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I have a MacBook Pro at work and I think it uses too much swap instead of RAM.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro13,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed:    2 GHz
Number of Processors:   1
Total Number of Cores:  2
L2 Cache (per Core):    256 KB
L3 Cache:   4 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version:   MBP131.0205.B22
SMC Version (system):   2.36f97
Serial Number (system): C02TL0KGGVC8
Hardware UUID:  09325653-7FB0-52CC-A599-063539D1010A

I am used to monitoring UNIX system activity using htop. I notice that my OS X never uses more than half of the RAM, but uses more swap instead. Usually 7 GB of swap, but it can be more.

My question is, should not my OS use more RAM before swap ? I read about how OS X handles the swap and I feel like it is a loss of computational power. Writing pages in and out is really time consuming and is not as fast as using RAM

I try to compare with my Ubuntu 16.04 distribution at home which doesn't swap unless the memory is full. But maybe the 2 OS have different behaviors, though they are both UNIX based.

I also printed out the output of the vm_stat command to check if there were any difference, because maybe htop is not reporting it accurately. I noticed that htop reports a varying maximum swap capacity, from 3 to 16. Why is it not a fixed size partition as in Ubuntu?

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free:                                6743.
Pages active:                           1005803.
Pages inactive:                          903490.
Pages speculative:                          361.
Pages throttled:                              0.
Pages wired down:                        837598.
Pages purgeable:                           9241.
"Translation faults":                6115698117.
Pages copy-on-write:                  107293117.
Pages zero filled:                   2540298644.
Pages reactivated:                   1039487337.
Pages purged:                          52550607.
File-backed pages:                       482299.
Anonymous pages:                        1427355.
Pages stored in compressor:             5968822.
Pages occupied by compressor:           1439832.
Decompressions:                      1456775259.
Compressions:                        1606172332.
Pageins:                             1393246141.
Pageouts:                              25235109.
Swapins:                              562867577.
Swapouts:                             582845342.


texts:
I have a serious problem with right clicking. When ever I try to open the contextual menu in certain applications like the iWork Suite, MS Office or Evernote, I get the beach ball.

I've completely formated my Mac and 3 days later I notice the problem is persisting. Has anyone ever experienced this issue ?

I am running 10.8.2.


texts: Check from command line if Docker has privacy access to Removable Volumes

texts:
I have created a shell script that starts a Docker container running some program. If the script is run on MacOS, it creates a bind mount for /Volumes so that USB drives are accessible within the container.
The container won't be able to read anything from a USB drive unless Docker Desktop has been granted the "Removable Volumes" permission in System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy → Files and Folders → Docker.
Is there a way to check in the script if this permission has been granted?
I want to save the user from frustrations by providing fast and informative feedback in the script if the permission is missing. The user may have denied the permission in the past and forgotten about it.


texts:
Does anyone know if Mavericks supports SMB3? My work server uses it, and it's been buggy as hell and never keeps connected. If it keeps connected I lose write permissions to files I'm working on. Hoping if I use the SMB1 protocal cifs://

Link about it here:  http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/27/did-mavericks-kill-your-network-drive-access-heres-a-fix/

Hope this helps someone out too with this issue. Thanks


texts: Shell variable PROMPT_COMMAND not working as intended?

texts:
I want my bash prompt to change depending on external conditions.

Here is excerpt from the bash manual:

PROMPT_COMMAND: If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt.

PS1: The value of this parameter is expanded (see PROMPTING below) and used as the primary prompt string.

In my .bash_profile I have following:

export PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -n ┏━━━[$(date +%H:%M)]"
export PS1="━━[\t]━━━┓\n\$ "

Here is what I see in terminal:

┏━━━[03:46]━━[03:46:52]━━━┓
$ cd ..
┏━━━[03:46]━━[03:51:37]━━━┓
$

As you can see, PROMPT_COMMAND doesn't get executed more than once, and remains static forever.

How can I have it executed "prior to issuing each prompt", as stated in the manual?

I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.3
echo $BASH_VERSION
    3.2.51(1)-release


texts: Macbook Pro early 2012 SSD retire block count

texts:
I've recently bought an OCZ Vertex3 480 GB SSD (VTX3-25SAT3-480G) for a drive upgrade.

This is what I did after I purchased the drive:

Backed up my system with Carbon copy cloner
Installed the SSD drive
Install OSX Mountain Lion (fresh install from USB drive)
Installed some basic apps and tested the speed (500m read, 250m write)
(I've enabled TRIM via TrimEnabler)
Attach my backup drive (where I backed up my earlier system) and started copying my data (something like 130GB)
OSX turned the screen off after 5 min (not sleep)
Went back to check and the system froze (beach ball + black screen)
Force shutdown pressing the power for 5 sec
Reboot and found out that: my brand new SSD had 19 "retired block" and 3325114 of "total error"

(10?). I've upgraded my firmware from 2.15 to 2.22 after I discovered the 19 bad blocks just to make sure it's not faulty firmware.

I got 0 of both when I first booted into the system, after a forced shutdown, I got 19 bad blocks and a bunch of errors.....

Is this normal? Is there something wrong with my SSD? should I send it for warranty?

SSD info:

OCZ-VERTEX3:

Capacity:   480.1 GB (480,103,981,056 bytes)
Model:  OCZ-VERTEX3
Revision:   2.220000
Serial Number:  OCZ-1M53V336YLR07271
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth:    32
Removable Media:    No
Detachable Drive:   No
BSD Name:   disk0
Medium Type:    Solid State
TRIM Support:   Yes
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:  Verified


texts: Daisy chain two monitors on a single thunderbolt port

texts: I currently have 3 monitors (Asus VN247H) connected to a mid 2014 15" MBP Retina. Two connections are on thunderbolt (with TB->HDMI adaptors) and one on the HDMI port. I would like to use one of the thunderbolt ports for another peripheral. Is there a way to daisy chain two monitors on a single TB port?


texts: iTerm2: Option + Number (0..9) key not working

texts:
I have a German keyboard layout and need e.g. Option+7 to write a pipe (|). Option+Letter (Letter=a..z) works fine, but Option+Number (Number=0..9) is not producing anything. However, if I press Option+n (~) and then Option+7, surprisingly I get ~|. This behavior is only in iTerm2.

The setting in Profiles >> Keys is Left option key acts as Normal and Right option key acts as Normal.


texts: How long would it take for FileVault to encrypt my Retina Macbook Pro?

texts:
I have a Retina Macbook Pro with the following specifications :

Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.2
Processor  2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory  16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 - 500 GB Flash Storage
286.83 GB of  499.42 remaining

3.93 GB.... Audio
62.35 GB.. Movies
3.51 GB.... Photos
26.7 GB.... Apps
0 KB......... Backup
116.1 GB.. Other

How long will FileVault need to encrypt my system ?


texts: iOS: Sync address book with Exchange and contact picture

texts:
I sync my iPhone SE with an Exchange server. It retrieves the information and also the contact pictures of the contacts who have them.

With Android, if I added/changed the contact picture by phone, they got also synced to Exchange.

Now with iOS it seems that if I add a contact picture it is not transferred/synced to Exchange. Pretty annoying.

Any fix?


texts:
I am trying to install PyFTGL to display fonts in my PyOpenGL project.

When trying to install with the python setup.py install command from the downloaded PyFTGL source code folder, I get the following error message:

ld: library not found for -lGLU

Is GLU not already installed on my mac?

This surprises me because PyOpenGL already works fine, I can do from OpenGL.GLU import * without problem.

I am using MacOS 10.10.5


texts: I have loaded windows on the SSD of the macbook. I have plenty of windows softwares that i wish to install but that will be at the cost of the SSD which has a limited space. Is it ok to install the remaining softwares on the external HDD. Is this what the others guys are also doing???


texts: How to recover factory reset in iPhone 5 apps without backup

texts:
I forget my passcode and when I reset my phone I lost all my data, photos and apps. I was connecting to iTunes but I never backed up.

How can I get all my photos and apps on my iPhone 5 without a back up?

I was able to restore my apps from iTunes, but its like new again, how can I include the data inside the applications?


texts: Numbers appear with country code in message app

texts:
A friend of mine just bought an iPhone. She imported all her SIM contacts using the regular method: Settings > Contacts > Import from SIM All went well.

But when she opens the Messages app, the list is filled with numbers with a country code prefix, so instead of the normal overview of conversations (Tom Dice, David Swimmer, Kim Bauer, etc.), she gets a list with all the numbers of her contacts as name (+324123456, +328945782, etc.).

So, has she imported her contacts the wrong way? Or Iis there some corrupt data in her phone? Or what?

I know it's a pretty vague question without a screenshot, but if you need any more information, please let me know.


texts: How to make existing Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system case sensitive?

texts:
I've got a fairly large external Thunderbolt RAID-5 filesystem partition. When I get info  (cmd-I) it says "Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".

Further, when I test for case-sensitivity:

transom:BlueROV-data dgi$ cat > foo
blah
transom:BlueROV-data dgi$
transom:BlueROV-data dgi$ cat FOO
blah

So it looks like this partition is NOT case sensitive. It has got a few terabytes on it, so it would be fairly time-intensive to copy off the data, then reformat.

Is there a way to change the mount parameters for this partition?


texts: How can I stop my Mac from automatically using my [input only] USB microphone as an output device?

texts:
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro on the latest version of High Sierra.  I often use a USB microphone for Skype, etc.  When I plug in the microphone, my Mac automatically detects it as an input source.  This is good.  However, it also automatically detects it as an output source, which is not good at all, since the microphone has no output capabilities.  Every time I plug in the microphone, I have to go to Sound preferences and unselect it as the output.

How can I stop my Mac from automatically detecting my microphone as an output source — while continuing to have it automatically detect it as an input source?


texts: How can I make my Mac partition bootable again?

texts:
I am running macOS High Sierra on a 2011 iMac. I was also running Windows 10 via BootCamp. In order to prepare for a 3rd OS, I installed reFind and resized the BootCamp partition to make space.

Unfortunately, this rendered the Windows partition unable to boot, I got the message "Missing Operating System" on a black screen.

Instead of accepting my limitations and sticking with Mac OS, I decided to remove the BootCamp partition, and proceed with reinstalling Windows into the free space. Initially this didn't work in legacy mode, so I (foolishly) decided to use EFI instead. I have successfully reinstalled Windows but the Mac partition  now doesn't show up on the "ALT" menu, reFind has disappeared and the machine now only boots into Windows.

If I boot Mac OS from a USB, the mac partition is not shown and it is shown as "Unallocated Space" when I use Aomei in Windows 10.

Unfortunately, there are important un-backed up family photos etc on the Mac partition. My bad!

I do not believe that the mac partition has been erased, Windows is on the correct BootCamp partition.

My question is how to get the Mac partition booting again if possible, or at least get the data off. I am not bothered about losing Windows as it is a fresh install.

Many thanks in advance for any advice. Obviously the best advice was to take more care and avoid this situation!

Here is the result of the requested information based on this Readout:

gpt -r show disk0
     start       size index contents
         0          1       PMBR
         i          1       Pri GPT header
         2         32       Pri GPT table
        34          6
        40     409600     1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    409640 2542739416
2543149056      32768     2 GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-ADB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
2543181824  636884926     3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4A33-87C0-68B6B72699C7
3180066750  726962385
3907029135         32       Sec GPT table
3907029167          1       Sec GPT header


texts: Problems Reformatting SSD on mid 2015 Retina 15" MBP

texts:
When I purchased the subject laptop last year I replaced the original Apple SSD with a non-Apple 2 TB SSD.  For years I have always kept OS and data on separate drives or at least separate partitions.  That always made backups and moving data to new machines simple for me.  This time I struggled to create that same arrangement, but it proved too difficult.
I sat down recently to attempt to resolve the mess I created.  It appears I had created a 1.05 TB and a .95 TB partition on the SSD.  The 1.05 TB partition contained a "container" that contained my OS and data in a couple of "volumes".  The remaining .95 TB partition of the SSD was simply a wasteland.
Over the last couple of days I have made numerous attempts to erase/reformat any or all of the SSD but the Disk Utility simply will not allow any of that (erase is ghosted).  I have tried changing the size of the first partition, but Disk Utility will not allow that either.  Next I tried a few things with diskutil in terminal but do not seem to be making any progress there either.  Command + R and Command + Option + R did not work for me because Disk Utility there only shows disk0/OS X Base System, neither of which can be erased, and Reinstall OS X cannot find any drive at all for the install.
So, in summary, help!  If I do a diskutil list in Terminal I see disk0 thru disk13... and that can't be right.  I want to reformat and start over but nothing seems to get me there.  Currently there is no important data on this machine.  Oh, laptop still works fine, I just can't live with system and data on same partition.
Some of my symptoms sound similar to Redrighthand's "MacBook-pro Internal PCIe Samsung 512g SSD no longer recognized on MBP (mid 2015 15" A1398)".
Thanks in advance for any help.  First screenshot below of diskutil list taken in recovery mode, second screenshot taken of terminal after normal boot.  Last two screenshots are of Disk Utility...


texts: iPhone 5s - receiving sound notifications at random times with no alerts, emails, ims, etc

texts:
Just recently when I take turn off vibrate om my iPhone, it has been playing alert sounds at random times without showing any notifications, no new emails, calls, texts, app updates, etc. It's really bizarre and makes me wonder if the phone is hacked.

While sending a text I even got the sound of a message being sent while I was in the middle of typing, I wasn't waiting on any other message to go out, nor were any message rejected that could potentially have gone through at a later time. Again, while on vibrate mode there are no phantom vibrations, it's only when the ringer is on.

Is there any way to tell if the phone has been hacked?

I'd really like to avoid resetting my phone if at all possible, I have something like 6,000 photos on it and lots of stuff that I cannot afford to lose.


texts:
The Spotlight icon isn't showing up in the upper right; even if I try to launch it manually from core services, nothing happens. I'm running Yosemite.

How can I get the icon back?


texts: Boot Camp - Can't download the software because of a network problem

texts:
I have spent 20 hours trying to install Windows 8.1 pro 64 bit on my MacBook Pro Retina MGXC2B/A

I created a ISO image of my Windows dvd, put it on my desktop.

Inside Boot Camp it asks for the Iso Image, I set this to read the ISO file on my desktop

Inside the Task Status window, I see the text "formatting selected drive...", which then changes to "Copying Windows files..."

When the loading % bar in this window reaches around 50%, a window pops up stating.

Can't download the software because of a network problem

I have tried this 10 times now, its the same error over and over, there is nothing wrong with my internet connection or networking, what is the issue?


texts: Set up OSX to act as router via Internet Sharing

texts:
I have the following network setup:

LAN====OSX++++Machine A
        +
        +
        ++++++Machine B

OSX is currently sharing an ethernet connection with A and B via an ad-hoc wireless network.  This works great, except that Machine A and Machine B can't see each other.  They can see the LAN and OSX, and OSX can see both of them.  I'm convinced some combination of ipfw and/or natd configuration options can solve this problem, but my networking knowledge is limited enough that I can't seem to Google effectively for a solution.  What do I want ipfw/natd to do for me?  How do I get them to do it?

(Obviously, I could solve this problem much more easily by the expedient of purchasing a switch, but I feel like I should know how to do this sort of things regardless.)


texts: New Mail client does not keep correct coloring of mail

texts:
I recently upgraded from Mavericks to Sierra. The new Mail client bugs me: My main problem is a change in the way it sends clipboard copies of what was in the Terminal app.

Previously, when I sent a clipboard copy of my terminal in the old Mavericks Mail client, it kept the original formatting (i.e. the white characters on black background copied from within the terminal) and when somebody received it, it was as I sent it (i.e. white on black). This was a very convenient way to show what was copied from the terminal.

Now with Sierra's mail client, the background is changed to white so that the white text cannot be seen by the recipient. This happens even though at my end it looks fine (i.e. white characters on a black background).

How can I keep the original formatting as I copy it into Mail, so that when it's sent it is received at the other end still showing the black background?


texts: Applescript text delimiter replace line to /n

texts:
I'm trying to remove line and replace them by "\n" (to them add the final text in javascript with actual line)

set myCaseNote to "e.g
here
and
there"

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return & linefeed, return, linefeed, character id 8233, character id 8232}
set myCaseNote to text items of myCaseNote
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
set myCaseNote to myCaseNote as text

I can manage to remove the line but I can't replace them with the text "\n", how can I proceed ?


texts:
I dropped my Macbook the other day, and when I opened it, there were lines on my screen.

I have a pretty solid cover as a case and it was about a 3-foot drop.
The colored vertical lines tend to shift whenever I move the screen.
There aren't any cracks on the screen.

I don't know what's wrong with I t, and I'm not sure if I can contact anyone to fix it. Here is a link to what my screen looks like, I
   also added a video of the shifting lines. https://imgur.com/gallery/M0FbvBe

Is there
   anything I can do?


texts: How can I transfer iJoomer app to XCode iPhone simulator?

texts:
I downloaded iJoomer in iTunes, and I would like to transfer it into XCode's iPhone Simulator so I can run the app there.

Is it possible to transfer an app from iTunes to the iPhone simulator? If so, how can I do this?


texts:
My hard drive is close to full, so I am trying to delete old and unused files. I am worried that I may delete files that the operating system needs, but I don't recognize. Is there a way to tag all of the files that are required by the system, so I can ignore them while cleaning up storage? I'm thinking in terms of a program or some code you may have made/come across.

Currently using MacOS Sierra version 10.12.4


texts: Where can you find out to whom a given Mac is registered?

texts: Is there a place in the OS that we can see to which person the OS is registered to?


texts: Why would a large transfer to a USB drive take longer than expected?

texts: I am backing up 225 GB to a Western Digital USB 2.0 hard drive but this seems really slow. Any ideas on what I could do to make this transfer faster? It's saying it will take seven hours and it is a USB 2.0-only drive.


texts: Assigning a key to light up CM Storm Devastator keyboard problem

texts: I followed the steps to make the CM Storm Devastator keyboard backlights turn on (using this tutorial). That is working. But, when I assigned a key to toggle the backlight, the backlight does not turn on. The key I have it assigned to is command+F14. I am on Yosemite.


texts: How to open new Safari window on primary display

texts:
I am using a monitor as my second display for my MacBook Air. I have Netflix fullscreen on my second display. Whenever I want a Safari window on my primary display, I have to go to the second display, create a new window, and drag it over to my primary display. this disrupts Netflix, as I have to click to leave full screen then put it back to fullscreen.

Is there an easier way to achieve this?


texts: macOS High Sierra not reinstalling— locked OS x Base System

texts: I dont really know what happened to our mac but all I know is its not starting up so I shut it down. But when I tried opening it again, its not booting up. I followed instructions on youtube on how to fix it but its still not working so what I did was disconnect all the wires plugged in, including the wire for the power then let it rest. When my sister came home, she tried opening it again and she got to do troubleshoot it. Now, we it booted up, we can only see "macOS Utilities" (as seen on the photo). When tried to see what's wrong if the disk is broken or what but we can only see First Aid and Partition. Erase, Restore and Unmount are grayed out. When we click on the First Aid, what we only see is what showing on the photo. We tried reinstalling the macOS High Sierra but its telling us that the disk is locked. Now I dont know how to unlock it or how its gonna be fixed. Please, I really need your help.


texts: How do I download macOS High Sierra for offline install?

texts:
Yes, I found

Download macOS High Sierra for offline install [duplicate]

and

macOS High Sierra media installer

but they don't fit my use-case.  I need to update a number of Macs to High Sierra to address Spectre/Meltdown ASAP, and the questions linked above had to do with the High Sierra beta.

So: how do I download macOS High Sierra for offline installs?


texts:
I saw in the Hong Kong iTunes store showing "Featured 4K HDR Movies":

but it doesn't show a 4K logo or a 4K download size:

Is it downloadable? Can it be viewed on the Mac in 4K (such as on the iMac with 5k display) or does it need to be Apple TV 4K in order to watch it in 4K?


texts:
In addition to Time Machine I do a weekly clone of my system drive to a volume on a second hard drive in my 2011 MacBook Pro. I also made a clone in another volume before I upgraded to Lion.
Now some of the apps from the Snow Leopard drive clone are starting to show up as duplicates in "open with" contextual menus.  If I choose one of the duplicates it will open the app from the cloned volume.
How can I remove these items from the menu and make sure OS X doesn't think these are installed apps?
Screenshot:


texts: How do I copy and paste a text address in the messages app?

texts:
When I get a standard text I can tap and hold the message > Copy.  Now the message is on the clipboard and ready to use.  If I perform the same action on an address I am brought to the Maps application (an app I do not use).  I can create a custom Message, twitter, facebook etc...but no copy option.
How can I copy and paste a physical address on an iPhone?
My common use cases

Copy as human readable text to another human as a text message
Copy and paste into Waze
Copy and paste into any app that needs an address


texts: How to split CSV file by Column values into multiple files on a Mac? awk?

texts:
HELP!!!
Trying to split a csv file admin_bids_view.csv into multiple files. The CSV has 2000 rows and 7 columns. I would like a new file per ID number in column 1.

Example data below:

Have tried    awk -F\| '{print>$1}' admin_bids_view.csv

But the below is being returned.

awk: can't open file admin_bids_view.csv
 source line number 1

Please can someone point me in the right direction?

Thank you.


texts: Changing Bootcamp Partition ID on Terminal in Recovery Mode

texts:
I have an iMac 5K 2017 running MacOS Big Sur and Windows 10 and the problem is a little bit tricky:
After I resized my Bootcamp with AOMEI Partition Assistance and restarted it, it couldn't run MacOS(it showed prohibitory sign) and needed to be recovered.
In Disk Utility on Recovery Mode, the Fusion Drive had been separated into HDD and SSD. Except Bootcamp partition, the other partitions are gone and cannot be erased or splited.
Therefore I restarted to Windows and tried to fix it with gdisk, but I accidentally changed the partition ID on wrong disk(I changed Bootcamp partition ID into APFS as shown in fig.1)

fig.1 Weird partitions
Now I am not albe to boot both systems, only Recovery Mode. I am trying to change APFS back to Microsoft Basic Data of the Bootcamp partition on Terminal in it, but it always shows "command not found."REF1 REF2
Is there any way to fix it? Because I didn't backup my Windows(Mac is OK to be erased)


texts: How can I prevent my iPod from downloading album art?

texts:
I have a first-gen iPod Nano 4GB. I live having album art in my iTunes library on my nice, big, fat, PC hard drive. However, I don't really need it on my iPod. I'd like to maximize the amount of music I can fit on there.

So, how much space is that album art taking up, anyway? Can I keep it from getting on the device without having to delete it all from iTunes?


texts: Is there a bluetooth camera that works with an iMac?

texts:
I want to put a webcam in a far corner of my office and use it for Skype.

Do you know of a bluetooth or other wireless camera that will show up on a Mac like a regular camera?


texts: I am using CommanderOne to connect to smb shares. To connect to a share I press command+K. The presented history is pretty cluttered with old shares and I want to clear the history of the list. Where is the history stored?


texts: How can I find the rotation lock switch on a iPhone 5?  It is lock and does not rotates the pictures when I rotate the phone.


texts: Keep dock, top menu, and the X-+ buttons always on in full screen mode

texts:
Is there a way to keep the bottom dock, top menu (that currently has an Apple logo, Safari, File, etc.) as well as the three control buttons (exit, mini-, and maximize) on at all times when in full screen mode?

I would like to be looking at an application while not being distracted by other open windows and/or the desktop but I would also like to have the above listed commands available so that shifting between open apps is a one- (click the app in the dock) rather than a two-step (restore current app + click the app in the dock) process.

In other words, I would like the same behavior as in Microsoft and Linux KDE.  I consider my existing setup to be less ergonomic, at least to my taste, than the other two and also do not see why it couldn't be accommodated in Mac OS.  Is there a way to do it and how?


texts: Can VLC output video through HDMI adapter to TV on first gen iPad?

texts:
I have videos on the iPad that can be played back by VLC.
But the only output I get when connected to the TV is sound, no video.

Is there any way to get them to play through the HDMI using VLC, or alternatively move them to Cinemax without connecting to a PC and iTunes


texts: Flagged/Starred Messages not working in Apple Mail

texts:
I just setup two accounts in Apple Mail for the first time, and am having absolutely no luck getting Flagged messages to work, in addition the Starred message folders aren't working.

I'm using Mavericks v10.9.2...

First off, it's two Gmail accounts, both have the exact same issue:

Account #1 was created years ago, has nearly 50,000 emails in the archive folder, and has around 25 messages that are actively flagged/starred...
Account #2 was created this morning, has 6 total emails with 1 flagged/starred.

After setting up Apple Mail for the first time on BOTH of these:

Flagged emails DO show in the inbox.
The 'Flagged' mailbox is empty.
Searching for 'Flagged' messages returns no results.
A smart mailbox for flagged emails shows as empty.
The 'Starred' folders on both accounts are gone.  Sometimes they will
appear after a re-lauch of apple mail, but they disappear a few
seconds after that.

I have:

Tried rebuilding the inbox multiple times, with no effect.
Based on another suggestion, I deleted "Envelope Index" files and waited for them to rebuild.  Once complete I tried doing a search for flagged messages and waited...  With no effect...

In short: I can't view any flagged messages by any means because the Starred folders are gone (but present on both my iPad and my iPhone), and because flagged message simply will not show up as they normally do...


texts: I own a MacBook Pro mid 2010, and formatting it and upgrading it to the High Sierra is no longer displaying TrackPad preferences so I can adjust it, the menu I am referring to is in this order: System Preferences - > Trackpad, it is worth remembering that I am referring to the Trackpad of the Macbook and there is a bluetooth, when I click on the Trackpad option inside the preferences menu there is written that No trackpad found and gives me the option to activate bluetooth? My Trackpad is installed on Mac it is not bluetooth. Sorry for my bad English.


texts: iCloud: Can I control how much space "Optimise Mac Storage" tries to leave on the local machine?

texts:
When using "Optimize Mac Storage" for iCloud drive, how much space does iCloud try to leave on the machine? Is there anyway to adjust the amount of storage space that it leaves as it automatically adjusts which files are stored locally?
(I've had a lot of trouble finding any information and don't really see much in the way of settings)


texts: Can you sync only a group of contacts from a Mac to an iPhone?

texts:
I'm running iOS 6 on an iPhone 3GS. I see that all my contacts from my computer have appeared in the Contacts app on my phone. Now my contacts database on my computer is, to say the least, messy. It includes just about everyone I exchanged e-mail with over the past twenty years. Most of them are just a name and e-mail address, because I've never used this database for phone calls before.

How can I set up a useful subset of these contacts on my phone? Can iCloud sync just one group of contacts to the phone? I don't particularly want to purge all these people from my contacts database, but I also don't want to scroll through them all when trying to order pizza or do some other routine task on my phone.

I see here that this cannot be done with iCloud. How do I select specific contacts to sync using iOS 6 and iTunes 11.0.2?


texts: User /System Permissions none.(Set to 000)

texts:
A previously called friend of mine (As for now, after this he is no longer called that way) was messing up with my computer without my knowledge , and ultimately he set the System folder permissions to be 000 for all files in it.

Well, as I realized everything froze and as soon as I restarted the computer it won't go pass Apple screen, however I'm able to run gnome on it. Is there any way I could reset the permissions for that entire folder anyhow? Or if there is not, is there any way I could extract some files on the hard drive? I'm completely desperate.


texts: Could Apple (OS X) wallpaper be licensed for commercial use?

texts: Does anyone know who owns the Zebra Wallpaper that comes with MBP Retina Display (and Mountain Lion)? Although this is my specific task (to hunt down who owns one specific likely copyrighted image), it would be nice to know if there is a way to read the image's metadata or otherwise track in general who owns what image that ships as part of Apple's OS.


texts: Is my iMac crashing because of a faulty HD that I'm not using anymore?

texts:
I have an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, late 2014). A while back the fusion drive died and I split them and used the SSD for the OS and an external 2TB SSD for storage.
The only issue I have had with the computer from this until now, is that it did not want to go to sleep. It also sounded like the HD kept spinning.
As of today the iMac keeps crashing and rebooting. When it's back up it warns that it can't read a connected drive.
Diskutil overview: https://imgur.com/a/YYsVfFX
I believe ST3000DM001 is the culprit. I can't dismount nor format it.
Crash log: https://gist.github.com/sxaman/39a3edf7b8597460fbb278570d473e2e
Is it reasonable to think the old HDD is making my iMac crash?
If so, would a working fix be to remove power and data cable from the HDD? (I hope that is possible without interfering with the internal SSD.)
Or is there a less intrusive way (without having to take the iMac apart), where I can disable the old HDD completely?
Any help or suggestions are very much appreciated.


texts: How do I make Spotlight stop indexing my Backup drive?

texts:
I have a 2TB external drive I use for Time Machine. At random intervals, it will decide to spin up and my entire UI freezes until it's finished. This is incredibly annoying.

It appears that this is due to Spotlight indexing. They suggest adding the Backup drive to Spotlight's blacklist, so I did:

Am I stuck having to live with constant beach ball attacks?

Update: I've already tried mdutil. It doesn't work.

$ sudo mdutil -E -i off /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/
Password:
/Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb:
    Indexing enabled.

If it's impossible to disable indexing, I would settle for making the backup drive never spin down.


texts: Issues when playing through bluetooth speaker (youtube mutes)

texts:
I listen to iTunes via Archt One BT speaker
I pause iTunes, try to play youtube video and there is no sound
while youtube stil playing "muted", I then play iTunes again and both can be heard
this doesn't happen with Swinsian (alternative to iTunes)

I'm on Mac OS Mavericks.

Any solution? Is it just an iTunes/OSX bug? I think it's not related to that particular BT speaker although it's with it that I experience this for the first time.. I don't remember if I used Swinsian or already back to iTunes when testing the previous speaker.


texts: Finding out if upgrading to a newer macOS version will cause issues?

texts:
I'm going to be upgrading my Macbook Pro (mid-2012 model) from its original OS X Lion 10.7 installation to a newer version of macOS. It looks like Apple will allow me to upgrade from Lion directly to OS X El Capitan 10.11 and macOS Sierra 10.12, and from there all the way to macOS Mojave 10.14.

I have heard that upgrading to a newer OS can cause performance issues, especially on older hardware. How can I find out about these issues, so I can determine the best version of macOS to upgrade to?


texts:
I have "Emergency Alerts" enabled on my iPhone, but I do not receive alerts on it. Emergency alerts are enabled, but Amber alerts are off. I know that some alerts have gone out today because I have an older iPhone that doesn't have phone service but which does still receive emergency alerts. What do I need to do to get alerts on my regular phone? I tried turning them off and back on, but it didn't help.

The phone that doesn't get emergency alerts is an iPhone 6 using T-Mobile (USA) and running iOS 9.3.2. The one that does get alerts is an iPhone 4s running iOS 8.something, formerly used on AT&T and T-Mobile, but which doesn't have any current mobile service. Both phones connect to wifi at my house, if that matters.


texts:
I'm on a Macbook Pro with OS X 10.9.3.

Mousekeys works fine on the builtin keyboard but seems to have no effect on an external keyboard. How can I change this behavior?

The external keyboard has no numpad.


texts: How can you access Apple Mail from Apple script?

texts:
I want to archive old emails ( say, older then 7 days ) from my inbox  automatically with an applescript scheduled via cron.

To be honest, I am open to other Apple-friendly languages such as Swift or Coco , though the learning curve might be prohibitive for me.

Ideas, Examples, and links relevant to the topic are welcome.


texts: Get cpu usage per core on the command line

texts: Activity monitor allows users to see the cpu usage on a per-core basis (for multicore machines, e.g. my MacBook Pro).  Is there a way to find the percent usage of each core/processor via the command line?


texts: How reacts Time Machine with purged Documents in the Cloud?

texts:
I have Sierra and I have started Documents in the cloud.

Now, the system can purge a document, if it wants space and the document didn't change from a while.

In Time machine, I understand that the file should be saved (when it was on the disk), and the latest version is the good one, because it didn't change, and if I change it, it will come back on the disk and then be saved by TM. All the backups should work properly.

But if the document is purged on my disk, do Time Machine show it on the latest backups, because it 'knows' that the document isn't deleted, it's just elsewhere, or does it present the document folder without the purged documents, and one have to go back to the day where it was on the disk to see it in Time Machine?


texts: How should I troubleshoot Wi-fi timeout issues?

texts:
I am having some Wi-fi issues at home and am looking for some advice on how to troubleshoot it.

The setup.
Comcast Modem connected to Airport Extreme Basestation which has a NAS drive and MacMini hardwired to, and my Macbook Pro which connects via Wi-fi.

The problem.
My internet will work for a couple minutes to 10 minutes and then I start getting lots of timeout errors.

Things I have tried.
My laptop's Wi-fi works perfectly all day at the office.
Hardwiring my laptop into the Comcast Modem internet works fine.
Unplugging the Basestation from the modem local network works fine, (swapped some filed around between machines)

Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Or what else I should be checking?


texts: iOS notes app - drawing tools disappear when using Pencil

texts:
I noticed the following behaviour and consider it a bug. How to proceed?

When I open a new note in the iOS notes app (ipad pro 2020) and I open
the drawing tools [1] and I start to draw with the Pencil then the
drawing tools stay open (as expected).
When I close the drawing tools [2] and reopen them [1] and I continue drawing with the Pencil then the drawing tools minimise as if the "Auto-minimise" option was active (but it is
not).

This prevents e.g. the usage of the ruler tool (it disapears with the drawing tools).
Any idea how to appproach this? Can I file a bug report to Apple? Worth it?
[1] by tapping on the pencil icon in the lower right corner
[2] by tapping on "done" in the upper left
iPad Pro 11" 2020
Pencil 2
iOS 13.5 (17F75)


texts: Why is OS X giving me a warning about installing apps when I try to open an XML file with Webstorm?

texts:
I've extracted some XML files from an email attachment. I would like to open them in Webstorm instead of Xcode. But when I try to use the "Open With -> Other" and pick Webstorm, I get a message about being unable to install the app. That doesn't make any sense, since xml files are just text. Screenshots:

Are XML files somehow defined as apps by OS X? Is there a way to change that? Is this a bug?

I have verified that the file is just xml and it can be opened by WebStorm with no issues. This seems to be a Finder/security issue.


texts: How to forward iPhone messages to Macbook or iPod?

texts: I'm currently studying abroad in England. I have an iPod touch, iPhone 5, and Macbook Air. I recently took the SIM card out of my iPhone and received a UK Sim card so I can use data and texting here in London. However, I obviously got a new phone number  with that. I was fine with having a new phone number and simply using iMessage on my laptop or iPod touch seeing as all my friends from home have that. However, my US messages are not working now that my iPhone is associated with a new number. Anyone have a solution?


texts:
My macbook pro running OSX 10.7.3 will fire up the heavy fans even if left idle with all major apps closed. In Activity Monitor, AddressBookManager is shown as taking 110% CPU, even though I have only two address in my address book (mine and apple's) and I never open the application.

I can kill AddressBookManager from Activity Monitor, but it comes back again in a few minutes.

I still have loads of free memory, and the disk doesn't seem to be being thrashed, it's just the CPU usage. I probably wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for the fans.

Suggested from the comments, here's the accounts in my address book preferences:

As you can see, nothing there untoward.

Thanks in advance and for the help already.


texts: Error Installing Big Sur - Macbook Fails to Boot to OS

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (2018 I think?) and tried upgrading to Big Sur through the OS's "app updates". It successfully downloaded the files, restarted the computer and began the install. The install was stuck with the progress bar about 1/3 full and "less than a minute remaining" for over 3 hours.
I read that some people overcame this by turning their computer off and on manually, so I gave that a shot. The install kept failing with "An error occurred while applying the selected software update", so I rebooted in recovery mode and selected to reinstall Big Sur, which supposedly causes a fresh download and install.
Now it usually gets to about 2/3 full and "12 minutes remaining" then fails either with "an error occurred loading the update" or just restarts directly into recovery mode. I tried using the disk utility to repair the hard drive but it found no errors. At this point, there is no other operating system to boot into (nothing shows up in startup disks) and I unfortunately have no time machine backups.
Does anyone have any idea how I can unbrick my laptop?


texts: Creating 2 quarter-sheet sized booklet on single sheet of paper

texts:
I need to create/print a booklet that is 1/4 size of a sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper. From this page, How can I print a booklet from a pdf file?, I know I how to create the booklet. But this is larger than I want.

Because this is just a quarter size sheet of paper, I can print two copies of the booklet on a single sheet of paper. I need to know how to automagically make this happen; stack one on top of the other.

Is this even possible?


texts: How can I get the original Sierra installer now that High Sierra is out?

texts:
I can’t find the installer and presume Apple deleted the Mac OS Sierra installer from the app store search as well as our collective purchased apps pages.

I'm running Sierra at the moment, and I upgraded from lion.

How can I get the previous Sierra installer now, in case my update to High Sierra goes wrong?


texts: My iPad is telling me that my card is invalid and I've used it before. When I go to the payment method my security number is gone from the info. When I input the number it says my payment method isn't valid. I don't know what I need to do. My card works and I've used it before. Why can't I use it now?


texts: When searching for an app on my iPhone I get a black, blank screen

texts:
On my iPad, if I want to search for a specific app, I pull down from the top of my homescreen. That brings up an input pane to enter the name of App i'm searching for. The same method should work for my iphone but instead of screen input pane, the entire screen turns black and there is no way to enter the name of the app.
I have an iPad Pro running 14.4 and an iphone 11 running 14.4
How do I search for an app on my iPhone?


texts: What is the shortcut to hide the navigator view in Apple Keynote?

texts:
I want to show only the slide, without the left-side slide thumbnails in the Navigator View. How can this view be made hidden?

I am on Keynote version 7.3.1 (5249)

Thanks


texts: So, I have been looking up online about how to put a custom picture on the lock screen that is not blurred. All of the tutorials online have said to change the "com.apple.desktop.admin.png" file in the /Library/Caches/ directory. This only changes the picture on the LOGIN screen when you boot up the Mac. Is there any way to put a picture on the lock screen that is not blurred. I am running El Capitan. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks for your help in advance. :)


texts: Deleted MacOS partitions and installed Ubuntu, now can't boot with DVD, USB or internet recovery to reinstall MacOS

texts:
I deleted all partitions on the MacBook's HD and installed Ubuntu.
Now I want to reinstall MacOS but nothing will work.

Holding option on startup shows the grey screen with the pointer but no removable media or HD partitions show up to boot from.

Holding commandR at startup for recovery mode will just boot regularly into ubuntu.

Holding optioncommandR at startup for internet recovery will boot on Grub, Ubuntu's boot loader.

How can I reinstall MacOS in this situation?
Is there any other kind of low-level reset or something else that will let me boot from a DVD or USB device?
Is there a way to access something like the setup you get to by holding F2 on regular PCs?


texts: How to delete App (files with cross sign) that cant delete from Application on Mac

texts:
Due to my new Mac running hot overheating issue, I found an extension app called "Turbo Boost Switcher" to see if I can control heat generation.

However, since it can't it run properly, I want to delete it after. Then I realized, I cant remove it from the launchpad nor from the Application folder.

When I try to search what are leftover in the computer, I found that the files were all shown with a prohibitory sign as shown.

How can I locate and trash these icons?


texts: Do I need to enable Journaling on a Mac Pro M2 SSD?

texts:
I am booting from an M2 SSD (PCI) on my Mac Pro 2012.
Running Mojave. I tried to run the Boot Camp Assistant but it doesn't run and I've seen solutions saying that you have to have Journaling enabled. If I'm using APFS, can I even enable Journaling in order to make Boot Camp work? Or if not, does that mean if you are using APFS you can't use boot camp assistant? There doesnt seem to be an option to enable Journaling on the drive so I dont want to try to force it in Terminal if its not even possible. Source of the pic: https://www.howtogeek.com/331042/whats-the-difference-between-apfs-macos-extended-hfs-and-exfat/


texts: Cannot draw in iPad Notes app using a finger

texts: I have an iPad Pro, 2nd generation with the iPadOS version 13.5.1 and I would like to draw or print on a page in the Notes app. I don't have an Apple Pencil but I should be able to do this with my finger. Below is a screenshot from my iPad of my attempt.  This question was asked before but the answer doesn't work for me.  Nothing I can do draws on a page. I've searched the web and found this site and this one that says this is possible but the descriptions don't work. Does anyone know how to make this work? It works fine on my iPhone 11 Pro.


texts: Can I edit the "Open with..." menu in Apple Mail / Finder?

texts:
I am aware of ways to remove duplicate entries from the Finder "Open with..." menu. But in this instance I simply want to cull down the list of apps that appear when I do "Open with..." on pictures. Right now, in Mail (although it's the same in Finder, of course), when I do Open With on .jpg files, I get a LONG list of apps, many of which I would never consider opening a picture in. Even a music editing app, that has nothing to do with jpg files (in my opinion) shows up.

Is there a way to edit this list? To cull it down to the essentials? Having to look through 44 applications (in my case) just to find the app I'd like to open a picture with is inefficient and tedious. Please tell me Apple were kind enough to make a way to decide which apps I want to see in that list... :-)

Thanks.


texts: How can I copy a Playlist from one iTunes library to another?

texts:
I have one iTunes instance (v10.6.0.40) a Windows 7 PC.  I'm having problems copying playlists from there to my Macbook Air's iTunes instance.  Here's what I do:

On the Win7 machine, I right click the Playlist, choose Export, export it as a .m3u8 file, and save it in my Dropbox.
On the MBA, I grab the new playlist from the Dropbox, and drop it into the Mac's iTunes library.

After that, instead of a list of songs from they Playlist, I just get this:

Which I guess means that the newly imported playlist is blank.

How can I (successfully) copy playlists between two computers?


texts: Why does my iPhone 4S think I'm in Chicago?

texts:
I live in East TN but when I change my time settings to automatic, it says I'm in Chicago.  I have to manually set it to Atlanta so that I don't get the Central time zone.

Before, it used to use Houston. So all I my google business searches would default to Houston.

Is there any way I can convince this phone I live in Hixson, TN?


texts: Locking MacBook with shortcut breaks Safari's search function

texts:
When I lock my MacBook with Command+Control+Q while Safari is open and unlock it, Safari's search function becomes broken. Before I lock my laptop, I can just type something in the url bar and Safari automatically searches it on Google. But after I unlock it, when I write something in the url bar, let's say "Hello World", after I hit Enter, it automatically turns into "Hello%20World" and it just errors out. Why is this happening? The same thing doesn't happen when I lock from the Apple Menu.

macOS Version: 10.13.6 (High Sierra)

Safari version: 11.1.2 (13605.3.8)


texts: iPhone not turning on when pressing lock button/erroneous charging

texts:
When I try to turn on my phone by holding the lock button, it doesn't turn on. It just stays dead.

But when I connect the Lightning cable, all it does is show the battery symbol, then go to the Apple logo, and repeats.

What should I do?


texts: UNKNOWN NAME Showing up instead of actual phone number

texts:
When receiving a phone call from a number not listed in my Contacts, the name displays as "UNKNOWN NAME" rather than simply showing the number initiating the call. I'm pretty sure this hasn't always been the case, and that my phone used to list the number itself.

Is there any way to get it to go back to listing the number? There seems to be no option for this under Settings.


texts: Bandwidth throttling / simulation for selected host

texts: I can control the network for the whole device with Network Link Conditioner but is there a way to do it just for selected hosts? I know that with /etc/hosts I can totally block connection to a host, but it's not what I need here. As a minimum solution, if I were able to make a host never respond, but just keeps loading forever, it would work, too.


texts: Why does Safari zoom-out on SE after navigating backwards in split-screen view?

texts:
Oh, the rabbit-holes I find myself in when browsing SE (and in general)...

Not sure if it's a Safari or Stack Exchange bug.. Chrome has the opposite problem.

When following a link on SE and then navigating backwards in Safari split-view (and maybe in normal, manually resized windows), the previous SE page is zoomed-out.

When navigating to a user-profile page on SE, Chrome split-view does not zoom out.

imgur video

(sorry Dmitry Ulupov)


texts:
Like all tools, an SSD will wear out from use and eventually fail. Are there data on roughly how long the SSD's that Apple ships in it's portable line last?

From my research, it seems that the Toshiba OEM drive that comes on Apple MacBook Pros is much slower than the others on the market, but might this have an advantage in terms of longevity?

Basically, is Apple SSD durability longer than third party drives like Crucial, OWC, or others?


texts: "dscacheutil -q group -a name admin" returns a user that I can't find

texts:
I ran a script that was checking for any other admin users on my mac.

dscacheutil -q group -a name admin

It returned: root administrator Temp10

I can't find the Temp10 user account anywhere. I tried listing all the users using dscl . list users but I couldn't find the user account there either.

Maybe it's just a remnant of an old user somewhere? If so how can I remove it from that dscacheutil list?


texts: Stuck at Apple logo during boot. Cannot enter Safe mode. Cannot use Recovery USB

texts:
A little background
I wanted to create a Mountain Lion recovery USB because I currently only have a Lion recovery USB. While downloading the installer image from the Mac App store, the computer froze and I had to perform a hard shutdown.
My question
I cannot boot into OSX anymore. How can I get it working again? I will try anything.
What I have tried

Entering Safe mode by holding shift on startup. But this does not seem to work. No matter how I do it.
Using the Lion recovery USB. This does not work either - I can only see a grey circle with a slash. Maybe this is happening because I have Mountain Lion installed. As I have said above, I do not have a Mountain lion recovery USB.
Contacting Apple Care / Genius bar because this Macbook Air has Apple Care. They will not help, because the Macbook Air's warranty is no longer valid as my Mac suffered from water damage not too long ago.
Downloading Mountain Lion from another Mac which only runs Lion. This is not possible in this case: The Mac App Store will only "offer" to download Mountain Lion - but when I click it the download is blocked because the Mac only runs Lion and cannot update to Mountain Lion (the Mac is too old). I should be able to download Lion at least, but have not found any option.


texts: How can I fix these intermittent problems with wi-fi on my iMac?

texts:
I have several computers at home but only my iMac is having wi-fi problems - around once a day wi-fi stops responding. When I turn my wireless off and immediately back on, it works again. Is this a hardware problem? Software problem?

I'm running a newish iMac running Lion and an Airport Express on Comcast.

EDIT: I should mention that nothing has changed in my setup aside from some software updates. Basically, I am trying to determine if this is a hardware or software problem and was hoping to find out what steps I can take to investigate.

Thanks!


texts: Dictation under macOS Catalina not working with display microphone

texts:
I have this very strange problem that dictation is not working on my laptop when its lid is closed and it is connected to an external monitor (Cinema display).
It does work fine when I use the laptop standalone.

Also, when I go to System Preferences / Keyboard / Dictation, I can see the microphone showing input (level meter does up and down when I speak).
It does not matter whether the audio input under the microphone is on "Display audio" or "Automatic", when I open any other app and start dictating, the little microphone does not show any sign of activity (i.e., input).

Even more funny is that Siri on the laptop works fine, even with closed laptop lid, i.e., it does recognize my speech commands.

I think, the real problem is that, somehow, with display microphone, something is blocking the audio input on the way to the dictation software.

Of course, I have googled and tried a few things (reboot, switch audio, etc.), to no avail. But I haven't found a problem description on the web that matches the problems symptoms I am experiencing.

Does anyone have an idea?

PS:
I recently upgraded to Catalina (10.15.3). Before, under Mojave, dictation worked.


texts:
Issue

URL does not resolve: see 'dig test results'

Safari 11.1.2
System Version:  OS X 10.11.6 (15G22010)
Kernel Version:  Darwin 15.6.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
Boot Mode:   Normal

The website is correctly resolved with with Windows 7 via (IE and Chrome) at the house router.  IOS 12 devices also are unable to access the website via the router, but cellular access to website is working

QUESTION

What OSX or Safari controls can be configured to resolve the website?

dig test results from home router

ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U_3.0.0.4 Fri Jul 17 03:17:04 UTC 2015 NYC@ROUTER:/tmp/home/root# ping fbo.gov PING fbo.gov (35.169.96.154): 56 data bytes ^C
--- fbo.gov ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Users-MacBook-Air:~ user$ dig fbo.gov

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> fbo.gov ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 54519 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;fbo.gov.          IN  A

;; Query time: 954 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed Oct  3 11:09:17 2018 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 25

Users-MacBook-Air:~ user$ dig google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7203 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 11, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;google.com.           IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION: google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.174 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.168 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.160 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.161 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.166 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.162 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.164 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.163 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.167 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.165 google.com.      238 IN  A   74.125.232.169

;; Query time: 181 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed Oct  3 11:09:29 2018 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 204

UPDATE:

Target website resolves at Starbucks.  Is it a combination of configuration adjustments on the router and the Macbook that are required to enable DNS?

STARBUCKS DNS TEST RESULTS:

Users-MacBook-Air:~ user$ nslookup fbo.gov Server:      8.8.8.8 Address:    8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer: Name: fbo.gov Address: 34.236.209.128 Name:   fbo.gov Address: 35.169.96.154

Users-MacBook-Air:~ user$ dig fbo.gov

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> fbo.gov
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49081
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 7

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;fbo.gov.           IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
fbo.gov.        10509   IN  A   35.169.96.154
fbo.gov.        10509   IN  A   34.236.209.128

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
fbo.gov.        84586   IN  NS  dns5.gsa.gov.
fbo.gov.        84586   IN  NS  dns.gsa.gov.
fbo.gov.        84586   IN  NS  dns3.gsa.gov.
fbo.gov.        84586   IN  NS  dns2.gsa.gov.
fbo.gov.        84586   IN  NS  dns4.gsa.gov.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns.gsa.gov.        12642   IN  A   159.142.136.198
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texts: How do I completely start over with an iPhone?

texts:
After a botched attempt at jailbreaking, then removing the jailbreak, half the stuff does not work on the iPhone (apps won't sync, iPod app crashes, Settings don't "take", sync freezes the phone for 5 minutes after iTunes says its done, etc...).

I'd like to start over.  I will re-download the apps manually and sync all my photos, addresses, etc... after the fact.

So how do I start over?  I guess, if this was a PC, I'd be asking how to reformat the hard drive.


texts: Copy cells' content w/o adding quotes - Apple Numbers

texts:
I want to copy text from a cell, exactly as it is. However, Numbers (3.6.2) put quotes around my text.

Example:

  This is text inside a cell.

When trying to paste the string that I've just copied into TextEdit for instance, I'm left with this:

  "This is text inside a cell."

Any way to prevent Numbers from doing that?


texts:
I'm trying to get LaTeX working on Anki.  I am the only admin on my system but when I try and run the terminal command "tlmgr update --self && tlmgr install dvipng" I get an error saying I need to run the program as an admin. I am the admin! How do I run this program?

Note:  Due to lack of reputation, I am unable to vote or bump any existing material, so I am asking a new question.  The comment to the top answer is identical to my query, hence the identical text.

How can I get LaTeX working on Anki?


texts: Why does it take so long to load the login items with "reopen when logging back in" enabled?

texts:
With OSX Lion 10.7 Apple has introduced resume:

Restore the state of the computer when shut down.
Reopen the used windows of applications.

While both are quite useful, the option to "reopen windows when loggin back in" causes the login items to be reloaded with a significant delay.
Programs get restarted immediately. I can use them with their full functionally within seconds. But the login items take up to another half minute to start. I should probably mention that the boot process takes only sixteen seconds (power button → desktop).
On a 'clean' start the login items will load right after the desktop appears.
Question
Why does it take so long to load menu-extras with "reopen when logging back in" enabled?

[Update: march 2013] This behavior is still persistent as of Mountain Lion 10.8.3.


texts: How can I assign an application to all desktops using the keyboard?

texts:
I know I can assign an application to 'All Desktops', 'This Desktop', or 'None' by right clicking it in the Dock.

I'd like to be able to toggle the current application between 'All Desktops' and 'None' using a keyboard shortcut.

Is there a way to achieve this, preferably without GUI scripting?


texts: Is there a way to split the Cmd-Tab app list onto multiple rows?

texts:
Is there an app/program for OS X that will "split" the list of open apps that appears when you hit ⌘-tab into multiple rows?

This is the default behaviour for Windows 7 and it's really quite useful when you have lots of windows open, navigating with the arrow keys.


texts: Why are there folders in /Users of already deleted users?

texts:
Some time ago I had a user called "xy" on my system. I have deleted the user but in the /Users directory there are folders called "xy" with a Desktop, Library etc. in it.

Why are they not deleted and can I delete them manually?


texts: How can I start firefox with a different profile on a Mac?

texts:
I have a MacBook Air (Mojave, 10.14.6) and for Testing reasons I need to be able to have several instances of firefox running with different profiles each. At the same time.

How can I achieve this?


texts: Using time capsule as a shared iTunes library

texts:
Is it possible to use a time capsule as a shared iTunes library?

To be clear, by shared library I mean a library that all the computers running iTunes in the network would recognise as a shared library and not merely a shared location to be configured in iTunes.


texts: Differences between options to save webpages in Safari and Chrome

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When using a Chromium browser on macOS, if you try to save a webpage using Command + S, you get a save dialog box where you can choose the output format of the webpage.

Among the options are "Webpage, Single File" and "Webpage, Complete" (I'm ignoring the other option because I don't want to save a barebones HTML file, but want to save all the images and styles on that webpage as well).
What is the difference between the two options "Webpage, Single File" and "Webpage, Complete"? In particular, I noticed that saving as a "Complete" webpage saves an html file and a folder containing the website's assets. Saving as a "single file" webpage saves a single mhtml file. Are they the same, just packaged differently? Or is one of them "inferior" to the other (e.g. it doesn't save as much information as the other)?
In contrast, when doing the same thing in Safari, I see the following options:

"Page source" seems to do something similar to "Webpage, HTML" in Chrome, whereas "Web Archive" seems to do something similar to "Webpage, Single File" in Chrome (although this time it's saved as a webarchive file). How do these options relate to those in Chrome?


texts:
I have white MacBook (early 2009), with Snow Leopard running.

I read this following article about calibration: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/9036.html

I have doubt in step 2
It says "Allow the battery to rest in the fully charged state for two hours or longer.", with subnote as "You can use your computer during this time as long as the power adapter is plugged in."

If I don't want to use computer after fully charging it, should I turn off and remove MagSafe Power Adapter or should I keep it on for 2 hours?

Please help.


texts: How to send app to end of App Switcher list?

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When you use command ⌘ + tab ⇥ to change to another application in App Switcher, that app is moved to the front of the stack.
Is there a way to send an app to the tail of the stack, other than the brute-force technique of switching to every running app except that one?


texts: View youtube videos in 720p by default in Safari?

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Is there a way I can force safari to start youtube videos at 720p by default ?? I was wondering if there is an automator code that can achieve this ? Or maybe an extension that solely does that ? (I have found an extension that controls your youtube or whatever but I prefer something that only has one feature).

Although I have the settings already activated as the first answer suggested, I still have that problem.


texts: Is there any way to prevent an pop-up on any third-party apps on macOS (11.0.1)?

texts:
After I bought an M1 MacBook and install iCleanmemory which I had used on other macs, I found that whenever the memory reaches a threshold, the pop-up shows up and I am forced to click OK to erase it.
This has not happened in my previous macs and there seems no setting on the app's preferences section to change the behavior. I'm not even sure why this happens, but anyway since it is so tedious to click it I would like to know if there is any way to prevent the pop-up on iCleanmemory, or more broadly, on any apps using system-level setting.


texts: Keynote, numbers and pages not available on El Capitan after reinstalling

texts: I had installed Windows on my MacBook Air after wiping its HDD and then decided to have OS X reinstalled. One thing I noticed is that the office software that had previously showed up in the dock wasn't installed. When I look up Pages on the Appstore it shows a 20€ price tag. How can that be?


texts: I've wiped my WiFi icons and don't know which file to restore

texts:
I've been playing around with theming OS X, and in changing my menu bar icons to be white (to contrast my now-black menu bar) I've overwritten the original icons (and forgot to back them up).

Can someone running OS 10.8.x please confirm that the file /System/Library/Private/Frameworks/CoreWLANKIT.framework is the one I need to restore?


texts: What is the purpose of these Unix groups?

texts:
I see the following groups on my user id when working in terminal:

$ id | tr ',' '\n' | grep apple
702(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2)
701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)
395(com.apple.access_ftp)
398(com.apple.access_screensharing)

What is the purpose of these groups?


texts: How to change the charging chime on MBP (PowerChime.app)

texts:
Many people want to disable the charging chime introduced with the USB-c MBP's (and some enable on non-USB-c). I, however, want to change the chime.

Sadly however I can't change anything in "PowerChime.app" even after disabling the SIP (startup CMD+R, terminal > csrutil disable). I also can't "swap" the PowerChime.app app.

Does anyone know a solution for this?


texts: Music genres are wrong in iTunes Match on iOS

texts:
I am running the latest version of iTunes and use iTunes Match, all my music is properly tagged (mostly from iTunes built in lookup).

However, on my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) the Genres are all wrong.  I can't figure out where iTunes Match has got the Genre info from as it is way off.


texts: How to use "Find My Phone" beeping feature (not location sharing) with a different Apple ID

texts:
My girlfriend and I both have iDevices. We each have our own Apple ID. Every once in a while one of us misplaces a device... you know the drill, "Honey, could you call my phone for me?" And then it turns out it's on vibrate so we can't hear it, or it's my iPad we're looking for, and we have to go to a computer and log in with that person's account, to trigger the "Find my phone" sound.

We'd much rather be able to do that from our mobile devices. Is this possible? I know that I can use "Find my Friends" to see the location of a device on a different account, but what I need is the "ring at full volume" feature of "Find my phone." Is there any way to do that from another device? Also, can it be done from an Android device? (The iCloud website doesn't allow android devices to log in.)


texts: Corestorage: Partial recovery from physical disk failure?

texts:
I have a MacPro with a corestorage LVG, with three physical drives: An SSD and 2 x 2TB drives. The fourth drive in the system was a Time Machine backup disk.

The backup disk and one of the 2TB drives both failed in quick succession. I cannot read any blocks from the two failed disks, tested using a FreeBSD system using SATA and a MegaRAID controller -- the disks don't respond to commands correctly so the issue doesn't seem to be a media issue.

I am assuming the data on these two disks is lost.

Booting from 10.11 USB installation key and running diskutil cs list shows an LVG with a uuid and a offline status. There are three physical volumes listed, the first two are the good devices with a status of "checking", and the third is a UUID and "(No properties)".

Attempting to repair gives "Incomplete or inconsistent CoreStorage Physical Volume set".

Attempting to run diskutil cs removedisk <dead-disk-uuid> gives "Not a valid CoreStorage Physical Volume UUID (-69777)".

The question:

Is a partial recovery of a corestorage LVG with a failed physical disk possible? Is there a way of removing the dead disk from the LVG and getting a (damaged) filesystem view?


texts: Mid 2012 Macbook Air - upgrade RAM from 4Gb?

texts:
I’ve got a Mid-2012 Macbook Air that I changed out the SSD to 256Gb using the OWC Aura product. No problems at all – but it still only has 4Gb of ram and sucks it up pretty quickly now I have installed Sierra!

8gb was a preconfigured option on these models and from what I can tell the RAM is soldered in.

Has anyone upgraded one of these, and can you tell me how and using what RAM?

Thanks!

Phil in New Zealand


texts: How to Recover Sparsebundle With Missing File System

texts:
I'm trying to recover data from an encrypted sparsebundle on macOS Mojave (10.14.6) that I just discovered became corrupted at some point in the past.  It was created several years ago.

I have the password for it but I can't get it to mount, and attaching it via hdiutil (hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck -stdinpass Personal.sparsebundle) reveals that it has no file system anymore.

My issue seems similar to the one in this thread, but I don't have the expertise to be able to work out a solution specific to my situation from what's been presented in klanomath's answer.

Here are the same info results posted by that thread's op:

diskutil list /dev/disk3

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:                                                   +4.6 GB     disk3

diskutil info /dev/disk3

Device Identifier:         disk3
   Device Node:               /dev/disk3
   Whole:                     Yes
   Part of Whole:             disk3
   Device / Media Name:       Disk Image

   Volume Name:               Not applicable (no file system)
   Mounted:                   Not applicable (no file system)
   File System:               None

   Content (IOContent):       None
   OS Can Be Installed:       No
   Media Type:                Generic
   Protocol:                  Disk Image
   SMART Status:              Not Supported

   Disk Size:                 4.6 GB (4613734400 Bytes) (exactly 9011200 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:         512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:           No
   Read-Only Volume:          Not applicable (no file system)

   Device Location:           External
   Removable Media:           Removable
   Media Removal:             Software-Activated

   Virtual:                   Yes

fdisk /dev/disk3

Disk: /dev/disk3    geometry: 560/255/63 [9011200 sectors]
Signature: 0x70F0
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: E6  654  20  31 -  129 246  12 [1624655050 - 2384870584] <Unknown ID>
 2: 74  860  66  38 -  581 106   0 [1253546114 - 3399439981] <Unknown ID>
 3: 1E  517  38   4 -  333  65  17 [ 709288943 - 2881760601] <Unknown ID>
 4: C4   32 116  61 -  816 121  22 [2129857911 - 2037640686] DRDOSs < 32M

gpt recover /dev/disk3

gpt recover: /dev/disk3: no primary or secondary GPT headers, can't recover

gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk3

gpt show: /dev/disk3: mediasize=4613734400; sectorsize=512; blocks=9011200
gpt show: /dev/disk3: MBR not found at sector 0
    start     size  index  contents
        0  9011200

I'd really appreciate any help in trying to recover files from this bundle!

Thank you.


texts: My native mac apps are not connecting to the internet, but Google Chrome does and works correctly. Why is this?

texts:
A few days ago all the native apps on my OSX 10.10.4 MacBook Pro stopped connecting to the internet.  This seemed to happen out of the blue, and I am not sure what caused this issue.  Strangely, Google Chrome seems to work just fine, when even Terminal cannot connect.  Here's a summary of what I've tried so far:

On the Terminal

ping google.com: ping: cannot resolve google.com: Unknown host
ping 8.8.8.8: 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
curl google.com: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'google.com'
curl 8.8.8.8: curl: (7) Failed to connect to 8.8.8.8 port 80: Operation timed
ssh {servername} : ssh: Could not resolve hostname {servername}: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
nslookup google.com:  This works correctly, but the response is lengthy so I won't post it.
dig google.com:  This works correctly, but the response is lengthy so I won't post it.

So, to me, this seems like a DNS issue in that google.com is not resolved, but there is something else going on as well because curl 8.8.8.8 fails as well.  Strangely though both nslookup and dig are working as expected.

I have also tried running these commands to reset DNS

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

Other things

I have restarted in Safe Mode, but this gave the same results.
I have also made sure that there are no proxy setting active.
I have tried a number of different Wifi locations.  The wifi
connects, but native apps do not have internet access.
I performed these test on both Wifi and a wired connection and
observed the same results.
I removed and re-added the Wifi connection.
I restarted my computer many times.
There is no firewall.
I planned to install the newest OSX in hope that it would recover the
computer, but I cannot connect to the App Store.
I created a new user account and performed these same tests but observed the same results.

Does anyone have any idea what could be happening?  Any help is greatly appreciated!

EDIT

As requested by @willWorkForCookies, my resolv.conf file is actually a sym link.  The original is located here:  /private/var/run/resolv.conf

Here is my resolv.conf file:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
#
# Mac OS X Notice
#
# This file is not used by the host name and address resolution
# or the DNS query routing mechanisms used by most processes on
# this Mac OS X system.
#
# This file is automatically generated.
#
domain hsd1.mi.comcast.net.
nameserver 75.75.76.76
nameserver 75.75.75.75
nameserver 2001:558:feed::2
nameserver 2001:558:feed::1

Using the following command to flush DNS had no affect:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder


texts: fsck not working to fix corrupted external drive

texts:
I am using an early 2011 MacBook Pro with the Mavericks OS. I've researched a similar issue on an internal drive but As far as I know, being in Single User mode won't help my situation.

One of my external drives with all my photos stopped working - it does not mount, even though I see it in Disk Utility.
Using DU I tried to verify and repair the disk and got this message:

'Invalid B-tree node size'

Following the advice in this link:

I tried to list my drives with the Terminal command

df -hl

The specificied disk was not in the list
When I tried the suggested tail command

tail -f /var/log/fsck_hfs.log

I saw the name of the disk as

/dev/rdisk3s2: ** The volume   could not be verified completely.

Following that, I used this command (also suggested in the above link)

sudo fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk3s2

Instead of the expected proper outcome, what I received was an error message in Terminal as below:

inancs-MacBook-Pro:~ INCA$ sudo fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk3s2
Password:
journal_replay(/dev/disk3s2) returned 0
** /dev/rdisk3s2
    Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=65536 cacheSize=2097152K.
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-226.1.1).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
   Invalid B-tree node size
(3, 0)
** The volume   could not be verified completely.
    volume check failed with error 7
    volume type is pure HFS+
    primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
    alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
    primary VHB is at block 2 0x02
    alternate VHB is at block 1464477326 0x574a268e
    sector size = 512 0x200
    VolumeObject flags = 0x07
    total sectors for volume = 1464477328 0x574a2690
    total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00
    CheckHFS returned -1317, fsmodified = 0

What are my options?
I have Data Rescue but not Disk Warrior (low on budget these days).
Is there a possibility to fix the drive?

If not, and if I can rescue my data and put it on a different disk, is it safe to format the current drive and re-add my photos or should i stay away from this disk?


texts:
I'm trying to add multiple persistent static routes using the networksetup command. I've used this method in the past and am now running into a strange issue, where I only seem to be able to add 1 route. For instance, if I go to add another route the previous route will be overwritten with the new.

I've only recently started using this method of adding routes to OSX.
Is this normal behaviour?

Here are the commands I'm using:

# networksetup -setadditionalroutes "Ethernet 1" 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 69.69.69.69

Then when I run getadditionalroutes, it will only display the last entered route.
For example…

# networksetup -getadditionalroutes "Ethernet 1"
10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 69.69.69.69
# networksetup -setadditionalroutes "Ethernet 1" 20.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 69.69.69.69
# networksetup -getadditionalroutes "Ethernet 1"
20.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 69.69.69.69

What is the best way for me to achieve my goal?


texts: As far as I'm aware, passwd doesn't change the keychain password on Mac OS X. Is there a way to do this properly from the command line with a single command? If not, what about with multiple commands?


texts: Is there a way to make an iMac's internal drive disappear completely WITHOUT removing it?

texts:
I want to make it so that it can't be seen or written to while booted from an external drive.

For some background, I use a cross-platform dev environment that can target Linux and want to install the recommended Linux distro for testing. Every time I've tried before, it wrote a boot loader to the internal drive that must be messed up because my Bootcamped Win 10 won't boot afterwards. If it matters the req'd distro is Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition.


texts:
We have a FreeNAS in the office which we're using as an FTP server, but the speeds are incredibly slow for clients trying to download from it.

When I tried downloading directly (via OS X ftp server) from one of our OSX machines it was much faster.

So I'd like to try using the Mac as the FTP server, and the FreeNAS for storage.

But when I mount the FreeNAS with AFP, it cannot be shared via OSX ftp service.

What can we do?

Or is there a way to fix the low speed of the FreeNAS?

Thanks!


texts: So starting in Lion, you have been able to enter accents by simply holding down certain keys and selecting your accent.  However, in Chrome when I hold down on a key it enters a second one: For instance, if I were trying to type état, it would come out as eétat; an extra e would be entered for no reason.  Is there any way to fix this?


texts:
I’m starting to learn Swift, and have tried the Swift shell. I notice that it is Apple Swift version 5.1.3 . I though it was up to 5.2 by now.
How do I get the latest version of Swift on my MacOS? Is that affected by the XCode version?
I am running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6 and XCode 11.7.


texts:
I know that you can have a .profile or .bashrc file in your home folder to customise Mac OS X 10.6.4 Terminal bash startup.

Every time I start up Terminal, there is a line that tells me "You've got mail". I am trying to find where this line is stated in my startup files, but can't find .bash nor .profile nor .bashrc in my home folder.

I also read that the global settings file is in /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, but they don't seem to tell me anything:

/etc/profile

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
        eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
        [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

/etc/bashrc

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.
if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
   return
fi

PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize

BTW, there is no /etc/bash

Any ideas? Thanks!


texts: Connecting my Roll Up Piano via USB to record MIDI

texts:
I have a roll up piano (see the image) that has an USB output.

An USB cable comes with it: it is able to connect the roll up piano with the computer.

I have connected it to my macbook.

What are the steps to record MIDI on OSX using the roll up piano and the USB cable?

Relevant output:

❯ ioreg -p IOUSB
+-o Root  <class IORegistryEntry, id 0x100000100, retain 14>
  +-o Root Hub Simulation Simulation@14000000  <class AppleUSBRootHubDevice, id 0x100000322, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (2 ms), retain 8>
    +-o BRCM20702 Hub@14300000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x100000dcd, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (2 ms), retain 12>
    | +-o Bluetooth USB Host Controller@14330000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x100000e25, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (2224 ms), retain 17>
    +-o USB MIDI Interface @14100000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x1000016a9, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (14 ms), retain 20>

I would like to use GarageBand or so to record it, but for some reason, there is no data coming from my piano.

However, it is detected by the software:

Is there any low-level way to test if the the machine gets data from the piano (e.g. a terminal command etc)? How to fix this problem? Should I install any drivers?


texts: After updating iPad to iOS 8, WiFi no longer works

texts: I recently upgraded to iOS 8 on my iPad 2, now the WiFi doesn't work. I rebooted the iPad and router several times. Any suggestions?


texts: Make the default location for all save and open actions Google Drive File Stream

texts:
Using macOS Mojave or High Sierra, is there a way to change the default file location for all save and open actions to Google Drive File Stream?

On Windows I would change it in the registry to g:\users\%username%. What is the equivalent on macOS? We are working with HIPAA data and I need to redirect all file activity away from the local computer onto the encrypted, shared platform.


texts: How to merge an external audio source with my iPhone's audio out?

texts: I would like to be able to combine an external signal (available only via headphone cable) with the the audio out of my iPhone and listen to both of them using headphones. I know this is possible with an external mixer, but I'm hoping the folks here my have a better way to do this. Maybe the phone can take audio in via the lightning connector or bluetooth and merge it? Or maybe there's a tiny purpose built mixer for this two headphone-level input use case. I care only about the music player on the iPhone, or possibly streaming music like Pandora. I don't need actual phone calls or anything.


texts: How do I determine which application handles a global shortcut?

texts:
I have some global shortcut that does nothing apparent, but is overriding the combination in all applications. The shortcut is Command+Alt+F, which overrides the "Google Search" in Safari, and the Replace in Sublime Text 2.

Is there any way to determine which application this shortcut is actually being handled by, or what action it is triggering?


texts: Why won't terminal let me ssh in to my lan server when Windows/Putty works fine?

texts:
I have a development server on my LAN with a static IP address. My DD-WRT flashed router assigns the domain 'server.local' to the static IP of the server. Everything worked fine with my setup. I could connect to the server via ssh, ftp, http, ping, or even samba.

I just did a clean install of CentOS on the server, and everything is working fine when I connect to it from any of my Windows machines. However my Macbook won't connect any more. I can view my development versions of my websites in a browser, but I can't ssh in to the server.

I cleaned out ~/.ssh/known_hosts to make sure the old server's information wasn't mucking things up. How are the Windows machines and Mac browsers able to find the server, but Terminal can't?

Edit #1:

~: ssh root@server.local
ssh: Could not resolve hostname server.local: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
~: ssh root@192.168.1.200
root@192.168.1.200's password:

Edit #2:

I already tried flushing the DNS cache by dscacheutil -flushcache.
I'm on OS 10.6.

Ok, so why is Terminal confused about the domain name when browsers are not?

Adding 192.168.1.200 server.local to /etc/hosts fixes the problem. I'm just wondering why it's not able to rely on the router's DNS.


texts: Adding an App to the List Sharable Files [iTunes]

texts:
I looked in Google for a long time for "Adding an app to the list of sharable file", but I didn´t find anything.

When I open File Sharing in iTunes I can see the following apps:

I wanna add the mail app to the above list. Can anyone points me towards a guide for doing that?


texts: Error while installing Homebrew on Mac OS X (10.10.3): Unable to change file mode on /usr/local/

texts:
When I run the command on the home brew website,

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

I get:

==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/doc/homebrew
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
==> The following directories will be made group writable:
/usr/local/.
==> The following directories will have their owner set to 17oei:
/usr/local/.
==> The following directories will have their group set to admin:
/usr/local/.

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /usr/local/.
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/local/.: Operation not permitted
Failed during: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /usr/local/.

However, I see no reason for this, as I am an admin on my computer.


texts: Macbook Pro Mid2012 with OS Sierra 10.12.6 won't download apps without 10.13.6 or later. No update available on AppStore

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Subject says it all. I have a Macbook Pro Mid2012 runing MacOS Sierra 10.12.6. Something to note - This is my girlfriend's computer - My old Mac bit the dust (Late 2011) and I placed my upgraded SSD and 8 GB of Ram into her Mac recently.

I'm trying to download Logic Pro X from the app store and I get this message:

"Logic Pro X can't be installed on "HDD" because MacOS version 10.13.6 or later is required."

I'm running 10.12.6. And there are no software updates available in my app store.. What should I do in this situation?

Best,

Tanner


texts: Timer Lockout for iOS allowing multiple apps

texts: Is there a way to force the iPad to lock after X minutes but also allow my kids to use multiple apps? I know about guided access which works great at locking them to one app (e.g., for homework) but sometimes I want to give them flexible time to use whatever app or game they want.


texts: "The file format is invalid" error message Pages Mac

texts: Got an error message opening my file that has always worked till now. Stored on iCloud Drive, so I can open it on my iPhone X too. Updated my Mac, but still not working. Not sure what to do, have tried a few things but nothing works. Cheers


texts: How do I make use of the remote disc icon in the sidebar of Finder?

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I bought the new Mac Mini, which doesn't have a SuperDrive, and I noticed an icon in the sidebar of the Finder: Remote Disc.

To which device is referring?
When I clicked over the sidebar icon with the right button, to get information about the device, I got just genetic information that didn't help me to understand if it is referring to a specific device, and how I can "connect" such device to the Mac Mini.

Can I associate the "Remote Disc" with a MacBook's SuperDrive?


texts: File and directory permissions while migrating a Mac using Target Disk Mode

texts:
I am getting a replacement Mac today and I am concerned about the reliability of the Migration Assistant in High Sierra. Both times I've used High Sierra's Migration Assistant there have been timeouts on several new machines (2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros), resulting in me having use Target Disk Mode on the source machine to get the transfer to complete.

I believe I lose a little bit of data every time I migrate from one Mac to another using Migration Assistant. Over time I have found empty directories in my data that I'm absolutely certain weren't empty one or more migrations previously. I believe the issue may be related to inadequate permissions when trying to transfer the files.

With that being said, what permissions does the target machine have using Target Disk Mode via Migration Assistant? Is using Migration Assistant via Target Disk Mode the safest way to ensure ALL my data is transferred from my old Mac?


texts: MAMP very slow to serve pages using Virtual Hosts on OSX Sierra

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I am running MAMP 4.1.1 on my mac mini with OSX Sierra (10.12.3).

lately when I try to load pages for a site using a virtual host, it is VERY slow to load.

if i load pages without a virtual host it comes up very quick.

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

127.0.0.1       mydevsite.com
fe80::1%lo0     mydevsite.com

in my httpd-vhosts.conf file I have the following:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
NameVirtualHost mydevsite.com:80

<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mydevsite.com"
ServerName mydevsite.com
</VirtualHost>

Can anyone provide some guidance on how to troubleshoot this further to get my local sites using virtual hosts to server quickly?


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Previous to the update to iOS 5, the 'home sharing' feature in the iPad's iPod app worked as expected. You'd simply choose the different 'library', and you'd be able to play items over the network from that remote library.

This functionality seems to be missing in iOS 5 on an iPad 2 (and perhaps other iOS 5 devices?).

There is no way to choose a remote library or 'Sharing' in the Music app.
The same good Apple ID credentials are present in Settings, and has been re-entered just in case.
iTunes is running on the same Windows machine as previous. No changes have been made there (save for the new version of iTunes).
iTunes is running, Home Sharing is enabled.

How can this feature be restored in iOS 5?


texts: Can I switch off disk while disk encryption is going on

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I am trying to encrypt a disk which is taking approximately 20-30 minutes per every 1% .

Can I restart/switch off my Mac while the encryption is going on ?
Would the Mac automagically resume encryption after switching it back on ?


texts: Why is saying verification required on my iPhone 5c?

texts: Every time I try to download a free app or update an old app it said verification required. I sign in and it take me straight to the billing/credit card page and I can't get out of it. I have even tried putting in my card number and stuff and it just says that I have entered a wrong number but when I look at my bank account it shows that it took out $5.97. How do I make it stop so I can update my apps?


texts: How can I prohibit network users from accessing other user's home folders using Server permissions?

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I have a 10.8 server, network users on a shared drive 'User Data' - used as a AFP for home folders, OD is on. All users are part of a group 'students 2013/14'.

My network user can login via OD over a network, however the permissions are not set correctly, since network user accounts can access all other users folder read/write on the sharepoint.

Question:
How can I set the permissions in Server.app correctly so that network users can login, use their server based home folder w/r but not access other network user home folders using the student 2013/14 group?


texts: How can I restore my iPod touch using a different computer?

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I've had my 5th-gen iPod for a while now, and my computer broke a while back, lost iTunes and everything. Also I can't remember my Apple ID. There was never any need to connect it after I first did to put my music on.

However, I am locked out since typed my password in too many times incorrectly. I have access to my friends computer to restore it, but how do I do this?


texts: Find all the PDFs with at least three characters in their name

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I'd like to find the PDF files whose name (excluding the extension) is greater than three.

$ find ~  -iregex '.*/[^/]{3,}.pdf'

when test with

$ find ~ -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*/[^/]{3,}.pdf'
find: -regextype: unknown primary or operator

How can I enable the {3,} variant?


texts: How to decrease .pdf size without losing quality

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Background

I want to decrease size of the .pdf filled with images.
In Preview in can be dome through Export and set Quartz Filter-> Reduce File Size before saving.

Problem

The file indeed decreased from ~30MB to 0.37MB.

But the result has such poor quality that images are barely readable.

Question

I saw an examples of using Image Magic to achieve that - but can it be done by Preview without any external software?


texts: Is there any way to disable APFS local snapshots?

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APFS local snapshots are generally a pain for me, especially on some of my systems with small internal drives. All of my systems have Time Machine backups and the hourly backups it performs are more than sufficient for my needs.

Is there any way to disable just local snapshots and keep Time Machine backups running?


texts: Mac Pro 5.1 (mid 2012 ) Fusion Drive (2 SSDs and 1 HDD)

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I have 2 SSDs 160GB each and a 4TB Disk (all SATA) I was thinking to put them in Fusion Drive setup, will it work? how it will work?

which setup is recommended if possible? any speed benefits?

Fusion Drive (SSD + SSD + HDD)
Fusion Drive ((RAID 0 2xSSD) + HDD)

I know the risk of data loss if one of them fail
I have the fourth disk will be used for TimeMachine + plus other backup options


texts: Login loop after OS X 10.8 update (WindowServer problem?)

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The problem

I upgraded my macpro recently from OS X 10.6 to 10.8. Now (couple of weeks later) I ran an small update for OS X 10.8, and something not so funny happened.

The updater asked me to reboot my system. Before the reboot, it told me something like:

  “None of the updates could be installed. An Exception occurred.”

Since that moment, whenever I try to log in, I end up in the infamous “login loop”: I enter my password, see a gray screen for about 20 seconds, and end up on the login screen again.

OS X version

$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.8.3
BuildVersion: 12D78

OS X update

The update consisted of four parts, one of them being iTunes (I think iTunes has never worked after I upgraded to OS X 10.8; this was probably an iTunes 10.6 - 10.8 upgrade or something?). The other three I don’t remember.

What I’ve already tried

I’ve tried to log in as another user. Same problem. So it doesn’t seem to be user-specific.
There are a lot of posts out there suggesting that it may have something to do with a corrupted launch service cache. There was indeed a file named “com.apple.LaunchServices-034501.csstore” (as suggested by posts below) on my machine. I removed it (in Single-User mode). Didn’t help...

http://dltj.org/article/macosx-launchservices-login-loop-fix/

File system check:

fsck_hfs -r -f -y /dev/disk1s2

Help!

The log files are too large to include here. I'll try to paste some (to my own judgement) relevant stuff in the comments below.

The OS X update took place around Mar 24 13:50. At 13:52:32 I see the first “Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds).” (I think this is the log in timeout).

Some errors in the log file were there before Mar 24 13:50, so I guess they’re harmless (like “The following StartupItems failed to start properly”).

All help highly appreciated because I'm stuck. Also, if you know of a forum that's more suitable for this kind of problem, please let me know!

Cheers