: 4872K resident, 11M data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 15034 total, 760M resident, 47M private, 228M shared.
PhysMem: 411M wired, 787M active, 382M inactive, 1580M used, 467M free.
VM: 335G vsize, 1042M framework vsize, 41811(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 17481/3381K in, 18709/11M out.
Disks: 20134/790M read, 4894/76M written.

PID  COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR #MREG RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VPRVT
547  top          6.4  00:00.26 1/1  0    24   43    1064K+ 264K   1640K+ 19M
538  SyncServer   0.0  00:00.12 5    3    42   87    1328K+ 5452K- 5988K  16M-
537  PubSubAgent  0.0  00:00.03 4    2    58   65    1528K+ 1412K- 3356K  33M+
521  SyncServer   0.0  00:00.13 3    1    39   83    1268K+ 5440K- 5924K  15M-
520  PubSubAgent  0.0  00:00.04 4    2    55-  65    1532K+ 1400K- 3384K  33M+
513  bash         0.0  00:00.02 1    0    17   24    256K   244K   920K   17M
512  sshd         0.0  00:00.05 1    0    11   68    284K   2492K  728K   584K
506  sshd         0.0  00:00.13 2    1    37   68    492K   2492K  4720K  796K
500  cupsd        0.0  00:00.06 3    1    48   68    1344K  328K   2916K  41M
497- LMIPSUser    0.0  00:00.03 9    0    44   55    452K   248K   1240K  31M
484  CCacheServer 0.0  00:00.00 2    2    35   53    604K+  320K-  1648K  33M+
483  AppleVNCServ 0.0  00:00.01 4    1    46   56    884K   276K   3708K  31M
478  Litmus Test  0.7  00:01.61 10   3    148  118   47M+   6116K  51M+   77M
477- LogMeInGUI   0.0  00:00.09 4    1    84   82    1168K  5544K  3832K  31M


texts: How do you delete music on iTunes Match if already deleted entirely from Mac?

texts: I was deleting an album on my iTunes Match enabled Mac and I forgot to check the box that says, "Also Delete from Cloud" and I deleted the files themselves by not selecting "Keep Files." So now the album is entirely gone from my library and Mac but it is still in the cloud, able to be downloaded from my iPhone. How must one delete music from the cloud so it may not count towards the 25,000 song limit?


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As a QA engineer I have to maintain a bunch of iPhones to run my tests on them. I have to test on many OS versions, also the very old ones.

The problem is that every once in a while someone(*) (from my or next door team) updates (maybe even accidentally) the OS and we loose a valuable "old OS device".

(*) someone - just an average iPhone user, must be able to manually test apps, not too wide privileges (Do they need access to the Apple ID associated with the phone? No. Do they need to do anything besides access that single app during the QA period? No.); definitely must not be able to update OS

How can I completely disable SW updates on iPhone?


texts: How can I get iCloud Photo Library to use less storage space on my iPad?

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My iPad only has 16 GB of space, and I have iCloud Photo Library switch on but set to "Optimise iPad Storage". However, my iPad is now showing "0 bytes" available, and my Photo Library is taking up 2.1 GB.

Shouldn't Photos & Camera automatically optimise based upon how much storage I have left? I can't imagine the 2.1 GB is just thumbnails? How can I flush my photos so none of them are stored on the device?


texts: Extremely slow write speed to encrypted external drive on Mavericks

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Writing to a fully encrypted USB flash drive on Mavericks is extremely slow.

The drive model I used for testing was a Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 (64 GB). I tested transfer speeds by reading/writing a large file from/to both an encrypted and an unencrypted drive. I tested on a current Macbook with Mavericks and on an older machine with Mountain Lion. I used Disk Utility to format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted).

MacBook Pro (2013) with USB 3.0 running OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

Write: 86.16 MB/sec (encrypted:   0.62 MB/sec)
Read: 181.66 MB/sec (encrypted: 151.15 MB/sec)

MacBook Pro (2007) with USB 2.0 running OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)

Write: 23.57 MB/sec (encrypted:  5.04 MB/sec)
Read:  36.23 MB/sec (encrypted: 37.87 MB/sec)

As you can see on the older machine the write speed clearly decreases when writing to the encrypted volume but is still about ten times faster compared with the newer machine running Mavericks. Could this be some recently introduced issue in FileVault or CoreStorage?

Update (2014-06-28)

The USB drive seems to have had a hardware defect from the start. I got a replacement drive (same model) which still doesn't deliver the results I would expect but at least the encrypted write speed of the 2013 MBP is now on par with the 2007 MBP.

MacBook Pro (2013) with USB 3.0 running OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)

Write: 135.41 MB/sec (encrypted:   9.29 MB/sec)
Read:  196.22 MB/sec (encrypted: 187.04 MB/sec)

MacBook Pro (2007) with USB 2.0 running OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)

Write: - MB/sec (encrypted:  9.39 MB/sec)
Read:  - MB/sec (encrypted: 37.79 MB/sec)

This still leaves the question though why the encrypted write speed to the USB drive on the 2013 MBP is less then ten percent of the regular write speed. I also compared read/write speeds before and after activating FileVault on the internal SSD of the 2013 MBP and there I couldn't detect any slowdown at all.