texts: Using an SSD with my Macbook Pro, sometimes the write speed is downgraded to 10kb/s. Is it normal?

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I am using a Samsung T5 500GB external SSD drive with my Macbook Pro, and when the drive is full, sometimes I move files to my other hard drives, and the "Info" already showed that the SSD drive had 12GB of free space.

However, when writing to the SSD drive, I found that it was limited to 10kb/s. After experimenting some more, I found that after I moved 2GB more away, then the write speed went back up to usual.

Could it be true that the SSD drive was internally arranging the segments so that there is more "evenly usage" so that it won't "age" the SSD too badly, so the write speed was limited to 10kb/s during this time or what reason may it be that the write speed dropped to so low?

P.S. I found that if I reboot the Macbook, the write speed of the SSD went back to normal for a while, and then dropped back to 10kb/s... so I wonder... what if I reboot the Macbook and let the SSD "do its job (of rearranging the segments)" for an hour or two and try again. Still exploring more.


texts: Chrome shortcut for selecting web content

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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Chrome (on OS X) to let me select the web page content? Sometimes after I go to a web page I want to start scrolling using my space bar but it gets stuck in a textbox or in the address bar, etc. I can hit tab many times to get to the web content but it'll cycle through all my toolbar and menu items first.

Google's website lists this for the Windows version. I'm looking for something similar on the Mac side.

  F6 or Shift+F6

  Switches focus to the next keyboard-accessible pane. Panes include:

  Address bar
  Bookmarks bar (if visible)
  The main web content (including any infobars)
  Downloads bar (if visible)


texts:
How many displays can a Mac Mini 2014 drive?

Given that the Mac Mini now has 2 thunderbolt + 1 HDMI video outputs, it would be able to drive 3 monitors right? It ofcourse depends on the resolutions. Not sure what that Intel Iris Graphics card can take.


texts: In OSX 10.9.5 my desktop folders re-arrange when a new window is opened. I have "sort by" off. I can arrange my folders and then when I open a new window (not every time) all of the folders will randomly rearrange to avoid the new window. What gives?


texts: Blocking iOS Wi-Fi automatic update downloads?

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I've got several iPads connected to Verizon mifi devices(MiFi460LE)
iOS has a "feature" that automatically downloads OS updates in the background without user input. (You still need to manually install the updates, but the downloads happen automatically).
The 6.1 update may break the functionality of some in-house applications, and I'd rather not hand users an iPad with a flashing self-destruct button that tells users to "download now!"
Is there a specific port that could be blocked to prevent iOS OTA software updates? If that's not sufficient, would blocking hosts from DNS or another way of preventing these downloads be feasible?


texts:
Downloaded song and played it for months. It then stopped playing and the ((•)) symbol appears to the left of the song title.

What does this mean, and how can I get may song playing again?


texts: Suddenly can only manually mount disk images from Disk Utility

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I used to be able to mount disk images from the Finder via ⌘O, Double clicking, etc. but after using High Sierra for 1 day, it suddenly couldn't anymore in the middle of me using it.

Can anyone help? I can't think of any reason this would have happened.

I can still mount disk images, but, as explained in the title, I need to do it manually from Disk Utility.


texts: MacBook Pro MagSafe Charger - Kinks/Rings

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So for a while now, my MagSafe on my Mac has some sort of kinks/rings around the cable. This is only seen ABOVE the plastic thing used to tie in the cable when wrapping it, so around a 1-2 inch space below the MagSafe connector.

These kinks and rings have been there for a while now, and the charger still works, but I'm posting this now since it's starting to get worse. Should I be worried about taking it to Apple, or continue using it, and getting it checked out when something crazy happens (explosions lol))?

I have attached pictures below to show the wire of the MagSafe charger. It's ~ 2 years old.


texts:
On an Excel graph, if I mouse-over a data point on the graph, the application shows me in a small pop-up window the exact X and Y data values of the point that I am mousing-over.

Is there a way to do this with Numbers.app, either as a mouse-over, or some other way, so I can see the exact data values of a given point on the graph, without having to go back and look at the table that was used to generate the graph?


texts: Cannot delete {Documents, Desktop} folders from iCloud Drive

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NOTE: Please don't simply link me to an existing similar question unless it offers an approach I haven't tried. I have researched thoroughly, and spent several hours on this.

My iCloud Drive is full. It contains old 'Downloads' and 'Desktop' folders, totalling 10GB. I have tried every way imaginable to remove these folders, nothing works.

This is what I've tried:

1. iPhone

iPhone
 -> Settings
 -> [me]
 -> iCloud (shows 5GB/5GB used)
 -> Manage Storage
 -> iCloud Drive (10.4GB)
 -> Documents and Data (10.4GB)
 -> Delete Documents and Data (in red)

But it doesn't seem to delete anything.

I repeat the process and I'm still seeing 10.4GB used.

iPhone
 -> Settings
 -> [me]
 -> iCloud (shows 5GB/5GB used)
 -> {Disable iCloud Drive}

It warns me about permanently deleting these two folders. I 'ok' it.

Now I reboot the iPhone.

No luck.

2. iCloudDrive Web

I go to https://www.icloud.com/ & login
iCloud Drive
Select and Delete {Documents, Desktop}

  There was a problem deleting "Desktop"
  Try deleting the folder again later.

Doesn't matter how many times I delete them, they always come back.

3. Old MacBook (Catalina Beta)

System Prefs
-> Internet Accounts
-> iCloud
-> (Shows I have 10.68GB used in "Documents")
-> Manage
-> "The documents stored in the top level of your iCloud drive Folder take up 10.4 GB.To free up storage, open iCloud Drive in Finder and delete documents."

Finder -> iCloud Drive
"Turn on iCloud Drive to store your files in iCloud and access them any time on all your devices"

This shows me that I have disabled iCloud Drive.

Now I'm cautious of enabling it, as maybe it is going to try to 'synchronise'. I have an old MacBook and a new MacBook, with different contents in these two folders (Documents and Desktop). And whatever is in iCloud Drive for these two folders will be out of date. So on each MacBook I make a copy of these folders.

System Prefs -> Internet Accounts -> iCloud -> {enable iCloud Drive}

Finder
 -> iCloud Drive
 -> OPT+CMD+Delete Documents and Desktop folders

I now repeat steps for iPhone and iCloudDrive Web

Still no luck.

New MacBook (Mojave)

I repeat steps from Old MacBook -- this time the offending folders do NOT appear in my iCloud Drive.

Both MacBooks

I now delete iCloud from both machines, reboot both.

I now repeat steps for iPhone and iCloudDrive Web

STILL the folders keep coming back when I delete them from iCloudDrive Web.

Something is badly broken here.

Can anyone suggest a cure / diagnosis?

Also, please could someone recommend an appropriate channel for opening a discussion with Apple support?


texts: Outlook time zone settings changed pop alert

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Everyday I'm getting the following pop up message, although I'm not changing any time zone settings. Countless number of times I tried both options (Don't update/Update) but I still cannot get rid of this message.
Working years with Outlook on PC & never had this kind of issues.

Thanks,


texts:
I hate programs like Flash and others that install crappy settings on /Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/LaunchAgents, stuff to launch daemons that check for updates of flash.

I generally replace the files these apps put there with empty files and change permissions to 000 using chmod.

This works fine but every time I have to install an update, the update installation removes the locked files with their crappy files again.

Is there a way to lock these files in a way that any installation can change?

thanks


texts: How to restore deleted files from an internal HDD which has just undergone a full disk format?

texts:
I was recently restoring macOS from one partition to the other during which all files got corrupted.

Since none of the files were opening I did a complete format and reinstalled macOS

Now my question is how can I recover all my files (properly) without the help of any recovering software!


texts: How can I make Time Machine work with my Netgear WNDR3700 router?

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The story is this:

I just upgraded to Mac OS Lion and as it turns out it won't work with my Samba share in the way Snow Leopard used to, for TimeMachine backups. After a bit of Googling I found that this is because TimeMachine now requires NetTalk 2.2 and AFP. So my question is this: How do I get an AFP share to work on my router? I currently use DD-WRT but I've had no luck installing custom software to it, recall it having something to do with there not being a package manager for the architecture used in the router I have.

I don't mind reflashing the router to either original firmware, if anyone can confirm that works, or some other firmware such as Tomato.


texts: Make display in yosemite / el capitan look like Mavericks

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Ever since Yosemite came out, I have not been able to look at my screen for more than 10 minutes without it causing me a headache. I was hoping that this would be resolved with El Capitan, but that wasn't the case either.

Is there a user guide or software patch out there to make the system brightness / contrast / white point settings look like they did in Mavericks? The reason I have to be using El Capitan, is that the latest Xcode doesn't work with Mavericks.

Thanks much.


texts: changing Chrome desktop app Cmd-Tab behaviour

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I use the Google Hangouts desktop app. But when i use Command Tab, it comes under Chrome rather than being a separate application. If I have Hangouts and Chrome open, I have to use Command ` (backtick) to switch between them.

Is there anyway I can move the Hangouts app to a separate Command Tab group?


texts: locate getting corrupted frequently on MAC Mojave

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I frequently use locate on my MAC to search for files or configuration/settings of applications (Ex : locate "pgadmin4.db"). But I get error as shown below.

locate: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: -1

I've seen this error on my friends's MAC as well. So I have started using find utility. But locate is much more convenient. I'm not sure if i'm doing anything wrong or there's some issue which i don't understand. And how do I fix it?


texts: Is it safe to use a MacBook in a slightly tilted position?

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I have a separate wooden board on top of my desk that covers the desk's entire area. (The board is made of nice wood, making the desk look more classy than it actually is. :)

I'm thinking about tilting the board a tiny bit (maybe 15°) to make it more suitable as a drawing area. About like this:

Is it safe to operate a MacBook (in my case a 15" MBP, no SSD) on such a titled surface on a permanent basis? I'm mostly thinking about possible damage to the hard drive or other components that are designed to work in a (more or less) perfectly horizontal position only.


texts: Boot Camp won't work: why don't I have disk0s0 or disk0s1 partitions?

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I'm trying to use Boot Camp after resolving a partition mess. I've gotten back to a single partition after receiving the The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. message from Boot Camp Assistant, so I figure it should be happy, but I'm still getting the same message.

my-MBP:~ uname$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            749.8 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Boot Camp              +1.4 GB     disk2

For no great reason, I'm guessing that even if there's only one partition, if it's not in the first spot(?) Boot Camp Assistant isn't happy. Is this reasonable? Any ideas to get Boot Camp working?

edit:

my-MBP:~ uname$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

edit:

Since it looks like i messed with the EFI partition, i looked at this question. I can't figure out how to make the answer apply to me, but here's some more output:

my-MBP:~ uname$ sudo gpt -r show disk0
Password:
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34      409606
      409640  1464477344      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1464886984      262151
  1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

Can i maybe use the 409606 block to remake EFI? Looks like it's the right size but isn't a partition?

OS X 10.11.2
MacBook Pro 13-inch, Late 2011
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
750 GB SATA Disk Toshiba MK7559GSXF


texts: Issue with Finder on iMac running OS X 10.10.5 "Yosemite"

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I have Finder preferences set to "Open folders in tabs instead of windows", but when I open a finder window I do not see any tabs, only folders and when I double click on a folder it opens in a new window.

Finder used to just open the folder in the same window revealing the contents of the folder thereby allowing you to navigate to the file that you would like to open in the same window and then once you found the file of interest and double clicked that file, it opened.

I would like to get back to that version of Finder.

Any suggestions?

Edit:

If I open Finder using Go to folder and choose the Macintosh HD then the finder window opens with tabs and I can then navigate to the file of interest.

On the other hand, if I Go to Home, the finder window opens without tabs and now any combination of double clicks opens a new finder window.

I can live with this, I just hope I do not have some adware or something similar that has changed the Finder ... ummmm ... I suppose there is nothing to worry about?


texts: Webpages slow, unresponsive on one Mac – but not another Mac on the same network

texts:
I'm experiencing a particular website that is extremely slow (unresponsive, to be honest) on one of my Macs, but not another Mac on my home network. My iPad is also responsive.

There may be more webpages that are problematic, but this one in particular has been troublesome for a few days.

I have disabled the antivirus and all security related extensions in my main browser. I've cleared the cache of my main browser. I have the exact same problem in another browser, which use Default settings.

Why is this page impossible on my Mac, but snappy and responsive on the other devices on my home network?

Is there an OS X "system" cache that needs to be flushed, in regards to web browsing? I'm thinking something like DNS, etc.

All my devices connect to the net through the same router, which is an Apple TimeCapsule.


texts: How can I make my microSD card writable?

texts:
I have a macbook pro running Snow Leopard.  I have Tuxera NTFS drivers.

I have a microSD card, in an adapter, in the slot.  The "lock" slider is in the "unlocked" position.

'Get Info' tells me the drive is formatted to FAT16.  The permissions panel tells me that I can only read.

Disk utility tells me it's not writable.  (It does this for the volume and also for the higher level Apple SD Card Reader Media)

What do I need to do to change permissions to turn this card writable?


texts:
MacPorts became really a pain because it does compile the packages on your machine, like the infamous gentoo and I would like something with a smaller footprint on your machine.

I know that Fink and other solutions exists but from what I remember form few years ago they are less maintained than macports.

I would like to read a more informed opinion regarding which solution would be optimal and why.


texts: I deleted photos and then looked for them under Photos, File, Show Recently Deleted, but the message says "no recently deleted." Where are the deleted files??  Thanks!


texts: How do I force OSX to always save file extension?

texts:
When saving a file without an extension not even OS X is able to open that file anymore. Still it is very easy to accidentally save a file without an extension.
Example: When using Firefox and you save an image with the "Save image as..." context menu, the whole filename including the extension is marked for renaming and as soon as I entered a custom name the extension is gone and I have to reenter it.

How do I solve this problem?


texts: Does Profile Manager for iOS Need to be Accessible over the Internet?

texts:
We're replacing our BlackBerry handsets with iPhones, and we'll be using OS X's Profile Manager for MDM deployment and management.

I've done some exploratory research and I'm happy with the general principles, but I'm wondering if the MDM server needs to be publicly accessible for remote management of iPhones, or is the functionality exposed via the carrier?


texts: When saving a document or editing a file name, with the focus on the string itself, why does CMD+Delete move the file or folder to the trash?

texts:
To be more specific, I am saving a file from my markdown editor. Within the save dialog box, I navigate to the folder I wish to save the file. I then decide to change the name of the file. I put my cursor at the end of the text string and hit CMD + Delete. The expected behavior is to delete the entire string. Instead, this deletes the previously selected folder I highlighted in the dialog box.

Typically, I expect CMD + Delete to remove an entire line of text. I also tested this with renaming a file. If my focus is on the string name of the file, why would CMD+delete remove the file, when Option+Delete removes individual words as expected.

I can do screen shots or short movie if this is confusing. I don't recall this happening previously but I'm not often creating files outside of Python.

13" rMBP using 10.10.1


texts: Is it possible to downgrade Boot ROM SW to try and fix unbooting Late 2012 iMac from Single User Mode?

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I currently have 283.0.0.0.0 Boot ROM SW installed on my crippled Late 2012 iMac - which I upgraded HDD->SDD, tried to unsuccessfully install Mojave, then broke fusion setup, erased drives and am now stuck (see other questions on that...)

Specifically one thing I would like to try is to use the last standalone EFI update dmg from Apple support website Apple EFI and SMC Updates for my model  (iMac13,2)

I can only access Single User Mode - I don't make it as far as Recovery with Utilities and Terminal options.

Is it possible to do this from Single User Mode? I can put files onto a Mojave or High Sierra external image which I could then access but I don't know enough about what commands and scripts to use to update firmware.

Thanks


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro, which uses Safari as the web browser.
When I check my company's e-mail online, I cannot use the Reply button (it simply does not respond.)

I wonder what I should do to fix this problem. (My computer is new.)


texts: Does the 2011 Mac Mini work with dual monitors?

texts:
I want to start development on Mac, and from what I read around, everyone suggests the current Mac Mini. So my question is, does the hardware support dual monitors out of the box?

If not, what should I purchase to get a dual monitor setup working?


texts: Find all incomplete songs in iTunes library

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Some of the tracks in my iTunes library which I have downloaded from the iTunes Store are incomplete.  I understand the recommended solution to this problem to delete and re-download the track.

This advice is only useful if I know which tracks are incomplete, and I often don't find out until I try to play them.  Is there a way to detect which tracks are incomplete in one's library?

Why doesn't iTunes use checksums to make sure the tracks are complete?


texts: How to make [return] behave as a [return] within Messages, Skype…

texts:
I am using Messages on both Macs & iPhones and I am typing a lot of E-mails.
Within all these environment I am used to the normal behaviour of the return key.

Within Messages this key doesn't behave as a return key thus causing me to prematurely send truncated messages.

I found this very similar question: How to insert new line on return key press in iMessage on Mac OSX and I already knew the workarounds proposed ctrl+return, alt+return. But these workarounds didn't answer the original question. Moreover I already use them but this still leave me with an
unacceptable error rate.

From my point of vue, the return should never be associated with a "function" within an environment where you
are at typing text. This is a huge ergonomic design error.

I tried to override the actual shortcut mapping with:

defaults write com.apple.iChat NSUserKeyEquivalents '{ "
" = "insertNewline:" ; }

Which is a silent failure.

I suspect that the syntax of the function might be wrong, but Messages doesn't write any error about this.

Is there a documentation about the exact syntax of internal Messages functions which can be called from a shortcut?

Is there any other correct way to make the return behave as a plain return?


texts: Mounting problems with autofs and executable maps

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I wanted to replace my already existing and working autofs mount to my NAS with a script variant, which additionally wakes up the server via WoL if necessary and requests the password via keychain. According to Apple's Autofs whitepaper this should be possible via executable maps.

The previous working static file /etc/auto_nas looks like this:

video       -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw   ://user:password@192.168.99.99/video
music       -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw   ://user:password@192.168.99.99/music
photo       -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw   ://user:password@192.168.99.99/photo

The new script itself works as it should and can also be executed as root (700). It prints the same content as the old auto_nas.

#!/bin/bash

SERVERIP="192.168.99.99"
SERVERMAC="00:00:00:00:00:00"
SERVERUSER="user"
WAITTIME="80"

get_pw () {
  security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-internet-password -ga $SERVERUSER \
  |ruby -e 'print $1 if STDIN.gets =~ /^password: "(.*)"$/')
}

ping -c 1 -W 1 -q $SERVERIP > /dev/null
status=$?
logger "AUTOFS: Result from ping - $status"
if [ $status -ne 0 ]
then
        logger "AUTOFS: Host is not up. Sending wake-on-lan"
        wakeonlan $SERVERMAC
        logger "AUTOFS: Sleeping for $WAITTIME seconds to allow host to wake"
        sleep $WAITTIME
fi

logger "AUTOFS: Re-pinging host"
ping -c 1 -W 1 -q $SERVERIP > /dev/null
status=$?
logger "AUTOFS: Result - $status"

if [ $status -eq 0 ]
then
        logger "AUTOFS: Mounting filesystem"

        echo -e \
"video\t\t-fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw\t://"$SERVERUSER":"$(get_pw)"@$SERVERIP/video\n\
photo\t\t-fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw\t://"$SERVERUSER":"$(get_pw)"@$SERVERIP/photo\n\
music\t\t-fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw\t://"$SERVERUSER":"$(get_pw)"@$SERVERIP/music\n\

else
logger "AUTOFS: Still no ping result from host"
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to display dialog "DiskStation cannot be woken up"''
fi

But if I put the script into /etc/auto_master with

/DiskStation auto_nas

the DiskStation folder will remain empty and be recognized as a share itself according to the folder icon.

What could be the reason?

sudo automount -vc

does not display any further log information or errors. Is there any way to extend the log output? -v should supposed to be verbose mode.

Update:
It seems that Automount first runs the script without any arguments and then the script has to output only the local mount paths (keys). When called with one of the keys, it must then output the appropriate path to the server and mount options if necessary. Nevertheless, it still does not work with that. I also found different statements how exactly the keys have to be printed. In some examples the complete server path is already printed without any arguments together with the keys.


texts: Finder windows just show screen artefacts

texts:
On our Macbook Air (Mid-2011 11", OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks), starting a few days ago, every time we open Finder windows, the right side just shows screen artifacts/cheese. File Open dialogs in MS Word work fine - it is just the Finder windows with the problem.

Can someone help?

I have tried rebooting, and Verify Disk in Disk Utility. Neither helped. Maybe I should upgrade to El Capitan? But why would this start happening all of a sudden?


texts: After upgrading to a newer iPhone, how does keeping the old one around for development purposes work?

texts:
I have an iPhone 3G and I may be upgrading to an iPhone 4 tonight. I'm on AT&T. Once I get up and running on iPhone development, I'm thinking I want to keep the old phone around to test how apps run on the older, slower phone.

After moving to the new phone exactly how does the process with the old phone work? As in, is it now just a phone without a SIM card (so, an iPod Touch essentially)? Do I have to jailbreak it to keep it active? Is there anything else to look out for?

This might be a "duh" question so go ahead and close it if it is.


texts: Prevent iOS podcast syncing of position and played status

texts:
We are two people with two iPhones that share one Apple ID. We individually listen to some of the same podcasts on each iPhone. The "played" status and current position of the podcast episodes appear to get sync'ed between the phones at least some of the time. We don't want this to happen.

Settings -> Podcasts -> Sync Podcasts is OFF on both phones.
We both sync with iTunes regularly to update apps, music, etc., but podcast syncing is turned OFF for both phones on iTunes (Windows).

Can we prevent played and position status of podcast episodes from syncing so we can each listen independently to the episodes? Or is sync'ing unavoidable? One solution is probably to get a second Apple ID, but I'd prefer not to.


texts: How to sign in Messages app in Mac Mavericks from terminal

texts: Is it possible to sign in Message app from terminal ? When I search for it, I only see on how to send imessage from terminal. Thus, how can I do that ?


texts: Configure Swipe between full screen apps

texts:
Im using my macbookpro with external everything, computer is closed. Im missing the trackpad tho.. Is there a way to configure the trackpad option 'swipe between full screen apps'on my mouse?

Im using a Corsair Harpoon mouse


texts: How to disable the discrete graphics card on a mid 2010 MacBook Pro on El Capitan?

texts:
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that suffers from the flawed Nvidia chip.
Using gfxCardStatus to force the use of integrated graphics works most of the time. But every once in a while Mail.app or some browser content (e.g. FB 360 videos) will force discrete mode and cause a GPU panic and subsequent reboot.

I'm looking for a way to disable the discrete graphics so it always uses integrated.

I found this and tried to follow most of the steps
http://www.asyncro.com/2014/03/24/macbook-pro-discreate-graphics-card-issue-fix-updated/

I had to boot into recovery mode first and use csrutil disable to disable the new system protection in El Capitan in order to move files.

And I assumed I needed to move the GeForce*.* instead of AMD*.* files.

But the command to rebuild the kextcache isn't working in El Capitan.


texts: Trying to Determine if MacBook Pro 2011 projects in 4:3 or 16:9 format during presentations

texts:
The company I work for is hosting a corporate presentation next month. We have hired outside A/V services and he is asking me if I will be projecting in 16:9 or 4:3 and if we will need a 5k or 10k projector. From what I have found, I believe the 10k projector is necessary for the 16:9 aspect ratio.
Is there anyway to determine which aspect ratio my MacBook Pro 2011 (OS X 10.9.5) would project in?


texts: Does the Macbook (Early 2016) support Wake up from standby through an alarm or at a scheduled time?

texts:
I am looking for an option to wake the Macbook at a given time or even date (if possible).
Is there such an option?


texts: Include external drive in Time Machine backup: compatible formats?

texts:
I want to also back up my external drive to another Time Machine drive, but when I want to stop Time Machine from excluding it, I can't, since it's not clickable:

I know the problem is, that it has to be in another format (currently ExFAT). But which formats are compatible and which are best?


texts: Can't time capsule back-up to an external hard-drive?

texts:
I recently had connected an external hard-drive to an old 1st gen time capsule and successfully used it for backup. However, my TC began shutting down on me so I thought it was time to get a new one. Now my new TC will let me choose my external drive but as a backup but cannot seem to login to it. It keeps complaining "problem with the network user name or password. However, I know this is right.

In the Mac Help doc, there is one section that reads:

  Every available disk that can be used to store backups is listed. If you’ve partitioned a disk, the partitions are listed. Time Machine can’t back up to an external disk connected to an AirPort Extreme, or to an iPod, iDisk, or disk formatted for Windows.

OK, so if this is true, why did it work before? Why does the app let me select the drive as "Available"? Could the reference in the Mac Help to AirPort Extreme refer to just the base station and not the time capsule?


texts: Adjust video playback color, contrast, and gamma on Mac?

texts:
On Windows, the NVIDIA control panel provides some features that I use a lot when watching movies; you can adjust the gamma and other settings, such as dynamic contrast and color enhancement. I've been using these for a while as they make a big difference with Dark Movies. These settings, I assume are somehow magically "better" than directly adjusting settings in a video player software. The settings only affect video playback and not the Desktop colors or other applications. (This is not a critical feature for me to have but I'm just mentioning it so people know what I'm talking about)

What would be the equivalent to this on a mac?


texts:
I need my MacBook Air (Mavericks 10.9.2) to share the Internet connection (wi-fi;en0) with BeagleBone Black (BBB) which is in the 192.168.7.0 subnet (en6).

ifconfig:

$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 7c:d1:c3:ee:f3:dd
    inet6 fe80::7ed1:c3ff:feee:f3dd%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
    inet 192.168.2.35 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
en5: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=60<TSO4,TSO6>
    ether 32:00:18:d5:b1:40
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
en6: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1486
    ether 90:59:af:58:5e:96
    inet 192.168.7.1 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 192.168.7.3
    media: autoselect
    status: active
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=63<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,TSO6>
    ether 7e:d1:c3:ee:e2:00
    Configuration:
        id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
        maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
        root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
        ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
    member: en5 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 0 path cost 0
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: <unknown type>
    status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
    ether 0e:d1:c3:ee:f3:dd
    media: autoselect
    status: inactive

Here are my Internet Sharing settings

I'm unable to ping 8.8.8.8 from BBB though I shared wi-fi with BeagleBoneBlack. Whether I share internet connection or not ipfw gives same result

$ sudo ipfw list
65535 allow ip from any to any

I tried disabling firewall in vain.
I could share my internet connection from Ubuntu machine through iptables. Here I need to masquerade packets through gateway interface.

Should I have configured anything like a NAT on the bridge between en0 (internet access) and en6?


texts:
My iPad 2 has recently become VERY slow to charge- about 1% every 10 minutes while plugged into my Retina MacBook Pro (my usual charging source). I've tried both USB ports on the rMBP and neither seems faster than the other. I checked the Apple support website and it was said to be a bug in iOS 7, but my iPad was charging fine for a few weeks after I updated.  What could be some possible causes of this.

NOTE: the battery drains at a normal rate.


texts: Can you access Siri search querys from an app that runs in the background?

texts:
Lets say I install a app on my phone which runs in the background, now every time I open Siri and start with the word "BOX" as a example "box whatever" it will open a specfic website (like www.box.com) and use the words after box as a specific search query something like (www.box.com/search/whatever).

Essentially can a iOS app add functionality to Siri to redirect specific commands to the app which then builds a URL (or whatever it needs to do)?


texts:
I'm facing issues with iOS Calendar notifications on Apple Watch.

I use Fantastical as my phone / watch calendar. I disabled the iOS Calendar notifications on my iPhone, and set the iOS Calendar watch notifications to mirror iPhone alerts.

Then, I deleted the iOS Calendar app.

The issue, is that I get two notifications every time, one from Fantastical (which is fine), and one from iOS Calendar app (which is wrong).

How can I prevent the iOS/watchOS Calendar app to notify me ever again?

iPhone 7 (iOS 10.3.1)
Apple Watch series 2 (watchOS 3.2)


texts: Why can't my iPhone connect to the mail server anymore (and how can I fix it)?

texts:
A few days ago my iPhone stopped downloading new emails.  The Mail app now brings up an error:

Cannot Get Mail
The connection to the server failed.

Though it can't connect to the server to download or send emails, it can connect to verify my username and password:

This email address is working just fine using my laptop.
Some things I've tried that didn't fix the problem:

going into airplane mode and back out
restarting the device
reentering my mail account settings
deleting the mail account and creating a new one

Some specs:

iPhone 5
iOS 7.1.2
email provider: Yahoo
service provider: AT&T


texts: Game Center in Mountain Lion won't let me log in

texts:
I'm trying to log in to Game Center using my Apple ID but it just won't let me do it. Actually, nothing happens: no error messages, just nothing.

I think there is an issue, because I also get a pop-up window where I suppose a new registration could be done within the same program, but it's blank (Annulla means Cancel):

Apart from what is being suggested in this question about Chess over Game Center, why isn't the simple log in working? I could use the workaround but I want the standard way to work anyways.


texts: How to have a non-obvious encrypted partition on an external hard-drive with MacOS Sierra?

texts:
MacOS Sierra asks for password whenever I plug in partitioned external drive which I do not want to happen.
I have Macbook Pro 2016 running Sierra 10.12.6 with a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive.
I partitioned the drive with 1.2 TB for backups (Time Capsule) and 800 GB for other stuff that I can share with my friends (Tachyon).
I ultimately want to achieve the following:
(1) Have Time Capsule for my backups which is encrypted;
(2) Not make it obvious that there is an encrypted partition on the drive (e.g. not have my computer ask me to type in the password everytime it's plugged in and I don't want to save the password in the keychain); and
(3) When I am ready to do a backup or to grab something from the encrypted partition, make it available either via commandline or disk utility.
________________________________________________________
Right now, it asks me to type in the password everytime it is plugged in and I say cancel I don't know how to get the encrypted drive back unless I eject it and plug it back in.


texts:
I'm trying to run mod_perl on El capitan.

Process

Following http://blog.n42designs.com/blog/2014/10/23/compiling-mod-perl-for-apache-2-dot-4-on-os-x-10-dot-10-yosemite/ an https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34240610/how-to-install-mod-perl-2-0-10-in-apache-2-4-on-os-x-el-capitan
The correct repository is different for El capitan, so use svn co  https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/tags/2_0_9/

2.perl Makefile.PL MP_CCOPTS=-std=gnu89 ; make ; sudo make install I could get /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so
In /etc/apache2/other directory, I added cgi.conf with the following content.

LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so
#PerlModule ModPerl::Registry

<Location "/Library/WebServer/Documents/cgi/">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    Options ExecCGI
    PerlSendHeader On
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Location>

I copied simple perl cgi script in the /Library/WebServer/Documents/cgi/ directory, but instead of execution the perl script, the perl code is shown.

What might be wrong?

ADDED

After adding these lines in the conf file:

<Files ~ "\.(pl|cgi)$">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
    Options +ExecCGI
    PerlSendHeader On
</Files>

I have errors instead:

[perl:error] [pid 26307] [client ::1:60248] failed to resolve handler `ModPerl::PerlRun': Can't locate ModPerl/PerlRun.pm in @INC (you may need to install the ModPerl::PerlRun module) (@INC contains: /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.18 /Network/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.18 ...


texts: Understanding macOS's Keyboard Shortcuts

texts:
I was looking at some of the built-in keyboard shortcuts in macOS, and some of them are totally incomprehensible to me. I tried to do some research, but couldn't find any useful answers. All of them can be found under this window:

I would like to have, please, an explanation of the following shortcuts:

"Move focus to active or next window". If I have multiple windows running, what's the "active" or "next" one?
"Move focus to the window toolbar". What's the window toolbar?
"Move focus to the floating window". What is the floating window?
"Move focus to next window". What's the next window? And how does this shortcut differs from the first one in this list?
"Move focus to the window drawer". What's the window drawer?
"Move focus to status menus". What are the status menus?

Thank you!


texts: Subtle light-colored horizontal lines across Macbook screen, and jaw-dropping calibration behavior

texts:
My issue:

When viewing solid, light tones, such as #FDF6E3, I see evenly spaced horizontal lines across my entire screen (I have a 2010 white Macbook).

These lines are especially visible when the screen is viewed from below, or when the screen is tilted back.

My attempted fix:

I decided to try to calibrate the colors on my screen (System Preferences -> Display -> Color -> Calibrate). I did not check the "Expert Mode" checkbox.

The first option presented to me is Gamma: I can select between:

Gamma 2.2 (Standard)
Gamma 1.8

Regardless of the original value, if I simply change the gamma selection, the lines go away! Yippee!!

So, I keep clicking "Continue", ignoring the other options, until I am asked to enter a name for my new color profile. I enter a name, and then the moment I click  "Continue", the lines return, and I'm told that new profile has been applied. Darn it.

Sure enough, if I change other settings, those settings do stick. So this isn't a matter of the color profile not getting applied.

Question:

Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Why are the lines going away during the calibration process, but are immediately returning as soon as the new profile is applied? What should I do?


texts: How can I listen music on OSX without let iTunes take a copy about it?

texts: It is annoying that I just get from some source a music, and I start to listen it and iTunes automatically copy it and save it in its file structure again. Dataspace will be filled up.


texts: Identifying two components on MBP 2012 backside of mainboard

texts: Can someone please help in identifying the part on the motherboard backside, near battery connector (circled in green)? It looks like a small cushion/pad. And a pin like thing (circled in red). MacBook Pro mid-2012


texts: How do I assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript I wrote?

texts: How do I assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript? I found a script for automatically going back to the inbox in Office 2011.


texts: Changes in terminal are not displayed in finder and other programs

texts:
I am a new Mac user.

Recently I've noticed that the changes that I make in terminal, e.g. moving files, creating new ones and removing are not displayed in finder and other softwares - its like I am connected to a remote system.

Can someone help me?
Thanks

Edit: The problem has been solved. This was related to the wrong username in my terminal: for some reason it changed. After I set it to my local username everythin became normal.


texts: I deleted Windows 10 Boot Camp partition but Mac still boots to Windows

texts:
I recently installed Windows 10 via a partition from Boot Camp Assistant but had a lot of issues with it; mainly the fact that after about 10 minutes of using it Windows crashed and took me to a blue screen that told me I would have to run a disk repair to fix Windows. When running Windows repair, it would get stuck in an endless loop of re-booting over and over again and it took me about 30 minutes of that to be able to boot using Opt to select my Macintosh HD as the startup disk.

I decided I didn't need to use Windows badly enough to deal with that at the moment so I figured I'd delete my Windows partition. Boot Camp Assistant wouldn't let me delete the partition through there because it told me the partition wasn't journaled and Disk Utility wouldn't allow me to delete the partition either. This is when I read some help saying to boot my Mac using internet recovery (Cmd+Opt+R) and run Disk Utility from there to delete the partition.

This worked and I no longer show any Windows info Disk Utility but today when I restarted my Mac it booted me up to the Windows blue screen showing that I need to run disk repair again just like it did before I removed the partition. Does anybody know how/why this is still coming up (especially as my startup disk)? I would really love to get everything Windows off of my computer without having to do a fresh install of El Capitan (ver. 10.11.5) since I just did one a few weeks back.

Here is what I show when I run diskutil list in Terminal:

Here is what I show in Disk Utility:


texts: When syncing photos to iPhone or iPad through iTunes from Aperture, it syncs the wrong (original) versions. Why?

texts:
I have an album, let's call it "Europe Trip 2011" within which, in Aperture, I have done at least some degree of editing to all of its pictures (exposure, saturation, curves, etc).  As we all know, Aperture works off of "versions" of a file.  So, my edited photos are all newer versions of the original.

Well, problem is, once I've finished the editing, I close Aperture, then open iTunes (in this order, to make sure everything is "updated" upon close & open).  Then, I select the usual "sync photos...from Aperture" within the iPhone or iPad window on iTunes.  Then, I find the "Europe Trip 2011" album, select it, and commence syncing.

iTunes does in fact sync all of the correct photos, in order, etc.  Problem is, it only syncs with the original, un-edited versions.  So, now I have all of my pics on my iPhone or iPad, but none of them are edited.  They are all the originals.  Which is…semi-helpful, but not what I'm shooting for.

I have taken every step I could think of so far to address this discrepancy including: "Update Previews" and "Share previews with iLife and iWork: Always" in Aperture.

Thoughts and/or suggestions?   Thanks!


texts:
How can i install Homebrew or R on a mavericks machine? I tried looking at this link.

Can anyone help me out?


texts:
After I upgraded to iOS 11 on an iPhone 6, I noticed different forms of performance loss:

lag to start some applications,
interface buttons which seems like on slow motion,
virtual keyboard starting to display the characters I typed after 3 to 4 of them,
lag in web browsing (but a part of the problem might come from the network interface in use and the load of the connection and the remote server,
etc…

Before switching to iOS 12 (which we can test to check), I would like to take advantage of this upgrade to make a correct performance measure of iOS 11 so as to be later able to compare it with the performance of iOS 12.

I would like to measure a number which is network independant and processor independant so as to be able to compare iOS version performance only. Of course an OS performance can’t be fully characterized by a uniq number. For example one OS might be faster on files manipulation, when the other might be faster in graphical interface rendering. But as unperfect as it is, it is always possible to compute a weighted average of performance along different key functions.

I had a look at some great benchmarks like Geekbench but most of them are focused on giving numbers which characterize the processor performance and not the OS one. For example, Geekbanch doesn't provide the iOS version on which the benchmark was run.

Which benchmark would provide a performance “indicator” to characterize the OS helping to compare iOS 11 and iOS 12 performance. Of course on same physical architecture, within the same networking environnment & with the same OS load?


texts: Is it possible to use Adobe CS5 with Java SE 7?

texts:
I have Adobe CS5 installed (old version because it's what my institutional site license covers) on Mavericks.

Whenever I boot my system, I get the following dialog box:

However, I don't have Java SE 6 installed, only Java SE 7 (and JDK 7). I don't particularly want Java SE 6 on my system since it is now quite ancient and probably full of security holes by this point. If I try to launch any of the CS5 apps, I get the same prompt.

Is it possible to run CS5 without Java 6 SE on Mavericks?


texts: Install Windows 10 or 8.1 on MacBook 4,1

texts:
I need some help getting Windows up and running on my Early 2008 Macbook.

It does have a weird set up, but I think it's possible. All I have is a 16gb SanDisk USB drive. So, here goes.

I was trying to use bootcamp to install Windows but I partitioned the disk wrong and deleted my partition for OS X. I tried all the shortcuts, but nothing worked.

I finally used Startup Disk Creator on a Dell laptop running Ubuntu and got Ubuntu 17.10 running on it using the SanDisk. All is well, but I don't necessarily like Ubuntu, and I didn't really like OS X that much.

I want to use the Sandisk and get either Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 running. You have to remember that while the computer is 64-bit, it has a 32-bit EFI.

Here are my specs: MacBook, 4GB Ram, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 160GB HDD, Ubuntu 17.10 LTS

I hope you guys can help me do this. Also, please don't hate or say "Upgrade" because, simply put, I can't as of now.


texts: OS X Migration Assistant can't see Time Machine drive

texts:
I've wiped my machine (to start over), and I'd like to restore some key files back (like pictures and stuff like that).

However, when I connect my Time Machine drive and open Migration Assistant, it can't find my Time Machine drive. I've even tried logging in as root and invoking the application; no dice. It can see one of my old machine's backup (pre-2009), but that's not really the one I want.

It might be a problem that the name of my machine somehow was changed to 'iMac 1 (2)' - and thus the folder in Backups.backupdb is named the same - could that be tripping up Migration Assistant?


texts: howto encrypt "WD My Passport Pro" online? support.wdc.com with dangerous solution (no security)

texts:
I wish to encrypt my WD My Passport Pro drive. I receive error

With Google I found

  An error message occurs when attempting to create an encrypted backup on a My Book Thunderbolt Duo in the Mac OSX 10.7.x (Lion) or
  10.8.x (Mountain Lion) Operating System (OS).

In 10.7.x, the error states You can't convert an AppleRAID volume to Core Storage.
In 10.8.x, the error states There was an error preparing the Time machine backup disk 'My Book Thunderbolt Duo'.

I don't like their solution

  Do not enable Encrypt backup disk on the Time Machine Select Disk
  screen in Lion or Mountain Lion OSX with a My Book Thunderbolt Duo.

this is the RAID config

I already have data there. Howto encrypt this drive online?


texts: Macbook Pro 2015 - Install Windows 7 then upgrade to Windows 10 (Boot Camp)

texts:
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro and an OEM license of windows 7.

I plan to install Windows 7 with these instructions provided by Kevin in this thread:
Install Windows 7 On MacBook (x) 2015

This will hopefully let me boot camp into Windows 7 with some limited functionality.

My question is, since Microsoft is giving free upgrades to Windows 10, can I upgrade my windows 7 license to windows 10 through boot camp utility? Since my Windows 7 installation didn't use boot camp utility, will there be compatibility issues from upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10?

Also, has anyone with a virtual machine been able to claim their free upgrade to windows 10? Not clear to me if you are ineligible for upgrade if you have an OEM windows.


texts: Difference between autopoweroff and standby in pmset

texts:
I just got a new Retina MacBook Pro 15". After getting some downloads interrupted due to the computer going to sleep (even on AC power), I started looking at the man page for the pmset command. I did solve my original problem with sleeping but a few options piqued my interest. In particular, here's the description for the autopoweroff setting from the man page:

autopoweroff - Where supported, enabled per default as an implementation of Lot 6 to the European Energy-related Products Directive. After sleeping for autopoweroffdelay minutes, the system will write a hibernation image and go into a lower power chipset sleep. Wakeups from this state will take longer than wakeups from regular sleep. The system will not auto power off if any external devices are connected, if the system is on battery power, or if the system is bound to a network and wake for network access is enabled.

And then there's the standby mode:

standby causes kernel power management to automatically hibernate a machine after it has slept for a specified time period. This saves power while asleep. This setting defaults to ON for supported hardware. The setting standby will be visible in pmset -g if the feature is supported on this machine.
standby only works if hibernation is turned on to hibernatemode 3 or 25.
standbydelay specifies the delay, in seconds, before writing the hibernation image to disk and powering off memory for Standby.

Now maybe I'm just being thick, but both options seem like they do essentially the same thing. The main difference I see is that standby requires a specific hibernatemode.
Concretely, the way I'd like to configure my computer is for it to do a RAM-only sleep (exactly like hibernatemode 0 does) when first closing the lid, so that it quickly goes to sleep, without writing the RAM contents to disk immediately. However, if I leave the computer sleeping with the lid closed for a certain number of hours (say 4 hours), I'd like it to only then write the RAM contents to disk and power off the computer, so as to save battery in case of an extended sleep. Ideally, I'd also like the second part (writing RAM to disk and power off) to happen only if the computer is running on battery power.
The reasoning here is that, for me, the common use case for sleeping is taking the computer from home to work and back, and there's no point in slowing down the sleep process and wasting SSD write cycles (as well as slowing down the wake-up process, if it does hibernate) if I'm just going to wake it up again in less than an hour; also, since the time it spends sleeping is so short, not much battery would be saved by shutting the computer down for such a short period.
How should I configure the hibernatemode, autopoweroff, autopoweroffdelay, standby and standbydelay options to achieve this behavior?


texts:
Hi i bought an iphone 6 plus from ebay recently and in the listing seller says it is a new phone that came from a iphone replacement and it has 12 months warranty since the day of purchase.

I then asked him how he was going to tranfer the warranty to my name and he replied:

"The warranty is with the phone for 12 months from date of purchase. It's not registered to an individual. So you would be able to take it to any Apple Store if you needed to."

I ask this community is this is normal or theres somekind of bull in here... The warranty is not transfered to me? The warranty goes in the name of who buys the product?!!


texts: is there a way to set the settings on an external webcam?

texts: I would like to change the brightness settings of a USB webcam. Is there a way to do that without installing extra software on Lion?


texts:
I used to use spaces a lot on Leopard and Snow Leopard, but the way it works on Lion is annoying for me, especially when it sends the full screen apps to a Space at the end of the row.

Is there a way to disable Spaces altogether on Lion?


texts: In GarageBand, why does the damper/sustain pedal make the piano less bright?

texts: When I depress the sustain pedal on my keyboard while recording or playing the piano sounds in GarageBand, the sound loses its "brightness."  The attack seems to be diminished when the pedal is depressed.  Is there a way to remove that effect?


texts: iPad sticks when scrolling to notification screen

texts:
iPad 4th gen (MD520LL/A) with iOS 10.3.3

As the title says, the screen sticks when scrolling to the notifications page. I've removed all notification panels on the screen so all that is left is the edit button and the wallpaper, but it still stick for about 7-10 seconds anytime you access that page. Scrolling through the app pages is quick and snappy.

Soft and hard reboots have not changed this behavior.


texts: Permissions for /Volumes are different with Network vs Local Time Machine folders?

texts:
I've been running local Time Machine backups to an external FireWire drive since I got my MacBook a few months ago. But now that my wife picked up a MacBook as well, I'd like to move to a solution that works without USB/FireWire.

I run two servers at home, an unRAID server as my file storage server, and an Ubuntu 12.04 server as my front end (mostly for things like Sabnzbd, SickBeard, ect...). I found this post the other day and followed it to the letter:

http://blog.bertelsen.co/2012/07/time-machine-server-on-ubuntu-1204.html

The difference for me though, was I mounted my unRAID "TimeMachine" share as a local drive on Ubuntu (/mnt/TimeMachine) by modifying my fstab file. So far, so good.

I'm able to select the new networked TimeMachine drive on our Mac's and choose it as the hard drive. But when I try to run a backup, I get the following error:

"Time Machine couldn't complete the back to "homeserver".
The Backup disk image "/Volumes/Time Machine on Ubuntu/Kris' MacBook Pro.sparesbundle" could not be created (error 22)."

I did a bit of searching and found that permissions seem off in my /Volumes directory on the mac. For example, I have a "/Volumes/Time Capsule" drive mounted which is my external drive connected via FireWire. It has kris:staff as the owners, and 775 as the permissions.

However, the "/Volumes/TM on Ubuntu" that I gets mounted when I try to use the network share for Time Machine backups has root:wheel as the owners, and 700 as the permissions.

Why is that? Do I need to configure something differently on my Ubuntu Server to get the mac to mount this with proper permissions?


texts:
I have tried setting up Packet Filter on macOS 10.15.5.

I develop software.
I am hosting some services via supervisord.
It has a user interface on port 9001 running to reset/start/stop services.

For all time long it worked well and I was able to access that UI on the local network. I ran a nmap from my Windows PC targeting my development Mac. After this, on nmap my opened ports were displayed as tcpwraped, (i am not running any firewall on my dev mac). I am not able to access my dev machine from the windows pc anymore. It says Unable to connect, though those ports are visible from the nmap.

All ports are accessible from my other MacBook, but on my PC all ports are NOT accessible.

Is there any way to understand what happened?


texts: Upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.9 on a Mac Pro

texts:
I have an old Mac Pro with the following serial number G87391T6UPZ. Can I upgrade this computer to 10.9 or 10.10?

I can't seem to find an official website that tells me 'yes' or 'no'. It runs on a 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon.  There was a website that mentioned early 2008 and up can upgrade. But not sure when this was made...

Edit:

It says it is MacPro 1,1


texts: What format/bitrate are iTunes sample files on the iTunes store?

texts:
Is there anywhere which officially says what format/bitrate is used for the sample files which you play on the iTunes store?

If there's nothing official, can any audiophiles work it out roughly?

So, for example, if I'm about to buy "Rudimental - Right Here" on the iTunes store, and I listen to the sample to check I like it first. What format/bitrate would I have just listened to that sample in?


texts: Unable to delete IMAP mail account in Yosemite

texts:
I have an IMAP mail account in the Apple Mail client that I want to delete.  I first goto the Accounts preferences pane in Mail.  When I click the minus icon to delete the account, I get a message about having to do it in Internet Accounts.

However, when I goto Internet Accounts, the email account isn't listed.  I see all of my mail accounts except for this particular one.

How can I delete this mail account?


texts: Safari iCloud tabs don't sync between macOS and iOS. How do I debug this?

texts:
The problem is, history DOES sync, but tabs don't. There was a period where a stale list of tabs did show up, both on my iPhone and on my MacBook, but that didn't update. After toggling the safari thing in the iCloud settings on iOS and macOS, the tab list stopped showing up at all.
Now safari is enabled in the settings and the history syncs, but open tabs don't!

Any pointers on how to debug iCloud?
How does it actually sync safari stuff?

[edit]
Forgot to mention, bookmarks sync too.
It's just tabs that don't.


texts:
I am not sure why and quite saddened by this but I can no longer type a capital 'C' on my keyboard for my Mac mini running OS X Yosemite. I have run through all of the shortcuts in System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts, but Shift+C is not listed there, anywhere...

What is causing this, and how to fix it?


texts: Synced iPhone to a new computer. iTunes cannot delete music from iPhone

texts:
My Mom's iPhone used to be synced to my computer, a Mac.
She recently got a new computer, a Windows laptop, so I set that up for her.
I did a sync to the Windows laptop and that seems to work fine except that none of the existing music was deleted. I.E. We want it to be deleted.
When I try and sync all her music on the laptop, it complained that there was not enough space even though her entire library is less than half the phone's capacity.
Syncing an existing album duplicates the album inside Music.
Syncing a new albums copies over the new album and that is manageable through iTunes.
No existing music can be deleted.
When I check "Manually manage music and videos", none of the existing music appears.
At the moment I have the following options checked:

Summary

Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected

Sync only checked songs and videos

Sync music

Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres

<Selected a new album>

The following questions do not help.

iTunes sync does not delete songs
How can I remove unchecked and deleted songs in iTunes from my iPhone?

Device info

iPhone 4
iPhone iOS 7.1.2
iTunes for Windows - just downloaded from website, I assume it is the latest but I cannot find "About"


texts: Are there any MKV video players that feature Picture in Picture?

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I'd like to find a modern MKV video player app that supports macOS's new Picture in Picture feature.

Note: I'm not interested in replicating PiP functionality, I'm only interested in the actual Picture in Picture feature.


texts: Removing email account prompts to remove from other computers

texts: So I added my @att.net email address a while back and decided to remove it from OS X Mavericks Mail. When I clicked to remove it, it prompted me if I wanted to delete this email account from iCloud on this computer or on all computers. It also gave me a list of all the computers associated to my iCloud account. However, a lot of those computers don't even exist. How can I edit this list of computers associated to my iCloud account?


texts: Renaming documents from within the 'Open' and 'Save As' dialog boxes just like in Windows

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I'm experienced with Windows, not so much with Mac. I find myself often renaming documents from within the Open and Save As dialog box windows. I hope the description below makes sense to explain what I mean.

If you look carefully you can see the picture below is of the Open dialog box of Microsft Word in Windows.

In the example above, assume I was going to open the document called The Leadership Factor, but before I did this I realized that the filename of the document above was wrong. So I can click on this document (see how its highlighted) and if I want I can now rename it so that it ends with '2017' instead of '2013'. After renaming it, I can then click on the document called The Leadership Factor to open it up.

Can I do the same thing in macOS?


texts: iPad displays incorrect amount of free storage space

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My iPad Air 1 (8.4) displays wrong amounts of free space.
It displays 2-3 Gb less than my Mac does when connecting the iPad to it.
If my iPad states it has 0 bytes left. My MacBook then sometimes can install Apps on it, but sometimes it also can't.

Also the amount of space the iPad displays varies from time to time, without changing the individual amount assigned to each App. This is in a zone of 500 mb.

3 Gb is called others on my Mac.


texts: Terminal problem with Ctrl + Arrow and Shift + Arrow keys

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I am running Mavericks on a new Macbook Pro. When I use the Ctrl and Shift keys together with the arrow keys, I get some sort of key codes as output in the terminal. I am pretty sure that this problem is new and that it didn't happen a few days ago. But I am not 100% sure. Anyway, this is what happens:

If I press Ctrl+← (Left arrow), ;5D is output in the terminal. Similarly:

Ctrl+→ (Right arrow) outputs ;5C
Shift+← (Left arrow) outputs ;2D
Shift+→ (Right arrow) outputs ;2C

As I mentioned, I am pretty sure that before today I could use those shortcuts to move between words and select text. Has anyone seen this before? I have already looked through some of the existing questions about arrow key shortcuts, but I have found no references to this exact problem.

Also, note that I have turned off the keyboard shortcut that moves between desktops using the Ctrl + arrow keys.


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I run mac disk utility. It finish saying my disk is fine.

C'mon. Windows chkdsk takes a while.

Why it's so fast? Does it actually check stuffs chkdsk check?

And what should I do if I want chkdsk kind of check (longer but more thorough)


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I just updated to iOS11 and I realized that, when you enable and then disable the airplane mode, the Bluetooth is automatically turned on (even if previously is was switched off).
Is there a way to prevent this annoying functionality?


texts: Why do my windows go dark when they're on my external monitor?

texts: Why is this happening? Has any one ever experienced anything like this before? Some windows stay dark on my external monitor and some come good after I let go of the cursor after dragging..


texts: I have a Wacom Bamboo tablet. I installed Wacom drivers, and Wacom dock. Now I can use both the pen and touch, but there is no pressure sensivity when using the pen (I tried using it in Photoshop). Is there a tool to diagnose the pressure?


texts: Is regular charge cycling important to maintain battery health?

texts: I read about a full charge cycle at least once per month - how is this done? Just purchased this wonderful machine, brand new, want to keep it as perfect as possible, and am not sure how to do a full charge cycle of the battery.


texts: how can i disable switch screen animation in catalina?

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I feel there is slight fade in animation despite clicking reduce motion.
It's so annoying, i want to remove all animation when switching between applications if one is in fullscreen mode.


texts: How save e-mail on Mac, while deleting on iPhone?

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I need to delete email after reading them on my iPhone, but do not want to delete them on my Mac, so I can file the emails later.

How to do this?


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I have an AVCHD camera that records 1080i clips. I want to retain this quality in resulting projects, but what is the best way to manage this raw footage in the long term, so that I do not fill my hard disk by importing Full quality Apple Intermediate Codec movies, but preserve the HD resolution by not importing 960x540 Large quality?

I found a hint that shows how to easily save both original content and Optimized Large content, but this still does not preserve HD quality in exports, only for archiving.

I also found ClipWrap, but without AIC the scrubbing is basically useless on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro - no audio and picture lags too.

Long story short - is it a viable solution to craft a script/tool that will allow:

wrap the footage in iMovie compatible container (MOV)
Manually import them into iMovie and optimize only when needed
Prior to exporting, use the tool to revert back to unoptimized HD footage.

This way I could get HD exports and cut back on disk usage.

Is there per haps such a script floating around? Can anyone see any dangers in this? Or is the best option still to shell out cash for bigger hard drive or Final Cut Express with MTS capabilty? (Can FCE scrub MTS files?)


texts: How to diff Photos Library backup against original (to check for corruption)

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It seems the official way to backup your Photos Library is to literally drag it from your OSX desktop onto your external storage. So I did that.

Now, I want to know how to do a diff between the new Photos Library  created on external disk and the original Photos Library on the OSX, before I delete it from my OSX forever.

How to do this using official Apple methods/utils or Linux CLI?


texts: Double-click-and-drag to select whole words of text, but on trackpad with only touch ( no clicking)

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With a mouse or trackpad, we can double-click in text to select an entire word. If we hold the pressing of that second click, and then drag, we can select a series of entire words in most text editing places in most apps on macOS.

Is there a way do the same effect (selecting a series of whole words) on a trackpad without the physical clicking, using only touches and taps?

(I want to give my thumb a break from that downward-pressure repetitive motion.)

Using Apple Magic Trackpad 2 or MacBook Pro built-in trackpad, with macOS Sierra.

I tried each of the Answers on this similar Question. But none of them work. They seem to be outdated, from the Mac OS X era rather than macOS times today.


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I would like to read some old 8GB DVDs I burned on Windows years ago. Does Apple SuperDrive read that discs?

Reference:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD564LL/A/apple-usb-superdrive
https://www.amazon.com/Memorex-8-5-Double-Layer-DVD/dp/B000UWX70S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD%2BR_DL


texts: iMac external projector limits screen resolution to 800x600

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I try to use an external projector on an mid 2011 iMac running Snow Leopard. The iMac is connected to the projector using a VGA adapter. DVI is out of the question as the beamer supports VGA only.

When I configure the screen resolution using display preferences I always see "Usable resolution 800x600" regardless of the configured resolution. 800x600 is not really useful for me as I need to display detailed information.

The projector is definitely able to display higher resolutions using a Windows Box or a MacBook Pro on either Snow Leopard or Lion.

I even switched to another projector model, this worked for a while. At one point in time things changed and I am limited to 800x600 again.

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated


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I have a Logitech C920 webcam and after I use it for any type of video chat (whether it's in Slack, Skype or any other video chat service) the light on the webcam stays on until I restart my computer.

Is there a way to see what is causing the webcam to either actually be on or appear to be on?

I'm running macOS 10.12.5 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", Early 2015).


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I am new to this Mac world and on the first day of my new job my boss gave me a tedious task to Backup Emails on Apple Mail. Basically, there are 3 email ids, and these are our support email database. So there are tons of emails stacked in the inbox. I have to backup all the emails, contact list, and even the address book. I had a look online for manual procedures and found out that Apple Mail Export and Time Machine Backup are best suited for these backup issues. I did try them, but the problem is they are taking too long. I need a quick solution to Backup emails on Apple Mail.

Are there other alternatives to Backup emails on Apple Mail that are quick, safe and easy to operate? Do let me know asap. Thanks


texts: Apple iPhone Mail does not show hits when searching

texts: Get a mail from Wizzair. If I scroll to the date when I get, I can see in Mail, but when searching "wizzair" it does not show up. Why?


texts: Duplicate Sent messages is showing in Sent Folder

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We recently upgraded iOS to 9.2.1. Both our iPads now show the sent messages twice in the Sent Folder although only one message has been sent.

How do I solve this annoying problem?


texts: How to change or add location to pictures in new Photos app on OS X?

texts: Since I updated my iPhoto to new Photos App from Apple, I cannot find where to change or add location information to pictures. I had a rich collection of places in my iPhoto.


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There is an eject key on the upper right corner of my Magic Keyboard. Since I'm neither using the eject key directly nor any of the shortcuts associated to it, I would like to remap it to a symbol that I use more often. That is in my case the backslash.

How can I remap the eject key to backslash, preferably without using third-party software? I'm using High Sierra version 10.13.3 on a Macbook Pro 2017.


texts: Disable mouse interference in Cmd-Tab overlay?

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I often use ⌘ Cmd-Tab with my right hand on the mouse. If the cursor happens to be within overlay, then any accidental mouse movement causes OS X to think that I want to switch to whichever window icon the cursor lands on.

Meanwhile, I am used to Windows' behavior, where the mouse has no effect on ⌘ Cmd-Tab.  I don't want to think, pause, check anything, or correct anything when I use ⌘ Cmd-Tab; I press the combo and intend to instantly switch to the previous app.  The mouse simply interferes with this.

Is it possible to turn off this "feature"?


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Activity monitor shows me that I have 11Gb wired but only 5Gb used for 2 processes (others are neglible). Where are other 6GB? When I try to start new virtual machine with 500M RAM it says that I do not have enough so looks like this memory is indeed used.

Update: It turned out that Parallels was using 12Gb for windows by default. Still I don't know where to look for actual memory usage.


texts: Why can't I change the normal template for microsoft word 2016 for mac?

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I did a clean install of Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 from installers from my campus bookstore. I customized the install to include only Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. I have not had the previews, and I just updated to 15.14.0 (150911). I am running a brand new Macbook Pro 9,2 with Yosemite 10.10.5. Although I did a clean install, I did not uninstall MS Office 2011 apps. I have no issues running them concurrently.

It seems some others have found problems with altering the Normal template and found no joy from MS forums. It seems there is confusion about the directory location of saved templates. So, I have located my Word 2016 templates at:

/Users/<username>/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates/

This folder currently has Normal.dotm and Normal.dotx. Following official MS advice to save-as templates does not work for me. Other user advice to save in the above location returns this dialog:

  Word cannot give a document the same name as an open document.
  Type a different name for the document you want to save.
  (Normal.dotm)

I click OK, and then this dialog:

  The document “Document1” could not be saved as “Normal.dotm”.

Should I not be trying to save Word Macro-Enabled Template (.dotm)? OK, fine. I try saving differently, via Normal.dotx, which is where the Normal.dotx got into the folder in the first place. There's no problem with that. But when I relaunch Word 2016, none of the template saves are present. Every time I start Word 2016, I get the same Draft view with fonts Calibri, etc. etc. This is not the case with Word 2011. Seems I can't beat it, so what gives?


texts: Can I connect an iPad to a monitor with with an Apple Digital AV Adapter converted to DVI?

texts: I need to connect my 3rd-generation iPad to an older monitor. I already own an Apple Digital AV Adapter. Other than the need to purchase an HDMI to DVI cable is there anything preventing me from hooking my iPad up this way?


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I’m having a lot of trouble (and have spent the better part of a day) trying to upgrade to watchOS 7 (on a Series 5, with iOS 14 installed on the paired iPhone).
It takes probably an hour or so to “download to watch”, then finally finishes, and I get the error “unable to verify update because you weren’t connected to the internet”. Then, I have to start the entire download process over again. I’m connected to both data and a WiFi connection, and the watch is on it’s charger.
Things I’ve tried:

Re-pairing the watch
Restarting both devices
Updating from the watchOS settings app
Connecting to three different WiFi networks
Closing and re-opening the app
“Cold” restart on the phone
Connecting the watch to the same WiFi network, and different WiFi networks
Connecting the phone and watch to another phone’s WiFi hotspot
Connecting a laptop directly to the LAN Ethernet, and using it’s mobile hotspot
Charging and depleting the phone twice
Turning off the cellular connection, and using only WiFi


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I am trying to copy individual apps from my iPhone over to my Mac so I can restore them after a wipe through Apple Configurator 2. These apps are no longer available on the App Store (Infinity Blade triology), so downloading them after restoring an iCloud backup is not possible.
With older versions of iTunes I was able to back up apps to my Mac, so I could reinstall them again.
Is there any way how I can achieve this on macOS Catalina or newer?


texts: I just installed an app that was a waste of my time. The problem is, when I long-pressed the app to delete it, it didn't show an (x).  How can I delete it?  I've looked through the settings.  I'm kind of new to iPods so if this is simple, just say it bluntly.


texts: Functionally speaking, where will I see a difference between dual- and quad-core i7s?

texts: I am ready to buy a new MacBook Pro. I am drawn to the portability of the 13" and the better specs of the 15". If you take money out of the picture I would really like to know where I would see the difference in performance between: the 13" i7 Duo Core 2.9GHz and 15" i7 Quad Core 2.3 or 2.6 GHz?


texts: My iPhone is showing an orange dot in the status bar every time I make a phone call

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I noticed today that my iPhone has suddenly started showing an orange color dot at the top of the screen every time I am making a call. I clearly remember this did not used to be the case before, but has started happening today.
This is how it appears:

I have not changed any phone setting. Does anyone know why is this dot appearing? What does it mean? Can I remove it?


texts: On the lookout for an iPad 2 case that integrates a keyboard but doesn't block the camera

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I currently have an iPad 2 with a Smart Cover. I am looking for a keyboard that can be attached to the device so that I will always have the keyboard with me in a convenient manner. Some requirement for the ideal keyboard:

Compatible with the Smart Cover
Keys aren't exposed when the keyboard is "stashed away".
Leaves a hole for the rear camera.

I really like the Logitech® Fold-Up Keyboard; however, it blocks the camera. Depending on the hardware inside, I may be able to drill a hole in the back of the shell, but it would only help for those times that I have the keyboard out. I probably won't ever want the keyboard out while taking a picture with the rear camera. Which keyboards (if any besides the given one) meet all or most of the criteria?


texts: How do I delete songs of my iPod using iTunes?


texts: How do i use ipfw to allow some sites and block all sites

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I am new to ipfw, my requirement is like that, once application launches,i need to read the certain application parameter and depending upon them, i should be able to allow some site and block others,

I am thinking of using ipfw as its i might need to run them in admin privilege,

the reason behind choose www.slashdot.org is its always giving me static ip "216.34.181.48"

assuming ,  i want to allow www.slashdot.org and block all other site, this is what i have tried ,

sudo ipfw flush
sudo ipfw add allow ip from me to 216.34.181.48
sudo ipfw add allow tcp from me to 216.34.181.48
sudo ipfw add deny tcp from me to any
sudo ipfw add deny ip from me to any

but its blocking www.slashdot.org site also,

Are these rules correct or any correction required ?


texts: How do I get the gear icon to show for video playback in macOS Photos?

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Using the Photos app on macOS Big Sur, when I play a video in my library, I see this as the playback bar.
However, according to various guides I see on the web, the playback bar ought to look something like this.

What is the issue here? Is this a change in Big Sur? I am looking for the options that the gear  menu usually provides like 'Trim' and 'Export Frame to Pictures'.


texts: How to disable Viber icon in top menu bar on Mac OS

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Viber 12.8.1 on Mac OS has no option to turn off the icon in the top menu. How this icon can be disabled using the terminal?
I got rid of the Skype icon in the top menu with the following command:

LC_ALL=C sed -i '' -e "s/this._tray =/\\/\\/is._tray =/" -e "s/this._trayBaseToolTip =/return;\\/\\/yBaseToolTip =/" /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar

There may be a way for Viber to do that.


texts: I cannot type the letter "c" on my iMac G5

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I have an iMac G5 running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Unfortunately I cannot type c. I have tried both wired and wireless keyboard, and both bluetooth and USB-dongle wireless. Even over VNC from my (somewhat more current) iMac, I cannot type the c key.

Each time I press the c key it plays the "Funk" error noise (sometimes after a delay of a few seconds).

I am able to copy and paste the letter "c" from a file which already contained the letter "c".


texts: my App Store is broken for Mac High Sierra 10.13.5

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I will click featured or something else and it automatically redirects me to updates.

What sequence of things can I try to unstick this or reset the application so I can browse the features and other sections of the Mac App Store?


texts: How to activate Recoverit when 'csrutil' doesn't *on macbk pro 10.13.6

texts: Terminal messaged 'failed to modify system integrity configuration. This tool needs to be executed from the Recovery OS.' Where is Recovery OS.Objective to recover data from Emptied Trash...precious family videos in mp.4.


texts: Trying to use proxy but still get original ip address

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I bought a private proxy server which I'm successfully using in Telegram application.

Now I went to network preferences (I'm using wifi connection), selected SOCKS proxy and filled credentials. Internet connection works, however when I check my ip address on few sites I got my original ip.

Plus, I noticed, that first time I filled wrong user/password but didn't get any error.

So how can I actually check if my wifi connection uses socks proxy, and why I get original IP? Pretty sure proxy is alive (anyway if it's not I should get some kind of error?)

Thanks!


texts: What's the likely cause of this video display problem on my 2012 Macbook?

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GIF of problem
Mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina Display on OS X High Sierra 10.13.6
I get this artifact on powering the unit up after it's been off overnight. It keeps glitching like this for 1 or 2 hours after powering up and then goes back almost to normal (only an extremely faint flicker ever few seconds, virtually unnoticeable). If I put the unit to sleep and then power it on again after an hour, I don't get the glitching, but after 8 hours I do. If I leave the unit on all night it stays functional.
I notice if I unplug the unit the problem occurs immediately, but if I plug it in again it stops glitching after several minutes. The battery is 8 years old and needs service.
The unit has been sitting on a desk for six months without anyone other than me having access to it, so it seems unlikely that the problem was caused by an impact (or water damage). I've left it open this whole time so there has been no wear on the hinge.
Attempted solutions (from https://macreports.com/mac-how-to-troubleshoot-screen-flickering/):

Restart

updated OS

Reset SMC, PRAM, NVRAM

Disabled automatic graphics switching

Safe mode

I'm wondering if it's possible to isolate the problem from this information. Maybe the video card, the cable, or the screen? I am currently overseas and nowhere near a repair facility, although I could get parts shipped from the US if it's something I can repair myself. I do not have access to an external monitor. I'd like to confirm the problem component is not otherwise identifiable before sourcing one.
Someone suggested the discrete video-card could be the problem and solvable via this method but that seems to be directed at non-retina models.
Since I need this laptop for my job, my choices are either to order the minimum number of parts that will definitely solve the issue or else get a new machine if it's not user repairable.


texts: Screen flickering with 2009 Mac Mini: overheating issue?

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Just moved to a new place and so I reinstalled my HTMacMini (2009 nVidia 9400M model) in a slightly different configuration. My wife wanted it more out of sight so I put it in a drawer which had some ventilation but maybe not enough. After a week, tonight, it became impossible to wake up the display with the keyboard. I connected to the Mini via screen sharing and everything seemed fine. I rebooted the Mini and while I got a signal on TV, the picture was now flickering pretty regulary (as much as once per second). Again, connecting to it via VNC/screen sharing works fine. Did I screw it all up by not allowing enough ventilation in the new setup? Any way I can diagnose exactly what's going on? Could it just be the miniDP connector? Could I replace this?

If indeed the display output is fried, how could I still put my Mini to good use? Would airplay to a new Apple TV be a solution (my TV is 1080p)? I know it can replace my Mini to watch netflix but I have a pretty large collection of mp4 and mkv videos. Could these be streamed by the Apple TV if a HD is attached to the Airport Base? I guess these extra questions might be asked separately...


texts: How to configure OS X 10.5 to always open .WAV files with QuickTime?

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I use iTunes to listen to my music, all of which is in .mp3 and .aac files. I periodically want to listen to .wav files, however these are never music. Most often, they're voicemails sent to my by our VoIP system, but also my camera records audio notes in .wav files. I do not want these to open in iTunes, because then they get added to my library, and iTunes doesn't have the best interface for listening to files like this. I'd prefer to open them in QuickTime Player.

In the Finder, I did "Get Info" on a .wav file and chose "Open With" "QuickTime Player". I then did "Change All..." and clicked "Continue" in the "Are you sure you want to change all similar documents to open with" window.

I've done this numerous times. However the change doesn't stick, presumably because iTunes 9 is re-registering itself for the application of choice to open .wav files. How can I make this change stick under Mac OS X 10.5?


texts: iPhone restore error "This device isn't eligible for the requested build" - tried everything..?

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I restored my iPhone 4s yesterday on my computer and it went through with no problems.

Today when my iPhone crashed and I tried to restore it again - I keep getting the message "This device isn't eligible for the requested build".
Nothing has changed from yesterday - so I don't know why it was OK then but not now...

I've worked through the apple suggestions - no problems with the hosts file, no third party security software, firewall off, etc  I've even tried it on another computer and I'm still getting the same message. It fails after the software is extracted (i.e. at the end of the first stage after I press restore) and it tries to verify with Apple...

Last bit of the restore log:
[11:33:28.4130] failed to personalize the restore bundle: This device isn't eligible for the requested build.
[11:33:28.4136] AMRAuthInstallDeletePersonalizedBundle
[11:33:28.4313] Restore completed, status:3194
[11:33:28.4313] Failure Description:
[11:33:28.4313] Depth:0 Error:Failed to copy auth install options in DFU mode.

Could the fault be on the Apple server side rather than mine or are there other things I should be trying?


texts: How to import older Aperture photo library after setting up new Photos app and a new library

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I was very timid to check out the new Photos.app, and therefore decided to just start a fresh library and have it sync what my phone had through iCloud Photo Library.

After checking it out for a bit, I think I want to move forward entirely with Photos. But at this point, I don't know how I can add in my Aperture library without opening it as a different library (holding down Option), but then don't know how it handles the current iCloud Photo Library.

I checked the menus, and import only preps you for importing photos, not another library. I can open my other libraries, but worried about what that will do with iCloud Photo Library. Do I just need to export everything? Do I open the other library and let it sync?


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I am trying to install windows 8 on my mac osx yosemite using boot camp.
I created the bootable usb myself and will download windows assistance software later.So I ticked gthe last option only.
Problem is when the system reboots for installing windows it is not accepting the partition which was earlier created for windows.
I have even tried formatting it from windows setup.
How to solve this issue?


texts: Automator Javascript - see console.log output

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I'm trying to get all object properties and I use

console.log(object)

But I don't understand where to find output? Is there a special Automator function for logging?

UPD

Using script editor. Calling console.log(object) just output type of object. Is there a way to see list of all properties/values like in web inspector?


texts: Alternative ways to set a timer on macOS

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I'm trying to set a timer on macOS to no avail, as Siri prompts me to set a reminder instead:

Most, if not all apps found on the Mac App Store don't provide this functionality without being too complicated:

Are there any other apps that can provide the functionality without being too complicated or hard to use?


texts: Cheapest option for split screen video editing?

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I'm wondering what the cheapest option for achieving a split-screen effect with different video clips is. This is on new iMac hardware with the latest version of iMovie '11, as well as QuickTime Pro 7 and iMovie HD '06 installed. Obviously I know Final Cut Express can do this, but I am hoping not to have to pay so much for what should be a simple thing.

Edit:

Okay, my first bounty. Fun times. Here's what I know: http://imovieplugins.com/ has some very cost-effective one-off effects for iMovie HD. However, it seems quite difficult to install these on 10.6. If anyone has a way to do so, I'd consider that a good answer.

Also, I am aware that the open-source Blender can do this, though the learning curve there is a bit much for me. An easy step-by-step guide for that would suffice if nothing else comes up.


texts: Open a program in finder with only keyboard

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If I navigate to a program in my Applications folder in Finder and press enter the program offers to be renamed. Only a double-click with the mouse opens the app.

How can I open it with only the keyboard?


texts: Mysterious folders that appeared in Documents on upgrade to Big Sur

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After upgrading to Big Sur today (from macOS 10.14 Mojave) on my 2018 MacBook Air 13", I found a number of unwelcome new folders had appeared in my Documents folder (when viewed with Finder).
These folders are:

GarageBand
Keynote
Numbers
Pages
Preview
QuickTime Player
TextEdit

Each one, except Preview and TextEdit, contains a single Alias file called "iChats". The Preview and TextEdit folders are empty. Needless to say, I cannot open the iChats files.
I do not want these folders, but I can't move them to somewhere else, unlike my own genuine folders: a circle with a slash through it appears if I try.
So I thought I would look using Terminal, but cd Documents and then ls -a shows only my own files and directories. These unwanted interlopers are nowhere to be seen.
Edit: Some more information:
Following the advice of Joy Jin, I dragged each folder onto a Terminal window, to see what was revealed. The folders appear in Terminal as follows (every path begins with
/Users/davidhoadley/Library/Containers/ - I have edited that text out of each item below:

... com.apple.garageband10/Data/Documents
... com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Documents
... com.apple.iWork.Numbers/Data/Documents
... com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Documents
... com.apple.Preview/Data/Documents
... com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Documents

In answer to user3439894, yes, I can right-click and Move to Trash. But what then appears in the trash is the com.apple.(whatever)/Data/ folder, with several subfolders (i.e. not simply the folder from Documents that I described above). I do not know what these folders do, and I am afraid that if I delete them or send them to the trash, I will somehow adversely affect the running of the relevant applications.
So the folders appear to be some kind of link or alias. But they are not a unix-style hard link or a symbolic link, because they don't appear in the directory as seen from Terminal using the ls -a command.
So my question now becomes: is it safe to send them to the trash? And if anyone has any clues as to what the mechanism is that shows me these links/aliases/whatever they are, I would be most interested.


texts: Random extreme CPU spikes on random browser tasks

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I've noticed that every once in a few days (sometimes daily) my CPU spikes to a 120% or such usage when any of my browsers are open.

The scenario is weird, today I was watching a movie using VLC player and I saw my battery starting to drain unusually fast and my fans running out of control, I open up the Activity Monitor and see that Safari Networking is clogging up my CPU time and usage (100%). My Safari was open but in the background with a few random websites such as Stack Overflow, none Flash-related apps or something along the lines. This was happening on Chrome way too often under the Process Name of Chrome Helper, but with a slightly greater CPU usage.

When I force shutdown the processes either via Activity Monitor or their PID everything returns to normal. Any clues? Happy to post any logs necessary.

macOS High Sierra 10.13, MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)


texts: Can I connect to my Mac via thin client?

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I want a remote access to my Mac. I'm looking for a hardware solution - a thin client (zero client), PCoIP client - a hardware client, which can connects my Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse over network to my Mac.
Does such hardware exists?


texts: Why get a regular MacBook Pro versus the Retina display model?

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I am looking into getting an Apple laptop. I took a look at the MacBook Pro (regular versus retina display). After reviewing the specs, it seems the MacBook Pro with Retina display has the following benefits:

Lighter (by about 1 pound)
SSD
The display, of course

Is cost the only reason I should look at the regular MacBook Pro? It seems like the Retina display is about 300 – 400 dollars (USD) more for the same specs (hard drive space, etc)?

I wanted to see if there were other things in the regular MacBook Pro, besides cost, that would be considered an advantage over the new retina display.


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I am more familiar with Windows and Linux where when I close the application window, the application is closed.
On Mac Big Sur, commonly, when I close an application, a small dot exists under the icon in the dock, indicating the program is still running. Why is this?
For example, while on Linux or Windows, when I close my sole Visual Studio Code window, the application completely closes. The process is completely gone. When I close vscode on mac, a small dot still exists in the doc, and when I open activity monitor, I can see the 'Code' process is still running.


texts: Impact of Spotlight search information removal on Keynote presentation

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OS X Spotlight search information was removed.
What does this mean for my Keynote presentation made in iWork '09?


texts: Mac Pro + 50” 4K Ultra HD LED TV as monitor -- Best graphics card?

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I have a 2009 Mac Pro 4.1, with the following specifications:

2 2.93 GHz Quad-core Intel Xenon processors
32 GB   RAM
2   1 TB HD
1   MacPro Raid Card
1   Nvidia GeForce GT 120 512 MB

The work I do benefits from lots of screen real estate. Prior to switching to the Mac Pro, I used a pair of 27" iMacs extending my desktop across the two displays.

I have started thinking about whether I could/should get a 50” 4K Ultra HD LED TV and use it as monitor. The size would work well in my office and it would give me more square inches of display than the pair of iMacs.

I know little about graphics cards and displays, but I understand that a want both a display and a graphics card to support 60Hz to deal with things like cursor/mouse movement delays.

My work is mostly text and some screen drawing, but no extensive graphics. Recreationally, some video's.

So, some questions.

Does a 50” 4K Ultra HD LED TV as monitor make sense?
Positives vs Negatives?
Other recommendations?

What graphics card(s) will work in the Mac Pro for what I want to cobble together?

Any suggestions on the best value given my use?


texts: Automator: Take screenshot > Prompt rename > Add date and time to name

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This is what I need to achieve:

I take a screenshot
Automator watches my Screenshot folder for a new file
A prompt appears for me to rename the file
Date & Time are added after the name I give it

So the result would be: NewName on 02/04/20 at 3:49:44 PM.png

How could I set this up?

I've managed to set up a folder action through automator so that it watched my Screenshots folder, prompts me to rename new files, and add the date/time, but I don't like the time format Automator uses.

Is there a combination of folder action/script that would provide the result shown above?

Thank you!


texts: How remap two keys to another combo with two keys

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I'm using a mini mac with Catalina with a Logitech K270 kerboard, with Karabiner 12.10.0. I've done some simple key changes, I work with latex, where the backslash symbol is written a lot, I get " \ " backslash with AltGr ("right_option") + < > ("non_us_backslash") keys, I prefer use the combo: AltGr ("right_option") +  \  ("grave_accent_and_tilde"), I have in the karabiner.json:
"rules": [
                {
                    "description": "Barra Invertida",
                    "manipulators": [
                        {
                            "from": {
                                "key_code": "non_us_backslash",
                                "modifiers": "right_option"
                                }
                            },
                            "to": [
                                {
                                    "key_code": "grave_accent_and_tilde",
                                    "modifiers": "right_option"
                                }
                            ],
                            "type": "basic"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },

But I can't get the backslash symbol.
Any suggestions? Can it be remapped to a single key?
Thanks in advance.
Gustavo