texts: Migration Assistant Freezes at About 90%

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I am swapping the SSD on an early 2015 Macbook Pro 13". The drive installation seems to have gone well. I have used Samsung EVO 970 1TB if that matters.
Prior to doing the swap, I had upgraded High Sierra --> Mojave and created a Time Machine backup of the disk. That was the first backup and took a few hours. Overall, there is about 200GB worth of volume in that backup.
After installing and formatting the new drive (APFS, GUID mapping), I did a new system (Mojave) installation, which seems to have gone well (it loads and works). Upon that, I had attempted to do a Migration Assistant restore. It recognizes the backup, runs for a couple of hours, but never moves past an 80-90% completion mark. At this point, it does not sound like the external drive containing the backup is being read-write accessed. Please see the screenshot.
I have attempted:

Restore only Applications from the backup. This worked and went fine.
Restore the rest of the data after restoring the Applications. This freezes as well, so it seems to be that the problem is somehow here.

Question:
What can I do to troubleshoot and fix this?


texts: How to update jailbroken iPhone 3GS iOS 4.1 to 5.1?

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I want to update my jailbroken iPhone 3GS iOS 4.1 to iOS 5.1 or any other iOS which is best for it.
But I havent synced my iphone since a long time and that device I synced it to is no longer with me. So there's no backup. PLease help me:(


texts: iOS 8 Safari verify server identity error

texts: We have a site running on https in production. In QA we run it on https but we don't have a valid SSL cert for it. So on iOS Safari 8, we get a error message saying that "Server identity cannot be verified". The error appearing is fine, but the problem how do I add an exception so what Safari allows it for my domain.


texts: How to change the Organiser for Family Sharing

texts: I have set up Family Sharing on my daughter's iPad Pro and I am the Organiser. I also added my daughter as a family member. How can I delete myself as the Organiser and add my wife instead? I hope after doing that my wife can replace my bank details with hers.


texts: Memory problem after upgrade to El Capitan

texts: I have an iMac 27 inch ( Late 2013 ) system.It has 8 GB RAM. Today i upgraded to El Captain from Yosemite. El Captain installed successfully. Now it is showing 4 GB Memory. I dont know what happen to remaining 4 GB Memory.


texts: X11 that I am using (XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4)) with Yosemite has very high acceleration with the mouse (external or trackpad). Is there a way to lower the acceleration or remove it all together?


texts: What is the complete, authoritative way in which Mac OSX 10.9 and later builds its PATH?

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I have read just about every article on this subject.  To wit, I know about:

launchctl setenv
/etc/launchd.conf
/etc/paths
/etc/paths.d/*
/etc/profile
/etc/bashrc
~/.profile
~/.bashrc
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
~/Library/Preferences/.MacOSX/environment.plist

Let's start whittling all this craziness down:

From other reading, I know that on Mavericks anything that relies on an environment.plist is no longer supported or read.
I know that /etc/profile erases any PATH previously set by launchctl setenv or present in /etc/launchd.conf, and uses a default set of paths appended with anything found in /etc/paths.d/* and /etc/paths.
I also know that applications launched via Spotlight or the Dock obviously don't read your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc.

That leaves launchctl setenv and /etc/launchd.conf (same thing, really).

At any rate, in my case I find that in a Terminal window—I should stress I have none of the following files: ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ./bash_profile—I find that the output of env | grep PATH has /opt/subversion/bin appended to the end of it.  This string does not show up in any of the sources listed above, so it must be coming from somewhere else.  I was not aware of there being anywhere else for it to come from.

So then: how does Mac OS X Mavericks build its PATH variable?


texts: Running a script with assets inside automator application

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So, I'm trying to write an automator application that runs a simple script.

python Contents/main.py

where Contents is the contents of the .app.

When the script is run it is run in ~ not in the working directory (wherever the file is placed on a system).

Is there a way to do this?

Note: I am not taking any input to the application, you just double click it.

Thanks,
Harry


texts: How could my Mac be turning the screen off when it's set to "never"?

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I have a late 2021 unibody Mac Mini, upgraded to Catalina. For some time I have had problems where the monitor will not wake up from sleep even though the Mac is running - I think it's a known bug in the hardware/firmware.
Recently I thought I had solved this buy setting the screen to never turn off:

I thought it was working but recently I am coming back to my Mac after several hours and frequently I turn the monitor on with its own power button to find the same problem. Every time I have to hard reboot the thing.
How can the screen still be put to sleep when told not to? How can I prevent it?


texts: iTunes movies HD Rental advertised as 5.1 surround, but only plays in stereo

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"The Revenant" is clearly labeled on the iTunes store as 5.1 surround. But after purchasing and playing the HD Rental (yes it was fully buffered) it only output in stereo on Windows 10.

The Netflix app outputs 5.1 surround correctly, and so do games, and so do 5.1 surround sound music downloads played through VLC, so I know my set up is correct.

Am I missing a setting? Also, can I get a refund?


texts: I removed Boot Camp the hard way, but then I got a Windows error anyway. Should I be concerned?

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The short version:

I was running Boot Camp on my Retina MacBook Pro, but I decided just recently to ditch it because I never use it and I'd like to reclaim the space. The official method of removing it with Boot Camp Assistant failed so I went the harder route involving booting into Internet Recovery mode and deleting the partitions manually, which worked and gave me the space back - except when I rebooted I got a Windows screen telling me booting failed, and when I hold down OPTION on a boot I still see "Windows" as an option.

If I pick OS X when I hold down OPTION it boots like I want it to but on a restart it still gave me the Windows error screen. Booting into Internet Recovery again and setting "Macintosh HD" as the Startup Disk seems to have fixed it and now on subsequent reboots I'm in OS X like I want again, but I can still see "Windows" as an option as I hold down OPTION on reboot.

Is there any way to get rid of this "ghost" of Windows/Boot Camp on my system and if there's not, is this something I should be concerned with?

The long version

So here's the sequence of events:

Got my rMBP in 10/2014
A few months later I added Boot Camp, initially with Windows 8.1 and later upgraded to Windows 10
The other day I decided to ditch Boot Camp as it's taking up space and I never use it.
Did a few different backups
Uninstalling Boot Camp via the Boot Camp Assistant didn't work, which is apparently really common
Read online that the next best thing is deleting the Boot Camp partitions directly and/or modifying them to appease Boot Camp Assistant
Tried removing the Boot Camp partition in Disk Utility. It wouldn't let me. (By the way, Disk Utility is really crappy and unusable in El Capitan - they've removed the old standard partitioning method and replaced them with a PIE CHART that doesn't work half the time)
Did lots of reading, a fair amount of panicking, and booted into Internet Recovery mode
Using the Disk Utility in Internet Recovery Mode (which is the old one from Mavericks/Yosemite, yay) I was able to do a series of maneuvers that, long story short, allowed me to delete the Boot Camp partition - along with a couple of others that, I'm guessing, are artifacts of Windows/Boot Camp - and got back to one big huge partition. I happily restarted...
...and was presented with a clearly-from-Microsoft screen (fonts, colors, etc.) saying Windows couldn't load. At this point I've got the "No! We killed you!" scene from Robocop going through my head
Reboot, hold down OPTION, and I see Macintosh HD and Windows. I pick Macintosh HD
OS X boots up, I have all my space back, life is wonderful
Reboot the Mac to see what happens and I'm back in Windows error land
Back in OS X (after rebooting and holding down OPTION again) I go to Startup Disk in System Preferences and try to set Macintosh HD as the start disk but it won't let me do anything because there's only one hard drive now and as far as it can tell it's already the startup disk
I booted the Mac into Internet Recovery mode and set the Startup Disk to Macintosh HD (since, I'm guessing, when you're in Internet Recovery mode you're booting off of the temporary-from-the-Internet disk) and restarted.
Mac restarts in OS X like I want it to
Reboot again, Mac still restarts in OS X like I want it to. Did this a few times to be sure.
Reboot again, hold down OPTION, I can still see Windows as an option but I don't know where it's coming from

So basically things are where I want them to - except there's this "ghost" of my Boot Camp install lingering. Is there any way to get rid of it? And failing that, can I just ignore it safely?


texts: How to delete files on iMac with no menus -- Your startup disk is full

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I have an iMac with the 10.4 OSX operating system installed.  When I boot the computer it prompts me with this message:  "Your startup disk is full.  You need to make more space available on your disk by deleting files".  I am able to login and see the desktop background, but I cannot see any menus.

How can I delete files or erase all the data?  I have the startup disks but when I hold down C as the disks instructions say, nothing when I reboot.


texts: Separating podcast mp3 files from music files?

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I have some mp3 files on the computer of podcasts I want to hear. I can simply sync them to the iPhone (4, iOs 5.x) like any other music file but I wondered if there's a way to treat them differently - I don't want them to appear in my music (for example, when shuffling songs I don't want the podcasts to appear).

Is there a way to separate music from podcasts? In iTunes I see a "podcasts" tab in my iPhone but I don't see how to import files there.


texts: How can I delete a keychain password for github and vscode?

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The way of deleting keychain access codes is to open the keychain access control and right click on the code and delete which worked before .

But Now It doesn't and when I press delete nothing happens .
How can I force delete any keychain access ? Is there a way by doing this with terminal ?


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I have HP-2000-Notebook Pavilion series with windows on it. More my notebook doesn't support visualization technology.

I want to develop and iOS app in objective c. Is there any alternative that work for me? rather than buying apple notebook.


texts: Importing vCards from a website into iOS’s Contacts.app

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I have a web page with tables full of people & their contact information. I started writing a pairing of php & javascript to automagically generate vCards (*.vcf) for each contact. Half way through this process I’ve discovered that iOS is none too cooperative with .vcf downloaded by Mobile Safari.

When a .vcf files is received via MMS or as an email attachment, iOS provides a very obvious & simple interface for adding it as a new contact. I expected Mobile Safari to exhibit similar behavior to Messages & Mail, but that is not the case.

With Dropbox installed, on my iPhone or iPad, things look like:

Mobile Safari “handles” a .vcf file http://mlkshk.com/r/66OX

Without Dropbox installed, Mobile Safari just throws up its hands and says it cannot download the file.

Anyone have a way forward on this one? Is there a way to coerce Mobile Safari into doing something meaningful with the .vcf file? Will this be supported in iOS 5? Wy on earth is it not supported now? Is there another way to markup the contact information so that Mobile Safari will allow for seamless creation of a new entry in Contacts? Microformats, serving the .vcf up with a MIME of text/plain, some markup & JavaScript bookmarklet (clumsy and awkward as they may be), etc. ?

N.B.

I want to know if this can be done on iOS using Mobile Safari. I’m
not looking for work arounds that involve syncing with a desktop
machine, using Dropbox, or some other 3rd party app.
Yes, I
understand that sending a user the .vcf file as an attachment via
email is an option (a terrible, time consuming, non-elegant option
which requires the user to enter their email address without typos
or otherwise bolloxing things up).
I also understand that phone can create a new contact with
a tap & hold (this too is a terrible, time consuming, non-elegant
option which requires the user to remember & then enter the
person’s name without typos, otherwise bolloxing things up, and then
forces them to tap, hold repeat, for each piece of info [phone,
email, address, home phone, home email, website, …])


texts: How do I get Siri to make an event on a Gmail or Exchange calendar?

texts: I can get Siri to show me events on my Google Apps calendar (which I have set up as an Exchange account, to get the benefits of push email), but I can't get her to make an event on that calendar; new events keep being created on my own calendar.


texts: Pillars of Eternity: Better to buy from Mac App Store or from Steam?

texts: I haven't played a video game on my computer in over a decade and I'm unfamiliar with modern technologies. If I want to buy Pillars of Eternity, am I better off getting it through the mac app store or through Steam?


texts: Sync google apps (gmail) contacts directory with Mac address book

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We use Gmail (Google Apps for business) at my work.

I have set up my Mac (OS X 10.7.5) address book to sync the local address book with my gmail account, however this only syncs "My Contacts" but all my work contacts are in a group named "Directory" (a readable LDAP style group). I would like to sync my Mac address book with the Directory group but I can't find a way to do this.

I thought I had achieved a similar effect by dumping all the contacts from the directory into My Contacts, but it seems that only the email addresses are in My Contacts and the rest of the information is shown by being linked to the original Directory entry - therefore only email addresses are synced to the address book with no further information (e.g. addresses, telephone numbers...)

Is there a way to achieve this?


texts: Force DNS resolution to happen outside VPN

texts:
I'm running Mojave (10.14) and I have a Cisco AnyConnect VPN over which traffic for selected routes (determined by the VPN profile, out of my control) is sent.

Traffic routing works fine, the issue is that DNS resolution is taking place over the VPN for hostnames that are not on the internal network.

The output of scutil --dns contains:

craig@TBMBP:~$ scutil --dns
DNS configuration

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : a.mycompany.com
  search domain[1] : b.mycompany.com
  search domain[2] : c.mycompany.com
  search domain[3] : d.mycompany.com
  search domain[4] : hsd1.ma.comcast.net <-- (my ISP)
  nameserver[0] : 10.70.yy.yy

Further, it contains:

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : hsd1.ma.comcast.net
  nameserver[0] : 2601:184:497f:...     <-- (some ipv6 address)
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.1.1
  if_index : 10 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped, Request A records, Request AAAA records
  reach    : 0x00000002 (Reachable)

That means when I open www.apple.com, I see over the VPN:

39  2.316879    10.70.xx.xx 10.70.yy.yy DNS 63  Standard query 0xefee A www.apple.com

And I don't want this to happen. Rather, I want DNS resolution to happen between me and my ISP (or between me and 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8) and then if resolution fails, to consult with the VPN.

How do I update the resolver to use Cloudflare/Google first for DNS, using the command line on Mac?


texts: How to play music on both Hearphone connector and Bluetooth on iPad?

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Is there a way to play music through Headphone connector (HI-FI system) and Bluetooth (Wireless speaker in different place) simultaneously ?
It seems that I can only choose one or the other, but it seems so simple there might be a way to do so.

Thanks


texts: SMS forwarded to email just shows up in SMS again?

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I have a SMS thread with text and photos.  Want to forward the thread to my email.  So I do the following:

tap and hold on message, then get popup at bottom for COPY, SAVE, MORE...
Click MORE... choose items to forward,
click forward arrow and
field opens to enter email address.
enter address and touch blue up arrow to send

Then message appears on my iPhone as an SMS again, not into my email.  I have tried 3 email address and they keep appearing in my SMS.

How do I get it to go to my real email?


texts:
How do I control the text box size in Keynote? My main problem is that I can't even select the box, though I can select text within the box. When I click on the paintbrush on the upper right of the keynote page, and then select Arrange, the dimensions of the textbox are shown, but greyed out.

Keynote Help is no help. Usually Google can find the answer in such situations, but not in this one. There is just an assumption that you know how to select the textbox itself, rather than the text inside the box.

I am using OSX 10.9.5 on a Macbook Pro. My Keynote is version 6.2.2. I do get messages that I should update Keynote, though I would first have to update my operating system. I hesitate to face the inevitable disruption just before giving a big presentation before a large audience, perhaps an unwise decision to try Keynote for the first time on this occasion.


texts: Samsung Portable SSD t3 2TB drive only shows 250GB capacity

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I am running Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. My 2TB Samsung T3 only shows 250GB Capacity. I have installed the activation software from: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/portable.html

I have formatted the drive using all available options under Disk Utility.

For an $800.00 hard drive that only has 1/8th of it's advertised capacity, this has turned out to be an enormous waste of money.


texts: Text to Speech Custom Rate (beyond slider)

texts:
In System Preferences, under Dictation & Speech, there is a Speaking Rate setting:

Is there a way to change the Speaking Rate to a value that is not on that slider bar?

For example, if I want the speech rate to be faster than the maximum slider value, how can I do that? There's a way to make the terminal speak certain lines of text faster (e.g. say --rate 500 "hello world"), but I'd like it to be the system-wide setting.

Could someone walk me through how to do this step by step?


texts: Remove application from App Store's Update section

texts:
I've got an application in my Updates list which I never installed. It doesn't appear under Purchases nor Hidden Purchases. I can't hide it by right-clicking on it. When I click "Update" it asks me for some different Apple ID I've never heard of.

How can I get rid of the update showing up?


texts: Where can I find El Capitan's default and beachball/busy cursors?

texts: I saw from this answer how I can get most of the cursors, but the busy and default cursors aren't there. Why is that?


texts: i have iPhone 6 of 16GB, which is upgraded to 200GB, it's not showing upgrade storage capacity on the iPhone, still showing only 16GB


texts:
Long story short: I'm on OSX 10.6.8 and I'm trying to download the Yosemite package in order to (re)create a bootable USB.

When I go to the App Store, I go to the first tab and click on "Free" under yosemite and the OSX icon appears on the bottom bar:

If I hover over it it says "Downloading...". I wanted to check out the speed and progress of the download, but apparently if I go to App Store > Purchased tab, what I see is this:

while, as I understand, there should be informations about the current download.

I've already done this process once already from 10.6.8 on the same computer and I succeeded. This is a clean install of Snow Leopard (updated to 10.6.8) though and my download speed is very low (0.99Mb/s vs 5Mb/s I had back then) this week.

I've tried canceling the download, trying again. I've tried restarting (also shutting down and then manually start it again), as well as canceling and restarting the download numerous times. I've also tried starting the download from the Purchased tab, but that doesn't seem to start the download and just makes the "Download" button go back grey again. Even waiting for a while doesn't show any message and/or progress.

What should I do next?


texts:
I seem to have a weird issue with a Photo editing tool called Lumniar 3. Though I have this issue with this software, I tend to think that it could be a file setting that Finder is acting on.

The issue is, when I use the export functionality in this software to create a JPEG file from a RAW file, Finder never sees that file. I can ls the file though and can see them via Terminal.app.

I am using a mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.1.

I have posted the question on their software support forum as well.


texts: How can I get iTunes Library to stay pointed to my NAS?

texts:
I recently moved my iTunes library to my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (all relevant file operations on the NAS are using AFP protocol). The library had previously been on my Mac Pro, in my ~/Music directory. In iTunes Preferences > Advanced, I changed the path of the iTunes Media Folder to the Media volume on the NAS, so that it now has the path /Volumes/media/Music/iTunes Media. In iTunes, I chose File > Library > Organize Library, then chose Consolidate Files from the Organize Library dialog. This made iTunes copy all of the files from the Mac Pro's iTunes Media Folder to the iTunes Media Folder on the NAS. After that, I deleted the 60 GB of files in the Mac Pro's local iTunes Media Folder (the boot drive is an SSD, so I needed the space).

Two questions:

On the Mac Pro, the setting for the location of the iTunes Media Folder has changed back from the NAS to the local folder twice now; I've had to reset it back to the NAS. Some apps have been updated, and I discovered that the updates had been downloaded to the local iTunes Media Folder. After I reset that location to the NAS and re-ran Consolidate Files, the apps were copied to the NAS. Any idea what's causing iTunes to "forget" the NAS location and revert to the local folder, and how to solve that problem?
After I moved the library on the Mac Pro to the NAS, I also pointed the copy of iTunes running on my MacBook to the NAS, so that it could share the files (I can still share the files using Home Sharing from the Mac Pro, of course). It appears that the MacBook doesn't seem to simply read the state of the library from the NAS; it erroneously shows that 84 mobile apps need updating, and some TV shows that I downloaded on the Mac Pro don't appear on the MacBook. I'm OK with simply using Home Sharing on the MacBook if necessary, but I was hoping the two machines could share the same library on the NAS and would stay in sync. Can you explain the MacBook behavior? Is there a fix that would keep the iTunes libraries on the two machines in sync?


texts: How do I connect to a wifi network from the login screen on OS X Mavericks?

texts:
I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and it uses a network login system with my school.

This normally wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that I can't connect to a wifi network from the login screen.

Is there a way I can accomplish this so that I can log in and get this thing going?

I can't use an Ethernet cable, because the MacBook doesn't have a full Ethernet port, but it requires a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter, which I do not possess, and neither does my school.


texts: How do I rearrange my watch faces in watchOS 2?

texts:
I have a lot of watch faces, I change them a few times a day. But as I keep adding new ones, they are added very far to the rightmost of the list of existing watch faces.

Is there a way to rearrange my watch faces, so that I can put my most frequently used faces close together?


texts: I have a human friend whose name is Siri, so can I change iPhone's Siri to another name?

texts:
I have a friend who is named Siri (as Wikipedia says, the Scandinavian name had "high popularity in the 20th century"). Unfortunately, conversations often go like this:

Me: Hey Siri! How are you?
Siri (person): Great, how are —
Siri (digital assistant): Very well, thank you!

I know that I can turn off "Hey Siri" entirely, but I'd kind of like to keep it on if I can. Is there any way to change Siri's name to something else? I know that Amazon Echo has a similar thing where you can change the name from "Alexa" to "Amazon", and I would like to do the same thing for Siri.
Also, I sometimes use the button to activate Siri and out of habit speak commands like "Siri, what's the weather like?", even though I know that "Siri" is optional. I'd like a solution that would work with that as well (although changing "Hey Siri" is a bigger concern).


texts: Is charging my iPhone all night harmful?

texts:
I normally charge my iPhone all night to get 100% power. Does this harm my phone's battery?

Update [Oct 1, 2017]: Thanks for all your great answers. I noticed there is a related video which addressed my question well.


texts:
I want to install IFTOP using Brew. However whenever I do it, I need to link it. The instructions given online doesn't work. It seems I need to type a PATH:(something here) every time before using IFTOP.

I'm using a 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro Late 2013. Can someone help me? I always keep my laptop updated to the latest. I don't use beta updates, if that helps.

Let me know how you can help me.

First instructions: http://macappstore.org/iftop/
Second instructions: Problem trying to install iftop via Homebrew

For the second instruction, export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin
command has to be ran every time. Even saving to a document and linking it (as told in that link) does not make a difference.


texts: Cannot access user files with root using osxfuse

texts:
I mounted external server via sshfs root@example.com but I cannot access user files (ie someuser:somegroup) that have no permissions set for other (ie drwx--x--x. 17 graphica:graphica foldername).

There is no problem accessing this folder via ssh or sftp when I access the server as root.

Shouldn't sshfs have the same root privileges as ssh?


texts: Photo Library-Photo Stream-Camera Roll , whats the difference between these

texts:
Can someone please tell me the difference between Camera Roll, Photo Stream and Photo Library.  And why can't I delete anything in Photo Library. If I delete pictures from photo stream , it says it will erase them off my computer as well?
I want to keep all the pics on my computer but delete on my phone to free up space. How do I do that?  And is there a fast way to delete all pics or one by one... I have over 2000 pics! I have a iPhone 4S.


texts: Disable "Spring Effect" when scrolling over the maximum limit

texts:
I'm not sure if this is a global OS X setting or per-app implementation of an Apple API. Anyway, is it possible (specifically on Google Chrome) to disable that visual "spring effect" (I don't know how to call it) that we have on Mavericks when scrolling up/down or swipe right/left and we reach the boundaries of the page?

I mean this one:


texts: Simple I am looking for a way to map a keyboard key to a unix command. It could be as simple as literal as opening up terminal and pasting a required bit of text.


texts: What are some considerations in organizing apps in the dock?

texts:
I am relatively new to Mac and OS X (4 months now). While I build my collection of preferred applications my Dock keeps on growing. It now takes about 70% of my screen width and I start to find it a bit messy.
I like to keep things organised and was wondering what are common practices to do so?

I know some people organise apps in folders by category/type, but how do I do it actually?

How is the icon for such a folder selected? Can I customise it?

PS. Screenshots are welcome.
PS2. If you have any recommendations of icon sources for organising Apps into folders, that'd be helpful, too.


texts: Can I run a virtual machine from my iPad?

texts:
I have a Windows virtual machine that I want to open it from my iPad using VirtualBox, Vmware client, or any free App that allows me to open a virtual machine file (I assume it is local to my iPad).
I tried to find a solution but I could not find. There are some advanced, non-free solutions by vmware for accessing virtual machines over the cloud (VirtualHorizon).
Anyone have any clue about Apps that allow me open a virtual machine file from my iPad?
P.S. this is not a question for me exactly. I am trying to help someone who can not afford a PC to use Windows/Office for some homework in their iPad.


texts: How to exit full screen mode in textedit FORMAT WINDOW mac 10.13.3

texts:
can't exit full screen in the FORMAT WINDOW for textedit  mac 10.13.3
Have tried restoring default settings.  The top left buttons: red closes window as it should, orange is not active (the regularly orange button is just gray) and green button does nothing.


texts: How can I save multiple pics in iMessages to Camera Roll?

texts: There are lots of photos in the iMessage History between my girlfriend and me. I wanna save all the pics to the Camera Roll. How can I do this? Thanks in advice!


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 16 inch base model. I am a programmer, which means that it is running hot when I am working. When I am working it is between 70-80 degrees celsius, but when I open activity monitor only like 10-15% of the CPU is being used.

So my question is, how can so much of the CPU be idle but it is still run at 70-80 degrees celsius


texts: Slow performance accessing Ubuntu Samba folders

texts:
I have a computer at home with an Ubuntu Server 14.04. This server has several hard disks that are shared using Samba.

I have an iMac with OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 and I use one of the shared disks to store some information. I'm accessing this disk a lot of times to write and read information.

The performance of the Finder is really slow compared with my Ubuntu laptop and my girlfriend window's laptop...

The configuration for the disk on Samba is this:

[MYDATA]
    comment = my coment...
    path = /path/to/disk
    browsable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    read only = no
    create mask = 0755

I would like to know if the configuration of the disk should be different in any way, or maybe if I need to add some configuration in my Mac.

I also noticed that sometimes when I try to rename a folder inside this Samba share my Mac usually ask for my root password to modify the folder's name.


texts: Change default behaviour of play/pause button

texts:
On my Macbook, if I press the play/pause button (F8) with no other context, MacOS (Mojave) seems to default to opening up iTunes, and playing a particular track. (Maybe the first alphabetically in my entire collection, not sure). I really don't like this particular track :)
Is there anyway I could change this behaviour? For instance, opening Spotify and playing a certain playlist there?
(It's the newer generation bluetooth Apple keyboard, if that matters.)


texts: Does the iPhone support the camera connection kit in 4.2?

texts: I know that the camera connection kit accessory has so far only worked on the iPad. I assume that this is the case because the iPad was running a special version of iOS 3, but seeing as iOS 4.2 is now in GM for both iPhone and iPad, I'm wondering if Apple has extended support for this accessory to the iPhone as well.


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iTunes Match just became available in the Netherlands and I ordered it just now. The matching process is now in step 2, but it doesn't seem to make any progress. It was at 160 of about 4000 songs, than I restarted iTunes and now it is sitting at 221. I didn't actually see the progress happen from 160 to 221. It has been sitting at the same number of songs for several hours (apart from this "jump").

I also basically have the same issue on another Mac (just stuck at a different number), which mostly has the same iTunes library (but not quite).Actually, this Mac has just finished. The other one refused to continue matching while this one was doing it, so everything might just be a case of extremely slow progress, or some issue with the update of the progress report.

Does someone have any idea what is going on and how to fix it?


texts: Error 1004 during Installation of OS X Yosemite

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I was given a Mac by someone in my family, and wanted to restore to defaults (I already backed up). I found how to do this from countless webpages. It said to go into the recovery mode, erase the hard drive, and then reinstall the OS.

I followed these instructions, but during re-installation was given error 1004 repeatedly even after restarting and trying again. I am trying to install OS X Yosemite (newest version possible for this Mac). I can't even use my computer anymore because I can't re install OS X.

Anyone know what to do? I tried restoring from backup, but that says I don't have the space. If no one can figure re installing out, does anyone know how to restore if I don't have the space, and how do I get the space?


texts: Open a URL in Chrome Canary as incognito

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I am currently using this Automator AppleScript to create a service to open a URL using Chrome Canary in incognito mode

on run {input}
    set theURL to input
    if application "Google Chrome Canary" is running then
        tell application "Google Chrome Canary" to make new window with properties {mode:"incognito"}
    else
        do shell script "open -a /Applications/Google\\ Chrome\\ Canary.app --args {URL:theURL} --incognito"
    end if

    tell application "Google Chrome Canary" to activate
end run

Google Chrome Canary will launch with a new window, but the URL does not load. What am I missing?

Thank you.


texts: Can the iOS Dropbox app download all contents of all folders to my iPad?

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Is it possible to force Dropbox on iPad to sync all files?

(That is, to make it working it the same way as it does on a laptop/computer.)

As far as I see, it saves only files marked as "Favorite". Adding everything manually does not seem convenient...


texts: Why does iTunes always lose my iPod's sync settings?

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I have my iPod set up to only sync certain playlists, so that I don't fill up the whole thing. However, iTunes keeps on losing my sync settings for my iPod across syncs. It doesn't remember any of the settings I set at all and I have to go back and check all the playlist again...etc. How can I fix this, as it is really annoying (and a big hassle)? I've tried restoring the iPod, repairing permissions. There are two other devices synced to my iTunes, an iPod nano, and an iPad.

Update: The recent update to iTunes (10.6.3) doesn't seem to fix this issue.


texts:
Can we launch apps hidden (i.e. without windows, the same effect we get on ⌘H) via JavaScript for Automation (JXA)?

The best I could achieve so far is:

const app = Application('AppName')
if (!app.running()) app.windows().forEach(window => window.visible = false)

Which gives unreliable results. In Firefox it mostly works; in iTerm it never works; and in other apps it might work but there’s a “flash” of the window opening before hiding.

Solutions that do not use JXA aren’t acceptable, because this needs to fit into larger scripts. Using the Objective-C bridge is acceptable.


texts: Besides iCloud or a sync cable, how can i back up my files?

texts:
I've got an iPhone 5 running iOS8. It can't use a sync cable, because it came broken when I bought it used in January 2015 (no returns accepted, and no resale value if it's broken, so I just kept it, but barely use it, would prefer to stop using it altogether, and only haven't yet because there are files still stuck on it).

I just spent like two hours trying to upload my photos to Google Drive and Onedrive, and I only just figured out how, because the apps I was using seem to be designed to give the user a hard time with uploading (Drive app doesn't seem to have an Upload option, Photos forces me to select files one by one instead of hitting Select All, Photos forces me to only upload ten files to Drive at a time, drive.google.com doesn't work on my iPhone when I try it, etc).

I've figured out how to back up photos (using the Onedrive app works well enough), but I still don't know how to back up my files from the Notes app, the videos from an app called Download,and the audio files from Smart Recorder and Voice Memos. These apps don't have a "share" option built in, and I don't have or know of any app that can access those apps' files (I tried Onedrive, and it only lets me to choose files from Photos).

Is there any way I haven't thought of to transfer these files to another device? I'd prefer not to resort to copying my Notes into emails, recording the playback of my audio files with another device and filming the screen of my iPhone as it plays my video files, because doing all those things would take forever.


texts: I'm running 10.10, and have a wireless mighty mouse. I want to turn off the right click on the mouse. I went to System Settings > Mouse, and set the "Right Click" function to "Primary Button" instead of Secondary. However, this has no effect, and the right click still functions as a right click. Why is this?


texts: Appstore does not save partially downloaded file

texts:
I upgraded to Catalina because I need Xcode 11. Now when Catalina was being downloaded, it continued from where it stopped even when there was network error. Now I am downloading Xcode with Appstore.

I started off since morning for over 6 hours only for the downloaded file not to find space to install. And When I deleted and clicked on it on the App Store. It started all over. That's 8 GB gone. I am in Lagos Nigeria and I don't have wonderful download speed. In case I encounter the space not enough again because I have deleted almost all apps I have just to make space for it, how do I make it use the already downloaded file so I won't go through this horrible experience again.


texts: Connecting external display at 60 hz on a MacBook 12" 2016

texts: Has anyone got MacBook 12 inch (2016) working with an external display at 60 hz. I know 4K runs at 30 hz unless you do the hack to MacOS but I was wondering how 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 performed.


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I was trying to free up space on my iPad and accidentally hit delete iMessage history after 1 year in iMessage- thinking it would just affect the iPad. Since I had iMessage in iCloud enabled it deleted all my iMessage history after 1 year from all of my devices (iPhone, Mac, iPad) as well as in iCloud (~10 years of iMessage history (25GB)). I didn't have it in an iCloud backup since I was using iMessage in iCloud.  I thought I had permanently lost it but remembered I have been doing Time Machine backups on my Mac which is synced with iCloud iMessages.
My question is: I restored the iMessage database (including all conversations, attachments, etc) from that iMessage Time Machine backup on my Mac and all of the messages are showing properly on my Mac. I thought once I enabled iCloud iMessage on my Mac it would push the old (previously deleted now restored) messages onto iCloud and down to my iPhone and iPad. It is not giving an error it just will not upload the old messages to iCloud.


texts: Fan Speed and Temperature on MBP Retina 13 2013

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I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro retina (bought new in 2013).

When running normally (which is usually online downloading and editing in Eclipse - nothing too heavy, often 90%+ processor idle) it runs fairly warm. To the touch it's hot in the top-left above the keyboard (where everything plugs in) and iStat gives the CPU temperature as between 50-70 degrees C (CPU Die, CPU proximity usually 2-3 degrees less).

I see from various searches this seems pretty normal for MBP and shouldn't in itself damage anything.

My question though is about the fans - they're always just plugging along around 2000 rpm.

If, using iStat, I set them to use a profile with say minimum 4-5000 rpm then, naturally, everything cools right down. With the default profile I get the temperatures above.

So, is this right? Presumably when I say 'default' it's using Apple's determination for fan speeds. But is it normal for it to get to 70-degrees or thereabouts without the fans automatically speeding up?

And as a supplementary question assuming it is working correctly in not speeding up for those temperatures; is it a good idea to perhaps use iStat to have the fans speed up when charging/plugged in (when it gets the heaviest use via Thunderbolt connectors)? Other than battery life being less my guess would be running everything cooler would give a longer life to components?

Many thanks in advance for reading my long and meandering question!


texts: How to track stationary bike activity with the Apple Health App on an iPhone SE?

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I'm not great about setting aside time to exercise, but I am definitely a data nerd and just discovered my iPhone SE has a built in ability to track steps (pedometer) and other things.  Cool!  I also like to get in some stationary bike time while watching TV, listening to a podcast, etc.  I do not have an Apple Watch.

Unfortunately, it appears that the Health app can't actually track anything beyond steps and "flights" on its own.  It has no idea when I'm on the exercise bike, and in fact is crediting me with steps instead.  This seems very odd since years ago Apple publicly claimed that the Health app would automatically know the difference between walking, cycling, etc. and track accordingly.

I found many people complaining about this in forums and the only "solution" I've read is to install a 3rd party app such as iBiker.  I did so, but have also found that that app can't track anything meaningful on its own either!  It will track duration of ride, but without additional sensors it has no way to track anything more detailed.  So basically it's pretty much as useful as a stop watch.

So my questions are:

Is it possible to track exercise bike and other activity aside from steps, with an iPhone SE without the addition of 3rd party hard/software?

If yes, then how?
If no, what is the simplest/cheapest way to automatically track exercise bike activity?

Bonus question:  Is it possible to get the Health app to stop counting exercise bike activity as steps?
Bonus #2:  How often does the Health app actually update the data on its dashboard?  So far it seems fairly random/inconsistent.


texts: Does Automatic Downloads on iPhone 6 use cellular data on international roaming?

texts:
Under Automatic Downloads for iTunes & App Stores, there's a setting for downloading app Updates.

Does it use cellular data while on international roaming?


texts: Macbook freezes when connected (connecting) to new wireless router

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So I have done extensive troubleshooting for my problem.  When we moved to our new apartment and had a new fiber optic internet set up with, which came with a new wireless router, all the trouble started.  I set the new router to the same network name and password as our previous apartment so all the computers would connect automatically.  At that point the macbook froze on startup every time we rebooted. Every time it freezes it happens with the spinning rainbow wheel.  I didn't realize it was the wifi, and I ran the hardware and disk tests.  Everything came out fine.  I completely re-installed the OS.  Finally I took the computer to a different location, and every worked fine.  It was strange.  We had the computer out of the house for about 2 months and everything worked fine.  Connecting to many different wireless networks.  As soon as we got back to our home, the problem happened again.  I ended up turning off our new wifi router.  Then the macbook worked perfectly.  I made a wifi hotspot with my android phone, and the mac connected to this no problem also.

So then I changed the name and pass of the wifi network.  This way the macbook didn't recognize it automatically.  The macbook then started up and was perfectly functioning.  Then I tried to connect to the newly change wifi, and it immediately froze with the rainbow spinning wheel.

All the other computers have no problem with the new wifi router.  It uses WPA2 PSK.  This is a very strange problems.  I think I found a pose with the same exact problem here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2672089?tstart=0

Of course there is no useful fix suggested.  I tried deleting the files from the preferences folder but to no avail.

Does anyone know anything about this problem.  Of course a fix would be to buy a new wireless router, but this one is brand new, and it seems the problem is with the Mac and not with network.

Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!


texts: Not enough storage for El Capitan; no way to free up space

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I wanted to upgrade my Macbook 2008 from Yosemite to El Capitan.  Unfortunately, when I downloaded it and restarted my computer, on the "select the disk on which to install" page the only location, Macintosh HD, didn't have enough space (by about 2 GB).  It doesn't seem like there's a way to free up space from this startup menu, though.  I can open Disk Utility from this menu, and it seems logical to put some method of freeing up disk space from there, but if there is, I can't find it.

Is there a way to get out of this startup menu so I can free up space, or a way to free up space directly from the menu?  This is pretty frustrating because it seems like a major design flaw if it tells you you don't have enough storage for a certain thing, but it doesn't let you free up the storage to download the thing.

There's already a question exactly like mine: Stuck in update boot (not enough disk space)
But no one has answered it, so I think it's okay to ask it again.

EDIT: I can also access Terminal which I could potentially also use

EDIT AGAIN: Nevermind, it looks like Macintosh HD is read-only while I'm in this boot menu.  At least terminal says "read-only file system" when I try to use rmdir on something.


texts: Can a Standard User format an encrypted drive?

texts:
I have recently partitioned my drive into a trap OS. If my Macbook is stolen I want to give the users access to use the device to increase the chances they will connect it to the internet and I can recover it.

My main partition is encrypted with FileVault 2. The second (trap) partition has no encryption on it. I have changed the user that automatically logs in to a Standard User and created a hidden Admin account. These are the only 2 accounts on that install.

How can I lock down my system so this Standard User can't break anything?
And more specifically how can I prevent a Standard User from formatting the first partition?

I have tried accessing Disk Utility from the account and the full hard drive is grayed out (I have prevented it from mounting via the fstab file). However the erase function is available (the button is there, and I can click it) and I don't want to actually start erasing my system inadvertently.


texts: I have photos on My Pass0port for Mac and attempted without success to download other photos using my Acer which uses Windows 10


texts:
I restructured my drive in Windows messing up my partition table as the software I used did not recognize apfs.

In Mac recovery mode disk0s2 is recognised as a Linux Filesystem. It won't let me run fsck_apfs or mount it as apfs. How can I fix GPT so that it is recognised as an apfs again?. On a block level the filesystem is intact I have check CHS. GPT also looks hale (no corruption and does boot, simply doesn't recognise my apfs partition).


texts: Get ambient light sensor value from ioreg

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I'm using the ioreg command line tool to try and read sensor information available on my computer (iMac).  Particularly, I'd like to read the current value of the ambient light sensor.  So far, I have been able to retrieve some general information regarding the sensor via ioreg -f -b -r -c 'AppleLMUController'. But the value is not there:

+-o AppleLMUController  <class AppleLMUController, id 0x1000002d8, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 7>
{
  "IOProbeScore" = 0
  "CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU"
  "IOProviderClass" = "IOService"
  "IOClass" = "AppleLMUController"
  "IOMatchCategory" = "IODefaultMatchCategory"
  "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"0516B563-B15B-11DA-96EB-0014519758EF"="AppleSMCLMU.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AmbientLightSensorHID.plugin"}
  "IOGeneralInterest" = "IOCommand is not serializable"
  "IONameMatch" = "ACPI0008"
  "IOPowerManagement" = {"MaxPowerState"=1,"CurrentPowerState"=1}
  "HIDServiceSupport" = Yes
  "IONameMatched" = "ACPI0008"
}

I know that there are tools that can use IOKit to access this value using C, ObjC, etc - but I explicitly would like to use a bash one-liner to try and grab the value.

Has anyone been able to successfully do this via the command line and if so, how?


texts:
I tried to add a mp4 and m4a and mp3 file to iTunes while viewing Audiobooks tab but it would not add the file. How do I add an audio book to my iPhone?

iTunes Version 12.10.1.4


texts: Black MacBook WiFi drops when fan starts blowing

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I have a 2007 Black MacBook running the latest version of Mac OS X Lion. It has a strange issue wherein the Airport shuts down if the fan starts blowing, and will not start up without a reboot.

Any ideas as to what would be causing this? All sorts of things can make the fan start, but the screensaver and iTunes visualizer are major culprits. It sometimes even does it when I have too many programs open for an extended period of time.

Does anyone have any ideas as to the cause of this? If so, what would be a good solution?


texts: Custom Finder sidebar icon gets stretched

texts:
Yesterday, I installed and configured Netatalk 3 on my Raspberry Pi in order to be able to mount it as an AFP share. Today I got fed up with how it looked in Finder's sidebar, so I set out to create an icon for it. I then made this (note the pixel-perfectness of the 16x16 version):

and combined the four resulting files (16x16, 16x16@2x, 32x32, 32x32@2x) using iconutil to get a retina-ready ICNS.
Inside of Finder, the 16x16 version of the icon looks like it got shifted to the side by half a pixel:

Why is that? I double-checked the resolutions of my source icons and those inside the ICNS file and they're all correctly sized.


texts:
I'm having a weird issue with the built-in display on a Macbook Pro Late 2011 13".

As the lid is opened, the display usually activates normally at its threshold for turning on. Everything works fine. But if the lid is then opened all the way, the display dies.

If the lid is closed and opened again just until the display starts, then VERY slowly opened (like, a couple mm per minute) I can sometimes get the lid almost completely open while keeping the display alive. If it stays on, the display keeps running with no problems.

Does anyone have an idea where to start with an issue like this? Thanks for any help!


texts: Google Drive does not work with the Files app on iOS 11

texts:
I can't use/see Google Drive files on the Files app on iOS 11. Instead it comes up with this error:

I have tried pressing Try Again several times but still will not work. It doesn't seem to be the Internet. Is there anything I can do to solve this issue or is it a fault that everyone is having?


texts: Installing El Capitan in the same HD of MacBook Air with macOS Sierra

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I have macOS Sierra 10.12.5 in my MacBook Air, but I suffering Flickering with Samsung Smart TV & Epson Projector. I tested an Old Notebook with Windows 10, works perfectly with my Smart TV.

By mistake, I tried to do an clean installation of the macOS Sierra (because my MacBook comes with El Capitan and it was upgraded), but I had problem and El Capitan was installed instead of.

I tested recent installed El Capitan with my Samsung Smart TV and WOW Zero Flickering, even plugin it for first time!!!, I view a movie without problem. Later I do a clean installation of macOS Sierra, and the flickering began immediately!!!

I want to perform a parallel installation (El Capitan:20GB  and Sierra another Space) in another partition to test EL Capitan without loss my Sierra installation to test my HDMI port.

NOTE: Virtual Machine is not option, because the Thunderbold port for HDMI is managed by the Host (Sierra).

Is there a method previously tested to do this?

How I get the El Capitan again (I can't get from the App Store)? We Could not complete your purchase, (Sierra is newer than El Capitan).


texts: I just bought an iMac with Mavericks pre-installed, can i go back to Mountain Lion?

texts:
Just bought an iMac with Mavericks pre-installed and some of my software isn't working. After looking into it Mavericks is causing quite a few problems.
Is there any way of reverting it back to Mountain Lion?


texts:
So I'm trying to boot a yosemite installation from an 8GB USB with the dmg file I downloaded from the app store, but once I hit "option" during my mac's startup and choose the correct usb, I get the following error

"Cannot Install Yosemite on the Mac. Yosemite already has been installed"

This is of course false as I have OS X 10.7 and I'm trying to upgrade to 10.10

Any help or ideas?

Update: Per a suggest I've inputed the following code into my terminal:

pkgutil --packages | grep -i base ; uname -a ; sw_vers ; pkgutil --pkg-info  com.apple.pkg.BaseSystemBinaries

Here was the Result:

com.apple.pkg.BaseSystemBinaries
com.apple.pkg.BaseSystemResources
Darwin *****-*****-MacBook.local 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:26:45 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.7.5
BuildVersion:   11G63
package-id: com.apple.pkg.BaseSystemBinaries
version: 10.7.0.1.1.1309412550
volume: /
location: /
install-time: 1436744136
groups: com.apple.snowleopard-repair-permissions.pkg-group com.apple.FindSystemFiles.pkg-group

Hopefully this give more insight into my issue.

Thanks


texts: Improvement to 'grep -h "BSD process name" /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/* | sort | uniq -c'

texts:
To track down the culprit for the frequent crashes of Lion, I ran:

grep -h "BSD process name" /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/* | sort | uniq -c

which produced:

   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Finder
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: PluginProcess
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: PubSubAgent
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: SystemUIServer
   2 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WebProcess
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: coreaudiod
   8 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
   2 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mds
   1 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker

but this list seems to be far from complete for the number of crashes I had over the past few days -- during startup, shutdown, and in-between (and /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports contains 17 days worth of crash reports). What can one run in the terminal to produce a more comprehensive list of OS X crashes?


texts: Do I have to pay to have an iCloud account? I use iCloud mail but I don't want to pay storage for photos.  How can I cancel this arrangement


texts: iTunes won't back up bc it's corrupt or incompatible

texts:
I can't back up my iPhone to iTunes and haven't been able to for almost a year.

I updated my phone, I've reinstalled iTunes, |I've deleted the backups existing in the preferences.

Any forum I've looked at only shows how to fix it on a Mac, and I don't have one of those.
I've got a windows machine.


texts: I want a MacBook Pro that runs Snow Leopard.  I think I need an early 2011 MacBook Pro to be able to run Snow Leopard. Where can I get a new or refurbished early 2011 MacBook Pro.  I don't think a later model will allow Snow Leopard to be installed.


texts: Restore Shell configuration and packages

texts:
I just formatted my Mac. I have a backup of my latest status before the format, and I want only one thing from this backup. I want my terminal to be exactly as it was. Mainly I want to have all the commands running (e.g. brew, nom, l (instead of ls), ...). furthermore, I want all the themings and terminal styling.

Is there a way to do it not by using migration assistance?


texts: macOS Big Sur Fails on Internet Recovery Mode: "Installation could not be completed."

texts:
I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro Mid 2014. I have been struggling with installation process since last night. At first, I started my Mac by pressing Option + Command + R and Power button so that I opened it with internet recovery mode. After that, I cleared my disk space and tried to install macOS Big Sur. But just before selecting my disk where I am going to install, it shows an error which says "Installation could not be completed." I tried to install the os which comes with Mid-2014 and tried to update it but it didn't work either.
When I look at logs with Command + L, it says OSISPredicateUpdateProduct: Incompatible Apps List: No product found


texts:
I leave my Mac at my job and when I come back, someone used it using Guest user.

Is there a way for me to check what this person did when he logged in my mac using Guest user?


texts:
On an English windows keyboard one finds the " above the 2 and the @ near the enter key on the right. On a standard English mac keyboard, as built into my macbook for instance, the two have their positions switched.

Why does this difference exist? Is it Apple which switched the two or was it Microsoft/IBM/whoever? Is there any rationale behind it or is it just down to the two evolving independently?


texts:
I know that this is a fairly common problem, but I've never had it before: if a pdf is displayed in a Safari window, clicking the download icon in the overlay in the bottom middle of the window doesn't do anything. I know that a common cause is the presence of an AdobePDFviewer plugin, but it isn't installed and Preview is my default app for reading PDFs. I know that I can do a "Save As," but I'd like to regain this functionality.

I've tried various other remedies, to no avail.


texts: Any real software to let me access perma-locked iPhone 4s data?

texts:
Ok, I'm going insane over this. I refuse to believe there are ZERO ways to access the data on a locked iPhone 4s running ios 7.1 or so.

I recently found my old iPhone which I was ecstatic about because it contains literally thousands of personal photos, videos and voice memos.

I have no idea what the password is anymore.

There must be some kind of third party open source type program that will let me access the data on my PC, right? it seems like google only provides sponsored remedies and I cant find any real information. I found lots of none free programs that claim they can get in like this: https://www.imyfone.com/ios-data-erase/how-to-unlock-iphone-without-passcode/
But I dont know how legit they are.

I DONT want to restore the phone.

I'll even write my own program that accesses data from iphone 4, If someone can point me in the right direction. ios 7's gotta have lots of known exploits by now.

I really want the data on that device thank you.


texts: MacBook Pro screen has died. Wanting to use secondary display?

texts:
The display on my MacBook Pro has recently died so I have been using the hdmi adapter to display the screen on my lg tv, which has been fine for a few day apart from the resolution not being ideal. Trying to fix this I un-ticked the Mirror Display option, making my tv a secondary display. Now I have no way of changing this back as all the options are on the primary display on my MacBook which has a dead screen!

Is there any way to restore it back to the mirrored image. Or a way of using the secondary display as a primary? I'm really stuck here and would appreciate any help.


texts:
The volume on my iPhone decreases randomly.

I'm afraid it is a hardware issue. Sometimes I listen to music and it decreases for no reason, then I push up volume button, and it increases a bit, but if I leave the button it decreases again (like if I'm pressing the down button as well).

Is it a bad news ?


texts: Missed Apple Keyboard Recall Window: What are my Options?

texts: Not sure whether to ask this in the apple or law SE but it's very apple specific, so I'll ask here. I own a 2016 MacBook pro that I bought second-hand. Some of the keys get stuck, which was the reason Apple offers a complimentary repair service for affected models. I've known this for a while but I only now got around to taking my MB to a repair store. They informed me that the "quality program" as they call it is only valid for up to 4 years after purchase. Replacing the keyboard now would cost over $600. Are there any options to get apple to pay for the repair once the repair window has closed?


texts: Adjust delay in Watch display when turning wrist

texts:
The Apple Watch spends most of its time sleeping with the display turned off. When you twist your wrist, it wakes and displays on screen.

Unfortunately, the Watch does not always appear for me.

Is there a way to make the Watch more sensitive to that wrist-twist motion? Or some setting to shorten the delay to wake-and-display?

I have a Series 1 Apple Watch running watchOS 4.3.


texts: How can you reset security questions on an Apple ID when you have the password, but the security email is incorrect?

texts:
There's a bit of a story, but the nub of the issue is we have forgotten the answers to the security questions on an Apple ID used for purchasing apps and music and can't reset the answers / questions due the security email address pointing to an account we don't control.

Here's the rest of the story...

Being the good son I am, I bought my mother an iPhone4s for her birthday.
Now, don't get me wrong - my mother is fairly tech savvy considering her age. She runs her company's website, manages a Facebook community, and shares pictures of her grandsons via Gmail. But Apple Accounts is what stumped her.

She registered and signed up her Apple account using her iPhone, all nice and well. When she came to making her first purchase on the AppStore, she was asked the security questions. The questions were phrased in Hebrew, and for the life of her she couldn't remember the answers. To make matters worse, she did not know whether she answered them in Hebrew or English.

This is where I stepped in. After trying out dozens of combinations, I resorted to resetting her security questions via her account page. But alas, the security email points an email account with a typo, rather than her main defined email account.

Still I did not lose hope, and sent an email to Apple support, which instructed me to contact their security team via the phone number in this page. The phone number provided for Israel does not work (I think it's disconnected or out of service).

I tried contacting Apple Support in the US, but they claim that the device, as identified by its serial number is not covered by Apple support. Great.

What can I do at this point? I'm at a loss.

I really don't want her to  open a different account. How can I help her salvage this one so she can answer the three security questions when they are asked for adding new devices or adding a credit card to the account?


texts:
hello i leave this macbook over a years ago and i back to use it now

but i realize i have 750GB and i can use only 502GB

how i use it all this 750 gb??
i try many way but i cant

i try run bootcamp but i cant do anything with it

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage ArabFox                 501.6 GB   disk0s4
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS ArabFox                +501.3 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s4
                                 9FDF63DB-3DB0-4319-AF3F-CD3334E94151
                                 Unencrypted


texts:
I currently have an external, non-mac, mouse attached to my MacBook Pro. It has extra buttons that you can assign macros to, for instance I assigned the 'move left/right a space' to two of the buttons, which the keys are listed in Mission Control on system preferences. However, I also want to assign the 'Swipe between pages' trackpad function, whereby I swipe left and right, however I cannot find the keys that enable me to do this and hence cannot define a macro for the mouse.

What are the keys-equivalent of swiping between pages?


texts: Different SSH/RDP hosts based on location

texts: I have a few servers that I ssh and RDP to to at my office.  When I'm out of the office I connect to them via hamachi.  Currently I have duplicate ssh hosts and rdp profiles for inside and outside the office.  I'd like a solution that switched these automatically based on my location.  I've looked at the network locations but that doesn't seem to do what I'd like it to.


texts: Programmatically importing pictures to Apple Photos and modifying Exif data

texts:
[I was suggested to post this here instead of StackOverflow. ]

How do I programmatically import picture files to Apple's Photos app?

The reason for this is that I have 20,000 old pictures. Most are in folders whose names have the data of when the pictures were taken or the file names themselves have the date and time stamps. So the idea is to import the pictures into Photos, but setting the folder/file name as the date and time taken.

Any hints? Thanks! Oh, and I'm doing this in Python.

If I have to move this to SuperUser, please let me know.


texts: Grey bar appearing over full screen apps on external monitor

texts:
This happens in VLC, iTerm, Chrome, maybe others where a grey-ish bar appears where the menu bar would normally be and if I mouse over it the menu bar appears. In Chrome this sometimes appears when I have created a new window on my main screen, make it fullscreen, and move it to the second display, but if I exit full screen and re-enter full screen it works, but not for VLC or iTerm. Any ideas on how to fix this?

The third chrome image is what it looks like when it's working correctly (and the mouse is hovering to shown the menu bar).


texts: What does the link symbol mean in the Wi-Fi network list on iOS?

texts:
What does the "link" () mean in the Wi-Fi network list on iOS?

Example (see red rectangle):


texts:
I frequently (at least once per day) need to edit my hosts file, and typing my password every time is getting annoying. I know how to change the permissions to allow myself to write to the file, and I'm aware of the security implications.

My question: will I break anything by modifying the ACLs on /etc/hosts through the Finder?

I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.3.

(Since someone is going to ask, I have a Windows 7 VM in VMware Fusion that likes to change its local connection IP address every time it resumes from suspend (VM pause) or reboots.)


texts: Make MacBook Pro announce emails when sleeping

texts:
I'd like to make my MacBook make a sound when I receive a new email, even when it is sleeping.

Is there any way to do that?


texts: FaceTime option unavailable for an iPhone contact

texts:
I do not see the FaceTime option for a contact who has an iPhone. I am quite sure it was there and I used it but then it went away. I am still able to use Siri to make a FaceTime Audio call to this user. The Video icon is not active for this user either. They have allowed FaceTime in their Settings and I am not blocked. The phone icon says iPhone underneath it.

I am running iOS 11.4.1 on an iPhone SE. The contact has an iPhone 6s running iOS 12.0. I have restarted my device but to no avail. I have other contacts where the FaceTime option is available.

Both I and this contact (my wife) are new iPhone purchasers and have not set up an Apple ID yet.

What other information can I provide?

Edit for New Information:
I found the following at www.quora.com
Predrag Vasic writes (with respect to missing Face Time Icon in iOS 12)

  If the person you want to call has an iCloud id associated with the
  number you want to call, there will be video and audio icons for
  FaceTime next to that number in that person”s contact card.

The person (my wife) does not yet have and iCloud ID so hopefully when she returns & sets it up I will see a FaceTime icon associated with her #.  I can use both Siri and Recent Calls to accomplish the task, I just want to know why the icon is not there.


texts: does the thunderbolt display have a cooling fan?

texts: My recently purchased 27" Thunderbolt display is overheating. Is there an internal fan that should be coming on?


texts: How can I split a 60 GB file into 5 GB pieces on a Mac?

texts:
I would imagine using a Disk Utility partition, but I didn't see the option in Disk Utility to split a larger partition into several.

How can it be done on a Mac?

I am doing this because I would like to Mail Drop the file.


texts:
I'm creating a game where the player can unlock worlds, where they can unlock levels within those worlds, each levels has a highscore, and so on.

I was wondering in which way should I store this data?  I was originally thinking of making a number of separate plist files, but that seems like an approach which could end up spiralling out of control.

Has anyone approached this problem and come up with a decent solution?


texts: I am hoping to buy a couple of foot pedals that I could use as Ctrl and Shift for my MacBook Pro. Is this at all possible with an OS X machine? I have read that Kinesis foot pedals (e.g. this one) cannot be used as modifiers in combination with other keyboards. Is this correct? If so, why?


texts: MBP 13" Early 2011 Thunderbolt Firmware Version - How to update 22.1 to latest version

texts:
I bought a Kanex KTU10 to add USB 3.0 support on my machine because its only on USB 2.0. The product said my machine can support the product but when I plug it in it didn't work, while Mini DP to HDMI can work.

Kanex support told me to update my firmware but I am on MacOS Sierra now how do I update my Thunderbolt Firmware on my OS version? Image below is the information of my Thunderbolt.


texts: Problems using FTP, Steam, and other non-browser web services on public password protected wi-fi on MacOS

texts:
I currently have to use a wi-fi service which is public (doesn't have a WPA password), but which uses a username and password sign in via browser (provided by SOPHOS UTM). I access this on a Mac with the latest macOS.

While I can connect to the internet with all browsers and some other applications like Spotify and Skype, I cannot use FTP, SQL or VPN clients, and I also can't use Steam, battle.net or TeamSpeak. For all of the latter, the connection always times out and I cannot connect to any of those services.

The odd thing is that in any other wi-fi network, all of those applications work perfectly fine on my computer. I've already contacted the wi-fi network's support, but they're just as baffled as me and claim that all other users on the network can use those applications without problems.

I've already tried pretty much anything I could think of (system reboot, system update, logging on as a different user, turning off all kinds of firewalls, etc), but nothing helped.

Does anyone have an idea why some applications can connect to the internet perfectly fine on macOS, while others cannot?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to go to previous window

texts:
I use two monitors.

On monitor A I have:

Chrome window

On monitor B I have:

Chrome window
Text editor window

Let's say I view the Chrome window on monitor A, and then Text editor window on monitor B. If I want to go back to the Chrome window on monitor A, how do I do that?

Right now I do it by Cmd+Tab and then Cmd+`, but this is too many keypresses.


texts: Why can't someone import music from outside sources into apple's iPhone music app?

texts: I'm curious exactly what in the OS won't allow music to be added to the directory.


texts: Can't use keyboard shortcuts when input source is changed

texts: I added "Mongolian" keyboard and when I'm writing in English, keyboard shortcuts (copy, paste etc) works just fine but when it's changed to Mongolian, I can't use it anymore. Do anyone know how to fix this? (searched the net for the question but I can't find any answer) Thank you in advance!


texts:
I have downloaded various "Dynamic Desktop" wallpapers online, put them into a directory, and added this directory to my Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane.

The problem is, it does not correctly the thumbnails. They all appear to be the "Mojave" wallpaper, while in reality they each are different pictures.


texts: Preview.app Find -> Done keyboard shortcut

texts:
I've been able to configure a keyboard driven workflow in Preview.app using Karabiner and Keyboard->Shortcuts but there's one situation I can't seem to find a way to avoid using the mouse: Done to clear Find results.

To clarify:

Is it possible to trigger this via the keyboard? I'm on El Capitan (Preview.app version 8.1)


texts: Unable to find in App Store, able to redownload using iCloud?

texts:
I obtained an app from the App Store that I can't find now or was it simply taken down, but I still have the app on my iPod. I'd like to install it on my other iPod.

I don't know that if I backup my iPod (iCloud backup) it'll still be there.

Can I install the app from my backup to my other iPod and still be sure to keep it on my original device?


texts: Lines with AirPrint from iOS 13 but not macOS 10.15

texts:
I’m on tech support duty at the in-laws over Christmas, but this one has me stumped, any help appreciated.

They have an “HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M176n” which has been working fine for many years. Recently though AirPrint from phones has stopped working, or rather that lines are appearing on prints. See this example, cropped somewhat heavily to remove living people, but there are maybe 30-40 of these lines across a normal print:

Printing from macOS 10.15 via AirPrint, or from Windows machines still works perfectly, so it can’t be toner or the imaging drum (although both are reporting that they need to be replaced in the near future…).

I’ve tried updating the firmware to the latest available (it went up from a 2013xx version to a 2016xx version) with no luck, and I’ve been through all the settings but there’s no obvious things to try: the AirPrint implementation is pretty opaque.

So is this an iOS 13 incompatibility that’s been introduced? The backup is to copy the images over to the computer before trying to print them which is acceptable, but not great if the printer advertises AirPrint.


texts: iMessage has stopped working on MacBook Pro

texts:
I have a 15-inch macbook pro that is mid-2012. The latest version of Mavericks is when the problem started, but it wasn't after the update to it. Just happened one day.

My problem started randomly one day when I tried using iMessage on my mac and all the contacts had turned red. So every time I try to send out a message from my mac, it would immediately say "not delivered."

iMessage works on my iPhone, the only problem is my macbook pro.

I have tried deleting the com.apple.ids.madrid file and that didn't work. I also tried removing my apple ID information from my phone, turning off iMessage on both of the devices, and placing my iPhone 5 in airplane mode for several minutes before turning it on and re-logging in. I can't figure out what the problem is.

I've made sure I'm logged in to my Apple ID, it's nothing like that. I've also tried creating a separate Apple ID just for the purpose of iMessage, but that did no good either.

Please help, it's been weeks and it has become very inconvenient!


texts: Add .gsheets to Spotlight under spreadsheets

texts: Currently if I'm searching for something and it happens to be a Google spreadsheet it shows up under other. Is there any way to have .gsheets show up under spreadsheets?


texts: Granting cron permission to control Finder

texts:
I aim to use cron to call a python script that changes my desktop background.  The key python line is as follows:
from appscript import mactypes, app
app('Finder').desktop_picture.set(mactypes.File(chosen_pic))

When running said script from Terminal, the program runs, but when called by cron, this line gives an error that appears via mail.  Experimentation yielded that running from Terminal gives the same error when its permission to edit Finder is unchecked here:

It seems likely that if I could give cron permission to control Finder in this way, that'd solve the problem, but cron's not on this list, and I don't see a way to add it.  By contrast, the Full Disk Access pane lets one add new programs, but adding cron doesn't solve this.  If it helps, this is on Catalina 10.15.5.
How can one add a new app to the Automation pane here and give it permission to control another app?
Thank you!


texts: MacBook Wi-Fi automatically turns off and won't turn on again

texts:
I have a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro, running macOS High Sierra. Recently, the Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working and won't turn on again. I have tried these solutions:

Removing AirPort config files from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration.
Removing Wi-Fi and adding it again from System Preferences → Network.
Resetting PRAM while booting.

All of these work temporally, but again after a while (10 to 30 minutes of using Web) the problem re-appears.

Any idea as to what the problem is and how can it be solved?


texts:
Do you know a nice svg editor for MAC OS?

My needs are:

Nice svg produced
Splited view with text editor


texts:
I've noticed issues where the audio level intermittently drops.

When playing audio the volume will intermittently drop off (doesn't stop just gets quieter) then after some period of time it will return to normal volume.

This happens consistently when using CarPlay (plugged in via lightning connector) or on car Bluetooth.

The same issue happens on Bluetooth headphones.  This issue didn't appear until after iOS 11, but has been going on ever since then despite several updates since then.

This issue first appeared on my iPhone 7 after the iOS 11 updates.  Now I've just upgraded to an iPhone 8 Plus and it is having the same issues straight out of the box.

This is a problem across the phone itself, but for some reason is more noticeable in some situations than others.

For example; this issue occurs with Apple's "Music" app, but the volume change isn't as drastic as with the "Amazon Music" app.

When plugged in with a pair of lightning headphones this issue doesn't happen, but when using bluetooth or carplay  (even using usb/lightning adapter) it constantly drops in and out.


texts:
I've never try to fix it but my quicklook doesn't work on some file like .c, .java, .json ect.. I think it begin (about 2 or 3 months ago) when I tried to install plugin for quicklook find on this page https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins .

I tried to fix it using the multiple solution I found on the internet like run qlmanage -r, qlmanage -r cache, deleting the .qlgenerator files but nothing work.

Then I found we can run qlmanage in debug, I did it and I found that I've got a permission problem, here is what I get when I run qlmanage -p test.java :

Testing Quick Look preview with files:
    test.java
go4it:9: permission denied: /usr/local/opt/highlight/bin
go4it:9: permission denied: /usr/local/opt/highlight/bin
2018-04-28 12:42:23.426 qlmanage[1527:35098] QLColorCode: colorize.sh failed with exit code 101.  Command was ('/Users/yohannmbp/Library/QuickLook/QLColorCode.qlgenerator/Contents/Resources/colorize.sh' '/Users/yohannmbp/Library/QuickLook/QLColorCode.qlgenerator/Contents/Resources' '/Users/yohannmbp/Desktop/test.java' 0).
go4it:5: permission denied: /usr/local/opt/highlight/bin
go4it:5: permission denied: /usr/local/opt/highlight/bin
2018-04-28 12:42:23.466 qlmanage[1527:35098] QLColorCode: colorize.sh failed with exit code 101.  Command was ('/Users/yohannmbp/Library/QuickLook/QLColorCode.qlgenerator/Contents/Resources/colorize.sh' '/Users/yohannmbp/Library/QuickLook/QLColorCode.qlgenerator/Contents/Resources' '/Users/yohannmbp/Desktop/test.java' 1).
2018-04-28 12:42:23.497 qlmanage[1527:35098] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0xae0b, name = 'com.apple.coredrag'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2018-04-28 12:42:23.549 qlmanage[1527:35098] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x7f23, name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.

And here is the quicklook I got :

And there is the exact same permission error on other kind of file.
Any idea how I could fix it ?

EDIT : I tried to remove all plugin and when there isn't the QLColorCode plugin I can QL the .java file but without color.

My configuration :

macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar


texts: Should I expect battery life on an iPhone 4S to be significantly worse than on a 3GS?

texts:
I just upgraded from a 3GS to a 4s and my battery life is dramatically worse. I wasn't expecting it to be the same (though I was hoping that it might even be better), but I'm seeing a big difference. Since I have the same settings as I did previously, I don't think the problem has to do with any configuration differences (for example, I have email set to check manually on both). I was even running on iOS 5 on the 3GS, so I can't really point to that either. Siri is one software bit which is 4s only, but I can't imagine that is the culprit as I don't think it would always be running.

I've restarted the phone to make sure that no out of control process is running in the background.

So is the iPhone 4s just that much worse for battery life or do I have questionable hardware? Is there any easy way to troubleshoot (can Xcode be used to measure usage)?


texts: Help converting Apple Script to Shell Script

texts:
This Apple Script works great to mount the logged in Active Directory users network homedrive as a mounted network drive but we currently have it running as an App at login via "Login Items".

Instead I'd like to write this as a shell script so I can push it via Profile Manager as a login script since we are now succesfully running a few tasks off of a login script from PM.

Here is the AppleScript:

set username to do shell script "whoami"

set homepath to do shell script "dscl '/Active Directory/CAMPUS/All Domains/' -read /Users/" & username & " | grep SMBHome: | cut -c 10- | sed 's/\\\\/\\//g' "

tell application "Finder"

    try
        mount volume "SMB:" & homepath
    end try
end tell

Thank you for your help!


texts: Why there is a black spot in the display of my iMac?

texts: Yesterday I was working on a project in Adobe illustrator, that project had various white spaces it was then when I noticed a black spot/smudge in the lower corner of the display of my iMac. I thought it must be a dust particle on the outer glass screen of the iMac so I used a microfibre cloth to remove it which eventually failed cause it was then when I realised there is huge black smudge in the actual display of the iMac which is inside the outer glass screen


texts:
Laptop: Late 2013, i7, 500G SSD, 16G of ram

El Capitan 10.11.1

When I try and pbcopy and pbpaste on the command line they are running awfully slow. This ties into an emacs issue I'm having as well but since pbcopy/paste is the root of it I'm asking here....

Here is some example output:

~❯ time echo 'test' | pbcopy
echo 'test'  0.00s user 0.00s system 24% cpu 0.003 total
pbcopy  0.01s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.830 total
~❯ time echo 'test' | pbcopy
echo 'test'  0.00s user 0.00s system 38% cpu 0.002 total
pbcopy  0.01s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.847 total
~❯ time echo 'test' | pbcopy
echo 'test'  0.00s user 0.00s system 40% cpu 0.001 total
pbcopy  0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 1.708 total
~❯ time pbpaste
test
pbpaste  0.01s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.860 total
~❯ time pbpaste
test
pbpaste  0.01s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.843 total
~❯ time pbpaste
test
pbpaste  0.01s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.853 total

If I watch Activity Monitor and set sampling to 1 second - I can see notifyd jump to 100% CPU usage everytime I run pbcopy.

If I kill notifyd pbcopy/paste works blazingly fast:

time echo 'test' | pbcopy
echo 'test'  0.00s user 0.00s system 38% cpu 0.002 total
pbcopy  0.01s user 0.01s system 80% cpu 0.015 total

El Capitan bug? Something else? Thanks in advance for any responses.


texts:
Today I upgraded from an iPhone 5s to an iPhone 6s via the Verizon store.  The clerk told me everything would be transferred between phones automatically.  After getting home I discovered my photos on the Camera Roll were missing.  The Camera Roll folder and all album folders are there.  They contain blank photos.  When I click on a photo it displays a blank frame, but the correct photo date.

All the iPhone photos are on my iMac.  So then I wonder if there's any easy way I can transfer the photos from the iMac to the iPhone. The Camera Roll contains 1,667 photos so I am really hoping i don't have to do this on a photo-by-photo basis.  Also, a photo may be in more than one album based on who was in the photo.  Also, the iPhone photos were not stored in iCloud.  Help!


texts: Why is the Location Services icon always present?

texts:
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 last night. In iOS 4, the purple GPS arrow appeared next to the battery indicator when an app I was using (or had running in the background) was actively accessing my location data. Now, it seems to be on all the time, even when I have no apps running.

Does this icon now simply denote the fact that I have Location Services turned on, instead of notifying me that they are being used (like it used to)?


texts: IPhone App or OS function to stop all apps

texts: I am looking for a good way to stop all apps in the background without manually stopping each of them individually. Something straight from the OS would be preferred, but I would not mind using a management app either.Some apps are taking a lot of battery and I would like to kill them with as few as possible steps in the evening.


texts: Compatability of Macbook Air with HP 23fi

texts: Is HP Pavilion 23fi monitor compatible with Macbook Air?


texts: Screen won’t lock after upgrading to Catalina

texts: I recently upgraded my 2018 Mac mini to macOS Catalina 10.15.6, and I’ve noticed that whenever I turn my monitors off and leave my computer, it never actually locks itself after the 10 minutes when it’s left alone. Is there any way to fix this? I can manually lock the screen and make it go to sleep but that’s kind of a pain to do every time I want to leave my computer.


texts: How secure is Apple File Protocol from Airport Extreme

texts: How secure is the file sharing feature for use over WAN on an Airport Extreme? i.e. Are the content and/or passwords encrypted when accessed over the Internet?


texts: In earlier Versions of Apple Mail if there are multiple mails of the same content, i.e. in Inbox and in Sent, Mail would show "1 duplicate" in the upper right. This seems to be gone in El Capitan Mail 9. Now there are multiple Mails with exact same content (Cmd-Shift-D) but sent to different addresses next to each other in the Sent folder. How can I set Mail back to show them as duplicates?


texts: Space isn't increasing after deleting files on external hdd mac os trash is empty

texts: I deleted files from external hard drive, they are no longer there, trash is empty but space hasn't increased, what do I do?


texts: How are images stored on the hard drive of an iPhone?

texts:
If I were to examine my iPhone's hard drive, in what format would I find the images in the Photos app stored?

Are they in a big .sqlite database file? Or are they stored as individual files such as .jpg?

I'm looking for the extension used (e.g. .sqlite, .png, .jgp, etc.).


texts: Can I set up Boot Camp in a headless mac pro?

texts:
I have this headless Mac Pro in the living room. I access it from my MBP through the network, ssh and sometimes with a remote desktop solution. I use it to run data/computing.

Now I need to get Windows in; there's a piece of software that's only available there. To avoid virtualization drawbacks, I'm thinking of setting up a dual system like Boot Camp, but I've never done it, much less without a monitor.

Is it doable? (setting it up without a screen)


texts: macOS Catalina Preview.app cannot create signature with built-in camera

texts:
I'm on macOS Catalina 10.15.6 19G2021 x86_64.
I was trying to create a signature with Preview.app and the MacBook's built-in camera, when I clicked on Done button, the captured signature wasn't saved.
I tried to restart Preview.app, reopen the document and open another document and it still didn't work.
Is it a bug? What should I do? Thanks!

Preview.app version from "About Preview":


texts: Endless stream of "Suspicious packet count xxx when bytes xxx for flow xxxx" followed by "Flow details for excess packet count " in Console

texts:
I have a 2018 MacBook Air Retina.
Fresh reinstall of macOS Catalina (10.15.5). Nothing installed except apple numbers, pages and google chrome.
After a few hours, after noticing that on idle the fans are spinning at maximim, I opened Console.
In "Errors" I  have an endless stream of
"error 09:41:36.901853+0300 symptomsd Suspicious packet count 121 when bytes 968 for flow 7434"
and
"error 09:45:08.399365+0300 symptomsd Flow details for excess packet count "
If I check Network Utility I see that the packages are sent via the Ethernet network interface.
And this goes on forever, and my macbook is getting really hot and slow, to the point I can't use it anymore.
This continues even after I turn off wifi.
I did SMC and NVRAM resets, nothing.


texts: iPad Air 2 on iOS 11 after enrolling with Apple MDM profile manager through Apple Configurator 2 is stuck on Remote management screen

texts:
I install OS X Server for MDM profile manager on iMac with High Sierra.   Then used Apple Configurator 2.5 to enroll 16 iPad Air 2 on iOS11 to the MDM and added wifi Profile.   All iPads are showing up as supervised devices on AC2.  Now on each iPad, I see the Remote Management screen,  hit the NEXT on the top right corner to attempt to install the remote management,  and they all came back saying failed timed out.
The same profile worked fine on iMac.


texts:
I created a second bootable volume called "Beta" in order to install the macOS Catalina beta. I successfully installed and booted to this new volume, but when I returned to the first volume (which has macOS Mojave installed) I was surprised to see a third volume.

The "Beta - Data" seems to have been created during the installation process. This third volume is also not visible when I return to the "Beta" boot volume, only having the "Beta" and "Panther" volumes. The "Beta" volume when booted into it also seems to have the combined size of the "Beta" and "Beta - Data" volumes.

I originally created the "Beta" volume with a quota of 256GB as well, but that quota is gone from that volume and the "Beta - Data" volume seems to have inherited it.

The "Beta" volume seems to contain the system install; containing the home, Library, System and Users directories (though the Users directory only contains the Shared directory, and not the home folder for the user I created). While the "Beta - Data" volume has the user-specific data; having the Device, private and Users directories (with the home folder for the user I created within, as well as another Shared directory).

I have never tried dual booting on a Mac before, so this could be more common than I am aware of, but I couldn't seem to find any information on why this would happen or where this volume came from. Could this be a new "feature" (or bug) from macOS Catalina? Or did I just do something wrong when I created the new volume?


texts: Remove end-of-line hyphens in Word 2011 for Mac

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I have a Word file that was created from a 2-column, fully justified PDF file. Since I want to convert it next to a Mobi format via Calibre, I need to remove the end-of-line hyphens that break words, otherwise I'll get this in Mobi: “remo-ve".

Does Word 2011 for Mac allow to justify text without hyphenation?

About 2/3 of all end-of-line hyphens are followed by a space (weird!). I suspect this file is not behaving normally due to the fact that it comes from a PDF.

Things I’ve tried with no result:

Changed to left-align
Changed font size
In Tools/Hyphenation/Hyphenation zone, I increased the hyphenation zone to a whole inch
I played with a few of the Options related to the Hyphenation algorithm under Preferences/Compatibility
I right-clicked on paragraph, and under Line and Page breaks, selected "Don't Hyphenate".

Hyphens still there! I need a uniform solution, file is too big to go through the one by one.


texts: This symbol has a square in the middle, triangles on the sides, and arrows in the corners. What does it mean?

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My Apple Remote was not working with my iMac which is running 10.7.4.

When I attempted to pair the remote to the computer, by holding down the menu and the next track buttons, the following symbol appears in the center of my screen.

After resetting the SMC, the Apple remote is working as usual. In particular, holding down the menu and the next track buttons displays the "linked chain" icon, indicating that the remote has been paired to the computer.

But I am still curious, what does the image mean?


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I have upgraded my Macbook from Mavericks to Yosemite but after that double VPN is not working. I need to connect to local VPN first and from there to another VPN in order to connect to my company servers and I can connect to either of them differently but not from one to another. This used to work in Mavericks without any issues. Anyone know what has changed or how can I make it work as it was in Mavericks.

Thanks


texts: File System seems slow/unresponsive: how to measure/test?

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I'm running a MacBook Pro, Mid 2010 model, that I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Around that time, or maybe shortly after, I began noticing some problems that I can only attribute to a general slowdown in accessing files on my hard drive. I have 8GB RAM, and rarely run out, so I don't think it's just a matter of paging vs not paging.

The evidence is reasonably convincing. For example, I'm a Java programmer and use NetBeans. The app I have configured takes over a minute on this machine to run, but only 30 seconds or so on a more-or-less identical setup on a much weaker machine: a late 2008 MacBook with only 4GB RAM. And what it's mostly doing is reading and processing several hundred files of various kinds.

So far, though, the evidence is entirely anecdotal. I'm looking for some kind of test I can run that will see whether my file system/HDD is performing as expected or whether it's something else entirely. Also something I could take to the Apple Store and say, "look this thing says there's a problem." Does such a thing exist?

Edit: another interesting difference. This Mac takes just shy of three minutes to reboot (that's desktop disappearing to desktop reappearing). The older MacBook I'm comparing against (also running 10.8.3) takes just over one minute.


texts: How do I Change Force Touch "taptic" or haptic feedback on MacBook Pro?

texts: I love my new MBP Retina but I would like to change the amount the Force Touch vibrates.  I know there are the settings called Light, Medium and Firm to change not only the amount it vibrates but also the intensity of the force required to actuate.  I am wondering if there is any way to turn the vibration of the Taptic Engine up even further to receive a more tactile click. Is this possible? Can I use BetterTouchTool to achieve this result? I tried to mess around with it a little bit but I don't think it works.


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In Snow Leopard you could switch to App Exposé from global Exposé by clicking an icon in the Dock. Doing the same in Lion merely exits you from Mission Control and focuses on that app.

Is there a way to go to a given App Exposé from Mission Control?


texts: Need some basic enlightenment about using PHP

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Actually I have been programming in PHP for a while, but my experiences about PHP is through VPS or some local environment like XAMPP.
I was trying to install xDebug/homebrew when I come across this

It says "if you are on PHP 5.3", only after reading this did I realize I already had PHP "installed" on my Mac（I think it comes with Mac OS) and this is where I got confused. I need something clarified:

1）I have XAMPP on my Mac, does its PHP interfere with what comes with Mac?

2) If I install Apache on my Mac, does it have its own PHP too? And after installing it, I will be able to use my Mac as a server right? What does this have to do with the server that is already running through XAMPP?

3)Back to what I was doing (installing xDebug), I think I need to install xdebug on xampp's PHP, but following this instructio, it seems to me that I will only install it to Mac's PHP. If this is true, how do I install xDebug to XAMPP?